Teorias del Caos is part of the activities of the Summercamp 2010  at Timelab.

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From june 17 till 27 the second edition of Summercamp Electrified will take place in Ghent.  Summercamp Electrified is a ten day intensive encounter between 12 local and international artists with the city as a setting and timelab as a motor. Openness and exchange is at the heart of the summercamp. We are inviting artists with original ideas and an adventurous spirit who are open to collaborate with artists working in other fields. De backgrounds of the artists are very diverse. Whereas workshops for artists often attract people working in the same fields or niches, we are explicitly aiming for a very diverse group or artists.

There is not one specific theme for the Summercamp, but there are some red threads we would like to offer:

• the city as a lab, actions in public space
• the triangle timelab is working in : art, technology, society
• an important theme running through timelab’s activities in the next year : ‘re-spark!’ -  the idea of re-ensouling, re-using, re-appropriating, upcycling ideas/objects/projects

Based on the experience of last year and on the participants feedback, we decided to invite 12 artists this year (last year there were 16 artists) and make the camp a bit longer, it will be 10 days (last year it was 7 days). At the end of the camp, on Saturday june 26, we will have a day of presentations. You can follow the process and the practical details on the presentations online and through our newsletter.

Summercamp Electrified is a collaboration between timelab and Vooruit Arts Centre and is supported by Interreg in the context of Transdigital

We have been talking about darknets at least since 2005. But for long, we tended to  present darknets only as the less preferable alternative to open  P2P-networks. If openness was associated with the famous “long tail”, we  speculated that attacks on open sharing would not stop sharing but  force it into smaller and darker networks of trust, person-to-person or  sneakernets, which could limit access to the very mainstream of music  and movie files, at least for all those people who did not have personal  contacts. In a way, we saw bunkers instead of tunnels; fortified  structures with limited space.

Cyphernetics

Cybernetics is the study of how to control regulatory systems of any kind; technological, social, biological and mathematical systems. Cyphernetics, on the other hand, is similar to the study of cybernetics, but does not rely on that the entire system is known or controlled from one single point. Rather, cyphernetics is the study of how to do things in states of chaos and uncertainty. In cipherspace and states of crypto anarchy, we can no longer rely on control mechanisms that emerge from a single source or agent. Instead we must be able to handle the two facts of cipherspace, that there are no identities and no authorities. This cancels out the point of departure for cybernetics; it needs to identify and authorize systems. Cyphernetics, on the other hand, can perform without these basic assumptions.

The study of cyphernetics is that of how organizations, actions and reactions can be constructed in environments where it is impossible to deduce the state of the entire macroscale system. This differs from the study of cybernetics, where the state of the entire system is supposedly known by a meta-agent. The engineering aspect of cyphernetics has its focal point in the creation of hidden functions and groups that is externally incomprehensible, but known to the actors that construct the structures. A collection of such actors, or agents, that operates towards similiar goals can be said to constitute a secret society.These are the main features of a cyphernetic system

• It is a chaotic force which operates in the world.
• It cannot be backtraced or reconstructed in detail.
• The state of a collection of subsystems can not be easily determined.
• It is generally impossible to deduce which groups of agents that constitute the entire collection (“the system”) of secret societies (“subsystems”).
• It performs without formal or central leadership. Cyphernetic subsystems are often locally focused towards singular communication mediums, but the collection of subsystems are decentralized and completely unorganized. (This very text is written by such a system.)

2a Parte

Todos podemos estar de acuerdo en que vivimos en la era digital – su medida varia justo lo suficiente en función de la sociedad a la que pertencemos – pero ha llegado ya a una gran parte de la civilización y afecta cotidianamente nuestra vida.  Sin embargo, esto parece crear una necesidad o deseo de ir más allá de lo digital, para explorar el mundo post-digital, como Rasmus Fleischer propone en su reciente libro.

Ahora bien, este libro se refiere a la música, la búsqueda de lugares y experiencias donde podamos compartir música – AFK – postdigitalmente. Entonces, ¿cuál es su relación con las bibliotecas, los libros y las novedades que están surgiendo en esta esfera?

Recientes avances en la digitalización de varios proyectos afectan a estos ámbitos actualmente, sin embargo quisiera discutir lo que podemos aprender de los recientes acontecimientos en el mundo de la música y tal vez juntos, mirar hacia el mundo de los libros y ver cómo esto encaja con la idea del fenómeno post digital.

Lillmacho/Karin Ajaxon, netrosexual sueca, veinte y tantos y próximamente bibliotecaria;  es miembro de un racimo del internet llamado Julia Group, en donde recientemente ha empezado a trabajar – sonríendo a las esferas políticas suecas-  para lograr un internet libre y abierto. Internauta nOOb que explora todo lo que puede ser explorado, aprende experimentando, preguntando y no olvidemos, sonríendo.

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So we can all agree that we live in a digital era  – fair enough the extent differs depending on which society we live in – but it has reached  a great part of the civilisation and affect our everyday lives. This however seems to create a need or want to go past the digital, to explore the postdigital world, as Rasmus Fleischer puts it his recent book. Now this relates to music, we search for places and experiences where we can share music – AFK – postdigitally.  So how does this relate to libraries, books and the developments that are emerging in that sphere

There are several digitalisation developments and projects that affect these environments at the moment, I however want to discuss what we can learn from the recent developments in the music world and maybe together look at the world of books and see how this fits in with the idea of a post digital phenomena.

Lillmacho/Karin Ajaxon, is a 20-something, netrosexual studying to become a librarian. Part of the internet cluster the Julia Group she has recently started working for a free and open Internet – smiling her way through the Swedish political sphere. An Internaut n00b exploring all that can be explored and learning by trying, asking and lets not forget – smiling.

Tobias Leingruberis a hacker with design and skate skills in love with the internet.

He is virtual research fellow at F.A.T. Lab and student at Merz Akademie in Stuttgart (Germany)

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Artzilla Compilation from tobi-x on Vimeo.