xxxxx

start time 12.00pm

Free software isn't just about open applications, it's about exposed
and extruded code, and a modular, highly constructivist approach to
data; environmental code, physical code, tangible code. Code is
data. Data is code. Code bends data. Noise to signal ratio over signal
to noise.

As part of the xxxxx series of exploratory events ap, Mongrel and
friends present an experimental one day workshop and evening
performance event examining varying approaches to data bending and
free software noise.

ap, forcing the extension of free software exposure in the wilderness
of computational destruction, will examine base approaches to
commandline tools such as cat, split and dd in relation to raw OS
nature. After a brief introduction to their work, including abstract
computation in the Californian desert, workshop participants can
explore virtual machine tools created by ap including ap0202 and
self. Piping data, shifting data, bending data means connectivity as
we explore connections in the Unix world and beyond, introducing the
highly versatile Pd (Pure Data) environment.

Code and network artist and co-founder of Goto10, Aymeric Mansoux
picks up the Pd ball and runs with it, introducing a very physical
dimension which will be further explored in his evening performance;
data needs a real carrier, in this instance voltage. Voltage is
readily transformed into sound by way of amplifier and
loudspeaker. The concrete relation is clear, simple and
beautiful. Noise.

ap, Aymeric, noise luminaries and physical coders from the UK free
software art scene lead the workshop into an evening of free
noise. Again the physical, again the real. The (new) medium surely
isn't the message. Abhorrent concrete noise cancels out the signal to
achieve only exposed systematics. Crash JelliedEel.

xxxxx. The crash that dare not speak its name.

xxxxx exposes a radical new space of collaboration and experiment,
colliding highly singular scientific and artistic disciplines at the
bleeding edge of theory and process.

Software seeps out from the black-boxed executable or bland desktop
icon remaining unclicked, leaving the confines of mundane computer
hardware, enabling gross scientific leakage for artists and
introducing the ambiguous living equation of entropy; the redundant
hardware, enabling gross scientific leakage for artists and
introducing the ambiguous living equation of entropy; the redundant
shell of software enforced by shrink-wrapped license is abandoned in
favour of open code which makes violently plain the underpinnings of a
contemporary culture engaged in the atomic project.

The hydrogen bomb simulations of Los Alamos National Laboratory
heavily imprint the birth of computation with equations which equally
well inform modern social modelling. The absolute annihilation
embedded within the history of computation is made manifest in truly
auto-destructive fashion; a blinding exposure brighter than a thousand
suns.

Theorists, artists and coders explore this brave new terrain, mapping
out with diagrammatic and concrete technique the novel descriptive
means of software as itself an event, as substance, and as possible
universe. Code morphs from tedious ledger manipulation into a lens to
view the world, opening up vast questions of notation, process,
simulation and execution at all levels.

Main Event Doors open 19.00 all are welcome to attend

thanks for the fish and chips - and noisy chat.

Very pleased I made it to your workshop and met so many great people.
I went away with lots of information to follow up.

hope to see you again soon

This is a "noise art" performance evening organised as part of a one day conference on constructivist noise at the ICA London (25th March). Organised by the boys from xxxxx.1010.co.uk

Not sure what time it starts...