“Establishing chains of Telluric translation, from human scale → earth magnitude, with each translation slowing, widening and diffusing. the feedback earth-human loop as a method of modulation. the human as site for embodying the geological 'body' and atmospherics”
planning and background for Earth Coding workshop
possibly related
Earth code/geomantic circuit field trip. That the site becomes a playing field or open circuit for earth code/geomantics.
Activities:
For the fieldtrip. Accessibility, earth/wasteland and geomantic significance. Also timing of actions reflecting geomantics.
The VU hortus botanicus is a nice and messy place: http://tinyurl.com/nl9rasw
More industrial is the NDSM terrain (former warf): http://www.amsterdam.nl/publish/pages/403463/ndsm-werf.jpg
Earth Coding workshop with Martin Howse and Nik Gaffney. 23-25 February. Sonic Acts. Amsterdam.
Through a range of guided, experimental activities, the two day Earth Coding workshop actively explores links between contemporary technology and the Earth, attempting to define a new form of communicative post-land art and examining questions such as:
How can the Earth as a process be prompted to assume a technological form, and thus compose and run software?
What signals can be transduced from the Earth, occupying the body within a potential electromagnetic, geologic or atmospheric feedback loop?
The Earth Coding Workshop, combining field trip, speculative construction and intensive discussion embraces the whole Earth process in an attempt to approach these and other projected questions.
Acivities will potentially include:
http://www.sonicacts.com/2015/masterclasses/workshop-by-martin-howse--nik-gaffney-earth-coding
We recommend that participants bring along some form of recording, inscribing, or transcribing devices (tape or digital audio recorder, camera, film, pencil, paper, and so on). Headphones are also useful to bring!
