Liberate the Machines!

July 9th, 2025 § 0 comments § permalink

This publication came out of the artistic research project “Dialogues With Machines”. Joost Rekveld, experimental filmmaker and media artist based in Brussels, personally experienced such a dialogue while making the experimental film “Mechanisms Common to Disparate Phenomena; #59”. Historical analogue computing and simulation techniques were re-enacted, old electronic machines were sought out and cared for, and new devices were developed, based on principles that have long fallen out of use. During this process the dialogue changed, the notion of learning from machines changed, and Rekveld’s views on technology, mathematics, and media archaeology were also transformed as a result. This led to a perspective on the relation between humans and machines that is not predicated on control. Read more here.

“Our technical milieu is a collective product, a long-term external memory to which each generation contributes. We cannot act or think without it, and the design and development of our technology is therefore a form of politics that shapes our life-world, our planet and ourselves.
During this project, media archaeology became an approach to investigating this collective construction. Conversely, it led to an understanding of films, installations, talks, and writings as small gestures that may contribute to shaping it.” (J.R.)

Paperback, published in 2025, 176 pages, 16.8 x 22 x 1.5 cm.
Printing by Graphius Brussels.

Publisher: Studio Joost Rekveld / KASK & Conservatorium / ISBN: 9789491564185

Desire Lines

July 8th, 2025 § 0 comments § permalink

In her series ‘Desire Lines’ Isabelle Vigier has documented composer Kate Moore’s artistic research entitled “A Beautiful Path Plein Air Composing.” The photographer accompanies Kate Moore throughout a year long project, where the composer is seeking a dialogue with ever changing surroundings through long distance walking. The photographic series unveils how persistence was at the heart of this walk, and a hidden key for the artist to come close to her own, inner landscapes, through embracing the realities of the contemporary landscape.

A Beautiful Path: Plein Air Composing is a research project by composer Kate Moore about composing in the landscape. Here the land is both the atelier of the composer and the stage upon which the composer performs. Over a period of 12 months, Kate is walking from Oss in the Netherlands, all the way to Skellig Michael, Ireland, captured through the lens of visual artist and photographer Isabelle Vigier who joins Kate along the journey. During this long-distance walk, Kate captures the environments and experiences using voice and instruments associated with traveling musicians, including the lyre, lute, vielle and violin.”

A Beautiful Path Plein Air Composing is fully documented in this website.

    • The series was exhibited during Gaudeamus 2024 along with The Ox Way, a sound installation by Kate Moore (Movement Exposed Gallery September 2024)
    • It was also shown as a preview at the PleinTheater in Amsterdam in parallel to Kate Moore’s summer residency in August 2024.
    • The project is made with financial support by AFK Amsterdam Fond voord de Kunst, and was made thanks to the kind support of Gaudeamus, Movement Exposed Gallery Space, Utrecht, Plein Theater, Amsterdam, NPO Radio4 Vrije Geluiden.

    The Handmade Series

    July 5th, 2025 § 0 comments § permalink

    Covers for the digital singles The Handmade series by Anne-James Chaton and Andy Moor with guest Yannis Kyriakides. The collection of digital singles is an homage to craftsmanship through an exploration of the lexicons specific to traditional metiers. It unfolds over the course of 4 thematic volumes. With guest Yannis Kyriakides on electronics they create works where abstract notions mix with tangible ones by linking the arts of the hand with sound and poetry.
    Vol 04 coming soon…
    Vol 03 Tailles
    Vol 02 Brillants
    Vol 01 Douceurs

    Cork

    July 4th, 2025 § 0 comments § permalink

    Limited edition ‘cahier’ for the album Cork by Maguire/LaBerge on Splendor Records. The images were taken in the city of Cork. Surfaces, objects and places form a visual of the city that accompanies the spirit of the music. The book comes with a private download code of the album. Can be purchased here.

    3 Ânes

    November 19th, 2024 § 0 comments § permalink

    3 Ânes | Locus Asper Locus : Benjamin Bondonneau, Xavier Charles, Lionel Marchetti, Unsounds cat.n. 83u, 2024

    Hypnokaséta

    November 19th, 2024 § 0 comments § permalink

    HYPNOKASÉTA | Yannis Kyriakides with Quatuor Bozzini & Andy Moor, Unsounds cat.n. 82u, 2024

    Fragments

    November 19th, 2024 § 0 comments § permalink

    Fragments by Massimo Pupillo, Roger Ballen, Gabriele Tinti, Unsounds cat number 79U, 2024