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 Practical work currently consists in starting on a number of new projects.\\
-One of these is a continuation of the research in //Dialogues with Machines// and is inspired by the cybernetic experimental devices built by Gordon Pask and Stafford Beer and by more recent work on evolvable hardware. I will use evolutionary algorithms to evolve patches for the analogue computer that I built over the past years. The aim is to channel the specific anarchic potential of such hardware-based methods towards the production of complex video images. The result will be a series of single-channel works and video installations that reflect on processes of collective evolution.\\
+One of these is a continuation of the research in //Dialogues with Machines// and is inspired by the cybernetic experimental devices built by Gordon Pask and Stafford Beer and by more recent work on evolvable hardware. I will use evolutionary algorithms to evolve patches for the analogue computer that I built over the past years. The aim is to channel the specific anarchic potential of such hardware-based evolutionary methods towards the production of complex video images. The result will be a series of single-channel works and video installations that reflect on processes of collective evolution.\\
-A longer-running project will be to explore the sculptural and generative use of semiconducting materials other than silicon. A number of historical experiments that relate to precursors of our present-day solid-state electronic technology will be re-enacted, with the aim to develop new devices that speculate on how our technology could have been and can be different.
+A longer-running project will be to explore the sculptural and generative use of semiconducting materials other than silicon. A number of historical experiments that relate to precursors of our present-day solid-state electronic technology will be re-enacted, with the aim to develop new devices that speculate on how our technology could have been and can still be different.
+Theoretical investigations take Lambros Malafouris' material engagement theory and Karen Barad's agential realism as a starting point. Currently I am reading about the philosophical and cultural history of chemistry (Isabelle Stengers, Bernadette Bensaude-Vincent, Hélène Metzger, Esther Leslie) and about ways to apply Whitehead to thinking about technology (Anne Fairchild Pomeroy, Mark Hansen).
-Theoretical investigations take Lambros Malafouris' material engagement theory and Karen Barad's agential realism as a starting point. Currently I am reading about the philosophical history of chemistry (Isabelle Stengers, Bernadette Bensaude-Vincent, Hélène Metzger) and about ways to apply Whitehead to thinking about technology (Anne Fairchild Pomeroy, Mark Hansen).
 ===== public presentations =====
   * work-in-progress **presentation** of the 4.5Ga~24h project (a collaboration with artist David Vrbik, composer Cyril Kaplan and geologist Matěj Machek) in Bio Oko, Prague (november 2024).
+  * **screening** of short films, including live reading of "Ueda's Shattered Egg", RPM festival, Boston, US (march 2025).
+  * **screening** of "Mechanisms Common to Disparate Phenomena; #59", Hallwalls, Buffalo, US (march 2025).
+  * "Liberate the Machines!" **talk**, PLASMA lecture series, Department of Media Study, SUNY Buffalo, US (march 2025).
+  * "Liberate the Machines!" **talk**, LASER talk, Texas A&M University, College Station, US (march 2025).
+  * **screening** of "Mechanisms Common to Disparate Phenomena; #59", co-organized by Signal Culture, Denver Digirati, Collective Misnomer, Astro-Kino and hosted by Rainbow Dome, Denver, US (march 2025).
+  * "Liberate the Machines!" **talk**, Edith O’Donnell Institute of Art History, University of Texas, Dallas, US (march 2025).
+  * "Listening to Devices: Lightning Empiricism and Darwinian Machinery", online **presentation** and panel discussion with Charissa N. Terranova, and Ken Rinaldo, part of "Circular Currents: Feedback, Intelligence, Emergent Systems", organized by the Art, Media and Cybernetics working group of the American Society of Cybernetics (april 2025).
 ===== this labyratoire =====
 Just like the [[http://librarinth.joostrekveld.net|librarinth]], this labyratoire is inspired by Foam's [[https://libarynth.org/|libarynth]], all proudly powered by [[https://www.dokuwiki.org|dokuwiki]]. The term 'labyratoire' is by Constant Nieuwenhuys, who also produced a visual [[https://stichtingconstant.nl/work/labyratoire-ii|representation]] of at least one.\\
-This scrapbook is a garden that is walled in order to allow fragile ideas and projects to grow without external pressures. This may change partly or entirely as the project evolves, but eventually, all that is in here will become public. If you are one of those with guest access, your password will open [[guest start|this door]] for you.\\
+This scrapbook is a garden that is walled in order to allow fragile ideas and projects to grow. This may change partly or entirely as the project evolves, but eventually, all that is in here will become public. If you are one of those with guest access, your password will open [[guest start|this door]] for you.\\
 You can always contact me [[http://www.joostrekveld.net/?page_id=1243|here]].