labyratoire

This is the public start page of my personal labyratoire: an online scrapbook that I will be using in the course of the research project 'Systems that Matter' that started mid-November 2024. It is the successor to the librarinth, a similar scrapbook that I used in the project 'Dialogues With Machines' during the period 2017-2024.
I work on 'Systems that Matter' as a postdoctoral researcher in the 'Disobedient Practices' research cluster at KASK & Conservatorium, the school of arts of HoGent and Howest in Ghent. The project is financed by the HoGent Arts Research Fund.

A sparse and preliminary (020241201) description could be as follows:

This research project focuses on the performativity of the materials that underlie historical and contemporary, electronic and digital media. By combining media archaeology and speculation I attempt to pry these materials and ourselves loose from the problematic origins of their creation and use.
The research starts from the working assumption that all materials are artificial, and that calling material 'raw' only serves to make a distinction between visible and invisible labour. By exploring and showing material processes in films and installations, I will investigate the technical principles, social structures, and some of the concepts and narratives around the perceived and possible agency of the materials that are central to our current technologies.
The aim is to develop procedures and devices that produce images, but which also stage a specific material presence. By developing speculative perspectives and technologies, I hope to reflect on some of the ways in which the human, the non-human and technology articulate each other.

• 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).

Just like the librarinth, this labyratoire is inspired by Foam's libarynth, all proudly powered by dokuwiki. The term 'labyratoire' is by Constant Nieuwenhuys, who also produced a visual 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 this door for you.
You can always contact me here.