Zondagmiddagrondje Ronde Hoep. 12 graden, lekker doorgereden – laatste stuk met een andere wielrenner in mn wiel (nu zette ik ns iemand uit de wind). Vaak goeie ‘vorm’ de dag na een 100km-ritje.

Zaterdagmiddag. Bewolkt, een westelijk briesje en warm voor de tijd van het jaar: 15 graden. Heerlijk fietsweer – dat de straat nat lag, en de onverharde paden vol met bladertroep deert niet: mn fiets is toch al vreselijk smerig. En omdat de zon niet schijnt is het overal heel rustig. Ideaal voor een 100km-ritje.

Marcusstraat – Ouderkerk – Ronde Hoep – Veldweg – Amstelhoek – De Hoef – Woerdense Verlaat – Grecht – Kanis – Kamerik – Teckop – Kortrijk – Breukelen – Loenen – Loenderveense Plassen – Oud Loosdrecht – Kortenhoef – Corversbos – Spanderswoud – Naardermeer – Visserijpad – Muiderberg – Muiden – Diemerpark – Ringdijk – Marcusstraat

Plaatje in twee delen: westelijk en oostelijk.

Available in december in Dutch, and in spring 2008 also in an English translation: De Monografie, a complete overview of the works of Dutch avant-gardist, conceptualist, theatermaker, composer and pioneer of electronic music Dick Raaijmakers.

Arjen Mulder and Joke Brouwer of V2_ have worked by now almost three years on the book, and have gone through Dick Raaijmakers papers and other archived ‘stuff’ for it. (I’ve seen quite a few originals pass by here in the V2_ office…).

If you order the Dutch version now, you’ll get a discount. More info: http://www.dickraaijmakers.nl/

A new work from the German (new media) artist Ralf Baeker: Rechnender Raum. He describes it as follows: “”Rechnender Raum” (calculating space) is a contemplative machine. Strings, weights, leavers and motors are connected to circular neural network. Touching one leaver will release an impulse that runs through the whole system; it will compute its possible states to infinity.” The term ‘Rechnender Raum’ comes from Konrad Zuse, one of the ‘fathers’ of the computer.

Take a look here (also video documentation): http://www.no-surprises.de/rechnender_raum/

Pictures of the exhibition Cluster of Benjamin Gaulon, Geraud de Bizien and Antoine Lejolivet in Strassbourg: http://www.esad-stg.org/chaufferie/2007.10.html.

Both Anne Helmond and Micheal Stevenson blogged the talk of Alex Galloway. The urls are in the comments, but it would be a shame if you missed them, so here they are:

http://www.annehelmond.nl/2007/10/27/alexander-galloway-the-game-of-war-mediamatic-amsterdam/

http://mastersofmedia.hum.uva.nl/2007/10/27/debord-as-programmer-alexander-galloway-on-the-game-of-war/

Omar (Munoz-Cremers, but he’s Omar here) has made a selection of his writing on music (mostly done for Kindamuzik and De Subjectivisten), burned a pdf of it, gave it the title Toekomstdagen 2002-2007 and put it online at lulu.com as a free download. Which means you can order a hard-copy as well: http://www.lulu.com/content/1285472.

Just finished reading Tom McCarthy’s Remainder.

Years ago I invited Tom McCarthy to do a lecture at the Mediamatic symposium on emulation – as I liked the essays he wrote for Mute. He often wrote about technology and literature: Pynchon, DFW’s Infinite Jest, that sort of stuff. He came and gave a great lecture that I remember was mostly on Shakespeare’s Sonnets…

Remainder made a litte ‘row’, because it was first published by a small art press in Paris (sic), managed to catch attention, and subsequently was published in England too – and was very well received.

Remainder is a novel, amusing, intelligent, well-written, thoughtful, and full of great ideas. It is required reading for anybody interested in contemporary art, re-enactment and authenticity. And certainly for artists who deal with the issues of re-enactment and authenticity in their work.

(Btw: I loved it).

Rustig herfstweer, bewolkt, vochtig, natte straat, vieze bladertroep (maar mijn fiets is toch al smerig), windstil, een vlaag regen bij Abcoude en aan de Amstel brak de zon zowaar door de wolken.

Marcusstraat – Overamstel – Ouderkerk – Ronde Hoep – Veldweg – Wilnis – Geerkade – UItweg van Portengen – Boterwal – Oukoop – Loenersloot – Baambrugge – Abcoude – Ouderkerk – Amstel – Marcusstraat

Coming monday you’ll have a change to see and hear the work of Telcosystems at DNK (Amsterdam, OT301, Overtoom 301, 21.30h). Telcosystems is of course Lucas van der Velden plus David and Gideon Kiers.

You’ll get Jozef van Wissem + Tetzuki Akiyama that night as well.

(And a good atmosphere).

http://www.telcosystems.net
http://www.dnk-amsterdam.com

For whomever wasn’t there last week: you missed a superb and very radical performance of Mattin.