Mechanisms Common to Disparate Phenomena: #59 by Joost Rekveld. Saturday, March 29th.
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7:30pm doors. 8:00pm screening (not punk time)
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**This screening is part of Digenomer @ the Astro Dome — a collaborative screening event on March 28th and 29th coordinated by Denver Digerati, Collective Misnomer, Astro Kino, and Signal Culture happening at Rainbow Dome 1660 N Federal Blvd Denver, CO 80204.
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Joost Rekveld is an artist who wonders what humans can learn from a dialogue with the machines they have constructed. In a form of media archeology he investigates modes of material engagement with devices and concepts found in the history of science and technology. The outcomes of these investigations often take the shape of abstract animated films that function like alien phenomenologies. In their sensuality they are an attempt to reach an intimate and embodied understanding of our technological world.
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#59 is an abstract animated science fiction film that looks at the experiences shared by humans and electronic circuits during the 20th century Cold War. In the same period Edward Lorenz and Yoshisuke Ueda independently discovered deterministic chaos through their computing systems. Much of our current technology is a side effect of the development of atomic weapons and their associated planetary surveillance systems. In film #59, humans, aliens and devices vacillate between these two poles of machinic chaos and planetary control.
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In a re-enactment of ancestral ways of computing, the animations were made as analog electronic signals. These were generated using period equipment, including an analog computer from 1963, early sonar and radar oscillators, and bits from flight simulators. This film is an attempt to liberate these technologies from their military origins.