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• Post #3916752

  Interesting piece tracing parallels between the colonial cocaine trade and the semiconductor industry: https://networkcultures.org/longform/2026/07/16/lines-of-code/

• Post #3059112

  With my crude metal-working skills and capabilities I built this strange contraption of steel and mica, hoping it will be fit for purpose and able to resist high voltage and high temperature. #OtherSemiconductors #79 #SystemsThatMatter

• Post #3059111

  There is a very interesting French lineage of philosophers and historians of science engaging with chemistry and these early writings by Pierre Duhem were also early contributions to that lineage; a very interesting book on the evolution of chemical concepts of mixedness and combination from 1902 and a great and nuanced history of the precursors of Lavoisier, published during WWI. #PierreDuhem #historyofchemistry #chemistry #SystemsThatMatter

• Post #3059110

  Finally finished building, testing and calibrating (sort of) this 1 KV power supply; first display is in Volts, the second in mA. Things are slowly coming together... #hvpowersupply #othersemiconductors #79 #systemsthatmatter

• Post #3059109

  So today I was getting all excited by this dusty tome from 1910/1923, a recent arrival after it was cited in the fantastic book by Bernadette Bensaude-Vincent that I finally finished reading. #ErnstCassirer #SubstanzbegriffUndFunktionsbegriff #SystemsThatMatter

• Post #3059108

  Coming Wednesday the 27th of May one of my first (and shortest) films will be screened in The Hague ! Film #3 from 1994 will have the honour of being one of two guest appearances in a programme otherwise devoted to the work of filmmaker Ryan Marino. More info here: https://filmhuisdenhaag.nl/films/glued-and-screwed-31 #experimentalcinema #gluedandscrewed

• Post #3059107

  Coming Friday the 29th of May at 17h there will be a special screening of my film "Mechanisms Common to Disparate Phenomena; #59" in Ghent at the IPEM Art and Science Interaction Lab of the UGent. After that there will be a short Q&A and an informal book presentation. The event is free but registration is required, be very welcome ! https://event.ugent.be/registration/JoostRekveld #experimentalcinema #MechanismsCommonToDisparatePhenomena #DialoguesWithMachines #Liber...

• Post #3059106

  Tomorrow, Friday the 29th of May, at 17h there will be a special screening of my film "Mechanisms Common to Disparate Phenomena; #59" in Ghent at the IPEM Art and Science Interaction Lab of the UGent. After that there will be a short Q&A and an informal book presentation. #experimentalcinema #MechanismsCommonToDisparatePhenomena #DialoguesWithMachines #LiberateTheMachines! #SystemsThatMatter

• Post #3059105

  I had never seen the Zinneke parade in Brussels before and its great ! #bxl #zinnekeparade

• Post #3059104

  Two books that are interesting to read together. Illich's book could be called an essayistic cultural history of water and he wrote it in 1984, heavily inspired by Bachelard's book from 1942, which had then just been translated into English. Now is the moment for somebody to write a sequel and keep the 42-year cycle going. #GastonBachelard #IvanIllich #SystemsThatMatter

• Post #3059103

  Tomorrow, the 2nd of June, my film #43.6 from 2013 will be screened as part of the protest events around "The Death of ArtScience". The current students of the ArtScience Interfaculty of the Royal Academy of Art and the Royal Conservatoire in The Hague are protesting the dissolution of the Interfaculty into two small and uncoordinated sub-departments of the Academy and the Conservatoire. 1/5 #InterfacultyImageAndSound #ArtScienceInterfaculty #TheDeathOfArtScience

• Post #2518868

  Super happy to finally hold a physical copy of my book. It will be out and available after the summer, please contact me if you are interested to review it or to organize an event around it. #LiberateTheMachines! #DialoguesWithMachines #SystemsThatMatter #MediaArchaeology #AnalogComputing #ExperimentalCinema #MechanismsCommonToDisparatePhenomena copublished with KASK&Conservatorium Ghent, designed by Isabelle Vigier, final editing by Bureau Doove.

• Post #1978555

  This Thursday the 16th of April will be the opening of a great exhibition at Various Artists in New York which includes analog electronic image explorations by Greg Zifcak, Sara Hornbacher, Blinn & Lambert, Jen Kutler, Jonas Bers , Phil Baljeu, Anton Rickets and myself. It will run until the 17th of May and it will feature the first gallery-type showing of my "Mechanisms Common to Disparate Phenomena; #59". #MechanismsCommonToDisparatePhenomena #DialoguesWithMachines #...

• Post #1905014

  Coming Friday I will have the privilege to participate in one of the reflective moments of the great Oscillation festival organized by q_o2 in Brussels. I will be sharing the stage with Alanna Stuart, Marie Thompson, Gary Stewart and Femke Snelting, and there will be a panel moderated by Elena Biserna. #OscillationFestival #q_o2 @elenabiserna #OtherSemiconductors #SystemsThatMatter #DialoguesWithMachines

• Post #1608477

  A strange rabbit-hole brought me to the stereotyped world of cold-war-era comics. "Nature Boy" at first seemed a bit different, with its vaguely Taoist references and ancient Greek gods, but in the end it is about harnessing the 'powers of nature' to defeat 'invaders that intend to destroy our civilization' or even protect US oil prospectors in an unspecified Arabic country. Another proud member of the class of phenomena that are their own carica...

• Post #961573

  I had never heard of the artist Sascha Wiederhold. This is a tiny fragment of his massive painting "Jazz Symphony" from 1927. At the excellent Kunsthalle Mannheim. #saschawiederhold

• Post #953079

  This may be my first arrival of a book published in 2026 and judging by its table of contents it looks like an amazingly complete and thorough critique of cybernetics, with some aspects reminding me of Céline Lafontaine's "L'empire cybernétique". But perhaps I should read it first.. #AnnaVerenaNosthoff @ANosthoff #Kybernetik #cybernetics #SystemsThatMatter

• Post #712388

  Perhaps it is me, but this seems to be the first text I see that looks at AI through business eyes and which actually makes sense (to a non‐specialist, sure): "The question here is if it's all so great, why are the insurance underwriters going to great lengths to prohibit coverage for these things? They're generally pretty good at risk profiling." https://www.theregister.com/2026/03/17/ai_businesses_faking_it_reckoning_coming_codestrap/