28.10.24, 20:30, Mechanisms Common to Disparate Phenomena; #59 (2023)
On October 28, Joost Rekveld, artistic researcher at KASK & Conservatorium, will defend his doctorate to obtain the title Doctor of Arts. The film Mechanisms Common to Disparate Phenomena; #59 (2023, 79 min.) is the main artistic outcome of the PhD project. It will be screened the same evening at 20:30 in KASKcinema.
Mechanisms Common to Disparate Phenomena; #59
Our computing technology arose during the Cold War as a side effect of the development of atomic weapons and their associated planetary surveillance systems. In 1961, at perhaps the coldest point of this period, Edward Lorenz and Yoshisuke Ueda independently discovered deterministic chaos in their computing systems. In film #59, humans, aliens and devices vacillate between these two poles of on the one hand a fever dream of human control over the planet and a lively, machinic chaos on the other hand.
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.
Joost Rekveld, 2023, 79'
Cloquet
Godshuizenlaan 4
9000 Gent