Re: [NetBehaviour] Work in Progress: Blockchain Temporalities

2021-06-09 Thread Alan Sondheim via NetBehaviour
Hi Rhea, What I'd suggest is that you find a quantum physicist to work with, seriously. I did some copy-editing and had some discussions with David Finkelstein years ago; he was an expert in quantum logic, and widely published in the field, and he talked about the deep untranslatability of the mat

Re: [NetBehaviour] Work in Progress: Blockchain Temporalities

2021-06-09 Thread Rhea Myers via NetBehaviour
Thank you! Yes I need to tune up the QM invocation, you are right. I’m trying to gesture towards limits on knowability within current physics rather than handwave with quantum woo. Any suggestions on how to improve that would be greatly appreciated. 🙂 On June 9, 2021, Rhea Myers wrote: > I also

Re: [NetBehaviour] Work in Progress: Blockchain Temporalities

2021-06-09 Thread Rhea Myers via NetBehaviour
I also liked the sound of Iota, but: https://www.coindesk.com/iota-being-shut-off-is-the-latest-chapter-in- an-absurdist-history https://twitter.com/SarahJamieLewis/status/1161353122343604225 😿 Each block in a chain does have every previous block as a (grand-)parent through the trail of hashes

Re: [NetBehaviour] Work in Progress: Blockchain Temporalities

2021-06-09 Thread Rhea Myers via NetBehaviour
Yes it puts a spin on the “blockchain solves the problem of spacetime” meme. >From software eating the world to blockchains eating spacetime… On June 8, 2021, Soenke Zehle wrote: > Thx very much for this. It seems (no tech expert speaking here) that > the shift from proof-of-work to proof-of-spa

Re: [NetBehaviour] Work in Progress: Blockchain Temporalities

2021-06-09 Thread Rhea Myers via NetBehaviour
Block time tends to be constant, or at least it tends to target a constant rate. This prevents miners from mining one block per transaction and taking the block reward, and makes reasoning about different aspects of block production. Block rate targets vary from 10 minutes down to one second(!).

[NetBehaviour] Museum Without Walls - an inventory of virtual museums

2021-06-09 Thread Gabriel Menotti via NetBehaviour
Hey folks! Apologies for cross-posting! I hope that this project might interest some of you. Best! Menotti * * * *Museum Without Walls* > museusemparedes.com/en > @museusemparedes Museum Without Walls is an inventory of virtual museums, mapping media and political technologies that enable cult

[NetBehaviour] tomorrow's post, Sarangi, other

2021-06-09 Thread Alan Sondheim
(Thank you everyone for these discussions! I learn so much from NB. Two things - I've been looking at the old Dodge/Kitchin Atlas of Cyberspace - you can find it online 2nd-hand - and it's amazing, a lot to be explored and (still) drawn from. Second, last night I did the piece below, which ma

Re: [NetBehaviour] going silent

2021-06-09 Thread Ana Valdés via NetBehaviour
Marc Ruth and all others Netbehaviour -empyre and Furtherfield are my digital ”homes” and I always feel welcome and encouraged in those places. Life after COVID is changing our way of life and giving us new perspectives or retaking old ones. Sadly to hear about your mother. I still don’t know why I

Re: [NetBehaviour] going silent

2021-06-09 Thread marc garrett via NetBehaviour
Hi Ana, Always great to hear from you, And, especially glad you have recovered from Covid-19. It has been a tough time for many of us this last year. I lost my mother and her boyfriend recently, which has brought about some serious questions. For me, those questions involved making some big choi

Re: [NetBehaviour] Work in Progress: Blockchain Temporalities

2021-06-09 Thread BishopZ via NetBehaviour
rhea, wonderful, thank you. a few thoughts- I've been looking at Iota lately. While coinbase and others describe Iota as a blockchain, their documentation says they are not a blockchain, but rather a different form of distributed ledger. They claim they're not a blockchain because each block refer

Re: [NetBehaviour] going silent

2021-06-09 Thread Annie Abrahams via NetBehaviour
love On Wed, Jun 9, 2021 at 6:43 PM Mark Hancock wrote: > Alan, as always much love and thoughts towards you and the family. > > Please continue to post work here. I always welcome your projects that > come through the list. They inevitably challenge me to think about my own > creativity, the wi

Re: [NetBehaviour] going silent

2021-06-09 Thread Mark Hancock
Alan, as always much love and thoughts towards you and the family. Please continue to post work here. I always welcome your projects that come through the list. They inevitably challenge me to think about my own creativity, the wider possibilities of what being digital might mean (as publication m

[NetBehaviour] Solstizio Calvino

2021-06-09 Thread Max Herman via NetBehaviour
Hi all, This is a project I've been doing annually since June 2018, based on a simple set of elements: * Occurs around the time of the summer solstice * Uses text from Italo Calvino's Six Memos for the Next Millennium * Uses images from the Hennepin County Public Library Special Col

Re: [NetBehaviour] Cochineal - on the inside

2021-06-09 Thread Simon Mclennan via NetBehaviour
Adam, thank you for sharing This! The ups and downs can Be really hard to navigate - I can Relate to that. Simon Sent from my spyphone > On 8 Jun 2021, at 23:59, F3ydrus via NetBehaviour > wrote: > > Reposting something I wrote at lunchtime UK time today, before writing a > separate msg abou

Re: [NetBehaviour] A campfire in a ruin in a forest

2021-06-09 Thread AGF poemproducer
same <3 > On 09 Jun 2021, at 11:03, Gretta Louw via NetBehaviour > wrote: > > the notion of existing in the ruins of media art and the idea of the internet > as a positive force absolutely compelling ___ NetBehaviour mailing list NetBehaviour@list

Re: [NetBehaviour] (Putting up a piece from a couple of day ago)

2021-06-09 Thread AGF poemproducer
hi all, super remember Helen initiated this: https://etherpad.wikimedia.org/p/online-tools-for-the-pandemic agee > On 09 Jun 2021, at 00:42, marc garrett via NetBehaviour > wrote: > > Hi Helen, > > Always lovely to hear from you, > > In view of such a positive response by Netbehaviour users

Re: [NetBehaviour] A campfire in a ruin in a forest

2021-06-09 Thread Gretta Louw via NetBehaviour
I find the notion of existing in the ruins of media art and the idea of the internet as a positive force absolutely compelling - electrifying really! Actually I think this is what all of my current work is doing. Thank you! Gretta > On 9. Jun 2021, at 09:32, F3ydrus via NetBehaviour > wro

Re: [NetBehaviour] Work in Progress: Blockchain Temporalities

2021-06-09 Thread Soenke Zehle
Thx very much for this. It seems (no tech expert speaking here) that the shift from proof-of-work to proof-of-space-and-time is putting another twist on the question of blockchain temporality? Btw, as (budding) fan of Blumenberg / theories of metaphor I continue to be astonished by the poverty of

[NetBehaviour] A campfire in a ruin in a forest

2021-06-09 Thread F3ydrus via NetBehaviour
Ironically, I broke my long lurking silence on this list earlier today in response to Simon's 'cochineal' message, without yet having read the recent and ongoing discussion about the list, which included the question of who all these 600+ lurkers might be... Last night I had 2hrs to catch up on th