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Steven Rushton at 05:23, 13 December 2025

2025-12-13T05:23:14Z

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	Start with https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8z32JTnRrHc		Start with Nacy Holt & Richard Serra, Boomerang<br> https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8z32JTnRrHc

	This afternoon we will look at some “open ended media systems” from the 1960s and early 1970s, including House of Dust; Ant Farm and Radical Software		This afternoon we will look at some “open ended media systems” from the 1960s and early 1970s, including House of Dust; Ant Farm and Radical Software

Steven Rushton at 12:38, 8 December 2025

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	[Play cybernetic tortoise vid]<br>		[Play cybernetic tortoise vid]<br>
	https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lLULRlmXkKo<br>		https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lLULRlmXkKo<br>
	The conditions for a cybernetic understanding of media had been around for some time. Cybernetics, as a system of thought, began in earnest during WWII when scientists tried to anticipate the behavior of missiles and planes (fire power), which required servo-~~mechanisma~~, machines or components which incorporated feedback into their ~~opperation~~. For instance, one needed to anticipate the trajectory of your opponent’s weapons.<br>		The conditions for a cybernetic understanding of media had been around for some time. Cybernetics, as a system of thought, began in earnest during WWII when scientists tried to anticipate the behavior of missiles and planes (fire power), which required servo-mechanisms, machines or components which incorporated feedback into their operation. For instance, one needed to anticipate the trajectory of your opponent’s weapons.<br>

	https://ia801003.us.archive.org/9/items/cybernetics-or-communication-and-control-in-the-animal-and-the-machine-norbert-wiene-ocr/Cybernetics%20or%20Communication%20and%20Control%20in%20the%20Animal%20and%20the%20Machine%20-%20Norbert%20Wiene_OCR.pdf<br>		https://ia801003.us.archive.org/9/items/cybernetics-or-communication-and-control-in-the-animal-and-the-machine-norbert-wiene-ocr/Cybernetics%20or%20Communication%20and%20Control%20in%20the%20Animal%20and%20the%20Machine%20-%20Norbert%20Wiene_OCR.pdf<br>

Tommi: Remove Category SI28 because of website issue

2025-12-01T16:37:47Z

Remove Category SI28 because of website issue

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Tommi: Remove from Category Writing Machines and add to Category SI28

2025-11-30T19:45:39Z

Remove from Category Writing Machines and add to Category SI28

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Steven Rushton at 05:03, 21 November 2025

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	g) Technology will do it for us.<br><br>		g) Technology will do it for us.<br><br>

	We submit that these ideas are simply proved false by the great but ultimately destructive achievement of our technology in the last 150 years. Likewise they appear to be false under modern ecological theory. The creature that wins against its environment destroys itself...”[ Bateson in RS]<br>		We submit that these ideas are simply proved false by the great but ultimately destructive achievement of our technology in the last 150 years. Likewise they appear to be false under modern ecological theory. '''The creature that wins against its environment destroys itself...'''”[ Bateson in RS -my emphasis]<br>
	So, this is why in 1971 there was nothing unusual about an ecological polemic appearing in a magazine devoted to the uses and maintenance of portable video systems (the Portapak, the next machine on our loop de loop). There was already an abiding connection between the notion of an ecological system regulated by feedback and a technological system regulated by the same principle. And the parallel notions of “ecology” were not simply analogous, they are systematically and structurally bound together. <br>		So, this is why in 1971 there was nothing unusual about an ecological polemic appearing in a magazine devoted to the uses and maintenance of portable video systems (the Portapak, the next machine on our loop de loop). There was already an abiding connection between the notion of an ecological system regulated by feedback and a technological system regulated by the same principle. And the parallel notions of “ecology” were not simply analogous, they are systematically and structurally bound together. <br>

Steven Rushton at 10:18, 10 November 2025

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 https://hub.xpub.nl/rushtonhosts/fabulousloopdeloop/index.php?title=Steps_Towards_a_(Media)_Ecology
-[explain the homeostat – paras 1,2 and 4]<br>
+Etract, Floop:<br>
 Cybernetics also offered a way of understanding human beings’ relation to nature (the ecological system could be understood as adaptive and performative, an environment or organism adapted to the information entering its (nervous) system.; and, as the Radical Software group and Antfarm had demonstrated, cybernetics offered a new relation to media and social relations.<br>

Steven Rushton at 17:10, 3 November 2025

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	Start with https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8z32JTnRrHc		Start with https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8z32JTnRrHc

			This afternoon we will look at some “open ended media systems” from the 1960s and early 1970s, including House of Dust; Ant Farm and Radical Software

	https://monoskop.org/images/1/15/Knowles_Alison_The_House_of_Dust_Research_Journal_2016.pdf		https://monoskop.org/images/1/15/Knowles_Alison_The_House_of_Dust_Research_Journal_2016.pdf

	~~This afternoon we will look at some “open ended media systems” from the 1960s and early 1970s, including House of Dust; Ant Farm and Radical Software~~

	Show poem<br>		Show poem<br>

	~~Van Diagram: Fluxus, Antfarm, cybernetics, Radical Software<br>~~

	~~Performativity<br>~~

	~~Read highlighted section from HOD journal<br>~~

	~~Show score<br>~~

	Show HPSCHD score (performative)<br>		Show HPSCHD score (performative)<br>
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	https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Pv0VTEZalTc&list=PLZcXSTsdNl2pz_BagpXj1oAG_qV4ED5b9<br>		https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Pv0VTEZalTc&list=PLZcXSTsdNl2pz_BagpXj1oAG_qV4ED5b9<br>


	~~Show Ant Farm Farm pages:<br>~~


	Ant Farm: architecture = interfaces for experience = what Antfarm called “open ended media systems: From By Tung-Hui Hu’s Truckstops on the Information highway: “Ant Farm’s “Truckstop Network” [a “service network for nomads”]was born of the idea that one might reverse the dreary flow of information (and, arguably, propaganda) pumped into peoples’ homes by ABC, NBC, and CBS by taking information into one’s own hands. Excited by the potential of the new Portapak handheld video camera, Ant Farm began to experiment with programming their own video feed. Enter the Media Van: on a yearlong tour through colleges and other points of interest, they shot video of “dancing chickens, an okra farmer, a ground-breaking in Scottsdale, aspiring pop singer Johnny Romeo belting out a ballad in the Yale School of Architecture…”, to quote curator Steve Seid. If commercial television refused to broadcast these images, their souped-up Media Van would bring the network directly to the audience’s door.”<br>
	~~[and, I would argue, producing a “performative” audience, they would be producers of the media output they “consume”.]<br>~~


	RADICAL SOFTWARE - (MEDIA) ECOLOGY<br>		RADICAL SOFTWARE - (MEDIA) ECOLOGY<br>

Steven Rushton at 16:57, 3 November 2025

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	We submit that these ideas are simply proved false by the great but ultimately destructive achievement of our technology in the last 150 years. Likewise they appear to be false under modern ecological theory. The creature that wins against its environment destroys itself...”[ Bateson in RS]<br>		We submit that these ideas are simply proved false by the great but ultimately destructive achievement of our technology in the last 150 years. Likewise they appear to be false under modern ecological theory. The creature that wins against its environment destroys itself...”[ Bateson in RS]<br>
	So, this is why in 1971 there was nothing unusual about an ecological polemic appearing in a magazine devoted to the uses and maintenance of portable video systems (the Portapak, the next machine on our loop de loop). There was already an abiding connection between the notion of an ecological system regulated by feedback and a technological system regulated by the same principle. And the parallel notions of “ecology” were not simply analogous, they are systematically and structurally bound together. <br>		So, this is why in 1971 there was nothing unusual about an ecological polemic appearing in a magazine devoted to the uses and maintenance of portable video systems (the Portapak, the next machine on our loop de loop). There was already an abiding connection between the notion of an ecological system regulated by feedback and a technological system regulated by the same principle. And the parallel notions of “ecology” were not simply analogous, they are systematically and structurally bound together. <br>

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Steven Rushton: /* Steve's notes */

2025-11-03T15:44:53Z

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Steven Rushton: /* Steve's notes */

2025-11-03T14:51:28Z

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	Start with https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8z32JTnRrHc		Start with https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8z32JTnRrHc