{"id":1016,"date":"2010-08-21T20:43:10","date_gmt":"2010-08-21T19:43:10","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.lumen.nu\/rekveld\/wp\/?p=1016"},"modified":"2019-08-24T16:48:23","modified_gmt":"2019-08-24T15:48:23","slug":"writing","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.joostrekveld.net\/?p=1016","title":{"rendered":"writing"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In recent months I&#8217;ve been too busy to post many things here, but in the past year I did write a number of essays or other texts that were published in nicely designed publications. Catching up in more or less antichronological order:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Coming Monday, at the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.eculturefair2010.eu\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">e-culture fair<\/a> in Dortmund, will be the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.baltanlaboratories.org\/?p=2194\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">launch<\/a> of a book made by the people from the Baltan Lab in Eindhoven. In 2009 they organized a great expert meeting (which I had to miss, unfortunately) and they asked me to write an essay to trigger some of the discussion. It is called &#8216;On Closing a Loop &#8211; Disciplinarity and Openness&#8217; and in a rather light way it &#8220;deals with notions of (inter-, multi- and trans-)disciplinarity, their limits and possibilities for new approaches.&#8221; This essay was originally made available <a href=\"http:\/\/www.baltanlaboratories.org\/?p=1436\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">online<\/a>, but now it also available in book form, together with contributions by Andreas Broeckmann, Eyal Fried, Nik Gaffney, Eva De Groote, Horst H\u00f6rtner, the LABtoLAB network, Melinda Rackham, Edward A. Shanken, and others.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" id=\"image1022\" src=\"https:\/\/www.joostrekveld.net\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/08\/fotl.png\" alt=\"fotl.png\" \/><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Earlier this year, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.stroom.nl\/index_en.php\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Stroom<\/a> launched the second issue of their yearly magazine <a href=\"http:\/\/www.stroom.nl\/nl\/publicaties\/publicatie.php?p_id=8764408\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">DH\/\/<\/a> at the Amsterdam Art fair. DH\/\/ is a free magazine about contemporary art in The Hague. It &#8220;offers a guide to the cultural infrastructure of The Hague.&#8221; and this issue is very beautifully designed, with artist&#8217;s contributions by <a href=\"http:\/\/www.bmbcon.demon.nl\/justin\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Justin Bennett<\/a> and <a href=\"http:\/\/www.alonlevin.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Alon Levin<\/a>. I wrote an essay called &#8220;Music and Mutants &#8211; Image, Sound and ArtScience in The Hague&#8221;. It deals with some aspects of the audiovisual culture specific to The Hague, the role of institutions like the Interfaculty Image and Sound, now <a href=\"http:\/\/www.interfaculty.nl\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">ArtScience Interfaculty<\/a>, mentioning the influence the Interfaculty&#8217;s founders <a href=\"http:\/\/fransevers.info\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Frans Evers<\/a> and <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Dick_Raaymakers\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Dick Raaymakers<\/a> had on the scene in The Hague. Other texts are by Vincent de Boer, Arnold Mosselman, Arno van Roosmalen, George Vermij, Heidi Vogles, Albert Wulffers.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" id=\"image1023\" src=\"https:\/\/www.joostrekveld.net\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/08\/dhomslagsm.jpg\" alt=\"dhomslagsm.jpg\" \/><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>As a sequel to their <a href=\"http:\/\/www.lumen.nu\/isabelle.vigier\/mm2.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">beautiful<\/a> mm2 book a couple of years ago, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.filmbank.nl\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Filmbank<\/a> in Amsterdam (now part of <a href=\"http:\/\/programma.eyefilm.nl\/website\/exec\/frontpageread\/page.html?id=722-6e6c2e66696c6d6d757365756d2e50616765\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">EYE Film<\/a> Institute Netherlands) published a new book together with <a href=\"http:\/\/www.aup.nl\/do.php?a=show_visitor_book&amp;isbn=9789089641991\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Amsterdam University Press<\/a>. The new book is called Film\u00b3 [ky\u00fc-bik film] and is intended as an overview of current tendencies in Dutch experimental film. &#8220;The \u2018cubic films\u2019 by the new generation of film artists are made to walk around or are augmented by live music or performance art.<span class=\"vBookText\">&#8221; (in their own words). The book mostly consists of interviews with 11 current makers, amongst which Rosa Barba and Telcosystems, and I wrote an essay oriented towards possible futures of experimental cinema after the end of film, under the title &#8220;<\/span>Conversations with Machines&#8221;.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" id=\"image1018\" src=\"https:\/\/www.joostrekveld.net\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/05\/film3.jpg\" alt=\"film3.jpg\" \/><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>At the occasion of their latest installation &#8220;12_series&#8221;, the buddies from <a href=\"http:\/\/www.telcosystems.net\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Telcosystems<\/a> have published a beautifully designed <a href=\"http:\/\/www.telcosystems.net\/index.php\/store\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">booklet<\/a> with DVD. It&#8217;s a great little book with essays by <a href=\"http:\/\/ariealt.net\/blog\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Arie Altena<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.woodstreetgalleries.org\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Murray Horne<\/a> and me, circling around the installation and the ideas behind it or inspired by it. I wrote a rather associative collection of 12 fragments under the title &#8220;144&#8221;.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" id=\"image1017\" src=\"https:\/\/www.joostrekveld.net\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/05\/12_series.jpg\" alt=\"12_series.jpg\" \/><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>And last but not least something I wrote much longer ago for a great publication linked to the series of <a href=\"http:\/\/www.stdsps.nl\/index.php?option=com_content&amp;task=view&amp;id=89\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">COM.POST<\/a> events by <a href=\"http:\/\/www.stdsps.nl\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">DSPS\/De Player<\/a> from Rotterdam. Composer and artist <a href=\"http:\/\/www.deplayer.nl\/index.php?page=shop.product_details&amp;flypage=shop.flypage&amp;product_id=37&amp;category_id=11&amp;manufacturer_id=0&amp;option=com_virtuemart&amp;Itemid=10013&amp;vmcchk=1&amp;Itemid=10013\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Barbara Ellison<\/a> asked me to produce an essay on themes triggered by her work and her working method. I wrote a short essay called &#8220;Making Things Up As You Go&#8221;, talking about different approaches to make art inspired by systems theories.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" id=\"image1019\" src=\"https:\/\/www.joostrekveld.net\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/05\/compost2008.jpg\" alt=\"compost2008.jpg\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In recent months I&#8217;ve been too busy to post many things here, but in the past year I did write a number of essays or other texts that were published in nicely designed publications. 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