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feel free to forward to your networks > > ><br><pre><br>By some optical or electromagnetic freak, the intense focus of light<br>within the stones simultaneously produced a compression of time, so<br>that the discharge of light from the surfaces reversed the process of<br>crystallization<br><br>[J. G. Ballard, The Crystal World]<br><br>Recrystallization, three day workshop event, July 18-20, 12pm-7pm+<br>with final night of lo-no amp performances 9pm+<br><br>Hosted by Supermarkt Berlin, Brunnenstrasse 64, Berlin, with Martin<br>Howse, Ryan Jordan, and Jonathan Kemp.<br><br>If life itself starts from aperiodic crystals that encode infinite<br>futures within a small number of atoms, then the digital<br>crystallization of the flesh by Capital limits these futures to the<br>point of exhaustion. Recrystallization begins with the double premise<br>that if computers and the minerals from which they are made are<br>considered equally crystalline, then the decrystallization of the<br>digital through positive feedback disrupts and escalates entropy<br>through their structures and forward into their present pathology,<br>Capital.<br><br>Three sets of concurrent, feedbacking play and activities across three<br>days:<br><br>1] Attempting to recover various minerals and metals (including<br>copper, gold and silver) from abandoned computers through execution of<br>various volatile and chemical processes.<br><br>2] The re-crystallisation of these minerals in novel arrays using<br>raw/renditioned mineral assemblies including piezoelectrics, positive<br>feedback, colloidal dispersions.<br><br>3] The re-purposing and embedding of components and structures within<br>wider geological and geophysical systems.<br><br>The final day of the workshop will be followed by silver/gold drinks<br>and public lo-no amp performances.<br><br>Workshop capacity limited to 12. Fee 30¤ (covering _all_ material costs)<br><br>Booking/info: to reserve a place contact j...@xxn.org.uk//m...@1010.co.uk or<br>book using paypal to j...@xxn.org.uk.<br><br>Participants take part at own risk: workshops include high heat and<br>highly toxic processes - some safety gear provided and experiments<br>conducted outside so gas masks not essential (but please bring<br>mask/goggles/labcoat or similar if you have).<br><br>Resources: <a rel="nofollow" href="http://xxn.org.uk/doku.php?id=recrystallization:berlin_resource" target="_blank">http://xxn.org.uk/doku.php?id=recrystallization:berlin_resource</a></pre>
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