Ars Electronica: Day 2

by | Sep 10, 2003 | Uncategorized

Dragged myself out of bed after a mere four hours sleep to make it to the first sym­po­sia of the con­fer­ence, “The mean­ing of code” and “The art of code”. An amaz­ing talk by Friedrich Kit­tler (PDF of the talk) on the his­tory of codes (Alberti, Morse,...

Ars Electronica: Day 1

by | Sep 9, 2003 | Uncategorized

33 hours from Kiev to Linz. In a train. Without a food car­riage. Nuts. Anyhow, apart from acco­mod­a­tion hassles, Ars Elec­tron­ica is excit­ing, exhil­ar­at­ing, huge. The fest­ival is to be spread out over about five build­ings. In the main square,...

Lessons from the war

by | Sep 7, 2003 | Uncategorized

And a very dif­fer­ent poem, triggered by the museums in the Baltics… Les­sons from the war i reas­ons to die: jewish, intel­lec­tual, queer refuses to bow to authority. whoever’s call­ing the shots, i’m a goner ii forget forced marches:...

baltic sea philosophy

by | Sep 7, 2003 | Uncategorized

I had meant to give Zack a chance to read this before making it public, but it looks like he won’t be con­tact­ing me and I don’t have e‑mail for him… whatever, I think it’s a good poem… I’ve always liked half-rhyme and asson­ance, and I think...