- Diagnosis and Surveillance One could say that diagnosis and surveillance are friends. They detect deviation. When it is identified, it is categorized and acted upon. The objective is to normalize and to minimize. To minimize the risk of infection, we recommend that you wash your hands thoroughly. We should try to minimize our carbon footprint. To normalize one’s […]
- Variability of a Text, Ecology of Attention How to modulate variability of attention and perception in order to promote ecological thinking? This article proposes a method and its practical implementation.
- EightOS Shadowboxing This release is an excerpt of the EightOS project that we are working on together with Ivan Rubio exploring the traces and repercussions of physical echo in space and in time. Film by Ivan Rubio Performers & Concept: Dmitry Paranyushkin, Koo Des Editors: Ivan Rubio, Dmitry Paranyushkin Sound: Ivan […]
- We were in more danger before Coronavirus even started… If you think that practicing “social distancing” is the right thing to do, you should have stayed at home before you even heard of Coronavirus. Your chances to kill someone with a normal seasonal flu are higher than with Covid-19. … Coronavirus is dominating the news and the collective consciousness. People are panicking and practicing […]
- The Re~Definition of Value Too often we’re driven by the notion of value that has nothing to do with us. In the most basic case we might think that something is valuable just because it can be measured in something else: the money or the amount of attention that it can be exchanged for. // “How many likes did this post […]
- Questioning the Legitimisation Что мы легитимизируем тем, что мы делаем?
- Textexture An interactive visual installation where the participants are invited to sculpt with language and text in real time.
- 17 Ways to Remember Her Touch The following sequence has been recorded on location at Icelandic lava fields in 2017. For stronger soma~cognitive effect it is recommended to find the time (5 minutes) and space (silence) to give full sensory attention to the data presented below. “17 Ways to Remember Her Touch” Liquefaction […]
- Annihilation In this world, annihilation is known as the movie, Annihilation. In this movie we encounter the new form of alien life, which does not use flying saucers or other means of aerial transportation (nor any sort of conventional transportation) to reach the humanity and invade. Instead, they choose to invade through the DNA. Attracting a […]
- Legitimization and Cultivation In this world, there are things that inhabitants do on a regular basis: be it routine actions or practice. … Every time they act they can ask themselves: “What do I legitimize with what I’m doing?” Example 1. When you’re reading this text from the screen of your iPhone or any other device you are legitimizing several things and […]
- Re~Definition of a Special Agent During my practice, between 2015 and 2018, I liked to use the term “Special Agent”. Apart from other elements, it consists of two words: “special” and “agent”. Why? … The word special relates to one’s specialty: be it a brain better suited for solving mathematical problems or the ability to cook amazing Italian food. To be […]
- Special Agent’s Manual Special Agent’s Manual Download PDF We have multiple manuals for devices and systems, but almost none for our body/mind. This manual is especially designed to resolve this issue. It offers a set of concrete methodologies, exercises and practices that can help activate the special agency from within, functioning as a cognitive stimulant. Based […]
- Operational Strategy of Desire The more something lacks the more it is needed. The absence produces desire. The presence precedes the absence. a sudden distraction extraction pre-occupation ostentation retaliation. … Only 0 days 17 hours 14 minutes 29 seconds left … Otherwise it will be too late. Only today and only tomorrow. Touch me and we will never talk […]
- Cognitive Stimulants Cognitive stimulants are the things that alter perception and stimulate imagination and sensitivity. Their main importance is in bringing different points of view and expanding the phase space of possibilities available at every moment of time, acting as a deterrent against stagnation, boosting innovation and evolutionary development. Any form of expression can manifest itself as […]
- Polysingularity Mix / Planet∞ In agent Johnco’s own words: This mix is called Number ∞. It’s featuring recent tracks from a bunch of my favorites electronic producers. I cut a bit at the end because it was too long.. It’s all mixed live at home with 3 effects on the 2 decks, reverb, delay and distortion. Agent Johnco activated. […]
- Changing the Picture The report below was written in response to Changing the Picture – the conference on storytelling and technology that took place in Berlin’s Babelsberg studios in November 2016. … Everyone lives in the stories they’re telling themselves. Many of those stories are imagined and told by somebody else and that’s where the one who speaks can have […]
- Crimean Surfers While most surfers ride the waves with their bodies, Crimean surfers ride the waves with their нутро or “gut chakra”. This changes everything, including the surfer and the concept of surfing itself, but as everything that is simple it also demands more explanation. Crimea is a beautiful desolate peninsula located at the Black Sea. It […]
- Software Takes Command A post on Facebook says “there was 9/11, now there is 11/9”. The scale of disaster is almost comparable: who could have predicted that Donald Trump would become the next president of the US? A recent piece from NiemanLab (a leading think tank on journalism) asks if this election is the turning point for media’s […]
- Body/Mind Operating Systems We already have operating systems for machines, but what we really need are the operating systems for humans. A working proposal of the new body/mind operating system for human beings.
- 8OS: Operating System for Bodymind A working proposal and an ongoing practice for body/mind open source operating system based on adaptive development and 8-like oscillatory wave motion at its core.
