General Description:

xxxxx_at_piksel:/2007/ is a third generation development of xxxxx
events, with a 12 hour performative specification presenting a high
throughput of collaboration.

Structured processes are made available for description, and
interpretation within an "active making-in-the-world" implementation.

Construction potential is shared between invited international
participants arrayed in logical shift partitions, each allowing for
full participant interface [see Pin Assignments] and programmer
access.

The shift pattern allows for the clear display of
foreground-background activity and the incorporation of a range of
interrupt responses [see Interrupts].

Output is decoded within a final specified act after the elaboration
of all core and peripheral material, operating within a JIT model of
internal compilation.

Subsequent text provides more detail on the xxxxx controller family,
registers, instruction set, interrupts and shift timing.


xxxxx timing:

The three load groups:

Symbolic operation Mnemonic Comments

Hardware FL 12:00-16:00

Interface WO 16:00-20:00

Software VI 20:00-24:00


xxxxx registers:

The first shift comprises two compatible modules. Jessica Rylan
commences elaboration of the hardware (internal) audio representation
of chaos. RFID (in)compatible feature set is expanded according to
Ludic Society PitStop interrupt workshop as entry point into the "mehr
licht" unit [& NORDLICHT BLITZ play].

WO mnemonic (World as Interface) instructions embed the easter egged
transcriptions of Roman Kirchner, Yunchul Kim, and Olaf
Val. Side effects include raising volcanic noise floor according to
local EM presence.

Potential exterior interface [see block diagram] by way of data bus is
described by actors Otto Roessler and Bruno Marchal [remote] with
useful symbolic operations as conspiracy, cruelty, and framing.

Within a pipelined model the third load group commences execution of
previously compiled modules according to assembled viral instructions
and pornographic code operations. Tatiana Bazzichelli, Shu Lea Cheang,
Paulo Cirio, and Stewart Home apply absolute maximum ratings.


Interrupts:

The three shift groups accomplish transfer and exchange through fast
response interrupt sequences implemented by continuous life-coding
potential [see openness]. Procedural versatility is accomplished by
way of simultaneous prompts for background-foreground processing
throughout the event. Comprehensive embedded look-up tables enable
fast final execution of internal, tail recursive code bases.


Test Conditions:

Saturday November 17 2007, 12:00 - 24:00

USF Verftet - Georgernes Verft 12, 5011 Bergen Norway.

0-10ºC Light-to-moderate winds. Some rain expected.


Ordering Information:

Piksel CPU: With thanks to Gisle Froysland and all at BEK, Bergen,
Norway.

For further information and discussion please join mailing list at:

https://www.bek.no/mailman/listinfo/xxxxx


Codes:

* For Military Orders, refer to the Military Section
+ Available soon.

Glossary:

CPU: A Central Processing Unit (CPU) defines programmability and
execution. The CPU is a precise location within which program
instructions are interpreted. Manufactured as a single unit, the CPU is
commonly known as a microprocessor. Early iconic designs include the
Arthur C. Clarke prototype (1968) and Intel's early industrial
model (1970).

Easter Egg: An embedded, hidden message of feature within contemporary
hardware and software, accessible outside the usual means of usability
and examination (see Reverse Engineering).

Interrupt: An asynchronous signal from hardware indicating the need
for attention or a synchronous event in software indicating the need
for a change in execution. Interrupts allow for multitasking.

Lookup Table: Rather than performing a live process, a lookup table
can be used to provide the results, under certain conditions, of an
equivalent pre-determined procedure.

Pornography: Mode of philosophising in the boudoir. Equally describing
economies of simulation and objectification within a field of
programming potential (see Military use).

Recursion: Self reference within code. Tail recursion defines a
special case special case where the last operation of the function is
a recursive call.

Register: A small storage space readily accessible within the confined
space of the CPU. Such space can be undocumented as to location and
function.

RFID: Radio-frequency identification (RFID) is a method of
identification, discernment and embedded tagging, relying on the
remote storage and retrieval of data (see Leibniz's Principle of the
Identity of Indiscernibles).

Participants:

Tatiana Bazzichelli: Communication sociologist and an expert in Media
Art, Hacktivism and Net Culture. She is author of Networking, The Net
as an Artwork.

Shu Lea Cheang: Cross-discipline media artist working intensively in
collaboration with projects such as Kingdom Of Piracy (KOP).

Paolo Cirio: With practice centred around the constant flux of
technological and cultural shifts Paolo is a prolific developer,
designer and collaborative net-artist [Opendock,
Google-will-eat-itself].

Stewart Home: Writer, film maker, arch prankster, plagiarist,
ex-neoist, working for the last 25 years collapsing theory into
practice in a variety of acclaimed publications and set pieces.

Martin Howse: Programmer, theorist and artist, working
collaboratively under the heading xxxxx, in audio performance and
wide ranging production and publication.

Jonathan Kemp: Artist, performer, theorist and collaborator, working
on the implementation of diverse speculative xxxxx productions.

Yunchul Kim studied composition in Seoul and later art at the
Academy of Media Art in Cologne. His composition and artworks have
featured in various international contexts, such as New York Digital
Salon, Transmediale, Electrohype and Ars Electronica.

Roman Kirschner co-founded the art group ”fur” in 2001, specialising
in multisensory interfaces in game context. In his latest works he
explores the animation of matter in visual and acoustic ways while
glimpsing at the emotional implications of turbocapitalism.

Ludic Society (Margerete Charmante, Gordan Savicic, Duncan
Shingleton): Marguerite Charmante in collusion with Fleshgordo created
the Ludic Society in Bilbao Spain in 2005 as an international
association of game practitioners and thinkers who seek to provoke the
new artistic research discipline of ludics or indulgent play.

Nancy Mauro-Flude: Works with text, performance, radio, film, video,
photo and translocal media. Creates situations that the work exists
within the space, the interstices of genre, narrative and
socio/political borders.

Alejandra Perez Nunez: Independent artist and theorist,
representative of a diverse group of practitioners and writers
examining the electromagnetic environment and twinned industrial
economy.

Otto Roessler: Key thinker pioneering a view of the world as
interface within works concerning the new science of Endophysics.

Jessica Rylan is an artist and electronic engineer who builds unique
analog synthesisers. Her current projects attempt to make sense of
highly unstable systems through both scientific and intuitive
approaches.

Olaf Val: Media artist working with audio-visual materials which are
expended by programming (software), soldering and tinkering
(hardware). His interactive projects are predominately installations
in which the electronic media are reduced to a minimal form.

Eva Verhoeven: Artist and theorist proposing a concise and well
defined series of laboratory-style experiments and interventions which
elaborate a trajectory from noise/interference within existent
(computer) systems towards speculative hardware.