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18-06-10 | 17.00 'till 00.00 | DE PLAYER | Multi | free!
COM.POST #14 GIJS GIESKES (nl)

Gijs Gieskes developes his own instrumentarium by circuit bending, bug hoppin' & crap-stitching. By these techniques he practises memetism* in a technical cultural sense. Implanting these newborn methods right into public systems turns it into a uncontrollable organism. From this starting point an operesk meme will be created instantly on the evening itself.

Attention:
This programme partly participates in the TUKTUK route
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WHO Is? Gijs Gieskes (nl)
Gijs invents & reinvents tools and applications mostly in the audio and visual area from an autarcic standpoint (note diy as a form). From almost (P)re-historical principles as how the wheel turns to more nowadays matters as you tubes. It is a most profound symbiosis by bending materials as wood, metal and strings (in the technical senses) and bug hoppin' & crap-stitching of digital resources. Re-appropriating tools for new purposes, making inventive hardware projects, such as his Feedback video log, Strobo VJ machine or PCB hand painted circuit board, is what Gijs Gieskes enjoys most. Educated as an industrial designer, he now casts Gameboy Bricks in concrete to build a garden path or a spinning photoelectronic acid machine.
Gieskes’ work and live performances are a fantastic example of where hardware hacking can take you.
http://gieskes.nl/

PROGRAM
The evening consists of demonstrations of several of Gijs his recently developed internet applications in which he bends the possibilities several tools serves the audience. It results in for example the YouTube Tracker with which the user can organise a complete sound and vision orchestre. In this case it is to be used like a multipurpose synthesizer. During the presentation visitors can explore themselves the possible uses.
Gijs will be there to guide if nessecary.
This pre informational perfo installation can be seen as an operesque setting in which visitors as well as the virtual parts used as partitural components are to be seen as staged objects in a anadigital space.

*MEMETISM
- A meme (pronounced /ˈmiːm/, rhyming with "cream") is a postulated unit of cultural ideas, symbols or practices, which can be transmitted from one mind to another through writing, speech, gestures, rituals or other imitable phenomena. (The etymology of the term relates to the Greek word μιμητισμός ([mɪmetɪsmos]) for "something imitated".) Supporters of the concept regard memes as cultural analogues to genes, in that they self-replicate and respond to selective pressures.
The British scientist Richard Dawkins adapted the word "meme" in The Selfish Gene (1976) as a concept for discussion
of evolutionary principles in explaining the spread of ideas and cultural phenomena. Examples of memes given in the book included melodies, catch-phrases, beliefs (notably religious beliefs), clothing fashion, and the technology of building arches.

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