2XTWEETSXMODEMSXTEXTXTWEET
Radical Networks 2019 Proposal
Format: [Talk]
Name: [Cyrus LK]
Pronouns: [ he ]
Location: [Montreal, CA + Rotterdam, NL]
Email: [info@c-t-l-k.com]
Repo: [https://github.com/cyruslk]
Url(s): [http://cyruslk.com, https://twitter.com/2XTXMXTXT]
Consent to being photographed?: [Yes ]
Consent to being on the livestream?: [Yes ]
Speaker Bio and Profile Picture
Cyrus LK is a computer programmer, poet and design researcher. His work investigates the gray zones where machines and language meet. Through a speculative and critical design approach, he investigates how circuit-bending, media-archeology and neural networks are enabling new kinds of poetic structures and electronic litteratures. His last project translates an entire book word by word into internet memes.
Description
This talk will present the process of the 2XTWEETSXMODEMSXTEXTXTWEET.
- 2XTWEETSXMODEMSXTEXTXTWEET is a modem poetry machine, a fake-news generator simultaneously requesting, modulating, demodulating, uploading and manipulating two Twitter news feeds at the same frequency; resulting therefore in a quasi-gibberish/quasi-legible loop of data transmission and destruction.
- 2XTWEETSXMODEMSXTEXTXTWEET is a 'critical making'(Hertz, 2015) project questioning the ‘flow’ of language inside the internet, exploring - through modems - how language is being transmitted inside the black box of the internet and rendered/altered inside its unstable political ecosystem of both physical and digital material contexts.
- Taking the counterpoint of the internet often thought of as a wireless and celestial non-political system, 2XTWEETSXMODEMSXTEXTXTWEET is inserting loud, “primitive” and screeching signals into silent and seamless stacks of protocols. It speculates on the form of the internet, using modems devices to make the Twitter’s infrastructure audible and seek for its agency, its failures, its delays, its irregularities.
- Remixing and modulating language in real time, 2XTWEETSXMODEMSXTEXTXTWEET explores new potential approaches for electronic literature and combinatory poetry. Sticking to Twitter’s 280-character limit, the bot creates a new computerized haïku every twenty seconds, a fragmented fingerprint of the network written both by the user and the machine.
Twitter Account: https://twitter.com/2XTXMXTXT
Note: Panels should follow a moderator / discussion format, with possible participation from the audience.
Length: [20 minutes for my presentation with 10 minutes for Q+A]
Please adhere to these guidelines:
Talks: 15 - 30 minutes with 10 minutes for questions.
Panels: 30 minutes with 10 minutes for questions.
Lunchtime Meetups: up to 1h.
Workshops: 1h - 6hrs.
Tour/Field Trips: up to 6hrs.
Performances / Film Screenings: up to 90 minutes.
Workshop technical requirements and materials list (if applicable)
Equipment/technical requirements: [Projector, WiFi, etc]
Maximum number of attendees: [12]
Full list of materials needed for attendees: [Paper pads, pens, etc]
Artwork installation requirements (if applicable)
[Table space, power, projector/screens, and network connectivity.]
Artworks must be installed on Friday October 18th, 2019.
Note: We are not responsible for damages done to your work! (Although we will take every precaution we can to safely handle your work.)
Performance requirements (if applicable)
[Tech/production rider for your performance.]
Additional Info / Links / References
[If you wish, link us to anything else relevant to your work, like slide decks, code samples, videos, etc.]