1. At Least People Say So

2. KxR

3. Feel So Sad

4. Chimaera

5. Banklab

6. Don’t Dare

7. Kändisar ‘06

8. Hey, Um, Cowboy

9. You Like The Horse

10. Nutshell

11. You’re No Jimmy

seminar version performed for Version>04 Invisible Networks

based on the book ALLOY

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Dully Servant (Soviet No-Gang Shriners) reads from the twisted linguistic cosmology of >KIND TRICKS as [tele-psychic puppet] action-script for Skeleton Bride (People’s Republic of Delicious Foods). An advanced study for buried meta-conspiracies and progressive states of bibliomantic techgnosis.

crypto-adaptation:
1. secret self-modification by an agent in response to that agent’s changing systemic conditions
2. temporary micro-alterations in belief structure to accomplish a site-specific task
3. cross talk between versions
4. ritual narrative constructed to help explain random phenomena
5. orchestrated prescience
6. a hermetic sales pitch from beyond

A) Receiving predictive information concerning one’s environment has been the greedy desire of humankind since the construction of language as a tool thousands of years ago. If only we could describe what is just over the horizon! What an edge we’d have over our “competition” if we already had the specialized language to discuss the newness of tomorrow today.

B) As we continuously enter the new newness of so-called ‘new media’ and ‘new age’, our natural language is intermingling with programming language in shocking and considerable ways. Meaning is constructed out of clearly defined protocols that either “work” or “do not work” — there is no third position here. For the first time in existence, Poem and Code are the same. Though this ‘new language’ is less susceptible to the confusing ambiguities of old (i.e. we cannot use variables and handlers without clearly declaring their value and defining their procedure) there is still a magic in language which contributes to human evolution.

C) Language in some way creates the very reality in which we live. Words and concepts point to realities beyond the sensory world and assist us in making contact with a dimension that is higher, lower and parallel.

D) The great DADA experiment of cut-up writing carried out by Tzara, Burroughs, Gysin and others has now reached epic proportions. The intent was to jitter thought process with randomness in language. That jitter is now quake-like in magnitude thanks to advances in programmable electronics and automatic algorithms. What took them hours with newspapers and scissors now takes us seconds with computers — I can do 4 million words over brunch. We are no longer creating experimental voices but communicating with beings from other worlds.

E) Intangible Ideas, in Plato’s conception — as supersensible realities beyond human thought — are captured in scripts, as prisoners in their cells, and released by the act of perusal, setting the prisoners free. These Ideas reside in the words and terms independent of the programs and books in which the words are encased. Yet how and where, in the interval between their setting down and their taking up, do they abide? By what secret tract is their existence in the mind of the author/programmer connected with their resuscitation in the mind of the reader/user? Why at the sight of certain lines and figures on the voiceless page/screen do these particular thoughts spring up into renewed activity? What is the indiscoverable nexus between the physical vibrations of light and these immaterial substances of our noetic life?

F) Homo Sapiens unlocked the mystery power of their brains through the invention of language thousands of years ago. Language allowed them to reflect in a self-aware manner, invent finely crafted tools, and create handmade ornaments, shelter, and paintings. This epoch process is culminating in programmable electronics. We are becoming aware, again since before language, that the fracture between “subject” and “object” is unreal. What is more necessary… the operating language of a word processor or the inputted creative language of its user?

Akoll Tapoze Yitsoung!

We took over the Monday night 10pm slot on Iowa City Free Radio from DJ Trainwreck and Rook Brut (both now in Chicago). That was spring 2001. In 2003 we came up with the name Preachcricket by rolling it randomly with the band name generator appendix in the paper-and-pencil RPG “So You Want to Be a Rock and Roll Star.” ‘Sparklebook’ was a close second. Mix tapes being uploaded now.

The soundscape is a digital collage which is constructed of layers of archival machine sounds and workers’ voices, submerging and emerging from the noise. The performers have developed a palette of choreographed movements that are either synchronized (based upon actual workers’ repetitive task motions) or improvisational (the opposite of regimented work). Machines are omnipresent in this performance as desired objects, as sounds, as systems both repressive and expressive.

Words are deployed in three ways: 1) A voice-over narrative is a composite of many women’s stories of the workplace; 2) Projected inscriptions reclaim the site with taxonomies of job names, car names. etc; 3 ) Archival voices are subsumed into the digital soundscape—they are ghosts in the machine.

The videos projected on the site are either archival film footage of workers (like X-rays into the past of the buildings) or re-creations of actions remembered by former workers. Although we focused upon the work experiences of women, we also included men in outreach.

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Scavenged snippets of damaged library A/V material reconstituted into an impressionistic video narrative about ‘helping.’ Displayed as single channel video as well as multiple monitor installation. Winner of the Juror’s Choice Award at the 2001 Film and Video Retrospective, Des Moines Art Center.

Consciousness is a quality of the mind generally regarded to comprise qualities such as self-awareness, sentience, sapience, and the ability to perceive the relationship between oneself and one’s environment. In common parlance, consciousness denotes being awake and responsive to one’s environment; this contrasts with being asleep or being in a coma.

Consciousness is notoriously difficult to define or locate. Many cultures and religious traditions place the seat of consciousness in a soul separate from the body. Conversely, many scientists and philosophers consider consciousness to be intimately linked to the neural functioning of the brain.

An understanding of necessary preconditions for consciousness in the human brain may allow us to address important ethical questions. For instance, to what extent are non-human animals conscious? At what point in fetal development does consciousness begin? Can machines ever achieve conscious states? These issues are of great interest to those concerned with the ethical treatment of other beings, be they animals, fetuses, or in the future, machines.

The term ‘pale-glo’ refers to the barely perceptible emissions from our own thinking process.

Our corporate model

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pale-glo produces more songs for revelation
This was our first attempt at controlling brainwaves through various frequencies and hypnotic effects embedded in music. Many of the tracks also contain subliminal messages and induced EVP recordings.

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30-second radio ad

(CHARACTERS: PICKLE AND PERSON, LIGHTHEARTED, LIGHT COMICAL MUSIC UNDER)

PICKLE: CAN YOU ZIP ME UP?

PERSON: SURE. (SFX: ZIPPER CLOSES) THIS IS A GOOD-LOOKING PICKLE COSTUME.

PICKLE: THANKS. THE KIDS LIKE IT.

PERSON: BEEN A PICKLE LONG?

PICKLE: I’VE BEEN “MR. PICKLE” FOR TWENTY-THREE YEARS.

PERSON: YOU MUST LIKE IT.

PICKLE: NOT REALLY. IT’S KINDA GONE SOUR…I HAVE NO FUNCTION. (RECOVERING A BIT) BUT, YOU KNOW HOW IT IS…YOU’RE A PICKLE ONCE AND THEN YOU KEEP DOING IT AND PRETTY SOON, “WHOOSH,” TWENTY-THREE YEARS. I’M IN A TRAP.

PERSON: YOU’RE IN A PICKLE.

PICKLE: SO TRUE.

PERSON: WHY NOT GET OUT OF YOUR PICKLE AND INTO PALE-GLO?

PICKLE: THEY WANT A PICKLE?

PERSON: NO, PALE-GLO WANTS TO UTILIZE INTERNAL COMMUNICATION AS A COMPETITIVE TOOL TO ENHANCE PERSONAL RESULTS DURING TIMES OF MAJOR CHANGE. PALE-GLO CAN DESIGN AND IMPLEMENT STRATEGIC COMMUNICATION PROCESSES USING MULTIPLE DELIVERY PLATFORMS TO ACCOMPLISH THE KEY OBJECTIVES OF ALIGNMENT, AGILITY, AND PRIDE. PALE-GLO WILL GATHER AND ANALYZE MISSION-CRITICAL DATA, INTERPRETING AND EVALUATING THE INFORMATION IN THE CONTEXT OF THE WHOLE WORLD. THEN THEY WILL RECOMMEND UNIQUE STRATEGIC POSITIONING AND WORK WITH YOU TO IMPLEMENT NEW PROJECTS FOR EXTRICATION.

PICKLE: …PICKLES NEED EXTRICATION…

PERSON: ‘COURSE THEY DO. PALE-GLO COULD OPEN UP WHOLE NEW WORLDS FOR YOU.

PICKLE: I’LL HAVE FUNCTION?

PERSON: MAKES SENSE, DOESN’T IT?

PICKLE: (GUNG HO) (SFX: ZIPPER UNZIPS) IT SURE DOES! I’M GETTING OUT OF THIS PICKLE AND INTO PALE-GLO!
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advertising truck

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Recent Mergers
We attempted to acquire several creative projects as subsidiaries of pale-glo by offering up to $200 for the full copyright of semester projects in a digital art class. Here is the legal video produced as part of Recent Mergers.

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Download the assignment of copyright form