Piss(on)Logic Jonathan Kemp & Martin Howse for infoCRASH@STWST48, Linz, Austria, 3-7 Sept. 2015
Piss(on)Logic (PoL) for SWST48 showcases the first prototype city-wide leaky Turing-complete computational architecture. Technology and computation is to be no longer constrained and contained within the geo-logic but opened to buildings, earth and human/animal pissoir flow as both logical structuring and information/bits for a genuinely promiscuous and psychogeophysical operating system.
PoL prototypes simple cast ungendered urinary logic gates (XOR/AND) embedded in river banks and city streets; these form the building blocks for simple binary adders, cascaded to form pissed compilers and assemblers. During the SWST48 action PoL is open to the re-placement and re-construction of pissoir gates at will.
Video documentation/interview: https://vimeo.com/172568522
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Martin Howse is occupied with an artistic investigation of the links between the earth, software, and the human psyche (psychogeophysics), proposing a return to animism within a critical misuse of scientific technology. For the last ten years he has collaborated on numerous experimental situations, material art works and texts, to explore the rich links between substance and protocol, to excavate issues of visibility and of hiding within the world. http://1010.co.uk/org/
Jonathan Kemp has a long history of elaborating situational events as active makings-of-the-world. Solo and collaborative work includes material processing performances, environmental installations, experimental communicative systems, and social software events, executed throughout Europe, Brazil, and the US.Current projects are informed by code-brut reconfigurations of computation's material substrates in relation to the earth and psyche. http://xxn.org.uk
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PoL comes from a piss logic idea of Howse for Liquid State Machine and was developed with Kemp for the Frame element of their Stack, Frame, Heap University of Leuphana Mute/Post Media Lab residency, 2013-14, before further development by Kemp for infoCRASH@STWST48
