Martin Howse is occupied with an artistic investigation of the links between the earth geophysical phenomena , software and the human psyche psychogeophysics , proposing a return to animism within a critical misuse of scientific technology. Through the construction of experimental situations within process-driven performance, laboratories, walks and workshops , material art works and texts, Howse explores the links between substance or materials and execution or protocol, excavating issues of visibility and of hiding within the world. For the last ten years he has collaborated on numerous open-laboratory style projects and performed, published, lectured and exhibited diversely. He is equally the creator of the skin-driven audio divination module, a. The Dark Interpreter. In , Howse founded the ap project in to implement a truly artistic operating system OS in its most expanded sense. In , Howse co-founded xxxxx with Jonathan Kemp , organising one large-scale conference and concert series in London xxxxx and publishing the xxxxx reader.
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Technology can be described as the absolute and instrumental control and manipulation of electromagnetic energies embracing the sun and earth through principles of negative feedback and a necessary, flawed opposition to gradients of entropy. The world as technological is thus a conspiracy imposing singular operations of destruction on the earth and its inhabitants. Both as wide-ranging industrial and economic principle and as micro-technical anti-thesis embedded within all electronics as primary mode of operation , explosive cycles of controlled extraction and polluted return are enacted upon the planet, radically transforming all of its energetic exchanges with any outside universe.
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Skip to content. Skip to navigation. Martin Howse. Martin Howse GB is a programmer, writer, performer, artists and explorer. Martin Howse b. From to Howse was director of ap, a software performance group working with electronic waste, pioneering an early approach to digital glitch. From to he hosted a regular workshop, micro-residency and salon series in Berlin. Howse has worked and collaborated on acclaimed projects and practices such as The Crystal World, Psychogeophysics, Earthboot, Sketches towards an Earth Computer and Dissolutions.
Substrate interfaces with code, yet this set of symbolic, linguistic and logical operations denies the being-substrate, just as the carrier of any signal is erased by the receiver. The mineral necessity of this substrate is equally effaced; logic gates, and thus full computers, can be constructed from water jets, from slime moulds, from earth. Over the last years, I have worked solo and with others Martin Kuentz, Shu Lea Cheang, Jonathan Kemp, Ryan Jordan on software investigations, speculative devices, open laboratories, exhibitions, radio broadcast and performance under the rough heading of Substrate, seeking to literally open and materially disrupt and recode the closed circuit of technological substrate and ecology. Performances explore the often direct, kinetic transduction of physical, primarily electrochemical processes enacted on various substrates, such as silicon, glass, earth and concrete within precarious and fragile DIY setups and temporary installations. These substrates are subject to a dual process of excitation and subsequent detection of interference, reaction or response. For example, materials are subject to high heat hotplate, blow torch, thermite reactions using aluminium and iron oxide and minute changes are rendered audible through various pickups or transducers, sometimes working with laser light and simple amplification of reflected and disturbed light as audio. Playback heads include a rough modification of a basic radio transmitter that changes frequency according to vibration.
