In this article, the current debate about paradigm formation in artistic research is chosen as a starting point. The way in which artistic research operates as a convergence of creative practice, artistic thinking, andcuratorial strategies shows strong similarities with the definition of care proposed by Maria Puig de la Bellacasa: a dynamic, triangular interaction between labor, affect, andpolitics. This proposition will be briefly elaborated on the basis of three research projects. Starting from thestatement Research is another word for Care (Marion von Osten), a further reflection on the significance of thisperspective for the topical discussion about curatorial research will developed.Launch Publication: SVA New York: www.e-flux.com/announcements/653732/ma-curatorial-practice-winter-and-spring-programming/
Let’s Get Physical: A Sample of INC Longforms, 2015-2020 marks the five year anniversary of the INC Longform series. Based on research both theoretical and practice-based, INC Longforms showcase original projects, reflections, and critique. The essays in this collection invite the reader to look ahead while finding firm ground in the recent past. What topics are rising on the agenda of internet, media, and technology research? Which themes deserve our (ongoing) scrutiny and what are urgent reconfigurations of discourse? The thirteen contributions presented here take well-known issues in internet criticism one step further and address new subjects that call for attention. Divided into four sections, the authors cover the changing emotional attachments between humans and machines (‘Affects & Interventions’), rethink questions of labor and economic divisions (‘Class Lines’), dive into visual culture and its political influences (‘Meme Politics’), and ask how software and technology play their role in neo-cybernetic forms of bio- and necropolitics (‘Architectures of Control’).
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Presented at the International Conference on Flexible Automation and Intelligent Manufacturing (FAIM) 23 - 26 June 2015 at the University of Wolverhampton, UK. Authorsupplied abstract: ABSTRACT Customized, on-demand manufacturing is growing through the use of new paradigms and technologies. Agile Manufacturing, cyber physical systems, and reconfigurable systems are examples of these changes. To provide high-mix, low-volume production there is a need for dynamic behaviour and manufacturing machines that can handle a large variety of services. Manufacturing systems can be made more dynamic by using agent-based technology. However, the reconfigurable aspect of these machines has yet to be explored. This paper investigates the possibility to adapt, i.e., reconfigure the hardware of manufacturing machines based on the current manufacturing demand. Using a simulation for a working agent-based platform with reconfiguration capabilities, this paper validates the effects of reconfigurable hardware to change capacity when producing a variety of products in a dynamic production environment. The paper continues to investigate required strategies to effectively use reconfiguration and counter the effects of disturbances that are likely to happen in such systems.
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Dit proefschrift onderzoekt energiereconfiguraties, metname gericht op strategieën voor de transformatievan het energiesysteem en de gebouwde omgeving.Reconfiguraties zijn onderzocht in twee situaties. Deeerste situatie beschrijft de activiteiten en ontwikkelingvan de lokale energiebeweging, een sociale bewegingdie het huidige gecentraliseerde, op fossiele brandstoffen gebaseerde energiesysteem uitdaagt en streeftnaar een lokaal en democratisch geleid systeem, gebaseerd op duurzame energie. In de tweede situatie onderzoek ik hoe historische waarden en duurzaamheidswaarden in de gebouwde omgeving kunnen conflicterenen hoe deze conflicten kunnen worden opgelost, ondermeer door het toepassen van een integraal instrumentvoor waardering. Dit is van belang omdat de sterke drukom bestaande gebouwen energiezuinig te makenpotentieel een bedreiging vormt voor de historischewaarden in onze gebouwde omgeving.