<!doctype html> <html lang="en"> <head> <meta charset="utf-8"> <title>Low-Tech Chronicles</title> <meta name="description" content="XPUB"> <meta name="viewport" content="width=device-width, initial-scale=1.0"> <link rel="stylesheet" href="../css/pages.css"> </head> <body> <div id='wrapper'></div> <a href='../' id='homebttn' class='ext'> << home</a> <header> <h1 id='project-title'>Low-Tech Chronicles<a href='#hleft-text' class='show'> ⓘ</a></h1> <h2 id='student-name'>Mark van den Heuvel</h2> <div id='hleft-text'> <a href=# id='back'> <div id='inner-hleft-text'> <div id='ihtp'> <object> <div id='about-project'> <p>LOW-TECH CHRONICLES is an experimental publication series that focuses on (re)activating so-called obsolete technologies. Each issue embeds possibly forgotten media standards and techniques into today's networked media environments so as to collectively rethink their lost and new potential. While there is a pressure to constantly adopt fast, slick, and state-of-the-art high-tech, this series proposes instead to engage with slower, 'unstable' and forgotten low-tech alternatives.</p> <p> <em>Issue #1: Ephemeral Encodings</em><br> This FIRST issue revolves around the topic how sound can play a role in the perception of the material properties of computation as the latter is often perceived as 'immaterial'. The publication consists of 2 readers and an audio cassette. The first part is a collection of stories and anecdotes by 18 contributors. For this part, each contributor was invited to share a vivid memory or almost-forgotten experience on how sound connected them to the material world of computation and digital networking. To enrich their stories, each contributor provided a piece of audio and an (modulated) image with their text. The second part is a thesis that discusses the topic of the (disappearing) sound of computer activity more in-depth. The issue explores the theme by experimenting with the material properties of the contents itself.</p> <hr align='left'> <div id='about-student' <p>Mark van den Heuvel is a researcher, designer and musician from the Netherlands. His works mainly focusses on reframing the potential and context of so-called obsolete technologies trough hands-on artistic research. The output takes place in the midst of publishing, performing, presenting and collaborating.</p> </div> </p> </div> <a id='getback' class='int'> go back </a> </object> </div> </div> </a> </div> </header> <section id='main'> <div id="galleries"> <div id='work'> <h3 class='gal-title'>Work</h3> <ul id='publist'> <li><a href='https://hub.xpub.nl/sandbox/~markvandenheuvel/index.html' target="_blank" class='ext'>Low-Tech Chronicles (online)</a></li> </ul> <img src="IMG/overview_2.jpg" class='workimg'/> <img src="IMG/website.png" class='workimg'/> <img src="IMG/page.jpg" class='workimg'/> <img src="IMG/tape_contents.jpg" class='workimg'/> <img src="IMG/rotoapp.jpg" class='workimg'/> <img src="IMG/manual.png" class='workimg'/> </div> <div id='publication'> <h3 class='gal-title'>Publication</h3> <ul id='publist'> <li><a href='PDF/LTC-1_Ephemeral_Encodings.pdf' target="_blank" class='ext'>Ephmeral Encodings </a></li> <li><a href='PDF/Mark_van_den_Heuvel_thesis_light-edition.pdf' target="_blank" class='ext'>Thesis (undesigned edition) </a></li> <li><a href= 'https://hub.xpub.nl/sandbox/~markvandenheuvel/cassette-content.html' target="_blank" class='ext'>cassette content </a></li> </ul> <img src="img/pub1.jpg" class='workimg'/> <img src="img/pub2.jpg" class='workimg'/> <img src="img/pub3.jpg" class='workimg'/> <img src="img/pub4.jpg" class='workimg'/> </div> <div id='gradshow'> <h3 class='gal-title'>Graduation Show</h3> <p> To be continued...</p> <img src="img/gradshow1.jpg" class='workimg'/> <img src="img/gradshow2.jpg" class='workimg'/> <img src="img/gradshow3.jpg" class='workimg'/> <img src="img/gradshow4.jpg" class='workimg'/> </div> </div> </section> </div> </body> </html>