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The "Liberate the Machines!" book is starting to be available so I made a page for it even if it hasn't had a launch moment yet.

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July 8, 2025 at 1:06 PM
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The Steina Vasulka exhibition at the Buffalo AKG Art Museum is really great.

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March 22, 2025 at 11:59 PM
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Coming Friday, the 14th of November will see the launch of my book "Liberate the Machines!" at Creative Coding in Utrecht.

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November 9, 2025 at 7:27 PM
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Slowly we're finally getting somewhere with the book and I'm very happy with the result !

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April 9, 2025 at 3:06 PM
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An early announcement of an event that will take place at Creative Coding Utrecht on the 14th of November: a conversation around my book "Liberate The Machines!" with Marloes de Valk, including a screening of my film #59.

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October 6, 2025 at 5:00 PM
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Selecting images for the 'Liberate the Machines !' book: this is from August 2017 when I first encountered chaos in an analog computing patch. I was trying to reproduce the system that Yoshisuke Ueda used in 1961.

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Two Tektronix analogue vector monitors on top of each other, the bottom one shows a circle, to top one a chaotic pattern.
January 13, 2025 at 6:08 PM
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A view of the studio in October 2020 that didn't make it into the book, this was during the making of my film "Mechanisms Common to Disparate Phenomena; #59".

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In the center an analogue monitor showing a complex line pattern, on top of an EAI TR-48 analogue computer from 1963. On the left a voltmeter and an oscilloscope displaying some control signals.
January 16, 2025 at 3:47 PM
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Snapshot of my installation #71.1 from 2019.

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January 8, 2026 at 1:19 PM
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From the "Liberate the Machines !" book: an adder module from one of the first commercial analog computing systems, manufactured by George Philbrick Researches in the early 1950's. From my own collection, picture by Isabelle Vigier.

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A black box labeled 'GAP/R' with four inputs, a graduated dial, and two outputs.
January 14, 2025 at 5:57 PM
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On the 31st of March I will give a EODIAH Lecture, and on the 2nd of April I will have a guest appearance in the "Understanding Art: Robots, Cyborgs and AI in Art History" class by Charissa Terranova.

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March 20, 2025 at 10:30 AM
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Tracing more previous owners of equipment in my studio for the "Liberate the Machines!" book. This Tektronix FG501 function generator from the early 1970s came from Intermedics, a pacemaker manufacturer. Finally something not related to the military.

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Various stickers on a piece of electronic equipment. A large sticker says 'Reliability Analysis Lab'. A smaller sticker says 'Intermedics, Inc.' and has a logo representing a heart with an electrocardiogram waveform superimposed.
January 15, 2025 at 4:09 PM
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That was a very nice evening in the Kunsthal in Ghent yesterday;

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(picture by Isabelle Vigier)
May 28, 2025 at 8:50 PM
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Unpacking a work from 2019 for the first time in five years. So far it seems to have survived storage.

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September 4, 2025 at 6:28 PM
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Coming Wednesday the 13th of May, my film "Mechanisms Common to Disparate Phenomena; #59" will be screened at Disarm Cinema in Columbia, Missouri.

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May 8, 2026 at 10:02 AM
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Revisiting an old piece is like decrypting messages from another life form, even with documentation that I thought was copious when I made it.

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December 27, 2025 at 2:33 PM
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Coming up in 2026: in January, February, March I will be participating in this great exhibition in Paris with my installation #71.1.

#DeepFields #CentreWallonieBruxelles #71.1 #DialoguesWithMachines #SystemsThatMatter
December 16, 2025 at 10:44 AM
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Coming Friday I will have the privilege to participate in one of the reflective moments during the great Oscillation festival organized by q_o2 in Brussels.

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April 27, 2026 at 9:22 AM
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There finally seems to be a place in the US where my book can be ordered: the Research and Development store of MASS MoCa.

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December 11, 2025 at 11:09 AM
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Encountered this box with my first attempts at video analog computing circuits. This is obviously from the pre-BNC-era, so that must be 10-11 years ago.

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August 27, 2025 at 10:49 AM
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On March 23 my most recent film "Mechanisms Common to Disparate Phenomena will be shown at Hallwalls.

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Joost Rekveld - Mechanisms Common to Disparate Phenomena: #59 - 3/23/25
#59 is an abstract animated science fiction film that looks at the experiences shared by humans and electronic circuits during the Cold War. In the same period Edward Lorenz and Yoshisuke Ueda indepen...
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March 13, 2025 at 3:17 PM
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So today most of the "Liberate the Machines!" book was finally printed and thanks to Isabelle Vigier it looks fantastic ! Just after the summer it should be available through regular channels and a launch will follow.

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June 3, 2025 at 3:48 PM
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During the writing I took some time off to contemplate this picture of a Soviet hybrid computer from the mid-1970s.

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A page from a book in Russian, showing a black-and-white picture of a complex electronic machine. To the top and right patch-panels can be seen, and the rest of the front panel is covered with controls, signal lights and numerical displays.
July 1, 2026 at 2:33 PM
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The "Liberate the Machines!" book is starting to be available so I made a page for it even if it hasn't had a launch moment yet.

https://www.joostrekveld.net/?p=2781

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A book opened on its deep ochre/orange first page, which says: "Liberate the Machines!, Joost Rekveld".
June 14, 2026 at 2:05 PM
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The event is free but registration is required because of the access arrangements, be very welcome !
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May 28, 2026 at 10:04 AM
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May 22, 2026 at 2:47 PM