[NetBehaviour] a new Microcode: Vito Acconci's 'Seedbed'

Pall Thayer pallthay at gmail.com
Thu Jul 2 00:51:58 CEST 2009


Yes, I noticed that. I was going to link directly to them but they were gone.

There's is a significant difference between your version and mine. In
your version your program is touching your user (id -un) but in my
version the program is touching itself (realpath($0)). This seemed the
more appropriate method given the "Seedbed" reference. It comes closer
to a notion of autoeroticism (despite the fact that there are no
consciously sensing beings involved).

On Wed, Jul 1, 2009 at 10:30 PM, james morris<james at jwm-art.net> wrote:
>
> Ahh! I deleted them! But they're archived on the net.
>
>
> a less clear version of seedbed:
>
>
> #!/usr/bin/perl
> $myself = `id -un`;
> $mybody = "/home/$myself";
> while(1){
>  `touch $mybody`;
>  print `ls -ld $mybody`;
>  print `finger $myself at localhost`;
> }
>
>
> --
> james
>
>
>
>
> On 1/7/2009, "Pall Thayer" <pallthay at gmail.com> wrote:
>
>>....revisited electronically. Those who follow the list closely may see
>>immediately that this was inspired in part by James Morris'
>>'Microcrudities' a while back. Trying to emulate such human activities
>>in short code is really interesting.
>>
>>http://pallit.lhi.is/microcodes/index.php?code_id=29
>>
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