[NetBehaviour] a new Microcode: Vito Acconci's 'Seedbed'
Pall Thayer
pallthay at gmail.com
Thu Jul 2 20:49:49 CEST 2009
That's a nice approach to the incline. I like that.
Pall
On Thu, Jul 2, 2009 at 2:58 PM, james morris<james at jwm-art.net> wrote:
>
> i don't know perl, so this is c code...
>
> please find a ramp ramping up the cpu usage until it's hot and sweaty...
> please find a ramp ramping up and then down and then up and then down...
> until the cpu is hot and sweaty....
>
> my usual dumbass shit. a numerical ramp, the step value is random and is
> chosen when the ramp has reached either end of it's limit. as you know,
> there are no true random number generators... srand(time()) SEEDs the
> 'random' number generator with the time since epochs of seconds 1970.
>
> there's a terribly rude piece of text. pointer variables are used to
> step through the text one word at a time. i would have used strpos
> but could not find a man page for it. maybe it is a PHP function
> and i'm getting confused.
>
> this demonstrates how code can easily begin to get complex without
> adding actually doing very much at all. but then c is a low level
> language, and probably the wrong choice but i felt like using it.
>
>
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>
> james.
> ----
>
>
> #include <stdio.h>
> #include <string.h>
> #include <stdlib.h>
>
> char* strorig=
> "I am laying here masturbating fantasizing about you and \
> I am going to come on your face and \
> I am rubbing my sweaty dirty self on you and \
> I am so turned on by it and \
> I am masturbating furiously with your image \
> fixed in my mind and am i so so hot now and \
> am blistering my genitals but i love the pain of it and \
> i am going to come all over you uhh ohhh uhhh ohhh.";
>
> int main()
> {
> srand(time());
> float ramp=0;
> float stz=(rand()%10+10)/100.0f;
> int w=0;
> char* str=malloc((strlen(strorig)+1)*sizeof(char));
> strcpy(str,strorig);
> char* ptr;
> char* end=0;
> int i=5000;
> int next=0;
> while(1){
> ramp+=stz;
> if(!end){
> ptr=str;
> end=strstr(ptr," ");
> next=1;
> }
> if(stz>0){
> if(ramp>60000.0f){
> stz=-(rand()%10+10)/1000.0f;
> next=1;
> }
> }
> else if (stz<0){
> if(ramp<0){
> stz=(rand()%10+10)/1000.0f;
> next=1;
> }
> }
> if(next){
> *end=0;
> printf("%s\n",ptr);
> *end=' ';
> ptr=end+1;
> end=strstr(ptr," ");
> next=0;
> }
> }
> }
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> On 2/7/2009, "Alan Sondheim" <sondheim at panix.com> wrote:
>
>>
>>
>>Hi Paul,
>>
>>The essence it seemed to me wasn't self-referentiality or touch (good unix
>>command too), so much as it was about targeting the ab/use/er, as well as
>>dirtiness. And code's always clean; even dirty code's clean, so there's
>>that barrier which is interesting and the question is - which for me
>>parallels the clean/dirty avatar phenomenology - how can that be broken
>>down psychologically - how can that sort of dis/comfort be recreated, or
>>can't it? With avatar, it's useful to create a kind of iconicity which
>>also functions on an indexical plain - texturing a human face or sexual
>>body for example. But code/ascii (pre-compiling which brings up, maybe
>>it's in the binaries that this stuff lies) has a different kind of clarity
>>and it's hard to see how dis/embodiment might function, even comfortably,
>>this way. The difference between code as medium (strict code) might be
>>clearer than ways of smudging it. Obviously I don't code, or code poorly,
>>so in a way I don't know what I'm talking about, and I admire what you're
>>doing - I'm just wondering about things like the body of code, the coded
>>body, the decoded body...
>>
>>- Alan
>>
>>
>>On Thu, 2 Jul 2009, Pall Thayer wrote:
>>
>>> Hi Alan,
>>>
>>> One of the primary reasons that I've "redone" a number of known pieces
>>> by other artists in these Microcodes is more to point out the
>>> difference between code as a medium and other media. So the point
>>> isn't necessarily to emulate the work as closely as possible but
>>> rather to capture a single "essence" of it in very compact code. I
>>> think that trying to work the incline and fantasies into this
>>> "version" of the work would result in considerably more code which
>>> would in turn make the work overly complex.
>>>
>>> On Thu, Jul 2, 2009 at 12:04 AM, Alan Sondheim<sondheim at panix.com> wrote:
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> I knew Vito well back then and visited Seedbed many times - you're missing
>>>> the grittiness & the compression of the incline - hope you can write them
>>>> in! The work was obviously uncomfortable, and anyone on the slope was the
>>>> target of his fantasizing, not to mention the reverse as well - Alan
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> On Wed, 1 Jul 2009, james morris 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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