[NetBehaviour] ONE SECOND LEAP FESTIVAL _ LOOK NOW

[Bjørn Magnhildøen]

Hi Randall,

For me, a responsible for this second, it's partly about technological time
- the leap second is a product of our technology, and our dependency on it.
What time do we live in, how do we measure ourselves, does a "day" have
something to do with the earth, or rather with atoms? There's an
enstrangement here, in the sense of a technological other, cracks in the
production of time, comparable to a glitch esthetic, certainly a glitch
event on a global scale.
Another point, the precarity of the digital - in what sense does it exist
if it's so easily transmutable, deleted, lost, in spite of its insistent,
prevalent massiveness (which feels like a mockery and hubris at times). In
a way, playing back the same existential conditions onto what it proposes
us, staging an event which is questioning itself if it's an event or not -
if it is significant or not, or what an event is in a mediated world of
concurrent timelines fighting for your one second of attention - because
did it really happen if not mediated? The ambivalence has interested me,
technically, philosophically. Unix systems doesn't implement leap seconds,
from what I read, they just repeat the last 59th, so in that sense the
event actually didn't take place on the website (running on unix) - one of
the works of the festival actually investigated this through a "network
performance".
In reality the festival was broadcasting for an hour, previewing work
before the leap second event at 23:59:60 where I tried to show all the
works within one second - it looked and sounded like an explosion...
- regards, Bjørn

On Wed, Jul 1, 2015 at 3:23 PM, Randall Packer <rpacker at zakros.com> wrote:

> This project totally escapes me. Alan, what is this all about? In one
> second please. ;)
>
> On 6/30/15, 8:07 PM, "Alan Sondheim" <sondheim at panix.com> wrote:
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> >Alan Sondheim
> >Just now
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> >Alan Sondheim
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> >Alan Sondheim
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> >just participated in the Leap Second Festival 2015 - this was fantastic!
> >go to
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