From edward at edwardpicot.com Tue Sep 1 12:50:08 2026 From: edward at edwardpicot.com (Edward Picot) Date: Tue, 1 Sep 2026 11:50:08 +0100 Subject: [NetBehaviour] Puppet Motel In-Reply-To: <40675EEA-8445-4751-BFCE-C94C1E2E07BC@netpraxis.net> References: <40675EEA-8445-4751-BFCE-C94C1E2E07BC@netpraxis.net> Message-ID: <84895bba-c99b-4cb1-b245-6476aa807a95@edwardpicot.com> Hi Neil - This sounds really interesting, but I clicked on the link for the Linux download and ended up on a page which said "Puppet Motel 4.0.0 - mac - Prerelease1.zip" - and looking at your links the Linux one does look suspiciously similar to the Mac one. Can you check? Edward On 30/08/2026 10:55, Neil Jenkins via NetBehaviour wrote: > > Hi everyone, > > Some exciting news. I?ve been working on the preservation of Laurie > Anderson and Hsin-Chien Huang?s wonderful 1998 CD-ROM /Puppet > Motel/?and we now have the first nearly fully working modern versions > for Mac, Windows and Linux. > > It comes off the back of its inclusion in the touring exhibition I > created with d/Lux MediaArts here in Australia, /The Garden of Forking > Paths ? Artists? Computer Games/ > , > which grew out of the same lively territory as Furtherfield?s fabulous > earlier /Game-Play/?exhibition . > > It?s alive again! The hallway, the rooms, Laurie?s voice, stories and > music, and all the explorable interactions. It?s a beautiful, funny > and genuinely important piece of digital art, and I?d love some > NetBehaviour friends to have a play. > > There are private Proton Drive test versions for: > > * *Mac / Apple silicon*?? this is the most tested version so far; > * *Windows 10/11 x64*?? new and in need of adventurous Windows testers; > * *Linux x64*?? new and aimed initially at Debian/Ubuntu-ish machines. > > Downloads: > > * Main Proton Drive folder > > * Mac ? latest version > > * Mac ? first working version (older) > > * PC ? candidate for testing > > * Linux ? candidate for testing > > > They?re big downloads because the whole audiovisual work is contained > locally. > > There?s no need to follow a formal test script. Please just explore, > get lost, click things, move the mouse around, enter rooms and see > what happens. I?d love to know: > > * what computer and operating system you used; > * whether you heard the howl when the plug first lit up; > * whether the sign-in and hallway had sound; > * whether sounds and images worked as you moved between rooms; > * whether the films appeared, especially Laurie walking across /The > Nerve Bible/?set or the puppet in the Green Room; > * where it froze, crashed, flickered, lost colour or went silent; > * anything you found delightful, odd or confusing. > > A screenshot and the name of the room are gold if something breaks, > but even a quick ?yes, it opened and I got into the hallway? is useful. > > The Mac one is the current reference version. Windows and Linux are > fresh test candidates, so if they fall over that is useful news rather > than failure. > > Please keep the links within this list for now and don?t mirror the > files. This is a friendly preservation test, not the public release yet. > > Have fun in the motel?and please tell me what you find! > > Neil > > computational.com.au > > > _______________________________________________ > NetBehaviour mailing list > NetBehaviour at lists.netbehaviour.org > https://lists.netbehaviour.org/mailman/listinfo/netbehaviour -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From mclennanfilm at gmail.com Sun Sep 6 21:00:07 2026 From: mclennanfilm at gmail.com (Simon Mclennan) Date: Sun, 6 Sep 2026 20:00:07 +0100 Subject: [NetBehaviour] New Album Message-ID: >From Solid Birds Flying This has been a very long time in the making, but finally I published the eight tracks today on Bandcamp. The album is named Harmony Vox. You can stream it a few times from bandcamp, and buy the high quality download of you so desire. There are several artists featured on various tracks - Matt Catlow, yes, Ruth's brother, on bass, on a couple of songs. Yes, Matt is a great all round musician, producer and writer. Andy Fraser on drums - he was a staunch member of the band from time to time. Young Cass Westwood on marvellous violin - someone I met at Sussex Uni. Studying music he was. We climbed the campus apple tree, outside the circular church, holy temple, where he would practice his violin in the amazing space. Free, sweet apples too. Eaten by various staff members, students, bees, crows, seagulls and of course jackdaws and Rooks! Also featured on drums is a young jazz drummer from the amazing free jazz combo Hill Collective. Here's the album link https://solidbirdsflying.bandcamp.com/album/harmony-vox-2 We play The Brunswick Cellar Bar on Saturday 12 Sept, 8pm doors. Hey ho the gipsy and away we go Simon x -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From marc.garrett at protonmail.com Sun Sep 6 22:58:18 2026 From: marc.garrett at protonmail.com (marc.garrett) Date: Sun, 06 Sep 2026 20:58:18 +0000 Subject: [NetBehaviour] New Album In-Reply-To: References: Message-ID: Hi Simon, I'm very excited to hear about this. I will buy because I it's gonna be ace, like most of your music endeavours. Thanks for letting us know. Wishing you well. Marc ================================== Feral Class, by Marc Garrett. Available at Minor Compositions. https://www.minorcompositions.info/ Currently editing '30 years of Furtherfield: Art. Technology and Eco-Social Change. Eds, Marc Garrett, Regine DeBatty and Martin Zeilinger. 2026. Frankenstein Reanimated: Creation & Technology in the 21st Century. Marc Garrett & Yiannis Colakides, 2022.https://torquetorque.net/publications/frankenstein-reanimated/ Dr Marc Garrett. Furtherfield - https://www.furtherfield.org/ Furtherfield Legacy - https://diwologue.co.uk/Feral Class - https://marcgarrett.org/ Sent from [Proton Mail](https://proton.me/mail/home) for Android. -------- Original Message -------- On Sunday, 09/06/26 at 20:00 Simon Mclennan via NetBehaviour wrote: > From Solid Birds Flying > > This has been a very long time in the making, but finally I published the eight tracks today on Bandcamp. > > The album is named Harmony Vox. > > You can stream it a few times from bandcamp, and buy the high quality download of you so desire. > > There are several artists featured on various tracks - Matt Catlow, yes, Ruth's brother, on bass, on a couple of songs. Yes, Matt is a great all round musician, producer and writer. > > Andy Fraser on drums - he was a staunch member of the band from time to time. > > Young Cass Westwood on marvellous violin - someone I met at Sussex Uni. Studying music he was. We climbed the campus apple tree, outside the circular church, holy temple, where he would practice his violin in the amazing space. Free, sweet apples too. Eaten by various staff members, students, bees, crows, seagulls and of course jackdaws and Rooks! > > Also featured on drums is a young jazz drummer from the amazing free jazz combo Hill Collective. > > Here's the album link > > https://solidbirdsflying.bandcamp.com/album/harmony-vox-2 > > We play The Brunswick Cellar Bar on Saturday 12 Sept, 8pm doors. > > Hey ho the gipsy and away we go > > Simon x -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: