Other Networks – A Radical Technology Sourcebook
Lori Emerson at the Media Archeology Lab in Boulder has written this amazing book about the “other” networks. You know, all the good stuff that was crushed by the internet: Other networks: A Radical Technology Sourcebook.
I was happy to find DATAGÅRDEN in there, a teletext project that Raquel Meyers, Possan and me exhibited at Bonniers Konsthall back in 2013.
In case you missed it, I recently wrote A Global Look at Teletext and I’m working on a similar post about videotex, over at text-mode.org. As part of that research, I have a massive spreadsheet of teletext/videotex that you can check out here. All feedback is welcome! : )
One minute of WOW Computer
One minute of WOW Computer RGBMTL2025 by Entter features my old Jamo Babbo6 Amiga track.
So, Entter and me started doing stuff together some 20 years ago, but this is the first time in quite a while. Don’t call it a comeback, boom!
Teletext revisionismz
Oh la la, Hackaday has picked up my article about teletext, and is now spreading the word on how USA took Canada’s and France’s standards and called it their own invention, sort of. Small good news in a big shit world, but satisfying nevertheless.
Now I just have to finish the text about videotex, which is even more difficult to research.
¯\_(ツ)_/¯
Made this little thing that came #2 in the Amiga ASCII/ANSI compo at Evoke 2025.
Remix of Post Void
GlitchPick
Some music of mine was used in Ryan Trawick’s game GlitchPick, which he made in 4 days at the GMTK Game Jam. It runs in the browser, and requires a keyboard (I think?). Try it here!
Pyramidas
The internet presents: Pyramidas, an ANSCII colly that I released yesterday as part of Impure #90.
Speedcomp 60
Speedcomp is a series of speed composing events, organized by Hedonist. 10 samples + 30 minutes = success! This time I’m providing the samples, and they are published 11 July 19:30 (Eastern Australia time) and then you have 24 hours to get it done. Mark your calendars and prepare for the worst! More info.
Henge+Goto80 @ Musikens Hus, Göteborg
Once again I’m warming up for Henge, this time at Musikens Hus in Göteborg, 10 May. I’ll do my own visuals (for the first time!) so you can expect a good dose of textmode wilderness.
The music in the video is my remix of their song Wanderlust.
Anamie by HT & Razor 1911
Anamie is a PC demo that was released yesterday at Revision 2025. I made text animations and Dubmmod cooked it together with the help of Anat on the code. The animations are in Amiga ASCII, with a few custom characters for blocks and triangles, for example. The song is a shorter version of Anamie on B Y S A N.
This is the first demo we’ve done like this, and I’m quite happy with the results! I’m also confident that there’s plenty more to explore with this technique. Combining manual frame-by-frame animations (made in lvllvl) with coded effects, is a winning concept I think. I think PET.CORP have already proven this, hehe.