Surfing with... Wolfgang Spahn, Video + Links

February, 2020

Artist (Installation and Performances)
https://wolfgang-spahn.de/
Art Video Streaming
https://wolfgang-spahn.de/doku.php/installation:entangled_pixel
http://entangledpixel.dernulleffekt.de/

Developer (electronic circuits, synthesizer, projectors, …)
https://paperpcb.dernulleffekt.de/doku.php?id=sound_boards:symbiotic_synth
http://wolfgang-spahn.de/doku.php/installation:augen-auf-schlag
https://paperpcb.dernulleffekt.de/doku.php?id=raspberry_boards:embedded_artist_board

Open Hard- and Software
Embedded Artist
http://embedded-artist.net/doku.php
Github
https://github.com/dernulleffekt/embedded-artist/tree/master/python
der Nulleffekt
http://dernulleffekt.de/doku.php

Teaching
https://radiona.org/zvuk-i-obrasci-analognih-neuralnih-mreza-neuro-pop/
https://workshop.dernulleffekt.de/doku.php?id=hand-crank_opp_feb2019:infos
https://www.udk-berlin.de/studium/sound-studies-and-sonic-arts-master-of-arts/

From Cracker Camera to Crackl Box - An Artistic Approach

Miller Puckette - Design choices for computer instruments and computer compositional tools 18:00
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZLACjtOpe0Q&feature=youtu.be

Vilém Flusser - Playing Against the Apparatus
http://www.dgae.de/veranstaltung/playing-against-the-apparatus-vilem-flussers-media-and-culture-philosophy/
https://www.flusser-archive.org/

Paolo Gioli - Cracker Camera Stenopeica
https://www.pinpix.it/officina/eccocinellescatole.html

Michel Waisvisz – Kraakdoos (Cracklbox), 1975
https://www.eam.se/kraakdoos/

Analog Audio Synthesizer

Daphne Oram
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RTHXwgTpy90
http://www.bbc.com/culture/story/20170522-daphne-oram-pioneered-electronic-music
http://www.ubu.com/emr/patents/_docs/patents/01individuals/oram/digital_waveform_oram.pdf

Peter Vogel
http://www.petervogel-objekte.com/InstKlangwande.html

buy.onic
https://wolfgang-spahn.de/doku.php/installation:buy_onic

Formant
http://www.florian-anwander.de/formant/FormantBuch.pdf

Paper Synthesizer
https://paperpcb.dernulleffekt.de/doku.php?id=paper_synth:paper_synth_main

The ISRO
https://www.theisro.org/

Paper Bits
https://make-munich.de/portfolio/paper-bits-2017/
https://ioanavrememoser.com/post/150074103477/paperbits-contribution-and-design-for-the-first
https://paperpcb.dernulleffekt.de/doku.php?id=paper_bits:paper_bits_main

Analog Video Synthesizer

The Sandin Analog Image Processor
https://www.evl.uic.edu/dan/IP.html

Experimental TV Center
http://www.experimentaltvcenter.org/frontpage

Paik-Abe Video Synthesizer
https://web.archive.org/web/20131103100214/http://audiovisualizers.com/toolshak/vidsynth/paik_abe/paik_abe.htm

Synkie
http://synkie.net/

Gijs Gieskes
https://www.gieskes.nl/?next=16

ENTROPIE
https://wolfgang-spahn.de/doku.php/performance:entropie

VGA Synthesizer
https://paperpcb.dernulleffekt.de/doku.php?id=vga_synthesizer:vga_main

Cymatics

Discoveries in the Theory of Sound - Ernst Chladni (1756–1827)
https://web.mit.edu/redingtn/www/netadv/SP20140804.html
https://sciencedemonstrations.fas.harvard.edu/presentations/chladni-plates

Cymatic - Hans Jenny (1904-72)
http://atmani-cymatics.org/index.php/73-hans-jenny-als-begruender-der-kymatik

Maailmankaikkeus - with Dominik Eggermann, Antti Pussinen
http://maailmankaikkeus.dernulleffekt.de/
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=azud0WAB_PU

Chaos Theory

Self-Similarity, Fractals and Strange Attractors

How Long Is the Coast of Britain? - Benoit Mandelbrot]]
http://li.mit.edu/Stuff/CNSE/Paper/Mandelbrot67Science.pdf
https://demonstrations.wolfram.com/HowLongIsTheCoastOfBritain/

Double Compound Pendulum
https://community.wolfram.com/groups/-/m/t/838895

Edward Lorenz
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Edward_Norton_Lorenz

Strange Attractors - Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore
http://www.stsci.edu/~lbradley/seminar/attractors.html

Installation
https://wolfgang-spahn.de/doku.php/installation:strangeattractors

Mandelbrot Set - Zoom
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PD2XgQOyCCk

Koch Snowflake - Wolfram
http://mathworld.wolfram.com/KochSnowflake.html

Self-Similarity in the Nature - Victor Berdonosov
https://www.researchgate.net/figure/Examples-of-self-similar-objects-in-nature_fig1_251716287

Performance
https://wolfgang-spahn.de/doku.php/performance:self_similarity

Analog Computer

8Bit Computer
https://eater.net/8bit/alu

Antikythera-Mechanism
http://www.antikythera-mechanism.gr/project/overview

Vannevar Bush's Differential Analyzer
https://www.mit.edu/~klund/analyzer/
http://amg.nzfmm.co.nz/differential_analyser_explained.html

Why Algorithms Suck and Analog Computers are the Future - Bernd Ulmann
https://blog.degruyter.com/algorithms-suck-analog-computers-future/

The Analog Computer Museum
http://www.analogmuseum.org/
http://www.analogmuseum.org/english/impressions/
http://www.analogmuseum.org/english/library.html

Confetti - An Analog Computer
https://paperpcb.dernulleffekt.de/doku.php?id=analog_computer:analog_computer_main

Solving the Math
https://www.dataphysics.com/downloads/technical/Analog-was-Not-a-Computer-Trademark-by-G.F.-Lang.pdf

Computing the Lorenz Attractor
https://paperpcb.dernulleffekt.de/lib/exe/fetch.php?cache=&media=analog_computer:formular_lorenz_system_174230.jpg

Analog computing returns - MIT News
https://news.mit.edu/2016/analog-computing-organs-organisms-0620

AI and Neural Networks

Geschichte der Computerkunst - Kybernetik
http://iasl.uni-muenchen.de/links/GCA-II.1.html

Norbert Wiener - Cybernetics or Control and Communication in the Animal and the Machine, 1961
https://mitpress.mit.edu/books/cybernetics-or-control-and-communication-animal-and-machine-reissue-1961-second-edition

Rube Goldberg Machine
https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/a/a9/Rube_Goldberg%27s_%22Self-Operating_Napkin%22_%28cropped%29.gif

The Way Things Go - Fischli and Weiss
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GXrRC3pfLnE

Vehicles, Experiments in Synthetic Psychology - Valentino Braitenberg
http://kovan.ceng.metu.edu.tr/software/Braitenberg/BraitenbergEN/Vehicles.html

Biolocical & Artificial Neural Network
https://towardsdatascience.com/the-differences-between-artificial-and-biological-neural-networks-a8b46db828b7
https://www.researchgate.net/figure/Similarity-between-biological-and-artificial-neural-networks-Arbib-2003a-Haykin_fig2_326417061

Machine Learning - Google (tensorflow)
https://playground.tensorflow.org/#activation=tanh&batchSize=10&dataset=circle&regDataset=reg-plane&learningRate=0.03&regularizationRate=0&noise=0&networkShape=4,2&seed=0.22942&showTestData=false&discretize=false&percTrainData=50&x=true&y=true&xTimesY=false&xSquared=false&ySquared=false&cosX=false&sinX=false&cosY=false&sinY=false&collectStats=false&problem=classification&initZero=false&hideText=false

The best material model of a cat is another, or preferably the same, cat. Norbert Wiener
https://www.miss.at/wp-content/uploads/2019/05/Grumpy-Cat-ist-tot.jpg

Dynamics of pattern formation in lateral-inhibition type neural fields- Shun-ichi Amari
https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/BF00337259

LAB III - netze/networks neural oscillators
http://interface.khm.de/index.php/research/experiments/netze-networks-neural-oscillators/

Bicore Oscillator
http://solarbotics.net/bftgu/starting_nvnet_bicore.html

Neurorobotics Research Laboratory (NRL) - Prof. Dr. Manfred Hild
http://www.neurorobotik.de/index_en.php

Pop Neuron
https://paperpcb.dernulleffekt.de/doku.php?id=pop_neuron:pop_neuron_main

Symbolic Grounding by Christian Faubel und Wolfgang Spahn
http://dernulleffekt.de/doku.php?id=symbolic_grounding:symbolic_grounding

David Tudor
http://www.lovely.com/titles/cd1602.html
https://en.wikichip.org/wiki/intel/etann

Confetti Neuron - a neural synthesizer
https://paperpcb.dernulleffekt.de/doku.php?id=analog_computer:confetti501_confetti_neuron

Handmade Electronic Music, Third Edition - Nicolas Collins
https://www.crcpress.com/Handmade-Electronic-Music-The-Art-of-Hardware-Hacking/Collins/p/book/9780367210106
https://www.nicolascollins.com/

Echo State Network
https://wolfgang-spahn.de/doku.php/installation:echo_state_networks