FluCoMa Podcast #16 (Part Two): John Bowers

by Jacob Hart

Episode 16 (Part Two) of the FluCoMa Podcast where Jacob Hart talks with artist-researcher and creative coder John Bowers.

John Bowers

The Podcast

Chapters

1. Introduction (0:0)

2. NMF for bobot and 3BP (0:14)

3. Simulations of the self (5:2)

4. Curating one’s sound (10:11)

5. Walking and mythogeosonics (13:33)

6. Places and histories (25:20)

7. HCI and interface (37:17)

8. Creative coding environments (48:38)

9. Screen acreage (57:14)

10. Annotations (1:1:46)

11. Performance ecologies (1:14:13)

Overview

In this episode of the FluCoMa Podcast, we see part two of my talk with John Bowers. John is an artist-researcher whose work has appeared all over the world. In this second episode, we learn about some of John other projects that notably make use of the FluCoMa tools, and also breach some broader questions around subjects such as HCI, annotation, creating coding environments and performance ecologies. See part one of this podcast here.

Links

Here are the links to some of the things that were discussed during the podcast:

• 3BP (Three-Body Problem) with Adam Pultz Melbye and Paul Stapleton.

• (NMF)(/reference/nmfmatch).

• Alice Eldridge and Chris Kiefer’s Feedback Cello.

• Fluid.pitch.

• Tim Shaw and mythogeosonics.

• Phil Smith and mythogeography.

• Guy Debord and psychogeography.

• Martin Howse and Jonathan Kemp, psychogeophysics.

• Tim Ingold and wayfinding.

• “Ontologies of displacement” talk at SARC (2021):

• The Sorting Box:

• John Moore.

• Spill Festival, Robert Pacitti and MemoryGrinderResonanceMachine.

• Oh No John!

• Vorspiel / transmediale.

• Exploding the Interface (1993) with Tom Rodden.

• Karen Barad and Niels Bohr.

• Turing’s Imitation Game.

• John Searle’s Chinese Room.

• Miller Puckette.

• James Bradbury’s python-flucoma.

• Archive X:

• Bill Gaver.

• The Logic of Annotated Portfolios (2012).

• Ben Piekut, Dora Hanninen and Christopher Small.

• Donna Haraway’s A Cyborg Manifesto.