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Joost Rekveld @joostrekveld.bsky.social · 14/06/2026

Except announcements I will not be posting here directly anymore, but you can follow my Mastodon posts on Bluesky via this bridge: bsky.app/profile/joos...

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Joost Rekveld @joostrekveld.bsky.social · 10/06/2026

I am going to stop posting here except announcements. Please follow me on Mastodon: assemblag.es/@joost_rekveld

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Joost Rekveld @joostrekveld.bsky.social · 09/06/2026

This Thursday the 11th of June, my film #43.6 from 2013 will be shown at the Stadtkino in Basel at the occasion of the launch of the book "Fließend; Geschichte, Ästhetik und Politik des wissenschaftlichen Films" by Mario Schulze and Sarine Waltenspül.

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Joost Rekveld @joostrekveld.bsky.social · 07/06/2026

So not to give the entirely false impression that everything always just works: this is a piece of the inside of the oven that I thought I had successfully tested a few days ago. On tuesday I hope we can test

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Joost Rekveld @joostrekveld.bsky.social · 05/06/2026

In preparation of a small side-project I bought some vintage Tektronix analogue electronic plugins, for the first time in ages. I'm always curious to find out about previous owners; in this case the innocuous label N65236 stands for #Tektronix #AnalogElectronics #SystemsThatMatter

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Joost Rekveld @joostrekveld.bsky.social · 04/06/2026

So finally the weird see-through oven and its controller seem to work fine up to at least 500 degrees. #OtherSemiconductors #79 #FarbzentrenPhysik #SystemsThatMatter

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Joost Rekveld @joostrekveld.bsky.social · 01/06/2026

Tomorrow, the 2nd of June, my film #43.6 from 2013 will be screened as part of the protest events around "The Death of ArtScience". The current students of the ArtScience Interfaculty of the Royal Academy of Art and the Royal Conservatoire in The Hague are protesting the dissolution

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Joost Rekveld @joostrekveld.bsky.social · 31/05/2026

Two books that are interesting to read together. Illich's book could be called an essayistic cultural history of water and he wrote it in 1984, heavily inspired by Bachelard's book from 1942, which had then just been translated into English.

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Joost Rekveld @joostrekveld.bsky.social · 31/05/2026

I had never seen the Zinneke parade in Brussels before and its great ! #bxl #zinnekeparade

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Joost Rekveld @joostrekveld.bsky.social · 28/05/2026

Tomorrow, Friday the 29th of May, at 17h there will be a special screening of my film "Mechanisms Common to Disparate Phenomena; #59" in Ghent at the IPEM Art and Science Interaction Lab of the UGent. After that there will be a short Q&A and an informal book presentation.

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Joost Rekveld @joostrekveld.bsky.social · 25/05/2026

Coming Wednesday the 27th of May one of my first films will be screened in The Hague. My film #3 from 1994 will have the honour of being one of two guest appearances in a programme otherwise devoted to the work of filmmaker Ryan Marino. #experimentalcinema #gluedandscrewed

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Joost Rekveld @joostrekveld.bsky.social · 24/05/2026

So today I was getting all excited by this dusty tome from 1910/1923, a recent arrival after it was cited in the fantastic book by Bernadette Bensaude-Vincent that I finally finished reading. #ErnstCassirer #SubstanzbegriffUndFunktionsbegriff #SystemsThatMatter

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Joost Rekveld @joostrekveld.bsky.social · 22/05/2026

Coming Friday the 29th of May at 17h there will be a special screening of my film "Mechanisms Common to Disparate Phenomena; #59" in Ghent at the IPEM Art and Science Interaction Lab of the UGent. After that there will be a short Q&A and an informal book presentation.

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Joost Rekveld @joostrekveld.bsky.social · 22/05/2026

Finally finished building, testing and calibrating (sort of) this 1 KV power supply; first display is in Volts, the second in mA. Things are slowly coming together... #hvpowersupply #othersemiconductors #79 #systemsthatmatter

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Joost Rekveld @joostrekveld.bsky.social · 21/05/2026

There is a very interesting French tradition of philosophers and historians of science engaging with chemistry and these early writings by Pierre Duhem were also early contributions to that tradition; #PierreDuhem #historyofchemistry #chemistry #SystemsThatMatter

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Joost Rekveld @joostrekveld.bsky.social · 20/05/2026

With my crude metal-working skills and capabilities I built this strange contraption of steel and mica, hoping it will be fit for purpose and able to resist high voltage and high temperatures. #OtherSemiconductors #79 #SystemsThatMatter

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Joost Rekveld @joostrekveld.bsky.social · 19/05/2026

In a fearless mood, trying to play the Şedaraban Saz Semaisi by Tanburi Cemil Bey (1871-1916). #ŞedarabanMakamı #TanburiCemilBey

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Joost Rekveld @joostrekveld.bsky.social · 18/05/2026

One of those periods were the reading pile grows a lot faster than it shrinks: I have only recently become aware of Feenberg's existence and this book from 2017 I think is his most recent and it looks very interesting indeed. #AndrewFeenberg #TechnoSystem #SystemsThatMatter

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Joost Rekveld @joostrekveld.bsky.social · 17/05/2026

Spent way too much time trying to get this horizontal amplifier not to be biased and failing miserably. All components seem to be fine but the whole is not. Argh. #tektronix #analogelectronics #systemsthatmatter

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Joost Rekveld @joostrekveld.bsky.social · 15/05/2026

The Tektronix 7704A oscilloscope is the most modular analogue oscilloscope I know: not only does it have space for four amplifier and trigger plugins, but even the 'display unit' holding the CRT can be swapped for

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Joost Rekveld @joostrekveld.bsky.social · 14/05/2026

Had no idea that at the occasion of the publication of Rachel Carson's "Silent Spring" in 1962, Monsanto published a speculative account of the devastation that a year without pesticides would bring to the USA. #RachelCarson #SilentSpring #SystemsThatMatter

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Joost Rekveld @joostrekveld.bsky.social · 13/05/2026

Last days of the exhibition at Various Artists, 19 Essex St NYC, including works by Greg Zifcak, Sara Hornbacher, Blinn & Lambert, Jen Kutler, Jonas Bers, Phil Baljeu, Anton Rickets and a continuous projection of my

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Joost Rekveld @joostrekveld.bsky.social · 12/05/2026

Retrouvé (is there an adequate English translation ?) the tanbur with this beautiful Nihavend saz semaisi by Neyzen Yusuf Paşa (1821-1884). #nihavendmakamı #yusufpaşa

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Joost Rekveld @joostrekveld.bsky.social · 11/05/2026

Consulting the old manuals researching the technical feasibility of a smallish spin-off project.. #tektronix #analogelectronics #SystemsThatMatter

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Joost Rekveld @joostrekveld.bsky.social · 09/05/2026

The title (and the cover) doesn't do justice to this book from 2005; the (very slightly extended) English version is called "Chemistry, the impure science" which is a bit better. Anyway, (another) great book by perhaps the most

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Joost Rekveld @joostrekveld.bsky.social · 08/05/2026

Coming Wednesday the 13th of May, my film "Mechanisms Common to Disparate Phenomena; #59" will be screened at Disarm Cinema in Columbia, Missouri. #MechanismsCommonToDisparatePhenomena #ExperimentalCinema #DialoguesWithMachines #SystemsThatMatter

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Joost Rekveld @joostrekveld.bsky.social · 07/05/2026

Coming Tuesday the 12th of May, the friendly people of 25fps will be showing my film "#11, Marey <-> Moiré" from 1999 in Kino Kinoteka in Zagreb. #experimentalcinema #25fps

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Joost Rekveld @joostrekveld.bsky.social · 02/05/2026

Happy to have contributed and spent a day at the great Oscillation festival organised by qo2 in Brussels. One of the highlights was Marie Thompson's talk, giving a preview of het upcoming book "The Sonic Surrogates". #qo2 #OscillationFestival #MarieThompson #TheSonicSurrogates #SystemsThatMatter

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Joost Rekveld @joostrekveld.bsky.social · 30/04/2026

Earlier today, the forces of nature were conspiring against me re-reading the conclusion of Simondon's "Du Mode d'Existence des Objets Techniques". #GilbertSimondon #SystemsThatMatter

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Joost Rekveld @joostrekveld.bsky.social · 29/04/2026

Just out and just in ! Curious about this one by Shintaro Miyazaki. #endosymbiosis #computation #systemsthatmatter

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Joost Rekveld @joostrekveld.bsky.social · 27/04/2026

Coming Friday I will have the privilege to participate in one of the reflective moments during the great Oscillation festival organized by q_o2 in Brussels. #OscillationFestival #q_o2 @q_o2werkplaats #OtherSemiconductors #SystemsThatMatter #DialoguesWithMachines

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Joost Rekveld @joostrekveld.bsky.social · 22/04/2026

It has been ages since I last encountered a lost playing card, but today I spotted this joker on a street in Gouda (of all places). So please, everyone be warned. #joker #gouda

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Joost Rekveld @joostrekveld.bsky.social · 21/04/2026

A strange rabbit-hole brought me to the stereotyped world of cold-war-era comics. "Nature Boy" at first seemed a bit different, with its vaguely Taoist references and ancient Greek gods, but in

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Joost Rekveld @joostrekveld.bsky.social · 20/04/2026

It turns out that coils of 220V heater wire are also quite powerful emitters of electromagnetic waves, and that heavy-duty temperature sensors are also excellent antenna's.

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Joost Rekveld @joostrekveld.bsky.social · 19/04/2026

Browsing some corporate publications, not sure this particular one from 1939 succeeded in conveying the 'romantic' dimension. #OtherSemiconductors #79 #SystemsThatMatter

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Joost Rekveld @joostrekveld.bsky.social · 18/04/2026

This beautiful saz semai in makam Rast was composed by the Ottoman-Armenian composer Kemani Tatyos Ekserciyan, or Tatyos Efendi, or Թադեոս Էքսէրճեան (1858-1913). #kemanitatyosefendi #tatyosefendi #tatyosexserciyan #rastmakamı 1/9

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Joost Rekveld @joostrekveld.bsky.social · 17/04/2026

The first ad from 1935 that used Du Pont's famous slogan "Better Things for Better Living ... Through Chemistry". Introduced as part of a campaign to dissociate the brand from WWI chemical weapons production, by showing chemistry as a force for good. And of course

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Joost Rekveld @joostrekveld.bsky.social · 14/04/2026

This Thursday the 16th of April will be the opening of a great exhibition at Various Artists in New York which includes analog electronic image explorations by Greg Zifcak, Sara Hornbacher, Blinn & Lambert, Jen Kutler | Jonas Bers , Phil Baljeu, Anton Rickets and myself.

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Joost Rekveld @joostrekveld.bsky.social · 13/04/2026

Thanks @neural-mag.bsky.social for the nice review ! neural.it/2026/04/joos...

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