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Joost Rekveld @joostrekveld.bsky.social · 20/06/2026

You can also follow me there via this bridge: bsky.app/profile/joos...

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

that this would turn me into one of the protagonists of one of the chapters of a book. #experimentalcinema #LudwigPrandtl #SarineWaltenspül #MarioSchulze #SystemsThatMatter www.stadtkinobasel.ch/film/fliesse...

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STADTKINO BASEL - Film

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

because it was so great I programmed it in the "4D" event I curated there in 2004, and in several later programmes that combined experimental films with films from scientific experiments. Never did I suspect

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

The book is a great study of the life of scientific film about fluid dynamics that was made almost exactly a century ago by Ludwig Prandtl in Göttingen. In 2003 I encountered this film in the archive of the Eye Filmmuseum in Amsterdam and

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STADTKINO BASEL - Film

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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

version four. [ Please refrain from giving unsolicited advice unless you have with your own hands built an oven that actually worked up to 500 degrees C. Thanks. ] #OtherSemiconductors #79 #SystemsThatMatter

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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

Tektronix measurement equipment in the early 1980s. As usual, only the military can afford the high-tech of the day. Pfff.

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

the 'Space and Naval Warfare Systems Center Atlantic' in Charleston, South Carolina. A sprawling facility it seems, with 'satellite communications' and 'electromagnetic interference testing' listed as departments likely to have had high-end

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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

streamlining excercise. Resistance will decrease, and so will the connection to a future-facing vision of art and the planet. #InterfacultyImageAndSound #ArtScienceInterfaculty @artscience.interfaculty @instrumentinventors

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

institutional extensions in its different attempts to bridge the worlds of art and science. Also still hardly an idea of the past, 22 years later. The decision to dissolve such an complex interdisciplinary adventure into its predictable monodisciplinary pieces is certainly a

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

still be an extremely rare example of an audiovisual department connecting not only the media but also the lived traditions and future visions of composed music, visual arts, film, video and theatre. In 2004 it became the Interfaculty ArtScience, growing artistic and

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

momentous artistic and institutional bridge that was built by Frans Evers and Dick Raaijmakers in 1989. First it connected Art Academy and Conservatoire through electronic and digital media, in the form of the Interfaculty Image and Sound. Nowadays (37 years later) such a bridging institution would

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

of the Interfaculty into two small and uncoordinated sub-departments of the Academy and the Conservatoire. This recent decision by the KABK and the Conservatoire breaks up the very narrow, but adventurous, tentative, often unstable, and ramshackle, but also

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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

Now is the moment to write a sequel and keep the 42-year cycle going. #GastonBachelard #IvanIllich #SystemsThatMatter

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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

The event is free but registration is required because of the access arrangements, be very welcome ! event.ugent.be/registration... #experimentalcinema #MechanismsCommonToDisparatePhenomena #DialoguesWithMachines #LiberateTheMachines! #SystemsThatMatter

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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

a very interesting book on the evolution of chemical concepts of mixedness and combination from 1902 and a great and nuanced history of the precursors of Lavoisier, published during WWI.

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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

another one. After several years of owning a spare 'display unit' I finally have a project where this strange feature may turn out to be actually useful. But first these machines need some maintenance and repair. #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

one wonders how humanity managed to survive until pesticides were invented.

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

It revels in gory details such as the 'stiletto-like appendages' or the 'razor-like cutting tools' of the insects and maggots that live under the skin. A 'lively spring' is described in which insects pretty much wipe out a civilisation:

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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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