Index

Contents


Series Foreword	                                                    ix
Acknowledgments	                                                    xi
Foreword: Fragments as Monument	                                  xiii
Erkki Huhtamo
Introduction: Writing and Unwriting (Media) Art History           xvii
Jussi Parikka and Joasia Krysa

I  Archival Life                                                     1

Foreword                                                             1
Perttu Rastas

1  "Oh, Human Fart" (2004)                                           5
Erkki Kurenniemi

2  Relative Life (2003)                                             11
Erkki Kurenniemi

3  Audio Diary C4008-1 (1971)                                       19
Erkki Kurenniemi

4  Fleshy Intensities                                               29
Susanna Paasonen

II  Visual Archive                                                  41

III Artistic Practice                                               85

Foreword                                                            85
Joasia Krysa

5  Message Is Massage (1971)                                        91
Erkki Kurenniemi

6  Computer Eats Art (1972-1982)                                    97
Erkki Kurenniemi

7  Computer-Integrated Art (ca. 1986)                              107
Erkki Kurenniemi

8  The Unbearable Non-Artist from "l'Homme machine" to 
Algorithmic Afterlife: Non-Cartesian Cybernetics and Aesthetic 
Embodiment in Erkki Kurenniemi                                     113
Lars Bang Larsen

9  Archiving the Databody: Human and Nonhuman Agency 
in the Documents of Erkki Kurenniemi                               125
Geoff Cox, Nicolas Maleve, and Michael Murtaugh

IV  Science/Technology

Foreword                                               	           143
jussi Parikka

10 The Origins of Life, Intelligence, and Technology (1994)        149 
Erkki Kurenniemi

11  Supermegatechnologies: Some Thoughts on the
Future (1999-2000)	                                           159
Erkki Kurenniemi

12  Graph Field Theory (1990)                                      173 
Erkki Kurenniemi

13  Interfaces of Future Authenticity: Erkki Kurenniemi's
Media Archives (From a Postcybernetic Perspective)                 191
Morten Sendergaard

14  E-Kurenniemics: Becoming Archive in Electronic Devices         203 
Wolfgang Ernst

15  Capturing Life: Biopolitics, Social Media, and Romantic Irony  213 
Eivind Ressaak

V  Music                            	                           225

Foreword	                                                   225
Petri Kuljuntausta

16	Tonal Theory (2003)	                                   231 
Erkki Kurenniemi

17  Chords, Scales, and Divisor Lattices (2003)	                   233 
Erkki Kurenniemi

18  On Electronic Music Instruments (1971)	                   255 
Erkki Kurenniemi

19  Interaction of Music and Technology: The Music and Musical 
Instruments of Erkki Kurenniemi	                                   261 
Kai Lassfolk, jari Suominen, and Mikko Ojanen

20  On Sound and Artificial Neural Networks                        279 
Florian Hecker and Robin Mackay

VI  Interviews	                                                   291

21  Drifting Golf Balls in Monasteries: A Conversation with
Erkki Kurenniemi (2001)                                            293
Mika Taaniia

22  Artificial Reality: An Interview between Teppo Turkki and
Erkki Kurenniemi (1987)	                                           307
Teppo Turkki and Erkki Kurenniemi

23  Robots Go to Work: Interview with Aura (1979)	           317 
Erkki Kurenniemi

Contributors	                                                   323
Index	                                                           329