AlgorhythmicSorting is an open project initiated by Shintaro Miyazaki and Michael Chinen (Members of Institute for Algorhythmics), which investigates the algorhythmic (algorithmic+rhythmic) and sonic structures in our contemporary life, culture and society.

Colors and Diagrams
Cyan/blue — values were compared by the algorithm
Magenta/red — values were changed, moved or swapped.
Yellow — denotes a region of focus — the values are not compared, but are being iterated. Thus yellow markers do not produce a sound.
Left diagram — is a kind of piano roll view. Each new line represents a new iteration of the algorithm. Values of numbers are represented by greyscale.
Right diagram — height of columns and values of numbers represent by greyscale values. Columns get sorted within the diagram.

Alex Batchelor, Chief Operating Officer, BrainJuicer

‘Me to We’ Research: Evolving research from asking unreliable witnesses about themselves to asking people what they notice, believe and predict about others, as well as demonstrating how researchers can use ‘research robots’ to conduct automated mass-netnography.

Alex started his career at Unilever and knows more about your hair and your armpit than normal people. Seven years later he moved to the agency side and was a Planning Director at Saatchi & Saatchi and then moved to run the Brand Valuation practice at Interbrand, becoming Managing Director at a time of phenomenal growth.  A regular on the media and conference circuit, Alex thought he should see if he could actually manage brands rather than just talk about them, so returned to the client side as VP Global Brand at Orange, Marketing Director at Royal Mail and Chief Marketing Officer at TomTom.  He joined BrainJuicer as the Chief Operating Officer in 2010 and is looking forward to helping the business continue its rapid growth. A former Chairman of the Marketing Society, Alex has been a member of its management board since 2003. Outside of work, his main interests are rugby, golf and acting as a figure of fun to his wife and four children.

Doing netnographic research with antropomedia.

Video produced by Migros Kulturprozent and Christoph Merian Verlag for the DVD publication “Digital Culture and Media Art from Switzerland – Edition 2010″. You can find the full publication on digital brainstorming: http://ift.tt/15GjqRr

To be experimental and fluid in our approaches and to play with our tools rather than just to utilize them is important to grasp the fascinating complexity of contemporary societies. To investigate digital cultures with scientific research methods means to both be exceedingly precise in analyzing and simulating the fragile mechanisms, infrastructures and protocols that constitute them, and to get our hands dirty. – http://cdc.leuphana.com

The digital revolution is over, the big ‘bit rush’ has passed, now we live in a post-digital era. Whether something is analogue or digital does not matter anymore. Digital and interactive are everywhere. Playing is a serious thing and meanwhile the digital migrates from the virtual reality to the objects around us. Along with MU and TU/e, STRP Festival will discuss the many forms of post digital culture.

Speaker: Bruce Sterling
Bruce Sterling is an American science fiction author, best known for his novels and his work on the Mirrorshades anthology, which helped define the cyberpunk genre. Since 2003 he’s Professor of Internet studies at the European Graduate School in Saas-Fee, Switzerland.

The symposium was organized by:
MU, mu.nl
TU/e, tue.nl
STRP Festival, strp.nl

Video production:
Chok Wah Man mowarped.com
Ruud Terhaag
Lex Van Dop
Jeroen Koopman