Dirk Vekemans
Since 2005
Works in Kessel-Lo Belgium

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BIO
born in 1962 in Lier, Belgium.
studied filology at Louvain, Belgium.

worked a lot in bars and restaurants before i became obsessivly addicted to producing stuff on computers.

i once won a design contest of cgi-magazine and they let me go to New York for four days, that was nice.

i think in terms of writing mostly (or programming, but those are very similar processes for me)

painting is a very different process and i'm very bad at it but i do it anyway because i like the differences it produces and i like the freshness of amateurism, i guess.

what i produce new media-wise is also very much influenced by my daily practice of webdesign and programming with its concerns of usability and the pragmatic approach it implies.

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FW:_REVEURS_D'UNIVERS


REVEURS D'UNIVERS
Quand la poesie rencontre la science

Le 4 mars 2006 a la Cite des sciences et de l'industrie

Manifesation concue par Lucie Sarfaty dans le cadre du "Printemps des
poetes"

Avec la participation de Maurice Couquiaud, Louis Selim Chedid,
Jean-Pierre Luminet, Kenneth White, Basarab Nicolescu, Werner Lambersy,
Edgar Morin et Marie-Odile Monchicourt (moderation)

Comment le poete interroge-t-il, a travers la langue, le monde qui
l'entoure ? Un poeme peut-il changer notre regard sur le reel ? La
poesie a-t-elle pour vocation de reconstruire notre perception du reel =
?
La recherche scientifique, dans son abstraction, atteint parfois
l'indicible. Comment expliquer qu'a travers ses interrogations
fondamentales, la science puisse alors conduire a l'expression poetique
?

10h Ouverture de la journee, accueil des participants

10h30 - 12h
Poesie et science : etonnement et imagination creatrice
L'etonnement, en tant que faculte a s'emerveiller, se retrouve a
l'origine de l'intuition scientifique comme de la creation poetique, car
il fait naitre chez le poete comme chez le scientifique une facon de
s'interroger sur le monde qui l'entoure.
Avec : Maurice Couquiaud, ecrivain, poete
Louis Selim Chedid, biologiste

12h-12h15 Lecture de poemes

14h - 15h30
Scientifiques et poetes. Reveurs d'univers
La poesie ne cesse de faire allusion a ce qui echappe au langage, a=
ce
qui le traverse et le depasse. Dans ses questionnements fondamentaux, la
recherche scientifique est elle aussi confrontee aux limites de ce qui
est representable et exprimable. Le recours a l'expression poetique et
metaphorique existe alors dans le domaine scientifique.
Avec: Jean-Pierre Luminet, astrophysicien, poete
Kenneth White, poete, essayiste

15h30-16h
" Espace de la poesie, espace de la realite. "
Lecture performance de Poesie et Realite de Roberto Juarroz (extraits=
),
par Denis Lavant

16h - 17h30
Vers une nouvelle approche de la connaissance ?
Quelle attitude adopter face a la connaissance, pour " entrer dans le
XXIe siecle " selon l'expression d'Edgar Morin ? Quelle conception de la
connaissance permet d'integrer la poesie comme source de savoir, lieu de
recherche du sens et de verite ?
Avec : Basarab Nicolescu, physicien theoricien au CNRS, president du
Centre de Recherches et d'Etudes transdisciplinaires (CIRET)
Werner Lambersy, poete
Edgar Morin, philosophe, sociologue (sous reserve)
Moderation : Marie-Odile Monchicourt, journaliste scientifique a France
Info

Auditorium de la Cite des sciences
30 avenue Corentin Cariou
75019 Paris

Entree libre
Contact : Lucie Sarfaty l.sarfaty@printempsdespoetes.com

Dirk Vekemans, poet - freelance webprogrammer,
Central Authoring Process of the
Neue Kathedrale des erotischen Elends
http://www.vilt.net/nkdee

dv@vilt.net

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Tiperary


http://www.vilt.net/nkdee/trajectory.jsp

greetings,
dv @ Neue Kathedrale des erotischen Elends
http://www.vilt.net/nkdee

DISCUSSION

Re: Re: NEW MANIK'S WORK


Hi Eric,
Sorry did i spell your name wrong somewhere? If so i do apologise, i often
write to rhizome and other lists when i'm short of time - i shouldn't- but
i do try to show respect for everyone, and getting the name right is the
least one can do. Dick sounds nice though, it's more in accordance with the
things i make, i suppose.

Absurdity has a way of touching truth that can't be achieved otherwise. I
value that. Art _is_ being encapsulated (i wouldn't say driven - if it's
driven by anything else than art itself it's bad art, but then everyone has
a different opinion as to what art is) by global processes that can be
named as a commercial-military power grid to the point that some artists
want to achieve personal satisfaction, fame and wealth within that grid. You
can't really blame anyone for wanting to make money when everybody else is
doing it. And people tend to look less critically at the art they make the
more succesful they get with it. That's not really new, as others have
pointed out already. But the efficiency of encapsulation has grown so
enormously, i feel, that it's getting extremely difficult to escape it. All
of these terms may be absurd too, but strung together they may hint at truth
nonetheless. You can't cut truth out of language and paste it on a screen.
Cliches are all we got. Eat, digest & spit or shit them out is what we can
do. Untsoweiter.

In the unlikely case that i ever get succesful artistically, i'll change may
name to dick varymans or sth and re-enlist to rhizome. Poets need to stay
foot-soldiers in the war on war, commerce and the absolute terror of things.
Otherwise they end up worse than what they're fighting.

greetings,
dv

> -----Oorspronkelijk bericht-----
> Van: owner-list@rhizome.org [mailto:owner-list@rhizome.org]
> Namens Eric Dymond
> Verzonden: dinsdag 21 februari 2006 4:54
> Aan: list@rhizome.org
> Onderwerp: RHIZOME_RAW: Re: NEW MANIK'S WORK
>
> Hi Lee and Milly(ie?) and Dick,
> The absurdity of the comment doesn't mean it isn't true.
> New media and the Art world are driven by a
> commercial/military spirit, for or agianst( as long as you
> spell my name right).
> I wonder how Warhol would react if he saw that his Irony had
> been purged from the Warhol foundation. Would Smithson accept
> support from the revitalized DIA foundation?
> The unique role of the artist is being usurped, and we can
> acquiesce or fight for our personal experiences.
> Incorporate the individual or let the network fall.
> Eric
> +
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heute gibt es nichts besunderes


http://www.vilt.net/nkdee/20022006.jsp

Monday Februari 20th, 2006,
a personal compilation of code received by e-mail
featuring a solution to the age-old mystery of the Voynich ms

dv @ Neue Kathedrale des erotischen Elends
http://www.vilt.net/nkdee

DISCUSSION

Re: Re: NEW MANIK'S WORK


Well it is pretty absurd now isn't it (the translated poem was meant for
another list but i accidentally posted it to rhizome when my parents-in-law
arrived for an unexpected Sunday visit - no harm done, it doesn't look too
bad here either). Paranoia? No, it's quite hectic when they arrive but i
wouldn't say they induce paranoia. Otherwise, mrs Manic seems quite
succesful at what she does, doesn't she? Where's she from anyway?
dv

> -----Oorspronkelijk bericht-----
> Van: dymond@idirect.ca [mailto:dymond@idirect.ca]
> Verzonden: zondag 19 februari 2006 19:01
> Aan: dv@vilt.net
> CC: list@rhizome.org
> Onderwerp: RE: RHIZOME_RAW: Re: NEW MANIK'S WORK
> Urgentie: Laag
>
> It was meant as an absurd post. Pointing out he silliness of
> generalization and the subsequent paranoia.
> ah well....
>
>
> > <http://www.vilt.net/nkdee/sic.jsp> Sic()
> >
> >
> > thus it is (triangular) (hexagonal)
> >
> >
> >
> > thus it is (from irruption point to distinction, straight
> into thought
> > substantia, a little circle shifting around the a of
> Arsenic, grains
> > of Regensburg - Spitze an der Donau - in the shot-through
> textile of
> > the Doctor Universalis(0),
> > <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Albertus_Magnus>
> > <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Albertus_Magnus> Breeder of
> Aquinauts &
> > mystical Burrier of the Bloodless Heart, grinding jocular
> glasses to
> > pointes & with seemingly Californian righteousness the simultaneous
> > Resurrector of the Swirling Blood, the aquafresh for the
> spirit, the
> > Father Lite of the Three Egged Mortification for the Sake
> of Humanity
> > Itself)
> >
> >
> > thus it is (Giovanni Battista della Porta (1)
> > <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Della_Porta> scrapes it in
> wax for De
> > Refractione, 1593, & on the left-overs of the printing plates the
> > words "rub the cooked head of the green lizard with line oil in the
> > greying hair of old matrons", thus the first polyalfabetically
> > encrypted gateway to the darkest of oker, the glowing but
> of salvation
> > in the marbled quarry of imagined marble, (asitwere)
> (however) (then
> > what tentacles reach through the vermillion timewarp the sneering
> > seashells of the poisonous green sisters Bonnet on the balcony of
> > Monet, positpaintpointingly the mysogenic first coating in the
> > mirror-framed discours, the aristocratical cluttering of letters
> >
> >
> > it's romantical ticking
> > against your saved screens
> > your hand meanwhile gliding
> > down, your finger searching
> > an alternate side to the mouse button, saying hello to a
> handkerchief
> > pointing inwards
> >
> > for
> >
> > (satisfaction of the suffering
> > in compassion, serving
> > Kees another Klare:)
> >
> > Pang ing dedede, - o the
> > monume monume monu
> > mental deposit on the
> > balance of banks
> > (mess
> > ian
> > is
> >
> > sepulchri
> > (ad ultimam sequentiae
> > peripateticae dedi
> > cati
> > o
> > )
> > (
> > )
> >
> >
> >
> > thus it is (the harmony
> > of colours not musical or mathematical but governed by the
> will inward
> > )
> >
> >
> >
> > thus it is (& by the roguish laugher
> > of the sad little rust-
> > muncher dodding its
> > head turning more grey
> > every day
> >
> > - by bald balding,
> > ever drier desire)
> >
> >
> >
> > thus it is (pris
> > ma-
> > tic)
> >
> >
> >
> > <http://www.vilt.net/nkdee/sic.jsp> thus it is() ;
> >
> >
> >
> >
> >
> >
> >
> > Dirk Vekemans, poet - freelance webprogrammer, Central Authoring
> > Process of the Neue Kathedrale des erotischen Elends
> > http://www.vilt.net/nkdee
> >
> >
> >
> >
> >
> >> -----Oorspronkelijk bericht-----
> >> Van: owner-list@rhizome.org [mailto:owner-list@rhizome.org] Namens
> >> Lee Wells
> >> Verzonden: zondag 19 februari 2006 8:29
> >> Aan: Eric Dymond; list@rhizome.org
> >> Onderwerp: Re: RHIZOME_RAW: Re: NEW MANIK'S WORK
> >> Urgentie: Laag
> >>
> >> The monopoly capitalists - even while employing purely empirical
> >> methods - weave around art a complicated web which
> converts it into a
> >> willing tool.
> >> The superstructure of society ordains the type of art in which the
> >> artist has to be educated. Rebels are subdued by its machinery and
> >> only rare talents may create their own work. The rest become
> >> shameless hacks or are crushed. - Ernesto Che Guevara
> >>
> >> There is nothing more natural than to consider everything
> as starting
> >> from oneself, chosen as the center of the world; one finds oneself
> >> thus capable of condemning the world without even wanting
> to hear its
> >> deceitful chatter.
> >> - Guy Debord
> >>
> >>
> >>
> >> On 2/19/06 12:53 AM, "Eric Dymond" <dymond@idirect.ca> wrote:
> >>
> >> > I have been troubled by Maniks posts.
> >> > Not because I think they are mysoginist or off colour.
> >> > I am concerned that the history of Internet Art is being
> driven by
> >> > American interests. This has been an inadvertent
> direction, but one
> >> > that needs to be addressed.
> >> > The art that has been documented and incorporated into the
> >> mainstream
> >> > of Art History has been driven by reactions to the American
> >> Industrial
> >> > Complex. The Yes Men, Brandon and every Internet art work
> >> heralded by
> >> > the New Media community is by and large a reaction to a
> >> *sick* social
> >> > construct that is America.
> >> > If I ignore America's hobgoblin military, and equally
> >> ignore the art
> >> > that is in reaction to it, what am I left with?
> >> > Not much according to the New Museum, Whitney and MOMA.
> >> > How can we divest ourselves of the megalomania of American
> >> New Media
> >> > interests and still develop streams that give us hope
> >> amongst the fear
> >> > of a militarist agenda?
> >> > Even criticism promotes the military agenda, and believe
> it or not,
> >> > the rest of the world could live without you.
> >> > I Arrive at this point and have to say that Manik is right, and
> >> > Marisa( and the New York times said..., who cares ?)who has
> >> manipuated
> >> > the history of network exchange is wrong.
> >> > I don't believe it was done on purpose, but the nature of
> >> the American
> >> > road to
> >> > *Truth* is paved with misinformation and the subtle rewriting of
> >> > truths). the road to success, fame etc... is paved with bad
> >> > intentions. Good luck with that midear.
> >> > How different are the New Media Critics from the NATO
> >> critics of the 1950's?
> >> > Hilton Kramer=Rachel Greene.
> >> > How differnet is Marisa from Dick Cheney?
> >> > Not much as far as I can tell.
> >> > I think T Whid was aware of this before, well now it is
> actualized.
> >> > Rewrite the history of the Internet without references to
> >> the American
> >> > Military, and maybe then we can talk.
> >> > Otherwise, I am signing off,
> >> > Good Luck and Good News
> >> > Eric
> >> >
> >> >
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> >> --
> >> Lee Wells
> >> Brooklyn, NY 11222
> >>
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> >> http://www.perpetualartmachine.com
> >> 917 723 2524
> >>
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