ast at nowhere lab

AST at Nowhere Lab Santa Cruz. NL presents a one day creative coding workshop & crash course via the history, philosophy, and futures of the Random Number Generator and its implications. Each participant will code and create their own random number generator assignable to IOT protocols. Crucial to the development of atomic numbers, AI, high…

Formalized Spittle, Abiogenetic Sludge, and Dregs of the Self: Physical & Computational Homunculi Method/Application (excerpt)

Formalized Spittle, Abiogenetic Sludge, and Dregs of the Self: Physical & Computational Homunculi Method/Application – Alan S. Tofighi (2021)[1] Ingredients Control is a recursive cultural soup; sauciers change but subjugation requires the perfection of a system that can surveil, process, regenerate, and act predictively with repeatable quality, like any good recipe. Recent years have seen…

History, Variants, and Decline of ‘patarchitecture in the Oncoming Virulent Amalgamation (Part 1) – Alan S. Tofighi (2019)

History, Variants, and Decline of ‘patarchitecture in the Oncoming Virulent Amalgamation (Part 1) – Alan S. Tofighi[1] History, Variants and Decline of ‘patarchitecture in the Oncoming Virulent Amalgamation (Part 1) – Alan S. Tofighi[1] This lecture seeks to reexamine the frayed histories that do not lie easily within the paradigms of modernism, land art, or…

Sample Packs

Alan S. Tofighi: Volume I Selected Sequences & Variations (2021 )Chromosome 1 converted into MIDI. Samples of AST’s voice & scans of sources faces and GAN derived faces converted into MIDI. Can be accessed here. BASE/NET: Volume I Mapped Transactions (2020) magnetic card swipe interactions of personal cards mapped into MIDI data in high and…

NORO-49 Head-Smashed-In (After Trampled Under Hoof) -Alan S. Tofighi

NORO-49 Head-Smashed-In (After Trampled Under Hoof) Is a  live album of electric guitar, electronics, and  fret buzz. Dedicated to the remaining Bison and Humanities tumultuous relationship with eco systems. by utilizing strings tuned below conceivable pitch and manipulated with an Ebow the FlopEbow form is used extensively on this album. Thematically it is tied to…

NORO-48 Realization For the Unnameable and Unclaimable Aria/Potential Threnody For The Critical And Pre-Taxonomized – Alan S. Tofighi & The Cryptozoorchestra

NORO-48 Realization For the Unnameable and Unclaimable Aria/Potential Threnody For The Critical And Pre-Taxonomized is a Live recording of the performance “Realization For The Unnameable And Unclaimable  Aria/Potential Threnody For The Critical And Pre-Taxonomized” At California Institute of the Arts  On May 11, 2016 in C113 Gallery Alan S. Tofighi Extended Ebow, Conducting, Album Art Wolpertinger…

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