so excited that so many units and departments across campus (including @mediaarchaeologylab) have come together to sponsor a two-day visit from the beloved and much esteemed @footage! If you're in the Denver/Boulder area, pls come Oct. 18/19 #othernetworks big thanks to @rose_alibi for designing the poster

does anyone out there know anything (or can point me to sources) about the ITE 3000 game computer that converted telephone signals into video as a way to "remote control" the Hugo game character? this is a strange and interesting chapter in the history of interactive television #othernetworks https://web.archive.org/web/20120113211132/http://www.hugo-troll.de/tvshow/hugoshow/backstage/index.html

adding a few more bananas imaginary networks to the #othernetworks catalog this morning - here's a sentence to make you smile: "There are stories of Rosicrucians cutting pieces off the flesh of their arm and transplanting it with another person, with the alphabet tattooed on the flesh. By using a magnetized needle to prick the letters they wished to communicate, telepathy would be achieved."

hello #othernetworks friends. I'm curious to know: do you think it's possible to group rocket mail, missile mail, cannon mail, and bullet mail into a single heading? What would it be called? propulsive mail? sounds like an ailment you'd never want to get...

Jamie is pro pigeon labor and I approve: "Our pigeons work days only and will travel 300 miles round trip. Please make sure to provide water to your pigeon after receiving a message or it will not return home and you will need to care for it then." #othernetworks http://mddashboard14.com/home

geez. and now I've fallen down a narco pigeon rabbit hole. yet another rabbit hole I didn't know existed. "A New York Times article from Feb 2, 1930, noted that pigeons with capsules of drugs like cocaine tied to their legs were plaguing the southern border. Being surrounded by pigeons is undesirable at the best of times, even more so when they’re participating in the drug trade." #othernetworks https://www.vice.com/en/article/g5v7vy/drug-smuggling-pigeons

today's #othernetworks entry is on pigeon post and ohhhh the choice sentences! "In 2015, a pigeon from Pakistan was logged into Indian records as a 'suspected spy'"

I had been mulling over starting a substack for #othernetworks but that option is out now I know they have no problem with hate speech and transphobia. Which leaves me wondering: what's wrong with RSS? I have a perfectly good blog but I don't understand why anyone wld choose substack over RSS?

through a light covid fog, today's #othernetworks entry is whistled communication which can travel up to 5km depending on the terrain. try not to laugh but so far the basic materials needed for this network: lip, lip aperture, teeth, tongue, epiglottis, larynx, vocal ligaments, mouth cavity, nasal cavity, velum

@loriemerson I'm intrigued by your many #othernetworks posts. Is there a definition somewhere of what you include/exclude?

on the other hand I should write my own article against theories against network thinking because the problem is not that everything is a network as if all networks are reducible to the same thing it's that we should be thinking in terms of each individual context-specific network it's underpinnings and infrastructures thank you very much over and out. #othernetworks

French maps of the French automatic telegraph system in 1962 (left) and of telex system in 1972 (right). Taken from Patrice A. Carré's article "Du télégraphe au Télex: histoire technique, histoire des réseaux, enjeux... (France XIX-XXe siècles).

#telecommunications # history #othernetworks

@loriemerson Rocket Mail? This experiment in #othernetworks in 1934 didn't end at all well ...
https://postandparcel.info/33442/news/rocket-post-thats-one-small-step-for-mail/

thanks to a fantastic tip from an old poet friend, I bring you balloon mail as the latest wireless addition to the #othernetworks catalog! maps and lists of Balloon mail from Paris during the Franco-Prussian war (1870-71) taken from an incredible book called the American Air Mail Catalogue, 1966. "In all, 55 balloons, with mail, were released, carrying over 12 tons of mail (about 2,500,000 letters), 238 passengers, 361 pigeons and 5 dogs."

golly...you know I love a good chart and this one is really incredible, showing the speeds and distances using drum communication from one relay station across Africa between 1893 and 1901 #othernetworks

on African drum telegraphy: "The advent of the invasive and brutal Euro-Christian Colonial (ECC) system provided a driving force for the African engineering technologists to broaden the use of the technology of drum communication to serve the purposes of a determined and indefatigable struggle against the colonial and enslavement encroachment upon their people, their land and their way of life." #othernetworks https://www.academia.edu/34516522/African_Drum_Telegraphy_and_Indigenous_Innovation_African_Contribution_To_Communication_Science

ok HA the wireless network section is not actually done - the wireless electromagnetic networks IS done! today is (wireless) drum telegraphy and it is so fascinating though I wish it were easier to sort out white/racist/ethnocentric accounts from, you know, everything else #othernetworks

after too many months of work and 60 single spaced pages of writing, the wireless networks section of #othernetworks is dooooonnnnnne which brings the total number of Other Networks entries up to 60! hoping for a nice, neat, and tidy total of 100---

in the bizarro alt world of #othernetworks where there's such a thing as wired wireless, for a time Bluetooth was going to be renamed RadioWire which might have broken my brain---

#othernetworks pals, what about artist experiments with or using Bluetooth? Know if any you’d share with me? With gratitude as always—-