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February 2, 2023
in Projects
by agent Paranyushkin

Circadian

Circadian Press is a publishing house founded by Dmitry Paranyushkin and Diego Agullo in 2017. In 2019, Noam Assayag also joined our team. We focus on books that bring the word into action. Works that present both the practice and concrete ways of inscribing it into the real. Some books can take shape of a manual, and some may be more poetic, but in every book, readers should find concrete ways to try out a version of reality they propose by themselves. Most of the Circadian books are written by people who have a very specific practice and who are interested to share it with the world. When we select the authors to publish, we do not look for self-help books or manuals on how to improve ourselves. Rather, we're interested in the books that our readers can use to explore themselves and to make their lives more interesting or even more...

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September 15, 2022
in Presentations
by agent Paranyushkin

Embodied Decentralization @ Ethereum Conference | 09/2022

Ethereum conference is a regular gathering of people interested in blockchain technology from around the world. In the frame of the JOY space at the conference, I hosted an EightOS session where we explored how decentralization of trust (often talked about in crypto circles) can be explored in an embodied way. Interestingly, numerous principles in blockchain technology are very much similar to the patterns that are present in nature, due to the higher level of resilience and adaptability they provide (nature had to evolve this way to avoid a single point of failure and to have backup options). For example, blockchain, by design, has a high level of decentralization, which makes it more resilient against a malfunction or an attack. Yet, when talking about "decentralization" as a concept, we approach it intellectually or in application to a specific engineering problem, losing the "sense" of what it might actually feel like. In my...

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August 17, 2022
in Concepts
by agent Paranyushkin

Ecological Variability

The concept of Ecological Variability is a module I use to have a point of reference. Variability is very important. Things that don't change eventually solidify or die down. At the same time, too much variability can be too much sometimes. And this is not even a preference that you might have. It all comes down to ecology. Self-sustained dynamics that will evolve and develop will survive. Those who don't adapt or insist in a rigid kind of way will gradually run out of resources. So in the end, it's good for the environment if the dynamics of this variability is ecological. Species can co-exist, organisms can develop and grow, people can think of creative stuff and science instead of impeding crises and wars. This is how it translates into politics, everyday life, movement, and anything else. Interchangeble cycles are good. If they have variability — even better. Sometimes it is also important to...

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July 27, 2022
in Framework, Presentations
by agent Paranyushkin

Ecological Thinking Framework @ InfraNodus | 07/2022

In August 2022, I presented the ecological thinking framework in the context of InfraNodus tool for insight generation. InfraNodus platform has thousands of users who use it for ideation, knowledge management, and text analysis. I decided to integrate this framework directly into the tool, so it would be available to the users within their existing workflows. After the functionality was released, I also hosted a webinar where I showcased this methodology and proposed several ways to integrate it into research practice. The basic approach behind the ecological thinking framework is closely related to panarchy, embracing the iterative nature of any developmental process: a period of extensive growth is followed by stagnation, followed by release, which frees up resources for reorganization. It is a useful framework for thinking about ecological systems, particularly in the context of limited resources. In panarchy, recession and crisis are seen as an opportunity to optimize the existing...

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June 21, 2022
in Framework, Presentations
by agent Paranyushkin

Mattang @ La Maison Forte | 06/2022

La Maison Forte is an organization in South France dedicated to the cultural and economic development of rural territories. They approached me in 2021 to work together on analyzing the problems and needs of the people who live in the region using the research methodology of InfraNodus, the tool that I've been developing. We decided to use InfraNodus to create cartography for new ideas and possibilities in the region. In the frame of this project, called Mattang, La Maison Forte conducted interviews with 50 inhabitants of the region. We then processed those interviews using InfraNodus to extract the main topics: what people like, the problems they experience, things that could be improved. We used the built-in structural gap detection to detect possible new ideas that we could propose back to the community based on this collective discourse — bridging the different topics that came up during conversations in new ways. As a result,...

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November 24, 2021
in Presentations
by agent Paranyushkin

Fractal Motion Control @ Theatre de Liege | 11/2021

During our work in the frame of the EightOS project, we developed motion tracking sensors that can be used to provide live feedback to dancers and introduce more variability into their movement. In November 2021, we presented this work at the IMPACT platform at Theatre de Liege in Belgium. They provided us with a grant to develop this project further. Variability is an important aspect of EightOS practice because it makes movement and interaction more adaptive and responsive to external impulses. We practice a special type of variability, which is fractal — or self-similar — at its core: the type of changes that can be found on a small-scale and replicated on big scale and vice versa. This makes movement look very organic: small deviations in speed / intensity / amplitude are followed by occasional big shifts in dynamics. In order to make this vision reality, we developed motion-tracking sensors that operate on...

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November 15, 2021
in Presentations
by agent Paranyushkin

EightOS x Ama @ Gropius Bau | 11/2021

In November 2021, we hosted a series of EightOS workshops in the context of Ama: Care, Repair, Healing exhibition at Martin Gropius Bau. Our objective was to explore the topics of this exhibition through touch, inviting the participants to create a participatory immersive environment for embodied learning. Every day was planned around a specific concept that approached the main topics of the exhibition from a certain perspective. Together with NSDOS, we created a generative soundscape that used our own and the participants' movements to change the sonic atmosphere in the space. This was the first time we tried our newly developed Tripod WiFi motion tracking sensors in a public setting. Our intention was to see how we can transmit ideas through physical interaction, experimenting with the concepts of care, repair, and healing — as well as the more general concepts, such as resilience and regeneration — on the level of a temporary...

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Dmitry Paranyushkin

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Dmitry Paranyushkin (FR/RU) is an artistic researcher and entrepreneur who works with networks, languages, and bodies. In his practice, he explores how different combinations of these elements can originate alternative microcosms, ecological frameworks, temporary cultures, and technologies of the self — bringing into relation the natural and the artificial, documenting the aesthetical and ethical implications of this approach.

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