<div dir="ltr"><font face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif">Dear all:</font><div><font face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif"><br></font></div><div><font face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif">Happy Summer! My apologies for the extremely late intro. I've been more off the grid than usual, but now back into the flow of things. I've really enjoyed reading all of the intros and beginnings to conversations --- this is looking to be fantastic.</font></div>
<div><font face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif"><br></font></div><div><font face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif">I'll be presenting around a project "Songs for Non-Work," a platform where thousands of<span style="color:rgb(0,0,0)"> Amazon MTurk workers were paid Silicon Valley minimum wage (10/hr USD) to not-work in one-minute intervals. Workers also had the option of recording and contributing audio, which forms a lengthy unedited soundscape - I've been very interested Dziga Vertov's notion of sound as a "<a href="http://www.ubu.com/sound/vertov.html">factory of facts</a>," experimenting with sound as an entryway into thinking about post-work imaginaries (such as discussed by Kathi Weeks) and alternative ideas to basic income.</span></font></div>
<div><font face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif"><br></font></div><div><font face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif"><span style="color:rgb(0,0,0)">I live in London and am doing a brief residency at </span><font color="#000000">the White Building this summer. </font>If you're interested, there's some more info on my collaborative and individual projects <a href="http://www.byronpeters.com/">here</a>.<span style="color:rgb(0,0,0)"> </span></font></div>
<div><font face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif"><br></font></div><div><font face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif">One recent writing (co-authored with <a href="http://www.jacobwick.info/">Jacob Wick</a>) is "<a href="http://byronpeters.com/files/peterswick.pdf">Scripting Misperformance, Misperforming Scripts</a>," published in Fillip 19, a brief look at the structures of chance, chaos and resilience in data structures and disjunct socialities (for example, in Amazon Web Services <a href="http://techblog.netflix.com/2012/07/chaos-monkey-released-into-wild.html">Chaos Monkey</a>, or the compositions of John Cage). I'm quite interested in contradictions of capital and where economic feedback loops model some of the inherent properties of creative destruction (such as in that GWEI <a href="http://www.gwei.org/index.php">project</a> or even that <a href="http://www.theguardian.com/music/musicblog/2014/mar/19/spotify-streaming-silence-vulpeck-make-money">sleepify</a> one). </font></div>
<div><font face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif"><br></font></div><div><font face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif">Ok, that's enough for now. <span style="color:rgb(0,0,0)">I can't wait to meet you all in person, and to continue these discussions here in the meantime.</span></font></div>
<div><font color="#000000" face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif"><br></font></div><div><font color="#000000" face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif">Please feel free to get in touch, and looking forward!</font></div><div><font face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif"><br>
</font></div><div><font color="#000000" face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif">Byron</font></div><div><font face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif"><br></font></div><div><font face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif"><br></font></div>
<div><font face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif">-- <br></font><div dir="ltr"><font face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif">Byron Peters</font><div><font face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif">UK: +44 07763 373368</font></div><div>
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