[NetBehaviour] Coleen Rowley's Memo to FBI Director Robert Mueller
Coleen Rowley's Memo to FBI Director Robert Mueller An edited version of the agent's 13-page letter May 21, 2002 FBI Director Robert Mueller FBI Headquarters Washington, D.C. Dear Director Mueller: I feel at this point that I have to put my concerns in writing concerning the important topic of the FBI's response to evidence of terrorist activity in the United States prior to September 11th. The issues are fundamentally ones of INTEGRITY and go to the heart of the FBI's law enforcement mission and mandate. Moreover, at this critical juncture in fashioning future policy to promote the most effective handling of ongoing and future threats to United States citizens' security, it is of absolute importance that an unbiased, completely accurate picture emerge of the FBI's current investigative and management strengths and failures. To get to the point, I have deep concerns that a delicate and subtle shading/skewing of facts by you and others at the highest levels of FBI management has occurred and is occurring. The term cover up would be too strong a characterization which is why I am attempting to carefully (and perhaps over laboriously) choose my words here. I base my concerns on my relatively small, peripheral but unique role in the Moussaoui investigation in the Minneapolis Division prior to, during and after September 11th and my analysis of the comments I have heard both inside the FBI (originating, I believe, from you and other high levels of management) as well as your Congressional testimony and public comments. I feel that certain facts, including the following, have, up to now, been omitted, downplayed, glossed over and/or mis-characterized in an effort to avoid or minimize personal and/or institutional embarrassment on the part of the FBI and/or perhaps even for improper political reasons: 1) The Minneapolis agents who responded to the call about Moussaoui's flight training identified him as a terrorist threat from a very early point. The decision to take him into custody on August 15, 2001, on the INS overstay charge was a deliberate one to counter that threat and was based on the agents' reasonable suspicions. While it can be said that Moussaoui's overstay status was fortuitous, because it allowed for him to be taken into immediate custody and prevented him receiving any more flight training, it was certainly not something the INS coincidentally undertook of their own volition. I base this on the conversation I had when the agents called me at home late on the evening Moussaoui was taken into custody to confer and ask for legal advice about their next course of action. The INS agent was assigned to the FBI's Joint Terrorism Task Force and was therefore working in tandem with FBI agents. more... http://www.apfn.org/APFN/WTC_whistleblower1.htm ___ NetBehaviour mailing list NetBehaviour@netbehaviour.org http://www.netbehaviour.org/mailman/listinfo/netbehaviour
[NetBehaviour] CYBERSONICA SOCIAL V0.5: In 3 Dimensions
CYBERSONICA SOCIAL V0.5: In 3 Dimensions Friday, 10th October, 7-11pm The Flea-Pit, 49 Columbia Road, London E2 7RG £4/£3 concs Nearest tube: Old Street Martyn Ware - Illustrious D-Fuse squidsoup Daniel Jones Fat Butcher Cybersonica Social (formerly known as Çonic Social) relaunches after a summer break and at a new venue - The Flea-Pit http://thefleapit.com - a cafe-bar on Columbia Rd right next to the park and a place where art and socialising go hand in hand... ?A perfect pit-stop? says Wallpaper Magazine 2006 (London's Best New Destinations). Cybersonica Social creates a slice of Cybersonica for a few brief but enjoyable hours once a month in the friendly, vibey surroundings of the The Flea-Pit - and takes a new approach - themes. Each month investigates a different strand of work associated with Cybersonica with line-ups to suit. We kick off with an exploration into 3D sound and visuals - installing the Illustrious 3D-AudioScape surround system to deliver 'ultra real' three dimensional audio. 'In 3 Dimensions' features a set of 3D music by Martyn Ware of Illustrious - 80s pop icon and co-founder of The Human League and Heaven 17 - with live visuals by Fat Butcher; a screening of the D-Fuse Illustrious 2007 FPS?A LONDON CONVERSATION - a commission for the opening of the new BFI building; a range of work from squidsoup including Driftnet - a spatialised musical environment navigated by bird-like flight; Daniel Jones' AtomSwarm - a three dimensional sonic ecosystem; and screenings of works from The Sancho Plan, Tal Rosner and the D-Fuse 'VJ Culture' book DVD. More details on the 10th October line-up and a selection of live mixes from past events can be found at the Cybersonica Social website http://social.cybersonica.org. With live music and audiovisual performances, screenings of short music films and promos, DJ and VJ sets, playful interactive audiovisual artworks and demonstrations of creative work and techniques from established names and emerging talent Cybersonica Social is our ?hang-out? for progressive electronic music makers, audiovisualisers, digital artists and fans looking for somewhere to meet like-minded people, share ideas and enjoy fresh, vibrant music and performance. This will be the fifth in a regular monthly night hosted by Cybersonica - London?s annual celebration of music, sound, art and technology. Future themes include November's 'The Sound Of Games' a tie in with the London Games Fringe and December's not too unexpected ?Xmas Party'. If you make your own music or audiovisual work with interesting technology, are keen to play your music live (as opposed to just pressing play in Ableton Live) and would like to perform at Cybersonica Social then we'd like to hear from you. Contact us at [EMAIL PROTECTED] with some personal info and links to your music, videos and images and we'll check it out and get back to you. If you're interested in helping us to document these events or generally want to get involved then get in touch too. ___ Mute-social mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://lists.metamute.org/mailman/listinfo/mute-social ___ NetBehaviour mailing list NetBehaviour@netbehaviour.org http://www.netbehaviour.org/mailman/listinfo/netbehaviour
[NetBehaviour] Crunch Time: A New Wave of Struggles?
Crunch Time: A New Wave of Struggles? A Mute Magazine talk As the global ruling class finally admits that the 'financial' crisis has spilt over into the real economy, the fiction that the credit crunch is containable has been dispelled. Will resistance to capital's genocidal expansion now become equally uncontainable? Can anti-capitalists take advantage of the global system's instability, or will austerity measures and gloves-off geopolitics triumph? Kirsten Forkert (Private Equity Sucks campaign http://www.privateequitysucks.com/:http://www.privateequitysucks.com/ ), David Graeber (Emergency Exit Collective http://info.interactivist.net/node/11074: http://info.interactivist.net/node/11074 ) and Niels (/End Notes/), discuss the impact of the financial crisis on social movements and explore the potential for a new cycle of struggle from peasants and oil workers to logistics industry employees and anti-finance activists. 5-6 pm, Lecture Room 1 Anarchists Bookfair 2008 Queen Mary Westfield College, Mile End Road, London, E1 4NS. * http://www.metamute.org/en/content/crunch_time_a_new_wave_of_struggles ___ NetBehaviour mailing list NetBehaviour@netbehaviour.org http://www.netbehaviour.org/mailman/listinfo/netbehaviour
Re: [NetBehaviour] Crunch Time: A New Wave of Struggles?
Looks irresistible. It's next Saturday (18th) for anyone in London and interested. :) On 8 Oct 2008, at 14:56, marc garrett wrote: Crunch Time: A New Wave of Struggles? A Mute Magazine talk As the global ruling class finally admits that the 'financial' crisis has spilt over into the real economy, the fiction that the credit crunch is containable has been dispelled. Will resistance to capital's genocidal expansion now become equally uncontainable? Can anti-capitalists take advantage of the global system's instability, or will austerity measures and gloves-off geopolitics triumph? Kirsten Forkert (Private Equity Sucks campaign http://www.privateequitysucks.com/:http://www.privateequitysucks.com/ ), David Graeber (Emergency Exit Collective http://info.interactivist.net/node/11074: http://info.interactivist.net/node/11074 ) and Niels (/End Notes/), discuss the impact of the financial crisis on social movements and explore the potential for a new cycle of struggle from peasants and oil workers to logistics industry employees and anti-finance activists. 5-6 pm, Lecture Room 1 Anarchists Bookfair 2008 Queen Mary Westfield College, Mile End Road, London, E1 4NS. * http://www.metamute.org/en/content/crunch_time_a_new_wave_of_struggles ___ NetBehaviour mailing list NetBehaviour@netbehaviour.org http://www.netbehaviour.org/mailman/listinfo/netbehaviour ___ NetBehaviour mailing list NetBehaviour@netbehaviour.org http://www.netbehaviour.org/mailman/listinfo/netbehaviour
[NetBehaviour] Games Art Networking Event 2008
Games Art Networking Event 2008 HTTP Gallery, Saturday 25th October, 12 - 6pm http://www.furtherfield.org/gamesart_networking.php Games Art does exactly what it says on the tin; art that uses, abuses and misuses the materials and language of games, whether real world, electronic or both. The Games Art networking event will bring together artists, gamers, hackers, theorists, curators, activists, thinkers and doers all of kind. People who work and play with games, videogames and playful practice. What Will Happen? The event will kicks off with presentations by Corrado Morgana, Tassos Stevens (Coney), Ruth Gibson and Bruno Martelli (igloo), Holly Gramazio and Daphne Dragona, followed by discussion. Refreshments follow, and we'll encourage you all to take part in an informal show and tell, so bring along some representation of your work, websites, objects, prototypes, whatever you have (within reason!) We will round off the event with an open mic session of quickfire presentations; present your own or other's work, offer services and skills to other projects or make a request for help with getting stuff done. Part of the London Games Fringe, a festival of alternative gaming events at the end of October 2008, organised by artists, academics, gamers, game developers, educators and creative professionals from a wide range of different media: www.londongamesfringe.com. Please RSVP Because of limited space we can only accommodate 40 visitors for this event. Please book your place- first come, first served. Projectors and wireless access to the Internet will be provided, please let us know if you have any other special requirements. To find out more and book your place please email [EMAIL PROTECTED] When and where? Saturday 25th October 2008, 12-6pm HTTP Gallery Unit A2 Arena Design Centre, 71 Ashfield Road, N4 1NY Tel +44 20 8802 2827 For maps and information about getting to HTTP http://www.http.uk.net/docs/gettingto.shtml More about the presentations Games Art Curating it and Making it Corrado Morgana, artist, electronic musician (retired) and researcher, will present his curatorial work with HTTP Gallery on the recent Zero Gamer and Game/Play exhibitions. He will also be presenting on his own practice which involves transgressive, emergent and glitch behaviour whilst utilizing game engine technologies. His recent work CarnageHug uses the Unreal Tournament 2004 engine to much gibbage and digital purposelessness. He will discuss how it came to be produced, it's implications as a piece of software art, the 'derivative work' and the value of faffing, fiddling, pootling and noodling. http://gamecritical.net Big Ball Bingo Tassos Stevens from Coney will present their new 'future sport', Big Ball Bingo, a big outdoor event with a futuristic feel, commissioned by Lift and the Shoreditch Festival for Shoreditch people to play on Olympic Handover Day. This game is made from three connected components, a big ball game, a bingo game, and a very big ball game, and was developed through engagement with local community groups who already played these kinds of games. In advance of the Ballpark, Coney operated a fictional agency, Shoreditch Futures, run by time travellers from the year 2068 who were seeking the seed event of a future catastrophe by gathering stories of Shoreditch past and present from local people. How and why and what then happened will be revealed... More about Big Ball Bingo http://tinyurl.com/4cs7rn SwanQuake:House Bruno Martelli and Ruth Gibson, London-based artists, working together as igloo will be presenting their site-responsive work SwanQuake:House which is currently exhibited at V22 basement. Through re-purposing media tools and combining them with re-modeled household objects, House simulates and reconfigures representations of an east-end underworld. The artists manipulate the space between the actual and the imaginary providing a counterpoint via the human form. Their practice is concerned with recreating environments and systems where coding joins hands with choreographies of the body. The exhibition is accompanied by a publication SwanQuake: the user manual. http://www.swanquake.com/usermanual/index.htm Pervasive Cheating Holly Gramazio will be talking about Pervasive Cheating. Games that run in the real world - whether you call them pervasive games, street games, urban games, or anything else - can come up against a few particularly awkward problems. Cars that can genuinely run people over, for one; unreliable weather, for another; and loopholes in the game world that it's really, really hard to close. Is there any way to stop people cheating at pervasive games? What counts as cheating - and do the cheating players agree? In a world filled with taxis, telephones, and GPS, is there any point in making rules about the technology that players are allowed to use, once they're out of your sight? How do players cheat, and how
Re: [NetBehaviour] Crunch Time: A New Wave of Struggles?
Definitely! I'll be there! dave 2008/10/8 Ruth Catlow [EMAIL PROTECTED]: Looks irresistible. It's next Saturday (18th) for anyone in London and interested. :) On 8 Oct 2008, at 14:56, marc garrett wrote: Crunch Time: A New Wave of Struggles? A Mute Magazine talk As the global ruling class finally admits that the 'financial' crisis has spilt over into the real economy, the fiction that the credit crunch is containable has been dispelled. Will resistance to capital's genocidal expansion now become equally uncontainable? Can anti-capitalists take advantage of the global system's instability, or will austerity measures and gloves-off geopolitics triumph? Kirsten Forkert (Private Equity Sucks campaign http://www.privateequitysucks.com/:http://www.privateequitysucks.com/ ), David Graeber (Emergency Exit Collective http://info.interactivist.net/node/11074: http://info.interactivist.net/node/11074 ) and Niels (/End Notes/), discuss the impact of the financial crisis on social movements and explore the potential for a new cycle of struggle from peasants and oil workers to logistics industry employees and anti-finance activists. 5-6 pm, Lecture Room 1 Anarchists Bookfair 2008 Queen Mary Westfield College, Mile End Road, London, E1 4NS. * http://www.metamute.org/en/content/crunch_time_a_new_wave_of_struggles ___ NetBehaviour mailing list NetBehaviour@netbehaviour.org http://www.netbehaviour.org/mailman/listinfo/netbehaviour ___ NetBehaviour mailing list NetBehaviour@netbehaviour.org http://www.netbehaviour.org/mailman/listinfo/netbehaviour ___ NetBehaviour mailing list NetBehaviour@netbehaviour.org http://www.netbehaviour.org/mailman/listinfo/netbehaviour
Re: [NetBehaviour] Crunch Time: A New Wave of Struggles?
Hi Dave, See you there... Don't forget to let Lauren know :-0 her email - [EMAIL PROTECTED] marc Definitely! I'll be there! dave 2008/10/8 Ruth Catlow [EMAIL PROTECTED]: Looks irresistible. It's next Saturday (18th) for anyone in London and interested. :) On 8 Oct 2008, at 14:56, marc garrett wrote: Crunch Time: A New Wave of Struggles? A Mute Magazine talk As the global ruling class finally admits that the 'financial' crisis has spilt over into the real economy, the fiction that the credit crunch is containable has been dispelled. Will resistance to capital's genocidal expansion now become equally uncontainable? Can anti-capitalists take advantage of the global system's instability, or will austerity measures and gloves-off geopolitics triumph? Kirsten Forkert (Private Equity Sucks campaign http://www.privateequitysucks.com/:http://www.privateequitysucks.com/ ), David Graeber (Emergency Exit Collective http://info.interactivist.net/node/11074: http://info.interactivist.net/node/11074 ) and Niels (/End Notes/), discuss the impact of the financial crisis on social movements and explore the potential for a new cycle of struggle from peasants and oil workers to logistics industry employees and anti-finance activists. 5-6 pm, Lecture Room 1 Anarchists Bookfair 2008 Queen Mary Westfield College, Mile End Road, London, E1 4NS. * http://www.metamute.org/en/content/crunch_time_a_new_wave_of_struggles ___ NetBehaviour mailing list NetBehaviour@netbehaviour.org http://www.netbehaviour.org/mailman/listinfo/netbehaviour ___ NetBehaviour mailing list NetBehaviour@netbehaviour.org http://www.netbehaviour.org/mailman/listinfo/netbehaviour ___ NetBehaviour mailing list NetBehaviour@netbehaviour.org http://www.netbehaviour.org/mailman/listinfo/netbehaviour ___ NetBehaviour mailing list NetBehaviour@netbehaviour.org http://www.netbehaviour.org/mailman/listinfo/netbehaviour
[NetBehaviour] Life 2.0, Friday 17 October, 6-8pm Access Space, Sheffield, UK
Hi Marc Please post to your list if you think appropriate. Cheers Jake Life 2.0, Friday 17 October, 6-8pm Access Space, Sheffield, UK (Free event) Life 2.0 is an exploration of words and technology, set in Access Space, Sheffield's open source recycled technology lab. The event features imaginative performances from a range of writers who are either exploring technology in their work, or using it as part of their performance. There will be an improvised poetry soundscape, Skype readings with poets in London, Iceland, and the USA, and a viral text poem for the audience to take part in. Robin Vaughan-Williams, who is organising the event, has put together The Lost Voices, a collective poetry performance in which five voices, disembodied and lost in the machine, discover a new form of corporeality, where they can make friends, design their own avatars, and take off for their dream island. Brian Lewis, editor of Longbarrow Press, presents Edgelands, a multi-channel sound collage based on Matt Clegg's poetry sequence exploring the colonised space between city and countryside. Performance artist Richard Bolam performs World 3.0, a chilling piece about a world where human progress has rendered morality a thing of the past. Jake Harries brings us spam unplugged (acoustic, verbatim spam email songs), and in FYI novelist Linda Lee Welch and electronica musician The Only Michael look to find poetry in the everyday and music in the sound of domestic appliances and radio static. More information about Life 2.0 is available from www.zeroquality.net/Life2. Life 2.0 is a Spoken Word Antics production, in partnership with Access Space and supported by Signposts. Jake Harries Digital Arts Programme Manager ACCESS SPACE 1 Sidney St Sheffield, S1 4RG, UK t: +44 (0)114 249 5522 w: www.access-space.org Reg. Charity 1103837 ___ NetBehaviour mailing list NetBehaviour@netbehaviour.org http://www.netbehaviour.org/mailman/listinfo/netbehaviour
[NetBehaviour] Exhibition and Book Launch: Grow Your Own Media Lab - The Graphic Novel
Grow Your Own Media Lab - The Graphic Novel How do you encapsulate a complex distributed process in a series of words and pictures? Grow Your Own Media Lab - The Graphic Novel Text by James Wallbank Pictures by Michael Tesh Design by Scott Hawkins Exhibition - Preview 10th Oct, 5.30-8.00pm, exhibition open 11th Oct-12th Nov 2008. Artwork from the book by Michael Tesh Book launch - Fri 24th October 2008, 5.30-8.00pm at Access Space James Wallbank and Scott Hawkins will talk about the concepts behind the book, followed by a group discussion. For 8 years Access Space has provided the public with the opportunity to get creative with Free and Open Source Software. As the longest running open access media lab in the UK Access Space has been asking, why doesn't everyone do this too? Rather than produce a how to which would be out of date in a year or two anyway, Grow Your Own Media Lab-The Graphic Novel is a what to and why to. Only after organisations understand and are inspired by the opportunities of Open Source software will they be in a position to use it successfully. www.access-space.org Refreshments available on both evenings Grow Your Own Media Lab - The Graphic Novel ISBN: 978-0-95500-913-6 Licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-Share Alike 2.0 UK: England Wales License. This publication was made possible by the kind support of Arts Council of England, through its support for Access Space as a Regularly Funded Organisation, and through the Lottery-funded Grant for The Arts scheme. The Access Space Arts Programme is supported by The Arts Council of England. Contact: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Jake Harries Digital Arts Programme Manager ACCESS SPACE 1 Sidney St Sheffield, S1 4RG, UK t: +44 (0)114 249 5522 w: www.access-space.org Reg. Charity 1103837 ___ NetBehaviour mailing list NetBehaviour@netbehaviour.org http://www.netbehaviour.org/mailman/listinfo/netbehaviour
Re: [NetBehaviour] Exhibition and Book Launch: Grow Your Own Media Lab - The Graphic Novel
Hi Jake, We've got a copy of the book love it - we read it a lot. It's like a personal, pocket book 'reckoner' for open source, but much more, an everyday thing really. Good luck with the opening on the 10th book launch on 24th marc Grow Your Own Media Lab - The Graphic Novel How do you encapsulate a complex distributed process in a series of words and pictures? Grow Your Own Media Lab - The Graphic Novel Text by James Wallbank Pictures by Michael Tesh Design by Scott Hawkins Exhibition - Preview 10th Oct, 5.30-8.00pm, exhibition open 11th Oct-12th Nov 2008. Artwork from the book by Michael Tesh Book launch - Fri 24th October 2008, 5.30-8.00pm at Access Space James Wallbank and Scott Hawkins will talk about the concepts behind the book, followed by a group discussion. For 8 years Access Space has provided the public with the opportunity to get creative with Free and Open Source Software. As the longest running open access media lab in the UK Access Space has been asking, why doesn't everyone do this too? Rather than produce a how to which would be out of date in a year or two anyway, Grow Your Own Media Lab-The Graphic Novel is a what to and why to. Only after organisations understand and are inspired by the opportunities of Open Source software will they be in a position to use it successfully. www.access-space.org Refreshments available on both evenings Grow Your Own Media Lab - The Graphic Novel ISBN: 978-0-95500-913-6 Licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-Share Alike 2.0 UK: England Wales License. This publication was made possible by the kind support of Arts Council of England, through its support for Access Space as a Regularly Funded Organisation, and through the Lottery-funded Grant for The Arts scheme. The Access Space Arts Programme is supported by The Arts Council of England. Contact: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Jake Harries Digital Arts Programme Manager ACCESS SPACE 1 Sidney St Sheffield, S1 4RG, UK t: +44 (0)114 249 5522 w: www.access-space.org Reg. Charity 1103837 ___ NetBehaviour mailing list NetBehaviour@netbehaviour.org http://www.netbehaviour.org/mailman/listinfo/netbehaviour ___ NetBehaviour mailing list NetBehaviour@netbehaviour.org http://www.netbehaviour.org/mailman/listinfo/netbehaviour
Re: [NetBehaviour] Exhibition and Book Launch: Grow Your Own Media Lab - The Graphic Novel
We were at Access Space last week so I have had a sneak preview. It is the best thing (in so many ways) that I have seen in print for a very long time. especially for someone like me who knows that Linux and OS software makes sense (on so many levels) but has been wondering how to make that step into that parallel dimension. Funny, familiar and informative in all the ways that Google can't help me with. :))) Ruth On 8 Oct 2008, at 16:43, Jake Harries wrote: Grow Your Own Media Lab - The Graphic Novel How do you encapsulate a complex distributed process in a series of words and pictures? Grow Your Own Media Lab - The Graphic Novel Text by James Wallbank Pictures by Michael Tesh Design by Scott Hawkins Exhibition - Preview 10th Oct, 5.30-8.00pm, exhibition open 11th Oct-12th Nov 2008. Artwork from the book by Michael Tesh Book launch - Fri 24th October 2008, 5.30-8.00pm at Access Space James Wallbank and Scott Hawkins will talk about the concepts behind the book, followed by a group discussion. For 8 years Access Space has provided the public with the opportunity to get creative with Free and Open Source Software. As the longest running open access media lab in the UK Access Space has been asking, why doesn't everyone do this too? Rather than produce a how to which would be out of date in a year or two anyway, Grow Your Own Media Lab-The Graphic Novel is a what to and why to. Only after organisations understand and are inspired by the opportunities of Open Source software will they be in a position to use it successfully. www.access-space.org Refreshments available on both evenings Grow Your Own Media Lab - The Graphic Novel ISBN: 978-0-95500-913-6 Licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-Share Alike 2.0 UK: England Wales License. This publication was made possible by the kind support of Arts Council of England, through its support for Access Space as a Regularly Funded Organisation, and through the Lottery-funded Grant for The Arts scheme. The Access Space Arts Programme is supported by The Arts Council of England. Contact: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Jake Harries Digital Arts Programme Manager ACCESS SPACE 1 Sidney St Sheffield, S1 4RG, UK t: +44 (0)114 249 5522 w: www.access-space.org Reg. Charity 1103837 ___ NetBehaviour mailing list NetBehaviour@netbehaviour.org http://www.netbehaviour.org/mailman/listinfo/netbehaviour ___ NetBehaviour mailing list NetBehaviour@netbehaviour.org http://www.netbehaviour.org/mailman/listinfo/netbehaviour
[NetBehaviour] Mousa ‘a Muse' @ MIX 21 ( NY)
Mousa ‘a Muse' @ MIX 21 FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE MIX 21 The 21st New York Queer Experimental Film Festival presents a new installation by Peter Cramer October 15-19 217 Water Street @ Beekman. 2, 3, 4, 5, J, M, Z trains to Fulton St A C trains to Broadway-Nassau. Press inquiries - 212 529 8815 Peter Cramer is featured with a new multimedia installation titled Mousa ‘a Muse' An amuse bouche for the 21st anniversary of MIX. Mousa ‘a Muse’, perhaps ultimately from Greek, translates the Middle English mosaic from French mosaïque, based on Latin musi(v)um as a a picture or pattern produced by arranging together small colored pieces of hard material in this case image, light and sound producing a combination of diverse elements forming a more or less coherent whole reproducing the arrangement of photosensitive elements in a television camera delivered as projection of an individual (esp. an animal) composed of cells of two genetically different types and in the case of mosaic disease, a viral disease. Also an adjective of or associated with Moses. Peter Cramer will plumb his 30 year NYC archive of people, places, politics and porn. Co-Founder of Petit Versailles and numerous other manifestation he has been part of the MIX Festival since inception. Expect the parting of seas and the remains of a burning bush. Mousa ‘a Muse Peter Cramer2008 NYC. Mulitcolor multimedia audio /video/ slides/ film/ found objects installation. 30 minute loop. dimensions variable. All screenings at: @Seaport! 217 Water St (at Beekman) South Street Seaport New York, NY A C trains to Broadway-Nassau Tickets for all regular programmes are $10 Opening closing night shows are $15 Tickets may be purchased HERE http://www.mixnyc.org/2008/schedule.html ___ NetBehaviour mailing list NetBehaviour@netbehaviour.org http://www.netbehaviour.org/mailman/listinfo/netbehaviour
Re: [NetBehaviour] Exhibition and Book Launch: Grow Your Own Media Lab - The Graphic Novel
What I find important regarding this small publication is how accessible and straight forward it is, especially in respect of recycling and re-using technology. It successfully challenges people who buy the latest gadgets/computers etc, to re-evaluate uses of technology, in way that leaves one thinking - of course , of course of course!!! marc We were at Access Space last week so I have had a sneak preview. It is the best thing (in so many ways) that I have seen in print for a very long time. especially for someone like me who knows that Linux and OS software makes sense (on so many levels) but has been wondering how to make that step into that parallel dimension. Funny, familiar and informative in all the ways that Google can't help me with. :))) Ruth On 8 Oct 2008, at 16:43, Jake Harries wrote: Grow Your Own Media Lab - The Graphic Novel How do you encapsulate a complex distributed process in a series of words and pictures? Grow Your Own Media Lab - The Graphic Novel Text by James Wallbank Pictures by Michael Tesh Design by Scott Hawkins Exhibition - Preview 10th Oct, 5.30-8.00pm, exhibition open 11th Oct-12th Nov 2008. Artwork from the book by Michael Tesh Book launch - Fri 24th October 2008, 5.30-8.00pm at Access Space James Wallbank and Scott Hawkins will talk about the concepts behind the book, followed by a group discussion. For 8 years Access Space has provided the public with the opportunity to get creative with Free and Open Source Software. As the longest running open access media lab in the UK Access Space has been asking, why doesn't everyone do this too? Rather than produce a how to which would be out of date in a year or two anyway, Grow Your Own Media Lab-The Graphic Novel is a what to and why to. Only after organisations understand and are inspired by the opportunities of Open Source software will they be in a position to use it successfully. www.access-space.org Refreshments available on both evenings Grow Your Own Media Lab - The Graphic Novel ISBN: 978-0-95500-913-6 Licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-Share Alike 2.0 UK: England Wales License. This publication was made possible by the kind support of Arts Council of England, through its support for Access Space as a Regularly Funded Organisation, and through the Lottery-funded Grant for The Arts scheme. The Access Space Arts Programme is supported by The Arts Council of England. Contact: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Jake Harries Digital Arts Programme Manager ACCESS SPACE 1 Sidney St Sheffield, S1 4RG, UK t: +44 (0)114 249 5522 w: www.access-space.org Reg. Charity 1103837 ___ NetBehaviour mailing list NetBehaviour@netbehaviour.org http://www.netbehaviour.org/mailman/listinfo/netbehaviour ___ NetBehaviour mailing list NetBehaviour@netbehaviour.org http://www.netbehaviour.org/mailman/listinfo/netbehaviour ___ NetBehaviour mailing list NetBehaviour@netbehaviour.org http://www.netbehaviour.org/mailman/listinfo/netbehaviour
[NetBehaviour] Great Game II: America Lashes Out on the Borders of China and Russia.
Happy Bank Holiday, Partners! On this special day, Mute celebrates with a bouquet of geopolitics and alternative investment: * Great Game II: America Lashes Out on the Borders of China and Russia By Loren Goldner The 19th century 'Great Game' rivalry between Britain and Russia for supremacy in Central Asia is back, with America taking Britain's place. The stakes are higher than ever, argues Loren Goldner http://www.metamute.org/en/content/great_game_ii_america_lashes_out_on_the_borders_of_china_and_russia * Meanwhile, in our open publishing 'News Analysis' section, alternatives to State crisis management very welcome: A Modest Proposal Now that UK taxpayers are each about to receive a £2,000 stake in Britain's banks, should their former owners be expropriated and the monies received put toward an (indefinite) national holiday? Bank Owner declares an interest http://www.metamute.org/en/content/a_modest_proposal ___ NetBehaviour mailing list NetBehaviour@netbehaviour.org http://www.netbehaviour.org/mailman/listinfo/netbehaviour
[NetBehaviour] Higher falling
Higher falling Julu Twine higher falling documented, s/he is not hurt. The statistics interface was discovered by accident during the fall of Julu Twine. There are many details and derails. Julu Twine is being observed. Radio: a blood-sample from the uterus Physics failing during falling. Or hardening. Camera-view goes askew. The stat interface is not the 'stats' interface, easily accessible. Observe. Julu Twine is being observed. What does this have to do with anything? Someday we will live in a virtual world called the real world and we will have no stats and no stat interface. We won't have camera view, we will have avatar-view. We will be able to (notice this grammatical form of 'can') change outfits. We will be able to make outfits. We will be able to walk and run. We won't be able to fly. We will be able to fall. gcide: tan Tana Tang Tank Tant wn: tan tang tank moby-thes: tan tang tank vera: tan tanj foldoc: taz http://www.alansondheim.org/tanz.mp4 http://www.alansondheim.org/tanz1.jpg http://www.alansondheim.org/tanz2.jpg http://www.alansondheim.org/tanz3.jpg (Julu Twine is being observed. Hir) ___ NetBehaviour mailing list NetBehaviour@netbehaviour.org http://www.netbehaviour.org/mailman/listinfo/netbehaviour
Re: [NetBehaviour] Great Game II: America Lashes Out on the Borders of China and Russia.
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 marc garrett wrote: Great Game II: America Lashes Out on the Borders of China and Russia I will bet you a pound that this includes the nationalist encirclement meme. [Checks essay.] I really should have said a tenner. ;-) - - Rob. -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v1.4.9 (GNU/Linux) Comment: Using GnuPG with Fedora - http://enigmail.mozdev.org iEYEARECAAYFAkjs5KMACgkQCZbRMCZZBfbpgACdFQTmILYLesLbb+HlVoc/Pve7 zyUAnj5hJU77hu1YIBQpTIfbyL6dweIG =UooG -END PGP SIGNATURE- ___ NetBehaviour mailing list NetBehaviour@netbehaviour.org http://www.netbehaviour.org/mailman/listinfo/netbehaviour
[NetBehaviour] 12-list
Only stupid bastards would allow themselves to be cheated time and time again. We would rather be called hopeless, bored, dangerous, rogues and confused than be cheated again. Don't try any of your old tricks on us, for all institutional dogma will be throughly questioned, negated and then thrown into the rubbish-bin. To subscribe to 12-list, simply send a message with the word subscribe in the Subject: field to [EMAIL PROTECTED] ___ NetBehaviour mailing list NetBehaviour@netbehaviour.org http://www.netbehaviour.org/mailman/listinfo/netbehaviour
[NetBehaviour] Pixeleration
http://br.youtube.com/watch?v=wUPZbQ-NILg All the best, Paulo ___ NetBehaviour mailing list NetBehaviour@netbehaviour.org http://www.netbehaviour.org/mailman/listinfo/netbehaviour
[NetBehaviour] Turbulence Commission: Touching Gravity 2/Tilt by Caryn Heilman
October 8, 2008 Turbulence Commission: Touching Gravity 2/Tilt by Caryn Heilman (LiquidBody MediaDance), with music by Nana Simopoulos http://turbulence.org/works/touching_gravity Needs Flash player and core duo Mac or PC Touching Gravity 2/Tilt is an interactive, aerial videodance superimposed on a composited image of two rivers in the towns of North Adams and Adams, Massachusetts. Part of the Networked Realities: (Re)Connecting the Adamses project, the two New England towns are (re)connected through a colorful, fluid, multilayered dance that incorporates the movement of the natural landscape from each town, seen through the difference blend mode of the Flash interface. Users can create and save their own versions of the dance by determining the order and timing of five different clips. Periodically, additional clips will be added so that both the dance and the user experience may evolve. Composer and instrumentalist Nana Simopoulos has contributed five tracks to accompany the five dance clips; each piece is played on a single instrument representing a different continent. Together, they form a single composition that is layered over the sounds of the two rivers, providing the listener with the ability to remix the musical textures. Touching Gravity 2/Tilt is part of the larger project Networked Realities: (Re)Connecting the Adamses -- a collaboration between Greylock Arts and Turbulence.org -- that includes four commissioned networked art works that will all eventually be housed on the commissioned website www.newadams.es. Touching Gravity 2/Tilt will also be part of an interactive, site-specific series at Topia Arts Center (Adams) that looks at the idea of tilting angles of perception to reveal new possibilities. Touching Gravity 2/Tilt is a 2008 commission of New Radio and Performing Arts, Inc., (aka Ether-Ore) for its Turbulence web site. It was made possible with funding from the Andy Warhol Foundation for the Visual Arts. Additional support was provided by Frank and Barbara Peters through the Medici Circle award at the University of California at Irvine. BIOGRAPHIES Caryn Heilman danced for the Paul Taylor Dance Company for ten years before founding her own company, LiquidBody media, movement and dance. With PTDC, she performed on the world's most prestigious stages and acted as a cultural ambassador for the United States in India, China, Turkey, Hungary and Japan. She is featured in the Emmy-nominated documentary film, Dancemaker. With LiquidBody, performance highlights include Jacob's Pillow, MA; Dixon Place, NY; amphitheaters in Greece; a spa in Italy; and the Electronic Festival in Warsaw, Poland. Having received a foundation of choreographic tutelage from Paul Taylor - a master of American Modern Dance -- Caryn is diving into more experimental territory, focusing on the fluid systems of the body and choreographic structures that include audience interaction, multimedia, live music and aerial dance. Caryn has received scholarships from the American Dance Festival, Alvin Ailey and is currently on fellowship at the University of California at Irvine completing her MFA in Dance and Technology. For the past three years, she served on the Professional Advisory Committee of the Dance Notation Bureau. LiquidBody's second home is in the Northern Berkshires in Adams, MA where Caryn is Artistic Director of Topia Arts Center, a green arts and education center in development. Nana Simopoulos draws her music's melodic color from the map of world cultures. She artfully blends sounds and textures from around the world. Indian sarangi master Ustad Sultan Khan accompanies her on her last two releases, After The Moon and Daughters Of The Sun (Na Records), #1 on the NAV New Age and World radio charts. Nana's first album, Pandora's Blues, won critic's choice from DOWNBEAT Magazine. Nana has been commissioned by numerous dance companies, such as Joffrey Ballet, American Dance Festival, Ballet Hispanico, North Carolina Dance Theater; and by former Pilobolus choreographer Peter Pucci. She has also written for film and theater, including An Absolute Mystery, which premiered at La Mama, and American Dreams, Lost and Found. For more Turbulence commissions, please visit http://turbulence.org. Jo-Anne Green, Co-Director New Radio and Performing Arts, Inc.: http://new-radio.org New York: 917.548.7780 . Boston: 617.522.3856 Turbulence: http://turbulence.org Networked_Performance Blog: http://turbulence.org/blog Networked_Music_Review: http://turbulence.org/networked_music_review Upgrade! Boston: http://turbulence.org/upgrade New American Radio: http://somewhere.org ___ NetBehaviour mailing list NetBehaviour@netbehaviour.org http://www.netbehaviour.org/mailman/listinfo/netbehaviour
[NetBehaviour] Angel_F and SuperAvatar at Freedom not Fear
Angel_F and SuperAvatar are scared. The lives of the young artificial intelligence and of the avatar who escaped from virtual worlds have been endangered more than once by the control, that is constantly perpetrated on people's information, habits and identities. Forms of surveillance that are progressively and obsessively expanding through continuous control of our lives (and not only of the ones of our beloved digital beings). Along the streets, in the supermarkets, in public spaces, and even in our homes, through telephones and internet connectivity. An enormous amount of resources are wasted to control people's lives in multiple ways: from cameras to armed forces, passing through data retention systems spying on people's personal information. Angel_F e SuperAvatar are feeling annoyed, alarmed and outraged by all of that and, therefore, decided to publicly show their dissent, together with their human friends. The two digital beings will join the "Freedom not Fear" event, and they will attend the conference that will take place at the "Provincia di Roma" building on saturday, starting at 9:30am. Who: Angel_F and SuperAvatar When: Saturday, October 11th 2008, from 9:30am to 13:30am Where: "Freedom not Fear", palazzo Valentini (Palazzo della Provincia di Roma, via IV Novembre n. 119/a, Roma _ "Freedom not Fear": International action day for democracy, free speech, human rights, civil liberties; against censorship, mass-surveillance, mass-data retention. http://wiki.vorratsdatenspeicherung.de/Fnf08 Angel_F is the young artificial intelligence son of Derrick de Kerckhove and the Biodoll. It was born on February 2007. Since it started interacting with humans' physical world it has been deeply interested about the international dialogue on digital rights. After a peculiar case of censorship, little Angel_F managed to attend the UN's Internet Governance Forum held in Rio de Janeiro all by itself. Angel_F is a project by xDxD.vs.xDxD and penelope.di.pixel http://www.artisopensource.net/2007/12/10/angel_f/ Fatherboard - the SuperAvatar - is an avatar that escaped from virtual worlds when its owner's computer exploded in a short circuit. It looks like a cyborg, but it isn't, as its body is built from the hardware parts of the computer from where it materialized. Its relations with human beings are contradictory and intermittent: the SuperAvatar is a fugitive living a constant conflict with institutional control, either the virtual and the real ones! Fatherboard is a project by Luigi Pagliarini http://www.artificialia.com/Fatherboard/ _ ___ NetBehaviour mailing list NetBehaviour@netbehaviour.org http://www.netbehaviour.org/mailman/listinfo/netbehaviour
[NetBehaviour] reminder CFP Web 2.0 issue Fibreculture
Web 2.0: before, during and after the event An issue of the Fibreculture Journal critically exploring the ontogenesis of Web 2.0 Issue Editors: Anna Munster and Andrew Murphie Completed papers submitted by October 31, 2008 Publication date: May 1, 2009 Issue Focus: In 2005 Tim O'Reilly famously used the phrase 'an attitude, not a technology' to describe the burgeoning experience of Web 2.0. After 3 or 4 years, the hype surrounding associated notions of user-generated content, the 'wisdom of crowds', 'the long tail' and social networking both continues and fades. Practices such as collaborative tagging and micro-blogging have become everyday online gestures, while YouTube, Facebook and Bebo comfortably colonise the network horizon as default interfaces. 'Objects', 'subjects' and 'content' are dissappearing on a massive scale – far larger and faster than in their much-touted postmodern demise – and 'environments', 'context' and 'worlds' become the key modes of online generation and production. This suggests that Web 2.0 may be more akin to a topology rather than attitude or technology – one which launches us in(to) the middle of things. If Web 2.0's cartography is topological (repeated production of selfsame space via variation), then its temporality might best be understood through considerations of 'the event'. As Maurizzio Lazzarato has suggested, everyday actions - going to bed, turning on the television, logging on – comprise our contemporary habitual corporeal events, but these are simultaneously and only the punctuation of the more continuous event of informatic flows. If Web 2.0 is an 'event' that somehow semiotically launched itself around 2004-5, its temporality has now become that of an 'always'. In this issue of the fibreculture journal, however, we invite contributions that critically and creatively rethink the event of Web 2.0. To adlib with Lazzarato, and following Deleuze and Guattari's articulation of the virtualities of events, another possible world/'web' is always there, in potential. Hence Web 2.0 is not simply what it is - attitude, technology or topology - but is still under production, in active ontogenesis and therefore up for grabs. We ask authors to address the actual and potential existence of genealogies, incompatabilities and new modes of making and thinking Web 2.0. For example, should the historical relations between Web 1.0 and Web 2.0 be thought in terms of radical break? Or can we – as Olia Lialina has suggested in her consideration of the recouped aesthetics of old homepages by the templates of MySpace – see Web 2.0 as a freezing of earlier more dynamic flows? What lies outside of Facebook, indeed beyond the additive logic of 'friends'? And after we break up with our 'friends', what other circuits might emerge? A number of key theorists such as Terranova, Lovink and Rossiter, Galloway and Thacker have begun to address the presence of incompatabilities, counterprotocols and conflict as constitutive of the network. We are seeking papers that take these and new concepts that biurficate the 'always' into rethinking the topology of Web 2.0. Specific Topics for address include: -ontogenetic approaches to network events -creative genealogies of Web 2.0 -investigations of 'subnetworks' and alternatives to standardised templates and interfaces -investigations of confictual and differential implementations of: search, APIs, social networking, micro-blogging, collaborative tagging,vlogging etc -critical analyses of the relations between social movements and Web 2.0 (note: no simple empirical studies of a social movement's use of Web 2.0 services or technologies) -aesthetic analyses and transformations of Web 2.0 -Web 3.0 as ontogenetic event, topological shift or the network to come. Articles must be submitted in full fibreculture journal house style. You must first read the Guidelines for Submission at http://journal.fibreculture.org/polstyle.html#submit. You can access information about house style at http://journal.fibreculture.org/polstyle.html#style. Please note, submissions not in house style will automatically be returned to authors for formatting. You will not be able to have your paper considered for publication unless you have formatted it correctly. The journal is peer reviewed and authors are expected to take readers reports into consideration when finalising their articles for publication. Negotiation with the editors over potential changes is usual practice. Please submit articles no later than October 31, 2008 to either Anna Munster, a-dot-munster-at-unsw-dot-edu-dot-au, or Andrew Murphie a-dot-murphie-at-unsw-dot-edu-dot-au. You must use the phrase 'Web 2.0 event issue' in your subject header. Dr.Anna Munster Senior Lecturer School of Art History and Theory College of Fine Arts UNSW P.O. Box 259 Paddington NSW 2021 612 9385 0741 (tel) 612 9385 0615(fax) [EMAIL PROTECTED] ___ NetBehaviour mailing list
[NetBehaviour] Myk and I
Myk and I Myk Freedman and myself - he's on a specially-made steel guitar and pump organ; I'm on harmonica, parlor guitar, tenor banjo, Yamaha keyboard. I love these tracks; I have a chance to do another cd, and hopefully similar pieces will be on it - http://www.alansondheim.org/mykalan0.mp3 http://www.alansondheim.org/mykalan1.mp3 http://www.alansondheim.org/mykalan2.mp3 http://www.alansondheim.org/mykalan3.mp3 http://www.alansondheim.org/mykalan4.mp3 http://www.alansondheim.org/mykalan5.mp3 http://www.alansondheim.org/mykalan6.mp3 ___ NetBehaviour mailing list NetBehaviour@netbehaviour.org http://www.netbehaviour.org/mailman/listinfo/netbehaviour
