[rohrpost] Arse Elektronika 2009: Of Intercourse and Intracourse
Arse Elektronika 2009: OF INTERCOURSE AND INTRACOURSE Sexuality, Genetics, Biotech, Wetware, Body mods. http://www.monochrom.at/arse-elektronika/ + Call for Papers, Performances, Machines and Sponsors. + Scottish SF author Iain Banks created a fictitious group-civilisation called Culture in his eponymous narrative. The vast majority of humanoid people in the Culture are born with greatly altered glands housed within their central nervous systems, who secrete - on command - mood- and sensory-appreciation-altering compounds into the person's bloodstream. Additionally many inhabitants have subtly altered reproductive organs - and control over the associated nerves - to enhance sexual pleasure. Ovulation is at will in the female, and a fetus up to a certain stage may be re-absorbed, aborted, or held at a static point in its development; again, as willed. Also, a viral change from one sex into the other, is possible. And there is a convention that each person should give birth to one child in their lives. It may sound strange, but Banks states that a society in which it is so easy to change sex will rapidly find out if it is treating one gender better than the other. Pressure for change within society would presumably build up until some form of sexual equality and hence numerical parity will be established. Does this set-up sound too futuristic? Too utopian? Too bizarre? We may not forget that mankind is a sexual and tool-using species. And that's why our annual conference Arse Elektronika deals with sex, technology and the future. As bio-hacking, sexually enhanced bodies, genetic utopias and plethora of gender have long been the focus of literature, science fiction and, increasingly, pornography, this year will see us explore the possibilities that fictional and authentic bodies have to offer. Our world is already way more bizarre than our ancestors could have ever imagined. But it may not be bizarre enough. Bizarre enough for what? -- you might ask. Bizarre enough to subvert the heterosexist matrix that is underlying our world and that we should hack and overcome for some quite pressing reasons within the next century. Don't you think, replicants? + Please send us [arse2009 AT monochrom.at] your papers, ideas, machines! Deadline: July 31, 2009! + Festival Schedule: October 1: Film festival(*), opening ceremony and Prixxx Arse Elektronika(*) Gala October 2: Literature, fiction, reading October 3: Talks and discourse October 4: DIY workshops (*) Separate calls will be out shortly. + Arse Elektronika 2009 will take place in San Francisco, USA. + http://www.monochrom.at/arse-elektronika/ http://www.arse-elektronika.com -- rohrpost - deutschsprachige Liste zur Kultur digitaler Medien und Netze Archiv: http://www.nettime.org/rohrpost http://post.openoffice.de/pipermail/rohrpost/ Ent/Subskribieren: http://post.openoffice.de/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/rohrpost/
[rohrpost] Arse logic
It may sound strange, but Banks states that a society in which it is so easy to change sex will rapidly find out if it is treating one gender better than the other. The assumption here is that people would choose to be the gender that is treated better. -- rohrpost - deutschsprachige Liste zur Kultur digitaler Medien und Netze Archiv: http://www.nettime.org/rohrpost http://post.openoffice.de/pipermail/rohrpost/ Ent/Subskribieren: http://post.openoffice.de/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/rohrpost/
Re: [rohrpost] Betreff: Dearest Tinkebell,
Fazit: Im Internet bin ich kein Hund. jeder sollte einen hund im internet haben. ++ white heat/white light + + http://39317.eu/ -- rohrpost - deutschsprachige Liste zur Kultur digitaler Medien und Netze Archiv: http://www.nettime.org/rohrpost http://post.openoffice.de/pipermail/rohrpost/ Ent/Subskribieren: http://post.openoffice.de/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/rohrpost/
[rohrpost] _____-micro_research workshops:19//Fluxus - Scheme livecoding, animation, games and plants with Dave Griffiths [UK] + performance
A series of weekly working groups and workshops at _-micro_research [Berlin]; an independent research centre focusing on the expanded construction and experience of free software and open hardware. Calendar: July 4th 2PM: workshop: Fluxus - Scheme livecoding, animation, games and plants with Dave Griffiths [UK] at pickledfeet July 5th 8PM: performance: Fluxus live coding with Dave Griffiths and all participants at General Public Forthcoming matter: schmelzolan robots, software radio, hydrogen line, micro-cuisine, kitchen sink chemistry, Kicad, openEEG, fiction generation, thoughtography, org-mode ... contact if you're interested in leading [un]-related workshop. //--- July 4th 2PM: workshop: Fluxus - Scheme livecoding, animation, games and plants with Dave Griffiths [UK] at pickledfeet In this workshop you will find out about the emerging art form of livecoding and learn how to write simple scripts to create animations in 3D space. After an introduction to the scheme programming language and how to use it to build shapes and animate them, you will be let loose on prototype game code for groworld - a game still in production which takes elements from guerilla gardening, permaculture and plant growth. No previous programming experience required. Interest in games and plants a bonus :) Please install fluxus prior to the workshop, which you can find here: http://www.pawfal.org/fluxus/packages/ Windows version not recommended at present due to instability, an alternative is to use a bootable CD linux distro such as this one which will be made available on the day: https://devel.goto10.org/puredyne Details: http://www.pawfal.org/fluxus/ Cost: 10 euros (including food). Please email m...@1010.co.uk to reserve a place (strictly limited) / July 5th 8PM: performance: Fluxus live coding with Dave Griffiths and all participants at General Public Dave Griffiths is one part of Slub: Slub sound emerges from slub software; melodic and chordal studies, generative experiments and beat processes. Process-based sonic improvisations; live generative music using hand crafted and live coded apps, scripts and l-systems in networked synchrony. With roots in UK electronica and tech culture, slub build their own software environments for creating music in realtime. Only custom composition and DSP software is used. Everything you hear is formed by human minds. Slub project their screens so that the audience are able to appreciate their live software development process, which does not adhere to industry quality control standards. They communicate using OSC over UDP and eyebrow gestures. The output ranges from extra slow gabba, through intelligent ambient to acid blues glitch. http://www.slub.org Free entry at: General Public Schönhauser Allee 167c U2 Senefelder Platz ---___ Background: Workshops led by field-expert practitioners extend over realms of code and embedded code, environmental code, noise, transmission and reception, and electromysticism. Workshops solely utilise free software and GNU toolbase. Practitioners at pickledfeet have included Martin Kuentz (p...@scrying.org), Julian Oliver (http://selectparks.net/), Derek Holzer (http://soundtransit.nl), Jeff Mann (http://jeffmann.com), Martin Howse (http://1010.co.uk), Fredrik Olofsson (http://www.fredrikolofsson.com/), Florian Cramer (http://cramer.plaintext.cc:70/), Brendan Howell, jo FRGMNT grys(http://tob.de.vu/), mikomikona http://www.zuviel.tv/mikomikona.html, Antony Hall (http://antonyhall.net), Gijs Gieskes (http://gieskes.nl/), Alexei Blinov (http://www.raylab.com), Valentina Vuksic (http://sei-personaggi-part2.ch/) _-micro_research, pickledfeet, Linienstrasse 54, Berlin 10119 U2, Rosa-Luxemburg-Pl. U8, Rosenthaler Pl. Telephone: 3050187482. m...@1010.co.uk _-micro_research is supported by Hauptstadtkulturfonds, Berlin 2009 http://1010.co.uk/org/workshop.html http://www.1010.co.uk/org/ http://pickledfeet.com -- rohrpost - deutschsprachige Liste zur Kultur digitaler Medien und Netze Archiv: http://www.nettime.org/rohrpost http://post.openoffice.de/pipermail/rohrpost/ Ent/Subskribieren: http://post.openoffice.de/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/rohrpost/
[rohrpost] konferenz zu suchen und suchmaschinen (amsterdam 13-14.11)
Society of the Query conference: 13 - 14 November 2009 Location: Trouw Amsterdam Organized by the Institute of Network Cultures More info and material on: http://networkcultures.org/wpmu/query/ In the information society the current reality is an increasing dependence on technological resources to create order and to find meaning in a gigantic quantity of online data. Searching has surpassed browsing and surfing as main activity on the web. This development turned the search engine into our most significant point of reference. Its focus on efficiency and expansion of services tends to veil the nature of the technology as well as underlying (corporate) ideologies. In this query driven society, The Society of the Query conference seeks to analyze what impact our reliance on resources to manage knowledge on the Internet has on our culture. The theory of a semantic web lurking around the corner revives the ‘human vs. artificial intelligence’-debate. The centralizing web demands to critically question the distribution of power, the diversity and accessibility of web content, while promising alternatives for the dominant paradigm surface in peer-to-peer and open source initiatives. Finally, the question arises what role politics and education, after having invested substantially in media intelligence, can play in the creation of an informed users’ group. For two days, the Society of the Query conference aims to zoom in on some of the essential themes surrounding web search by critical analysis and the contextualization of developments in interface design and the organization of knowledge. The Institute of Network Cultures seeks to achieve this specifically by uniting researchers, theorists, activists, artists and professionals working in this area and by creating a platform for not only realized projects and recent research, but also for open questions and predictions. Conference Themes Society of the Query Digital Civil Rights and Media Literacy Alternative Search (1) Art and the Engine Googlization of Everyday Life Alternative Search (2) Society of the Query Because the web lacks editorial monitoring, we have become more dependent on technological resources when trying to find meaningful content within the vast amount of data on the web. Traditional methods to decide what information is valuable and useful are absent. In recent years, people have become increasingly dissatisfied by Google’s PageRank-algorithm, which is based of the popularity of a web page. Also, new semantic layers have been added to the principal architecture of the web. This conference session will focus on 'searching' on the level of the software and will discuss the notion of the organization of knowledge within the theoretical framework of the humanities and computer science. Questions to be discussed in this session include: What is the history of the organization of knowledge? Which ideologies make up the foundations for the concept of ‘ontology’? And, what role will human expertise play in the era of ‘machine understanding’? Moderator: Geert Lovink Speakers: * Yann Moulier Boutang (F), editor of Multitude’s special issue on Google (May 2009). * Matteo Pasquinelli (NL), Author of Animal Spirits (2008) and Google’s PageRank: Diagram of the Cognitive Capitalism and Rentier of the Common Intellect” (2009). * Teresa Numerico (IT), (PhD in History of Science) is a researcher in Philosophy of Science at the University of Salerno, where she teaches New Media. * David Gugerli (CH), author of “Suchmaschinen – Die Welt als Datenbank” (2009). Digital Civil Rights and Media Literacy In 2005, John Batelle characterized Google as a ‘database of intents’: a valuable archive of individual and collective wishes. As the number of services offered by search engines is expanding, large amounts of personal information are gathered, stored and used for commercial purposes. The current technological climate seems to be one in which the user is virtually unaware of who or what is behind the web applications they use on a daily basis. Questions to be discussed in this session include: How does the intermediary function of search engines threaten digital civil rights such as the right to privacy and freedom of expression? What role can politics play in protecting these rights? How can the way search engines are designed aid to protecting our autonomy? How will the legal framework concerning search engines be shaped? And, after substantial investments in media intelligence, how are these matters raised on a national and European level? Moderator: Caroline Nevejan Speakers: * Nart Villeneuve (CA), Open Net Initiative. * Joris van Hoboken (NL), doctoral candidate at the Institute for Information Law at the University of Amsterdam. His research focuses on digital civil rights and the legal framework concerning search engines.
