Re: [-empyre-] Layers of ISEA2011: Corporate/Financial

2011-09-20 Thread Michel Bauwens
Dear friends, Not very active in ISEA, but hoping to see some of you at tonight's ferry .. For those interested in the full p2p story and if you are still 'here' and available, there will be a 2 hour workshop on p2p for an english-speaking turkish audience, see here for details,

[-empyre-] social media critiques -ISEA online

2011-09-20 Thread Melinda Rackham
Facebook Today Melinda Rackham: I am surprised that you are so dismissive of the Metaverse and its current manifestations Marcus - given that there is such a persuasive weight of identity construction, feminist theory, queer theory, performance, theatrical and cinematic precedents and

[-empyre-] After the facts, and from a distance

2011-09-20 Thread Johannes Birringer
dear all from a distance (and an island), the discussions and postings this month, from many of you having traveled to ISEA or the Biennial in Istanbul, have been nothing but interestingly strange, at times intriguing, stimulating, unnerving, and disappointing, at times bizarre, as content

Re: [-empyre-] Layers of ISEA2011: Corporate/Financial

2011-09-20 Thread Ian Clothier
Hi, On the subject of the degree of security at Sabanci Centre I just wanted to let people know that part of the reason for the paranoia about security is that yes Sabanci University is owned by extremely wealthy people and one of them was assassinated last year. This information does shade

Re: [-empyre-] The rise of the city, AR.

2011-09-20 Thread xDxD.vs.xDxD
Hi Patrick! On Tue, Sep 20, 2011 at 11:42 AM, Lichty, Patrick plic...@colum.edu wrote: One thing that struck me is the rise of locativity, AR, and urbanism as being prevalent in the discourse at ISEA. I only caught Teri Rueb's soundwalks which dealt with GPS mapping of sound to landfills,

Re: [-empyre-] Layers of ISEA2011: Corporate/Financial (Murat Germen)

2011-09-20 Thread davin heckman
I was grateful for the overall messiness of the event. I was staying with Turkish friends, and was pleased to hear that they heard about the gallery shows through radio ads for the Biennale, and though they are not artists or academics they wanted to come with me to see what it was all about. I

Re: [-empyre-] The rise of the city, AR.

2011-09-20 Thread Honor Harger
Hi Patrick all, One thing that struck me is the rise of locativity, AR, and urbanism as being prevalent in the discourse at ISEA. I only caught Teri Rueb's soundwalks which dealt with GPS mapping of sound to landfills, and another panel that dealt with mapping textures onto buildings

Re: [-empyre-] Layers of ISEA2011: Corporate/Financial (Murat Germen)

2011-09-20 Thread xDxD.vs.xDxD
Hi everyone, still here at ISEA myself, i'd like to add to the current discussion with a few remarks. I will only explicitly list the negative items, and i want to point out that these are counterbalanced by *tons* of positive ones. Yet negativities should be assessed: i hope that an additional

[-empyre-] who owns the city? (Istanbul)

2011-09-20 Thread Ana Valdés
I am bit curious about how did the people who travelled to Istanbul for the first time experienced the city itself, Turkey and all the contradictions and the multiple layers of meaning residing in this old city where all the remnants of it's past are crumbling away. As you know many Turks want to