Re: [NetBehaviour] Man gets smartphone dock built into prosthetic arm.

2011-10-28 Thread Tracey M Benson
that is amazing! just wondering how he will manage upgrades?! On Fri, Oct 28, 2011 at 8:10 PM, marc garrett marc.garr...@furtherfield.org wrote: Man gets smartphone dock built into prosthetic arm. A British man has become the world's first ever patient to have a smartphone docking system

[NetBehaviour] Discotrope is an audiovisual performance by Amy Alexander and Annina Rüst

2011-10-28 Thread info
Discotrope is an audiovisual performance by Amy Alexander and Annina Rüst, with sound design by Cristyn Magnus. Performances invoke both alternative energy and the curious history of dance in cinema – from backlots to backyards. Discotrope events can range from seated concerts and gallery

Re: [NetBehaviour] Man gets smartphone dock built into prosthetic arm.

2011-10-28 Thread marc garrett
Hi Tracey, He's taken accessorizing to a limit... One cannot presume he's read Donna Haraway's 'A CyborgManifesto', but it does give us a glimpse of a future where people adapt themselves physically with the technology the use. marc that is amazing! just wondering how he will manage

[NetBehaviour] Beyond isea. By Helen Varley Jamieson

2011-10-28 Thread info
Beyond isea. By Helen Varley Jamieson | on Furtherfield's Community Blog Steam. i've been meaning to blog about isea for the last month, but - well, things keep happening. shortly after isea i performed the net and the butterfly with vicki francesco at PANik; then i went to berlin for a

Re: [NetBehaviour] Man gets smartphone dock built into prosthetic arm.

2011-10-28 Thread Rob Myers
On 28/10/11 10:32, marc garrett wrote: One cannot presume he's read Donna Haraway's 'A CyborgManifesto', but it does give us a glimpse of a future where people adapt themselves physically with the technology the use. Cyberpunk is here when people *electively* adapt themselves in this way.

[NetBehaviour] The Aesthetic Seance

2011-10-28 Thread Rob Myers
Aesthetics in the visual arts is ultimately the evaluation of qualia under a given theory of value. Qualia are irreducible aesthetic experiences or feelings that we have no power of introspection over. They cannot be studied materialistically through scientific naturalism. [1] Qualia are

Re: [NetBehaviour] Man gets smartphone dock built into prosthetic arm.

2011-10-28 Thread Richard Wright
Curious to see that sexy new smartphone docked next to his prosthetic hook-for-a-hand that is more reminiscent of a seventeenth century pirate captain. That is cyberpunk indeed... From: marc garrett marc.garr...@furtherfield.org Date: 28 October 2011 10:10:16 BDT To: NetBehaviour for

[NetBehaviour] FluxusSecrets

2011-10-28 Thread info
FluxusSecrets Fluxus secrets - livecoding tutorial 1. By Pawfal. Tutorial fluxus movies - these are intended to give you a feel for what is possible when live coding fluxus, and also as an introduction to some of the primitives and ways to animate them. I'll be periodically adding to this

[NetBehaviour] Launch of Russian version of Class Wargames Film.

2011-10-28 Thread info
Launch of Russian version of Class Wargames Film. Date: 2 December 2011 - 6:30pm - 9:00pm RayLab, 344 Kingsland Road, LONDON E8 4DA Following its successful screenings in St Petersburg, Moscow and Irkutsk, the Russian version of 'Class Wargames Presents Guy Debord's The Game of War' will

[NetBehaviour] 20Hz, by Semiconductor

2011-10-28 Thread info
20Hz by Semiconductor - see and hear it... 20 Hz observes a geo-magnetic storm occurring in the Earth's upper atmosphere. Working with data collected from the CARISMA radio array and interpreted as audio, we hear tweeting and rumbles caused by incoming solar wind, captured at the frequency of

Re: [NetBehaviour] Like Shadows: A Celebration of Shyness (in pervasive media) for White Night Brighton, Saturday 29th October - all welcome

2011-10-28 Thread ruth catlow
Wow! What a great set of events. And supporting shyness in social media is a great concept. : ) R On 27/10/2011 23:37, Helen Sloan wrote: Hi Netbehaviour A bit of promotion here, but if you can get to Brighton on Saturday there's our project and many others that might be of interest. Best

[NetBehaviour] Dear Living Person II: Story of the Eyes.

2011-10-28 Thread info
Dear Living Person II: Story of the Eyes. By John Russell As the image of Margaret Thatcher circulates through the media ecology, John Russell's public art work in Southend-on-Sea works to redirect its affective charge. The Iron Lady, stable signifier for straight-jacketed social relations,

[NetBehaviour] Richard Stallman in London on Wednesday

2011-10-28 Thread info
Dear Netbehaviourists, Next Wednesday (2nd Nov), we are lucky enough to have Richard Stallman speaking on A Free Digital Society. Richard Stallman, founder of the Free Software Movement and initial developer of the

Re: [NetBehaviour] the joy of eliminating code that sucks...

2011-10-28 Thread Rob Myers
On 28/10/11 14:29, James Morris wrote: the joy of eliminating code that sucks is so great i must tell you all about it right now in case the world ends this very minute That reminds me of this optimization anecdote from Dropbox: http://tech.dropbox.com/?p=89 - Rob.

Re: [NetBehaviour] Man gets smartphone dock built into prosthetic arm.

2011-10-28 Thread Tracey M Benson
Love the visual you just conjured for me! Arrr me hearties! On Fri, Oct 28, 2011 at 10:29 PM, Richard Wright futurenatu...@blueyonder.co.uk wrote: Curious to see that sexy new smartphone docked next to his prosthetic hook-for-a-hand that is more reminiscent of a seventeenth century pirate

[NetBehaviour] gli.tc/h

2011-10-28 Thread a bill miller
Not sure if anyone posted this yet - but the gli.tc/h events are coming up here's the schedule: http://gli.tc/h/schedule-mobile.html Events in chicago, birmingham, and amsterdam [][][][][][][][][][] bill -- A. Bill Miller -- SITE

[NetBehaviour] On Being Dead / On My Deadwork / My Work is Dead

2011-10-28 Thread Alan Sondheim
On Being Dead / On My Deadwork / My Work is Dead Deadwork is invisible work; deadwork is virtual work. When there is nothing but the image and the memory of the image, there is deadwork. When the producing tribe cannot read, can only reinterpret, there is deadwork. Deadwork does not enter the

[NetBehaviour] dance

2011-10-28 Thread Alan Sondheim
eyebeam: http://eyebeam.org/blogs/alansondheim/ dance we just came back from a dance discussion event at the 92nd Street Y in Manhattan. why are dancers so optimistic? the topic was dance education and everyone was excited. there were videos and photographs that were also cheering. I keep