[NetBehaviour] Why Net Art Software Should Be AGPL-Licenced

2009-06-18 Thread Rob Myers
Restricting the study, production, display, preservation or other uses of artworks removes the freedom of those involved in art and thereby damages the cultural, social and economic value of art. Where restrictions take the form of copyright, copyleft licences are a good way of restoring

Re: [NetBehaviour] On Paintr

2009-06-19 Thread Rob Myers
2009/6/14 Pall Thayer pallt...@gmail.com First of all, I just want to say that I'm honored and proud that my own work played a part in influencing this very intriguing work. I was just talking with another Icelandic artist yesterday (Gudrun Kristjansdottir, painter) and we were discussing

Re: [NetBehaviour] Why Net Art Software Should Be AGPL-Licenced

2009-06-19 Thread Rob Myers
Thanks for your comments. Yes, it's bizarre when people think that freedom and artistic (or at least career) success are somehow opposed. James - If people don't need the code to immediately experience the work then the case for making it AGPL is less clear but it won't hurt to protect people's

[NetBehaviour] This Is A Pixel...

2009-06-28 Thread Rob Myers
This is a pixel → ■ This is another → ■ This is a third → ■ Now make some net art. ___ NetBehaviour mailing list NetBehaviour@netbehaviour.org http://www.netbehaviour.org/mailman/listinfo/netbehaviour

[NetBehaviour] The challenges of bringing computing into a museum and a slum are not really all that different.

2009-06-28 Thread Rob Myers
The challenges of bringing computing into a museum and a slum are not really all that different. - Neil Gershenfeld, 'Fab'. ___ NetBehaviour mailing list NetBehaviour@netbehaviour.org http://www.netbehaviour.org/mailman/listinfo/netbehaviour

Re: [NetBehaviour] a new Microcode: Vito Acconci's 'Seedbed'

2009-07-03 Thread Rob Myers
On 03/07/09 15:20, james morris wrote: Hi Pall, I've got to admit that I've had trouble too, understanding your MicroCodes. Sometimes I think I get it, other times I read what you've written and think I've been misunderstanding. I reviewed Pall's earlier Microcodes for Furtherfield, which

Re: [NetBehaviour] Pros and Cons of Corporate Personhood for Transbemans

2009-07-06 Thread Rob Myers
2009/7/6 james morris ja...@jwm-art.net: Dr. Rothblatt imposes the legal notions of corporate personhood upon transbemans or futuristic persons, specifically those who transition from flesh-ware to software, and may lack the traditional DNA based biological substrate. Charles Stross's

[NetBehaviour] Code Art Reviewers [was - Re: a new Microcode: Vito Acconci's 'Seedbed']

2009-07-06 Thread Rob Myers
On 03/07/09 22:52, Alan Sondheim wrote: I must say first I really like the review; Thank you! I have to take issue, however, with a couple of points which may be central to you - Thank you for your detailed critique. I, and others, have claimed that artists who use computers need to be

[NetBehaviour] Talenthouse

2009-07-08 Thread Rob Myers
http://www.wired.com/underwire/2009/07/talenthouses-creative-community-connects-all-kinds-of-artists/ More than 25,000 artists have logged onto Talenthouse so far. The question is, will they work together to create pieces of lasting beauty? The online “creative community,” which launched last

Re: [NetBehaviour] [stuff-it] FW: Only 33 per cent of Americans believe in evolution

2009-07-13 Thread Rob Myers
There are healthy debates about some of the details but there are no serious scientific theories that are alternatives to evolution by natural selection. If there were they would replace evolution as experiments and studies confirmed them. That's the beauty of science when it works. Science

Re: [NetBehaviour] New server for Netbehavour...

2009-07-14 Thread Rob Myers
Like this? - rob. On Jul 14, 2009 11:26 AM, marc garrett marc.garr...@furtherfield.org wrote: Hi Netbehaviourists, We have finally, after much trauma managed to move everything over to a new server. There are a few clitches that we are currently ironing out regarding some of our

Re: [NetBehaviour] Remembering BBS Boards

2009-07-28 Thread Rob Myers
2009/7/27 mez breeze netwur...@gmail.com: on another [related] note: any thoughts on the ATT block against 4chan? surprised net/b/'s don't have anything 2 say re it: http://www.centralgadget.com/att-blocking-access-to-portions-of-4chan-2336/ /m/

Re: [NetBehaviour] Remembering BBS Boards

2009-07-28 Thread Rob Myers
I'm quoting 4chan, not Mondo Lite (or Wired as it insists on calling itself...) Net neutrality doesn't mean ignoring denial of service attacks, although it does mean identifying them competently. Both parties failed here, and both parties have admitted it. On Jul 28, 2009 1:39 PM, mez breeze

[NetBehaviour] Building Rome In A Day

2009-07-29 Thread Rob Myers
http://grail.cs.washington.edu/rome/ Entering the search term Rome on Flickr returns more than two million photographs. This collection represents an increasingly complete photographic record of the city, capturing every popular site, facade, interior, fountain, sculpture, painting, cafe, and so

[NetBehaviour] The Matrix, But With Money

2009-07-29 Thread Rob Myers
http://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/news/2009/07/-it-sounds-like-something.ars It sounds like something out of The Matrix: a giant, world-spanning electronic network where high-powered machines, some of them using GPUs to gain a speed advantage, run secret, rapidly-evolving software algorithms

[NetBehaviour] How the NPG Should Do It

2009-08-11 Thread Rob Myers
http://img26.yfrog.com/i/ztl.jpg/ Using digital photography and social media to promote a show is much better than trying to lock art away. - rob. ___ NetBehaviour mailing list NetBehaviour@netbehaviour.org

[NetBehaviour] Twitter Opera

2009-08-11 Thread Rob Myers
http://www.wired.co.uk/news/archive/2009-08/10/twitter!-the-crowdsourced-opera.aspx As A Million Penguins showed, just crowdsourcing random content doesn't work. You need a hierarchical system for receiving, evaluating and accepting contributions to a project and a means of integrating and

Re: [NetBehaviour] QA: Why the UK needs the Pirate Party.

2009-08-14 Thread Rob Myers
I've seen people object to the PP name but it's a successful brand elsewhere and people wouldn't take much interest in the copyright reform party. ;-) So I think this is a good move, although do see Stallman's comments on the other PP's agenda. - rob On Aug 14, 2009 1:48 PM, marc garrett

[NetBehaviour] Corporate Code Art

2009-08-21 Thread Rob Myers
http://b3ta.com/links/355881 ___ NetBehaviour mailing list NetBehaviour@netbehaviour.org http://www.netbehaviour.org/mailman/listinfo/netbehaviour

Re: [NetBehaviour] Corporate Code Art

2009-08-21 Thread Rob Myers
On 21/08/09 21:29, Joseph Gray wrote: wow. now that's nerdy. On Fri, Aug 21, 2009 at 5:53 AM, Pall Thayer pallt...@gmail.com wrote: That's absolutely awesome. Is it worse than most net.art because it's by a corporation, or better than most net art because it's been wrested from a

Re: [NetBehaviour] BOOK LAUNCH - 'The Spam Book: On Viruses, Porn, and Other Anomalies from the Dark Side of, Digital Culture'

2009-09-16 Thread Rob Myers
This looks really good. Wish I could get to the launch. - rob. On Sep 16, 2009 11:45 AM, marc garrett marc.garr...@furtherfield.org wrote: BOOK LAUNCH 'The Spam Book: On Viruses, Porn, and Other Anomalies from the Dark Side of Digital Culture' Edited by: Jussi Parikka and Tony D. Sampson

Re: [NetBehaviour] query (fwd)

2009-10-06 Thread Rob Myers
There's OpenSim, which is unfortunately based on Mono and C#, and a bit fiddly for normal SL users to connect to. http://opensimulator.org/ You can export stuff to it though IIRC, and it's getting more serious usage now. - Rob. 2009/10/6 marc garrett marc.garr...@furtherfield.org: Hi Alan,

Re: [NetBehaviour] 29 Music-making Apps for Linux

2009-10-06 Thread Rob Myers
On 06/10/09 19:18, marc garrett wrote: I have a few itunes files that I wish to convert for my linux. You may not be able resolve what the whole of the Internet/Linux user groups have not been successful in doing, but you never know - I want to convert itunes files into a music prog, and

[NetBehaviour] C graffiti

2009-10-09 Thread Rob Myers
http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/boingboing/iBag/~3/bckoCPM443I/c-graffiti.html More code grafitti... ___ NetBehaviour mailing list NetBehaviour@netbehaviour.org http://www.netbehaviour.org/mailman/listinfo/netbehaviour

[NetBehaviour] R Data Visualisations

2009-10-21 Thread Rob Myers
http://addictedtor.free.fr/graphiques/ R is a system for statistical computation and graphics. It consists of a language plus a run-time environment with graphics, a debugger, access to certain system functions, and the ability to run programs stored in script files. [...] One of R's strengths is

Re: [NetBehaviour] the contest

2009-11-03 Thread Rob Myers
ls -rob ls -manik ls -ruth ls -marc ls -anniea ls -pall On 3 Nov 2009 13:08, anniea a...@bram.org wrote: diw02 Is thanks On Tue, Nov 3, 2009 at 1:52 PM, Pall Thayer pallt...@gmail.com wrote: You get something like... -- Video Squad fragment 3 min Riam06

Re: [NetBehaviour] the contest

2009-11-03 Thread Rob Myers
ls -anniea works on Mac OS X, I didn't check them on other platforms. :-) - rob On 3 Nov 2009 14:47, Pall Thayer pallt...@gmail.com wrote: The only one here that doesn't work is anniea. It fails on the e. Nice to see the big difference between ls -ruth and ls -marc though. Rob Myers wrote: ls

Re: [NetBehaviour] Fw: DIWO accidental voyage through boredom

2009-11-08 Thread Rob Myers
On 08/11/09 18:05, manik wrote: ...MANIK LIKE MASTURBATION IN GALERIES... Is this about the Malevich? I can't remember the artist's name... - Rob. signature.asc Description: OpenPGP digital signature ___ NetBehaviour mailing list

Re: [NetBehaviour] hey

2009-11-09 Thread Rob Myers
Gmail doesn't tend to show you your own responses on a list, if anyone's using that. - rob. On 9 Nov 2009 12:07, marc garrett marc.garr...@furtherfield.org wrote: mmm... will check marc me, not seing my post back ; ( elmur.net http://elmur.net 2009/11/8 marc garrett

Re: [NetBehaviour] WAR has NO value

2009-11-18 Thread Rob Myers
On 18/11/09 09:28, Pall Thayer wrote: WAR has NO value 18. November 2009 #!/usr/bin/perl use constant WAR; print WAR; http://pallit.lhi.is/microcodes/index.php?code_id=43 # After Edwin Starr while (! WAR) print WAR; signature.asc Description: OpenPGP digital signature

Re: [NetBehaviour] WAR has NO value

2009-11-18 Thread Rob Myers
2009/11/18 Pall Thayer pallt...@gmail.com: #!/usr/bin/perl while(WAR){die;} #!/usr/bin/perl while(JUST) {WAR;} ___ NetBehaviour mailing list NetBehaviour@netbehaviour.org http://www.netbehaviour.org/mailman/listinfo/netbehaviour

Re: [NetBehaviour] WAR has NO value

2009-11-19 Thread Rob Myers
On 19/11/09 18:13, james morris wrote: Just wondering if you had tried using Common Lisp (or any varient of lisp) for creating microcodes (or responses) ??? I'm guessing though, CL probably has less potential (compared with something like perl) due to it's syntax and the parenthesis. Even

Re: [NetBehaviour] COMMENT

2009-11-24 Thread Rob Myers
On 24/11/09 16:04, manik wrote: ...INSULTING COMMENT... MANIK,NOVEMBER 2009... I cannot remember the last time I was insulted so!!!1 - Rob. signature.asc Description: OpenPGP digital signature

[NetBehaviour] The Colour Of News

2009-11-30 Thread Rob Myers
The Colour Of News - http://robmyers.org/the_colour_of_news/ Colours from the leading stories on leading news sites, updated hourly. See the source here - http://robmyers.org/git/?p=the_colour_of_news.git;a=summary - Rob. signature.asc Description: OpenPGP digital signature

Re: [NetBehaviour] The Colour Of News

2009-12-01 Thread Rob Myers
On 01/12/09 11:36, Pall Thayer wrote: Hi Rob, I've been watching this page since you posted it but don't see any change in colors. Am I missing something? No, but my code was. 8-) It should work now if you reload it. And I've added an http-refresh to the header so it'll reload every hour to

Re: [NetBehaviour] The Colour Of News

2009-12-02 Thread Rob Myers
On 02/12/09 16:58, dave miller wrote: What do the colours mean? eg red = violence? pink = celebrity? Nothing so profound (somebody else suggested emotional valence). They are the colours of the picture illustrating the leading story on each site. Am I missing the point? You are suggesting

Re: [NetBehaviour] The Colour Of News

2009-12-02 Thread Rob Myers
On 02/12/09 19:15, Margarita Ovadia wrote: what a great idea? One project that does this kind of thing really well is We Feel Fine - http://www.wefeelfine.org/ They map statements of feeling on blogs to colours in the image. - Rob. signature.asc Description: OpenPGP digital signature

Re: [NetBehaviour] I want to ask Jacques Derrida a question.

2009-12-11 Thread Rob Myers
On 11/12/09 08:54, Alan Sondheim wrote: I want to ask Jacques Derrida a question. There is nothing outside the text of life... - Rob. signature.asc Description: OpenPGP digital signature ___ NetBehaviour mailing list NetBehaviour@netbehaviour.org

Re: [NetBehaviour] I want to ask Jacques Derrida a question.

2009-12-12 Thread Rob Myers
On 12/12/09 12:27, bob catchpole wrote: Or could it be that the echo of the language flows across the space of the absence to the ghost of the disembodied matter of it's own arse? I'm going to mention gastromancy at this point in the debate. - Rob. signature.asc Description: OpenPGP

Re: [NetBehaviour] HOW

2009-12-14 Thread Rob Myers
On 14/12/09 19:34, manik wrote: ...HOW ARE YOU EMOTIONALY... I am OK. How are you? - Rob. signature.asc Description: OpenPGP digital signature ___ NetBehaviour mailing list NetBehaviour@netbehaviour.org

Re: [NetBehaviour] Fw: HOW

2009-12-14 Thread Rob Myers
On 14/12/09 20:27, manik wrote: ... NOT GOOD...THANKS... Downer 8-( Best wishes... - Rob. signature.asc Description: OpenPGP digital signature ___ NetBehaviour mailing list NetBehaviour@netbehaviour.org

Re: [NetBehaviour] Fw: HOW

2009-12-14 Thread Rob Myers
On 14/12/09 20:48, Renee Turner wrote: Let's start a facebook group dedicated to how to cheer up Manik... but let's limit our expressions to emoticons ;-) :-D - Rob. signature.asc Description: OpenPGP digital signature ___ NetBehaviour mailing

[NetBehaviour] RSG 2010 Conference

2009-12-17 Thread Rob Myers
http://www.radstats.org.uk/conf2010/index.htm Radical Statistics Group (who were the inspiration for my 1968/1969 images...) have a conference next year on the theme of 'Whose statistics?' ___ NetBehaviour mailing list NetBehaviour@netbehaviour.org

[NetBehaviour] New Nodebox

2009-12-17 Thread Rob Myers
http://digitaltools.node3000.com/download/2047-nodebox-2-things-getting-modular A good alternative to Processing because it doesn't use a Java subset as its programming language. ;-) Anyone releasing GPL2-only software for Mac and Windows only at this point is basically trolling ;-). But Nodebox

[NetBehaviour] Insurgents Hack U.S. Drones

2009-12-17 Thread Rob Myers
http://online.wsj.com/article/SB126102247889095011.html?mod=igoogle_wsj_gadgv1; Unencrypted video feeds are not a good idea, as Adnan demonstrated at Make Art. ;-) ___ NetBehaviour mailing list NetBehaviour@netbehaviour.org

Re: [NetBehaviour] Hekla - the web version

2009-12-28 Thread Rob Myers
On 28/12/09 14:18, Pall Thayer wrote: For those of you who aren't interested in running perl codes and other such things on your own, the Hekla applet is now running live online. It's not running on my Fedora 12 Firefox. 8-( - Rob. ___

Re: [NetBehaviour] notes for course on 'cross-cultural human relations'

2009-12-30 Thread Rob Myers
On 30/12/09 13:19, marc garrett wrote: In respect of my own experience when teaching - supporting, advising, and sharing information with students is one of the most important aspects of connecting with others. Yes. People can read books anywhere, and if they can't afford the latest theory

Re: [NetBehaviour] How Not to be an Atheist.

2010-01-03 Thread Rob Myers
On 02/01/10 23:39, Alan Sondheim wrote: How does Rotman deal with Tibetan, Sanskrit, and other alphabetic scripts that are inherent in Buddhism, Jainism, Hinduism, and other non-montheis- tic religions or concepts? I think this (the lack of comparative religious knowledge) is one of the

Re: [NetBehaviour] Whatever happened to Second Life?

2010-01-06 Thread Rob Myers
On 06/01/10 17:17, James Wallbank wrote: I always thought Second Life wouldn't last. Okay, so now it's a virtual porn haven, It was, and that was what was good about it - the freedom empowering things to emerge from people's (cyber-)social interactions. Now the Lindens are age zoning things

Re: [NetBehaviour] Call for Submissions: Multichannel VariableEconomies Screening Programme Deadline 28th January

2010-01-07 Thread Rob Myers
On 07/01/10 18:34, martin mitchell wrote: How does one translate into another language part of dogmatic statements like 'running past', 'flag up' or 'socio economic' ! I don't think that the expressions you identify are dogmatic. It could be argued that they have their origin in

Re: [NetBehaviour] Call for Submissions: Multichannel VariableEconomies Screening Programme Deadline 28th January

2010-01-07 Thread Rob Myers
On 07/01/10 23:15, martin mitchell wrote: Yes an interesting observation which I agree with but the initial statement did not give a readable description to such ideas that one might understand when reading original email We'll just have to differ about agreeing on that. ;-)

[NetBehaviour] Inside Amazon

2010-01-08 Thread Rob Myers
http://www.doobybrain.com/2009/12/07/photos-of-amazon-com-fulfillment-center/ Makes me think of Warehouse 23. And I think they'd be good subjects for Joy Garnett paintings. :-) - Rob. ___ NetBehaviour mailing list NetBehaviour@netbehaviour.org

[NetBehaviour] More Code Magick

2010-01-08 Thread Rob Myers
http://nielsenhayden.com/makinglight/archives/008772.html Paxed, in a comment on the efflorescence of zombies thread, pointed out that terra is green when transformed by Rot13. This intrigued me; I wondered what other such pairs there could be. So I cobbled together a quick Ruby script to hunt

[NetBehaviour] Physical 3D Data Visualisation

2010-01-08 Thread Rob Myers
If I was at art school I'd drop everything and pursue these ideas - http://russelldavies.typepad.com/planning/2010/01/data-decs.html *Physical 3D* data visualisation using laser cutting and 3d printing. - Rob. ___ NetBehaviour mailing list

[NetBehaviour] How Data Visualisation Helped Uncover A Musical Hoax

2010-01-08 Thread Rob Myers
http://www.charm.rhul.ac.uk/projects/p2_3_2.html The AHRC Research Centre for the History and Analysis of Recorded Music (CHARM) was established in 2004 at Royal Holloway, University of London, in partnership with King's College London and the University of Sheffield. Its mission is to promote

Re: [NetBehaviour] Call for Submissions: Multichannel VariableEconomies Screening Programme Deadline 28th January (Helen Sloan)

2010-01-09 Thread Rob Myers
On 09/01/10 11:43, tom corby wrote: This is a good old fashioned bit of shit-stirring. I can't really imagine Michael shit-stirring... As pointed out by Simon, I found the art and language quotes deeply ironic given that their practice was largely nourished (and financed) within the

Re: [NetBehaviour] Call for Submissions: MultichannelVariableEconomies Screening Programme Deadline 28th January

2010-01-09 Thread Rob Myers
On 09/01/10 19:00, martin mitchell wrote: oh no where is the artist. Behind you!!! - Rob. ___ NetBehaviour mailing list NetBehaviour@netbehaviour.org http://www.netbehaviour.org/mailman/listinfo/netbehaviour

Re: [NetBehaviour] IMPORTANT STATEMENTS LI

2010-01-11 Thread Rob Myers
On 11/01/10 19:07, manik wrote: ...MANIK...JANUARY...2010... I'm really enjoying these pictures. 8-) - Rob. ___ NetBehaviour mailing list NetBehaviour@netbehaviour.org http://www.netbehaviour.org/mailman/listinfo/netbehaviour

Re: [NetBehaviour] On Collaboration

2010-01-18 Thread Rob Myers
On Sun, Jan 17, 2010 at 5:04 PM, anniea a...@bram.org wrote: (ENG)* Collaboration* on and via the Internet has been a hot topic for some time. Now everyone tends to see the Net more as a space for conservative individual self-representation and mediation. I wonder about this. What makes it so

Re: [NetBehaviour] On Collaboration

2010-01-19 Thread Rob Myers
On 19/01/10 20:52, helen varley jamieson wrote: is collaboration really happening on facebook twitter? I'm sure it is. But the point of those services is not that they are profound social enablers but that they allow people to stay in touch and maintain relationships over time and over

[NetBehaviour] Is There Any Such Thing As Digital Art ?

2010-01-20 Thread Rob Myers
http://www.aesthetics-online.org/articles/index.php?articles_id=43 My main disagreement with Lopes concerns his claim that there is no digital art form and the reasoning that leads him thereby to conclude that the computer art form must be interactive. Art kinds for Lopes are simply kinds of art,

[NetBehaviour] Webcam Finding

2010-01-20 Thread Rob Myers
http://www.opentopia.com/hiddencam.php These webcams were found automatically through a variety of clever search techniques and update several times a day. Their owners may or may not have intended for them to be public, but they obviously are. Some of them are security cams in companies or

[NetBehaviour] System Aesthetics

2010-01-20 Thread Rob Myers
http://www.arts.ucsb.edu/faculty/jevbratt/readings/burnham_se.html Jack Burnham Systems Esthetics Reprinted from Artforum (September, 1968). Copyright 1968 by Jack Burnham. A polarity is presently developing between the finite, unique work of high art, that is, painting or sculpture, and

[NetBehaviour] Fwd: [FC-discuss] vids: remix from the '70s; transformativeworks.org

2010-01-20 Thread Rob Myers
NC fail, but otherwise interesting feminist media history. - Rob. Original Message Subject: [FC-discuss] vids: remix from the '70s; transformativeworks.org Date: Tue, 19 Jan 2010 23:45:26 -0500 From: Peter Olson pe...@peabo.com To: Discussion of Free Culture in general and this

Re: [NetBehaviour] Is There Any Such Thing As Digital Art?

2010-01-20 Thread Rob Myers
On 20/01/10 16:36, Simon Biggs wrote: I hardly have the energy to read your post in detail Rob. This is not a criticism of what you have written but due to my lack of tolerance for arguments over terminology. When I see an essay seeking nomenclatures for novel practices I tend to turn off.

Re: [NetBehaviour] Review of GOTO10's 'make art'.

2010-01-21 Thread Rob Myers
On Thu, 21 Jan 2010 11:03:55 +, info i...@furtherfield.org wrote: Review of GOTO10's 'make art'. GOTO10's project - 'make art' in the small town of Poitiers in 2009. [...] http://www.furtherfield.org/displayreview.php?review_id=374 That's a good review. It's interesting reading about

[NetBehaviour] The Quantitative Aesthetics Of Dating Site Profile Images

2010-01-21 Thread Rob Myers
Interesting examples of trying to quantify the effects of images on actions using large datasets, statistical analysis, and data visualisation. Some of the images used are objectifying but a) of both male and female subjects b) by themselves and c) in the context of seeking a date.

[NetBehaviour] Free Global Map Data

2010-01-21 Thread Rob Myers
http://www.naturalearthdata.com/ Entirely free for use. From 1:10,000,000 to 1:110,000,000 scale. I mention this because I've had trouble finding this sort of thing in the past for projects. - Rob. ___ NetBehaviour mailing list

Re: [NetBehaviour] IMPORTANT STATEMENTS LXV

2010-01-26 Thread Rob Myers
On 26/01/10 13:56, manik wrote: ...Nikola Marija Pilipovic Vauda it's official... What's official??? - Rob. ___ NetBehaviour mailing list NetBehaviour@netbehaviour.org http://www.netbehaviour.org/mailman/listinfo/netbehaviour

Re: [NetBehaviour] IMPORTANT STATEMENTS LXVI

2010-01-26 Thread Rob Myers
On 26/01/10 13:58, manik wrote: Nikola Marija Pilipovic Vauda ...IT'S NOT OFFICIAL... What's not official??? - Rob. ___ NetBehaviour mailing list NetBehaviour@netbehaviour.org http://www.netbehaviour.org/mailman/listinfo/netbehaviour

Re: [NetBehaviour] some scribble drawings

2010-01-26 Thread Rob Myers
On 26/01/10 10:39, Bjørn Magnhildøen wrote: ?php Thank you for the code! Would you be willing to place it under the GPL? http://www.gnu.org/licenses/gpl-howto.html When talking about scribbling machines I always think of Ed Burton's ROSE -

Re: [NetBehaviour] interesting net art

2010-02-04 Thread Rob Myers
On Thu, 4 Feb 2010 10:03:49 +, anniea a...@bram.org wrote: copied from [NEW-MEDIA-CURATING] It's interesting that, as far as I am aware, no contemporary artist has yet harnessed this extraordinary technology to make a significant artwork. Of course, maybe I'm wrong and am missing

[NetBehaviour] Livecoding As Realistic Artistic Practice

2010-02-07 Thread Rob Myers
Realism in art is the absence of sentiment. Livecoding is writing software in public while presenting the source code and its output along with the programmer as a kind of performance. Hacking (computer programming) is usually a solitary activity and hackers (computer programmers) rarely get to

[NetBehaviour] 2D Animation on GNU/Linux

2010-02-08 Thread Rob Myers
A couple of people at the DIWO takedown asked me about animation Free Software but I couldn't remember the details. I've just been reminded by this - http://morevnaproject.org/ ;-) So the biggies for animation on GNU/Linux are - http://www.synfig.org/ - 2d animation package.

Re: [NetBehaviour] Crisis at the ICA: Ekow Eshun’ s Experiment in Deinstitutionalisation

2010-02-10 Thread Rob Myers
On Wed, 10 Feb 2010 13:54:02 +, marc garrett marc.garr...@furtherfield.org wrote: M | U | T | E | __ rread it! Crisis at the ICA: Ekow Eshun’s Experiment in Deinstitutionalisation By JJ Charlesworth Amidst a general acceptance of the cash crisis afflicting the ICA as an accident

Re: [NetBehaviour] Crisis at the ICA: Ekow Eshun¹s E xperiment in Deinstitutionalisation

2010-02-11 Thread Rob Myers
The ICA have asserted that JJ [who I once had lunch with with a friend at the ICA bar of all places] was unsubstantiated and subjective in his criticism. Mute have responded. See the comments at the bottom of the page containing the article -

Re: [NetBehaviour] Crisis_at_the_ICA:_Ekow_Eshun ¹s_Experiment_in_Deinstitutionalisation

2010-02-11 Thread Rob Myers
On 11/02/10 16:20, s_h...@canada.com wrote: I wish I could say more but I've got student things to do, but some of my chums are subscribed on the list - lurking. I would love to hear from other students also. What do they make of all this? So far we have only heard from those deeply

[NetBehaviour] Buzz Fail

2010-02-12 Thread Rob Myers
The concept of relationships used by social networking software is a limited one compared to the concept of relationships used in sociological social netowrk analysis. I social networking software all relationships are positive. You only have friends, not enemies, so any connection between two

Re: [NetBehaviour] Search term as text

2010-02-18 Thread Rob Myers
On Thu, 18 Feb 2010 08:37:12 -0500, Curt Cloninger c...@lab404.com wrote: imgcolor seems to be quite limited, though. i haven't found a way to specify a general color. such as #ff. it seems limited to verbal descriptions of color such as 'red'. Correct. It recognizes: red, orange, yellow,

Re: [NetBehaviour] LiWoLi 2010 - Open Call

2010-02-25 Thread Rob Myers
On 25/02/10 16:33, marc garrett wrote: Thanks Aileen, This looks very interesting :-) What do you think of the theme for this year? ;-) - Rob. ___ NetBehaviour mailing list NetBehaviour@netbehaviour.org

Re: [NetBehaviour] Digital Pioneers.

2010-03-02 Thread Rob Myers
On Mon, 1 Mar 2010 23:03:28 -0800, Jim Andrews j...@vispo.com wrote: thanks for that, rob. well done. Thanks! I've been getting some good feedback for the review. :-) how is the book? did you buy a copy? I did buy a copy. :-) The book is a small, slim hardback packed with images and details.

Re: [NetBehaviour] Digital Pioneers.

2010-03-02 Thread Rob Myers
On 02/03/10 21:34, Jim Andrews wrote: is most of the work generative? in other words, is it generated from programming the artist wrote? I don't know how many technicians will have been involved, but given the time period covered it's almost a given that most of the art would be produced

[NetBehaviour] London Olympics Freedom Fail

2010-03-05 Thread Rob Myers
http://uk.news.yahoo.com/22/20100303/tts-uk-olympics-london-ca02f96.html Police will have powers to enter private homes and seize posters, and will be able to stop people carrying non-sponsor items to sporting events. I think there will be lots of people doing things completely innocently who

Re: [NetBehaviour] London Olympics Freedom Fail

2010-03-05 Thread Rob Myers
On 05/03/10 16:57, Mark Hancock wrote: I have a sudden urge to print some 'People's Olympics' t-shirts with my own made up logo on them!! yes we definitely need an a-lympic logo. might be fun for the law design depts at a london university to work on together... - rob.

Re: [NetBehaviour] Overheard in New York

2010-03-15 Thread Rob Myers
On 15/03/10 19:50, Alan Sondheim wrote: Overheard in New York I really like this! Err not that I'm a terrible eavesdropper or anything... - Rob. ___ NetBehaviour mailing list NetBehaviour@netbehaviour.org

Re: [NetBehaviour] A statement

2010-03-17 Thread Rob Myers
On Wed, 17 Mar 2010 11:40:17 +, Simon Biggs s.bi...@eca.ac.uk wrote: I don¹t think there currently is, nor will it be desirable in the future to have, a language specific to computer art. It's unavoidable to a degree, with glitch art, livecoding, generative art, net.art, etc. all having

Re: [NetBehaviour] Cybernetic Serendipity.

2010-03-19 Thread Rob Myers
On Fri, 19 Mar 2010 09:36:42 +, marc garrett marc.garr...@furtherfield.org wrote: Cybernetic Serendipity. Cybernetic Serendipity was an exhibition of computer art curated by Jasia Reichardt, shown at the Institute of Contemporary Arts, London in 1968, and then touring the United

Re: [NetBehaviour] Most students use Wikipedia, avoid telling profs about it.

2010-03-19 Thread Rob Myers
On 19/03/10 07:52, Simon Biggs wrote: It is no big deal for the student to find a useful reference. Most Wikipedia entries cite sources. Many of these sources are accessible on line, through Google books, Project Gutenberg or Amazon. If not then there are these places called libraries...

Re: [NetBehaviour] Most students use Wikipedia, avoid telling profs about it.

2010-03-19 Thread Rob Myers
On Fri, 19 Mar 2010 13:14:45 -0700, Jim Andrews j...@vispo.com wrote: i recently attempted to put an article about an important contemporary artist on wikipedia. it was repeatedly deleted by 'bearcat'. he said the artist wasn't notable enough to merit inclusion in wikipedia. i cited

Re: [NetBehaviour] new Neural issue #35, Friends?

2010-03-25 Thread Rob Myers
On 25/03/10 18:12, Alessandro Ludovico wrote: The new Neural issue is out, My copy arrived in the post two days ago. It's really good! - Rob. ___ NetBehaviour mailing list NetBehaviour@netbehaviour.org

[NetBehaviour] Digital Pioneers Books

2010-03-27 Thread Rob Myers
I added a link to a couple of books to the Digital Pioneers review that are of relevance. I do recommend them if you're interested in the history of art computing - http://www.furtherfield.org/displayreview.php?review_id=381 The additional text (with links added) reads - Update: Two recently

Re: [NetBehaviour] Tea

2010-03-29 Thread Rob Myers
On Mon, 29 Mar 2010 10:26:19 +0100, Emma Quinn emma.qu...@gmail.com wrote: Tea is what the Industrial revolution was built on. I thought that was gin? - Rob. ___ NetBehaviour mailing list NetBehaviour@netbehaviour.org

Re: [NetBehaviour] Tea

2010-03-29 Thread Rob Myers
On 29/03/10 20:08, Alan Sondheim wrote: I was referring to the Tea Party My comment about gin stands, then. ;-) - Rob. ___ NetBehaviour mailing list NetBehaviour@netbehaviour.org http://www.netbehaviour.org/mailman/listinfo/netbehaviour

Re: [NetBehaviour] How to Bypass Internet Censorship. Floss Manuals...

2010-03-31 Thread Rob Myers
On Wed, 31 Mar 2010 13:16:24 +0100, info i...@furtherfield.org wrote: How to Bypass Internet Censorship. Floss Manuals... On which subject, does anyone know of a trustworthy Virtual Private Network provider usable from the UK? - Rob. ___ NetBehaviour

Re: [NetBehaviour] Lets social bookmark!

2010-04-02 Thread Rob Myers
On 02/04/10 18:36, Aileen Derieg wrote: But didn't someone (Rob?) recently ask about non-commercial alternatives? I was very disappointed that delicious was sold to Yahoo at the time, but I still find it useful. There was a free (as in freedom) alternative called ma.gnolia.com, but that

Re: [NetBehaviour] Digital economy bill second reading today: expect fireworks.

2010-04-06 Thread Rob Myers
On Tue, 06 Apr 2010 11:57:07 +0100, marc garrett marc.garr...@furtherfield.org wrote: Digital economy bill second reading today: expect fireworks. You can still phone or tweet to your MP - http://www.openrightsgroup.org/campaigns/disconnection RMS on the bill -

Re: [NetBehaviour] UK passes Digital Economy Bill.

2010-04-08 Thread Rob Myers
On Thu, 08 Apr 2010 12:32:56 +0100, marc garrett marc.garr...@furtherfield.org wrote: UK passes Digital Economy Bill. British parliament has passed the Digital Economy Bill by a vote of 189 to 47. http://www.theyworkforthebpi.com/ http://www.openrightsgroup.org/blog/2010/what-we-do-next

Re: [NetBehaviour] UK passes Digital Economy Bill.

2010-04-08 Thread Rob Myers
On Thu, 8 Apr 2010 14:18:45 +0100, Mark Hancock mark.r.hanc...@googlemail.com wrote: Also, how would you stand up in court and argue that you only downloaded that new album by Kode 9 (or Robbie Williams!) for development of your own creative practice? Since I wouldn't listen to a Robbie

[NetBehaviour] Is Art Knowledge?

2010-04-14 Thread Rob Myers
Are there any good arguments for or against the idea of art as a kind/form/branch of knowledge? I'm after [citable] references to philosophical or theoretical authorities, if anyone knows of any. This isn't homework, it's research. ;-) Thanks. - Rob.

[NetBehaviour] Fwd: [CAS] 43 Dodgy Statements on Computer Art – Brian Reffin Smith

2010-04-15 Thread Rob Myers
Original Message Subject: [CAS] 43 Dodgy Statements on Computer Art – Brian Reffin Smith Date: Thu, 15 Apr 2010 08:20:40 +1000 From: Paul Brown p...@paul-brown.com To: c...@jiscmail.ac.uk Reply-To: Computer Arts Society c...@jiscmail.ac.uk, Paul Brown p...@paul-brown.com 43

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