Hi Mark I am a sceenwriter new to but fascinated by the potential of digitel story telling. The issue for me is that I am not a mulitmedia author, I dont have those skills. Do you no if there are any sites which facilitate collaboration between writers and multimedia artists in the uk. Best Jan
marc <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Hi Ana, Well, regarding Stockholm - I have recently received news about a node.stockholm happening there, some of them came over to London to visit during the media art season in 06, and were excited by it all... I'd pay a visit to Mejan Labs if I were you and ask them about it - because I know that they are involved in it... marc > I followed the Node project and was very sad I could not attend it. I > think London is now the only spot in Europe I feel a kind of dynamic > between Net Art, theory, activism and "permanent places". You have the > Tate, comissioning interesting virtual Art and hosting interest > events, you have your own organization, Furtherfield, the Node event, > the Rampart crew, small anarchists bookstores, small publishing > houses, etc. But the rest of Europe is quite dead, my friends in Paris > and Berlin and Rom and Madrid and Barcelona are always searching > "nodes" in other parts of the map. (And we in Stockholm are quite > silent too). > Ana > > On 2/13/07, marc wrote: > >> Hi Ana, >> >> I agree - I am also a romantic, which one of the reasons that I get so >> involved in so much stuff generally... >> >> >But where are today the spaces for joint action and collaboration? >> Are they only virtual? >> >> Well - I can definately answer that one. It was only last year that in >> march, London that many people, including ourselves at furtherfield >> participated in a massive project which involved over 80 artists and >> groups, showing at over 40 venues. A collaboration of the season media >> arts. >> >> The project was called Node.London and was controlled by and directed on >> a consensus basis, which was not easy, and as you can imagine; there was >> always the loud mouth (modernist) guy who did not know what the hell was >> happening and kept on talking over everyboby else - a bit like my dad >> the pub saying 'I know my pint and I'm sticking to it' sort of thing. >> But luckily, everyone else managed to work through this kind of obstacle >> to set up a pretty dynamic media arts season for a whole month. >> >> Much more happened as well, loads of people where involved in many >> differrent ways - here are some links below related to it, if yourself >> or anyone else is interested... >> >> http://www.nodel.org/ - the site. >> >> There is even a book publication that was part of the monthly season >> called 'Media Mutandis'. >> You do not have to buy the book though you can read its contents online, >> download it or print it out. >> >> "The NODE.London Reader projects a critical context around the Season of >> Media Arts in London March 2006 and provides another discursive >> dimension to the events of October 2005's Open Season." >> http://publication.nodel.org/ >> >> marc >> >> >> >> > I have some thoughts which I wanted to share about the concept >> > Multitude, Swarm. The mailing lists and the networks for social >> > exchange and social software are exploding, but I feel they are also >> > "imploding". I mean, I see the same people participating in -empyre-, >> > Nettime, Rhizome, IDC, this list. We are all active in Delicious, >> > Stumble upon, we digg, we make blogs, we are verbalized and active. >> > But where are today the spaces for joint action and collaboration? >> > Are they only virtual? I miss a kind of modern Bauhaus. >> > But I am a romantic :( >> > Ana >> > >> > >> > On 2/13/07, Allan Revich wrote: >> > >> >> I have several thoughts about it. Please discuss them. >> >> >> >> -----Original Message----- >> >> From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] >> >> [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of marc >> >> Sent: Tuesday, February 13, 2007 9:01 AM >> >> To: NetBehaviour for networked distributed creativity >> >> Subject: Re: [NetBehaviour] Handbook for Disobedience: Multitude- >> >> /seconds:Call for contributors >> >> >> >> Hi Clive & list, >> >> >> >> "The views published in /seconds are are not necessarily those of the >> >> individual writers and artists who contribute, nor of the publishers, >> >> editors, editorial and advisory board members or funders. >> >> >> >> Of course this may be the same of any book that is published, or any >> >> single >> >> type of specific practice. >> >> >> >> So, what is your opinion regarding collaborative creativity, and how >> >> this >> >> kind of behaviour is influencing media art, or art culture generally? >> >> >> >> I would also be interested in your ideas in respect of some of the >> >> text that >> >> you responded to the 'Handbook for Disobedience: Multitude'. >> >> >> >> If anyone else here have some thoughts about it I would love to >> >> discuss them >> >> :-) >> >> >> >> >> >> marc >> >> >> >> >> >> >> >> >> >> ----- Original Message ----- >> >> From: "marc" >> >> To: "NetBehaviour for networked distributed creativity" >> >> >> >> Sent: Tuesday, February 13, 2007 1:17 AM >> >> Subject: [NetBehaviour] Handbook for Disobedience: Multitude - >> >> /seconds:Call for contributors >> >> >> >> > Call for contributors: /seconds issue 5: Handbook for >> Disobedience: >> >> > Multitude >> >> > >> >> > /seconds: Call for contributors: >> >> > >> >> > an open invitation to respond to the topics of network, art and >> >> multitude- >> >> > issue 5: >> >> > >> >> > Handbook for Disobedience: Multitude >> >> > >> >> > All media formats accepted >> >> > Material to be considered should be sent to >> >> > [EMAIL PROTECTED] >> >> > >> >> > References, notes and background material can be accessed at >> >> > www.reduxart.org.uk >> >> > >> >> > 'Art aside, Art Basel Miami is all about seeing and being seen, >> >> spending >> >> > time with old friends and new friends and networking like >> crazy...' >> >> > From 'Notes from Miami Beach, Basel Art Fair 2006', Steven Psyllos >> >> > >> >> > 'Even as we seek to have a sense of orientation which will allow >> >> us to >> >> > protect ourselves, we also perceive, often in retrospect, various >> >> forms >> >> > of danger.' >> >> > Paolo Virno MULTITUDE >> >> > >> >> > 'We can say that this destiny of marginality has now come to an >> >> end. The >> >> > Multitude, rather than constituting a 'natural' ante-fact, >> presents >> >> > itself as a historical result, a mature arrival point of the >> >> > transformations that have taken place within the productive >> >> process and >> >> > the forms of life. The 'Many' are erupting onto the scene, and >> they >> >> > stand there as absolute protagonists while the crisis of the >> >> society of >> >> > Work is being played out. Post-Fordist social cooperation, in >> >> > eliminating the frontier between production time and personal >> >> time, not >> >> > to mention the distinction between professional qualities and >> >> political >> >> > aptitudes, creates a new species, which makes the old >> dichotomies of >> >> > 'public/private' and 'collective/individual' sound farcical. >> Neither >> >> > 'producers' nor 'citizens', the modern virtuosi attain at last the >> >> rank >> >> > of Multitude.' From 'Virtuosity and Revolution', Paolo Virno' >> >> > >> >> > '...Hardt and Negri [on 'Multitude'] are often uncritical and >> >> credulous >> >> > in the face of orthodox propaganda about globalization and >> >> immateriality >> >> > ... They assert that 'immaterial labour' - service work, basically >> >> - now >> >> > prevails over the old-fashioned material kind, but they don't cite >> >> any >> >> > statistics: you'd never expect that far more Americans are >> >> truck-drivers >> >> > than are computer professionals. Nor would you have much of an >> >> inkling >> >> > that three billion of us, half the earth's population, live in the >> >> rural >> >> > Third World, where the major occupation remains tilling the soil.' >> >> > [Henwood, D. (2003) After the New Economy. New York: New Press, >> >> > pp.184-5] >From an essay by Steve Wright, in Metamute.com >> >> > >> >> > Reality check: Are We Living In An Immaterial World? M30:: >> >> 14.12.05 'The >> >> > protocols of representative legitimisation attempt to render >> >> continuous >> >> > what is not, to give disparate sequences a unique name, such as >> the >> >> > 'great proletarian leader' or the 'great founder of artistic >> >> modernity', >> >> > names that are actually borrowed from fictional objectivities.' >> Alain >> >> Badiou >> >> > >> >> > A question is posed in the contradictions of an antagonism between >> >> > 'belonging', and 'conforming': to the mechanics of conformity that >> >> > uphold the opposition friend/enemy, to ambivalence in solutions >> >> > inscribed in the attempted tactic to move through the threshold >> of an >> >> > opposition: resistant 'refusal'[dread] to accommodating >> >> > 'acceptance'[refuge]. The once 'marginal' China Art Objects >> >> Galleries in >> >> > Chinatown, Los Angeles, predicated 'refuge' by winning the >> Basel Art >> >> > Fair's prestigious award [Best Booth] whilst, as Chris Kraus >> has also >> >> > written [in eulogistic prose for the work of the late Giovanni >> Intra, >> >> > its founder], at the same time raising the real estate value of a >> >> poor >> >> > area through the sign of 'regeneration' and failing subjective and >> >> > objective intentions. Intra's precocious, intellectually and >> >> > artistically ambitious practice would bring a 'new' nexus of >> concerns >> >> > and strategies into play: L.A subculture, as exemplified by its >> >> > appropriation of unhealthy forms of surrealism, situationism and >> >> punk, >> >> > injected a dose of disorder into the local art world's >> protocols of >> >> > representative legitimisation. All good things come to an end. Any >> >> real >> >> > exit from the art traffic in desire [for autonomy] is better read >> >> in an >> >> > indifference to the double-edged 'belonging' [being safe] imposed >> >> by the >> >> > 'dread / refuge' coupling. As the work/leisure dynamic plays >> out the >> >> > possibility of a new generic form of angst is being hi-jacked, >> >> > formalised and reconstituted as the new legitimate [global] >> aesthetic >> >> > model. ['disobedient' art fairs, off the map biennales, >> 'political' >> >> > symposia, social interventions etcetera ] Or, in other words, >> >> everything >> >> > that is 'permitted' inside [except,in the uncanny sense, what is >> >> true] >> >> > is only by an injunction to art's non-antagonistic contradictions; >> >> what >> >> > is, or not, made and done, is accorded to visibility. Art's >> >> pluralities, >> >> > aesthetic transformations, technological bifurcations and virtual >> >> > simulations might apply a radical in-difference, or an uncanny >> >> > separation from within the system, infinitely reproducible in >> >> singular >> >> > moments. As a new aesthetic possibility it is 'at home' in >> >> > discontinuity, a user of the subversive capability of networks, a >> >> screen >> >> > for a hidden and anonymous netwar within capital. The governmental >> >> and >> >> > aesthetic 'home' of the Multitude is two-fold, the same: >> >> 'everywhere', >> >> > in specific, discontinuous, bio-political acts of revolt, and >> at the >> >> > same time, invisible, emerging uncannily 'elsewhere' as art, >> not in >> >> > contradiction, negation but as separation. In the rupture of >> >> obedience >> >> > to and disobedience from the market's mechanisms, [from which >> >> unity of >> >> > opposition the art world accumulates value, projected and >> authorised >> >> > through the public/private, collective/individual sphere] is >> >> Multitude >> >> > to be aroused from slumber in a 'call to arms'? Is it not that the >> >> call >> >> > to arms has 'always-already' arrived in the discomfiting of all >> >> > affective pedagogy? >> >> > >> >> > In the phantom 'Handbook for Disobedience'? 'My name is Nobody...' >> >> Homer >> >> > /seconds. is an online publishing project initiated and edited by >> >> Derek >> >> > Horton and Peter Lewis, designed by Graham Hibbert and supported >> >> by an >> >> > international editorial and advisory board of academics, >> artists and >> >> > curators. The project acknowledges support from Leeds Metropolitan >> >> > University. 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