Re: [NetBehaviour] Links
Yale has a network studies club for grad students but I think it's mostly about robots. They don't approach it as an avenue for undergrad liberal arts, where I think it belongs better. This is largely because undergrad curriculum is controlled by faculty, who have a vested interest in protecting their own departments as departments, their garments so to speak. So intro courses perhaps are "the last to know." It will be a brave school that first offers a Network Studies major in undergrad liberal arts. But it will pay off, because it is between and among the disciplines that future progress will primarily occur. Network Studies also fosters G, which is needed most for both prosperity and for disaster management. One institution is interested but they want me to write the curriculum for them and that is time-prohibitive, myself lacking a PhD period much less one in curricular design. I do wonder if Plant described the ML as a network map with technology as a garment for the human agent. Whether or no, I think a true network map interpretation of the ML could be a significant Netbehavior product and starting point for a Network Studies major in honor of Leonardo's 500th year. I will try to read the Plant book but my reading list and brain capacity are rather full through May, and to be honest I quail before much digital theory. Perhaps because it sometimes seems to gaslight me that there was never an analog network, or one before humans, but if a loom counts as a computer maybe Plant does not partake of that too much. As to the Gibson, which I have also not read and probably cannot bring myself to before writing my own ML essay, I sometimes suspect what I am envisioning is more like underdrive. 🙂 From: NetBehaviour on behalf of Rob Myers Sent: Monday, March 9, 2020 6:24 PM To: netbehaviour@lists.netbehaviour.org Subject: Re: [NetBehaviour] Links On 2020-03-09 3:38 p.m., Max Herman via NetBehaviour wrote: > > Conversation-worthy links as always! Thank you! > Regarding the story about Yale changing their intro to art history > course, it makes sense to me. Yes I think this is a good thing for much the same reasons you give. Putting my "They Live" glasses on for a moment, it's interesting to me that such a key site of the social reproduction of American hegemony feels that it must change what art means to that culture in order to satisfy the needs of its ruling- and administrative- class consumers. Or to put it another way: "Art means different things to different cultures", yes, go on... ;-) > I wonder if the Sadie Plant link on technology (art and science) as > weaving might corroborate that those are mapped to ML's garment via the > bridge, rivers, cognitive-historical cycles, etc.? According to some > traditions clothing was literally the first technology. 🙂 Plant's work is long overdue a wider rediscovery, and I think you identify a great link here. Plant discusses the Mona Lisa (and of course William Gibson's "Mona Lisa Overdrive" given the era) in "Zeros and Ones". - Rob. ___ NetBehaviour mailing list NetBehaviour@lists.netbehaviour.org https://lists.netbehaviour.org/mailman/listinfo/netbehaviour
[NetBehaviour] Basins of Unease
Basins of Unease http://www.alansondheim.org/basins.jpg https://youtu.be/UYokluOxUDk VIDEO We're traveling across a diseased the land. We get the news from typed print from radio from television from language insured. The body is sealed by the noise of the news. The disease is everywhere we noticed. We noticed. We noticed that people are already fearing the worst and then beyond the body. Which is to say a miasma something that is shaped something that will never have form something beyond anxiety something that carries with it the caress of death. Not the finality of death. But its caress. We're worried and we work this. The dark sky is always in the midst of the brightest sun. The weather wobbles in its stations. The weather wobbles now. We're consumed with this the bright dark wind of the Sierras going over the planes which are susceptible already to fire as the global climate is transformed into a sloshed reality driven by listing omnivorial capitalism. We want to go further in this land. We want to say yes our bodies are tubes transmitting information that were tied to the network. But in fact we're not tied to the network at all. What we're tied to is the body the somatic what we're tied to is the body and its awashed disease of mental collapse of a kind of tension that we're unused to at this point. The rocking of the land itself seems to reflect all of this. Everything is slipping of a plunge. As if it were a bird leading the way lovingly to injury in the midst of power lines and wind tunneling around the biome.. We're turbines existing our existence under tension of strings and ropes. It's the tension of the intersection of magnetism and electrical energy. It goes everywhere and nowhere at all. The compasses are turned off as magnetic north continues to wobble moving in an untoward direction that is untraceable. Our magnetism is untraceable. It is against thinking path disease that we are caring within ourselves and without ourselves that this writing is written. Is against this disease that we move in the spaces left and right upwards and downwards forwards and backwards in any other direction askew in these times of disease plague and prairie in the center and edge of the continent.. We're moving in these spaces and this is about spatial movement in the world which is darkening to such an extent that that electrical energy that we think about will be cut off that magnets magnets magnets will compressor us until we are flat at the limit of the rolling prairie. ___ NetBehaviour mailing list NetBehaviour@lists.netbehaviour.org https://lists.netbehaviour.org/mailman/listinfo/netbehaviour
Re: [NetBehaviour] Links
On 2020-03-09 3:38 p.m., Max Herman via NetBehaviour wrote: > > Conversation-worthy links as always! Thank you! > Regarding the story about Yale changing their intro to art history > course, it makes sense to me. Yes I think this is a good thing for much the same reasons you give. Putting my "They Live" glasses on for a moment, it's interesting to me that such a key site of the social reproduction of American hegemony feels that it must change what art means to that culture in order to satisfy the needs of its ruling- and administrative- class consumers. Or to put it another way: "Art means different things to different cultures", yes, go on... ;-) > I wonder if the Sadie Plant link on technology (art and science) as > weaving might corroborate that those are mapped to ML's garment via the > bridge, rivers, cognitive-historical cycles, etc.? According to some > traditions clothing was literally the first technology. 🙂 Plant's work is long overdue a wider rediscovery, and I think you identify a great link here. Plant discusses the Mona Lisa (and of course William Gibson's "Mona Lisa Overdrive" given the era) in "Zeros and Ones". - Rob. publickey - rob@robmyers.org.asc.pgp Description: application/pgp-key signature.asc Description: OpenPGP digital signature ___ NetBehaviour mailing list NetBehaviour@lists.netbehaviour.org https://lists.netbehaviour.org/mailman/listinfo/netbehaviour
Re: [NetBehaviour] Links
Conversation-worthy links as always! Regarding the story about Yale changing their intro to art history course, it makes sense to me. There's just no substance left for defending this particular version of flat-earth cosmology, so why bother? Even on its own terms it is dismantling itself and was never meant to become what we've made it into. In fact, what we've made it into by teaching it the way we have, rendering it almost useless by forcing it to do what it was never meant to do, has already been tantamount to abolishing it! Art history was always meant to be about networks and time but in our myopia we've manufactured it into a lot of marketing gobbledygook. Frankly I think it is long overdue for the academic liberal arts at the intro levels to reframe themselves in the context of Network Studies -- network biology, systems chemistry, network neuroscience, art, philosophy, psychology, physics, economics, computer science, every field. Far from undermining or eroding individual experience, identity, and contribution, these interconnective phenomena exponentially increase individuality in a fine fabric of mutually reinforcing guarantees. One example of the Yale dilemma is the Mona Lisa. Just look at the inane way it is currently used to funnel massive tourist traffic. Does this help in any way conceivable to distribute the painting's aesthetic or informational content? To the contrary. It makes much more sense on every level, in terms of every discipline implied by the painting or related to it, what Leonardo meant by it and how it can still matter, and in terms of its immediate visual impact, if you view it in context with dancing Shiva and various henges, the I Ching, Adinkra symbols, etc. The original meaning of the Mona Lisa was to bring in diversity, immediate experience, and the great fabric of art, science, and nature, because prescriptive orthodoxy is stagnant and medically unsound. Why not let the painting continue its work? The value of things is never meant to be exclusive -- that is overspecialization in evolutionary terms -- synergy and symbiosis are always vastly more resilient. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shiva#/media/File:Shiva_as_the_Lord_of_Dance_LACMA_edit.jpg https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mona_Lisa#/media/File:Mona_Lisa,_by_Leonardo_da_Vinci,_from_C2RMF_retouched.jpg https://www.history.com/topics/british-history/stonehenge https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Medicine_wheel#/media/File:MedicineWheel.jpg https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aztec_sun_stone#/media/File:Piedra_del_Sol_en_MNA.jpg https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Adinkra_symbols#/media/File:Adinkra_Rattray.JPG https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/I_Ching#/media/File:Diagram_of_I_Ching_hexagrams_owned_by_Gottfried_Wilhelm_Leibniz,_1701.jpg I wonder if the Sadie Plant link on technology (art and science) as weaving might corroborate that those are mapped to ML's garment via the bridge, rivers, cognitive-historical cycles, etc.? According to some traditions clothing was literally the first technology. 🙂 From: NetBehaviour on behalf of Rob Myers Sent: Monday, March 9, 2020 2:18 PM To: NetBehaviour for networked distributed creativity Subject: [NetBehaviour] Links "Did Duchamp really steal Elsa’s urinal?" - https://www.theartnewspaper.com/comment/letter-to-the-editor-or-did-duchamp-really-steal-elsa-s-urinal "The missing third client: how artists are exploring radical economies" - https://www.opendemocracy.net/en/oureconomy/missing-third-client-how-artists-are-exploring-radical-economies/ "In “Recoding CripTech,” Artists Highlight the Vital Role of Hacking in Disability Culture" - https://www.artnews.com/art-in-america/aia-reviews/recoding-criptech-hacking-disability-sara-hendren-1202678282/ "A Lost Cyber Utopia: What Happened to the Soviet Internet?" - https://strelkamag.com/en/article/what-happened-to-the-soviet-internet "Deaf VRChat players are inventing their own sign language" - https://www.gamerevolution.com/news/617632-deaf-vrchat-players-asl-sign-language-index-vr "How Explaining Copyright Broke the YouTube Copyright System" - https://www.law.nyu.edu/centers/engelberg/news/2020-03-04-youtube-takedown "Can someone copyright every possible melody?" - https://www.technollama.co.uk/can-someone-copyright-every-possible-melody Solving the Yeezy problem with tokens - https://www.ourzora.com/introducing-zora More complex "crypto art" - https://async.art/#how-does-it-work Tokenized poetry - https://www.reddit.com/r/ethereum/comments/f60o1z/nonfungible_poems_erc721_poetry_tokens_created_on/ "Why street art in Miami is being tokenized on Bitcoin" - https://decrypt.co/19453/why-street-art-in-miami-is-being-tokenized-on-bitcoin "Is art history becoming too woke?" - https://www.theartnewspaper.com/news/art-history-has-never-been-morally-appropriate-nor-should-it-be "The Age of Instagram Face" - https://www.newyorker.com/cultur
[NetBehaviour] Links
"Did Duchamp really steal Elsa’s urinal?" - https://www.theartnewspaper.com/comment/letter-to-the-editor-or-did-duchamp-really-steal-elsa-s-urinal "The missing third client: how artists are exploring radical economies" - https://www.opendemocracy.net/en/oureconomy/missing-third-client-how-artists-are-exploring-radical-economies/ "In “Recoding CripTech,” Artists Highlight the Vital Role of Hacking in Disability Culture" - https://www.artnews.com/art-in-america/aia-reviews/recoding-criptech-hacking-disability-sara-hendren-1202678282/ "A Lost Cyber Utopia: What Happened to the Soviet Internet?" - https://strelkamag.com/en/article/what-happened-to-the-soviet-internet "Deaf VRChat players are inventing their own sign language" - https://www.gamerevolution.com/news/617632-deaf-vrchat-players-asl-sign-language-index-vr "How Explaining Copyright Broke the YouTube Copyright System" - https://www.law.nyu.edu/centers/engelberg/news/2020-03-04-youtube-takedown "Can someone copyright every possible melody?" - https://www.technollama.co.uk/can-someone-copyright-every-possible-melody Solving the Yeezy problem with tokens - https://www.ourzora.com/introducing-zora More complex "crypto art" - https://async.art/#how-does-it-work Tokenized poetry - https://www.reddit.com/r/ethereum/comments/f60o1z/nonfungible_poems_erc721_poetry_tokens_created_on/ "Why street art in Miami is being tokenized on Bitcoin" - https://decrypt.co/19453/why-street-art-in-miami-is-being-tokenized-on-bitcoin "Is art history becoming too woke?" - https://www.theartnewspaper.com/news/art-history-has-never-been-morally-appropriate-nor-should-it-be "The Age of Instagram Face" - https://www.newyorker.com/culture/decade-in-review/the-age-of-instagram-face "On Sadie Plant's Weaving Methodology" - https://necrosystems.org/plant_weaving_method/ "Landmark Computer Science Proof Cascades Through Physics and Math" - https://www.quantamagazine.org/landmark-computer-science-proof-cascades-through-physics-and-math-20200304/ "The Crop Software Behind Your Daily Cup of Coffee" - https://www.bloomberg.com/news/features/2020-02-20/crop-app-cropster-wants-to-save-coffee-and-the-global-food-supply "To actually feel authentic, you might have to betray your true nature" - https://blogs.scientificamerican.com/observations/the-inconvenient-truth-about-your-authentic-self/ "How to make money on digital art" - https://bankless.substack.com/p/how-to-make-money-on-digital-art Mortgages for virtual property - https://land.rocketnifty.com/ "Devil’s Dictionary of Programming" - https://programmingisterrible.com/post/65781074112/devils-dictionary-of-programming publickey - rob@robmyers.org.asc.pgp Description: application/pgp-key signature.asc Description: OpenPGP digital signature ___ NetBehaviour mailing list NetBehaviour@lists.netbehaviour.org https://lists.netbehaviour.org/mailman/listinfo/netbehaviour
[NetBehaviour] Bumper Edition of Citizen sci-fi at Furtherfield - events and exhibition, 2020
Bumper Edition of Citizen sci-fi at Furtherfield - events and exhibition, 2020 Coming up in the next couple of weeks we have a number of events and an exhibition as part of Furtherfield’s three-year Citizen Sci-Fi programme, crowdsourcing creative and technological visions of our communities and public spaces, together. 2020 is the year of Love Machines, nurturing living and machine systems for mutual care and respect on earth and beyond. 1. The Treaty of Finsbury Park 2025 Drop-in Session Please join us to help make and play a game for multispecies cooperation. How do we collectively care for Finsbury Park? Which people and which creatures? What part would you like to play? This Summer, we invite you to join us at Furtherfield to explore these questions. Together we will make and play a game with various characters, imagining Finsbury Park in 2025 as the place where a global multispecies revolution begins – and changes the world forever. Come and meet the game designers Cade and Ruth, and each other, at Furtherfield Commons for food, drink and a chat 17:00 – 18.30, Sunday, 8 March, or 11:00 – 17:00, Monday, 9 March. https://cutt.ly/qtru3Fy 2. Cassie Thornton presents The Hologram: Collective Health as a “Beautiful Art Work” A series of talks from the Love Machines seasonArtist Cassie Thornton, of the Feminist Economics Department (the FED), will discuss The Hologram, a mythoreal collective peer-to-peer health project currently incubating at Furtherfield Gallery in London. The Hologram, based on the understanding that all our crises are connected and everyone is a little sick, is a viral four-person health monitoring and diagnostic system practiced from couches all over the world. https://t.co/r7YQM5tELo?amp=1 10 March 2020, Tues 18 March 2020, Weds 13:30 – 17:00 Booking Required (visit link above) Venue: Furtherfield Commons. Finsbury Park. London, UK 3. TransLocal Cooperation Exhbition Furtherfield Gallery, London. This exhibition and the works within it consider how we might organise for care across distances and differences with and for our translocal communities. It features a selection of artworks from those created by Turkish, Greek, Serbian and British artists during art and technology residences at the creative hubs ATÖLYE in Turkey, Bios in Greece, and Nova Iskra in Serbia. https://buff.ly/32LpyXL Opening Event. Booking Essential. Thur, 12 Mar, 18:00 – 20:00 13 March – 19 April. Thur – Sun, 12:00 – 18:00, or by apt. 4. Join the Fictional Focus Group. Come play with us! LARP event. We're looking for participants for a focus group research that is also a game, a collaboration between Furtherfield, DECAL, and @uclHelp us explore data transparency and consumer ethics. https://buff.ly/2SWjneG There are two sessions available: 16 and 17 March 2020 13.30 – 16.30 Booking Required (visit link above) Venue: Furtherfield Commons. Finsbury Park. London, UK ___ NetBehaviour mailing list NetBehaviour@lists.netbehaviour.org https://lists.netbehaviour.org/mailman/listinfo/netbehaviour
[NetBehaviour] Last email posts & spam
Hi all, I'm going to re-post a couple of emails on the list due to others on this list informing me that my proton mail email account tends to end up in their spam folders, especially if they're using google email accounts. Not all though... Anyway, sorry for the re-posting & wishing you all well. Marc --- Marc Garrett Co-founder & Artistic director of Furtherfield & DECAL Decentralised Arts Lab Furtherfield disrupts & democratises art and technology through exhibitions, labs & debate, for deep exploration, open tools & free thinking. http://www.furtherfield.org DECAL Decentralised Arts Lab is an arts, blockchain & web 3.0 technologies research hub for fairer, more dynamic & connected cultural ecologies & economies now. http://decal.is/ Recent publications: State Machines: Reflections & Actions at the Edge of Digital Citizenship, Finance, & Art. Edited by Yiannis Colakides, Marc Garrett, Inte Gloerich. Institute of Network Cultures, Amsterdam 2019 http://bit.do/eQgg3 Artists Re:thinking the Blockchain. Eds, Ruth Catlow, Marc Garrett, Nathan Jones, & Sam Skinner. Liverpool Press - http://bit.ly/2x8XlMK ___ NetBehaviour mailing list NetBehaviour@lists.netbehaviour.org https://lists.netbehaviour.org/mailman/listinfo/netbehaviour
