[NetBehaviour] Undressing the Academy
New reworking of the tired old student handbook in more useful and illicit directions… Undressing the Academy, or The Student Handjob University of Strategic Optimism The weary student handbook genre is in need of a belligerent mauling. This is our crack at the job. We don’t want to talk down to anyone, but neither do we want to chat them up, so this is an attempt at thinking out the university from our own perspective, that of students. Here we air our dirty snapshot of the academy, at least semi-naked, just as we come across it. This potted guide is our pot shot at undressing and dressing down this place, the university, and understanding our place within it: its problems and potential, its power-relations and its possibilities for politicisation. It is not an outpouring of theories, more stories – a collection of experiences and practical tips, observations, suggestions and clues – a thinking (and occasional fantasizing) out loud. This is our attempt to share some of the knowledge to be gleaned in the university, but a knowledge that is rarely measured on any certificate come graduation day. Written collectively by the University for Strategic Optimism, in the queasy come-down afterglow of the recent wave of student activism in the UK (but looking forward to cracking-off another round), this guide attempts to contextualise our struggle and to bring it closer to home. Just what is the university that we are fighting for anyway? And what perhaps could it be? The University for Strategic Optimism is a nomadic university with a transitory campus, based on the principle of free and open education, a return of politics to the public, and the politicisation of public space. To date, the UfSO has operated as a framework for the collective production of political activity, as a space for study, discussion and collective writing, as well as delivering a course of performative lecture interventions in public spaces ranging from banks to supermarkets. PDF available freely online: (http://www.minorcompositions.info/?p=272), discounts for ordering multiple copies. Minor Compositions is a series of interventions provocations drawing from autonomous politics, avant-garde aesthetics, and the revolutions of everyday life. Minor Compositions is an imprint of Autonomedia www.minorcompositions.info | minorcompositi...@gmail.com ___ NetBehaviour mailing list NetBehaviour@netbehaviour.org http://www.netbehaviour.org/mailman/listinfo/netbehaviour
[NetBehaviour] Appsterdam Weekend-Long Party [4, 5 6 November - Amsterdam] RSVP to the meet-up pages
You might be wondering how Appsterdam, the movement to establish the world capital of App Makers in the Dutch capital of Amsterdam, is going. Given the world-class, weekend-long, city-wide party planned to answer that question, signs point to pretty good. The weekend-long party will not only serve to report on the progress of the movement and its future direction, but with a carefully selected stable of speakers and venues, will feature a veritable who's who and where's where of the booming local tech scene. As App Makers arrive in the city or close out their work week on Friday, they'll gather at Cafe Bax in Amsterdam's up-and-coming Old West neighborhood for Meeten en Drinken. This weekly gathering (usually 19:00 on Wednesdays) brings together engineers, designers, business people, marketeers, and others to talk about apps and the craft of making them. This time around the drinks are being paid for by Microsoft, Appsterdam COO and party chair Klaas Speller said. So this is not only your chance to meet App Makers, it's your chance to have a drink on the Empire. On Saturday Appsterdam's Founder and Mayor Mike Lee will once again take the stage with a stable of special guests to deliver an inspirational keynote. This weekend's keynote will be at one of Amsterdam's cherished landmark tech venues, Pakhuis de Zwijger. The 90-minute address will feature the world premier of the space pirate movie, a 10-minute short film produced by Appsterdam's film department. The director's cut was a cult hit at some tech conferences this summer. Mayor Lee, who wrote and stars in the film, describes it as a fictionalized account of the founding of Appsterdam. We have to call it fictionalized because 'farcicalized' isn't a word, said Lee. I cannot overstate how ridiculous this movie is. The keynote and screening will be the featured events of the Appsterdam 2 Launch Party, with venue, drinks, and snacks provided by sponsors Sogeti and IceMobile. While a networking event in its own right, the limited space and high profile promises to make it a spectacle. I can say without reservation that if you miss this weekend’s Appsterdam 2 Launch Party Weekend, you’re missing the nerd party of the year, Mayor Lee wrote on his blog, http://mur.mu.rs/. The original Appsterdam Launch Party Weekend rather famously featured guided tours of the city. This weekend's launch party was specifically planned around Museumnacht, the first Saturday in November, the only night when Amsterdam's famed museums stay open, turning the city into one of the biggest multi-venue, multi-genre nerd parties in the world. In addition to Museumnacht, there are any number of ways for App Makers to entertain themselves in Amsterdam, not the least of which is the Amsterdam Film Week, which has donated tickets for App Makers in the city this weekend. If that all sounds like something fun for people of all ages, it should be. The Appsterdam 2 Launch Party Weekend, like the entire Appsterdam movement, aims to promote family-friendly Amsterdam as the best place in the world for technologists and their families. As Chief Community Officer Judy Chen explains, You might choose not to bring the kids to the bar on Friday, but you'll definitely want to bring them, and something to share, to the potluck brunch at Boven de Balie on Sunday, as App Makers and their families get together like we do every other weekend. Just as the architecture of the Boven de Balie illustrates the past-meets-future ethos that makes Amsterdam unique, Appsterdam Family Weekends illustrate the key difference between Appsterdam and Silicon Valley. While the Valley and its many imitators focus on startups and venture capital, Appsterdam's founders take a holistic approach. There's no one key to the 'Hollywood of Apps,' Mayor Lee explains. It's an ecosystem, made of many interconnected parts. Appsterdam isn't another Valley, it's an alternative to the Valley and the materialistic lifestyle. Appsterdam is about friends and families, community and cooperation, technology and tolerance. People interested in apps and the people who make them can learn more about the worldwide Appsterdam movement by visiting the Appsterdammers at http://appsterdam.rs/ or by visiting the event-specific meetup sites. For the weekend-long party plz RSVP to the meet-ups below: Appsterdam Meeten en Drinken, sponsored by Microsoft Fri., Nov. 4, 19:00 at Cafe Bax, Ten Katestraat 119 http://meetup.com/Appsterdam/events/36497642/ Appsterdam Keynote Launch Party, sponsored by Sogeti and IceMobile Sat., Nov. 5, 14:00 at Pakhuis de Zwijger, Piet Heinkade 179 http://meetup.com/Appsterdam/events/36497712/ Museumnacht Sat., Nov. 5, 19:00 at various Amsterdam museums http://n8.nl/ Appsterdam Family Potluck Brunch, sponsored by Boven de Balie Sun., Nov. 6, 12:30 at Boven de Balie, Kleine Gartmanplantsoen 10 http://meetup.com/Appsterdam/events/36497732/ Amsterdam Film Week,
[NetBehaviour] CONFERENCES | Share Festival | Cops Robbers
SPOTLIGHT ON... CONFERENCES Dear Friends, (sorry for any cross-posting) here's a sneak preview of the conference programme, which will be bringing together leading international artists, designer, thinkers and storytellers. Giorgio Scianca Architects' BOOK: Fictional architects in cinema Friday 4th November - 5.00 pm – Regional Museum of Natural Science Scianca has created the biggest database ever of movie clips focused on architecture and the figure of the architect—starting from the consideration that one hundred years of cinema as a global medium means one hundred years of the architect as a modern figure. Steve Kurtz Art Discipline Friday 4th November - 6.00 pm - Regional Museum of Natural Science Steve Kurtz is a founder of the Critical Art Ensemble. Renowned internationally for its scientific critique and counter-information activities, this historic American group is a collective of artists and scientists focused on the exploration of the intersections of art, biotechnology and activism, through performances, live experiments and non-violent sabotage. Steve Kurtz, wrongly arrested for bioterrorism in the United States in 2004, has become a symbol of political art activism. In partnership with the Parco d'Arte Vivente. Joseph Grima | Enzo Lavolta | Simone Arcagni | Moderated by Simona Lodi Architecture, Communications New Media Sunday 6th November - 4.00 pm - Regional Museum of Natural Science The Internet, participation, urban screens and media-architecture are transforming the town into an informational city and media city. A debate on how architecture and urban planning are changing approach and seeking new models in design, planning and construction. Social networks, wi-fi spots, urban screens, portable media, locative media... the contemporary metropolis is criss-crossed with interconnected communication flows. With all this actively mapped, the citizen is a user able to observe and participate, but also a user that is observed at the same time. Bruce Sterling From Net.Art to Tech Art, and what comes next Sunday 6th November - 6.00 pm - Regional Museum of Natural Science The best way to understand the future is to look twice as far into the past. Fifteen years ago, net.art was created to name a distinctly new form of art that used the Internet as its creative platform. Nowadays half the world's population is on the World Wide Web, and people have begun to speak of the Legacy Internet as an old-fashioned business. The novelty of the Internet as an art platform has gone away. New net-based institutions have sprung up: crowdsourcing, Processing software, Arduino controller boards, fabricators, and a maker-culture that shares its algorithms. What is likely to happen in the next seven years? For information on all the conferences, see the programme on-line Greetings, Simona www.toshare.it -- Simona Lodi art director Cops Robbers | Share Festival 7th ed. art in digital culture 2/13 November 2011 Museo Regionale di Scienze Naturali Torino - IT www.toshare.it SMIR Sant'Evasio Multimedia Center European Project Alcotra Mondovi - Embrun The Sharing Via Rossini 3 - 10124 Torino (IT) phone: 0039.011.588.36.93 skype: simona.share.festival ___ NetBehaviour mailing list NetBehaviour@netbehaviour.org http://www.netbehaviour.org/mailman/listinfo/netbehaviour
[NetBehaviour] distractions
distractions http://www.alansondheim.org/distractions.mp3 (oud) a repeated song or figure, while i am being distracted by images and issues of muscle tone, my mind tend towards continuous repair and corralling the figures that are produced in this piece, repeatedly, that is to say, with variations, or losing track, backing up, so that this is THE MIND AT WORK and quite possibly as a result the best piece of music/soundwork i have produced, one in which the MIND'S HEART itself is audible, the working through the fantastic, circumlocutions, working through THOUGHT ITSELF which is negated, not allowed to proceed, that is REFUSED PROCEDURE, as if i could allow myself, give myself permission towards or encompassing NO-MIND, which is unavailable, but the beauty of this is, you are a WITNESS TO ME as you have never been before, and along with this, a WITNESS TO ALL HUMANITY as we reach the uncanny sum of SEVEN BILLION, A SPECIES IN VIOLENT AND DISASTROUS BLOOM broken poem 8c8 continuous repair and corralling the figures that are --- continuous repair and corraling the figures that are 19c19 WITNESS TO ME as you have never been before, and along --- WITNESSS TO ME as you have never been before, and along 22c22 DISASTROUS BLOOM --- DISASTROUS BLOOM ___ NetBehaviour mailing list NetBehaviour@netbehaviour.org http://www.netbehaviour.org/mailman/listinfo/netbehaviour
[NetBehaviour] Premonition of Change
Premonition of Change http://youtu.be/fZ_N4ctFcI0 ~Anthony Stephenson 2011 ___ NetBehaviour mailing list NetBehaviour@netbehaviour.org http://www.netbehaviour.org/mailman/listinfo/netbehaviour
[NetBehaviour] Why Models Are Always Wrong
As a child I could never work out what a + b = c meant. I mean what should a and b and c *be*? Of course the answer is that they have any number of possible values. That's the power of equations. But when you are trying to fit equations to reality, it can be a problem: http://www.scientificamerican.com/article.cfm?id=finance-why-economic-models-are-always-wrong Even if you have a perfect economic model with perfect data, calibrating the model doesn't have a single answer. So even in a perfect world, economic models can and will give incorrect answers. Bear in mind that both the financialized, high-frequency-trading, casino capitalism side of the economy and the government-management-of-the-economy side are based on ever more complex models. And I think there's a more general problem that this illustrates. Presumably it's not just economics but philosophy, politics, theology, aesthetics, any kind of quantitative model of reality will suffer from this problem. Which is a scary thought. - Rob. ___ NetBehaviour mailing list NetBehaviour@netbehaviour.org http://www.netbehaviour.org/mailman/listinfo/netbehaviour
Re: [NetBehaviour] Why Models Are Always Wrong
...yes...scary...MANIK...OCTOBER...2011... - Original Message - From: Rob Myers r...@robmyers.org To: netBehaviour for networked distributed creativity netbehaviour@netbehaviour.org Sent: Monday, October 31, 2011 9:18 PM Subject: [NetBehaviour] Why Models Are Always Wrong As a child I could never work out what a + b = c meant. I mean what should a and b and c *be*? Of course the answer is that they have any number of possible values. That's the power of equations. But when you are trying to fit equations to reality, it can be a problem: http://www.scientificamerican.com/article.cfm?id=finance-why-economic-models-are-always-wrong Even if you have a perfect economic model with perfect data, calibrating the model doesn't have a single answer. So even in a perfect world, economic models can and will give incorrect answers. Bear in mind that both the financialized, high-frequency-trading, casino capitalism side of the economy and the government-management-of-the-economy side are based on ever more complex models. And I think there's a more general problem that this illustrates. Presumably it's not just economics but philosophy, politics, theology, aesthetics, any kind of quantitative model of reality will suffer from this problem. Which is a scary thought. - Rob. ___ NetBehaviour mailing list NetBehaviour@netbehaviour.org http://www.netbehaviour.org/mailman/listinfo/netbehaviour ___ NetBehaviour mailing list NetBehaviour@netbehaviour.org http://www.netbehaviour.org/mailman/listinfo/netbehaviour
Re: [NetBehaviour] Why Models Are Always Wrong
On 31/10/11 22:46, manik wrote: ...yes...scary...MANIK...OCTOBER...2011... Happy Halloween! ;-) - Rob. ___ NetBehaviour mailing list NetBehaviour@netbehaviour.org http://www.netbehaviour.org/mailman/listinfo/netbehaviour
[NetBehaviour] Happy OWS Halloween!
Trick or Treat.. Happy OWS Halloweeen! http://www.mutanteggplant.com/vitro-nasu/2011/10/30/happy-ows-halloween-2011/ Bat chair here. (last year). http://www.mutanteggplant.com/vitro-nasu/2010/10/29/happy-halloween-2010/ Fung Lin Hall ___ NetBehaviour mailing list NetBehaviour@netbehaviour.org http://www.netbehaviour.org/mailman/listinfo/netbehaviour
Re: [NetBehaviour] Why Models Are Always Wrong
...THANKS...but...whisch one/?/...we're stuck in one eternal Halloween with hyper-real witch;))...MANIK...NOVEMBER...2011... - Original Message - From: Rob Myers r...@robmyers.org To: netbehaviour@netbehaviour.org Sent: Monday, October 31, 2011 11:49 PM Subject: Re: [NetBehaviour] Why Models Are Always Wrong On 31/10/11 22:46, manik wrote: ...yes...scary...MANIK...OCTOBER...2011... Happy Halloween! ;-) - Rob. ___ NetBehaviour mailing list NetBehaviour@netbehaviour.org http://www.netbehaviour.org/mailman/listinfo/netbehaviour ___ NetBehaviour mailing list NetBehaviour@netbehaviour.org http://www.netbehaviour.org/mailman/listinfo/netbehaviour
[NetBehaviour] 3d julu printer
eyebeam: http://eyebeam.org/blogs/alansondheim/ 3d julu printer http://www.alansondheim.org/juluprint1.jpg julu model http://www.alansondheim.org/juluprint2.jpg http://www.alansondheim.org/juluprint3.jpg http://www.alansondheim.org/juluprint4.jpg http://www.alansondheim.org/juluprint5.jpg http://www.alansondheim.org/juluprint6.jpg http://www.alansondheim.org/juluprint7.jpg http://www.alansondheim.org/printer.mp3 printer radiation http://www.alansondheim.org/printerb.mp3 printer radiation filtered difficult to image the julu model ___ NetBehaviour mailing list NetBehaviour@netbehaviour.org http://www.netbehaviour.org/mailman/listinfo/netbehaviour
