[NetBehaviour] Hacking the Flu
Hacking the Flu http://www.alansondheim.org/alta045.jpg http://www.alansondheim.org/sara1.mp3 sarangi http://www.alansondheim.org/sara2.mp3 jogia sarangi http://www.alansondheim.org/sararevdyn1.mp3 reverse dynamics, sarangi I have a severe case of the flu, 101.5F temperature, hacking cough, dizziness, pain, exhaustion, chills, headaches, other assorted pains. This began about eight hours after we returned from New York (we left Saturday night after playing and drove straight to Providence). I've always been fascinated by the effects of dis/ease on daily activity (playing music, doing philosophy), so I gave the sarangis a try. At first they sounded - literally - wounded, then I settled in, mainly by adjusting the bass playing string. I'm terrible, but I'm not attempting to be anywhere near Ram Narayan; I want to use these for music pertaining to voice, time reversal, dynamics. I'm fully aware that sarangi is probably the most difficult of string instruments, and of course bleariness/dizziness wouldn't seem to help, although I do have the opportunity to sail uncharted seas. (It also helps that I've been reading de Quincey's Opium Eater, the earlier edition, which resonates somehow, much like the 35 or so resonating strings on the sarangi, or 7 on the jogia sarangi.) Meanwhile these pieces are part of a long line of work I've done, producing under physical illness or undue stress; there's a piece in my Disorders of the Real written while seemed like a serious illness, and the writing wraps accordingly - with the sarangis, perhaps, acchordingly. Then there is Queneau's Exercises in Style (in Barbara Wright's brilliant translation), as well as, at the other end of the spectrum, Fania Fenelon's dark Playing for Time. Somewhere my sounds drop through illness into the midst of texts, producing what you have here. Meanwhile, for whomever might be interested, there is the third sara/ngi piece, a model of the first with inverse dynamics. Enjoy. I am still alive. And culling: symptom, flu symptoms codeine medicine relieve woozy, work. occur less, can't get away from it. The result is those severe flu symptoms I've been with a flu or cold or something and had MSG to boot in what was a Fluid flu Julu Julu juLu Fluid Fluid Fluid Fluid flu Julu juLu Does the flu take over the fantasy, as chills begin. They are typical flu. To itself. The flu which consumes itself. Disappearing into the gruddly flu fro tho noodlo on my skull! hoodla hoodle hoodli hoodlo hoodlu degrees: I'm writing this - _with a slight fever_ - flu coming on: Reduce facilities as well of many cold and flu vaccines. of air we have rockets host cou ghgh ost sick bad flu turned bacterial infection think it might be the flu in any case you worked through the difference information born, bomb, flu epidemic hit, computers, net, ning, radio in any case, i've got a flu or 'the' flu Give me bird flu and/or give me death. Lacan said it was some matter species ears painful flu like speechu baby bounceu speeds endlessly states remarkably flu function signals misplacement react suffering 1961 [8;1H 2: flu sTreTcHeD flu carries work, Julu-body undermines sexuality, dies. These played during a minor flu relapse incident (fri) symptom, flu symptoms codeine medicine relieve woozy, work. occur less, nuddly nudd! :: aw gruddly gruddly flu fro tho noodlo on my gruddly gruddly flu fro tho noodlo on my pursuance of Jennifer's can't get away from it. The result is those severe flu symptoms I've sick still with a bad flu turned to bacterial infection so the in any case, i've got a flu or 'the' flu CMB interference run flux; fl ux; haotic flu x; surge, chao s; bomb, the flu epidemic hadn't yet hit, no computers, Net, no information flux; fl ux; haotic flu x; surge, chao s; host cou ghgh ost sick bad flu turned bacterial infection ___ NetBehaviour mailing list NetBehaviour@netbehaviour.org http://www.netbehaviour.org/mailman/listinfo/netbehaviour
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"No one really knows how the most advanced algorithms do what they do. That could be a problem." - https://www.technologyreview.com/s/604087/the-dark-secret-at-the-heart-of-ai/ "Models Beyond Understanding" - https://backchannel.com/our-machines-now-have-knowledge-well-never-understand-857a479dcc0e "QoW02 Laboria Cuboniks" - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_jkE4BAkFek "Accelerate Marx" - https://deterritorialinvestigations.wordpress.com/2017/03/07/accelerate-marx/ "Post capitalism system based on Ethereum" - https://www.reddit.com/r/ethereum/comments/6622j8/post_capitalism_system_based_on_ethereum/ "If a currency crashes, its Finiliar will get sick and eventually die." - https://news.artnet.com/exhibitions/arsenal-contemporary-new-york-ed-fornieles-finiliar-926966 Surveillance capitalism's new lure - https://developers.facebook.com/products/camera-effects/ar-studio/ Hipster AI theology - https://artplusmarketing.com/in-the-future-philosophers-will-be-gods-2361705f299d ___ NetBehaviour mailing list NetBehaviour@netbehaviour.org http://www.netbehaviour.org/mailman/listinfo/netbehaviour
Re: [NetBehaviour] 2 minutes or so from last night @ Greenwich House
I relate this to HVA and developers in general, shades of Mike Davis' City of Quartz. Thanks - On Mon, 17 Apr 2017, John Hopkins wrote: On 17/Apr/17 12:36, Alan Sondheim wrote: Argh... What was the reasoning? Long zoning story -- it wasn't inspected locally (built in Canada and shipped here), so couldn't be certified by local inspectors, so, not allowed to be connected to local utilities, and thus not able to use it for short term rentals. It was on AirBnB for two years, and was the most popular space in the area, but then someone in the neighborhood anonymously complained (it was completely out of sight on a 3-acre property on the side of a mountain! google @ 1960 Mount Zion Drive, Golden, CO), but the county people came and decided to prosecute... Argh! But now it's safely in a far less controlled area about 200 miles west into the Rocky Mountains... ANYWAY... jh -- ++ Dr. John Hopkins, BSc, MFA, PhD hanging on to the Laramide Orogeny twitter: @neoscenes http://tech-no-mad.net/blog/ ++ == new cd from Public Eyesore - LIMIT - http://www.publiceyesore.com/catalog.php?pg=3&pit=138 email archive http://sondheim.rupamsunyata.org/ web http://www.alansondheim.org / cell 718-813-3285 music: http://www.espdisk.com/alansondheim/ current text http://www.alansondheim.org/un.txt == ___ NetBehaviour mailing list NetBehaviour@netbehaviour.org http://www.netbehaviour.org/mailman/listinfo/netbehaviour
Re: [NetBehaviour] Digimag 75 / Spring Issue - Digital Identities, Self Narratives - International Call for Papers
Is this papers or abstracts? In February 2017, I began a project called The Horror of the Gaze, in which I used the Chinses selfie program Meitu to “cutify” nearly 100 artists, scholars and curators from around the world. These “Cute” versions of my community began to circulate, and questions of privacy, control of personal images, colonialism, and the politics of “whiteness” arose. In Our Aesthetic Categories, Sianne Ngai discusses the mediation of the “Zany” and “Cute” and “Interesting” as obfuscating affective issues of hypercommodification, colonialization, and stereotyping. Each obscures hidden agendas of objectification and hidden anger.As with the Japanese artist Takeshi Murakami whose smiling “Mr DOB” is a post-nuclear nationalistic reappropriation of Mickey Mouse, “cuteness” is often a scrim for other, darker agendas. In the case of Meitu, it is a double signifier for the Asian perception of paleness, and cuteness, which are distinctly different from the Western perceptions of the aesthetics used in the app (paleness, large, watering eyes, pronounced lips). It is important to consider the conflation of racial and cultural tropes in play by the use of these apps.How does one culture’s digital selfie filters map onto others?Gayatri Spivak, in the Translation Studies Reader, states that accuracy in translation requires affect for the subject, and do these modes of production have these qualities? Grusin and Bolter in their seminal book reMediation, describe the agendas that are imposed by passing through the computer. And lastly, if McLuhan’s adage of the medium being the message is true, what can we ascertain is being said by Meitu remediations of cultural identity? In this talk, I wish to deconstruct the affect of cuteness in the augmentation of selfie apps for cell phones like Meitu (China) and Snapchat (USA).Examples under consideration will include notable augmented Snapchat selfies, and my project, Horror of the Gaze, which includes nearly 100 New Media art celebrities, detournements of famous despots and remediations of glamour models to test aesthetic amplification. Also, if implemented, I will discuss the installation of “Make Karachi Cute Again”, a Facebook-based installation in which I will ask members of the Karachi community to submit their portraits for “cutification” by Chinese workers using the Meitu app and placing it back online.What is most interesting in all these cases is the remapping of affect through these transformation and their amplification or draining of meaning. ___ NetBehaviour mailing list NetBehaviour@netbehaviour.org http://www.netbehaviour.org/mailman/listinfo/netbehaviour
[NetBehaviour] Digimag 75 / Spring Issue - Digital Identities, Self Narratives - International Call for Papers
Digimag 75 / Spring Issue Digital Identities, Self Narratives International Call for Papers Deadline: 7 May 2017 Identity is becoming a fluid concept, encompassing different domains of the self. How are identities affected by technology and digital tools? What is the role of art in shaping this notion? The Digimag Journal is back with a new international call for papers from its independent publishing house Digicult Editions. This is the second call after the official launch the last beginning of March, we are waiting for your contributions http://www.digicult.it/digimag-journal/ One of the most interesting aspects of our relationship with technology is the way we relate to other people and create new identity narratives through it. Internet, social networks and p2p tools have amplified this phenomenon, enabling the ramification of larger networks built around individuals. As a consequence, personal narratives are linked to virtual (and real) dimensions of social, economic and artistic fields. Digital identity becomes, therefore, the individual unit of a larger digital culture environment. This subject has been widely studied in Streaming Egos, the pioneering international project by Goethe Institut (http://blog.goethe.de/ streamingegos/) which involved five different European countries through the production of an online platform, some critical texts, a convention, commissioned artworks and a final catalogue. The aim of the project was to study how Internet, social networks and, more in general, technologies are modelling the way we relate to others and to the external world, both conceived not simply as biological systems, but also as virtual entities telling their own stories. “Who am I?” is a primordial existential question, with different connotations depending on the context (social, political or cultural). “Who do I want (or: do I have) to be?” is questioning the very basis of economy, ethics, theology and politics, especially in its collective meaning “Who are we?” The act of transforming and reinventing the concept of ourselves and, consequently, the idea of community is at the very basis of identity explorations in the digital era. Identity becomes a fluid concept, encompassing different domains of the self. How are identities affected by technology and digital tools? What is the role of art in shaping this notion? When interacting with other people on the Net, individuals reflect more and more on themselves, carefully choosing contents (whether personal or not) to be shared (and seen by others). This leads to a self-discourse redefining the notions of identity, repetition and difference. The call includes, but is not limited to, the following themes: - Technology and Existence (Artificial Intelligence, Virtual Reality, Augmented Reality, Bio-engineering, Robotics...) - Posthumanism / Post-Anthropocentrism / Identity and the Anthropocene - Queer identities / Feminisms - Transpecies Narratives and the Animal - Surveillance Culture / Collective Identity / Communities and Networks - Transnational Narratives / Race and Migration - Technical Details With this call Digicult addresses research contributions on the mentioned topic, especially from individuals active in the artistic and academic fields (curators, critics, hackers, fabbers, creative producers, lab managers, activists, designers, theorists, independent and academic writers, scholars, artists, etc.) An abstract of 200 words and a full text of max 5000 words, as well as interviews (1000 to 2000 words), event and book reviews, should be sent to: jour...@digicult.it a) Deadline for submission of full article for consideration: 7 May 2017 b) 5 to 10 images at 72 dpi resolution, 700 pixels width c) Correct captions for images d) Please, follow the guidelines If you wish to send us inquiries and proposals on a special topic to be featured in the next issues, please, contact jour...@digicult.it -- We look forward to hearing from you! Silvia Bertolotti, Marco Mancuso and the Digicult Editorial Board http://www.digicult.it ___ NetBehaviour mailing list NetBehaviour@netbehaviour.org http://www.netbehaviour.org/mailman/listinfo/netbehaviour
