Re: [NetBehaviour] I hate blockchain plantoids by O’Khaos - that's probably why they are great

2017-09-28 Thread Alan Sondheim 


It depends, doesn't it, on what is meant by 'infallible'? They're 
corruptible in terms of value and in terms of use; it's the old 
use/exchange value conundrums here. They're corruptible because they're 
not ideal; a prime number isn't corruptible, but protocols are. What if a 
"distortive intervention" comes in the form of nuclear war?


You're postulating an ideality somewhere between engineering and Godel's 
neo-platonism I think and I'm not sure that position would hold. These 
models exist in a real world of interactions after all.


How are we freed from deceit and usury when blockchains are used for 
ransomware payments? There's a difference as well between the "meant to" 
in terms of usage of blockchain, and the reality?


The anthropocene desert you describe is brutal in my opinion, allied to 
Kristeva's clean and proper body; without ecosystems in depth, without the 
dirt of the world, the cleansed future (or so I read it) frightens.


Did you mean Labanotation? That's a good example; the interstice between 
Labanotation and the real/grit world of dance is fascinating, amazing!


I'm the first to admit here I don't really know what I'm talking about 
since the details of blockchain elude me, as do the claims made for it. 
That side, I've been reading what I can; I just don't hold to the utopian 
vision that seems to accompany it.


Best!, Alan, and apologies for my ignorance

On Thu, 28 Sep 2017, Rob Myers wrote:


Entities of code and rules are incorruptible and infallible (so it
is said), they are not subject to distortive interventions by
debased human institutions. They have no soul, it is true, but
they also do not weigh on ours. They are Spirographs, not
Stormbringer.

The blockchain's metronymic, reified, transactional model of human
relations is meant to free us from deceit and usury. We are
already homeostats in socioeconomic networks whose restrictions we
notice about as much as a fish notices water. Code at least makes
this explicit.

Plantoid is a way of paying for the creation and exhibition of art
- a difficult and worthwhile problem - in a creative way. If it is
too successful it will end up as the economic-aesthetic equivalent
of grey goo. The anthropocene desert will be filled not with
triffids but with plantoids and the artisans hired by their code
to create their offspring. Maybe these offspring will mutate into
relational artworks that choreograph decorative humanity into
their schemes, multitudes that dance and sway in time to
Lananotation representations of block hashes while wishing that
they hadn't opposed UBI quite so vehemently.

Or perhaps plantoids are simply oases in the contemporary desert
of the real, depicting something of the moment we find ourselves
in between financial crises.

Some of the real plants are in Terra0...

On Thu, 28 Sep 2017, at 12:28 PM, Edward Picot wrote:

  Annie,

  I love this response! - and I think you've really
  latched onto something here. 'Being made of code and
  rules is not the same as having a soul... Plantoid
  seems to be conservative, reinforcing the
  characteristics it started with...' There's a real
  sense of claustrophobia and frustration about some of
  the Blockchain-based artworks, unquestionably
  brilliant though they are, in that although they seem
  to be offering a commentary on the shortcomings and
  limitations of the Blockchain, they seem at the same
  time to be binding us to those shortcomings and
  limitations, freezing us into that world, suggesting
  that we are all going to be subject to this new
  version of reality and unable to escape from it. Yes,
  this stuff is creeping into every aspect of our
  culture. Yes, we are all going to be touched by it and
  influenced by it, directed by it, shaped by it, just
  as we are by capitalism, mass marketing and mass
  media. But no, it doesn't define us or completely
  contain us. We can still be human in spite of it. At
  least I hope we can: and I hope that along with
  Blockchain art and the like, we can still have an art
  that celebrates and explores the bits of existence
  that the Blockchain and the like can't comprehend.
  Beyond the plantoids there are still real plants.

  Edward


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Re: [NetBehaviour] I hate blockchain plantoids by O’Khaos - that's probably why they are great

2017-09-28 Thread Rob Myers 
Entities of code and rules are incorruptible and infallible (so it is
said), they are not subject to distortive interventions by debased human
institutions. They have no soul, it is true, but they also do not weigh
on ours. They are Spirographs, not Stormbringer.
The blockchain's metronymic, reified, transactional model of human
relations is meant to free us from deceit and usury. We are already
homeostats in socioeconomic networks whose restrictions we notice about
as much as a fish notices water. Code at least makes this explicit.
 Plantoid is a way of paying for the creation and exhibition of art - a
 difficult and worthwhile problem - in a creative way. If it is too
 successful it will end up as the economic-aesthetic equivalent of grey
 goo. The anthropocene desert will be filled not with triffids but with
 plantoids and the artisans hired by their code to create their
 offspring. Maybe these offspring will mutate into relational artworks
 that choreograph decorative humanity into their schemes, multitudes
 that dance and sway in time to Lananotation representations of block
 hashes while wishing that they hadn't opposed UBI quite so vehemently.
Or perhaps plantoids are simply oases in the contemporary desert of the
real, depicting something of the moment we find ourselves in between
financial crises.
Some of the real plants are in Terra0...

On Thu, 28 Sep 2017, at 12:28 PM, Edward Picot wrote:
> Annie,


> I love this response! - and I think you've really latched onto
> something here. '*Being made of code and rules is not the same as**
> having a soul... **Plantoid seems to be conservative, reinforcing the
> characteristics it** started with...' *There's a real sense of
> claustrophobia and frustration about some of the Blockchain-based
> artworks, unquestionably brilliant though they are, in that although
> they seem to be offering a commentary on the shortcomings and
> limitations of the Blockchain, they seem at the same time to be
> binding us to those shortcomings and limitations, freezing us into
> that world, suggesting that we are all going to be subject to this new
> version of reality and unable to escape from it. Yes, this stuff is
> creeping into every aspect of our culture. Yes, we are all going to be
> touched by it and influenced by it, directed by it, shaped by it, just
> as we are by capitalism, mass marketing and mass media. But no, it
> doesn't define us or completely contain us. We can still be human in
> spite of it. At least I hope we can: and I hope that along with
> Blockchain art and the like, we can still have an art that celebrates
> and explores the bits of existence that the Blockchain and the like
> can't comprehend. Beyond the plantoids there are still real plants.> Edward


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[NetBehaviour] Apologies and URL

2017-09-28 Thread Alan Sondheim 


http://eyebeam.org/stopwork/resource-for-teachers-library-of-collaborative-methods/

Bad karma sending this out, here's the resource URL -

Apologies again, Alan
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[NetBehaviour] Letter From The Residents

2017-09-28 Thread Alan Sondheim 

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Date: Thu, 28 Sep 2017 11:09:01
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resource for teachers | library of collaborative methods | by Eyebeam
residents Caroline Woolard and Or Zubalsky
















   A collaborative letter
 from the residents



   Re: September
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Resource for Teachers | Library Of

Collaborative Methods



Dear teachers and students of collaboration,


As residents at Eyebeam, Or Zubalsky and I have been
developing an open access library of collaborative methods. With
support from the New York Foundation for the Arts, today we are
launching The Study Center for Group Work.

 

We hope that teachers, art spaces, collectives, worker-owned
businesses, art classes, and working-groups will use this online
library of collaborative methods that have been recommended by
artists. These methods often embrace the unknown, encouraging
people to listen deeply enough to be transformed. We invite you
to learn about collaborative methods, to access teaching
resources, and to see the schedule for upcoming events and jobs
related to collaboration.

 

For example, here are some methods for:

 *

group functioning  (Asset Mapping) (Diagram Hacking)

 *

decision-making (Voting and Ranking)

 *

role clarification (Threeing) (Questions for Schematic Theater)

 *

healing and care (Support)

 *

shared leadership (Leadership Compass)

 *

communication (Intergroup Dialog)  (A Field Guide to Spatial
Intimacy) (Hand Signals)

 *

conflict resolution (Shark, Owl, Turtle, Teddy Bear, Fox)

 *

reflection (Three-Line Matrix) (Group Self-Assessment)

 *

analysis of images and systems (Project 404) (Mirror/Echo/Tilt)

 *

and speculative futures (Objects as Fictions, The Alternative
Unknowns)

 

The artists who have contributed to this resource include:
Leonard Nalencz, Shaun Leonardo, Robert Sember of Ultra-red,
Project 404, Sick Time with Canaries, Judith Leemann, Kenneth
Bailey and the Design Studio for Social Intervention, the
Extrapolation Factory, taisha paggett and Ashley Hunt, Jean
Gardner and the estate of Paul Ryan, Asha Iman Veal Brisebois
and Adelheid Mers, Christopher Robbins, Aaron Landsman, Cori
Olinghouse, Melanie Crean, and Chloe Bass, as well as curators
Danielle Jackson, who facilitated a retreat for the group
earlier this year, and Stamatina Gregory, who curated an
exhibition at Cooper Union in 2016 that led to this site. You
can see a video of that, here.

 

If most people have no experience of democracy at work, at home,
in school, or online, how can we learn to collaborate? How do we
develop a musculature of shared decision making and of shared
work?

 

A few years ago, we began to notice that many visual artists had
developed methods of listening and group work. Yet they did not
have a way to share their work with one another or with the
public. Just as dancers take classes throughout their lives,
more and more visual artists are committed to group work through
daily practice. We ran a pilot program that took the form of an
exhibition called WOUND: The Study Center for Group Work,
curated by Stamatina Gregory, at Cooper Union in 2016-2017. The
Center was written up in The New York Times, Art in America, and
Artforum; we knew it needed to continue. We are excited to share
this online library of collaborative methods, and to announce
that we will be working with Spaceworks at the New York Public
Library to provide trainings throughout the year.

 

Here is an upcoming workshop you can attend:

 

Saturday, September 30, 5:00PM

 

How can we support ourselves and each other? This workshop looks
at the ways in which we meet our needs for wellbeing in order to
dream, practice, and work on any project. Support extends beyond
the life of our projects, often shaping the ways in which we
navigate the contradictions of living and working on independent
projects. Join us for a ?brain massage? and mutual connection.

3-5pm at Spaceworks @ Williamsburgh Library, 240 Division Ave,
Fl 2 Brooklyn, NY RSVP

 

If democracy is an endless conversation, then The Study Center
for Group Work aims to cultivate behaviors that allow groups to
work together. To get in touch with us, or suggest a
collaborative method, please email us at
i...@woundstudycenter.com. To join the mailing list, please
enter your email here.

 

In cooperation,

 

Caroline Woolard and Or Zubalsky

[NetBehaviour] Letter From The Residents

2017-09-28 Thread Eyebeam 
resource for teachers | library of collaborative methods | by Eyebeam residents 
Caroline Woolard and Or Zubalsky

A collaborative letter
from the residents
Re: September
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** Resource for Teachers | Library Of

Collaborative Methods



**

Dear teachers and students of collaboration,



**
As residents at Eyebeam, Or Zubalsky and I have been developing an open access 
library of collaborative methods. With support from the New York Foundation for 
the Arts, today we are launching TheStudy Center for Group Work 
(http://eyebeam.us4.list-manage2.com/track/click?u=c72c271895f3f76b36105229c=37efb359ef=91de474aad)
 .




** We hope that teachers, art spaces, collectives, worker-owned businesses, art 
classes, and working-groups will use this online library of collaborative 
methods 
(http://eyebeam.us4.list-manage.com/track/click?u=c72c271895f3f76b36105229c=dd0560b267=91de474aad)
 that have been recommended by artists 
(http://eyebeam.us4.list-manage.com/track/click?u=c72c271895f3f76b36105229c=f5241ca913=91de474aad)
 . These methods often embrace the unknown, encouraging people to listen deeply 
enough to be transformed. We invite you to learn about collaborative methods, 
to access teaching resources 
(http://eyebeam.us4.list-manage.com/track/click?u=c72c271895f3f76b36105229c=57442dee1f=91de474aad)
 , and to see the schedule for upcoming events 
(http://eyebeam.us4.list-manage2.com/track/click?u=c72c271895f3f76b36105229c=6bc36ee4d7=91de474aad)
 and jobs 
(http://eyebeam.us4.list-manage1.com/track/click?u=c72c271895f3f76b36105229c=3fd3287a7f=91de474aad)
 related to collaboration.



**



** For example, here are some methods for:

*
** group functioning  (Asset Mapping 
(http://eyebeam.us4.list-manage1.com/track/click?u=c72c271895f3f76b36105229c=10dcf4dc91=91de474aad)
 ) (Diagram Hacking 
(http://eyebeam.us4.list-manage.com/track/click?u=c72c271895f3f76b36105229c=d603742d5a=91de474aad)
 )

*
** decision-making (Voting and Ranking 
(http://eyebeam.us4.list-manage.com/track/click?u=c72c271895f3f76b36105229c=f66c2b431b=91de474aad)
 )

*
** role clarification (Threeing 
(http://eyebeam.us4.list-manage.com/track/click?u=c72c271895f3f76b36105229c=cd9e2d168b=91de474aad)
 ) (Questions for Schematic Theater 
(http://eyebeam.us4.list-manage.com/track/click?u=c72c271895f3f76b36105229c=d2ee0160d2=91de474aad)
 )

*
** healing and care (Support 
(http://eyebeam.us4.list-manage.com/track/click?u=c72c271895f3f76b36105229c=7aa15b9c86=91de474aad)
 )

*
** shared leadership (Leadership Compass 
(http://eyebeam.us4.list-manage2.com/track/click?u=c72c271895f3f76b36105229c=2c02d3c0ba=91de474aad)
 )

*
** communication (Intergroup Dialog 
(http://eyebeam.us4.list-manage1.com/track/click?u=c72c271895f3f76b36105229c=db7d60a6bf=91de474aad)
 )  (A Field Guide to Spatial Intimacy 
(http://eyebeam.us4.list-manage.com/track/click?u=c72c271895f3f76b36105229c=db2c555380=91de474aad)
 ) (Hand Signals 
(http://eyebeam.us4.list-manage.com/track/click?u=c72c271895f3f76b36105229c=4a56aa6b7f=91de474aad)
 )

*
** conflict resolution (Shark, Owl, Turtle, Teddy Bear, Fox 
(http://eyebeam.us4.list-manage2.com/track/click?u=c72c271895f3f76b36105229c=192129f7e3=91de474aad)
 )

*
** reflection (Three-Line Matrix 
(http://eyebeam.us4.list-manage1.com/track/click?u=c72c271895f3f76b36105229c=96ca71a0dc=91de474aad)
 ) (Group Self-Assessment 
(http://eyebeam.us4.list-manage.com/track/click?u=c72c271895f3f76b36105229c=c7cb6b6b8c=91de474aad)
 )

*
** analysis of images and systems (Project 404 
(http://eyebeam.us4.list-manage.com/track/click?u=c72c271895f3f76b36105229c=c1e6c0545c=91de474aad)
 ) (Mirror/Echo/Tilt 
(http://eyebeam.us4.list-manage.com/track/click?u=c72c271895f3f76b36105229c=60baa6bbd9=91de474aad)
 )

*
** and speculative futures (Objects as Fictions 
(http://eyebeam.us4.list-manage.com/track/click?u=c72c271895f3f76b36105229c=c6049c2bac=91de474aad)
 , The Alternative Unknowns

[NetBehaviour] I hate blockchain plantoids by O’Khaos - that's probably why they are great

2017-09-28 Thread Edward Picot 

Annie,

I love this response! - and I think you've really latched onto something 
here. '/Being made of code and rules is not the same as//having a 
soul... //Plantoid seems to be conservative, reinforcing the 
characteristics it//started with...' /There's a real sense of 
claustrophobia and frustration about some of the Blockchain-based 
artworks, unquestionably brilliant though they are, in that although 
they seem to be offering a commentary on the shortcomings and 
limitations of the Blockchain, they seem at the same time to be binding 
us to those shortcomings and limitations, freezing us into that world, 
suggesting that we are all going to be subject to this new version of 
reality and unable to escape from it. Yes, this stuff is creeping into 
every aspect of our culture. Yes, we are all going to be touched by it 
and influenced by it, directed by it, shaped by it, just as we are by 
capitalism, mass marketing and mass media. But no, it doesn't define us 
or completely contain us. We can still be human in spite of it. At least 
I hope we can: and I hope that along with Blockchain art and the like, 
we can still have an art that celebrates and explores the bits of 
existence that the Blockchain and the like can't comprehend. Beyond the 
plantoids there are still real plants.


Edward


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[NetBehaviour] forwarding from Eyebeam, Collaborative Methods

2017-09-28 Thread Alan Sondheim 



Hi - received a long mail from Eyebeam (I'm a former resident) about 
resources for collaboration - they've been working on this for a long 
time. I'll see if it will bounce directly to Netbbehaviour; if not, I'll 
manually forward. The advantage of the bounce is that the format and links 
will definitely be preserved. Should be of great interest here I think -


- Alan
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