[NetBehaviour] meander

[Alan Sondheim]

meander

http://www.alansondheim.org/walking03.jpg johnston ri
http://www.alansondheim.org/walking06.jpg johnston ri
http://www.alansondheim.org/walking07.jpg johnston ri
http://www.alansondheim.org/mall03.jpg mall providence ri
http://www.alansondheim.org/mall06.jpg apple store pvd
http://www.alansondheim.org/mall07.jpg apple store pvd
http://www.alansondheim.org/mall23.jpg govern pvd
http://www.alansondheim.org/mall27.jpg mall roof vet pvd

i. i can't decide among these. azure and i wander. we were
warned not to leap off the roof. in johnston we went to
a library sale where i found scholem and a dictionary-
encyclopedia of witchcraft. i try to keep busy. the silence
of the city is deafening. everyone i know is in trouble. i
can't decide between the apple store views. i can't decide
between the pond views. we were on an island in the pond.
you see so many things there. i read marguerite duras. i
watch bbc. atomic monsters and violent drives populate
dreams. i need to know 1. how to set up ar. 2. how to set
up vr. 3. where to get this tech. 4. how to afford it. 5.
how to interact with blockchain. 6. how to get out of the
country again. 7. how to leave. when we walk we are still
in america. america surrounds us. when i look up or down
it is still america. it reeks of tyranny. there is america
to my left. there is america to my right. when we walk we
cannot walk far enough. dear friends how can we walk out
of america. there is the bay. i could walk into the bay
and walk out through the bay, when i could no longer walk
i would not be in america. ii. i do not want to do this.
where is the thing that will take us out of america. know
that america does not want us. iii. we meander in an
untoward geography. there is no good thing that favors one
direction over another. this is the analog world in the
absence of the jump cut. when i close my eyes i am still
here. when i sleep i am still here. all our walks have the
form of a jordan curve. all our walks have closure. the
sky is in the sky. i borrow from my answers. i burrow from
them. the day of atonement is my only day without remorse,
a singularity. azure and i are doing well, thank you. iv.
tomorrow we will wake up and we will leave our place and
we will walk. we will walk down the stairs and out of our
building. we will walk in one direction and walk in
another. if we walk only in one direction we will return
nowhere, return from nowhere to nowhere. we will change
direction in the world on the surface of the earth and we
will walk in another direction. another direction is the
same direction. we will wander. i will record everything
and nothing. we will never go where we have never gone
again. we will walk and we will end up, here and now and
another time, and we will be another one and another time.
we will wander, and we will call this 'and such it is.'
'and such it is' is what we will have done. and we will
have done, we will have done, for now.

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[NetBehaviour] Call for submissions - The 3rd Cranbrook Video Festival : Family

[Edward Picot]

Dear all,

The third Cranbrook Video Festival is now open for submissions.

For the second successive year the Festival will be held at the Crane 
Surgery in Cranbrook, and the theme of the festival this year will be 
'Family'. Videos on other subjects will be accepted for consideration, 
but videos about family are particularly welcome.


At the surgery we have been running a Wellbeing Project for the last few 
months, and feedback from patients indicates that the one thing they 
identify as most important to their wellbeing is family. But families in 
the modern world are under increasing stress from consumerist values, 
the struggle to make ends meet, rising divorce rates, homelessness and 
displacement, and of course the dementia 'tsunami'.


For this year's Festival, we'd particularly like to receive videos on 
the subject of family, whatever your take on that subject may happen to 
be.  Videos should ideally be under 10 minutes in length, but longer 
work will be considered.


The festival will be held at the Crane Surgery in Cranbrook, Kent on 
Saturday 17/2/18. The deadline for submissions is 30th December. If 
interested, please contact julian.les...@gmail.com with "Video festival 
submission" in the subject-line.


Edward

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Re: [NetBehaviour] Apologies and URL

[ruth catlow]

Love this!
Thanks for sending it Alan

:)

R


On 29/09/17 00:31, Alan Sondheim wrote:


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

[ruth catlow]

Hi Annie, Edward, Alan and Rob

Many many thanks to you all as always for your help processing this stuff.

Some thoughts in no particular order:

Annie, I share many of your misgivings. Like many blockchain projects 
Plantoid asserts all kinds of equivalences between living and machine 
systems that need to be challenged.


I also share your annoyance with the "conservatism" of equating voting 
with payments (or market processes) with deliberative democratic 
processes (this  chimes with a prevalent argument in the UK that all 
culture should be crowdfunded).


With our book  
are seeking out potential of interactions with blockchain technologies 
for art (and artists and all those who want art to continue to exist in 
the world). We want to continue to explore how commons and communality 
can be grown as cultural resources in the context of blockchain 
environments.


The exploration is full of uncomfortable perversities - including a dive 
into difficult technical and financial abstractions (which can be felt 
as a distraction from immediate and pressing political concerns).  
However we think it's worthwhile and necessary because financial 
services make up 20% of the total gross domestic product in developed 
economies .And while the Web is the Internet of messages, and 
communication, the blockchain is the Internet of programmable money 
(think computer viruses with wallets in their pockets - and money to 
spend and to bank). And  also, as Rob suggests, critical artistic 
appropriation of blockchain techs might make these otherwise invisible 
forces and effects more perceptible and accessible for more people.


Finally the ongoing assertion by many promoters of blockchain that 
because the code of smart contracts deployed across blockchains are 
incorruptible by humans, they are an automatic improvement on all human 
institutions, rings really oddly to artists ears. I think that this is 
because artists (especially those that have worked with network media) 
agree that corruption of meaning, intention and outcomes often occur 
through decontextualisations. Rob's comparison of smart contracts with 
spirographs rather than stormbringer (worth a trip to wikipedia 
) is helpful - but I'm sure 
it is possible to imagine good done with stormbringer and evil done with 
spirographs ;)


Hope to continue this conversation because this stuff is really hard to 
disentangle.


warmly
Ruth

On 29/09/17 05:01, Alan Sondheim wrote:


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 

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