Re: [-empyre-] Videogames of the oppressed / oppressive games

=BYRJmQvXWSs http://www.acmi.net.au/39695E5C2A19442BA67A9D296612A1B6.htm http://www.theage.com.au/articles/2003/04/29/1051381948773.html Cheers, -- Julian Oliver http://julianoliver.com http://criticalengineering.org ___ empyre forum empyre

Re: [-empyre-] social media as revolutionary technology?

473.687 ms 22 acc-jcore-vl101-ge-0-0-0.per.syra.net.au (203.170.86.6) 482.157 ms 476.909 ms 477.957 ms Cheers! Julian -- Julian Oliver http://julianoliver.com http://criticalengineering.org ___ empyre forum empyre@lists.cofa.unsw.edu.au http

Re: [-empyre-] Death of the Curator

comes between points, Network Address Translators, Booking Faces, in what is otherwise tending toward a point-to-point, p2p, socio-political economy. With that said I know, and greatly value, fucking good curators. Greetings from Madrid, -- Julian Oliver http://julianoliver.com http

Re: [-empyre-] postponement - Ioana Jucan

-- Julian Oliver http://julianoliver.com http://criticalengineering.org ___ empyre forum empyre@lists.cofa.unsw.edu.au http://www.subtle.net/empyre

Re: [-empyre-] ambiguous artistic strategies critical engineering

://www.elmcip.net/ http://www.movingtargets.co.uk/ ___ empyre forum empyre@lists.cofa.unsw.edu.au http://www.subtle.net/empyre -- Julian Oliver http://julianoliver.com http://criticalengineering.org

Re: [-empyre-] glitch device/divide

. Cheers! -- Julian Oliver http://julianoliver.com http://criticalengineering.org ___ empyre forum empyre@lists.cofa.unsw.edu.au http://www.subtle.net/empyre

Re: [-empyre-] human glitches

from which it originally came. It seems my post of yesterday morning has yet to be moderated through - it unpacks this a bit further! Cheers, Julian On Thu, Dec 8, 2011 at 10:39 AM, Julian Oliver jul...@julianoliver.com wrote: Hi Curt, ..on Thu, Dec 08, 2011 at 05:34:05AM -0500, Curt

Re: [-empyre-] glitch device/divide

/empyre ___ empyre forum empyre@lists.cofa.unsw.edu.au http://www.subtle.net/empyre -- Julian Oliver http://julianoliver.com http://criticalengineering.org ___ empyre forum empyre@lists.cofa.unsw.edu.au http

Re: [-empyre-] glitch device/divide

___ empyre forum empyre@lists.cofa.unsw.edu.au http://www.subtle.net/empyre -- Julian Oliver http://julianoliver.com http://criticalengineering.org ___ empyre forum empyre@lists.cofa.unsw.edu.au http://www.subtle.net/empyre

Re: [-empyre-] glitch device/divide

in technological history are quite boring to behold. To most, they'd probably go unnoticed. Cheers, Julian ___ empyre forum empyre@lists.cofa.unsw.edu.au http://www.subtle.net/empyre -- Julian Oliver http://julianoliver.com http

Re: [-empyre-] glitch device/divide

. tl:dr - we appropriate glitches to our own purposes. let's stop pretending that they have intrinsic value when we classify them. xo. evan ___ empyre forum empyre@lists.cofa.unsw.edu.au http://www.subtle.net/empyre -- Julian

Re: [-empyre-] glitch device

the inner workings of the system in use. Perhaps we should talk about 'glitch' (in the original sense) and 'gl1tch', in its prepared, self-conscious sense. -- Julian Oliver http://julianoliver.com http://criticalengineering.org ___ empyre forum empyre

Re: [-empyre-] glitch device

that has helped spawn interest in the phenomenon as a whole. Producing the unexpected is easy. Producing glitches is not. Hence plug-and-play glitch culture, the culture of gl1tch. Cheers, Julian ▌ ▌ ▌ On Dec 5, 2011, at 12:57 PM, Julian Oliver wrote: Very well put! I find

Re: [-empyre-] Art, Funding and Politics

into during intensive periods of computer programming, teaching or travel. When the case I've just carried Empyre topics offline, inspiring several great and productive debates! Cheers, -- Julian Oliver http://julianoliver.com http://criticalengineering.org

Re: [-empyre-] Art Funding and Politics

generally, one not shy to offend, lest of all the hands that feed. Julian Oliver July 2011 1 See Eleanor Heartney's Art and Money http://www.artnet.com/magazineus/features/heartney/art-and-money-and-politics-3-28-11.asp 2 An economically positivist account of the Bilbao Effect http

Re: [-empyre-] can we avoid the corporate pyramid scheme model: independents

and discuss is, in general, a cherished festival. Cheers, -- Julian Oliver http://julianoliver.com ___ empyre forum empyre@lists.cofa.unsw.edu.au http://www.subtle.net/empyre

Re: [-empyre-] July on empyre: Reclaiming creativity as agent of change

of interesting problems. Cheers, Julian On 19/07/2011 15:18, Julian Oliver jul...@julianoliver.com wrote: The Critical Engineer takes black-box technology and infrastructure as something that must be pared back, cracked open and or re-purposed before both the object and its engineering

Re: [-empyre-] July on empyre: Reclaiming creativity as agent of change

. Having started a PhD in Electrical Engineering and Computer Science, 'Critical Engineering' sounds like an exciting oxymoron to me. Hehe perfect. We also like it for its provocative oscillations in that regard. Cheers, -- Julian Oliver http://julianoliver.com

Re: [-empyre-] real vs. unreal

' http://julianoliver.com/share/text/Oliver_Optical-Illusion-Art-as-Radical-Interface.pdf Cheers! -- Julian Oliver home: New Zealand based: Berlin, Germany currently: Berlin, Germany about: http://julianoliver.com follow: http://twitter.com/julian0liver

Re: [-empyre-] Augmented reality as public art, mobile location based monuments and virtual memorials

thanks to the help of colleague Arturo Castro. It may in fact use a more robust algorithm, allowing detection of images that are very difficult to track due to having fewer feature points, like logos. Cheers, -- Julian Oliver home: New Zealand based: Berlin, Germany currently: Berlin, Germany

Re: [-empyre-] Welcome Patrick Lichty

..on Fri, Apr 08, 2011 at 03:28:47PM +0200, xDxD.vs.xDxD wrote: hello there! On Thu, Apr 7, 2011 at 3:31 PM, Julian Oliver jul...@julianoliver.comwrote: AR is really a modern implementation of a very old idea, one seen with Phantasmagoria like Pepper's Ghost, some Op Art like

Re: [-empyre-] the art of forgetting

. Rather: It's part of the role of artists to ensure we don't forget about them. Cheers, -- Julian Oliver home: New Zealand based: Berlin, Germany currently: Berlin, Germany about: http://julianoliver.com follow: http://twitter.com/julian0liver

Re: [-empyre-] the art of forgetting

at the moment but offers a model of action that allows for a dystopian view. Marcuse (esp Study on Authority) is great to read with this topic in mind indeed, but far from dystopian in my opinion! Cheers, -- Julian Oliver home: New Zealand based: Berlin, Germany currently: Berlin, Germany about: http

Re: [-empyre-] networking art + postmedia

Greetings from Tokyo, --- Julian Oliver home: New Zealand based: Berlin, Germany currently: Tokyo, Japan about: http://julianoliver.com ___ empyre forum empyre@lists.cofa.unsw.edu.au http://www.subtle.net/empyre

Re: [-empyre-] Game Art as an art subculture?

the name we give to discourse after cultural transformation, a muffled echo at best. All the best for the new year, -- Julian Oliver home: New Zealand based: Berlin, Germany currently: Berlin, Germany about: http://julianoliver.com follow: http://twitter.com/julian0liver On Thu, Dec 30

Re: [-empyre-] empyre Digest, Vol 68, Issue 10 / is there a will to create / the social beyond the mechanisim?

consciousness, we become immediately dependent on such abstractions as The Universe, the very idea of matter, linear time or Numbers, none of which exist in themselves, of course. Cheers, -- Julian Oliver home: New Zealand based: Berlin, Germany currently: Berlin, Germany about: http://julianoliver.com

Re: [-empyre-] Creativity as a social ontology

here: PROXY Gallery http://cart.iabrace.com This is a great/interesting project. A clever diversion of Social Capital. Congrats, -- Julian Oliver home: New Zealand based: Berlin, Germany currently: Berlin, Germany about: http://julianoliver.com On Mon, 12 Jul 2010, Julian Oliver wrote

Re: [-empyre-] Creativity as a social ontology

exclusion (network anxiety) - Am I your friend or not? Cheers! -- Julian Oliver home: New Zealand based: Berlin, Germany currently: Berlin, Germany about: http://julianoliver.com ___ empyre forum empyre@lists.cofa.unsw.edu.au http://www.subtle.net/empyre

Re: [-empyre-] Creativity as a social ontology

or spam. //--- Cheers, -- Julian Oliver home: New Zealand based: Berlin, Germany currently: Delft, Nederlands about: http://julianoliver.com ___ empyre forum empyre

Re: [-empyre-] Creativity as a social ontology, ...stanza to simon biggs ----off list email

___ empyre forum empyre@lists.cofa.unsw.edu.au http://www.subtle.net/empyre -- Julian Oliver home: New Zealand based: Berlin, Germany currently: Berlin, Germany about: http://julianoliver.com ___ empyre forum

Re: [-empyre-] Creativity as a social ontology

for aeons. Cheers, -- Julian Oliver home: New Zealand based: Berlin, Germany currently: Delft, Nederlands about: http://julianoliver.com ___ empyre forum empyre@lists.cofa.unsw.edu.au http://www.subtle.net/empyre

Re: [-empyre-] Creativity as a social ontology

..on Thu, Jul 08, 2010 at 06:01:37PM +0200, Julian Oliver wrote: leveraging the micropayment system provided by Yahoo's Mechanical Turk to Oops! Should have read Amazon's Mechanical Turk. https://www.mturk.com/mturk/welcome -- Julian Oliver home: New Zealand based: Berlin, Germany

Re: [-empyre-] Creativity as a social ontology

these days. So, the Market-ordered society is the group to which the culturally transformative artist currently speaks and in which they desire to excell. Cheers (and good thread), -- Julian Oliver home: New Zealand based: Berlin, Germany currently: Berlin, Germany about: http://julianoliver.com

Re: [-empyre-] Week Four - Design

of Intuitive, Solid and Slick interfaces. Think Similar (TM). Moreso, at the heart of most Free Software is a UNIX philosophy, tending toward many connectable components rather than discrete monolithic 'suites' with unique and closed-standard file formats. Good to read you, -- Julian Oliver home

Re: [-empyre-] Zone book about A2K

-890951-96-2 646 pp. | 61 illus. | 6 x 9 Available November 2010 Yet the important knowledge in this book is itself not freely accessible? Just kidding ;) I look forward to reading it, looks great. Cheers, -- Julian Oliver home: New Zealand based: Berlin, Germany currently: Berlin, Germany

Re: [-empyre-] Week Four - Design

economy typical to traditional arts. In any case, it's still very much a Culture Industry, in the sense Adorno intended, and as such comes with inherent vulnerabilities and maldistributions. Cheers, -- Julian Oliver home: New Zealand based: Berlin, Germany currently: Berlin, Germany about: http

Re: [-empyre-] Narrativity and Reading Regimes

exposure. The hidden fruits of our self-and-social interests are then sold on to data miners and marketeers, or simply repurposed as a canvas for ad revenue directly. Here's a timely remedy: http://suicidemachine.org/ Cheers, -- Julian Oliver home: New Zealand based: Berlin, Germany

Re: [-empyre-] seeing yourself a prototype - the limits of open source

prototyping definitions of prototyping. Cheers, Julian Quoting Julian Oliver jul...@julianoliver.com: ..on Fri, Mar 19, 2010 at 06:07:24PM -0500, christopher sullivan wrote: definitions, I think we are not all talking about the same thing. so here are my worst case and best case

Re: [-empyre-] seeing yourself a prototype - the limits of open source

email was (expressly) a Prototype Definition. Cheers, -- Julian Oliver home: New Zealand based: Berlin, Germany currently: Berlin, Germany about: http://julianoliver.com Quoting Julian Oliver jul...@julianoliver.com: ..on Thu, Mar 18, 2010 at 03:10:01PM -, Johannes Birringer wrote

Re: [-empyre-] seeing yourself a prototype - the limits of open source

your source-code, it's to get better at writing source-code. Cheers, -- Julian Oliver home: New Zealand based: Berlin, Germany currently: Berlin, Germany about: http://julianoliver.com ___ empyre forum empyre@lists.cofa.unsw.edu.au http://www.subtle.net

[-empyre-] // The Emperors new source code //

lost little of its shine. Who's brave enough to use it? -- Julian Oliver home: New Zealand based: Berlin, Germany currently: Berlin, Germany about: http://julianoliver.com ___ empyre forum empyre@lists.cofa.unsw.edu.au http://www.subtle.net/empyre

Re: [-empyre-] seeing yourself a prototype - the limits of open source

: A prototype is any test of expectation. Cheers, -- Julian Oliver home: New Zealand based: Berlin, Germany currently: Berlin, Germany about: http://julianoliver.com Quoting Julian Oliver jul...@julianoliver.com: ..on Thu, Mar 18, 2010 at 03:10:01PM -, Johannes Birringer wrote: Davin

Re: [-empyre-] seeing yourself a prototype - the limits of open source

prototyping is the work of other people, especially aquaintances, marketeers and those that resource people. Beast, -- Julian Oliver home: New Zealand based: Berlin, Germany currently: Berlin, Germany about: http://julianoliver.com ___ empyre forum empyre

Re: [-empyre-] animation and gender

in the kind of technical cultures and communities that might lead to a choice to study digital animation. Cheers, -- Julian Oliver home: New Zealand based: Berlin, Germany currently: Berlin, Germany about: http://julianoliver.com Hi Richard, there are plenty of non-linear narrative animations

Re: [-empyre-] animation and gender

in the kind of technical cultures and communities that might lead to a choice to study digital animation. Cheers, -- Julian Oliver home: New Zealand based: Berlin, Germany currently: Berlin, Germany about: http://julianoliver.com Hi Richard, there are plenty of non-linear narrative animations

[-empyre-] [jul...@selectparks.net: nettime-ann Network[IN]Security workshop: 10-11 December @ moddr.net]

Julian Oliver jul...@selectparks.net - From: Julian Oliver jul...@selectparks.net To: nettime-...@nettime.org Driving: Debian GNU/Linux X-Mailman-Approved-At: Mon, 07 Dec 2009 18:57:24 +0100 Subject: nettime-ann Network[IN]Security workshop: 10-11 December @ moddr.net . *Network

Re: [-empyre-] question about online writing

Of Julian Oliver [jul...@julianoliver.com] Sent: Wednesday, 28 October 2009 10:37 AM To: soft_skinned_space Subject: Re: [-empyre-] a Question ..on Tue, Oct 27, 2009 at 10:20:19PM +, s...@krokodile.co.uk wrote: I may have missed this during the past month but has anyone here

Re: [-empyre-] a Question

of carbon footprints more generally. As such, the carbon footprint of /not/ using the Internets may be higher than using it. Chicken, meet egg, Julian -- Julian Oliver home: New Zealand based: Berlin, Germany currently: Berlin, Germany about: http://julianoliver.com Anna Munster wrote

Re: [-empyre-] youtube VS warner bros VS the users; circuits as technical objects

benefit that sacrifices the occasional user regularly enough to give outward appearance of legal obedience. An 'ecology' would be a better metaphor here than 'circuit', I feel. A 'society' even better.. Chairs, -- Julian Oliver home: New Zealand based: Madrid, Spain currently: Madrid, Spain

Re: [-empyre-] youtube VS warner bros VS the users; circuits as technical objects

to be well within our nature. 'Natural' is just an old-fashioned, artificial construct to conveniently delimit the man-made as an object of thought - another topic altogether of course! All said, I see your point. -- Julian Oliver home: New Zealand based: Madrid, Spain currently: Madrid, Spain

Re: [-empyre-] First Theme and Guests - the Thickness of the Screen

.. Cheers, -- Julian Oliver home: New Zealand based: Madrid, Spain currently: Vigo, Galicia, Spain about: http://julianoliver.com ___ empyre forum empyre@lists.cofa.unsw.edu.au http://www.subtle.net/empyre

Re: [-empyre-] First Theme and Guests - the Thickness of the Screen

@lists.cofa.unsw.edu.au http://www.subtle.net/empyre -- Julian Oliver home: New Zealand based: Madrid, Spain currently: Madrid, Spain about: http://julianoliver.com ___ empyre forum empyre@lists.cofa.unsw.edu.au http://www.subtle.net/empyre

Re: [-empyre-] liminal screenality - a critical opera in three shots and a walking poem

for danger in the shadows). Edinburgh College of Art (eca) is a charity registered in Scotland, number SC009201 ___ empyre forum empyre@lists.cofa.unsw.edu.au http://www.subtle.net/empyre -- Julian Oliver home: New Zealand based: Madrid

Re: [-empyre-] Towards a theory of digital poetics

, of intentionality. oops, there you go. you said it ;) cheers, -- Julian Oliver home: New Zealand based: Madrid, Spain currently: Madrid, Spain about: http://julianoliver.com ___ empyre forum empyre@lists.cofa.unsw.edu.au http://www.subtle.net/empyre

Re: [-empyre-] Poetry and/or poetic

. some of the pieces on your site were fun to play with today (CNN Dada especially!) chars, -- Julian Oliver home: New Zealand based: Madrid, Spain currently: Madrid, Spain about: http://julianoliver.com ___ empyre forum empyre@lists.cofa.unsw.edu.au

Re: [-empyre-] Gross materiality

believe it will). i, and a few other artists i've shown with, have expressed discontent at the fallacies projected by 'digital art' and so we no longer use it. these digital resolutions were to be personal, afterall! cheers, -- Julian Oliver home: New Zealand based: Madrid, Spain currently: Madrid

Re: [-empyre-] Julian Oliver: Resolution for Digital Futures

important, the conversion, the change, the shifting of the representations, not the representations themselves. good words. cheers, -- Julian Oliver home: New Zealand based: Madrid, Spain currently: Madrid, Spain about: http://julianoliver.com

Re: [-empyre-] Julian Oliver: Resolution for Digital Futures

the term will probably just become increasingly irrelevant. a symptom of ubiquity is dis-appearance. the more digital in art, the less 'digital art'. cheers (and good to read you!), -- Julian Oliver home: New Zealand based: Madrid, Spain currently: Madrid, Spain about: http://julianoliver.com