Re: [NetBehaviour] stone bridges, QRRR and counter-Munich

2016-07-26 Thread Ana Valdés
Dear Alan and dear Johannes and dear Ruth and Marc and so many others dear to me. Dear because we share a feeling of despair and frustration but we are stubborn enough to believe in beauty, in sharing, in creating...In the middle of the horrors of the Holocaust camps people created, in Rwanda

Re: [NetBehaviour] stone bridges, QRRR and counter-Munich

2016-07-26 Thread Ana Valdés
I have a Spanish architect friend visiting and we were discussing. When Erdogan now forbid all academics and artists to leave Turkey, is it not terror? When we discussed "modern terror" and we label Baader-Meinhof and Red Brigades and so on as terrorists,Begin and the Stern group in the beginning

Re: [NetBehaviour] stone bridges, QRRR and counter-Munich

2016-07-24 Thread Ana Valdés
Dear Alan I think life is inclusive and terror in Munich and what happened in Johnstown are not exclusive but includes each other. Poverty and to feel different are the mothers of the terror as well. Ana Den 24 jul 2016 21:41 skrev "Alan Sondheim" : > > First -"Lone wolf" -

Re: [NetBehaviour] stone bridges, QRRR and counter-Munich

2016-07-24 Thread Ana Valdés
ere is perhaps no easy answer to the > question, 'What did he mean?'" > > maybe you have an answer. > regards > jb > > > ________ > From: netbehaviour-boun...@netbehaviour.org [ > netbehaviour-boun...@netbehaviour.org] on behalf of Ana Valdés [ > agora...@gm

Re: [NetBehaviour] stone bridges, QRRR and counter-Munich

2016-07-24 Thread Ana Valdés
Johannes I am always moved by your words. You have such a touching way to paint with words:) When you use the words "Palestinian terrorists" I react. Because I has been in Palestine several times and the only terror I met was that exerced by the Israeli soldiers at the checkpoints making us run

Re: [NetBehaviour] Join Neterarti - it's like twitter but for art.

2016-01-20 Thread Ana Valdés
I don't find any "follow" button. I want stalk a lot of great ppl :) Ana Den 21 jan 2016 04:25 skrev "Rob Myers" : > On 19/01/16 08:51 AM, dave miller wrote: > > The Flickr @ handle thing doesn't work (is there an equivalent?) but the > > hash tags do #. > > @mentions do work,

Re: [NetBehaviour] Join Neterarti - it's like twitter but for art.

2016-01-20 Thread Ana Valdés
Haha I hope we are not going to need block spamers offering to buy 5000 followers for 4.95 :) Den 21 jan 2016 05:16 skrev "Rob Myers" <r...@robmyers.org>: > On 20/01/16 08:44 PM, Ana Valdés wrote: > > I don't find any "follow" button. I want stalk a lot o

Re: [NetBehaviour] homeless tents

2016-01-08 Thread Ana Valdés
It's unbelievable you are talking about the richest and most powerful country on Earth with a budget of 6 billion dollars earmarked for military expenses. The Greek - French philosopher Cornelius Castoriadis who was one of the most influential minds for the 68th movement in Paris, wrote a very

Re: [NetBehaviour] #rojava

2015-12-14 Thread Ana Valdés
Totally share it! The mag Cointerpunch ran an article with a discussion in other list about if torture works or not I don't have the link longer but do a Google search with Ana Valdés Counterpunch and you find the article. They used my answer and my own life story as reference Cheers Ana Thanks

Re: [NetBehaviour] #rojava

2015-12-14 Thread Ana Valdés
under the control and command of PYD. Nupelda has been fighting for two years now." I am thinking how to call for solidarity for Rojava revolution and eventually lift of PKK ban in EU... just thoughts... * AGF: @poemproducer / .com in order: antyegreie.com On 9 Dec 2015, at 01:59,

Re: [NetBehaviour] Pirate Bay Founder: 'I Have Given Up'

2015-12-12 Thread Ana Valdés
As I wrote in Twitter (caravia158) we need social and political revolutions and not only free downloads. I know the Pirate Bay phenomenon pretty well since I lived in Sweden as they started it and many ppl who joined them were very political naive and believed the information should be free and by

Re: [NetBehaviour] Pirate Bay Founder: 'I Have Given Up'

2015-12-12 Thread Ana Valdés
Sorry my mail was sent truncated I was not ready with my reasoning. My point is you can't separate the immaterial products from the other ones. You have factories making soap and mobiles and cars and you have film- and music studies making films or pressing CD or streaming it as Spotify and

Re: [NetBehaviour] #rojava

2015-12-08 Thread Ana Valdés
I was as many of you know at the conference of Women in Black in India. Women from Afghanistan Congo Bosnia and Armenia shared with us dark stories of rape forced marriages and impunity we need to strengthen the civil societies the question is how to achieve it? If the changes are made with

Re: [NetBehaviour] bodies of evidence, and the long reach

2015-11-17 Thread Ana Valdés
m the 1970s) that read > something like "it will be a great day when schools have all the money they > need and the air force has a cake stall to raise money for a new plane" ... > sadly that day is still a long long way off :( > >> On 17/11/15 12:32 57PM, Ana Valdés

Re: [NetBehaviour] bodies of evidence, and the long reach

2015-11-17 Thread Ana Valdés
ouw <gretta.elise.l...@gmail.com>: > > Thanks so much for the update Ana, sounds like such an important event. Is > there going to be any video documentation of the meeting released, do you > know? Or other written documentation? > > > >> On 16 Nov 2015, at 1

Re: [NetBehaviour] bodies of evidence, and the long reach

2015-11-16 Thread Ana Valdés
as wartool displaced ppl in millions Den 16 nov 2015 17:18 skrev "helen varley jamieson" < he...@creative-catalyst.com>: > ana, if you have time it would be great to hear how the women in black > encounter goes. great that you are able to attend :) > > On 15/11/15

Re: [NetBehaviour] bodies of evidence, and the long reach

2015-11-14 Thread Ana Valdés
The encounter starts today check www.womeninblack.org Den 15 nov 2015 08:06 skrev "AGF poemproducer" <a...@poemproducer.com>: > Ana, this sounds so very good! > happy to read this! do u have a link, more info? > > On 13 Nov 2015, at 23:06, Ana Valdés <agora...@gmai

Re: [NetBehaviour] bodies of evidence, and the long reach

2015-11-13 Thread Ana Valdés
Dear Johannes and all it feels almost eery and weird read your message in the lobby of Dubai airport on my way to Bangalore in India where I am going to participate in a gathering of Women in Black an international network of women committed to peace and dialogue and against all kind of war and

Re: [NetBehaviour] horrors, re dismal

2015-09-06 Thread Ana Valdés
I guess this is related to this as well http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2613038/40-years-Agent-Orange-heartbreaking-pictures-babies-Vietnam-born-horrific-defects.html Ana El sep 6, 2015 12:57 PM, "Alan Sondheim" escribió: > > > This is related - > > >

Re: [NetBehaviour] dismal news and from Mother Jones -

2015-09-06 Thread Ana Valdés
Alan i full agree with you. My point was it seems every generation promises "never more" when a catastrophe occurs. After the Holocaust with victims ranging from Jews to Gypsies to homosexuals to mental ill to Jehovah witness and many other the nations said "no more". The victorious Red Army

Re: [NetBehaviour] from Mother Jones -

2015-09-04 Thread Ana Valdés
We see in the whole European world ppl gathering in supporting the refugees biking to Calais from London with tents food and medicines in Stockholm where I lived for almost my whole adult life thousands of families are offering to open their houses to refugees. And I am talking about a country

Re: [NetBehaviour] from Mother Jones -

2015-09-04 Thread Ana Valdés
Dear Alan you have been in the Middle East as I has been. Israel receives per year billions of American support both military and economic. Without the American support Israel could not manage the fences in the West Bank and in Gaza. They cost millions to keep. The new fence, separating the

[NetBehaviour] interesting article about refugees

2015-09-03 Thread Ana Valdés
https://www.hrw.org/news/2015/09/03/refugee-crisis-isnt -- https://anavaldes.wordpress.com/ www.twitter.com/caravia158 http://www.scoop.it/t/art-and-activism/ http://www.scoop.it/t/food-history-and-trivia http://www.scoop.it/t/urbanism-3-0 cell

Re: [NetBehaviour] dismal news

2015-09-03 Thread Ana Valdés
Johannes thank you for your contribution. I was in Gaza once before the Jewish settlers were evacuated from the Strip I was allowed in into Gaza with my international passport and my UN escort. Making the opposite way we're hundreds of Palestinian workers who worked in Israel and traveled every

Re: [NetBehaviour] Not quite so dismal

2015-09-02 Thread Ana Valdés
But that's Edward the most outrageous ppl in Austria and Germany marched the other day FOR the refugees and Turkey with 1.4 million Syrian refugees!! said the other day they should maybe prepare themselves to the permanent stay of the Syrians on their territory. My point is ppl are willing to

Re: [NetBehaviour] Not quite so dismal

2015-09-02 Thread Ana Valdés
Britain is a great exception, sadly if we think Britain has colonized half the world and it's wealth is based on Indian slavework :(

[NetBehaviour] more dismal news

2015-08-31 Thread Ana Valdés
" The World Food Program has steadily reduced its monthly per-capita food allowance to $13.50 from $40 last year and will halt aid entirely next month to more than 200,000 of the neediest 1.6 million refugees, the agency said. After Turkey, which says it has spent $6 billion taking care of

Re: [NetBehaviour] dismal news

2015-08-29 Thread Ana Valdés
established inhabitants and newcomers... cheers michael -- *From:* Ana Valdés agora...@gmail.com agora...@gmail.com *To:* Michael Szpakowski szp...@yahoo.com szp...@yahoo.com; NetBehaviour for networked distributed creativity netbehaviour@netbehaviour.org

Re: [NetBehaviour] dismal news

2015-08-28 Thread Ana Valdés
I has been a refugee for many years. I spent four years in jail for political reasons (was member of a gerilla group, Tupamaros) and was deported to Sweden in 1978. The Swedes paid me one year study of the language and gave me an apt to rent. After one year I was on my own, got a job as a teacher

Re: [NetBehaviour] dismal news

2015-08-28 Thread Ana Valdés
michael -- *From:* Ana Valdés agora...@gmail.com *To:* Michael Szpakowski szp...@yahoo.com; NetBehaviour for networked distributed creativity netbehaviour@netbehaviour.org *Sent:* Friday, August 28, 2015 5:44 PM *Subject:* Re: [NetBehaviour] dismal news I has been

Re: [NetBehaviour] dismal news

2015-08-24 Thread Ana Valdés
I agree with Alan and the very narrow gap between Trump and Hillary shows how the middle voters dissappear and the countries polarizes. In a confrontation Trump and Bernie i sadly believe Trump wins. If Clinton loses to Bernie or to Biden, of course. However I don't know the statistics about how

Re: [NetBehaviour] dismal news

2015-08-22 Thread Ana Valdés
Johannes thank you for putting in print much of what many of us discuss and think. I has been myself a political refugee in Sweden for almost my whole adult life and moved back to South America when I saw how Sweden and Europe are going back to the Dark Ages the 30: with the rise of Fascism and

Re: [NetBehaviour] dwelling and lamentations

2014-11-27 Thread Ana Valdés
Beautiful Alan Ana On Thu, Nov 27, 2014 at 4:14 PM, Alan Sondheim sondh...@panix.com wrote: dwelling and lamentations http://www.alansondheim.org/lamentations.jpg http://www.alansondheim.org/lamentations1.mp3 guqin http://www.alansondheim.org/lamentations2.mp3 guqin

Re: [NetBehaviour] ello ello, what av we here then, an exclusive club for the digerati ?

2014-09-30 Thread Ana Valdés
I erased my Facebook account several years ago, never missed it. I go never back to Stumble Upon. I use only Twitter as exchange of interesting links and books to read and announces to make. Had 148 ppl at my birthday party when I turned 50. Nobody was a virtual friend, all were real life friends.

Re: [NetBehaviour] IS it pre-history

2014-09-16 Thread Ana Valdés
As I wrote before I think the exhibition and discussions initiated by Catherine David and Jordan Crandall were among the best I read and I am very happy I participated on them. The Israeli architect Eyal Weizman wrote an interesting book about violence and evil The Least of All Possible Evils:

Re: [NetBehaviour] ISIS prehistory

2014-09-16 Thread Ana Valdés
And the beheading are frightening, they come to close to you. In the opposite the clusters of civilians killled by the US drones in Pakistan don't seem real at all. The media is the message, Luhan dixit :) Ana On Tue, Sep 16, 2014 at 4:32 PM, Joel Weishaus joelweish...@gmail.com wrote: At

Re: [NetBehaviour] ISIS prehistory

2014-09-15 Thread Ana Valdés
One of our knights, Letholdus by name, climbed on to the wall of the city. When he reached the top, all the defenders of the city quickly fled along the walls and through the city. Our men followed and pursued them, killing and hacking, as far as the temple of Solomon, and there there was such a

Re: [NetBehaviour] hot links

2014-09-15 Thread Ana Valdés
Wonderful links thanks! Ana On Mon, Sep 15, 2014 at 5:30 PM, James Morris ja...@jwm-art.net wrote: The HJ8 Total Eclipse Space Chili Since the mid 1980′s, China has been sending recoverable satellites into space on a 5-day orbit around Earth. Each trip, approximately 5000 seeds are sent

Re: [NetBehaviour] ISIS prehistory

2014-09-15 Thread Ana Valdés
Alan, I mean we, the West, we are demonizing Isis when Isis is the child of the mad policies of the West in the Middle East. If England and France had not been the big colonial powers they were we should have another development in the region. And now is the US imposing a colonial rule without

Re: [NetBehaviour] ISIS NEWFLAG

2014-08-27 Thread Ana Valdés
by the way, written för a Lybian poet, friend of a friend, some hours ago: Tripoli on fire. I have fled my house after attacks by rockets. It was looted occupied by militias. Things are going for more chaos. Now when Gaza is relative calm Tripoli burns... Ana On Wed, Aug 27, 2014 at 7:20

Re: [NetBehaviour] ISIS NEWFLAG

2014-08-27 Thread Ana Valdés
For many years ago I participated in a show with many writers, acitvists and artists, the topic was Images of War in Contemporary world, http://jordancrandall.com/main/+UNDERFIRE/underfire.html Two small books collected our discussions, Under Fire one and two,

Re: [NetBehaviour] ISIS NEWFLAG

2014-08-27 Thread Ana Valdés
But my point is exactly the same as you, the wars and the violence against civilians IS the same, 7 ppl were killed in Jerusalem in two days by the Christian army 1099.. They were not only Muslims, they were Jews and Christians are well, Copts and Maronites. Saladin, who recovered the city for

Re: [NetBehaviour] images from yesterday's gaza demo in london

2014-08-10 Thread Ana Valdés
Great, thanks for sharing! We are going to have a march here in Uruguay at Tuesday. Ana On Sun, Aug 10, 2014 at 9:33 AM, dave miller dave.miller...@gmail.com wrote: Hi michael I was there! It was amazing! thanks for the photos dave On 10 August 2014 11:51, michael szpakowski

[NetBehaviour] Harun Farocki is dead, so sad!

2014-08-01 Thread Ana Valdés
http://farocki-film.de/ Ana -- http://www.twitter.com/caravia15860606060 http://www.scoop.it/t/art-and-activism/ http://www.scoop.it/t/food-history-and-trivia http://www.scoop.it/t/urbanism-3-0 http://www.scoop.it/t/postcolonial-mind/ cell Sweden +4670-3213370 cell Uruguay +598-99470758

Re: [NetBehaviour] Furtherfield nominated for Prix Ars Electronica

2014-03-10 Thread Ana Valdés
you are worth all the prizes :) Ana On Mon, Mar 10, 2014 at 1:52 PM, Alan Sondheim sondh...@panix.com wrote: Of course congratulations! Seriously, absolutely vital to our well-being here in the U.S. (or whatever's left of the U.S.) On Mon, 10 Mar 2014, marc garrett wrote:

Re: [NetBehaviour] Alain Resnais R.I.P

2014-03-02 Thread Ana Valdés
Such a loss, he was one of the best, thanks for sharing, Fung! Ana On Sun, Mar 2, 2014 at 11:29 AM, Fung-Lin Hall h...@mutanteggplant.comwrote: Experimental Filmmaker Alain Resnais passed away ... http://www.mutanteggplant.com/vitro-nasu/2014/03/02/alain- resnais-1922-2014/ See photos and

Re: [NetBehaviour] An artist recreated Blade Runner with 12, 000 water color paintings

2013-11-20 Thread Ana Valdés
So beautiful!! Ana On Wed, Nov 20, 2013 at 1:11 PM, marc garrett marc.garr...@furtherfield.org wrote: Thanks Bill, it was a pleasure :-) marc Awesome! Thanks for sharing! I'm introducing a project tomorrow with my classes centered on rotoscoping animation. We're going to use the

Re: [NetBehaviour] Make Me a Mask by Ruben Torres Llorca + Body Art of Ana Mendieta

2013-11-19 Thread Ana Valdés
I was in Cuba some years ago and saw some of her works, extraordinary. Do you know Unica Zurn? She was a great artist, married with the surrealist painter Hans Bellmer, she took her own life in the same way as Mendieta, throwing herself from a sixth floor in Paris, her book Jasmine Man is shocking

Re: [NetBehaviour] The strange tale of Rhizome and its Arts Council funding

2013-10-30 Thread Ana Valdés
I dont understand the discussion, digital art and technologies are breaking boundaries and showing they can make bridges and innovative networks. Why should not Rhizome be able to apply for EU-support? I am against all support based on national or regional bases. Ana On Wed, Oct 30, 2013 at

Re: [NetBehaviour] The strange tale of Rhizome and its Arts Council funding

2013-10-30 Thread Ana Valdés
I understand the principes of the discussion but I thought we were now beyond this kind of discussion. I worked as a freelance consultant for the European Community and the funds were tailored for projects needing at leat three countries to apply. There were a djungle of small enterprises

Re: [NetBehaviour] The strange tale of Rhizome and its Arts Council funding (better version)

2013-10-30 Thread Ana Valdés
I was the inmigrant alibi in all those funding organizations and I accepted after discussions with many comrades. I felt at the beginning I was used but I did my best to take to the surface alternative anarchist individuals or groups unknown for the most of my colleagues. I was not among the

Re: [NetBehaviour] The strange tale of Rhizome and its Arts Council funding

2013-10-30 Thread Ana Valdés
But Rob, is Rhizome a part of the etablishment? Cultural imperialism are for me all the infamous tv-series we are invaded with, CSI somewhere, Hostages (made by Israeli television) and showing horrendous scenes of torture as the most normal things, Homeland (same Israeli and US collaboration), etc

Re: [NetBehaviour] shonibari cartoon

2013-10-21 Thread Ana Valdés
cool, I met Shonibari some years ago quite often, he was living in Stockholm working a magnificent piece at the Moderna Museet. He was fun to talk with and great to listen to, a gifted talker. Ana On Sun, Oct 20, 2013 at 4:26 PM, dave miller dave.miller...@gmail.comwrote:

Re: [NetBehaviour] shonibari cartoon

2013-10-21 Thread Ana Valdés
cheers, dave On 21 October 2013 14:55, Ana Valdés agora...@gmail.com wrote: cool, I met Shonibari some years ago quite often, he was living in Stockholm working a magnificent piece at the Moderna Museet. He was fun to talk with and great to listen to, a gifted talker. Ana On Sun, Oct 20

Re: [NetBehaviour] Cocteau Piaf died on the same day + the list of Pair Disappearing Act +Munro

2013-10-11 Thread Ana Valdés
Fung I love your site, nostalgia and wit. Ana Skickat från min iPhone 11 okt 2013 kl. 18:14 skrev Fung-Lin Hall h...@mutanteggplant.com: Jean Cocteau and Edith Piaf died on the same day..

Re: [NetBehaviour] R.I.P Otto Sander.. an actor from Wings of Desire and Far Away so Close ..

2013-09-13 Thread Ana Valdés
Wings of Desire, a great film Ana On Thu, Sep 12, 2013 at 3:35 PM, Fung-Lin Hall h...@mutanteggplant.comwrote: A sad news of Otto Sander passing came from Mario Ambroisius on FB this moring.

Re: [NetBehaviour] In the Mood for Julia Kristeva (See a Kristeva Rap Video)

2013-06-24 Thread Ana Valdés
cool! thanks! Ana On Mon, Jun 24, 2013 at 10:50 PM, Fung-Lin Hall h...@mutanteggplant.comwrote: Happy birthday Julia Kristeva! http://www.mutanteggplant.com/vitro-nasu/2013/06/24/in-the-mood-for-julia-kristeva/ Found a Julia Kristeva rap video.. see some photos and enjoy! Fung Lin Hall

Re: [NetBehaviour] Links

2013-05-25 Thread Ana Valdés
I agree with Marc, the network at Delicious was very useful, the people were not anonymous and you could follow or subscribe to someone who shared your interests or topics. It was gone and none function replaced it when the interface changed. This is the function I miss mostly. Ana On Sat, May

Re: [NetBehaviour] Links

2013-05-24 Thread Ana Valdés
right Marc, Delicious is a poor alternative now, I am using Findings and others but none is good Ana On Fri, May 24, 2013 at 12:20 PM, marc garrett marc.garr...@furtherfield.org wrote: Hi all, This is all part of web 2.0 culture. This is what to expect now... Delicious used to be

Re: [NetBehaviour] R.I.P Chinua Achebe

2013-03-22 Thread Ana Valdés
The same. Abebe was a staunch partisan of the Palestine struggle and helped cultural institutions in Palestine. Ana Skickat från min iPhone 22 mar 2013 kl. 12:58 skrev Alan Sondheim sondh...@panix.com: really sad to hear this and thanks for posting. - Alan On Fri, 22 Mar 2013,

Re: [NetBehaviour] Diante do Nada

2012-12-06 Thread Ana Valdés
Nice Johannes, I have also great memories of Brasilia, his wonderful cathedral, his museums in Sao Paulo! I was going to meet him some years ago, in Sao Paulo. I was there with a crew of Swedish architects and artists, but his assistent told us he couldn't meet us, because he was marrying for

Re: [NetBehaviour] spicy sausage pasta

2012-10-25 Thread Ana Valdés
I made à shellfish soup with coconut milk, fresh chili and a lot of cilantro very good spicy and hot :) Ana Skickat från min iPhone 25 okt 2012 kl. 13:30 skrev marc marc.garr...@furtherfield.org: well, I made myself a simple lunch today, toasted pitta bread filled with garlic, yellow

Re: [NetBehaviour] Camus vs. Sartre (documentary)

2012-07-30 Thread Ana Valdés
Wonderful, thank you! Ana On Mon, Jul 30, 2012 at 2:05 PM, marc marc.garr...@furtherfield.org wrote: Camus vs. Sartre (documentary) (ORIGINAL) Camus vs. Sartre. This documentary is about the battle between these two great writer/philosophers after WWII in Paris over Camus' book The Rebel.

Re: [NetBehaviour] Smithsonian National Museum of the American Indian

2012-07-09 Thread Ana Valdés
Just beatiful, so poetic, thanks for sharing it! Ana On Mon, Jul 9, 2012 at 11:17 AM, isabel brison ijayes...@gmail.com wrote: Awesome sequence! On 9 July 2012 02:32, Alan Sondheim sondh...@panix.com wrote: Smithsonian National Museum of the American Indian

Re: [NetBehaviour] FurtherNews Issue 6, June 2012

2012-06-12 Thread Ana Valdés
Marc I did not find any subscribe button at the options in Further News, excellent as all you do! :) Can you subscribe me manually? Cheers Ana On Tue, Jun 12, 2012 at 2:44 PM, marc marc.garr...@furtherfield.org wrote: FurtherNews Issue 6, June 2012 If you are not subscribed to Furtherfield

Re: [NetBehaviour] FurtherNews Issue 6, June 2012

2012-06-12 Thread Ana Valdés
Thank you I did it, I was already subscribed to all the old features but somehow I missed the new one! Well done! Ana On Tue, Jun 12, 2012 at 3:38 PM, marc marc.garr...@furtherfield.org wrote: Ana, if you visit the front page www.furtherfield.org on the 'right' side of the site - follow the

Re: [NetBehaviour] Marguerite Yourcenar - Madame Bibliotheque

2012-06-09 Thread Ana Valdés
wonderful links Fung my favorite writer! I lover her Alexis, her Opus Nigrum, her Hadrianus. Ana On Sat, Jun 9, 2012 at 4:21 PM, Fung-Lin Hall h...@mutanteggplant.com wrote: I decided to upgrade.. got some photos and links for Marguerite Yourcenar.. the new yorker article Becoming Emperor is a

Re: [NetBehaviour] Ray Bradbury R.I.P

2012-06-07 Thread Ana Valdés
Dear Fung, tha'ts the best I could provide :) A story, translated by Joan Tate from Swedish, the language I wrote the text in, into English. It was part of an anthology published by Serpent's Tai, the Garden of the Alphabet, with European storytellers.

Re: [NetBehaviour] Ray Bradbury R.I.P

2012-06-06 Thread Ana Valdés
So sad!! You know, I grew up with Bradbury's books and when I was in jail in Uruguay and the military burned all the books our relatives sent to us, we political prisoners, told to each other books we read and remembered. It was as in Bradbury's book Fahrenheit 451, we became the books we

Re: [NetBehaviour] Carlos Fuentes R.I.P

2012-05-15 Thread Ana Valdés
Such a loss, a great writer and a nice man. I met him in Stockholm twice. Sad he never got the Nobel award, he was worth. Ana On Tue, May 15, 2012 at 11:40 PM, Fung-Lin Hall h...@mutanteggplant.comwrote: Carlos Fuentes R.I.P

Re: [NetBehaviour] Carlos Fuentes R.I.P

2012-05-15 Thread Ana Valdés
Fuentes left his post as Mexicos ambassador 1968 after the massacre of Tlatelolco where more than 300 students were killed in a night. He was a true humanist. Paz and he differed in political opinions but respected each other deeply. Thanks for caring, Fung! Ana On Wed, May 16, 2012 at 5:49 AM,

[NetBehaviour] -empyre?

2012-03-12 Thread Ana Valdés
Dear Behaviourists: I am moderating this month in -empyre and I know many of you are subscribed also to both lists. Since we are often discussing tangent topics I wonder if I can encourage you to participate in this month's discussion. These two posts were written by two very dear friends to me,

Re: [NetBehaviour] Earland Josephson R.I.P (An acotor who worked closely with Bergman Tarokvosky)

2012-02-27 Thread Ana Valdés
I knew Erland, he was such a gentleman and a real nice person, very concerned with the needs of people around Ana On Mon, Feb 27, 2012 at 5:15 PM, Fung-Lin Hall h...@mutanteggplant.comwrote: ** Erland Josephson R.I.P http://**www.mutanteggplant.com/**vitro-nasu/2012/02/27/**

[NetBehaviour] need some help

2012-02-27 Thread Ana Valdés
Dear netbehaviours: I am in need of some help. As maybe some of you know I relocated to Montevideo, Uruguay, after 34 years of living in Sweden. I was curious about how my generation and my old jailmates :) dealed with the power...The president and the vicepresident of this country were in jail

Re: [NetBehaviour] need some help

2012-02-27 Thread Ana Valdés
Why not as a guest, Alan? You are one of the best formulated people I know around :) It would be an honor for me having you as a guest! This is the presentation of the topic, please feel free to pass around it! Urban resilience , to try to understand the new ways and methods of activism and

Re: [NetBehaviour] need some help

2012-02-27 Thread Ana Valdés
So interesting people Alan I am really excited! I will write to them ASAP and try to have them with us. Thanks a lot! Ana On Tue, Feb 28, 2012 at 5:52 AM, Alan Sondheim sondh...@panix.com wrote: Three people I think should be involved in this - Mary Mattingly mary.mattin...@gmail.com (who

Re: [NetBehaviour] Eiko Ishioka R.I.P - a Great Designer for Mishima, The Fall.. etc.

2012-01-28 Thread Ana Valdés
So sad, I loved Mishhima! Ana On Sat, Jan 28, 2012 at 8:36 PM, Fung-Lin Hall h...@mutanteggplant.comwrote: ** Eiko Ishioka R.I.P http://www.mutanteggplant.com/**vitro-nasu/2012/01/28/** eiko-ishioka-r-i-p/http://www.mutanteggplant.com/vitro-nasu/2012/01/28/eiko-ishioka-r-i-p/See Mishima,

Re: [NetBehaviour] Wave to Orlando + Etta James

2012-01-25 Thread Ana Valdés
Wonderful page about Virginia, Fung! Thank you for sharing! Ana On Wed, Jan 25, 2012 at 3:33 PM, Fung-Lin Hall h...@mutanteggplant.comwrote: Can't ignore these two ladies.. so I have two posts today.. Tilda Swinton on Orlando and Patti Smith reading Wave by Virginia Woolf..

Re: [NetBehaviour] What if Babbage..?

2011-12-27 Thread Ana Valdés
But Babbage's machine had never been conceived or workable without Ada Byron Lovelace's equations and notes, she corrected Babbage's flawed calculations :) Ana On Tue, Dec 27, 2011 at 1:29 PM, marc garrett marc.garr...@furtherfield.org wrote: What if Babbage..? Written by Mike James. What

Re: [NetBehaviour] What if Babbage..?

2011-12-27 Thread Ana Valdés
right right and a real gamer/gambler. I really enjoyed Gibson and Sterling's The Difference Engine. Ana On Tue, Dec 27, 2011 at 2:27 PM, Rob Myers r...@robmyers.org wrote: On 27/12/11 12:39, Ana Valdés wrote: But Babbage's machine had never been conceived or workable without Ada Byron

Re: [NetBehaviour] What if Babbage..?

2011-12-27 Thread Ana Valdés
of Jasmina's former husband, a good poet. Bruce was wearing some clothes who had belonged to the deceased husband. We drank a lot of beer, talked about Ada and about Bruce's obsession with extreme weather. Ana On Tue, Dec 27, 2011 at 2:48 PM, Rob Myers r...@robmyers.org wrote: On 27/12/11 13:31, Ana Valdés

Re: [NetBehaviour] Instructional guides for desperate times

2011-10-02 Thread Ana Valdés
More instructions for desperate times: Mix a dough, flour, water and salt. If you squatter or don't have a oven let the dough on the sun several hours and you can have it baked by the sun. Ana, moving to South America tomorrow and going to practice a lot of hints about gerilla gardening, open

Re: [NetBehaviour] empyre archives

2011-09-11 Thread Ana Valdés
Cool, thanks! I love -empyre and it's always a challenge to follow the topics, some of them a bit weird or unusual, but always a good discussion and curation. I am sad Alan felt otherwise, I have always felt the -empyre crew being very supportive. Ana On Sun, Sep 11, 2011 at 11:02 AM, Simon Biggs

[NetBehaviour] testing a new social media tool

2011-09-11 Thread Ana Valdés
The crew who started Ning is behind this new one, Mightybell. I created a social cooking experince to test it, but need more participants to test the potential. Is someone here willing to be part of it? I should appreciate it! https://mightybell.com/experiences/51244b28678188a8-Cooking-together#1

Re: [NetBehaviour] Horror Episodes in the Net.Art History

2011-09-10 Thread Ana Valdés
And I react to the discussion about Soros. I mean the guy is a ruthless capitalist making his money from speculations with money, but but...Carnegie does the same and yesterday the Carnegie award for an important Nordic painter was awarded. 10 Euro to a Finnish painter. Among the chosen were

Re: [NetBehaviour] Second Life - The White Sliced Bread Theory

2011-09-10 Thread Ana Valdés
Nice, her reflexions about identity reminded me on an article I wrote a while ago http://socyberty.com/issues/troubled-gender-in-a-virtual-world/ Ana On Sun, Sep 11, 2011 at 2:26 AM, James Morris ja...@jwm-art.net wrote: It seems that every day I hear about someone else closing their sim and

Re: [NetBehaviour] Netochka Nezvanova.

2011-09-09 Thread Ana Valdés
Interesting, it reminds me about doctress Neutopia, http://projectwhitehouse.wordpress.com/democrats/libby-hubbard-aka-doctress-neutopia-free-the-slaves a selfnamed prophet and the founder of a new religion at the beginning of the Net, around 1995. She terrorized many online communities and was

Re: [NetBehaviour] Netochka Nezvanova.

2011-09-09 Thread Ana Valdés
I remember I was subscribed to Syndicate as well but I never heard about NN and never participated, I felt Syndicate was more a list for announcements of events, maybe I only subscribed to the events list. But it's interesting to discuss the validity of the mailinglists today, as forums for

Re: [NetBehaviour] Netochka Nezvanova.

2011-09-09 Thread Ana Valdés
Today I read on the papers the Facebook had 10 billions of revenue/profit on this year first months. I really refuse to share with Zuckerberg and his family my creations, my discussion and my thoughts. They are gaining these obscene amount of money stealing from you and me our words and ideas. I

Re: [NetBehaviour] Netochka Nezvanova.

2011-09-09 Thread Ana Valdés
what iPads and Androids are to computing - promoting a more mediated and distanced engagement. This is part of the normalisation and commodification of the net. best Simon On 9 Sep 2011, at 15:19, Ana Valdés wrote: I remember I was subscribed to Syndicate as well but I never heard about

Re: [NetBehaviour] Netochka Nezvanova.

2011-09-09 Thread Ana Valdés
at Cornell University. However, the link to that page seems to be down today. I would email Tim, if you are concerned. They are accessible and up to date. best Simon On 9 Sep 2011, at 15:47, Ana Valdés wrote: I am very happy to hear that, Simon. I was myself guest moderator of -empyre a while

Re: [NetBehaviour] diaspora

2011-09-09 Thread Ana Valdés
In my experience it works really well the problem is I don't have so much content to feed Twitter, Scoop.it and Diaspora. And the problem is still very few people are there and it feel as a monologue, I lack the interaction. I am a bit vain :), every time Furtherfield retweet something I posted I

[NetBehaviour] a new kid on the blockk, Glos.si

2011-09-09 Thread Ana Valdés
this is the newest (until for two days ago :) social media outlet http://www.glos.si/caravia/ Ana -- http://www.twitter.com/caravia15852 http://www.scoop.it/t/art-and-activism/ http://www.scoop.it/t/food-history-and-trivia http://www.scoop.it/t/gender-issues/

Re: [NetBehaviour] Netochka Nezvanova.

2011-09-09 Thread Ana Valdés
Does someone remember the MUDS? I was in one of them, invited by Howard Rheingold, one of the real old timers, founder of the Wall and of a lot of interesting communities, as Electric Minds. People interacted at the MUDS in a similar way they do in Facebook or Second Life. I like Julian Dibbells

Re: [NetBehaviour] Farewell Facebook (Short film about Digital Suicide).

2011-09-07 Thread Ana Valdés
Brilliant! I felt the same when I reached almost 2000 friends in Facebook. What was the point being connected with strangers and don't have the time to check in everyone's status or feelings? I deleted my two accounts for one year ago and don't miss FB a bit, use Twitter a lot and it's so much

Re: [NetBehaviour] Every day the same dream

2011-09-07 Thread Ana Valdés
I love Molle, their MacDonald game is great! Ana On Wed, Sep 7, 2011 at 2:57 PM, marc garrett marc.garr...@furtherfield.orgwrote: Every day the same dream, by Molleindustria, is a slightly existential riff on theme of alienation refusal of labor

Re: [NetBehaviour] Furtherfield is looking for new Reviewers.

2011-09-07 Thread Ana Valdés
Thanks Marc, I wrote to your private adress to discuss details :) Ana On Thu, Sep 8, 2011 at 12:20 AM, marc garrett marc.garr...@furtherfield.org wrote: Hi Ana, Just wanted to get back to you regarding reviews... Really glad you want to give it another bash :-) If you send us stuff, we

Re: [NetBehaviour] Furtherfield is looking for new Reviewers.

2011-09-07 Thread Ana Valdés
by the way my letter come back, failure, don't you have marc.garr...@furtherfield.org anymore? Ana On Thu, Sep 8, 2011 at 12:48 AM, marc garrett marc.garr...@furtherfield.org wrote: Aha, Thanks Ana sorry list - will check for that private email... Still catching up with all the emails.

Re: [NetBehaviour] Furtherfield is looking for new Reviewers.

2011-09-05 Thread Ana Valdés
Marc, I am going to make a new try. But again, the problem is my lack of language skills :( It means, I am fluent with Spanish and Swedish but my written English is not perfect :( if you can bear with me and make small editions of my posts I am going to try to be consequent and send a few reviews

Re: [NetBehaviour] Turkle tops TED: 'Naked in the Infosphere: Post-privacy German Angst'

2011-08-17 Thread Ana Valdés
Thanks Ruth! I translated Turkles book Life On the Screen and it was briliant, how she described how the kids and the young deveoped a new culture of communication and multitasking. Ana On Wed, Aug 17, 2011 at 12:07 PM, ruth catlow ruth.cat...@furtherfield.orgwrote: TED can make me a bit grumpy

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