Re: [NetBehaviour] Michael's work

2015-01-06 Thread Joel Weishaus
The drawings and photographs are revelations as to how a creative mind cants the commonplace. They give me hope that there are still some humans who can/see/. -Joel On 1/6/2015 6:51 AM, Alan Sondheim wrote: Want to add my appreciation for Michael's recent pieces - one of the things I

Re: [NetBehaviour] Some thoughts about Linkedin

2015-01-05 Thread Joel Weishaus
Hi Dave; I don't know about Linkedin, but I've lived my life by taking many different jobs, which I used not only to stay alive. but also to learn various skills, and, most importantly, work alongside people in all strata of society, from sweatshops to executive offices. I felt, and feel,

Re: [NetBehaviour] interesting article on a subject close to my heart

2014-12-19 Thread Joel Weishaus
Hi James; It seems incongruous to me to say that Art (I assume you mean visual art) is more powerful even than the pen, while using the pen (I assume you mean writing) to say this. From at least the Upper Paleolithic, visual art has been a form of writing. And from the Neolithic on, writing

Re: [NetBehaviour] 4 paintings

2014-11-30 Thread Joel Weishaus
Better than Basquiat. On 11/30/2014 7:35 AM, michael szpakowski wrote: 4 more paintings for children and adults: currently here: https://www.flickr.com/photos/szpako/ permanent links: https://www.flickr.com/photos/szpako/15726012987/ https://www.flickr.com/photos/szpako/15725745189/

Re: [NetBehaviour] Cyberwar against St Louis / Ferguson

2014-11-24 Thread Joel Weishaus
No surprise. -Joel On 11/24/2014 6:41 PM, Alan Sondheim wrote: See images below: A Missouri grand jury has decided not to indict Ferguson police Officer Darren Wilson [www.cnn.com] in the August 9 shooting death of Michael Brown, prosecutor Robert McCulloch said Monday. The incident

Re: [NetBehaviour] a graduate art history class examines city college's art collection

2014-11-15 Thread Joel Weishaus
Hi Michael; All this work, which I've been looking through, is very engaging. I'm wondering if there's a philosophical core that holds it together. -Joel On 11/15/2014 10:26 AM, michael szpakowski wrote: https://www.flickr.com/photos/szpako/15610046710/ cheers michael

Re: [NetBehaviour] a graduate art history class examines city college's art collection

2014-11-15 Thread Joel Weishaus
wishes michael *From:* Joel Weishaus joelweish...@gmail.com *To:* michael szpakowski mich...@dvblog.org; NetBehaviour for networked distributed creativity netbehaviour@netbehaviour.org *Sent:* Saturday, November 15, 2014 7

Re: [NetBehaviour] a graduate art history class examines city college's art collection

2014-11-15 Thread Joel Weishaus
michael *From:* Joel Weishaus joelweish...@gmail.com *To:* michael szpakowski mich...@dvblog.org; Netbehaviour netbehaviour@netbehaviour.org *Sent:* Saturday, November 15, 2014 8:47 PM *Subject:* Re: [NetBehaviour] a graduate

Re: [NetBehaviour] A local web - article from Rhizome

2014-11-14 Thread Joel Weishaus
This all reminds me of something psychologist James Hillman wrote: a web of endless intricate relations---and no spider. -Joel On 11/13/2014 4:27 PM, Rob Myers wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 09/11/14 11:18 PM, ruth catlow wrote: This is article from Adam Rothstein

Re: [NetBehaviour] Omega Point

2014-11-14 Thread Joel Weishaus
This has been around for about 20 years, when Roger Penrose proposed it, and later Stuart Hameroff, an anesthesiologist, became aware of it, and developed it further. Hameroff has been hammered by physicists, because they see the brain as too wet and noisy for quantum vibrations; and by

Re: [NetBehaviour] Choosing Between 3 Strategies Against Netarchical Capital and its State Form

2014-11-11 Thread Joel Weishaus
of collectives, networking, peer production practices and social media, I think individuation needs to be held forth and clarified. -Joel -- Joel Weishaus Artist-in-Residence Engaged Humanities the Creative Life Program Depth Psychology, Jungian Archetypal Studies Pacifica Graduate Institute 249

Re: [NetBehaviour] book of primes, an altered book

2014-11-06 Thread Joel Weishaus
My favorite Szpakowski site remains (for the time being): https://www.flickr.com/photos/szpako/sets/72157625473925530 -Joel On 11/6/2014 9:08 AM, michael szpakowski wrote: book of primes, an altered book: https://www.flickr.com/photos/szpako/sets/72157649139453835/ japanese paints /or ink

Re: [NetBehaviour] Uncanny - The Visitors

2014-11-05 Thread Joel Weishaus
And Nicholas Royle wrote The Uncanny. -Joel On 11/5/2014 7:28 AM, Simon Mclennan wrote: A film of mine - THE VISITORS - is showing at Exploding Cinema on Friday in Nunhead. The Exploding Cinema is usually worth going to - diverse range of underground films and performance, well presented and

Re: [NetBehaviour] where arts graduates end up

2014-10-22 Thread Joel Weishaus
A college degree from an art department, or an art school, does not make anyone an artist. In any case, the media and the Art World have made the title meaningless. -Joel On 10/22/2014 4:17 PM, Rob Myers wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 22/10/14 05:44 AM, aharon

Re: [NetBehaviour] Rhizome's continuous decline

2014-10-17 Thread Joel Weishaus
The cutting edge always becomes dull. -Joel On 10/16/2014 7:33 PM, Pall Thayer wrote: I don't visit rhizome.org http://rhizome.org much any more but when I do... all they do is convince me more of their irrelevance. They recently posted what they refer to as Five Ambitious Commisions. Bear

Re: [NetBehaviour] New Digital Poetry!

2014-10-15 Thread Joel Weishaus
Beautiful Jason. Seems like you're a brilliant disciple of Apollinaire. -Joel. On 10/15/2014 6:22 AM, Jason Nelson wrote: All, Just wanted to share a new digital poem of mine: The Required Field http://www.dpoetry.com/field/ cheers, Jason Nelson -- Jason Nelson Net Art/Digital Poetry and

Re: [NetBehaviour] electronic poetry

2014-10-14 Thread Joel Weishaus
*Brazilian Digital Art and Poetry on the Web* http://www.vispo.com/misc/BrazilianDigitalPoetry.htm On 10/14/2014 3:44 AM, br...@netart.org.uy wrote: ;-) in southamerica there are good examples of e-poetry, e-narratives, etc. also there is a nice tradition of experimental poetry. another one i

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

2014-09-30 Thread Joel Weishaus
Annie; Thanks for the link. For-profit, now even not-for-profit, companies all begin by sounding like they are humanitarians, but as they become profitable their will to power, knows no limit, and unfortunately there is no limit imposed on them. Too big to fail,//means that in Wall Street's

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

2014-09-30 Thread Joel Weishaus
Feeling isolated is kind of weird when, without Facebook, et al. you have already more information resources and social contacts than anyone in the history of the planet. -Joel On 9/30/2014 12:59 PM, dave miller wrote: I left facebook about a year ago and don't miss it, though I feel

Re: [NetBehaviour] new art/essays ebook

2014-09-24 Thread Joel Weishaus
Nathan; Terrific, important, work. Thanks so much for this. -Joel -- Joel Weishaus Artist-in-Residence Engaged Humanities the Creative Life Program Depth Psychology, Jungian Archetypal Studies Pacifica Graduate Institute 249 Lambert Road Carpinteria, CA 93013 Homepage and Archives Portal

Re: [NetBehaviour] Event - Corporate Curation: Localhost Talks Series in Edinburgh, Scotland

2014-09-17 Thread Joel Weishaus
Not to worry. The best artists do not breed, original voices who are not seen (if seen at all) as curate-able, until late in life, if they live that long. In the long run (if there is one), Google will disappear and art will still be there. All that glitters is not gold. -Joel On 9/17/2014

Re: [NetBehaviour] IS it pre-history

2014-09-16 Thread Joel Weishaus
Ana; Thank you for this. It's an example of how artists can supply insight. Best, Joel On 9/16/2014 8:34 AM, Ana Valdés wrote: 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

Re: [NetBehaviour] ISIS prehistory

2014-09-16 Thread Joel Weishaus
At bottom, ISIS comes from a feeling of powerlessness, even by those who/look/ powerful. It's just the newest catchy acronym. When the media gets tired of one, another will pop-up. One is more violent than the last, just as one film is more violent than the one before. We're dealing with the

Re: [NetBehaviour] one per year

2014-09-15 Thread Joel Weishaus
/netbehaviour Got it. Thanks Curt. I will read it soon. -Joel -- Joel Weishaus Artist-in-Residence Engaged Humanities the Creative Life Program Depth Psychology, Jungian Archetypal Studies Pacifica Graduate Institute 249 Lambert Road Carpinteria, CA 93013 Homepage and Archives Portal: http

Re: [NetBehaviour] The privileged few are tightening their grip on the arts

2014-09-14 Thread Joel Weishaus
Right on, Michael. -Joel On 9/14/2014 9:30 AM, dave miller wrote: Brilliantly put - well said My greatest hope (and belief) is that sometime before I shuffle off we will show them how wrong they were - yes On 14 September 2014 17:03, michael szpakowski mich...@dvblog.org

Re: [NetBehaviour] The privileged few are tightening their grip on the arts

2014-09-14 Thread Joel Weishaus
Rob: I assume that your computer was manufactured by a corporation, so it is not strange it would tag the article as a scam. -Joel On 9/14/2014 11:39 AM, Rob Myers wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 14/09/14 03:12 AM, marc garrett wrote: The privileged few are

Re: [NetBehaviour] [spectre] post-doc grant programme (blocked postings)

2014-09-06 Thread Joel Weishaus
., first need to appear, and not those who are academics (to take your side), but (self)educated amateurs. Edward has the talent! -Joel On 9/6/2014 1:00 PM, Rob Myers wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 04/09/14 06:24 PM, Joel Weishaus wrote: Interesting that we're

Re: [NetBehaviour] [spectre] post-doc grant programme (blocked postings)

2014-09-06 Thread Joel Weishaus
Isabel; You're right to call me on this. What I had in mind is that awards (I mean by this blue ribbons) tend to make some artists think that they can get away with whatever they make as long as they sign it. (Duchamp). I shouldn't have included grants. However, with rising prices, only the

Re: [NetBehaviour] [spectre] post-doc grant programme (blocked postings)

2014-09-06 Thread Joel Weishaus
artists; they'd probably just give up and get a better paying job elsewhere :-) On 7 September 2014 08:59, Joel Weishaus joelweish...@gmail.com mailto:joelweish...@gmail.com wrote: Isabel; You're right to call me on this. What I had in mind is that awards (I mean by this blue

Re: [NetBehaviour] [spectre] post-doc grant programme (blocked postings)

2014-09-06 Thread Joel Weishaus
think of giving it up :-) On 7 September 2014 10:22, Joel Weishaus joelweish...@gmail.com mailto:joelweish...@gmail.com wrote: Hi Isabel; But isn't it sad, in view of the sacrifices past artists were willing to make, at least when they were young, as with Picasso, and many

Re: [NetBehaviour] [spectre] post-doc grant programme (blocked postings)

2014-09-04 Thread Joel Weishaus
The invasion of art by a corporation is not new, if we think of the Catholic Church during the Renaissance. But it is very dangerous, especially with a nascent art. The danger is that it will be poisoned it at its roots. And with an art that draws its tools from the business world, the alarm

Re: [NetBehaviour] [spectre] post-doc grant programme (blocked postings)

2014-09-04 Thread Joel Weishaus
Thanks Rob. Best, Joel On 9/4/2014 4:25 PM, Rob Myers wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 03/09/14 11:24 AM, Joel Weishaus wrote: Rob; Is there a link to this story? - From my Links the other day: http://www.theepochtimes.com/n3/902625-computers-can-find-similarities

Re: [NetBehaviour] [spectre] post-doc grant programme (blocked postings)

2014-09-04 Thread Joel Weishaus
. It is the kind of art history practiced in today’s universities, rather than the auction houses, that is asking precisely these bigger questions. -Joel On 9/4/2014 4:25 PM, Rob Myers wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 03/09/14 11:24 AM, Joel Weishaus wrote: Rob

Re: [NetBehaviour] [spectre] post-doc grant programme (blocked postings)

2014-09-04 Thread Joel Weishaus
/09/14 05:19 PM, Joel Weishaus wrote: I think you're wrong about this. She concludes: There was, until recently, virtually no art history that ever asked how women or African-Americans, or non-Europeans 'influenced' the direction of art, or even traced any kind of links between such artists

Re: [NetBehaviour] [spectre] post-doc grant programme (blocked postings)

2014-09-03 Thread Joel Weishaus
Rob; Is there a link to this story? Thanks, Joel On 9/3/2014 10:37 AM, Rob Myers wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 03/09/14 05:10 AM, { brad brace } wrote: artworld-history fosters socially irresponsible financial ponzi/tax-evasion I recently read an article

Re: [NetBehaviour] Fwd: The New Sublime, opening party, this Friday

2014-09-02 Thread Joel Weishaus
My wife giving a paper on Lacan and the sublime, at Cambridge U. next week, so it seems the word is in. The dictionary says sublime means impressing the mind with a sense of grandeur or power; inspiring awe, veneration, etc So what is new about the New Sublime? -Joel On 9/2/2014 8:30 AM, Rob

Re: [NetBehaviour] Fwd: The New Sublime, opening party, this Friday

2014-09-02 Thread Joel Weishaus
Myers wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 02/09/14 11:08 AM, Joel Weishaus wrote: My wife giving a paper on Lacan and the sublime, at Cambridge U. next week, so it seems the word is in. The dictionary says sublime means impressing the mind with a sense of grandeur or power

Re: [NetBehaviour] ISIS NEWFLAG

2014-08-28 Thread Joel Weishaus
What's new is a global market and global communications. So that now we can see how pervasive, how common, how /ordinary/, as Hannah Arendt said, human greed/power/insanity is, whose shadow, since WW II, is cast on a global scale. Marshall McLuhan once pointed out that in order to meet an

Re: [NetBehaviour] Abramovic 512 Hours

2014-08-23 Thread Joel Weishaus
I wish I could be as generous as some posts on this thread; but she reminds me of Kafka's Hunger Artist; only here it's the spectators who are starving. -Joel On 8/23/2014 11:18 AM, dave miller wrote: I just tried to see the show but had to give up as the queues were 3 hours long, and they

Re: [NetBehaviour] NetBehaviour Digest, Vol 2103, Issue 1

2014-08-19 Thread Joel Weishaus
Liu was the Chair of The University of California Santa Barbara's English Department when I was a Visiting Scholar there.Thus, I know that his vision is more complex than it seems on the book's surface. Although I don't agree with much that he has to say, I think it's important know what he

Re: [NetBehaviour] Are hipsters ruining urban communities? - CNN.com

2014-08-18 Thread Joel Weishaus
You may want to take a look at Alan Liu's. The Laws of Cool. http://www.amazon.com/The-Laws-Cool-Knowledge-Information/dp/0226486990/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8qid=1408371006sr=8-1keywords=Alan+Liu -Joel On 8/14/2014 10:27 AM, Bezdomny wrote: Let's start the movement post cool or better yet oblomov

Re: [NetBehaviour] Fwd: [Open Design + Hardware] Invitation to submit a session for Mozfest 2014: Art of the Web

2014-08-12 Thread Joel Weishaus
for free, Digital Art made for the Internet is hostage to corporations. It's a situation of control that, as far as I know, artists, and their audience, have never faced before. -Joel Joel Weishaus Artist-in-Residence Engaged Humanities the Creative Life Program Depth Psychology, Jungian Archetypal

Re: [NetBehaviour] six drawings based on wallace stevens 'anecdote of the jar'

2014-08-12 Thread Joel Weishaus
It's always good to see someone gifted in the basics of art, such as drawing. And these are amazing! -Joel On 8/12/2014 9:33 AM, Edward Picot wrote: Michael - I particularly like the third one and the last one, both of which give a real feeling of the solidity and glassiness of the jar.

Re: [NetBehaviour] six drawings based on wallace stevens 'anecdote of the jar'

2014-08-12 Thread Joel Weishaus
Why? On 8/12/2014 12:17 PM, michael szpakowski wrote: thanks Joel Edward. gifted in the basics of art fills me with intense anxiety though :) cheers michael *From:* Joel Weishaus joelweish...@gmail.com

Re: [NetBehaviour] six drawings based on wallace stevens 'anecdote of the jar'

2014-08-12 Thread Joel Weishaus
at least, would be flying under false colours... I wrote a piece called learning to draw in public -it's here http://www.michaelszpakowski.org/ and it enlarges upon my uncertainties at some length... cheers michael From: Joel Weishaus joelweish...@gmail.com

Re: [NetBehaviour] Dementia

2014-08-10 Thread Joel Weishaus
How can one talk about the posthuman, or the latest software, and say that research can't solve dementia or Alzheimer's? Are our engineer's smarter than our biologists? I think it's a matter of where you put your research money, what you value. Presently it's going for weapon systems that kill

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

2014-08-10 Thread Joel Weishaus
Michael; Thanks for these pictures. What's most important is that Jewish people around the world demonstrate against the Israeli government and its military thugs, which acts as though it represents them. -Joel On 8/10/2014 3:51 AM, michael szpakowski wrote: 150,000 on the streets of

Re: [NetBehaviour] Links

2014-08-10 Thread Joel Weishaus
I must remember to save my old socks! -Joel On 8/10/2014 12:46 PM, Rob Myers wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 A screenshot of a 4chan post pondering the nature of art has raked in $90,900 in an eBay auction. -

Re: [NetBehaviour] some new work

2014-08-09 Thread Joel Weishaus
Strangely, it reminded me of Bill Viola's early work. -Joel On 8/9/2014 7:53 AM, c...@lab404.com wrote: Hi Annie and Alan, Yes, Richard Long. I was actually thinking of Robert Smithson's site/non-site with the two categories onsite/online. Annie, I went up there without any source

Re: [NetBehaviour] Dementia

2014-08-08 Thread Joel Weishaus
Hi Edward; I found this both chilling and compassionate, a piece of art more important than what the Art World can tolerate. So, the blackbird is still circling? Warmly, Joel On 8/7/2014 10:17 AM, Edward Picot wrote: A text-animation (with sound) on the subject of dementia. On my site:

Re: [NetBehaviour] Transmediale 2015 CAPTURE ALL Call for Works / Deadline Reminder : 10 August 2014

2014-08-08 Thread Joel Weishaus
Doesn't we're looking for put everything submitted into a quantifiable matrix? Perhaps the only true artists these days are ghosts who haunt only themselves. -Joel On 8/8/2014 3:55 AM, marc garrett wrote: Transmediale 2015 CAPTURE ALL Call for Works / Deadline Reminder : 10 August 2014

Re: [NetBehaviour] some new work

2014-08-08 Thread Joel Weishaus
critique is that I'd rather the hand not be shown opening the shack's door, as it took me out of the weirdly inclusive atmosphere. Best, Joel -- Joel Weishaus Artist-in-Residence Engaged Humanities the Creative Life Program Depth Psychology, Jungian Archetypal Studies Pacifica Graduate

Re: [NetBehaviour] Artists virtually gatecrash Google's DevArt Barbican exhibit

2014-08-05 Thread Joel Weishaus
Alan; I certainly agree with you. If iyour work any culturally redeeming value, which I'm sure it does, then what Google is doing is unconstitutional. We fought this battle before, with banned books. It's a very important fight! There must be an organization whose lawyers you can turn to for

Re: [NetBehaviour] Artists virtually gatecrash Google's DevArt Barbican exhibit

2014-08-01 Thread Joel Weishaus
Of course art has always had to interface with commercial culture, but the harsh realities of the commercial world is not the point. If you're an artist, you belong to a tradition that is older than Google by at least forty thousand years. Living and working with this in mind is what's most

Re: [NetBehaviour] I am just going outside and may be some time

2014-07-31 Thread Joel Weishaus
Michael; As I went through these pictures, several times, I really was amazed at how much brilliance there is. Warmly, Joel On 7/30/2014 4:29 AM, michael szpakowski wrote: https://www.flickr.com/photos/szpako/14592777697/ cheers michael ___

[NetBehaviour] The Art World

2014-07-25 Thread Joel Weishaus
A novel that gives a lot of information on the Art Market---perhaps too much, as it takes away from character development and from the story itself--is Noah Charney's. The Art Thief. In nonfiction, Jed Perl's, Eyewitness: Reports From an Art World in Crisis, is very worthwhile (and inexpensive

Re: [NetBehaviour] Dr Hairy in: Big.Data, part 2

2014-07-25 Thread Joel Weishaus
Edward; Scarier than ever. By the way, I read recently that your Prime Minister is angling to sell the NHS to Wall Street (as part of Obama's Grand Neo-Liberal Treaty) and give England the expensive, inefficient, screwed-up health system with which we in the US suffer. -Joel On 7/24/2014

Re: [NetBehaviour] sad news

2014-07-20 Thread Joel Weishaus
This is valuable work. What a loss this artist leaving us is! -Joel On 7/20/2014 3:00 AM, ruth catlow wrote: Hello, Thank you for letting us know Annie. I feel so sorry that I will never meet Yann and find out more about his work with networks. As x-arn.org, along with Gregoire Cliquet

Re: [NetBehaviour] fear of networked creativity

2014-07-19 Thread Joel Weishaus
... Cheers Joel, Simon On 19 Jul 2014, at 00:02, Joel Weishaus joelweish...@gmail.com mailto:joelweish...@gmail.com wrote: Hi Simon; I wasn't aware that I made that particular link. But I do agree with everything you say, except for inert rocks, as everything moves. Some rocks just move very

Re: [NetBehaviour] Links

2014-07-13 Thread Joel Weishaus
in a specific culture find pleasing. This is where the artist differs, as there is no algorithm for what's beautiful the imagination obeys. -Joel -- Joel Weishaus Artist-in-Residence Engaged Humanities the Creative Life Program Depth Psychology, Jungian Archetypal Studies Pacifica Graduate Institute 249

Re: [NetBehaviour] some new drawings and photos

2014-07-07 Thread Joel Weishaus
Hi Michael; I remember a series on Stevens' Blackbird poem done maybe in a different century. Was that Edward? Or you? -Joel On 7/7/2014 12:32 PM, michael szpakowski wrote: Had a bit of a burst of activity recently: https://www.flickr.com/photos/szpako cheers michael

Re: [NetBehaviour] some new drawings and photos

2014-07-07 Thread Joel Weishaus
: Joel Weishaus joelweish...@gmail.com To: michael szpakowski mich...@dvblog.org; NetBehaviour for networked distributed creativity netbehaviour@netbehaviour.org Cc: Sent: Monday, July 7, 2014 8:56 PM Subject: Re: [NetBehaviour] some new drawings and photos Hi Michael; I remember a series

Re: [NetBehaviour] photos with people for contrast to london street

2014-07-01 Thread Joel Weishaus
. - Original Message - From: Joel Weishaus joelweish...@gmail.com To: NetBehaviour for networked distributed creativity netbehaviour@netbehaviour.org Cc: Sent: Tuesday, July 1, 2014 2:57 AM Subject: Re: [NetBehaviour] photos with people for contrast to london street Hi James; People in public act out

Re: [NetBehaviour] photos with people for contrast to london street

2014-06-30 Thread Joel Weishaus
Hi James; People in public act out. This acting out reveals a part of themselves, ourselves, not displayed in the (shrinking) zone of privacy. For example, the banker is aware that he or she has a role to play, and thus self-consciously looks and walks like a banker. I see some of this

Re: [NetBehaviour] recursion: a performance on Flickr

2014-06-29 Thread Joel Weishaus
Hi Michael; There's so much to like here! Strange, for example, how people look being themselves on a public street! So much, just so much. An embarrassment of glitches. Warmly, Joel -- Joel Weishaus Artist-in-Residence Engaged Humanities the Creative Life Program Depth Psychology, Jungian

Re: [NetBehaviour] infinite war

2014-06-13 Thread Joel Weishaus
Killing is only the means. War's objective, at least in the US, is to make money for corporations. Everything is becoming this, from elections to education. -Joel On 6/12/2014 7:38 PM, Pall Thayer wrote: The code was kind of blurted out. But thinking about it afterwards, it makes sense...

Re: [NetBehaviour] infinite war

2014-06-13 Thread Joel Weishaus
a morally corrupt system takes it for granted, which is what we see now. -Joel On 6/13/2014 10:27 AM, Alan Sondheim wrote: Not just corporations, the long slow domestic war is for religion and staes' rights and white male dominancy. On Fri, 13 Jun 2014, Joel Weishaus wrote: Killing is only

Re: [NetBehaviour] My thoughts on Theory in 2014

2014-06-13 Thread Joel Weishaus
One day the Zen Master said, Everything is an illusion. The next day the Master said, Nothing is an illusion. -Joel On 6/13/2014 1:01 PM, Alan Sondheim wrote: On Fri, 13 Jun 2014, Rob Myers wrote: Kraussian obsolete media doesn't work in Internet time. Everything is already obsolete

[NetBehaviour] The Lost Way of Stones 25-30

2012-02-05 Thread Joel Weishaus
Joel Weishaus Honorary Fellow, Department of English, 3431 South Hall University of California Santa Barbara, CA 93106-9580 Digital Archive: www.cddc.vt.edu/host/weishaus/index.htm Paper Archive: http://rmoa.unm.edu/docviewer.php?docId=nmu1mss456bc.xml

Re: [NetBehaviour] Learn to draw

2012-01-24 Thread Joel Weishaus
Edward; Of course I agree with you here. A healthy culture has many critics who have different viewpoints of a piece of literary or visual work. The important thing, I suggest, is to develop knowledgeable, thoughtful, and courageous critics, and also media that will publish (and pay!) them.

Re: [NetBehaviour] Human rights community speaks out on PROTECT IP Act (2012).,,“As human rights and press freedom advocates, we write to express our deep concern about S. 968, the PROTECT IP Act (PIP

2012-01-18 Thread Joel Weishaus
I joined Google's protest, as I figure that will draw the largest amount of people. Just go to Google's site. -Joel - Original Message - From: marc garrett To: NetBehaviour for networked distributed creativity Sent: Wednesday, January 18, 2012 4:07 AM Subject: [NetBehaviour]

[NetBehaviour] Bill Moyers

2012-01-18 Thread Joel Weishaus
I strongly recommend Bill Moyers' program, which began again this week, and can be seen here (I hope out of the US too!): http://billmoyers.com/episode/on-winner-take-all-politics/ -Joel___ NetBehaviour mailing list NetBehaviour@netbehaviour.org

[NetBehaviour] This says it all

2012-01-18 Thread Joel Weishaus
Democrats have announced they will move outdoors on the final night of their national convention in September so President Obama can accept the nomination before a larger crowd. Obama will deliver his acceptance speech at Charlotte’s Bank of America Stadium. From, Democracy Now!

Re: [NetBehaviour] Learn To Draw

2012-01-16 Thread Joel Weishaus
. best Simon On 16 Jan 2012, at 15:35, Joel Weishaus wrote: Simon; I agree that everyone can do something--I think that's what Beuys meant---, but I am talking about the gifted artist. Just like everyone with a normal body can run, but very few can

Re: [NetBehaviour] fail better

2012-01-15 Thread Joel Weishaus
In the taking of a photograph, time is condensed into a moment or two. While in making a drawing, time is spread out. Of course, if one works with photographs, such as in a darkroom, or with Photoshop, the difference is just a matter of technique. Also, I was going to say that we take a

Re: [NetBehaviour] fail better

2012-01-15 Thread Joel Weishaus
Simon; I've found taking photographs rewarding because the camera seems to have a mind of its own. Even a digital camera is still a magic lantern. As for writing code, I personally agree with you. The computer to me is a tool; although, to paraphrase the poet Gary Snyder, Tools. Now there's a

Re: [NetBehaviour] Learn To Draw

2012-01-15 Thread Joel Weishaus
Hi Simon; I agree with you, up to a point. And that is, in every art, there is always the mystery of talent. Some have it; others, no matter how hard they work, never will be gifted. -Joel - Original Message - From: Simon Biggs To: NetBehaviour for networked distributed

Re: [NetBehaviour] fail better

2012-01-14 Thread Joel Weishaus
Hi Michael; I like the drawings being held in front of the scene, and the page torn from the pad. -Joel - Original Message - From: Michael Szpakowski To: netbehaviour Sent: Saturday, January 14, 2012 3:42 AM Subject: [NetBehaviour] fail better

[NetBehaviour] Fw: fail better

2012-01-14 Thread Joel Weishaus
at the moment... I know that drawing is something I really want to keep doing. warm wishes michael -- From: Joel Weishaus weish...@pdx.edu To: Michael Szpakowski szp...@yahoo.com; NetBehaviour

[NetBehaviour] Fw: The Lost Way of Stones 15-20

2012-01-08 Thread Joel Weishaus
Regards and Happy New Year to all. Joel Joel Weishaus Honorary Fellow, Department of English, 3431 South Hall University of California Santa Barbara, CA 93106-9580 Digital Archive: www.cddc.vt.edu/host/weishaus/index.htm Paper Archive: http://rmoa.unm.edu/docviewer.php?docId=nmu1mss456bc.xml

Re: [NetBehaviour] Learn To Code

2012-01-06 Thread Joel Weishaus
Can you give the link again? Thanks, Joel - Original Message - From: giselle beiguelman To: NetBehaviour for networked distributed creativity Sent: Friday, January 06, 2012 5:31 PM Subject: Re: [NetBehaviour] Learn To Code in! gb 2012/1/6 Rob Myers r...@robmyers.org

Re: [NetBehaviour] invitation to a show in Norwich

2011-12-14 Thread Joel Weishaus
Michael; Congratulations. What are you showing there? Warm Regards, Joel - Original Message - From: Michael Szpakowski To: netbehaviour Sent: Wednesday, December 14, 2011 2:20 AM Subject: [NetBehaviour] invitation to a show in Norwich Hi if anyone is in or near Norwich

Re: [NetBehaviour] How art killed our cult your

2011-11-28 Thread Joel Weishaus
But didn't it begin with Duchamp? -Joel - Original Message - From: Rob Myers To: netbehaviour@netbehaviour.org Sent: Monday, November 28, 2011 11:30 AM Subject: Re: [NetBehaviour] How art killed our cult your On 28/11/11 12:54, IR3ABF wrote: Andy Warhol did it!

[NetBehaviour] Well-Written piece on Warhol and Art

2011-11-26 Thread Joel Weishaus
http://moreintelligentlife.com/content/arts/a-one-man-market?page=full___ NetBehaviour mailing list NetBehaviour@netbehaviour.org http://www.netbehaviour.org/mailman/listinfo/netbehaviour

Re: [NetBehaviour] Why I'm not visiting UC Davis in April. By AlexGalloway.

2011-11-22 Thread Joel Weishaus
This is deja vu to me, as I was involved in the Free Speech Movement at Berkeley during 1960s and the concurrent Anti-Vietnam War Movement. Not only has nothing changed, it's gotten much worse. (There was no tuition at California public universities then; that is, pre-Ronald Reagan.) The police

Re: [NetBehaviour] UCDavis events

2011-11-22 Thread Joel Weishaus
A good outcome would be if the two cops, and perhaps the person who ordered them to use the chemical, could be brought up on assault charges, not just suspended with pay, which is an insult to the students. In a democracy, or what's left of it, non-violent protestors need legal protection from

[NetBehaviour] Poet-Bashing Police

2011-11-20 Thread Joel Weishaus
http://www.nytimes.com/2011/11/20/opinion/sunday/at-occupy-berkeley-beat-poets-has-new-meaning.html?_r=1pagewanted=all___ NetBehaviour mailing list NetBehaviour@netbehaviour.org http://www.netbehaviour.org/mailman/listinfo/netbehaviour

[NetBehaviour] The 1% are the very best destroyers of wealth the world has ever seen

2011-11-14 Thread Joel Weishaus
An interesting article on the psychopathology of wealth in our present economy. In a study published by the journal Psychology, Crime and Law, Belinda Board and Katarina Fritzon tested 39 senior managers and chief executives from leading British businesses. They compared the results to the same

Re: [NetBehaviour] QR poem

2011-11-13 Thread Joel Weishaus
Hi Peter; Interesting, as always. I have my own thoughts about this, but why QR? Warm Regards, Joel - Original Message - From: Peter ciccariello To: Peter Ciccariello Sent: Thursday, November 10, 2011 11:53 AM Subject: [NetBehaviour] QR poem “QR poem” – on invisible

Re: [NetBehaviour] cleaner scrubs modern art

2011-11-13 Thread Joel Weishaus
Interesting is, The prospect of a restoration by the artist is slim, since Kippenberger died in 1997, as it holds out some prospect. -Joel - Original Message - From: ruth catlow To: NetBehaviour for networked distributed creativity Sent: Sunday, November 13, 2011 6:41 AM

[NetBehaviour] The End of Keyboards and Monitors

2011-11-10 Thread Joel Weishaus
http://news.yahoo.com/blogs/this-could-be-big-abc-news/death-keyboards-monitors-omnitouch-202115388.html___ NetBehaviour mailing list NetBehaviour@netbehaviour.org http://www.netbehaviour.org/mailman/listinfo/netbehaviour

[NetBehaviour] An Apple for the Teacher

2011-11-05 Thread Joel Weishaus
Remember when Apple was the hip company? Now it's all for profit anyway it can get away with. While Microsoft, after many lawsuits, seems to have learned its lesson. http://www.nytimes.com/2011/11/05/technology/apple-woos-educators-with-trips-to-silicon-valley.html?_r=1hpw=pagewanted=all

[NetBehaviour] US Near Bottom in Social Justice

2011-10-27 Thread Joel Weishaus
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2011/10/27/social-justice_n_1035363.html___ NetBehaviour mailing list NetBehaviour@netbehaviour.org http://www.netbehaviour.org/mailman/listinfo/netbehaviour

Re: [NetBehaviour] Taking the Protests to the Art World

2011-10-23 Thread Joel Weishaus
Hi Marc; And prehistory, as what we call history begins with what we call writing. While art extends much further back than written languages. Many prehistories are now being taken seriously, mainly by archaeologists. As for the transdisciplinary. This is to where art traces its roots, so that

Re: [NetBehaviour] Taking the Protests to the Art World

2011-10-22 Thread Joel Weishaus
This is strange because the Art Market has been like this--an investment market for the rich--for centuries, and the only thing most artists did was try break into it. In any case, this protest is a good thing for art, and I hope it spreads to the Art World, which is much larger than New York

Re: [NetBehaviour] Digital Parapsychology

2011-10-15 Thread Joel Weishaus
Ron; You may be interested in this project I did a few years ago: http://www.cddc.vt.edu/host/weishaus/Ghosts/text.htm Best, Joel - Original Message - From: Rob Myers To: NetBehaviour for networked distributed creativity Sent: Saturday, October 15, 2011 7:54 AM Subject:

[NetBehaviour] Fw: OccupyWallStreet and the #Climate Movement

2011-10-07 Thread Joel Weishaus
Dear friends, I'm writing from New York City, where the Occupy Wall Street movement is taking off. What started as a small group of young people with a vague call to action is evolving into something truly inspiring -- and our crew at 350.org is excited to support this nascent movement.Â

Re: [NetBehaviour] Is it art?

2011-10-03 Thread Joel Weishaus
Dave; Look at Hans Haacke's work, which is easily found with a search engine. On the other hand, I never thought writing political statements and passing them off as art, such as was in vogue in the 1980s, especially in New York, was good art. However, no matter how it's done, political art of

[NetBehaviour] Fear of Repression Spurs Scholars and Activists to Build Alternate Internets

2011-09-19 Thread Joel Weishaus
http://chronicle.com/article/College-20-Fear-of/129049/___ NetBehaviour mailing list NetBehaviour@netbehaviour.org http://www.netbehaviour.org/mailman/listinfo/netbehaviour

[NetBehaviour] A Thousand Poets for Change-Sept 24.

2011-09-11 Thread Joel Weishaus
Here's something positive, for a change: http://www.bigbridge.org/100thousandpoetsforchange/ -Joel___ NetBehaviour mailing list NetBehaviour@netbehaviour.org http://www.netbehaviour.org/mailman/listinfo/netbehaviour

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