Re: [NetBehaviour] Maecenas

2017-10-18 Thread Rob Myers
On Wed, 18 Oct 2017, at 03:52 AM, Gretta Louw wrote: > Had another frustrating (yet, fundamentally unsurprising) incident > since I sent that email in which a museum director matter-of-factly > told me that all of the greatest artists in history were men Gn. > and

Re: [NetBehaviour] Maecenas

2017-10-17 Thread Rob Myers
19:10, Edward Picot wrote: >>>>> Can't we do something with this? Couldn't we create a conceptual >>>>> work of art that didn't actually exist at all - we could use some >>>>> ideas from Curt Cloninger's 'Essay About Nothing' to represent it >>>>>

Re: [NetBehaviour] Maecenas

2017-10-12 Thread Rob Myers
Administration tokens sound like a good way of funding art then. ;-) - Rob. On Thu, 12 Oct 2017, at 07:10 AM, Anthony Stephenson wrote: > Everyone knows the real money is in administration ;-) > > On Thu, Oct 12, 2017 at 7:00 AM, requ...@netbehaviour.org> wrote:>> >> >>> >> >>> I have a

Re: [NetBehaviour] Maecenas

2017-10-11 Thread Rob Myers
On Wed, 11 Oct 2017, at 12:58 AM, ruth catlow wrote: > Perfectly put Helen! > Art reframed as a new asset class for fractional ownership ain't my > idea of utopia. """Marly studied the quotations. Pollock was down again. This, she supposed, was the aspect of art that she had the most

Re: [NetBehaviour] Maecenas

2017-10-10 Thread Rob Myers
"Look upon my [net]works, ye mighty..." Here's a list of dead blockchains. >From 2014. https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=588413.0 The list has only grown since then. I was recently asked to exhibit a project from two years ago that I couldn't because the service it relied on was no

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

2017-09-28 Thread Rob Myers
Entities of code and rules are incorruptible and infallible (so it is said), they are not subject to distortive interventions by debased human institutions. They have no soul, it is true, but they also do not weigh on ours. They are Spirographs, not Stormbringer. The blockchain's metronymic,

[NetBehaviour] Links

2017-09-18 Thread Rob Myers
(Lots of these links are from the AOTB link.) "Demo Day" (featuring a project by me) - https://www.kunstraumllc.com/single-post/2017/09/13/DEMO-DAY "AOTB EPISODE 6 - BLOCKCHAIN NEWS RECAPPED" - https://soundcloud.com/artontheblockchain/aotb-episode-6-blockchain-news-recapped "Why Artists

[NetBehaviour] Art Is

2017-07-22 Thread Rob Myers
https://i0.wp.com/robmyers.org/wp-content/uploads/2017/07/art-is-2.0.png http://robmyers.org/2017/07/08/art-is-2-0/ “Art Is”, 2014/2017, DApp. People have argued about the definition of art for millennia. We finally have the techonomic means to settle this argument. In “Art Is”, people can

[NetBehaviour] Links

2017-07-22 Thread Rob Myers
Mez's work with Google Blocks is awesome - https://vr.google.com/objects/9Wf573zAEWr "Aymeric Mansoux: Sandbox Culture: A Study of the Application of Free and Open Source Software Licensing Ideas to Art and Cultural Production" - https://monoskop.org/log/?p=18777 "THE INTERSPECIES-TOKEN

Re: [NetBehaviour] Old Horizons: Installing Lambda MOO on localhost

2017-06-18 Thread Rob Myers
On Sun, 18 Jun 2017, at 09:40 PM, Alan Sondheim wrote: > > Thanks for the URL! I've bumped into Perry on LambdaMOO but not yduJ... > It's amazing how little resources it uses - It used to need a UNIX workstation, I think. Moore's law in action. :-) - Rob.

[NetBehaviour] Links

2017-06-18 Thread Rob Myers
"Do Androids Dream of Electric Copyright? Comparative Analysis of Originality in Artificial Intelligence Generated Works" - https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=2981304 Imogen Heap on the blockchain and music -

Re: [NetBehaviour] Old Horizons: Installing Lambda MOO on localhost

2017-06-18 Thread Rob Myers
I run a LambdaMOO instance on my Raspberry Pi. :-) LambdaMOO itself is still there. The wizards are still fixing bugs, just with their kids now - http://nosrednayduj.dreamwidth.org/7245.html - Rob. On Sun, 18 Jun 2017, at 04:45 PM, Alan Sondheim wrote: > > > Old Horizons: Installing Lambda

Re: [NetBehaviour] linux laptops

2017-05-28 Thread Rob Myers
From a Free Software point of view, anything with radio communication involved is hard because the chips that do the communication tend to use proprietary firmware (they are blobs of code with no source available). As a phone has at least one more channel of radio communication compared to a

Re: [NetBehaviour] Bad Shibe

2017-05-23 Thread Rob Myers
On Tue, 23 May 2017, at 10:59 AM, Edward Picot wrote: > I'm a bit late responding to this, but I just wanted to say I liked it. Thank you! > It's a bit of a stretch calling it a novella, when it's only about 5,000 > words long, and its weakness is that in story terms nothing much really >

[NetBehaviour] Links

2017-04-18 Thread Rob Myers
"No one really knows how the most advanced algorithms do what they do. That could be a problem." - https://www.technologyreview.com/s/604087/the-dark-secret-at-the-heart-of-ai/ "Models Beyond Understanding" -

[NetBehaviour] Links

2017-04-17 Thread Rob Myers
NO PLATFORM FOR ARISTOTLE - https://medium.com/@dctvbot/no-platform-for-aristotle-867a04c5da50 Telling children 'hard work gets you to the top' is simply a lie - https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2017/apr/14/children-hard-work-social-mobility-estate-background How the Six-Hour

Re: [NetBehaviour] Ghost in the shell

2017-04-17 Thread Rob Myers
:-D - Rob. On Sun, 16 Apr 2017, at 03:24 PM, James Morris wrote: > #!/bin/bash > cat < H4sIAKnt81gAA3VNKxbAMAzyuUINrg6xuewCezU7QE1u0Pu7pZ+tpkURIBDymUK+Qz6SCBoYzSIH > J7uqBSgwv90Grq4a8eCDxlEAi/qrnpHJlWsDWruWL3XQV1dPM8Kt2fSe2Nkj46CIvGsn48MSAQAA > EOF >

[NetBehaviour] Links

2017-03-22 Thread Rob Myers
Yes. I put this in my Ethereum Art market contract - http://theartlawblog.blogspot.com/2017/03/could-blockchain-pave-way-for-resale.html And while I'm at it, I worked on PostScript viruses in the early 90s - https://lamehackersguide.blogspot.ca/2017/02/weaponizing-postscript.html "Rarepepe

[NetBehaviour] Links

2017-03-01 Thread Rob Myers
New Black Quantum Futurism book/zine - http://blackquantumfuturism.bandcamp.com/merch/telescoping-effect-pt-1-book "No more fake orgasms: stop boosting the art world’s self-esteem" - https://www.a-n.co.uk/news/no-more-fake-orgasms-stop-boosting-the-art-worlds-self-esteem Downloadable version

[NetBehaviour] Links

2017-02-23 Thread Rob Myers
Attacking AI (I discussed this in "Art For Algorithms") - https://openai.com/blog/adversarial-example-research/ Entropy in social networks - https://www.cs.virginia.edu/~jlp/12.SOCINFO.pdf Technoshamanism - http://www.goethe.de/ins/br/lp/prj/eps/nsu/en16159670.htm Limiting free speech

[NetBehaviour] Links

2017-01-27 Thread Rob Myers
AI and Politics - https://www.facebook.com/groups/aiandpolitics/ "To use a concept from Gilles Deleuze, the Trump Insurgency is a nomadic war machine..." - https://medium.com/deep-code/situational-assessment-2017-trump-edition-d189d24fc046 "How Space Could Trigger a Future Economic Crisis"

Re: [NetBehaviour] Links

2017-01-18 Thread Rob Myers
On Wed, 18 Jan 2017, at 02:37 PM, Mark Hancock wrote: > Mark Fisher's passing has been really upsetting, in a way that hasn't > really had an impact on me with other theorists/writers. Maybe it's > that we were similiar ages? I only knew Mark through his writing but > it feels like a rent in the

[NetBehaviour] Links

2017-01-18 Thread Rob Myers
Mark Fisher, 1968–2017 - https://www.urbanomic.com/mark_fisher/ Mark Fisher RIP - http://www.ufblog.net/mark-fisher-rip/ Remembering Mark Fisher - http://thequietus.com/articles/21572-mark-fisher-rip-obituary-interview Mark Fisher’s K-punk blogs were required reading for a generation -

[NetBehaviour] Links

2017-01-13 Thread Rob Myers
"Project Of The Day: Detroit Community Technology Project" - https://blog.p2pfoundation.net/project-of-the-day-detroit-community-technology-project/2017/01/09 A first look at Artists' VR - http://www.nytimes.com/1992/07/05/arts/art-view-virtual-reality-is-it-art-yet.html?pagewanted=all The

[NetBehaviour] Links

2017-01-10 Thread Rob Myers
"Top 9 ethical issues in artificial intelligence" - https://www.weforum.org/agenda/2016/10/top-10-ethical-issues-in-artificial-intelligence "The Real Name Fallacy" - https://blog.coralproject.net/the-real-name-fallacy/ "The Question Concerning Technology in China" -

[NetBehaviour] Links

2017-01-05 Thread Rob Myers
It's past time to argue about the definition of "AI" and its political relevance... - http://www.bbc.com/news/world-asia-38521403 "Adventures in 3D" - https://medium.com/@feltron/adventures-in-3d-c3ddb0c60054 "The Utopian Origins of Restroom Symbols" -

[NetBehaviour] Links

2017-01-02 Thread Rob Myers
Black Quantum Futurism is totally awesome - http://www.blackquantumfuturism.com/ Black Quantum Futurism's music is totally awesome as well - https://blackquantumfuturism.bandcamp.com/ "The real story behind a viral Rembrandt ‘kids on phones’ photo" -

[NetBehaviour] Links

2016-12-30 Thread Rob Myers
"Go Pro: The Hyper-Professionalization of the Emerging Artist | ARTnews" - http://www.artnews.com/2016/03/09/go-pro-the-hyper-professionalization-of-the-emerging-artist/ "On a colony beyond Neptune, memory and experience do not run parallel", fiction by Amy Ireland - http://www.aft3r.us/phix/

[NetBehaviour] Links

2016-12-29 Thread Rob Myers
Interview with Luciana Parisi - http://figureground.org/interview-with-luciana-parisi/ "Obsolete Capitalism :: Acceleration, Revolution and Money in Deleuze and Guattari's Anti-Oedipus" - http://obsoletecapitalism.blogspot.ca/2016/11/out-now-obsolete-capitalism.html A-Frame (Web VR

[NetBehaviour] Links

2016-12-27 Thread Rob Myers
90% off Verso eBooks (including "Inventing the Future") - http://www.versobooks.com/blogs/3014-90-off-all-our-ebooks-until-january-1st?discount_code=endofyear2016 New VNS Matrix - http://www.runway.org.au/32/tenderhex/ Laboria Cuboniks interview -

[NetBehaviour] Links

2016-12-26 Thread Rob Myers
"A curated list of awesome TensorFlow experiments, libraries, and projects." - https://github.com/jtoy/awesome-tensorflow Shardcore's generative art - http://www.shardcore.org/shardpress/category/algorithmicart/ Web VR fundamentals - https://developers.google.com/web/fundamentals/vr

Re: [NetBehaviour] I saw this from Annie. It made me sad...and curious

2016-12-12 Thread Rob Myers
On 12/12/16 01:24 AM, Annie Abrahams wrote: let's continue the spirit + a Google. Err googol. - Rob. ___ NetBehaviour mailing list NetBehaviour@netbehaviour.org http://www.netbehaviour.org/mailman/listinfo/netbehaviour

Re: [NetBehaviour] FW: NetBehaviour Digest, Vol 2912, Issue 1

2016-12-01 Thread Rob Myers
On Wed, 30 Nov 2016, at 02:57 AM, ruth catlow wrote: > On 30/11/16 09:47, Charlotte Elizabeth Webb wrote: >> Last night I was watching Astra Taylor give a keynote for the 2016 >> Rhizome Seven on Seven event[1], and she made a good point that >> 'purity' re: Facebook (i.e. not being there on

Re: [NetBehaviour] The Blockchain- Change Everything Forever - a Furtherfield Film

2016-10-29 Thread Rob Myers
On 27/10/16 04:03 AM, ruth catlow wrote: > > Ben Vickers and I are going to be running a LARP (Live Action Role Play) > event for /Blockchain Budgetary Bliss /at the upcoming Moneylab > in Amsterdam. > We will be building paper-based Dapps and DAOs

Re: [NetBehaviour] neterarti down or a new dawn?

2016-10-29 Thread Rob Myers
On 27/10/16 12:40 AM, x wrote: > > Any idea/clue/s what happened to > https://neterarti.furtherfield.org ? I got the security certificate renewal wrong. :-( It's now fixed and neterarti is back. :-) - Rob. signature.asc Description: OpenPGP digital signature

Re: [NetBehaviour] PeerValue conference review on INC MoneyLab blog

2016-09-09 Thread Rob Myers
On Fri, 9 Sep 2016, at 02:54 AM, marc garrett wrote: > “The reason many people on the left are excited about proposals such > as universal basic income is that they acknowledge economic inequality > and its social consequences. However, a closer look at how UBI is > expected to work reveals that

Re: [NetBehaviour] Universal Basic Income Is a Neoliberal Plot To Make You Poorer

2016-08-08 Thread Rob Myers
On Mon, 8 Aug 2016, at 06:45 AM, furtherfield wrote: > Universal Basic Income Is a Neoliberal Plot To Make You Poorer > > By Dmytri Kleiner. > > The reason many people on the left are excited about proposals for a > Universal Basic Income (UBI) is that it acknowledges economic > inequality and its

Re: [NetBehaviour] It Had To Be Done

2016-07-27 Thread Rob Myers
On Tue, 26 Jul 2016, at 09:40 PM, Kath O'Donnell wrote: > Hi Rob, do you mean that the blockchain art is carried within the > blockchain itself? or does the blockchain contain a reference to the > artwork, where it exists externally (online/physical). how large is > each blockchain piece and can

[NetBehaviour] It Had To Be Done

2016-07-26 Thread Rob Myers
http://robmyers.org/2016/07/26/simple-blockchain-art-diagram/ Simple Blockchain Art Diagram, 2016, digital media. After MTAA ca. 1997. Very obviously adapted from MTAA's "Simple Net Art Diagram". Proofs of existence stored in Bitcoin block 422422 and 422423. More details on the project page.

Re: [NetBehaviour] Blockchain & Bureaucracy

2016-07-24 Thread Rob Myers
On 23/07/16 07:21 AM, ruth catlow wrote: > On 22/07/16 23:26, Rob Myers wrote: >> >> Yes there's a gulf between the world-changing rhetoric and the >> money-grubbing behaviour that is sadly familiar from past developments >> in tech. > WOW that's a thought! >

Re: [NetBehaviour] Blockchain & Bureaucracy

2016-07-22 Thread Rob Myers
On Fri, 22 Jul 2016, at 08:28 AM, ruth catlow wrote: > Another informative blog here from Max. > http://networkcultures.org/moneylab/2016/07/12/%C2%ADblockchain-bureaucracy/ > > It certainly reflects many of my encounters with blockchain-engaged > types in London so far. > It's hard to

Re: [NetBehaviour] Seapunk piece?

2016-05-28 Thread Rob Myers
On 21/05/16 06:12 AM, Simon Mclennan wrote: > Can anyone point me to that excellent piece that historicised sea punk > amongst other things. > About a month or so ago on this list?? > Can’t remember who wrote it, but they did a good job, and I would like to > read again if possible. The only

Re: [NetBehaviour] Potentially Harmful

2016-05-25 Thread Rob Myers
On Wed, 25 May 2016, at 07:17 AM, Antonio Roberts wrote: > I recently made an ident for MTV that was shown everywhere apart from > the UK. This was due to the ident containing "Potentially Harmful" > content. I've never worked in broadcast before and, whilst I know > flashing imagery should be

[NetBehaviour] More Accelerationist Links

2016-05-09 Thread Rob Myers
http://www.reinventinghorizons.org/?p=346 "The new realist and materialist philosophy and the new political theory which it explicitly inspired, assert that reality can be known and that change is possible. Rather than spell out here what this entails in the various currents of thought that range

Re: [NetBehaviour] Epistemic Accelerationism [Was Re: Accelerationism]

2016-05-09 Thread Rob Myers
On 05/05/16 10:46 PM, Kath O'Donnell wrote: > Serenity below sounds like IP VLAN address allocation? you manage your > allocated ranges assigned to you by an organization, which fit in with > the whole global IPv4/IPv6 range. IPv6 being the expanded range as IPv4 > is running out of spares. Yes,

Re: [NetBehaviour] Capitalism without its values, governance and pathologies

2016-05-09 Thread Rob Myers
On 06/05/16 03:46 AM, Przemyslaw Sanecki wrote: > Hi everybody, Hi! > from /#ACCELERATE (2013,Williams+Srnicek): > > / > > 03.1 (...) an accelerationist politics seeks to preserve the gains > of late capitalism while going further than its value system, > governance structures, and

Re: [NetBehaviour] Epistemic Accelerationism [Was Re: Accelerationism]

2016-05-05 Thread Rob Myers
On 05/05/16 10:25 PM, Rob Myers wrote: > as it seems to be in Sellars Cavell, not Sellars. I will get all the names right in one of these... ___ NetBehaviour mailing list NetBehaviour@netbehaviour.org http://www.netbehaviour.org/mailman/listi

Re: [NetBehaviour] Epistemic Accelerationism [Was Re: Accelerationism]

2016-05-05 Thread Rob Myers
On 04/05/16 12:18 PM, erik zepka wrote: > > Your point earlier about the problematic nature of normativity I think > can be approached via a notion of combining normativity with agency. > That is, if the Brandomian normativist is also a norm-creator > normativity becomes a rational construct

Re: [NetBehaviour] Just received word that Harold Cohen died :-(

2016-05-02 Thread Rob Myers
On Sun, 1 May 2016, at 12:47 PM, Alan Sondheim wrote: > > Rest in peace, very sad. Yes very sad. AARON (Cohen's project from the early 1970s onwards) was a singular achievement. Their website has images of work, and papers going back to the 1970s - http://aaronshome.com/aaron/index.html

[NetBehaviour] Epistemic Accelerationism [Was Re: Accelerationism]

2016-04-30 Thread Rob Myers
On 29/04/16 06:51 PM, erik zepka wrote: > > And when the questions, as both Ruth > and Alan have effectively talked about, get to a realm of inhuman > problematics, ecological, species-threatening, who should advise then? Deodands:

Re: [NetBehaviour] aesthetics examples ... forked from : Re: Accelerationist aesthetics

2016-04-30 Thread Rob Myers
On 29/04/16 06:59 AM, Pall Thayer wrote: > I love those NASA posters and actually have one hanging on my wall! I imagine ones with a similarly confident visual aesthetic and verbal phrasing presenting a future in which full automation / post-capitalism / etc. have already happened (and were

Re: [NetBehaviour] aesthetics examples ... forked from : Re: Accelerationist aesthetics

2016-04-30 Thread Rob Myers
On 29/04/16 06:42 AM, Alan Sondheim wrote: > > On Thu, 28 Apr 2016, Rob Myers wrote: > >> >> An ideal Accelerationist artwork would have been the Guerilla Girls' >> proposal for a gallery to make its finances public as "the work" (the >> gallery declin

Re: [NetBehaviour] Accelerationist health policy

2016-04-30 Thread Rob Myers
On 29/04/16 01:41 PM, Edward Picot wrote: > The Royal College of Physicians have just announced their approval of > e-cigarettes. There was a controversy about them in the States recently -

Re: [NetBehaviour] Accelerationism

2016-04-30 Thread Rob Myers
On 24/04/16 04:52 PM, Gretta Louw wrote: > Death to the ludicrous, imperialist notion of 'mastery'! >From the Manifesto: "14. [...] Real democracy must be defined by its goal — collective self-mastery. This is a project which must align politics with the legacy of the Enlightenment, to the

Re: [NetBehaviour] aesthetics examples ... forked from : Re: Accelerationist aesthetics

2016-04-29 Thread Rob Myers
On 24/04/16 03:22 AM, Annie Abrahams wrote: > > I just watched Ruth's work again, I like the reflexion it brings, how it > articulates all these times. Yes it increases our ability to reflect on and dare I say reason about this. Which is Accelerationist-y. It's a very eloquent work however one

Re: [NetBehaviour] aesthetics examples ... forked from : Re: Accelerationist aesthetics

2016-04-28 Thread Rob Myers
On 24/04/16 01:49 PM, Pall Thayer wrote: > It just occurred to me that this artwork has already been suggested by > Kurt Vonnegut in Rabo Karabekian's "Windsor Blue Number Seventeen". > > On Sun, Apr 24, 2016 at 2:18 PM Pall Thayer > wrote: > >

Re: [NetBehaviour] My name is [Your Name Here] and I am an Accelerationist

2016-04-28 Thread Rob Myers
On 24/04/16 02:42 PM, BishopZ wrote: > My name is Bishop Zareh and I don't know much about the topic, but like > what I have read so far. > > I really connected with the 3D Additivist Manifesto and its description > of a Junk Body, the body left behind by technology and obsolescence - > the

Re: [NetBehaviour] Accelerationism

2016-04-27 Thread Rob Myers
On 25/04/16 06:16 AM, Alan Sondheim wrote: > > A few pieces and others we did that might be germane - > > [...] > > Accessgrid pieces - in which we used a multi-channel linux conferencing > system to bounce signals around the world creating video echos of > speech/ sound/movement; the delays

Re: [NetBehaviour] Asteroid Mining For UBI

2016-04-27 Thread Rob Myers
On 27/04/16 01:27 PM, John Hopkins wrote: > On 27/Apr/16 12:14, Rob Myers wrote: > >> The initial environmental cost of shipping robots offworld to move the >> mining and refining there would very quickly become a net environmental >> and political gain. Strip mining,

Re: [NetBehaviour] Accelerationist aesthetics

2016-04-27 Thread Rob Myers
On Sat, 23 Apr 2016, at 05:15 AM, ruth catlow wrote: > So is this the accelerationist aesthetics question? > > Q. How can we as artists and people use the logics & tools of automation > and markets as part of making better art and better life for us all? That's a big question about a

Re: [NetBehaviour] Asteroid Mining For UBI

2016-04-27 Thread Rob Myers
m> wrote: >> On 26/Apr/16 21:39, Rob Myers wrote: >>> "One solitary asteroid might be worth trillions of dollars in >>> platinum and other metals. Exploiting these resources could lead to >>> a global boom in wealth, which could raise living standards >>

[NetBehaviour] Asteroid Mining For UBI

2016-04-26 Thread Rob Myers
I'm not back just yet but - https://theconversation.com/all-of-humanity-should-share-in-the-space-mining-boom-57740 "One solitary asteroid might be worth trillions of dollars in platinum and other metals. Exploiting these resources could lead to a global boom in wealth, which could raise living

Re: [NetBehaviour] Accelerationism

2016-04-25 Thread Rob Myers
On April 24, 2016 1:08:38 PM PDT, Anthony Stephenson wrote: >Doctors, lawyers and anyone who knows that what the market will bear >sometimes knows no limit, will only contribute this disparity until, >let’s >say, a personal version of something like Chile’s Cybersyn is made

Re: [NetBehaviour] aesthetics examples ... forked from : Re: Accelerationist aesthetics

2016-04-25 Thread Rob Myers
On April 24, 2016 3:22:53 AM PDT, Annie Abrahams wrote: > >What did I get out of the examples Rob gave in his article? They are >almost >all art, just art, as far as I can see. I'm going to respond to this (and Ruth's comments) after I'm back from hyperreality on Tuesday.

Re: [NetBehaviour] My name is [Your Name Here] and I am an Accelerationist

2016-04-24 Thread Rob Myers
On April 21, 2016 10:27:26 AM PDT, ruth catlow wrote: > >This is less about speed (as distinct from Futurism) than it is about >rates of change. > >The technologies that we use are bound up with with advanced >capitalism. >We watch our political and social

Re: [NetBehaviour] Accelerationism

2016-04-24 Thread Rob Myers
Some of the epistemic accelerationists are interested in the work of the philosopher Robert Brandom, who talks about rational, revisable norms. There's been some criticism of that from the point of view of "Risk Society" (Suhail Malik in Collapse Journal VIII). I'm uncomfortable about

Re: [NetBehaviour] Accelerate Marx [Was: Re: Accelerationism]

2016-04-24 Thread Rob Myers
, when we fall in love with our own cleverness, the problems >start. Cambodia stands as the most terrible practical warning here. >michael > > From: Rob Myers <r...@robmyers.org> >To: NetBehaviour for networked distributed creativity ><netbehaviour@netbehaviour.org>; M

[NetBehaviour] Accelerate Marx [Was: Re: Accelerationism]

2016-04-23 Thread Rob Myers
There's also the discussion of machines in the Grundrisse, which the "Accelerationist Reader" book starts with as "Fragment on Machines" (from "once adopted into the production process of capital, the means of labour passes through different metamorphoses, whose culmination is the machine"

Re: [NetBehaviour] Accelerationist aesthetics

2016-04-23 Thread Rob Myers
on is whether there is anything in one's own life or work that > > this strategy would be productive for. What could each of us better > > understand and reason about (in some sense) so as to be able to better > > change it? > > > > Both these points indicate somethi

Re: [NetBehaviour] Accelerationist aesthetics

2016-04-22 Thread Rob Myers
On 22/04/16 03:27 AM, ruth catlow wrote: > > Not that we all need to be in an unending frenzy of communication and > exchange. More that we have ever-more nuanced ways to sense the > significance of different kinds of participation: in a loop of unwitting > participation and active collaboration

Re: [NetBehaviour] My name is [Your Name Here] and I am an Accelerationist

2016-04-21 Thread Rob Myers
I think Haraway is a good historical example. Their Cyborg Manifesto was written against sclerotic essentialist-/eco- feminism and amidst the decline of left politics in the US during the Reagan era. They take the Cold War figure of the cyborg and re-purpose it to critique all of this. There are

Re: [NetBehaviour] My name is [Your Name Here] and I am an Accelerationist

2016-04-21 Thread Rob Myers
Regarding poetry and Acceleration, here's an interview with Amy Ireland about Xenopoetry (via Nick Land) - https://www.academia.edu/24546212/Poetry_is_Cosmic_War_Interview_ On Thu, 21 Apr 2016, at 08:16 AM, Paul Hertz wrote: > Hello, > > My name is Paul Hertz and I am a hodge-podge of

Re: [NetBehaviour] My name is [Your Name Here] and I am an Accelerationist

2016-04-21 Thread Rob Myers
On Thu, 21 Apr 2016, at 06:06 AM, Alan Sondheim wrote: > > does accelerationism deal with issues of > pollution, extinction, and so forth? Additivism is directly concerned with these. Contemporary Left Accelerationism is a resource for dealing with them if one wishes to do so. "Inventing The

Re: [NetBehaviour] My name is [Your Name Here] and I am an Accelerationist

2016-04-21 Thread Rob Myers
Heya. My name is Rob. I'm not (yet) an Accelerationist, I just play one on the Internet. As part of which I've written about Accelerationist themes for Furtherfield over the last couple of years. Most recently about "Accelerationist Art". On Thu, 21 Apr 2016, at 02:37 AM, ruth catlow wrote: >

Re: [NetBehaviour] review: Monetise Your Privilege with Schizo-Art Bollocks

2016-03-22 Thread Rob Myers
On 2016-03-22 04:04, marc garrett wrote: Hi Nathan, Thanks for posting this review of yours on Netbehaviour. All I can say right now (but will likely say more) is, Wow! This work sounds not only tedious, but also decadent and shallow, and reliant on other people's conditions of not being able

Re: [NetBehaviour] seeking advice on linux laptops & text animation software

2016-03-22 Thread Rob Myers
On 2016-03-22 06:41, helen varley jamieson wrote: hi everyone, i am seeking advice on 2 questions: firstly, i need to upgrade my laptop & have decided to make the transition to linux. mint has been recommended to me for the OS. does anyone out there have any advice regarding choice of

Re: [NetBehaviour] linux programs

2016-03-22 Thread Rob Myers
On 2016-03-22 09:53, Alan Sondheim wrote: Have a question myself. There was a program for the Zaurus, Calculon, which is an n-dimensional graphing program; it can handle apparently any number of dim. - at least through 5. So there are 3-d slices of whatever objects one is examining. The program

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

2016-01-21 Thread Rob Myers
On 2016-01-21 10:20, aharon wrote: On Thu, January 21, 2016 17:50, helen varley jamieson wrote: following people is a bit unintuitive; isn't there a way to follow someone from a post? Hi, just an idea. perhpas adding the quitter theme could make the interface more twitter-like/familiar..?

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

2016-01-21 Thread Rob Myers
On 2016-01-21 09:50, helen varley jamieson wrote: following people is a bit unintuitive; isn't there a way to follow someone from a post? Sadly not (with this theme), you first have to go to the user's profile page by clicking on their name above the post. - Rob.

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

2016-01-20 Thread Rob Myers
On 20/01/16 08:44 PM, Ana Valdés wrote: > I don't find any "follow" button. I want stalk a lot of great ppl :) At the top right there's a carefully hidden "Subscribe" button on people's profile pages (e.g. https://neterarti.furtherfield.org/marc ). There's a block button under that as well for

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

2016-01-20 Thread 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, but you need to know the user's name (and server if they're on a different one). > Can we do same things as twitter? Direct messages? DMs

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2016-01-16 Thread Rob Myers
"[T]he really dangerous forgers are the ones who can infiltrate and corrupt the core of the knowledge system upon which the art world relies" - http://theartlawblog.blogspot.com/2016/01/the-really-dangerous-forgers-are-ones.html From WIMP to ATLAS: Rhetorical Figures of Ubiquitous Computing -

Re: [NetBehaviour] Curatorator

2016-01-05 Thread Rob Myers
On 05/01/16 02:31 AM, dave miller wrote: > Hi Rob > I'm curious - what's happening here and how does it work? What's happening: This is a sketch of a system to operationalize curation. It's an automatic curator, or at least an automatic curation tool. Feed it an artist's name and it recommends a

[NetBehaviour] Curatorator

2016-01-04 Thread Rob Myers
http://robmyers.org/2015/12/30/curatorator/ "Operationalizing curation, after a presentation by the excellent Mohammad Salemy. The source code uses artsy.net’s API to find and rank similar artists and extract their shared themes. Here’s an example: Andy Warhol..."

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2016-01-04 Thread Rob Myers
A new replacement for VRML - https://aframe.io/examples/showcase/helloworld/ "This Ruthless Art Game Will Judge Your MS Paint Masterpieces" - http://motherboard.vice.com/read/this-ruthless-art-game-will-judge-your-ms-paint-masterpieces "Using Lasers to Temporarily Neutralize Camera Sensors"

Re: [NetBehaviour] Fog

2015-12-27 Thread Rob Myers
On 26/12/15 03:12 AM, mario santamaria wrote: > Dear List, > > ++ The fog machine is running… ++ > > The new Public Safety Act in Spain (Gag Law) limits the right of protest > and demonstration. It also punishes the communication and dissemination > of unauthorized protests. > "Fog

Re: [NetBehaviour] Links

2015-12-15 Thread Rob Myers
On 14/12/15 08:24 AM, ruth catlow wrote: > On 13/12/15 23:23, Rob Myers wrote: >> [Self Promotion] "Jerwood Encounters: Common Property seeks to >> demonstrate how artists engage with and relate to copyright" - >> >> http://jerwoodvisualarts.org/jerw

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2015-12-14 Thread Rob Myers
"Is there something unethical in contemporary criticism?" - http://thepointmag.com/2015/criticism/when-nothing-is-cool "Pirate politics: from accelerationism to escalationism?" - http://copyriot.se/2010/01/13/pirate-politics-from-accelerationism-to-escalationism/ "Towards a decentralized

Re: [NetBehaviour] This morning's backup...

2015-12-13 Thread Rob Myers
On 13/12/15 03:07 AM, marc garrett wrote: > This morning's backup... > [...] > /media/marc/marc_linux/usr > /media/marc/marc_linux/.doubleTwist > /media/marc/marc_linux/.fseventsd > /media/marc/marc_linux/.Spotlight-V100 > /media/marc/marc_linux/.TemporaryItems > /media/marc/marc_linux/.Trash-1000

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2015-12-13 Thread Rob Myers
[Self Promotion] "Jerwood Encounters: Common Property seeks to demonstrate how artists engage with and relate to copyright" - http://jerwoodvisualarts.org/jerwood-encounters-common-property-2 Classic AARON drawings for sale -

[NetBehaviour] Untangling the Tale of Ada Lovelace—Stephen Wolfram Blog

2015-12-13 Thread Rob Myers
A good grounding of Ada Lovelace's realised (first computer programmer) and thwarted (first tech startup CEO) achievements in the primary documents - http://blog.stephenwolfram.com/2015/12/untangling-the-tale-of-ada-lovelace/ "This is effectively the execution trace of a program that runs for 25

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

2015-12-12 Thread Rob Myers
Society may produce exceptional spaces though? On 12 December 2015 03:31:08 GMT-08:00, ruth catlow wrote: >I like his final statement- that the Internet is the same as society- >not an exceptional place. > > >On 12/12/15 11:24, marc garrett wrote: >> I've just

Re: [NetBehaviour] Bitcoin arrest Australia

2015-12-10 Thread Rob Myers
On 2015-12-10 06:34, Martin Zeilinger wrote: Hi Dave, I wasn't aware that Steven Wright was arrested, just that his home was raided. What I found interesting about that is that the raid seems to in response to his position that cryptocurrency should be treated as a proper currency for tax

Re: [NetBehaviour] Galleries and digital work

2015-12-03 Thread Rob Myers
On 03/12/15 07:34 AM, dave miller wrote: > "What if an artist’s work doesn’t fit - architecturally, conceptually, > traditionally - within a gallery’s programme? Increasing numbers of > artists working in socially engaged practice - where communities and > individual people, often unrelated to the

[NetBehaviour] Shareable Readymades

2015-11-25 Thread Rob Myers
I've finally written up "Shareable Readymades" - http://robmyers.org/2015/11/25/about-shareable-readymades/ And I also found some nice examples of them in the wild - http://robmyers.org/2015/11/24/shareable-readymades-watch/ - Rob. ___ NetBehaviour

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2015-11-19 Thread Rob Myers
"The Copy Bombs are my way of contributing to the free culture movement by encouraging the public to share images, audio, text and video in an unhindered way." - http://www.hellocatfood.com/copy-bomb/ "Ten graphs on organisational warfare" -

Re: [NetBehaviour] Selling digital art

2015-11-03 Thread Rob Myers
On 02/11/15 04:51 AM, Antonio Roberts wrote: >> Or you can sign prints or provide certificates of authenticity - > That still goes falls in line with the value being based on scarcity. > Each of the digital prints is still as authentic as the one before it. vs. >> You could crowdfund the edition

Re: [NetBehaviour] Selling digital art

2015-11-01 Thread Rob Myers
On 01/11/15 03:23 PM, Antonio Roberts wrote: > > My motivation behind this decision was my belief that the value of an > artwork should not be based on scarcity. +1 > If I had used expensive > materials or if making multiples was labour intensive then I could see > more justification in raising

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2015-10-30 Thread Rob Myers
"Saga is an embeddable platform that could change how artists display their work online" - http://www.factmag.com/2015/10/27/mat-dryhurst-saga-framework/ "BY-3D? Creative Commons Attribution and 3D Printing" -

Re: [NetBehaviour] Know Your Filesystem (and how it affects you)

2015-10-21 Thread Rob Myers
On 21/10/15 03:15 PM, Dave Young wrote: > > Thanks for the quote & question! To draw a minor correlation between my > text and this Illich quote – Illich wrote Tools for Conviviality in the > early 1970s, the same time the first GUI (Xerox Alto, later Star OS) > operating system was being

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