Re: [NetBehaviour] Maecenas

2017-10-15 Thread ruth catlow
Not sure this is the best tool https://etherpad.net/p/MarlyStudiedTheQuotations but a place to start On 15/10/17 16:15, ruth catlow wrote: I'd be up for thinking this one through. Let's do it. On 13/10/17 20:34, Edward Picot wrote: Oops! Apologies for posting this twice. I thought the first

Re: [NetBehaviour] Maecenas

2017-10-15 Thread ruth catlow
Myers wrote: 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 s

Re: [NetBehaviour] The Binary Graffiti Club. Call to be involved.

2017-10-15 Thread ruth catlow
Ha ha! oops! Accidental post. But I think this may be of interest- chekkit! On 13/10/17 18:28, Stanza wrote: *The Binary Graffiti Club. Call to be involved.* We are looking for people to help us on Saturday 21st October from 12 - 5pm *Would you like to be part of something fun, arty,

Re: [NetBehaviour] The Binary Graffiti Club. Call to be involved.

2017-10-15 Thread ruth catlow
Hi Stanza, Sounds like fun. We have our own thing on that day (meditating with mushrooms in Finsbury Park;) But tweet it @furtherfield and we will spread the word. Also do join the Netbehaviour email list http://www.netbehaviour.org/mailman/listinfo/netbehaviour You may catch some interest

Re: [NetBehaviour] Maecenas

2017-10-11 Thread ruth catlow
en spending a lot of time puzzling over social media lately and think (horrifyingly) that the value of the latter is increasingly measured in instagram followers - we’re not yet at the point of openly sponsored posts, but indirectly I think it’s already happening… On 11. Oct 201

Re: [NetBehaviour] Maecenas

2017-10-11 Thread ruth catlow
Perfectly put Helen! Art reframed as a new asset class for fractional ownership ain't my idea of utopia. I have a question brewing - that I want to run by everyone - about the value of art and artists now and in the future. If anyone can tell me what that question is I'd be very interested

Re: [NetBehaviour] Apologies and URL

2017-10-02 Thread ruth catlow
Love this! Thanks for sending it Alan :) R On 29/09/17 00:31, Alan Sondheim wrote: http://eyebeam.org/stopwork/resource-for-teachers-library-of-collaborative-methods/ Bad karma sending this out, here's the resource URL - Apologies again, Alan

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

2017-10-02 Thread ruth catlow
Hi Annie, Edward, Alan and Rob Many many thanks to you all as always for your help processing this stuff. Some thoughts in no particular order: Annie, I share many of your misgivings. Like many blockchain projects Plantoid asserts all kinds of equivalences between living and machine systems

Re: [NetBehaviour] trAce, LOST project

2017-09-04 Thread ruth catlow
Thanks for posting this Tamar. This makes me reflect on the pathology of the hype surrounding the Internet of Things that suggests that life can be improved by knowing where every "thing" is at every moment, and then making it "do" something for us. On 03/09/17 11:27, Tamar Schori -

[NetBehaviour] Plans for a new regular cryptoparty in London

2017-08-27 Thread ruth catlow
Hi peeps, This is a nice development. Plans for a new regular cryptoparty in London- "a format you're probably already familiar with. It'll be about cryptography, privacy, surveillance, and -more generally - about digital technologies and the way the affect our life and society. More

[NetBehaviour] BLOCKCHAIN ART COMMISSION: The CryptoDetectorist – hoards, coins & trades

2017-08-11 Thread ruth catlow
Call for Proposals from Furtherfield and NEoN Digital Arts Festival *BLOCKCHAIN ART COMMISSION: The CryptoDetectorist – hoards, coins & trades** * Deadline for submissions 4th September For exhibition 9th November Fee and production costs £2500 While archaeology has often understood cultures

Re: [NetBehaviour] noticable differences

2017-07-12 Thread ruth catlow
Thanks Alan, for prooving that Furtherfield is "30 centimeters more or less above buckingham palace". It was a wonderful blast having you and Azure here in London. A bit like Alan Sondheim "30 centimeters more or less outwith the Netbehaviour email

[NetBehaviour] Sondheim SPEAKS! Tonight at Furtherfield Commons and .....Re: Children of Prometheus exhibition at Furtherfield

2017-07-05 Thread ruth catlow
Thanks Michael, This is really good to hear! It's going down well with other visitors too :) It's such a pleasure to have Alan and Azure in the country and I'd like to remind everyone within shouting distance that **Sondheim SPEAKS tonight* *from 6.30 at Furtherfield Commons! He will be

Re: [NetBehaviour] Some London Now

2017-07-05 Thread ruth catlow
Loving the London notes Alan! On 04/07/17 12:41, Alan Sondheim wrote: Some London Now Working, like Karl Marx, in the British Library. Status: Resolving address of alansondheim.org Status: Connecting to 208.76.80.46:21... Status: Connection attempt failed with "ETIMEDOUT - Connection

Re: [NetBehaviour] An Interview with Alan Sondheim @furtherfield

2017-06-29 Thread ruth catlow
Thanks Mark! And thanks Michael and Alan. The interview is superb and reinforces my conviction that whenever possible we should tip ourselves *Art First* into life. Please any Netbehaviourists get to the Children of Prometheus exhibition opening this Friday if you can.

Re: [NetBehaviour] Finsbury Park attacks..

2017-06-21 Thread ruth catlow
Hi Michael, I share your sense of the shift in feeling on the ground. Also, love your banners!!! The Labour party manifesto is the first piece of political collateral in my adult memory to directly address the interests and capacities of young people- and to counter the idea that we should

Re: [NetBehaviour] Finsbury Park attack

2017-06-19 Thread ruth catlow
Helicopters circling for hours overhead. This quote by biologist and cybernetics theorist Humberto Maturana rings true and requires no explanation only imagination. "Only love expands intelligence. To live in love is to accept the other and the conditions of his existence as a source of

Re: [NetBehaviour] Finsbury Park attack

2017-06-19 Thread ruth catlow
Thanks for asking Alan. This attack happened last night at Finsbury Park Mosque which is about 100 yards from Furtherfield Commons. Some people drove a van into a group of late night worshippers as they left the mosque. One of the attackers was apprehended and held by the group until the

Re: [NetBehaviour] new wikipedia articles

2017-06-05 Thread ruth catlow
Excellent blog post Helen - for wide sharing! And an inspiring effort from you Munich wiki-feminists. The emancipatory punch of Woolf and De Beauvoir powers-through in your work. And this is before we get onto the question of class-exclusion. It such a humungous mind-melon-twister to argue

Re: [NetBehaviour] on beauty

2017-06-05 Thread ruth catlow
Edward I didn't take Michael's text as a rule or a command. More as a heartfelt invitation to use all our powers to co-create an expanded and enriched vision of life and communality, in which humans have a central role ... ...which I greatly appreciated. Ruth On 04/06/17 21:07, Edward

Re: [NetBehaviour] 'intelligence is not enough' notes from talk at TPG

2017-05-31 Thread ruth catlow
Great title Katriona! and woohoo! Gretta in London :) On 31/05/17 10:19, Gretta Louw wrote: Thanks Katriona! Looking forward to checking it out. Also, I might be coming to London in July for a couple of days, so hope we can catch up then! I got an invitation to speak on a panel at Central

Re: [NetBehaviour] linux laptops

2017-05-24 Thread ruth catlow
I've been running Linux Mint on the same Samsung laptop for the last 4 years without a single unfortunate incident... and low level maintenance. With Gimp, Open Office (sometimes annoying), Inkscape, Kdenlive, Audacity, VLC, Filezilla. Good wireless connectivity. Some trouble with print drives

Re: [NetBehaviour] Opening tonight - NEW WORLD ORDER at Furtherfield Gallery

2017-05-21 Thread ruth catlow
no *normal*. Ruth On 19/05/17 16:46, Nathaniel Stern wrote: you guys are the coolest. this looks amazing. nathaniel stern http://nathanielstern.com On May 19, 2017, at 8:59 AM, ruth catlow <ruth.cat...@furtherfield.org <mailto:ruth.cat...@furtherfield.org>> wrote: It would be so

[NetBehaviour] Opening tonight - NEW WORLD ORDER at Furtherfield Gallery

2017-05-19 Thread ruth catlow
Furtherfield <http://crm.furtherfield.org/sites/all/modules/civicrm/extern/url.php?u=1080=142267> was founded in 1997 by artists Marc Garrett and Ruth Catlow. Since then Furtherfield has created online

Re: [NetBehaviour] Auto-Re: Annie Abrahams - Networked Conversations

2017-05-06 Thread ruth catlow
They only just signed up. So I think it's safe to assume. They can always get in touch :) On 06/05/17 12:44, Michael Szpakowski wrote: Apparently it says 'Your mail has been received, thank-you!' ( no special knowledge, Google translate) so it's possible it's a vacation response or

Re: [NetBehaviour] Auto-Re: Annie Abrahams - Networked Conversations

2017-05-06 Thread ruth catlow
Thanks John, Done. We've been a way for a couple of days and this slipped through the net. : / R On 06/05/17 12:34, John Hopkins wrote: Can someone plz unsub this person... On 06/May/17 04:19, xuchunx...@zjut.edu.cn wrote: 邮件已收到,谢谢! 徐春晓

[NetBehaviour] Out now! Bad Shibe - A Sci-fi Novella by Rob Myers, illustrated by Lina Theodorou

2017-05-03 Thread ruth catlow
As a taster for our upcoming exhibition New World Order <http://www.furtherfield.org/programmes/exhibition/new-world-order> *Furtherfield is proud to announce the publication of Bad Shibe - A Sci-fi Novella* Story by Rob Myers, illustrations by Lina Theodorou, afterword by Ruth Catlow

[NetBehaviour] Job Opp: Festival & Touring Producer at AND festival

2017-04-12 Thread ruth catlow
Nice job opportunity here === *Job Opportunity: Festival & Touring Producer* AND are looking for an experienced Producer to play a key role in AND’s Festival and Touring Programme. This exciting new role will be key to the development and

[NetBehaviour] Furtherfield Gallery: Offline is the New Luxury Exhibition Opening tomorrow with Alison Ballard

2017-04-05 Thread ruth catlow
; was founded in 1997 by artists Marc Garrett and Ruth Catlow. Since then Furtherfield has created online and physical spaces and places for people to come together to address critical questions of art and technology their own terms. --

[NetBehaviour] FARM Workshop: Functional Art, Music, Modelling and Design, Oxford UK, 9th September 2017

2017-04-01 Thread ruth catlow
This came through from Alex to the Eu-gene mailing list I don't know anything about FARM but I am intrigued. May be of interest here too. ---Ruth 5th ACM SIGPLAN International Workshop on Functional Art, Music, Modelling and Design Oxford, UK, September, 9th 2017 Key Dates: Submission

[NetBehaviour] Up Projects: Commons, drones, gifs by Ruth Beale

2017-03-22 Thread ruth catlow
Ruth Beale commissioned by Up Projects - Using 'common' air space up to 120ft over the land to fly a drone over a common - questions land ownership http://upprojects.cmail20.com/t/y-l-htzhrl-ykdugdjuy-o/ -- ___ NetBehaviour mailing list

[NetBehaviour] “MY INTENTION REALLY WAS TO DESTROY THE COMPETITION.”— CORNELIA SOLLFRANK

2017-03-10 Thread ruth catlow
Checkout Cyberfeminist intervention Female Extension (1997) by Cornelia Solfrank Courtesy of Rhizome's netart anthology http://anthology.rhizome.org/female-extension ___ NetBehaviour mailing list NetBehaviour@netbehaviour.org

Re: [NetBehaviour] test

2017-02-28 Thread ruth catlow
ahoy! On 28/02/17 13:01, Michael Szpakowski wrote: test ___ NetBehaviour mailing list NetBehaviour@netbehaviour.org http://www.netbehaviour.org/mailman/listinfo/netbehaviour -- Co-founder Co-director Furtherfield www.furtherfield.org +44 (0)

[NetBehaviour] Armin Medosch remembered by Sarah Cook, me, and on NEW-MEDIA-CURATING Digest

2017-02-25 Thread ruth catlow
Hi all, An excellent memorial to Armin (pasted below) from Sarah Cook. Along with an account by him, of his own work. In his account he refers to PLENUM - Public Ruling Tournament For a Network Usurpation Module. The link he gives is no long active - agh! - but there is a reference to

[NetBehaviour] Lighthouse job

2017-02-24 Thread ruth catlow
Nice Job - Artistic Director at Lighthouse http://www.lighthouse.org.uk/news/artistic-director-opportunity--2 : D ___ NetBehaviour mailing list NetBehaviour@netbehaviour.org http://www.netbehaviour.org/mailman/listinfo/netbehaviour

[NetBehaviour] 3-5pm tomorrow - Superdiversity: Picturing Finsbury Park exhibition at Furtherfield Gallery

2017-02-17 Thread ruth catlow
Dear All, You are invited to the opening of our exhibition 3-5pm tomorrow. It is the culmination of a research residency by artist and cultural geographer, Katherine Stansfeld. Superdiversity: Picturing Finsbury Park

[NetBehaviour] Fwd: Faculty opening in creative programming

2017-02-15 Thread ruth catlow
This looks like a great job, in a really great Academic department . If anything would tempt you to move to the US! Dear friends, I hope you've survived the unprecedented insanity that 2017 has delivered thus far. A bright note from my backyard has been news that my New Media department

Re: [NetBehaviour] Valentine’s Day 2017 aPS

2017-02-14 Thread ruth catlow
*<3 * *<3 * *<3 *On 14/02/17 05:38, Anthony Stephenson wrote: http://anthonystephenson.org/art/xo.html ​ ___ NetBehaviour mailing list NetBehaviour@netbehaviour.org http://www.netbehaviour.org/mailman/listinfo/netbehaviour -- Co-founder

Re: [NetBehaviour] inter - intra - action

2017-02-14 Thread ruth catlow
Hi Annie, I appreciate both this and your previous post on Agency Art very much. I have yet to properly read the two articles you shared. You asked in your previous email, why Agency Art had not gained more traction. At first scan I

[NetBehaviour] Hannah Arendt now

2017-02-13 Thread ruth catlow
This discussion about Hannah Arendt offers a welcome lens on the current political situation: on thought, identity, evil as a fungus, and the conditions for totalitarianism (including the subjection of human dissent by bureaucracy). A timely gift! http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b08c2ljg ~

[NetBehaviour] Fwd: Curators' Professional Development short course London, and Funded PhD studentships

2017-02-01 Thread ruth catlow
Of interest? CURATING ART AFTER NEW MEDIA - PROFESSIONAL DEVELOPMENT COURSE http://www.macurating.net/shortcourse.htm 26 Feb - 4 Mar 2017, Central London In 2014-16 this course ran with curators from Hong Kong, India, Turkey, Austria, France, The Netherlands, Ireland, USA and the UK. This

[NetBehaviour] Fwd: #exstrange: skype portrait, programmed leisure, +

2017-02-01 Thread ruth catlow
I like the look of this by the splendid Marialaura and Rebekah. Haven't played with it yet - anyone else here? :) R #exstrange: skype portrait, programmed leisure, + #exstrange

Re: [NetBehaviour] Tech meet performance meet science meet you

2017-01-21 Thread ruth catlow
Hi Joumana, Thanks for sharing this with us. Do we use the #OrbitsProcess hashtag to respond to your question /When do you feel most connected to the universe? :) R / On 21/01/17 07:51, Joumana Mourad wrote: Dear friends colleagues Join us online on January 23rd, 24th, or 25th at 14:00 GMT

Re: [NetBehaviour] 'A WORLD WHICH IS FRAGILE’ by Markus Soukup at the Widget Art Gallery, January 20 - March 20 2017.

2017-01-21 Thread ruth catlow
A timely and touching piece of work. Thanks! Ruth n 21/01/17 08:47, Chiara Passa wrote: Dear friends & colleagues, Hope this finds you well. I'm glad to present 'A WORLD WHICH IS FRAGILE’ by Markus Soukup, at the Widget Art Gallery, January 20 2016 - March 20 2017. The Widget Art Gallery

[NetBehaviour] on Art and Finance

2017-01-20 Thread ruth catlow
Hello All, Our collaboration with Brett Scott on Building the Activist Bloomberg is featured in the latest issue of the Journal of Finance and Society. http://financeandsociety.ed.ac.uk/article/view/1727/2229 More about the special Issue on ART AND FINANCE Edited by Suhail Malik and Gerald

[NetBehaviour] Stranger Collaborations, Art Projects Screening Room at London Art Fair

2017-01-16 Thread ruth catlow
Hello, Michael, Annie, Liz Sterry, Emile and Maxime, and I are featured in this exhibition - Stranger Collaborations - as part of London Art Fair this week. See info below. All the best Ruth ART PROJECTS

Re: [NetBehaviour] hope against hope (new video)

2016-12-21 Thread ruth catlow
Thanks Donna, An excellent mashup for current times. :) R On 20/12/16 19:34, donna kuhn wrote: https://youtu.be/Rfs3abtPZFI http://digitalaardvarks.blogspot.com http://www.youtube.com/user/digitalaardvarks http://www.facebook.com/donnakuhnart

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

2016-12-15 Thread ruth catlow
Hello We (Marc, I and the Furtherfield crew) are in a process of major organisational review at the moment. We are reworking out how to value what we all do by trying out new lenses, tools and strategies in response to inevitable changes to our environment (political, social physical,

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

2016-12-11 Thread ruth catlow
-- Co-founder Co-director Furtherfield www.furtherfield.org +44 (0) 77370 02879 Bitcoin Address 197BBaXa6M9PtHhhNTQkuHh1pVJA8RrJ2i Furtherfield is the UK's leading organisation for art shows, labs, & debates around critical questions in art and technology, since 1997 Furtherfield is

Re: [NetBehaviour] chapter on "We have a situation!" in book on global civic engagement

2016-12-05 Thread ruth catlow
Thanks Helen, I've got this queued up and am ready to pounce on this link :) In my view "We have a Situation" is a very important project. It goes deep, and involves people creatively with the work of co-constructing and performing rhetoric on political topics that directly impact their

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

2016-11-30 Thread ruth catlow
, "art" as a radical that constantly links away from cultural comforting beats? Cheers! aharon xxx November 30 2016 8:51 AM, "ruth catlow" <ruth.cat...@furtherfield.org <mailto:%22ruth%20catlow%22%20%3cruth.cat...@furtherfield.org%3E>> wrote: Agreed!

[NetBehaviour] And following my own advice! LARP alert

2016-11-30 Thread ruth catlow
We are on our way to Moneylab to run a Live Action Role play in which *people will (we hope) learn to create DAOs (blockchain-based organisations called Decentralised, Autonomous Organisations) and play out the emotional and social dynamics of producing a DAO- and so any alliance of people

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

2016-11-30 Thread ruth catlow
Agreed! Same! Alan, You are the highly valued artistic "ping" of Netbehaviour. It's been a while - but there have been times when many more of us posted work regularly. I for one would love to what Netbehaviour people are up to on a more daily basis. If it wasn't for Annie's post last week,

Re: [NetBehaviour] next Thursday cyberformance evening Connect

2016-11-21 Thread ruth catlow
ahem... this photo http://www.somewhere.org.uk/broadcast/pilgrims/ruth/cloud.htm On 21/11/16 15:37, ruth catlow wrote: Dear Annie, I look forward to seeing this. This connects with personal history for me. Marc and I worked at Bow Arts in the early days, and I participated with the first

Re: [NetBehaviour] next Thursday cyberformance evening Connect

2016-11-21 Thread ruth catlow
Dear Annie, I look forward to seeing this. This connects with personal history for me. Marc and I worked at Bow Arts in the early days, and I participated with the first 'Visions in the Nunnery' series back in 1996. This photograph - of a sculpture that I made called "The Cloud of Unknowing"

Re: [NetBehaviour] report from IMAL Blockchain.Fact.Future.Fiction.

2016-11-16 Thread ruth catlow
Thanks for sharing this Max. Really good to get the report, and I agree with a lot of what you say. Lots of different people need to think this stuff through. There are two things that still bemuse me How is Faircoin actually working, and for who, and in what kinds of situations...?

Re: [NetBehaviour] "We have a situation, Coventry!": live online, Thursday 24 November, 7pm UK time

2016-11-16 Thread ruth catlow
Hi Helen, Could you persuade one or two of your participants to give a short account of the "situation" and share it with us here on Netbehaviour? Especially for those of us who are unable to log in for the event. The topic is so rich and will resonate with people in many places. The

Re: [NetBehaviour] The NHS and the blockchain

2016-11-02 Thread ruth catlow
Superb! Thanks Edward -I've put this in my back pocket. We should workshop this to find out everything that can go right and wrong for all stakeholders - from the patient to the politicians. It would be nerdy bliss. On 30/10/16 19:24, Edward Picot wrote: I've now made so many unsuccessful

Re: [NetBehaviour] CRITICAL INTERFACE POLITICS RESEARCH GROUP @ HANGAR - EVENTS

2016-11-02 Thread ruth catlow
More brilliant and necessary work from Hangar! Thanks for sharing Joanna. And everyone check out the Open Call - A Residency for Interface Criticism https://hangar.org/en/recerca/convocatories/espanol-convocatoria-membrana-2-residencia-artistica-para-una-aproximacion-critica-de-la-interfaz/ :)

[NetBehaviour] How we made the Blockchain film - The Script

2016-10-30 Thread ruth catlow
y; Rob Myers, artist, writer, hacker; Sam Davies, Digital Catapult; Vinay Gupta, resilience guru, Hexayurt. Film credits A Furtherfield Film In collaboration with Digital Catapult Directed by Pete Gomes Concept, research and development by Ruth Catlow, Furtherfield. Edited by Pete Gomes and Ruth

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

2016-10-30 Thread ruth catlow
/16 05:32, Rob Myers wrote: 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 <http://networkcultures.org/moneylab/program-3/> in Amsterdam. We will be building

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

2016-10-27 Thread ruth catlow
uide to the blockchain with nice graphics Anyway hope it goes great tonight... michael -------- *From:* ruth catlow <ruth.cat...@furtherfield.org> *To:* NetBehaviour for networked distributed creativity <netbehaviour@netbehaviou

[NetBehaviour] Call for Works / Tomorrows Exhibition, Athens

2016-10-09 Thread ruth catlow
This call from Daphne Dragona may be of interest. Ruth *Tomorrows * *Urban fictions for possible futures* *Call for works * Deadline: 2 December 2016 How will everyday life evolve in the cities of tomorrow? What kind of changes will smart systems, technologies of automation and constant

Re: [NetBehaviour] neoscenes - live for le placard: basilisk ...

2016-10-09 Thread ruth catlow
Missed it : ( Enjoyed exploring the various interfaces though. Especially this one http://locusonus.org/soundmap/051/ Is it against the spirit of the thing to make recordings? If not, I'd love to hear it. Ruth On 08/10/16 22:45, John Hopkins wrote: Hei folks -- I'm about to do a live streamed

Re: [NetBehaviour] The Hacking Manifestos

2016-10-06 Thread ruth catlow
Hi Laura, I love the web tour format - 30 seconds to soak up anything from couple of lines of rhetoric to a website with links to ten thousand links of navel-focused-philosophy. It's going to be running in the background on my laptop all day today:) It reminds me of an early web form - the

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

2016-09-11 Thread ruth catlow
Well said Rob. On 09/09/16 22:46, Rob Myers wrote: 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

Re: [NetBehaviour] What the hell with Snapchat?? Help!

2016-08-30 Thread ruth catlow
I now work on the assumption that anything that i do using social media is allowing profit-driven corporations to reach into my person, harvest parts of my subjective experience even I didn't know about, for their own profit, and at the risk of alienating my current selves from my future

Re: [NetBehaviour] Artists Re:Thinking the Blockchain crowdfunder and open call

2016-07-28 Thread ruth catlow
Just 0.6 Bitcoin from the target now! ;) On 28/07/16 10:44, nathan jones wrote: Hi, delighted to announce Torque's new book and public discourse project, in partnership with Furtherfield. ARTISTS RE:THINKING THE BLOCKCHAIN will be a beautifully designed, accessible introduction,

Re: [NetBehaviour] Blockchain & Bureaucracy

2016-07-23 Thread ruth catlow
On 22/07/16 23:26, Rob Myers wrote: 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

Re: [NetBehaviour] Blockchain & Bureaucracy

2016-07-22 Thread ruth catlow
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 overstate the extremities and contradictions that we've encountered

[NetBehaviour] FW: Call for submissions: MozEx art exhibit

2016-07-18 Thread ruth catlow
--> may be of interest MozEx is an art exhibition with a 21st-century twist. Curated by the digital learning teams at both the Tate and the V, this space showcases dynamic digital artwork that spans many disciplines and media. The MozEx exhibit explores links between art, society, and the

Re: [NetBehaviour] 5 Operas

2016-07-10 Thread ruth catlow
If you need cheering up, watch these : ) I wrote about the Operas back in 2003 http://www.furtherfield.org/reviews/5-operas Still brilliant! : D Ruth On 10/07/16 12:02, Michael Szpakowski wrote: In 2003 I put out a call for opera libretti of exactly 100 words, 5 of which I then developed

Re: [NetBehaviour] #PostRefArt

2016-07-05 Thread ruth catlow
ses / @artsforeu On 3 Jul 2016, at 11:13, ruth catlow <ruth.cat...@furtherfield.org <mailto:ruth.cat...@furtherfield.org>> wrote: Thanks Steven and Anita, for initiating this conversation. I, like many people I have spoken to over the last week (including our many European frie

Re: [NetBehaviour] #PostRefArt

2016-07-03 Thread ruth catlow
Thanks Steven and Anita, for initiating this conversation. I, like many people I have spoken to over the last week (including our many European friends and colleagues in the UK and on the continent) have found this last week very distressing. The referendum promoted a narrative, supported in

[NetBehaviour] Improvisation & transformative processes: research workshop

2016-06-29 Thread ruth catlow
Hello, Pete Gomes (artist/filmmaker) asked me to circulate this from the TransDisciplinary Improvisation Network (TIN) Looks good. :) R @TINSalons event information.pdf Description: Adobe PDF document ___ NetBehaviour mailing list

[NetBehaviour] Digital Thresholds: from Information to Agency- Daniel Rourke at Tate

2016-06-07 Thread ruth catlow
Daniel Rourke is running this short course at the Tate. I expect it will be very good! : ) http://bit.ly/1Oa5swS Data is the lifeblood of today’s economic and social systems. Drones, satellites and CCTV cameras capture digital images covertly, while smartphones we carry feed data packets

Re: [NetBehaviour] Inspired by recent discussion here on netbehaviour...about accelerationisms

2016-05-26 Thread ruth catlow
Dear P[all], Thanks for the audio interpretation of our acceleration-deceleration https://soundcloud.com/pall-thayer/acceleration-deceleration It maps to the dynamic, ominous, muscular debate, that suddenly stopped what? why? Perhaps the debate evaporated, from a stream of conversation

Re: [NetBehaviour] Fwd: Bitcoin tech applied to clinical trial documents

2016-05-17 Thread ruth catlow
This is interesting. If it becomes a way for researchers to prove the integrity of their results. Edward, from your experience, how could this go wrong? On 15/05/16 23:10, Edward Picot wrote: From the Digital Health Intelligence website:

[NetBehaviour] "If nature is unjust, change nature!" Re: Accelerationism

2016-05-02 Thread ruth catlow
This all rather got away from me this week :-( Every post is bursting with so much juice. But this is a cause for great cheer! and a Promethean feminism: "In the name of feminism, 'Nature' shall no longer be a refuge of injustice, or a basis for any political justification whatsoever!

Re: [NetBehaviour] email about "prevent"

2016-04-30 Thread ruth catlow
Hi Michael, I appreciate your response to this process, and for highlighting so clearly what is at stake. I no longer hold a permanent post in a Higher Education institution but have been shocked to read in the press, and to hear from those of my peers who do, about increasing pressure to

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

2016-04-24 Thread ruth catlow
ppl only from our own sub-cultures... > > All the best to everyone, and thank you for sharing your thoughts. xx > > > On 23 Apr 2016, at 21:54, ruth catlow <ruth.cat...@furtherfield.org> wrote: > > > > Here Baruch Gottlieb reviews “Inventing the Fu

Re: [NetBehaviour] Accelerationist aesthetics

2016-04-24 Thread ruth catlow
ugh. Let's not participate in mutual back-slapping or hand-wringing with ppl only from our own sub-cultures... All the best to everyone, and thank you for sharing your thoughts. xx On 23 Apr 2016, at 21:54, ruth catlow <ruth.cat...@furtherfield.org> wrote: Here Baruch Gottlieb reviews “Inve

Re: [NetBehaviour] Accelerationism

2016-04-24 Thread ruth catlow
Yes Michael, and this is profoundly poetic. All human traditions, values and communities are dissolved in an acid bath of everlasting agitation and uncertainty. What this passage does not describe though is a situation where the wider ecologies of non-human planetary life, upon which we

Re: [NetBehaviour] Accelerationist aesthetics

2016-04-23 Thread ruth catlow
nderstand such things, and we need social and cultural technologies to integrate that consciousness into new behaviours, new sociabilities, new modes of exchange." On 23/04/16 13:15, ruth catlow wrote: So is this the accelerationist aesthetics question? Q. How can we as artists and people

Re: [NetBehaviour] Accelerationist aesthetics

2016-04-23 Thread ruth catlow
49, Rob Myers wrote: 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

[NetBehaviour] Accelerationist aesthetics

2016-04-22 Thread ruth catlow
Hi Tom, I like where you take this question of accelerationist aesthetics. >So the question that accelerationism poses might be something like: what sort of coordination can/should exist between a post-capitalist political program and art? I think/hope that there are a number of people

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

2016-04-21 Thread ruth catlow
rate? What is knowledge in this frame, how is it constructed? Is it a-historical? Is it prospective? I want to slow down, to be attentive, to touch - can that be part of Accelerationisme? (to be continued) On Thu, Apr 21, 2016 at 11:37 AM, ruth catlow <ruth.cat...@furtherfield.org <

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

2016-04-21 Thread ruth catlow
Hello, My name is Ruth Catlow, and I am an Accelerationist. Back in 1996 (to be continued) ___ NetBehaviour mailing list NetBehaviour@netbehaviour.org http://www.netbehaviour.org/mailman/listinfo/netbehaviour

[NetBehaviour] 'We Need to Talk About Accelerationism' debate on Netbehaviour & Neterarti starting Thursday 21st April////////////////

2016-04-21 Thread ruth catlow
Hi Netbehaviourists, Welcome to the first day of 'We Need to Talk About Accelerationism' a month of art, discussion and exchange here on Netbehaviour and Neterarti (https://neterarti.furtherfield.org) (drop me a line if you need an invitation to Neterarti- it's invitation only at the moment

[NetBehaviour] RIXC art art science festival announces call

2016-04-11 Thread ruth catlow
---> RIXC is the center for new media culture and artist collective, established in 2000. We initiate projects in intersection of art, science and emerging technologies. RIXC's activities include: production of artworks and innovative art, science and technology projects, organizing annual

Re: [NetBehaviour] 31 paintings after Zhao Ji's 'Listening to the Qin' / 聽琴圖

2016-04-04 Thread ruth catlow
They are wonderful and day-improving. And the conversations around the images are also full of riches like here https://www.flickr.com/photos/szpako/22575537344/in/album-72157658505648373/ Thanks Michael. :) Ruth On 03/04/16 13:48, Michael Szpakowski wrote: as noted above :)

[NetBehaviour] Art and the Blockchain

2016-04-03 Thread ruth catlow
Dear NBers To continue the conversation started by Max Dovey...here is a link to some images of the Art and the Blockchain showcase that we put together for Digital Catapult, London. The exhibition features work by Rob Myers, Okhaos, Émilie Brout & Maxime Marion.

Re: [NetBehaviour] review of 'Promise of Blockchain' event in Amsterdam, Netherlands

2016-04-02 Thread ruth catlow
Hi Max, Thanks very much for this excellent review. It sets out very clearly some of the current debates about the limits and potentials of emancipatory developments in blockchain technology. Super useful! Cheers Ruth On 25/03/16 11:35, Max Dovey wrote: Hi Netbehaviours, long review on

Re: [NetBehaviour] ruth catlow eating a flapjack & playing the fiddle..

2016-03-25 Thread ruth catlow
Hi Michael, Thanks for outing me as a flapjack eater and a fiddler :) Honoured to be featured in the glorious Mickiewicz remix series. Happy hols everyone. :) R On 24/03/16 15:24, Michael Szpakowski wrote: ..are two of the things featuring in this 2 minute extract from a ten minute video I

Re: [NetBehaviour] Furtherfield is on the map - literally!

2016-03-19 Thread ruth catlow
Hehehe! That's funny John: ) Our celebration is flavoured with joyous absurdity. In spite of creeping privatization, the London tube still /feels/ like one of the last vestiges of public infrastructure. Of all the maps- this is a good one to be on. cheers! On 16/03/16 17:27, John Hopkins

Re: [NetBehaviour] Mood Board for ‪#‎FutureFinance‬

2016-03-09 Thread ruth catlow
Doh! poor URL https://www.flickr.com/photos/http_gallery/albums/72157665587538115 On 09/03/16 21:05, ruth catlow wrote: We had a productive weekend at The Photographers Gallery. Brett Scott worked with a group of people around building the Activist Bloomberg Terminal. They made a start

Re: [NetBehaviour] Mood Board for ‪#‎FutureFinance‬

2016-03-09 Thread ruth catlow
We had a productive weekend at The Photographers Gallery. Brett Scott worked with a group of people around building the Activist Bloomberg Terminal. They made a start building a bank simulator and then thinking about a tool to enable people to see corporations through the different lenses of

Re: [NetBehaviour] besides, what are we (Martina and Annie in their networked performances) doing?

2016-03-09 Thread ruth catlow
Thank you for sharing this Annie, I have a question (I enjoyed reading the last Bakhtin quote about voice). Do you think that voice is also conveyed in the same way in the written word? I ask, because I recently participated in a residency in which a writer was partnered with a voice coach. I

[NetBehaviour] Mood Board for ‪#‎FutureFinance‬

2016-03-03 Thread ruth catlow
I'm currently preparing the matrix for a Mood Board for‪#‎FutureFinance‬ The x-axis goes as follows: DEBT CURRENCY SURVEILLANCE MAGIC | MYSTIQUE DEATH THEFT SEDUCTION LIBERTY SOLIDARITY This weekend

[NetBehaviour] seeking unruly montage making tool

2016-02-20 Thread ruth catlow
Hi everyone Can anyone recommend me an online montage tool. I can find photocollage and curation apps/tools but they are all so orderly! and the outcomes so dull and proper. I am looking for something like the delicious old collaborative drawing/ online landfill type sites that proliferated

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