Re: [NetBehaviour] Fwd: [ORG-discuss] London Hack Space
It seems there is still a deal of room for development in London, considering the activity in much of the rest of Europe. Though perhaps it might be an uphill struggle, new media is a major theme adjacent to my practice and I've a couple of connections we could explore to support any practice. (been chatting to the bones recently) Warm regards, Benjamin. On 26 Jan 2009, at 22:27, APO33 wrote: Hi we are trying to set up a medialab since one year in Area10 where we could welcome such meeting and open the space for projects like that. We faced a lot of difficulties due to the space condition. The space that would have been dedicated to it have been flooded 2 weeks ago... http://www.a10lab.info is the backup website of few months ago (our server was under water!!!) We are actually looking for a new space for the medialab, or in Area10 or near. Also we are actually opening a new space in Cossall Estate, peckham, dedicated to new media, hacking, open hardware, free software, workshop, digital art...etc I will join the list and propose it there but if some guys are already interested we could talk about it for some meeting or proposition. the space should be operational early march! cheers Julien Ottavi -- Forwarded message -- From: Jonty Wareing jo...@jonty.co.uk Date: Sun, Jan 25, 2009 at 11:11 PM Subject: [ORG-discuss] London Hack Space To: org-disc...@lists.openrightsgroup.org For some time now London has been in need of a proper hacker space. The number of hacking groups has exploded over the last year or so with new events popping up every weekend. Despite this we're still missing a meeting place, a place where we can store projects and share ideas. Where we can meet like minded people who share our passions. Where we can learn new skills without making a significant investment. We'd like to change that, but we need people to help. If you're interested, we've set up a preliminary mailing list on google groups where we can gather. It's just temporary until we come up with a name and have more solid foundations. Find us here: http://groups.google.com/group/london-hack-space --jonty ___ NetBehaviour mailing list NetBehaviour@netbehaviour.org http://www.netbehaviour.org/mailman/listinfo/netbehaviour -- APO33 space of research and experimentation http://www.apo33.org i...@apo33.org ___ NetBehaviour mailing list NetBehaviour@netbehaviour.org http://www.netbehaviour.org/mailman/listinfo/netbehaviour ___ NetBehaviour mailing list NetBehaviour@netbehaviour.org http://www.netbehaviour.org/mailman/listinfo/netbehaviour
[NetBehaviour] Nowhere / Now / Here, contemplating the work of a machine.
Nowhere / Now / Here, contemplating the work of a machine. Review by Vito Campanelli. Nowhere / Now / Here is an exhibition organized by LABoral, Centro de Arte y Creación Industrial of Gijón: 78 works by 67 artists from 20 countries, exhibited till the end of April. The exhibition, curated by the Spanish designers Roberto Feo and Rosario Hurtado, walks the line between art and design, only to discover that that line doesn't exist anymore: it vanished, creating opportunities to find new ways to recount the ever-changing contemporary reality and shape the future. The three thematic areas (Material Intervention, Psychological Exploration and Cultural Resistance) highlight three areas of research and provide a useful map for trying to understand the main threads of contemporary design. The curators have chosen to shun fixed categories, arguing that they are simply a marketing device, so the exhibition area contains artworks made with the most disparate media and approaches: from the azulejos of the Portuguese designers Pedrita to the virtual reality of British designer Marc Owens. Feo and Hurtado, by exhibiting works they feel an affinity to, have been able to encourage a union between these works. This has been augmented through showing works in small groups with attached identity tags (for example: solitude, memento, symbiosis, expansion, absence, fiction, etc.) that although seeming somewhat arbitrary, represent a natural way to inspire discussion of different approaches to design. The feeling that the artworks are dialectically citing one another is also promoted through their method of arrangement. To read more visit Neural.it http://www.neural.it/art/2009/01/nowhere_now_here_contemplating.phtml ___ NetBehaviour mailing list NetBehaviour@netbehaviour.org http://www.netbehaviour.org/mailman/listinfo/netbehaviour
[NetBehaviour] NODE.London 2009 Web Development process.
NODE.London 2009 Web Development process. NODE.London has received a small grant from the Arts Council to rebuild, upgrade and develop the website. It will be a vital resource for all involved, artists, organisations, insititutions and anyone who wishes to use it. We intend to have it all up and ready well before the next Season of Media Arts in March 2010. We have a small dedicated crew dealing with the technical side of the web-facility, all we need now are volunteers to collaborate in shaping key functions and features, give feedback during the process of its development. The experience will be relaxed and all suggestions will be valued respectfully, all through the process. The first of 3 Development sessions start on Monday February 9th, then Monday March 9th and Monday April 13th, 7-9 pm. There will be food and drink supplied, and a mix of experts and novices collaborating together at these meets. If you are interested either join this wiki (http://wiki.nodel.org) and add your name under each of the dates or email kwat...@romanesque.co.uk For other information visit - www.nodel.org ___ NetBehaviour mailing list NetBehaviour@netbehaviour.org http://www.netbehaviour.org/mailman/listinfo/netbehaviour
Re: [NetBehaviour] XorCurses-0.0.2
Hi James, Thanks for this... "When I came back to this game, I had forgotten the levels to some extent, and was never very good at them back in the early 1990's. The map was invaluable - and this prompted me to write the code to display the map now and not later so the first three levels are playable." I will have a go at this. I was also wondering what other console games you can recommend to newbies and g-adicts on this list? wishing you well. marc Hi, For those interested (in retro console/terminal ASCII games on Linux) I have just made a new release of XorCurses. It's starting to look like a proper game now :-) New to this release are: falling fish (ouch) running chickens (arrgh!) a map (woohoo!) and even, imagine this, a menu to allow you select which level you want to play (some levels restricted until further coding) - just like the original Xor game! more: http://jwm-art.net/light.php?p=j20090127-0415 there's bound to be bugs, but the last time i checked (on the important stuff) no memory leaks. enjoy. james ___ NetBehaviour mailing list NetBehaviour@netbehaviour.org http://www.netbehaviour.org/mailman/listinfo/netbehaviour ___ NetBehaviour mailing list NetBehaviour@netbehaviour.org http://www.netbehaviour.org/mailman/listinfo/netbehaviour
Re: [NetBehaviour] XorCurses-0.0.2
Hi Marc I do have a suggestion (top 3): http://www.nethack.org/ http://webpages.mr.net/bobz/ttyquake/ http://linux.die.net/man/6/hunt There are some very good suggestions on this thread also : http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=603292 + Clément On Tue, Jan 27, 2009 at 1:15 PM, marc garrett marc.garr...@furtherfield.org wrote: Hi James, Thanks for this... When I came back to this game, I had forgotten the levels to some extent, and was never very good at them back in the early 1990's. The map was invaluable - and this prompted me to write the code to display the map now and not later so the first three levels are playable. I will have a go at this. I was also wondering what other console games you can recommend to newbies and g-adicts on this list? wishing you well. marc Hi, For those interested (in retro console/terminal ASCII games on Linux) I have just made a new release of XorCurses. It's starting to look like a proper game now :-) New to this release are: falling fish (ouch) running chickens (arrgh!) a map (woohoo!) and even, imagine this, a menu to allow you select which level you want to play (some levels restricted until further coding) - just like the original Xor game! more: http://jwm-art.net/light.php?p=j20090127-0415 there's bound to be bugs, but the last time i checked (on the important stuff) no memory leaks. enjoy. james ___ NetBehaviour mailing list NetBehaviour@netbehaviour.org http://www.netbehaviour.org/mailman/listinfo/netbehaviour ___ NetBehaviour mailing list NetBehaviour@netbehaviour.org http://www.netbehaviour.org/mailman/listinfo/netbehaviour ___ NetBehaviour mailing list NetBehaviour@netbehaviour.org http://www.netbehaviour.org/mailman/listinfo/netbehaviour
[NetBehaviour] Code Dreams are Made of This...
Code Dreams are Made of This... By M. Beatrice Fazi This year’s Piksel festival celebrating ‘Code Dreams’ saw the boundaries between artists, audience, hardware and software blur in the collective pursuit of a machinic unconscious, as well as a highly conscious celebration of FLOSS culture. Review by M. Beatrice Fazi What does code dream? Asking this question presupposes not only machinic consciousness but, above all, agency. What are our dreams of code? Answering this involves collective propositions for cultural techniques and models of production. Piksel08 festival investigates both – in between logics of source code, quests for artistic freedom and the beautiful scenario of a cold Norwegian winter. Piksel (http://www.piksel.no ) is an annual event for practitioners and theoreticians working with free/libre and open source software [FLOSS] and hardware. Artists, developers and programmers meet annually in Bergen, Norway, to exchange opinions, bits of code, and to present their latest projects. Born in 2003 as a meeting space around the collaborative work of Gisle Froysland and Carlo Prelz on the real-time video-processing application MoB, across its six editions Piksel festival has evolved from a small workshop environment into a diverse international gathering, which includes live events, exhibitions, seminars, performances and discussions on the aesthetic and ethical implications of FLOSS culture and production. http://www.metamute.org/en/content/code_dreams_are_made_of_this ___ NetBehaviour mailing list NetBehaviour@netbehaviour.org http://www.netbehaviour.org/mailman/listinfo/netbehaviour
[NetBehaviour] Inaugurationanimation
Pall - I've just watched this all the way through, and I think it's fantastic. It ought to be put on permanent display somewhere. It's got such a sense of history to it - not just the history of America and American politics, but the history of American art too - that really painterly quality which you've managed to catch. There are times when you can almost feel the pigment being pushed around with a pallette-knife, and the colours - those reddish browns, blacks and blues - have got a tremendous richness to them. The slowness of the action seems to bring out the patrician, studies aspect of the ceremony. From this side of the Atlantic, it seems to capture a real sense of the complexity of American politics: the intensely aspirational quality, the feeling that individuals can make a difference, that the human spirit is inherently noble, and that the world can be made a better place if we just make a sufficient effort - along with the intense theatricality, the self-regard, the sense that these gestures are being made with the whole world for an audience, and that if you can just get the gestures right it almost doesn't matter what you actually do. Two passages in particular struck me, and made me wonder how much you'd readjusted your original to emphasise certain aspects. The whole Aretha Franklin passage is wonderful, but it seems to me that there's a contrast between her black face and the whiteness of the Capitol which is really symbolic of something or other. And at about the forty-minute mark we get a glimpse of George W, and instead of being reddish-brown like all the others his face is grey, the colour of lead. Did you do that on purpose or did it just come out that way? - Edward Picot___ NetBehaviour mailing list NetBehaviour@netbehaviour.org http://www.netbehaviour.org/mailman/listinfo/netbehaviour
Re: [NetBehaviour] Inaugurationanimation
Hi Edward, Thanks for the comments. I like your description so much that I'm going to try not to ruin it by explaining *everything*. That being said, no, the scenes you describe were not done that way on purpose. The whole thing was done with automated processes that I've developed over the past few years. So, although I usually have a pretty good idea of what everything is going to look like, I don't apply specific effects to specific scenes or images. But the idea is to achieve a sort of painterly quality and in this case it has certain implications. Historically we tend to attach ideas of monumentality to that which is painted or sculpted more so than photographs or film. We see this for instance in the tendencies of countries, towns, corporations etc. to have their leaders or prominent figures cast in a traditional artistic medium whether it's oil color, stone, metal or marble. And like the video, these are soundless monuments where the handling of the medium is meant to say all that needs to be said. I'm glad you like it. I like it too. I was very pleasantly surprised by the outcome. best r. Pall On Tue, Jan 27, 2009 at 7:18 PM, Edward Picot edw...@edwardpicot.com wrote: Pall - I've just watched this all the way through, and I think it's fantastic. It ought to be put on permanent display somewhere. It's got such a sense of history to it - not just the history of America and American politics, but the history of American art too - that really painterly quality which you've managed to catch. There are times when you can almost feel the pigment being pushed around with a pallette-knife, and the colours - those reddish browns, blacks and blues - have got a tremendous richness to them. The slowness of the action seems to bring out the patrician, studies aspect of the ceremony. From this side of the Atlantic, it seems to capture a real sense of the complexity of American politics: the intensely aspirational quality, the feeling that individuals can make a difference, that the human spirit is inherently noble, and that the world can be made a better place if we just make a sufficient effort - along with the intense theatricality, the self-regard, the sense that these gestures are being made with the whole world for an audience, and that if you can just get the gestures right it almost doesn't matter what you actually do. Two passages in particular struck me, and made me wonder how much you'd readjusted your original to emphasise certain aspects. The whole Aretha Franklin passage is wonderful, but it seems to me that there's a contrast between her black face and the whiteness of the Capitol which is really symbolic of something or other. And at about the forty-minute mark we get a glimpse of George W, and instead of being reddish-brown like all the others his face is grey, the colour of lead. Did you do that on purpose or did it just come out that way? - Edward Picot ___ NetBehaviour mailing list NetBehaviour@netbehaviour.org http://www.netbehaviour.org/mailman/listinfo/netbehaviour -- * Pall Thayer artist http://www.this.is/pallit * ___ NetBehaviour mailing list NetBehaviour@netbehaviour.org http://www.netbehaviour.org/mailman/listinfo/netbehaviour
[NetBehaviour] Virtual World Spew
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