[NetBehaviour] New Gintas K Release...

2010-10-16 Thread marc garrett
Hi all, I thought that I'd pass this info onto the Netbehaviour list. Gintas K (Gintas Kraptavicius) is a sound artist born in Lithuania; furtherfield furthernoise came across his sound works orginally in early 2000. Since then, furthernoise has featured his work every now and then. I

[NetBehaviour] Data Miners Scraping Away Our Privacy.

2010-10-16 Thread marc garrett
Data Miners Scraping Away Our Privacy. Twig, writing for Corrente, reports on data scrapers (http://tinyurl.com/32qasgk). They are not looking for passwords and such; scrapers are looking at blogs and forums searching for material relevant to their corporate clients

[NetBehaviour] City As Material : collaborative zine-making events.

2010-10-16 Thread info
City As Material : collaborative zine-making events. Proboscis is running a new series of events aiming to bring eclectic groups of people interested in making collaborative publications together on the theme of the city as the material for creative intervention as well as the site of

[NetBehaviour] Open Source Hardware User Group, Thurs 21st October.

2010-10-16 Thread info
Open Source Hardware User Group, Thurs 21st October. The fifth Open Source Hardware User Group meeting is next Thursday (21st October), the theme this time is radio and we'll have a presentation on the unspeakably cool High Performance Software-Defined Radio platform (HPSDR). For more info on

[NetBehaviour] StarCraft AI Competition Results.

2010-10-16 Thread info
StarCraft AI Competition Results. The StarCraft AI Competition announced last year has come to a conclusion. The competition received 28 bot submissions from universities and teams all over the world. The winner of the competition was UC Berkeley's submission, which executed a novel mutalisk

[NetBehaviour] Garage biotech: Life hackers.

2010-10-16 Thread marc garrett
Hi all, I know there are some individuals on this list, who are either interested in/ or practice in DIY biotechnology. I thought useful to pass it on :-) marc Amateur hobbyists are creating home-brew molecular-biology labs, but can they ferment a revolution? By Heidi Ledford. Rob

Re: [NetBehaviour] From today...

2010-10-16 Thread marc garrett
Hi all, I have been reading, catching up on the discussions about 'authenticity of art in a neoliberalist world'. One thing that kept coming back to me when reading all of the great concepts, cross-thinking and shared explorations around the subject, was - how the hell does this all translate

Re: [NetBehaviour] From today...

2010-10-16 Thread Ann Light
I am struck by the description of the loose movement you propose, Mark, and point at a new project that now has some of the great and good worldwide signed up to it, though for a different area. They are working on 'The Rules', to create some ethical guidelines in the field of technology

Re: [NetBehaviour] From today...

2010-10-16 Thread marc garrett
Hi Ann, Thank you for highlighting 'Moral Responsibility for Computing Artifacts: The Rules'. Very interesting reading and helpful material. I think it gets much more complex (whether for the arts, open source etc) when art touches on the fundamentals of infrastructure. Personally, art which

[NetBehaviour] Interview with Jan Robert Leegte: THE 'ONE IDEA, ONE RESULT' METHOD

2010-10-16 Thread CONT3XT.NET
--- --- --- *THE 'ONE IDEA, ONE RESULT' METHOD *In conversation with the Amsterdam-based artist Jan Robert Leegte http://cont3xt.net/blog/?p=3533 --- --- --- The experience-based way of testing physical reality defines the choice of material in Jan Robert Leegte's installations and

Re: [NetBehaviour] From today...

2010-10-16 Thread Curt Cloninger
Hi Marc (and all), Some thoughts (and meta-proto-criticisms): To begin with the agenda of opposing/resisting neolibral capitalism is already to commit to a path that is specifically determined and necessarily exclusive of other possibly more efficacious approaches. The following quotations

Re: [NetBehaviour] From today...

2010-10-16 Thread Alan Sondheim
Personally I'm absolutely against manifestos of any sort; I wrote something for Talan Memmott a while ago about it, a manifestor or anti-manifesto against manifestos. The teachers I mentioned, who were really good, were good because they just worked with the students, not at them, but there

Re: [NetBehaviour] From today...

2010-10-16 Thread Rob Myers
On 10/16/2010 03:45 PM, Curt Cloninger wrote: To begin with the agenda of opposing/resisting neolibral capitalism is already to commit to a path that is specifically determined and necessarily exclusive of other possibly more efficacious approaches. Yes, too much

Re: [NetBehaviour] From today...

2010-10-16 Thread Alan Sondheim
Hi Marc, I agree with the last paragraph of course! On a larger scale, and this is where despair hits full, here we are in the usa watching the country fall apart - we're 30th for example in infant mortality, first in health care costs but way down in quality of life, life-span, etc.,

[NetBehaviour] The path to enlightenment

2010-10-16 Thread Pall Thayer
The path to enlightenment http://pallit.lhi.is/microcodes/contr.php?code_id=57 -- * Pall Thayer artist http://www.this.is/pallit * ___ NetBehaviour mailing list NetBehaviour@netbehaviour.org

[NetBehaviour] Giesen VideoArt Festival 2010 (Germany)

2010-10-16 Thread PAULO R. C. BARROS
Hi,My video "Fake" (with Alan Walker and Erand Istic) is selected in the CLIPS Competition.All the best, PauloGIGUK Giesen VideoArt Festival 2010, Germany Program of the Festival 30 October: 17:00 – 18:30 VideoLounge 18.30 – 18:45 Opening speech made by Giesen’s Major, Miss Dietlind Grabe-Bolz

Re: [NetBehaviour] From today...

2010-10-16 Thread James Morris
On 16 October 2010 15:45, Curt Cloninger c...@lab404.com wrote: If modernism says, Here's your flying car, then post-modernism complains, Dude, where's my flying car? But to oppose something (anti-art), or to purposefully attempt to move beyond something (post-modernism) is just a way of

Re: [NetBehaviour] R.I.P Benoit Mandelbrot

2010-10-16 Thread James Morris
http://www.fractalforums.com/fractal-related-links/benot-b-mandelbrot-%281924-2010%29-father-of-fractal-geometry-has-died/ On 16 October 2010 06:44, Fung-Lin Hall h...@mutanteggplant.com wrote:           Nassim Nicholas Taleb states on his website that his           occasional collaborator

Re: [NetBehaviour] R.I.P Benoit Mandelbrot

2010-10-16 Thread Fung-Lin Hall
Thanks James. I have updated two obits.. one from Wired and another one from NYtimes.. which was in your link. http://www.fractalforums.com/fractal-related-links/benot-b-mandelbrot-%281924-2010%29-father-of-fractal-geometry-has-died/ ___

Re: [NetBehaviour] R.I.P Benoit Mandelbrot

2010-10-16 Thread James Morris
Where did you find the fractal with the nice print-like qualities - are there more like this? Ta, jMae.s On 16 October 2010 23:40, Fung-Lin Hall h...@mutanteggplant.com wrote: Thanks James. I have updated two obits.. one from Wired and another one from NYtimes.. which was in your link.

Re: [NetBehaviour] R.I.P Benoit Mandelbrot

2010-10-16 Thread Fung-Lin Hall
Oops.. I should have linked the address - now I can't find it. It was an award winning image. I found these two.. http://banana-tree.deviantart.com/art/Mandelbrot-zoom-5-114601675 http://banana-tree.deviantart.com/art/Nova-Mandelbrot-zoom-5-112618820 I'll look more later. F.L.

Re: [NetBehaviour] R.I.P Benoit Mandelbrot

2010-10-16 Thread Fung-Lin Hall
I found it. http://www.fractalartcontests.com/2007/showentry.php?entryid=302return=winners F.L. ___ NetBehaviour mailing list NetBehaviour@netbehaviour.org http://www.netbehaviour.org/mailman/listinfo/netbehaviour

[NetBehaviour] Pipa YouTube Specials On YouTube

2010-10-16 Thread Alan Sondheim
Pipa YouTube Specials On YouTube they are TOO Fine YouTube Bringing out the Best http://www.alansondheim.org/pipa.jpg http://www.alansondheim.org/pipa1.mp4 http://www.alansondheim.org/pipa2.mp4 http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=G_4BP111CQE http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RTWV8-UpT40