[NetBehaviour] Interdisciplinary Research Seminar at Brunel, Oct. 28

[Johannes Birringer]

dear all

Please join us next Wednesday for our next special event, featuring two 
distinguished visting artists:

28 October 2015, 4 PM - 6:00 PM
Drama Studio, Gaskell Building 048, Brunel University London, Cleveland Rd.

Olu Taiwo (University of Winchester): ““Expanded Politics of Street Performance”

Jaime del Val (Madrid) – “Metabody: embodied media and the wars of 
indeterminacy and control"

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Olu Taiwo, Senior lecturer at the University of Winchester, teaches in Street 
Arts, Visual Development, Dance and Performing Arts in a combination of real 
and digital formats. He has a background in Fine Art, Street Dance, African 
percussion, physical theatre and the martial arts including Tai Chi Chuan and 
Animal spirit movement. He has performed in national and international contexts 
pioneering concepts surrounding practice as research. This includes how 
practice as a research strategy can explore the nature of performance and the 
relationships between "effort", "performance" and "performative actions" as 
they occur in different arenas. Consequently, his aim is through the use of 
practice, to propagate 21st century issues concerning the interaction between 
the body, identity, audience, street and technology in an age of Globalisation. 
He is well published and interests include: Practice as Research, Visual 
design, Movement, Theatre, Street Arts, New technology, Trans-cultural studies, 
Geometry, Philosophy and Religious studies. In his presentation he addresses 
the performance politics & educational dimensions of his effort to help develop 
a trans-European Federation of Education and Training in Street Arts.

Jaime del Val presents his performance work and addresses the question how in 
the Big Data Era a new ontological threshold is crossed in the longstanding 
tradition of perceptual colonisations through reduction of movement to 
patterns. While disciplinary society was about repetition of totalising 
patterns, cybernetic and postcybernetic control is about prediction, 
anticipation and constant modulation of movement patterns. In this framework 
the Metabody EU project seeks to redefine the body as movement and embodied 
media as embracing the creative force of indeterminacy. Jaime del Val is 
meta-media artist, metaformer, metahumanist philosopher and activist, director 
of Reverso Institute of Metahuman Technologies (www.reverso.org) and 
coordinator of the METABODY Project (www.metabody.eu). Jaime del Val develops 
transdisciplinary projects in the convergence of arts, technologies, critical 
theory and activism, proposing redefinitions of embodiment, perception and 
affects that challenge the ontological foundations of contemporary control 
society as well as challenging traditional conception of the human, of binary 
gender-sex conceptions and of perceptual colonialism

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ALL WELCOME   /  contact:  +44  (0)1895 267 343

Performance Research Seminar Coordinator:  johannes.birrin...@brunel.ac.uk
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INTERDISCIPLINARY PERFORMANCE RESEARCH SEMINAR SERIES 2015-16
BRUNEL UNIVERSITY
Dept. of Arts & Humanities

THEME:
Precarity and the Politics of Art:  Performative and Critical Empowerment after 
Democracy

This Research Series aims to probe troubling interpretations of the increasing 
unrestrainment of capital, and its impact on all social-economic, cultural, 
creative, and educational sectors in the developed world; the sustainability of 
democracy is an urgent emerging research theme for those of us in the 
performing arts/creative field becoming intensely aware of the multiplication 
of realities (virtualization; networked infrastructures) and the growing 
depoliticization of culture and art. The main objective of the Series is to 
articulate various perspectives on politics and performance (within the context 
of precarization, the current refugee crisis, and the operations of unknowable 
information technologies).


Forthcoming Events:  http://people.brunel.ac.uk/dap/ResearchSeminarSeries.html

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[NetBehaviour] FreedomBox Halloween Hack-a-thon

[furtherfield]

FreedomBox Halloween Hack-a-thon

The FreedomBox Foundation [1][2] is hosting a Halloween hack-a-thon on
Saturday October 31st at the offices of the Software Freedom Law Center
[3] from 10 am to 6 pm, near Lincoln Center in New York City. New and
existing contributors will be getting together to work on our
Debian-based privacy-respecting self-hosting software suite and wireless
router.

Members of the FreedomBox core development team will be on hand to help
new contributors get involved and to get some actual work done! We are
going to be talking about:
* how to use a FreedomBox as a secure home router;
* using existing Debian packages to integrate them into FreedomBoxes;
* integrating in a secure decentralized social network;
* replacing passwords with an integrated authentication system based on PGP;

We live in a world where our use of the network is mediated by
organizations that often do not have our best interests at heart. To
regain control of our privacy, the FreedomBox
(https://wiki.debian.org/FreedomBox/) project is building an integrated
suite of software that does not rely on centralized services. Of course
much of this software already exists. We are hacking, tweaking, and
molding it into a easy to use software suite so everyone can regain
control of their privacy by running a FreedomBox at home.

Bring yourselves, your ideas, your PGP keys, and your Raspberry Pis (or
other device you want to try FreedomBox on!) We will bring the pizza,
over-caffeinated soda, and Halloween candy.

Time: 10:00 am to 6:00 pm, October 31st, 2015
Location: Software Freedom Law Center,
1995 Broadway, 17th Floor, New York, NY

To let us know you are coming so we can be sure to order enough food and
caffeine email .

[1] FreedomBox Project: https://wiki.debian.org/FreedomBox/
[2] FreedomBox Foundation: http://freedomboxfoundation.org/
[3] Software Freedom Law Center: http://softwarefreedom.org/
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Re: [NetBehaviour] Know Your Filesystem (and how it affects you)

[Dave Young]

Hi Rob,

> Xanadu was started a decade before the Star project, and Computer
> Lib/Dream Machines was published in 74. There may be something to the
> idea of epochs, or at least eras. :-)

Xanadu is a fascinating example, and the rules that governed its
development offer a good starting point for any software development
project!

> Does this relate to the idea of "affordances"?

Yes indeed - that certain interactions are streamlined and prioritised,
whereas others are either inordinately complex or simply not presented
to the user as a possibility. The issue here is that it may take a
certain amount of 'technical literacy' to overcome these affordances -
many people do not have the time or the inclination to root their phone,
for instance.

> As we lose the ability to exercise our freedom we also lose the
> awareness that we can?

I think this is true, but also the incredibly powerful sense of
seduction around these devices means that people may not actually -want-
freedom in the first place. Many would rather a beautiful object in rose
gold with the latest hype feature (fingerprint sensors, 4k selfie
cameras...)

Olia Lialina has a very interesting perspective on the erosion of user
agency in Turing Complete User -
http://contemporary-home-computing.org/turing-complete-user/

> At the same time that apps and search are firewalling users from
> filesystems more and more, Git, Urbit, IPFS, and other modern
> distributed/versioned/cryptogrphically secured filesystems are putting
> filesystems beyond the control of locked-down software and making them
> truly distributed tools for storage and communication. Escaping the
> lockdown in this way is good, at least relative to that lockdown.

This is a good topic for a follow up. I just barely touched on
distributed storage in the text, and mainly from a negative 'cloud'
perspective. It is true that there are some very interesting
alternatives, but often they are quite technical and exist outside of a
practical workflow for the mainstream user.

> On a related note, where has "View Source" gone in mobile web browsers?

Certainly a related note - and a good question.

> - Rob.
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Re: [NetBehaviour] Know Your Filesystem (and how it affects you)

[marc garrett]

Hi Dave & all,

Thanks for answering the last question.

I just want to respond by unpacking some of the terms used in your
paragraph below, and then see where it takes us...

>The more we find ourselves within this shell, perhaps the less we
>consider our devices (laptops, tablets, phones, etc) as tools? I have
>the impression that, when it comes to tool-use, a sense of
>agency/ownership is important.

>I think we are really losing the entitlements that come with
>user-agency and tool-ownership as a consequence of these
>'smart operating systems' and their reluctance to share their
>dirty laundry (filesystems, background processes,
>data-caching, and so on) with us - should we ask them to.

Much of the language used to promote technology mystifies it into
abstraction and is not usually helpful in bringing people closer towards a
deeper level of 'user-agency and tool-ownership'. For example 'the cloud'
literally gives us the impression of a cloud that is floating above us and
untouchable, almost godly. In reality the function is different. It is
digital data in 'physical storage' on multiple units/servers/computers
usually at various locations in the world, owned and managed by hosting
companies.

But when you say a "sense of agency/ownership is important", I cannot help
thinking of comparisons relating to land restriction and its ownership, and
privatization of our spaces. This is where issues around boundaries come to
the fore and a critique about us living in a proprietary based society,
historically, socially, culturally, psychically and technically (analogue
and digital).

If we were to take a Evgeny Morozov stance - in his eyes we are prisoners
of these laptops, tablets, phones; via surveillance, self tracking, and
gamification, and we are drowning under the weight of acceleration, through
technological determined domination.

I find the use of the term "smart operating systems" strange. There are
different ways to looking at things, and we can use other people's ideas as
a lens to bring about a different perspective. Sometimes I use George
Orwell's classic text 'Politics and the English Language' as a testing
ground and thoughtful barometer to see what something can look like under
its critically informed, no nonsense metering. From this standpoint the
term "smart operating systems" looks like a euphemism or feels like
doublespeak, when really it could lean more towards 'unsmart' as we become
more needy of technology but not able to delve into its structures and
frameworks, break away from its protocols. Perhaps we are "human operating
systems" being engineered by the technology.

What do you think?-)

Wishing you well.

marc

On 21 October 2015 at 23:15, Dave Young  wrote:

> Hi Marc and all,
>
> 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 developed. So it's interesting to think that,
> while he writes at a time not too long ago but before even the personal
> computer and the GUI, his comments are very easily read within the
> present context where mass production quickly brings to mind the
> manufacturing of information. His ideas about isolationism, destruction
> of 'community' and relentless individuation recur frequently in
> contemporary net criticism, and his declaration that “corporate
> endeavours which thus threaten society cannot be tolerated” is
> especially resonant these days, with Google's rebranding etc.
>
> I think the shell metaphor is also quite fitting. What I wanted to get
> at in the text was that any interface acts as an enclosure: it presents
> options to the user, but in the end these parameters are designed and
> constrained - some possibilities of user-responses/interactions must be
> omitted, and we shouldn't readily consider these omissions to be inert
> gestures but moments where interaction is governed. I think the
> interfaces of Android, iOS/OSX, and Windows have been moving towards
> what Illich might have considered a “man-made shell” for quite some time
> already - our shifting perspective on the filesystem is to me emblematic
> of this. The more we find ourselves within this shell, perhaps the less
> we consider our devices (laptops, tablets, phones, etc) as tools? I have
> the impression that, when it comes to tool-use, a sense of
> agency/ownership is important. I think we are really losing the
> entitlements that come with user-agency and tool-ownership as a
> consequence of these 'smart operating systems' and their reluctance to
> share their dirty laundry (filesystems, background processes,
> data-caching, and so on) with us - should we ask them to.
>
> Regards,
> Dave
>
> On 21/10/15 12:26, marc garrett wrote:
> > Hi Dave,
> >
> > I've been reading your article 'Know Your Filesystem (and how it affects
> > you)', and I'd like to ask a 

[NetBehaviour] New Binary Press and the Bafflement Fires

[Jason Nelson]

All,

My quiz/board game, interactive fiction/non-fiction work has just been
officially launched and published at the New Binary Press.
http://newbinarypress.com/introducing-the-bafflement-fires/

They are a new publisher out of the UK and very much interested in
promoting and spreading interactive fiction/poetry and narrative focussed
game works.  So do spread it around to give them a bit of exposure.

cheers, Jason

-- 
Jason Nelson

Net Art/Digital Poetry and other oddities

http://www.secrettechnology.com
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[NetBehaviour] Against the mind and body of Hilary Clinton: *

[Alan Sondheim]

Against the mind and body of Hilary Clinton: *

http://www.alansondheim.org/nycc28.jpg **

lie / false / untrue / lying / incriminate / not true /
guilty / guilt / fault / false / killed / witch / political

demonstrably false? Why not tell them to shut up then? Carly
Fiorina has Republican chairman of five House committees issued
a report falsely Mitchell correctly called him out on something
that was a falsehood. statement we all know is false. But don't
take my word for it. Here's what false narrative start?

CLINTON: Well, that it was factually untrue. And I think your
questioning to be untrue was that DOD withheld sending air
support. And indeed, the inn Benghazi and applying it for other
locations? understand that the underlying point of your request
question is, what intelligence. That is, she was relying... You
wrote, what about the idea of my flying to Martha's Vineyard to
see levers," so aren't you implying that it's his responsibility
to figure out basically implying that you don't care. OK?
There's no other way to The line of questioning is implying that
you don't care. And there are two what you're implying about
Admiral Mullen, and I will not sit here and

ANDREA MITCHELL, MSNBC ANCHOR: That is factually not true.

CUMMINGS: That's not true.

CLINTON: Well, that's just not true, Congressman. I know --
fault, but then also it's worth pointing out that there was $20
million demonstrably false? Why not tell them to shut up then?
Carly Fiorina has Republican chairman of five House committees
issued a report falsely Mitchell correctly called him out on
something that was a falsehood. statement we all know is false.
But don't take my word for it. Here's what false narrative
start? the attacks that killed four Americans in Benghazi,
Libya. This is a full country with courage and with honor. And
they were killed under

GOWDY: Justice for those that killed them. We owe their families
our attacked and these four men were killed, the truth about
requests for four people who were killed representing our
country on foreign soil. It is about what happened before,
during and after the attacks that killed Tyrone Woods and Glen
Doherty worked for the CIA. They were killed by mistake, the
risks are real. Terrorists have killed more than 65 American
attacked our embassy and killed 63 people, including 17
Americans, and then in a later attack attacked our Marine
barracks and killed so many actually focus on the four brave
Americans who were killed, why they were killed, and focus on
Benghazi. And we have not. Mr. Roskam's questions I ambassador
killed since 1979?

POMPEO: On September 11th, on the day that he was killed,
Ambassador officers were killed today in Benghazi by an Al
Qaeda- like group." killed. And that is on June the 7th, 2012.
Also on June the 7th 2012, your Ambassador Stevens was killed?
200 folks were killed. Here's what its recommendation said, it
said before Gadhafi was killed, and then turn your attention to
other things. I And in Pakistan, at least one protester was
killed. point out, all the way to Indonesia. Thankfully, no
Americans were killed,

CLINTON: Cartoons sparked two al-Qaeda-trained (ph) attackers
who killed, confirmed that one of our State Department officers
was killed. You said to your family, terrorists killed two of
our good people. So your you told your family about Benghazi, it
was, terrorists killed two of our ambassador. Less than four
months later, he was killed. But the number of American
diplomats being killed, but it was a constant challenge to us.
from when our four fellow Americans were killed. The author of
the e-mail

SANCHEZ: I want to switch line of questioning for just a second.
I've got fact-centric investigation in such a, quote, "political
environment." political football. Two, find the facts. Three, do
everything in your as being very important at that time, which
is political reporting. political reporting. And my question is,
you know, why did you not was the political reporting? Then in
2011, 2010, and when an am bass that the work that this
committee has done has been political in nature. that you work
with, loved to send you political and image advice, had intent
on seizing defeat from the jaws of victory. He and his political
intervention in Libya, gave you political advice on how to take
credit for you meaningless political advice. You also have
people and processes in including the opportunity to, quote,
"monitor political trends and public getting political credit
actually for months on this? In fact, your staff told you that
they thought it would be a political planning on how to make
your statement dramatic to maximize political opportunity is
seized to turn progress in Libya into a political win for

CLINTON: Well, Congressman, that is only a political statement
which you efforts were directed at you. As he spoke at a
political even in New Hampshire, Chairman Issa had said he came
to that political event in New Benghazi except as a means of

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