[NetBehaviour] Work description for Empyre email list

2016-12-13 Thread Alan Sondheim
Work description for Empyre email list [ http://www.alansondheim.org/atl374.jpg automated university library, Raleigh, NC http://www.alansondheim.org/atl324.jpg mummy, university museum, Atlanta, GA http://www.alansondheim.org/atl360.jpg Raleigh, NC ] [I was one of a number of guests for

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

2016-12-13 Thread Alan Sondheim
On Tue, 13 Dec 2016, Patrick Lichty wrote: However, I think that the world is entering a very tense, even dark time, and in an Adorno-esque way, perhaps it is good to consider what being committed as artists means again. It means at the least, not being committed, which in Trump's

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

2016-12-13 Thread Patrick Lichty
I think we are in a very difficult time for artists. On one hand, we are in a point where work that at least derives from our culture is having some success in the Contemporary milieu, and I can't fault people wanting to look at conventional forms of success, although I am wondering whether

[NetBehaviour] [spectre] Open call // Interface BIAS // HANGAR [Barcelona]

2016-12-13 Thread JOANA
Dear all, We are happy to announce our open call for a two months artistic residence focusing on "Interface Bias". The residency will be developed within the framework of the Critical Interface Politics research group at HANGAR [Barcelona]. The period of residence will be from the 15th of March

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

2016-12-13 Thread Gretta Louw
Hi Alan, I think you’re misunderstanding me and getting bogged down in semantics. I do think that there are lots of people making really excellent art that is relevant to the world as it is today, I never suggested that that wasn’t the case. It’s great that you’ve found some of those people in

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

2016-12-13 Thread Alan Sondheim
Hi Gretta, We're a bit in disagreement here, not too much. When you say "I am saying, we should urge ourselves to look outside of the art worlds, look at our context, our neighbours, our community, society, world, and try to make work that engages with that in the most meaningful ways we

[NetBehaviour] Timothy Morton: Ecology without Nature

2016-12-13 Thread Maria Farràs
Dear Coleagues, We publish an interview to Timothy Morton: Ecology without Nature by Roc Jiménez de Cisneros. URL: http://lab.cccb.org/en/tim-morton-ecology-without-nature/ Is man still the measure of all things? The current environmental crisis underscores the urgency of moving beyond the

[NetBehaviour] Data Asymmetries: An Interview with Burak Arikan

2016-12-13 Thread furtherfield
Data Asymmetries: An Interview with Burak Arikan | By Carleigh How does network mapping exist as a tool for visualizing a politics of control as well as routes of emancipation from surveillance? In the first of a two-part interview series, artist/technologist Burak Arikan addresses this question

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

2016-12-13 Thread Gretta Louw
Haha, Alan there is no imperative in what I said, there is a plea, a hope, a wish. The imperative comes from outside and above - the imperative to “make a living”, the imperative to pay taxes, the imperative to write reports with quantitative analysis of why funding you received was well spent