[NetBehaviour] digital artist - Trento
Hi all, I'm Olga, and I have maybe a strage request: I'm doing a research, is there any digital artist from Trento (Italy) or the same region? thanks, Olga ___ NetBehaviour mailing list NetBehaviour@netbehaviour.org http://www.netbehaviour.org/mailman/listinfo/netbehaviour
[NetBehaviour] Video games of graffiti writing from 90s
Hi all, I'm Olga, I'm a student in Creating Social Media, at Goldsmiths College, London. I'm now writing a paper in software studies, and I'm looking for video games in graffiti writing, from 80s-90s. Do you remember any? Thanks. Olga ___ NetBehaviour mailing list NetBehaviour@netbehaviour.org http://www.netbehaviour.org/mailman/listinfo/netbehaviour
Re: [NetBehaviour] Video games of graffiti writing from 90s
Thanks all! 2012/5/29 James Morris ja...@jwm-art.net On Tue, 29 May 2012 14:47:35 +0100 Olga mascolo olga.mascol...@gmail.com wrote: Hi all, I'm Olga, I'm a student in Creating Social Media, at Goldsmiths College, London. I'm now writing a paper in software studies, and I'm looking for video games in graffiti writing, from 80s-90s. Do you remember any? I remember Shockway Rider having graffiti in it.. But the reality doesn't quite live up to the memory. http://genesis8.free.fr/amstrad/game-rom/amstrad-game.php?prog_id=4184 The character rides on airport-style-converyer belts throwing bricks at punks, grannies, and innocent bystanders. controversy back in the day over your character getting decapitated wehn he dies. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=b2rgx2BUCm4t=50s james. Thanks. Olga -- http://jwm-art.net/ image/audio/text/code/ ___ 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] Appsterdam Weekend-Long Party [4, 5 6 November - Amsterdam] RSVP to the meet-up pages
, free tickets donated by Amsterdam Film Week All week and weekend at Pathe City, Kleine Gartmanplantsoen 15-19 http://www.meetup.com/Appsterdam/events/38205102/ olga paraskevopoulou-- @olmageddon___ NetBehaviour mailing list NetBehaviour@netbehaviour.org http://www.netbehaviour.org/mailman/listinfo/netbehaviour
[NetBehaviour] ISIS Arts Research Residencies Jan-April 2012
ISIS Arts Research Residencies Jan-April 2012 CALL FOR APPLICATIONS Deadline: Thursday 10th November 2011 5pm Visual and Media artists, UK and beyond, are invited to apply for a three-week research residency at ISIS Arts, Newcastle Upon Tyne (UK), to take place between January and April 2012. The residencies are open to regional, national and international artists working in the field of visual and media art with a particular interest (but not limited to) the use of technologies and digital media in the creation of artworks. There are 2 residency opportunities available with each successful artist awarded a bursary of £1500. http://www.isisarts.org.uk/opportunities/research+residencies+open+call/1 -- Olga P Massanet -- www.olgapanades.com www.deepmediaresearch.org ___ NetBehaviour mailing list NetBehaviour@netbehaviour.org http://www.netbehaviour.org/mailman/listinfo/netbehaviour
[NetBehaviour] Sound Tossing
Here's a nice little project: -- Sound Tossing: The project was inspired by so-called Shoe Tossing or Shoefiti, the practice of hanging shoes which have been tied together on overhead cables such as power or telephone lines. Sound Tossing operates in a similar way to the visual codes used in Shoe Tossing; speakers are connected via cables to audio components which function in this form of urban communication as “throwing tools”. http://www.soundtossing.com --- What I like the most is that they are energetically autonomous little creatures. They are solar powered and their sounds are pretty much like crickets. I always enjoy interventions that are subtle. It reminded me of a project by Vincent (on this list) called Urban Parasites which I always thought he should have continued ;-) http://www.vincentvanuffelen.com/2009/07/05/urban-parasites/ -- Olga P Massanet -- www.olgapanades.com www.deepmediaresearch.org ___ NetBehaviour mailing list NetBehaviour@netbehaviour.org http://www.netbehaviour.org/mailman/listinfo/netbehaviour
[NetBehaviour] WORKSHOP: Emotional Skin. Performance and sensorial environments
This should be an interesting workshop. If you happen to be in Madrid have a look: *Emotional Skin. Performance and sensorial environments* The Italian artist Sonia Cillari, honourable mention in VIDA 13.0, will share with participants her exploration of sensorial and perception mechanisms in immersed environments and the consciousness, perception and identity-related patterns arising from them. The workshop is structured along three main lines: physical and phenomenological reality, the body as an interface (how do we experience space?) and the physical phenomena of the radiating body. The event is also conceived as an open debate during which attendees may propose new perceptive strategies and discuss the specific subjects proposed. There is a maximum of 15 places available. All those interested in attending should bring a digital camera and a laptop or tablet PC with the means necessary to transfer data. Participants may also bring electronic and technological material (sensors, coils, motors, etc.) which they might like to share. *Dates*: 26th, 27th and 28th of October *Time*: 4-8 pm. With a 30-minute break *Place*: Matadero Madrid. Paseo de la Chopera 14. http://www.fundacion.telefonica.com/en/arteytecnologia/eventos/evento/26_10_2011_esp_3368 -- Olga P Massanet -- www.olgapanades.com www.deepmediaresearch.org ___ NetBehaviour mailing list NetBehaviour@netbehaviour.org http://www.netbehaviour.org/mailman/listinfo/netbehaviour
[NetBehaviour] Trap Light
This is another really nice project working with the idea of energy autonomy: *Trap Light by Mike Thompson Gionata Gatto* Trap Light proposes a radical new approach to lighting design. By utilising photoluminescent pigments to capture escaping light, Trap Light converts waste energy back into visible light. Photoluminesence is a process in which energy absorbed by a substance is gradually released as light. Using the Murano glass blowing technique, the designers were able to embed photoluminescent pigments into the glass body of the lamp. Through this process, Trap Light becomes both shade and light source, emitting, absorbing, and re-emitting light. 30 minutes ‘charge’ of recycled light from a traditional incandescent or LED light bulb provides up to 8 hours of ambient lighting. http://www.miket.co.uk/ http://www.traplightsaveenergy.com -- Olga P Massanet -- www.olgapanades.com www.deepmediaresearch.org ___ NetBehaviour mailing list NetBehaviour@netbehaviour.org http://www.netbehaviour.org/mailman/listinfo/netbehaviour
[NetBehaviour] Appsterdam Legal Foundation: Operation Anthill Legal Summit (3 and 4 October, Amsterdam)
Dear researchers, thinkers and creative practitioners, Conflicting dynamics within the mobile ecosystem question its future and whether it will leverage a proprietary paradigm or innovation should stem from collaborative and communal efforts making use of open systems and open source software. Open innovation refers to the ways companies can benefit from distributed knowledge, external ideas and external routes to market. This informs the idea that most successful innovation happens not as a linear process but in environments which encourage the circulation of ideas and approaches. Open innovation was impeded in the past by network operators who tried to regulate and monopolize their markets and it may again be impeded by technology fragmentation and by the excessive use of patent infringement allegations of one company to another. Provided that the very foundations of mobile software licensing are based upon ownership of copyrights and patents, and the huge amounts of money that licensing software generates, cross-industry litigation is likely to be the norm for the foreseeable future (Laffan, 2011). The Appsterdam Legal Foundation is dedicated to funding legal initiatives for App Makers. Through private donations and other funding sources, the Foundation promotes and preserves the Appsterdam community by protecting its most valuable asset – App Makers and their business. more to read http://mur.mu.rs/?p=303 ; http://mur.mu.rs/?p=345 Join us for the Appsterdam Operation Anthill Legal Summit. Monday 3 and Tuesday 4 October. Two days of presentations, workshops and panel discussions about protecting App Makers from extortion by the patent trolls who threaten our industry.. RSVP and spread the word! Regards, Olga skp http://appsterdamlegalfoundation.org/ RSVP for the meetup http://www.meetup.com/Appsterdam/events/33345872/ * Laffan L. (2011) Open Governance Index: measuring the true openness of open source projects from Android to Webkit, Vision Mobile White Paper. -- @olmageddon___ NetBehaviour mailing list NetBehaviour@netbehaviour.org http://www.netbehaviour.org/mailman/listinfo/netbehaviour
[NetBehaviour] FWD: MUSICIANS WANTED for Music from the Masses
MUSICIANS WANTED for Music from the Masses Since 2008 I create several clips in the length of an average music video. The clips are available online and can be downloaded by musicians, composers and sound designers from all over the world that wish to produce and propose soundlayers for them. There are no restrictions or guidelines to follow. Until 2012 the aim is to produce 10 silent clips open for participation collaboration. In return for participating in the project, participants may use the High Definition video for free, for commercial or non-commercial purposes of their work. Music from the Masses is intended for distribution on video portals such as YouTube as well as for exhibitions in museums and galleries. The work is an open edition, and it is always possible to add new compositions and variations. This generic model of recycling and generating new material resembles the Youtube-Reality, where material is in constant flux. Download the silent videos and read about the submission process: http://subrealic.net/mftm/mftm-open-call.html If you like to see the results please goto this url: http://subrealic.net/mftm/ I look forward to receive your feedback and new soundtracks! Best wishes from Berlin, Matthias Fritsch -- Olga P Massanet -- www.olgapanades.com www.deepmediaresearch.org ___ NetBehaviour mailing list NetBehaviour@netbehaviour.org http://www.netbehaviour.org/mailman/listinfo/netbehaviour
[NetBehaviour] EXHIBITION / EVENT: OBJECT ORIENTED
This can be interesting: Phil Jones, Hilian Benusan, Tim Weston, Mark Sowden and Gisel Carriconde Azevedo are a group of artists, philosophers and programmers who have been meeting up to share their thoughts on art objects, object oriented programming and object oriented metaphysics. The event at Leighton Space combines an exhibition, talks and one workshop. It will be an informal forum to reflect on the many ways objects can be perceived, used, made, thought and studied. *Private View Friday 3rd June, 6:00-9:00 pm* Exhibition Saturday 4th and Sunday 5th, 11:00 am - 6:00 pm *Talks Saturday 4th June* 11h00 - Introduction 11h10 - 11h50Mark Sowden 12h00 - 13h00 Philip Jones (+ workshop) 14h30 - 15h10 Gisel Carriconde Azevedo 15h20 - 16h00 Hilan Bensusan 16h10 - 16h50 Tim Weston http://www.leightonspace.org.uk/events/objectoriented -- Olga P Massanet -- www.ungravitational.net www.deepmediaresearch.org virtualfirefly.wordpress.com www.vimeo.com/ungravitational ___ NetBehaviour mailing list NetBehaviour@netbehaviour.org http://www.netbehaviour.org/mailman/listinfo/netbehaviour
[NetBehaviour] Decrystallization - 2-day workshop
Decrystallization 2-day workshop with Ryan Jordan (http://ryanjordan.org/) and Jonathan Kemp (http://xxn.org.uk/), followed by an evening of gold drinks and lo-no amp performances. Fri. May 27th - Sat. 28th 2011 nohup, 38-40 Upper Clapton Rd, London, E5 8BQ Day One Workshop //decrystallizing the computational// Participants will recycle pcb's/IC/pins/connectors for minerals including copper/gold/silver/platinum/palladium Day Two Workshop //escaping the pathology of the crystal// Participants will create raw/renditioned mineral assemblies using piezoelectrics, positive feedback, colloidal dispersions Final day of workshop will be followed by gold drinks and lo-no amp performance Capacity is limited to 12 participants - Booking is essential - ?20 for 2 days (materials incl.) Participants take part at own risk: workshops include high heat and highly toxic processes - some safety gear provided and experiments conducted outside so gas masks not essential (but please bring mask/goggles/labcoat or similar if you have) For full information, booking and online payment go here http://xxn.org.uk/doku.php?id=decrystallization -- Olga P Massanet -- www.ungravitational.net www.deepmediaresearch.org virtualfirefly.wordpress.com www.vimeo.com/ungravitational ___ NetBehaviour mailing list NetBehaviour@netbehaviour.org http://www.netbehaviour.org/mailman/listinfo/netbehaviour
Re: [NetBehaviour] Cell phones are 'Stalin's dream, ' says free software founder Richard Stallman.
Thanks, this is very interesting! Not sure I dare yet with Replicant for HTC, it looks very very early stages, but worth keeping an eye on it.. On 17 March 2011 12:17, marc garrett marc.garr...@furtherfield.org wrote: Cell phones are 'Stalin's dream,' says free software founder Richard Stallman. Nearly three decades into his quest to rid the world of proprietary software, Richard Stallman sees a new threat to user freedom: smartphones. I don't have a cell phone. I won't carry a cell phone, says Stallman, founder of the free software movement and creator of the GNU operating system. It's Stalin's dream. Cell phones are tools of Big Brother. I'm not going to carry a tracking device that records where I go all the time, and I'm not going to carry a surveillance device that can be turned on to eavesdrop. Stallman firmly believes that only free software can save us from our technology, whether it be in cell phones, PCs, tablets or any other device. And when he talks about free, he's not talking about the price of the software -- he's talking about the ability to use, modify and distribute software however you wish. more... http://tinyurl.com/5w9fmqv ___ NetBehaviour mailing list NetBehaviour@netbehaviour.org http://www.netbehaviour.org/mailman/listinfo/netbehaviour -- Olga P Massanet -- www.ungravitational.net www.deepmediaresearch.org virtualfirefly.wordpress.com www.vimeo.com/ungravitational ___ NetBehaviour mailing list NetBehaviour@netbehaviour.org http://www.netbehaviour.org/mailman/listinfo/netbehaviour
[NetBehaviour] Data Visualisation challenge at Eyebeam
Although I know some of you might be a bit dubious towards data visualisation, here is the challenge: We give you the numbers; you make them speak to us. Every year, Americans fill out income tax forms and make their payments to the IRS. It’s an important civic duty, but do we really know where our tax dollars go? Using data provided byWhatWePayFor.com, Eyebeam challenges you to create data visualizations that make it easier and more interesting for taxpayers to understand just how the government spends our money. Our expert jury will be awarding $10,000 – including $5,000 for the top interactive web application, graphic, or video submitted by an individual or a team. All winners will be featured on DataVizChallenge.org, the Official Google Blog, Eyebeam.org, and Fast Company’s design blog, Co.Design. You must be a U.S. resident and 18 years of age to be eligble for an award. Entries are due midnight, March 27, 2011; winners are announced on Tax Day, April 18. For more info: http://datavizchallenge.org/ -- Olga P Massanet -- www.ungravitational.net www.deepmediaresearch.org virtualfirefly.wordpress.com www.vimeo.com/ungravitational ___ NetBehaviour mailing list NetBehaviour@netbehaviour.org http://www.netbehaviour.org/mailman/listinfo/netbehaviour
[NetBehaviour] Coded Sensation by Martin Rille
Coded Sensation by Martin Rille http://www.codedsensation.com/ Many senses, like the eyes, ears, tongue or nostrils are scattered over a small area while the sense of touch covers the whole body. Tactile sensation is the first sense a newborn child develops and with which it has the first experiences in this world. As a result, the first memories a human gathers, are imprinted through tactile sensation. Therefore it is the sense that triggers the most deepest link to human emotion. Coded Sensation is realized through applying an ultra-thin sheet of chromium oxide onto the surface of fabrics and storing information through a magnetic modulation. As like in audio-tapes this technique is extremely sustainable. Stories and poems in audio are stored on the surface of these coded fabrics. A reading head, which consists of an electromagnetic sensible coil, reads the magnetic fluctuation in the chromium oxide. It then is transformed into an acoustic media. This process works reciprocally. -- Olga P Massanet -- www.ungravitational.net www.deepmediaresearch.org virtualfirefly.wordpress.com www.vimeo.com/ungravitational ___ NetBehaviour mailing list NetBehaviour@netbehaviour.org http://www.netbehaviour.org/mailman/listinfo/netbehaviour
[NetBehaviour] Mechanical Tumour
Mechanical tumour is something like a quite disgusting lump of flesh that grows in size depending on the stress your computer is under... it's repulsively attractive.. http://i-mi.org/works/mt_j/index.html -- Olga P Massanet -- www.ungravitational.net www.deepmediaresearch.org virtualfirefly.wordpress.com www.vimeo.com/ungravitational ___ NetBehaviour mailing list NetBehaviour@netbehaviour.org http://www.netbehaviour.org/mailman/listinfo/netbehaviour
[NetBehaviour] detektors - the rhythms of electromagnetic emissions
detektors ||| the rhythms of electromagnetic emissions, their psychogeophysics and micrological auscultation by Martin Howse and Shintaro Miyazaki Almost any electronic gadget can be transformed into an audible and sometimes rhythmical sound object. “Detektors” is firstly (A) a cartography of user-generated geolocational sound recordings, logs and walks, which reveal hidden electromagnetic geographies of our urban areas and secondly (B) a database and catalog of sonic studies of electromagnetic emissions produced by our everyday electronic devices. “Detektors” is an open, collaborative project which uses sonic strategies and DIY-devices to make audible the hidden infoscapes of our time. The presentation will show data, recordings and cartographies of different spectral ecologies and trans-sonic machinic assemblages. http://detektors.org/ -- Olga P Massanet -- www.ungravitational.net www.deepmediaresearch.org virtualfirefly.wordpress.com www.vimeo.com/ungravitational ___ NetBehaviour mailing list NetBehaviour@netbehaviour.org http://www.netbehaviour.org/mailman/listinfo/netbehaviour
[NetBehaviour] WORKSHOP: Detection [EVP (Electronic Voice Phenomena) and ITC (Instrumental Trans Communication)]
*Detection* Conceveid and directed by Martin Howse and Martin Kuentz 12-13 March 2011, h 11.30-19 @ Ausland (http://www.ausland-berlin.de/) Workshop fee: 30 Euros Subcriptions and info here: info.occultof...@googlemail.com A two day workshop exploring the work of EVP (Electronic Voice Phenomena) and ITC (Instrumental Trans Communication) practitioners such as Friedrich Juergenson, Konstantin Raudive and Klaus Schreiber under the twinned practical methodologies of excitation (pick your carrier) and paranoid detection (everyday forensics). Detection is rehearsed in its widest sense, as a “making sense of that which is”. The detection workshop points towards playful techniques for the investigation of materiality and message which are positioned to one definite side of scientific, economic or teleological examinations; this revealing is necessary. And finally, to ask the question, experimentally, of what exactly constitutes detection and the work of the detective? *1st day schedule* Examination of classical EVP techniques with an emphasis on light/provision of carrier and subsequent detection/recording, and on the practical repurposing of electronic detection hardware (radios, tape recorders, video machines). A series of experimental platforms ranging across radio, ultrasonics, white noise, light and vibration will be constructed alongside a set of experimental apparatus for use during the following day’s excursion. A small overnight test situation also will be set up at a new location. *2st day schedule* Fieldtrip to an to-be-specified location for primary inscription and playback of the stone tape. Other activities will include geophony, amateur geo-forensics and the construction of ad-hoc seismometers, dowsing, excavation, and forensic enquiry. The workshop will close with a public presentation/performance with willing workshop participants at Ausland. *That which participants could bring* Any form of recording or transcribing device (tape/HD recorder, camera, pencil, paper), materials for excitation and subsequent detection (for example, minerals), and dowsing rods/pendulums. http://lagioiosamacchinadaguerra.wordpress.com/occulto-fest-workshop/ -- Olga P Massanet -- www.ungravitational.net www.deepmediaresearch.org virtualfirefly.wordpress.com www.vimeo.com/ungravitational ___ NetBehaviour mailing list NetBehaviour@netbehaviour.org http://www.netbehaviour.org/mailman/listinfo/netbehaviour
[NetBehaviour] Electrofringe Call for Proposals (Deadline 31st March)
*Electrofringe Call for Proposals* Deadline: 31st March Festival Dates and Location: New Castle (UK) 29th September – 3rd October, 2011 http://www.electrofringe.net/2010/electrofringe-2011-call-for-proposals-now-open http://www.electrofringe.net/2010/electrofringe-2011-call-for-proposals-now-open Electrofringe is committed to fostering creative and innovative uses of technology and electronic art forms, while focusing on artistic development and skills exchange. We are looking to unearth emergent forms, present innovative work and encourage interesting uses of technology. Electrofringe is interested in works that reflect all modes of creative practice. For the 2011 festival, Electrofringe will be implementing a new arts-lab initiative for artists to work with and learn from one another. If you are an electronic artist (or a collective of artists) interested in presenting your work, discussing and developing it with feedback from members of your community, sharing your skills and/or collaborating with other artists to experiment and make work with during the period of the festival, we want to hear from you. Proposals are accepted from a broad range of investigations including cross-disciplinary practice, media-based practice, networked and online collaborations, locative technologies, mobile artworks, live art, software art, electronics, experimental interfaces, sound, music, video, film, installation, performance and much, much more. -- Olga P Massanet -- www.ungravitational.net www.deepmediaresearch.org virtualfirefly.wordpress.com www.vimeo.com/ungravitational ___ NetBehaviour mailing list NetBehaviour@netbehaviour.org http://www.netbehaviour.org/mailman/listinfo/netbehaviour
[NetBehaviour] Fwd: Electrofringe Call for Proposals (NOT UK! but Australia)
Ups ups.. Some amendments to the info I just sent. It is not New Castle (UK) it's in Australia! -- Forwarded message -- From: Olga olga.pana...@gmail.com Date: 15 March 2011 15:24 Subject: Electrofringe Call for Proposals (Deadline 31st March) To: Netbehaviour (post to the list) netbehaviour@netbehaviour.org *Electrofringe Call for Proposals* Deadline: 31st March Festival Dates and Location: New Castle (AUS) 29th September – 3rd October, 2011 http://www.electrofringe.net/2010/electrofringe-2011-call-for-proposals-now-open http://www.electrofringe.net/2010/electrofringe-2011-call-for-proposals-now-open Electrofringe is committed to fostering creative and innovative uses of technology and electronic art forms, while focusing on artistic development and skills exchange. We are looking to unearth emergent forms, present innovative work and encourage interesting uses of technology. Electrofringe is interested in works that reflect all modes of creative practice. For the 2011 festival, Electrofringe will be implementing a new arts-lab initiative for artists to work with and learn from one another. If you are an electronic artist (or a collective of artists) interested in presenting your work, discussing and developing it with feedback from members of your community, sharing your skills and/or collaborating with other artists to experiment and make work with during the period of the festival, we want to hear from you. Proposals are accepted from a broad range of investigations including cross-disciplinary practice, media-based practice, networked and online collaborations, locative technologies, mobile artworks, live art, software art, electronics, experimental interfaces, sound, music, video, film, installation, performance and much, much more. -- Olga P Massanet -- www.ungravitational.net www.deepmediaresearch.org virtualfirefly.wordpress.com www.vimeo.com/ungravitational -- Olga P Massanet -- www.ungravitational.net www.deepmediaresearch.org virtualfirefly.wordpress.com www.vimeo.com/ungravitational ___ NetBehaviour mailing list NetBehaviour@netbehaviour.org http://www.netbehaviour.org/mailman/listinfo/netbehaviour
Re: [NetBehaviour] A Game Played In the URL Bar.
!! :-) just lost 15 minutes on this... On 14 March 2011 08:26, marc garrett marc.garr...@furtherfield.org wrote: A Game Played In the URL Bar. http://probablyinteractive.com/url-hunter ___ NetBehaviour mailing list NetBehaviour@netbehaviour.org http://www.netbehaviour.org/mailman/listinfo/netbehaviour -- Olga P Massanet -- www.ungravitational.net www.deepmediaresearch.org virtualfirefly.wordpress.com www.vimeo.com/ungravitational ___ NetBehaviour mailing list NetBehaviour@netbehaviour.org http://www.netbehaviour.org/mailman/listinfo/netbehaviour
[NetBehaviour] Calling all women artists, tinkerers and techies!
Hi Netbehaviour(ists) and sorry for my loong silence.. Things have been quite hectic lately... one of my March resolutions is to return to my netbehaviour-nurturing-duties.. So here is the first thing, just the day after International Women's day: Calling all women artists, tinkerers and techies! This month we have out first short course... a 3 session programming workshop at held at SPACE on Monday evenings from March 14th, 21st, and 28th 7pm-9pm. Have you built something with Arduino or Processing? Know how to find what you need to get a project working ? you?re a queen of copypaste ? but wish you knew more about programming? This short course will introduce the basics of computer programming, but it won?t be a stuffy computer science lecture. It will be a series of interactive sessions teaching programming by example. http://www.mztek.org/2011/02/programming/ And and and On April 09th We are very excited that our amazing April workshop will be held at the VA Sackler Centre! Come and transform your favorite/least favorite teacup and saucer into an interactive art work which shivers when your tea is getting cold or shakes when you get too close! Bring along your own teacup and saucer to modify using the Arduino board, sensors, motors and Arduino software. http://www.mztek.org/2011/03/shiver-my-teacups/ This workshop is part of the MzTEK project Chi-TEK, a celebration of women working in arts and technology, and offers a tongue in cheek show case of what women can really achieve around a kitchen table. A selection of teacups made in this workshop will be displayed as part of the Chi-TEK exhibition in the VA Sackler Centre throughout September and October. Don't miss out, book soon! Visit our website for more details: http://www.mztek.org Contact: i...@mztek.org -- Olga P Massanet -- www.ungravitational.net www.deepmediaresearch.org virtualfirefly.wordpress.com www.vimeo.com/ungravitational ___ NetBehaviour mailing list NetBehaviour@netbehaviour.org http://www.netbehaviour.org/mailman/listinfo/netbehaviour
[NetBehaviour] Fwd: [workshop + competition] One Button Challenge
useful electronics (but sadly, not Arduinos for everyone). A £30 deposit is required to secure a spot, with full payment due by the 3rd session. The Manchester workshop will take place at Cornerhouse from 11am-5pm on October 4 at a cost of £20 for materials. An optional second day (to be confirmed) will take place on Tuesday, 5th October, 11am-5pm at Fablab Manchester, Ancoats - part of a a global network of local labs, enabling invention by providing access for individuals to tools for digital fabrication and supported by the Manufacturing Institute, introducing you to this fantastic free resource and enabling you to fabricate your own custom made enclosures and/or display mount for your one-button device. Space is limited! We also have concession rates available. Please email usrese...@openlabworkshops.orgwith any questions. Reserving a Spot To reserve a spot, please email *rese...@openlabworkshops.org*rese...@openlabworkshops.organd provide us with your name and a short description of yourself (what you do, what you are interested in, anything else you'd like us to know). We'll send you back a confirmation of your place and payment information. You are receiving this email because you came to one of our past workshops, in case you've completely erased that memory from your brain. Unsubscribehttp://openlabworkshops.us1.list-manage.com/unsubscribe?u=e030149abf0c973b45b952a81id=7b56880be0e=91ed8c6785c=7f3708b0d7 olga.pana...@gmail.com from this list. Our mailing address is: Openlab Workshops 4-8 Arcola St. London, London E8 2DJ Add us to your address bookhttp://openlabworkshops.us1.list-manage.com/vcard?u=e030149abf0c973b45b952a81id=7b56880be0 Copyright (C) 2010 Openlab Workshops All rights reserved. Forwardhttp://us1.forward-to-friend.com/forward?u=e030149abf0c973b45b952a81id=7f3708b0d7e=91ed8c6785this email to a friend Update your profilehttp://openlabworkshops.us1.list-manage1.com/profile?u=e030149abf0c973b45b952a81id=7b56880be0e=91ed8c6785 [image: Email Marketing Powered by MailChimp]http://openlabworkshops.us1.list-manage.com/track/click?u=e030149abf0c973b45b952a81id=cfb7479ba0e=91ed8c6785 -- Olga P Massanet -- www.ungravitational.net virtualfirefly.wordpress.com www.vimeo.com/ungravitational ___ NetBehaviour mailing list NetBehaviour@netbehaviour.org http://www.netbehaviour.org/mailman/listinfo/netbehaviour
[NetBehaviour] MzTEK Summer geekOut!
MzTEK Summer geekOut! Welcome! MzTEK Summer geekOut!, here’s a few details. What? MzTEK Summer geekOut!: MzTEK is back! ... and to start our season of workshops and events, we invite all women artists, techies and tinkerers to come and geekOut. Bring your projects, ideas, or come and practice projects from our previous workshops. We will have computers, projector, previous workshop pdf’s, and some tools and components available to borrow, but if you have something in mind to work on, please bring tools and components you know you will need, if you can. This will not be a tutored event, but an opportunity to play, learn and practice anything that takes your fancy, and to catch up on the SolarBots, Electronics for Absolute Beginners and Arduinorama workshops. If you have any kit from previous workshops, bring it along! When? 21st August '10 – 1.30pm – 6.30pm Where? Watermans Gallery - 40 High Street Brentford TW8 0DS Only £5. Sign Up! There are 15 tickets left! Book your place now!. If you have any queries, please contact us on sophie [dot] mcdonald @ gmail [dot] com -- Olga P Massanet -- www.ungravitational.net virtualfirefly.wordpress.com www.vimeo.com/ungravitational ___ NetBehaviour mailing list NetBehaviour@netbehaviour.org http://www.netbehaviour.org/mailman/listinfo/netbehaviour
[NetBehaviour] UNLEASHED DEVICES - Exhibition @ Watermans, London
UNLEASHED DEVICES Showing: Wed 1st Sep - Fri 22nd Oct Unleashed Devices is an exhibition of DIY, hacking and open source projects by artists who explore technologies critically and creatively. Playing with frontiers, such projects not only challenge our conception of technology but also music, art and design. The exhibition, featuring more than 30 artists, is part of the nodel (www.nodel.org) Autumn season in London Unleashed Devices is an exhibition of DIY, hacking and open source projects by artists who explore technologies critically and creatively. By reconstructing, remixing and reinventing everyday electronic devices, these take on a new life as they shift our vision of the use of data and purpose of technology. Playing with frontiers, such projects not only challenge our conception of technology but also music, art and design. Here, they reveal the power of DIY modes as tools to stimulate social reflection and participation. New ways of engaging with the spectator is a core concern. Unleashed Devices includes playful installations, interactive electronic-sculptures, movement tracking works and performances, as well as coding and hardware based artworks, creating innovative media installations and new experiences. Participating artists: Tine Bech, Hellicar Lewis, Patrick Tresset Nanda Khaorapapong, Daniel Soltis, John Nussey, Matthew Applegate/ Pixelh8, Alex Zivanovic, Neil Mendoza Anthony Goh, Communications, Ryan Jordan, Genetic Moo, Wajid Yaseen, Eduard Prats Molner Marijana Mitrovic, Owl Project, sketchPatch, Mary Thompson, Peter Forde, Evan Raskob, Owen Bowden, Tom Schofield, Dave Griffiths, Stuart Dunbar, Anna Dumitriu, Megan Smith, Vincent Van Uffelen Olga Panades Massanet, Andy Deck, Jordan Tate Adam Tindale, Andrew Back, Thessia Machado,Daniel Ploeger Curated by Watermans and TINT TINT is a UK based interdisciplinary media arts organisation, dedicated to art which is derived from, and reflects upon the intersections of technology and culture. We assist in pursuing and establishing collaborations with scientists, theorists, artists and other practitioners. http://tintarts.org/ http://www.watermans.org.uk/exhibitions/unleashed_devices/ -- Olga P Massanet -- www.ungravitational.net virtualfirefly.wordpress.com www.vimeo.com/ungravitational ___ NetBehaviour mailing list NetBehaviour@netbehaviour.org http://www.netbehaviour.org/mailman/listinfo/netbehaviour
[NetBehaviour] Call for entries: VIDA 13.0 Art Artificial Life International Competition
- -- Call for entries: VIDA 13.0 - http://www.fundacion.telefonica.com/arteytecnologia/certamen_vida/en/index.htm At a time when the notion of life is once again located in an uncertain domain, a wide range of artistic initiatives come together to illustrate and investigate this phenomenon; they examine the impact on the collective conscience and the way it is manifested in cultural, technological and social thought. Over the last decade, in the same formal space, VIDA has been bringing together inter-disciplinary projects that respond to this situation. By means of formal strategies that defy the boundaries between existing practices, these projects offer new ways of reflecting on what we understand by life and artificial life. Fundación Telefónica announces the VIDA 13.0 Art Artificial Life International Competition, which for the last twelve years has awarded prizes for artistic projects using technological mediums offering innovative approaches to research into artificial life. The projects may be based on systems which emulate, imitate or speculate on the notion of life through current research and technology. These systems may involve attributes of agency and autonomy which display specific behaviour, are dynamic, react to their surroundings and evolve, and which question the frontiers between what is alive and what is not, between synthetic and organic life. As in previous years there are two categories to the competition: --- FINISHED PROJECTS In this category VIDA 13.0 will award prizes to artistic ALife projects developed after 2008. The sum of 40,000 Euros will be shared between the projects selected by the jury: First Prize: 18,000 Euros, Second Prize: 14,000 Euros, and Third Prize: 8,000 Euros. In addition seven honourable mentions will be awarded. --- ARTISTIC PRODUCTION INCENTIVES IN IBEROAMERICA, SPAIN AND PORTUGAL In this category VIDA 13.0 helps to fund artistic ALife projects that have not yet been produced. This is aimed at citizens or residents of countries comprising Latin America, Spain and Portugal. The sum of 40,000 Euros will be shared between the selected projects. The winning projects will be subsequently exhibited at the VIDA Gallery, http://www.fundacion.telefonica.com/arteytecnologia/galeriavida/. and may be presented in exhibitions related to art and new technologies organised by Fundación Telefónica or in which it takes part. DATES Period for submission of projects: from 19th July to 7th November 2010. JURY The works submitted will be examined by an international panel composed of José-Carlos Mariátegui (Peru), Mónica Bello Bugallo (Spain), Nell Tenhaaf (Canada) Rodrigo Alonso (Argentina), Simon Penny (USA/Australia), Zhang Ga (USA/China) and Francisco Serrano (General Director of Fundación Telefónica). -- Olga P Massanet -- www.ungravitational.net virtualfirefly.wordpress.com www.vimeo.com/ungravitational ___ NetBehaviour mailing list NetBehaviour@netbehaviour.org http://www.netbehaviour.org/mailman/listinfo/netbehaviour
[NetBehaviour] YOU ARE HUNGRY: Mapping an Edible Urban Hackney
YOU ARE HUNGRY: Mapping an Edible Urban Hackney - 01–30 Sep 2010 / Space Studios, London Can you feed the 2,150 urban residents, that live within 500 metres of the SPACE gallery, using the 25 hectares of land that houses them? “YOU ARE HUNGRY” is a proposal to investigate this question through the creation of an Edible Map” which displays the potential ‘agricultural’ yields the immediate streets, parks and grassed areas around the Space Gallery could produce. This will allowing the itinerant urban resident or visitor to visualise what percentage of their current diet could be achieved using locally grown food within a particular session. The basic question of local food growing is linked to the wider crucial debate surrounding the need to reduce our carbon footprint and create sustainable cities. It is widely accepted that food production, distribution and consumption are major contributors to current environmental dystopias. However, Scientists, National Governments and International Policy makers currently lead this debate. Their currency is Green House Gas emissions, Carbon equivalents and a wealth of technological data, which sits in the abstract, at odds against the rhythms and routines of our hourly and daily food consuming obligations. Therefore, there is a need for artistic practices to respond to the data-pollution of the dominant political and scientific discourses with visualisation tools, which facilitate educated, provocative and creative interventions. The Edible Map is one such visualisation tool. Drawing over the usual cadastral A-Z map, The Edible Map intervens with new signposts, icons and graphics that translate ideas of “local food” into tangible, interactive and playful narratives, thus reconnecting people to a sense of place through food growing. There are two ways that you can interact with the project. First, as part of a psychogeographical food walk through the streets of East London during June 2010, accompanied by Mikey Tomkins (dates and times to be specified but you can leave a request at mikeytomk...@gmail.com). Second, to view, comment and record your opinions about the potential for food growing in East London at the digital version of the edible map. This is available at http://www.mikeytomkins.co.uk/work/edible-maps/. Mikey Tomkins, local beekeeper and PhD student at the University of Brighton has created the project. There will be 20 places available. The walk also includes a visit to the rooftop hives of the Space gallery. This visit is only available to the first 8 walkers! Schedule and booking details TBC http://www.mikeytomkins.co.uk/work/edible-maps/ -- Olga P Massanet -- www.ungravitational.net virtualfirefly.wordpress.com www.vimeo.com/ungravitational ___ NetBehaviour mailing list NetBehaviour@netbehaviour.org http://www.netbehaviour.org/mailman/listinfo/netbehaviour
Re: [NetBehaviour] on holiday
brilliant thread! On 2 August 2010 12:05, jen...@jenniesavage.co.uk wrote: Hi, Thanks for getting in touch. I am away on holiday until 9th August and won't be able to access my emails, please send a text in an emergency. best wishes jennie ___ NetBehaviour mailing list NetBehaviour@netbehaviour.org http://www.netbehaviour.org/mailman/listinfo/netbehaviour -- Olga P Massanet -- www.ungravitational.net virtualfirefly.wordpress.com www.vimeo.com/ungravitational ___ NetBehaviour mailing list NetBehaviour@netbehaviour.org http://www.netbehaviour.org/mailman/listinfo/netbehaviour
[NetBehaviour] NEW REVIEW FURTHERFIELD: Sprint As Process
Sprint As Process http://www.furtherfield.org/displayreview.php?review_id=401 by Helen Varley Jamieson Helen Varley Jamieson's account of working collaboratively in Madrid at the Eclectic Tech Carnival. On a 'sprint', with five women coming together for a week to rebuild the group's website, physically remotely. In the last week of June I went to Madrid for the Eclectic Tech Carnival (/ETC) website workweek - the collective effort of five women coming together for a week to rebuild the group's website. This is sprint methodology, a concept that I first met in Agile software development, but one that is being increasingly applied as a successful creative collaboration methodology. During the workweek I blogged about the process and this article is an assemblage of the blog posts. Thinking about the concept of the sprint, I realised that over the years, I've participated in a number of theatrical sprints although we didn't call them that. In fact it could be argued that the normal development process for theatre productions in New Zealand is the sprint - a three or four week turnaround of devising/rehearsing/presenting. Except that it doesn't usually continue the Agile process after the first sprint - evaluation, refinement then the next sprint and iteration - and as a result, the work is often undercooked. But theatre projects that better fit the sprint analogy are some of the workshop-performance processes that I've participated in at theatre festivals, where a small group comes together for a few days to create a performance, then some time later meets again in another situation, perhaps a slightly different configuration of people, for another sprint. Each sprint generates a stand-alone performance or work-in-process showing, as well as contributes to a larger evolving body of work that forms the whole collaborative project. Two such projects that I've been part of are Water[war]s and Women With Big Eyes (with the Magdalena Project). Other Info: A living, breathing, thriving networked neighbourhood... We are on identi.ca Twitter http://identi.ca/furtherfield http://twitter.com/furtherfield Other reviews,articles,interviews http://www.furtherfield.org/reviews.php Furtherfield – online media arts community, platforms for creating, viewing, discussing and learning about experimental practices at the intersections of art, technology and social change. http://www.furtherfield.org HTTP Gallery – physical media arts Gallery (London). http://www.http.uk.net ___ NetBehaviour mailing list NetBehaviour@netbehaviour.org http://www.netbehaviour.org/mailman/listinfo/netbehaviour -- Olga P Massanet -- www.ungravitational.net virtualfirefly.wordpress.com www.vimeo.com/ungravitational ___ NetBehaviour mailing list NetBehaviour@netbehaviour.org http://www.netbehaviour.org/mailman/listinfo/netbehaviour
Re: [NetBehaviour] Invitation to join me
This is an exciting experiment!! And I don't feel there is reason for so much concern.. BUT! If it once becomes threatening to the list, it will be also exciting to find ways to deal with it together :) I, neither, witnessed the death of those mailing lists.. wasn't there any sort of initiative to save them? But I'm most curious about a post no one picked up on: the unexpected happened. the password has been changed. i cannot login to karenblissett anymore. i am not me anymore even further than i wasn't me before. Did someone really close up the open experiment??? -- Olga P Massanet -- www.ungravitational.net virtualfirefly.wordpress.com www.vimeo.com/ungravitational ___ NetBehaviour mailing list NetBehaviour@netbehaviour.org http://www.netbehaviour.org/mailman/listinfo/netbehaviour
[NetBehaviour] Fwd: Birdhouse Effect- open call for participation - plz fwd
The Argleton event is an artistic experiment organised by Birdhouse Effect with an open call to anyone willing to participate and modulate it. Argleton is a town in the northwest of U.K. which appeared in Google maps without existing in reality. Have a look for more details http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Argleton This project attempts to locate the city of Argleton in a wider cultural narrative. The project comments on the cognitive conceptions of space understood through maps, the notion of place in a mobile and globalised world and the production of place as a container of experiences. The event will take place through Twitter for three days Tuesday 13th, Wednesday 14th and Thursday 15th of July. A part of it will be broadcast in real time between 16.00- 18.00 (GMT) everyday from http://www.birdhouseeffect.com/argleton.htmlhttp://www.birdhouseeffect.com/ Buildings from all around the world will be projected in a real time video synthesis, creating the hybrid space and time of a non-existent town. During the three days of the event the participants will exchange messages through Twitter, sharing experiences and information about this particular town. Feel free to write down your own imaginary experiences, memories and anything you wish to share. All tweets will be reproduced in the project as long as they follow certain easy rules: 1. All tweets should be in English. 2. They should include the word “Argleton”. 3. You can only use present and past tense. 4. At the end of each tweet you need to add #BirdhouseEffect I.e. In Arglerton I used to have the best ice-cream ever!#BirdhouseEffect Buses are always so slow in Argleton.#BirdhouseEffect In case someone wants to take part in the project without creating a twitter account the following account is available: username: abirdhouse password: effect See you all in Argleton!! -- Olga P Massanet -- www.ungravitational.net virtualfirefly.wordpress.com www.vimeo.com/ungravitational ___ NetBehaviour mailing list NetBehaviour@netbehaviour.org http://www.netbehaviour.org/mailman/listinfo/netbehaviour
[NetBehaviour] GAME: Safe Passage
(Originally posted in Networked_Performance) Safe Passage, the largest and most comprehensive new media project about human rights in Israel, allows the user to experience interactively the restrictions on movement between the Gaza Strip and the West Bank and understand the grave consequences resulting from the separation of Gaza and the West Bank for people living in the two areas. Safe Passage makes innovative use of animation, Flash documents, video and a blog, and comprises a political and legal archive, including dozens of official documents that shed light on the military legislation and legal rulings since the 1990s, when Israel began imposing increasing restrictions on movement between the areas. http://www.spg.org.il/ -- Olga P Massanet -- www.ungravitational.net virtualfirefly.wordpress.com www.vimeo.com/ungravitational ___ NetBehaviour mailing list NetBehaviour@netbehaviour.org http://www.netbehaviour.org/mailman/listinfo/netbehaviour
Re: [NetBehaviour] Beyond Privacy - New Notions of the Private and Public Domains
Thank you Ximena! I've downloaded the article. Will try to read it in the coming days.. Regards, -- Olga P Massanet -- www.ungravitational.net virtualfirefly.wordpress.com www.vimeo.com/ungravitational ___ NetBehaviour mailing list NetBehaviour@netbehaviour.org http://www.netbehaviour.org/mailman/listinfo/netbehaviour
Re: [NetBehaviour] Beyond Privacy - New Notions of the Private and Public Domains
Looks like it's a hot issue, Networked_Performace just posted about another book: - Autonomy and Control in the Era of Post-Privacy --- Researcher Felix Stalder analyses the loss of the key role of the concept of privacy. Privacy long secured the balance between the control of institutions and the autonomy of the citizen. Today, with institutions aiming more and more to provide customized services and the autonomy of both citizens and institutions changing, this role is disappearing, making the danger of an increase in control and power a realistic one. To turn the tide, Stalder argues for a greater transparency of the back-end protocols, algorithms and procedures of the new, flexible bureaucracies. Read More on Networked_Performance: http://turbulence.org/blog/2010/07/01/autonomy-and-control-in-the-era-of-post-privacy/ -- Olga P Massanet -- www.ungravitational.net virtualfirefly.wordpress.com www.vimeo.com/ungravitational ___ NetBehaviour mailing list NetBehaviour@netbehaviour.org http://www.netbehaviour.org/mailman/listinfo/netbehaviour
[NetBehaviour] EXHIBITION: INTERACTIVOS'?10: Neighborhood Science
by Brian Degger (UK). Collaborator: Nirvana Soltani. Biological Plastic is a substance that can be molded, shaped, formed into sheets, cut and colored much like normal oil based plastics. However, it uses easily obtained materials, with no irritants stronger than vinegar. All of it’s components can be sourced from groceries, supermarkets or chemists. No Logo: These toys are meant to be de-comodified objects of play for fairytales that are made by the storyteller to teach them about the wonders and dangers of the community they are growing up in. URL: http://medialab-prado.es/article/interactivos10_muestra_de_proyectos -- Olga P Massanet -- www.ungravitational.net virtualfirefly.wordpress.com www.vimeo.com/ungravitational ___ NetBehaviour mailing list NetBehaviour@netbehaviour.org http://www.netbehaviour.org/mailman/listinfo/netbehaviour
[NetBehaviour] Trajectories: How to Reconcile the Careerist Mentality with Our Impending Doom (Part 3)
Trajectories: How to Reconcile the Careerist Mentality with Our Impending Doom (Part 3) by Ellie Harrison From September 2008 - June 2010, Ellie Harrison undertook a Leverhulme Scholarship on the Master of Fine Art programme at Glasgow School of Art. The thesis published forms one of the major outcomes of her research during this period. This is part 3, of four weekly articles to be published on Furtherfield. Part 3, here: http://www.furtherfield.org/displayreview.php?review_id=395 Drawing together the diagnoses which recur throughout the literature of the moment, such as Capitalist Realism: Is There No Alternative? (Fisher 2009), First as Tragedy, Then as Farce (Zizek 2009a) and The Coming Insurrection (The Invisible Committee 2009) alongside the key suggestions, ideas and solutions from these two manifestos, our 'plan of action' begins to materialise. In the spirit of Pascal's famous 'wager' (Hajek 2008) the plan aims to cover all bases: our active and / or passive responses to the situation. Encouraging the belief that we might still be able to use our roles as artists to incite the radical change to our societal structure (in the art world and globally) needed to avert climate catastrophe, whilst simultaneously developing philosophies for coping with our lives - finding meaning and happiness - should our active response fail. The seven points below offer a set of guidelines for rethinking our lives, which should act as the starting points for redefining our roles as artists and thinking about how it might be possible to reconcile 'the careerist mentality' into which we have been inculcated with the possibility of 'our impending doom'. Other Info: A living, breathing, thriving networked neighbourhood... We are on identi.ca Twitter http://identi.ca/furtherfield http://twitter.com/furtherfield Other reviews,articles,interviews http://www.furtherfield.org/reviews.php Furtherfield – online media arts community, platforms for creating, viewing, discussing and learning about experimental practices at the intersections of art, technology and social change. http://www.furtherfield.org HTTP Gallery – physical media arts Gallery (London). http://www.http.uk.net Netbehaviour – an open email list community engaged in the process of sharing and actively evolving critical approaches, methods and ideas focused around contemporary networked media arts practice. http://www.netbehaviour.org Join Furtherfield.org on Resonance 104.4FM - weekly Broadcasts http://www.furtherfield.org/resonancefm.php Furtherfield Blog – shared space for personal reflections on media art practice. http://blog.furtherfield.org VisitorsStudio – real-time, multi-user, online arena for creative ‘many to many’ dialogue, networked performance and collaborative polemic. http://www.visitorsstudio.org/x.html Furthernoise – an online platform for the creation, promotion, criticism and archiving of innovative cross genre music and sound art for the information interaction of the public and artists alike. http://www.furthernoise.org ___ NetBehaviour mailing list NetBehaviour@netbehaviour.org http://www.netbehaviour.org/mailman/listinfo/netbehaviour -- Olga P Massanet -- www.ungravitational.net virtualfirefly.wordpress.com www.vimeo.com/ungravitational ___ NetBehaviour mailing list NetBehaviour@netbehaviour.org http://www.netbehaviour.org/mailman/listinfo/netbehaviour
[NetBehaviour] EXHIBITION: Habitar - Bending the urban frame- Laboral, Gijon, 2010
Habitar - Bending the urban frame- Laboral, Gijon, 2010 at Laboral Art and Industrial Creation Centre in Gijón (SP) until November 8, 2010. Utopian and radical architects in the 1960s predicted that cities in the future would not only be made of brick and mortar, but also defined by bits and flows of information. The urban dweller would become a nomad who inhabits a space in constant flux, mutating in real time. Their vision has taken on new meaning in an age when information networks rule over many of the city's functions, and define our experiences as much as the physical infrastructures, while mobile technologies transform our sense of time and of space. This new urban landscape is no longer predicated solely on architecture and urbanism. These disciplines now embrace emerging methodologies that bend the physical with new measures, representations and maps of urban dynamics such as traffic or mobile phone flows. Representations of usage patterns and mapping the life of the city amplify our collective awareness of the urban environment as a living organism. These soft and invisible architectures fashion sentient and reactive environments. Habitar is a walk through new emerging scenarios in the city. It is a catalogue of ideas and images from artists, design and architecture studios, and hybrid research centres. Together they come up with a series of potential tools, solutions and languages to negotiate everyday life in the new urban situation. List of projects: http://www.laboralcentrodearte.org/en/736-projects Download catalogue: http://www.laboralcentrodearte.org/UserFiles/File/CATALOGOS/habitar.pdf See pictures of the exhibition here: http://www.flickr.com/photos/48831...@n00/sets/72157624260527437/ Review at We-Make-Money-Not-Art: http://we-make-money-not-art.com/archives/laboral/ -- Olga P Massanet -- www.ungravitational.net virtualfirefly.wordpress.com www.vimeo.com/ungravitational ___ NetBehaviour mailing list NetBehaviour@netbehaviour.org http://www.netbehaviour.org/mailman/listinfo/netbehaviour
[NetBehaviour] Interventions Exhibition
Interventions Exhibition Social and cultural research explores the complexity of social life and the richness of cultural experience alongside the paradoxes of inequality and exclusion. The Interventions project has been orgainsed by Joe Malia and Monica Moreno Figueroa to pair six researchers with six designers to explore the possibilities revealed when designers apply their knowledge and approach to the detailed and nuanced research undertaken by social and human scientists. An evolving synthesis of disciplines over a period of eight weeks. 29th June - 7th July 2010 FREE ADMISSION 10am to 5pm Newcastle http://www.interventions.org.uk/ PROJECTS Airspace Activism http://www.interventions.org.uk/index.php/airspace-activism-2/ Utilitarian Solutions in a Cultural Environment http://www.interventions.org.uk/index.php/utilitarian-solutions-in-a-cultural-environment/ Plant Life http://www.interventions.org.uk/index.php/plant-life/ Crossing Boundaries: Barriers Danced http://www.interventions.org.uk/index.php/crossing-boundaries-barriers-danced/ Urban Memory and Active Nostalgia http://www.interventions.org.uk/index.php/urban-memory-and-active-nostalgia/ -- Olga P Massanet -- www.ungravitational.net virtualfirefly.wordpress.com www.vimeo.com/ungravitational ___ NetBehaviour mailing list NetBehaviour@netbehaviour.org http://www.netbehaviour.org/mailman/listinfo/netbehaviour
Re: [NetBehaviour] Repeal the Digital Economy Bill
This site is quite impressive... although I feel quite sceptical about the implications of the discussions, I quite like the initiative. Your ideas, comments and ratings will directly inform the Government’s policy making. Some of your proposals could even end up making it into bills before Parliament. We’ll consider your ideas on civil liberties for the proposed Freedom Bill later in 2010. We may also include ideas on unnecessary laws in a future bill. On 2 July 2010 12:57, dave miller dave.miller...@gmail.com wrote: http://yourfreedom.hmg.gov.uk/restoring-civil-liberties/repeal-the-digital-economy-bill ___ NetBehaviour mailing list NetBehaviour@netbehaviour.org http://www.netbehaviour.org/mailman/listinfo/netbehaviour -- Olga P Massanet -- www.ungravitational.net virtualfirefly.wordpress.com www.vimeo.com/ungravitational ___ NetBehaviour mailing list NetBehaviour@netbehaviour.org http://www.netbehaviour.org/mailman/listinfo/netbehaviour
[NetBehaviour] Guerrilla Gardening Workshop: Seedbombs
FoAM in collaboration with Recyclart are organising a seed-bombing workshop. Analogous to kneading of dough, the participants learn how to create a fertile paste including thousands of seeds (herbs, bushes, shrubs ground covers), that can work together to form a self-sustaining plant guild. Recyclart invites people of all ages to discover the urban ecologists in themselves. The workshop will be repeated on the 16th of July and 5th of August. More information: http://www.recyclart.be/content/view/14153/1/lang,en/ http://fo.am/node/1911 -- Olga P Massanet -- www.ungravitational.net virtualfirefly.wordpress.com www.vimeo.com/ungravitational ___ NetBehaviour mailing list NetBehaviour@netbehaviour.org http://www.netbehaviour.org/mailman/listinfo/netbehaviour
[NetBehaviour] Exhibition: HOW WE BECAME METADATA
HOW WE BECAME METADATA 9 June 2010 – 5 September 2010, 9:00 – 17:00 Martin John Callanan Corby Baily Eunju Han Eduardo Kac susan pui san lok Ruth Maclennan and Uriel Orlow Thomson Craighead Curated by Marquard Smith University of Westminster, 309 Regent Street, London W1 2UW http://www.ucl.ac.uk/slade/scemfa/how-we-became-metadata -- Olga P Massanet -- www.ungravitational.net virtualfirefly.wordpress.com www.vimeo.com/ungravitational ___ NetBehaviour mailing list NetBehaviour@netbehaviour.org http://www.netbehaviour.org/mailman/listinfo/netbehaviour
[NetBehaviour] Arduino BarCamp in Oxford
I just read about this event on the MzTek list, some of you might have got it. It looks very interesting! A BarCamp for Arduino enthusiasts. It is a unique opportunity to learn, showcase and be updated about the latest Arduino developments. We are happy to confirm that part of the Arduino Team will attend. They'll talk about the latest developments and preview the shiny new ETH Shield. All levels welcome, beginners, amateurs and pros. Prepare for lots of goodies! Lunch will be provided. More info: http://barcamp.org/Arduino-DevCamp -- Olga P Massanet -- www.ungravitational.net virtualfirefly.wordpress.com www.vimeo.com/ungravitational ___ NetBehaviour mailing list NetBehaviour@netbehaviour.org http://www.netbehaviour.org/mailman/listinfo/netbehaviour
Re: [NetBehaviour] Beyond Privacy - New Notions of the Private and Public Domains
Hi Ximena, Thanks for the references. Do you have a link to Daniel Solove's The nothing to hide argument article? Thanks again! -- Olga P Massanet -- www.ungravitational.net virtualfirefly.wordpress.com www.vimeo.com/ungravitational ___ NetBehaviour mailing list NetBehaviour@netbehaviour.org http://www.netbehaviour.org/mailman/listinfo/netbehaviour
[NetBehaviour] Urban Interventions for La Noche en blanco, Madrid
CALL FOR PROPOSALS: Urban Intervention for La Noche en Blanco, Madrid 2010 DEADLINE: July 6 at 24.00 h Event: Saturday, September 11, 2010. PDF: http://lanocheenblanco.esmadrid.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/05/Convocatoria-5Plazas-Ingl%C3%A9s.pdf The purpose of this announcement is to offer a chance to participate in the curatorial program of La noche en blanco 2010. The curators of this fifth edition, the Basurama collective, are inviting all interested parties to present projects for the upcoming edition, which will take place on Saturday, September 11, 2010. This open call for proposals aims to complement the core concepts of La noche en blanco 2010, all of which have to do with the idea of the game and play understood not as competition but as a collective recreational activity. Playing requires us to reinvent the way we relate to our physical and social environment, generating new opportunities for experimentation in the city. The theme of this fifth edition, Game On!, is an open invitation to all citizens, a concept that emphasizes participation and proposes a new way of interacting with the city of Madrid. This concept is considered broad enough to permit a wide variety of proposals and interpretations. One of the strategic lines for this year’s La noche en blanco is to work with what exists already. In that sense, creators and ideas will take priority against big productions. Another objective of this call is to lower barriers in the curated program for external proposals. The proposed project must be an idea for a free, public action to be constructed or launched during the course of La noche en blanco on September 11, 2010, from 21 to 7 h. Every discipline of contemporary artistic creation is welcome – visual arts, music, architecture, performing arts, design, etc. – with a special emphasis on selecting a diverse array of proposals. The proposals will take place in the following squares of Madrid: Plaza 2 de Mayo Plaza Tirso de Molina Plaza de Soledad Torres Acosta (Plaza Luna) Plaza Lavapiés Plaza de las Comendadoras Detailed information about these spaces is available on the web page of La noche en blanco (www.lanocheenblanco.com). The projects presented may propose the use of one or more of the abovementioned squares. However, the project may have to be moved to a square other than the one requested in order to accommodate all of the selected proposals, though such decisions will be discussed with the author(s) beforehand. In any case, the organizers of La noche en blanco will always have the final say in such matters. The deadline for submitting proposals is July 6 at 24.00 h. Proposals should be sent to the following email address: convocatorias_ l...@mataderomadrid.com. -- Olga P Massanet -- www.ungravitational.net virtualfirefly.wordpress.com www.vimeo.com/ungravitational ___ NetBehaviour mailing list NetBehaviour@netbehaviour.org http://www.netbehaviour.org/mailman/listinfo/netbehaviour
[NetBehaviour] EXHIBITION: The Arctic Perspective Initiative
EXHIBITION: The Arctic Perspective Initiative The Arctic Perspective Initiative (API) is a non-profit, international group of individuals and organizations whose goal is to promote the creation of open authoring, communications and dissemination infrastructures for the circumpolar region. We aim to empower the North and Arctic peoples through open source technologies and applied education and training. By creating access to these technologies while promoting an open, shared network of communications and data, without a costly overhead, we can allow for further sustainable and continued development of culture, traditional knowledge, science, technology and education opportunities for peoples in the North and Arctic regions. http://arcticperspective.org/ http://arcticperspective.org/news/2010-exhibtions-now-open HMKV at PHOENIX Halle, Dortmund, Germany Exhibition Exhibition 18 June – 10 October 2010 Opening 18 June 2010, 7 pm Opening hours Wed-Fri 3 pm-8 pm, Sat and Sun 11 am-8pm Part of the European Capital of Culture RUHR 2010 and ISEA 2010 CANADA HOUSE, Trrafalgar Square, London UK May 21 - Sept 30 2010 -- Olga P Massanet -- www.ungravitational.net virtualfirefly.wordpress.com www.vimeo.com/ungravitational ___ NetBehaviour mailing list NetBehaviour@netbehaviour.org http://www.netbehaviour.org/mailman/listinfo/netbehaviour
[NetBehaviour] hacklab on a catamaran
*Hacklab at the sea July 12-18 2010** ** (CFP DL 26.6.)* *M.A.R.I.N. invites short proposals to attend Hacklab at the Sea**, an informal workshop on an island in the Finnish archipelago combining tinkering and brainstorming of ideas. The workshop explores sensory experience of marine environment and ecologies. Participants should all do hands-on tinkering with the likes of but not limited to, sensors, sensor networks, DIY electronics, low power computing, and alternative energy production. *** web flyer: http://www.translocal.net/drop/MARIN_SEAHACKLAB_web.pdf *12.-18.7.2010 Hacklab at the sea location: * a small island in Naantali, Turku Archipelago, Finland (35 min from Turku by car + 10 min by boat) *Possible approaches for tinkering:* - circuit bending for floating structures (radio controlled boats, subs, floating sensor stations, wireless units) - DIY microscopy - Solar panels, water kinetic energy - Sensor networks - Non-conventional locating and mapping *WE PROVIDE:* *Lab setup* 400 W wind power 920W photovoltaic solar panels 800 Ah of battery Gas soldering irons 3G Internet - WiFi local (no high bandwidth stuff) *Housing* Shared cabin housing for 8 people max, additional space in 2 tents. *Cooking* Small indoors, and a great outdoors kitchen with 2 woks, fish smoking unit and BBQ. Fridge. Fresh water brought from mainland. I will provide potatoes, carrots, onions, bread, milk, cheese, cooking oil, basic spice. Other ingredients you need to chip in to buy, or help to fish or gather (chantarell may be in season). *Sauna* Wood heated sauna is the place for great conversations, relaxing and washing up. Rain water collected for hair. Please bring eco friendly shampoos… *Leisure* 2-seater sea kayak rowing boat fishing boat sea to swim in, rocks to lay on. *Time* Minimum stay 4 days, preferred the whole time. *YOU SHOULD BRING:* - your own low power computers + electronics, towel, sheets, and special food and drink you may like. Please charge up everything before you come. - cameras, laptops. Leisure things are charged last if we would run out of juice though. Please note that it is an island, and it takes a boat ride and 20 mins of driving to get to a supermarket. Few runs are done to local shop but not daily. *MONEY* This is a non-funded workshop, so travel and production costs are paid by each participant. Basic food and prodution of the small scale thing is volunteer work by the host, Tapio Mäkelä, and premises are kindly lent for the workshop by his parents. Participatory cooking is also a high priority during this event. *TRAVEL* If you come by boat, I will give you both a visual map and co-ordinates for your GPS. Also bicycle is a great method to come to the harbor. For those who come via air or land, I will organize journeys from Turku onwards. How to get to Turku from abroad: some airlines fly to Turku, most to Helsinki, Ryanair flies to Tampere. Bot HEL and TRE airports offer good train connections to Turku. Also there is an 8 hour ferry connection to Turku from Stockholm. Good overall travel to finland - - http://www.ebookers.fi- - Does not include offers from the cheapest airlines: http://www.easyjet.com, http://ryanair.com, http://www.airberlin.com * **RELATED PROJECTS* worth looking into: Capsula Baltic Sea expedition Approach at Sea by Birgitta Silfverhielm Arctic Perspective Initiative *YOUR PROPOSAL* - what would you like to do at the workshop? - what skills would you like to share? - how do you find marine ecology relevant to your practice, or vice versa? - tell a bit about yourself - and include a few URLs to relevant projects _Please e-mail your proposal to ta...@translocal.net mailto:ta...@translocal.net latest by June 26th, Saturday._ I will reply to everyone by June 28th. *M.A.R.I.N. - Media Art Research Interdisciplinary Network* - is a networked residency and research initiative, integrating artistic and scientific research on ecology of the marine and cultural ecosystems. Next summer (2011) M.A.R.I.N. will host residencies and workshops with several partners at the Baltic Sea. http://marin.cc/seahacklab -- Olga P Massanet -- www.ungravitational.net virtualfirefly.wordpress.com www.vimeo.com/ungravitational ___ NetBehaviour mailing list NetBehaviour@netbehaviour.org http://www.netbehaviour.org/mailman/listinfo/netbehaviour
[NetBehaviour] Piksel Summer Camp (registration deadline: July 1st)
Piksel Summer Camp **Deadline: 01. JULY 2010 ** URL http://www.piksel.no/pulse/summercamp Piksel Summer Camp is international gathering of artists, developers and creators that work with free and open technologies, taking place at the idyllic island of Skjerjehamn outside Bergen, Norway. The Summer Camp is a participatory event aiming to bring forth new, fruitful collaborations, organized according to BarCamp principles and in the spirit of free and open source development. The program will consist of presentations, workshops and performative events proposed and organized by the participants themselves before and during the Summer Camp. A particular focus is set on hands-on exploration, discussion and development of tools and applications for open video editing technologies. CALL FOR PARTICIPATION Participation is open to everyone, and there is no fee. Use this online form (http://www.piksel.no/pulse/summercamp/reg10) or send a mail to: info [AT] piksel.no to register. PARTICIPANT LIST This list will be updated as participants register for the event. PROGRAM WIKI The Piksel Summer Camp program wiki is under construction, and will be available for event proposals soon. You will need to register before entering event suggestions. PRACTICAL INFORMATION Accommodation: Skjerjehamn offers accommodation either at the island hotel, or by camping in the beautiful surrounding area. More detailed information about prices and travel routes will come very soon. -- Olga P Massanet -- www.ungravitational.net virtualfirefly.wordpress.com www.vimeo.com/ungravitational ___ NetBehaviour mailing list NetBehaviour@netbehaviour.org http://www.netbehaviour.org/mailman/listinfo/netbehaviour
[NetBehaviour] OPENING TONIGHT (BERLIN) --- speed show ----
This looks like it could be a good event.. SPEED SHOW vol.1: TELE-INTERNET One night group show and the start of an ongoing series of SPEED SHOWS. - Opening! Friday 11th of June 2010, 21:00 – 00:00 Kottbusser Damm 103, Berlin - Following artists will show new or recent works: - Jon Cates (US) - Constant Dullaart (NL) - Dragan Espenschied (DE) - JODI (NL/BE) - Geraldine Juarez (MX) - Tobias Leingruber (DE) - Olia Lialina (RU) - Moddr (NL/AT/RU) - Johannes P Osterhoff (DE) - Evan Roth (US) - Ralph Schulz (DE) - Paul Slocom (US) Curated by Aram Bartholl - Curatorial Statement: net.art is dead? Long live pop.net.art! - The Internet browser a key element to the success of the web in the beginning of the 90’s has grown mature in the last two decades. Technical development, open standards and open software made the browser a very powerful tool. It seems soon it will take over the operating system and there will be nothing left than apps in the cloud. It’s about time to revisit net.art in an era of 500 million Facebook user. net.art never really found it’s way out of the media art bubble. The browser was the promising canvas in the early ’90s and is today more then ever capable to do what ever you like. Read more: http://f.at/speed-show/ -- Olga P Massanet -- www.ungravitational.net virtualfirefly.wordpress.com www.vimeo.com/ungravitational ___ NetBehaviour mailing list NetBehaviour@netbehaviour.org http://www.netbehaviour.org/mailman/listinfo/netbehaviour
[NetBehaviour] Beyond Privacy - New Notions of the Private and Public Domains
We've discussed in this list sometimes about the threats to privacy that Social Networking sometimes entails... In our review of Future Sonic '09, Ruth I also started to consider whether the whole notion of privacy wasn't already dated and we needed to find news ways to address the pervasiveness of these platforms. This book might be of interest to those that have been having similar ideas... -- (Originally posted in Networked_Performance) Beyond Privacy New Notions of the Private and Public Domains -- -- Privacy is a right that protects one’s private life, a right that is not only established by law, but also has a political and a social significance. It can be experienced and observed differently by individuals and groups, depending upon their position in society and the desires and interests that are involved. In Open 19, the concept of privacy is examined and reconsidered from the legal, sociological, media theoretical and activist perspectives. The focus is not so much on deploring the loss of privacy, but taking the present situation of ‘post-privacy’ for what it is and trying to gain insight into what is on the horizon in terms of new subjectivities and power constructions. With contributions by Daniel Solove, Maurizio Lazzarato, Rudi Laermans, Armin Medosch, Felix Stalder, Joris van Hoboken, Oliver Leistert Martijn de Waal, Rob van Kranenburg, Mark Shepard and Matthijs Bouw and Gio Sumbadze. http://www.skor.nl/artefact-4808-en.html -- Olga P Massanet -- www.ungravitational.net virtualfirefly.wordpress.com www.vimeo.com/ungravitational ___ NetBehaviour mailing list NetBehaviour@netbehaviour.org http://www.netbehaviour.org/mailman/listinfo/netbehaviour
[NetBehaviour] Interactive Screen 1.0 Scholarship Intensive
--- Interactive Screen 1.0 Scholarship Intensive Program dates: August 14, 2010 - August 20, 2010 Application deadline: July 13, 2010 The Banff Centre --- New media makers interested in developing a creative project or reflective essay related to this year’s theme, Beautiful Lives, are encouraged to apply to the Interactive Screen Scholarship Intensive. Throughout Interactive Screen 1.0, participants will have the opportunity to refine their projects and to broaden their knowledge and networks. They will work in close collaboration with the Banff New Media Institute's peer advisors and staff. Scholarships are available for up to 10 Canadian and international applicants, and include focused mentorship and public presentation opportunities, a travel stipend of up to $550, and full financial support for program tuition, meals, and shared accommodations on The Banff Centre campus. Scholarship participants will arrive for the Interactive Screen workshop two days early for an advanced mentorship session. During this time, participants will advance their ideas, and formulate their learning objectives and personal goals for the workshop. The projects will then be introduced to the main Interactive Screen conference, and receive further strategic advice and exchange from the international gathering. http://www.banffcentre.ca/programs/program.aspx?id=1029 http://www.banffcentre.ca/programs/program.aspx?id=1028 -- Olga P Massanet -- www.ungravitational.net virtualfirefly.wordpress.com www.vimeo.com/ungravitational ___ NetBehaviour mailing list NetBehaviour@netbehaviour.org http://www.netbehaviour.org/mailman/listinfo/netbehaviour
[NetBehaviour] OPEN VIDEO CONFERENCE (NY, OCT 2010) Call for participation
OPEN VIDEO CONFERENCE in New York (OCT 2010) Call for participation -- We are now accepting proposals for panels, presentations, workshop sessions, demo sessions, and other programming for the next Open Video Conference in New York City. Join us and over 1000 participants during our groundbreaking two-day conference and take part in the discussions that are driving the future of the online video medium. Travel funding is available. Visit http://openvideoconference.org/proposals/to make a submission. ABOUT OPEN VIDEO -- Open video is the idea that the moving image should belong to everyone. This vision requires not only free and open video technologies, but also that viewers are empowered to go beyond just watching—creating, sharing, and engaging in the multimedia public sphere they now inhabit. http://www.openvideoconference.org/ -- (First posted in Networked_Performance) -- Olga P Massanet -- www.ungravitational.net virtualfirefly.wordpress.com www.vimeo.com/ungravitational ___ NetBehaviour mailing list NetBehaviour@netbehaviour.org http://www.netbehaviour.org/mailman/listinfo/netbehaviour
[NetBehaviour] deadline today! – International Festival of Video, Dance and Technologies
*InShadow – International Festival of Video, Dance and Technologies DEC 2010 **LISBON, PORTUGAL **CALL FOR PROPOSALS: deadline 14 may (today!) *This is the second edition of InShadow – International Festival of Video, Dance and Technologies. It is the result of three previous editions of Dance Without Shadow International Exhibition, that was established in 2004 with the aim to present an interdisciplinary programme, in which participated more than sixty artists and companies, including directors, choreographers, performers, musicians and interpreters. InShadow – International Festival of Video, Performance and Technologies is a dynamic and engaging festival, which aims to highlight the importance of exchange between the different disciplines in contemporary creation. * http://www.inshadowfestival.blogspot.com/ (originally posted in Networked_performance)* -- Olga P Massanet -- www.ungravitational.net virtualfirefly.wordpress.com www.vimeo.com/ungravitational ___ NetBehaviour mailing list NetBehaviour@netbehaviour.org http://www.netbehaviour.org/mailman/listinfo/netbehaviour
[NetBehaviour] PHANTOM RECORDER
I read about this project in WMNA and found it interesting.. perhaps cause lately i'm developing a sort of obsession with projects that work very closely with bodies.. usually these are project that involve the collaboration with scientists, which I also find very interesting.. - A phantom limb is the sensation that an amputated or missing limb (even an organ) is still attached to the body and is moving along with the rest of the body. Phantom Recorder, a project developed by designer Revital Cohen together with a team of scientists for the Impact! exhibition, explores the phenomenon and asks As strategies for repair focus on practical solutions, they tend to overlook poetic functions of our body, but what if one could record and keep their phantom sensation, to be awoken on request? - See full article, http://www.we-make-money-not-art.com/archives/2010/05/you-worked-together-with-a.php -- Olga P Massanet -- www.ungravitational.net virtualfirefly.wordpress.com www.vimeo.com/ungravitational ___ NetBehaviour mailing list NetBehaviour@netbehaviour.org http://www.netbehaviour.org/mailman/listinfo/netbehaviour
Re: [NetBehaviour] Facebook Calls All-Hands Meeting On Privacy.
Actually this Diaspora project looks interesting (and this is a follow-up from the conversations we had about social media). But with diaspora you own your web server.. In the begining I thought you physically had the information in your computer. Now I'm not sure.. The team has just gathered the funding to start developing the project and they plan to have it ready after the summer. Enter your Diaspora “seed,” a personal web server that stores all of your information and shares it with your friends. Diaspora knows how to securely share (using GPG http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/GNU_Privacy_Guard) your pictures, videos, and more. When you have a Diaspora seed of your own, you own your social graph, you have access to your information however you want, whenever you want, and you have full control of your online identity. Once we have built a solid foundation, we will make Diaspora easy to extend to facilitate any type of communication, and the possibilities will be endless. http://www.joindiaspora.com/ -- Olga P Massanet -- www.ungravitational.net virtualfirefly.wordpress.com www.vimeo.com/ungravitational ___ NetBehaviour mailing list NetBehaviour@netbehaviour.org http://www.netbehaviour.org/mailman/listinfo/netbehaviour
[NetBehaviour] Alternatives to Google Facebook
It's been a while that I'm looking for some sort of alternative to Facebook. I never liked the idea of signing up to Facebook but I started to feel a bit jealous of its advantages. I recently heard about this Spanish open platform N-1: https://n-1.cc/ I'd be interested in hearing from other platforms like this.. Does anyone know about any?? -- Olga P Massanet -- www.ungravitational.net virtualfirefly.wordpress.com www.vimeo.com/ungravitational ___ NetBehaviour mailing list NetBehaviour@netbehaviour.org http://www.netbehaviour.org/mailman/listinfo/netbehaviour
[NetBehaviour] EXHIBITION WORKSHOPS: When Process Becomes Paradigm
When Process Becomes Paradigm 23.04-30.08.2010 At Laboral, Gijon [Asturias] - Spain Before the background of unforeseen global processes, credit crash and climate change, the exhibition *el proceso como paradigma* researches the nature of processes and self organising, processual systems on a cultural level and in the arts. *el proceso como paradigma *puts forward the idea that today processes have become one of the major paradigms and creative strategies in contemporary art and design across the disciplines. The show reveals the elementary shift from a culture based on the concept of manifestation and the final product to a culture of process resulting from a networked society. Consequently, the show introduces a new understanding of process-based art which goes beyond previous definitions. *el proceso como paradigma* suggests that the new process-based art is the art of the 21st century. On the occasion of the exhibition LABoral will hold the workshop *Interactivos? el proceso como paradigma.* http://www.laboralcentrodearte.org/en/701-concept -- Olga P Massanet -- www.ungravitational.net virtualfirefly.wordpress.com www.vimeo.com/ungravitational ___ NetBehaviour mailing list NetBehaviour@netbehaviour.org http://www.netbehaviour.org/mailman/listinfo/netbehaviour
Re: [NetBehaviour] Alternatives to Google Facebook
Hi Annie, Yeah that's why I was very happy to find out about this N-1. But the problem is that then they are as you said less global.. It's still interesting to use it for particular groups or projects though.. it might be not so good as a place where to promote your work, or at least not yet.. MANIK.. I don't know.. . .. . . ... . . . . :) -- Olga P Massanet -- www.ungravitational.net virtualfirefly.wordpress.com www.vimeo.com/ungravitational ___ NetBehaviour mailing list NetBehaviour@netbehaviour.org http://www.netbehaviour.org/mailman/listinfo/netbehaviour
Re: [NetBehaviour] Alternatives to Google Facebook
Nice, lots of links.. We agree on that Vincent: the big challenge is for alternatives to become popular enough so that they are actually useful for social networking. I had actually heard about BuddyPress but haven't tried it, might do... Then, if I understand correctly elgg or drupal are for you to create your own social platform.. I'd like someone else to that for me :) The platform I was talking about is built on elgg for example.. Anyway, thanks all for the responses.. -- Olga P Massanet -- www.ungravitational.net virtualfirefly.wordpress.com www.vimeo.com/ungravitational ___ NetBehaviour mailing list NetBehaviour@netbehaviour.org http://www.netbehaviour.org/mailman/listinfo/netbehaviour
[NetBehaviour] Call for Papers: Mixed Reality and Performance
- From Networked Performance - The International Journal of Performance Arts and Digital Media (IJPADM) is seeking contributions to a special issue specifically relating to Mixed Reality and Performance. Issue Editor: Alan Chamberlain (Mixed Reality Lab - University of Nottingham). http://www.crg.cs.nott.ac.uk/~azc/call.html -- Submission Deadline 1st June 2010. -- Mixed Reality performances have highlighted our ability to: exist, understand and concurrently engage with both virtual and real worlds in a performative way. The development of the technologies under-pinning such Mixed Reality systems have afforded performers, directors and developers the chance to create experiences that can both spatially and temporally explore the boundaries of performance and understand where and why performance occurs in everyday life. These experiences can exist in a multitude of realities, that not only blur the boundary between the real and the virtual, but also re-define the distinction between the roles of audience and performer, creating new audience/performer-based paradigms. Although new technologies have furthered these possibilities, there are low-tech approaches that have explored the orchestration and directions of performance and used these mechanisms to convey experience, imbue presence and a sense of place. Contributions may consider any of the following topics (although these are not prescriptive): - Exploring temporality and spatiality - Understanding new audience/performer-based paradigms - Directing and orchestrating mixed reality experiences - Mixing realities - Presence and place - Content creation and development for mixed reality experiences - Case studies - Archival representation and re-play Submissions should be emailed to: a...@cs.nott.ac.uk http://www.crg.cs.nott.ac.uk/~azc/call.html -- Olga P Massanet -- www.ungravitational.net virtualfirefly.wordpress.com www.vimeo.com/ungravitational ___ NetBehaviour mailing list NetBehaviour@netbehaviour.org http://www.netbehaviour.org/mailman/listinfo/netbehaviour
[NetBehaviour] TURBULENCE COMMISSION: NET ART
Turbulence Net Art Commission DEADLINE New York Practitioners: May 10, 2010 All Practitioners: June 15, 2010 WHAT WE ARE LOOKING FOR The goal of these commissions is to support work that creatively explores the Internet as a site of production and transmission. This includes work by individual artists and collaboratives; work that uses the net as a repository and work that explores its possibilities as a conduit. Or both. All artists are encouraged to consider how their project advances creative use of the network. The commissioning fee is generally $2,000 to $4,000. http://turbulence.org/guidelines.html -- Olga P Massanet -- www.ungravitational.net virtualfirefly.wordpress.com www.vimeo.com/ungravitational ___ NetBehaviour mailing list NetBehaviour@netbehaviour.org http://www.netbehaviour.org/mailman/listinfo/netbehaviour
[NetBehaviour] Open meeting of Guifi.net Madrid
This looks very interesting... There is a meeting tomorrow Sat 24 April at 5pm in Madrid. Do we actually have any netbehaviourists in Madrid? Media Lab Prado seems to be doing lots of stuff, I'm always posting their events, but I'm not sure any of us can actually make it to any of them.. Open meeting of Guifi.net Madrid. Guifi.net is dedicated to the creation of an open, free and neutral telecommunications net. This net is based on a peer to peer interconnection agreement where each participant extents the net and gets connection from the rest. http://medialab-prado.es/article/reunion_guifinet_madrid_abril_2010 -- Olga P Massanet -- www.ungravitational.net virtualfirefly.wordpress.com www.vimeo.com/ungravitational ___ NetBehaviour mailing list NetBehaviour@netbehaviour.org http://www.netbehaviour.org/mailman/listinfo/netbehaviour
[NetBehaviour] Coal Fired Computers. J. Demars G. Harwood talk to M. Fuller
/ COAL FIRED COMPUTERS GRAHAM HARWOOD JEAN DEMARS talk to Matthew Fuller at [ Space ], London /// Thursday 6th of May 7pm - 9pm http://www.spacestudios.org.uk/All_Content_Items/Forthcoming_Events/Graham_Harwood__Matthew_Fuller_Talk/ /// INFO: A one-hundred year old, 35-ton showman's steam engine powers a computer with 1.5 tons of coal. Black lungs inflate every time a database record of miners' lung disease is shown on the computer monitors. It feels like you've been invited into a fun fair, but one where the rides log their own accidents a fun fair run by people who long ago became indistinct from the machines they maintain. Over three days at the Discovery Museum in Newcastle, with groups of miner activists, Coal Fired Computers articulated relations between Power, Art and Media. The new work by leading UK media artists Harwood and Yokokoji (YoHa), in collaboration with Jean Demars, it responded to the displacement of coal production to distant lands like India and China after the UK miners' strike in 1984/85. Coal Fired Computers reflects on the complexities of our global fossil fuel reliance and especially on how coal transforms our health as we have transformed it. Today coal produces 42% of the world¹s electricity, and in many countries this rate is much higher (more than 70% in India and China). It could be said that coal dust gets into everything. Sealed into the lungs of miners it forms visible blue streaks, like veins of coal. According to the World Health Organisation, 318,000 deaths occur annually from chronic bronchitis and emphysema caused by exposure to coal dust. The common perception is that wealthy countries have put this all behind them, displacing coal dust into the lungs of unrecorded, unknown miners in distant lands, however coalreturns into our lives in the form of the cheap and apparently clean goods we consume. Coal fired energy not only powers our computers here in the UK, but is integral to the production of the 300,000,000 computers made each year. 81% of the energy used in a computer's life cycle is expended in the manufacturing process, now taking place in countries with high levels of coal consumption. The UK currently produces less that one third of the coal it uses, importing the majority of it and therefore displacing 150,000 tons of coal dust into unknown lungs. Coal Fired Computers brings together these disparate elements into an artwork, allowing us to reflect on the complexities that have created and maintained power, the crisis of fuelling that power and its subsequent health residues. Matthew Fuller is David Gee Reader in Digital Media at the Centre for Cultural Studies, Goldsmiths College, University of London. He is the author of Media Ecologies: Materialist Energies in Art and Technoculture (MIT Press, 2005) and Behind the Blip: Essays on the Culture of Software. Powered by PERMACULTURES: Exploring the tensions between Art, technology and ecology. -- Olga P Massanet -- www.ungravitational.net virtualfirefly.wordpress.com www.vimeo.com/ungravitational ___ NetBehaviour mailing list NetBehaviour@netbehaviour.org http://www.netbehaviour.org/mailman/listinfo/netbehaviour
[NetBehaviour] Liwoli 2010 (open lab focusing on Free /Open Source Software (FLOSS), Open Hardware)
-- Liwoli 2010 -- -- The Art of „doing it together“ (DIT) 15 - 17 April 2010 - Kunstuniversität Linz -- -- LiWoLi 2010 is an open lab focusing on Free /Open Source Software (FLOSS), Open Hardware and open contents in digital art and culture. This event will offer workshops, lectures, presentations and performances. For anyone interested in these subjects, participation in the entire program is free. Registration for Workshops online: Register now (http://linz.linuxwochen.at/programm/format/2010/workshop) The Art of „doing it together“ (DIT) LiWoLi raises the question of whether a practice of doing it together (DIT) might be a more successful formula for developing free tools (FLOSS tools) for art culture, learning teaching. This also implies examining the motivation of active producers and making room for the aspect of unpaid work. http://linz.linuxwochen.at/ Some name-dropping: F l o r i a n C r a m e r /De/Nl: http://pzwart.wdka.nl/networked-media/2010/01/02/florian-cramer/ Lecture: How to Run an Art School on Free Software/Open Source G i s l e F r 0 y s l a n d /N- piksel.no Presentation: piksel.no A u d r e y S a m s o n /Nl- http://www.ideacritik.com/ Presentation: Genderchangers (http://www.genderchangers.org) F e l i x S t a l d e r /A/Ch - http://felix.openflows.com/ Workshop Lecture: Remixing Culture (zum Thema Lizenzen) A r m i n M e d o s c h /A - http://thenextlayer.org Panel: Subsist! FLOSS production and the labour viewpoint Others: Valie Djordjevic, Seppo Gründler, Nina Wenhart, Julian Oliver, IOhannes Zmölnig, Martin Kaltenbrunner, Aileen Derieg/A, Arturo Castro S t a y t u n e d for the final schedule: http://linz.linuxwochen.at/ -- Olga P Massanet -- www.ungravitational.net virtualfirefly.wordpress.com www.vimeo.com/ungravitational ___ NetBehaviour mailing list NetBehaviour@netbehaviour.org http://www.netbehaviour.org/mailman/listinfo/netbehaviour
[NetBehaviour] Workshops during the Interweaving Technologies seminar
Workshops during the Interweaving Technologies seminar - Thursday 22nd April Aarhus, Denmark. - Conference 21-23 April - The Interweaving Technologies seminar will host a number of workshops, The workshops are an integrated part of the seminar and are meant to explore the interweavings of urban landscape and technology in a variety of exploratory ways, thus concretely challenging and/or manifesting the seminar topic. Workshops take place Thursday 22nd April at 14-18 (possibly longer as they will be able to extend into the evening with dinner arrangements on the participants’ own expense). See the programme. Participants in the seminar will choose to participate in one of four exploratory workshops, which will all be organised by artists and/or researchers working with creating exploratory interventions in public space. The workshops are: * Wi-fi Cracking Workshop, run by Gordan Savicic. * Neoanalogue Interventions, run by Aram Bartholl. * Urban/Sound/Interfaces, run by Jacob Kreutzfeldt, Nina Gram and Morten Breinbjerg. * Psychogeophysics Aarhus, run by Martin Howse. MORE INFO: http://darc.imv.au.dk/?page_id=871 -- Olga P Massanet -- www.ungravitational.net virtualfirefly.wordpress.com www.vimeo.com/ungravitational ___ NetBehaviour mailing list NetBehaviour@netbehaviour.org http://www.netbehaviour.org/mailman/listinfo/netbehaviour
Re: [NetBehaviour] Furtherfield on Resonance Radio last night...
Hi Stuart, The first programme is ready to download here: http://www.furtherfield.org/resonance/Furtherfield%20on%20ResonanceFm%209March2010.mp3 I will be uploading the second soon. Any news related to the Resonance Fm programme as well as the podcasts will be uploaded here: http://www.furtherfield.org/resonancefm.php Best, -- Olga P Massanet -- www.ungravitational.net virtualfirefly.wordpress.com www.vimeo.com/ungravitational ___ NetBehaviour mailing list NetBehaviour@netbehaviour.org http://www.netbehaviour.org/mailman/listinfo/netbehaviour
[NetBehaviour] Energy Animal (Looking for Technical Advisors)
The Open Sailing team continue with their exciting investigations. I was just checking what they're up to and saw that the energy animal group is looking for advisors. I think is a very exciting project to get involved in.. https://sites.google.com/a/opensailing.net/www/labs/energy_animal Can we harness nature energy at sea? From which sources? Can we combine different renewable energies to provide a more reliable electric output? Can we make small low maintenance modules that will drift across the oceans, off-grid? Do we need to pay for energy when energy (wind, sun, waves...) is everywhere infinitely available? Can we avoid energy wars? Can we make available electricity for free for anyone needing it? Can we contribute to environmental and pollution global monitoring systems? Can we use the Energy_Animal for other purposes like creating data mesh network? We are looking for technical advisors - mechanical engineer - maritime engineer material donations : - solar panels - solar dish (parabolic concentrator) - car battery - electronics - GPS receivers / emitter - free wheel -- Olga P Massanet -- www.ungravitational.net virtualfirefly.wordpress.com www.vimeo.com/ungravitational ___ NetBehaviour mailing list NetBehaviour@netbehaviour.org http://www.netbehaviour.org/mailman/listinfo/netbehaviour
[NetBehaviour] Call for Artists: Platform Event 'Territorial Play'
Call for Artists: Platform Event 'Territorial Play' Part of the Tracing Mobility Programme Event scheduled: Friday 14 May 2010 (Nottingham,UK) Deadline for submissions: Monday 12 April 2010 http://www.radiator-festival.org/trampoline.org.uk/index.php?page=docId=75 Trampoline is inviting submissions for the platform event, Territorial Play, part of Radiator Festival's forthcoming project Tracing Mobility, a pan-European programme launching in Nottingham mid May 2010 and travelling to Warsaw (June/July 2010), Amsterdam (2011) and Berlin (2011). Territorial Play aims to illustrate, annotate and animate discourse around the current trend towards a 'mobilised city'. With the emergence of location aware mobile devices and near ubiquitous access to electronic networks in urban and rural areas, a new city is emerging beneath our feet. This dynamic 'hybrid-city' is a city in flux, where ideas of authorship and ownership are left at the door. It is information-rich and increasingly populated by not just local inhabitants but visitors from other communities. What are the cultural implications of this emergent public domain and what possibilities do the architecture and protocol of networked space present to affect change in real space? We are inviting artists, performers, visualists, filmmakers, designers, game-players, writers and others to stake claims, occupy space, command territory, re-imagine the public domain, uncover hidden spaces and return to our day jobs the next day leaving no trace. The event will take place over one day, using Nottingham's Digital Media Centre Broadway as the base of operations however we welcome submissions that engage with the public and spaces in and around the city. -- Olga P Massanet -- www.ungravitational.net virtualfirefly.wordpress.com www.vimeo.com/ungravitational ___ NetBehaviour mailing list NetBehaviour@netbehaviour.org http://www.netbehaviour.org/mailman/listinfo/netbehaviour
[NetBehaviour] Urban Parasites
Urban Parasites Cool project.. It's in Spanish but you can see the videos. They are all little robots that inhabit the city and use the energy their environment provides.. http://www.parasitosurbanos.com Funnily enough a friend of mine, who probably didn't know about this did a project called the same which I quite liked as well... http://www.vincentvanuffelen.com/2009/07/05/urban-parasites/ -- Olga P Massanet -- www.ungravitational.net virtualfirefly.wordpress.com www.vimeo.com/ungravitational ___ NetBehaviour mailing list NetBehaviour@netbehaviour.org http://www.netbehaviour.org/mailman/listinfo/netbehaviour
Re: [NetBehaviour] Interactive food
Sounds interesting... Could you tell us a bit more on what you are thinking of doing?? I think it is interesting to think how much food is already interactive, not only because it usually involves a ritual of coming together but also because of the two entities (the eater and the eaten) coming together in such an intimate way.. Where do you plan to intervene in such process?? -- Olga P Massanet -- www.ungravitational.net virtualfirefly.wordpress.com www.vimeo.com/ungravitational ___ NetBehaviour mailing list NetBehaviour@netbehaviour.org http://www.netbehaviour.org/mailman/listinfo/netbehaviour
Re: [NetBehaviour] [[[news-Struggles]]] .:: edu-factory.org ::.
good stuff! -- Olga P Massanet -- www.ungravitational.net virtualfirefly.wordpress.com www.vimeo.com/ungravitational ___ NetBehaviour mailing list NetBehaviour@netbehaviour.org http://www.netbehaviour.org/mailman/listinfo/netbehaviour
[NetBehaviour] ASBOmeter
Just read about this in the Mute mailing list... I always hated the expression anti-social behaviour, since 'social' stands here only for the very particular definition of a particular system.. But anyway, this application is just amazing! It's great that we open up the data, but it would be even better if we were a bit critical about it. This is a bit like a walk-and-freak-out tool. In my view it seems to be promoting fear and weakening interpersonal trust. Interesting anyway. Hopefully some interesting (and more critical projects) will be built on top of this tool. Here is the link: *ASBOrometer* is a mobile application that measures levels of anti-social behaviour at your current location (within England and Wales) and gives you access to key local ASB statistics. http://www.asborometer.com/ -- Olga P Massanet -- www.ungravitational.net virtualfirefly.wordpress.com www.vimeo.com/ungravitational ___ NetBehaviour mailing list NetBehaviour@netbehaviour.org http://www.netbehaviour.org/mailman/listinfo/netbehaviour
Re: [NetBehaviour] Pestering Multi-National Corporations about Linux
nice one! :) -- Olga P Massanet -- www.ungravitational.net virtualfirefly.wordpress.com www.vimeo.com/ungravitational ___ NetBehaviour mailing list NetBehaviour@netbehaviour.org http://www.netbehaviour.org/mailman/listinfo/netbehaviour
[NetBehaviour] KWMC Artist Residencies 2010
KWMC Artist Residencies 2010 These residencies are funded by Arts Council England, with additional support from Bristol City Council. ABOUT: We want to hear from artists working across disciplines who wish to spend a period of up to 8 weeks working in Knowle West up until July 2010. You will have access to facilities at Knowle West Media Centre that include video, sound and lighting equipment. The residencies are not thematic in any way. We want to support new work that may be issue based, aesthetic in nature or contextual. But above all surprise us with your ideas, don't attempt to guess what we want. The successful artists will receive a £3000 bursary to cover fees, travel and any accommodation. You may be resident anywhere but it is likely that at least two of the four available residencies will go to artists living or working in the South West of England. There are some costs towards materials. Please do not propose anything to do with the Olympics, as we are not looking to do anything with this through this residency programme. KEYWORDS: Horses, working class, celebration, biscuits, noise, passion, government, Tesla, cabbage, hillside, beauty, forensic, crews, light, safety, motion, William Budd, cholera, health, social media, teapots, housing, urban, rural, planning, social space, lexicon, games, self-sufficiency, 2010, emotional intelligence, language, loss, green areas, simulacra, trees, codes, buses, periphery, oil, water, south and north, rivers, data. OUTCOMES AND EXPECTATIONS: There are no specific outcomes but we will ask you to give one public talk about your work and a presentation half way through the residency. There is potential to display or locate work within the locality. Work can take place anywhere in the city, not just Knowle West. We will expect you to work in residence and not from home. HOW TO APPLY: Send one side of A4 detailing your proposal as a PDF or word document (pdf, doc). Send a CV of no more than two sides detailing recent projects and experience. Send supporting media as jpeg photos, mp3 audio or quicktime video. No files greater than 10mb please. We prefer that you send this information electronically to us via email. Email to ka...@kwmc.org.uk You may if you prefer send a postal application to: Katie Taylor Events Facilities Manager Knowle West Media Centre Leinster Avenue Knowle Bristol BS4 1NL DEADLINE: The deadline for application is 5pm, 1 February 2010, no extensions. All applications will be assessed in that week and notifications made by 8 February 2010. We cannot return any postal applications without return postage. Do not send any originals or items of high value in the post. -- Olga P Massanet -- www.ungravitational.net virtualfirefly.wordpress.com www.vimeo.com/ungravitational ___ NetBehaviour mailing list NetBehaviour@netbehaviour.org http://www.netbehaviour.org/mailman/listinfo/netbehaviour
[NetBehaviour] Wikisym. The International Symposium on Wikis and Open Collaboration
in all categories should use the ACM SIG Proceedings Format, see: http://www.acm.org/sigs/pubs/proceed/template.html Questions regarding submissions may be directed at the respective chair using the following email addresses: * Workshops: worksh...@wikisym.org * Demonstrations/Tutorials: de...@wikisym.org * Posters: post...@wikisym.org * Doctoral Symposium: doc...@wikisym.org General questions should be directed at ch...@wikisym.org. SYMPOSIUM COMMITTEE * Phoebe Ayers, University of California at Davis, USA; Symposium Chair * Felipe Ortega, GSyC/Libresoft, University Rey Juan Carlos, Spain; Programme Chair * Dirk Riehle, Friedrich Alexander University of Erlangen-Nuremberg; Treasurer * Felipe Ortega, GSyC/Libresoft, University Rey Juan Carlos, Spain; Wiki Track Chair * Martin Cleaver, Blended Perspectives, Canada; Industry Track Chair * Giota Alevizou, Institute of Educational Technology, Open University, UK; Open Collaboration Track Chair * Pattarawan Prasarnphanich, Sasin Graduate Institute of Business Administration, Thailand; Posters Chair * Andreea Gorbatai, Harvard University, USA; Workshops Chair * Stuart Geiger, Georgetown University; Wikimedia Liason * Stuart Geiger, Georgetown University; Publicity Co-Chair (Academia-US) * Yoshifumi Masunaga, Aoyama Gakuin University; Publicity Co-Chair (Asia-Pacific) * Philipp Schmidt, University of the Western Cape, South Africa; Publicity Co-Chair (Africa) * Mayo Fuster Morell, European University Institute, Italy; Publicity Co-Chair (Open Collaboration) * Ward Cunningham, AboutUs.org and Cunningham Cunningham, USA; Honorary Member * James Noble, Victoria University of Wellington, New Zealand; Honorary Member * Ted Ernst, AboutUs.org, USA; Open Space Facilitator * Marc Laporte, TikiWiki CMS/Groupware, Canada; Webmaster PROGRAM COMMITTEE Please, http://wikisym.org/ws2010 to obtain the most up-to-date list of reviewers and collaborators included in our Programme Committee. _ -- Olga P Massanet -- www.ungravitational.net virtualfirefly.wordpress.com www.vimeo.com/ungravitational ___ NetBehaviour mailing list NetBehaviour@netbehaviour.org http://www.netbehaviour.org/mailman/listinfo/netbehaviour
Re: [NetBehaviour] the hairdresser returns
love this hairdresser.. -- Olga P Massanet -- www.ungravitational.net virtualfirefly.wordpress.com www.vimeo.com/ungravitational ___ NetBehaviour mailing list NetBehaviour@netbehaviour.org http://www.netbehaviour.org/mailman/listinfo/netbehaviour
Re: [NetBehaviour] ZIP_SOUNDS
This looks interesting and fun.. but I didnt manage to understand how I'm affecting the sound by manipulating the image.. are they related? -- Olga P Massanet -- www.ungravitational.net virtualfirefly.wordpress.com www.vimeo.com/ungravitational ___ NetBehaviour mailing list NetBehaviour@netbehaviour.org http://www.netbehaviour.org/mailman/listinfo/netbehaviour
[NetBehaviour] Copenhagen. Join the pledge.
FWD from The People Speak: In 1927, Buckminster Fuller started work on 'The World Game', a simulation of world government that he hoped would enable a random group of people to have discussions and make decisions that would: make the world work for 100% of humanity in the shortest possible time through spontaneous cooperation without ecological damage or disadvantage to anyone. The idea was that given enough information about the world's needs and the world's resources, people could be relied upon to act rationally. Of course, in 1927, the technology to enable this wasn't quite ready. In Copenhagen for the next 10 days, there are two groups of people meeting to decide what to do with the world's resources: the politicians, lobbyists, mega NGOs and big business interests. Then there's everyone else. On Friday 18th December, at 6pm-8:30pm GMT, we will be hosting the 'End of the World Game', a dynamic, democratic game-show where we ask the 300 people at the Climate Forum in central Copenhagen, and as many Internet participants as we can muster to pledge $10 each, then propose ideas, discuss, and then vote on how to spend all the money they've pledged. To try and raise enough money and ideas for the outcome of the game to make a real difference, we've taken a lead from the global economy and started a pyramid scheme... except this one will be to save the planet. Visit http://pledgepyramid.org to sign up, pledge your $10, and start seeding and voting on ideas for the show! We already have about 100 ideas and over $1000 in the bank - with 9 days to reach our $3000 target. We hope to see you live/online in Copenhagen! Saul for The People Speak. -- The People Speak | 17-25 Cremer St. London E2 8HD | http://theps.netstudio +44 (0)20 71007915 | saul: +44 (0)7941 255210 | m...@theps.net __ _ news-l mailing list new...@lists.nodel.org http://one.server1.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/news-l -- Olga P Massanet -- www.ungravitational.net virtualfirefly.wordpress.com www.vimeo.com/ungravitational ___ NetBehaviour mailing list NetBehaviour@netbehaviour.org http://www.netbehaviour.org/mailman/listinfo/netbehaviour
[NetBehaviour] MzTEK Workshops Present: Electronics for Absolute Beginners
MzTEK Workshops Present: Electronics for Absolute Beginners January 23rd from 11am to 5pm. Everything you ever wanted to know to build a circuit from scratch, but were afraid to ask! Tutor Iain Sharp, a lecky pro, will guide you through the basics of how to get electricity to do what you want using a basic circuit that includes some pencil draw components! The day will focus on how electronics work and will include experiments that demonstrate what different components do. We will use a breadboard to build the circuit, so a lot less soldering than in previous workshops! Take a look at Iain?s demo video here: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=igXh4fMqVCA ONLY ?15 Priority booking will go to women/girl participants, registration will be open to all from 13th Jan 2010. SIGN UP HERE: http://mztek.eventwax.com/electronics-for-absolute-beginners When/where: January 23rd 2010 11am - 5pm SPACE, 129 - 131 Mare Street Hackney London, E8 3RH For more info go to www.mztek.org, or email us at i...@mztek.org -- Olga P Massanet -- www.ungravitational.net virtualfirefly.wordpress.com www.vimeo.com/ungravitational ___ NetBehaviour mailing list NetBehaviour@netbehaviour.org http://www.netbehaviour.org/mailman/listinfo/netbehaviour
[NetBehaviour] ShiftSpace
This looks like a very interesting project: ShiftSpace (pronounced: §) is an open source browser plugin for collaboratively annotating, editing and shifting the web. ShiftSpace is an open source layer above any website. It seeks to expand the creative possibilities currently provided through the web. ShiftSpace provides tools for artists, designers, architects, activists, developers, students, researchers, and hobbyists to create online contexts built in and on top of websites. By pressing the [shift] + [space] keys, a ShiftSpace user can invoke a new meta layer above any web page to browse and create additional interpretations, contextualizations and interventions – which we call Shifts. Users can choose between several authoring tools we’re working to develop – which we call Spaces. Some are utilitarian (like Notes and Highlights) and some are more interventionist (like ImageSwap and SourceShift). Users will be invited to map these shifts into Trails. These trails can be used for collaborative research, curating netart exhibitions or as platforms for context-based public debates. http://www.shiftspace.org -- Olga P Massanet -- www.ungravitational.net virtualfirefly.wordpress.com www.vimeo.com/ungravitational ___ NetBehaviour mailing list NetBehaviour@netbehaviour.org http://www.netbehaviour.org/mailman/listinfo/netbehaviour
[NetBehaviour] C R A F T I V I S M at Arnolfini
C R A F T I V I S M Saturday 12 December 2009 - Sunday 14 February 2010 Preview Friday 11 December 6pm - 8pm http://www.craftivism.net/ Invited artists/collectives: Kayle Brandon + Heath Bunting, Rhiannon Chaloner + Manuel Vason, glorious ninth, GOTO10, Rui Guerra, Household, Christine + Irene Hohenbüchler, JODI, Mandy McIntosh, Gloria Ojulari Sule, Trevor Pitt + Kate Pemberton, Janek Simon, Stephanie Syjuco, Clare Thornton, and projects produced with workshop participants + local residents Craftivism is an Arnolfini/Relational contemporary art project that responds to the resurgent interest in craft as it relates to socially- engaged art practice. It involves fourteen projects developed by artists and collectives that work with craft-based traditions and activist practices, and who employ the tactics of 'craftivism' (combining crafting + activism) to question and disrupt the prevailing codes of mass consumerism. The project attempts to collapse the distinction between 'making' and 'doing' - the former associated with craft, the latter with human action. It places an emphasis on interaction and participation in the wider social realm, and employs aspects of self-organisation and 'open- source' principles. The artists involved engage with craft-based traditions through diverse practices including art, technology and fashion. Selected works exemplify 'innovation' in the general sense that newly invented forms might diverge from established rules and perceived norms. Craftivism is developed in relation to a range of contexts and includes nine artist-led participatory projects developed with local communities, the outcomes of which are shown as part of a gallery- based interactive exhibition, online and in free software-related projects, workshops, talks and the uncurated satellite event UnCraftivism. Events also take place locally at Brandon Hill Park, Colston Hall, Full Circle St. Paul's Youth and Family Centre, Knowle West Media Centre and The Mall Bristol. The project will invite public interaction and provide opportunities to take part, make work and learn craft-based skills to customise products. It encourages wider communities to embrace the 'freedom' to create, modify and distribute products, and in so doing demonstrates the possibilities for people to modify their own lives. Craftivism is part of the Artist/Activist season, a series of Arnolfini projects in Autumn/Winter 2009/2010 which provides a socially-active forum for debate and learning around issues of climate change and alternatives to the culture of consumerism. Arnolfini 16 Narrow Quay, Bristol, UK http://www.arnolfini.org.uk/ -- Olga P Massanet -- www.ungravitational.net virtualfirefly.wordpress.com www.vimeo.com/ungravitational ___ NetBehaviour mailing list NetBehaviour@netbehaviour.org http://www.netbehaviour.org/mailman/listinfo/netbehaviour
[NetBehaviour] //// OPEN CALL ___public sphere and rhetoric / offentlighed og retorik
to work within the limitations as part of the creative challenge, however, conditioned by the dimensions of the idea additional new applications can be sent and funds may be obtained by the resident in collaboration with Sparwasser HQ. Project costs We will provide 100€ honorarium for 10 open call applications, and we will ask for more information on the project first. If your proposal is realizable (it does not have to be) and if Sparwasser HQ agrees to do so, we will co-apply in partnership in order to realize the project. Proceeding 1st step: open call, sent out internationally 2nd step: applications are received Netres officer will upload all valid applications on blog. The blog can only be viewed by the international jury members. 3rd step: international jury members read discuss and select applications 4th step: 10 prizes. 10 applicants are asked to (re)write the application text and they are asked to give a permission to publish their text online. For this they will receive a fee of 100€. 5th step: nomination Different people, artists as well as curators, are asked to recommend or nominate people who will be asked to apply. These nominations will be published. The nominator will write a short statement of grounds for the nomination. 6th Step: Residency in Berlin 2 artists/ curators/ other cultural producers are invited to spend 1-2 months in Berlin 7th Step: 2010 residency open call sent out internationally 8th Step: Conference in collaboration with members of the jury. Application form: You can use this just as an example and start your own document but be sure to insert all the required information and put it in the same order as it is here. DOWNLOAD PRINTVERSION HERE. Please feel free to contact us (mail (at) netres.org) prior to submission if you have any questions. // SEE ALSO FAQ supported by Nordic Culture Point. This programme is a collaboration between Sparwasser HQ, Signal, UKS and rum46. send out by Katja Meyer || netres__office m...@netres.org || www.netres.org C/O SPARWASSER HQ Offensive für zeitgenössische KunstKommunikation Schwedterstrasse 36 A 10435 Berlin // GERMANY fon +49 30 44043886 fax +49 30 44039332 www.sparwasserhq.de -- Olga P Massanet -- www.ungravitational.net virtualfirefly.wordpress.com www.vimeo.com/ungravitational ___ NetBehaviour mailing list NetBehaviour@netbehaviour.org http://www.netbehaviour.org/mailman/listinfo/netbehaviour
Re: [NetBehaviour] Dark Mountain Exhibition
Hi Steve, We are still in the process of uploading the pictures of the opening. They should be up soon. We usually create a link from the website of Http Gallery http://www.http.uk.net/ to the Flickr account http://www.flickr.com/photos/http_gallery/... If you want you can have a look in the coming days. Thanks! -- Olga P Massanet -- www.ungravitational.net virtualfirefly.wordpress.com www.vimeo.com/ungravitational ___ NetBehaviour mailing list NetBehaviour@netbehaviour.org http://www.netbehaviour.org/mailman/listinfo/netbehaviour
[NetBehaviour] Bike Generator Workshop-London
Bike Generator Workshop-London *Venue: London, Pangea Project, 72 Stamford Hill, N16 6XS, http://pangeaproject.co.uk/** Date: Sunday 13th December 2009* *Time: 10:00 till 17:00* *Cost: 35 * MR facilitates this workshop for those interested in learning the ins and outs of pedal power generators. Our workshops have a good balance of theory and hands-on experience. Participants can discover how to use their own bike as part of a small power station, capable of powering computers, stereos, TVs and other small household appliances. Participants will find out about: ** Basic system design * Load assessment * Power generation * Electricity storage using batteries * Conversion of DC to AC electricity by inverters * Control and monitoring of power.* Participants will take turns in constructing 3 different types of pedal powered systems. The 3 scenarios provide insight into the various equipment used in renewable systems and the pros and cons of these systems. Basic D.I.Y skills are an advantage but are not essential to take part in any of our workshops. There may still be some places left. If you?re interested, book here http://www.magnificentrevolution.org/2009/11/bike-generator-workshop-london-2/ The course is refundable up to 7 days prior to the course (minus ?10 admin fee). No refunds for cancellations within 7 days of the course. Bring pack lunch! Sincerely Yours, MRites -- ___ allsubscribers mailing list allsubscrib...@mztek.org http://mztek.org/mailman/listinfo/allsubscribers_mztek.org End of allsubscribers Digest, Vol 8, Issue 6 -- Olga P Massanet -- www.ungravitational.net virtualfirefly.wordpress.com www.vimeo.com/ungravitational ___ NetBehaviour mailing list NetBehaviour@netbehaviour.org http://www.netbehaviour.org/mailman/listinfo/netbehaviour
[NetBehaviour] make art - a week dedicated to the world of Free Software and digital art
make art - a week dedicated to the world of Free Software and digital art organised by goto10 make art is an international festival focussed on Free/Libre/Open Source Software (FLOSS) and open content in digital arts. make art offers performances, presentations, workshops and an exhibition, focused on the blurred line between art and software programming. The festival is dedicated to all free software artists, open hardware hackers and command-line fetishists out there. make art creates a stage for casual and intensive exchange of knowledge and skill between invited artists, musicians, programmers, specialists and the audience. It combines reflection and production by connecting presentations, workshops, performances and exhibition. This year make art focusses on distributed and open practices in FLOSS art. What the fork?! is about decentralization. Forking is the new black. Work from one source, copy, patch, improve, experiment, change direction, inspire! Forking is not about quick hacks, but about creating room to experiment, letting go of the one working copy and creating a multiplicity of ideas. make art takes place from the 8th til the 13th of December 2009 in Poitiers, France. http://makeart.goto10.org -- Olga P Massanet -- www.ungravitational.net virtualfirefly.wordpress.com www.vimeo.com/ungravitational ___ NetBehaviour mailing list NetBehaviour@netbehaviour.org http://www.netbehaviour.org/mailman/listinfo/netbehaviour
Re: [NetBehaviour] make art - a week dedicated to the world of FreeSoftware and digital art
I thought forking was intrinsic to open source mentality, the possibility of taking what's out there and driving it somewhere else. Keeping one singular path instead of forking I guess requires a top-down strategy, doesn't it? However I see there a tension that I never quite understood how is solved in practical code development. If everybody took different directions we would be left with infinite parallel options and would be missing the point of working together on one particular project to make it stronger. I guess open source culture is about reaching a balance between the two. Still don't know exactly how it works in practice. How does ubuntu evolves out of so many people working for example? How is it all put together? Who decides what's to be included and what not? -- Olga P Massanet -- www.ungravitational.net virtualfirefly.wordpress.com www.vimeo.com/ungravitational ___ NetBehaviour mailing list NetBehaviour@netbehaviour.org http://www.netbehaviour.org/mailman/listinfo/netbehaviour
Re: [NetBehaviour] make art - a week dedicated to the world of FreeSoftware and digital art
I see.. Thanks for the link.. -- Olga P Massanet -- www.ungravitational.net virtualfirefly.wordpress.com www.vimeo.com/ungravitational ___ NetBehaviour mailing list NetBehaviour@netbehaviour.org http://www.netbehaviour.org/mailman/listinfo/netbehaviour
[NetBehaviour] COCO FUSCO LECTURE: Performing Bare Life, Exploring Carceral Cultures
Tuesday, 24 November coco fusco Performing Bare Life, Exploring Carceral Cultures 5.30pm, Kenneth Clark Lecture Theatre Coco Fusco (interdisciplinary artist, writer and Director of Intermedia Initiatives, Parsons The New School for Design, New York) Coco Fusco will discuss her latest body of work in video, performance, and writing that investigates military interrogation as intercultural performance. She will also discuss her two new projects: one that looks at the techniques of the body that constitute daily routines in American prisons and the other, which will focus on the various Black Codes that were instituted by the US and former European colonial powers to delimit the rights of free blacks during slavery and all black peoples in the New World after slavery. Open to all, free admission Organised by Dr Julian Stallabrass (The Courtauld) and Professor Malcolm Bull (University of Oxford) This Frank Davis Memorial Lecture Series on 'Globalisation and Contemporary Art' examines the way in which contemporary art has been radically transformed by globalisation. While much of the art that first came out of that transformation propagandised the virtues of globalisation, new tensions have emerged, from the 'war on terror' to the financial crisis, which have led to a strongly documentary and politicised turn in art. In this series, prominent art historians, artists and theorists will examine this striking new configuration. The series has been organised by Dr Julian Stallabrass and Professor Malcolm Bull in conjunction with their Research Forum/Andrew W Mellon Foundation M.A. Special Option in the History of Art on 'Aestheticising Politics? The Political in Globalised Contemporary Art'. The Courtauld Institute of Art, Somerset House, Strand, London WC2R 0RN tel +44 207 848 2909 web http://www.courtauld.ac.uk/researchforum/index.shtml -- Olga P Massanet -- www.ungravitational.net virtualfirefly.wordpress.com www.vimeo.com/ungravitational ___ NetBehaviour mailing list NetBehaviour@netbehaviour.org http://www.netbehaviour.org/mailman/listinfo/netbehaviour
Re: [NetBehaviour] whitney.org - sunset / sunrise series presents
Great, thanks! -- Olga P Massanet -- www.ungravitational.net virtualfirefly.wordpress.com www.vimeo.com/ungravitational ___ NetBehaviour mailing list NetBehaviour@netbehaviour.org http://www.netbehaviour.org/mailman/listinfo/netbehaviour
[NetBehaviour] Signs of Revolt–Creative Resist ance and Social Movements since Seattle
THIS WEEKEND IN LONDON: Signs of Revolt–Creative Resistance and Social Movements since Seattle EXHIBITION AND TALKS Space Hijackers/Ultimate Holding Company/Reel News/kennardphillipps/ Cactus Network/Jonathan Barnbrook/Pedro Inhoue/Noel Douglas/David Gentlemen/Guy Smallman/Jody Boehnart/ Jess Hurd/Notes from Nowehere/Movement of the Imagination/Rebel Clown Army/ Indymedia London/Laboratory of Insurrectionary Imagination/ Creative Resistance Research Network/ Turbulence/War Boutique/Josh On Opening FRIDAY 13 NOVEMBER 6pm then SATURDAY 14–SUNDAY 22 NOVEMBER Opening Times: Weekends 10-10pm, Weekdays 12–9pm Shop 14 The Old Truman Brewery 91 Brick Lane London E1 6QL MAP – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – 10 years ago, in November 1999 an alliance of direct action activists, environmentalists and trade unionists shut down the meeting of the World Trade Organisation in Seattle, stopping the next trade round of Capitalist Globalisation. In the process they sparked a Movement of Movements right across the globe its slogan became ‘Another World is Possible’. This November exactly 10 years from that momentous demonstration, and with most of the predictions of the movements rapidly coming true what with the crisis of the economy, a permanent state of war and the collapse of our eco-system wrecking lives across the planet, the rich and powerful meet again in Copenhagen to discuss the next Climate treaty after Kyoto, yet again activists are preparing to challenge the idea that the Market can solve the problems of the world, and take another step toward that possible world after Capitalism. Signs of Revolt is an exhibition that weaves together the story of the past decades social movements, drawing out the influences and connections between and across the movements against Capitalism, War and Climate Change. Using archive material and documentary photography and video from movement photographers and filmmakers. It reveals the story of how we got from Seattle to Copenhagen. Interspersed in this narrative are works by artist and designer activists and collectives, produced during, within and for the movements, this is the first time such a collection has been brought together in the UK and it will be a chance to reflect upon and celebrate the new creative impulses that the movements spawned and the possibilties for developing the creative capacity of future movements, these issues will also be discussed in greater depth during a series of talks during the exhibition. (timetable here). As Capitalism threatens our very existence, Signs of Revolt defiantly maps out possible routes to a future filled with hope… signsofrevolt.net – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – Festival of Radical Communication–a weekend of talks as part of Signs of Revolt: http://signsofrevolt.net/?page_id=41 – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – facebook: http://www.facebook.com/event.php?inviteseid=152633464034 – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – contact and to register for the weekend (it's free but we need to know numbers!): s...@signsofrevolt.net – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – -- Olga P Massanet -- www.ungravitational.net virtualfirefly.wordpress.com www.vimeo.com/ungravitational ___ NetBehaviour mailing list NetBehaviour@netbehaviour.org http://www.netbehaviour.org/mailman/listinfo/netbehaviour
[NetBehaviour] Hi, a real human interface.
I loved this video.. Although conceptually it might have some problems since it does not acknowledge for the specificity of 'being computer' if you want, it still made me laugh.. http://www.multitouch-barcelona.com/?p=515 -- Olga P Massanet -- www.ungravitational.net virtualfirefly.wordpress.com www.vimeo.com/ungravitational ___ NetBehaviour mailing list NetBehaviour@netbehaviour.org http://www.netbehaviour.org/mailman/listinfo/netbehaviour
[NetBehaviour] ARGO, part of the integrated global observation strategy
Cesar Harada, whose work I really admire told me about this project. I think it's quite interesting: Argo is an international collaboration that collects high-quality temperature and salinity profiles from the upper 2000m of the ice-free global ocean and currents from intermediate depths. The data come from battery-powered autonomous floats that spend most of their life drifting at depth where they are stabilised by being neutrally buoyant at the parking depth pressure by having a density equal to the ambient pressure and a compressibility that is less than that of sea water. ... For the first time, the physical state of the upper ocean is being systematically measured and the data assimilated in near real-time into computer models. Argo builds on other upper-ocean ocean observing networks, extending their coverage in space an time, their depth range and accuracy, and enhancing them through the addition of salinity and velocity measurements. ... As the float ascends a series of typically about 200 pressure, temperature, salinity measurements are made and stored on board the float. These are transmitted to satellites when the float reaches the surface. For an animation explaining the project see, ftp://kakapo.ucsd.edu/pub/argo/slides/argo.avi Website: http://www.argo.ucsd.edu/index.html -- Olga P Massanet -- www.ungravitational.net virtualfirefly.wordpress.com www.vimeo.com/ungravitational ___ NetBehaviour mailing list NetBehaviour@netbehaviour.org http://www.netbehaviour.org/mailman/listinfo/netbehaviour
[NetBehaviour] Socially engaged practitioners needed
I don't usually do this, but this might appeal to some in this list. There is paid opportunity for socially engaged practitioners. Artists needed to develop new creative models of community engagement Haring Woods Studio is looking for socially engaged creative practitioners/artists who can work with us to develop and carry out innovative models for community engagement and public consultation. http://www.artsjobs.org.uk/index.php?id=25ne_source=dailyjobsne_post_id=30287 -- Olga P Massanet -- www.ungravitational.net virtualfirefly.wordpress.com www.vimeo.com/ungravitational ___ NetBehaviour mailing list NetBehaviour@netbehaviour.org http://www.netbehaviour.org/mailman/listinfo/netbehaviour
Re: [NetBehaviour] DIWO accidental voyage through boredom
Wow I really like this!! Just wondering if it was supposed to be a video, cause it's .mov but has no length.. So I guess not.. -- Olga P Massanet -- www.ungravitational.net virtualfirefly.wordpress.com www.vimeo.com/ungravitational ___ NetBehaviour mailing list NetBehaviour@netbehaviour.org http://www.netbehaviour.org/mailman/listinfo/netbehaviour
[NetBehaviour] Sophie Calle at Whitechapel Gallery
Sophie Calle: Talking to Strangers Whitechapel Gallery 16 October 2009-3 January 2010 Acclaimed for her photographic and film installations, Sophie Calle’s work reports on encounters and situations that she sets in motion. Whether asking strangers to sleep in her bed, or inviting an author to take charge of her destiny, she documents social interactions that require a pact of complete trust. This exhibition brings together major works from the 1980s to the present. http://www.whitechapelgallery.org/exhibitions/sophie-calle-talking-to-strangers -- Olga P Massanet -- www.ungravitational.net virtualfirefly.wordpress.com www.vimeo.com/ungravitational ___ NetBehaviour mailing list NetBehaviour@netbehaviour.org http://www.netbehaviour.org/mailman/listinfo/netbehaviour
Re: [NetBehaviour] DIWO: a host of whys
:) -- Olga P Massanet -- www.ungravitational.net virtualfirefly.wordpress.com www.vimeo.com/ungravitational ___ NetBehaviour mailing list NetBehaviour@netbehaviour.org http://www.netbehaviour.org/mailman/listinfo/netbehaviour
Re: [NetBehaviour] DIWO solar powered (un)civilisation
With modesty we'll try... Happy weekend :) -- Olga P Massanet -- www.ungravitational.net virtualfirefly.wordpress.com www.vimeo.com/ungravitational ___ NetBehaviour mailing list NetBehaviour@netbehaviour.org http://www.netbehaviour.org/mailman/listinfo/netbehaviour
Re: [NetBehaviour] DIWO solar powered (un)civilisation
Hi James, Thanks for your email. In fact the idea that we are all human, and the idea of trying to integrate all these different opinions or tactics of existence helps me find this degree of modesty I'm looking for.. And I understand a manifesto is not usually humble, but I think it is for a reason. It is an instigator. As for the different voices, they are probably already integrated under the project of DIWO.. But are you thinking of a piece or project in particular that articulates all these voices? -- Olga P Massanet -- www.ungravitational.net virtualfirefly.wordpress.com www.vimeo.com/ungravitational ___ NetBehaviour mailing list NetBehaviour@netbehaviour.org http://www.netbehaviour.org/mailman/listinfo/netbehaviour
Re: [NetBehaviour] DIWO: a host of whys
Hi all, Yesterday I replied to Dougald's email and forgot to actually introduce myself. I'm Olga, I'm Spanish, co-editor at Furtherfield.. I sort of decided to start calling myself media artist, cause you need to tag yourself somehow. My background is Audiovisual Communication, I did my MA in Interactive media in Cultural Studies and I'm currently doing my PhD at Goldsmiths (London) on the potential of fiction to intervene reality, on the power of constructed alternative worlds to affect what we have here now.. I think there is a lot in the manifesto that can be taken in that way. By the way Marc I think you are always very welcoming.. this is by no means your responsibility but something we need to deal with (I think) as a group.. And I believe we are.. -- Olga P Massanet -- www.ungravitational.net virtualfirefly.wordpress.com www.vimeo.com/ungravitational ___ NetBehaviour mailing list NetBehaviour@netbehaviour.org http://www.netbehaviour.org/mailman/listinfo/netbehaviour
[NetBehaviour] DIWO solar powered (un)civilisation
Hello, Lots of discussion on Netbehaviour, time to say hi. It looks like DIWO at the Dark Mountain has definitely managed to bring people together to collaborate. There are a few things of the discussion that I'd like to comment on. ABOUT UTOPIA Simon Biggs: I'd rather live in a fucked up world that in somebody else's utopia. What often fucks us up is other people's solutions. Instead of dismissing the utopian impulse altogether I still find more interesting the idea of utopia as a driving force, as the possibility of imagining the alternative, and as a pre-requisite of bringing it into being. But Utopia should not anymore be considered as a master plan or totalising idea, but rather as the possibility of multiple Others to what we have now, that can be inspiring for our lives today. Many authors have written of the colonisation of the future by capital. Frederic Jameson talks about the discourse of progress as an attempt to colonize the future, to draw the unforeseeable back into tangible realities in which one can invest... Then discussing Tafuri and Cacciari (Frankfurt School) Jameson goes on to say: It is thus not merely to deprive the future of its explosiveness that is wanted, but also to annex the future as a new area for investment and for colonisation by capitalism. Our role as participants in this world is to regain the power of future as disruption. Now, I completely agree with Edward Picot in that Principles are one thing, but implementation is another. So a great deal of modesty is important to balance the words above and that's why I tend to define my work as mini-interventions, mini-troops... ABOUT BEING CIVILISED I would not entirely agree with Michael on 'I don't accept that one should moderate one's opinions'. Definitely this is not about censuring each other but it is about collaboration, and in as much as the main goal is to establish creative links among us I think we need to deal with each other with great respect. Of course criticism is important, and it's been proved these days that the most critical voices have sparked discussion. I think, however, that if we get to the point that each of the words is scrutinised to such an extent, one - at least I do - starts feeling like she needs to be extremely careful. I don't find that particularly helpful when it comes to creativity. AN IDEA... I thought I might be able to bring here some of my personal explorations of the potential of fiction to intervene reality. I would like to build this fictional world, parallel universe, (im)possible future of a solar powered (un)civilisation. Like others on this list, I also feel uncomfortable with the word uncivilisation. My plan is to focus on the leaks of that fictional world to see how they might affect our reality. I wanted to start by deploying a small troop of solar bugs... they are small and highly contagious. Perhaps even capable of effecting a genetic mutation in humans that will allow us to extract energy from the sun... -- Olga P Massanet -- www.ungravitational.net virtualfirefly.wordpress.com www.vimeo.com/ungravitational ___ NetBehaviour mailing list NetBehaviour@netbehaviour.org http://www.netbehaviour.org/mailman/listinfo/netbehaviour
Re: [NetBehaviour] DIWO solar powered (un)civilisation
hi Anniea, perhaps i can post you some.. :) still need to produce them though.. -- Olga P Massanet -- www.ungravitational.net virtualfirefly.wordpress.com www.vimeo.com/ungravitational ___ NetBehaviour mailing list NetBehaviour@netbehaviour.org http://www.netbehaviour.org/mailman/listinfo/netbehaviour
