Re: [NetBehaviour] Maecenas
On 09/Oct/17 02:22, helen varley jamieson wrote:
agree. thank goodness my art is mostly ephemeral & can't be stuck with a
financial pin like a dead butterfly ...
Hah, thanks for that little reminder! Let's hear it for ephemeral networked art
("you had to be there" was the best reply I ever came up with when folks used to
ask "what was that work about?"). OTOH, as a confirmed archivist, I try to
capture some of those butterflies and stick pins through them -- but that effort
is absolutely an impossible fight against entropy these days. The archive is too
large, and formats for presentation are changing so fast. I am teetering on the
edge of giving up -- right now I'd have to re-code all video works, and
completely reformat a 7500-entry blog to 'work' properly with the newest
iteration of WordPress. I refuse to go to corporate social media formats of
distribution. And the 'punishment' of maintaining "a self-maintained island of
personal research and expression in a sea of corporately hosted and filtered
content" is getting to be too much. The full-time job has wrung all the
resistent mojo outta this former-networker.
Hard to remember that it is *all* ephemeral. Even the highest wall, the biggest
museum, and grandest civilization...
so it goes.
jh
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Re: [NetBehaviour] Auto-Re: Annie Abrahams - Networked Conversations
Can someone plz unsub this person... On 06/May/17 04:19, xuchunx...@zjut.edu.cn wrote: 邮件已收到，谢谢！ 徐春晓 ___ NetBehaviour mailing list NetBehaviour@netbehaviour.org http://www.netbehaviour.org/mailman/listinfo/netbehaviour -- ++ Dr. John Hopkins, BSc, MFA, PhD hanging on to the Laramide Orogeny twitter: @neoscenes http://tech-no-mad.net/blog/ ++ ___ NetBehaviour mailing list NetBehaviour@netbehaviour.org http://www.netbehaviour.org/mailman/listinfo/netbehaviour
Re: [NetBehaviour] 2 minutes or so from last night @ Greenwich House
On 17/Apr/17 12:36, Alan Sondheim wrote: Argh... What was the reasoning? Long zoning story -- it wasn't inspected locally (built in Canada and shipped here), so couldn't be certified by local inspectors, so, not allowed to be connected to local utilities, and thus not able to use it for short term rentals. It was on AirBnB for two years, and was the most popular space in the area, but then someone in the neighborhood anonymously complained (it was completely out of sight on a 3-acre property on the side of a mountain! google @ 1960 Mount Zion Drive, Golden, CO), but the county people came and decided to prosecute... Argh! But now it's safely in a far less controlled area about 200 miles west into the Rocky Mountains... ANYWAY... jh -- ++ Dr. John Hopkins, BSc, MFA, PhD hanging on to the Laramide Orogeny twitter: @neoscenes http://tech-no-mad.net/blog/ ++ ___ NetBehaviour mailing list NetBehaviour@netbehaviour.org http://www.netbehaviour.org/mailman/listinfo/netbehaviour
Re: [NetBehaviour] 2 minutes or so from last night @ Greenwich House
where will my tinyhouse go...? I worked all day Saturday with a group of students, ongoing, to help them build a tinyhouse, and my landlady was forced last week by local zoning people to move the two tinyhouses that were on her property here in Golden, Colorado... where will my tinyhouse go? jh -- ++ Dr. John Hopkins, BSc, MFA, PhD hanging on to the Laramide Orogeny twitter: @neoscenes http://tech-no-mad.net/blog/ ++ ___ NetBehaviour mailing list NetBehaviour@netbehaviour.org http://www.netbehaviour.org/mailman/listinfo/netbehaviour
Re: [NetBehaviour] Algorave 24 hour stream
On 16/Mar/17 17:23, Alex McLean wrote: In 40 mins from now there will (hopefully) be the first of 48 streams from here: http://algorave.com/wearefive/ featuring live coders from around the world, new and old.. Thanks Alex -- I was able to tune in to some of it -- very cooL! jh -- ++ Dr. John Hopkins, BSc, MFA, PhD hanging on to the Laramide Orogeny twitter: @neoscenes http://tech-no-mad.net/blog/ ++ ___ NetBehaviour mailing list NetBehaviour@netbehaviour.org http://www.netbehaviour.org/mailman/listinfo/netbehaviour
[NetBehaviour] Armin Medosch (1962-2017)
I'm sure some of you know this already, a long-time friend and media-artist/organizer/philosopher/networker/activist Armin Medosch is gone (1962-2017). ach. jh ___ NetBehaviour mailing list NetBehaviour@netbehaviour.org http://www.netbehaviour.org/mailman/listinfo/netbehaviour
Re: [NetBehaviour] hope against hope (new video)
But hope is only man's mistrust of the clear foresight of his mind.” ― Paul Valéry -- ++ Dr. John Hopkins, BSc, MFA, PhD levitating on bentonite twitter: @neoscenes http://tech-no-mad.net/blog/ ++ ___ NetBehaviour mailing list NetBehaviour@netbehaviour.org http://www.netbehaviour.org/mailman/listinfo/netbehaviour
Re: [NetBehaviour] Turbulence.org Archive Lives On
On 06/Dec/16 10:01, marc garrett wrote: Finally, we will no longer need the services of long-time Turbulence.org System Administrator Jesse Gilbert. We would not have survived to-date without Jesse’s skill and dedication. Please join us in thanking him. hear-hear! yes, Jesse has done a spectacular job over all these years! jh -- ++ Dr. John Hopkins, BSc, MFA, PhD levitating on bentonite twitter: @neoscenes http://tech-no-mad.net/blog/ ++ ___ NetBehaviour mailing list NetBehaviour@netbehaviour.org http://www.netbehaviour.org/mailman/listinfo/netbehaviour
Re: [NetBehaviour] FW: NetBehaviour Digest, Vol 2912, Issue 1
Activism, in the final step is about collectively creating a new pathway, and throwing off the bonds applied by the techno-social protocols (FB) that the 'migrants' had no choice in creating among themselves... jh ___ NetBehaviour mailing list NetBehaviour@netbehaviour.org http://www.netbehaviour.org/mailman/listinfo/netbehaviour
Re: [NetBehaviour] FW: NetBehaviour Digest, Vol 2912, Issue 1
On 30/Nov/16 02:47, Charlotte Elizabeth Webb wrote: Last night I was watching Astra Taylor give a keynote for the 2016 Rhizome Seven on Seven event<https://vimeo.com/169714504>, and she made a good point that 'purity' re: Facebook (i.e. not being there on principle) is counter-effective when it comes to political organising, because it is simply where the people are. Somewhat similar rationale got Trump elected... Principles are principles because they are principles... jh -- ++ Dr. John Hopkins, BSc, MFA, PhD levitating on bentonite twitter: @neoscenes http://tech-no-mad.net/blog/ ++ ___ NetBehaviour mailing list NetBehaviour@netbehaviour.org http://www.netbehaviour.org/mailman/listinfo/netbehaviour
Re: [NetBehaviour] FW: NetBehaviour Digest, Vol 2912, Issue 1
On 29/Nov/16 11:57, Mark Hancock wrote: I wish I could unsubscribe! I went in for a minor art removal and they grafted on a whole brave new art world to the left side of my brain. Now every time I go to say, "art market democracy", it comes out as "military-industrial complex, patriarchal hegemony." Hah -- I always used the simple term "cultural-industry complex" for the European art 'market' -- a well-funded (at least compared to Amurikan (non-existent) funding) effort of cultural hegemony to promote national cultural production... anyway. it's easy to become confused, but equally easy to simply review Machiavelli when doubting the 'real' motivations of those in the market, the industry, or the patriarchy... jh -- ++++++ Dr. John Hopkins, BSc, MFA, PhD levitating on bentonite twitter: @neoscenes http://tech-no-mad.net/blog/ ++ ___ NetBehaviour mailing list NetBehaviour@netbehaviour.org http://www.netbehaviour.org/mailman/listinfo/netbehaviour
Re: [NetBehaviour] toegristle #354
fyi for net newbies there is Gridcosm from the old SiTo collective https://www.sito.org/synergy/gridcosm/ by far the longest (still) running networked visual arts collaboration online... unless you can point out another one! From my friends Ed Stasny and Jon van Ost it's pushing 20 years now! jh ___ NetBehaviour mailing list NetBehaviour@netbehaviour.org http://www.netbehaviour.org/mailman/listinfo/netbehaviour
Re: [NetBehaviour] Semiotic Splatter, pebbles and ink, vi
On 30/Oct/16 21:19, Alan Sondheim wrote: "There is obviously a certain expenditure of energy in the process of writing, but we find no trace of the energy on the written page. There is no visible negentropy left either, yet the information is there, completely dissociated from these other elements." Life-time, equivalent to life-energy, has wound down during writing. The material order of the paper and the negentropy of the ordered marks begin to tend to disorder immediately, until dissociation, the asymptotic limit for which is never reached... jh -- ++ Dr. John Hopkins, BSc, MFA, PhD levitating on bentonite twitter: @neoscenes http://tech-no-mad.net/blog/ ++ ___ NetBehaviour mailing list NetBehaviour@netbehaviour.org http://www.netbehaviour.org/mailman/listinfo/netbehaviour
Re: [NetBehaviour] Move a text, break up the house
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Re: [NetBehaviour] neoscenes - live for le placard: basilisk ...
On 09/Oct/16 03:59, ruth catlow wrote: Missed it : ( prob many did - I hadn't the time this week to get the word out, as is per usual for me... Enjoyed exploring the various interfaces though. Especially this one http://locusonus.org/soundmap/051/ That's one of Jerome Joy's (along with other's) pieces -- for which I enjoy participating in... Is it against the spirit of the thing to make recordings? sometimes -- there is the "you had to be there" concept for live performative events and happenings and such, but these days I often will record my outgoing stream partly simply because I can (with Nicecast), and partly to be able to listen later and consider improvements on the next improv, and then to document the creative output -- although documentation does carry that onerous burden of sucking energy out of a be-here-now intention. If not, I'd love to hear it. http://tech-no-mad.net/blog/archives/81537 -- about halfway down the entry is a playable link ... enjoy (or ... whatever !) "A 37-minute sonic improv titled basilisk troglodytae: in which the basilisk is lured along various paths into a cave by the thrumming song of the deus machina. Among the voices of the other damned souls, the basilisk is slowly consumed in a conflagration of mediatory devices. When completely digested, the basilisk returns, reborn, to the roots of its nature: a being that can cause the living to turn to stone. Despite all, Life retains its temporal vitality until it ends." Cheers, John -- ++++++++++ Dr. John Hopkins, BSc, MFA, PhD levitating on bentonite twitter: @neoscenes http://tech-no-mad.net/blog/ ++ ___ NetBehaviour mailing list NetBehaviour@netbehaviour.org http://www.netbehaviour.org/mailman/listinfo/netbehaviour
[NetBehaviour] neoscenes - live for le placard: basilisk ...
Hei folks -- I'm about to do a live streamed remix from my field recording archive -- see http://tech-no-mad.net/blog/archives/81537 for details... jh -- ++ Dr. John Hopkins, BSc, MFA, PhD levitating on bentonite twitter: @neoscenes http://tech-no-mad.net/blog/ ++ ___ NetBehaviour mailing list NetBehaviour@netbehaviour.org http://www.netbehaviour.org/mailman/listinfo/netbehaviour
Re: [NetBehaviour] technological sorcery | Technology is Not Neutral
On 16/Sep/16 11:42, Johannes Birringer wrote: dear all oh, are the techno-sorcerers at it again in Linz? the alchemists of our time? thanks for sharing this review with us, I was not aware (of the writer) but glancing at the review i see the critique spelled out in the last segment -- But Ars has never been far off from the line of Society of Spectacle -- even in the days of the Open-X venue that gave expression to the nascent human networks that were growing around the early net-art/activist scene in the 90s -- there was much spectacle and techno-babble from Babylon. The gender question is also an old one for Ars (and no less problematic these days than is has always been. disappointing that 'the more things change, the more they remain the same' ... But there were some instances for some good hard dancing to some good musik; and of course, the chance for some f2f encounters with folks, which is the only interesting thing to draw me to these kinds of events to begin with. Looking at 'new media' stuff, well, not too different than shopping... As for watching the sky, I would deeply protest part of the critical invocation to stop watching the night sky -- I would suggest that there needs to be far more watching of the sky [http://tinyurl.com/j86o5my] -- and perhaps the same time, watching the earth as well. Much to learn from those processes. jh -- ++ Dr. John Hopkins, BSc, MFA, PhD levitating on bentonite twitter: @neoscenes http://tech-no-mad.net/blog/ ++ ___ NetBehaviour mailing list NetBehaviour@netbehaviour.org http://www.netbehaviour.org/mailman/listinfo/netbehaviour
Re: [NetBehaviour] The artist is typing | online exhibition at Storage Un.it | September 1 - 30, 2016
On 01/Sep/16 16:17, James Morris wrote: A simple script could do this; is a script enough of an entity to be qualified as an artist? brings to mind the paradigm: "one cannot not communicate" ... if communications, networking, whatever is visulized as a flow of energy between the Self and the Other, that flow may be characterized on a sliding scale from 'not much' to 'a lot' of energy moving between the two entities. It is still communications, but the protocol that is being used to carry the energy imposes something of a band-limit on the maximum amount of energy that can be carried -- although that maximum differs between individuals -- some will 'receive' more energy via this particular protocol than others... jh -- ++ Dr. John Hopkins, BSc, MFA, PhD levitating on bentonite twitter: @neoscenes http://tech-no-mad.net/blog/ ++ ___ NetBehaviour mailing list NetBehaviour@netbehaviour.org http://www.netbehaviour.org/mailman/listinfo/netbehaviour
Re: [NetBehaviour] The artist is typing | online exhibition at Storage Un.it | September 1 - 30, 2016
On 01/Sep/16 08:57, Randall Packer wrote: But we can’t read what you are typing… so there is no content… is that the point? I don’t mean to criticize the project as I am quite interested in the idea of the open source broadcast of the artist at work, but the key thing is knowing what the artist is saying, thinking, feeling, not just the artist as an on/off switch. Important points, Randall, my thots as well ... of course, if that's not what Guido wanted to do ... the old form/content issue in some way, but it brings up Roy Ascott's idea: "networking invites personal disclosure" ... jh -- ++ Dr. John Hopkins, BSc, MFA, PhD levitating on bentonite twitter: @neoscenes http://tech-no-mad.net/blog/ ++ ___ NetBehaviour mailing list NetBehaviour@netbehaviour.org http://www.netbehaviour.org/mailman/listinfo/netbehaviour
Re: [NetBehaviour] The artist is typing | online exhibition at Storage Un.it | September 1 - 30, 2016
On 01/Sep/16 08:18, Randall Packer wrote: Fantastic idea… I just went online and wasn’t seeing any text… I don't think the text is actually being streamed ... that would somewhat complicated to execute -- possible, of course, but I think this is more concerned with the physical gallery appearance and that the 'net version is merely a place-holder... JH -- ++ Dr. John Hopkins, BSc, MFA, PhD levitating on bentonite twitter: @neoscenes http://tech-no-mad.net/blog/ ++ ___ NetBehaviour mailing list NetBehaviour@netbehaviour.org http://www.netbehaviour.org/mailman/listinfo/netbehaviour
Re: [NetBehaviour] What the hell with Snapchat?? Help!
We are really witnessing a shifting of mediated communications. As we age, protocols change and generations split along those differing protocol lines. the fabric of the social system continues to fray... interiority is being exhumed for profit... thoughtfulness subsumed by profiteering... disorienting & sad... email lists, which still seem on the wane, seem to be the only online forum for extended discussion and a kind of 'care' in reading that's almost impossible elsewhere. that's why empyre, for example, works so well. there's a kind of reading-voice and interiority that allows for thoughtfulness, listening... -- ++ Dr. John Hopkins, BSc, MFA, PhD grounded on a granite batholith twitter: @neoscenes http://tech-no-mad.net/blog/ ++ ___ NetBehaviour mailing list NetBehaviour@netbehaviour.org http://www.netbehaviour.org/mailman/listinfo/netbehaviour
Re: [NetBehaviour] Music vid may enjoy
On 30/Aug/16 13:14, Alan Sondheim wrote: absolutely brilliant, looked like Japan to me - Medellin ... crazy stuff, to be sure. JH -- ++ Dr. John Hopkins, BSc, MFA, PhD grounded on a granite batholith twitter: @neoscenes http://tech-no-mad.net/blog/ ++ ___ NetBehaviour mailing list NetBehaviour@netbehaviour.org http://www.netbehaviour.org/mailman/listinfo/netbehaviour
Re: [NetBehaviour] What the hell with Snapchat?? Help!
Help - am I missing something? This is what Snapchat can access on my PC if I install it - it seems like a serious invasion of privacy. Any comments greatly appreciated - Alan at this point, anything on social media is going to to this and more -- no need to be surprised, eh, Alan? more data = more $$ -- it's nauseating imho. is there any 'net privacy available anymore? doesn't seem like it... jh -- ++ Dr. John Hopkins, BSc, MFA, PhD grounded on a granite batholith twitter: @neoscenes http://tech-no-mad.net/blog/ ++ ___ NetBehaviour mailing list NetBehaviour@netbehaviour.org http://www.netbehaviour.org/mailman/listinfo/netbehaviour
Re: [NetBehaviour] Mika ‘Lumi’ Tuomola 1971-2016
On 11/Aug/16 02:22, helen varley jamieson wrote: yesterday i learned of the death of mika "lumi" tuomola, a finnish new media artist. maybe some of you on this list have known him. Ah, sorry to hear this -- Mika and I first met when I was guest teaching at the Media (CAP) Lab in Helsinki in 1994, then again later renewed our acquaintance in 2000-1 as colleagues at the Lab on the occasion of an informal breakfast with some of his and my students and Howard Rheingold who was in Helsinki giving his forward-looking presentations (to a packed house in the Laasipalatsi Rex Theater)... Mika held several alternative workshops in the context of his "Crucible" program at the Lab, one memorable one was with butoh artist, Aki Suzuki, who taught a group of us the basics of butoh performance. Flamboyant, sharp, quick-witted, personable, and ever active in his physical presence, Mika was a great counter-point within the Helsinki techie scene. JH -- ++++++++++ Dr. John Hopkins, BSc, MFA, PhD grounded on a granite batholith twitter: @neoscenes http://tech-no-mad.net/blog/ ++ ___ NetBehaviour mailing list NetBehaviour@netbehaviour.org http://www.netbehaviour.org/mailman/listinfo/netbehaviour
Re: [NetBehaviour] NIST Internet of Things document
On 28/Jul/16 19:42, Alan Sondheim wrote: http://nvlpubs.nist.gov/nistpubs/SpecialPublications/NIST.SP.800-183.pdf good source, Alan -- My father's last position in the Dept of Commerce was at NIST IT. I wish he was alive these days to see what crazy things are being developed with IoT and NoT (I really like the Twitter user "@internetofshit who points out the absurdities!)... jh -- ++ Dr. John Hopkins, BSc, MFA, PhD grounded on a granite batholith twitter: @neoscenes http://tech-no-mad.net/blog/ ++ ___ NetBehaviour mailing list NetBehaviour@netbehaviour.org http://www.netbehaviour.org/mailman/listinfo/netbehaviour
Re: [NetBehaviour] About hosting Networking the Unseen exhibition at Furtherfield
I don't have any links to point folks to, but the pan-Arctic Lappish (Sami) Parliament and cultural collaborations across Norway, Sweden, Finland, and Russia could be an interesting example to explore. My students in Tornio (in West Lapland), Finland introduced me to some of these networks... jh -- ++ Dr. John Hopkins, BSc, MFA, PhD grounded on a granite batholith twitter: @neoscenes http://tech-no-mad.net/blog/ ++ ___ NetBehaviour mailing list NetBehaviour@netbehaviour.org http://www.netbehaviour.org/mailman/listinfo/netbehaviour
Re: [NetBehaviour] Hawk
On 31/May/16 16:08, Alan Sondheim wrote: Juvenile black morph Swainson's hawk against Wasatch Mountains That's kind of random -- what are you doing in the Wasatch's? jh -- ++ Dr. John Hopkins, BSc, MFA, PhD grounded on a granite batholith twitter: @neoscenes http://tech-no-mad.net/blog/ ++ ___ NetBehaviour mailing list NetBehaviour@netbehaviour.org http://www.netbehaviour.org/mailman/listinfo/netbehaviour
Re: [NetBehaviour] Fwd: Bitcoin tech applied to clinical trial documents
On 17/May/16 21:30, ruth catlow wrote: If it becomes a way for researchers to prove the integrity of their results. I really don't think any 'protocol' will mitigate the problems of greed and dishonesty in the face of competitive pressures on/within the health care system -- at least in the US -- the honesty of clinical trials is probably the least problematic manifestation of the corruption in the entire politico-economic system these days. Not to mention a protocol over and above the protocols already in place. The complexity of Blockchain is so far beyond medical folks -- the US is struggling to get it's health care records system digital (just broke 50% of physicians now using digital record-keeping). And in the areas that are advanced, because of 'market competition' systems don't talk to each other. And when I say digital records, this only means that an actual doctor's office is not paper-based, it is not a 'national' system where the records can be accessed in any way outside the Drs office -- cross-compatability is last on the list for competing vendors selling their 'complete packages' of digital solutions. For example, I was at an opthamologist's office for a check up on a corneal abrasion (wasn't wearing my eye-protection for an hour when doing construction work!)... I was asking him about this issue as his office is largely digital, but the machine ($$!) that does digital eye-scans has been rendered useless because the protocol of one machine can't talk to another, so the digital files generated can't be accessed! Maybe Trump will impose a wide-scale 'national socialism' dictatorship that will fix all these problems, nationalizing all industry, harmonizing all protocols and standards, and impose the death penalty to medical researchers who futz with their data! ;-] Optimism? I've got optimism, pot may be legalized in Arizona. & already is in Colorado, etc. Oh, but wait, the pharmaco's are *real* interested in all the greenbacks coming from that, too ... same old same old. jh -- ++ Dr. John Hopkins, BSc, MFA, PhD grounded on a granite batholith twitter: @neoscenes http://tech-no-mad.net/blog/ ++ ___ NetBehaviour mailing list NetBehaviour@netbehaviour.org http://www.netbehaviour.org/mailman/listinfo/netbehaviour
Re: [NetBehaviour] Turbulence to end
On 07/May/16 18:23, giselle beiguelman wrote: one more chapter of net art 1.0 blowing in the wind. things like that convince me that is urgent to write the history of net art before the 2.0 hype. Nah, don't reify that which cannot be re-presented. Leave the net to its vaporous, unstable, transient, and vital be-ing... Best to have the traces of human networks left only in the body... and this too shall pass away... jh otoh: I wonder if they will archive the web site somewhere? have to contact Helen about that... -- ++ Dr. John Hopkins, BSc, MFA, PhD grounded on a granite batholith twitter: @neoscenes http://tech-no-mad.net/blog/ ++ ___ NetBehaviour mailing list NetBehaviour@netbehaviour.org http://www.netbehaviour.org/mailman/listinfo/netbehaviour
Re: [NetBehaviour] Fleeting
Johannes - She drives to witness an eclipse. She captures the shadow-cone of the moon speeding towards her. “It rolled at you across the land at 1,800 miles an hour, hauling darkness behind it like plague … This was the universe about which we have read so much and never before felt: the universe as a clock-work of loose spheres flung at stupefying, unauthorized speeds.” I can't escape replying when eclipse is mentioned! My father took me to many total solar eclipses in extreme remote places (some not), starting when I was 6 y.o.. If you ever have a chance to get to a total solar, on the centerline, do it! (most people aren't on the centerline, and it's absolutely nothing similar to it) -- even being just 10km off the centerline! There are few natural phenomena that I have witnessed that made grown scientists shout and scream (very irrationally!)... and the completely warped flux of Gaia energies that converge on local nature (including those hysterical humans) is mind-blowing! There will be an excellent one in the US in 2017, crossing the country diagonally from NW to SE. With a moderately long maximum of 2.7 minutes of totality. I plan to make an expedition taking a number of folks with me to the Sand Hills of Nebraska https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sandhills_%28Nebraska%29 to witness it. (Been checking long-term weather stats to determine the statistically best place for clear skies!)... I'll be taking one of my deceased father's telesocopes, specially modified for eclipse viewing... Anyone want to join me? jh -- ++ Dr. John Hopkins, BSc, MFA, PhD grounded on a granite batholith twitter: @neoscenes http://tech-no-mad.net/blog/ ++ ___ NetBehaviour mailing list NetBehaviour@netbehaviour.org http://www.netbehaviour.org/mailman/listinfo/netbehaviour
Re: [NetBehaviour] Asteroid Mining For UBI
On 27/Apr/16 12:14, Rob Myers wrote: got it, Rob :-) Okay, proceeding with some humor (not!) The initial environmental cost of shipping robots offworld to move the mining and refining there would very quickly become a net environmental and political gain. Strip mining, resource wars, refining within the Earth's atmosphere would all be reduced. *Emphatically NO* Examine the total infrastructure demands of the existing 'space' industry (and the military-industrial system that drives it. Rare earth metals, high-precision Cost one of the Mars rovers, and it will begin to give you a sense of infrastructure scope that a *single* device can involve. And the 'other' hidden costs from the whole mining infrastructure (you gotta build the damn robots *here*, and the oil that drives all of that... There is *NO* way that off-planet *anything* is cost effective in *any* way. Nor will it ever be environmentally sensible! Do a quick calculation how to get materials back to earth -- just the deceleration and landing infrastructure costs *per gram* are out of this world... (I just heard a 1955 Sci-Fi bubble make a HUGE 'pop'!) jh -- ++ Dr. John Hopkins, BSc, MFA, PhD grounded on a granite batholith twitter: @neoscenes http://tech-no-mad.net/blog/ ++ ___ NetBehaviour mailing list NetBehaviour@netbehaviour.org http://www.netbehaviour.org/mailman/listinfo/netbehaviour
Re: [NetBehaviour] Asteroid Mining For UBI
On 26/Apr/16 21:39, Rob Myers wrote: "One solitary asteroid might be worth trillions of dollars in platinum and other metals. Exploiting these resources could lead to a global boom in wealth, which could raise living standards worldwide and potentially benefit all of humanity." Which means more effing bodies on the planet which means a dirtier nest. You know what goes into prepping the machines to get to an asteroid? You know what energy goes into raw ore refining? I presume this is a joke? or? Might as well start reading vintage L. Ron Hubbard... ... jh -- ++ Dr. John Hopkins, BSc, MFA, PhD grounded on a granite batholith twitter: @neoscenes http://tech-no-mad.net/blog/ ++ ___ NetBehaviour mailing list NetBehaviour@netbehaviour.org http://www.netbehaviour.org/mailman/listinfo/netbehaviour
Re: [NetBehaviour] Accelerationism
Hi Alan - You know well that the diff. between this and the Perm. for example is this is the result of a particular species running amuck. And with 40-50 % of ocean life scheduled to disappear, etc. as a result of climate, microspherules, etc., the situation is a mess. Yes, there will be something afterwords. But we're slaughterers trashing the planet, and for me that's unacceptable. I hear where you are coming from, and no disrespect, just disagreement about how to act/react. It's there I disagree -- in the differentiation of us as some special life-form, separate from everything, above, better at trashing, whatever. We are doing what Life always does: helping wind down the universe to its heat death, whatever, by expending available energy to maximize our (Life's!) need to project itself into the future. In terms of historical geological epoch, I was not talking about an extinction event, but more of the geodynamics of Life at that point in history. Carboniferous coal beds came from a vast anaerobic dead/dying zone that evolved on Pangea's equatorial region -- as a result of a massive fluorishing of Life that came from the easy availability of energies at that time. The life-forms that fluorished in that environment gave their lives into creating higher-level (energy packaging) hydrocarbon bonds that our life-form is now releasing, eventually, back into space as waste heat. We are not special. Guilt driven by ethereal or unrealized altruism needs to be replaced by active awareness and actions that the species is capable of. I doubt the capabilities of our species are any more than any other in the ability to alter the fundamentals of Life. Consume available energy until it is gone, then pass away. At best, offer ones own body as sustenance for others to gain from, for a time, until they too shall pass... etc. JH -- ++ Dr. John Hopkins, BSc, MFA, PhD grounded on a granite batholith twitter: @neoscenes http://tech-no-mad.net/blog/ ++ ___ NetBehaviour mailing list NetBehaviour@netbehaviour.org http://www.netbehaviour.org/mailman/listinfo/netbehaviour
Re: [NetBehaviour] Accelerationism
"21. We declare that only a Promethean politics of maximal mastery over society and its environment is capable of either dealing with global ...snip... it discovers only in the course of its acting, in a politics of geosocial artistry and cunning rationality. A form of abductive experimentation that seeks the best means to act in a complex world." Good excerpt -- I couldn't manage the patience to drive through that whole manifesto -- I feel the answers do not need such bloviating -- & anyway, I've got to work on my water-harvesting landscaping, prune my grape vines, and turn my worm farm :-) What is said there, I've been writing into a practice-based curriculum at http://ecosa.org -- the idea of systems-thinking approaches to holistic un-mastery of the biosphere that we are merely transitory parts of. I fundamentally do not like the concept of design, though, as it pre-supposes changing that which flows around us. Maybe an adaptive, consciousness-raised going-with-the-flow ... sensual improvisation that would include, perhaps, the removal of our selves from living viability. If this approach was wide-scale enough, the population drop would start the process of a post-human re-balancing of the planet's dynamic equilibrium. jh -- ++ Dr. John Hopkins, BSc, MFA, PhD grounded on a granite batholith twitter: @neoscenes http://tech-no-mad.net/blog/ ++ ___ NetBehaviour mailing list NetBehaviour@netbehaviour.org http://www.netbehaviour.org/mailman/listinfo/netbehaviour
Re: [NetBehaviour] Accelerationism
learning to listen, listening, is necessary. The fundamental problem I think is that we're blind when it comes to ecosystems, energy, micro- biomes, and so forth. The fundamentals of mycology are being rewritten as we discuss, and what's emerging are whole universes of ignorance. Meanwhile we plow ahead, destroying the planet. It seems to me that accelerationism is so fundamentally human-based (perhaps man-based for all that), that it really overlooks collateral damage. And what do we do, for Acceleration, in mechanical physics, is the result of the application of directed (vector) energy to a body. It is a quantity -- meters-per-second-per-second (how fast am I going faster!) -- that results in ever-increasing velocity -- meters-per-second (how fast am I going?). Acceleration cannot occur without an ever-increasing energy input to the system. Velocity can be maintained with a steady-state energy input. Stasis, death, requires no energy input. In a system with finite energy, acceleration has a limit, as does velocity. We are not destroying the planet, we are temporarily altering the local energy balance. We are merely another expression of Life on the planet. Doing its thing. Pulsing, expanding temporarily. Acceleration occurs in the presence of locally excessive eneergy. This is demonstrated at many scales in living systems where there is an energy excess. When that energy is entropically dispersed through a combination of expansion/growth, it slows down... Pulsing (temporal, spatial) is a regular feature in bio-systems. When we fixate on particular material manifestations of Life (as in a particular species), we miss the fact that Life is a continuous feature of the planet, and will continue long after we are gone *no matter what we do*. In my mind, the fixation on the material is what brings us to the hubris of the Anthropocene. Which, okay, plutonium makes a fine geo-marker. But what about the traces of Life from the Late Carboniferous? Talk about geo-marker, and Life leaving traces! The huge Applachian coal beds are the remains of Life at that time -- accelerated based on temperate climates (Appalachia was at the Equator), and abundant energy sources. And it altered the chemistry of the planet... So it goes. jh PS -- as for all the preparatory conceptualizing on the word 'accelerationism' -- it seems mostly to be a symbolic discussion that has little to do with the real world except as simply another 'ism' to be discussed ad infinitum. if it cannot be connected to the real world, what's the point? Maybe we need to calculate how much carbon is emitted from 'The Cloud' each time we email the word. PPS -- I heartily support the concept of listening in any and all contexts. It has the effect of healing many problems! -- ++ Dr. John Hopkins, BSc, MFA, PhD grounded on a granite batholith twitter: @neoscenes http://tech-no-mad.net/blog/ ++ ___ NetBehaviour mailing list NetBehaviour@netbehaviour.org http://www.netbehaviour.org/mailman/listinfo/netbehaviour
Re: [NetBehaviour] jumping the most paltry jump imaginable
On 08/Apr/16 10:50, James Morris wrote: Found a little jump I can practice jumping on my moutain bike with, in a park near by. I'm a two-track kinda guy these days -- but if you want some crazy MB action, I've got several hundred miles of back-country single-tracks out my front door -- and later this month: http://www.epicrides.com/index.php?contentCat=6 . As an early adopter to MB-ing -- got my first (Nashbar hard-tail) in 1986, but these days I'm too old to risk some kind of injury :-( Bike-commuting and riding around town is almost enough for me ... and some two-track tours: http://tech-no-mad.net/blog/archives/53161 Did some epic rides in Iceland, though, back in the early 90s, and the usual slick-rock stuff here in canyon country. Nothing like pedal power! Go for it! jh -- ++ Dr. John Hopkins, BSc, MFA, PhD grounded on a granite batholith twitter: @neoscenes http://tech-no-mad.net/blog/ ++ ___ NetBehaviour mailing list NetBehaviour@netbehaviour.org http://www.netbehaviour.org/mailman/listinfo/netbehaviour
[NetBehaviour] "A Natural History of Sound" this Thursday
Howdy folks -- forgive the xposting! This is a heads-up on a live-streamed performance and not-too-long public presentation I will be giving on Thursday evening (7-8:30 PM -- PST, GMT-8) at the Natural History Institute at Prescott College. Full info & times at: http://wp.me/prVzk-kLG The stream link is: http://livestream.com/prescottcollege/events/4739637 Tap in -- I want to blow their stream stats outta the water ;-) Enjoy, & thanks! CHeers, JOhn PS - please don't count how may times I say "um" ... it's an ... ummm ... bad habit ... PPS - for those of you who are 'sound' people, this is a *very* quick intro to the intersection of sound, energy, bio-systems, and creativity ... -- ++++++ Dr. John Hopkins, BSc, MFA, PhD grounded on a granite batholith twitter: @neoscenes http://tech-no-mad.net/blog/ ++ -- ++++++ Dr. John Hopkins, BSc, MFA, PhD grounded on a granite batholith twitter: @neoscenes http://tech-no-mad.net/blog/ ++ ___ NetBehaviour mailing list NetBehaviour@netbehaviour.org http://www.netbehaviour.org/mailman/listinfo/netbehaviour
Re: [NetBehaviour] Furtherfield is on the map - literally!
On 16/Mar/16 04:46, helen varley jamieson wrote: as it should be! :) m, not sure if that is a good thing or not -- a TAZ should stay below all radars! Perhaps you should 'load' Furtherfield into a lorry and start moving to stay ahead of the map-makers! Reification is dangerous! jh -- ++ Dr. John Hopkins, BSc, MFA, PhD grounded on a granite batholith twitter: @neoscenes http://tech-no-mad.net/blog/ ++ ___ NetBehaviour mailing list NetBehaviour@netbehaviour.org http://www.netbehaviour.org/mailman/listinfo/netbehaviour
Re: [NetBehaviour] Interspersed amongst the decaying landscapes of Albion
Hei Johannes -- What interests me here is the posturing of power, and the decay implicit in myths of cultural heritage anyway, and what is "preservation" standing in for? What chasms? Preservation, the archive as one form of that process, is only possible when there is excess energy available to maintain the 'material' order of whatever is being preserved. We in the developed world have lived through a time where energy excess (glut) has allowed wide-scale preservation of 'old' things. Historically, in times of less available energy, 'old' or non-essential things were 'allowed' to fall into disorder. In times of great chaos -- times where energy flows are undirected, or there are many flows that are not unified, or are directed in many different 'directions' -- sees the act of preservation contract forced to contract to the scale of embodied presence alone. The primary focus of existence becomes: finding food, water, air, and defending the body from the chaos that threatens to enter it. We are living in a time where there is no longer a lock on energy sources (that the 'West' has so long had), rising population brings greater competition, and with that, anger, fear, and 'decline' from the standards that we have enjoyed for one hundred years or so -- well, since forests, whale oil, coal, and, finally oil gave some humans an energy glut. Within glut we could save more, until now, we can save our entire 'lives' digitally (at the cost of CO2 generated from The Cloud). While around our glutted enclaves, chaos builds, and where we once projected order (via archaeology among the many colonial tools of projected power and 'order') we have no choice but to watch chaos creep back in: we are power-less to stop it. We no longer have the energy. So it has been for Life on the planet all along, we are running under the same laws of nature as the last 3+ billion years or so. There will be more evidences of this (perhaps the dis-order Amurikans are witnessing in their social system is a direct manifestation of the imbalance between too many people and too little energy compared to the high times of Empire in decades past -- implicit in "Make Amurika Great Again". Same with Europe. With chaos on the doorstep. Saturday morning meditations. JH -- ++++++++++ Dr. John Hopkins, BSc, MFA, PhD grounded on a granite batholith twitter: @neoscenes http://tech-no-mad.net/blog/ ++ ___ NetBehaviour mailing list NetBehaviour@netbehaviour.org http://www.netbehaviour.org/mailman/listinfo/netbehaviour
Re: [NetBehaviour] Transmediale 2016: Necessary Conversations Off-the-Cloud
some of you might be interested in this roadmap: Whole Systems Change A Framework & First Steps for Social/Economic Transformation By Riane Eisler http://thenextsystem.org/wp-content/uploads/2016/03/NewSystems_RianeEisler.pdf jh -- ++ Dr. John Hopkins, BSc, MFA, PhD grounded on a granite batholith twitter: @neoscenes http://tech-no-mad.net/blog/ ++ ___ NetBehaviour mailing list NetBehaviour@netbehaviour.org http://www.netbehaviour.org/mailman/listinfo/netbehaviour
Re: [NetBehaviour] AudioBlast Festival #4 streaming this weekend
On 26/Feb/16 17:32, Roger Mills wrote: Hi Everyone, Just wanted to flag the AudioBlast Festival #4 streaming this weekend. I’m performing mixing live webcam sound streams on Sunday 11 am CET 10 am GMT straight after John Hopkins who will be on an hour earlier! The festival is going much of Saturday as well, and today, Friday, there were some great performances! hei Roger -- did you notice that they have you twice on the schedule? on Saturday and Sunday -- I was confused there for awhile... Sunday it is, so, yeah, will see you and hopefully some others on the chat channel (log in to at the bottom of the schedule page): http://apo33.org/index.php/en/2016/02/26/audioblast-schedule-2/ I've got a few links to more info at: http://tech-no-mad.net/blog/archives/80313 Nice to see your smiling and net-behaving face there in Syd, half-way 'round the world today! Cheerio! JH ___ NetBehaviour mailing list NetBehaviour@netbehaviour.org http://www.netbehaviour.org/mailman/listinfo/netbehaviour
[NetBehaviour] Audioblast #4 streaming this weekend
Hi folks -- I think several of us are streaming/performing this coming weekend for the Audioblast Festival #4 (Roger, Randall, me (aka neoscenes), anyone else?) more info here: http://tech-no-mad.net/blog/archives/80313 and the full schedule here w/ the stream link: http://apo33.org/index.php/en/2016/02/26/audioblast-schedule-2/ Enjoy! JH -- ++ Dr. John Hopkins, BSc, MFA, PhD grounded on a granite batholith twitter: @neoscenes http://tech-no-mad.net/blog/ ++ ___ NetBehaviour mailing list NetBehaviour@netbehaviour.org http://www.netbehaviour.org/mailman/listinfo/netbehaviour
Re: [NetBehaviour] Things to do
On 12/Jan/16 19:36, Pall Thayer wrote: I was going to see Hawkwind at the Gramercy Theater but it was cancelled due to "health issues". Now I´m considering getting tickets to see Gary Hah, that would have been a nice show -- I played 'Spirit of the Age" on my first ever radio gig in early 1977 on the Denver 'rock' station KAZY when the Quark, Strangeness, & Charm album had just come out -- I was a wet-behind-the -ears engineering student ... hope those old rockers are okay! Your Moog piece was appropriately retro! ;-) Good idea on the Kandinsky text -- you know Juha Huuskonen from Helsinki - I was always impressed when he told me that he was having his programming students learn knitting at the UIAH Media Lab... Oh, and a head's up to the rest of the list -- I'm going to be doing a live/online sonic improv performance this coming Saturday 16 January as part of this year's global Art's Birthday party -- for details, see: http://tech-no-mad.net/blog/archives/79869 We'll be on IRC freenode -- chat.freenode.net #artsbirthday for back-channel chatting... Cheers all, JH -- ++++++ Dr. John Hopkins, BSc, MFA, PhD grounded on a granite batholith twitter: @neoscenes http://tech-no-mad.net/blog/ ++ ___ NetBehaviour mailing list NetBehaviour@netbehaviour.org http://www.netbehaviour.org/mailman/listinfo/netbehaviour
Re: [NetBehaviour] PLEASE REMOVE ME FROM THIS LIST
On 06/Jan/16 12:03, James Morris wrote: Dear Lord, hear my prayer, please remove this woman from this list. Amen. And out of a clear blue sky a bolt of lightning came and sizzled said woman's subscriber account magically with the proper sign-off protocol, rendering her voiceless and without form on the mis-behaving net ... and anywhere else, for that matter ... ___ NetBehaviour mailing list NetBehaviour@netbehaviour.org http://www.netbehaviour.org/mailman/listinfo/netbehaviour
Re: [NetBehaviour] #rojava
Hi Helen -- john, evolution and change are not only possible, they are inevitable. there was a time before these systems existed (not really so long ago, in the greater scheme of things) and there will be a time after. unfortunately it probably won't be in our life time & i'm not placing any bets on how long it will take, or what it will be replaced with, but that's no reason not to strive for something better. Yes, you are right, that evolution/change is inevitable. I am definitely a believer in change being the only thing that doesn't change! In the big picture, we are an influential-but-transitory species on the planet. Maybe it's more of an existential question -- how it is that human behavioral evolution proceeds so slowly, & while we are blessed/cursed with this extremely short existence during which we have to come to terms with glacial change rates (no pun intended)... It's hard to remain optimistic given the harsh polarization and primitive undercurrents of hate-of-the-Other that surface here in the US these days, especially when fiscal precarity dogs each day. Art-making seems so peripheral and irrelevant within such a system. My only respite is walking deep into the desert, though even there the war machines are evident... http://tech-no-mad.net/blog/archives/12123 http://tech-no-mad.net/blog/archives/8996 http://tech-no-mad.net/blog/archives/2655 http://tech-no-mad.net/blog/archives/46007 etc So it goes. JH ___ NetBehaviour mailing list NetBehaviour@netbehaviour.org http://www.netbehaviour.org/mailman/listinfo/netbehaviour
Re: [NetBehaviour] #rojava
And then the media does shit like this: http://www.bbc.com/news/magazine-33766644 faugh. perhaps a bit of British fascination (and p'rrups a bit of professional jealousy) with war-making. whatever. Blackhawks, anyone? Tuesdays it's F/A-16 RT's going subsonic, sometimes hypersonic, in pairs, prowling. ah, nevermind, just happen to live here right now. I'll go meditate on one of the numerous larger-than-life-size bronze cowboy-and-horse-in-dramatic-pose sculptures scattered around town... http://tinyurl.com/jca3pu2 good night. jh ___ NetBehaviour mailing list NetBehaviour@netbehaviour.org http://www.netbehaviour.org/mailman/listinfo/netbehaviour
Re: [NetBehaviour] #rojava
Just wanted to say the walks are beautiful, intense, disturbing; I love the desert myself - thanks Alan -- it's the only way I can survive here -- walking off-trail alone (though I do take friends about half the time -- to introduce them to the land in the West)... though the presence of the military *is* ubiquitous out here - in the sky, on the land, argh... Gen. Patton brought 1 million men out into the Mojave desert with tanks, planes, jeeps, and so on preparing for the North Afrika campaign (Much of the Mojave Desert is now a 'pristine' conservation area, but when you know what a tank can do to the desert soil surface, you can see the damage everywhere...) jh -- ++ Dr. John Hopkins, BSc, MFA, PhD grounded on a granite batholith twitter: @neoscenes http://tech-no-mad.net/blog/ ++ ___ NetBehaviour mailing list NetBehaviour@netbehaviour.org http://www.netbehaviour.org/mailman/listinfo/netbehaviour
Re: [NetBehaviour] #rojava
Hei Alan -
Where are you located exactly? I'm interested in the intrusions you talk
about.
I'm based in Prescott, Arizona, a small town at 6000' in the central highlands
of the state. Politically it's conservative (very!), there are a lot of veterans
here as there is a VA hospital, lots of conservative retirees. Few minorities.
But, easy access to the Grand Canyon and many other more subtle but very classic
western landscapes and ecosystems.
One of the reasons I became disillusioned with Baudrillard had to do with his
take on the American wilderness, as if the wild, instead of the grace of
life-forms in somewhat balance, was just lawless -
I don't know, but I suspect that Baudrillard never walked (alone) in these
landscapes or spent much time, had no familiarity with them, their wide
variations, rich organismic life (despite the massive human interruptions! and
quite exotic ('empty' upon first look)...
I'd point to the Center for Land Use Interpretation (http://clui.org) for some
absolutely superb research and creative work surrounding the military use of
western land (among some other fine research interests). Matt Coolidge, one of
the principles there has on-the-ground experience around this, along with the
histories.
I did a residency with them in Wendover, UT/NV a few years back, in their
compound that sits 50 yards from the Enola Gay hangar at the former Army Airbase
right on the Bonneville Salt Flat ... (documentation http://tinyurl.com/krnj8ru)
-- from that location within, say, 300 miles, there are huge numbers of 'secret'
military-industrial installations including the new NSA data center, nerve-agent
research/testing facilities, and on and on...
It's a strange phenomena, the proliferation of sites starting in WWII and
continuing extensively into the Cold War, Space Race, nuclear weapon
development, and on and on.
so it goes...
jh
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Re: [NetBehaviour] #rojava
On 08/Dec/15 16:59, Ana Valdés wrote: Women from Afghanistan Congo Bosnia and Armenia shared with us dark stories of rape forced marriages and impunity we need to strengthen the civil societies the question is how to achieve it? If the changes are made with Certainly fixing these problems is not compatible with any fundamentalist religious system -- good luck changing that -- here in the US, the idiots on the 'christian' fundamentalist right have been and are actively tearing down what seems to be a thin veneer that represents all the gains of civil society of the last 50 years. I can't imagine that this is going to be 'easier' in the context of radical Islamic situations, or even 'normal' Islamic societies. When the religious system has already in place a rigid mapping of civil relation and law, I don't believe an 'evolution' or 'change' is possible. This would apply to all Abrahamic religions at least, and many others as well. I don't see any possibility of evolution when 'the Law' is 'the Law'. Is it possible to change such social systems? If someone says 'yes', I'd like to hear the plan... jh -- ++ Dr. John Hopkins, BSc, MFA, PhD grounded on a granite batholith twitter: @neoscenes http://tech-no-mad.net/blog/ ++ ___ NetBehaviour mailing list NetBehaviour@netbehaviour.org http://www.netbehaviour.org/mailman/listinfo/netbehaviour
Re: [NetBehaviour] PREVENT meet KAREN
Ei Roger! It is so laughable and out of touch (like the crusty conservative politicians that concocted it) that the media actually had a field day sending it up, but it at least highlights how some in government would like to use the current political situation around terrorism to shut down debate about their own agendas. It's far easier to keep people bound to 'normative' behavior through the potent mechanism of capitalist/consumerist living and media propaganda ... here in the US now, the media frenzy, something I thought to be already far over the top 30 years ago simply intensifies its hysteria each week. Social media screens keeps so many completely distracted *from* the reality of life in front of them that the authenticity of community and the characteristics that community depends on -- empathy, diversity of thought, tolerance -- are shoved out the window. Very disheartening. And all the while those in power simply use what power they have to secure more, period. No thoughts to distribute power, to give it back to the people. argh, I don't like to think about it -- as I'm working now on redeveloping a systems-thinking-based curriculum and action plan for http://ecosa.org in 'regenerative design', the organization's founder's specialty. However, when I really think about what's going on in the world, I find it hard to remain optimistic in order to be able to pass some optimism on to younger folks. Maybe we need to go far beyond optimism/pessimism/cynicism -- to a more radical state of being. I like Martin Buber's idea that it is the dynamic of humane encounter/dialogue that reality is created (which suggests that the 'reality' formed of the 'mediasphere' is a false reality or even no reality at all!). If we all go around focusing on authentic and humane contact, regardless of the 'status' of the Other, maybe we can repair/transcend/change the global situation. As for KAREN, seems like the pols clearly don't understand that such moves are exactly the bullshit that could (will!) send some people over the top in violent reaction. The disconnectedness of the pols will be their demise! (those riding the tiger will end up inside!)... anyway, a few musings from a cold and brilliant desert night. jh PS -- and, Roger, I must say I was inspired to have met a young woman at UTS back when volunteering at the UTS food coop who did, in fact, fit the bill as 'Karen' quite nicely! I thought, 'good on ya' for actually taking radical enviro actions based on her passionate beliefs that those in power were essentially raping the land! -- we had some interesting discussions over the course of about six months. ___ NetBehaviour mailing list NetBehaviour@netbehaviour.org http://www.netbehaviour.org/mailman/listinfo/netbehaviour
Re: [NetBehaviour] Galleries and digital work
On 03/Dec/15 08:34, dave miller wrote: "What if an artist’s work doesn’t fit - architecturally, conceptually, traditionally - within a gallery’s programme? Increasing numbers of artists If you are walking in the 'stellar spaces' of certain kinds of individual creativity, you are generally alone. That's what I've discovered. Like Randall says, behind or ahead of the dominant times. No way to really determine which when the impact of work cannot be measured easily in the social system. For example, I have a network of a couple hundred people who are interested in what I do, and on occasion, they show that support by purchasing certain forms of work (mostly photographic prints). Much of my 'work' though is totally not about product, but either process, or, ultimately 'praxis' -- the holistic way of going that includes all expenditures of life energy. People who don't know me have no interest in the products, while those who know my praxis realze that the products and their fiscal support allows me to continue my creative praxis. Problem is, though, when one's work is seemingly completely irrelevant to the surrounding social system, it can be very difficult to rationalize ones life, and to find the force to continue forward. Then there is the time/money issue -- if you can get paid for doing something that furthers your praxis, wow, what a luxury. Most of the time, the work required to get paid to survive in the social system requires that one pay with time away from ones praxis. I go by the route of *not* getting paid for furthering my praxis. It doesn't help with fiscal security, but at least I get some small satisfaction that I am getting something done that I believe needs doing in the very biggest picture! Ah, it's always a conundrum. I think a Buddhist approach is that anything and everything one does is leaning in the direction of that creative praxis, but it's hard to maintain such thinking in the face of a ruthlessly materialist society. I have many friends from my engineering school days, some working in Big Oil, Wall Street, and such -- and to see the difference in social rewards for them, versus folks working in the 'cultural industry' sector can also be disheartening... But some of these same friends support my work both fiscally and psychically through their friendship. In the end, I value my human network over everything else like jobs, cash, status, and gallery shows... So it goes! JH PS -- one of my personal mottos is "Fuck Art, Let's Dance!" -- ++ Dr. John Hopkins, BSc, MFA, PhD grounded on a granite batholith twitter: @neoscenes http://tech-no-mad.net/blog/ ++ ___ NetBehaviour mailing list NetBehaviour@netbehaviour.org http://www.netbehaviour.org/mailman/listinfo/netbehaviour
Re: [NetBehaviour] TIFU by booking the cheapest flight #poignant
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Re: [NetBehaviour] Selling digital art
On 01/Nov/15 21:12, Pall Thayer wrote: It's often been suggested to me that I try selling prints of some of my more visual pieces but I can't do it. In these pieces there is no final state... they run... on and on and on. It would completely defy the nature of the work to attempt to capture a single moment for a print. Hej Pall - I basically agree, although I would opine that many dynamic screen-based visual works can be quite compelling/beautiful as a well-printed screen-shot (on paper) ... I've been playing around with this using the Epson 7990 printer that I funded via a Kickstarter a couple years ago. I would make no comparison between the 'original' work and the concept behind it, but simply see it as the source for another kind of work on paper... jh -- ++ Dr. John Hopkins, BSc, MFA, PhD grounded on a granite batholith twitter: @neoscenes http://tech-no-mad.net/blog/ ++ ___ NetBehaviour mailing list NetBehaviour@netbehaviour.org http://www.netbehaviour.org/mailman/listinfo/netbehaviour
Re: [NetBehaviour] Know Your Filesystem (and how it affects you)
Hei Dave - Maybe for the RWX worksession we can borrow your comment and proudly begin development on a new mobile platform - "Stupid F**king OS". hehe, GO FOR IT! So long as you don't trademark it first, that is. ;) got my Stupid F**king™ lawyers all over that one... !!! JH -- ++ Dr. John Hopkins, BSc, MFA, PhD grounded on a granite batholith twitter: @neoscenes http://tech-no-mad.net/blog/ ++ ___ NetBehaviour mailing list NetBehaviour@netbehaviour.org http://www.netbehaviour.org/mailman/listinfo/netbehaviour
Re: [NetBehaviour] tsū
On 25/Oct/15 14:46, James Morris wrote: Anyone using it? gag me! :-| "tsū is a free social network and payment platform that shares up to 90% of [advertising] revenues with its users." Why do I get the feeling that these kinds of deployments (like Ello) are all about 'branding', marketing, and social-coolness-hipster-ladder-climbing? I get tired of the Red-Herring-on-steroids interfaces, the distinctly hollow-sounding ethical tweaks, and 'forward-looking' Darwinian spins. Authentic? Uranus! jh ___ NetBehaviour mailing list NetBehaviour@netbehaviour.org http://www.netbehaviour.org/mailman/listinfo/netbehaviour
Re: [NetBehaviour] Know Your Filesystem (and how it affects you)
It is precisely a euphemism. The Operating System is only "smart", because it gives the impression that it is taking care of the labour of computer use on your behalf, so you can focus on simply enjoying the "content". Hah! I suppose we can begin to reverse this trend by referring to such devices as "stupid f**king phones" or "goddam idiotic computer" perhaps? It's all in the naming, anyway ;-) jh -- ++++++++++ Dr. John Hopkins, BSc, MFA, PhD grounded on a granite batholith twitter: @neoscenes http://tech-no-mad.net/blog/ ++ ___ NetBehaviour mailing list NetBehaviour@netbehaviour.org http://www.netbehaviour.org/mailman/listinfo/netbehaviour
Re: [NetBehaviour] Take Your Time
On 23/Oct/15 22:40, Alan Sondheim wrote: Accompanying the video is music that has been referred to as 'shoe gazing'. Taken from an album released in 1992 called 'lazer guided melodies' by the band Spiritulaized, the tune is 'take your time'. http://tech-no-mad.net/blog/archives/79097 here's another kind of video... jh -- ++ Dr. John Hopkins, BSc, MFA, PhD grounded on a granite batholith twitter: @neoscenes http://tech-no-mad.net/blog/ ++ ___ NetBehaviour mailing list NetBehaviour@netbehaviour.org http://www.netbehaviour.org/mailman/listinfo/netbehaviour
Re: [NetBehaviour] Communication in Online Communities
On 06/Oct/15 05:18, Joumana Mourad wrote: Can anyone share why FB, G+, or any of the discussion platforms did not work? For me, I don't know about other folks, but I refuse to use those other platforms that harvest my information. I used to be an early adopter with different technologies as I was teaching about techno-social engagement, but I bailed completely on FB in 2010 after being on it for a few years, So it's email or bulletin boards or posting on my own web space, if that doesnt 'work' oh well. ... Obviously the NSA has access to everything that I can implement, but at least I can limit the access that commercial interests have to my data... And, being outside the FB bubble, one pays a price (like my 'connection' with my family is quite limited because few of them will send emails ever. So, there is always a price to be paid when one does not participate in the dominant social protocols... jh -- ++ Dr. John Hopkins, BSc, MFA, PhD grounded on a granite batholith twitter: @neoscenes http://tech-no-mad.net/blog/ ++ ___ NetBehaviour mailing list NetBehaviour@netbehaviour.org http://www.netbehaviour.org/mailman/listinfo/netbehaviour
Re: [NetBehaviour] Solutionism Re: An interview with Geert Lovink
Randall's offer to host another gathering on his platform is a good one. Then we may set up a parallel place and invite you all to come and test. And if any of you wanted to do the same- go for it. Hey, we could meet in VisitorStudio :-) That can be an interesting 'conversation' ... as you well know, Ruth! http://www.visitorsstudio.org/?diff=420 JH -- ++ Dr. John Hopkins, BSc, MFA, PhD grounded on a granite batholith twitter: @neoscenes http://tech-no-mad.net/blog/ ++ ___ NetBehaviour mailing list NetBehaviour@netbehaviour.org http://www.netbehaviour.org/mailman/listinfo/netbehaviour
Re: [NetBehaviour] Sign up to Quality Metrics now
On 02/Oct/15 10:33, Annie Abrahams wrote: don't, unless you have an academic to play around with the results I agree, Annie -- surely this call will be implemented with yet another dot.com data-harvesting implementation where any/all info is scraped and cashed-in-upon by those behind the curtain... jh -- ++ Dr. John Hopkins, BSc, MFA, PhD grounded on a granite batholith twitter: @neoscenes http://tech-no-mad.net/blog/ ++ ___ NetBehaviour mailing list NetBehaviour@netbehaviour.org http://www.netbehaviour.org/mailman/listinfo/netbehaviour
Re: [NetBehaviour] An interview with Geert Lovink
Hi Ruth! some musings... I do not agree John, With you argument we would refuse to read books too, because they don't spring from someone we can see and touch. for better or for worse the human drive to communicate always has us reaching out. This was a more general critique (or maybe simply a reminder) of where we are, where we've been, and that these protocols exist on a sliding scale. Books are definitely on the scale, (Imagine a life with human contact only via reading text on paper?) So it is not an absolute, as we are already, at birth, on that sliding scale that (some would say) started with the transition from oral to written language. It is only such that evolving techno-social protocols (text-based communication, telephones, SMS, mobiles, etc) become norms that often never get questioned once a large fraction of the population have adopted (or been coopted to adopt) the protocols. Maybe I'm being ultimately retro and showing my age, but I want to keep questioning any/all evolving protocols (while also including ones that were normative to me and pre-dated my arrival on the planet as well...) For example, as someone who was heavily invested in the mail-art network back into the early 80s, I used the postal network protocol as a means for cross-linking and participating in a sizeable international network of folks. My relationships with the people who I meet in the flesh are enhanced and enriched by those maintained across digital networks and vice versa. Of course, you are quite right ... that is where we are in the present moment -- distributed selves having established distributed lives because of the ease of quite phenomenal (and energy-intensive) travel and tele-communications possibilities. Again, this mobility is on a sliding scale -- even if I could, I wouldn't want to be visiting all my international network of friends every few weeks as it would take a terrible toll on the body & the planet -- driving, flying, time zone changes! Once around when I was 20 years old, I calculated to that point in life I had spent 100 24-hour days of my life in a car, traveling at 55mph/88kph. After all I think you and I have only met once in physical space and yet your writings and conversation add an important ecological sensibility to my world view. consumated, consecrated, yet distant! ;-) Rather we need to coordinate better in good faith to create tools and community for mutual benefit and to resist inequitable and alienating forces where we meet them. The fact that a Mailman-driven platform persists reflects on the average age of participants here -- old enough to have found this protocol a useful new tool that fit our evolving life-styles; likely too old to be sustainable via another set of protocols. I would prognosticate that the character of the dialogue carried by the 'list' will not survive a radical platform/protocol shift. I've seen numerous other distributed 'networked' communities implode as a result of protocol changes (sometimes they evolve and adapt, but this is rare). Resistance to alienation I think needs a core that arises from the life arrangements and relationships that are the most proximal to us. From there it procedes outwards, ripples on water: the praxis of intimate momentary life -- mediated only by the body -- is the source, the driver of all empowered change. When I am sitting in a room with other humans and the more and more frequent instance arises where they are 'not there' because of their 'distributed' life, I feel an erosion of the basis for empowered living ... Having said all this, with a simple (cheap) GoDaddy account, you can make & manage Mailman email lists to your heart's content (so far!) -- if you are experiencing provider issues... Oh and maybe a change would fix that incredibly annoying problem with some netbehaviour users -- that we do not receive our own postings! argh! :-0 Cheers, JH -- ++++++ Dr. John Hopkins, BSc, MFA, PhD grounded on a granite batholith twitter: @neoscenes http://tech-no-mad.net/blog/ ++ ___ NetBehaviour mailing list NetBehaviour@netbehaviour.org http://www.netbehaviour.org/mailman/listinfo/netbehaviour
Re: [NetBehaviour] Sign up to Quality Metrics now
On the standardization and metrics: http://tech-no-mad.net/blog/archives/5867 http://tech-no-mad.net/blog/archives/1343 http://tech-no-mad.net/blog/archives/75193 -- ++ Dr. John Hopkins, BSc, MFA, PhD grounded on a granite batholith twitter: @neoscenes http://tech-no-mad.net/blog/ ++ ___ NetBehaviour mailing list NetBehaviour@netbehaviour.org http://www.netbehaviour.org/mailman/listinfo/netbehaviour
Re: [NetBehaviour] An interview with Geert Lovink
On 01/Oct/15 19:41, Rob Myers wrote: On 01/10/15 02:21 AM, ruth catlow wrote: But I too have had a feeling of un-ease about a disconnect with the conversations that happen here on the list. This list is one of my This, imiho, is the alienation of separation as we gradually shunt our energies through ever more energy-sapping technological protocols to reach out to the Other. In some ways, if we turned instead to the most proximal Other, life energy might return more fully to our Lives and alienation dispersed with the evaporating Cloud... jh ___ NetBehaviour mailing list NetBehaviour@netbehaviour.org http://www.netbehaviour.org/mailman/listinfo/netbehaviour
Re: [NetBehaviour] dismal news
On 05/Sep/15 09:59, Randall Packer wrote: "and relational aesthetics and mediation, interventionist art & good intentions, well. well.” I think that Johannes was speaking of degrees of action, and I agree with him in that -- despite my own belief in the fundamental energy-based interconnected wholeness of the cosmos -- there are 'artistic' gestures that seem quite useless in the face of the seething mess of madness that we are embedded within as a species. I also see many of these gestures as, if not empty (there is no such concept as not-communicating) but having an effect on the cosmos that is ultimately not helpful to easing the suffering of others. Much art activity seems to move in this direction -- either by being flat-out naively self-absorbed or being wildly ignorant of the actual conditions giving rise to the suffering to begin with. In both cases, the 'intentions' of the work should be questioned and criticized robustly (or the work be simply and utterly ignored). But of course one can only do what one has the capacity to do -- some have a greater capacity for change than others; a greater capacity for leaving the 'standard' culture and their own lives behind and moving into a differentstate of being; of withstanding the social marginalization inherent in a non-traditional approach to life -- an approach that might change others. Johannes, briefly: It would be a very sad world indeed if we underestimate the power of art to alter and transform the human spirit. Just because you can’t liberate refugees from the camps doesn’t mean youshould idly sit by and give up all hope. For change begins in every act we make that resonates in other minds and ripples through the social sphere in ways you can never predict. True, but in so many cases, Randall, I see a lack of mindfulness in the process that initiates 'every act'. And resonance is hard to control in effect. I think one problem with your argument is that you rely on a far-too-worn generalization about art -- yes, it, as any action, changes the world, but change is not ideologically controllable. Art has been used to promote social norms more often than not... no matter even the intentions of the work. And, in contemporary work, ego and self-promotion is the driver much of the time. Cheers, JOhn ___ NetBehaviour mailing list NetBehaviour@netbehaviour.org http://www.netbehaviour.org/mailman/listinfo/netbehaviour
Re: [NetBehaviour] For a talk I'm giving @ Pitt-Johnstown Day of Digital Humanities
Things todo while waiting for the sun to be Nearly down. What about just watching the sky for awhile? jh sent on the way up to the Grand Canyon for a few days respite from civilization... -- ++ Dr. John Hopkins, BSc, MFA, PhD grounded on a granite batholith twitter: @neoscenes http://tech-no-mad.net/blog/ ++ ___ NetBehaviour mailing list NetBehaviour@netbehaviour.org http://www.netbehaviour.org/mailman/listinfo/netbehaviour
[NetBehaviour] neoscenes: World Listening Day stream 18 JULY 2015
Hallo netbehaviourists -- sorry for any cross-posting! Apparently a previous announcement never made it to the list according to the archive... http://tech-no-mad.net/blog/archives/78241 I want to invite you to tune in when I take to the netwaves with a live one-hour liquid improv mix for *World Listening Day 18 July 2015* On 18 July hopkins/neoscenes will stream live from the Arizona desert between 1200-1300 (12 noon - 1 PM) GMT-7 (Arizona time, MST) NYC - 3-4 PM GMT-4 London - 8-9 PM GMT+1 Helsinki - 2200-2300 GMT+3 Sydney 5-6 AM Sunday 19 July GMT+10 (AEST) Christchurch 7-8 AM Sunday 19 July GMT+12 (NZST) with the theme of 'water' WLD 2015 represents a perfect venue for contributing to the global consciousness surrounding the pressing issues of water ... neoscenes has addressed the issue with the ongoing project changing the course of nature http://tinyurl.com/lh9f7tx -- and the sounds from that project along with others will form a basis of the WLD 2015 remix. For the latest details and up-to-date stream info, go to http://tech-no-mad.net/blog/archives/78241 (go to http://www.worldtimebuddy.com/ for other time conversions) Cheers! JH -- ++ Dr. John Hopkins, BSc, MFA, PhD grounded on a granite batholith twitter: @neoscenes http://tech-no-mad.net/blog/ ___ NetBehaviour mailing list NetBehaviour@netbehaviour.org http://www.netbehaviour.org/mailman/listinfo/netbehaviour
Re: [NetBehaviour] Artist Archives
Hello Dave! Yes, this is a common predicament but it seems a perfect issue for creative solutions generated by artists of the net who live and breathe online. I can't say I live breath online, but rather like to do that locally with body and lungs in all their electric prana splendor. I just presented a paper at the Balance/UnBlanace 2015 Conference (http://www.balance-unbalance2015.org/) at Arizona State University in March -- The Energy of Archive: Re-membering the Cloud I have temporarily made it available on my ongoing travelog/blog/archive/site (which also dates back to 1993 when I was working with the Icelandic Educational Network in Reykjavik -- but that's another posting). http://wp.me/prVzk-k91 (see link at end of abstract) Comments welcome, the paper takes a novel view on our situation... JH -- ++ Dr. John Hopkins, BSc, MFA, PhD grounded on a granite batholith twitter: @neoscenes http://tech-no-mad.net/blog/ ++ ___ NetBehaviour mailing list NetBehaviour@netbehaviour.org http://www.netbehaviour.org/mailman/listinfo/netbehaviour
Re: [NetBehaviour] Artist Archives
I'd also call attention to Tom Sherman's now-vintage article: The Finished Work of Art is a Thing of the Past http://wp.me/prVzk-d0l which I always thought was interesting... jh -- ++ Dr. John Hopkins, BSc, MFA, PhD grounded on a granite batholith twitter: @neoscenes http://tech-no-mad.net/blog/ ++ ___ NetBehaviour mailing list NetBehaviour@netbehaviour.org http://www.netbehaviour.org/mailman/listinfo/netbehaviour
Re: [NetBehaviour] concert/seminar event May 26, “Synaesthesia, Performance, Immersive Atmospheres”
on behalf of the DAP-Lab and the Center for Contemporary and Digital Performance, I like to invite you to a special research-concert: Streamed? Or otherwise accessible online? JH -- ++ Dr. John Hopkins, BSc, MFA, PhD grounded on a granite batholith twitter: @neoscenes http://tech-no-mad.net/blog/ ++ ___ NetBehaviour mailing list NetBehaviour@netbehaviour.org http://www.netbehaviour.org/mailman/listinfo/netbehaviour
Re: [NetBehaviour] Art That Makes Itself symposium and publication preview
Irini -- This is a reminder for our symposium this Saturday, I hope you can join us. *Brown Son: Art That Makes Itself* *Symposium* Saturday 16 May, 2pm - 6.45pm Are you streaming this? jh -- ++ Dr. John Hopkins, BSc, MFA, PhD grounded on a granite batholith twitter: @neoscenes http://tech-no-mad.net/blog/ ++ ___ NetBehaviour mailing list NetBehaviour@netbehaviour.org http://www.netbehaviour.org/mailman/listinfo/netbehaviour
Re: [NetBehaviour] curious student etc
On 08/Apr/15 08:42, Michael Szpakowski wrote: Way back in 2002 there was the splendid quot; velvet strikequot; intervention in counter strike http://www.medienkunstnetz.de/works/velvet-strike/ And don't forget Art Strike a decade before that in 1990-93 http://psrf.detritus.net/pdf/yawn.pdf jh -- ++ Dr. John Hopkins, BSc, MFA, PhD grounded on a granite batholith twitter: @neoscenes http://tech-no-mad.net/blog/ ++ ___ NetBehaviour mailing list NetBehaviour@netbehaviour.org http://www.netbehaviour.org/mailman/listinfo/netbehaviour
Re: [NetBehaviour] Telluro-geo-psycho-modulator workshop and field trip, Furtherfield, London, May 2-3rd
On 08/Apr/15 11:18, jk wrote: Telluro-geo-psycho-modulator workshop and field trip actually magnetotelluric fields are not really all that weak ... but you really need to consider your antenna size -- wide spacing of individual receivers that can be networked with contemporary devices -- as a single antenna can provide quite powerful signal resolution. (This combined with long-period recording -- into days.) Consider spacings upward of tens of km (total antenna area upwards of km2) to allow 'deep soundings'. Anoher technique is to ground a square-wave DC current (as high an amperage as you can risk!) directly into the ground in two small pits that have a salt slurry in them -- spaced about 100-500 meters apart -- this causes a locally-induced Time-Domain field source that can be played with in the deconvolution process... Good luck! JH -- ++ Dr. John Hopkins, BSc, MFA, PhD grounded on a granite batholith twitter: @neoscenes http://tech-no-mad.net/blog/ ++ ___ NetBehaviour mailing list NetBehaviour@netbehaviour.org http://www.netbehaviour.org/mailman/listinfo/netbehaviour
Re: [NetBehaviour] curious student seeking insight
Mayke -- since you are based in NZ, you should get in contact with ADA -- the Aotearoa Digital Arts Network -- http://www.ada.net.nz/ there are many people to talk to in that network! The mailing list isn't terribly active, but... http://www.ada.net.nz/about/list/ it might give you some connections to local NZ events and such... CHeers, JH -- ++ Dr. John Hopkins, BSc, MFA, PhD grounded on a granite batholith twitter: @neoscenes http://tech-no-mad.net/blog/ ++ ___ NetBehaviour mailing list NetBehaviour@netbehaviour.org http://www.netbehaviour.org/mailman/listinfo/netbehaviour
Re: [NetBehaviour] Improvisation
Hei Pete (et al) The general suspiciousness regarding improvisational processes by humans - or perhaps other organically evolved beings - is that the premise of improvisation seems to be negated by the eventual formation of a system. (Am using system to echo Peter's description of the development.) Indeed there is an explicit base system that is applied to improvisation by whatever the medium chosen for the process to proceed. Of course there are 'new' variations in use and application, but even those are just previously un-demonstrated protocols applied by the system. (it's like the limitations imposed by the body (as hypostasis))... I rather like the words/ideas: resonance, serendipity, and intuition (along with the more energetically pure concept of the 'vibe' of a situation of improv and collaboration... Another words, the improv is the end result of the facilitation of an open system (by definition an open system is one that is exchanging energy, information, energized matter with what is exterior to it, to its surroundings) that is 'occupied' or 'lived in' by the improviser for a time. It is by nature not sustainable in time (it's transient)... cheers, jh -- ++ Dr. John Hopkins, BSc, MFA, PhD grounded on a granite batholith twitter: @neoscenes http://tech-no-mad.net/blog/ ++ ___ NetBehaviour mailing list NetBehaviour@netbehaviour.org http://www.netbehaviour.org/mailman/listinfo/netbehaviour
Re: [NetBehaviour] Asemic chat
Then I got to there's asemic writing, for humans, or for cats and dogs and realised I didn't know what asemic meant. This helped. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Asemic_writing see: http://tech-no-mad.net/blog/archives/50718 (one aspect of the history of writing) what does it *mean*? jh -- ++ Dr. John Hopkins, BSc, MFA, PhD grounded on a granite batholith twitter: @neoscenes http://tech-no-mad.net/blog/ ++ ___ NetBehaviour mailing list NetBehaviour@netbehaviour.org http://www.netbehaviour.org/mailman/listinfo/netbehaviour
Re: [NetBehaviour] Furtherfield in Support of Ada Lovelace Day
hmmm, haven't had the time to think about this issue in the last two weeks to the depth it deserves, and it quickly turns into a happy wander through the depths of memory. and so this is a totally incomplete list... and it's not about just 'media' artists anyway, it's about women working in arts and culture who have influenced my worldview through the crossing of paths ... In no particular order, I would mention Lucy Lippard, a big influence at CU-Boulder where she was stationed when I was doing my MFA; Janice Tanaka, a video teacher I had at the same time; Kathy Kennedy, the owner of Photoworks, the top custom BW lab in NYC, she turned me into a master printer; all my women students at the Icelandic Academy who taught me much about gender equality and fearless creative expression, especially Sara Bjornsdottir and Solveig Sveinsbjornsdottir; Valgerdur Hauksdottir, my colleague, friend, and artist who initiated one of the first networked/distributed Master's programs in Fine Arts in Europe in the early 90's; Finnish artist Kaisu Koivisto, a constant inspiration and friend; Nan Hoover, media and performance artist and teacher, whose passing last year was really a tragic loss to all who knew her; Bernice Luhulima, Eija Makivuoti, and Mari Keski-Korsu in Helsinki, Dagmar Kase in Tallinn, Rasa Smite in Riga, Isabelle Jenniches in Santa Cruz, Sophea Lerner in Delhi; Share.dj amigas Marie-Helene Parant in Montreal and Keiko Uenishi in NYC; Kristin Bergaust from Atelier Nord days; Francis Charteris in Boulder; Amanda McDonald Crowley now at eyebeam; Honor Harger; Kathy Rae Huffman; Helen Varley Jamieson; Carmin Karasic; Josephine Bosma; Joanna Buick; Sher Doruff; Bronac Ferran; Elisa Giaccardi; Antoinette LaFarge; Alice Miceli; Varsha Nair (womanifesto) in Bangkok; Leena Saarinen; Katrin Sigurdardottir; Helen Thorington; Adrianne Wortzel... Other former students who are continuous sources of creative inspiration: Sarah Chung, Nadja Franz, Jane Crayton, Fernanda Scur, Dona Laurita, Monique Stauder, Angelica Chio, Mary Finney, the Icelandic Love Corporation; Annu Wilenius Frida Kahlo; Louise Bourgeois; Yoko Ono; and others... with thanks, jh ___ NetBehaviour mailing list NetBehaviour@netbehaviour.org http://www.netbehaviour.org/mailman/listinfo/netbehaviour
