Re: [NetBehaviour] How is everyone?

[Max Herman via NetBehaviour]

Hi all,

I'm reminded of a quote by Paul Tillich, who once said this about religion but 
it could equally apply to technology: "[It] forgets that its own existence is a 
result of [the hu]man's tragic estrangement from [our] true being; it forgets 
its own emergency character."  There is probably error in this view as well as 
wisdom, but it does bring forth the key and perhaps ultimately unanswerable but 
ever-new question of balance.

Here in the midwestern US we are still able to go outside, to parks, and to the 
countryside, but I have not been doing it nearly as much as I should.  Making a 
personal pledge here to correct that this week.  (I've found that personal 
pledges shared with others -- to do a drawing, to jog, not to eat potato chips 
-- are fun and helpful under stay-at-home orders).

One major impact emotionally and psychologically has been not being able to hug 
family members, share meals, play cards, etc., i.e., the bodily separation.  
Most recreational and cultural activities have been canceled, and may remain so 
for much of the year, but relatively "distanced" ones are allowed such as 
tennis, golf, and fishing.  For those of us in middle age this is not so 
onerous, but I do miss my favorite museum tremendously and pledge to visit it 
online this week.  Will we all be wearing masks when the theaters and concert 
halls reopen?  Will we sit in every third seat?  Who knows.

I was encouraged to see the article in Foreign Affairs yesterday about a major 
Green Infrastructure program to help the global economy emerge from the 
pandemic recession.  This kind of approach is long overdue and seems to have a 
degree of traction with potentially bipartisan centrists.  There are no 
guarantees but optimism is sometimes a virtue if it aids resilience and 
persistence.

For art and writing, the loss of so many other activities has provided a boost 
in available time.  It's also interesting and encouraging to see the many 
positive ways in which people are responding to the crisis.  Perhaps necessity 
is reminding us of some capabilities which had drifted into a bit of a slumber?

At the same time I do agree that social connection via screen can be 
energy-draining, and Annie's idea that we lose energy in searching/scouring for 
details makes abundant sense to me.  (Distant Feelings was such a great 
expression of how to let go of this fruitless seeking for cues and data, and 
I've rarely felt more connected over the internet.)  In many cases I have found 
that a sound-only phone call is easier and works just as well as the video-call 
format.  I also think Cassie's idea that video-calling is a strange kind of 
multiple portraiture within an equally strange layer of networked IT fabric is 
both extremely to the point and eminently scalable, so to speak, on numerous 
levels, perhaps by way of what Leonardo called "comparazione," or the more 
rhetorically formal "comperatione."

In other words, hoping for the best and preparing for setbacks!  

Very best wishes to all,

Max





From: NetBehaviour  on behalf of 
Annie Abrahams via NetBehaviour 
Sent: Wednesday, April 15, 2020 5:10 AM
To: NetBehaviour for networked distributed creativity 

Cc: Annie Abrahams 
Subject: Re: [NetBehaviour] How is everyone?

Dear Daniel and netbehaviorists

Thanks for writing bout pro and cons, more thoughts on this situation where we, 
in a certain way, are networked by the situation.
(Johannes most people are no so lucky as to be able to go somewhere in the 
country side)
For five weeks now I live in my house and garden (so I am relatively lucky), 
haven't talked to anyone but my husband for "real" and didn't even go shopping 
my own food.
I depend on online communication. As you all know this is something I am used 
to and try to research already for years, but never have I seen so clearly that 
it can be exhausting.
In my case I kind of know how to use it in a nice /relaxing/socialising way, 
but when now, I also use these tools with people who have never thought about 
it, nor think about it now and just treat it as something that needs to replace 
what they usually live, then it becomes yes, exhausting, it eats my energy.
Why is it so energyvore? (energy intensive) besides the fact that there are no 
details visible, so you have to imagine more and select what is valuable in 
this imagination, - you have to continuously scan the screen with your eyes, - 
you have to dissect the monosound source for difference that gives you a clue 
about who is making what noise ...
What is there more that makes it so energyvore?
As Daniel points out : "we must aim for humanness within and beyond the 
emotional devices which are now, nevertheless, granting us a sense of 
togetherness." and "we have to reflect on how much the digital impact has over 
our lives and analyze how much of it was already happening, exactly the same 
wa

[NetBehaviour] How is everyone?

[Patrick Lichty]

I just picked up on this and thought I'd answer it.

As I said, we are in Day 42 of lockdown - today we put on the full gear and 
went shopping. So strange to have lunch in the car with takeaway Starbucks 
(land of the brand here, sorry) seem luxurious. We know we are in an 
existential bubble; a lot of things are going to happen when the world stops 
hlding its breath. A lot of creativity will seem to appear from nowhere. A lot 
will seem to appear from nowhere; it was just under the coronabubble.

I'm not going to say that the world will shift into hard, glinting 
progressivism, not will I be too pessimistic. Personally, I feel when the 
exhale comes, it will be like a Great Wave that I know will affect us all 
significantly.�

So, how am I, how are we? In a place where we know the future is painful, 
optimistic, terrifying, exciting, and potentially tumultuous.
Feelings: Depressed from the isolation, apprehensive of the global changes to 
come, glad for it shaking us off our center, glad for the potential of the 
future.
My heart hurts, honestly. But I know there is an arrow forward.

I'm glad that this thing tells the world that there is a chance to fix things. 
How, is the other question. Thunberg vs. Xi, and that is a bit polar, but it 
illustrates the main idea.


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[AGF poemproducer]

hi all, really good/new Mbembe response to covid19!
https://critinq.wordpress.com/2020/04/13/the-universal-right-to-breathe/

Finland is all ok, social distancing is the norm… healthcare is free and 
we have a left feminist government… extraction still happening, land mafia 
strong as anywhere
mainly deforestation according to laws and uranium mining … not cool
also some dodgy deal with google and the US military was cut before feminist 
government came to power
hence the Russian neighbor… kids home school, it works well
I am actually hearing from many moms that the kids are happier… less bullying 
and common nastyness
mh… 

we artists are quite effected, and worried but we are still the lucky ones.

this was posted on another list today! nice! http://cyclex.info/
https://www.facebook.com/events/2653255321600491/

stay healthy
peace
agee

> On 15 Apr 2020, at 13:22, Michael Szpakowski  
> wrote:
> 
> It’s both; from the beginning it was both - I can ever see us going back to 
> simply offline but online only would be hell...
> 
> 
> Sent from Yahoo Mail for iPhone
> 
> On Tuesday, April 14, 2020, 8:47 pm, Johannes Birringer 
>  wrote:
> 
> dear all, dear Alan
> I imagine all these circumstances we hear about are all different yes. You 
> were "inside" for 13 days? Why?  Police keeping you from going outside, 
> waiting with fine? as my Romanian friends tell me, 500 Euro per infraction? I 
> can hardly believe. thankfully, we don't seem to have enough police here.
> Again, I can speak from here, a small village, countryside, forests, valley, 
> river. My balcony reformed as painting studio, lots of repair work still to 
> be done (fallen trees after storms, broken branches strewn across); and 
> studying spring, sound of returned bumble bees, what is blooming, what is 
> already dead, what is in-between.
> 
> here's a fictionalized conversation i just had with a friend whom I will call 
> A.
> 
> A.  Are you good at handling eccentricities?
> J.  I'd hope so. The more real the better, those eccentrics.
> A.  Where did you jog today?
> J.  Chapel hill, forest, then a clearing. I met a black horse, surprisingly, 
> and talked to him. Very interesting elegant animal, it made beautiful sounds.
> A.  What did he say to you?
> J.  I did not speak the language, I filmed him, then the owner showed up to 
> feed the two horses on the pasture. He permitted the photographs and we had a 
> good chat, his name is Kurt, he knows my brothers. He's an attorney with 2 
> horses.
> A.  An attorney with 2 horses does sound different and yes..lovely.
> J.  The sounds the black horse made were a kind of breathing out loudly 
> through the nose. i do not know the english word
> A. hmm
> J.  Neighing?
> A. Neighing would be the loud shrill shivering sound they make no?
> J.  How interesting, no, the one he made was low, like after an orgasm, from 
> the lower abdomen.
> A. But I've heard these short heavy breathing sounds they make..I know what 
> you mean...
> 
> this is what I meant
> 
> regards
> Johannes
> 
> 
> From: NetBehaviour  on behalf of 
> Alan Sondheim via NetBehaviour 
> Sent: 14 April 2020 20:17
> To: NetBehaviour for networked distributed creativity
> Cc: Alan Sondheim
> Subject: Re: [NetBehaviour] How is everyone?
> 
> I love that you write "nothing of importance happens online" and "everything 
> is very real" and here we're inside now for 13 full days, tomorrow we can go 
> out, but where? avoiding people, heading towards some construction a couple 
> of blocks away maybe. There's something amazing about the flatness of it all, 
> and that's helped the music, do listen if you can to the few I put up 
> yesterday, tomorrow a piece with two shakuhachi playing maybe three tones 
> mainly, could go on forever, we get to look down our street for maybe half a 
> kilometer in each direction from the 4th floor window, we're as close to 
> non-existence as possible...
> 
> Best, Alan
> 
> On Tue, Apr 14, 2020 at 3:08 PM Johannes Birringer 
> mailto:johannes.birrin...@brunel.ac.uk>> 
> wrote:
> dear all
> i am trying to read but cannot quite concentrate, and thus give up. I thank 
> those  of you send some great music (I loved Alan Sondheim's qifteli dirge , 
> and perhaps we can also sometimes share some images, paintings? Thanks also 
> for some of the videos. I think I sent you the link to my last Moon 
> dance/film, but it was too long, Danielle Imara suggested.
> 
> Having started to read Daniel's longer post, I am relieved to report it is 
> not so for me, at all:
> 
> [He writes]>>pandemic.where we are faced to cope with just being online, 
> where everything 

Re: [NetBehaviour] How is everyone?

[Michael Szpakowski]

It’s both; from the beginning it was both - I can ever see us going back to 
simply offline but online only would be hell...


Sent from Yahoo Mail for iPhone


On Tuesday, April 14, 2020, 8:47 pm, Johannes Birringer 
 wrote:

dear all, dear Alan
I imagine all these circumstances we hear about are all different yes. You were 
"inside" for 13 days? Why?  Police keeping you from going outside, waiting with 
fine? as my Romanian friends tell me, 500 Euro per infraction? I can hardly 
believe. thankfully, we don't seem to have enough police here.
Again, I can speak from here, a small village, countryside, forests, valley, 
river. My balcony reformed as painting studio, lots of repair work still to be 
done (fallen trees after storms, broken branches strewn across); and studying 
spring, sound of returned bumble bees, what is blooming, what is already dead, 
what is in-between.

here's a fictionalized conversation i just had with a friend whom I will call A.

A.  Are you good at handling eccentricities?
J.  I'd hope so. The more real the better, those eccentrics.
A.  Where did you jog today?
J.  Chapel hill, forest, then a clearing. I met a black horse, surprisingly, 
and talked to him. Very interesting elegant animal, it made beautiful sounds.
A.  What did he say to you?
J.  I did not speak the language, I filmed him, then the owner showed up to 
feed the two horses on the pasture. He permitted the photographs and we had a 
good chat, his name is Kurt, he knows my brothers. He's an attorney with 2 
horses.
A.  An attorney with 2 horses does sound different and yes..lovely.
J.  The sounds the black horse made were a kind of breathing out loudly through 
the nose. i do not know the english word
A. hmm
J.  Neighing?
A. Neighing would be the loud shrill shivering sound they make no?
J.  How interesting, no, the one he made was low, like after an orgasm, from 
the lower abdomen.
A. But I've heard these short heavy breathing sounds they make..I know what you 
mean...

this is what I meant

regards
Johannes


From: NetBehaviour  on behalf of 
Alan Sondheim via NetBehaviour 
Sent: 14 April 2020 20:17
To: NetBehaviour for networked distributed creativity
Cc: Alan Sondheim
Subject: Re: [NetBehaviour] How is everyone?

I love that you write "nothing of importance happens online" and "everything is 
very real" and here we're inside now for 13 full days, tomorrow we can go out, 
but where? avoiding people, heading towards some construction a couple of 
blocks away maybe. There's something amazing about the flatness of it all, and 
that's helped the music, do listen if you can to the few I put up yesterday, 
tomorrow a piece with two shakuhachi playing maybe three tones mainly, could go 
on forever, we get to look down our street for maybe half a kilometer in each 
direction from the 4th floor window, we're as close to non-existence as 
possible...

Best, Alan

On Tue, Apr 14, 2020 at 3:08 PM Johannes Birringer 
mailto:johannes.birrin...@brunel.ac.uk>> wrote:
dear all
i am trying to read but cannot quite concentrate, and thus give up. I thank 
those  of you send some great music (I loved Alan Sondheim's qifteli dirge , 
and perhaps we can also sometimes share some images, paintings? Thanks also for 
some of the videos. I think I sent you the link to my last Moon dance/film, but 
it was too long, Danielle Imara suggested.

Having started to read Daniel's longer post, I am relieved to report it is not 
so for me, at all:

[He writes]>>pandemic.where we are faced to cope with just being online, 
where everything happens online>>

in fact the opposite is the case. everything is clearly observed, close, and 
far, in the countryside where i am (having left Houston and London, and crossed 
over the channel and the various new-old EU borders, back to the little 
Saarland), everything is very real, nothing of importance happens online.

with regards
Johannes Birringer
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Re: [NetBehaviour] How is everyone?

[Johannes Birringer]

dear all, dear Alan
I imagine all these circumstances we hear about are all different yes. You were 
"inside" for 13 days? Why?  Police keeping you from going outside, waiting with 
fine? as my Romanian friends tell me, 500 Euro per infraction? I can hardly 
believe. thankfully, we don't seem to have enough police here.
Again, I can speak from here, a small village, countryside, forests, valley, 
river. My balcony reformed as painting studio, lots of repair work still to be 
done (fallen trees after storms, broken branches strewn across); and studying 
spring, sound of returned bumble bees, what is blooming, what is already dead, 
what is in-between.

here's a fictionalized conversation i just had with a friend whom I will call A.

A.  Are you good at handling eccentricities?
J.   I'd hope so. The more real the better, those eccentrics.
A.  Where did you jog today?
J.   Chapel hill, forest, then a clearing. I met a black horse, surprisingly, 
and talked to him. Very interesting elegant animal, it made beautiful sounds.
A.  What did he say to you?
J.   I did not speak the language, I filmed him, then the owner showed up to 
feed the two horses on the pasture. He permitted the photographs and we had a 
good chat, his name is Kurt, he knows my brothers. He's an attorney with 2 
horses.
A.  An attorney with 2 horses does sound different and yes..lovely.
J.  The sounds the black horse made were a kind of breathing out loudly through 
the nose. i do not know the english word
A. hmm
J.  Neighing?
A. Neighing would be the loud shrill shivering sound they make no?
J.  How interesting, no, the one he made was low, like after an orgasm, from 
the lower abdomen.
A. But I've heard these short heavy breathing sounds they make..I know what you 
mean...

this is what I meant

regards
Johannes


From: NetBehaviour  on behalf of 
Alan Sondheim via NetBehaviour 
Sent: 14 April 2020 20:17
To: NetBehaviour for networked distributed creativity
Cc: Alan Sondheim
Subject: Re: [NetBehaviour] How is everyone?

I love that you write "nothing of importance happens online" and "everything is 
very real" and here we're inside now for 13 full days, tomorrow we can go out, 
but where? avoiding people, heading towards some construction a couple of 
blocks away maybe. There's something amazing about the flatness of it all, and 
that's helped the music, do listen if you can to the few I put up yesterday, 
tomorrow a piece with two shakuhachi playing maybe three tones mainly, could go 
on forever, we get to look down our street for maybe half a kilometer in each 
direction from the 4th floor window, we're as close to non-existence as 
possible...

Best, Alan

On Tue, Apr 14, 2020 at 3:08 PM Johannes Birringer 
mailto:johannes.birrin...@brunel.ac.uk>> wrote:
dear all
i am trying to read but cannot quite concentrate, and thus give up. I thank 
those  of you send some great music (I loved Alan Sondheim's qifteli dirge , 
and perhaps we can also sometimes share some images, paintings? Thanks also for 
some of the videos. I think I sent you the link to my last Moon dance/film, but 
it was too long, Danielle Imara suggested.

Having started to read Daniel's longer post, I am relieved to report it is not 
so for me, at all:

[He writes]>>pandemic.where we are faced to cope with just being online, 
where everything happens online>>

in fact the opposite is the case. everything is clearly observed, close, and 
far, in the countryside where i am (having left Houston and London, and crossed 
over the channel and the various new-old EU borders, back to the little 
Saarland), everything is very real, nothing of importance happens online.

with regards
Johannes Birringer
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Re: [NetBehaviour] How is everyone?

[Alan Sondheim via NetBehaviour]

I love that you write "nothing of importance happens online" and
"everything is very real" and here we're inside now for 13 full days,
tomorrow we can go out, but where? avoiding people, heading towards some
construction a couple of blocks away maybe. There's something amazing about
the flatness of it all, and that's helped the music, do listen if you can
to the few I put up yesterday, tomorrow a piece with two shakuhachi playing
maybe three tones mainly, could go on forever, we get to look down our
street for maybe half a kilometer in each direction from the 4th floor
window, we're as close to non-existence as possible...

Best, Alan

On Tue, Apr 14, 2020 at 3:08 PM Johannes Birringer <
johannes.birrin...@brunel.ac.uk> wrote:

> dear all
> i am trying to read but cannot quite concentrate, and thus give up. I
> thank those  of you send some great music (I loved Alan Sondheim's qifteli
> dirge , and perhaps we can also sometimes share some images, paintings?
> Thanks also for some of the videos. I think I sent you the link to my last
> Moon dance/film, but it was too long, Danielle Imara suggested.
>
> Having started to read Daniel's longer post, I am relieved to report it is
> not so for me, at all:
>
> [He writes]>>pandemic.where we are faced to cope with just being
> online, where everything happens online>>
>
> in fact the opposite is the case. everything is clearly observed, close,
> and far, in the countryside where i am (having left Houston and London, and
> crossed over the channel and the various new-old EU borders, back to the
> little Saarland), everything is very real, nothing of importance happens
> online.
>
> with regards
> Johannes Birringer
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[Johannes Birringer]

dear all
i am trying to read but cannot quite concentrate, and thus give up. I thank 
those  of you send some great music (I loved Alan Sondheim's qifteli dirge , 
and perhaps we can also sometimes share some images, paintings? Thanks also for 
some of the videos. I think I sent you the link to my last Moon dance/film, but 
it was too long, Danielle Imara suggested. 

Having started to read Daniel's longer post, I am relieved to report it is not 
so for me, at all: 

[He writes]>>pandemic.where we are faced to cope with just being online, 
where everything happens online>>

in fact the opposite is the case. everything is clearly observed, close, and 
far, in the countryside where i am (having left Houston and London, and crossed 
over the channel and the various new-old EU borders, back to the little 
Saarland), everything is very real, nothing of importance happens online.

with regards
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[Graziano Milano via NetBehaviour]

Hi Marc and Ruth,

Just realised that I missed your podcast invitation about *“News From Where
We Are”*

At Telegraph Hill, South East London, we set up a Covid-19 Aid group to
ensure that every household in our community has access to the food they
need during the coronavirus outbreak. Our aim has been to provide boxes of
nourishing food to those hit hardest by this crisis.

We’ve been able to do so thanks to hundreds of local volunteers and £15k+
donations via Just Giving:
https://www.justgiving.com/campaign/feedthehill?fbclid=IwAR0mmzAr0xqp7OLjyn4ylT2_6raqaNT3FT0A1B8xx0h0c_fLiMM0er-r544

Last week the Independent newspaper published an article where our
Telegraph Hill group was mentioned through an interview as an example of
more than 4,000 UK “mutual Aid” group:
https://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/home-news/coronavirus-help-the-hungry-campaign-food-covid-19-mutual-aid-uk-a9453216.html

A Goldsmiths University lecturer, Tom Trevatt, has made a short film of our
project to promote the good work being done by mutual aid groups in UK:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YSQEsxAcwUM.

Graziano

On Tue, 14 Apr 2020 at 19:04, Paul Hertz via NetBehaviour <
netbehaviour@lists.netbehaviour.org> wrote:

> Hello everyone,
>
> My wife and I have now spent over a month in social isolation in our house
> in Chicago. We're fortunate to have a building with an apartment upstairs
> and a storefront studio and small apartment downstairs. I work on new work
> or print old work and archive it in the back apartment. We have a forest
> preserve and tree-lined streets to walk in, and the grocery store offers
> curbside pickup. My wife retired from nursing a few years ago, and I have
> retired from teaching. In some ways we are quite cozy and secure, though we
> miss seeing our granddaughters, who used to spend after school afternoons
> with us. Now I read to them over video chat.
>
> Chicago is a hotspot for Covid-19 and yet we have been somewhat more
> fortunate than other cities in the U.S., perhaps because the governor of
> Illinois and the mayor of Chicago took prompt action. The mayor has become
> a meme—images of her looking stern show up on Instagram
> , superimposed
> on public parks, restaurants, and porches. Inveterate news junkies, we are
> daily aware of how desperate the situation is for some people. I am happy
> to report that the city is making emergency funds available to undocumented
> immigrants and the homeless, far more than the federal government has been
> willing to do. The plight of prisoners in the county jail and stat prisons
> however is very concerning, in this nation where incarceration is nearly as
> popular as guns.
>
> I have been slow to engage with all the flurry of online art, though I did
> attend parts of the Ann Arbor Film Festival, some of the Quarantine
> Concerts  of the local
> experimental music venues, and the Goodman Theater's production of School
> Girls; or, the African Mean Girls Play
> . Domenico Dom Barra
> kindly asked my participation for his White Page Gallery
> , a project he has been
> nurturing for some time.
>
> I said some time ago to a friend online that I was more concerned with the
> slow accumulation of sorrow than with the immediate pangs of social
> distancing. Anticipated grief erupts sometimes in unguarded moments when
> emotion overwhelms me and just as quickly subsides, swift and ingenuous as
> a child. I wonder if Boccaccio's young men and women celebrated their
> freedom at the same time they held grief at bay. Did they confront a mix of
> privilege and guilt, or were they just grateful for a respited from the
> dire motion of the world around them, however brief? In the meantime, they
> told stories. And so we do. And just as surely, the world is going to
> return to us and we to it.
>
> Here in the U.S, we also confront a government led by an incompetent, who
> boasted once that he could commit murder and the crowd would still love
> him. People are dying because of his ignorance and narcissism. It remains
> to be seen whether he and the party that supports him will be held to
> account. This much is clear: a system of government that does not seek the
> trust of all of its citizens, but plays at power games and propaganda to
> divide them, is ill-prepared for crises on the order that humanity now
> faces. The hierarchy of slow-moving disasters we locate under the rubric of
> "climate change" are going to be much more massive than this pandemic. We
> are all ill-prepared, but countries mired in convenient mythologies that
> conceal brutal histories or devoted to authoritarian visions of social
> order are especially vulnerable to reality. One handles reality by getting
> real. Getting real as a society seems to me at least to mean not just
> confronting the world crisis 

Re: [NetBehaviour] How is everyone?

[Paul Hertz via NetBehaviour]

Hello everyone,

My wife and I have now spent over a month in social isolation in our house
in Chicago. We're fortunate to have a building with an apartment upstairs
and a storefront studio and small apartment downstairs. I work on new work
or print old work and archive it in the back apartment. We have a forest
preserve and tree-lined streets to walk in, and the grocery store offers
curbside pickup. My wife retired from nursing a few years ago, and I have
retired from teaching. In some ways we are quite cozy and secure, though we
miss seeing our granddaughters, who used to spend after school afternoons
with us. Now I read to them over video chat.

Chicago is a hotspot for Covid-19 and yet we have been somewhat more
fortunate than other cities in the U.S., perhaps because the governor of
Illinois and the mayor of Chicago took prompt action. The mayor has become
a meme—images of her looking stern show up on Instagram
, superimposed on
public parks, restaurants, and porches. Inveterate news junkies, we are
daily aware of how desperate the situation is for some people. I am happy
to report that the city is making emergency funds available to undocumented
immigrants and the homeless, far more than the federal government has been
willing to do. The plight of prisoners in the county jail and stat prisons
however is very concerning, in this nation where incarceration is nearly as
popular as guns.

I have been slow to engage with all the flurry of online art, though I did
attend parts of the Ann Arbor Film Festival, some of the Quarantine Concerts
 of the local experimental music
venues, and the Goodman Theater's production of School Girls; or, the
African Mean Girls Play .
Domenico Dom Barra kindly asked my participation for his White Page Gallery
, a project he has been nurturing
for some time.

I said some time ago to a friend online that I was more concerned with the
slow accumulation of sorrow than with the immediate pangs of social
distancing. Anticipated grief erupts sometimes in unguarded moments when
emotion overwhelms me and just as quickly subsides, swift and ingenuous as
a child. I wonder if Boccaccio's young men and women celebrated their
freedom at the same time they held grief at bay. Did they confront a mix of
privilege and guilt, or were they just grateful for a respited from the
dire motion of the world around them, however brief? In the meantime, they
told stories. And so we do. And just as surely, the world is going to
return to us and we to it.

Here in the U.S, we also confront a government led by an incompetent, who
boasted once that he could commit murder and the crowd would still love
him. People are dying because of his ignorance and narcissism. It remains
to be seen whether he and the party that supports him will be held to
account. This much is clear: a system of government that does not seek the
trust of all of its citizens, but plays at power games and propaganda to
divide them, is ill-prepared for crises on the order that humanity now
faces. The hierarchy of slow-moving disasters we locate under the rubric of
"climate change" are going to be much more massive than this pandemic. We
are all ill-prepared, but countries mired in convenient mythologies that
conceal brutal histories or devoted to authoritarian visions of social
order are especially vulnerable to reality. One handles reality by getting
real. Getting real as a society seems to me at least to mean not just
confronting the world crisis our very success as a species has brought
about, but engaging people in a new vision of democracy.

And on we go, to lunch. A locus of universal agreement that we can still
arrange to suit our needs, if we be so fortunate.

ciao,

-- Paul


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[Daniel Pinheiro via NetBehaviour]

  Dear all,

I hope this email finds you all well and it's nice to read how this
situation is taking shape in different parts of the world through all the
different experiences, practices and individual affections.
I'm very fond of this mailing list as there are always many interesting
resources, activities, events, writings which are food for thought for my
own practice. Even if mostly silent in the threads of emails they do add up
a lot in content and expand my own context. And in these uncertain times
we're going through it is specially good to have access to all sorts of
explorations and expressions which are happening in parallel to the
evolution of this global circumstance.

So in this sense I would like to share in this thread a writing on and
about the times we're living as a means of self expression of "how am I"
right now, in Porto, Portugal where things are, fortunately, happening in a
smooth way but from here it's always important to try and look out to the
rest of the world.

I'll copy the text below which is also to be found here
.

Best wishes to all! :)

Daniel


When Online Goes Viral.

The possibility offered by the Internet from very early on finds its
purpose while amid a global pandemic. It took a virus to trigger the shift,
to activate the transposition from IRL to the digital sphere as if we were
not already inhabiting it before. The extension of our lives became life
itself, replicating into an infinity of livestreams, online view rooms,
remote learning and all sorts of video conferencing sessions in an attempt
that life doesn’t stop its rapid and overwhelming velocity printed
increasingly over the past few decades. It is important to notice that it
all happens amid the global pandemic caused by COVID-19 in the first part
of the year 2020. Social distancing opened a *hole-in-space*1 in and from
every corner of the planet to the other. We’re probably still in the
beginning of the dilated process of dealing with the cause that imposed
this new paradigm, and in this beginning it all still seems very possible.
The same way we all were having trouble coping with the fast pace of life
itself, constantly switching between online and offline now the time has
come where we are faced to cope with just being online, where everything
happens online, where everything is elevated to the digital, raising
questions of access and privilege. *Digitization is not, as we testify in
the present moment, an equalizer of opportunities until access is a common
and social utility.2*

This invisible threat abruptly invaded our ways of living and forced every
stream of real life to be interrupted almost everyone was left where they
were; even the ones whose lives had to continue so that some order was
present within the chaos were asked to pause their own lives and live one
that was in favor of all those isolated and the infected. It is in this new
reality, uncertain in duration, that we continue to wake up to a world
where distance and time are measurable again. Measures that we’re still
questioning and trying arduously to dismiss and pretend as if they are not
real by insisting on a productivity paradigm overruling the human practice
of actually being together and functioning as an organic system which is
made of every human involved in it.

For many years already into sedentarism, we were living (also for many
years) through and with the digital with the sense of having achieved a
nomadic lifestyle where despite of our physical location(s) we could
seamlessly coexist in multiple and ubiquitous versions of ourselves being
the only species able to do so. Feeding and fighting on gentrification,
western society was the epitome of how much we had accomplished *the
transformational wish of social change afforded by technology2* thus
placing the generations living twenty years into the new millennium within
the ultimate representation of success in terms of evolution. “The Next
Pandemic” (2019)3 portrays exactly what we are going through precisely by
the reasons of our success being the cause of a great failure of the system
as it was. And yet we continue to demand high end and fast adaptation to
something that we expect to be over soon so that we can go back to some
sort of ‘normality’. *Technology was already and it is now the medium
through which we can address the crisis4* we are going through, and it
shouldn’t become a transposition of what we were already going through.

*As webcams sell out5* and the urge to be present online as a means not to
be forgotten, the *lifestream* as it happens now in complete digital form
leads us into a disembodied interaction and highlights the networks we
belong to. Now more than ever we might be left alone with the ones who
share the same tastes, thoughts and provocations. *We’re all sitting in a
room which is different from everyone else’s room and what we might be left
to hear will be a smoothed version of our own 

[NetBehaviour] How is everyone?

[Ruth Catlow via NetBehaviour]

Dear All,

It is so good to hear from you all - you ex-lurkers and regulars far and
wide.
Your accounts are stimulating, inspiring and (at least sometimes)
heartening.
Please don't stop.

Warmly
Ruth



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[T via NetBehaviour]

hi johanes

the fight in brazil is now for health AND information

Support public health workers and videomakers in the front line of
Covid-19 in Brazil. 

https://apoie.bombozila.com/projetos/nafiladosus

Trailer https://vimeo.com/401500909


Em 2020-03-27 19:11, Johannes Birringer escreveu:
> thanks all, for sharing thought and videos/images (Michael's garden,
> shardcore's song, Alan's birds), I almost think
> in times like these perhaps the less said the better?  but then I
> would have missed your comments on what you're working
> on or how communities in Brazil resist their governments, or how you
> circle your private garden. I really liked Danielle's post - thank
> you!
> 
>>>. Have formed an online communication with a small circle of old friends 
>>>most of whom live alone. This is leading to immediate creative use of ZOOM, 
>>>collaborative projects and sharing in new ways. This has become important. 
>>>Am concerned that people are too screen based though and not taking 
>>>advantage of this opportunity to experience themselves in quiet. No planes 
>>>passing.>>
> 
> this moved me. 
> 
> I have nothing much to add, except wanting to share film I made of our
> last dance, "mourning for a dead moon,"  i realized it ought to be
> short to be palatable,
> & one ought to see the invisible cryptogamicCoat, in the first scene,
> but neither problem I was able to solve.
> 
> https://youtu.be/I66-b21y8oE
> 
> stay safe, warm regards
> Johannes Birringer
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[Johannes Birringer]

thanks all, for sharing thought and videos/images (Michael's garden, 
shardcore's song, Alan's birds), I almost think
in times like these perhaps the less said the better?  but then I would have 
missed your comments on what you're working
on or how communities in Brazil resist their governments, or how you circle 
your private garden. I really liked Danielle's post - thank you!

>>. Have formed an online communication with a small circle of old friends 
>>most of whom live alone. This is leading to immediate creative use of ZOOM, 
>>collaborative projects and sharing in new ways. This has become important. Am 
>>concerned that people are too screen based though and not taking advantage of 
>>this opportunity to experience themselves in quiet. No planes passing.>>

this moved me. 

I have nothing much to add, except wanting to share film I made of our last 
dance, "mourning for a dead moon,"  i realized it ought to be short to be 
palatable,
& one ought to see the invisible cryptogamicCoat, in the first scene, but 
neither problem I was able to solve.

https://youtu.be/I66-b21y8oE

stay safe, warm regards
Johannes Birringer
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[Danielle Imara via NetBehaviour]

Here in London
UK was late in its lockdown. People finally, for the most part paying
attention. Many getting angry with those that aren't taking care.
I called a friend on the phone in NY and she couldn't breathe. She went to
hospital and was told they couldn't treat her unless she needed immediate
intubation. They said they think everyone in NY has the virus or is
carrying it.
Have formed an online communication with a small circle of old friends most
of whom live alone. This is leading to immediate creative use of ZOOM,
collaborative projects and sharing in new ways. This has become important.
Am concerned that people are too screen based though and not taking
advantage of this opportunity to experience themselves in quiet.
No planes passing.
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[Michael Szpakowski]

Cheers Max!! 

Sent from Yahoo Mail for iPhone


On Thursday, March 26, 2020, 4:24 pm, Max Herman  
wrote:

#yiv2507484854 P {margin-top:0;margin-bottom:0;}
Beautiful garden and glorious video Michael!  
It captures something that lately I have been fearing might have been lost for 
good and all.  A great testament!   

From: NetBehaviour  on behalf of 
Michael Szpakowski 
Sent: Thursday, March 26, 2020 10:41 AM
To: NetBehaviour for networked distributed creativity 

Subject: Re: [NetBehaviour] How is everyone? I've been running around my garden 
rather than by the river or whatever in anticipation of a total lockdown.I 
wanted to see if it was practical because an hour of running a day is pretty 
vital to my mental well being.Turns out it's quite good fun.I restarted my 
'today's run' series - GPS track and accompanying text...The two garden ones 
are here:
https://www.flickr.com/photos/szpako/49695569036/
https://www.flickr.com/photos/szpako/49699355017/

( and the whole series is here: 
https://www.flickr.com/photos/szpako/albums/72157676652502324-the texts only 
start about six in, when the idea hit me...)

I also made a short movie of a couple of circuits of my garden on rather a 
lovely spring day. The music is a piano improvisation recorded in a room with 
two devices logged into the same Zoom meeting
 - rather nice feedback thereby generated :)

https://www.flickr.com/photos/szpako/49700916441/
with best wishes to everyone, keep yourselves safe...Michael








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[Edward Picot via NetBehaviour]

Shardcore - that video is genius!

And the one from Michael - really blissful and contemplative, yet for me 
it's got just a little uneasy trace of claustrophobia/entrapment to it 
as well...


Edward


On 26/03/2020 16:57, shardcore wrote:

long time lurker, (possibly) first time caller.

it’s lovely to see/hear all these different perspectives, rather than 
the limited hyper-local or national/global level which comes with 
lockdown...


i too have found inspiration from my immediate environment and made a 
song/video with things i found in my house (with some #aiart 
augmentation from my GPU :) )


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gcLQhR6h_Ag


On 26 Mar 2020, at 15:41, Michael Szpakowski > wrote:


I've been running around my garden rather than by the river or 
whatever in anticipation of a total lockdown.
I wanted to see if it was practical because an hour of running a day 
is pretty vital to my mental well being.

Turns out it's quite good fun.
I restarted my 'today's run' series - GPS track and accompanying text...
The two garden ones are here:

https://www.flickr.com/photos/szpako/49695569036/

https://www.flickr.com/photos/szpako/49699355017/


( and the whole series is here: 
https://www.flickr.com/photos/szpako/albums/72157676652502324

-the texts only start about six in, when the idea hit me...)


I also made a short movie of a couple of circuits of my garden on 
rather a lovely spring day. The music is a piano improvisation 
recorded in a room with two devices logged into the same Zoom meeting

 - rather nice feedback thereby generated :)

https://www.flickr.com/photos/szpako/49700916441/

with best wishes to everyone, keep yourselves safe...
Michael





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[shardcore]

long time lurker, (possibly) first time caller.

it’s lovely to see/hear all these different perspectives, rather than the 
limited hyper-local or national/global level which comes with lockdown...

i too have found inspiration from my immediate environment and made a 
song/video with things i found in my house (with some #aiart augmentation from 
my GPU :) )

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gcLQhR6h_Ag


> On 26 Mar 2020, at 15:41, Michael Szpakowski  
> wrote:
> 
> I've been running around my garden rather than by the river or whatever in 
> anticipation of a total lockdown.
> I wanted to see if it was practical because an hour of running a day is 
> pretty vital to my mental well being.
> Turns out it's quite good fun.
> I restarted my 'today's run' series - GPS track and accompanying text...
> The two garden ones are here:
> 
> https://www.flickr.com/photos/szpako/49695569036/ 
> 
> 
> https://www.flickr.com/photos/szpako/49699355017/ 
> 
> 
> 
> ( and the whole series is here: 
> https://www.flickr.com/photos/szpako/albums/72157676652502324 
> 
> -the texts only start about six in, when the idea hit me...)
> 
> 
> I also made a short movie of a couple of circuits of my garden on rather a 
> lovely spring day. The music is a piano improvisation recorded in a room with 
> two devices logged into the same Zoom meeting
>  - rather nice feedback thereby generated :)
> 
> https://www.flickr.com/photos/szpako/49700916441/ 
> 
> 
> with best wishes to everyone, keep yourselves safe...
> Michael
> 
> 
> 
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[Max Herman via NetBehaviour]

Beautiful garden and glorious video Michael!

It captures something that lately I have been fearing might have been lost for 
good and all.  A great testament!  



From: NetBehaviour  on behalf of 
Michael Szpakowski 
Sent: Thursday, March 26, 2020 10:41 AM
To: NetBehaviour for networked distributed creativity 

Subject: Re: [NetBehaviour] How is everyone?

I've been running around my garden rather than by the river or whatever in 
anticipation of a total lockdown.
I wanted to see if it was practical because an hour of running a day is pretty 
vital to my mental well being.
Turns out it's quite good fun.
I restarted my 'today's run' series - GPS track and accompanying text...
The two garden ones are here:

https://www.flickr.com/photos/szpako/49695569036/

https://www.flickr.com/photos/szpako/49699355017/


( and the whole series is here: 
https://www.flickr.com/photos/szpako/albums/72157676652502324
-the texts only start about six in, when the idea hit me...)


I also made a short movie of a couple of circuits of my garden on rather a 
lovely spring day. The music is a piano improvisation recorded in a room with 
two devices logged into the same Zoom meeting
 - rather nice feedback thereby generated :)

https://www.flickr.com/photos/szpako/49700916441/

with best wishes to everyone, keep yourselves safe...
Michael





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[Patrick Lichty]

Hi, sorry to have been lurking so much. Marc and Rob have seen that I check in 
a little on Facebook.

Here in Abu Dhabi, one feels really disconnected. Mainly because most people 
are here largely for professional reasons, there isn;t a lot of socialization 
and after five years, that gets old, even when you're married. Negin and I 
spend time, but she's also connected back to her native Iran a lot, and I'm 
working remotely, and with social distancing, the disconnection seems greater. 
It's nice that I have friends all over West Asia who check in a bit.

The UAE is really trying to flatten the curve. We have been in isolation for 
three weeks now, and on occasion I go out for groceries. Everyone is in�masks, 
the malls are closed, restaurants deliver, and grocery stores are open 24/7. 
You walk up to one of those, and a masked subcontinental sterilizes your 
trolley, and when you check out, you have to use a tissue to key in the PIN on 
your debit card. The streets are largely empty. We are in stay home until the 
9th. Negin's family in Iran are OK, but friends in Tehran have gotten the 
virus. Fortunately no one has gotten it bad.��

The worst part of this is staying in the apartment. Even though I'm an 
introvert by nature, I need sunlight and wind; still.�

In my art and writing, one thing that got my attention a bit was tje Art in the 
`ge of Anxiety postinternet show at the Sharjah Art Foundation. Since 
everything is closed down, I'm waiting for the ban to lift to go see it as I 
want to possibly see some old friends liek Bailey, Rafman, Zaya.��

But it also taught me something; actually a lot of things. I had a conversation 
with another of our tribe who has been around a long time and is largely in the 
Contemporary field, and I sounded some questions, and they said I was seeing 
things pretty clearly. In the 90's and early 2000's there was an online-ness to 
our worls, that was encroached on my neoliberaism, academically-incilcated 
artists who saw New Media as a fertile ground, and this, combined with 
hyperprofessionalism of the 2000's ushered in the assimilation of a lot of us 
into the artworld.��

The sharing and collectivism that was the norm at the turn of the millennium, 
was wounded badly. Students in art schools were not thinking about what it was 
to be an artist in the social sense, but the obsession was ieth assistants, 
CVs, art fairs.� Don;t get me wrong; artists need to live. But what I was 
disturbed by was the adoption f the art practice as business model that almost 
invariably sucks the life out of art so many times. Being an extended member of 
the NYC Fluxus family (not by my admission but their kidnapping me :) ) the 
fuction of art for me is a strange thing. I have never believed firmly in art 
as commodity/speculative object, as I think it is just that - speculative, and 
out here, I see how art is instrumentalized.

The irony is that with the�spectre of isolation, economic collapse, all these 
things, I see people going back to the 90's, when there wasn't much money, and 
community was necessary.� Personally, I actually love this.

But back to this conversation I had. My colleague said I was right - New Media 
got a little stale, but the neoliberal contemporary wasnt much better, and the 
best thing you can ever do is find your tribe and stick there.� My biggest 
mistake here in Abu Dhabi/Dubai was to try to blend it with the glitz - I've 
never been shabby or unsociable, but not being true to myself sank a 
couple�good projects.� I've always been pretty solidly upper middle class, and 
a Zegna suit never fit me. Midwestern kid from a solid family, both at home and 
art-wise.

What am I making? a lot of AI, and a lot of machine drawings. Mainly with the 
current trends,, with having machines do 80% of my mark making, Chinese 
painters roughing in my paintings, I'm just investigating where I am and the 
technology is.� A lot of it is on Instagram. Also working on a lot of 
VR/AR/Projection Mapping/video, and a few things for the Wrong.org.

But with the world situation, the isolation and all, there is a hope and 
sadness that permeates me. Someone on Nettime said that this si the first shot 
across the bow of the Antropocene. I believe this, and we better listen.� At a 
seminar last Fall given by local critic Kevin Jones, we mused abotu the nature 
of apocalypse.� I raised my hand, and bluntly said that it's nice that we chatt 
at our openings, drink wine and muse about these things, but if things don;t 
change, we are IN the early stages of the apocalypse, NOW.

This is why the hopeful return to community, and people like Greta Thunberg 
give me hope.� Agency is what can save us, and I hope that in the coming years, 
authoritarianism will be seen for what it is, and we get serious about making 
us a worthy Kardashev 2 species.�
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[Michael Szpakowski]

I've been running around my garden rather than by the river or whatever in 
anticipation of a total lockdown. I wanted to see if it was practical because 
an hour of running a day is pretty vital to my mental well being.Turns out it's 
quite good fun.I restarted my 'today's run' series - GPS track and accompanying 
text...The two garden ones are here:
https://www.flickr.com/photos/szpako/49695569036/
https://www.flickr.com/photos/szpako/49699355017/

( and the whole series is here: 
https://www.flickr.com/photos/szpako/albums/72157676652502324-the texts only 
start about six in, when the idea hit me...)

I also made a short movie of a couple of circuits of my garden on rather a 
lovely spring day. The music is a piano improvisation recorded in a room with 
two devices logged into the same Zoom meeting
 - rather nice feedback thereby generated :)

https://www.flickr.com/photos/szpako/49700916441/
with best wishes to everyone, keep yourselves safe...Michael





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[T via NetBehaviour]

hi

I have moved to liverpool about two months. but things in brazil are
very very bad. the political virus our neodigitalimperialism... two days
ago bolsonaro went to the televison and made a speech he said that
people should come back to work! that the economy cannot break. that is
plain necropotics. yes this is the state we are... 

at the suburbs people just cant stop working there is no food there is
no welfare state... some groups ate organizing "staple basket products"
to the most vulnerable, the village where my family current lives in the
northeast of brazil has closed down and there have resisted a
communitarian mindset, these are the places that are going to suffer
less. but some favelas in rio dont have even water at their homes! the
mayors from the northeastern states are having meetings amongst
themselves saying that they are not going to follow the president that
they cant go against their own population, local organizing has been the
key. indigenous tribes in maranhao are going back to isolation back to
the forests.

the virus even though is just arriving in brazil I am afraid to say will
have devastating effects. even though is the Uk have far more cases in
Brazil, I feel safer here.

take care!!
tati
  

Em 2020-03-26 02:30, isabel brison via NetBehaviour escreveu:
> Hi Ruth and all,
> 
> Not much to report on a personal level, snuggled in suburban Sydney
> with lots of books to read and a job that was already fully remote, so
> life is almost as usual. Australia has only just started to shut down
> in the past week or so; it's still very new. Though rationally I'm not
> worried for myself, I have woken up a couple times in the middle of
> the night, feeling utter panic about not being able to go anywhere, so
> suspect I may still be in the denial phase.
> 
> The worst of it is the news coming in, especially from Europe where
> many of my friends and family live. 
> 
> And from here, where thousands of people have lost their jobs and are
> queuing outside Centrelink offices trying to get support, while
> government web infrastructure is (as usual) handling increased traffic
> very poorly.
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Hi Ruth and all,

Not much to report on a personal level, snuggled in suburban Sydney with
lots of books to read and a job that was already fully remote, so life is
almost as usual. Australia has only just started to shut down in the past
week or so; it's still very new. Though rationally I'm not worried for
myself, I have woken up a couple times in the middle of the night, feeling
utter panic about not being able to go anywhere, so suspect I may still be
in the denial phase.

The worst of it is the news coming in, especially from Europe where many of
my friends and family live.

And from here, where thousands of people have lost their jobs and are
queuing outside Centrelink offices trying to get support, while government
web infrastructure is (as usual) handling increased traffic very poorly.

Take care everyone!


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Re: [NetBehaviour] How is everyone?

[Pall Thayer via NetBehaviour]

Hi all,

Reporting in from Westchester County, NY, the location of the first corona
"hot-spot" in New York state. The response here has been pretty good at the
state level. The state college that I work at switched all classes to
online relatively early and we appear to have avoided any major outbreaks
on campus. As a state university, it was hard for officials to shut down
campus completely as we have students living in our dorms that don't really
have any other place to go. Last Friday, they decided to shut down the
dorms but allowed students to stay if they could prove that they had no
other recourse. So far, we've only heard about 3 confirmed cases among
students, faculty and staff. I tend to get restless when I'm stuck inside.
It's really taking a lot of effort to stay at home. We have plenty of
well-stocked stores in the area so we're not too worried about running out
of anything... except toilet paper. I keep thinking to myself that this is
a perfect opportunity to work on some projects I have going but I'm finding
it hard to get motivated. I find myself spending most of my time refreshing
the news to see how badly the US leader fucked up this hour.

Stay safe and healthy, everyone.

Pall Thayer

On Sun, Mar 22, 2020 at 11:17 AM Ruth Catlow via NetBehaviour <
netbehaviour@lists.netbehaviour.org> wrote:

> Hello all,
>
> This last couple of weeks have been full of chaos and uncertainty for us
> in the UK - and much longer for others.
>
> The sudden shut down is clearly distributing immediate and extreme
> hardship very unevenly.
>
> I personally found the indefinite postponement of Furtherfield's 2020
> 'Love Machines' programme last Monday (in the week we had planned to
> announce everything) incredibly hard to do, and to handle. I know we will
> adapt and find another way to make things work, but that doesn't stop it
> being incredibly disappointing, frustrating and disorientating.
>
> I'm now starting to adjust but I wanted to share this personal
> (non-life-threatening) experience with you because I would like to hear
> more from everyone about how the Corona virus is effecting them, so we can
> build a better picture, beyond the numbers and the public announcements, to
> understand how things are changing. And most of all it would just be good
> to know how everyone is doing (from regular contributors to all lurkers).
>
> Warmly
> Ruth
>
>
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Re: [NetBehaviour] How is everyone?

[Kat Braybrooke via NetBehaviour]

Hello Max, Aileen, Salvatore, Ruth, all,

I also want to thank Ruth for getting this thread started, and each of you
for sharing a bit of yourselves in it. It's been therapeutic and inspiring
to listen, and now to speak! Conversations like these matter, now more than
ever, in ways that really do go beyond words.

Like many other lifelong migrants and roamers of this earth, I'm based in a
central London under lockdown. I moved back here after some time away with
a surplus of barely-contained excitement a few months ago, overjoyed to be
in the thick of it all again, awash in humanity in its myriad diversities,
with all the adventures, community gatherings, raves, rabble-rousings and
other assorted encounters that would come with that. So it's been
especially difficult to witness so many of the wonderful cocoons of human
and other-than-human interaction that keep this city strange get shut down,
one by one - not to mention all the arts interventions and
community-buildings we had all been planning around and with them. I'm not
gonna lie - the process of absorbing this has been winding, slow, and
sometimes dark.

Embedded within this journey, however, have been so many glimmers of hope
in between all the zoom dance parties, covid-19 mutual aid groups and
crowdsourced community toolkits - and like many of you, I'm clutching onto
these, gathering them with extra care for the dark moments that are
inevitably ahead, to remind me of just how fluid and dynamic our world
really is -- and how its gradual re-assemblage post-catastrophe may enable,
as Stuart Hall, Doreen Massey and Michael Ruskin put it so prophetically in
2015 with the Killburn Manifesto [1], the emergence of 'cracks' in
long-dominant narratives, where the old atomised logics and ways-of-being
can be replaced gently-but-firmly with new ones that are rooted in much
deeper understandings of care, ecological interdependence and pluralism...

On that note, a very small contribution to this patchwork we're all
building - a toolkit for creatives who have to quickly migrate their work
online fast, and need some support in that process (feat. this discussion
list, amongst many other helpful spaces!). If anyone feels like mucking in,
please get in touch as I'd love to include you as a co-curator. We're
working on it here: <http://bit.ly/CovidCreativesToolkit>.

In solidarity, and keep em coming...

Kat

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On Wed, 25 Mar 2020 at 14:59, Max Herman via NetBehaviour <
netbehaviour@lists.netbehaviour.org> wrote:

>
> Hi Salvatore,
>
> I hope all is as well as can be with you and yours, and am glad to hear
> that your own health situation is OK.
>
> Your idea for a collaboration or collective product relating to "La Cura"
> and COVID-19 sounds very interesting.  I would definitely be interested,
> perhaps from a context of Italo Calvino's *Six Memos for the Next
> Millennium* and the below article on Hippocratic medicine and Greek
> tragedy.
>
> Another concept I have been developing is the idea of "Mindfulness Based
> Aesthetic Resilience" or MBAR as a meditation-oriented health intervention
> that emphasizes the aesthetic aspects of well-being and adaptation.
>
> I don't speak or read Italian but translation questions would also be
> interesting as discussion points perhaps.
>
> All very best wishes and regards,
>
> Max
>
> Jacques Jouanna, “Hippocratic Medicine and Greek Tragedy,” 2012,
> https://brill.com/view/book/9789004232549/B9789004232549-s005.xml
>
> --
> *From:* NetBehaviour  on
> behalf of xDxD.vs.xDxD via NetBehaviour <
> netbehaviour@lists.netbehaviour.org>
> *Sent:* Tuesday, March 24, 2020 10:55 PM
> *To:* NetBehaviour for networked distributed creativity <
> netbehaviour@lists.netbehaviour.org>
> *Cc:* xDxD.vs.xDxD 
> *Subject:* Re: [NetBehaviour] How is everyone?
>
> Hi everyone!
> (and thanks to Ruth and Marc for calling all of us up, so that we can know
> how is everybody)
>
> about me and Oriana: we're in Italy, stuck amidst the tragedy of the
> infections and deaths and of the political nonsense of these difficult times
>
> with an important addition: my cancer decided to came back
>
> now
>
> I'm fine, don't worry: I have had another surgery that went well, and I'm
> fully recovering
>
> but this synchronicity has been really important
>
> for who remembers, back in 2012, when I had my first cancer, i used
> medical data to propose a global repositioning of disease in society:
>
> a cure can happen only in the middle of society: that was the synthesis of La
> Cura <https://www.artisopensource.n

Re: [NetBehaviour] How is everyone?

[Max Herman via NetBehaviour]

Hi Salvatore,

I hope all is as well as can be with you and yours, and am glad to hear that 
your own health situation is OK.

Your idea for a collaboration or collective product relating to "La Cura" and 
COVID-19 sounds very interesting.  I would definitely be interested, perhaps 
from a context of Italo Calvino's Six Memos for the Next Millennium and the 
below article on Hippocratic medicine and Greek tragedy.

Another concept I have been developing is the idea of "Mindfulness Based 
Aesthetic Resilience" or MBAR as a meditation-oriented health intervention that 
emphasizes the aesthetic aspects of well-being and adaptation.

I don't speak or read Italian but translation questions would also be 
interesting as discussion points perhaps.

All very best wishes and regards,

Max

Jacques Jouanna, “Hippocratic Medicine and Greek Tragedy,” 2012, 
https://brill.com/view/book/9789004232549/B9789004232549-s005.xml


From: NetBehaviour  on behalf of 
xDxD.vs.xDxD via NetBehaviour 
Sent: Tuesday, March 24, 2020 10:55 PM
To: NetBehaviour for networked distributed creativity 

Cc: xDxD.vs.xDxD 
Subject: Re: [NetBehaviour] How is everyone?

Hi everyone!
(and thanks to Ruth and Marc for calling all of us up, so that we can know how 
is everybody)

about me and Oriana: we're in Italy, stuck amidst the tragedy of the infections 
and deaths and of the political nonsense of these difficult times

with an important addition: my cancer decided to came back

now

I'm fine, don't worry: I have had another surgery that went well, and I'm fully 
recovering

but this synchronicity has been really important

for who remembers, back in 2012, when I had my first cancer, i used medical 
data to propose a global repositioning of disease in society:

a cure can happen only in the middle of society: that was the synthesis of La 
Cura<https://www.artisopensource.net/projects/la-cura/>, the global performance 
into which I had transformed my cancer, inspired by visionary innovators such 
as Franco Basaglia

What is, now, La Cura at the time of COVID19?

It turns out that it's a really meaningful continuation in the same direction: 
a cancer and a global pandemic perfectly show the coexistence of two 
dimensions: the individual and the ecosystem

this coexistence has a tragic aspect: the two dimensions can be at open war 
with each other

this was perfectly clear, for example, while being in the hospital: I risked 
not being able to have my surgery because of the COVID19 situat

this tragic character of the situation is exactly the condition which we'll 
star to face in the crises that are about to start coming up systematically: 
climate change, migrations, poverty, health, access and the others

the tragic coexistence between the individual and the ecosytem, and the 
problems that come with it: which are complex and, thus, irreducible.

Complexity doesn't have "solution". It has a life, a way to cope with it, but 
not a solution, in the sense of being able to reduce it to a point. There's no 
App for it.

In today's life we have tried all to try to remove tragedy from our lives.

And, instead, this new conditions shows us just how much we need this tragic 
dimension in our lives.

As tragedy is complexity, and complexity is tragic and irreducible: it just 
doesn't go away.

And: with/after tragedy comes Agnition: the ability to understand, recognize 
and transform/adapt.

In our world, this tragic dimension has a lot to do with data and computation.

The complex phenomena of our planet can be only experieced through enormous 
quantities and qualities of data, and through the computation needed to collect 
them, and to processes and represent them.
How can I experience climate change (as a global phenomenon, not because it is 
hotter in my city)? COV19? Povety? etc
Data, data, data, and computation.

Understanding this tragic condition, in context, means that data+computation 
need to be addressed as existential issues, not as technical ones.
This means a necessary focus shift towards finding/building the new rituals, 
times, habits, practices and traditions with which we will learn to inhabit our 
world through data and computation.
This is, for example, what we've been doing with the 
Datapoiesis<https://datapoiesis.com/home/> project,

And this is what we will continue to do now, through this tragic continuation 
of La Cura.

We started writing two articles about it: they're in italian for now, but if 
there's interest and if someone who speaks native english can help me out, we'd 
love to translate and share.

Here they are, and we designed the article series so that we arrive at a total 
of 10 articles:

https://operavivamagazine.org/sogni-e-nuovi-rituali/
https://operavivamagazine.org/i-rituali-del-nuovo-abitare-dopo-la-tragedia/

BTW: if anyone wants to join in: i think it would form a wonderful publications 
in these times of "La Cura VS COVID19&

Re: [NetBehaviour] How is everyone?

[Aileen Derieg]

Thank you for asking, Ruth. It is good to read everyone's responses.

So I will chime in now from Spain. At the end of last August I came to
spend a year in Calafou (https://calafou.org/en), and right now this
still seems like the best place for me to be.

Since the colony is already remote from surrounding towns and we have
our own infrastructure, we are now 20 people isolated together, trying
to practice all the recommended safety measures. It feels very odd not
to be able to hug one another or share dishes, but we are figuring it out.

We had just started preparing for the annual event "Hack The Earth", on
the theme this year of mutual care in hybrid human/non-human/machine
ecosystems, so I was very excited to see the announcement for "Love
Machines 2020", and we had just started talking about making connections.

So no event about "care" can be planned now. Now we have to work on just
practicing care in all the different ways we can.

To echo the words of the anarchist rapper Sole: "Hang in there
everybody. The future is still up for grabs."

All the best to all of you,
Aileen

On 3/25/20 12:15 AM, Ruth Catlow via NetBehaviour wrote:
> Thanks Antonio, Isabel, Rob, Michael and Max,
> 
> Isabel, that sounds very intense. Where are you staying?
> 
> The long article about Socialism in the Time of Pandemics is fantastic.
> It helps to have more history and more biology. Especially in view of
> the reported debates in the USA. Brutal!
> http://isj.org.uk/socialism-in-a-time-of-pandemics/
> 
> We keep hearing from many artists with cancelled projects. Hopefully the
> government are about to announce proper support for freelancers and self
> employed people. We are still working out what to do next at Furtherfield.
> 
> More please : )
> Warmly
> Ruth
> 
> 
> 
> On Tue, 24 Mar 2020, 12:44 Antonio Roberts,  > wrote:
> 
> Hi everyone,
> 
> I'm in Birmingham, UK and things seem okish. The UK officially went
> it lockdown today (Tuesday). It's different from places like France
> in that we don't need a permission slip to leave the house but the
> police now have powers to arrest people.
> 
> The most annoying this has been watching people go on holidays to
> the countryside. I can almost understand this logic - a lonely hike
> in the woods - but if everyone does it then it's just another
> selfish mass gathering.
> 
> In terms of work, like everyone I'm just trying to figure out how
> things will now work. Most of my "business" is done remotely on my
> laptop (no studio needed) but of course without galleries being open
> most of my work has dried up.
> 
> Toplap just had four days of livestreamed audiovisual performances.
> This had been planned since around December but it's now taken on
> new meaning. Was really nice to have something to temporarily take
> your mind off the outside world.
> 
> Antonio
> 
> On Tue, 24 Mar 2020 at 08:59, isabelle arvers via NetBehaviour
>  > wrote:
> 
> hello everybody,
> 
> I started in June 2019 an art and games world tour
> to
> celebrate my 20 years of curatorship in art and video games.
> When borders started to get closed, I was in Ghana doing my
> research on the local art and games scene. As my Ghanean visa
> was about to expire, I passed the border by the road to Togo
> where I am now stuck, waiting to be repatriated to France as
> soon as possible as the Togolese health system is almost
> inexistant. Togo closed all its borders, schools, universities,
> bars, and even main cities.
> All the best to everyone,
> 
> Isabelle
> 
> 
> http://www.isabellearvers.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/03/animLogo.gif
> 
> 
> Isabelle Arvers
> Curator, art critic and artist
> http://www.isabellearvers.com
> 
> ART GAMES WORLD TOUR
> http://www.isabellearvers.com/category/art-and-games-world-tour/
> https://www.facebook.com/ArtGamesWorldTour
> 
> Director of Kareron for art & games lovers! www.kareron.com
> 
> Machinima workshops: youtube.com/zabarvers
> 
> Artworks: https://vimeo.com/isabellearvers
> 
> Pleade Trainer: solution for digital heritage valorisation 
> https://pleade.com/?locale=en
> 
> Twitter: @zabarvers
> instagram.com/zabarvers 
> Skype ID: iarvers
> Wattsap: +33 661 998 386
> 
> 
> Le mar. 24 mars 2020 à 08:30, Annie Abrahams via NetBehaviour
>  > a écrit :
> 
> 

Re: [NetBehaviour] How is everyone?

[xDxD.vs.xDxD via NetBehaviour]

Hi everyone!
(and thanks to Ruth and Marc for calling all of us up, so that we can know
how is everybody)

about me and Oriana: we're in Italy, stuck amidst the tragedy of the
infections and deaths and of the political nonsense of these difficult times

with an important addition: my cancer decided to came back

now

I'm fine, don't worry: I have had another surgery that went well, and I'm
fully recovering

but this synchronicity has been really important

for who remembers, back in 2012, when I had my first cancer, i used medical
data to propose a global repositioning of disease in society:

a cure can happen only in the middle of society: that was the synthesis of La
Cura , the global
performance into which I had transformed my cancer, inspired by visionary
innovators such as Franco Basaglia

What is, now, La Cura at the time of COVID19?

It turns out that it's a really meaningful continuation in the same
direction: a cancer and a global pandemic perfectly show the coexistence of
two dimensions: the individual and the ecosystem

this coexistence has a tragic aspect: the two dimensions can be at open war
with each other

this was perfectly clear, for example, while being in the hospital: I
risked not being able to have my surgery because of the COVID19 situat

this tragic character of the situation is exactly the condition which we'll
star to face in the crises that are about to start coming up
systematically: climate change, migrations, poverty, health, access and the
others

the tragic coexistence between the individual and the ecosytem, and the
problems that come with it: which are complex and, thus, irreducible.

Complexity doesn't have "solution". It has a life, a way to cope with it,
but not a solution, in the sense of being able to reduce it to a point.
There's no App for it.

In today's life we have tried all to try to remove tragedy from our lives.

And, instead, this new conditions shows us just how much we need this
tragic dimension in our lives.

As tragedy is complexity, and complexity is tragic and irreducible: it just
doesn't go away.

And: with/after tragedy comes Agnition: the ability to understand,
recognize and transform/adapt.

In our world, this tragic dimension has a lot to do with data and
computation.

The complex phenomena of our planet can be only experieced through enormous
quantities and qualities of data, and through the computation needed to
collect them, and to processes and represent them.
How can I experience climate change (as a global phenomenon, not because it
is hotter in my city)? COV19? Povety? etc
Data, data, data, and computation.

Understanding this tragic condition, in context, means that
data+computation need to be addressed as existential issues, not as
technical ones.
This means a necessary focus shift towards finding/building the new
rituals, times, habits, practices and traditions with which we will learn
to inhabit our world through data and computation.
This is, for example, what we've been doing with the Datapoiesis
 project,

And this is what we will continue to do now, through this tragic
continuation of La Cura.

We started writing two articles about it: they're in italian for now, but
if there's interest and if someone who speaks native english can help me
out, we'd love to translate and share.

Here they are, and we designed the article series so that we arrive at a
total of 10 articles:

https://operavivamagazine.org/sogni-e-nuovi-rituali/
https://operavivamagazine.org/i-rituali-del-nuovo-abitare-dopo-la-tragedia/

BTW: if anyone wants to join in: i think it would form a wonderful
publications in these times of "La Cura VS COVID19"

Thanks everyone: be safe and happy

Salvatore

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*Human Ecosystems Relazioni* - https://www.he-r.it/
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Re: [NetBehaviour] How is everyone?

[Ruth Catlow via NetBehaviour]

Thanks Antonio, Isabel, Rob, Michael and Max,

Isabel, that sounds very intense. Where are you staying?

The long article about Socialism in the Time of Pandemics is fantastic. It
helps to have more history and more biology. Especially in view of the reported
debates in the USA. Brutal!
http://isj.org.uk/socialism-in-a-time-of-pandemics/

We keep hearing from many artists with cancelled projects. Hopefully the
government are about to announce proper support for freelancers and self
employed people. We are still working out what to do next at Furtherfield.

More please : )
Warmly
Ruth



On Tue, 24 Mar 2020, 12:44 Antonio Roberts, 
wrote:

> Hi everyone,
>
> I'm in Birmingham, UK and things seem okish. The UK officially went it
> lockdown today (Tuesday). It's different from places like France in that we
> don't need a permission slip to leave the house but the police now have
> powers to arrest people.
>
> The most annoying this has been watching people go on holidays to the
> countryside. I can almost understand this logic - a lonely hike in the
> woods - but if everyone does it then it's just another selfish mass
> gathering.
>
> In terms of work, like everyone I'm just trying to figure out how things
> will now work. Most of my "business" is done remotely on my laptop (no
> studio needed) but of course without galleries being open most of my work
> has dried up.
>
> Toplap just had four days of livestreamed audiovisual performances. This
> had been planned since around December but it's now taken on new meaning.
> Was really nice to have something to temporarily take your mind off the
> outside world.
>
> Antonio
>
> On Tue, 24 Mar 2020 at 08:59, isabelle arvers via NetBehaviour <
> netbehaviour@lists.netbehaviour.org> wrote:
>
>> hello everybody,
>>
>> I started in June 2019 an art and games world tour
>> to
>> celebrate my 20 years of curatorship in art and video games. When borders
>> started to get closed, I was in Ghana doing my research on the local art
>> and games scene. As my Ghanean visa was about to expire, I passed the
>> border by the road to Togo where I am now stuck, waiting to be repatriated
>> to France as soon as possible as the Togolese health system is almost
>> inexistant. Togo closed all its borders, schools, universities, bars, and
>> even main cities.
>> All the best to everyone,
>>
>> Isabelle
>>
>>
>> [image:
>> http://www.isabellearvers.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/03/animLogo.gif]
>> 
>> Isabelle Arvers
>> Curator, art critic and artist
>> http://www.isabellearvers.com
>>
>> ART GAMES WORLD TOUR
>> http://www.isabellearvers.com/category/art-and-games-world-tour/
>> https://www.facebook.com/ArtGamesWorldTour
>>
>> Director of Kareron for art & games lovers! www.kareron.com
>> 
>> Machinima workshops: youtube.com/zabarvers
>> Artworks: https://vimeo.com/isabellearvers
>>
>> Pleade Trainer: solution for digital heritage valorisation
>> https://pleade.com/?locale=en
>>
>> Twitter: @zabarvers
>> instagram.com/zabarvers
>> Skype ID: iarvers
>> Wattsap: +33 661 998 386
>>
>>
>> Le mar. 24 mars 2020 à 08:30, Annie Abrahams via NetBehaviour <
>> netbehaviour@lists.netbehaviour.org> a écrit :
>>
>>> sorry Ruth (and others) it is Paris time (CET, UTC+1)
>>> ---
>>>
>>> Now weekly Distant Feelings (Friday 16h) and Distant Movements
>>> (Wednesday 16h) sessions of 15 min. Open to all.
>>> *intra/rupt/rompre*
>>> https://aabrahams.wordpress.com/2020/03/19/invitation-intra-rupt-rompre/
>>> *intra/rompre/rupt*
>>> https://aabrahams.wordpress.com/2020/03/19/intra-rompre-rupt/
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>> On Mon, Mar 23, 2020 at 5:49 PM Ruth Catlow via NetBehaviour <
>>> netbehaviour@lists.netbehaviour.org> wrote:
>>>
 Thank you for the news Annie, Helen, James, Edward, Ann, and Alan,

 It seems we are all most preoccupied with trying to work out what is
 correct behaviour - including how to negotiate our feelings towards the
 situation and each other.
 The details from all of you are fascinating and helpful.

 More please :)

 And Annie, please can you put a time zone on your Distant Feelings
 events.

 Warmly
 Ruth





 On Mon, Mar 23, 2020 at 11:39 AM Annie Abrahams via NetBehaviour <
 netbehaviour@lists.netbehaviour.org> wrote:

> Hi all,
>
> In France we have been in confinement for about a week. I myself even
> longer, because I am at risk.
> In Holland they are slacker, which I thought to be "stupid" - there is
> also very much attention to and interest in "the economy" that must go on.
> France, although also trying to keep "it" up, seems a bit more social. At
> least that is what I conclude when reading online journals from both
> countries, the tone is different.
> I thought the Dutch a bit 

Re: [NetBehaviour] How is everyone?

[Antonio Roberts]

Hi everyone,

I'm in Birmingham, UK and things seem okish. The UK officially went it
lockdown today (Tuesday). It's different from places like France in that we
don't need a permission slip to leave the house but the police now have
powers to arrest people.

The most annoying this has been watching people go on holidays to the
countryside. I can almost understand this logic - a lonely hike in the
woods - but if everyone does it then it's just another selfish mass
gathering.

In terms of work, like everyone I'm just trying to figure out how things
will now work. Most of my "business" is done remotely on my laptop (no
studio needed) but of course without galleries being open most of my work
has dried up.

Toplap just had four days of livestreamed audiovisual performances. This
had been planned since around December but it's now taken on new meaning.
Was really nice to have something to temporarily take your mind off the
outside world.

Antonio

On Tue, 24 Mar 2020 at 08:59, isabelle arvers via NetBehaviour <
netbehaviour@lists.netbehaviour.org> wrote:

> hello everybody,
>
> I started in June 2019 an art and games world tour
> to
> celebrate my 20 years of curatorship in art and video games. When borders
> started to get closed, I was in Ghana doing my research on the local art
> and games scene. As my Ghanean visa was about to expire, I passed the
> border by the road to Togo where I am now stuck, waiting to be repatriated
> to France as soon as possible as the Togolese health system is almost
> inexistant. Togo closed all its borders, schools, universities, bars, and
> even main cities.
> All the best to everyone,
>
> Isabelle
>
>
> [image:
> http://www.isabellearvers.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/03/animLogo.gif]
> 
> Isabelle Arvers
> Curator, art critic and artist
> http://www.isabellearvers.com
>
> ART GAMES WORLD TOUR
> http://www.isabellearvers.com/category/art-and-games-world-tour/
> https://www.facebook.com/ArtGamesWorldTour
>
> Director of Kareron for art & games lovers! www.kareron.com
> 
> Machinima workshops: youtube.com/zabarvers
> Artworks: https://vimeo.com/isabellearvers
>
> Pleade Trainer: solution for digital heritage valorisation
> https://pleade.com/?locale=en
>
> Twitter: @zabarvers
> instagram.com/zabarvers
> Skype ID: iarvers
> Wattsap: +33 661 998 386
>
>
> Le mar. 24 mars 2020 à 08:30, Annie Abrahams via NetBehaviour <
> netbehaviour@lists.netbehaviour.org> a écrit :
>
>> sorry Ruth (and others) it is Paris time (CET, UTC+1)
>> ---
>>
>> Now weekly Distant Feelings (Friday 16h) and Distant Movements (Wednesday
>> 16h) sessions of 15 min. Open to all.
>> *intra/rupt/rompre*
>> https://aabrahams.wordpress.com/2020/03/19/invitation-intra-rupt-rompre/
>> *intra/rompre/rupt*
>> https://aabrahams.wordpress.com/2020/03/19/intra-rompre-rupt/
>>
>>
>>
>> On Mon, Mar 23, 2020 at 5:49 PM Ruth Catlow via NetBehaviour <
>> netbehaviour@lists.netbehaviour.org> wrote:
>>
>>> Thank you for the news Annie, Helen, James, Edward, Ann, and Alan,
>>>
>>> It seems we are all most preoccupied with trying to work out what is
>>> correct behaviour - including how to negotiate our feelings towards the
>>> situation and each other.
>>> The details from all of you are fascinating and helpful.
>>>
>>> More please :)
>>>
>>> And Annie, please can you put a time zone on your Distant Feelings
>>> events.
>>>
>>> Warmly
>>> Ruth
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>> On Mon, Mar 23, 2020 at 11:39 AM Annie Abrahams via NetBehaviour <
>>> netbehaviour@lists.netbehaviour.org> wrote:
>>>
 Hi all,

 In France we have been in confinement for about a week. I myself even
 longer, because I am at risk.
 In Holland they are slacker, which I thought to be "stupid" - there is
 also very much attention to and interest in "the economy" that must go on.
 France, although also trying to keep "it" up, seems a bit more social. At
 least that is what I conclude when reading online journals from both
 countries, the tone is different.
 I thought the Dutch a bit selfish. But after this week I am not so sure
 anymore they didn't take the right option. Dutch people still seem to be
 optimistic, just going on, almost happy, while some French friends are
 starting to show signs of depression - lack of contact, lack of being able
 to use the body, too immersed in the screen, that also gives solace, so
 even more immersed ... it is very difficult when you don't have a garden
 
 What seems to be important (part of a solution) is to use online
 connexions, not just to talk, but to try to find ways to *do*
 something together. Last Saturday I assisted in an improvised poetry
 reading. It was energising.

 Stay safe all
 Annie

 Ps
 From this week we organise
 weekly 

Re: [NetBehaviour] How is everyone?

[isabelle arvers via NetBehaviour]

hello everybody,

I started in June 2019 an art and games world tour
to
celebrate my 20 years of curatorship in art and video games. When borders
started to get closed, I was in Ghana doing my research on the local art
and games scene. As my Ghanean visa was about to expire, I passed the
border by the road to Togo where I am now stuck, waiting to be repatriated
to France as soon as possible as the Togolese health system is almost
inexistant. Togo closed all its borders, schools, universities, bars, and
even main cities.
All the best to everyone,

Isabelle


[image:
http://www.isabellearvers.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/03/animLogo.gif]

Isabelle Arvers
Curator, art critic and artist
http://www.isabellearvers.com

ART GAMES WORLD TOUR
http://www.isabellearvers.com/category/art-and-games-world-tour/
https://www.facebook.com/ArtGamesWorldTour

Director of Kareron for art & games lovers! www.kareron.com

Machinima workshops: youtube.com/zabarvers
Artworks: https://vimeo.com/isabellearvers

Pleade Trainer: solution for digital heritage valorisation
https://pleade.com/?locale=en

Twitter: @zabarvers
instagram.com/zabarvers
Skype ID: iarvers
Wattsap: +33 661 998 386


Le mar. 24 mars 2020 à 08:30, Annie Abrahams via NetBehaviour <
netbehaviour@lists.netbehaviour.org> a écrit :

> sorry Ruth (and others) it is Paris time (CET, UTC+1)
> ---
>
> Now weekly Distant Feelings (Friday 16h) and Distant Movements (Wednesday
> 16h) sessions of 15 min. Open to all.
> *intra/rupt/rompre*
> https://aabrahams.wordpress.com/2020/03/19/invitation-intra-rupt-rompre/
> *intra/rompre/rupt*
> https://aabrahams.wordpress.com/2020/03/19/intra-rompre-rupt/
>
>
>
> On Mon, Mar 23, 2020 at 5:49 PM Ruth Catlow via NetBehaviour <
> netbehaviour@lists.netbehaviour.org> wrote:
>
>> Thank you for the news Annie, Helen, James, Edward, Ann, and Alan,
>>
>> It seems we are all most preoccupied with trying to work out what is
>> correct behaviour - including how to negotiate our feelings towards the
>> situation and each other.
>> The details from all of you are fascinating and helpful.
>>
>> More please :)
>>
>> And Annie, please can you put a time zone on your Distant Feelings events.
>>
>> Warmly
>> Ruth
>>
>>
>>
>>
>>
>> On Mon, Mar 23, 2020 at 11:39 AM Annie Abrahams via NetBehaviour <
>> netbehaviour@lists.netbehaviour.org> wrote:
>>
>>> Hi all,
>>>
>>> In France we have been in confinement for about a week. I myself even
>>> longer, because I am at risk.
>>> In Holland they are slacker, which I thought to be "stupid" - there is
>>> also very much attention to and interest in "the economy" that must go on.
>>> France, although also trying to keep "it" up, seems a bit more social. At
>>> least that is what I conclude when reading online journals from both
>>> countries, the tone is different.
>>> I thought the Dutch a bit selfish. But after this week I am not so sure
>>> anymore they didn't take the right option. Dutch people still seem to be
>>> optimistic, just going on, almost happy, while some French friends are
>>> starting to show signs of depression - lack of contact, lack of being able
>>> to use the body, too immersed in the screen, that also gives solace, so
>>> even more immersed ... it is very difficult when you don't have a garden
>>> 
>>> What seems to be important (part of a solution) is to use online
>>> connexions, not just to talk, but to try to find ways to *do* something
>>> together. Last Saturday I assisted in an improvised poetry reading. It was
>>> energising.
>>>
>>> Stay safe all
>>> Annie
>>>
>>> Ps
>>> From this week we organise
>>> weekly *Distant Feelings* (Friday 16h) and *Distant Movements*
>>> (Wednesday 16h) sessions of 15 min. Open to all.
>>> *intra/rupt/rompre*
>>> https://aabrahams.wordpress.com/2020/03/19/invitation-intra-rupt-rompre/
>>> *intra/rompre/rupt*
>>> https://aabrahams.wordpress.com/2020/03/19/intra-rompre-rupt/
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>> On Sun, Mar 22, 2020 at 11:11 PM Helen Varley Jamieson <
>>> he...@creative-catalyst.com> wrote:
>>>
 here's an update from aotearoa new zealand:

 we are officially at "level 2" alert, which means social distancing, no
 non-essential travel, all community spaces like libraries, swimming pools,
 etc are closed. schools are still open, but it is being hotly debated
 whether/when they should also be closed. so far all covid19 cases are still
 connected to overseas travel, but it's tracking up quickly & there must be
 community transmission even if it's not yet confirmed.

 from what i can observe here (in dunedin, small southern university
 town), people are being quite sensible. there's no panic buying in our
 local supermarket, & the streets are quiet but not empty. just now on the
 radio there is an interview with some university 

Re: [NetBehaviour] How is everyone?

[Annie Abrahams via NetBehaviour]

sorry Ruth (and others) it is Paris time (CET, UTC+1)
---

Now weekly Distant Feelings (Friday 16h) and Distant Movements (Wednesday
16h) sessions of 15 min. Open to all.
*intra/rupt/rompre*
https://aabrahams.wordpress.com/2020/03/19/invitation-intra-rupt-rompre/
*intra/rompre/rupt*
https://aabrahams.wordpress.com/2020/03/19/intra-rompre-rupt/



On Mon, Mar 23, 2020 at 5:49 PM Ruth Catlow via NetBehaviour <
netbehaviour@lists.netbehaviour.org> wrote:

> Thank you for the news Annie, Helen, James, Edward, Ann, and Alan,
>
> It seems we are all most preoccupied with trying to work out what is
> correct behaviour - including how to negotiate our feelings towards the
> situation and each other.
> The details from all of you are fascinating and helpful.
>
> More please :)
>
> And Annie, please can you put a time zone on your Distant Feelings events.
>
> Warmly
> Ruth
>
>
>
>
>
> On Mon, Mar 23, 2020 at 11:39 AM Annie Abrahams via NetBehaviour <
> netbehaviour@lists.netbehaviour.org> wrote:
>
>> Hi all,
>>
>> In France we have been in confinement for about a week. I myself even
>> longer, because I am at risk.
>> In Holland they are slacker, which I thought to be "stupid" - there is
>> also very much attention to and interest in "the economy" that must go on.
>> France, although also trying to keep "it" up, seems a bit more social. At
>> least that is what I conclude when reading online journals from both
>> countries, the tone is different.
>> I thought the Dutch a bit selfish. But after this week I am not so sure
>> anymore they didn't take the right option. Dutch people still seem to be
>> optimistic, just going on, almost happy, while some French friends are
>> starting to show signs of depression - lack of contact, lack of being able
>> to use the body, too immersed in the screen, that also gives solace, so
>> even more immersed ... it is very difficult when you don't have a garden
>> 
>> What seems to be important (part of a solution) is to use online
>> connexions, not just to talk, but to try to find ways to *do* something
>> together. Last Saturday I assisted in an improvised poetry reading. It was
>> energising.
>>
>> Stay safe all
>> Annie
>>
>> Ps
>> From this week we organise
>> weekly *Distant Feelings* (Friday 16h) and *Distant Movements*
>> (Wednesday 16h) sessions of 15 min. Open to all.
>> *intra/rupt/rompre*
>> https://aabrahams.wordpress.com/2020/03/19/invitation-intra-rupt-rompre/
>> *intra/rompre/rupt*
>> https://aabrahams.wordpress.com/2020/03/19/intra-rompre-rupt/
>>
>>
>>
>> On Sun, Mar 22, 2020 at 11:11 PM Helen Varley Jamieson <
>> he...@creative-catalyst.com> wrote:
>>
>>> here's an update from aotearoa new zealand:
>>>
>>> we are officially at "level 2" alert, which means social distancing, no
>>> non-essential travel, all community spaces like libraries, swimming pools,
>>> etc are closed. schools are still open, but it is being hotly debated
>>> whether/when they should also be closed. so far all covid19 cases are still
>>> connected to overseas travel, but it's tracking up quickly & there must be
>>> community transmission even if it's not yet confirmed.
>>>
>>> from what i can observe here (in dunedin, small southern university
>>> town), people are being quite sensible. there's no panic buying in our
>>> local supermarket, & the streets are quiet but not empty. just now on the
>>> radio there is an interview with some university students who are offering
>>> to bring groceries etc for elderly & people in isolation. community in
>>> action :) my 86-year-old mother is reluctantly staying home - all her
>>> activities like U3A & exercise class have been cancelled anyway, & her
>>> beloved library bus won't be coming to her neighbourhood. she has an
>>> abundant vegie garden & bursting freezer so no need to go out for a while!
>>>
>>> unfortunately my partner & i have to travel tomorrow - we're flying up
>>> to another small town in the north island to empty out the house of an
>>> uncle who died in february. at the moment, non-essential travel is
>>> discouraged but not forbidden, so we are hoping that we can get this job
>>> done as it's been a huge planning exercise. it's not a creative project,
>>> but i really resonate with ruth about furtherfield's situation - all of the
>>> planning that goes into it & then all of the work to change / adapt in such
>>> a rapidly changing situation ... it's exhausting & depressing. our lives as
>>> artists are precarious all the time so we're used to existing in a state of
>>> adaptability anyway, but now we're being pushed even further :/
>>>
>>> i am personally pretty relieved that i was already having a
>>> self-inflicted freelancer's sabbatical for the first 6-months of this year,
>>> so i haven't got any work lined up to get cancelled. however the trip home
>>> is certainly not turning out the way i expected! & i have no idea whether
>>> i'll get back to germany at the end of july ... at least that is still a
>>> 

Re: [NetBehaviour] How is everyone?

[Rob Myers]

On 2020-03-23 9:41 a.m., Ruth Catlow via NetBehaviour wrote:
>
> The details from all of you are fascinating and helpful.
> 
> More please :)
Greetings from viral Cascadia.

Vancouver is in two levels of State of Emergency. BC has declared one,
and the city has also declared one. We just need Canada to declare one
to get to level three. We have Canada's most deprived district here, the
Downtown East Side, with US-style tent cities and street sleeping. These
are not people who are able to "stay at home". We also have people who,
whether due to idiot libertarianism, economic or theological delusions
of invulnerability, or just not being online enough, are going ahead
with gatherings of all kinds. These are not people who are willing to
"stay at home". I hope the city gets its act together to help and hinder
these groups respectively.

And I hope that the cultural politics around wearing masks here evaporate.

Seryna and I both work at home anyway so it hasn't been too much of a
transition for us. We've dusted off the Wii to get some exercise
indoors. Rock Band is hilariously mid-2000s.

I recommend joining in with live hangouts/podcasts/zooms/whatever for
"outside" social contact. And just video call people to check in.
Everyone seems to be playing Animal Crossing on Nintendo Switch but if
that's not your thing dust off your Second Life account or try to
remember your LambdaMOO password.

I'm continuing to work on projects that started long before the current
moment and have no plans to immediately change this. Art isn't
journalism. But I am enjoying other people's musical reactions to the
crisis.

If anyone is new to working remotely here's a guide I sent in the last
round of Links that I recommend (I worked remotely for CC for 3 years,
they are very good at it) -

https://creativecommons.org/2020/03/13/advice-on-working-from-home/

- Rob.



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Re: [NetBehaviour] How is everyone?

[Max Herman via NetBehaviour]

Hi Ruth,

Thanks for the direct query!  I am finding it easy to get wrapped up in 
"tracking current events" and losing my perception of things local, or 
internal, in all the rush, so yours is an excellent reminder to check-in so to 
speak on what I often overlook.

Things change so much every day that adaptation is very ad-hoc, but overall my 
situation is toward the normal end of the spectrum for now.  My family and 
friends are all safe, though like everyone we worry about those we know who are 
more at risk and are helping them however we can.  I'm fortunate to be able to 
work from home but several family members and friends (some in health care) 
cannot.  Perhaps my circumstances can be summed up as typical for many in the 
not-yet-hardest-hit places in the US, i.e. that we are preparing with both 
trepidation and resilience in varying ratios.

As an artist and writer, I do feel that an event of historical proportions has 
occurred that will be transformative to a greater or lesser degree in many 
spheres of society.  I'm more aware of the power of words and images to harm as 
well as to help, to support or to undermine well-being, to clarify or distort, 
and of the pressure this places on my own choices.  There is so much that I 
cannot control, and yet I still find the aesthetic process and all it entails 
to be a source of guidance and resilience.

In late 2018 I began forming a research group to study the inter-relations 
among art, meditation, neuroscience, and networks from a transdisciplinary 
perspective, with a focus on medical principles including the Hippocratic 
ethos.  This is energizing in some respects, but extremely daunting and 
humbling in others because the group is still in early planning stages -- well 
short of having any deliverables -- and the current crisis is so large, with so 
much uncertainty.  Although I am not great at practicing it I have found the 
Hippocratic ethos to be one that helps me to understand how to guide my own 
actions, or at least to bolster my hopes that there are feasible precedents for 
finding responsible and practicable guidelines in my own actions.

Many thanks for all that you do at Netbehavior and for being a space of shared 
resources in a challenging time.

Very best wishes,

Max

Notes:
Jacques Jouanna, “Hippocratic Medicine and Greek Tragedy,” 2012, 
https://brill.com/view/book/9789004232549/B9789004232549-s005.xml
+
Health care and Buddhism:
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6330872/
+
Medicine Ways: Traditional Healers and Healing
https://www.nlm.nih.gov/nativevoices/exhibition/healing-ways/medicine-ways/medicine-wheel.html



From: NetBehaviour  on behalf of 
Ruth Catlow via NetBehaviour 
Sent: Monday, March 23, 2020 11:41 AM
To: NetBehaviour for networked distributed creativity 

Cc: Ruth Catlow 
Subject: Re: [NetBehaviour] How is everyone?

Thank you for the news Annie, Helen, James, Edward, Ann, and Alan,

It seems we are all most preoccupied with trying to work out what is correct 
behaviour - including how to negotiate our feelings towards the situation and 
each other.
The details from all of you are fascinating and helpful.

More please :)

And Annie, please can you put a time zone on your Distant Feelings events.

Warmly
Ruth





On Mon, Mar 23, 2020 at 11:39 AM Annie Abrahams via NetBehaviour 
mailto:netbehaviour@lists.netbehaviour.org>>
 wrote:
Hi all,

In France we have been in confinement for about a week. I myself even longer, 
because I am at risk.
In Holland they are slacker, which I thought to be "stupid" - there is also 
very much attention to and interest in "the economy" that must go on. France, 
although also trying to keep "it" up, seems a bit more social. At least that is 
what I conclude when reading online journals from both countries, the tone is 
different.
I thought the Dutch a bit selfish. But after this week I am not so sure anymore 
they didn't take the right option. Dutch people still seem to be optimistic, 
just going on, almost happy, while some French friends are starting to show 
signs of depression - lack of contact, lack of being able to use the body, too 
immersed in the screen, that also gives solace, so even more immersed ... it is 
very difficult when you don't have a garden 
What seems to be important (part of a solution) is to use online connexions, 
not just to talk, but to try to find ways to do something together. Last 
Saturday I assisted in an improvised poetry reading. It was energising.

Stay safe all
Annie

Ps
>From this week we organise
weekly Distant Feelings (Friday 16h) and Distant Movements (Wednesday 16h) 
sessions of 15 min. Open to all.
intra/rupt/rompre 
https://aabrahams.wordpress.com/2020/03/19/invitation-intra-rupt-rompre/
intra/rompre/rupt https://aabrahams.wordpress.com/2020/03/19/intra-rompre-rupt/


On Sun, Mar 22, 2020 at 11:11 PM Helen Varley Jamieson 
mailto:he...

Re: [NetBehaviour] How is everyone?

[Ruth Catlow via NetBehaviour]

Thank you for the news Annie, Helen, James, Edward, Ann, and Alan,

It seems we are all most preoccupied with trying to work out what is
correct behaviour - including how to negotiate our feelings towards the
situation and each other.
The details from all of you are fascinating and helpful.

More please :)

And Annie, please can you put a time zone on your Distant Feelings events.

Warmly
Ruth





On Mon, Mar 23, 2020 at 11:39 AM Annie Abrahams via NetBehaviour <
netbehaviour@lists.netbehaviour.org> wrote:

> Hi all,
>
> In France we have been in confinement for about a week. I myself even
> longer, because I am at risk.
> In Holland they are slacker, which I thought to be "stupid" - there is
> also very much attention to and interest in "the economy" that must go on.
> France, although also trying to keep "it" up, seems a bit more social. At
> least that is what I conclude when reading online journals from both
> countries, the tone is different.
> I thought the Dutch a bit selfish. But after this week I am not so sure
> anymore they didn't take the right option. Dutch people still seem to be
> optimistic, just going on, almost happy, while some French friends are
> starting to show signs of depression - lack of contact, lack of being able
> to use the body, too immersed in the screen, that also gives solace, so
> even more immersed ... it is very difficult when you don't have a garden
> 
> What seems to be important (part of a solution) is to use online
> connexions, not just to talk, but to try to find ways to *do* something
> together. Last Saturday I assisted in an improvised poetry reading. It was
> energising.
>
> Stay safe all
> Annie
>
> Ps
> From this week we organise
> weekly *Distant Feelings* (Friday 16h) and *Distant Movements* (Wednesday
> 16h) sessions of 15 min. Open to all.
> *intra/rupt/rompre*
> https://aabrahams.wordpress.com/2020/03/19/invitation-intra-rupt-rompre/
> *intra/rompre/rupt*
> https://aabrahams.wordpress.com/2020/03/19/intra-rompre-rupt/
>
>
>
> On Sun, Mar 22, 2020 at 11:11 PM Helen Varley Jamieson <
> he...@creative-catalyst.com> wrote:
>
>> here's an update from aotearoa new zealand:
>>
>> we are officially at "level 2" alert, which means social distancing, no
>> non-essential travel, all community spaces like libraries, swimming pools,
>> etc are closed. schools are still open, but it is being hotly debated
>> whether/when they should also be closed. so far all covid19 cases are still
>> connected to overseas travel, but it's tracking up quickly & there must be
>> community transmission even if it's not yet confirmed.
>>
>> from what i can observe here (in dunedin, small southern university
>> town), people are being quite sensible. there's no panic buying in our
>> local supermarket, & the streets are quiet but not empty. just now on the
>> radio there is an interview with some university students who are offering
>> to bring groceries etc for elderly & people in isolation. community in
>> action :) my 86-year-old mother is reluctantly staying home - all her
>> activities like U3A & exercise class have been cancelled anyway, & her
>> beloved library bus won't be coming to her neighbourhood. she has an
>> abundant vegie garden & bursting freezer so no need to go out for a while!
>>
>> unfortunately my partner & i have to travel tomorrow - we're flying up to
>> another small town in the north island to empty out the house of an uncle
>> who died in february. at the moment, non-essential travel is discouraged
>> but not forbidden, so we are hoping that we can get this job done as it's
>> been a huge planning exercise. it's not a creative project, but i really
>> resonate with ruth about furtherfield's situation - all of the planning
>> that goes into it & then all of the work to change / adapt in such a
>> rapidly changing situation ... it's exhausting & depressing. our lives as
>> artists are precarious all the time so we're used to existing in a state of
>> adaptability anyway, but now we're being pushed even further :/
>>
>> i am personally pretty relieved that i was already having a
>> self-inflicted freelancer's sabbatical for the first 6-months of this year,
>> so i haven't got any work lined up to get cancelled. however the trip home
>> is certainly not turning out the way i expected! & i have no idea whether
>> i'll get back to germany at the end of july ... at least that is still a
>> long way away, & we are a lot better off on these distant islands than in
>> the middle of the epicentre! munich is in total lockdown & our
>> house-sitters sent video of civil defence vans driving through deserted
>> streets broadcasting instructions to stay indoors. quite surreal!
>>
>> take care everyone, & if you need some socially distanced social
>> interaction, come along to the Pandemic Party in UpStage this evening - 8am
>> monday morning UK time.
>> https://upstage.org.nz/?event=pandemic-party-and-open-walkthrough
>>
>> h : )
>> On 23.03.20 07:51, Edward Picot via 

Re: [NetBehaviour] How is everyone?

[Annie Abrahams via NetBehaviour]

Hi all,

In France we have been in confinement for about a week. I myself even
longer, because I am at risk.
In Holland they are slacker, which I thought to be "stupid" - there is also
very much attention to and interest in "the economy" that must go on.
France, although also trying to keep "it" up, seems a bit more social. At
least that is what I conclude when reading online journals from both
countries, the tone is different.
I thought the Dutch a bit selfish. But after this week I am not so sure
anymore they didn't take the right option. Dutch people still seem to be
optimistic, just going on, almost happy, while some French friends are
starting to show signs of depression - lack of contact, lack of being able
to use the body, too immersed in the screen, that also gives solace, so
even more immersed ... it is very difficult when you don't have a garden

What seems to be important (part of a solution) is to use online
connexions, not just to talk, but to try to find ways to *do* something
together. Last Saturday I assisted in an improvised poetry reading. It was
energising.

Stay safe all
Annie

Ps
>From this week we organise
weekly *Distant Feelings* (Friday 16h) and *Distant Movements* (Wednesday
16h) sessions of 15 min. Open to all.
*intra/rupt/rompre*
https://aabrahams.wordpress.com/2020/03/19/invitation-intra-rupt-rompre/
*intra/rompre/rupt*
https://aabrahams.wordpress.com/2020/03/19/intra-rompre-rupt/



On Sun, Mar 22, 2020 at 11:11 PM Helen Varley Jamieson <
he...@creative-catalyst.com> wrote:

> here's an update from aotearoa new zealand:
>
> we are officially at "level 2" alert, which means social distancing, no
> non-essential travel, all community spaces like libraries, swimming pools,
> etc are closed. schools are still open, but it is being hotly debated
> whether/when they should also be closed. so far all covid19 cases are still
> connected to overseas travel, but it's tracking up quickly & there must be
> community transmission even if it's not yet confirmed.
>
> from what i can observe here (in dunedin, small southern university town),
> people are being quite sensible. there's no panic buying in our local
> supermarket, & the streets are quiet but not empty. just now on the radio
> there is an interview with some university students who are offering to
> bring groceries etc for elderly & people in isolation. community in action
> :) my 86-year-old mother is reluctantly staying home - all her activities
> like U3A & exercise class have been cancelled anyway, & her beloved library
> bus won't be coming to her neighbourhood. she has an abundant vegie garden
> & bursting freezer so no need to go out for a while!
>
> unfortunately my partner & i have to travel tomorrow - we're flying up to
> another small town in the north island to empty out the house of an uncle
> who died in february. at the moment, non-essential travel is discouraged
> but not forbidden, so we are hoping that we can get this job done as it's
> been a huge planning exercise. it's not a creative project, but i really
> resonate with ruth about furtherfield's situation - all of the planning
> that goes into it & then all of the work to change / adapt in such a
> rapidly changing situation ... it's exhausting & depressing. our lives as
> artists are precarious all the time so we're used to existing in a state of
> adaptability anyway, but now we're being pushed even further :/
>
> i am personally pretty relieved that i was already having a self-inflicted
> freelancer's sabbatical for the first 6-months of this year, so i haven't
> got any work lined up to get cancelled. however the trip home is certainly
> not turning out the way i expected! & i have no idea whether i'll get back
> to germany at the end of july ... at least that is still a long way away, &
> we are a lot better off on these distant islands than in the middle of the
> epicentre! munich is in total lockdown & our house-sitters sent video of
> civil defence vans driving through deserted streets broadcasting
> instructions to stay indoors. quite surreal!
>
> take care everyone, & if you need some socially distanced social
> interaction, come along to the Pandemic Party in UpStage this evening - 8am
> monday morning UK time.
> https://upstage.org.nz/?event=pandemic-party-and-open-walkthrough
>
> h : )
> On 23.03.20 07:51, Edward Picot via NetBehaviour wrote:
>
> Hi Ruth and everyone,
>
> Actually work hasn't been so bad. We've gone from mainly face-to-face
> consultations to what they call 'total triage' - nobody gets to see the
> doctor without him telephoning them first - within the space of a week. The
> nurse is still seeing people: you can't do things like blood tests and
> dressings over the telephone. But she has to wear the protective gear -
> face mask, gown, gloves - and change it once every few patients; and we've
> cancelled all the non-urgent stuff, like diabetic checks and asthma checks,
> the aim being to only have one or two people in the 

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[Edward Picot via NetBehaviour]

Hi Ruth and everyone,

Actually work hasn't been so bad. We've gone from mainly face-to-face 
consultations to what they call 'total triage' - nobody gets to see the 
doctor without him telephoning them first - within the space of a week. 
The nurse is still seeing people: you can't do things like blood tests 
and dressings over the telephone. But she has to wear the protective 
gear - face mask, gown, gloves - and change it once every few patients; 
and we've cancelled all the non-urgent stuff, like diabetic checks and 
asthma checks, the aim being to only have one or two people in the 
surgery at a time, not counting the staff.


The local chemist has gone into meltdown. Everybody is panic-ordering 
their medication all at once. I went past the chemist on Saturday 
morning and the queue of people trying to get prescriptions was out the 
door. Lots of people are jumping ship from the local chemist to online 
pharmacies like Pharmacy2U, because the online pharmacies are set up to 
do home deliveries; but the elderly, who are the ones who really need 
home deliveries because they're the ones who can least afford to catch 
the virus, are least likely to make this move because they're the least 
techno-savvy section of society. There are other people who can help 
them out, though - 'social prescribing', which is where we direct 
patients to 'helping hand' agencies, has suddenly gone from being a 
peripheral thing to a front-and-centre option.


Two things we're trying to get up and running are video consultations 
and remote working. We were given a laptop about a year ago by the 
Health Authority, which works off a VPN link, and the idea is that if 
you're at home and stick your smart card in it, you can log into the 
clinical system at the surgery and see patient records and do electronic 
prescribing and stuff just as if you were there. This would be 
brilliant, especially if David (the doctor) has to self-isolate at some 
point but still feels well enough to work - but the VPN licence has run 
out. We contacted the IT department to get it renewed once the crisis 
started to get serious, about ten days ago now, but of course they've 
been overwhelmed, so they haven't sorted it out for us yet.


As regards video consultations - which would be really useful for things 
like people with rashes - we've managed to get these working via mobile 
phones, but it's very glitchy because the WiFi at the surgery keeps 
going wrong. Either it doesn't work at all, or it works with no internet 
connection, which has been pretty much how it's been ever since we had 
WiFi put in. The other option is to do video consultations on a desktop 
or laptop computer: there's a startup tech company called Nye, based in 
Oxford, which offers this for free, and we got it up and running on 
David's desktop, which is equipped with a USB camera - but then the 
camera immediately went wrong. This is pretty much how things work in 
the NHS. If the technology was in place and reliable, we could do a 
whole lot more.


The most frustrating thing for me and David, I think, is the sheer 
volume of updates we're being sent. If I see one more email titled 
'Covid-19 - urgent - for immediate action' I'm going to do an act of 
violence. You physically cannot keep up with all this stuff when the 
phone is constantly ringing and you've got a million other things to 
deal with. And the lack of testing is frustrating too. We've got a nurse 
who's been off for a week with Coronavirus-style symptoms, but of course 
we don't know whether it really is the Coronavirus or not - so if she 
comes back to work and then gets another sore throat, she'll have to 
self-isolate for another week.


On the other hand in some ways it's kind of exhilarating. Suddenly we've 
been given a licence to ignore all the bureaucratic crap we usually 
spend our time struggling with, and that's quite liberating; and the 
pace at which we've managed to reorganize our services, with a lot of 
cooperation from the patients, it has to be said, has been startling.


On a personal level my main concern has been shopping. I go to bed 
worrying about whether I'm going to be able to get any food in the shops 
the next day. I've done all right so far, but I normally don't get up to 
the Co-Op, which is our local supermarket, until after three o'clock, 
and by that time there's virtually nothing on the shelves; so I've been 
having to dodge out of work and make special trips up there at about 
9.30, once I've got somebody else to cover the front desk. The other 
thing is that my demented Mum is in a care home a few miles from here, 
and they've closed their doors to visitors, so instead of going to see 
her twice a week, all of a sudden I'm not seeing her at all, which is a 
big change to my routine.


You do get very fed up with the stupidity of the public at times, 
especially where things like panic buying and panic ordering of 
prescriptions are concerned. You think to yourself 'This 

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[Alan Sondheim]

Whew. We were going across country, stopping at a number of places, and 
ending up at the ELO Archives, thanks to Dene Grigar, in Vancouver, 
Washington. We were also stopping to see my brother and his family in 
Victoria, BC. as well as Azure's aunt in Salt Lake City. We never made it 
past Azure's parents in Aurora, near Denver, Colorado. There was an 
earthquake, fairly bad, in SLC and Azure's aunt was working in a building 
on the 10th floor, that was damaged. She's all right. There have been at 
least 200 aftershocks, some severe. She's hunkered down now in her place. 
We're trying to return to Rhode Island, but slowly; we don't know about 
gas and lodgings etc. Everyone is scared everywhere and confused. Rhode 
Island, it turns out, is running out of money fast and might not have 
enough for Medicaid. We keep planning different trajectories to get back. 
Someone's looking after our place. Some vulnerable people we know have 
been exposed to the virus. Azure and I are holding together thanks to 
flocks of birds, the kindness of her parents, more flocks of birds. We're 
about 3-4 days travel back. To be honest going back frightens me because 
Rhode Island is in financial chaos thanks to unbelievable corruption; the 
budget this year is 200 million in the red, Providence is 1.3 billion in 
the red, Medicaid might not be fundable. I hate the greed in the state. 
The homeless and refugees are in worse situations there.


That's about it. I keep producing here; that keeps me alive. Hope everyone 
is healthy and finding ways to deal with things. Azure and I have been 
more or less isolated in RI all the way along, so that part we might be 
able to take in stride.


love to everyone, Alan


On Sun, 22 Mar 2020, Ruth Catlow via NetBehaviour wrote:


Hello all,
This last couple of weeks have?been full of chaos and uncertainty for us in
the UK - and much longer for others.

The sudden shut down is clearly distributing immediate and extreme hardship
very unevenly.?

I personally found the indefinite postponement of Furtherfield's 2020 'Love
Machines' programme last Monday (in the week we had planned to announce
everything) incredibly hard to do, and to handle.?I know we will adapt and
find another way to make things work,?but that doesn't stop it being
incredibly disappointing, frustrating and disorientating.

I'm now starting to adjust but I wanted to share this personal
(non-life-threatening) experience with you because I would like to hear more
from everyone about how the Corona virus?is effecting?them, so we can build a
better picture, beyond the numbers and the public announcements, to
understand how things are changing. And most of all it would just be good to
know?how everyone?is doing (from regular contributors to all lurkers).

Warmly
Ruth


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thinking.
furtherfield.org

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for fairer, more dynamic & connected cultural ecologies & economies now.

decal.is

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Registered in England and Wales under the Company No.7005205.

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[Ann Light via NetBehaviour]

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On Sun, Mar 22, 2020 at 3:16 PM Ruth Catlow via NetBehaviour <
netbehaviour@lists.netbehaviour.org> wrote:

> Hello all,
>
> This last couple of weeks have been full of chaos and uncertainty for us
> in the UK - and much longer for others.
>
> The sudden shut down is clearly distributing immediate and extreme
> hardship very unevenly.
>
> I personally found the indefinite postponement of Furtherfield's 2020
> 'Love Machines' programme last Monday (in the week we had planned to
> announce everything) incredibly hard to do, and to handle. I know we will
> adapt and find another way to make things work, but that doesn't stop it
> being incredibly disappointing, frustrating and disorientating.
>
> I'm now starting to adjust but I wanted to share this personal
> (non-life-threatening) experience with you because I would like to hear
> more from everyone about how the Corona virus is effecting them, so we can
> build a better picture, beyond the numbers and the public announcements, to
> understand how things are changing. And most of all it would just be good
> to know how everyone is doing (from regular contributors to all lurkers).
>
> Warmly
> Ruth
>
>
> --
> Co-founder & Artistic director of Furtherfield & DECAL Decentralised Arts
> Lab
> +44 (0) 77370 02879
>
> *Furtherfield *disrupts and democratises art and technology through 
> exhibitions,
> labs & debate, for deep exploration, open tools & free thinking.
> furtherfield.org 
>
> *DECAL* Decentralised Arts Lab is an arts, blockchain & web 3.0
> technologies research hub
>
> for fairer, more dynamic & connected cultural ecologies & economies now.
>
> decal.is 
>
> Furtherfield is a Not-for-Profit Company Limited by Guarantee
>
> Registered in England and Wales under the Company No.7005205.
>
> Registered business address: Carbon Accountancy, 80-83 Long Lane, London,
> EC1A 9ET.
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[Ruth Catlow via NetBehaviour]

Hello all,

This last couple of weeks have been full of chaos and uncertainty for us in
the UK - and much longer for others.

The sudden shut down is clearly distributing immediate and extreme hardship
very unevenly.

I personally found the indefinite postponement of Furtherfield's 2020 'Love
Machines' programme last Monday (in the week we had planned to announce
everything) incredibly hard to do, and to handle. I know we will adapt and
find another way to make things work, but that doesn't stop it being
incredibly disappointing, frustrating and disorientating.

I'm now starting to adjust but I wanted to share this personal
(non-life-threatening) experience with you because I would like to hear
more from everyone about how the Corona virus is effecting them, so we can
build a better picture, beyond the numbers and the public announcements, to
understand how things are changing. And most of all it would just be good
to know how everyone is doing (from regular contributors to all lurkers).

Warmly
Ruth


-- 
Co-founder & Artistic director of Furtherfield & DECAL Decentralised Arts
Lab
+44 (0) 77370 02879

*Furtherfield *disrupts and democratises art and technology through
exhibitions,
labs & debate, for deep exploration, open tools & free thinking.
furtherfield.org 

*DECAL* Decentralised Arts Lab is an arts, blockchain & web 3.0 technologies
research hub

for fairer, more dynamic & connected cultural ecologies & economies now.

decal.is 

Furtherfield is a Not-for-Profit Company Limited by Guarantee

Registered in England and Wales under the Company No.7005205.

Registered business address: Carbon Accountancy, 80-83 Long Lane, London,
EC1A 9ET.
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