Mōrena ki a koutou katoa, with apologies for cross-posting, just forwarding this as I'm sure there are other ADAs that may have crossed paths and/or wires with Alexei over the years.
This event in his honour takes places next Sunday in Berlin - full details below :: -------- Forwarded Message -------- Subject: [spectre] Moments with Alexei Blinov (1965-2019), c-base Berlin, February 2, 2020 Date: Tue, 21 Jan 2020 21:26:24 +0100 From: Shu Lea Cheang <[email protected]> Reply-To: [email protected] To: spectre <[email protected]> Alexei Blinov: Hero of the Cybersphere (1965-2019) by Simon Worthington @mrchristian99 – co-founder Mute I use Cybersphere rather than Cyberspace as Alexei occupied the digital space just above the earth's crust with WiFi and lasers and not only the imagined Cyberspace of the virtual — World on a Wire (Welt am Draht), or the Internet. I knew Alexei in the late 1990s/2000s in London and Berlin, whether running Open Wireless aerial building workshops together at the University of Openness in London's East End — a self instituted university — or at the BerLon<https://www.metamute.org/editorial/articles/libre-non-gratis-berlon> ‘PicoPeering Agreement' meeting in Bootlab or at 'Wizards of OS' FOSS conference — both in Berlin, where Alexei would be demoing the 'Hive' mesh-networking WiFi system. Alexei was always the one driving things forward, quiet crazily — with wires popping out all over the place, a continual work-in-progress, but importantly with the courage that makes a true artist — that of not needing to inhabit the persona of the artists or make works that need to look like art. Libre, Non-Gratis, Berlon, 2002, Mute https://www.metamute.org/editorial/articles/libre-non-gratis-berlon<https://www.metamute.org/editorial/articles/libre-non-gratis-berlon?fbclid=IwAR2wOWHIY6g7rLWbIXwC4y_-IeEyrPCgOgNmkJMrUzennrrCPfhnArDVrac> Moments with Alexei Blinov (1965-2019) February 2, 2020 @ c-base Rungestraße 20, 10179 Berlin 6pm door open. 7-9pm – talks and talks *Simon Worthington on Alexei Blinov: Hero of the Cybersphere * Vladimir Grafov (long time collaborator) introduces overall body of alexei's work, raylab, also introduce the archive project * Once the AIR - recounting Alexei Blinov’s collaboration with consume.net<http://consume.net>, free2air, richair, hivenetworks, freifunk, doomsday of blockchain……… with Vladimir Grafov, Adam Burns, James Stevens, Shu Lea Cheang, Cvan, Elektra, juergen Neumann. * Riding waves with Alexei Blinov Kaffe Matthews introduces sonic bike project, update by Danja Vasiliev, Sarah Grant, and Franz Xaver (STWST, Linz) on radio projects. 9pm - 11pm Performance with kaffe Matthews, Martin Howse Delfinov Iwanka Skrivanek Xname 11pm onward – Vladimir Grafov lights up the dance floor with laser beams. DJs: Iwanka Skrivanek+++++++ ALL NIGHT *** MIKE OPEN There would be a mike on stand for anyone who wants to speak out, share thoughts on Alexei Blinov. ***KITCHEN OPEN On the menu Adam Burns/ragu pot Kaffe Matthews/ pancakes savoury, deep chocolate Martin Howse/grilled shiitake + surprise Shu Lea Cheang/winter pumpkin miso Danja Vasiliev /vinaigrette Iwanka Skrivanek/Borsch soup *** BAR OPEN C-base bar serves beer and softdrink is open for small price purchase. As a tribute to Alexei, SVP hardcore vodka drinker BYOB. _______________________________________________ Ada_list mailing list -- [email protected] To unsubscribe send an email to [email protected] http://ada.net.nz/ Manage your list membership (Subscribe, Change to digest, Unsubscribe) http://list.waikato.ac.nz/mailman/listinfo/ada_list
