Thanks for letting me know Helen! Take a look now. Because we are still in Beta... there are still a few wrinkles to iron out : / Very happy to help anyone else that gets stuck - we want your votes!!!! x
On Mon, Aug 30, 2021 at 12:21 AM Helen Varley Jamieson < he...@creative-catalyst.com> wrote: > hmm, i guess i must have deleted it; i registered the other day but never > saw a token. i'm unable to keep up with my lists for a while so have been > randomly deleting stuff ... :/ > On 30.08.21 03:05, Ruth Catlow via NetBehaviour wrote: > > Lovely writing and very appreciative of your ongoing attention Max. > > If any others here haven't yet voted...you can look at the work and > register here https://peoplesparkplinth.org/ until Tuesday 31st. > Registration closes at 8.30pm and then the vote closes at 12 midnight. BST > > We are discovering a few wrinkles <sigh> > If you already registered or are a subscriber to Furtherfield then your > token has already been delivered to you by email with the subject header > “It’s Time to Vote for the People’s Park Plinth at Furtherfield Gallery”. > Please check in your inbox (and spam folders). > > Warmly > Ruth > > > > > > > > On Thu, Aug 26, 2021 at 5:51 PM Max Herman <maxnmher...@hotmail.com> > wrote: > >> >> Hi Ruth, >> >> I just finished voting and think this is a fantastic concept and >> framework. The participatory nature of it is so important for sustainable >> and resilient art community. Mammoth frameworks of big-data algorithms and >> high-dollar collector transactions simply don't do certain things that are >> well worth doing. Perhaps these omitted processes may be even more than >> just worth doing, but simply necessary for that which we call aesthetic >> culture to thrive. >> >> It's so easy to forget that the big-name objects collecting mega-price >> transactions started off as people hanging out in coffee shops speculating >> about art and life and literature and participating actively, >> experimenting, with little or no audience and on a shoestring. It's >> equally easy to forget that we are all writing and revising our own inner >> algorithms so to speak, our choices and plans and modes of experience, all >> day every day whether we do so consciously or not. >> >> One aspect of Leonardo which I have found so surprising is his genuine >> sense of his own transience. He very much wanted for his work to be >> preserved over time -- given the hostility to all art and science that our >> daily crises can foster by default -- but he understood perhaps even better >> than we do the limits of fame, immortality, and adulation. He wrote, "Once >> daylight appears, we can put out the lamp we lit to see in the dark." It's >> a metaphor of course -- he wasn't trying to help us with our literal home >> lighting decisions -- and one that makes the most sense to me in a context >> of knowledge-sharing, the metamorphic nature of art, and the transient >> cyclical nature of aesthetic value. Trying to freeze such transience he >> knew would merely lead to oversized edifices of diminishing function and, >> paradoxically, increasing instability as the massive structures lose >> proportionality to place, time, people, nature, and so on. >> >> Thanks again for sharing this great work on list. The in-person event >> sounds like it was even more excellent! >> >> All best and congratulations, >> >> Max >> >> >> ------------------------------ >> *From:* NetBehaviour <netbehaviour-boun...@lists.netbehaviour.org> on >> behalf of Ruth Catlow via NetBehaviour < >> netbehaviour@lists.netbehaviour.org> >> *Sent:* Wednesday, August 25, 2021 10:47 AM >> *To:* NetBehaviour for networked distributed creativity < >> netbehaviour@lists.netbehaviour.org> >> *Cc:* Ruth Catlow <ruthcat...@gmail.com> >> *Subject:* [NetBehaviour] Your Vote is Important to the People's Park >> Plinth! ✨🗳 >> >> And finally an unseemly plea to anyone who has not yet voted... >> >> Please do vote now, here https://peoplesparkplinth.org/ (on your smart >> phone) >> >> We know YOU know what great digital art looks like! >> So your vote matters as well as any feedback you can give us about the >> voting process. >> >> See below for more details about the project. >> >> Thank you! >> >> :) Ruth >> >> >> >> >> View this email in your browser >> <https://mailchi.mp/furtherfield/join-the-inaugural-culturestake-vote?e=d1746ee6ff> >> * >> <https://furtherfield.us4.list-manage.com/track/click?u=9d227b6380a87c752902c8a55&id=7a71a5271c&e=d1746ee6ff>* >> >> On the *14th of August 2021*, we launched the *CultureStake* collective >> cultural decision-making app >> <https://furtherfield.us4.list-manage.com/track/click?u=9d227b6380a87c752902c8a55&id=ae99b600b1&e=d1746ee6ff> >> at >> a live voting event with hundreds of people in >> a hot and sunny Finsbury Park. >> Furtherfield Gallery. Photo: Hydar Dewachi ® >> >> You too can now experience collective cultural decision making using the >> *CultureStake >> app* by: >> >> 1. >> >> Heading over to the *Furtherfield Gallery* in *Finsbury Park* or clicking >> this link >> >> <https://furtherfield.us4.list-manage.com/track/click?u=9d227b6380a87c752902c8a55&id=8267aca03c&e=d1746ee6ff> >> to >> the exhibition website. >> 2. >> >> Providing your *email address* so we can send you a *magical voting >> token*. >> 3. >> >> Viewing all *3 digital artworks* currently on display on the *People’s >> Park Plinth*. (Either go to Furtherfield Gallery and scan the QR >> codes and follow them around the park or click the links on the website >> and >> experience the remote versions) >> 4. >> >> Activating your *magical voting token* when it arrives by email *(within >> 24 hours)* >> 5. >> >> Using the *CultureStake app* to express your opinions on the >> artworks. >> >> >> >> >> <https://furtherfield.us4.list-manage.com/track/click?u=9d227b6380a87c752902c8a55&id=b9a0f9108c&e=d1746ee6ff> >> >> >> <https://furtherfield.us4.list-manage.com/track/click?u=9d227b6380a87c752902c8a55&id=6be8b87f5b&e=d1746ee6ff> >> >> >> <https://furtherfield.us4.list-manage.com/track/click?u=9d227b6380a87c752902c8a55&id=cbf27b1b45&e=d1746ee6ff> >> >> *CultureStake* *app* preview for the People's Park Plinth (August 2021) >> >> >> >> <https://furtherfield.us4.list-manage.com/track/click?u=9d227b6380a87c752902c8a55&id=7092483291&e=d1746ee6ff> >> >> At *CultureStake* we want to: >> >> - >> >> End elitism around the arts - by opening cultural decision making to >> wider groups and providing more agency to communities. >> - >> >> Enable people to have a stake in what cultural activities get >> produced in their locality >> - >> >> Explore together as communities what cultural experiences we want to >> have in the places that matter to us. >> >> Furtherfield Gallery. 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Or an arts organisation might need to know which artist on >> their shortlist should be next summer’s blockbuster. >> >> *For All * >> >> We *create data commons* that widens the conversation about how art is >> valued by different communities around the world. >> >> >> <https://furtherfield.us4.list-manage.com/track/click?u=9d227b6380a87c752902c8a55&id=cb9ed7abd5&e=d1746ee6ff> >> >> <https://furtherfield.us4.list-manage.com/track/click?u=9d227b6380a87c752902c8a55&id=e72f1f33ab&e=d1746ee6ff> >> >> >> <https://furtherfield.us4.list-manage.com/track/click?u=9d227b6380a87c752902c8a55&id=a8ae6a69e0&e=d1746ee6ff> >> >> *A Portfolio of Cultural Communities * >> >> Over time we aim to add *thousands of cultural experiences* to the >> *CultureStake >> portfolio* in league with other cultural communities. Cultural >> organisations can add to this with new artist commissions or pick from the >> portfolio. This will allow artists and arts organisations to explore and >> test new ideas in new contexts and enable projects to be easily picked up >> in different locations with different communities. >> >> *Vote Weighting For People in Places* >> >> Any *voting event* can apply vote weighting in a number of different >> scenarios. This means for example, that those closest to the issues can >> have their vote weighted to mean more overall. For instance, local votes >> might be given more weight in an international selection process for a new >> public artwork. >> >> >> For more about CultureStake see our website >> <https://furtherfield.us4.list-manage.com/track/click?u=9d227b6380a87c752902c8a55&id=8ad4a0f0a5&e=d1746ee6ff> >> and FAQs >> <https://furtherfield.us4.list-manage.com/track/click?u=9d227b6380a87c752902c8a55&id=52f8cc8f4d&e=d1746ee6ff> >> . >> >> >> 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. >> >> >> > > -- > Ruth Catlow > she/her > Co-founder & Artistic director of Furtherfield & DECAL Decentralised Arts > Lab > +44 (0) 77370 02879 > > *I will only agree to speak at events that are racially and gender > balanced. > > **sending thanks > <https://www.ovoenergy.com/ovo-newsroom/press-releases/2019/november/think-before-you-thank-if-every-brit-sent-one-less-thank-you-email-a-day-we-would-save-16433-tonnes-of-carbon-a-year-the-same-as-81152-flights-to-madrid.html> > in > advance > > *Furtherfield *disrupts and democratises art and technology through > exhibitions, > labs & debate, for deep exploration, open tools & free thinking. > furtherfield.org <http://www.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 <http://www.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. > > > > _______________________________________________ > NetBehaviour mailing > listNetBehaviour@lists.netbehaviour.orghttps://lists.netbehaviour.org/mailman/listinfo/netbehaviour > > -- > > helen varley jamieson > > he...@creative-catalyst.com > http://www.creative-catalyst.com > http://www.upstage.org.nz > https://mobilise-demobilise.eu > _______________________________________________ > NetBehaviour mailing list > NetBehaviour@lists.netbehaviour.org > https://lists.netbehaviour.org/mailman/listinfo/netbehaviour > -- Ruth Catlow she/her Co-founder & Artistic director of Furtherfield & DECAL Decentralised Arts Lab +44 (0) 77370 02879 *I will only agree to speak at events that are racially and gender balanced. **sending thanks <https://www.ovoenergy.com/ovo-newsroom/press-releases/2019/november/think-before-you-thank-if-every-brit-sent-one-less-thank-you-email-a-day-we-would-save-16433-tonnes-of-carbon-a-year-the-same-as-81152-flights-to-madrid.html> in advance *Furtherfield *disrupts and democratises art and technology through exhibitions, labs & debate, for deep exploration, open tools & free thinking. furtherfield.org <http://www.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 <http://www.decal.is> Furtherfield is a Not-for-Profit Company Limited by Guarantee Registered in England and Wales under the Company No.7005205. 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