done :) On 30.08.21 20:47, Ruth Catlow via NetBehaviour wrote: > 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 <mailto: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/ >> <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 <mailto: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 >> <mailto:netbehaviour-boun...@lists.netbehaviour.org>> on >> behalf of Ruth Catlow via NetBehaviour >> <netbehaviour@lists.netbehaviour.org >> <mailto:netbehaviour@lists.netbehaviour.org>> >> *Sent:* Wednesday, August 25, 2021 10:47 AM >> *To:* NetBehaviour for networked distributed creativity >> <netbehaviour@lists.netbehaviour.org >> <mailto:netbehaviour@lists.netbehaviour.org>> >> *Cc:* Ruth Catlow <ruthcat...@gmail.com >> <mailto: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/ >> <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 >> technologiesresearch 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 list >> NetBehaviour@lists.netbehaviour.org >> <mailto:NetBehaviour@lists.netbehaviour.org> >> https://lists.netbehaviour.org/mailman/listinfo/netbehaviour >> <https://lists.netbehaviour.org/mailman/listinfo/netbehaviour> > -- > > helen varley jamieson > > he...@creative-catalyst.com <mailto:he...@creative-catalyst.com> > http://www.creative-catalyst.com <http://www.creative-catalyst.com> > http://www.upstage.org.nz <http://www.upstage.org.nz> > https://mobilise-demobilise.eu <https://mobilise-demobilise.eu/> > > _______________________________________________ > NetBehaviour mailing list > NetBehaviour@lists.netbehaviour.org > <mailto:NetBehaviour@lists.netbehaviour.org> > https://lists.netbehaviour.org/mailman/listinfo/netbehaviour > <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 > technologiesresearch 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 list > NetBehaviour@lists.netbehaviour.org > https://lists.netbehaviour.org/mailman/listinfo/netbehaviour --
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