[NetBehaviour] Eye of the Storm - An interdisciplinary conference on scientific controversy
+++ Eye of the Storm++ An interdisciplinary conference on scientific controversy ++ Interested in how artists are responding to today's hot issues in science and society? Join artists, scientists and social scientists at this conference exploring belief and experiment, dissent and discord, big science, high finance, geopolitics and the legislation of uncertainty around subjects including climate change, biotechnology, genetics and astrophysics. From esoteric arguments over the structure of the universe to highly charged public controversies around the use of stem cells, Eye of the Storm brings together an extraordinary international group of artists whose work playfully and provocatively intervenes in science, scientists at the heart of these controversies, and other experts to spark two days of dynamic conversations about our changing world. Speakers include artist Eduardo Kac, whose artworks creating transgenic animals have generated controversy since he first persuaded French geneticists to produce a rabbit that glows in the dark, Sheila Jasanoff, one of the major voices in science and technology studies who has called for a new humility in technology, artist Rod Dickinson whose re-enactments of scientific experiments form part of his ongoing exploration into the mechanisms underpinning systems of belief and social control, Oron Catts, pioneer in the use of bioscience as a medium for artistic expression, Helen and Newton Mayer Harrison, pioneers of environmental art, who have worked for over thirty years with biologists, ecologists and urban planners to to uncover ideas and solutions to complex ecological problems, astronomer Roger Malina who will discuss the current crisis in astronomy with dark energy, and sociologist Harry Collins who for many years has studied the human dynamics of controversies raging between astronomers in the search for gravity waves. Organised by The Arts Catalyst and Tate Britain, in association with Leonardo/OLATS REGISTRATION Tate Britain Auditorium £70 (£35 concessions), booking required Price includes drinks afterwards Register online or call +44 (0) 20 7887 . http://www.artscatalyst.org/projects/global/eyeofthestorm.html -- Olga http://www.ungravitational.net http://virtualfirefly.wordpress.com ___ NetBehaviour mailing list NetBehaviour@netbehaviour.org http://www.netbehaviour.org/mailman/listinfo/netbehaviour
[NetBehaviour] Robotic Geese from xDesign Project (Natalie Jeremijenko)
Robotic Geese from xDesign Project (Natalie Jeremijenko) Robotic Geese are remote controlled goose robots that enable participants or robotic goose drivers (aka goosers) to interact with actual geese in urban contexts. The robotic goose interface allows people to approach the birds, follow them closely and interact in a variety of ways that would not otherwise be possible without this interface. The goose drivers can ‘talk to’ the geese, issuing utterances through the robotic interface, delivering prerecorded goose ‘words,’ their own vocal impersonations, or other sounds (such as goose flute hunting calls). Each utterance via the robotic goose triggers the camera in the robot’s head to capture 2-4 seconds of video recording the responses of the actual biological geese. These video samples upload to the public web-based goosespeak database that the participants can annotate, i.e. “the goose was telling me to go away,” “he was saying Hi.” As this database of goose responses accretes, redundancy and correlations in the annotations may provide robust semantic descriptors of the library of video clips. http://www.environmentalhealthclinic.net/projects/robotic-geese/ -- Olga http://www.ungravitational.net http://virtualfirefly.wordpress.com ___ NetBehaviour mailing list NetBehaviour@netbehaviour.org http://www.netbehaviour.org/mailman/listinfo/netbehaviour
[NetBehaviour] SLUMP CITY, exhibition and screenings (at Space Studios)
SLUMP CITY June 6th – June 26th 2009 Space Studios, London, UK As the consequences of the global recession begin to take effect, the regeneration of East London, the traditional home of London’s large artist community, has slowed and the promised Olympic legacy looks in doubt. It is within this context that SPACE presents Slump City an exhibition presenting the work of 3 exciting emerging artists whose visionary and haunting work combines gothic fantasy, poetic social realism and psycho-geography to imagine the urban periphery. More info, http://www.spacestudios.org.uk/blogcategory/Forthcoming_Exhibitions/ SLUMP SCREENINGS June 16th 2009, 6.30 - 9 pm Space Studios, London, UK SLUMP Screenings presents a body of film curated by artist Laura Oldfield Ford that includes artists films, activist footage and documentary charting urban social upheaval in the capital throughout the 80s, 90s to the present day. The films are derived from Oldfield Ford's current project 'Britannia:States of Emergency' In which the artist undertakes a process of chorographically mapping the country along the lines of social antagonism by focusing on urban areas where uprisings have taken place. Today many of the areas have been subjected to urban renewal schemes as a direct result of social unrest with Toxteth and the subsequent Liverpool garden Festival being well documnated examples. The main focus of Oldfield Ford's project is the Summer of 1981 when the whole country erupted in riots including Brixton and Dalston. Oldfield Ford examines how architecture and urban planning have been employed as a strategy for ‘designing out’ dissent. The project sets out not to treat social upheaval as a source of leftist nostalgia but as a radical critique of contemporary urbanism. http://www.spacestudios.org.uk/blogcategory/Forthcoming_Events/ Space Studios 129-131 Mare St London, Hackney, E8 020 8525 4330 -- Olga http://www.ungravitational.net http://virtualfirefly.wordpress.com ___ NetBehaviour mailing list NetBehaviour@netbehaviour.org http://www.netbehaviour.org/mailman/listinfo/netbehaviour
[NetBehaviour] SLUMP CITY, exhibition and screenings ((WRONG DATE))
Sorry I did a mistake with the date for the screenings of SLUM CITY. It's next Thursday the 18th of June, 6.30 - 9 pm. SLUMP SCREENINGS Thursday 18 June, 6.30 - 9pm SLUMP Screenings presents a body of film curated by artist Laura Oldfield Ford that includes artists films, activist footage and documentary charting urban social upheaval in the capital throughout the 80s, 90s to the present day. The films are derived from Oldfield Ford's current project 'Britannia:States of Emergency' In which the artist undertakes a process of chronographically mapping the country along the lines of social antagonism by focusing on urban areas where uprisings have taken place. Today many of the areas have been subjected to urban renewal schemes as a direct result of social unrest with Toxteth and the subsequent Liverpool garden Festival being well documented examples. The main focus of Oldfield Ford's project is the Summer of 1981 when the whole country erupted in riots including Brixton and Dalston. Oldfield Ford examines how architecture and urban planning have been employed as a strategy for ‘designing out’ dissent. The project sets out not to treat social upheaval as a source of leftist nostalgia but as a radical critique of contemporary urbanism. Space Studios 129-131 Mare St London, Hackney, E8 020 8525 4330 -- Olga http://www.ungravitational.net http://virtualfirefly.wordpress.com ___ NetBehaviour mailing list NetBehaviour@netbehaviour.org http://www.netbehaviour.org/mailman/listinfo/netbehaviour
[NetBehaviour] Hacker Space Festival, 26-30 June 2009
The second Hacker Space Festival (HSF) will be held at the /tmp/lab in Paris, on the 26-30 June 2009. The goal of the Hacker Space Festival is to bring together people from many cultural and technological backgrounds and from different Hacker Spaces and Autonomous zones in France and Europe (and from beyond, if they can attend) to share and show what's going on. http://www.hackerspace.net/ -- Olga http://www.ungravitational.net http://virtualfirefly.wordpress.com ___ NetBehaviour mailing list NetBehaviour@netbehaviour.org http://www.netbehaviour.org/mailman/listinfo/netbehaviour
[NetBehaviour] Grants for a residency at Medialab Prado Madrid
Grants at the Residencia de Estudiantes 2009/2010 Madrid City Council offers 18 grants for researchers and artists at the Residencia de Estudiantes in Madrid from September 1, 2009 through August 31, 2010. Deadline for applications: June 26 at 2 pm More information and applications: http://www.residencia.csic.es/bec/f_ayuntamiento.htm -- Olga http://www.ungravitational.net http://virtualfirefly.wordpress.com ___ NetBehaviour mailing list NetBehaviour@netbehaviour.org http://www.netbehaviour.org/mailman/listinfo/netbehaviour
[NetBehaviour] Digital Britain: What to expect from L ord Carter’s report.
Digital Britain: What to expect from Lord Carter’s report. By Gadget Guru What will the Digital Britain report bring to various sections of the media – and will they get what they’re looking for? Lord Carter’s Digital Britain review has been the most comprehensive examination of the media and telecoms landscape in the UK in recent memory. Its impact will reverberate across the industry for some time – regardless of how long the communications minister himself remains in government. http://www.rss4gadgets.co.uk/2009/06/16/digital-britain-what-to-expect-from-lord-carters-report/ ___ NetBehaviour mailing list NetBehaviour@netbehaviour.org http://www.netbehaviour.org/mailman/listinfo/netbehaviour
[NetBehaviour] Wanted Works: Le Dejeuner Sur l'Herbe by O.Brody K.Paetau
LE DÉJEUNER SUR LHERBE (2006) Hommage to Edouard Manet Video, 3 min. 39 sec. The video shows on the left screen the finished montage with contemporary czech porn actors animating the classical painting by Edouard Manet which forms the backdrop of the scene. On the right screen the shooting of the video in a blue box is displayed, showing the set with the 2 cameramen-directors dressed and painted in blue. The phonetically repeated french dialogues of the actors add to the awkwardness of their performance and to the disconcerting atmosphere of the work. We invite you to watch criticize the video online: http://brodypaetau.com/?page_id=9 You can also buy this work online: http://brodypaetau.com/?page_id=135 Warm regards, Ondrej Brody Kristofer Paetau -- Wanted Works is an e-mail list encouraging criticality within contemporary visual art. You are subscribed to Wanted Works using the following email: netbehaviour@netbehaviour.org UNSUBSCRIBE using the following URL: http://freshsent.telekommunisten.net/mail.cgi/u/CriticizeNow/ If the above URL is inoperable, make sure that you copy paste the entire URL address in your browser and hit Enter. You can also answer to this mail and write UNSUBSCRIBE in the mail subject in order to be unsubscribed. THANK YOU to Telekommunisten for hosting the Wanted Works mailinglist: http://www.telekommunisten.net/ ___ NetBehaviour mailing list NetBehaviour@netbehaviour.org http://www.netbehaviour.org/mailman/listinfo/netbehaviour
Re: [NetBehaviour] Wanted Works: Le Dejeuner Sur l'Herbe by O.Brody K.Paetau
Hi Ondrej Brody Kristofer Paetau, We invite you to watch criticize the video online... first question: I was wondering if there was any point in any criticism being made? I have read some of the responses to some of your other works, such as 'dog carpets' (http://brodypaetau.com/?page_id=119) and do not see any dialogue between yourselves and the public - it seems as if there is no discussion with the public, other than within the framework of people's reactions to your work. Second question: So I'm wondering - is a reaction from the public whatever that may be, the main purpose of your work? karen. On Tue, Jun 16, 2009 at 5:50 PM, O.Brody K.Paetau brodypae...@googlemail.com wrote: LE DÉJEUNER SUR L’HERBE (2006) Hommage to Edouard Manet Video, 3 min. 39 sec. The video shows on the left screen the finished montage with contemporary czech porn actors animating the classical painting by Edouard Manet which forms the backdrop of the scene. On the right screen the shooting of the video in a blue box is displayed, showing the set with the 2 cameramen-directors dressed and painted in blue. The phonetically repeated french dialogues of the actors add to the awkwardness of their performance and to the disconcerting atmosphere of the work. We invite you to watch criticize the video online: http://brodypaetau.com/?page_id=9 You can also buy this work online: http://brodypaetau.com/?page_id=135 Warm regards, Ondrej Brody Kristofer Paetau -- Wanted Works is an e-mail list encouraging criticality within contemporary visual art. You are subscribed to Wanted Works using the following email: netbehaviour@netbehaviour.org UNSUBSCRIBE using the following URL: http://freshsent.telekommunisten.net/mail.cgi/u/CriticizeNow/ If the above URL is inoperable, make sure that you copy paste the entire URL address in your browser and hit Enter. You can also answer to this mail and write UNSUBSCRIBE in the mail subject in order to be unsubscribed. THANK YOU to Telekommunisten for hosting the Wanted Works mailinglist: http://www.telekommunisten.net/ ___ NetBehaviour mailing list NetBehaviour@netbehaviour.org http://www.netbehaviour.org/mailman/listinfo/netbehaviour ___ NetBehaviour mailing list NetBehaviour@netbehaviour.org http://www.netbehaviour.org/mailman/listinfo/netbehaviour
Re: [NetBehaviour] Wanted Works: Le Dejeuner Sur l'Herbe by O.Brody K.Paetau
I don't like this work. too easy. Provocation is a good attitude for Art dating from the twentieth century. Edouard Manet'work was the suggestion of lust. here no suggestion. just porn. bobig O.Brody K.Paetau a écrit : LE DÉJEUNER SUR L’HERBE (2006) Hommage to Edouard Manet Video, 3 min. 39 sec. The video shows on the left screen the finished montage with contemporary czech porn actors animating the classical painting by Edouard Manet which forms the backdrop of the scene. On the right screen the shooting of the video in a blue box is displayed, showing the set with the 2 cameramen-directors dressed and painted in blue. The phonetically repeated french dialogues of the actors add to the awkwardness of their performance and to the disconcerting atmosphere of the work. We invite you to watch criticize the video online: http://brodypaetau.com/?page_id=9 You can also buy this work online: http://brodypaetau.com/?page_id=135 Warm regards, Ondrej Brody Kristofer Paetau ___ NetBehaviour mailing list NetBehaviour@netbehaviour.org http://www.netbehaviour.org/mailman/listinfo/netbehaviour
[NetBehaviour] Announcement: Beam Me Up - new online projects launched
Press release For immediate release 15 June 2009 www.beam-me.net Launching in June 2009 (coincident with the International Year of Astronomy - http://www.astronomy2009.org/) are new online projects by New York-based artists Jamie O'Shea and Joe Winter and a previously unpublished poem by artist Alec Finlay (http://www.beam-me.net/ tourdetail.php?lang=etourid=9). As part of the web-based platform Beam Me Up, guest curator Sarah Cook has invited these artists as well as 2 scientists -- Guillaume Belanger and Jayanne English -- to reflect on the nature of perceiving and representing space and outer space. Two more contributions commissioned by Sarah Cook will follow later in the summer. Beam Me Up is a global project by Xcult.org, based in Basel, which will continue into 2010 inviting art contributions and essays which seek to interpret concepts of space and cyberspace using both pictures and texts, artistic and philosophical models as well as scientific experience. Xcult.org have been organizing and curating Internet-based art and text projects which deal with questions of our understanding of reality and our use of the media since 1995. Jamie O'Shea has been building small shrines to the transmissions of the robotic probes on the surface of Mars. The latest telematic shrine, an icy tomb in O'Shea's freezer created with a timed humidifier and toaster, is a simulation of a probe we have lost contact with -- NASA's Phoenix lander. For the duration of the summer here on Earth you can watch O'Shea's web-cam, delayed by the time lag between Earth and Mars, and see the latest shrine to the 'martyred lander' become slowly encased in ice crystals -- just as the actual probe is entombed in dry ice on Mars right now. Phoenix may come back online when it thaws sometime in October 2009 (during the Martian spring), and if it does and begins retransmitting signals to Earth, it will turn on the toaster probe in O'Shea's freezer, melting it free. link: http://www.beam-me.net/beitragdetail.php?lang=eartid=51 Joe Winter's work challenges how we understand the space of the computer screen and filmic space-time. By shooting videos out in the world, and then playing those back onto the bed of a scanner, Joe reminds us that technology, no matter how much it is upgraded, will never be able to truly capture how we see the world. His online 'animations' are at once both films and drawings, of a space which seems familiar from lived experience, but has been flattened into little more than traces of once live, now archived, digital data. link: http://www.beam-me.net/beitragdetail.php?lang=eartid=46 Alec Finlay's untitled and previously unpublished poem was composed in 2008 after a conversation he had with the sound artist Honor Harger whose practice involves listening to radio signals from outerspace. Alec's work encompasses poetry, visual art and publishing; he recently released the One Hundred Year Star-Diary, a collaboration with Denis Moskowitz Professor Ray Sharples, which has a page per year, beginning in 2008, charting the night sky, with old and new astronomical symbols for the constellations, and leaving room for your thoughts and observations. link: http://www.beam-me.net/beitragdetail.php?lang=eartid=45 Alongside these art commissions are two pieces of writing commissioned from astrophysicists working internationally, all of which seek to reconcile the impossibilities inherent in attempts to represent our understanding of outer space. Dr. Guillaume Belanger of the Gamma-ray mission Integral of the European Space Agency has written a new essay that raises questions regarding our perception of this world, of what we know, and ultimately of ourselves. He draws his inspiration for the context in which he sets these simple but fundamental questions from our home Galaxy: its stars, its structure, and its nucleus, the supermassive black hole Sagittarius A*. link: http://www.beam-me.net/beitragdetail.php?lang=eartid=42 Dr. Jayanne English of the University of Winnipeg's Department of Physics and Astronomy has submitted a new animation showing the cold hydrogen gas, which is invisible to human eyes, in our Milky Way Galaxy. Dr. English makes images from complex data sets acquired via telescopic observations of outer space, determining the colour and form of them as she sits in front of her computer screen. A full essay on the interface of space-time and the human imagination as seen through a monitor will follow at the end of the summer. link:http://www.beam-me.net/beitragdetail.php?lang=eartid=43 About the artists: Joe Winter is an artist based in New York who makes sculptures that re-purpose familiar technological systems and undermine their functional sense. Past works have targeted sound-related technologies and objects, and have included: a cassette tape that draws three- dimensional
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There are networks everywhere in my work: networks of viewers, collab-
orators, responsive objects, negotiable spaces, Biovision Hierarchy files
(.bvh), parent/child relationships. Generally, networks are characterized
by deep and surface metrics and geodesics. The dynamics of networks are
characterized by the cheat, the kludge, and the hack. Physics is the clean
hack.\net
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A phenomenology is a description of a landscape and habitus in dialog. The
tenor of a phenomenology is its dynamics, its 'rasa.' \net
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The metric of a phenomenology is its underlying fuzzy structure; the
metric undergoes continuous transformation since habitus and landscape are
dynamic. Transformation sends f(x) - f(x'). There are surface and deep
metrics. The deep metrics constitute protocol space where x is always
preserved. The surface metrics constitute a supple space dependent upon
the deep metrics for their dynamics. The surface metrics may undergo
'ragged' transforms within which information is created or annihilated.
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The surface metrics are dependent upon the deep metrics. The deep metrics
tend to exist as mathesis; in other words, they are, more often than not
related to the metrics of space-time. The surface metrics are cultural
artifacts. The surface metric tend towards _corporate style._\net
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Geodesics in the surface metrics are paths of least resistance; their
determination is both psychological (i.e. 'this' choice and not 'that')
and topographic ('this' choice created through the metrics is the simplest
choice possible). An example of the former: rectilinear text and graphics
within an html environment. An example of the latter: an avatar 'falling'
a kilometer in Second Life. \net
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The surface metric is susceptible to habitus short-cutting: Cheat, kludge,
and hack. The cheat is 'something appearing as more or less than it is,'
something 'magical.' The cheat involves symbolic manipulation which may be
constituted by a formal series of (fuzzy) operations. The kludge is
'making do, using available technology, employing the clumsy or inelegant
if it produces acceptable results. The kludge is abject. The hack is
'beneath the surface, something doing something it wasn't intended to
do.\net
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The habitus of the real is the cheat, the kludge, and the hack. The cheat:
Manipulation by proxy. The kludge: Manipulation by experiment 'at hand.'
The hack: Exposure, subterfuge, the cleaning-up of the kludge. Physics is
the clean hack. \net
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The 'true,' the 'beautiful,' the 'good,' are names of legitimation
processes applied to phenomenologies. Otherwise of course: There is no
intention or meaning 'to' or 'of' the real. \net
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