Re: [NetBehaviour] Iteracy And The Digital Humanities

[xDxD.vs.xDxD]

Rob,

On Mon, Oct 17, 2011 at 11:52 PM, Rob Myers  wrote:

>
> Knowledge can be spread through the Internet more effectively than other
> communication systems.
>
> And the knowledge it spreads need not be limited to clean water.
>
> I once listened to an Indian activist explaining that, actually,
> villagers do need computers. They help stop their crops failing...
>
>
you know that i am perfectly in synch with that.
i have a website that is called "art is open source" with very specific
content on it :)

i was suggesting that the "question" was placed in terms that were too
simplistic

talk about problems of the planet and the internet?
the computer you are using is part of the problem. the electricity you are
using is part of the problem. the people working at the ISP to allow for
monthly bandwith at 21.99£ a month are part of the problem. the clothes you
are wearing are part of the problem. the battery of your laptop is part of
the problem. some of the things you ate for dinner are part of the problem.
the way that you give for granted that a certain organization of "time" is
"normal" is part of the problem. and so on.

this takes nothing out from the concept that "internet" is fundamental, that
learning about "how things work" (be them computers, software, pills, solar
panels or water filtering techniques) is fundamental and that (as someone
suggested) learning the methodologic-performative form of thought-action
that is programming, is fundamental.

but it still remains "part of the problem".

which is wider. and it has to do with "what we take for granted", and what
we feel is "normal" or "acceptable". It is a problem of awareness and of
culture.

as we have seen, open source, free software, hacking & C. have brought up
insightful mental frameworks to think about "the whole thing". But i am
really fascinated by (and see opportunity in) the scenarios in which we take
a wider approach.


this is a time of change. in times of change people tend to give names to
things. which is fine, but let's not loose contact with the fact that we're
still learning how to deal with a new world configuration.

we're like many Charlie Chaplins in "Modern Times": still cumbersome and
unprepared for what we're facing. in the movie it was industry and a new
mediated, authoritarian, experience of time. For us it is the digital age as
intended by governments and large, planetary operators (be them financial,
technological, energetic or whatever)


i'm sure many (all?!?) of you perfectly understand and maybe even agree to
that. i am just not comfortable with "questions" placed in a narrower
perspective, and i wanted to point it out, as i thought it could be useful
to opening the discussion to a larger perspective.

ciao!
xDxD
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Re: [NetBehaviour] Iteracy And The Digital Humanities

[Rob Myers]

On 14/10/11 07:36, xDxD.vs.xDxD wrote:
>
> "penicillin is the most important technology, not the internet"

Clean water is more important than penicillin.

Clean water is a product of knowledge.

Knowledge can be spread through the Internet more effectively than other
communication systems.

And the knowledge it spreads need not be limited to clean water.

I once listened to an Indian activist explaining that, actually,
villagers do need computers. They help stop their crops failing...

- Rob.
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[NetBehaviour] Higher Ed instructors show your support for the Occupy movements

[Pall Thayer]

http://www.thepetitionsite.com/1/Professors-supporting-Occupy/

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[NetBehaviour] listening to the dead

[Alan Sondheim]

eyebeam: http://eyebeam.org/blogs/alansondheim/


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So how do we listen to the dead? The dead have spoken over wires laid
across long distances, the wires picking up the 'dawn chorus' of very low
frequency (vlf) radio, that appears around 4 a.m. in the morning. I think
WWI field telephones were susceptible. In NYC the problem is the power
grid; we're contaminated by radiation from all directions (as Marko has
pointed out). You might find a silent spot somewhere inside your
apartment, but you'd need a Faraday cage to weed out the electromagnetic
buzz - and then you'd have your dead zone, but no dead. So you want to
record signals that are either on top of the 60 hz buzz, or that appear if
and when the buzz is canceled out. I picked up faint crackles at one
point in Brooklyn with the magnetic field antenna at a particular
orientation. There's also the possibility of going out somewhere on one of
the piers - but the grid follows you there, follows you everywhere.

The dead are drowned out.

The dead are unbelievably drowned out; they're subject to the violence of
Lyotard's differend - there's no recourse where and when there's no
communication.

They have to be coaxed back in.

They're deaf to the coaxing.

You'd have to set up the apparatus in spite of them, without their
presence, without texting them. You'd have to surround them where they're
not, where they don't exist. You'd have to ignore their absence.

Think hungry ghosts or red dust in Times Square. That's what you have to
deal with.

So it's a matter of projection and belief that they're present at all.
They're not going to help you on this journey.

They don't know you're traveling. They couldn't care less. It's of no
concern to them. They're obliterated by the power grid, by the machinery,
even the hatching of sparks as steel strikes steel perhaps somewhere deep
underground. They know about the radio.

They know about the radio. They know something's amiss. Digital television
holds no interest for them, angry buzzing in need of interpretation, more
machinery. They get the radio. You're waiting, writhing, writing your
wires above-ground, under-ground; you're loading them up, the coils,
amplifiers, power sources. You want to use crystal radio, but at these
frequencies, the frequencies of the dead, better ignore the huge antennas,
better deal with something lean and portable. You want to feed the
signals.

You want to feed the signals into something starting small, then
expanding. You need power for that, batteries that don't add alternating
current, sine-waves for example, to the noise everywhere. Then you'll feed
into digital or analog, you'll save everything for analysis. You'll save
everything for the listening of it, which is the meaning of listening to
the dead - it will take a while, it's not going to happen all at once.

What is it in the middle of the night that you feel, this huge pressure
against you, holding you back and paralyzed against the sheets, pressure
and the word of pressure, they so much want to tell you, want this speech,
this one word of pressure, always misinterpreted? You feel you can't get
anywhere with this, the misery of it.

Then you remember what you heard, years ago,
http://espdisk.com/alansondheim/dawnchorus.mp3 and they were coming
towards you from that time on, they knew that you knew, they've been
waiting ever since.

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[NetBehaviour] Spruce

[Alan Sondheim]

Spruce

http://espdisk.com/alansondheim/spruce.mp3

for Margie and anyone interested in fretless fields of sound, this might
be the most perfect oud playing I've done. for Azure who has always
believed in me. for Joanna who might yet take to notes falling from
strings into gene pools of undiscovered species. for Kathy's Thackeray's
Becky's determination and indeterminate formations of tensor qualities of
sound. for Peter's sound determinacy and Mark's indeterminate sonic and
superb functions. for my discovering vast new lands and lamentations and
for healing and cicatrix. for absinthe which I'd like to credit for
everything but can't for anything. for Ossi the cat and Opal the turtle.
for the going forth by day and my returning to hir going forth by night.
for Julu who has necessarily believed in me and Nikuko who has necessarily
not. and for the sound which hollows out the world, returning ontology to
itself, dark matter of light, enlightenment. and for this giving which is
all my selves can do.

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Re: [NetBehaviour] Can activism be art?

[Andreas Maria Jacobs]

Depending on which point of view you've taken, the distinction between 
different ways of confronting *reality*, is sometimes blurred into a field of 
vectors to  -at first sight- mutually exclusive ontologies

A *residu* of *interconnectness*

the *urge* to express a refusal of obedience or order, to *cultural/societal 
ecosystems* and the *cultural-political forces* maintaining these under its 
normative educational and finance rewarding system(s)

My 5cts


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On 17 okt. 2011, at 12:45, Andreas Maria Jacobs  wrote:

> Art IS activism!
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[NetBehaviour] Occupation art

[dave miller]

http://occupyportraits.blogspot.com/

SHARE YOUR OCCUPATION ART

Are you an artist? Can you draw? Our project is to support the Occupy
Wall Street movement by making portraits of the occupants, documenting
the range of participants and recording their messages, using our
special skills as artists.

The Occupation Movement is now global. We hope to collect images from
artists everywhere.

Send us your art from your Occupation. Please send 72 dpi jpegs or a
link to your web album to sbrzw...@gmail.com.
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[NetBehaviour] EUhackathon!!!

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EUhackathon!!!

Call4applications

8-9 November 2011, Brussels, Belgium: Come Hack4Transparency with Us!

Deadline for applications: Global Transparency Track: Monday 17 October!

NEW! The deadline for applications to the Internet Quality Track has 
been extended to Friday 21 October.

NEW! The Internet Quality Track now includes data visualization.

Travel and accomodation costs paid by the organisers for each selected 
applicant (or selected team). First prize 5.000,00 Eur for each track.

The Hack4Transparency event will take place from Tuesday 8 to Wednesday 
9 November 2011 and will be the first-ever ‘hackathon’ within the 
premises of the European Institutions, more specifically in the European 
Parliament in Brussels. The location aims to reinforce the symbolic 
value of uniting the ‘old’ (i.e. the European Institutions and 
law-makers) with the ‘new’ world (i.e. the Internet and the hackers). It 
also puts the European Parliament at the forefront of innovative 
legislators in the digital rights arena.

The goal of the event is to get together talented European developers to 
facilitate the co-creation of tools based on existing code and data 
sources within a 24-hour time constraint in two distinct and parallel 
development tracks, both focused on enabling transparency and 
accountability in the information society. In doing so the event wants 
to help build bridges between code and law (to paraphrase Lawrence 
Lessig) by joining hackers (in a positive sense), civil society, 
industry and legislators for the benefit of all European citizens.

Click here to learn more about our Call4Applications. And who knows, 
maybe you will be the winner of one of our Hack4Transparency awards.

http://www.euhackathon.eu/
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[NetBehaviour] Occupy The Boardroom - The Yes Men.

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Occupy The Boardroom - The Yes Men.

Dear Friend,

Now it’s time to spring into action yourself—by becoming Best Friends 
Forever (BFFs) with the 1% who have wrecked the economy and left us with 
the bill.

Visit www.occupytheboardroom.org to find hundreds of available 1%ers 
today; then figure out how to reach them. The idea is to reveal, through 
hilarious action (like that phone call to Gov. Walker, for instance), 
something about your new 1% BFF and their nasty, people-destructive 
practices.

There are many ways to do this. There’s the telephone, of course, and 
there's email. Or how about giving them an award, or paying them a visit 
in costume? For more suggestions, go pick your new BFF now! Whatever you 
do, make it revealing, nonviolent, and funny; document it well, and 
email images, video, audio or text to b...@occupytheboardroom.org. The 
funniest interactions, that reveal the most about the 1% (or just your 
particular BFF), will win prizes.

This isn’t easy to do—but then neither is sleeping out in the rain, let 
alone digging ourselves out of the mess that the 1% have created.

We can’t wait to see what you come up with!

Onwards!
Your friends at The Yes Lab

p.s. This is a big project by a whole bunch of people.

http://www.occupytheboardroom.org/
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[NetBehaviour] Global Positioning: An Interview with Ricardo Dominguez.

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Global Positioning: An Interview with Ricardo Dominguez.

By Lawrence Bird.

The Transborder Immigrant Tool (TBT) is a hand-held device to aid 
crossers of the Mexico-US border. A project created by the University of 
California at San Diego’s Electronic Disturbance Theater (EDT) 
2.0/b.a.n.g. lab, and still evolving today.

Here Ricardo Dominguez, co-founder of EDT (with Brett Stalbaum), 
Principal Investigator of b.a.n.g. lab, and Associate Professor in the 
Visual Arts Department at UCSD, discusses the project with Lawrence 
Bird. The interview includes input from other members of the collective: 
Brett Stalbaum, Micha Cardenas, Amy Sara Carroll and Elle Mehrmand.

http://www.furtherfield.org/features/global-positioning-interview-ricardo-dominguez

Ricardo Dominguez is a co-founder of The Electronic Disturbance Theater 
(EDT), a group who developed Virtual-Sit-In technologies in 1998 in 
solidarity with the Zapatista communities in Chiapas, Mexico. He is 
co-Director of Thing (thing.net) an ISP for artists and activists. His 
recent Electronic Disturbance Theater project with Brett Stabaum, Micha 
Cardenas and Amy Sara Carroll the *Transborder Immigrant Tool* (a GPS 
cellphone safety net tool for crossing the Mexico/U.S border was the 
winner of "Transnational Communities Award", this award was funded by 
*Cultural Contact*, Endowment for Culture Mexico - U.S. and handed out 
by the U.S. Embassy in Mexico), also funded by CALIT2 and two 
Transborder Awards from the UCSD Center for the Humanities. Ricardo is 
an Assistant Professor at UCSD in the Visual Arts Department, a Hellman 
Fellow, and Principal/Principle Investigator at CALIT2 
(http://bang.calit2.net). He also co-founder of *particle group* with 
artists Diane Ludin, Nina Waisman, Amy Sara Carroll a gesture about 
nanotechnology entitled *Particles of Interest: Tales of the Matter 
Market* (http://pitmm.net) that was presented in Berlin (2007), the San 
Diego Museum of Art (2008), Oi Futuro, and FILE festivals in Brazil (2008).

Lawrence has trained in social urban design (MSc City Design, LSE), 
phenomenology (PhD, History & Theory of Architecture, McGill). Bird is a 
designer, instructor and writer with an interest in cities and their 
image. He has been trained in social science-based urban design (MSc), 
and in the phenomenology of cinematic architecture (PhD). He's currently 
working on the postdoctoral project Beyond the Desert of the Real, based 
in Winnipeg, Canada. The project asks for visual narratives from city 
residents in response to desolate urban sites, experiments with 
representations of the city based on these narratives, and uses these 
strategies as points of departure for urban design and urban landscape 
proposals. He also makes films, and is currently developing a hybrid 
film and animation project WPG_POV. SSHRC Postdoctoral Fellow
University of Manitoba Faculty of Architecture.

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Other Info:

A living - breathing - thriving networked neighbourhood - art,
technology & social change - claiming it with others ;)

http://identi.ca/furtherfield
http://twitter.com/furtherfield

Other reviews,articles,interviews
http://www.furtherfield.org/features

Furtherfield – online arts community, platforms for creating, viewing,
discussing and learning about experimental practices at the
intersections of art, technology and social change.
http://www.furtherfield.org

Furtherfield Gallery – physical media arts Gallery (London).
http://www.furtherfield.org/programmes/exhibitions

Netbehaviour - Networked Artists List Community.
http://www.netbehaviour.org
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Re: [NetBehaviour] Can activism be art?

[Andreas Maria Jacobs]

Art IS activism!

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On 17 okt. 2011, at 10:56, dave miller  wrote:

> http://hyperallergic.com/38275/could-activism-be-art/
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Re: [NetBehaviour] Can activism be art?

[isabel brison]

Activism can surely be art as long as enough people call it that, or if it
is done with the intention of being art, but is there really any advantage
for activism to be called art? Will this make for better, or more
far-reaching activism?

The article seems to say that activism is creative just as art is, so it can
be considered art. OK, but there are lots of creative activities that are
normally not considered art, and when they are, this doesn't necessarily
change anything for them. I'm thinking of cooking, and Rirkrit Tiravanija,
for example. He may have done something for the artworld, but I don't think
his work is that significant for cooking as a creative activity almost
everyone engages in daily.

My point is that the artworld is very fond of colonizing other areas of
knowledge/production, but this seems to happen in a onesided manner. People
will still be engaging in creative activities whether anyone chooses to call
them art or not, and calling them art will probably not make any difference.



best,
isabel


2011/10/17 Stéphane Mourey 

> Well, *can art not be activism?*
>
>
> 2011/10/17 dave miller 
>
>> http://hyperallergic.com/38275/could-activism-be-art/
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Re: [NetBehaviour] Can activism be art?

[xDxD.vs.xDxD]

2011/10/17 Stéphane Mourey 

> Well, *can art not be activism?*
>
>
can activism be activism?
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Re: [NetBehaviour] Can activism be art?

[Stéphane Mourey]

Well, *can art not be activism?*

2011/10/17 dave miller 

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[NetBehaviour] Can activism be art?

[dave miller]

http://hyperallergic.com/38275/could-activism-be-art/
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