Re: report_on_NNA
On Jun 7, 2006, at 5:13 AM, Andreas Broeckmann wrote: > (for me the question is, whether it is possible to get out of > the stale-mate that the list seems to be in; is it possible to make > communication more fluid again, or is the list just too old after 11 > years? vuk - whatever happened to the spirit of 1996?) > If I remember correctly, many of the same questions were being asked in 1996 when a lot of the artists on the list felt constrained by the moderation and left or stopped posting. Since The Upgrade started out as an artists' group in NYC there's probably some concern about nettime being presented as an art project in that context -- a subject that is still relevant and should be discussed on nettime! not vuk Robbin Murphy THE THING, Inc. # distributed via : no commercial use without permission # is a moderated mailing list for net criticism, # collaborative text filtering and cultural politics of the nets # more info: [EMAIL PROTECTED] and "info nettime-l" in the msg body # archive: http://www.nettime.org contact: nettime@bbs.thing.net
Re: publication of "Jyllands-Posten" cartoons is not...
On Feb 15, 2006, at 6:29 PM, Jody Berland wrote: > Let's have some global self-awareness here. > These are political thugs who wrap themselves in the cloak of religion. First they come for the cartoons, then they come for you. Robbin Murphy THE THING, Inc. Russian Chief Rabbi Echoes Muslim Leader in Protesting Gay Pride in Moscow Created: 16.02.2006 20:01 MSK (GMT +3), Updated: 20:01 MSK, 4 hours 19 minutes ago MosNews Three days after Russia's top Islamic leader called for violent protests against this spring's planned gay pride march in Moscow the country's Chief Rabbi has joined him in denouncing gays. Rabbi Berl Lazar on Thursday told Interfax that if the gay pride parade were allowed to go ahead it "would be a blow for morality". Lazar, who also holds U.S. citizenship, did not go as far as calling for violence, but warned the Jewish community would not stand by silently, 365gay.com website said. On Tuesday Chief Russian Mufti Talgat Tajuddin said gays could be beaten if they go ahead with pride celebrations in the capital. "Muslims' protests can be even worse than these notorious rallies abroad over the scandalous cartoons," Tajuddin, of Russia's Central Spiritual Governance for Muslims, told Interfax. Rabbi Lazar on Thursday said that anything promoting what he called "sexual perversions" does not have the right to exist. "I would like to assure you, that the parade of homosexuals it is not less offensive to the feelings of believers than any caricatures in newspapers," Lazar said, linking the pride parade with the current furor over the cartoons of the Islamic Profit Mohammed published in Denmark. Nikolai Alekseyev, one of the organizers of the pride festival called the comparison "outrageous". "Any comparison between the march for human rights and against discrimination with the publication of cartoons is nothing more than an attempt to incite hatred toward sexual minorities," Alekseev said. Meanwhile, a spokesperson for the city of Moscow said a parade permit would not be granted to the LGBT rights groups. "Moscow authorities will not allow the conduct of gay pride in any form," Sergei Tsoi said on Thursday. "The Mayor of Moscow said firmly that Moscow government will not allow the conduct of gay parade in any form=A0=97 neither open, nor indirect, = and all attempts to organize non sanctioned action will be severely suppressed." Alekseyev said any attempt to prevent the march would be countered with court action. "In case of denial to conduct the match of sexual minorities we will immediately sue in court. The right to meetings, marches and demonstrations is guaranteed by the Russian Constitution to every citizen of Russia including gays and lesbians, he said. If necessary the organizers will go all the way to the European Court of human rights in Strasbourg, said Alekseyev. # distributed via : no commercial use without permission # is a moderated mailing list for net criticism, # collaborative text filtering and cultural politics of the nets # more info: [EMAIL PROTECTED] and "info nettime-l" in the msg body # archive: http://www.nettime.org contact: nettime@bbs.thing.net
THE THING Enters The Death Star
THE THING is making a pilgrimage to its ancestral home in Tribeca for the next three months, housed in the old AT&T building (aka the Death Star) at 32 Ave. of the Americas. This is thanks to the Lower Manhattan Cultural Council who obtained the space for our residency program. Jan Gerber is already here mopping the floor and Daniel Pflumm is expected next week to set up the bar. Later we'll have Luka Frelih and 01.org as well as a swarm of locals. Stay tuned for more information. For now: http://post.thing.net/node/540 http://post.thing.net/files/deathstar1/deathstar1.html http://www.tinjail.com/tintype/?p=309 Robbin Murphy The Thing, Inc. 459 West 19th Street New York, NY 10011 [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://post.thing.net # distributed via : no commercial use without permission # is a moderated mailing list for net criticism, # collaborative text filtering and cultural politics of the nets # more info: [EMAIL PROTECTED] and "info nettime-l" in the msg body # archive: http://www.nettime.org contact: nettime@bbs.thing.net
Re: Landscape Painting of the Information Age
>> The only artist, as far as I know, who >> literally creates landscape painting of the >> information age is Wolfgang Staehle. Herr Ding grumbled something in German when he read this then went out to stand on a rocky shore contemplating the sublime. Or maybe he just went to get coffee. He creates, to use Flusser's term, "technical images" -- surfaces that are dependent on linear text. While they are technically sophisticated that isn't the first thing you notice about them and I'm sure many people think the real-time projections are videos. In this sense he is very much in the tradition of Church and other Hudson River landscape painters and like Church he controls where, when and how his work is seen. Because of this the work doesn't have the overbearing aura of "digital art" that other similar work does. Then again, he's just as much in the tradition of the text and language arm of Conceptual art as, say ,Lawrence Weiner. That's a sweet spot to be in. Oh, BTW: Free Asher B. Durand's "Kindred Spirits" from Wal-Mart's evil clutches! Robbin Murphy The Thing, Inc. 459 West 19th Street New York, NY 10011 [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://post.thing.net/blog/murphy # distributed via : no commercial use without permission # is a moderated mailing list for net criticism, # collaborative text filtering and cultural politics of the nets # more info: [EMAIL PROTECTED] and "info nettime-l" in the msg body # archive: http://www.nettime.org contact: nettime@bbs.thing.net
Imaginary Futures -- A presentation by Richard Barbrook
Saturday April 23 The Thing at Postmasters 459 West 19th Street 6:30pm 'Imaginary Futures.' A presentation by Richard Barbrook Respondent: Trebor Scholz In the modern world, our understanding of the present is often shaped by sci-fi fantasies about what is to come. Ironically, the most influential of these visions of the future are already decades old. We are already living in the times when they were supposed to have come true. In his presentations, Richard Barbrook will analyze the origins and evolution of three imaginary futures: artificial intelligence; the information society; and the gift culture. By showing that the future is what it used to be, he will argue that it is time for us to invent new futures. Dr. Richard Barbrook was educated at Cambridge, Essex and Kent universities. During the early-1980s, he was involved in pirate and community radio broadcasting. He helped to set up Spectrum Radio, a multi-lingual station operating in London, and published extensively on radio issues. In the late-1980s and early-1990s, Richard worked for a research institute at the University of Westminster on media regulation within the EU. Some of this research was later published in 'Media Freedom: the contradictions of communications in the age of modernity' (Pluto Press, London 1995). Richard is currently researcher-in-residence at the Institute for Distributed Creativity (http://distributedcreativity.org). Since the mid-1990s, Richard has been coordinator of the Hypermedia Research Centre at the University of Westminster and is course leader of its MA in Hypermedia Studies. In collaboration with Andy Cameron, he wrote 'The Californian Ideology' which was a pioneering critique of the neo-liberal politics of 'Wired' magazine. In the last few years, Richard has written a series of articles exploring the impact of the sharing of information over the Net, including 'The Hi-Tech Gift Economy' and 'Cyber-communism'. He is presently working on a book - 'Imaginary Futures' =AD which is about how ideas from the 1960s and 1970s shape our contemporary conception of the information society. A selection of Richard's writings are available on the Hypermedia Research Center's website. (http://www.hrc.wmin.ac.uk/) Trebor Scholz is a New York-based media artist, writer and organizer. He is professor at the Department of Media Study, SUNY at Buffalo and founder of the Institute for Distributed Creativity. http://molodiez.org # distributed via : no commercial use without permission # is a moderated mailing list for net criticism, # collaborative text filtering and cultural politics of the nets # more info: [EMAIL PROTECTED] and "info nettime-l" in the msg body # archive: http://www.nettime.org contact: nettime@bbs.thing.net
