[spectre] Electronic Village Galleries
Sorry for any cross posting... Electronic Village Galleries Friday 15th April @ 6.30 – 8.30pm Penryn Town Hall, Higher Market Street, Penryn, Cornwall, UK Free event. Electronic Village Galleries Penryn is an event exhibiting four collections of network, sound and new media art. The evening will be hosted by Fi Henshall and include discussion with Rob Gawthrop and Patrick Simons. Everyone is welcome to come and enjoy the artwork, food, wine and discussion. Each collection has been selected especially for the Electronic Village Galleries by a diverse range of new media curators and artists. At the Penryn event there will be collections by Beryl Graham, Patrick Simons, Furtherfield.org and Kurator. These will include works by nationally and internationally known artists Rob Myers, Moddr, Karen Blissett, Julian Oliver and Danja Vasiliev (newstweek.com) Susan Collins, Carry Peppermint and Leila Nadir (ecoarttech), Rachel Reupke, Thomson Craighead, Les Liens Invisibles, Oliver Ressler, UBERMORGEN.COM and from a number of art radio stations. Discuss Online Texts by Verina Gfader on a few of the artworks being shown at the event are featured on the Electronic Village Galleries Website Many of the artworks featured at the event are viewable online. You can post your thoughts and interpretation of the works on the Electronic Village Galleries Website http://evg.dematerial.org Come and Have Your Say VOX POPULI : Vidocumentation by Delpha Hudson will be through ‘vox pop’ interviews, negotiated with the public at the event, through dialogue. Audiences will be asked which digital work they most like or dislike, and why. Drawing on the idea of 'found’ sound or footage, the vox pop interviews will not be controlled or edited by post-production processes, just placed on the web. Have a look at what's on and come along if you can! http://evg.dematerial.org Electronic Village Galleries Penryn is part of a pilot project devised by Kate Southworth at University College Falmouth which is supported by Arts Council England. Electronic Village Galleries aims to develop a distributed platform that supports artists to host new media art events in their local village or town hall, and which links together local art communities in Cornwall and the South West of England with network and new media art and its global communities. It’s an experiment, so please join in and help to shape it! Forthcoming Events: Electronic Village Galleries: Zennor Hall – Friday May 6th Electronic Village Galleries: Liskeard Town Hall – Friday May 20th __ SPECTRE list for media culture in Deep Europe Info, archive and help: http://post.in-mind.de/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/spectre
[spectre] (fwd) Sign the Petition: Release Ai Weiwei
On April 3, internationally acclaimed Chinese artist Ai Weiwei was detained at the Beijing airport while en route to Hong Kong, and his papers and computers were seized from his studio compound. Sign now! we need to reach 100,000 signatures! http://www.change.org/petitions/call-for-the-release-of-ai-weiwei#?opt_new=famp;opt_fb=t 'The members of the international arts community express their concern for Ai's freedom and disappointment in China's reluctance to live up to its promise to nurture creativity and independent thought, the keys to soft power and cultural influence. The initiative has been taken working closely with Jerome Cohen, the leading Chinese human rights lawyer who is working on Weiwei's case, and who believes that this action could be effective. To support the petition you can link it on your website, on Facebook and Twitter sites, in order to quickly reach millions of people.' We need to reach 100,000 signatures. __ SPECTRE list for media culture in Deep Europe Info, archive and help: http://post.in-mind.de/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/spectre
[spectre] Conversation with Dutch sound collector Ed Veenstra, about object records, anti-records, broken music...
Conversation with sound collector Ed Veenstra PDF file: http://bit.ly/hWjnxz Dutch collector Ed Veenstra collects all kinds of music-objects by plastic artists (a total of around 3,500) who have worked with sound at some point in their careers. Records, but also what he calls 'anti-records,' strange, impossible and unclassifiable formats that approach the object from a radically different perspective and exceed the traditional functions of the medium. His thorough and detailed collection and classification work sheds light on the art world's fascination with sound and music. *Teaser Memorabilia ☞ 10 favourites from Ed Veenstra's sound collection * MP3 http://bit.ly/fntjgS Track list http://bit.ly/dFnjOi *More info on the Ràdio Web MACBA series on sound collections at:* http://www.macba.cat/controller.php?p_action=show_pagepagina_id=33inst_id=30547 Follow us on Twitter: http://twitter.com/Radio_Web_MACBA __ SPECTRE list for media culture in Deep Europe Info, archive and help: http://post.in-mind.de/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/spectre
Re: [spectre] (fwd) Sign the Petition: Release Ai Weiwei
On Thu, 14 Apr 2011, Andreas Broeckmann wrote: andreas broeckmann can you explain why you are campaigning for this person ? are you sure he not guilty of tax evasion ? does the fact that this campaign is supported by so many elite organisation not make you question this campaign ? i didn't note much interest or support in my case when i was arrested every time i entered or exited the united kingdom or when i was disappeared by the UK secret police and accused falsely of bomb threats at a london airport - i was facing up to 7 years in prison this was a result of my work with borders and identity and i still live under surveillance in the similar manner that no one benefits from my rise through the art stratosphere, hence no rise or stardom, who is benefiting from Ai Weiwei and his hyper inflation in the attention economy ? Ai Weiwei campaign seems a classic case of elite people protecting their own transgressions (tax evasion) and profiting from disaster capitalism rather than universal human rights and human rights workers, such as artists would there be an international campaign by elite institutions to support a independent artist, such as myself ? this seems a very similar situation to julian assange. instead of the social network supporting a member of the blood rank, we should be supporting social justice and human rights and those that work using such methods Ai Weiwei is clearly a member of the international blood rank posing a social networker - an astroturfer this strikes me a co-option of the social network for the purposes and values of the elite hope you can answer some of these questions hope you are well heath bunting On April 3, internationally acclaimed Chinese artist Ai Weiwei was detained at the Beijing airport while en route to Hong Kong, and his papers and computers were seized from his studio compound. Sign now! we need to reach 100,000 signatures! http://www.change.org/petitions/call-for-the-release-of-ai-weiwei#?opt_new=famp;opt_fb=t 'The members of the international arts community express their concern for Ai's freedom and disappointment in China's reluctance to live up to its promise to nurture creativity and independent thought, the keys to soft power and cultural influence. The initiative has been taken working closely with Jerome Cohen, the leading Chinese human rights lawyer who is working on Weiwei's case, and who believes that this action could be effective. To support the petition you can link it on your website, on Facebook and Twitter sites, in order to quickly reach millions of people.' We need to reach 100,000 signatures. __ SPECTRE list for media culture in Deep Europe Info, archive and help: http://post.in-mind.de/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/spectre __ SPECTRE list for media culture in Deep Europe Info, archive and help: http://post.in-mind.de/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/spectre
Re: [spectre] (fwd) Sign the Petition: Release Ai Weiwei
Hallo Heath... this seems a very similar situation to julian assange. instead of the social network supporting a member of the blood rank, we should be supporting social justice and human rights and those that work using such methods Right, but I'd qualify it further -- I'd say people should be supporting (and adopting the practices of!) the small silent voices of those who work in the outward direction of human obligations, rather that the inward and self-centric direction of human rights, as Simone Weil so correctly observed ... This would eliminate the economy of attention just as surely as a cessation of shopping will eliminate capitalism ... or ... jh __ SPECTRE list for media culture in Deep Europe Info, archive and help: http://post.in-mind.de/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/spectre
