[spectre] Open Call - Pimp your Router for Athens Digital Arts Festival 2016

[Katerina Gkoutziouli]

Open call for ADAF 2016
Art project "Router Pop" by Yoav Lifshitz, Tal Messing, missdata | Deadline
21 April 2016

*Everybody should love their router!*

«Home is where your wifi connects automatically» claims a recent popular
Internet meme. This reflects how wifi has become a basic part of our daily
needs, like electricity, like running water. One can estimate the amount of
wifi routers in the world by a few billions. Yet they (almost) all suffer
from the same discrepancy: they are all boring.

“Boring?", you might ask. “How can this gateway to the universe's
information be boring?” So yes. While our home router caches our wildest
fantasies, our innermost secrets, it sits in its corner, unnoticed,
unglamourous.

*Celebrating WIFI freedom!*

Recently, the FCC has been considering a proposal to require manufacturers
to lock down computing devices (routers, PCs, phones) to prevent
modification, if they have a "modular wireless radio". This means that
hardware and wifi freedom are being attacked. In response to these
ridiculous measures, we are offering a playful DIY router pimping party.
Let's celebrate our freedom of creative hacking!

No two routers are alike! What would your individual router look like?

Routers covered in pink and gold glitter? Routers dressed as Darth Vader?
Routers disguised as sex-toys? Routers hiding behind anonymous’ Guy Fawkes
mask?

We call all router-owners to reflect on the unique bond they have with
their router. Re-design your router in a way to reflect its position in
your life. See how other router owners imagine their router.

Send us images of your “pimped” up routers and get a place in the 12th
edition of Athens Digital Arts Festival (ADAF)! In order to submit your
router please post a picture of it on Facebook or Instagram with hashtags
#ADAFyourRouter  and
#RouterPoP  and send your
submission to router...@gmail.com along with your name, age, location,
model of the router, and a few words about your re-design if you like.
The 5 best pimped routers, selected by a jury, will be invited to be
exhibited as part of the RouterPoP installation at ADAF2016.

How to submit:

A PDF with: your name, age, location, and model of the router.
Up to 300 words describing what your router means to you.
Up to 5 jpeg images of the redesigned router.

Submissions: router...@gmail.com
Deadline: 21 April 2016
The winners will be decided by 28 April 2016

*** Routers that will be no longer in use may be donated to *Sarantaporo
DIY wireless network* upon their owners request.

Members of the jury:
Yoav Lifshitz, Tal Messing, missdata, artists (initiators of the project)
Regine Debatty, We Make Money Not Art
James Bridle, writer, artist, publisher, technologist
Ilias Chatzichristodoulou & Katerina Gkoutziouli, ADAF

http://2016.adaf.gr/


If you have any questions please contact router...@gmail.com

Thanks
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[spectre] Open Call for Pixelache Helsinki 2016 Festival – Interfaces for Empathy

[andrew paterson]

Festival dates: 22. - 25.9.2016

Deadline to apply: 1.5.2016


For whom: artists, activists, scientists, thinkers and doers + everything
in between also groups and collectives.

For what: performances, interventions, installations, talks, workshops,
actions, processes, in any field.

The perspective that Pixelache’s 2016 festival Interfaces for Empathy explores
is one of empathy. The festival sets out to engage with the question and
proposal that maybe empathy could be learned, found or especially re-found
through bodily experience and presence or experimental communication that
is not limited only in between humans. The festival embraces embodied and
alternate visions of perception that distance us from the perceptual
machines that we might be in danger of becoming due to sense-altering
medias and augmented realities. Is it possible, through this very basic
ability to sense or identify, to change the narrative of the human-kind
towards being a more balanced part of the ecosystems we live within? The
dimension of empathy we are especially exploring in this years festival is
on microlevel; individual experience, identity and on personal relations.

The festival’s main venue is Lapinlahti former psychiatric hospital in
central Helsinki, Finland. Despite of the hospital area’s central location
in the city, it is situated close to the sea and surrounded by big park &
cemetery. There are several indoor and outdoor spaces in the environment
that used to be part of the first psychiatric institution of Finland. The
festival also reaches out to other places in the city through collaboration
with Kiasma - the Museum of Contemporary Art and MUU galleries.

Some projects from the festival will be chosen to tour in two other towns
in Finland, Jyväskylä and Rovaniemi, in November 2016.

Read also
http://pixelache.ac/posts/pixelache-festival-2016-interfaces-for-empathy-22-25-9

Please send your proposal through the online form at www.pixelache.ac
website. The information about the call results will be sent in May 2016.
The festival program is planned through collaborative process by festival
co-directors Mari Keski-Korsu and Petri Ruikka, Pixelache member & artist
Egle Oddo, researchers Katri Saarikivi and Valtteri Wikström from NEMO
research group and Helsinki University, artist and professor from IT
University of Copenhagen Laura Beloff and other Pixelache members.


If you have any questions, please contact festi...@pixelache.ac
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[spectre] Obscurity Obfuscates Data on 15M U.S. Criminals Records for the Right to Remove personal data from search engines - P.R. Paolo Cirio

[Paolo Cirio]

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
United States, April 12th 2016.

15 million mug-shots and criminal records of Americans have been obfuscated
to introduce the Right to Remove personal information from search engines
in the U.S.
https://OBSCURITY.online
A project by Paolo Cirio.

Obscurity cloned the major mug-shot websites and scrambled their databases
to obfuscate the information on over 15 million individuals arrested in the
U.S. over the last 20 years, making it difficult to identify them on the
Internet. Introductory videos:
https://youtube.com/watch?v=im4bqkGbEkI=PLJHWosFmMRqofm03UvU8_0tLKopTXKOra

The mug-shots have been blurred to make faces unrecognizable while their
names have been shuffled by an algorithm that samples data based on common
age, race, location, and charges, all of which are kept accurate in order
to provide social context on the actual individuals arrested and the crimes
they were accused of when they were booked in jail.

The republished obfuscated data maintains the layout and watermarks of the
original mug-shot websites, and by using similar domain names the project
would effectively interfere with the activity, reputation, and business of
the mug-shot industry.
https://obscurity.online/?/l/About/#How

The Obscurity artwork deploys strategies that are oriented to
problem-solving as a form of Internet social art practice. By engaging with
the law, millions of individuals, bad business practices, and general
public opinion, this artwork seeks to embody a practical discourse about
the aesthetics, function, and ethics of information systems affecting
social structures that resonates within and outside the contemporary art
dialogue.
https://obscurity.online/?/l/About/#Artwork

Mug-shot websites monetize by placing advertising of reputation management
services alongside listed booking data or by charging a picture removal
fee, which has led some state legislatures to propose bills to regulate the
industry. However, some mug-shot websites operate in offshore jurisdictions
and their owners are in hiding, which makes difficult any kind of legal
action. Furthermore, many freedom of press organizations and legislators
have been opposing bills that would regulate the publication of mug-shots.
https://obscurity.online/?/l/About/#Mugshots

The visitors of the cloned mug-shot websites, as participants of the online
artwork, are able to decide whether to remove individual profiles or
instead keep them public by opting between two buttons, "Remove it" or
"Keep it."

Currently some online mug-shots are over ten years old, related to
low-level or nonviolent crimes such as driving without a license,
court-related or soft drug offenses, without making distinction between
people who are convicted and people whose charges have been dropped. On the
other hand, the mug-shots might be of dangerous individuals such as sex
offenders and serial killers as well as public figures with social
responsibility like bad doctors, corrupt politicians, or fraudsters and
therefore they should circulate for public safety and social
accountability.

To engage the public in this complex situation, the project proposes a
social experiment with a participatory judiciary system that would increase
understanding and promote change concerning the ethical, legal, economic,
and social contexts regarding personal information circulating online.
https://obscurity.online/?/l/About/#Participatory

A final element of this conceptual artwork is to hypothetically intervene
in U.S. legislation by designing a petition for a Right to Remove personal
and sensitive information from search engine results in the U.S.
https://www.change.org/p/introducing-the-right-to-remove-personal-information-from-search-engines-in-the-us

Obscurity taps at the core need of introducing a form of the Right To Be
Forgotten in the U.S., which has been strongly opposed by Internet
companies such as Google, and by many concerned about censorship which
could be caused by the abuse of the law. By collaborating with lawyers,
legislators, and privacy activists, the Right to Remove would campaign for
the introduction of an information policy in the U.S. that provides the
right to obscurity by removing from search engines results with sensitive
information that jeopardizes the privacy, reputation, and security of
ordinary citizens.
https://Right2Remove.us

Obscurity also wants to bring attention to the victims of mass
incarceration in the U.S., which has the highest rate of imprisonment in
the world and it questions the unscrupulous criminal justice system and law
enforcement agencies that created this situation.

For the offline installation, the artwork is presented with printers and
shredding machines that continually and instantly print and shred pictures
of mug-shots. The installation also displays screenings and prints of
mug-shots from the most significant incarceration cases, such as the
youngest and oldest individuals found in the database assembled for the
artwork.

[spectre] Fwd: Publish the post

[Comunicación Laboral]

Good afternoon, I'm Nuria Fernandez,head of Communication in Centre for Art and Creative Industries, in Gijón (Spain). I would like publish the information in the list about the call "Next Things". It's very important because the term finish the next April 20th. Thank you very much  Telefónica I+D and LABoral organise NEXT THINGS 2016 –VISIBLE, The Fifth Global Challenge on Art and Technology  ‘Next Things 2016 - Visible’ is presented as the fifth Global Challenge on Art and Technology and is aimed at boosting the potential brought about by the artists' creativity and vision on open-source technologies.The deadline for submitting proposal is April 20, 2016 and the selected project will be developed during a 6-month residency at Telefónica I+D and LABoralGijón, April, 12, 2016.- Telefónica I+D and LABoral Centro de Arte y Creación Industrial organise NEXT THINGS 2016 –VISIBLE, a call aimed at finding innovative, multidisciplinary and ground-breaking on the Internet of Things in the framework of art and technology.The Fifth Global Challenge on Art and Technology is looking for art and research projects exploring the conflicts generated between freedom on the web and the privacy of users, between public presence and the private domain, between control and transparency. Moreover, it is aimed at understanding what is the role of technology in these conflicts and the way artists use it. The aim is to reflect upon these frameworks of work and to explore the impact of the Internet of Things, Machine-Machine interactions (M2M) on our lives, in a scale ranging from individuals to society as a whole.The artists proposals must be an object that can be manufactured at the spaces that the residence programme provides to the selected project.The winner project of ‘Next Things 2016 - Visible’  will be awarded a 6-month artist grant, funded jointly by LABoral Centro de Arte y Creación Industrial (through Plataforma Cero. Production Centre) during three months and Centro de Telefónica I+D in Barcelona during three months. The grant is aimed at helping the winner produce the chosen idea.Telefónica R will provide a work space in its location, equipment as well as access to technological knowledge and Telefonica's technology platform.LABoral will provide lab space, equipment and technical support as well as access and exchange with other artists and creators at the centre. LABoral also provides accommodation in Gijón.The artist will receive twelve thousand euros (12,000 €) gross as fees and a grant of up to two thousand euros (2,000 €) gross for travel, accommodation and expenses at LABoralThe call is open to all creators in the space between art and technology. Basic ability to build the project on your own, with occasional support from Telefónica R and LABoral, is required: knowledge of open hardware platforms such as Arduino and general programming skills.NEXT THINGS 2015 is looking for ideas that can be prototyped and built within the course of six (6) months, based on open hardware platforms such as Arduino connected to the Internet.The proposal must be submitted -by April 20 at noon- through the web platform that LABoral has enabled for this purpose: http://nextthings1.laboralcentrodearte.org.Links of interest:http://www.laboralcentrodearte.org/es/r/convocatorias/nextthings2016 Nuria FernándezResponsable de ComunicaciónTlf. 985240094/649514469 
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[spectre] From the vault: did you ever heard of Broken Music and anti-records?

[Radio Web MACBA]

*sDid you ever heard of Broken Music and anti-records?*


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, also known as Broken Music. 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.


An email conversation with Ed Veenstra can be found here

and also a podcast on his approach to collecting these rare objects and how
he deals with them.


Last but not least: this is how they sound like

.

MEMORABILIA. COLLECTING SOUNDS WITH...
is a podcast series that seeks to
break through to unearth and reveal private collections of music and sound
memorabilia. The documentary series is a historiography of sound collecting
that reveals the unseen and passionate work of the amateur collector while
reconstructing multiple parallel histories such as the evolution of
recording formats, archival issues, the sound collecting market and the
evolution of musical styles beyond the marketplace.

Enjoy!


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[spectre] Technology / Affect / Space #1: Mapping Affect Space, Open! / LAPS in De Balie, Amsterdam, Friday 22 April 2016.

[Eric Kluitenberg]

LAPS & Open! present:

Technology / Affect / Space #1: Mapping Affect Space

A public discussion and research meeting about mapping technologies and 
embodiment in the emergent techno-sensuous spatial order of Affect Space. 

April 22, 14:00-18:00
De Balie, Kleine Gartmanplantsoen 10, Amsterdam 

Since 2011 we have witnessed a recurrent global media spectacle where massive 
protest gatherings in public space seem to emerge from out of nowhere, 
accompanied by an avalanche of self-produced media mostly distributed over the 
Internet. From Puerta del Sol in Madrid to the streets of Istanbul, Ferguson, 
Haren and Paris (Je (ne) Suis Charly), this recurrent spectacle appears across 
vastly different contexts and around a wide variety of issues. The pattern we 
see in these gatherings remains remarkably constant: Affectively highly charged 
mobilisations via the Internet spill over into public space, but because this 
public space is awash with mobile media and wireless networks, the "action in 
the street" immediately feeds back into the media network. How do we understand 
and engage with these massive ephemeral events and the techno-social dynamics 
producing them?

Following up on the essay Affect Space written for Open! by media theorist and 
researcher Eric Kluitenberg early 2015, Open! together with LAPS, the MIT ACT 
Art Culture and Technology program in Boston, and Het Nieuwe Instituut in 
Rotterdam has launched a public research trajectory to explore these dynamics 
beyond the protest gatherings themselves.  

In this meeting we discuss how the emergent techno-sensuous spatial order of 
Affect Space can be mapped using the very technologies that produce these new 
dynamics. We also question how the body is situated in these dense spaces as 
both an affective receptor and amplifier?

This meeting is followed by a public program organised in co-operation with Het 
Nieuwe Instituut in Rotterdam on Friday May 20 around the question ‘How to 
design Affect Space?’.

In parallel to these public discussions a series of six commissioned essays 
will be published on the Open! platform.  
  
Talks and presentations by:
Christian Nold, artist designer (Emotional Cartography), artists Esther 
Polak/Ivar van Bekkum, choreographer and media researcher Susan Kozel, cultural 
and media theorist Nishant Sha, performance artist Arthur Elsenaar, Jeroen 
Boomgaard (LAPS), and Eric Kluitenberg.

Tickets: 7,50 euro; students 2,50 euro
Reservations at De Balie: www.debalie.nl , +31 20 5535 
100 

For further information:
De Balie, wwwdebalie.nl  
LAPS | Research Institute for Art & Public Space, www.laps.rietveld.nl 

Open!, Platform for Art, Culture & the Public Domain, www.onlineopen.org 


Links:

Affect Space essay:
http://www.onlineopen.org/affect-space 

Christian Nold:
http://www.softhook.com/ 

Polak / van Bekkum:
http://polakvanbekkum.com/

Susan Kozel:
http://medea.mah.se/2010/10/susan-kozel-professor-of-new-media/

Nishant Sha:
https://leuphana.academia.edu/NishantShah

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