[NetBehaviour] Noo Werk

2021-01-12 Thread Rob Myers
Heya Netbehaviourists. New work! I am extremely happy with how Mez has arranged the words she requested to flow with her awesome art here :-) https://twitter.com/mezbreezedesign/status/1347293010841767941 - R. ___ NetBehaviour mailing list NetBehavio

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2020-10-09 Thread Rob Myers
"The Transgender Community URGENTLY Needs Your Support – This is what you can do to help…" - https://www.gendergp.com/transgender-community-urgently-needs-support-trans-healthcare-petition/ Cryptocommunism, out now - https://politybooks.com/bookdetail/?isbn=9781509538577 "A Massive Bitcoin

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2020-09-18 Thread Rob Myers
"Rebecca Allen on Kraftwerk, Video Games and Artificial Life" - https://www.serpentinegalleries.org/art-and-ideas/rebecca-allen/ "Meme Protocol Announces First Artist Collaboration" - https://defirate.com/meme-artist-crossover/ "This artist is tokenizing his body, selling tattoo 'lots' for

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2020-09-10 Thread Rob Myers
"Technology Can’t Predict Crime, It Can Only Weaponize Proximity to Policing" - https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2020/09/technology-cant-predict-crime-it-can-only-weaponize-proximity-policing "agnotology is a tool of oppression by the powerful" - https://points.datasociety.net/agnotology-and-epi

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2020-08-29 Thread Rob Myers
:-) :-) :-) - https://distort.jp/accelerationism-guide/ "The Uncanniness of Algorithmic Style" - https://kylechayka.substack.com/p/the-uncanniness-of-algorithmic-style "Ethereum is a Dark Forest" - https://medium.com/@danrobinson/ethereum-is-a-dark-forest-ecc5f0505dff "Dark Forest" - htt

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2020-08-03 Thread Rob Myers
"OpenAI’s fiction-spewing AI is learning to generate images" - https://www.technologyreview.com/2020/07/16/1005284/openai-ai-gpt-2-generates-images/ "Philosophers On GPT-3" - http://dailynous.com/2020/07/30/philosophers-gpt-3/ "How a New Kind of Artist Contract Could Provide a Simple, Effecti

Re: [NetBehaviour] TX-1

2020-07-23 Thread Rob Myers
On 2020-07-21 1:52 a.m., Patrick Lichty wrote: > Adriana's absolutely amazing, with the satellite work, on back. Really > worth going back and going through all her work. > And such a marvelous person. Their website with other work is here, and I agree with Patrick that it is well worth a look: h

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2020-07-14 Thread Rob Myers
Crypto Manifold - http://www.chronusartcenter.org/en/cac-exhibition-crypto_manifold/ Zombie Figuration - https://www.artnews.com/art-news/artists/figurative-painting-zombie-figuration-peter-saul-surrealism-1202690409/ What Are Art Galleries For? - https://www.thenation.com/article/culture/fu

Re: [NetBehaviour] Links

2020-06-12 Thread Rob Myers
On 2020-06-12 5:09 p.m., Alan Sondheim via NetBehaviour wrote: > > And here is where the evil continues, just now: > https://www.nytimes.com/2020/06/12/us/politics/trump-transgender-rights.html Yes that is awful. As the article points out this legislation was: "announced on the four-year anniver

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2020-06-12 Thread Rob Myers
1000 games for 5USD! - https://itch.io/b/520/bundle-for-racial-justice-and-equality CHAZ FAQ - https://twitter.com/mklords/status/1271537186282717184?s=20 JK Rowling is wrong about this (1) - https://twitter.com/Carter_AndrewJ/status/1270787941275762689?s=20 JK Rowling is wrong about this

Re: [NetBehaviour] Links

2020-06-05 Thread Rob Myers
On 2020-06-03 8:27 p.m., Max Herman via NetBehaviour wrote: > > Hi Rob, > > I've been interested in category theory for a year or so, on a friend's > recommendation.  Where do you see it applying?  For me it relates to > mapping networks and to translating concepts and principles between > discip

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2020-06-03 Thread Rob Myers
Research-based police reform - https://twitter.com/samswey/status/1180655701271732224 How IBM and the NSA spied on MLK - https://schmud.de/posts/2020-06-02-mlk.html Surveillance self-defence for protestors - https://twitter.com/EFF/status/1268246279143911426?s=20 "Top epidemiologist admits

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2020-05-12 Thread Rob Myers
Virtual Art Festival this weekend - https://www.vraf.world/ "With Galleries Closed, a Moment for Net Artists to Shine" - https://www.nytimes.com/2020/05/06/arts/net-artists-galleries-coronavirus.html "Social Simulation for Social Justice" - https://mkremins.github.io/refs/SocialSim_SocialJus

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2020-04-29 Thread Rob Myers
Duchamp's authorship, again - https://atlaspress.co.uk/marcel-duchamp-and-the-baroness/ "An Art Collective Bought a $30,000 Damien Hirst Spot Print and Cut It Up. Now, They’re Selling the Spots for $480 a Pop" - https://news.artnet.com/art-world/artist-collective-cut-up-damien-hirst-print-18449

Re: [NetBehaviour] Two free books originally published by Salt.

2020-04-24 Thread Rob Myers
On 2020-04-24 12:48 p.m., Alan Sondheim wrote: > > The books were beautifully printed; they were just taken down. > Think of them as orphans, with beautiful deep and wayward > language, and enjoy. Thank you Alan! These are wonderful. - Rob. publickey - rob@robmyers.org.asc.pgp Description:

Re: [NetBehaviour] Links

2020-04-14 Thread Rob Myers
On 2020-04-14 1:30 p.m., Max Herman wrote: > > There has often been a degree of government support for certain kinds of > art, and for some of the literature of that era too.  Who knows maybe > even some of the literary theory.  🙂 The difference with the CIA theory is that the support was *secret

[NetBehaviour] Links

2020-04-14 Thread Rob Myers
"Conservators and computer scientists join forces to update older internet works for today’s browsers" - https://www.theartnewspaper.com/news/for-ageing-digital-art-survival-means-change "Unique wartime footage of Bletchley Park's secret MI6 communications staff discovered" - https://bletchleyp

Re: [NetBehaviour] How is everyone?

2020-03-23 Thread Rob Myers
On 2020-03-23 9:41 a.m., Ruth Catlow via NetBehaviour wrote: > > The details from all of you are fascinating and helpful. > > More please :) Greetings from viral Cascadia. Vancouver is in two levels of State of Emergency. BC has declared one, and the city has also declared one. We just need Canad

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2020-03-20 Thread Rob Myers
Hints on working from home from an org I worked from home for - https://creativecommons.org/2020/03/13/advice-on-working-from-home/ Hints for using Zoom - https://mobile.twitter.com/alexlmiller/status/1240073789586714626 "Dos and don'ts in open source" - https://geirsson.com/open-source.html

Re: [NetBehaviour] Links

2020-03-09 Thread Rob Myers
On 2020-03-09 3:38 p.m., Max Herman via NetBehaviour wrote: > > Conversation-worthy links as always! Thank you! > Regarding the story about Yale changing their intro to art history > course, it makes sense to me. Yes I think this is a good thing for much the same reasons you give. Putting my "

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2020-03-09 Thread Rob Myers
"Did Duchamp really steal Elsa’s urinal?" - https://www.theartnewspaper.com/comment/letter-to-the-editor-or-did-duchamp-really-steal-elsa-s-urinal "The missing third client: how artists are exploring radical economies" - https://www.opendemocracy.net/en/oureconomy/missing-third-client-how-artis

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2020-02-27 Thread Rob Myers
A new clue for the CIA's "Kryptos" sculpture - https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2020/01/29/climate/kryptos-sculpture-final-clue.html "Why Cypherpunk Witches Love Bitcoin" - https://www.coindesk.com/why-cypherpunk-witches-love-bitcoin DeFi Arts Intelligencer - https://artsdefi.substack.com

Re: [NetBehaviour] Birthday 77 and still confused after all these years!

2020-02-04 Thread Rob Myers
On 2020-02-04 5:54 a.m., marc.garrett via NetBehaviour wrote: > Happy Birthday Alan & Ruth :-) > Yes Happy Birthday! - Rob. publickey - rob@robmyers.org.asc.pgp Description: application/pgp-key signature.asc Description: OpenPGP digital signature _

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2020-01-29 Thread Rob Myers
Nudes again - https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2020/01/28/mary-beard-fears-nudes-art-galleries-becoming-porn-elite/ "Intro to Crypto Art for Artists" - https://github.com/SparrowGlobal/DiscoveryZone/wiki/0.0-Intro-to-Crypto-Art-for-Artists "The exhibit envisions the world of art in one-hundre

Re: [NetBehaviour] Links

2020-01-07 Thread Rob Myers
On 2020-01-07 10:58 a.m., Edward Picot via NetBehaviour wrote: > Rob, > > That Open BCI site is really interesting. We (Dr David Hindmarsh and > myself) have recently started a series of podcasts about medical > research and related matters, called Dr Hairy's Podcasts, and this is > definitely goi

Re: [NetBehaviour] Links

2020-01-07 Thread Rob Myers
On 2020-01-06 5:19 p.m., Alan Sondheim wrote: > > How ooold is that?! Forty two plus five. > (Can't catch me heh!) That is a matter of productivity rather than time. :-) - Rob. publickey - rob@robmyers.org.asc.pgp Description: application/pgp-key signature.asc Description: OpenPGP

Re: [NetBehaviour] Links

2020-01-06 Thread Rob Myers
On 2020-01-06 3:02 p.m., Mez Breeze wrote: > Happy Birthday Rob! :) Thank you! Still a few hours to go here but then I will be sooo ld. :-D - Rob. publickey - rob@robmyers.org.asc.pgp Description: application/pgp-key signature.asc Description: OpenPGP digital signature __

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2020-01-06 Thread Rob Myers
"An Art World Glossary for a Turbulent Decade" - https://www.artnews.com/art-in-america/features/art-world-key-terms-2010s-1202673541/ ".ART Digital Twin" - https://art.art/digital-twin/ "2019 In Review (1 Year of CryptoKaiju)" - https://medium.com/@CryptoKaijuIO/2019-in-review-1-year-of-cry

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2019-12-26 Thread Rob Myers
"Memelord as Critic" - https://www.artnews.com/art-in-america/features/brad-troemel-memes-criticism-1202673085/ L-systems - https://jsantell.com/l-systems "The Ascent of the Internet Art Market" - https://medium.com/superrare/the-ascent-of-the-internet-art-market-415d540f16b9 "Introduction

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2019-12-17 Thread Rob Myers
"Why Art Basel Miami Collectors Are Scared of Digital Art" - https://medium.com/@snarkdotart/basically-a-living-organism-why-art-basel-miami-collectors-are-scared-of-digital-art-41c39a42d4a7 "Cryptovoxels’ Burgeoning Art Scene" - https://ryanschultz.com/2019/11/18/cryptovoxels-burgeoning-art-sc

Re: [NetBehaviour] Need help urgently re: website

2019-12-15 Thread Rob Myers
They’re evil but if you switch your DNS to CloudFlare they are good at catching attacks. On Sun, Dec 15, 2019 at 12:15 PM, Alan Sondheim wrote: > Need help urgently re: website > > My website www.alansondheim.org is still under attack from bots and > crawlers; it seems coordinated and designed

Re: [NetBehaviour] any thoughts about "Comedian"?

2019-12-11 Thread Rob Myers
On 2019-12-11 4:01 a.m., Patrick Lichty wrote: > > Good on Cattelan for showing the Emperor's clothes, and selling them to > him. It was a good Duchampian crit on the current state of the art world. Reactions that miss out the certificate of authenticity both over and under-play this. Links, min

Re: [NetBehaviour] any thoughts about "Comedian"?

2019-12-10 Thread Rob Myers
On 2019-12-10 10:21 a.m., Max Herman via NetBehaviour wrote: > > It does seem that the work is fundamentally designed to create ripples > across media networks and society, in myriad forms like conversation, > criticism, tweets, selfies, high-fives, etc. Yes @squizzi on Twitter pointed out to me

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2019-12-06 Thread Rob Myers
Extinction Rebellion vs. the artworld - https://news.artnet.com/market/extinction-rebellion-art-basel-miami-beach-1718208 Generative Art Economies - https://blog.simondlr.com/new-markets-in-the-arts-generative-art-economies Hellocatfood: development update - https://www.hellocatfood.com/deve

Re: [NetBehaviour] Links

2019-12-04 Thread Rob Myers
atic ghosting' I think. And I >>> always feel I have to justify myself (although the audience doesn't feel >>> it) when I show up playing an acoustic guitar for example. -- Alan >>> >>> On Thu, Nov 28, 2019 at 1:06 PM Rob Myers wrote: >>> >

Re: [NetBehaviour] Links

2019-11-28 Thread Rob Myers
On 2019-11-27 7:40 p.m., Alan Sondheim wrote: >> This sounds so white/privileged to me, the position > of the listener paramount for example, the relegation of community to > reproduction, etc. It's a form of hip effacement. I realize I haven't > read everything HH's has written, but there's a fund

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2019-11-27 Thread Rob Myers
Zola Jesus, Grimes, and Holly Herndon discuss AI, music and fascism - https://pitchfork.com/news/holly-herndon-weighs-in-on-grimes-and-zola-jesus-debate-about-ai-and-the-future-of-music/ "Artificial Arboretum – Preservation of “photogrammetrees” found in Google Earth" - https://www.creativeappl

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2019-11-22 Thread Rob Myers
Against MIT's Media Center - https://www.artnews.com/art-in-america/features/mit-media-lab-jeffrey-epstein-joi-ito-nicholas-negroponte-1202668520/ "Ghost ships, crop circles, and soft gold: A GPS mystery in Shanghai" - https://www.technologyreview.com/s/614689/ghost-ships-crop-circles-and-soft-

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2019-11-10 Thread Rob Myers
"STURTEVANT: MEMES" - https://www.contemporaryartdaily.com/2019/11/sturtevant-at-freedman-fitzpatrick/? "Building a functioning arts DAO" - https://medium.com/knownorigin/building-a-functioning-arts-dao-b8c120932aa9 "Regulating Big Tech makes them stronger, so they need competition instead" -

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2019-10-25 Thread Rob Myers
Generative Artistry - https://generativeartistry.com/ "8 Questions Artists Should Ask a Prospective Dealer" - https://www.artsy.net/article/artsy-editorial-8-questions-artists-prospective-dealer "Instagram Holds Closed-Door Roundtable with Artists on Art and Nudity" - http://www.artnews.com/

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2019-10-18 Thread Rob Myers
Software historiography - https://slate.com/technology/2019/10/consequential-computer-code-software-history.html Teaching Tech Together - https://teachtogether.tech/ "Coercion-Resistant Design" - https://dymaxion.org/essays/coercionresistantdesign.html "Germany shuts down illegal data cent

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2019-09-11 Thread Rob Myers
"Would You Buy a Performance?" - https://news.artnet.com/market/brussels-performance-affair-2019-1639030 "There Are No Magic Words That You Can Post to Change Instagram’s Terms of Service" - https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2019/08/there-are-no-magic-words-you-can-post-change-instagrams-terms-serv

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2019-08-13 Thread Rob Myers
"The art that is doing well in the market provides a place of escape from society. Right now, that’s an escape to rules and boundaries and to easily digestible culture." - https://thebaffler.com/latest/market-values-delistraty "Why AI Can’t Yet Predict Mark Rothko Paintings’ Auction Prices" - h

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2019-07-25 Thread Rob Myers
"taking a stand on copyright" - https://www.theartnewspaper.com/blog/ethical-dilemma-and-taking-a-stand-on-copyright "Towards the summit of AI, art, and autonomy" - https://medium.com/@genekogan/artist-in-the-cloud-8384824a75c7 "Securing the Future with Digital Art Collection" - https://maek

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2019-07-12 Thread Rob Myers
Rhizome interview science fiction author Pat Cadigan - https://rhizome.org/editorial/2019/jul/12/pat-cadigan/ "The art of bots: A practice-based study of the multiplicity, entanglements and figuration of sociocomputational assemblages" - http://research.gold.ac.uk/26599/ "25 years of CNNs: Ca

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2019-06-24 Thread Rob Myers
Raspberry Pi 4 is out! - https://www.raspberrypi.org/blog/raspberry-pi-4-on-sale-now-from-35/ "Digital vs Physical - Meditations On The Intersection Between Art and Technology" - https://twitter.com/stinalinneag/status/1141648545570840577 "CryptoPunks Two Year Anniversary" - https://www.larv

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2019-06-19 Thread Rob Myers
"Sci fi reading list" - https://www.meltemdemirors.com/sci-fi-reading-list "The great Facebook sleight of hand: A blockchain without blocks" - https://decrypt.co/7509/facebook-sleight-hand-blockchain-blocks "Facebook Token Runs Into Instant Political Opposition in Europe" - https://www.bloom

Re: [NetBehaviour] Fwd: CRYPTO-GRAM, June 15, 2019

2019-06-18 Thread Rob Myers
‐‐‐ Original Message ‐‐‐ On Saturday, June 15, 2019 11:05 AM, Alan Sondheim via NetBehaviour wrote: > I don't know if you read this or have publicized it before, but in terms of > lists, I've also found it invaluable! Bizarrely I hadn't subscribed to this (I follow Schneier's blog but

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2019-06-15 Thread Rob Myers
"BIY™- Believe it Yourself is a series of real-fictional belief-based computing kits to make and tinker with vernacular logics and superstitions." - http://automato.farm/portfolio/believe_it_yourself/ Internet Trends 2019 - https://www.bondcap.com/report/itr19/ "74 Percent of Bitcoin Mining P

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2019-06-13 Thread Rob Myers
A 3D poem - https://twitter.com/qdnoktsqfr/status/1138248479627653120 "dOrg Launches First Limited Liability DAO" - https://www.gravelshea.com/2019/06/dorg-launches-first-limited-liability-dao/ Union-busting at the Guggenheim - https://www.theartnewspaper.com/news/employees-at-the-guggenheim

Re: [NetBehaviour] Laura Lotti on Blockchain Affordances

2019-06-13 Thread Rob Myers
On 2019-06-13 6:15 a.m., Martin Zeilinger via NetBehaviour wrote: > Hi all, a great essay by Laura Lotti, 'The Art of Tokenization: Blockchain > Affordances and the Invention of Future Milieus,’ has just been published on > the Media Theory journal website as part of a co-edited special issue >

[NetBehaviour] Links

2019-06-12 Thread Rob Myers
"French Museum Discovers More Than Half Its Collection Is Forged" - https://www.npr.org/2018/04/29/606919098/french-museum-discovers-more-than-half-its-collection-is-forged "How an Artist-Run Bank Reveals the Extent of the Art Market’s Debt Dependency" - https://news.artnet.com/opinion/bank-job

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2019-06-10 Thread Rob Myers
Undue influence in the artworld - https://www.theartnewspaper.com/analysis/the-only-way-is-ethics "ART PARTY: Creating and Transferring Tokenized Donations of Art using Blockchain Technology" - https://media.consensys.net/art-party-tokenized-donations-of-art-using-blockchain-b69b507f2f01 Size

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2019-06-04 Thread Rob Myers
If you're still on Second Life, now is a good time to renew - https://community.secondlife.com/blogs/entry/2559-group-limits-update-no-changes-for-basic-members/ "A comprehensive history of low-poly art, Pt. 1" - https://killscreen.com/articles/poly-generational/ "a language for making art us

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2019-05-30 Thread Rob Myers
Artists respond to the great extinction - https://www.theartnewspaper.com/news/united-nations-sounds-the-alarm-on-species-loss-and-artists-respond A nice different approach to "AI art" - https://medium.com/artists-and-machine-intelligence/perception-engines-8a46bc598d57 An AI primer "cheat-sh

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2019-05-28 Thread Rob Myers
"Live Coverage Of A Disinformation Operation Against The 2019 EU Parliamentary Elections" - https://labsblog.f-secure.com/2019/05/24/live-coverage-of-a-disinformation-operation-against-the-2019-eu-parliamentary-elections/ "Social media’s enduring effect on adolescent life satisfaction" - https:

[NetBehaviour] Three Times Three Modes of Blockchain Art

2019-05-20 Thread Rob Myers
https://robmyers.org/2019/05/08/three-times-three-modes-of-blockchain-art/ "This essay draws distinctions between different approaches to art that uses cryptocurrency or blockchain technology. It does so to contribute to the debate about art that uses cryptocurrency or blockchain technology by

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2019-05-19 Thread Rob Myers
"How Contemporary Art Became a Fiat Currency for the World’s Richest" - https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2019-05-16/boom-review-michael-shnayerson-chronicles-contemporary-art-rise On Foucaults' LSD experience - https://www.the-tls.co.uk/articles/public/michel-foucault-lsd-death-valley/

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2019-05-16 Thread Rob Myers
Rare Art Festival 2 [New York, May 18, 2019] - https://thecreativecrypto.com/rare-art-festival-2-may-18-2019/ "The Real Story of the Dutch Tulip Bubble Is Even More Fascinating Than the Myth You’ve Heard" - https://www.barrons.com/articles/the-real-story-of-the-dutch-tulip-bubble-is-even-more-

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2019-05-08 Thread Rob Myers
Airpods as class signifier, class as externalities - https://www.vice.com/en_ca/article/neaz3d/airpods-are-a-tragedy "People Wearing AirPods Are Making Things Awkward For Everyone Else" - https://www.buzzfeednews.com/article/alexkantrowitz/people-wearing-airpods-are-making-things-awkward-for

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2019-05-05 Thread Rob Myers
"Art Criticism Online: A History" - https://www.gylphi.co.uk/books/ArtCriticism "Now You Can Finally Own Nothing (and resell it): 0xowns.art" - https://7bitcoins.com/now-you-can-finally-own-nothing-and-resell-it-0xowns-art/ "The Flawed History of Graphical User Interfaces" - https://medium.

[NetBehaviour] Links

2019-05-02 Thread Rob Myers
"As Rents Rise, Artists Are Reviving the Idea of the Medieval Guild" - https://www.nytimes.com/2019/04/25/t-magazine/craft-guild-la-friche-zaventem-ateliers.html "UK police are secretly downloading content from suspects' mobile phones on a massive scale" - https://privacyinternational.org/press

Re: [NetBehaviour] Links

2019-05-01 Thread Rob Myers
On 2019-05-01 5:00 a.m., Andreas Maria Jacobs (nictoglobe) via NetBehaviour wrote: > And this? > > https://queue.acm.org/detail.cfm?id=3136559 Nakamoto mentions their sources in the bibliography to the Bitcoin Whitepaper, so I'm not sure how people lost track of its lineage. Both proponents and c

[NetBehaviour] Links

2019-05-01 Thread Rob Myers
"What You Need to Know about Collecting Virtual-Reality Art" - https://www.artsy.net/article/artsy-editorial-collecting-virtual-reality-art Not code co-ops, co-ops that write code - https://www.wired.com/story/when-workers-control-gig-economy/ The Ideal Communist City - https://monoskop.org

Re: [NetBehaviour] Links - Anyone members of coops?

2019-04-29 Thread Rob Myers
On 2019-04-28 7:21 a.m., Ruth Catlow via NetBehaviour wrote: > Thanks Rob, > Full of great nuggets as always > > Past, Present, Future: From Co-ops to Cryptonetworks - > > https://a16z.com/2019/03/02/cooperatives-cryptonetworks/ > > Coops seem to be on the upsurge. Yes. I assume it's bec

[NetBehaviour] Links

2019-04-25 Thread Rob Myers
CurseChain - https://twitter.com/sarahjamielewis/status/1119653346120323072 AR extinction protest - https://twitter.com/m_pf/status/1118563218375442433 Another William Gibson technology hits the street - https://twitter.com/hardmaru/status/1120132384026808326 The Rise and Fall of Internet

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2019-04-20 Thread Rob Myers
Artists against social media nudity bans - https://ncac.org/we-the-nipple Gothic Futurism for Notre Dame - https://twitter.com/edgeempress/status/1119631687896436738 Source code for Infocom’s classic text adventure games, incl

[NetBehaviour] Links

2019-04-19 Thread Rob Myers
Seasteaders on the run - https://globalnews.ca/news/5180644/seasteading-thailand-american-death-penalty/ Game company get 3D printing model takedown notices badly wrong - https://www.fabbaloo.com/blog/2019/4/13/much-more-on-the-world-of-tanks-thingiverse-incident "The 64 short essays in this

Re: [NetBehaviour] Links

2019-04-18 Thread Rob Myers
On 2019-04-17 7:51 p.m., BishopZ via NetBehaviour wrote: > Rob, I always love your links emails. Thank you! :-) > How was your experience of the Gray Area Festival? > were they nice to you? My experience was that they were very good at communicating in the run up to the event and that they ran th

[NetBehaviour] Links

2019-04-16 Thread Rob Myers
Currently playing ;-) - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vimZj8HW0Kg New Ways of Seeing - https://twitter.com/jamesbridle/status/1117728872999596033 "Autoglyphs are the first “on-chain” generative art on the Ethereum blockchain." - https://www.larvalabs.com/autoglyphs "Some Definitions and

Re: [NetBehaviour] Links ????

2019-04-11 Thread Rob Myers
On 2019-03-24 12:38 a.m., AGF poemproducer wrote: > hi Rob, are you not sending your cool 'links' emails anymore ? > miss them > agee Heya! I've been ridiculously busy (as my tardy response to this demonstrates). But I'll see what I can do soon. :-) Thank you! - Rob. __

Re: [NetBehaviour] Very excited to announce - State Machines: Reflections and Actions at the Edge of Digital Citizenship, Finance, and Art.

2019-03-22 Thread Rob Myers
On 2019-03-22 6:33 p.m., marc.garrett via NetBehaviour wrote: > > I'd be interested to know which of the other texts you of value :-) Me too. ;-) - Rob. ___ NetBehaviour mailing list NetBehaviour@lists.netbehaviour.org https://lists.netbehaviour.org/ma

[NetBehaviour] New Art: "Tokens Equal Text"

2019-02-20 Thread Rob Myers
https://robmyers.org/2019/02/20/tokens-equal-text/ """ “Tokens Equal Text” [ https://robmyers.org/tokens-equal-text/ ] (2019) is a Rare Art edition with a twist. In Tokens Equal Text the demands of Rare Art are simultaneously met and frustrated by constructing evocations of the imagery of Vaporw

[NetBehaviour] Fwd: [CAS] CAS50 Catalogue Now Available

2018-10-22 Thread Rob Myers
- Original message - From: Sean Clark To: c...@jiscmail.ac.uk Subject: [CAS] CAS50 Catalogue Now Available Date: Mon, 22 Oct 2018 12:52:03 +0100 We're very happy to announce that the the CAS50 exhibition catalogue is now available for purchase. The catalogue features information about

[NetBehaviour] Fwd: [CAS] NEW MEDIA ART XYZ - Where did new media art in the 1990s 'go'?

2018-09-26 Thread Rob Myers
- Original message - From: Garnet Hertz To: c...@jiscmail.ac.uk Subject: [CAS] NEW MEDIA ART XYZ - Where did new media art in the 1990s 'go'?Date: Wed, 26 Sep 2018 10:32:13 -0700 NEW MEDIA ART XYZ CALL FOR SUBMISSIONS (DEC 31 / 2018 DEADLINE) What happened to new media art in the 1990s?

Re: [NetBehaviour] Shai Hulud Sleeps

2018-09-24 Thread Rob Myers
On Sat, 22 Sep 2018, at 1:27 PM, Mark Hancock wrote: > Hey, all Netmisbehaviourists, > > I wish I had Alan Sondheim's ability to form a narrative play of > intertextual/image/music chain of thought association. While I wait > for the skills, knowledge and talent to form, here's some late night > c

Re: [NetBehaviour] toegristle #356

2018-09-23 Thread Rob Myers
Yay! So good to see. - Rob. On Sun, 23 Sep 2018, at 5:00 AM, Corey Eiseman wrote: > > http://toegristle.com/perpetual-canvas/356 > > > > > > _ > NetBehaviour mailing list > NetBehaviour@lists.netbehaviour.org > https://lists.netbehaviour.org

Re: [NetBehaviour] blockchain utopias

2018-07-17 Thread Rob Myers
On Mon, 16 Jul 2018, at 10:02 AM, Simon Mclennan via NetBehaviour wrote: > probably old hat > > https://bitcoinist.com/future-utopias-in-a-blockchain-world/ It's a fascinating insight into how utopian thinkings flow together. There was a DAOWO workshop on this area - http://www.daowo.org/#what-

Re: [NetBehaviour] EU is going to ban the memes!!!

2018-07-16 Thread Rob Myers
On Mon, 16 Jul 2018, at 2:27 PM, nacho via NetBehaviour wrote: > not a big fan of copyright myself but neither a fan of big tech > companies lobbying> > interesting article here of google vs article 13 > > https://www.ukmusic.org/news/uk-music-chief-slams-google-as-corporate-vultures-as-figures-s

Re: [NetBehaviour] paperclips

2018-06-12 Thread Rob Myers
I mean https://wiki.lesswrong.com/wiki/Paperclip_maximizer ... On Tue, 12 Jun 2018, at 12:45 PM, James Morris wrote: > Don't know if any of you have seen this game. Some people seem to find > it very addictive. Take a quick look, what's the worst that could happen? > > http://decisionproblem.com

Re: [NetBehaviour] Interviewing inventor of Amazon Alexa

2018-04-19 Thread Rob Myers
On Thu, 19 Apr 2018, at 2:08 AM, ruth catlow wrote: > I'd like to know what, if any, thought is given to the politics of AIs> or > to put it another way, what subjectivities are they attempting to > produce in their users?> > Could he imagine an AI that would produce a mutualist anarchist > r

Re: [NetBehaviour] Fw: brutal job and course cuts where I work -please sign the petition

2018-04-10 Thread Rob Myers
Signed. Funny not funny how the people who are the most obsessed with an aesthetic of businesslike behaviour are the least able of identifying those courses that most add to their bottom line. - Rob. On Tue, 10 Apr 2018, at 3:14 PM, marc.garrett via NetBehaviour wrote: > Hi Michael, > > I have

Re: [NetBehaviour] A radical proposal to keep your personal data safe | Richard Stallman

2018-04-03 Thread Rob Myers
On Tue, 3 Apr 2018, at 10:21 AM, marc.garrett via NetBehaviour wrote: > I propose a law to stop systems from collecting personal data. A long digression: :-) RMS is very good at making clear what they mean by "personal data" here: > Data about who travels where is particularly sensitive, because i

Re: [NetBehaviour] Quick thought about Neural Networks

2018-03-25 Thread Rob Myers
On Sun, 25 Mar 2018, at 8:22 AM, ruth catlow wrote: > Here's a link to the exhibition page about BOB [1] tfw no GitHub link on show page. > and on the theme of beautiful introductions to technical things - this > by Taeyoon Choi for Avant is the best introduction to Zero and One[2] > ive read: te

Re: [NetBehaviour] The untenable technophobia of the Left

2018-03-05 Thread Rob Myers
In addition to technophobia, with support for censorship on social media there's also a pattern of a misjudged paternalism (by people who will not be the daddy of this particular scenario) and failure to learn from history. Even the very recent history of how the imposition of "Real Names" policies

Re: [NetBehaviour] The Blockchain as a Modulator of Existence

2018-03-05 Thread Rob Myers
"ongoing expansion of identification strategies" If this is the case then this is an expansion *into* cryptocurrencies, not out of them. "This time stamp marks the beginning of what might be called the post-digital" It doesn't, any more than a password or a directory listing do. "It is this basic

Re: [NetBehaviour] Rob Myers?

2018-02-05 Thread Rob Myers
The project was by @coin_artist, I've just now asked the BBC to put their name first. But yes I helped encode the message in the flames. :-) It's been fun reminiscing about the project with them to try and answer questions about it - the Motherboard article has lots of details as a result. - Rob.

Re: [NetBehaviour] Forks in the blockchain

2017-12-09 Thread Rob Myers
On 08/12/17 01:31 PM, Edward Picot via NetBehaviour wrote: > A question for Rob - or anyone else who happens to know - when there's a > fork in the Blockchain, what happens to the old, discredited side of the > fork? What HTML coders used to call the 'deprecated' bit? Does it > actually get disable

Re: [NetBehaviour] Tell A Mouse Is Back!

2017-12-04 Thread Rob Myers
On Mon, 4 Dec 2017, at 04:13 AM, marc.garrett via NetBehaviour wrote: > Tell A Mouse Web ring > [...] > http://www.tamara-lai.be/tell-a-mouse/index.htm """ You need: SAFARI or FIREFOX :: Plug ins : Shockwave + Flash + RealPlayer + AcrobatReader + Quicktime + Windows media player ::""" Such nost

Re: [NetBehaviour] bitcoin power (from Michel Bauwens, G+)

2017-11-29 Thread Rob Myers
On 27/11/17 08:21 AM, Alan Sondheim wrote: > > One question and query - > > Who establishes the difficult algorithms miners solve? Are they > themselves generated within the blockchain? Is there a group that has > control over this? The original Bitcoin difficulty adjustment algorithm was created

Re: [NetBehaviour] arts blockchain and DAOWO

2017-11-29 Thread Rob Myers
On 26/11/17 07:06 AM, ruth catlow wrote: > Hello Rob >> >> On 25/11/17 05:21 AM, ruth catlow wrote: >> >>> - Environmental and energy costs – more on this soon but I have been >>> looking at Faircoin – proof of cooperation and I wonder if the >>> clear-as-daylight, explicit mapping of environmental

Re: [NetBehaviour] bitcoin power (from Michel Bauwens, G+)

2017-11-27 Thread Rob Myers
On Mon, 27 Nov 2017, at 05:47 AM, Pall Thayer via NetBehaviour wrote: > That's a good question, Jaka. Rob, how will miners be rewarded once > all of the coins have been mined? Transaction fees. Each Bitcoin transaction has an optional fee attached, which also goes to the miners. So once there are n

Re: [NetBehaviour] bitcoin power (from Michel Bauwens, G+)

2017-11-26 Thread Rob Myers
On 26/11/17 05:06 PM, Alan Sondheim wrote: > > https://powercompare.co.uk/bitcoin/ > > One question, why does it take so much power? Security. "Miners" are machines that compete to be rewarded in Bitcoin for securing the Bitcoin network. They do this by gathering up transactions broadcast to th

Re: [NetBehaviour] arts blockchain and DAOWO

2017-11-25 Thread Rob Myers
On 25/11/17 05:21 AM, ruth catlow wrote: > - Environmental and energy costs – more on this soon but I have been > looking at Faircoin – proof of cooperation and I wonder if the > clear-as-daylight, explicit mapping of environmental harm onto > crypto-currency trading could provide the impetus for

Re: [NetBehaviour] blockchain electrical consumption?

2017-11-23 Thread Rob Myers
On 23/11/17 09:27 AM, helen varley jamieson wrote: > is it fear of death that makes people want their data to hang around > for eternity? immortality in the blockchain? > There's a growth industry in blockchain estate planning, which means that some hodlers at least are acknowledging their mortal

Re: [NetBehaviour] Netbehaviour has moved

2017-11-08 Thread Rob Myers
Most of the list has been going into my spam folder. :-( I have now fixed this. :-) - Rob. On Sun, 22 Oct 2017, at 02:11 AM, ruth catlow wrote: > You have been carried over :) > > > On 22/10/17 10:13, Michael Szpakowski wrote: >> Exciting stuff! -looking forward to seeing the new site... >> A

Re: [NetBehaviour] comments on blockchain, art, etc., discussion with Ruth

2017-11-07 Thread Rob Myers
On Tue, 31 Oct 2017, at 07:32 PM, Alan Sondheim wrote: > On Tue, 31 Oct 2017, Rob Myers wrote: > > On Fri, 27 Oct 2017, at 08:13 PM, Pall Thayer via NetBehaviour wrote: > > This is a great read. Now I want someone to explain to me how a > > non-material (non-

Re: [NetBehaviour] comments on blockchain, art, etc., discussion with Ruth

2017-10-31 Thread Rob Myers
On Fri, 27 Oct 2017, at 08:13 PM, Pall Thayer via NetBehaviour wrote: > This is a great read. Now I want someone to explain to me how a non- > material (non-existent) work of art maintains its immateriality (its > non-existence) despite a record in the blockchain. Immateriality and inexistence are

Re: [NetBehaviour] comments on blockchain, art, etc., discussion with Ruth

2017-10-31 Thread Rob Myers
On which subject this is a very interesting book - https://www.upress.umn.edu/book-division/books/on-the-existence-of-digital-objects "On the Existence of Digital Objects", 2016 • Author: Yuk Hui "How can digital objects be understood according to individualization and individuation? Yuk Hui cre

Re: [NetBehaviour] New furtherfield site

2017-10-23 Thread Rob Myers
Clean, clear & contemporary. It's awesome! :-) - Rob. On Mon, 23 Oct 2017, at 03:15 PM, Michael Szpakowski wrote: > The new FF site looks great! Clean, clear, easy to navigate... > great stuff, congrats to all > > michael > > > Sent from Yahoo Mail for iPhone[1] > > __

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