Re: [NetBehaviour] Sound Lathe by The Owl Project

2009-05-13 Thread Olga
Hi James, Sorry for the late reply! Did u get that lottery? The idea sounds cool! For some reason it resonated a lot with the images of Chaplin's 'Modern Times', the imperfections of the operator making the rhythm come to life. But that's the very mechanical side of it.. For what I understand you

[NetBehaviour] Call for Interactive Installations Amber'09

2009-05-13 Thread Olga
AMBER'09, ARTS AND TECHNOLOGY FESTIVAL ISTANBUL Living in a technologically-mediated environment causes changes and shifts in human habits, postures

[NetBehaviour] Eduina, hybrid of Petunia and Eduardo Kac

2009-05-13 Thread Olga
Eduardo Kac is exhibiting in Minneapolis a genetically modified flower that contains part of his DNA. // Edunia is a genetically-engineered flower that is a hybrid of myself and Petunia. The Edunia expresses my DNA exclusively in

[NetBehaviour] The Electronic Police State.

2009-05-13 Thread marc garrett
The Electronic Police State. Cryptohippie has published what may be called a first attempt to describe the 'electronic police state' (PDF). Based on information available from different organizations such as Electronic Privacy Information Center, Reporters Without Borders, and Freedom House,

[NetBehaviour] Art University Linz institutes a new award

2009-05-13 Thread Aileen Derieg
[For background and more information about police violence at the May 1st demo in Linz, see: http://gegenpolizeigewalt.servus.at] We cordially invite you to the award of the “Goldenes Rueckgrat/Golden Backbone” on 19 May 2009 at 7 pm in the large hall of the Offenes Kulturhaus Upper Austria

[NetBehaviour] .:::NEANDERTHAL ELECTRONICS:::.

2009-05-13 Thread info
.:::NEANDERTHAL ELECTRONICS:::. More than 40,000 years ago, our Neanderthal predecessors invented the first music instruments from simple objects around them (bones and stones, sticks and skins…), without reference to any existing music history, and primarily for their own pleasure rather than

[NetBehaviour] Janez Jansa, Janez Jansa, Janez Jansa

2009-05-13 Thread Olga
Location 1 in New York is exhibiting the work of Janez Jansa, Janez Jansa and Janez Jansa. These three artists officially changed their names and adopted in 2007 the name of Slovenia’s economic-liberal, conservative prime minister at the time, Janez Jansa. I found this gesture very interesting. It

Re: [NetBehaviour] Art University Linz institutes a new award

2009-05-13 Thread karen blissett
Hello Aileen, It cannot be that civil courage is politically penalized in our country. It looks like the media and governments in our 'lol' democracies(?) are choosing to crack down on those who are challenging capitalist and corporate agendas - choosing corporations to protect rather than

Re: [NetBehaviour] Art University Linz institutes a new award

2009-05-13 Thread Aileen Derieg
Hello Karen, I'm afraid you are right that we probably shouldn't be surprised, but I don't think anyone here was prepared for the way this has so quickly turned into a highly politicized issue. Within only a few days following the police violence at the traditional alternative May 1st parade,

[NetBehaviour] There's an Artist in the Playground

2009-05-13 Thread Olga
*** There's an Artist in the Playground -- Artangel Interaction presents There's an Artist in the Playground, a one day conference for people who work on the peripherals of art and play. This conference

[NetBehaviour] MAKEA

2009-05-13 Thread Olga
Last time I was in Barcelona I found the Plaza del Macba invaded by recycled furniture. I quickly found out it was a project by a group called MAKEA. Makea takes the name from super giant furniture producer IKEA and twists it into a Spanish word which is slang for embellishing, making beautiful,

[NetBehaviour] machine art operator (was sound-lathe)

2009-05-13 Thread james morris
Hi Olga, No problem. Unfortunately I did not win the EuroMillions this time, so this project is going to have to go on hold ;-) Obviously I don't really have any idea about how the mechanics and electronics _could_ work in reality, but somehow, as I mentioned, there would be a feedback system

Re: [NetBehaviour] machine art operator (was sound-lathe)

2009-05-13 Thread james morris
Oh sorry, just notice I've not answered your question at all. Yes different textures that would be good, something I had not necessarily thought of as distinct from the rhythm. On 13/5/2009, james morris ja...@jwm-art.net wrote: Hi Olga, No problem. Unfortunately I did not win the

Re: [NetBehaviour] machine art operator (was sound-lathe)

2009-05-13 Thread james morris
Ok, here's an example of the type of machine I'm talking about: http://www.kiefel.de/index.php?/en/2006101222/maschinen/packaging/kmd-speedformer.html As you can see it is big (but would be a beautiful addition to the Tate Modern's Turbine hall)! So perhaps an alternative approach (via winning

[NetBehaviour] jitters

2009-05-13 Thread Alan Sondheim
jitters originally was supposed to be duet but here is a singularity of irregular vibration occasioned by raster/moire phenomena that don't resolve harmonically. so that the landscape/table shakes, phenomena brought about by the presence of these objects, and in the last section you can see