[NetBehaviour] hashtag #JewsAndArabsRefuseToBeEnemies

2014-07-24 Thread bob catchpole
Some interesting net behaviour... http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/magazine-28439551 Bob ___ NetBehaviour mailing list NetBehaviour@netbehaviour.org http://www.netbehaviour.org/mailman/listinfo/netbehaviour

Re: [NetBehaviour] Artists virtually gatecrash Google's DevArt Barbican exhibit

2014-08-02 Thread bob catchpole
Mez, 'Spruiking' is a new one on me. What does "spruiking the hell out of it" mean? Bob From: mez breeze To: NetBehaviour for networked distributed creativity Sent: Saturday, 2 August 2014, 0:27 Subject: Re: [NetBehaviour] Artists virtually gatecrash Googl

Re: [NetBehaviour] Dementia

2014-08-08 Thread bob catchpole
Edward, A difficult subject to tackle. You've found a simple, sensitive and effective way of communicating it. Dementia is a growing problem of our aging population and your piece contributes to a better understanding. I found it moving and compassionate. Bob __

Re: [NetBehaviour] electronic poetry

2014-10-14 Thread bob catchpole
Hi Dave, Edward Picot's The Hyperliterature Exchange at hyperex.co.uk is worth checking out. Bob From: dave miller To: NetBehaviour for networked distributed creativity Sent: Tuesday, 14 October 2014, 10:14 Subject: Re: [NetBehaviour] electronic poetry thanks these are great mez

Re: [NetBehaviour] Cariou vs. Prince: THE COPYRIGHT BUNGLE

2011-04-01 Thread bob catchpole
On 01/04/11 18:05, Rob Myers wrote: >what is actually happening is that an artist is being told to >destroy their work by a judge who doesn't understand copyright. And you do? Bob___ NetBehaviour mailing list NetBehaviour@netbehaviour.org http://www.ne

Re: [NetBehaviour] Cariou vs. Prince: THE COPYRIGHT BUNGLE

2011-04-01 Thread bob catchpole
On 01/04/11 21:46, Rob Myers wrote: >Documentary photography is simple uncompensated "theft" of an image, and >yet in this case we are being asked to privilege that over the creation >of a unique original artwork. So the documentary photography of Andre Kertesz, Robert Frank, Bill Brandt, D

Re: [NetBehaviour] Cariou vs. Prince: THE COPYRIGHT BUNGLE

2011-04-01 Thread bob catchpole
On 02/04/11 0:27, Rob Myers wrote: >Yes. "Yes"?... that the documentary photography of Andre Kertesz, Robert Frank, Bill Brandt, Diane Arbus, W. Eugene Smith, Josef Koudelka, Inge Morath, Raghu Rai, August Sander, Dorothea Lange, Henri Cartier-Bresson, Walker Evans, Eve Arnold, Ernest Col

Re: [NetBehaviour] Cariou vs. Prince: THE COPYRIGHT BUNGLE

2011-04-02 Thread bob catchpole
On 02/04/11 14:01, Rob Myers wrote: >(Documentary photography) is also, as any judge can see, simply a mechanical >reproduction of other people's property to the extent that it >competently reproduces a recognizable image of it. So there!... Diane Arbus, Bill Brandt, August Sander, Josef Koudel

Re: [NetBehaviour] functional creativitv

2011-05-17 Thread bob catchpole
Andreas Maria Jacobs wrote Mon, 16 May, 2011 22:34:51 >This godforsaken world needs a new god, a fitt and strong one this >time not the old man we had before, but someone who is capable to >clean the mess we're in, cozz we ain't gonna make it on our own >anymore, at least not me Andreas, I

Re: [NetBehaviour] dream

2011-06-06 Thread bob catchpole
Michael, It's a beautiful, haunting piece. The dramatic setting and the plaintive music communicates movingly the inner emotions of the tiny human figure in the frame... solitude, yearning and resilience are all mixed up in there. Since the piece is essentially two shots have you considered st

Re: [NetBehaviour] dream

2011-06-07 Thread bob catchpole
it is.. Enough! Thanks! m. --- On Mon, 6/6/11, bob catchpole wrote: >From: bob catchpole >Subject: Re: [NetBehaviour] dream >To: "NetBehaviour for networked distributed creativity" > >Date: Monday, June 6, 2011, 9:00 PM > > > > >Michael, > >It

Re: [NetBehaviour] friend request

2011-07-16 Thread bob catchpole
Ana, I'm no fan of Facebook - the contrary - but the link you posted does not seem to confirm what you said. http://www.google.com/hostednews/ap/article/ALeqM5glrdg_c6lwx69-q_kxRP4tTyOq9Q You said "Facebook provided Israel with lists of American and European Palestine activists." The articl

Re: [NetBehaviour] should we not react about what happened Aaron Swartz?

2011-07-22 Thread bob catchpole
Simon, Thank you for such a clear exposition! Bob From: Simon Biggs To: NetBehaviour for networked distributed creativity Sent: Fri, 22 July, 2011 11:03:56 Subject: Re: [NetBehaviour] should we not react about what happened Aaron Swartz? The journals are

Re: [NetBehaviour] GIF MARKET

2011-08-02 Thread bob catchpole
Kim, GIF US A BREAK! Bob > >From: kim asendorf >To: netbehaviour >Sent: Tuesday, 2 August 2011, 1:04 >Subject: [NetBehaviour] GIF MARKET > > >GIF MARKET > > >Seeing digital art as a collector's item is still pretty new. Especially image >files are only seen

Re: [NetBehaviour] The End of Growth

2011-09-06 Thread bob catchpole
Joel Weishaus wrote: Humans have always been saved by nature, not the other way around. You're right Joel, but not in the way you suggest. Humans have always been part of nature. We're one of nature's wonderful creations. Why would nature imbue humans with imagination and the capacity to learn

Re: [NetBehaviour] The End of Growth

2011-09-06 Thread bob catchpole
only the disaster." >  >On the bright side, Dark Times are when artists are most needed., gifted people who have "Cezanne's anxiety."   >  >Best,  >Joel  >  >    >- Original Message - >>From: bob catchpole >>To: Joel Weishaus ; N

Re: [NetBehaviour] The Iron Lady: The Margaret Thatcher Movie We Don't Need

2012-01-06 Thread bob catchpole
Hello NBs in the UK, Re Thatcher, please consider signingthis official petition, which has a real sense of logic and justice about it. http://epetitions.direct.gov.uk/petitions/18914 Bob > > From: dave miller >To: NetBehaviour for networked distributed creat

Re: [NetBehaviour] video too

2012-01-08 Thread bob catchpole
Michael, It's good! Ok? Good. Bob > > From: Michael Szpakowski >To: netbehaviour >Sent: Sunday, 8 January 2012, 12:18 >Subject: [NetBehaviour] video too > > >I made a video too: > > >http://youtu.be/vLSu5EMykqI > > >cheers >michael > > > >_

Re: [NetBehaviour] fail better

2012-01-15 Thread bob catchpole
Michael, I disagree withJohn Baldessari. Painting and photography are radically different picture-making processes - one is based on synthesis and the other on selection. In a painting or drawing you start with nothing and have to add. In photography you start with everything and have to extrac

Re: [NetBehaviour] Learn To Draw

2012-01-15 Thread bob catchpole
http://jacksonpollock.org/ Bob > > From: Rob Myers >To: netBehaviour for networked distributed creativity > >Sent: Sunday, 15 January 2012, 18:30 >Subject: [NetBehaviour] Learn To Draw > >Are there any sites or projects for learning to draw like the learnin

Re: [NetBehaviour] worries about blacklists

2012-02-08 Thread bob catchpole
James, Calling yourself an 'artist' doesn't make you one. There are many such artists in the world. Ironically there are those without that self-description who don't realise that they are. Bob > > From: James Morris >To: NetBehaviour for networked distribut

Re: [NetBehaviour] Can glitch art go public?

2012-03-06 Thread bob catchpole
Pall Thayer wrote Tuesday, 6 March 2012: "Until we can get the general public to acknowledge and engage with work at the code level, then yes... I would say that "glitch art" will be confined to those in the know." Pall, Joe public has little idea how films or cars or tv sets are put together b

Re: [NetBehaviour] Can glitch art go public?

2012-03-06 Thread bob catchpole
Pall Thayer wrote Tuesday, 6 March 2012: "Until we can get the general public to acknowledge and engage with work at the code level, then yes... I would say that "glitch art" will be confined to those in the know." Pall, Joe public has little idea how films or cars or tv sets are put together b

Re: [NetBehaviour] Read this about Gilbert & George in the Evening Standard yesterday

2012-03-11 Thread bob catchpole
Michael, Are you suggesting that there's no connection between ethics and aesthetics in the work artists produce? Bob > > From: Michael Szpakowski >To: NetBehaviour for networked distributed creativity > >Sent: Saturday, 10 March 2012, 13:57 >Subject: Re:

Re: [NetBehaviour] Read this about Gilbert & George in the Evening Standard yesterday

2012-03-13 Thread bob catchpole
d in the last two decades has been visually 'fascistic'. Bob >____ > From: Michael Szpakowski >To: bob catchpole >Cc: NetBehaviour for networked distributed creativity > >Sent: Sunday, 11 March 2012, 18:09 >Subject: Re: [N

Re: [NetBehaviour] Read this about Gilbert & George in the Evening Standard yesterday

2012-03-16 Thread bob catchpole
27;s >political views, ehtical standards or personal conduct and the artistic >success or failure of her work... > > > > > > From: Michael Szpakowski >To: bob catchpole ; NetBehaviour for networked >distributed creativity >Sen

Re: [NetBehaviour] An interview with Katrina Sluis, Digital Curator at the Photographers’ Gallery.

2012-07-14 Thread bob catchpole
Marc, I found your interview with Katrina Sluis disturbing, disappointing and massively contradictory. It seems she's very concerned to emphasise her 'inclusive' position yet uses highly exclusive language to express this. Why? Why communicate in a pretentious way that leaves the vast majority

Re: [NetBehaviour] An interview with Katrina Sluis, Digital Curator at the Photographers’ Gallery.

2012-07-16 Thread bob catchpole
Marc, Thanks for responding in such a positive way. Katrina is clearly very knowledgeable. I look forward to understanding her! Interviews are often accessible because they're more in the nature of a  conversation. The interview you've done would probably be excellent in an academic journal. B

Re: [NetBehaviour] An interview with Katrina Sluis, Digital Curator at the Photographers’ Gallery.

2012-07-16 Thread bob catchpole
Michael, Thanks for your comments. I hope my intervention empowers Marc to represent people like me when interviewing specialists, and to liberate the specialists by asking them to communicate 'informally' - something they may not often have a chance to do.Win-win? Bob >___

Re: [NetBehaviour] "I want to ask Jacques Derrida a question."

2009-12-12 Thread bob catchpole
ded in the everyday wonder of life I've come across. --- On Sat, 12/12/09, bob catchpole wrote: > From: bob catchpole > Subject: Re: [NetBehaviour] "I want to ask Jacques Derrida a question." > To: "NetBehaviour for networked distributed creativity" > >

[NetBehaviour] education

2010-01-11 Thread bob catchpole
Hi Marc, I think "education" is what you find on a list like this. It's messy, completely unplanned and often happens in unexpected ways. We're here because we're learning from each other. In the process, each person's contribution is crucial, hence the need to be "tolerant" - especially of th

[NetBehaviour] uk govt on copy right, left and don't know

2009-03-05 Thread bob catchpole
UK opposes copyright exemptions for mash-ups... http://www.out-law.com//default.aspx?page=9838 Bob ___ NetBehaviour mailing list NetBehaviour@netbehaviour.org http://www.netbehaviour.org/mailman/listinfo/netbehaviour

[NetBehaviour] thru-you.com

2009-03-12 Thread bob catchpole
Marc, Thanks for your offering the other day! Check this out... http://thru-you.com/ inspired stuff... Bob ___ NetBehaviour mailing list NetBehaviour@netbehaviour.org http://www.netbehaviour.org/mailman/listinfo/netbehaviour

Re: [NetBehaviour] Missing persons

2009-03-13 Thread bob catchpole
Interesting... vanish from the internet and you become a missing person? Bob From: Brian Droitcour To: netbehaviour@netbehaviour.org Sent: Friday, 13 March, 2009 18:23:08 Subject: [NetBehaviour] Missing persons Hi, I'm the curatorial fellow at Rhizome and I'

Re: [NetBehaviour] DIWO at The Dark Mountain

2009-10-28 Thread bob catchpole
Edward, The 22-page manifesto can be summed up in two sentences "Our civilisation is fucked! What are we gonna do?" A declaration and a challenge. You say your problem isn't really with the former. Given it's momentous implications your response - a complaint about literary style - is pure tr

Re: [NetBehaviour] DIWO at The Dark Mountain

2009-10-28 Thread bob catchpole
Michael, I believe your posting can be read as an important 'story'... a passionately expressed piece of writing about the incredible dilemna we're in... Bob Michael Szpakowski wrote Wednesday, 28 October, 2009 13:41:46 I live for art but if I *am* in a boa

Re: [NetBehaviour] DIWO at the Dark Mountain - complexity

2009-10-30 Thread bob catchpole
There are all kinds of ways to approach this. For example, one of the consumer society's most pernicious myths is that 'you are what you consume'. The project of art seems to oppose this, declaring 'you are what you produce'. Artists have little trouble recognising the emptiness of the myth - an

Re: [NetBehaviour] DIWO : Can you come out and play with me?

2009-11-16 Thread bob catchpole
Marc, It takes talent to recognise talent... could be why it's taken a long time!... Bob marc garrett wrote 16 November, 2009 11:22:43 Shockingly, this is our first award ever. This may be because we never enter competitions, hoping that the spirit of what

Re: [NetBehaviour] TIME

2009-11-20 Thread bob catchpole
TIME IS LOVE Bob manik wrote Wed, 18 November, 2009 22:38:31 TIME IS MONEY... ___ NetBehaviour mailing list NetBehaviour@netbehaviour.org http://www.netbehaviour.org/mailman/listinfo/netbehaviour

Re: [NetBehaviour] "I want to ask Jacques Derrida a question."

2009-12-12 Thread bob catchpole
Or could it be that the echo of the language flows across the space of the absence to the ghost of the disembodied matter of it's own arse? Bob Curt Cloninger wrote Fri, 11 December, 2009 23:19:45 Bakhtin might disagree -- matter flows into language and lang

Re: [NetBehaviour] The Guardian's Art Critic has Put Away His Digital Camera...

2012-12-21 Thread bob catchpole
Edward, Often it seems the real point of these 'opinion' pieces is to provoke responses and generate 'traffic'. The more debatable the better. You can't lose. The Guardian art critic equates digital photography with online photo-sharing. Nonsense, of course. Images don't have to be uploaded to

Re: [NetBehaviour] Georgio Morandi: Lines of Poetry.

2013-01-25 Thread bob catchpole
Michael Szpakowski wrote: > It strikes me there's a kind of grace here which is available to artists and > not to philosophers. Ultimately all philosophy is a call to action or at least a framework for it. Art, on the contrary, enables even the personally wicked or the politically vile the red

Re: [NetBehaviour] Georgio Morandi: Lines of Poetry.

2013-01-26 Thread bob catchpole
Michael, For me, the key insight of your first posting was the observation that powerful life affirming works of art have been created by artists whose convictions were plainly less than affirmative, and sometimes downright nasty. That in those cases, their achievement and talent transcended th

Re: [NetBehaviour] on lying

2013-03-30 Thread bob catchpole
"c...@lab404.com" wrote Saturday, 30 March 2013: >Here is a short thing I wrote on lying: http://www.terminalapsu.org/2013/03/30/on-lying/ Curt, You're in very good company... Art is a lie that makes us realize truth, at least the truth that is given us to understand. The artist must know

[NetBehaviour] TENCERE TAVA HAVASI (Sound of Pots and Pans)

2013-06-08 Thread bob catchpole
The Sound of Pots and Pans, Istanbul http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=o-kbuS-anD4 Bob ___ NetBehaviour mailing list NetBehaviour@netbehaviour.org http://www.netbehaviour.org/mailman/listinfo/netbehaviour

Re: [NetBehaviour] my new t-shirt!

2013-07-27 Thread bob catchpole
Marc, Nice colour... but 'Neoliberalism' is an ugly label. Whoever invented it hasn't done anyone a favour. In oppositional culture and politics labels make all the difference. The 'Greens' get it, the 'Anarcho-syndicalists' don't. Critiquing Neoliberalism "ain't gonna make it with anyone anyho

Re: [NetBehaviour] my new t-shirt!

2013-07-31 Thread bob catchpole
Marc, What might help is a better alternative. How about changing the slogan to "SUCKISM: It's Neoliberal!!" ? [SUCKISM - an economic system that's Stupid, Unsustainable, Corrupt and Kills]. Bob From: marc garrett To: NetBehaviour for networked distribut

Re: [NetBehaviour] I Ain't Livin' Long Like This

2013-11-04 Thread bob catchpole
Didn't Hank Williams summed it all up?... I'll Never Get Out Of This World Alive, and what about Bob Dylan's timely reminder?... Death Is Not The End From: Alan Sondheim To: netbehaviour@netbehaviour.org Sent: Monday, 4 November 2013, 6:09 Subject: [NetBehav

Re: [NetBehaviour] The artist is typing | online exhibition at Storage Un.it | September 1 - 30, 2016

2016-09-06 Thread bob catchpole
Would it be more accurate to say the artist is hyping...? Bob From: Randall Packer To: NetBehaviour for networked distributed creativity Sent: Thursday, 1 September 2016, 16:18 Subject: Re: [NetBehaviour] The artist is typing | online exhibition at Storage Un.it | September 1 - 30,

Re: [NetBehaviour] the avatartist

2007-10-14 Thread bob catchpole
alan, we are talking bullshit... silence is golden... we should give it a rest... bob - Original Message From: Alan Sondheim <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: netbehaviour@netbehaviour.org Sent: Sunday, 14 October, 2007 6:52:37 AM Subject: [NetBehaviour] the avatartist the avatartist the a

Re: [NetBehaviour] no

2007-10-16 Thread bob catchpole
Hi Renee, I'm all for sharing ideas, insights, inspirations... I was objecting to willful obfuscation... What ideas are are evolving here?... "the avatartist are all space, all time, visible, invisible, transparent, translucent, of here and there opaque, they murmur we are all avatartist, are

Re: [NetBehaviour] no

2007-10-17 Thread bob catchpole
with the content but I do agree with the context :-) karen On 10/16/07, bob catchpole < [EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Hi Renee, I'm all for sharing ideas, insights, inspirations... I was objecting to willful obfuscation... What ideas are are evolving here?... "the avatartist ar

Re: [NetBehaviour] no

2007-10-18 Thread bob catchpole
to be understood against that background) & *then* made a reasoned case for why it's somehow unworthy then I might have disagreed but you'd have fulfilled your responsibilites as an commentator & we'd have a starting point for a genuine discussion. michael --- bob catchp

Re: [NetBehaviour] no

2007-10-19 Thread bob catchpole
Hi Renee, Humble apologies!... as soon as I pressed the send button I realized I shouldn't have included your name!... in doing so I misrepresented your comments, but accidently... I fully appreciate your comment to Alan was affirmative feedback... and concur with your thoughts on the role of

Re: [NetBehaviour] no

2007-10-19 Thread bob catchpole
Hi Karen, I'm actually interested in new ideas, creativity I agree with you that a discussion simply to insist on one's position isn't very creative... If I may paraphrase the previous comments of Renee, Michael and yourself: "How dare you criticize someone as brilliant and prolific as Ala

Re: [NetBehaviour] Fwd: Mickey Mouse Bill

2008-05-16 Thread bob catchpole
This is why the AMERICAN system is so fucked up!... IN THEORY IT'S TRUE "If somebody swipes it, or uses it without your permission, you have the law on your side to chase them down and get paid." BUT IN PRACTICE "Not if you haven't registered the copyright." Farcical? Hypocritical?... In Ameri

Re: [NetBehaviour] Fwd: Mickey Mouse Bill

2008-05-17 Thread bob catchpole
TED]> To: NetBehaviour for networked distributed creativity Sent: Friday, 16 May, 2008 7:01:22 PM Subject: Re: [NetBehaviour] Fwd: Mickey Mouse Bill Hi everybody On Fri, May 16, 2008 at 1:59 PM, bob catchpole <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > This is why the AMERICAN system is so fucked up!... > &g

Re: [NetBehaviour] Fwd: Mickey Mouse Bill

2008-05-17 Thread bob catchpole
tributed creativity Sent: Saturday, 17 May, 2008 2:59:46 PM Subject: Re: [NetBehaviour] Fwd: Mickey Mouse Bill bob catchpole wrote: > The Mickey Mouse Bill (aka Orphan Works Bill) is an open invitation to > infringe on a scale undreamed of hithertoo... The Mickey Mouse act was the Sonny

Re: [NetBehaviour] Fwd: Mickey Mouse Bill

2008-05-17 Thread bob catchpole
tributed creativity Sent: Saturday, 17 May, 2008 2:59:46 PM Subject: Re: [NetBehaviour] Fwd: Mickey Mouse Bill bob catchpole wrote: > The Mickey Mouse Bill (aka Orphan Works Bill) is an open invitation to > infringe on a scale undreamed of hithertoo... The Mickey Mouse act was the Sonny

Re: [NetBehaviour] Fwd: Mickey Mouse Bill

2008-05-17 Thread bob catchpole
tributed creativity Sent: Saturday, 17 May, 2008 2:59:46 PM Subject: Re: [NetBehaviour] Fwd: Mickey Mouse Bill bob catchpole wrote: > The Mickey Mouse Bill (aka Orphan Works Bill) is an open invitation to > infringe on a scale undreamed of hithertoo... The Mickey Mouse act was the Sonny

Re: [NetBehaviour] Fwd: Mickey Mouse Bill

2008-05-18 Thread bob catchpole
Nowhere else do they need to register the fact. Bob - Original Message From: Rob Myers <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: NetBehaviour for networked distributed creativity Sent: Saturday, 17 May, 2008 9:06:03 PM Subject: Re: [NetBehaviour] Fwd: Mickey Mouse Bill bob catchpole wrote: >

Re: [NetBehaviour] Fwd: Mickey Mouse Bill

2008-05-18 Thread bob catchpole
for networked distributed creativity Sent: Sunday, 18 May, 2008 3:02:50 PM Subject: Re: [NetBehaviour] Fwd: Mickey Mouse Bill bob catchpole wrote: > Rob Myers wrote: > > > Registration only affects damages where copyright is infringed. > > So if someone uses your work without p

Re: [NetBehaviour] Fwd: Mickey Mouse Bill

2008-05-18 Thread bob catchpole
creativity Sent: Sunday, 18 May, 2008 6:45:34 PM Subject: Re: [NetBehaviour] Fwd: Mickey Mouse Bill *Why defend the indefensible?* I think a lot of us here lean towards the view that it's copyright tout court that's indefensible. michael --- On Sun, 5/18/08, bob catchpole <[

Re: [NetBehaviour] Fwd: Mickey Mouse Bill

2008-05-18 Thread bob catchpole
ably just a statement of fact as far as this list is concerned; I could be wrong. I'm aware it's not a mainstream view. I don't know what pond divides Norfolk from Cambridgeshire & Essex. Bit more thinking & investigating before talking perhaps Bob :) m. --- On Sun, 5/1

Re: [NetBehaviour] Fwd: Mickey Mouse Bill

2008-05-20 Thread bob catchpole
g to be fruitful... in the end, as ever, you will end up with the system you deserve... Bob - Original Message From: "[EMAIL PROTECTED]" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: netbehaviour@netbehaviour.org Sent: Tuesday, 20 May, 2008 2:00:45 PM Subject: Re: [NetBehaviour] Fwd: Mickey Mou

[NetBehaviour] Orphan Works (previously Mickey Mouse Bill)

2008-05-20 Thread bob catchpole
Dear All, Lawrence Lessig, a proponent of the copyleft movement and one of the founders of the "creative commons" movement of sharing your intellectual property, says the proposed Orphan Works bills currently in Congress "is both unfair and unwise." Full New York Times article at: http://www

Re: [NetBehaviour] pulsating emotion organism.

2008-07-16 Thread bob catchpole
- Original Message From: dave miller <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Wednesday, 16 July, 2008 9:20:21 AM > Why copyright pictures, text, video? Copyright is automatic and universal. If the creator wishes the right can be withdrawn. Bob ___

Re: [NetBehaviour] Fwd: pulsating emotion organism.

2008-07-16 Thread bob catchpole
- Original Message From: dave miller <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Wednesday, 16 July, 2008 6:47:59 PM > I think my issue is with copyright and I misunderstood at first > thinking Markus was copyrighting the idea. Dave, you seem to misunderstand the nature of copyright. Ideas cannot be

Re: [NetBehaviour] New developments - On Being/"exist.pl"

2008-07-25 Thread bob catchpole
Pall, What's happens when you run exist.pl? I don't know anything about programming, but the recent exchange of ideas around your code has been the highlight for me since joining the list. Best has been the palpable shared sense of excitement in exploring a perceived 'state of being' and tryin

Re: [NetBehaviour] New developments - On Being/"exist.pl"

2008-07-26 Thread bob catchpole
Thanks Pall. I haven't found the courage to run it because your description sounds a bit like a virus that I may never be able to get rid of!!... - Original Message From: Pall Thayer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Friday, 25 July, 2008 9:06:01 PM Subject: Re: [NetBehaviour] New developments

Re: [NetBehaviour] New developments - On Being/"exist.pl"

2008-07-27 Thread bob catchpole
gone. And even if you delete it while it's running, it recreates itself and then stops running. Its not volatile in any way at all and it's incapable of running itself. To run, it needs to be started by a user with the correct command. On Sat, Jul 26, 2008 at 8:19 PM, bob catchp

Re: [NetBehaviour] Info about the Furtherfield Newsletter,

2008-09-10 Thread bob catchpole
Hi Marc, "We are here on Earth to do good to others. What the others are here for, I don't know." W. H. Auden Please add my name to the list... Thanks, Bob - Original Message From: marc garrett <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: NetBehaviour for networked distributed creativity Sent:

Re: [NetBehaviour] Is Fair Use decided by who has the most money?

2008-10-11 Thread bob catchpole
>From that stance Fair Use = Fair Abuse. Thing is, most people don't regard >abuse as acceptable... are they wrong? Bob - Original Message From: Rob Myers <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Saturday, 11 October, 2008 14:57:31 This cannot be an issue for freedom of speech. __

Re: [NetBehaviour] Is Fair Use decided by who has the most money?

2008-10-11 Thread bob catchpole
Don't amuse my argument. ;-) Bob - Original Message From: Rob Myers <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Saturday, 11 October, 2008 17:54:00 > Thing is, most people don't regard abuse as acceptable... are they wrong? They are answering the wrong question.

Re: [NetBehaviour] powerfulart

2008-10-14 Thread bob catchpole
Banksy or Bank-rupt-sy? Bob - Original Message From: patrick simons <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Tuesday, 14 October, 2008 15:16:18 Hi all I'm wondering if, because of property values collapsing, is a Banksy wall work (number 63!) worth less now? __

Re: [NetBehaviour] pure:dyne discussion

2008-10-19 Thread bob catchpole
Art forms have their technical aspects. Artists are forever learning, playing, working and experimenting with the technology at their disposal. Tools for the job. Means and ends. Artists are largely focused on the latter; the ability to use the tools is presumed. However when it comes to digita

Re: [NetBehaviour] pure:dyne discussion

2008-10-19 Thread bob catchpole
Art forms have their technical aspects. Artists are forever learning, playing, working and experimenting with the technology at their disposal. Tools for the job. Means and ends. Artists are largely focused on the latter; the ability to use the tools is presumed. However when it comes to digita

Re: [NetBehaviour] Team records 'music' from stars - Like Aphex Twin music.

2008-10-28 Thread bob catchpole
Some years ago, as part of a medical project to spot newborn babies that might be deaf, recordings were made of the sound of a womb and played back to the babies on tiny headphones. Those without hearing problems responded to the recording with unmistakable recognition. As I recall, the medical

Re: [NetBehaviour] Team records 'music' from stars - Like Aphex Twin music.

2008-10-29 Thread bob catchpole
Marc, Facing the cosmos, human understanding remains puny, no? Why would a womb and a star have sonic similarities? What is being recorded anyway? Maybe one distant day there will be an answer?... Bob From: marc garrett <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Wednesday, 2

Re: [NetBehaviour] Team records 'music' from stars - Like Aphex Twin music.

2008-10-29 Thread bob catchpole
me manner simply because our capacity to represent these things is so limited. Regards Simon On 29/10/08 17:22, "bob catchpole" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Marc, Facing the cosmos, human understanding remains puny, no? Why would a womb and a star have sonic similarities? What is

Re: [NetBehaviour] My Stuff...

2008-11-08 Thread bob catchpole
Marc, I did enjoy!... What other ways do you distribute it? Bob From: marc garrett Saturday, 8 November, 2008 3:38:33 My Stuff... A selection of past songs/sounds that I have created - enjoy... marc Valentines Day. http://www.furtherfield.org/otmonkeys/mus

Re: [NetBehaviour] Selling software art

2008-11-18 Thread bob catchpole
That's the most honest comment so far... and gets right to the heart of the conundrum. Bob From: Pall Thayer Tuesday, 18 November, 2008 15:42:19 > sometimes it would be nice to get something back. ___ NetBeh

[NetBehaviour] Computer virus art

2008-12-16 Thread bob catchpole
Avatars... Ava look... Computer virus art by Alex Dragulescu http://tinyurl.com/69gh3sBob ___ NetBehaviour mailing list NetBehaviour@netbehaviour.org http://www.netbehaviour.org/mailman/listinfo/netbehaviour

Re: [NetBehaviour] Does it mean something?

2009-02-02 Thread bob catchpole
Yann, The other day someone posted on this list about a project that was a "research platform... on the potential of translocally networked spatial practices." The project, it was claimed, investigates "urban network processes, spaces of geocultural crises, and forms of cultural participation a

Re: [NetBehaviour] Does it mean something?

2009-02-03 Thread bob catchpole
No Yann, I'm not as good looking as that Bob or the sculpture... Bob From: info Monday, 2 February, 2009 23:14:34 Thanks Bob, are you http://bobcatchpole.com/biography.php ? bob catchpole a probablement écrit : > > Yann, > > The

Re: [NetBehaviour] Does it mean something?

2009-02-03 Thread bob catchpole
rious as 2 by u're assuming that the text ur quoting is muddy in terms of comprehension/meaning? do u think the terminology is inappropriate or unclear? chunks, mez On Tue, Feb 3, 2009 at 8:33 AM, bob catchpole wrote: > Yann, > > The other day someone posted on this list about a

Re: [NetBehaviour] Does it mean something?

2009-02-03 Thread bob catchpole
oblem with that? Regards Simon On 3/2/09 10:23, "bob catchpole" wrote: Mez, Does it mean something? Bob From: mez breeze To: NetBehaviour for networked distributed creativity Sent: Monday, 2 February, 2009 23:26:34 Subject: Re: [NetBehaviour] Does it mean something? hi bob [+ as

Re: [NetBehaviour] Does it mean something?

2009-02-04 Thread bob catchpole
Richard, Did you mean bob? Why shout? Btw, thanks for your telling analogy on lifts yesterday... "you also create the knock-on effect of making the able-bodied less fit and lazier by giving them an effort-free mechanism of going upstairs. much better for the body - and mind - to take the stair

Re: [NetBehaviour] [Fwd: BOYCOTT BLOOMBERG - CALL FOR CONTRIBUTIONS]

2009-02-16 Thread bob catchpole
Well put. The call to boycott an individual - Jewish or not - only trivializes a social, political and historical issue. Bob From: Michael Szpakowski To: NetBehaviour for networked distributed creativity Sent: Monday, 16 February, 2009 16:06:33 Subject: Re

Re: [NetBehaviour] boycotts etc

2009-02-18 Thread bob catchpole
I agree. Artists I admire are seekers of truth, not given to ill-considered me-jerk reactions... Bob From: Donna Kuhn To: netbehaviour@netbehaviour.org Sent: Tuesday, 17 February, 2009 17:33:39 Subject: [NetBehaviour] boycotts etc i feel that the tone of

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2009-02-21 Thread bob catchpole
Sorry to intrude guys, but for some time now the thread has sounded like something out of Monty Python... I have to accept some responsibility, since I introduced the idea of artists as truth-seekers. Simon responded 'which truth'? My truth had been offered in the same short posting, that the pro