nettime facial recognition: US$1B 'just in time' for the RNC in NYC

2004-05-03 Thread t byfield
[the public response to this -- compared to responses to similar efforts in, say, london -- will be a useful study in contrasts. it's the first i've heard of it; it seems likely that the systems in question have already been discredited elswehere. (hilariously, just

nettime notes for the future - after Free Cooperation

2004-05-03 Thread Brian Holmes
[apologies for cross posting, and - ] My appreciation to those who let it all hang out and cooperate in Buffalo, and generally on the Free Cooperation list. I personally had a great time and Nathalie Magnan back in gay Paree was with us in spirit retrospectively as I told her all about it! It

nettime ED MEESE DRAFTED FOR THIRD-PARTY TICKET

2004-05-03 Thread Foundation News
May 02, 2004 FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE ED MEESE DRAFTED FOR THIRD-PARTY TICKET Heritage event speaker calls for third-party Meese ticket At a Heritage Foundation luncheon Friday in Chicago, Edwin Meese III was drafted to run for President on a third-party ticket. The speaker condemned Bush as an

nettime Transeuropean Picnic

2004-05-03 Thread Felix Stalder
Transeuropean Picnic Historic events are odd things, mostly disappointing. They feel either like empty routines of calendarial arbitrariness (200 years French Revolution, the millennium) or utterly imposed (9/11, war in Iraq). Either way, they usually render one passive, through boredom or

Re: nettime review of Paul Miller's Rhythm Science

2004-05-03 Thread McKenzie Wark
Matze asks: Rip, mix, play: Information leaks and escapes from the boundaries of the object. the boundaries of the object? what could that be? I see information as having an abstract relation to materiality. Information does not exist without a material form, but it has no necessary

nettime [ The Thing ] THE THING BENEFIT AUCTION

2004-05-03 Thread THE THING
LAST 24 HOURS: THE THING BENEFIT ART AUCTION ONLINE ONLY AT HTTP://AUCTION.THING.NET Daniel Pflumm Momoyo Torimitsu Peter Fend James Hyde Christoph Draeger Steve Parrino Joerg Lohse Jakob Boeskov Simone Huelser Wolfgang Staehle Felix Stephan Huber Matthew McCaslin Rainer Ganahl Pia Dehne Caspar

nettime Baghdad newspaper Al Sabah cuts Pentagon ties

2004-05-03 Thread jo
Iraqi staff quits US funded Al-Sabah newspaper Journalists announce launch of new independent newspaper May 3, 2004 The journalists and other staff of Iraq's biggest daily newspaper, Al-Sabah, have decided to step out of the Iraqi Media Network and start a new, politically and financially

nettime interview with ambientTV.NET

2004-05-03 Thread annie doubt
Interview with London-based ambientTV.NET ('active members' Manu, Mukul, Mariko, Mo-Ling, Michael, Chris, Bill, Kertal)- a crucible for independent, interdisciplinary practice ranging from installation and performance, through documentary, dance, and gastronomy, to sound and video composition and