ARTBASE (1)
BIO
Joy Garnett is a painter based in New York. She appropriates news images from the Internet and re-invents them as paintings. Her subject is the apocalyptic-sublime landscape, as well as the digital image itself as cultural artifact in an increasingly technologized world. Her image research has resulted in online documentation projects, most notably The Bomb Project.
Notable past exhibitions include her recent solo shows at Winkleman Gallery, New York and at the National Academy of Sciences, Washington, DC; group exhibitions organized by the Whitney Museum of American Art, P.S.1/MoMA Contemporary Art Center, Artists Space, White Columns (New York), Kettle's Yard, Cambridge (UK), and De Witte Zaal, Ghent (Belgium). She shows with aeroplastics contemporary, Brussels, Belgium.
extended network >
homepage:
http://joygarnett.com
The Bomb Project
http://www.thebombproject.org
First Pulse Projects
http://firstpulseprojects.net
NEWSgrist - where spin is art
http://newsgrist.typepad.com/
Notable past exhibitions include her recent solo shows at Winkleman Gallery, New York and at the National Academy of Sciences, Washington, DC; group exhibitions organized by the Whitney Museum of American Art, P.S.1/MoMA Contemporary Art Center, Artists Space, White Columns (New York), Kettle's Yard, Cambridge (UK), and De Witte Zaal, Ghent (Belgium). She shows with aeroplastics contemporary, Brussels, Belgium.
extended network >
homepage:
http://joygarnett.com
The Bomb Project
http://www.thebombproject.org
First Pulse Projects
http://firstpulseprojects.net
NEWSgrist - where spin is art
http://newsgrist.typepad.com/
WANTED: PERFORMERS/WRITERS/MUSICIANS/ACTIVISTS (fwd)
---------- Forwarded message ----------
Date: Fri, 30 Jul 2004 11:05:00 -0700
From: Creative Time <staff@creativetime.org>
To: Joy Garnett <joyeria@walrus.com>
Subject: WANTED: PERFORMERS/WRITERS/MUSICIANS/ACTIVISTS
To view this email as a webpage, please use this link:
<http://www.icebase.com/reader.ice?CG3L0037831254&joyeria&5331>
=========================================================
To help you read this email properly, you can use the
link below and see the message as it was intended. Make
sure you copy the entire link below into your browser's
address bar:
<http://www.icebase.com/reader.ice?CG3L0037831254&joyeria&m28197>
=========================================================
To send this email to a friend, follow the link below:
<http://www.icebase.com/send2friend.ice?CG3L0037831254&joyeria@walrus.com>
This CoolerEmail was delivered to you on behalf of Creative Time.
To take yourself off Creative Time's email list,
or update your account information and/or send comments to Creative Time,
please follow the link below:
<http://www.icebase.com/un.ice?CG3L0037831254&joyeria&m28197>
If you request to be taken off Creative Time's email list,
Creative Time will honor your request pursuant to CoolerEmail's
permission-based email terms and conditions.
To view our privacy policy and terms of use, please visit:
<http://www.cooleremail.com/aboutus_privacy.shtml>
Postal address:
307 Seventh Avenue Suite 1904, New York, NY 10001
Powered by CoolerEmail <http://www.cooleremail.com>
A state-of-the-art, user-friendly, responsible email communications system.
Date: Fri, 30 Jul 2004 11:05:00 -0700
From: Creative Time <staff@creativetime.org>
To: Joy Garnett <joyeria@walrus.com>
Subject: WANTED: PERFORMERS/WRITERS/MUSICIANS/ACTIVISTS
To view this email as a webpage, please use this link:
<http://www.icebase.com/reader.ice?CG3L0037831254&joyeria&5331>
=========================================================
To help you read this email properly, you can use the
link below and see the message as it was intended. Make
sure you copy the entire link below into your browser's
address bar:
<http://www.icebase.com/reader.ice?CG3L0037831254&joyeria&m28197>
=========================================================
To send this email to a friend, follow the link below:
<http://www.icebase.com/send2friend.ice?CG3L0037831254&joyeria@walrus.com>
This CoolerEmail was delivered to you on behalf of Creative Time.
To take yourself off Creative Time's email list,
or update your account information and/or send comments to Creative Time,
please follow the link below:
<http://www.icebase.com/un.ice?CG3L0037831254&joyeria&m28197>
If you request to be taken off Creative Time's email list,
Creative Time will honor your request pursuant to CoolerEmail's
permission-based email terms and conditions.
To view our privacy policy and terms of use, please visit:
<http://www.cooleremail.com/aboutus_privacy.shtml>
Postal address:
307 Seventh Avenue Suite 1904, New York, NY 10001
Powered by CoolerEmail <http://www.cooleremail.com>
A state-of-the-art, user-friendly, responsible email communications system.
The Political Party from Reel Roundtable (fwd)
---------- Forwarded message ----------
Date: Fri, 30 Jul 2004 14:01:52 -0400
From: elizabet <elizabeth@reelroundtable.com>
To: info <info@reelroundtable.com>
Cc: Political Party!! <elizabeth@reelroundtable.com>
Subject: The Political Party from Reel Roundtable
The Reel Roundtable
connect : create : contribute
The Political "Party"
It's getting HOT in here, so join us on Tuesday, August 3rd for all
political activists to get together for one night as we all prepare for the
upcoming weeks!
When: Tuesday, August 3rd at 8:30pm
Where: Sweet & Vicious Bar - 5 Spring St, btwen Elizabeth St & Bowery
Why: to have a good time & we're taking political film submissions
Who: sponsored by The Reel Roundtable
RSVP: rsvp@reelroundtable.com, please include your name, organization and #
of guests
Also, if you or someone you know has made a feature film, a short film and/
or a music video regarding politics then attach your business card to the
DVD or VHS screener and bring your submission.
The political films will be screened with the Reel Roundtable's film series
The Film Medley on
* Monday, October 25th & Monday, November 1st
Remember it's a theme party, so dress accordingly.
Wear your creative political t-shirts, pins, hats, underwear, etc...
We encourage you to promote your organization by hanging posters,
bringing sign-up sheets, selling/ wearing/ giving out t-shirts, bringing
literature/ postcards/ business cards.
Feel free to forward this email.
_____________
* Head's Up *
_____________
~~ indieWIRE - blogs updated all the time by the indieWIRE crew ~~
... http://blogs.indiewire.com/thereelroundtable/ ...
~~ RR website designed by ~~
http://www.LivingCanvas.com & http://www.LiveAxle.com
------- ------- -------- ------- -------
The Reel Roundtable
connect + create + contribute
The Reel Roundtable
211 East 5th Street, #4
NY, NY 10003
info@reelroundtable.com
http://www.reelroundtable.com
------- ------- -------- ------- -------
Volunteer with the The Reel Roundtable!
volunteer@reelroundtable.com
Date: Fri, 30 Jul 2004 14:01:52 -0400
From: elizabet <elizabeth@reelroundtable.com>
To: info <info@reelroundtable.com>
Cc: Political Party!! <elizabeth@reelroundtable.com>
Subject: The Political Party from Reel Roundtable
The Reel Roundtable
connect : create : contribute
The Political "Party"
It's getting HOT in here, so join us on Tuesday, August 3rd for all
political activists to get together for one night as we all prepare for the
upcoming weeks!
When: Tuesday, August 3rd at 8:30pm
Where: Sweet & Vicious Bar - 5 Spring St, btwen Elizabeth St & Bowery
Why: to have a good time & we're taking political film submissions
Who: sponsored by The Reel Roundtable
RSVP: rsvp@reelroundtable.com, please include your name, organization and #
of guests
Also, if you or someone you know has made a feature film, a short film and/
or a music video regarding politics then attach your business card to the
DVD or VHS screener and bring your submission.
The political films will be screened with the Reel Roundtable's film series
The Film Medley on
* Monday, October 25th & Monday, November 1st
Remember it's a theme party, so dress accordingly.
Wear your creative political t-shirts, pins, hats, underwear, etc...
We encourage you to promote your organization by hanging posters,
bringing sign-up sheets, selling/ wearing/ giving out t-shirts, bringing
literature/ postcards/ business cards.
Feel free to forward this email.
_____________
* Head's Up *
_____________
~~ indieWIRE - blogs updated all the time by the indieWIRE crew ~~
... http://blogs.indiewire.com/thereelroundtable/ ...
~~ RR website designed by ~~
http://www.LivingCanvas.com & http://www.LiveAxle.com
------- ------- -------- ------- -------
The Reel Roundtable
connect + create + contribute
The Reel Roundtable
211 East 5th Street, #4
NY, NY 10003
info@reelroundtable.com
http://www.reelroundtable.com
------- ------- -------- ------- -------
Volunteer with the The Reel Roundtable!
volunteer@reelroundtable.com
Viridian Note 00420: Viridian Toilet Humor (fwd)
hee:
---------- Forwarded message ----------
Date: 26 Jul 2004 15:27:50 -0000
From: Bruce Sterling <bruces@well.com>
To: joyeria@walrus.com
Subject: Viridian Note 00420: Viridian Toilet Humor
Key concepts: odd things done with toilets
Attention Conservation Notice: We Viridians don't
normally dabble in bathroom humor, but these peculiar
snippets were assembled by a curator we know who
works for the Guggenheim Museum. This is more
than toilet humor == this is, like, toilet art.
Link:
Jon Ippolito. He sent this stuff.
http://three.org/ippolito/home.html
Subject: pee-green
Date: July 23, 2004 9:27:05 PM CDT
To: bruces@well.com
"Bruce,
"Google says you haven't written about these links
yet, so I just had to forward them on. Maybe it's
time to lighten up those Viridian Notes with a
little bathroom humor?
"Nestled between the reviews of solar shingles
and bamboo flooring on reactual.com is a writeup
on Waterless Urinals:
Link:
Meta-Efficient
A Guide to the Most Efficient Things in the World
http://www.reactual.com/
"These waterless urinals are plainly more efficient
than the ones currently in use in most bathrooms
nationwide.
"They can save up to 45,000 gallons of water and
more per year per urinal.
"They also require less maintenance, and are less
prone to plumbing problems. They have no moving parts.
Urine is contained under a special biodegradable
liquid called BlueSeal.
"According to the manufacturer, some high profile
installations include Liberty Island, New York;
Petronas Towers, Malaysia; and The Jimmy Carter
Library, Georgia...
"I wonder if there's a special icon for these toilets
in the 'pee-Pod?' I guess the 'audio information'
doesn't include a flushing sound:
"Bringing relief with the pee-Pod
To pee, or not to pee?
Link:
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/magazine/3919973.stm
"The trauma of dirty loos could be a thing of the past
for users of pPod, a guide to the best and worst of
public toilets for iPod owners.
"The possibility of unpleasant odours, a lack of soap
or paper, graffiti and absent attendants have the
power to strike fear into the hearts of all but the
sturdiest of visitors to public toilets.
"The question of whether to hold on until a familiar,
clean facility is reached, or to bite the bullet and
gain immediate relief, is one which faces everyone
at some point.
"A possible solution is now being offered to iPod
users, who could soon have the power to choose
their loos with confidence.
"A free interactive guide to public conveniences,
appropriately called pPod, offers audio and text
information on their whereabouts, opening hours,
facilities and cleanliness....
"Not to be outdone, the US military has brought
efficiency full-circle:
"Army rations rehydrated by urine
Link:
http://www.newscientist.com/news/news.jsp?id=ns99996185
19:00 21 July 04
"Would you eat food cooked in your own urine?
Food scientists working for the US military have
developed a dried food ration that troops can hydrate
by adding the filthiest of muddy swamp water
or even peeing on it.
"The ration comes in a pouch containing a filter
that removes 99.9 per cent of bacteria and most toxic
chemicals from the water used to rehydrate it,
according to the Combat Feeding Directorate, part of
the US Army Soldier Systems Center in Natick,
Massachusetts. This is the same organisation that
created the 'indestructible sandwich' that will stay
fresh for three years (New Scientist print edition,
10 April 2002).
"The aim is to reduce the amount of water soldiers
need to carry. One day's food supply of three meals,
weighs 3.5 kilograms but that can be reduced to about
0.4 kilograms with the dehydrated pouches, says
spokeswoman Diane Wood.
"The pouch == containing chicken and rice initially ==
relies on osmosis to filter the water or urine. When
two solutions of different concentrations
are separated by a semipermeable membrane, with gaps
that allow only water molecules to pass through,
the water is drawn to the more concentrated side...."
Jon Ippolito remarks: "Either I've stumbled upon
the meme du jour or I've been spending too much
time around my pre-schooler children."
Link:
http://www.snopes.com/photos/arts/toilet.asp:
"See-Through Loo
"Claim: Photographs show a public toilet made
with reflective glass walls.
"Status: True.
"Example [Collected on the Internet, 2004]
"Here's a picture of a public toilet in Switzerland
that's made entirely out of one-way glass. No one
can see you in there, but when you are inside, it
looks like you're sitting in a clear glass box.
"Origins: Although our mores regarding the display
of the human body and bodily functions have changed
a good deal over the years (for example, the
notion that a woman might breast-feed her child in
a public place was almost completely unthinkable
just a few decades ago), most of us still
hold very strong taboos against anyone other than
intimates seeing us in certain circumstances, such
as when we're unclothed, when we're engaged in
execretory activities, and when we're engaged in
sexual activities. Our squeamishness in these
regards is such that we're often quite uncomfortable
when others are present during these circumstances,
even if they cannot see us. (Many people feel quite
embarrassed about disrobing when a member of
the opposite sex is present in the room, even if that
other person keeps his or her eyes tightly closed.)
"On the other hand, we may not be so fussy
about stripping down in a locker room or using
a public bathroom in the presence of others == it
somehow seems more acceptable for us to do these
things in front of other people when those others are
engaged in the same activity.
"The concept of how we react to 'seeing but not
being seen' was put to the test by 38-year-old
architectural artist Monica Bonvicini in December 2003,
when her work entitled 'Don't Miss A Sec' was installed
at a construction site (the future home of the Chelsea
College of Art and Design) across the road from
London's Tate Britain museum (not in Switzerland,
as claimed in the text quoted above)."
Link:
Monica Bonvicini, feminist German art gal
http://www.artforum.com/index.php?pn=interview&id61
"Bonvicini's creation is a public toilet enclosed
within reflective glass walls that allow the user to
see out but prevent those outside from seeing in, an
exhibit that challenges whether we can adapt to the
idea of being able to view others passing in close
proximity to us while we engage in an activity which
we don't want them to view == even when we know full
well that they can't possibly see us. As a spokesman
for Ms. Bonvicini explained:
"'It will arouse curiosity because people can come
and just use it, although there is a question of
whether people will feel comfortable doing so.
"'They may be wary of desecrating a work of art or
may be uneasy that because they can see out, other
people can see in.
"'There could be this feeling that there is some
form of switch to change it and let people see in,
but of course there isn't.'
"Jeff Boloten, who works at the Tate Britain, noted:
"'Playing with the idea of the most private bodily
function and having to sit on a street corner is
just bizarre.
"'The construction site makes it interesting because
portable toilets are at construction sites all the
time, but, the Tate Britain's a respected institution;
the juxtaposition makes it more unique.'
"The title of the work refers to Ms. Bonvicini's
observation that attendees at art openings were
afraid to leave the room for fear of missing a key
entrance or comment, hence her 'Don't Miss A Sec'
exhibit 'reflects peoples' reluctance to leave the
spectacle, and allows the art-goer to remain in the
action, even while on the toilet.' Her use of a
stainless steel toilet and sink unit was inspired
by the fact that the 'Don't Miss A Sec' exhibition
site once housed Millbank Penitentiary, a 19th century
prison facility.
"Last updated: 14 July 2004
Urban Legends Reference Pages (c) 1995-2004
by Barbara and David P. Mikkelson
This material may not be reproduced without permission.
Sources:
Carlile, Jennifer . "A New Way to View London:
>From a Toilet."
MSNBC.com. 5 March 2004.
Rubinstein, Raphael. "A Tale of Two Toilets."
Art in America. February 2004.
BBC News. "Art's Glass Toilet Tests Courage."
3 December 2003.
"Be well!"
Jon Ippolito
O=c=O O=c=O O=c=O O=c=O
WHEN YOU'VE GOTTA GO,
YOU'VE GOTTA GO
O=c=O O=c=O O=c=O O=c=O
---------- Forwarded message ----------
Date: 26 Jul 2004 15:27:50 -0000
From: Bruce Sterling <bruces@well.com>
To: joyeria@walrus.com
Subject: Viridian Note 00420: Viridian Toilet Humor
Key concepts: odd things done with toilets
Attention Conservation Notice: We Viridians don't
normally dabble in bathroom humor, but these peculiar
snippets were assembled by a curator we know who
works for the Guggenheim Museum. This is more
than toilet humor == this is, like, toilet art.
Link:
Jon Ippolito. He sent this stuff.
http://three.org/ippolito/home.html
Subject: pee-green
Date: July 23, 2004 9:27:05 PM CDT
To: bruces@well.com
"Bruce,
"Google says you haven't written about these links
yet, so I just had to forward them on. Maybe it's
time to lighten up those Viridian Notes with a
little bathroom humor?
"Nestled between the reviews of solar shingles
and bamboo flooring on reactual.com is a writeup
on Waterless Urinals:
Link:
Meta-Efficient
A Guide to the Most Efficient Things in the World
http://www.reactual.com/
"These waterless urinals are plainly more efficient
than the ones currently in use in most bathrooms
nationwide.
"They can save up to 45,000 gallons of water and
more per year per urinal.
"They also require less maintenance, and are less
prone to plumbing problems. They have no moving parts.
Urine is contained under a special biodegradable
liquid called BlueSeal.
"According to the manufacturer, some high profile
installations include Liberty Island, New York;
Petronas Towers, Malaysia; and The Jimmy Carter
Library, Georgia...
"I wonder if there's a special icon for these toilets
in the 'pee-Pod?' I guess the 'audio information'
doesn't include a flushing sound:
"Bringing relief with the pee-Pod
To pee, or not to pee?
Link:
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/magazine/3919973.stm
"The trauma of dirty loos could be a thing of the past
for users of pPod, a guide to the best and worst of
public toilets for iPod owners.
"The possibility of unpleasant odours, a lack of soap
or paper, graffiti and absent attendants have the
power to strike fear into the hearts of all but the
sturdiest of visitors to public toilets.
"The question of whether to hold on until a familiar,
clean facility is reached, or to bite the bullet and
gain immediate relief, is one which faces everyone
at some point.
"A possible solution is now being offered to iPod
users, who could soon have the power to choose
their loos with confidence.
"A free interactive guide to public conveniences,
appropriately called pPod, offers audio and text
information on their whereabouts, opening hours,
facilities and cleanliness....
"Not to be outdone, the US military has brought
efficiency full-circle:
"Army rations rehydrated by urine
Link:
http://www.newscientist.com/news/news.jsp?id=ns99996185
19:00 21 July 04
"Would you eat food cooked in your own urine?
Food scientists working for the US military have
developed a dried food ration that troops can hydrate
by adding the filthiest of muddy swamp water
or even peeing on it.
"The ration comes in a pouch containing a filter
that removes 99.9 per cent of bacteria and most toxic
chemicals from the water used to rehydrate it,
according to the Combat Feeding Directorate, part of
the US Army Soldier Systems Center in Natick,
Massachusetts. This is the same organisation that
created the 'indestructible sandwich' that will stay
fresh for three years (New Scientist print edition,
10 April 2002).
"The aim is to reduce the amount of water soldiers
need to carry. One day's food supply of three meals,
weighs 3.5 kilograms but that can be reduced to about
0.4 kilograms with the dehydrated pouches, says
spokeswoman Diane Wood.
"The pouch == containing chicken and rice initially ==
relies on osmosis to filter the water or urine. When
two solutions of different concentrations
are separated by a semipermeable membrane, with gaps
that allow only water molecules to pass through,
the water is drawn to the more concentrated side...."
Jon Ippolito remarks: "Either I've stumbled upon
the meme du jour or I've been spending too much
time around my pre-schooler children."
Link:
http://www.snopes.com/photos/arts/toilet.asp:
"See-Through Loo
"Claim: Photographs show a public toilet made
with reflective glass walls.
"Status: True.
"Example [Collected on the Internet, 2004]
"Here's a picture of a public toilet in Switzerland
that's made entirely out of one-way glass. No one
can see you in there, but when you are inside, it
looks like you're sitting in a clear glass box.
"Origins: Although our mores regarding the display
of the human body and bodily functions have changed
a good deal over the years (for example, the
notion that a woman might breast-feed her child in
a public place was almost completely unthinkable
just a few decades ago), most of us still
hold very strong taboos against anyone other than
intimates seeing us in certain circumstances, such
as when we're unclothed, when we're engaged in
execretory activities, and when we're engaged in
sexual activities. Our squeamishness in these
regards is such that we're often quite uncomfortable
when others are present during these circumstances,
even if they cannot see us. (Many people feel quite
embarrassed about disrobing when a member of
the opposite sex is present in the room, even if that
other person keeps his or her eyes tightly closed.)
"On the other hand, we may not be so fussy
about stripping down in a locker room or using
a public bathroom in the presence of others == it
somehow seems more acceptable for us to do these
things in front of other people when those others are
engaged in the same activity.
"The concept of how we react to 'seeing but not
being seen' was put to the test by 38-year-old
architectural artist Monica Bonvicini in December 2003,
when her work entitled 'Don't Miss A Sec' was installed
at a construction site (the future home of the Chelsea
College of Art and Design) across the road from
London's Tate Britain museum (not in Switzerland,
as claimed in the text quoted above)."
Link:
Monica Bonvicini, feminist German art gal
http://www.artforum.com/index.php?pn=interview&id61
"Bonvicini's creation is a public toilet enclosed
within reflective glass walls that allow the user to
see out but prevent those outside from seeing in, an
exhibit that challenges whether we can adapt to the
idea of being able to view others passing in close
proximity to us while we engage in an activity which
we don't want them to view == even when we know full
well that they can't possibly see us. As a spokesman
for Ms. Bonvicini explained:
"'It will arouse curiosity because people can come
and just use it, although there is a question of
whether people will feel comfortable doing so.
"'They may be wary of desecrating a work of art or
may be uneasy that because they can see out, other
people can see in.
"'There could be this feeling that there is some
form of switch to change it and let people see in,
but of course there isn't.'
"Jeff Boloten, who works at the Tate Britain, noted:
"'Playing with the idea of the most private bodily
function and having to sit on a street corner is
just bizarre.
"'The construction site makes it interesting because
portable toilets are at construction sites all the
time, but, the Tate Britain's a respected institution;
the juxtaposition makes it more unique.'
"The title of the work refers to Ms. Bonvicini's
observation that attendees at art openings were
afraid to leave the room for fear of missing a key
entrance or comment, hence her 'Don't Miss A Sec'
exhibit 'reflects peoples' reluctance to leave the
spectacle, and allows the art-goer to remain in the
action, even while on the toilet.' Her use of a
stainless steel toilet and sink unit was inspired
by the fact that the 'Don't Miss A Sec' exhibition
site once housed Millbank Penitentiary, a 19th century
prison facility.
"Last updated: 14 July 2004
Urban Legends Reference Pages (c) 1995-2004
by Barbara and David P. Mikkelson
This material may not be reproduced without permission.
Sources:
Carlile, Jennifer . "A New Way to View London:
>From a Toilet."
MSNBC.com. 5 March 2004.
Rubinstein, Raphael. "A Tale of Two Toilets."
Art in America. February 2004.
BBC News. "Art's Glass Toilet Tests Courage."
3 December 2003.
"Be well!"
Jon Ippolito
O=c=O O=c=O O=c=O O=c=O
WHEN YOU'VE GOTTA GO,
YOU'VE GOTTA GO
O=c=O O=c=O O=c=O O=c=O
NEWSgrist: *Watch What We Say* July 2004 pt.3
NEWSgrist - where spin is art
An e-zine covering the arts since 2000
============================
Vol.5, no.14 [July 26, 2004]
============================
read it on the blog:
http://newsgrist.typepad.com
Archives:
http://newsgrist.net
============================
============================
Saturday, July 24, 2004
When iPods are illegal
Is your computer a loaded gun? (Salon)
At a Senate hearing on Thursday, defenders of the Induce Act -- which
would ban technologies that encourage copyright infringement -- will try
to explain why their bill isn't the stupidest idea they've ever come up
with.
By Siva Vaidhyanathan
[...] If we don't want to radically alter the personal computer and the
Internet itself, there is not much the Senate or the entertainment
industry can do about file sharing. Users who are accustomed to this new
technocultural environment will simply find another way. They will migrate
en masse to other services like Gnutella, ICQ, FreeNet, and BitTorrent.
Recently the civil liberties group Electronic Frontier Foundation worked
up a mock complaint that might be issued if the Induce Act becomes law.
The complaint makes it clear that Apple would be liable for selling the
popular iPod music player.
Remember: When iPods are illegal, only criminals will have iPods.
(read full article in Free Press News)
Saturday, July 24, 2004 at 08:32 PM in Current Affairs | Permalink:
http://newsgrist.typepad.com/underbelly/2004/07/when_ipods_are_.html
////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////
Sculptural Piracy?
[image: Kiki Smith finishes a piece...]
via Furd Log:
Technological Alienation
The hook for this [NYTimes] article, When Technology Imitates Art, points
to the cognitive problem that comes up every time a technology is employed
in a novel fashion to create something that could be produced another way,
but now no longer need be.
> A FEW weeks ago, a sculptor in France contacted Studio Roc, a new
stone-milling company in North Hollywood, Calif., with the type of
challenge the company was seeking. He had a 19th-century limestone lion's
face that he wanted to reproduce for a line of fountains. But carving each
face by hand was a tedious chore for which he no longer had the time or
resources.
> Instead, he shipped the original work to Studio Roc, where technicians
mapped it in three dimensions with a laser scanner. Then they placed a
limestone blank in a computer-controlled milling machine and used the scan
data to carve a duplicate lion face at the touch of a button.
[...] But the harnessing of these granite-grinding Xerox machines, able to
duplicate just about any sculpture, may also blur the line between what is
authentic and what is not. Is such a sculpture art, or merely a
computer-aided copy? [emphasis added, Furd Log]
more from the NYTimes article:
Not that sculptural piracy requires laser scanning. Mr. Lash noted that
foundries, mostly in Asia, already churn out countless copies - some from
molds of the originals, others based on photos. "Just look at all the
Remington horses in circulation," he said.
But Mr. [Julien] LaVerdiere noted that duplicating a well-known work was
once an honest academic endeavor, pursued mostly by artists honing their
skills.
"It's long been a tradition to copy classical sculpture," he said. "And
now we're kind of using 21st-century technology. It's really cool. It's
too bad it costs so much money."
Saturday, July 24, 2004 at 06:16 PM in Current Affairs | Permalink:
http://newsgrist.typepad.com/underbelly/2004/07/sculptural_pira.html
////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////
The Anarchist in the Library: Slashdot Review
Siva Vaidhyanathan is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Culture
and Communication at New York University, defender of Fair Use, and the
author of Copyrights and Copywrongs: The Rise of Intellectual Property and
How It Threatens Creativity.
His new book is The Anarchist in the Library: How the Clash Between
Freedom and Control is Hacking the Real World and Crashing the System.
According to Siva, Ernest Miller (Slashdot) gets it: "This is the best
review the book has received so far":
At its most basic level, The Anarchist in the Library is about control of
information, both cultural and political. As Siva says in the last
chapter, "This book was supposed to be about entertainment - the battle
over control of digital music, text, and video ... But as I researched
this new project, the world shifted beneath my feet ... My concerns moved
to the regulation and control of all sorts of information, much of it
cultural, much of it political." Thus, throughout the book, Siva contrasts
two very different regimes of information control: oligarchy and anarchy.
[...]
... In the end, Siva's moderation is demonstrated as he concludes that
there are seldom easy answers in a world where control of information and
culture is sometimes necessary. Without giving specific answers, Siva
argues for approaching problems from a particular perspective: with
engaged, humane cynicism and a commitment to civic republicanism, both
within and without our borders. It is a perspective well worth reading
about.
Read the latest argument against the INDUCE Act (Inducing Infringement of
Copyrights Act) made by Sen. Norm Coleman (R-MN) and check out the EFF's
action alert: The Induce Act: Innovation Under Attack.
Saturday, July 24, 2004 at 10:27 AM in Books | Permalink:
http://newsgrist.typepad.com/underbelly/2004/07/the_anarchist_i.html
////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////
Infinite Fulfillment
images + comments via tom moody...
The exhibition opening was crowded but not too crowded and hot but not too
hot. The work fell into two broad categories: things made with actual fill
patterns (printouts, videos) and hand-crafted objects that mimicked fill
patterns (painting, drawing, needlepoint). Variations and exceptions
abounded in this 90-some artist show.
...and james wagner:
I couldn't imagine it would come together so well. Hearing or reading
about it ahead of time, the concept seemed mad. It is (and I mean that in
the very best way), but its execution was absolutely brilliant.
show info:
THE INFINITE FILL SHOW
Curated by Cory + Jamie Arcangel
Opening reception: Thursday, July 22, 6.00 - 8.30 pm
Dates: July 22 to August 19, 2004
Summer hours: Tuesday to Friday, 11.00 am - 6.00 pm
Foxy Production announces The Infinite Fill Show, a group exhibition of
dazzling black and white patterns, curated by brother and sister team Cory
and Jamie Arcangel. The exhibition includes new and historical, readymade
and handcrafted works in a range of media. The curators sent out an open
call to artists for found or made objects which had to adhere to two basic
rules: they must be black and white, and they must contain repeating
patterns. The curatorial concept was inspired by MAC Paint, the 1984
software application with varied 16-bit monochrome patterning that could
be picked and dropped into areas of the screen to denote color and depth.
For Cory and Jamie Arcangel, this rudimentary precursor to Photoshop's
draw and paint functions provides a creative tool to explore multiple
perspectives within a unifying aesthetic. > snip! <
Saturday, July 24, 2004 at 09:34 AM in Art Exhibitions | Permalink:
http://newsgrist.typepad.com/underbelly/2004/07/infinite_fulfil.html
////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////
Friday, July 23, 2004
No More Lies
from SeanBonner.com via Eyebeam ReBlog:
Russell Simmons owns a loft facing ground zero. Since 9/11 there's been
extremely limited access to the building, but this morning our good
friend, photographer Glen E. Friedman get in for a few minutes to make a
statement which will be up through the RNC. Here's a bunch of pictures
from inside and out.
Friday, July 23, 2004 at 03:25 PM in Current Affairs | Permalink:
http://newsgrist.typepad.com/underbelly/2004/07/no_more_lies.html
////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////
FROM: IM VOTING BUSH OUT a political blog hosted by NEWSgrist:
Visual Resistance
via a post at RNC Watch in June:
Some of New York's coolest radical artists have organized a NoRNC Poster
Project, which you can now find out more about online. According to their
website, " No RNC Poster Collective is a small collective of friends with
experience in graphic design and independent media. We came together with
the goal of facilitating visual resistance against this summer's
Republican National Convention. We want to make protest beautiful and
connect artists with organizations working against the RNC. Our goal is to
create a visual blitz in New York City against Bush and the Convention,
and to blend art with politics in the finest New York style."
July 23, 2004 in Current Affairs | Permalink:
http://newsgrist.typepad.com/imvoting/2004/07/visual_resistan.html
////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////
Thursday, July 22, 2004
Watch What We Say
Artists and activists are preparing to mobilize for the duration of the
Republican National Convention 2004, to be held August 30 thru September 2
in New York City. In addition to taking to the streets, the Web and the
airwaves, protests are also shaping up as exhibitions and performances.
Perhaps the most thoroughly conceived of these events is the Imagine
Festival which will be held at numerous exhibition spaces, museums and
theatrical venues throughout the City. But many spontaneous, underground
and unaffiliated events are also taking place. Here's the latest (watch
for more announcements of this sort in the weeks to come):
Press Release July 2004
Watch What We Say
Venue: Schroeder Romero
173A N.3rd Street. Williamsburg Brooklyn NY. t: 718 486 8992.
Opening Reception: Wed August 25, 2004. 6-9pm
Exhibition Dates: August 26 - September 2, 2004. 12-6pm.
Contact: Marc Lepson. 718 692 4571. pauperprints@earthlink.net
Artists:
Robbie Conal, Jim Costanzo, Erika deVries, Electronic Disturbance Theater,
Christopher Knowles, Joy Garnett, Jerry Kearns, Joyce Kozloff, Carrie
Moyer, Ann Messner, Jenny Polak, William Pope L., Dread Scott, Peter
Scott, Carla Repice, Leonard Silverberg, James Tomon, Barbara Weissberger,
Krzysztof Wodiczko, Emna Zghal
An exhibition of new and recent visual works in a variety of media, Watch
What We Say presents a mix of emerging and established artists who address
pressing political issues of the moment in poetic, subversive, emotional
and clear-eyed terms.
In the weeks following the attacks of September 11, 2001, President Bush's
press secretary Ari Fleischer replied to criticism of administration
policy by warning that "all Americans need to watch what they say, watch
what they do". This challenge to free expression emphasized the climate of
war, repression, and xenophobia that continues to run through American
society. By speaking directly to this web of issues that remain
intertwined and interdependent, the artists selected for this exhibition
present works that testify to the power of creative thought in the face of
overwhelming odds.
For this show, timed to coincide with the Republican National Convention
in NYC, artists Joy Garnett, James Tomon, Carrie Moyer, Jerry Kearns and
Robbie Conal show works that take on images of power via painterly
construction and de-construction of mediated images. Jenny Polak and
Krzysztof Wodiczko look closely at the immigrant experience, while Wlliam
Pope L. and Dread Scott examine racial relations in historical and
contemporary terms, and Peter Scott's 'mirror' image "explores the
interplay between the relentless marketing of fear and the selling of
comfort". Taking a more emotional aproach, Christopher Knowles presents a
simple and moving interpretation of color coded alert levels, along with
Leonard Silverberg's carefully composed ink washes of wandering displaced
persons, Joyce Kozloff's meticulous watercolor map of the partition of
1948 Palestine/Israel, and Barbara Weissberger's humorous and disturbing
corporeal forms. Ann Messner's newspaper vending machine installation
presents a hopeful alternative by dispensing free copies of 'un
conventional heroes', a narrative of personal courage and dissent.
Rounding out the show are video interventions by Jim Costanzo, off-site
performance by Carla Repice, live internet radio broadcast by Erika
deVries and a Virtual Sit-In of the RNC by Electronic Disturbance Theater
(Ricardo Dominguez, Carmin Karasic , Brett Stalbaum, Stefan Wray).
Looking directly at extreme circumstances, these artists project back
lyrical responses that are complex, beautiful, and meaningful. Difficult
questions are posed eloquently, with respect to the myriad of possible
answers.
Watch What We Say is curated by Marc Lepson, an installation and graphic
artist whose previous curatorial projects include Art During Wartime
(co-organized with Dread Scott) shown at IT IN Space NYC, Spring 2003. His
work is on view at the Brooklyn Museum's "Open House" exhibition through
August 15, and can be seen at
http://www.artistsnetwork.org/news7/news288.html
Thursday, July 22, 2004 at 04:21 PM in Art Exhibitions | Permalink:
http://newsgrist.typepad.com/underbelly/2004/07/watch_what_we_s.html
////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////
FROM: IM VOTING BUSH OUT a political blog hosted by NEWSgrist:
July 22, 2004
Voting With The Underground
SHOUT OUT YOUR DESIRE FOR CHANGE!
Voting With the Underground is asking for submissions.
from their site:
Do you have a literary or audio work that showcases your right to
expression and emphasizes freedom of speech? A work that highlights the
power of voicing yourself through voting or encourages others to take
action? Maybe a work that celebrates the democratic power of the
individual? We would like to use that work - and your voice - in order to
help others speak up!
We are Voting with the Underground (a division of the Creative America
Project), a not-for-profit initiative dedicated to turning up this
generation's political volume by promoting voter registration and the need
for free expression. We hope to achieve this through words and verse in
the distribution of a CD and literary booklet of local independent artists
(ahem: you), culminating in a pre-election live show in September 2004.
Local businesses who share in our goal of a democracy for and by the
people, will be funding the media and show, joining their logos with our
voices in the product. > snip! <
July 22, 2004 in Current Affairs | Permalink:
http://newsgrist.typepad.com/imvoting/2004/07/voting_with_the.html
////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////
Thinking Outside the Block
Map the progress of sculptor Stefanie Nagorka's "Aisle Studio Tour"
"Unannounced, I appear at home improvement centers around the country and
use their aisles as my studio..."
Thursday, July 22, 2004 at 03:43 PM in Art Exhibitions | Permalink:
http://newsgrist.typepad.com/underbelly/2004/07/thinking_outsid.html
////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////
Wednesday, July 21, 2004
Iraq Eye
The IraqEye Group is a collaboration between American producers and Iraqi
filmmakers with the goal of revitalizing Iraqi cinema within the
international cinema community.
Their first feature documentary is complete.
via the Dactyl Foundation:
The Dreams of Sparrows is a documentary that follows first time Iraqi
director Hayder Mousa Daffar and his team of contributing directors as
they share their vision of life in Baghdad, post war and pre
reconstruction.
Screening:
Thursday, July 22 7PM
Dactyl Foundation
64 Grand St (between W. Bdwy & Wooster)
SoHo, NYC 212 219 2344 www.dactyl.org
contact: Aaron Raskin 917_599_8254 raskin@harbingerpro.com www.iraqeye.org
Wednesday, July 21, 2004 at 04:37 PM in Film | Permalink:
http://newsgrist.typepad.com/underbelly/2004/07/iraq_eye.html
////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////
Bidoun Magazine
Announcing: Bidoun: A Quarterly Forum for Middle Eastern Talent
from their site:
BIDOUN was launched in March 2004 to fill one of the last remaining gaps
in the magazine market: the cultural life of the Middle East and its
Diaspora. With pages dedicated to the latest art, fashion, music, film,
architecture and design, BIDOUN is art-directed by the renowned Paris-New
York collective Surface 2 Air, and published out of Dubai, United Arab
Emirates. Its editors are based in Berlin, New York and Dubai.
The only magazine dedicated to showcasing the most exciting developments
in Arab and Iranian culture, BIDOUN is distributed through bookshops,
boutiques and galleries across the Middle East - from the tip of the Gulf
to North Africa - and in cities in Europe and the US.
Here's a list of places that carry Bidoun.
Wednesday, July 21, 2004 at 04:13 PM in Books | Permalink:
http://newsgrist.typepad.com/underbelly/2004/07/bidoun_magazine.html
////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////
Knitters For Kerry
My new favorite political blog is Knitters For Kerry. Need I say more?
Check it out. (thanks Andrea!)
Some excerpts:
These days, it's more important than ever before to get involved with the
running of our nation. George W Bush has got to lose his job and we at KFK
are going to make sure that happens-- one stitch at a time!
[...]
I belong to a machine knitting group where my fellow knitters do not seem
to be slaving away producing socks. However, I know that stores (Suss
Design is one example) utilize home machine knitters for manufacturing.
There are also advocacy groups teaching people in Africa how to make
sweaters on knitting machines to sell.
I began making a KERRY EDWARDS panel which can hopefully become a sweater
if I can figure out how. But partway through, the machine jammed and now
the piece has to be untangled from the needles. The machine has two beds
of needles, each side with 180 needles. It's a pretty amazing piece of
equipment.
[...]
For everyone curious about what the knitting machine actually looks like,
here it is in all it's glory. The Passap e6000 is a Swiss made machine
produced during the 1980's. Knitting machines are no longer being made for
distribution in the US, so nearly all knitting machines are used, and this
one is no exception. The object with the keypad on the upper left is the
computerized console which controls the designs. Letters are able to be
programmed right into the machine. Each letter is assigned a number. The
Passap is a double bed machine, which means that it can knit two sides of
a fabric simultaneously. I use pretty thin yarn, so the fabric is thick
but not unbelievably so. It's basicaly comfortable, especially if gets a
little bit cooler around here.
> snip! <
Wednesday, July 21, 2004 at 03:39 PM in Current Affairs | Permalink:
http://newsgrist.typepad.com/underbelly/2004/07/knitters_for_ke.html
////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////
Don't Sign up: Login
via Eyebeam ReBlog:
We Don't Need No Stinkin' Login
Increasingly, Web publishers are demanding that users register to read
their sites, and increasingly, readers are getting annoyed and turning to
sites like BugMeNot, which offers pre-made login profiles. By Rachel Metz.
Originally from Wired News: Top Stories, ReBlogged by Mark_Daggett on Jul
20, 2004 at 01:53 PM
more from Wired:
BugMeNot.com is a site that generates login names and passwords for
registration sites. The site is a boon to those who want to keep online
anonymity or stamp out spam. According to the site's homepage, 14,000
websites have been "liberated" from registration bondage, and it's clear
many people are doing whatever they can to avoid really logging in.
According to the site's creator, an Australian who wants to remain
anonymous for fear of lawsuits, the site is getting about 10,000 hits each
day. In an e-mail interview, BugMeNot's creator said he started the site
in November 2003 after being annoyed for some time with forced
registration on some sites.
"BugMeNot.com seemed like a good idea because it's something that so many
people want and it's such a simple concept to implement," he wrote.
One BugMeNot aficionado, Eric Hamiter, is doing his part to help the
site's cause -- he created a plug-in for the Mozilla browser that gives
users a pop-up window with login information when they land on a
registration-only newspaper site.
Wednesday, July 21, 2004 at 03:26 PM in Web/Tech | Permalink:
http://newsgrist.typepad.com/underbelly/2004/07/dont_sign_up_lo.html
////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////
FROM: IM VOTING BUSH OUT a political blog hosted by NEWSgrist:
July 21, 2004
Bike To Beat Bush!
via Counter Convention:
BIKE TO BEAT BUSH: PEDAL YOUR POLITICS
NEW YORK CITY
SUNDAY JULY 25, 2004
Bike To Beat Bush plans to raise $50,000 for two organizations powerfully
committed to policy change. As a sponsor, your donation will go directly
to the organization of your choice:
Swing State Summer Break, a 100% volunteer-operated, grassroots
organization aimed at defeating Bush in November; and United for Peace and
Justice, a coalition of more than 800 local and national groups throughout
the United States who have joined together to oppose our government's
policy of permanent warfare and empire-building.
For more information on how to get involved
as a rider, sponsor or volunteer,
call: 212-971-1989
email: deptofpeace@yahoo.com
or log on at: www.eefers.com/bike.htm
July 21, 2004 in Current Affairs | Permalink:
http://newsgrist.typepad.com/imvoting/2004/07/bike_to_beat_bu.html
////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////
FROM: IM VOTING BUSH OUT a political blog hosted by NEWSgrist:
Voting By Design
via Social Design Notes:
Design for Democracy is a project to bring graphic designers into the
election design process. Started as a class exercise at the University of
Illinois, it is now a registered non-profit corporation backed by the
AIGA.
from their About page:
We are objective and independent, and we are valued for our ability to
consider all possible solutions without preference to a particular
technology, ideology or organization. Our commitment is to the public good
and we adhere to standards and practices that preserve our client-focused
point of view. Our recommendations and the materials we create will be
based on meeting election code requirements and understanding what will be
easily implementable by those who operate elections.[...]
Design for Democracy works directly with election officials in both large
and small jurisdictions to maximize their resources and achieve specific
goals.
> snip! <
July 21, 2004 in Current Affairs | Permalink:
http://newsgrist.typepad.com/imvoting/2004/07/voting_by_desig.html
////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////
Tuesday, July 20, 2004
The Artist Pension Trust
first reported by bloggy and the SFChronicle in May 2004, a story about
The Artist Pension Trust appeared in today's NYTimes, A New Pension Fund
for Struggling Artists, By JULIE SALAMON:
The Artist Pension Trust invites up-and-coming artists to contribute 20
pieces of their work to a tax-protected fund over a 20-year period on the
theory that some of the art will appreciate significantly. All the artists
will share the profits, even if their initial promise never translates
into increased value.
"It's a way of taking advantage of the capitalistic nature of the market
and mix in a healthy dose of socialism to create a hybrid form," said
David A. Ross, the former director of the Whitney Museum of American Art
and then the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, who is the Artist Pension
Trust's president. "It will allow artists who do well to profit from those
works when they do really well and at the same time allow those artists
whose work never gets beyond the $10,000 level to rest more easily knowing
that a carefully selected group of peers are pooling resources to present
them all with a retirement income."
Socialist inclinations aside, the trust isn't meant to be altruistic. Its
founders hope to establish trusts in 10 cities, including New York, Los
Angeles, Beijing and Tokyo, with 250 artists participating in each. The
investors will receive 20 percent of the trust's income, and the rest will
be divided among the artists, but not equally. Individual artists will
receive half the appreciation in their work; the rest will go to less
successful colleagues. > snip! <
references:
Cabengo
Mutual Art
Tuesday, July 20, 2004 at 11:33 AM in Current Affairs | Permalink:
http://newsgrist.typepad.com/underbelly/2004/07/the_artist_pens.html
////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////
To Catch a Fox (OutFOXED, reviewed)
via the NYTimes:
In the soggy early evening hours on Sunday about 60 people gathered in
Zebulon, a modest bar on a not yet completely chic block in the
Williamsburg section of Brooklyn, to watch "Outfoxed," Robert Greenwald's
new documentary about the Fox News Channel. The event was one of many
"house parties" - dozens in New York City and around 3,500 nationwide -
organized by MoveOn.Org, which helped produce the film, along with the
Center for American Progress. (The film, which does not have a theatrical
distributor, is also being sold on line as a DVD.) [...]
Fox News itself came into being with the intention of "balancing" the
supposed leftward tilt of the print and broadcast mainstream, what Fox
opinionators call the elite or secular media. The channel's "fair and
balanced" slogan was, from its inception in 1996, meant as a provocation,
a way of smearing the traditional networks with some of the mud Fox was
happy to wallow in, and of implying a symmetry between Fox's outspoken
(periodically denied) conservatism and the supposedly covert liberalism of
CNN or CBS or The New York Times.
One of Fox's great successes, apart from an impressive ability to attract
viewers and infuriate liberals, has been the promotion of the idea that
what it does cancels out the unacknowledged propaganda coming from the
other side. Mr. Greenwald's film challenges this notion and methodically
works to disarm the ready-made accusation that it is outfoxing Fox by
stooping to its methods. [...]
Mr. Greenwald addresses all of this and a good deal more - or rather, his
subjects do, since the director himself is unseen and all but unheard -
with methodical sobriety. "Outfoxed" will inevitably be discussed in the
same breath (or with the same hyperventilating rage) as Michael Moore's
"Fahrenheit 9/11," but it lacks both the showmanship and the scope of that
incendiary film. Toward the end "Outfoxed" briefly veers away from being
an expos of Fox News toward a more wide-ranging critique of the corporate
media and the consolidation of ownership, but this attempt at a more
general frame of reference risks weakening the specific force of the
movie's argument, which has to do with the behavior of a particular
corporation.
> snip! <
read more: Spin Zones, Flag Waving and Shouting to Catch a Fox, By A. O.
SCOTT.
Tuesday, July 20, 2004 at 11:02 AM in Current Affairs | Permalink:
http://newsgrist.typepad.com/underbelly/2004/07/to_catch_a_fox_.html
////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////
OutFOXed chez Doonesbury
via Lessig Blog: we made doonesbury! -- Lawrence Lessig is OutFOXed
producer Robert Greenwald's IP lawyer.
(see our July 14 post Outing FOX).
Read Lessig's recent article Fair Use or "Fair and Balanced" in Variety.
also just posted: Fox News: Is "Fair and Balanced" "ridiculous"?:
"Is 'Fair and Balanced' ridiculous?" So opened the FOX News Watch segment
examining Robert Greenwald's film, OutFOXed. And astonishingly, the
uncontradicted view of FOX News Watch was "yes"! As Neal Gabler put it,
"To say that this network promotes the Republican view ... is like saying
that the Pope is Catholic. It's self-evident ... pretty much undeniable."
But, he asks, as if he hadn't actually seen the film, "So what?"
So what? Well first, start with the question that opened the segment: Fox
says it is "Fair and Balanced." If it is "self-evident" that it is not,
then I guess we agree then that it is "ridiculous" to say that it is. And
second, "obviously" media critics get this about Fox. Anyone who
critically watches Fox gets this about Fox. But as one questioner at the
San Francisco opening put it, for those who aren't media critics, and for
those who don't actually watch Fox, just how "ridiculous" Fox's claim is
is something significant. My bet is that a cross-section of FOX viewers
would be surprised just how false Fox's claims actually are.
> snip! <
via Lessig Blog
UPDATE 7/21/04: Read the entire Doonesbury "interview" with Rupert Murdoch
in daily installments.
Tuesday, July 20, 2004 at 10:20 AM in Current Affairs | Permalink:
http://newsgrist.typepad.com/underbelly/2004/07/outfoxed_chez_d.html
////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////
Monday, July 19, 2004
P2P Democracy
This very cool new site was reported today in Wired:
02:00 AM Jul. 19, 2004 PT
While legislators in Washington work to outlaw peer-to-peer networks, one
website is turning the peer-to-peer technology back on Washington to
expose its inner, secretive workings.
But outragedmoderates.org isn't offering copyright music and videos for
download. The site, launched two weeks ago, has aggregated more than 600
government and court documents to make them available for download through
the Kazaa, LimeWire and Soulseek P2P networks in the interest of making
government more transparent and accountable. [...]
from their site:
Download For Democracy: P2P goes to Washington
I believe that the internet can and will transform American politics,
allowing citizens to fully realize the Founding Fathers' goal of
participatory democracy.
read more at I'm Voting Bush OUT
Monday, July 19, 2004 at 04:13 PM in Web/Tech | Permalink:
http://newsgrist.typepad.com/underbelly/2004/07/p2p_democracy.html
============================
============================
NEWSgrist - where spin is art
http://newsgrist.typepad.com
Archives
http://newsgrist.net
subscribe/unsubscribe
http://www.newsgrist.net/subscribe.html
An e-zine covering the arts since 2000
============================
Vol.5, no.14 [July 26, 2004]
============================
read it on the blog:
http://newsgrist.typepad.com
Archives:
http://newsgrist.net
============================
============================
Saturday, July 24, 2004
When iPods are illegal
Is your computer a loaded gun? (Salon)
At a Senate hearing on Thursday, defenders of the Induce Act -- which
would ban technologies that encourage copyright infringement -- will try
to explain why their bill isn't the stupidest idea they've ever come up
with.
By Siva Vaidhyanathan
[...] If we don't want to radically alter the personal computer and the
Internet itself, there is not much the Senate or the entertainment
industry can do about file sharing. Users who are accustomed to this new
technocultural environment will simply find another way. They will migrate
en masse to other services like Gnutella, ICQ, FreeNet, and BitTorrent.
Recently the civil liberties group Electronic Frontier Foundation worked
up a mock complaint that might be issued if the Induce Act becomes law.
The complaint makes it clear that Apple would be liable for selling the
popular iPod music player.
Remember: When iPods are illegal, only criminals will have iPods.
(read full article in Free Press News)
Saturday, July 24, 2004 at 08:32 PM in Current Affairs | Permalink:
http://newsgrist.typepad.com/underbelly/2004/07/when_ipods_are_.html
////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////
Sculptural Piracy?
[image: Kiki Smith finishes a piece...]
via Furd Log:
Technological Alienation
The hook for this [NYTimes] article, When Technology Imitates Art, points
to the cognitive problem that comes up every time a technology is employed
in a novel fashion to create something that could be produced another way,
but now no longer need be.
> A FEW weeks ago, a sculptor in France contacted Studio Roc, a new
stone-milling company in North Hollywood, Calif., with the type of
challenge the company was seeking. He had a 19th-century limestone lion's
face that he wanted to reproduce for a line of fountains. But carving each
face by hand was a tedious chore for which he no longer had the time or
resources.
> Instead, he shipped the original work to Studio Roc, where technicians
mapped it in three dimensions with a laser scanner. Then they placed a
limestone blank in a computer-controlled milling machine and used the scan
data to carve a duplicate lion face at the touch of a button.
[...] But the harnessing of these granite-grinding Xerox machines, able to
duplicate just about any sculpture, may also blur the line between what is
authentic and what is not. Is such a sculpture art, or merely a
computer-aided copy? [emphasis added, Furd Log]
more from the NYTimes article:
Not that sculptural piracy requires laser scanning. Mr. Lash noted that
foundries, mostly in Asia, already churn out countless copies - some from
molds of the originals, others based on photos. "Just look at all the
Remington horses in circulation," he said.
But Mr. [Julien] LaVerdiere noted that duplicating a well-known work was
once an honest academic endeavor, pursued mostly by artists honing their
skills.
"It's long been a tradition to copy classical sculpture," he said. "And
now we're kind of using 21st-century technology. It's really cool. It's
too bad it costs so much money."
Saturday, July 24, 2004 at 06:16 PM in Current Affairs | Permalink:
http://newsgrist.typepad.com/underbelly/2004/07/sculptural_pira.html
////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////
The Anarchist in the Library: Slashdot Review
Siva Vaidhyanathan is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Culture
and Communication at New York University, defender of Fair Use, and the
author of Copyrights and Copywrongs: The Rise of Intellectual Property and
How It Threatens Creativity.
His new book is The Anarchist in the Library: How the Clash Between
Freedom and Control is Hacking the Real World and Crashing the System.
According to Siva, Ernest Miller (Slashdot) gets it: "This is the best
review the book has received so far":
At its most basic level, The Anarchist in the Library is about control of
information, both cultural and political. As Siva says in the last
chapter, "This book was supposed to be about entertainment - the battle
over control of digital music, text, and video ... But as I researched
this new project, the world shifted beneath my feet ... My concerns moved
to the regulation and control of all sorts of information, much of it
cultural, much of it political." Thus, throughout the book, Siva contrasts
two very different regimes of information control: oligarchy and anarchy.
[...]
... In the end, Siva's moderation is demonstrated as he concludes that
there are seldom easy answers in a world where control of information and
culture is sometimes necessary. Without giving specific answers, Siva
argues for approaching problems from a particular perspective: with
engaged, humane cynicism and a commitment to civic republicanism, both
within and without our borders. It is a perspective well worth reading
about.
Read the latest argument against the INDUCE Act (Inducing Infringement of
Copyrights Act) made by Sen. Norm Coleman (R-MN) and check out the EFF's
action alert: The Induce Act: Innovation Under Attack.
Saturday, July 24, 2004 at 10:27 AM in Books | Permalink:
http://newsgrist.typepad.com/underbelly/2004/07/the_anarchist_i.html
////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////
Infinite Fulfillment
images + comments via tom moody...
The exhibition opening was crowded but not too crowded and hot but not too
hot. The work fell into two broad categories: things made with actual fill
patterns (printouts, videos) and hand-crafted objects that mimicked fill
patterns (painting, drawing, needlepoint). Variations and exceptions
abounded in this 90-some artist show.
...and james wagner:
I couldn't imagine it would come together so well. Hearing or reading
about it ahead of time, the concept seemed mad. It is (and I mean that in
the very best way), but its execution was absolutely brilliant.
show info:
THE INFINITE FILL SHOW
Curated by Cory + Jamie Arcangel
Opening reception: Thursday, July 22, 6.00 - 8.30 pm
Dates: July 22 to August 19, 2004
Summer hours: Tuesday to Friday, 11.00 am - 6.00 pm
Foxy Production announces The Infinite Fill Show, a group exhibition of
dazzling black and white patterns, curated by brother and sister team Cory
and Jamie Arcangel. The exhibition includes new and historical, readymade
and handcrafted works in a range of media. The curators sent out an open
call to artists for found or made objects which had to adhere to two basic
rules: they must be black and white, and they must contain repeating
patterns. The curatorial concept was inspired by MAC Paint, the 1984
software application with varied 16-bit monochrome patterning that could
be picked and dropped into areas of the screen to denote color and depth.
For Cory and Jamie Arcangel, this rudimentary precursor to Photoshop's
draw and paint functions provides a creative tool to explore multiple
perspectives within a unifying aesthetic. > snip! <
Saturday, July 24, 2004 at 09:34 AM in Art Exhibitions | Permalink:
http://newsgrist.typepad.com/underbelly/2004/07/infinite_fulfil.html
////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////
Friday, July 23, 2004
No More Lies
from SeanBonner.com via Eyebeam ReBlog:
Russell Simmons owns a loft facing ground zero. Since 9/11 there's been
extremely limited access to the building, but this morning our good
friend, photographer Glen E. Friedman get in for a few minutes to make a
statement which will be up through the RNC. Here's a bunch of pictures
from inside and out.
Friday, July 23, 2004 at 03:25 PM in Current Affairs | Permalink:
http://newsgrist.typepad.com/underbelly/2004/07/no_more_lies.html
////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////
FROM: IM VOTING BUSH OUT a political blog hosted by NEWSgrist:
Visual Resistance
via a post at RNC Watch in June:
Some of New York's coolest radical artists have organized a NoRNC Poster
Project, which you can now find out more about online. According to their
website, " No RNC Poster Collective is a small collective of friends with
experience in graphic design and independent media. We came together with
the goal of facilitating visual resistance against this summer's
Republican National Convention. We want to make protest beautiful and
connect artists with organizations working against the RNC. Our goal is to
create a visual blitz in New York City against Bush and the Convention,
and to blend art with politics in the finest New York style."
July 23, 2004 in Current Affairs | Permalink:
http://newsgrist.typepad.com/imvoting/2004/07/visual_resistan.html
////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////
Thursday, July 22, 2004
Watch What We Say
Artists and activists are preparing to mobilize for the duration of the
Republican National Convention 2004, to be held August 30 thru September 2
in New York City. In addition to taking to the streets, the Web and the
airwaves, protests are also shaping up as exhibitions and performances.
Perhaps the most thoroughly conceived of these events is the Imagine
Festival which will be held at numerous exhibition spaces, museums and
theatrical venues throughout the City. But many spontaneous, underground
and unaffiliated events are also taking place. Here's the latest (watch
for more announcements of this sort in the weeks to come):
Press Release July 2004
Watch What We Say
Venue: Schroeder Romero
173A N.3rd Street. Williamsburg Brooklyn NY. t: 718 486 8992.
Opening Reception: Wed August 25, 2004. 6-9pm
Exhibition Dates: August 26 - September 2, 2004. 12-6pm.
Contact: Marc Lepson. 718 692 4571. pauperprints@earthlink.net
Artists:
Robbie Conal, Jim Costanzo, Erika deVries, Electronic Disturbance Theater,
Christopher Knowles, Joy Garnett, Jerry Kearns, Joyce Kozloff, Carrie
Moyer, Ann Messner, Jenny Polak, William Pope L., Dread Scott, Peter
Scott, Carla Repice, Leonard Silverberg, James Tomon, Barbara Weissberger,
Krzysztof Wodiczko, Emna Zghal
An exhibition of new and recent visual works in a variety of media, Watch
What We Say presents a mix of emerging and established artists who address
pressing political issues of the moment in poetic, subversive, emotional
and clear-eyed terms.
In the weeks following the attacks of September 11, 2001, President Bush's
press secretary Ari Fleischer replied to criticism of administration
policy by warning that "all Americans need to watch what they say, watch
what they do". This challenge to free expression emphasized the climate of
war, repression, and xenophobia that continues to run through American
society. By speaking directly to this web of issues that remain
intertwined and interdependent, the artists selected for this exhibition
present works that testify to the power of creative thought in the face of
overwhelming odds.
For this show, timed to coincide with the Republican National Convention
in NYC, artists Joy Garnett, James Tomon, Carrie Moyer, Jerry Kearns and
Robbie Conal show works that take on images of power via painterly
construction and de-construction of mediated images. Jenny Polak and
Krzysztof Wodiczko look closely at the immigrant experience, while Wlliam
Pope L. and Dread Scott examine racial relations in historical and
contemporary terms, and Peter Scott's 'mirror' image "explores the
interplay between the relentless marketing of fear and the selling of
comfort". Taking a more emotional aproach, Christopher Knowles presents a
simple and moving interpretation of color coded alert levels, along with
Leonard Silverberg's carefully composed ink washes of wandering displaced
persons, Joyce Kozloff's meticulous watercolor map of the partition of
1948 Palestine/Israel, and Barbara Weissberger's humorous and disturbing
corporeal forms. Ann Messner's newspaper vending machine installation
presents a hopeful alternative by dispensing free copies of 'un
conventional heroes', a narrative of personal courage and dissent.
Rounding out the show are video interventions by Jim Costanzo, off-site
performance by Carla Repice, live internet radio broadcast by Erika
deVries and a Virtual Sit-In of the RNC by Electronic Disturbance Theater
(Ricardo Dominguez, Carmin Karasic , Brett Stalbaum, Stefan Wray).
Looking directly at extreme circumstances, these artists project back
lyrical responses that are complex, beautiful, and meaningful. Difficult
questions are posed eloquently, with respect to the myriad of possible
answers.
Watch What We Say is curated by Marc Lepson, an installation and graphic
artist whose previous curatorial projects include Art During Wartime
(co-organized with Dread Scott) shown at IT IN Space NYC, Spring 2003. His
work is on view at the Brooklyn Museum's "Open House" exhibition through
August 15, and can be seen at
http://www.artistsnetwork.org/news7/news288.html
Thursday, July 22, 2004 at 04:21 PM in Art Exhibitions | Permalink:
http://newsgrist.typepad.com/underbelly/2004/07/watch_what_we_s.html
////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////
FROM: IM VOTING BUSH OUT a political blog hosted by NEWSgrist:
July 22, 2004
Voting With The Underground
SHOUT OUT YOUR DESIRE FOR CHANGE!
Voting With the Underground is asking for submissions.
from their site:
Do you have a literary or audio work that showcases your right to
expression and emphasizes freedom of speech? A work that highlights the
power of voicing yourself through voting or encourages others to take
action? Maybe a work that celebrates the democratic power of the
individual? We would like to use that work - and your voice - in order to
help others speak up!
We are Voting with the Underground (a division of the Creative America
Project), a not-for-profit initiative dedicated to turning up this
generation's political volume by promoting voter registration and the need
for free expression. We hope to achieve this through words and verse in
the distribution of a CD and literary booklet of local independent artists
(ahem: you), culminating in a pre-election live show in September 2004.
Local businesses who share in our goal of a democracy for and by the
people, will be funding the media and show, joining their logos with our
voices in the product. > snip! <
July 22, 2004 in Current Affairs | Permalink:
http://newsgrist.typepad.com/imvoting/2004/07/voting_with_the.html
////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////
Thinking Outside the Block
Map the progress of sculptor Stefanie Nagorka's "Aisle Studio Tour"
"Unannounced, I appear at home improvement centers around the country and
use their aisles as my studio..."
Thursday, July 22, 2004 at 03:43 PM in Art Exhibitions | Permalink:
http://newsgrist.typepad.com/underbelly/2004/07/thinking_outsid.html
////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////
Wednesday, July 21, 2004
Iraq Eye
The IraqEye Group is a collaboration between American producers and Iraqi
filmmakers with the goal of revitalizing Iraqi cinema within the
international cinema community.
Their first feature documentary is complete.
via the Dactyl Foundation:
The Dreams of Sparrows is a documentary that follows first time Iraqi
director Hayder Mousa Daffar and his team of contributing directors as
they share their vision of life in Baghdad, post war and pre
reconstruction.
Screening:
Thursday, July 22 7PM
Dactyl Foundation
64 Grand St (between W. Bdwy & Wooster)
SoHo, NYC 212 219 2344 www.dactyl.org
contact: Aaron Raskin 917_599_8254 raskin@harbingerpro.com www.iraqeye.org
Wednesday, July 21, 2004 at 04:37 PM in Film | Permalink:
http://newsgrist.typepad.com/underbelly/2004/07/iraq_eye.html
////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////
Bidoun Magazine
Announcing: Bidoun: A Quarterly Forum for Middle Eastern Talent
from their site:
BIDOUN was launched in March 2004 to fill one of the last remaining gaps
in the magazine market: the cultural life of the Middle East and its
Diaspora. With pages dedicated to the latest art, fashion, music, film,
architecture and design, BIDOUN is art-directed by the renowned Paris-New
York collective Surface 2 Air, and published out of Dubai, United Arab
Emirates. Its editors are based in Berlin, New York and Dubai.
The only magazine dedicated to showcasing the most exciting developments
in Arab and Iranian culture, BIDOUN is distributed through bookshops,
boutiques and galleries across the Middle East - from the tip of the Gulf
to North Africa - and in cities in Europe and the US.
Here's a list of places that carry Bidoun.
Wednesday, July 21, 2004 at 04:13 PM in Books | Permalink:
http://newsgrist.typepad.com/underbelly/2004/07/bidoun_magazine.html
////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////
Knitters For Kerry
My new favorite political blog is Knitters For Kerry. Need I say more?
Check it out. (thanks Andrea!)
Some excerpts:
These days, it's more important than ever before to get involved with the
running of our nation. George W Bush has got to lose his job and we at KFK
are going to make sure that happens-- one stitch at a time!
[...]
I belong to a machine knitting group where my fellow knitters do not seem
to be slaving away producing socks. However, I know that stores (Suss
Design is one example) utilize home machine knitters for manufacturing.
There are also advocacy groups teaching people in Africa how to make
sweaters on knitting machines to sell.
I began making a KERRY EDWARDS panel which can hopefully become a sweater
if I can figure out how. But partway through, the machine jammed and now
the piece has to be untangled from the needles. The machine has two beds
of needles, each side with 180 needles. It's a pretty amazing piece of
equipment.
[...]
For everyone curious about what the knitting machine actually looks like,
here it is in all it's glory. The Passap e6000 is a Swiss made machine
produced during the 1980's. Knitting machines are no longer being made for
distribution in the US, so nearly all knitting machines are used, and this
one is no exception. The object with the keypad on the upper left is the
computerized console which controls the designs. Letters are able to be
programmed right into the machine. Each letter is assigned a number. The
Passap is a double bed machine, which means that it can knit two sides of
a fabric simultaneously. I use pretty thin yarn, so the fabric is thick
but not unbelievably so. It's basicaly comfortable, especially if gets a
little bit cooler around here.
> snip! <
Wednesday, July 21, 2004 at 03:39 PM in Current Affairs | Permalink:
http://newsgrist.typepad.com/underbelly/2004/07/knitters_for_ke.html
////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////
Don't Sign up: Login
via Eyebeam ReBlog:
We Don't Need No Stinkin' Login
Increasingly, Web publishers are demanding that users register to read
their sites, and increasingly, readers are getting annoyed and turning to
sites like BugMeNot, which offers pre-made login profiles. By Rachel Metz.
Originally from Wired News: Top Stories, ReBlogged by Mark_Daggett on Jul
20, 2004 at 01:53 PM
more from Wired:
BugMeNot.com is a site that generates login names and passwords for
registration sites. The site is a boon to those who want to keep online
anonymity or stamp out spam. According to the site's homepage, 14,000
websites have been "liberated" from registration bondage, and it's clear
many people are doing whatever they can to avoid really logging in.
According to the site's creator, an Australian who wants to remain
anonymous for fear of lawsuits, the site is getting about 10,000 hits each
day. In an e-mail interview, BugMeNot's creator said he started the site
in November 2003 after being annoyed for some time with forced
registration on some sites.
"BugMeNot.com seemed like a good idea because it's something that so many
people want and it's such a simple concept to implement," he wrote.
One BugMeNot aficionado, Eric Hamiter, is doing his part to help the
site's cause -- he created a plug-in for the Mozilla browser that gives
users a pop-up window with login information when they land on a
registration-only newspaper site.
Wednesday, July 21, 2004 at 03:26 PM in Web/Tech | Permalink:
http://newsgrist.typepad.com/underbelly/2004/07/dont_sign_up_lo.html
////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////
FROM: IM VOTING BUSH OUT a political blog hosted by NEWSgrist:
July 21, 2004
Bike To Beat Bush!
via Counter Convention:
BIKE TO BEAT BUSH: PEDAL YOUR POLITICS
NEW YORK CITY
SUNDAY JULY 25, 2004
Bike To Beat Bush plans to raise $50,000 for two organizations powerfully
committed to policy change. As a sponsor, your donation will go directly
to the organization of your choice:
Swing State Summer Break, a 100% volunteer-operated, grassroots
organization aimed at defeating Bush in November; and United for Peace and
Justice, a coalition of more than 800 local and national groups throughout
the United States who have joined together to oppose our government's
policy of permanent warfare and empire-building.
For more information on how to get involved
as a rider, sponsor or volunteer,
call: 212-971-1989
email: deptofpeace@yahoo.com
or log on at: www.eefers.com/bike.htm
July 21, 2004 in Current Affairs | Permalink:
http://newsgrist.typepad.com/imvoting/2004/07/bike_to_beat_bu.html
////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////
FROM: IM VOTING BUSH OUT a political blog hosted by NEWSgrist:
Voting By Design
via Social Design Notes:
Design for Democracy is a project to bring graphic designers into the
election design process. Started as a class exercise at the University of
Illinois, it is now a registered non-profit corporation backed by the
AIGA.
from their About page:
We are objective and independent, and we are valued for our ability to
consider all possible solutions without preference to a particular
technology, ideology or organization. Our commitment is to the public good
and we adhere to standards and practices that preserve our client-focused
point of view. Our recommendations and the materials we create will be
based on meeting election code requirements and understanding what will be
easily implementable by those who operate elections.[...]
Design for Democracy works directly with election officials in both large
and small jurisdictions to maximize their resources and achieve specific
goals.
> snip! <
July 21, 2004 in Current Affairs | Permalink:
http://newsgrist.typepad.com/imvoting/2004/07/voting_by_desig.html
////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////
Tuesday, July 20, 2004
The Artist Pension Trust
first reported by bloggy and the SFChronicle in May 2004, a story about
The Artist Pension Trust appeared in today's NYTimes, A New Pension Fund
for Struggling Artists, By JULIE SALAMON:
The Artist Pension Trust invites up-and-coming artists to contribute 20
pieces of their work to a tax-protected fund over a 20-year period on the
theory that some of the art will appreciate significantly. All the artists
will share the profits, even if their initial promise never translates
into increased value.
"It's a way of taking advantage of the capitalistic nature of the market
and mix in a healthy dose of socialism to create a hybrid form," said
David A. Ross, the former director of the Whitney Museum of American Art
and then the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, who is the Artist Pension
Trust's president. "It will allow artists who do well to profit from those
works when they do really well and at the same time allow those artists
whose work never gets beyond the $10,000 level to rest more easily knowing
that a carefully selected group of peers are pooling resources to present
them all with a retirement income."
Socialist inclinations aside, the trust isn't meant to be altruistic. Its
founders hope to establish trusts in 10 cities, including New York, Los
Angeles, Beijing and Tokyo, with 250 artists participating in each. The
investors will receive 20 percent of the trust's income, and the rest will
be divided among the artists, but not equally. Individual artists will
receive half the appreciation in their work; the rest will go to less
successful colleagues. > snip! <
references:
Cabengo
Mutual Art
Tuesday, July 20, 2004 at 11:33 AM in Current Affairs | Permalink:
http://newsgrist.typepad.com/underbelly/2004/07/the_artist_pens.html
////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////
To Catch a Fox (OutFOXED, reviewed)
via the NYTimes:
In the soggy early evening hours on Sunday about 60 people gathered in
Zebulon, a modest bar on a not yet completely chic block in the
Williamsburg section of Brooklyn, to watch "Outfoxed," Robert Greenwald's
new documentary about the Fox News Channel. The event was one of many
"house parties" - dozens in New York City and around 3,500 nationwide -
organized by MoveOn.Org, which helped produce the film, along with the
Center for American Progress. (The film, which does not have a theatrical
distributor, is also being sold on line as a DVD.) [...]
Fox News itself came into being with the intention of "balancing" the
supposed leftward tilt of the print and broadcast mainstream, what Fox
opinionators call the elite or secular media. The channel's "fair and
balanced" slogan was, from its inception in 1996, meant as a provocation,
a way of smearing the traditional networks with some of the mud Fox was
happy to wallow in, and of implying a symmetry between Fox's outspoken
(periodically denied) conservatism and the supposedly covert liberalism of
CNN or CBS or The New York Times.
One of Fox's great successes, apart from an impressive ability to attract
viewers and infuriate liberals, has been the promotion of the idea that
what it does cancels out the unacknowledged propaganda coming from the
other side. Mr. Greenwald's film challenges this notion and methodically
works to disarm the ready-made accusation that it is outfoxing Fox by
stooping to its methods. [...]
Mr. Greenwald addresses all of this and a good deal more - or rather, his
subjects do, since the director himself is unseen and all but unheard -
with methodical sobriety. "Outfoxed" will inevitably be discussed in the
same breath (or with the same hyperventilating rage) as Michael Moore's
"Fahrenheit 9/11," but it lacks both the showmanship and the scope of that
incendiary film. Toward the end "Outfoxed" briefly veers away from being
an expos of Fox News toward a more wide-ranging critique of the corporate
media and the consolidation of ownership, but this attempt at a more
general frame of reference risks weakening the specific force of the
movie's argument, which has to do with the behavior of a particular
corporation.
> snip! <
read more: Spin Zones, Flag Waving and Shouting to Catch a Fox, By A. O.
SCOTT.
Tuesday, July 20, 2004 at 11:02 AM in Current Affairs | Permalink:
http://newsgrist.typepad.com/underbelly/2004/07/to_catch_a_fox_.html
////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////
OutFOXed chez Doonesbury
via Lessig Blog: we made doonesbury! -- Lawrence Lessig is OutFOXed
producer Robert Greenwald's IP lawyer.
(see our July 14 post Outing FOX).
Read Lessig's recent article Fair Use or "Fair and Balanced" in Variety.
also just posted: Fox News: Is "Fair and Balanced" "ridiculous"?:
"Is 'Fair and Balanced' ridiculous?" So opened the FOX News Watch segment
examining Robert Greenwald's film, OutFOXed. And astonishingly, the
uncontradicted view of FOX News Watch was "yes"! As Neal Gabler put it,
"To say that this network promotes the Republican view ... is like saying
that the Pope is Catholic. It's self-evident ... pretty much undeniable."
But, he asks, as if he hadn't actually seen the film, "So what?"
So what? Well first, start with the question that opened the segment: Fox
says it is "Fair and Balanced." If it is "self-evident" that it is not,
then I guess we agree then that it is "ridiculous" to say that it is. And
second, "obviously" media critics get this about Fox. Anyone who
critically watches Fox gets this about Fox. But as one questioner at the
San Francisco opening put it, for those who aren't media critics, and for
those who don't actually watch Fox, just how "ridiculous" Fox's claim is
is something significant. My bet is that a cross-section of FOX viewers
would be surprised just how false Fox's claims actually are.
> snip! <
via Lessig Blog
UPDATE 7/21/04: Read the entire Doonesbury "interview" with Rupert Murdoch
in daily installments.
Tuesday, July 20, 2004 at 10:20 AM in Current Affairs | Permalink:
http://newsgrist.typepad.com/underbelly/2004/07/outfoxed_chez_d.html
////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////
Monday, July 19, 2004
P2P Democracy
This very cool new site was reported today in Wired:
02:00 AM Jul. 19, 2004 PT
While legislators in Washington work to outlaw peer-to-peer networks, one
website is turning the peer-to-peer technology back on Washington to
expose its inner, secretive workings.
But outragedmoderates.org isn't offering copyright music and videos for
download. The site, launched two weeks ago, has aggregated more than 600
government and court documents to make them available for download through
the Kazaa, LimeWire and Soulseek P2P networks in the interest of making
government more transparent and accountable. [...]
from their site:
Download For Democracy: P2P goes to Washington
I believe that the internet can and will transform American politics,
allowing citizens to fully realize the Founding Fathers' goal of
participatory democracy.
read more at I'm Voting Bush OUT
Monday, July 19, 2004 at 04:13 PM in Web/Tech | Permalink:
http://newsgrist.typepad.com/underbelly/2004/07/p2p_democracy.html
============================
============================
NEWSgrist - where spin is art
http://newsgrist.typepad.com
Archives
http://newsgrist.net
subscribe/unsubscribe
http://www.newsgrist.net/subscribe.html
Watch What We Say
Here's one protest show that suddenly got pulled together -- duration one
week only! -- on the occasion of the RNC invasion.
opens Wed, Aug 25 6-9pm...
permalink here:
http://newsgrist.typepad.com/underbelly/2004/07/watch_what_we_s.html
Press Release July 2004
"Watch What We Say" Venue: Schroeder Romero.
173A N.3rd Street. Williamsburg Brooklyn NY.
www.schroderromero.com 718 486 8992.
Opening Reception: Wed August 25, 2004. 6-9pm
Exhibition Dates: August 26 September 2, 2004. 12-6pm.
Contact: Marc Lepson. 718 692 4571. pauperprints@earthlink.net
Artists:
Robbie Conal, Jim Costanzo, Erika deVries, Electronic Disturbance Theater,
Christopher Knowles, Joy Garnett, Jerry Kearns, Joyce Kozloff, Carrie Moyer,
Ann Messner, Jenny Polak, William Pope L., Dread Scott, Peter Scott, Carla
Repice, Leonard Silverberg, James Tomon, Barbara Weissberger, Krzysztof
Wodiczko, Emna Zghal
An exhibition of new and recent visual works in a variety of media, Watch What
We Say presents a mix of emerging and established artists who address pressing
political issues of the moment in poetic, subversive, emotional and clear-eyed
terms.
In the weeks following the attacks of September 11, 2001, President Bushs press
secretary Ari Fleischer replied to criticism of administration policy by
warning that all Americans need to watch what they say, watch what they do.
This challenge to free expression emphasized the climate of war, repression,
and xenophobia that continues to run through American society. By speaking
directly to this web of issues that remain intertwined and interdependent, the
artists selected for this exhibition present works that testify to the power of
creative thought in the face of overwhelming odds.
For this show, timed to coincide with the Republican National Convention in
NYC, artists Joy Garnett, James Tomon, Carrie Moyer, Jerry Kearns and Robbie
Conal show works that take on images of power via painterly construction and
de-construction of mediated images. Jenny Polak and Krzysztof Wodiczko look
closely at the immigrant experience, while Wlliam Pope L. and Dread Scott
examine racial relations in historical and contemporary terms, and Peter Scotts
mirror image explores the interplay between the relentless marketing of fear
and the selling of comfort. Taking a more emotional aproach, Christopher
Knowles presents a simple and moving interpretation of color coded alert
levels, along with Leonard Silverbergs carefully composed ink washes of
wandering displaced persons, Joyce Kozloffs meticulous watercolor map of the
partition of 1948 Palestine/Israel, and Barbara Weissbergers humorous and
disturbing corporeal forms. Ann Messners newspaper vending machine installation
presents a hopeful alternative by dispensing free copies of un conventional
heroes, a narrative of personal courage and dissent. Rounding out the show are
video interventions by Jim Costanzo, off-site performance by Carla Repice, live
internet radio broadcast by Erika deVries and a Virtual Sit-In of the RNC by
Electronic Disturbance Theater (Ricardo Dominguez, Carmin Karasic , Brett
Stalbaum, Stefan Wray).
Looking directly at extreme circumstances, these artists project back lyrical
responses that are complex, beautiful, and meaningful. Difficult questions are
posed eloquently, with respect to the myriad of possible answers.
Watch What We Say is curated by Marc Lepson, an installation and graphic artist
whose previous curatorial projects include Art During Wartime (co-organized
with Dread Scott) shown at IT IN Space NYC, Spring 2003. His work is on view at
the Brooklyn Museums Open House exhibition through August 15, and can be seen
at http://www.artistsnetwork.org/news7/news288.html
week only! -- on the occasion of the RNC invasion.
opens Wed, Aug 25 6-9pm...
permalink here:
http://newsgrist.typepad.com/underbelly/2004/07/watch_what_we_s.html
Press Release July 2004
"Watch What We Say" Venue: Schroeder Romero.
173A N.3rd Street. Williamsburg Brooklyn NY.
www.schroderromero.com 718 486 8992.
Opening Reception: Wed August 25, 2004. 6-9pm
Exhibition Dates: August 26 September 2, 2004. 12-6pm.
Contact: Marc Lepson. 718 692 4571. pauperprints@earthlink.net
Artists:
Robbie Conal, Jim Costanzo, Erika deVries, Electronic Disturbance Theater,
Christopher Knowles, Joy Garnett, Jerry Kearns, Joyce Kozloff, Carrie Moyer,
Ann Messner, Jenny Polak, William Pope L., Dread Scott, Peter Scott, Carla
Repice, Leonard Silverberg, James Tomon, Barbara Weissberger, Krzysztof
Wodiczko, Emna Zghal
An exhibition of new and recent visual works in a variety of media, Watch What
We Say presents a mix of emerging and established artists who address pressing
political issues of the moment in poetic, subversive, emotional and clear-eyed
terms.
In the weeks following the attacks of September 11, 2001, President Bushs press
secretary Ari Fleischer replied to criticism of administration policy by
warning that all Americans need to watch what they say, watch what they do.
This challenge to free expression emphasized the climate of war, repression,
and xenophobia that continues to run through American society. By speaking
directly to this web of issues that remain intertwined and interdependent, the
artists selected for this exhibition present works that testify to the power of
creative thought in the face of overwhelming odds.
For this show, timed to coincide with the Republican National Convention in
NYC, artists Joy Garnett, James Tomon, Carrie Moyer, Jerry Kearns and Robbie
Conal show works that take on images of power via painterly construction and
de-construction of mediated images. Jenny Polak and Krzysztof Wodiczko look
closely at the immigrant experience, while Wlliam Pope L. and Dread Scott
examine racial relations in historical and contemporary terms, and Peter Scotts
mirror image explores the interplay between the relentless marketing of fear
and the selling of comfort. Taking a more emotional aproach, Christopher
Knowles presents a simple and moving interpretation of color coded alert
levels, along with Leonard Silverbergs carefully composed ink washes of
wandering displaced persons, Joyce Kozloffs meticulous watercolor map of the
partition of 1948 Palestine/Israel, and Barbara Weissbergers humorous and
disturbing corporeal forms. Ann Messners newspaper vending machine installation
presents a hopeful alternative by dispensing free copies of un conventional
heroes, a narrative of personal courage and dissent. Rounding out the show are
video interventions by Jim Costanzo, off-site performance by Carla Repice, live
internet radio broadcast by Erika deVries and a Virtual Sit-In of the RNC by
Electronic Disturbance Theater (Ricardo Dominguez, Carmin Karasic , Brett
Stalbaum, Stefan Wray).
Looking directly at extreme circumstances, these artists project back lyrical
responses that are complex, beautiful, and meaningful. Difficult questions are
posed eloquently, with respect to the myriad of possible answers.
Watch What We Say is curated by Marc Lepson, an installation and graphic artist
whose previous curatorial projects include Art During Wartime (co-organized
with Dread Scott) shown at IT IN Space NYC, Spring 2003. His work is on view at
the Brooklyn Museums Open House exhibition through August 15, and can be seen
at http://www.artistsnetwork.org/news7/news288.html