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International Summer Workshop at ETC
The Experimental Television Center International Summer Workshop 2006
May 31 - June 11, 2006
The Experimental Television Center International Summer Workshop 2006 is a collaborative video and sonic arts opportunity, sponsored by the Center and the Institute for Electronic Arts (IEA) at Alfred University. Academic credit is available through Alfred University.
The ISW website http://www.etcisw.com has all the information you need to register, plus a look at past Workshops complete with video clips and photos, as well as biographies of the instructors.
FW: URBAN GAMES: REAL ACTION in the WORLD of REALITY @eyebeam
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From: Jenny Marketou <jmarketou@yahoo.com>
Date: Tue, 15 Feb 2005 06:39:24 -0800 (PST)
To: Kevin McGarry <kevin@rhizome.org>
Subject: Re: URBAN GAMES: REAL ACTION in the WORLD of REALITY @eyebeam
Urban Games: Real Action in the World of Reality.
A public discussion
In conjunction with the exhibition ?Produced at
Eyebeam: Work in Process? January 20 to March 5, 2005
and the launching of ?Flying Spy Potatoes: Mission
21st Street, NYC?, a mission based real action urban
game a collaboration of Jenny Marketou with Katie
Salen, Jenny Marketou in cooperation with Eyebeam are
organizing an informal public discussion about Urban
Games.
The aim of the discussion is to understand live
action game play ; to analyze the role of locative
media in the live action urban game industry and how
it can be used in a critical, radical and
entertaining way to create games which offer a new
kind of social imagination ; how to use locative
media to express an index of spatial relationships
and create physical net works ; to discuss the
future of live action urban games that engage a
general public of gamers ; to provide an opportunity
to discuss women?s involvement in the urban game
industry and play ; to present and discuss some of
the latest live action urban game research and
projects.
The participants in the discussion is :Jonah Brucker-
Cohen - Katherine Moriwaki (Networking and
Telecommunications Research Group (NTRG) at Trinity
College Dublin), McKenzie Wark ( New School
University) Amos Bloomberg (PAC-MANHATTAN) Christina
Ray (Glowlab), Jenny Marketou artist in residence at
Eyebeam AIR
( Cooper Union School of Art) and Katie Salen
( Director Graduate Design and Technology program at
Parsons School of Design).
The discussion will take place on Thursday, February
17, 2005 at Eyebeam, 21st Street, from 6:30 pm to
8:30 pm. The event is free to the public.
For more information please contact: www.eyebeam.org
or
jmarketou@yahoo.com
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From: Jenny Marketou <jmarketou@yahoo.com>
Date: Tue, 15 Feb 2005 06:39:24 -0800 (PST)
To: Kevin McGarry <kevin@rhizome.org>
Subject: Re: URBAN GAMES: REAL ACTION in the WORLD of REALITY @eyebeam
Urban Games: Real Action in the World of Reality.
A public discussion
In conjunction with the exhibition ?Produced at
Eyebeam: Work in Process? January 20 to March 5, 2005
and the launching of ?Flying Spy Potatoes: Mission
21st Street, NYC?, a mission based real action urban
game a collaboration of Jenny Marketou with Katie
Salen, Jenny Marketou in cooperation with Eyebeam are
organizing an informal public discussion about Urban
Games.
The aim of the discussion is to understand live
action game play ; to analyze the role of locative
media in the live action urban game industry and how
it can be used in a critical, radical and
entertaining way to create games which offer a new
kind of social imagination ; how to use locative
media to express an index of spatial relationships
and create physical net works ; to discuss the
future of live action urban games that engage a
general public of gamers ; to provide an opportunity
to discuss women?s involvement in the urban game
industry and play ; to present and discuss some of
the latest live action urban game research and
projects.
The participants in the discussion is :Jonah Brucker-
Cohen - Katherine Moriwaki (Networking and
Telecommunications Research Group (NTRG) at Trinity
College Dublin), McKenzie Wark ( New School
University) Amos Bloomberg (PAC-MANHATTAN) Christina
Ray (Glowlab), Jenny Marketou artist in residence at
Eyebeam AIR
( Cooper Union School of Art) and Katie Salen
( Director Graduate Design and Technology program at
Parsons School of Design).
The discussion will take place on Thursday, February
17, 2005 at Eyebeam, 21st Street, from 6:30 pm to
8:30 pm. The event is free to the public.
For more information please contact: www.eyebeam.org
or
jmarketou@yahoo.com
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Kayle Brandon reporting on DIY / CONVERSION / OIL / SHIT /EDUCATION
Kayle Brandon reporting on DIY / CONVERSION / OIL / SHIT / EDUCATION
at DIY_Culture 2005 January 21st-23rd: Birmingham UK
http://irational.org/kayle/DIY_culture/
Lots of people I know love abit of DIY, weather its putting up a shelf or
making their own teeth.
DIY_Culture 2005 was organised by Steve Crozier and Simon Griffiths,
offering a programme of how-to-and-why in DIY domestic infrastructure,
encompassing a broad range of issues from Linux computing to shit
composting.
"The intention was to create an atmosphere of practical hobbyism combined
with theoretical apocalyptic preparations. DIY could be seen as the
hidden side of resistance in a confrontational and obvious manner, and
acting as if ourselves and the environment around us is independent of any
power structures. Ignoring through existing rather than resisting in the
traditional sense.
There was also a breakdown between workshops, participants and audience,
which was interesting and is one area that should be pushed as far as
possible. Otherwise this becomes another commodified area of
entertainment for people to attend and consume."
Steve Crozier
http://stuffit.org/diy/
CONVERSION
Many of the workshops in DIY_Culture were about converting from one
process to another, replacing defunct damaging systems with processes and
approaches that clearly represent attempts at more sustainable symbiotic
relations.
The alchemy of conversion can be a radical learning experience. Changing
and trying things out on ourselves and surrounding, enables us to
analyse and reconsider the total effect a process is having on a
situation.
http://www.onlineconversion.com/
OIL
The diesel engine was originally designed to run on peanut oil. So the
conversion process is more about revisiting the inventors intention rather
than rethinking it.
Conversion of the engine is relatively easy depending on the vehicle type.
The action liberates the user from crude oil agents. We may endlessly
dispute the oil companies ethics and protest the detrimental effect of
using such a fuel, but until we stop buying, stop using we are aiding and
abetting.
The user and instigator for the change detaches from auto pilot. Relations
to vehicle, supply and politic all shift. Maintaining and committing to
the new situation requires a level of responsibility that most may find
undesirable. The decision to go against the norm tends to place the user
in a minority position, access to materials, information, and support may
be in shorter supply.
During DIY_culture Hannah got her diesel engine converted, it took Ian
all-day. After a day of mechanical manhandling the van was ready for
test drive.
Kayle Brandon: What's changed since the conversion?
Hannah Searnley: My exhaust smells like pakoras, which is great, nice to
be different. Hopefully, my particulate output is less. In a
well-functioning car running on new veg oil (rather than filtered used veg
oil) the particulates are considerably less, which is cool because they
are a big problem, especially in towns, for people's breathing. And of
course the emissions are much cleaner and don't include greenhouse gases.
So I guess I can feel better driving about now. I have to start the van on
diesel and get the engine up to a certain temperature to ensure that the
veg oil is thin enough to pass through the engine without clogging the
pump up. This can take about 15 mins, so I'm starting to think that if I'm
not doing a long enough journey to be able to turn over to veg, then maybe
i should be walking or cycling it. It's not illegal to run your car on
veg, but you have to make sure that you are up to date with paying the
fuel tax. Apparently, it's very rare that you will be pulled over, but
it's best to have a receipt for oil with the taxed pre-paid in your
glovebox.
www.vegburner.co.uk
www.bio-power.co.uk
SHIT
Will maintaining my own shit make me a better person, more whole, more
pure more real, more able to deal with my own death ?
The dominant waste disposal system is a shit to filth process; the
compost toilet is a shit to fertiliser process.
Social constructs of perceived civil society keep us from engaging with
natural symbiotic relations. The popular misconception of shit as 'waste'
instead of 'resource' necessitates replacement of a high functioning
bio-dynamic system with a waste control and management process.
Kayle Brandon: has the experience effected ways you view your own body ?
Graham Burnett: Not really, but i think it has made it more tangible for me
the
awareness of how we have broken the cycles of nature, IE that we flush
perfectly good quality fertiliser out to sea, thus creating a problem
rather than using a solution. I knew this on an intellectual level, but
our compost bog project has made that realisation more 'solid' if you
like...
KB: Can a city dweller do it?
GB: I don't see why not as long as you have a reasonable sized
garden, probably not very practical if you live in a block of flats or
something. We need more sensible broad scale sewage solutions in cities
rather than flushing shit out to sea. It could be returned to the land via
larger scale composting projects.
http://www.weblife.org/humanure/default.html
http://www.gb0063551.pwp.blueyonder.co.uk/bog/compostbog.htm
EDUCATION
Ultimately DIY culture is about self governed learning. Autonomous,
education via independent study and research. Experimenting, playing and
producing to enrich daily life and challenge the status quo.
"DIY_Culture 2005" is one example of events, projects and situations set
up by groups and individuals with DIY ethics.
"The human mind is inquisitive, enquiring; it is stimulated by the
process of learning new skills and knowledge. There is really nothing all
that special in feeling empowered enough to teach ourselves some new skill
or piece of knowledge. This is what the mind does, how it functions.
Unfortunately in much of western society, this is often not the case. A
direct correlation can perhaps be discerned between this situation and the
manner in which learning comes to be institutionalised under the banner of
education.
If we perceive of our society of mass production and consumption in terms
of a system, we can note that in order for such a system to be
predictable, manageable and therefore efficient, the units that it depends
upon need, in themselves, to be regular, calculable and predictable. The
production of such units is the service that institutionalised education
or school provides for modern society. It achieves this by nurturing an
environment of low-level anxiety and fear. The use of continual
examinations, competitive grading systems, divisions according to age,
separation from the adult world and any meaningful responsibilities, and
an enforced elongation of the period of childhood, all serve to foster an
immaturity of thought and emotion that extends well into adulthood.
Schools, in this manner, are able to produce, for industrialised society,
people, or workers, who have been leveled off, deliberately stunted in
their growth as human beings, denied the opportunity to learn to think and
feel for themselves. In other words a regular, calculable and predictable
workforce, fit for the requirements of industrialised mass production and
consumption.
In this sense educating both yourself and your children through means
other than school is perhaps one of the most radical acts possible. "
Simon Griffiths
The University of Openess (UO) is a self-institution for independent
research, collaboration and learning. Lottie Child is a UO producer and
user, working specifically in the faculty of Physical Education.
Kayle Brandon: I've been considering going into further education would you
recommend UO?
Lottie Child: I think it depends what kind of people you've got access to,
the way I'm approaching my MA (master of arts) at the UO is to use it as a
contact to people I want to talk to, and as a framework for the research
that I'm doing... If you you want to carry on developing your work, you can
conceptualise an MA at UO in anyway you want.
KB: Does UO have tutors available that I could access?
LC: No it doesn't, its got a mailing list and a Wiki, the Wiki is edited
anonymously and the people on the mailing list are hard to know who they
are. You can use those places to put info share info ask questions that
kind of thing. Its not difficult to get in involved and figure out who
everybody is and find it if anyone has anything to offer you. The way I do
it is by creating links with people I come across as I research and work.
KB: How does UO work exactly?
LC: I don't know, how it works, I suppose via the mailing list, Wiki,
there's people. I don't know all the people involved, and I don't know what
all the people involved in it think it is. Whatever your collective
imaginations come up with that's what it is. It works in lots of different
ways.
LC: the great thing about the Wiki is that its an ever expanding thing,
that is practically unknowable; it grows because people us it.
http://twenteenthcentury.com/uo/index.php/
at DIY_Culture 2005 January 21st-23rd: Birmingham UK
http://irational.org/kayle/DIY_culture/
Lots of people I know love abit of DIY, weather its putting up a shelf or
making their own teeth.
DIY_Culture 2005 was organised by Steve Crozier and Simon Griffiths,
offering a programme of how-to-and-why in DIY domestic infrastructure,
encompassing a broad range of issues from Linux computing to shit
composting.
"The intention was to create an atmosphere of practical hobbyism combined
with theoretical apocalyptic preparations. DIY could be seen as the
hidden side of resistance in a confrontational and obvious manner, and
acting as if ourselves and the environment around us is independent of any
power structures. Ignoring through existing rather than resisting in the
traditional sense.
There was also a breakdown between workshops, participants and audience,
which was interesting and is one area that should be pushed as far as
possible. Otherwise this becomes another commodified area of
entertainment for people to attend and consume."
Steve Crozier
http://stuffit.org/diy/
CONVERSION
Many of the workshops in DIY_Culture were about converting from one
process to another, replacing defunct damaging systems with processes and
approaches that clearly represent attempts at more sustainable symbiotic
relations.
The alchemy of conversion can be a radical learning experience. Changing
and trying things out on ourselves and surrounding, enables us to
analyse and reconsider the total effect a process is having on a
situation.
http://www.onlineconversion.com/
OIL
The diesel engine was originally designed to run on peanut oil. So the
conversion process is more about revisiting the inventors intention rather
than rethinking it.
Conversion of the engine is relatively easy depending on the vehicle type.
The action liberates the user from crude oil agents. We may endlessly
dispute the oil companies ethics and protest the detrimental effect of
using such a fuel, but until we stop buying, stop using we are aiding and
abetting.
The user and instigator for the change detaches from auto pilot. Relations
to vehicle, supply and politic all shift. Maintaining and committing to
the new situation requires a level of responsibility that most may find
undesirable. The decision to go against the norm tends to place the user
in a minority position, access to materials, information, and support may
be in shorter supply.
During DIY_culture Hannah got her diesel engine converted, it took Ian
all-day. After a day of mechanical manhandling the van was ready for
test drive.
Kayle Brandon: What's changed since the conversion?
Hannah Searnley: My exhaust smells like pakoras, which is great, nice to
be different. Hopefully, my particulate output is less. In a
well-functioning car running on new veg oil (rather than filtered used veg
oil) the particulates are considerably less, which is cool because they
are a big problem, especially in towns, for people's breathing. And of
course the emissions are much cleaner and don't include greenhouse gases.
So I guess I can feel better driving about now. I have to start the van on
diesel and get the engine up to a certain temperature to ensure that the
veg oil is thin enough to pass through the engine without clogging the
pump up. This can take about 15 mins, so I'm starting to think that if I'm
not doing a long enough journey to be able to turn over to veg, then maybe
i should be walking or cycling it. It's not illegal to run your car on
veg, but you have to make sure that you are up to date with paying the
fuel tax. Apparently, it's very rare that you will be pulled over, but
it's best to have a receipt for oil with the taxed pre-paid in your
glovebox.
www.vegburner.co.uk
www.bio-power.co.uk
SHIT
Will maintaining my own shit make me a better person, more whole, more
pure more real, more able to deal with my own death ?
The dominant waste disposal system is a shit to filth process; the
compost toilet is a shit to fertiliser process.
Social constructs of perceived civil society keep us from engaging with
natural symbiotic relations. The popular misconception of shit as 'waste'
instead of 'resource' necessitates replacement of a high functioning
bio-dynamic system with a waste control and management process.
Kayle Brandon: has the experience effected ways you view your own body ?
Graham Burnett: Not really, but i think it has made it more tangible for me
the
awareness of how we have broken the cycles of nature, IE that we flush
perfectly good quality fertiliser out to sea, thus creating a problem
rather than using a solution. I knew this on an intellectual level, but
our compost bog project has made that realisation more 'solid' if you
like...
KB: Can a city dweller do it?
GB: I don't see why not as long as you have a reasonable sized
garden, probably not very practical if you live in a block of flats or
something. We need more sensible broad scale sewage solutions in cities
rather than flushing shit out to sea. It could be returned to the land via
larger scale composting projects.
http://www.weblife.org/humanure/default.html
http://www.gb0063551.pwp.blueyonder.co.uk/bog/compostbog.htm
EDUCATION
Ultimately DIY culture is about self governed learning. Autonomous,
education via independent study and research. Experimenting, playing and
producing to enrich daily life and challenge the status quo.
"DIY_Culture 2005" is one example of events, projects and situations set
up by groups and individuals with DIY ethics.
"The human mind is inquisitive, enquiring; it is stimulated by the
process of learning new skills and knowledge. There is really nothing all
that special in feeling empowered enough to teach ourselves some new skill
or piece of knowledge. This is what the mind does, how it functions.
Unfortunately in much of western society, this is often not the case. A
direct correlation can perhaps be discerned between this situation and the
manner in which learning comes to be institutionalised under the banner of
education.
If we perceive of our society of mass production and consumption in terms
of a system, we can note that in order for such a system to be
predictable, manageable and therefore efficient, the units that it depends
upon need, in themselves, to be regular, calculable and predictable. The
production of such units is the service that institutionalised education
or school provides for modern society. It achieves this by nurturing an
environment of low-level anxiety and fear. The use of continual
examinations, competitive grading systems, divisions according to age,
separation from the adult world and any meaningful responsibilities, and
an enforced elongation of the period of childhood, all serve to foster an
immaturity of thought and emotion that extends well into adulthood.
Schools, in this manner, are able to produce, for industrialised society,
people, or workers, who have been leveled off, deliberately stunted in
their growth as human beings, denied the opportunity to learn to think and
feel for themselves. In other words a regular, calculable and predictable
workforce, fit for the requirements of industrialised mass production and
consumption.
In this sense educating both yourself and your children through means
other than school is perhaps one of the most radical acts possible. "
Simon Griffiths
The University of Openess (UO) is a self-institution for independent
research, collaboration and learning. Lottie Child is a UO producer and
user, working specifically in the faculty of Physical Education.
Kayle Brandon: I've been considering going into further education would you
recommend UO?
Lottie Child: I think it depends what kind of people you've got access to,
the way I'm approaching my MA (master of arts) at the UO is to use it as a
contact to people I want to talk to, and as a framework for the research
that I'm doing... If you you want to carry on developing your work, you can
conceptualise an MA at UO in anyway you want.
KB: Does UO have tutors available that I could access?
LC: No it doesn't, its got a mailing list and a Wiki, the Wiki is edited
anonymously and the people on the mailing list are hard to know who they
are. You can use those places to put info share info ask questions that
kind of thing. Its not difficult to get in involved and figure out who
everybody is and find it if anyone has anything to offer you. The way I do
it is by creating links with people I come across as I research and work.
KB: How does UO work exactly?
LC: I don't know, how it works, I suppose via the mailing list, Wiki,
there's people. I don't know all the people involved, and I don't know what
all the people involved in it think it is. Whatever your collective
imaginations come up with that's what it is. It works in lots of different
ways.
LC: the great thing about the Wiki is that its an ever expanding thing,
that is practically unknowable; it grows because people us it.
http://twenteenthcentury.com/uo/index.php/
JOIN D_CULTURE'S ONLINE FORUM
JOIN D_CULTURE'S ONLINE FORUM
Join John Oswald, Kenneth Goldsmith (UbuWeb) and Douglas Kahn (author of
Noise, Water, Meat) online in a discussion around the implications of
cultures of exchange on artistic practice. Moderated by Lina Dzuverovic
(Electra), the discussion is titled Cultures of Exchange/Politics Of Sound
and is part of London Tate Modern's online season d_culture. The forum
focuses on the creative applications and ramifications of the cultures of
downloading, sampling and cut-ups and runs until 23 March 2005. The forum
follows on from Sound and the 20th Century Avant-Garde course Co-produced by
Tate Modern and Electra in December 2004.
Starting points for discussion include: The Politics of Sound, History of
Sound Collage, Collecting, Artists' Practice, Distribution and the Culture
of Exchange.
*go to http://www.tate.org.uk/onlineevents/archive/d_culture/#outline
Introduction:
The Politics of Sound / The Culture 0f Exchange
The practice of cutting-up, appropriating and repurposing existing content
in the creation of new artworks was central to 20th century artistic
practice. From Marcel Duchamp
Join John Oswald, Kenneth Goldsmith (UbuWeb) and Douglas Kahn (author of
Noise, Water, Meat) online in a discussion around the implications of
cultures of exchange on artistic practice. Moderated by Lina Dzuverovic
(Electra), the discussion is titled Cultures of Exchange/Politics Of Sound
and is part of London Tate Modern's online season d_culture. The forum
focuses on the creative applications and ramifications of the cultures of
downloading, sampling and cut-ups and runs until 23 March 2005. The forum
follows on from Sound and the 20th Century Avant-Garde course Co-produced by
Tate Modern and Electra in December 2004.
Starting points for discussion include: The Politics of Sound, History of
Sound Collage, Collecting, Artists' Practice, Distribution and the Culture
of Exchange.
*go to http://www.tate.org.uk/onlineevents/archive/d_culture/#outline
Introduction:
The Politics of Sound / The Culture 0f Exchange
The practice of cutting-up, appropriating and repurposing existing content
in the creation of new artworks was central to 20th century artistic
practice. From Marcel Duchamp
FW: cfp Franklin Furnace
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Date: Sat, 12 Feb 2005 20:45:18 -0800 (PST)
To: kevin@rhizome.org
Subject: calls x 40 pt 1
April 1 Performance and New Media
Franklin Furnace
web:
<http://www.franklinfurnace.org/guidelines.html>www.franklinfurnace.org/guid
elines.html
The Calls and Opps Email list is Edited by Michael Mandiberg
This is a gift economy product. If you can, please give back.
Send a check to Mandiberg, PO BOX 220051, BKYN, NY 11222
Or make a donation towards server costs, click below:
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Open Source: please keep the header and footer intact
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(syndicate,
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Experimenta)
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