Kevin McGarry
Since 2003
Works in Brooklyn, New York United States of America

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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.

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DISCUSSION

Harry Potter lovers/haters take heed


A fantastic remix of Harry Potter by Brad Neely called "Wizard People, Dear
Readers" is being distributed online now at:

http://www.illegal-art.org/video/wizard.html

The narrations goes with HP1 the same way Dark Side of the Moon could with
the Wiz of Oz.

I promise this is very funny, and copyright ballsy/significant given JK
Rowling is so scary regarding such matters.

DISCUSSION

Projekt30's April Exhibition


------ Forwarded Message
From: Projekt30 <gallery@projekt30.com>
Date: Tue, 13 Apr 2004 20:42:03 -0400
To: artbase@rhizome.org
Subject: Projekt30's April Exhibition

This is an invitation to view Projekt30's April Juried Exhibition.
Follow the "april exhibition" link at www.projekt30.com.

Who we are:

Projekt30 is an online gallery, run by artists, designed to expose artists
to
"brick and mortar" art galleries which may be interested in presenting their
work. We are a not-for-profit organization using technology to encourage
public interest in the fine arts, and help shape the art world in the
twenty-first century.

What you will find:

Projekt30 is pleased to present 30 artists of merit that have been selected
from a large pool of applicants. If you are interested in any of the
featured
artists for any reason (even just to say hello) please feel free to use the
"contact this artist" link below their work. Rest assured that we take no
percentage what so ever from any sale, commission, etc. that results from
this exhibition. 100% of all proceeds go directly to the artists.

Thank you for your time, we hope you enjoy the show!

You are receiving this invitation because you have been identified as
a person involved or interested in the arts, either in a personal or
professional capacity. We are not selling anything and understand the
frustration some people experience due to unwanted email: If you would
not like to receive future Projekt30 invitations, go to
http://www2.projekt30.com/mailing_list.html to unsubscribe. You may
also just reply to this email, include the word "unsubscribe" in the
subject line.

------ End of Forwarded Message

DISCUSSION

NYTimes.com Article: A Justice's Sense of Privilege


A Justice's Sense of Privilege

April 12, 2004
By BOB HERBERT

Antoinette Konz is a young education reporter for The
Hattiesburg American, a daily newspaper with a circulation
of about 25,000 in Hattiesburg, Miss. Ms. Konz, 25, has
only been in the business for a couple of years, so her
outlook hasn't been soiled by the cranks and the criminals,
and the pretzel-shaped politicians that so many of us have
been covering for too many years to count.

She considered it a big deal when one of the schools on her
beat, the Presbyterian Christian High School, invited her
to cover a speech that was delivered last Wednesday by
Supreme Court Justice Antonin Scalia.

About 300 people, many of them students, filled the
school's gymnasium for the speech. They greeted Justice
Scalia with a standing ovation.

Ms. Konz and a reporter for The Associated Press, Denise
Grones, were seated in the front row. They began to take
notes. And when Justice Scalia began speaking, they clicked
on their tape recorders.

What's important about this story is that Justice Scalia is
a big shot. Not only is he a member in good standing of the
nation's most august court, he's almost always among those
mentioned as a possible future chief justice.

Compared with him, Ms. Konz and Ms. Grones are nobodies.

Justice Scalia, the big shot, does not like reporters to
turn tape recorders on when he's talking, whether that
action is protected by the Constitution of the United
States or not. He doesn't like it. And he doesn't permit
it.

"Thirty-five minutes into the speech we were approached by
a woman who identified herself as a deputy U.S. marshal,"
Ms. Konz told me in a telephone conversation on Friday.
"She said that we should not be recording and that she
needed to have our tapes."

In the U.S., this is a no-no. Justice Scalia and his
colleagues on the court are responsible for guaranteeing
such safeguards against tyranny as freedom of the press. In
fact, the speech Mr. Scalia was giving at the very moment
the marshal moved against the two reporters was about the
importance of the Constitution.

Ms. Konz said neither she nor Ms. Grones wanted to comply
with the marshal's demand.

"It was very distracting, very embarrassing," she said. "We
were still trying to listen to what he was saying."

The marshal, Melanie Rube, insisted.

The A.P. reporter
tried to explain that she had a digital recording device,
so there was no tape to give up. Ms. Konz said the deputy
seemed baffled by that.

Eventually both recordings were seized.

If this had been
an old-time Hollywood movie, the Supreme Court justice
would have turned a kindly face toward the marshal and
said, in an avuncular tone: "No, no. We don't do that sort
of thing in this country. Please return the recordings."

But this is the United States in the 21st century where the
power brokers have gone mad. They've deluded themselves
into thinking they're royalty, not public servants charged
with protecting the rights and interests of the people.
Both recordings were erased. Only then was the reporters'
property returned.

When agents acting on behalf of a Supreme Court justice can
just snatch and destroy information collected by reporters,
we haven't just thumbed our nose at the Constitution, we've
taken a very dangerous step in a very ugly direction. The
depot at the end of that dark road is totalitarianism.

I called Jane Kirtley, a professor of media, ethics and law
at the University of Minnesota, and asked her what was
wrong with what the marshal did. She replied, "Everything."

Not only was it an affront to the Constitution to seize and
erase the recordings, Ms. Kirtley believes it was also a
violation of the Privacy Protection Act, a law passed by
Congress in 1980.

"It protects journalists not just from newsroom searches,"
she said, "but from the seizure of their work product
material, things like notes and drafts, and also what's
called documentary materials, which are things like these
tapes, or digital recordings."

Ms. Konz told me: "All I was doing with that tape recorder
was making sure that I was not going to misquote the
justice. My only intention was to report his words
accurately."

After the encounter with the marshal, she said, "I went
back to the office and I just felt absolutely - I just felt
horrible."?

http://www.nytimes.com/2004/04/12/opinion/12HERB.html?ex82815118&ei=1&en=
efc25ffa6e98912b

DISCUSSION

Art + Tech. talks @ Location One (4/14 Wed Drazen Pantic / open source)


Location One announces a new weekly event:

Open House on Wednesdays from 7 - 9 PM

Beginning April 7, Location One initiated a new series of Wednesday
evening of talks and artist presentations on various topics. We are
proud to include renowned curators and specialists from many
disciplines, questioning and reflecting upon different aspects of our
highly mediated contemporary society.

In this first month of April 2004, we will focus on art and
technology. The events will address such themes as peer-to-peer
biofeedback mechanisms; server-based mediation of dreams; robotcats;
and implied morality of network incisions.

Notices about the upcoming speakers will follow, but here is the
line-up for April:

April 7th
dorkbot-nyc
kicked off the series with presentations by people doing strange
things with electricity

April 14th
Drazen Pantic
co-director of Location One will talk about political and pragmatic
implications of the open source movement as it affects artists today.

April 21st
Chris Csikszentmihalyi
a lecture by new media artist and MIT professor, Director of the
Computing Culture Program at the M.I.T. Media Lab.

April 28th
Brian Whitman
from the Music, Mind and Machine Group, MIT Media Lab.

ABOUT LOCATION ONE
Location One is a not-for-profit art center whose mission is to foster
the convergence of classic and new media for the development and
presentation of new work. Emerging and established artists in all
mediums from all over the world are invited to collaborate and
experiment with advanced technological tools and delivery systems.
Location One presents visual arts, performing arts and online
programming. It maintains on its premises an International Residency
Program that is open to artists from different fields of expression at
all levels of experience in technology. http://www.location1.org
<http://location1.org> streams live video and audio 24 hours a day.
Location One is completely committed to Open Source methods and
solutions and has created the Open Source Streaming Alliance, an
international alliance of media centers to share resources and expand
available bandwidth for all partners, thereby enabling all to
participate in a powerful capacity to stream audio and video to a
worldwide audience.

DISCUSSION

Album covers redrawn from memory in MS Paint


an awesome, ongoing collaboration:

"Album covers redrawn from memory in MS Paint"

http://ilx.wh3rd.net/thread.php?msgidD57732