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BIO
Michael Szpakowski is an artist, composer, writer and educator.
CV:
http://www.somedancersandmusicians.com/szpakowski_cv.pdf
Video work:
http://www.somedancersandmusicians.com/vlog/ScenesOfProvincialLife.cgi
Stills:
http://www.flickr.com/photos/szpako
12 Remixes:
http://www.michaelszpakowski.org/mickiewicz/
CV:
http://www.somedancersandmusicians.com/szpakowski_cv.pdf
Video work:
http://www.somedancersandmusicians.com/vlog/ScenesOfProvincialLife.cgi
Stills:
http://www.flickr.com/photos/szpako
12 Remixes:
http://www.michaelszpakowski.org/mickiewicz/
NET:REALITY exhibition
HI
below is a press release for a show some of us are in
here in the UK. After 20/21 it tours round the UK
pretty much until 2007. Hope some of you can make it
or at least check out the site.
best
michael
NET:REALITY
: : : : :
Artwork by: Simon Biggs, Glorious Ninth, Neil Jenkins,
Jess Loseby, Michael Takeo Magruder, Stanza and
Michael Szpakowski
: : : : :
Blurring the boundaries between the tangible gallery
and the transitory Internet, Net:Reality merges the
ethereal notions of cyber space with the aesthetics of
a physical exhibition. Seven leading UK artists
engaged in Internet and New Media practice have been
commissioned to create artworks that simultaneously
exist virtually and physically.
Rather than having a 'theme' for the artworks, the
common denominator is the media itself and the
unifying connections between the web (Net) and the
physical (Reality) elements of the compositions. The
artists in Net:Reality have each interpreted and
implemented the amorphous relationships between these
distinct spaces to create an exhibition of artworks
diverse in concepts and aesthetics - harnessing the
Internet and the gallery environment to investigate
subjects ranging from emerging technologies to social
science.
: : : : :
Off-line until 29 October 2005 at:
20-21 Visual Arts Centre
Church Square, Scunthorpe DN15 6TB, UK
open: Tues.-Sat., 10am-5pm
telephone: +44 (0)1724 297070
On-line permanently at:
www.net-reality.org
: : : : :
Net:Reality is supported by Arts Council England and
curated by Michael Takeo Magruder in partnership with
20-21 Visual Arts Centre, Scunthorpe and Q Arts,
Derby. The exhibition was generated from an idea by
Michael Takeo Magruder and Jess Loseby.
for further information contact:
Michael Takeo Magruder
www.takeo.org
email:
m@takeo.org or mtakeomagruder@yahoo.com
below is a press release for a show some of us are in
here in the UK. After 20/21 it tours round the UK
pretty much until 2007. Hope some of you can make it
or at least check out the site.
best
michael
NET:REALITY
: : : : :
Artwork by: Simon Biggs, Glorious Ninth, Neil Jenkins,
Jess Loseby, Michael Takeo Magruder, Stanza and
Michael Szpakowski
: : : : :
Blurring the boundaries between the tangible gallery
and the transitory Internet, Net:Reality merges the
ethereal notions of cyber space with the aesthetics of
a physical exhibition. Seven leading UK artists
engaged in Internet and New Media practice have been
commissioned to create artworks that simultaneously
exist virtually and physically.
Rather than having a 'theme' for the artworks, the
common denominator is the media itself and the
unifying connections between the web (Net) and the
physical (Reality) elements of the compositions. The
artists in Net:Reality have each interpreted and
implemented the amorphous relationships between these
distinct spaces to create an exhibition of artworks
diverse in concepts and aesthetics - harnessing the
Internet and the gallery environment to investigate
subjects ranging from emerging technologies to social
science.
: : : : :
Off-line until 29 October 2005 at:
20-21 Visual Arts Centre
Church Square, Scunthorpe DN15 6TB, UK
open: Tues.-Sat., 10am-5pm
telephone: +44 (0)1724 297070
On-line permanently at:
www.net-reality.org
: : : : :
Net:Reality is supported by Arts Council England and
curated by Michael Takeo Magruder in partnership with
20-21 Visual Arts Centre, Scunthorpe and Q Arts,
Derby. The exhibition was generated from an idea by
Michael Takeo Magruder and Jess Loseby.
for further information contact:
Michael Takeo Magruder
www.takeo.org
email:
m@takeo.org or mtakeomagruder@yahoo.com
5 new movies
5 new Quick Times
flars & diptych < 1mb, the others a little bit more
all silent
http://www.somedancersandmusicians.com/Some_QuickTime_Movies/flars.mov
http://www.somedancersandmusicians.com/Some_QuickTime_Movies/memory_game.mov
http://www.somedancersandmusicians.com/Some_QuickTime_Movies/scent.mov
http://www.somedancersandmusicians.com/Some_QuickTime_Movies/diptych.mov
http://www.somedancersandmusicians.com/Some_QuickTime_Movies/window.mov
best
michael
http://www.somedancersandmusicians.com/
'Everything is connected.' - V.I.Lenin
'..and always let your unconscious be your guide.' - J.Cricket
'Repetition, it's so fantastic, so anti-glop'- attrib. Lou Reed
flars & diptych < 1mb, the others a little bit more
all silent
http://www.somedancersandmusicians.com/Some_QuickTime_Movies/flars.mov
http://www.somedancersandmusicians.com/Some_QuickTime_Movies/memory_game.mov
http://www.somedancersandmusicians.com/Some_QuickTime_Movies/scent.mov
http://www.somedancersandmusicians.com/Some_QuickTime_Movies/diptych.mov
http://www.somedancersandmusicians.com/Some_QuickTime_Movies/window.mov
best
michael
http://www.somedancersandmusicians.com/
'Everything is connected.' - V.I.Lenin
'..and always let your unconscious be your guide.' - J.Cricket
'Repetition, it's so fantastic, so anti-glop'- attrib. Lou Reed
Fwd: [webartery] new work by Martha Deed & Millie Niss: News from Erewhon
Definitely worth checking out, as is all the stuff on
Sporkworld. Art with both a heart and a proper sense
of the ridiculous.
michael
--- Millie Niss <men2@columbia.edu> wrote:
> To: <webartery@yahoogroups.com>
> CC: "Martha Deed" <mldeed1@juno.com>
> From: "Millie Niss" <men2@columbia.edu>
> Date: Wed, 13 Jul 2005 16:53:32 -0400
> Subject: [webartery] new work: News from Erewhon
>
> Martha Deed and Millie Niss have a new piece of
> Flash Fiction (previously alluded to on webartery in
> the form of an offer to send a unicorn to anyone who
> finds a bug on www.sporkworld.org). This work is
> Flash Fiction, in both senses of the word. The
> texts are inspired by the Surrealists' automatic
> writing practice. The graphics illustrate the text
> and combine with it to weave a braid between the two
> authors and the world wide web (where the images
> were gleaned). The work is accompanied by an
> introduction, instructions, sources, and authors'
> bios.
>
> The URL for this work is
> http://www.sporkworld.org/news/
>
> Millie Niss
>
> [Non-text portions of this message have been
> removed]
>
>
>
>
> Yahoo! Groups Links
>
> <*> To visit your group on the web, go to:
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>
Sporkworld. Art with both a heart and a proper sense
of the ridiculous.
michael
--- Millie Niss <men2@columbia.edu> wrote:
> To: <webartery@yahoogroups.com>
> CC: "Martha Deed" <mldeed1@juno.com>
> From: "Millie Niss" <men2@columbia.edu>
> Date: Wed, 13 Jul 2005 16:53:32 -0400
> Subject: [webartery] new work: News from Erewhon
>
> Martha Deed and Millie Niss have a new piece of
> Flash Fiction (previously alluded to on webartery in
> the form of an offer to send a unicorn to anyone who
> finds a bug on www.sporkworld.org). This work is
> Flash Fiction, in both senses of the word. The
> texts are inspired by the Surrealists' automatic
> writing practice. The graphics illustrate the text
> and combine with it to weave a braid between the two
> authors and the world wide web (where the images
> were gleaned). The work is accompanied by an
> introduction, instructions, sources, and authors'
> bios.
>
> The URL for this work is
> http://www.sporkworld.org/news/
>
> Millie Niss
>
> [Non-text portions of this message have been
> removed]
>
>
>
>
> Yahoo! Groups Links
>
> <*> To visit your group on the web, go to:
> http://groups.yahoo.com/group/webartery/
>
> <*> To unsubscribe from this group, send an email
> to:
> webartery-unsubscribe@yahoogroups.com
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>
>
>
Re: Fwd: rally to end "owner occupancy" mass evictions this weekend
I'm surprised at this response Joseph. From an
admittedly cursory glance it looks as though as grave
injustice *is* being done to folk who've been settled
in places for a long time. Why should people shut up
and take eviction lying down because they have the
misfortune to be not so well off as the gentrifiers?
I can well imagine the heartbreak of being forced from
a place I'd lived for a long time, maybe raised a
family, to satisfy either the whims or the desire for
even more money, from the already priveleged.
I'm know there are big differences of emphasis
between us but I'd always seen you as being
essentially on the side of the underdog...
regards
michael
--- joseph mcelroy <joseph@corporatepa.com> wrote:
> um, and the great injustice being done is???? Looks
> like people want
> subsidies for staying in NYC - you got to pay to
> play, take the lump sum
> settlement and get a cheap place in jersey. Have a
> flea market to raise
> money to promote peace, cure cancer, or to hire enuf
> quality child
> protection officers. Bullshit sentiment for a
> fight between economic
> interests on both sides. Stand this one out.
>
> joseph
>
> joy.garnett@gmail.com wrote:
>
> > dear List,
> >
> > You may recall a newsgrist post (below) about some
> crazy east village
> > evictions going down -- including evictions of
> artists. Enclosed is a
> > request to circulate some material for a protest
> to take place this
> > Saturday -- please distribute widely.
> >
> > thanks again -- have a great summer,
> > Joy
> > newsgrist.net <http://newsgrist.net>
> > firstpulseprojects.net
> <http://firstpulseprojects.net>
> > ..................
> > Thursday, May 12, 2005
> > Eviction Scam Stoop Sale
> >
>
http://newsgrist.typepad.com/underbelly/2005/05/gt_hello_friend.html
> >
> > Press Release (1 page Word Doc)
> > http://firstpulseprojects.net/47E3RallyPR.doc
> >
> > Flyer (jpeg-243k)
> > http://firstpulseprojects.net/47e3flyer.jpg
> >
> > ---------- Forwarded message ----------
> > From: *Barry Paddock * <bjpaddock@gmail.com
> <mailto:bjpaddock@gmail.com>>
> > Date: Jun 22, 2005 11:45 PM
> > Subject: rally to end "owner occupancy" mass
> evictions this weekend
> > To: joy.garnett@gmail.com
> <mailto:joy.garnett@gmail.com>
> >
> > Hi Joy,
> > I would be so grateful if you could help get the
> word out for our
> > rally this Saturday. I have attached a flyer and
> press release.
> > Thanks and hope you are very well,
> > -barry
> >
> > Rally To Stop "Owner Occupancy" Mass Evictions
> > Saturday June 25 12 noon
> > 47 East 3rd St between 1-2 Aves
> >
> > Landlords are exploiting the owner occupancy
> loophole by buying
> > rent-regulated apartment buildings, then claiming
> the ENTIRE building
> > for "personal use" and evicting every tenant.
> This is a SCAM to force
> > out rent-regulated tenants and charge market
> rates.
> >
> > Help stop this outrageous abuse of the law that
> threatens all New York
> > City tenants.
> >
> > SCHEDULED TO APPEAR (list in formation):
> >
admittedly cursory glance it looks as though as grave
injustice *is* being done to folk who've been settled
in places for a long time. Why should people shut up
and take eviction lying down because they have the
misfortune to be not so well off as the gentrifiers?
I can well imagine the heartbreak of being forced from
a place I'd lived for a long time, maybe raised a
family, to satisfy either the whims or the desire for
even more money, from the already priveleged.
I'm know there are big differences of emphasis
between us but I'd always seen you as being
essentially on the side of the underdog...
regards
michael
--- joseph mcelroy <joseph@corporatepa.com> wrote:
> um, and the great injustice being done is???? Looks
> like people want
> subsidies for staying in NYC - you got to pay to
> play, take the lump sum
> settlement and get a cheap place in jersey. Have a
> flea market to raise
> money to promote peace, cure cancer, or to hire enuf
> quality child
> protection officers. Bullshit sentiment for a
> fight between economic
> interests on both sides. Stand this one out.
>
> joseph
>
> joy.garnett@gmail.com wrote:
>
> > dear List,
> >
> > You may recall a newsgrist post (below) about some
> crazy east village
> > evictions going down -- including evictions of
> artists. Enclosed is a
> > request to circulate some material for a protest
> to take place this
> > Saturday -- please distribute widely.
> >
> > thanks again -- have a great summer,
> > Joy
> > newsgrist.net <http://newsgrist.net>
> > firstpulseprojects.net
> <http://firstpulseprojects.net>
> > ..................
> > Thursday, May 12, 2005
> > Eviction Scam Stoop Sale
> >
>
http://newsgrist.typepad.com/underbelly/2005/05/gt_hello_friend.html
> >
> > Press Release (1 page Word Doc)
> > http://firstpulseprojects.net/47E3RallyPR.doc
> >
> > Flyer (jpeg-243k)
> > http://firstpulseprojects.net/47e3flyer.jpg
> >
> > ---------- Forwarded message ----------
> > From: *Barry Paddock * <bjpaddock@gmail.com
> <mailto:bjpaddock@gmail.com>>
> > Date: Jun 22, 2005 11:45 PM
> > Subject: rally to end "owner occupancy" mass
> evictions this weekend
> > To: joy.garnett@gmail.com
> <mailto:joy.garnett@gmail.com>
> >
> > Hi Joy,
> > I would be so grateful if you could help get the
> word out for our
> > rally this Saturday. I have attached a flyer and
> press release.
> > Thanks and hope you are very well,
> > -barry
> >
> > Rally To Stop "Owner Occupancy" Mass Evictions
> > Saturday June 25 12 noon
> > 47 East 3rd St between 1-2 Aves
> >
> > Landlords are exploiting the owner occupancy
> loophole by buying
> > rent-regulated apartment buildings, then claiming
> the ENTIRE building
> > for "personal use" and evicting every tenant.
> This is a SCAM to force
> > out rent-regulated tenants and charge market
> rates.
> >
> > Help stop this outrageous abuse of the law that
> threatens all New York
> > City tenants.
> >
> > SCHEDULED TO APPEAR (list in formation):
> >
Re: Why you are a prime number
http://www.somedancersandmusicians.com/proof/index.html
best
michael
--- Jim Andrews <jim@vispo.com> wrote:
> WHY YOU ARE A PRIME NUMBER
>
> The pleasure of primes:
> pleasure of mystery.
>
> They return to the primal,
> not composite, composed,
> are fundamental shape
> not squares,
> rectangles,
> triangles,
> cubes,
> whatever.
>
> Every now and then
> in the sequence of things,
> the prime, unbidden, unanticipated,
> no formula for it.
>
> We know that there are infinitely many of them:
> if there is a greatest prime P
> multiply all primes together and add one;
> call it X;
> X is greater than P
> and no primes divide X
> so there is a greater prime than P.
>
> The primal.
>
> The composite. The composed. Composed of primes.
>
> The prime. The fundament. The valuable. The
> original.
>
> O she is prime. I am composed of her.
>
> The primes are what is left when the patterned is
> removed.
>
> Primes are generated in the normal course of living.
> Nothing special is required to generate the special.
> It inheres in the generation of things.
>
> They are the ground
> of number's figure,
> what is left
> after the patterned/composed
> is acknowledged.
>
> 2500 years later,
> after the most acute minds
> have all had a go at the old riddles,
> many of them remain unsolved.
>
> Are there infinitely many twin primes?
> Like three and five,
> eleven and thirteen,
> seventeen and nineteen...
>
> No one knows.
>
> Primes and pattern.
> Primes and no pattern.
> Secret, elusive pattern.
> Leibniz noted p prime <=>
> (p-1)! congruent -1 mod p
> but that is not enough, apparently,
> even to determine whether
> there are infinitely many twin primes
> like 3,5 and 11,13 or 17,19.
> Nor are there any good formulas
> that produce only primes like 2n
> produces only even numbers or 3n
> produces only odd numbers.
>
> But what is this doing in a poem?
> I'm trying to figure that out,
> whether there are several twin poems
> that can allow a place for such talk.
>
> If there is a last one...
>
> There will be a last one for me.
>
> When I did math seriously,
> spending days or weeks or months
> working on a problem, the satisfaction
> of solving it was not simply the
> pleasure of finishing well,
> was more
> like water,
> the feel of it on the body,
> and after you surface,
> leave the water,
> shivering and memory.
>
> Sometimes when you write/create
> well enough, you get the hum,
> it isn't
> so much the pride of having done it
> as something else, the hum,
> you're free and easy for a while,
> did your job on earth.
>
> That's the feeling I'd get sometimes
> during and after solving an enigmatic
> math problem.
>
> Not just the protestant work ethic hum
> but having your finger in the socket.
>
> The pleasure of primes
> is the pleasure of mystery.
> As in the face behind the day,
> intent of darkness,
> all we cannot understand
> but are fascinated by.
> Not pattern undetermined
> but the unpatterned,
> what's left,
> the fundamentals.
>
> ja
> http://vispo.com
>
>
>
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> +
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> out in the
> Membership Agreement available online at
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best
michael
--- Jim Andrews <jim@vispo.com> wrote:
> WHY YOU ARE A PRIME NUMBER
>
> The pleasure of primes:
> pleasure of mystery.
>
> They return to the primal,
> not composite, composed,
> are fundamental shape
> not squares,
> rectangles,
> triangles,
> cubes,
> whatever.
>
> Every now and then
> in the sequence of things,
> the prime, unbidden, unanticipated,
> no formula for it.
>
> We know that there are infinitely many of them:
> if there is a greatest prime P
> multiply all primes together and add one;
> call it X;
> X is greater than P
> and no primes divide X
> so there is a greater prime than P.
>
> The primal.
>
> The composite. The composed. Composed of primes.
>
> The prime. The fundament. The valuable. The
> original.
>
> O she is prime. I am composed of her.
>
> The primes are what is left when the patterned is
> removed.
>
> Primes are generated in the normal course of living.
> Nothing special is required to generate the special.
> It inheres in the generation of things.
>
> They are the ground
> of number's figure,
> what is left
> after the patterned/composed
> is acknowledged.
>
> 2500 years later,
> after the most acute minds
> have all had a go at the old riddles,
> many of them remain unsolved.
>
> Are there infinitely many twin primes?
> Like three and five,
> eleven and thirteen,
> seventeen and nineteen...
>
> No one knows.
>
> Primes and pattern.
> Primes and no pattern.
> Secret, elusive pattern.
> Leibniz noted p prime <=>
> (p-1)! congruent -1 mod p
> but that is not enough, apparently,
> even to determine whether
> there are infinitely many twin primes
> like 3,5 and 11,13 or 17,19.
> Nor are there any good formulas
> that produce only primes like 2n
> produces only even numbers or 3n
> produces only odd numbers.
>
> But what is this doing in a poem?
> I'm trying to figure that out,
> whether there are several twin poems
> that can allow a place for such talk.
>
> If there is a last one...
>
> There will be a last one for me.
>
> When I did math seriously,
> spending days or weeks or months
> working on a problem, the satisfaction
> of solving it was not simply the
> pleasure of finishing well,
> was more
> like water,
> the feel of it on the body,
> and after you surface,
> leave the water,
> shivering and memory.
>
> Sometimes when you write/create
> well enough, you get the hum,
> it isn't
> so much the pride of having done it
> as something else, the hum,
> you're free and easy for a while,
> did your job on earth.
>
> That's the feeling I'd get sometimes
> during and after solving an enigmatic
> math problem.
>
> Not just the protestant work ethic hum
> but having your finger in the socket.
>
> The pleasure of primes
> is the pleasure of mystery.
> As in the face behind the day,
> intent of darkness,
> all we cannot understand
> but are fascinated by.
> Not pattern undetermined
> but the unpatterned,
> what's left,
> the fundamentals.
>
> ja
> http://vispo.com
>
>
>
> +
> -> post: list@rhizome.org
> -> questions: info@rhizome.org
> -> subscribe/unsubscribe:
> http://rhizome.org/preferences/subscribe.rhiz
> -> give: http://rhizome.org/support
> -> visit: on Fridays the Rhizome.org web site is
> open to non-members
> +
> Subscribers to Rhizome are subject to the terms set
> out in the
> Membership Agreement available online at
> http://rhizome.org/info/29.php
>