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Ryan Griffis currently teaches new media art at the University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign. He often works under the name Temporary Travel Office and collaborates with many other writers, artists, activists and interesting people in the Midwest Radical Culture Corridor.
The Temporary Travel Office produces a variety of services relating to tourism and technology aimed at exploring the non-rational connections existing between public and private spaces. The Travel Office has operated in a variety of locations, including Missouri, Chicago, Southern California and Norway.

Is MySpace a Place?


Networked Performance pointed me toward an interview (download in PDF)with Networked Publics speaker Henry Jenkins and Networked Publics friend danah boyd about Myspace. The site, popular with teenagers, has become increasingly controversial as parents and the press raise concerns about the openness of information on the site and the vulnerability this supposedly poses to predators (Henry points out that only .1% of abductions are by strangers) and the behavior of teens towards each other (certainly nothing new, only now in persistent form). In another essay on Identity Production in Networked Culture, danah suggests that Myspace is popular not only because the technology makes new forms of interaction possible, but because older hang-outs such as the mall and the convenience store are prohibiting teens from congregating and roller rinks and burger joints are disappearing.

This begs the question, is Myspace media or is it space? Architecture theorists have long had this thorn in their side. "This will kill that," wrote Victor Hugo with respect to the book and the building. In the early 1990s, concern about a dwindling public culture and the character of late twentieth century urban space led us to investigate Jürgen Habermas's idea of the public sphere. But the public sphere, for Habermas is a forum, something that, for the most part, emerges in media and in the institutions of the state:

The bourgeois public sphere may be conceived above all as the sphere of private people come together as a public; they soon claimed the public sphere regulated from above against the public authorities themselves, to engage them in a debate over the general rules governing relations in the basically privatized but publicly relevant sphere of commodity exchange and social labor. The medium of this political confrontation was peculiar and without historical precedent: people's ...

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SWITCH: Issue 22



Carlos Castellanos:

HI everyone. Just wanted to announce the new issue of SWITCH:

SWITCH : The online New Media Art Journal of the CADRE Laboratory for
New Media at San Jose State University

http://switch.sjsu.edu switch@cadre.sjsu.edu

SWITCH Journal is proud to announce the launch of Issue 22: A Special
Preview Edition to ISEA 2006/ ZeroOne San Jose.

As San Jose State University and the CADRE Laboratory are serving as
the academic host for the ZeroOne San Jose /ISEA 2006 Symposium,
SWITCH has dedicated itself to serving as an official media
correspondent of the Festival and Symposium. SWITCH has focused the
past three issues of publication prior to ZeroOne San Jose/ISEA2006
on publishing content reflecting on the themes of the symposium. Our
editorial staff has interviewed and reported on artists, theorists,
and practitioners interested in the intersections of Art & Technology
as related to the themes of ZeroOne San Jose/ ISEA 2006. While some
of those featured in SWITCH are part of the festival and symposium,
others provide a complimentary perspective.

Issue 22 focuses on the intersections of CADRE and ZeroOne San Jose/
ISEA 2006. Over the past year, students at the CADRE Laboratory for
New Media have been working intensely with artists on two different
residency projects for the festival – “Social Networking” with Antoni
Muntadas and the City as Interface Residency, “Karaoke Ice” with
Nancy Nowacek, Marina Zurkow & Katie Salen. Carlos Castellanos,
James Morgan, Aaron Siegel, all give us a sneak preview of their
projects which will be featured at the ISEA 2006 exhibition. Alumni
Sheila Malone introduces ex_XX:: post position, an exhibition
celebrating the 20th anniversary of the CADRE Institute that will run
as a parallel exhibition to ZeroOne San Jose/ ISEA 2006. LeE
Montgomery provides a preview of NPR (Neighborhood Public Radio)
presence at ...

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Art & Mapping



The North American Cartographic Information Society (NACIS) has released a special issue of their journal, Cartographic Perspectives:
Art and Mapping Issue 53, Winter 2006 Edited by Denis Wood and and John Krygier Price: $25
The issue includes articles by kanarinka, Denis Wood, Dalia Varanka and John Krygier, and an extensive catalogue of map artists compiled by Denis Wood.

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[-empyre-] Liquid Narrative for June 2006


Christina McPhee:

hi all, I am not sure we got this message out to Rhizome!

Please join our guests this month, Dene Grigar (US), Jim Barrett
(AU/SE), Lucio Santaella (BR), and Sergio Basbaum (BR) , with
moderator Marcus Bastos (BR), for a spirited discussion of "Liquid
Narratives" ----- digital media story telling with a dash, perhaps,
of 'aura' .

Here's the intro from Marcus:

The topic of June at the - empyre - mailing list will be Liquid Narratives. The concept of 'liquid narrative' is interesting in that it allows to think about the unfoldings of contemporary languages beyond tech achievements, by relating user controlled applications with formats such as the essay (as described by Adorno in "Der Essay als Form", The essay as a form) and procedures related to the figure of the narrator (as described by Benjamin in his writings about Nikolai Leskov). Both authors are accute critics of modern culture, but a lot of his ideas can be expanded towards contemporary culture. As a matter of fact, one of the main concerns in Benjamin's essay is a description of how the rise of modernism happens on account of an increasing nprivilege of information over knowledge, which is even more intense nowadays. To understand this proposal, it is important to remember how Benjamin distinguishes between an oral oriented knowledge, that results from 'an experience that goes from person to person' and is sometimes anonymous, from the information and authoritative oriented print culture. One of the aspects of this discussion is how contemporary networked culture rescues this 'person to person' dimension, given the distributed and non-authoritative procedures that technologies such as the GPS, mobile phones and others stimulate.

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state of the planet infographics


stateoftheplanet.jpg
a small collection of beautiful information graphics documenting the current state of the planet.
see also gapminder & 3d data globe.
[seedmagazine.com]

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FWD: Portland,OR: PICA and TBA institute events


For anyone in or near Portland...
***********************
Take that pencil from behind your ear and write this
down.

I will attend the TBA Institute and I will get an A++

The bell is ringing for the TBA Institute and you
don't want to be late for class.

In this newsletter you will find listings for noontime
chats, dance ,vocal and music workshops and a special
"artist only" information session with Esther
Robinson, of Creative Capital.

Use the menu to the right to get directly to what
interests you most or scroll down to take it all in.

A full schedule of TBA performances and TBA institute
offerings can be found in the Official Guide. Please
call PICA at 503.242.1419 or stop by our Box Office at
219 NW 12th to get your copy.

The TBA Institute

TBA will not only showcase a diverse range of artists
and performers to Portland; it will provide you with
various ways of experiencing their work. For both
artists and audiences, the TBA Institute is a way to
access the festival on a more personal level.

From daily chats to technical workshops, the Institute
was designed to create a more intimate atmosphere for
the artists to explore, discuss and teach.
Parents pay special attention to the Movement for
Young People workshop. Get the whole family up and
moving

Noon Time Chats will be heald in the PICA Resource
Room. Our friends at Conduit, Body Vox and Water
Street will be hosting the master classes and
workshops. Check out the venue and information section
to find out how to secure your reservations.

Just so you don't think we have gone too intellectual
on you we have included a section highlighting
MACHINEWORKS our 8 day club and cabaret stage. This is
the place to bump into the TBA artists on the dance
floor, meet up with friends after a mainstage
performance, chat with the out of town festival goers,
catch a show by some of our hometown favorites and
look out for a few surprise guests.

Do not miss your chance to mingle, move and mind melt
with this incredible group of performers.

Noontime Chats
Itching to talk to David Brooks and Lawrence Goldhuber
about the use of media in performance? Having second
thoughts about all that classical training? Those who
make their way to the PICA Resource Room at noon each
day will find the answers to all their questions,
become fantastically motivated and, undoubtedly, leave
with your mind and heart filled to the brim. It's like
great therapy without the trauma.

Daily, 12 - 1 pm, PICA Resource Room

FREE to Pass holders, $5 General Admission

The Art of Words, the Borders of Language
Sunday, September 14
David Greenberger, Vijay Iyer, Tracie Morris, Shelley
Hirsch.

Fast, Cheap, and Out of Control: The Use of Media in
Performance
Monday, September 15
Andrew Dickson, David Brooks, Lawrence Goldhuber.

An Artistic Response to September 11
Tuesday, September 16
Eiko and Koma

Classical Training: Friend or Foe?
Wednesday, September 17
Dariush Dolat-shahi, Daniel Roumain, Vijay iyer,
Yasuko Yokoshi, Ros Warby

If I Only Knew You Better: A Partnership with
Audiences
Thursday, September 18
Felix Ruckert

Artists as Cultural Organizers in Central Europe:
Opportunities and Challenges
Friday, September 19
Manuel Pelmus, Mihai Mihalcea, Brynjar Bandlien, Agnes
Varanyi

Audience Expectations at Home and Away
Saturday, September 20
Seydou Boro, Salia Sanou, Coco Fusco, Quasar

For Artists Only
Special Presentation

An Introduction to Creative Capital

Wednesday, September 17, 2 - 4 pm
PICA Resource Room

Esther Robinson, of Creative Capital, will present to
local working artists an introduction to the services
offered by this New York-based non-profit
organization. Creative Capital is committed to
supporting the work of emerging artists by funding
individual artists or projects, by nurturing the
community of artists, and engaging the public in their
artists' work. They provide support for artists
working in visual art, film and video, performance,
and emerging fields.

*This presentation is free and open to working artists
who want to learn about the latest tools and resources
available for developing a career in the arts.

Seating limited to 60.

Please RSVP to PICA 503.242.1419.

Workshops, Classes, Lectures
Those seeking to actively learn more about dance,
music and performance are in luck: TBA artists from
around the globe will be offering workshops, classes
and lectures. Some classes require more advanced
knowledge while some require only interest. In other
words, yes, there is something for you.

Free to TBA Pass holders, $10 PICA members, $15
general
Class limit: 25
Pre-registration is strongly advised
call PICA 503.242.1419

Dance Workshop: Delicious Movement
Eiko and Koma
Saturday, September 13
All skills, all levels; Dress to move.
Conduit: 9:30 - 11:30 am

Vocal Workshop: Techniques for Actors, Dancers and
Musicians:
Shelley Hirsch
Sunday, September 14
All skills, all levels; Dress to move.
Conduit: 2 - 4 pm

Dance Workshop: Repertory:
Donna Uchizono
Monday, September 15 Intermediate/Advanced; Dress to
move. Water St. Studio: 9:30 - 11:30 am

Dance Workshop: Repertory and Composition:
Manuel Pelmus
Tuesday, September 16
All skills, all levels; Dress to move.
Water St. Studio: 9:30 - 11:30 am

Dance Workshop: Composition:
Tere O'Connor
Tuesday, September 16
All skills, all levels; Dress to move.
Water St. Studio: 2 - 4 pm

Dance Workshop: Performance and Improvisation:
Ros Warby
Friday, September 19
Intermediate/Advanced; Dress to move.
Water St. Studio: 9:30 - 11:30 am

Dance Workshop: Movement for Young People:
Quasar
Saturday, September 20
All skills, grades 1-6; Dress to move.
BodyVox: 9:30 - 11:30 am

Dance Workshop: Improvisation and Composition:
Felix Ruckert
Saturday, September 20
Intermediate/Advanced; Dress to move.
Water St. Studio: 9:30 - 11:30 am

Music Lecture and Demonstration: Collaboration:
Vijay Iyer and Mike Ladd
Wednesday, September 17
PICA Resource Room: 9:30 - 11:30 am
Seating Capacity: 60

Music Workshop:
Improvisation:
Daniel B. Roumain
Thursday, September 18
All skills, all levels; Bring your instrument.
Water St. Studio: 9:30 - 11:30 am

Dance Workshop: Performance and Improvisation:
Ros Warby
Friday, September 19
Intermediate/Advanced; Dress to move.
Water St. Studio: 9:30 - 11:30 am

Dance Workshop: Movement for Young People:
Quasar
Saturday, September 20
All skills, grades 1-6; Dress to move.
BodyVox: 9:30 - 11:30 am

Dance Workshop: Improvisation and Composition:
Felix Ruckert
Saturday, September 20
Intermediate/Advanced; Dress to move.
Water St. Studio: 9:30 - 11:30 am

Miranda and Yasuko
Performance Lecture and Demonstration: Shuffle
Yasuko Yokoshi
Wednesday, September 17
BodyVox: 8 - 9 pm
Seating Capacity: 100

Born in Hiroshima, Japan, and living in New York,
Yasuko Yokoshi blends classical training (ballet,
martial arts, Kabuki theatre) with contemporary forms
and ideas to create hybrid performance works. In this
informal presentation, Yokoshi talks about the process
of making Shuffle, her recent performance which blends
the oldest of the Japanese creation myths (the Kojiki)
with stories of her own family members who drowned at
sea. She also shares her experiments with gender
character studies, and performs a short Kabuki dance.

Performance Lecture and Demonstration
How I Learned to Draw
Miranda July
Tuesday, September 16
Newmark Theatre, PCPA: 9 - 10 pm
Seating Capacity: 800

Portland's own Miranda July shares a sampling of
current and revisited works in performance and film,
including excerpts from her work-in-progress, How I
Learned to Draw, a preview of new videos created for
her solo exhibition, Astonisher (opening in the U.K.
in October), and a sneak peak into the content of her
upcoming feature film, Me and You and Everyone We
Know. July promises: "This is a Portland special,
local girl tells all."

Hall Chats
So, you're a creative professional with a serious
artistic appetite. Hall Passes provide you with a TBA
Festival Pass plus admission to a series of Hall
Chats, a lecture by Aaron Betsky and other events
created to bridge the artistic/professional divide
(and maybe reveal no divide at all).

Hall Passes are $200 for individuals and $125 each for
groups of six or more. Individual tickets to Hall Pass
events may be purchased if space is available, and
will be sold only at the door starting one hour before
each program begins.

Prices are $15 general, $10 for TBA Pass holders and
PICA members.

To order your Hall Pass, please contact PICA at
503.242.1419.

Opening Reception for Hall Pass Participants
Design Within Reach, Tuesday, September 16, 6 - 8 pm

Hall Pass Events

Hall Chat: The City as Beacon: New Civics & the
Creative Economy
Wieden + Kennedy Atrium, Monday, September 15, 12 pm

PICA Executive & Artistic Director Kristy Edmunds
moderates a panel including Carol Coletta (Smartcity),
Joe Cortight (Impressa Consulting), Dan Wieden,
(CEO/Founder, Wieden + Kennedy) and Mayor Vera Katz,
(City of Portland).

Hall Chat: New Media + Digital Design
Wieden + Kennedy Atrium, Tuesday, September 16, 12 pm

Moderator Esther Robinson (Creative Capital) leads
this discussion with Tim Larson (Downstream), Jelly
Helm (Wieden + Kennedy) and festival artists Coco
Fusco and Bill Shannon. Opening Reception for Hall
Pass Participants
Design Within Reach, Tuesday, September 16, 6 - 8 pm

Hall Chat: The Body in the Built Environment
Wieden + Kennedy Atrium, Thursday, September 18, 12 pm

Moderator Randy Gragg, (Architecture Critic, The
Oregonian) leads a panel discussion with
choreographers Tere O'Connor and Linda Austin, Clive
Knights, (Professor of Architecture at PSU) and Aaron
Betsky (Director of Netherlands Architecture
Institute).

Aaron Betsky Lecture: Slow Space
PCPA Newmark Theatre, Thursday, September 18, 6 pm

Aaron Betsky, Director of Netherlands Architecture
Institute, speaks about time-based art and its
relationship to architecture and design. Sponsored by
Portland State University School of Architecture.

MACHINEWORKS
Each night of the TBA festival, as audiences emerge
squinty-eyed yet inspired from venues around the city,
Machineworks will open its doors.

Offering snacks, desserts, beer, wine and a different
specialty cocktail each night, TBA's late-night hot
spot will satisfy every appetite. And with a dance
floor, DJ's and different performers every night,
Machineworks allows you to sit, watch, talk and shake
it until you drop (or until we close it down in the
wee hours of the morning).

Every day the space gets a makeover, so you can go to
a new Machineworks each night with the same results:
fun, relaxation, debauchery-its up to you.

Those of you who have been missing the PICA's
(in)famous Dada Ball are in luck because Machineworks
is a little nightly Dada Ball.

The space, located at 1115 15th Avenue, will be ready.
Are you?

Nightly cabaret acts include, hip hop poet Tracie
Morris, avant-garde composer John Moran, a conceptual
electronic pop opera by The Badger King and Reed
Harkness, Film and Music by Owl vs. Lemming, 10 Tiny
Dances, Folk - heroine Sarah Dougher, local heros
House of C*nt, and a TBA Talent Show MC'd by Lawrence
Goldhuber and Amber Martin.

MACHINEWORKS
1115 15th Avenue

Open Nightly from 9pm - 2am
Sunday, September 14-Friday, September 19
Free to PICA Members and TBA Pass Holders
$10 General
21+ only

Order Tickets & Passes
Pre-Registration is strongly advised as space is
limited.
By Phone: Call PICA 503.242.1419

In Person: Visit the PCPA Box Office, 10am - 5pm,
Monday - Saturday
1111 SW Broadway, Portland, OR

Mail: visit our website www.pica.org to print out an
order form.
PICA's address is 219 NW 12th Ave.

Methods of Payment:
Visa / Mastercard
Check (please make checks payable to PICA when
ordering by mail.)
Cash (in person only)

Venues
Conduit
918 SW Yamhill, 4th floor

BodyVox
1300 NW Northrup, 2nd floor

Water St.
1010 SE Water Avenue, 2nd floor

PICA Resource Room
219 NW 12th Ave, 2nd floor

email: pica@pica.org
voice: 503.242.1419
web: http://www.pica.org

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DISCUSSION

Amnesty Int. flash movie


Flash infomercial for AI cause...
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Amnesty International recently released the
organization's newest Internet flash movie asking
activists around the world to take action to abolish
the Estado Mayor Presidencial in Guatemala. The EMP,
Estado Mayor Presidencial or Presidential General
Staff has been implicated in numerous abuses including
the assault, harassment and extrajudicial execution of
human rights defenders. Guatemalan President Alfonso
Portillo has repeatedly announced his intention to
abolish the EMP, yet failed to keep his own deadlines
for its abolition.

Watch the flash movie, send it to your friends, and
help stop the death squads in Guatemala!

To watch the movie, click on this link or paste it
into your Web browser:
http://takeaction.amnestyusa.org/ctt.asp?uI3849&le90

Thank you for your interest in supporting Amnesty
International and the work we do.

Sincerely,

Rosa Del Angel
Human Rights Action Center
Amnesty International USA

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DISCUSSION

Re: LA?


hi Lee,
right next to the museum of jurrasic technology is the center for land use interpretation www.clui.org(both in culver city).
there's also a great brazilian BBQ just down the road...
ryan

DISCUSSION

FWD: ABC No Rio Announcement


for those in NYC area
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ABC No Rio Announces
Lower East Side Biography Project
Creative Response and Resistance
COMA
Saul Newman - "The Politics of Postanarchism"
Autonomadic Bookmobile Medicine Show
Our Unorganicized Reading
HC/Punk Matinee
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Lower East Side Biography Project

As part of the Howl Festival the Lower East Side
Biography Project will
have two screenings of their works at DV Dojo (310
Bowery--across from
CBGBs).

For more info about the Lower East Side Biography
Project:
http://www.abcnorio.org/affiliated/les_bios.html

WEDNESDAY AUGUST 20 at 8:00pm $5
Taylor Mead Biography 25 min
Disinherited from his wealthy and powerful Michigan
banking family
before moving to New York and becoming an actor, this
Lower East Side
icon was sought out by Andy Warhol and became part of
the inner circle
at the Factory and a regular cast member in Warhol's
films. Unabashedly
frank and forever engaging with his "who cares if they
sue me?"
attitude, Taylor Mead has seen and done it alland
isn't afraid to talk
about it and name names.

Edgar Oliver - Performance Monologue 8 min
"Mother was a Hit-Run Driver"
Goodie Magazine Benefit at TRUE, New York, NY

Judith Malina Biography work in progress 20 min
Poet, actress, director, leader of the anarchist
non-violent revolution
and advocate against the death penalty, Judith founded
The Living
Theater with Julian Beck in 1947 as an imaginative
alternative to the
commercial theater. The Living Theaters performances
include rituals of
love, affirmation, nonviolence, and communality drawn
from various
mystical and contemporary sources. This biography
includes excerpts
from
her and partner/director Hanon Reznikovs most recent
play, Resistance.

Penny Arcade - Theater Performance 8 min
excerpt from "New York Values"
PS122 New York, NY

Jonas Mekas Biography 25 min
Curator, writer and filmmaker Jonas Mekas is the
godfather of American
avant-garde filmmaking, or the New American Cinema, as
he dubbed it in
the late 1950s. The founder of Anthology Film
Archives, the Filmmakers'
Cooperative and Film Culture magazine, Mekas helped
shape the public
image of avant-garde filmmaking in America.

Church of Betty - Music Video 5 min
"I Smoke You Jack" (Smith)
Angel Orensanz Foundation, New York, NY

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MONDAY AUGUST 25 at 8:00pm $5
Marty Matz - Poetry Performance 3 min
"I Know Where Rainbows Go to Die"
CD Recording Session, New York, NY

Carmen Pabon Biography 25 min
Dubbed by her neighbors, "The Mother Theresa of
Loisaida," Carmen came
to the Lower East Side from Puerto Rico over 50 years
ago to raise her
family. She is a poet, a political activist, and
one-woman Red Cross
who
single-handedly cares for the indigent, forlorn,
unwanted and
forgotten.
"No matter the race or the color, I help everybody."
She fought the
real
estate interests who tried to take away the community
garden she
created
from an abandoned empty lot, was involved with the
people's community
center Charas el Bohio from its inception, and at
81-years old is as
feisty as ever.

Jack Waters Biography work in progress 20 min
Born in Philadelphia, Jack came to Julliard on a dance
scholarship (in
what he calls their version of affirmative action) and
ended up on the
Lower East Side. Along with his partner and
collaborator, Peter Cramer,
he has created a "body" of internationally recognized
work in film,
video and often incorporating erotic imagery and
choreography as
political and social commentary. They ran (and lived
in the basement
of)
the renegade art space ABC No Rio in the mid-80's. He
is a journalist,
activist, and, as a participant in the Estate Project
for Artists with
AIDS, he talks about the importance for him of
disclosing his HIV
status.

If You Were Mayor of New York? 5 min
featuring Sarah Schulman, Jonas Mekas, Steve Cannon,
Jeannie Chan and
others

Sarah Schulman Biography 25 min
Born in the heart of Greenwich Village,
author/playwright Sarah
Schulman
has been involved in a number of strategic social
movements, including
abortion rights, as an early AIDS activist before the
inception and her
subsequent involvement with ACT UP (she has written
four books about
AIDS), and the Lesbian Avengers. She is the co-founder
of the Lesbian
and Gay Experimental Film (now MIX) Festival and is a
prodigious
contributor to the mainstream and progressive press. A
Lower East
Sider,
the neighborhood forms a backdrop to her writing.

Jayne County - Music Video 5 min
FUCK OFF
(If You Don't Want to Fuck Me Baby, Fuck Off).
Joes Pub, New York, NY

THESE SCREENINGS ARE AT DV DOJO (310 BOWERY--ACROSS
FROM CBGBS).
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Creative Response and Resistance
FRIDAY AUGUST 22 from 2:00 to 5:00pm
$3 - $5

Won't Be Their Cannon Fodder:
A workshop on youth resistence to
military recruitment by Not In Our Name

The session will explore how and why the military has
stepped up their
recruitment of youth for their war on the world since
9/11 and how and
why
youth are saying no to joining the military, are
getting recruiters out
of
their schools, and are resisting the war on the world!
Ending the war
on the
world starts with a resistance throughout the US and
by youth resisting
the
military, by stopping war where it begins!

Creative Response and Resistance events at ABC No Rio
conclude this
week,
however events will continue at Bluestockings and
other venues. For
more
information: http://www.creativeresistance.us .
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COMA
SUNDAY AUGUST 24 at 8:00pm - $3

DONKEY (from San Diego)
Hans Fjellestad - keyboards/electronics
Damon Holzborn - guitar/electronics

Followed by solos/duets/ensemble
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Saul Newman - "The Politics of Postanarchism"
TUESDAY AUGUST 26 at 7:00pm - $3-$5 (sliding scale)

Political theorist Saul Newman will speak on the
theoretical background
and
political philosophy of postanarchism. This will be
the first
presentation
in a new anarchist theory lecture series which will be
held this year.

Postanarchism is a newly emerging combination of the
philosophical
concerns
of poststructuralist theories with the politics of
left-wing anarchism.
Poststructuralism, which Newman associates with
Foucault, Lacan,
Deleuze &
Guattari and Derrida, emphasizes the elements of flow
and change in
many
categories which we assume to be stable, such as
gender and identity.
It
also questions belief systems which claim to have the
true and complete
account of how the world works, such as Marxism.

Anarchism has received increasing attention because of
its influence on
the
anti-globalization movement and in progressive
politics in general.
However, it also has a long history of influence here
in New York City
on
the counter-cultural and squatting movement, on labor
organizing, and
most
recently on the demonstrations against the World
Economic Forum in
February
2002.

Newman is the author of 'From Bakunin to Lacan:
Anti-Authoritarianism
and
the Dislocation of Power' (Lexington Books, 2001) and
will appear in
the
upcoming
Autonomedia Press anthology 'I Am Not a Man - I Am
Dynamite: Nietzsche
and
Anarchism.'

Sponsored by the freeCUNY collective, and the Center
for Culture, Work
and
Technology (at the CUNY Graduate Center).
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Autonomadic Bookmobile Medicine Show
FRIDAY AUGUST 29 at 8:00pm - $5

THE SHOW
Drs. Henceforth Flummox and Okra P. Dingle frequently
perform a full
sideshow. They have performed at clubs, colleges,
collective spaces,
and
festivals, sometimes with the Bookmobile open to all
the world, and
sometimes far away from its good holdings.

The show includes classic sideshow feats including
glass walking, knife
throwing, fire eating, the human pincushion, and the
bed of nails, with
the
musical accompaniment of the accordian and the musical
saw.

THE BOOKS
Although the Autonomadic Bookmobile certainly features
Autonomedia
books,
we also carry a wide variety of other independent
publications. Our
2001
best-sellers included squatter comics, situationist
classics, books on
sideshow history, and DIY bike-repair zines.

It is an infoshop on wheels, modeled on the storefront
infoshops which
a
handful of American cities have been able to sustain.

THE VEHICLE
"Twenty-foot box truck" hardly does the Bookmobile
justice. It's
designed
to be impossible to overlook: carnival colors explode
in painter David
Gassaway's intricate sideshow murals; accordian music
spills out; a man
and
a woman in sideshow finery stand beside it pounding
nails into their
noses.

Passersby are invited to "step right up" into the back
of the vehicle
and
browse the built-in shelves, or peruse contact
listings of groups
working
on independent political and cultural projects, or
simply gawk at some
curiosities picked up along the road.
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EVERY SUNDAY at 3:00pm
Our Unorganicized Reading
an open poetry reading
No sign-up. No time limit. No b.s.
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HC/Punk Matinee - $6

SATURDAY AUGUST 23 at 3:00pm
-robot has werewolf hand (thrashy dual vocals- a must
see!, from
upstate)
-they live (members of rhwh, hc that will grip your
insides)
-give up (heavy crust, reminiscent of dystopia, only
faster, from
upstate)
+1 tba

SATURDAY AUGUST 30 at 3:00pm
-john brown's army (fast thrashy hc with members of
the oath,
monster x,
and devoid of faith)
-anodyne (nyc noise-core)
-HORSE the band (up-beat moshy nintendo-core from the
southwest)
+The Scarlet Letter (feminist/political hc from nj)
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ABC No Rio
156 Rivington Street
New York, NY 10002
(212) 254-3697

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ABC No Rio: creative resistence


ABC No Rio Announces
Creative Response and Resistance
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ABC No Rio is proud to be one of several hosts this
August for the
Creative
Response and Resistance Activist Summer Camp (
http://www.creativeresistance.us ).

Summer Camp is a group of artists, thinkers,
activists, citizens and
friends who wish to celebrate and strengthen, through
performance and
art,
music, discussions and theater, the momentum of the
anti-war movement.

Summer Camp is a gathering of cultural, social, and
artistic
communities
seeking to expand our networks, challenge the dominant
assumptions,
strengthen our activities, and work towards defending
our rights.

Creative responses, satiric guerrilla theater, info
warfare, music,
workshops, video screenings, performances, debates,
talks, and fashion
coalesce into a month long laboratory and creative
resistance camp to
help
kick off a new season of Resistance and make a
response to unjust and
amoral activities.

Events at ABC No Rio follow. For a complete listing of
all events
please go
to http://www.creativeresistance.us .
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STENCIL WORKSHOP AND PRESENTATION WITH JOSH MACPHEE
Friday August 8
noon to 6:00pm
$3-$5

Josh MacPhee is a Chicago-based artist and activist.
For the past
decade
Josh has focused on reaching broad audiences through
many forms of
street
art, including spray paint stencils and wheat pasted
posters.

He has also been extremely interested in documenting
all forms of
public
expression by others, from traditional graffiti to
altered stop signs
to
marker scrawls on corporate advertisements. With this
documentation
Josh
has put together small and inexpensive artist
books/zines and is
currently
working on a book about spray paint stencils called
'Stencil Pirates'
that
will be published in March 2004 by Soft Skull Press.
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PINK BLOQUE UNJUSTIFIED TOUR 2003:
END THE OCCUPATION AT HOME AND ABROAD!
Friday August 8
8:00pm-10:00pm
$3-$5

Workshop: Kick, Ball, Change the World:
Our dance workshop is fully interactive; the Pink
Bloque brings new
moves
to the movement. In Kick, Ball, Change the World we
discuss dance as an
effective protest tactic for creating a spectacle.
Also addressed is
the
importance of using pop culture as a tool to reach
audiences unfamiliar
with activism. This workshop is geared towards
audiences interested in
creating a new look for protest culture in their
region. We will
spend
time in the indoor space dancing and dialoguing, and
one hour will be
spent
on the streets bringing radical dance moves to your
community.

The Pink Bloque is a Chicago-based radical feminist
dance troupe
dedicated
to challenging the white supremicist, capitalist,
patriarchy one street
dance party at a time. The Pink Bloque is multi-issue
group, but this
summer our focus will be on ending occupation at home
(meaning
government
encroachment on civil liberties and corporate control
of public and
private
spheres) and abroad (the US occupation of Iraq, and
US Imperialism
throughout the world).
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PRESENTATION WITH PAUL CHAN
Monday August 11
8:00pm-10:00pm
$3-$5

Paul Chan discusses the poster campaign he launched
after returning
from
Iraq as part of the Iraq Peace Team.

Paul Chan is a 2003 Rockefeller Foundation new media
arts fellow.
Chan's
video work is distributed by Video Data Bank (
http://www.vdb.org ).
His
new media work can be seen at National Philistine
( http://www.nationalphilistine.com ).
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PRESENTATION BY SURVEILLANCE CAMERA PLAYERS
Tuesday August 12
7:00pm-9:00pm
$3-$5

Founded in New York in November 1996, the Surveillance
Camera Players
(SCP)
manifest their opposition to the use of surveillance
cameras in public
places by performing specially designed satirical
plays directly in
front
of these cameras. Since Thanksgiving 2000, the SCP has
also been
mapping
out and giving weekly walking tours of highly
surveilled neighborhoods
in
New York City. There are now SCP groups in Arizona,
Italy, Lithuania
and
Sweden. Bill Brown, the SCP's co-founder and current
director, will
show
videotapes and talk about the group's performances,
history and
relationship to other "street theater" groups.
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WW3 ARTS IN ACTION: SETH TOBOCMAN AND CHRISTOPHER
CARDINALE
Wednesday August 13
6:00pm-8:00pm
$3-$5

In 2002 Artists from the magazine World War 3
Illustrated and others
formed
an arts collective for the purpose of providing
visuals to the peace
protests here in New York. This slide show documents
that work.
Following
the slide show will be a break-off group which will
focus on idea
development for the WW3 banner and street art workshop
on August 15th.
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PERFORMANCE: THE MISSILE DICK CHICKS
Wednesday August 13
8:00pm-10:00pm
$3-$5

The Missile Dick Chicks are a posse of pissed-off
housewives from
Crawford,
Texas, the home of our beloved President George Walker
Bush. Usually we
prefer to leave the talking to our husbands, but
recent events have
conspired to drag us away from our martinis and
over-the-counter
pharmaceuticals and into the streets.

The dim-witted ramblings and demonstrations of the
anti-authoritarian
rabble that have infected our country of late make our
blood boil. The
sight of these smelly, smarmy marchers smirkingly
besmirching our
smiling
President is too much to bear. The biggest questions
these riff-raff
face
day-to-day are which Starbucks to vandalize and where
to score their
next
bong hit. And these ne'er-do-wells dare to second
guess our
Commander-in-Chief? For shame!
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PRESENTATION: MORE GARDENS THEATER AND PUPPETRY
ACTIONS
LISA AND ARESH OF MORE GARDENS
Thursday August 14
7:00pm-9:000pm
$3-$5

The community gardens sprouted up in New York City's
working class
neighborhoods, mostly resided by people of color. The
community gardens
are
a testimony to a day by day revolution started by
placing seeds of
hope in deliberately neglected neighborhoods. The
amazing
transformation
from toxic earth to a green oasis. The slide show
hints on proactive
approaches put to play in the last 5 years to defend,
preserve, and
create
more of this flourishing revolution.
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BANNER PAINTING AND PROP MAKING
Friday August 15
noon

For WW3 street actions; guided by Seth Tobacman and
Christopher
Cardinale.
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SLIDE LECTURE WITH SETH TOBOCMAN:
3 TACTICS FROM FRANSISCO GOYA
Friday August 15
7:00pm-9:00pm
$3-$5

This slide lecture deals with three aproaches to
political art found in
the
work of the great spanish painter Goya and still used
by cartoonists
artists and activists today.
1.Detournement
2.Magical Animals
3.Social realism

Seth Tobocman became politically active in the late
1970s early 1980s
in
response to the Iran Hostage crisis and the rise of
Ronald Reagan. He
has
been drawing comics all his life. In 1979 he founded
the radical
comicbook
World War 3 Illustrated with Peter Kuper. In the 1980s
and 90s he was
involved with the squatters movement in New York.
Today he works with
the
anti-war movement, the anti-globalization movement and
with activists
in
Palestine and Israel. He has three books in Print:
'You Don't Have To
Fuck
People Over To Survive,' 'War in the Neighborhood,'
and 'Portraits of
Israelis and Palestinians.' His cartoons have been
used as posters,
flyers,
banners, murals and tattoos by radical folks all over
the world.
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Creative Response and Resistance Summer Camp is
sponsored by Voices in
the
Wilderness
( http://www.vitw.org ).

For registration information and a complete schedule
of all events
please
go to http://www.creativeresistance.us .
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ABC No Rio
156 Rivington Street
New York, NY 10002
(212) 254-3697

ABC No Rio: http://www.abcnorio.org
InterActivist Network: http://www.interactivist.net
InterActivist INFO EXCHANGE:
http://slash.interactivist.net
SUPPORT ABC No Rio: http://www.abcnorio.org/support/support.html

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