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<nettime-ann> Taugshow #12 @ Chaos Communication Camp
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monochrom presents:
++TAUGSHOW #12++
Friday, August 10, 2007 / 9:30 PM @ FOO, Chaos Communication Camp, Finowurt
http://www.monochrom.at/taugshow/taugshow12.htm
The flat hierarchies of talk shows are about as subversive as NYC
Democrats smoking dope. But count us out! We won't produce a talk
show. Nope. We produce a TAUGSHOW! Which means: we dig it. Our guests
are geeks, heretics, and other coevals. A joyful bucket full of good
clean fanaticism, crisis, language, culture, self-content, identity,
utopia, mania and despair, condensed into the well known cultural
technique of a prime time TV show.
[taugen; Viennese slang: to dig/love/adore something]
Host: Johannes Grenzfurthner
Content Manager: Michael Zeltner (replacing Roland Gratzer)
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Thanks to the wonderful folks of the CCC and the Metalab for helping us...
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/// RICH GIBSON ON MAPS AND REALITIES
Maps tell stories, and the stories they tell both reflect and create
reality. We live in a phenomenal Universe. What we see, smell, hear,
taste and touch is mediated by our senses. What we see are the
records of photons hitting our eyes, and what we smell is the effect
of molecules of that material binding with receptors in our nasal
passages (think on that as you visit the porta potty). Because we
live in a phenomenal universe in which our experience of
reality is mediated by our senses the maps that we create to
represent reality also create reality. Rich Gibson is interested in
the geospatial component of what people do. Everything we do, think
or experience we do, think or experience somewhere. But who cares
where you were when you added 'milk' to your grocery list? Consider
that our primary source on the lives of many people, including in
recent historical time, is their middens and outhouses. That is,
their garbage dumps and shit. The locative part of our history is at
least as important as our shit! And if handled well we can learn from
where we have been.
Rich Gibson appears to be a mechanism for turning sugar and alcohol
into energy and ideas. He lives in Sebastopol California where he
writes code and words, and tries to understand and perhaps change the
ways he and the world interact. He is the co-author of "Mapping
Hacks" and "Google Maps Hacks". He works with Meadan.org. We care
about what is close to us, and Meadan is working to bring the world
close to all of us.
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/// B9PUNK ON PIRATES AND RADIOS
Pirate Radio is not only possible in the US, but easy, affordable,
low-risk, and a useful important medium. KBFR (K-Boulder Free Radio)
was a enormously successful and long-lived (5 years on the air)
station in Colorado, which was made more successful and long-lived
with the involvement of hackers. In the end, we had 40 Djs, a rented
space, benefit concerts and a cd of local music we recorded at our
studio, thousands of listeners, and an unforgettable impact on the
community. Together we confronted, and have lots of funny stories to
tell about, the many interesting questions involved in running a free
station, like pleasing the community, advertisers, free speech at
large, "real" radio competition, and of course those evil bastards the FCC.
B9punk is basically a "hacker enabler," meaning that she has had a
hand in setting up projects like making a new 2600 meeting, starting
a pseudo-hackerspace in New York (the Hacker Halfway House),
designing and coordinating the HOPE conference, and most recently
Hackers on a Plane. Her most interesting and favorite adventure in
this line of work so far,
was being involved with a pirate radio station in the US. She
currently lives in New York City, but has been spending a lot of time
in Europe lately in an effort to pick up some class and avoid being a
stereotype.
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/// PHILLIP STEARNS: "I <3 COMPUTER MUSIC TOO!"
Phillip Stearns is a Los Angeles based sound and visual artist,
composer and recent graduate of the California Institute of the Arts
music composition department. His most recent work is centered around
the notion of the circuit as a site for expression through
subversion. His projects are personal inquiries into electronic
technologies and their role in shaping our notions of community,
space, isolation and interconnectedness. The tools of his practice
include hacked and custom designed electronic hardware, misused audio
hardware, compromised and abused commercial software, and recently antiquated
technologies.
"I <3 Computer Music Too!" goes right to the core of electronic
media: The Hardware. Rather than engage with the tradition of
software programming to generate sound and image, custom designed
analog/digital circuitry is used to hack, augment and transform the
electronic signals flying around the motherboard of a PC computer
into an abstract audio/visual mind-warp. The performance is
improvised and deals with negotiations between the performer and
equipment in the creation of a real-time media based performance
work. Instead of creating a system which converts from one media to
another, sound to audio or visa versa, the hardware in "I <3 Computer
Music Too!" treats all signals equally. All electronic signals are
analog and are without meaning until they are "formatted" to suit a
particular display or output device. Within the piece, this
formatting is done as directly is possible with the goal of minimal
translation.
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/// monochrom regulars:
JAKE APPELBAUM
Jake Appelbaum will talk about Flickr, Yahoo!, unintended
consequences of censorship, and publishing on the net as an artist.
Jacob Appelbaum is the monochrom Ambassador. He's currently living in
San Francisco.
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/// Showband:
MONOCHROM ALLSTAR BAND featuring Michael Zeltner
An eternity of whetstones per kilo-newton!
Enjoy!
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