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Carnaval 1.0 - Re:combo_sw
"h.d.mabuse" <mabuse@manguebit.org.br>
RAWA 9/11 Statement
"Sandy Mathers" <sandy@pressbar.freeserve.co.uk>
New Anti-War Song: Stephan Smith, Pete Seeger, Dean Ween, Mary Harris
Ken Jordan <ken@kenjordan.tv>
genetic generative psychogeography
Wilfried Hou Je Bek <wilfriedhoujebek@yahoo.com>
Carnivore is sorry
carnivore@rhizome.org
CTheory Multimedia
Tracey Benson <tracey.benson@anu.edu.au>
Re:combo - Chinese Dragon
"h.d.mabuse" <mabuse@manguebit.org.br>
MIR Campaign: Opportunity for Art or Science Projects in Variable Gravity
Anne Nigten <ANne@v2.nl>
shared process
alex@slab.org
Aar Paar 2 - a public art exchange project between India and Pakistan
"shilpa" <shilpagupta@hotmail.com>
urbandrift newsletter
Urban Drift <info@urbandrift.org>
Carnegie Mellon University Electronic Time Based Art openings
Pamela Jennings <pamelaj@cs.cmu.edu>
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Date: Tue, 10 Sep 2002 10:40:04 -0300
From: "h.d.mabuse" <mabuse@manguebit.org.br>
Subject: Carnaval 1.0 - Re:combo_sw
Carnaval 1.0
:::: The *Carnaval 1.0* is a project inspired by the chaos that takes the
streets of Recife every February/early March. Unlike other carnivals in
Brazil, where a single musical style prevails, this big party turns Recife
into a Temporary Autonomous Zone, an awesome mix of people, colors, rythms
and noises.
:::: The goal of this screen-saver is to transfer this feeling to the
digital realm.
:::: The user can select images and sounds, creating his own private
carnival, which doesn't have to be confuse, but gets even better this way.
:::: All pictures used on this project can be found on the site
http://www.hipopota.mus.br
The user is free to modify this screen-saver, whether using or not its
contents, provided full credit is given to Re:combo, and LPH licensing
(www.hipopota.mus.br/lph) is respected.
Staff:
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Images: Haidée Lima
Sound: h.d.mabuse
Code: Rodrigo Cruz, h.d.mabuse e Haidée Lima
:::: go to the site to download the screen-saver
http://recombo.art.br
:::: download the source:
http://www.sourceforge.net/projects/recombo
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Date: Thu, 12 Sep 2002 18:11:01 +0100
From: "Sandy Mathers" <sandy@pressbar.freeserve.co.uk>
Subject: RAWA 9/11 Statement
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The Revolutionary Association of the Women of Afghanistan (RAWA) have
been the most steadfast and effective organization seeking justice
within Afghanistan for over a decade. Their statement on the anniversary
of 9/11 should, by all rights be forefront in the mainstream
media...as will be evident upon reading it...but isn't, of course.
RAWA Statement on the anniversary of the September 11 tragedy
Fundamentalism is the Enemy of All Civilized Humanity
RAWA joins with the rest of the civilized world in remembering the
innocent lives lost on September 11th, as well as all those others lost
to terrorism and oppression throughout the world. It is with great
sadness that RAWA sees other people experiencing the pain that the
women, children and men of Afghanistan have long suffered at the hands
of fundamentalist terrorists.
For ten long years the people of Afghanistan -Afghan women in
particular- have been crushed and brutalized, first under the chains and
atrocities of the "Northern Alliance" fundamentalists, then under those
of the Taliban. During all this period, the governments of the Western
powers were bent on finding ways to "work with" these criminals. These
Western governments did not lose much sleep over the daily grind of
abject misery our people were enduring under the domination of these
terrorist bands. To them it did not matter so very much that human
rights and democratic principles were being trampled on a daily basis in
an inconceivable manner. What was important was to "work with" the
religio-fascists to have Central Asian oil pipelines extended to
accessible ports of shipment.
Immediately after the September 11 tragedy American military might moved
into action to punish its erstwhile hirelings. A captive, bleeding,
devastated, hungry, pauperized, drought-stricken and ill-starred
Afghanistan was bombed into oblivion by the most advanced and
sophisticated weaponry ever created in human history. Innocent lives,
many more than those who lost their lives in the September 11 atrocity,
were taken. Even joyous wedding gatherings were not spared. The Taliban
regime and its al-Qaeda support were toppled without any significant
dent in their human combat resources. What was not done away with was
the sinister shadow of terrorist threat over the whole world and its
alter ego, fundamentalist terrorism.
Neither opium cultivation nor warlordism have been eradicated in
Afghanistan. There is neither peace nor stability in this tormented
country, nor has there been any relief from the scourges of extreme
pauperization, prostitution, and wanton plunder. Women feel much more
insecure than in the past. The bitter fact that even the personal
security of the President of the country cannot be maintained without
recourse to foreign bodyguards and the recent terrorist acts in our
country speak eloquent volumes about the chaotic and terrorist-ridden
situation of the country. Why is it so? Why has the thunderous uproar in
the aftermath of September 11 resulted in nothing? For the following
reasons which RAWA has reiterated time and again:
1. For the people of Afghanistan, it is "out of the frying pan, into the
fire". Instead of the Taliban terrorists, Jihadi terrorists of the
"Northern Alliance" have been installed in power. The Jihadi and the
Taliban fundamentalists share a common ideology; their differences are
the usual differences between brethren-in-creed.
2. For the past more or less twenty years, Osama bin Laden has had
Afghan fundamentalists on his payroll and has been paying their leaders
considerable stipends. He and Mullah Omar, together with a band of
followers equipped with the necessary communication resources, can live
for many years under the protection of different fundamentalist bands in
Afghanistan and Pakistan and continue to plot against the people of
Afghanistan and the rest of humankind.
3. The Taliban and the al-Qaeda phenomena, as manifestations of an
ideology and a political culture infesting an Islamic country, could
only have been uprooted by a popular insurrection and the strengthening
and coming to power of secular democratic forces. Such a purge cannot be
effected solely with the physical elimination of the likes of Osama and
Mullah Omar.
The "Northern Alliance" can never sincerely want the total elimination
of the Taliban and the al-Qaeda, as such elimination would mean the end
of the raison d'=EAtre of the backing and support extended to them by
foreign forces presently dominant in the country. This was the rationale
behind RAWA's slogan for the overthrow of the Taliban and al-Qaeda
through popular insurrection. Unfortunately, before such popular
insurrection could come about, the Taliban and al-Qaeda forfeited their
positions to the "brethren of the 'Northern Alliance'" without suffering
any crippling decimation.
With their second occupation of Kabul, the "Northern Alliance" thwarted
any hopes for a radical, meaningful change. They are themselves now the
source and root of insecurity, the disgraceful police atmosphere of the
Loya Jirga, rampant terrorism, gagging of democracy, atrocious
violations of human rights, mounting pauperization, prostitution and
corruption, the flourishing of poppy cultivation, failure of beginning
to reconstruct, and a host of further unlisted evils, too many to
enumerate.
Oppression and crimes against women are rife in different forms
throughout the country. RAWA has always maintained that the
fundamentalists' rabid hatred of women as equal human beings -be they
fundamentalists of the Jihadi brand or of the Taliban one- is not due
merely to their unhealthy upbringing or morbid mind frame, but emanates
from their religio-fascistic ideological world outlook. As long as such
an ideology exists, propped up by military forces available at its
disposal, neither crazed misogyny nor a myriad of shameful social evils
associated with it can be eradicated. This is not a problem that can be
dealt with by the creation of a "Ministry of Women's Affairs" nor by the
presence of a couple of token women in high government positions. To
hope for the attainment of freedom, democracy and equality within the
framework of a corrupt, religion-based, ethno-chauvinistic system is
either self-delusion or hypocrisy -or both.
We find no happiness in the fact that RAWA's predictions in regard to
the consequences of the re-domination of the "Northern Alliance" have
once again been borne out. Those who claimed that the "Northern
Alliance" were better than, and therefore preferable to, the Taliban
must wake up and apologise to our people for their noxious sermons. The
establishment of democracy and social justice can be possible only with
the overthrow of fundamentalist domination as a prime precondition. This
cannot be achieved without an organised and irreconcilable campaign of
the women masses against fundamentalism, its agents and apologists.
Some politically bankrupt entities who have no shame in grovelling to
the "Northern Alliance" in the hope of securing positions and feathering
their nests, label RAWA as "Maoist" and "radical" because of our
decisive and irreconcilable stances and viewpoints. But does the current
situation in the country prove the fallacy of RAWA's positions or do
they give a slap in the face to the ladies and gentleman with the
penchant for being colluding and mealy-mouthed? The assassinations of a
vice president and a cabinet minister and the ban on investigating these
murders, the discovery of mass graves, the banning of women singers and
artists and showing of dancing on TV, the censorship of the media,
arbitrary fatwas of kofr and apostasy against women, gang rapes of even
expatriate women working for international NGOs, the disgusting campaign
of making an idol out of Ahmad Shah Masoud, are these not enough to
bring home the realisation that indulgence and permissiveness towards
rabid dogs only serve to make them more ferocious?
RAWA's experience in fighting fundamentalism, particularly during the
past 10 years, motivates us to be all the more persistent in our
attempts to mobilise women even in the most remote corners of our
country. At the same time, we shall not desist from pursuing an
irreconcilable policy towards fundamentalism and standing in solidarity
with all pro-democracy forces. We staunchly believe that in addition to
causing the tragic deaths of over 3,000 innocent Americans and
non-Americans and the sorrow and bereavement of tens of thousands more,
the monstrous terrorist attack of September 11 showed the world what a
nefarious pestilence fundamentalism is; it showed the world the sort of
inferno the peoples of Afghanistan, Iran, Algeria, Sudan and other such
countries live in.
Fundamentalism is the mortal enemy of civilised humanity; to address it
demands the consolidated action of all freedom-loving nations of the
world. The present "world anti-terrorism coalition" has been debased by
innumerable ambiguities and impurities of purpose, motivation and
objectives. The contradictions between world powers will spell its doom.
Therefore, it behoves anti-fundamentalist individuals and organisations
working for social justice the world over to draw together without
hesitation to contain and ultimately stamp out, once and for all, the
vermin of fundamentalism, so that the tragedy of September 11 will never
be repeated, neither in America nor anywhere else.
RAWA takes pride in the fact that up till now we have been able to
establish contact with a considerable number of anti-terrorist
organisations on all five continents and enjoy their moral and material
support. However, for the purpose of waging a swifter and more
encompassing fight against terrorism, it is necessary for such
solidarity to be expanded and strengthened. In this connection we shake
the hands of all freedom-loving individuals and organisations.
We would like to avail ourselves of this opportunity to once again
extend our heartfelt condolences to all those who lost their loved ones
in the savage calamity of September 11, as well as to the friends and
families of those innocent compatriots -for all we know, anti-Taliban
and anti-"Northern Alliance"- who were blown to shreds by American
aerial bombardment. We sincerely hope that a vast number of those who
are bereaved and grieving for their loved ones will, sooner or later,
join the ranks of the legions mobilising against fundamentalist fascism
in their respective countries and on an international level.
No to Al-Qaeda, No to the Taliban, No to the "Northern Alliance"!
Long Live a Free, Democratic and Blossoming Afghanistan!
Victory in the Decisive War to the Very End of Afghan Women Against
Fundamentalism and for Democracy!
Long Live International Solidarity Against Fundamentalist Terrorism!
Revolutionary Association of the Women of Afghanistan (RAWA)
September 11, 2002
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Date: Fri, 13 Sep 2002 10:37:09 -0400
From: Ken Jordan <ken@kenjordan.tv>
Subject: New Anti-War Song: Stephan Smith, Pete Seeger, Dean Ween, Mary Harris
> This message is in MIME format. Since your mail reader does not understand
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In yesterday's New York Times, Neil Strauss writes about Stephan Smith's
song, "The Bell," as "one of the first major songs to directly address the
nation's stance toward Iraq." But he didn't mention that the song is being
released as a free MP3 download -- available from the singer's website.
The song and the music video (also on the site,
http://www.stephansmith.com) are worth checking out.
Ken
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FOLKSINGER STEPHAN SMITH RELEASES ANTI-WAR SONG "THE BELL"
JOINED BY PETE SEEGER, DEAN WEEN, AND MARY HARRIS
For Immediate Release, September, 2002
Contact: management@stephansmith.com
Contact: (212) 937-4646; http://www.stephansmith.com
"One of the first major songs to directly address the nation's stance toward
Iraq." - Neil Strauss, The New York Times, 9/12/02
While the administration argues for the invasion of Iraq, much of the
country remains unconvinced about the need for war. Stephan Smiths' new
song, "The Bell," gives powerful voice to a deeply felt anti-war sentiment.
Smith recorded the song with folk legend Pete Seeger, Dean Ween of the
popular rock band Ween, and hip-hop star Mary Harris. This recording is
being released to radio and free over the Internet to coincide with the
anniversary of 9/11, and can be heard at www.stephansmith.com. A music video
for the song, directed by Kurt St. Thomas, with rare footage of 9/11 and
recent peace demonstrations, is also being released. The video was produced
by Corporate Sucker Films and ESP Pictures, whose John Mayer video currently
tops the MTV and VH1 charts.
Smith wrote "The Bell" by updating a traditional folk tune, "The False
Knight," into a striking statement against military aggression. "When I
wrote this song, I wasn't thinking only about the United States today," said
Smith. "I was thinking about all wars that profit a few while being paid for
by the many, whether they start here or anywhere else. It's a universal
issue."
With "The Bell," Pete Seeger makes a rare return to the recording studio.
One of the major figures in American folk music, a colleague of Woody
Guthrie, Leadbelly, and the young Bob Dylan, Seeger received the Kennedy
Center Honors award for lifetime achievement in the arts from President
Clinton in 1994. "There's no one I respect more than Pete Seeger," said
Smith, "both for what he's done for music, and for his commitment to peace,
the environment, and justice. He's the role model for so many of us. When he
agreed to appear on 'The Bell,' I was stoked."
Smith recorded Seeger's recitation of the song's lyrics in a studio in
uptown Manhattan in early summer, then created an arrangement around
Seeger's vocals. "Mary was on tour with JOI, and was able to meet me at Ween
producer Andrew Weiss' house in south Jersey. We recorded the basic tracks
there. Then Deaner ripped the guitar solo a couple of months later."
Kurt St. Thomas' music video of "The Bell" features images that have rarely
made it to television since 9/11, such as footage of the peace vigils and
shrines that appeared throughout lower Manhattan in the weeks following the
terrorist attacks. It also includes evocative, as-yet-unseen black and white
film footage shot on the day of the attacks in lower Manhattan. In addition,
the video shows peace marches from around the world, including a
demonstration at the Washington Monument in April that attracted100,000
people, where Smith performed "The Bell" acapella to enthusiastic response.
"We did the video to help get these pictures out to the public, before the
memory of what really happened completely disappears, replaced by a lot of
big-budget warmongering hoo-ha," said Smith.
The song and the video of "The Bell" are available for free download at
Stephan Smiths' website, www.stephansmith.com. "It's important that people
hear voices ready to stand up for peace," Smith said. "That's why we're
releasing the song for free over the Web. We just want to get the message
out."
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About Stephan Smith: The Village Voice recently called Smith the "heir
apparent to Woody Guthrie." An Eagle Scout turned traveling troubadour,
Smith is at once a multi-talented singer and a dedicated political activist.
Called "an incredible songwriter" by Dave Matthews, Smith is a renowned folk
musician and performer, seeped in the old time tradition. His topical songs
and poetry have become local and national anthems to the activist community.
Among his recordings are the 1997 single "Ballad of Abner Louima," with
background vocals by Patti Smith, and his1999 debut album, Now's The Time
(Rounder/Universal). A new album is to be released this Fall. Among those
Smith has performed or recorded with are: Ween, Allen Ginsberg, Rufus
Wainwright, Victoria Williams, Steve Earle, John Zorn, Mark Ribot.
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Ken Jordan
ken@kenjordan.tv
212-741-6173
"Be as if." - Andrew Boyd
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Date: Mon, 16 Sep 2002 02:59:27 -0700 (PDT)
From: Wilfried Hou Je Bek <wilfriedhoujebek@yahoo.com>
Subject: genetic generative psychogeography
Let the algorithm plot it's own course
A Genetic Generative Psychogeographical survey of
Amsterdam's redeveloped artificial docklands
Sunday 22 September
14.00 hours
Oostelijke Handelskade
(In front of the bridge to Java Island)
Amsterdam
info@socialfiction.org
http://www.socialfiction.org
The redevelopment of Amsterdam's artificial harbour islands into a new
dense urban environment near the city centre is interesting from all
angles. Many ideas are compressed into a relative small area. Everything,
every minor detail, is stylistically designed to the maximum level; the
clear angles & the straight lines of the grid seems designed to look well
on air photographs. In fact: everything might well be designed to look
beautiful in a computerized 3D presentation.
A psychogeographical survey of the place uncovers that this area which is
designed to be exciting by means of planned diversity in reality shows
every sign of unplanned uniformity. Everything is copy-pasted from a
catalogue onto a holistically planned grid, like digital LEGO for adults.
Rarely this repeated usage of the same building is obvious to the casual
visitor. Camouflaged between different configurations of facades the same
constructions are however used over and over again. Perhaps slightly
modified in colour but hardly anything appears only once. There is one
street on Borneo Islands for which a dozen architects were invited to
deliver their best, most 'avant-garde', work. All these designs are built
next to each other & again a striking uniformity emerges: the same ideas
reappear over and over again: there are no contradictions, no conflicts.
Also noticeable is the faint echo of the inhabitants from the time this
area was a dead zone waiting for redevelopment. These islands used to be a
semi-autonomous part of the city inhabited by artists, squatters, techno
tribes, nomads & boat dwellers. Some of the artist, if they were
reasonable people, stayed. The rest had to go. Only the boat people were
allowed to keep their place on the quays. But only if their lifestyles
didn't interfere with the demands for silence of the new inhabitants.
Especially in relation with other contemporary large-scale building
projects, Leidsche Rijn for instance, the redevelopment of the eastern
harbour islands might well prove to be the site where most clear a whole
variety of half conscious ideas about city-planning, architecture,
political motivations & the good life become visible. This makes the area
a good place for a generative psychogeographical experiment.
more here: http://www.socialfiction.org/psychogeography/genetic.htm
=====
http://www.socialfiction.org
http://www.socialfiction.org/psychogeography
http://www.socialfiction.org/jungleaaa
http://www.socialfiction.org/planetword
when social fiction is outlawed only outlaws can have social fiction
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Date: Tue, 10 Sep 2002 13:57:06 +0200
From: carnivore@rhizome.org
Subject: Carnivore is sorry
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Date: Wed, 18 Sep 2002 14:40:58 +1000
From: Tracey Benson <tracey.benson@anu.edu.au>
Subject: CTheory Multimedia
PLEASE CIRCULATE
Cornell University will host an international art and theory workshop on
"Digital Terror," Sept. 20-21. It will be sponsored by The Ruth Goldsen
Lecture Series in conjunction with CTHEORY Multimedia, the Visual Studies
Program, and the Cornell Library.
The Workshop will discuss the broad spectrum of artistic responses to
digital terror, including work on surveillance, digital artwork addressing
the broad erosion of human rights via digital means and machineries, as
well as the counterpart of ethnic anxieties in the wake of the expansion of
the digital divide. It will provide a forum for artists and theorists who
struggle to enhance the enigmatic value of language and representational
machineries that have been so sorely depleted and threatened by
governmental, institutional, and cultural agents.
The Workshop will double as a launch of the new issue of CTHEORY
Multimedia, "Wired Ruins: Digital Terror and Ethnic Paranoia"
(http://ctheorymultimedia.edu) as well as an inauguration of the Rose
Goldsen Archive of Digital Multimedia Art to be curated by Timothy Murray
and housed in the Cornell Library's Division of Rare Books and Manuscripts.
CTHEORY Multimedia and The Rose Goldsen Lecture Series Present an
International Art and Theory Workshop on
DIGITAL TERROR
Cornell University, Ithaca, New York
September 20-21, 2002
Friday, September 20, 2002
Kroch Library Lecture Room (2B48 Olin Library)
1:45 Timothy Murray
Departments of Comparative Literature and English
H. Thomas Hickerson
Cornell Library
Introduction: Rose Goldsen Archive of Multimedia Digital Art
2:00 Moderator, Nick Davis, Department of English
Timothy Murray, Arthur and Marilouise Kroker
Co-Curators, CTHEORY Multimedia
"Wired Ruins: Digital Terror and Ethnic Paranoia"
3:00 Moderator: Maria Fernandez, Department of History of Art
Wendy Hui Kyong Chun
Department of Modern Culture and Media, Brown University
"Race, Paranoia, Terror"
Goldwin Smith D
4:30 Moderator: Salah Hassan, Departments of Africana Studies and History
of Art
University
Keith Piper
College of Fine Art, Carnegie Mellon University
"Recent Work: Discussing Robots, Androids and Cyborgs"
Saturday, September, 21, 2002
Goldwin Smith D
9:30 Moderator: Werner Goehner, Department of Architecture
Shadi Nazarian
Department of Architecture, University of Buffalo
"Terror of the Digital"
10:30 Moderator: Rebecca Schneider, Department of Theatre, Film, and Dance,
Cornell/
Department of Theatre, Speech, and Dance, Brown University
Patricia Zimmermann
Department of Cinema and Photography, Ithaca College
"Blasting War"
11:30 Moderator: Johanna Kaufman, Department of Romance Studies
Maurice Benayoun
Department of Art, Université Paris 1
"Artistic F[r]ictions: Roughing Up Digital Space"
2:00 Moderator: Buzz Spector, Department of Art
3:00 Moderator: Phoebe Sengers, Department of Science & Technology Studies and
Information Science Program
Chris Csikszentmihalyi
Computing Culture Group, MIT Media Lab
"Technologies for Countering State Terrorism"
Christina McPhee
Independent Media Artist
"Aphasia/Ellipsis/Parrhesia: 47REDS"
5:00 Comparative Visualities Workshop
with Brett de Bary
Departments of Asian Studies and Comparative Literature
Wrap-Up Discussion
Cosponsored by Cornell University Library, Graduate Program in Film and
Video, Visual Studies Program, Society for the Humanities, College of Art,
Architecture, and Planning, Department of Art, French Studies, Department
of Science and Technology Studies, Information Science Program, Department
of History of Art, Department of English.
For further information, contact Timothy Murray, Director of the Rose
Goldsen Lecture Series, tcm1@cornell, 607-255-4012
Timothy Murray
Professor of Comparative Literature and English
Director of Graduate Studies in Film and Video
285 Goldwin Smith Hall
Cornell University
Ithaca, New York 14853
Co-Curator, CTHEORY Multimedia: http://ctheorymultimedia.cornell.edu
Curator, Contact Zones: The Art of CD-Rom:
http://contactzones.cit.cornell.edu/
office: 607-255-4012
e-mail: tcm1@cornell.edu
www.curios-world.net
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Date: Thu, 19 Sep 2002 09:59:53 -0300
From: "h.d.mabuse" <mabuse@manguebit.org.br>
Subject: Re:combo - Chinese Dragon
// Following the ancient idea of cultural canibalism, made immortal in
Brazil after the Modern Art Week of 1922, Chinese Dragon assimilates little
pieces of foreign culture left loose on the web and assembles them into
something different.
// Recycling trailers and pieces of video, Chinese Dragon (un)presents
characters morphing them into mere shapes and colors, dancing to the
chinese samba of Re:combo.
// The video was produced as a graduation project by Daniel Werneck (a.k.a.
danelectro), based on re:combo's song. The soundtrack was made with the
samples downloaded from the website, and the frames used to create the
movie are also available so anyone can remix not only the song, but also
the video.
(no dragons were harmed in the making of this movie)
:::: watch the dragon:
http://www.recombo.art.br/chinesedragon
:::: download the source files:
http://www.sourceforge.net/projects/recombo
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Date: Wed, 18 Sep 2002 18:04:51 +0200
From: Anne Nigten <ANne@v2.nl>
Subject: MIR Campaign: Opportunity for Art or Science Projects in Variable Gravity
- - apologizes for cross posting -
MIR Campaign
OPPORTUNITY FOR ART OR SCIENCE PROJECTS IN VARIABLE GRAVITY (INCLUDING ZERO
GRAVITY)
and OTHER ARTISTIC PROJECTS at the GAGARIN COSMONAUT TRAINING CENTRE
Call for Proposals deadline 21 October 2002
The MIR partnership invites proposals from European and Europe-based artists
and scientists to undertake projects/research in variable gravity conditions
on a parabolic flights or using other facilities, such as the centrifuge and
the hydrolaboratory/neutral buoyancy facility used for EVA training, at the
Gagarin Cosmonaut Training Centre (GCTC), Star City, Russia.
A parabolic flight provides up to 20 cycles of 30-second periods of
weightlessness (zero gravity/microgravity) in freefall, interspersed with
periods of double gravity (2g acceleration) and normal gravity.
This is the pilot project of the MIR (microgravity interdisciplinary
research) initiative, which seeks to open up space and space industry
related facilities by matching artistic processes and scientific research to
give a new impulse to space art and space research.
The MIR partnership comprises 5 European art organisations focusing on art,
science and technology:
The Arts Catalyst, science-art agency, London, UK
Leonardo/Olats, Leonardo journal of art, science & technology and Leonardo
observatory for the arts and the techno-sciences, Paris, France
Multimedia Complex of Actual Arts, Moscow, Russia
Projekt Atol, arts-technology organisation, Ljubljana, Slovenia
V2_Organisation, institute for the unstable media, Rotterdam, Netherlands
The selection committee will be made up of representatives from these
organisations.
The opportunity includes a cultural exchange and working trip to Moscow and
Star City in early 2003, including the potential to participate in one or
two parabolic Œzero gravity¹ flights with the GCTC.
The opportunity is open to artists and scientists in any discipline, where
the lead proposer is based in any European country, whether or not EU
members. We will select up to 6 artists¹ projects and up to 3 scientific
experiments for participation.
For information and proposal form, go to:
http://mir.v2.nl/
Please email your intent to make a proposal as soon as possible to :
mir@v2.nl
The MIR initiative is supported by the European Union¹s Culture 2000 fund.
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Date: Mon, 16 Sep 2002 01:42:52 +0100
From: alex@slab.org
Subject: shared process
nettimers,
http://lurk.org/
animal.pl - a distributed, exploratory process.
1. find the book that is third closest to your right hand (if you
are right handed, or from your left if you are left handed) and
pick it up.
2. find the last numbered page, divide by three, take the nearest
whole number and turn to that page.
3. find the third paragraph from the page. this is your answer,
please type it into the webpage linked below. identify the book too
if you like.
4. press send.
5. if any of the above isn't possible, do the best you can.
http://lurk.org/
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Date: Sun, 15 Sep 2002 17:33:48 +0530
From: "shilpa" <shilpagupta@hotmail.com>
Subject: Aar Paar 2 - a public art exchange project between India and Pakistan
apologies for any cross postings
Aar Paar 2 - a public art exchange project between India and Pakistan
Aar Paar 2000 was a project in which artists from Karachi and Mumbai, made
work which was swapped between the two cities and shown in public spaces :
roadside eating places , paan shops etc. The idea of intervening in the city
was to encourage an alternative audience, extend viewership of art, to not
exclusively an "art" audience, but incidental viewing and sharing of work by
artists, in places where spontaneous interaction between people occurs.
Aar Paar 2 took place in July and August 2002 in which ten artists from
each city, developed works which were printed locally and inserted into
public spaces in Mumbai and Karachi simultaneously: by plastering on city
walls, distributing these as folded leaflets at traffic lights across the
city, or something which enters people's homes with their morning newspaper
. A short, targeted, intervention: less 'incidental' , less 'subtle' than
before, more obtrusive.
Artists
>From Pakistan are,
Asma Mundrawala, Danish Ahmed, David Alesworth, Huma Mulji, Imran Qureshi,
Munawar Ali, Naiza Khan, Quddus Mirza, Rashid Raana, Roohi Ahmed, Sumaira
Tazeen and a collaboration by A.Adil, A.Madani, M.Sohail and F. Hussain.
>From India are, Jitish Kallat, Kausik Mukhapadhya, N. S. Harsha, Riyas
Komu, Sharmila Samant, Shilpa Gupta and Tushar Joag
and Jaishri Abichandani, USA and Shez Dawood, UK
July - August 2002 (ongoing) | Organised by Shilpa Gupta & Huma Mulji
The project has been documented at http://www.members.tripod.com/aarpaar2/
Have a look!
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Date: Tue, 17 Sep 2002 13:34:08 +0200
From: Urban Drift <info@urbandrift.org>
Subject: urbandrift newsletter
we would be very grateful if you could post our latest urban drift press
release on your newsletter and mailing list!
Thanks for your support,
the urban drift team
URBAN DRIFT - www.urbandrift.org
Initiator/curator : Francesca Ferguson,
Urban Drift Project Space
@ Datenflug
Zehdenickerstr 21, 10119 Berlin
info@urbandrift.org
____________________________________________
Production: flora&fauna media GBR
Heike Blümner / Lizzy Fichtl
Wollinerstr 18/19, 10435 Berlin
info@flora-fauna.de
URBAN DRIFT 2002
9th 13th October, Café Moskau, Karl-Marx Allee 34, Berlin Mitte , and
workspaces throughout Berlin
FROM FORMALISM TO FLUX
TRANSFORMATIONAL URBANISM AND NEW URBAN STRATEGIES
Urban drift 2002 will manifest itself as a broad-based international and
trans-cultural platform made up of:
- - a two-day conference - From Formalism to Flux - mobility and new urban
strategies (11th and 12th October),
- - the night space a forum for transformational urbanism
(10th/11th/12th October 8pm-late) drawing together artists, designers,
architects, filmmakers, writers, sound artists and DJs in a mutual exchange
on architecture within the urban context.
and open workspaces (design and architecture studios reflecting the urban
drift themes) (9th 13th October).
Our main themes MOBILITY, TRANSFORMATIONAL URBANISM AND NEW URBAN
STRATEGIES have emerged from the current cultural and economic situation:
Mobility, and flexibility were the buzzwords of the new economy over the
past few years there has been a fascination with the flow of information
and capital, and the transformation in lifestyles, as a result of the new
regime of flexible accumulation. However in the face of the worldwide
economic slump, the positivism that fuelled mobility theories, the
fascination with urban density, telematics and urban nomadism, has abated:
the "after the crash" mentality has led to a fundamental rethinking based
on the negative impact of globilised, mobilised economies on the urban
condition. The freelancer, the tele-worker, are faced with the deep
financial insecurities inherent in the information economy; cities, such
as those in the former East Germany, are losing up to 20% of their
population, turning the legacies of socialist mass housing into empty
shells.
This contemporary condition is the point of departure for urban drift
2002: Is it time to turn from a fascination with form and surface, with
virtual architectures, datascapes, and the "zenith vision" of cities
(Boeri) to the real "the inexhaustible inventory of the streets?²
TACTICAL MOBILITY / RE-READING THE URBAN DYNAMIC /
NETWORK URBANISM
Numerous contributors to urban drift will reflect this paradigm shift taking
place in perceptions of mobility, and will draw upon the erratic, the
uncontrolled, the subjective and the unplanned in the urban landscape as a
source for new architectures. They will reveal strategies for the "economy
of scarcity², drawing inspiration from micro-production systems; working
with and re-customizing the resources at hand. Can the cheap and
ubiquitous tools of electronic media - mobile and wireless LAN (local area
networks) and telecommunications system - be implemented effectively to
redefine a sense of place; a sense of mobile connectivity? Is a new kind of
public space and political identification and urbanism evolving as a result?
MOBILITY VERSUS PLACE:
Post-industrial landscapes, peripheral and residual spaces, suburban
landscapes and urban voids are becoming a major focus for a generation of
architects and urban planners. Such overlooked, and underused areas offer
untapped potential for a more optimistic and adventurous kind of urbanism
which is reconfiguring and redefining spaces in highly individualistic ways.
We will be looking at new multi-disciplinary coalitions which "reactivate²
such urban territories. Can architecture fill the gaps in urban landscapes
opened up by economies in a state of stagnation? Can architects make more
of less? Can a policy of temporary use in future change the machinations of
the property development sector and influence urban planning?
urban drift at CAFE MOSKAU - a city within the city
There could be no better location than the Café Moskau in which to deal
with such issues as transformational urbanism:
One of the notable buildings of the early sixties, adorned with utopian
mosaics, and a model of the USSR sputnik donated to the GDR - it has been
closed for over two years and by the time urban drift takes place it will be
partially renovated and open for events and temporary use and stands at the
brink of redefinition. It is a vast building that requires a celebration of
its emptiness its "in-betweeness² and has proven a powerful magnet for a
number of groups cooperating with urban drift 2002: pro qm, berlin dialog,
visomat, Fred Rubin. Atelier le Balto will make a minimal intervention in
the abandoned rose garden, Hoyer & Schindele collaborating with urban drift
to design the overall space, will include visual and audio "dérives² of
numerous cities in the spatial concept, thus drawing the city into the
building.
PARTICIPANTS:
3MULGATOR / 4G2R / LILIAN AMARAL, SAO PAULO/ ATELIER LE BALTO /
ASCIIVISION:VISOMAT.INC / AUTOMATEN / IMRAN AYATA / ANETTE BALDAUF / PERRY
BARD, NY / CLAUDIA BASRAWI / WILFRIED HOU JE BEK / BERLIN TOURIST
INFORMATION / SABINE BITTER, WIEN / KATHRIN BOEHM / STEFANO BOERI,
MULTIPLICITY / BOOTLAB /GUIDO BORELLI, DOMUS DESIGN AKADEMIE, MAILAND /
FRIEDRICH VON BORRIES, RUDE ARCHITECTURE / ROLAND BOSBACH, DUBLIN / OLE
BOUMAN, ARCHISAMSTERDAM / JASON BUCHHEIT, NY / HEATH BUNTING / LUCIUS
BURCKHARDT / REBECCA CANNON, MELBOURNE / CHAMP LIBRE / SHU LEA CHEANG/ CITY
OF LAURA MARS / FRANÇOIS CORMIER, MONTREAL / DAG / DATENFLUG / ANDRE DEKKER,
OBSERAVTORIUM, ROTTERDAM/ E 27 / DIE° ALEX PSD/ CHRISTINE EDMAIER / KRISTIN
FEIREISS, AEDES / ALBERT FERRÉ, BARÇELONA / FLORA&FAUNA VISIONS / FORK
UNSTABLE MEDIA / FILESHARING / GARDEROBE 23 / WILFRIED HACKENBROICH, BAUHAUS
DESSAU / RANA HADDAD, BEIRUT / SIMONE HAIN / HANS G. HELMS / THOMAS HERR,
D:4 / BERND HEUER, AGENDA4-ECOMMUNITY E.V. / SUSANNE HOFMANN / BARBARA
HOLUB, TRANSPARADISO, WIEN / RAFAEL HORZON, MODOCOM / HOYER&SCHINDELE /
KNOWBOTIC RESEARCH / CHRISTIAN HUEBLER, ZÜRICH / FRANK HÜLSBÖMER / JENNIFER
HURD, NY / JASON KAHN / NIKOLAUS KNEBEL / STEPHEN KOVATS, MEDIA ARTIST,
KANADA / TOM KUBLI / ANDREAS LANG / MARIELIES LANGEHENKE, EGGPRODUCTIONS /
LATIF OBERHOLZ / LAURA MARS GRP / LARS LERUP, DEAN AT RICE SCHOOL OF
ARCHITECTURE HOUSTON / LESS RAIN / L21/ LIBRE/ JOSE PEREZ DE LAMA, SEVILLA /
DAVID MANDL, NY / SVEN MANN / MANOU WMF, MICROMUSIC.NET / MAOU MAOU GALLERY
/DORIT MARGREITER / CECILE MARTIN, CITÉ DES ONDES, MONTREAL / PATRICK
MEAGHER / ARMIN MEDOSCH / IRENE McARA-McWILLIAM, RCA,LONDON / ARNE MITTIG /
ALEXANDER MOERS / ELENA MONTESINOS / ARMANDO MONTILLA, CARACAS, TORONTO /
ANN MÜLLER / PETER NEITZKE / OGI:NOKNAUSS / HEIKE OLLERTZ / PHILIPP OSWALT /
MARGARETH OTTI, WIEN / JEANLOUIS PAILLARD, PÉRIPHERIQUES/ ALEXEJ PARYLA /
PFADFINDEREI & LABSTYLE / PLAJER & FRANZ STUDIO STUDIO 38 / PLATOON / UWE
RADA / PAUL RAJAKOVICS, TRANSPARADISO, WIEN / RAUMLABOR_BERLIN / PHILIPP
REINFELD / STEFAN RETHFELD / STEFAN RETTICH, L21,LEIPZIG / NILS RÖLLER /
F.R.E.D. RUBIN / ANDREAS RUBY / STEFAN SAFFER / JAIME SALAZAR, BARÇELONA /
PROF. DR. RUDOLF SCHÄFER, TU-BERLIN / RUDI SCHEUERMANN, OVE ARUP/ HANNES
SCHMIDT / DOMINIK SCHWARZER / WERNER SEWING / AMIE SIEGEL, NY / NATZ
SPETSMAN / CLAUDIA SPLITT / STANDARD RAD BERLIN / STEALTH GROUP, BELGRAD /
WIARD STERK / JAMES STEVENS, CONSUME.NET, LONDON / STUDIO 63 / STUDIO BOW
WOW, TOKYO / TAKTILABOR / LORENZO TRIPODI / YOSHIHARU TSUKAMOTO, STUDIO BOW
WOW/ TATJANA TURANSKYI / LEO VILLAREAL / VISUARTE /KAI VÖCKLER, BAUHAUS
DESSAU / JOHN WARWICKER, TOMATO, LONDON / HELMUT WEBER, WIEN / SRDJAN
JOVANOVIC WEISS, NORMAL GROUP/ JEROEN VAN WESTEN / BARBARA WILLECKE /
WIRELESS CULTURE WORKSHOP / SIMON WORTHINGTON, MUTE MAGAZINE LONDON / NANA
YURIKO / EMILE ZILE,CLEANSURFACE.ORG MELBOURNE / U.V.A.
LIVE: AGF (LAUB/KITTY-YO/MUSORK)/LUOMO (AKA LADISLAV DELAY)/JAMIE
LIDELL(FROM SUPER_COLLIDER WARP RECORDS/RISE ROBOTS RISE), TOK TOK // VIDEO:
ALEXEJ PARYLA, FORK UNSTABLE MEDIA, FLORA&FAUNA VISIONS, PFADFINDEREI,
VISUARTE
Thank You to all partners, sponsors for their support:
mediapartners:
Archis, de:bug, Style & The Family Tunes, die tageszeitung,
http://www.fluter.de
Curatorial advisers/Conceptual partners:
Andreas Ruby, architecture critic and theorist / Jan Edler, Realities United
/ Caroline Raspé, Architect, Berlin / Bettina Vismann, architect, Berlin /
André Bideau, Editor, Werk Bauen & Wohnen / Berlin Dialog / pro qm, Berlin
/
partners:
aedes Galerie, Art & Com,av optics, Bauhaus Dessau, Botschaft von
Frankreich, Botschaft von Italien, Botschaft von Kanada, Botschaft der
Niederlanden, Datenflug, 4rk unstable media, Go! General Overnight,
Infobrick, Pro Helvetia Schweizer Kulturstiftung, LEE 101, Metadesign,
Töchter & Söhne, Transmediale, SMIRNOFF Vodka, TU Berlin, udk Berlin,
Velotaxi
>From 28th of september 2002 to 12th of january 2003 the Vitra Design Museum
Berlin presents the exhibition "Living in Motion - Design and Architecture
for flexible Dwelling". Kopenhagener Str. 58, Berlin / Prenzlauer Berg.
Special Guided Tour for Urban Drift participants in English: friday 11/10
8pm. registration/information at tanja.thiele@design-museum.de / T 030 47 37
77 15. presscontact: britt.angelis@design-museum.de / T 030 47 37 77 12
For more information:
www.urbandrift.org.
The press conference will take part at the 8th of october at
10 am in Café Moskau, Karl Marx Allee 34 in Berlin centre
For accreditations, interviews, images and more information please contact:
flora&fauna media, Lizzy Fichtl, Wolliner Straße 18-19, 10435 Berlin,
Telefon: 030 440 10 312, Fax:
030 440 10 313 email: lizzy@flora-fauna.de
for tickets please check: http://www.koka36.de und http://www.berlin.de
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Date: Tue, 17 Sep 2002 15:09:27 -0400
From: Pamela Jennings <pamelaj@cs.cmu.edu>
Subject: Carnegie Mellon University Electronic Time Based Art openings
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Tenure-Track and/or Visiting Faculty Positions Electronic Time Based Art
Beginning August 2003
Carnegie Mellon University School of Art
The School of Art at Carnegie Mellon University is seeking to fill two
full-time faculty positions: one tenure track position and one visiting
position or two visiting positions in its Electronic Time Based Art area.
We are seeking dynamic individuals working in technology-based art with
experience in one or more of the following areas: robotics, programming for
Internet based interactive and/or virtual environments, interactive audio,
performance, motion capture and real time graphics and/or 2D imaging,
computer vision, artificial life or biotechnology. Artists with a
significant track record in digital/electronic forms who are qualified for
joint appointments between electronic art and computer sciences, natural
sciences or engineering will also be considered. Visiting faculty with
expertise in electronic media and additional experience in other visual
media are also encouraged. A multidisciplinary orientation, conceptual
strengths and contextual sensibilities are sought to teach freshman through
graduate students and work with a dynamic faculty team to build the
electronic time based area in the School of Art.
Qualifications: Advanced Degree or equivalent. University level teaching
experience required beyond teaching assistant. A versatile artist with a
significant digital/electronic, time based media art background and
exhibition record. Affirmative Action, Equal Opportunity Employer, women
and minorities encouraged to apply.
Appointment Levels: Visiting Assistant Professor or tenure-track
Assistant/Associate Professor. Positions beginning late August, 2003.
Salary & Benefits: Nationally competitive and commensurate with experience.
Additional Programmatic Information: http://www.art.cfa.cmu.edu
Applications To Include:
- - Letter of application with teaching philosophy.
- - Curriculum Vitae
- - Names/addresses / telephone numbers of 3 references (no
recommendation letters,)
- - Documentation of artwork: Up to 20 slides and/or 10 minutes of
time-based media of applicants work (VHS, CD ROM, CD, Macintosh formatted
computer files.) No student work.
- - Self-addressed stamped envelope for return of materials.
- - Send to: Faculty search ETB
School of Art
Carnegie Mellon University
Pittsburgh, PA 15213-3890
Application Deadline: Feb 1, 2003.
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