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Subject: RHIZOME DIGEST: 8.20.04 From: digest@rhizome.org (RHIZOME) Date: Sat, 21 Aug 2004 13:09:43 -0700 Reply-to: digest@rhizome.org Sender: owner-digest@rhizome.org RHIZOME DIGEST: August 20, 2004 Content: +announcement+ 1. art-messenger: Nuart 2004 Stavanger/Norway 2. Emily Zimmerman: Inliquid presents HYPER-RUNT: Online Launch 3. Lee Wells: CounterConvention.org Calendar of Events +opportunity+ 4. marcin ramocki: 3-d animation teaching 5. You Minowa: "Project netarts.org" 2004 - 1st announcement 6. Kevin McGarry: Call for Rhizome.org ArtBase intern 7. Kevin McGarry: FW: LMCC workspace +work+ 8. Rhizome.org: Just added to the Rhizome ArtBase: INTERVALS by Peter Horvath +comment+ 9. Curt Cloninger: canonization via syndication [google.directory_curatorial remix] and [reinhold_grether remix] 10. jeremy: life +interview+ 11. Lauren Cornell: Interview with Natalie Jeremijenko by Lauren Cornell. + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + 1. Date: 8.18.04 From: art-messenger <virtu AT kulturserver-nrw.de> Subject: Nuart 2004 Stavanger/Norway West Coast Numusic & Electronic Art Festival NUART 2004. STAVANGER NORWAY. WWW.NUMUSIC.NO ..................................................... The nuart festival was initiated in 2001 by the Numusic organisation. The festival follows the ethos behind the nu teams desire to provide a regional annual platform for national and international contemporary artists. The festival aims to stimulate debate surrounding the production and presentation of progressive contemporary art in the 21st century. . This years event ?SCRATCH? explores the theme of ?Millennium People? with work that spans the millennium divide from 1998-2004. The show explores memory, politics, false idols, identity and our relationship to new technologies in a series of TAZ spaces. The main arena is the old customs house, an area that for several hundred years has been responsible for confiscating ,editing & taxing objects allowed into the country and by default culture. . This years event is organised by Martyn Reed (Nu) & Kenneth Varpe (21m2) Galleries and viewing spaces open Fre-Lør 12-1600. Søn 13-1600 Clarion Hotel work : Lør-Søn kl1200-1700 Online work can be viewed in the lobby at R.Avis or simply type in the URL Day ticket and pass holders can view work during concert opening hours ...................................................... TOU SCENE ...................................................... OPENING Nuart 2004Ons kl 1800 : Preview before Arne Nordheim concert Andrea Lumb (n) : Tou Scene Kunstfløy They said ?A Joy for your work is a joy for life? Photo installation 2004 Documentary Show : Giles Deleuze (F) L?adpf (association pour de la pensées Francaise, Ministére des Affaires étrangéres). Poster exhibition celebrating the life and work of philosopher Gilles Deleuze. Pure & Decam (AT/USA) Reqoil, Displaced, Peaceoff. Film Installation 2004 ...................................................... TOLLBODEN (vågen) The old customs house. Opening Thursday evening with Nils Peter Molværs ?Scratch? ...................................................... Sidsel Christensen (N) Jon Eriksen (N) Laila Evensen (UK) David Priestman (UK) Andrew Quinn (UK) Espen Tversland (N) Antii Sakari Saario (Fin) Sarawut Chutiwongpeti (Thai) Erich Berger (N) A series of film and sound installations in 750 sqm of temporary autonomous space. ....................................................... 21m2 ....................................................... Alexander Rishaug (N) Feed : Sound/Laptop installation 2004 ....................................................... Molitrix ....................................................... Brian Larsen (DE) ?Life Nuh Easy? Installation 2004 Odd Sama (N) Installation (stickers and agit prop work appearing throughout the city) ....................................................... Buy Rogalands Avis on 19.08 to view this work ....................................................... Kim Hiorthøy (N) Commissioned newspaper page ....................................................... Online work ....................................................... Agricola De Cologne (DE) Remembering-Repressing-Forgetting 2004-2005 Carlos Giffoni (US) www.monotract.com/magik.html Rand% (UK) www.r4nd.org ....................................................... Plus various guerrilla art happenings throughout the weekend. For press/Info/artists Biogs etc please contact Martyn Reed 97764651 or Kenneth Varpe 99028637 ....................................................... + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + 2. Date: 8.18.04 From: Emily Zimmerman <emily AT location1.org> Subject: Inliquid presents HYPER-RUNT: Online Launch InLiquid.com presents a major new media project, HYPER-RUNT, curated by Ebon Fisher and Emily Zimmerman ONLINE September 3-18, 2004 at www.inliquid.com and ONSITE October 8-14, 2004 at the National Products Building in Old City, Philadelphia. (Philadelphia, August 2004) The nonprofit artist organization, InLiqui.com, is pleased to announce the launch of the the online component of HYPER-RUNT, an exhibit of digital and coceptual art curated by "media breeder," Ebon Fisher and curator, Emily Zimmerman. HYPER-RUNT's online component (September 3-18, 2004), presented at http://www.inliquid.com, will act as a preview to the installation, and will include essays, images, links, and manifestos by the participants. It will be promoted during the Philadelphia Fringe Festival through a guerrilla marketing campaign in Philadelphia and New York with materials featuring the HYPER-RUNT logo and URL. HYPER-RUNT is an exhibition of experimental art projects by an internationally diverse group of artists including Bigtwin, Shawn Brixey, David Brody, Klip Collective, Ken Goldberg, Natalie Jeremijenko, Yael Kanarek, MTAA, Mark Napier, Joseph Nechvatal, neuroTransmitter, and Caterina Verde. For HYPER-RUNT, artists were asked to submit those peculiar projects which rose up out of the creative process and took on an insistent life of their own, either in the studio or in the public arena. These works do not fit snugly in the usual litter of cultural categories. As Ebon Fisher points out, "HYPER-RUNTs raise uneasy questions pertaining to the nature of art in the realm of artificial life forms, media viruses, robot psychology, and inter-species cultures. They flirt with the possibility of a 'post-human' future in which the paradigm of art and civilization gives way to a hyper-biology of emergent processes. A HYPER-RUNT might be seen as an ornery cultural lifeform, an élan vital, unexpectedly rearing its head in the turmoil brewing between artist, audience, technology, and ecosystem." HYPER-RUNT's installation (October 8-14, 2004) will be the last event to take place at Philadelphia's National Products Building, which is scheduled for reconstruction in November 2004. The National Products building is located at 109-131 N. 2nd Street in Old City Philadelphia. HYPER-RUNT will include technologically based installations, and site-specific works tailored to the spaces of National Products Building. For the week of October 8-14, the National Products Building will be activated by a series of events hosted by Inliquid.com in conjunction with the exhibition, including a screening of the film 'Frames', a documentary about Grahame Weinbrenâ??s piece by the same name, and an evening of immersive media with Klip Collective and musical guests. See www.inliquid.com for a full list of events including dates and times. Curator, Ebon Fisher, was one of the first instructors at MIT's Media Lab during its inception. Since the early 1990s he has been cultivating media organisms through the use of media rituals and "Bionic Codes" in Williamsburg, Brooklyn. He ran the Digital Worlds program at the University of Iowa for 3 years, beginning in 1998, and has exhibited and lectured internationally. His digital world, Nervepool, is at HYPERLINK http://www.nervepool.net http://www.nervepool.net. Curator, Emily Zimmerman, has worked with Creative Time in New York as a curatorial assistant to Carol Stakenas, and is currently working as a research assistant on a reader on moving images for Tanya Leighton. Other consultants on the HYPER-RUNT exhibit include Glen Muschio, professor and director of the Digital Media Program at Drexel University. Prior to teaching at Drexel University, Glen had over 20 years experience in corporate communications, legal, community and educational media production. Ian Cross is a co-founder of the Philadelphia area New Media Association (PANMA), co-founder and CEO of I-Site, Inc., and co-founder of MYX gallery in Philadelphia. ### InLiquid.com is a nonprofit 501(c)(3) web-based membership organization dedicated to providing opportunities and exposure for visual artists and designers, serving as a free public hub for arts information and resources, and making the visual arts more accessible to a broader audience. More than just an online presence, InLiquid also nurtures our creative community through a continuing series of â??non-virtualâ?? art exhibitions and events. + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + Rhizome is now offering organizational subscriptions, memberships purchased at the institutional level. These subscriptions allow participants of an institution to access Rhizome's services without having to purchase individual memberships. (Rhizome is also offering subsidized memberships to qualifying institutions in poor or excluded communities.) Please visit http://rhizome.org/info/org.php for more information or contact Rachel Greene at Rachel AT Rhizome.org. + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + 3. Date: 8.19.04 From: Lee Wells <lee AT leewells.org> Subject: CounterConvention.org Calendar of Events Counter Convention Calendar http://www.CounterConvention.org/ ______________________________________________________ News From CounterConvention.org: The ride and housing boards have been extremely active and are still available for those seeking transport and housing for the RNC protests. Also, we have added a resource board for anyone seeking or offering any goods or services of use to the moblization. All this and more can be found at: http://www.counterconvention.org ______________________________________________________ Special Notices: The Life After Capitalism Conference begins with &!quot;Beyond Bush a Night of Visionary Resistance&!quot; this Friday at 7pm at Hunter College, 695 Park Ave. (Full details in the listing below or see: http://www.lifeaftercapitalism.org ) The last two Clearinghouse meeting are tonight and Thursday the 26th at 7pm at St. Marks Church on 10th St. and 2nd Ave in the East Village. This is a good place to get a sense of the variety of protest projects to plug into. (full details in the listing below). ______________________________________________________ CounterConvention.org Calendar: 1| [Thursday, Aug 19 AT 04:00 PM] A31 Massive Outreach Action 2| [Thursday, Aug 19 AT 05:30 PM] RingOut Meeting 3| [Thursday, Aug 19 AT 06:00 PM] Fundraiser for Driving Votes 4| [Thursday, Aug 19 AT 06:30 PM] I-Witness Video Intensive Training for the RNC Protests 5| [Thursday, Aug 19 AT 07:20 PM] noRNC Clearinghouse Meeting 6| [Thursday, Aug 19 AT 07:30 PM] Screening of &!quot;Breaking the Silence: Truth and Lies in the War on Terro 7| [Thursday, Aug 19 AT 08:00 PM] Rude Mechanical Orchestra weekly rehearsal 8| [Thursday, Aug 19 AT 08:00 PM] OPENING: NYC Grassroots Media Retrospective and Indymedia INFOSHOP 9| [Thursday, Aug 19 AT 09:30 PM] Pretty Flowers' &!quot;Laura's Bush&!quot; Release Party! 10| [Friday, Aug 20] Life After Capitalism Conference 11| [Friday, Aug 20 AT 06:00 PM] This is Not about the GRASS! This is about our future! 12| [Friday, Aug 20 AT 07:00 PM] Opening Reception for &!quot;Rivers of Blood&!quot; exhibit 13| [Saturday, Aug 21] Life After Capitalism Conference 14| [Saturday, Aug 21 AT 12:00 PM] Street Theater Workshops 15| [Saturday, Aug 21 AT 12:00 PM] DRUM & Still We Rise Immigrant Justice Rally & March 16| [Saturday, Aug 21 AT 01:00 PM] Know Your Rights Training 17| [Saturday, Aug 21 AT 02:30 PM] I-Witness Video Intensive Training for the RNC Protests 18| [Saturday, Aug 21 AT 06:00 PM] Experimental Party DisInformation Center / Propaganda Hospitality Suite 19| [Saturday, Aug 21 AT 07:00 PM] Fear Will Not Silence Us!!!!!!!! 20| [Saturday, Aug 21 AT 07:30 PM] Mouths Wide Open: Poets Reading in Horrified Anticipation of the RNC ______________________________________________________ 1| [Thursday, Aug 19 AT 04:00 PM] A31 Massive Outreach Action Union Square Park (near stairs on south side), New York City, NY The A31 Outreach Working Group has created thousands of fliers and stickers to promote the A31 Day of Non-Violent Civil Disobedience and Direct Action. We need volunteers to come to Union Square, pick up these flyers and distribute them to New Yorkers at subway stops and other key locations throughout the City during rush hour. Between the hours of 4-7pm, there will be an information booth set up near the stairs on the south side of Union Square Park where you can pick these fliers up. At this information booth, we will also have lists of shops, sanctuaries and other spaces where fliers need to be dropped off in the coming days. And don?t forget: 83% of New Yorkers do not want the Republicans to meet in their city. They?re pissed. Many of them will probably want to see the information on these fliers. Some of them will even want to get involved. Please help out. Your participation can really shape this day of action. See you in the streets (and the subway corridors and the community board meetings and the parks). A31 Outreach Working Group More Info: E-mail: A31 AT mutualaid.org Web: http://www.a31.org http://www.CounterConvention.org/lightningbug/index.php?action=detail&mode=v iew&listing=1391 ______________________________________________________ 2| [Thursday, Aug 19 AT 05:30 PM] RingOut Meeting Cafe Figaro, corner of Bleecker & MacDougal Sts., New York,, NY Weekly meeting of RingOut, to plan bell-ringing protest at Ground Zero/World Trade Center, Saturday, August 28, 5:30pm; plan other protest activities during the convention; collaborate with other protest groups; and distribute 50,000 bells to New Yorkers, so they can &!quot;Ring Out the Republicans!&!quot; Please - come join us! More Info: Phone: 917-507-3699 http://www.CounterConvention.org/lightningbug/index.php?action=detail&mode=v iew&listing=639 ______________________________________________________ 3| [Thursday, Aug 19 AT 06:00 PM] Fundraiser for Driving Votes Lolita, 266 Broome St. (at Allen), New York, NY Come support Driving Votes (www.drivingvotes.org), a nonprofit dedicated to organizing people to take trips to swing states to register voters and get Bush out! There will be DJs, $3 drink specials, and to-be-announced special appearances by your fave local progressive politicians. $10 suggested donation. Show them how you really feel! Don't miss your opportunity to pose for photos with lifesize Bush dolls in the position of your choice. Pass out the invite: http://www.drivingvotes.org/stuff/nycinvite.shtml See you there. More Info: E-mail: nyc AT drivingvotes.org Web: http://www.drivingvotes.org/stuff/nycinvite.shtml http://www.CounterConvention.org/lightningbug/index.php?action=detail&mode=v iew&listing=1139 ______________________________________________________ 4| [Thursday, Aug 19 AT 06:30 PM] I-Witness Video Intensive Training for the RNC Protests Judson Memorial Church - 243 Thompson Street, NYC, NY Protect the Right to Protest! Be a Video Witness for the Republican National Convention protests What is a video witness? Video witnesses use a video camera to collect evidence of arrests and police abuse. Video images of police actions at protests can be crucial evidence at trials of people arrested and in civil lawsuits against police misconduct. Come to either an intensive or a mini training! Buddies Needed! No video camera? No problem! Each camera person will need a ?buddy? ? someone who can ?watch their back? and be a second pair of eyes to identify areas that need to be filmed. Buddies should also attend a Video Witness training. I-Witness Intensive Training recommended Thursday, August 19, 6:30-8:30 pm Judson Memorial Church 243 Thompson Street corner of Washington Square South press the buzzer for the Gym Saturday, August 21, 2:30-4:30 pm NYU Law School, Furman Hall, Room 216 245 Sullivan Street at West 3rd St., following NLG Observer Training Thursday, August 26, 6:30- 8:30 pm St. Mary's Episcopal Church 521 West 126th St, b/w B?way and Amsterdam 1/9 to 125th Street and Broadway or A/B/C/D to 125th and St. Nicholas and walk west Mini-Video Trainings Short trainings will follow the National Lawyers Guild?s Legal Observer Orientations. NLG?s RNC Legal Observer Orientations * August 25 - 7-9 pm 4th Universalist Church - 76th Street/Central Park West. * August 28 - (Saturday) 10-11 am NYU Law School, Furman Hall - Room 216, 245 Sullivan Street. * August 30 - (Monday) - 10-11 am Location TBA ----------------------- To register for Video Witness Trainings or to find out more about our meetings, contact: iwitnessvideo [at] hotmail.com Bring your camera, if you have one, to the training. RSVPs encouraged, but not required. I-Witness is collaborating with the National Lawyers Guild and People?s Law Collective I-Witness Video is a NYC-based group that organizes video for legal purposes during protests. We work with local legal teams to use video to support the defense of arrested activists, to file civil suits against the city/police, and to discourage illegal police aggression overall. Join our organizing efforts ? come to a meeting! I-Witness Meetings: Tuesdays at 6:30 pm More Info: Contact Person: Ady E-mail: iwitnessvideo AT hotmail.com http://www.CounterConvention.org/lightningbug/index.php?action=detail&mode=v iew&listing=1265 ______________________________________________________ 5| [Thursday, Aug 19 AT 07:20 PM] noRNC Clearinghouse Meeting St. Marks Church , 131 East 10th Street, New York, NY The Clearinghouse meetings are a network of working groups and independent organizations who have come together to do active work to oppose the Republican National Convention this August and September. The hope of these meetings is that our individual and collective efforts can be coordinated citywide in order ensure that our voices are heard by this administration. ** New Comers are strongly encouraged to attend a 20 minute orientation starting at 7:00 PM ** The closest trains are: L to 3rd Ave. 6 to Astor Place R to 8th St. More Info: E-mail: norncstructure AT riseup.net Web: http://www.counterconvention.org/index.php?name=clearinghouse http://www.CounterConvention.org/lightningbug/index.php?action=detail&mode=v iew&listing=1072 ______________________________________________________ 6| [Thursday, Aug 19 AT 07:30 PM] Screening of &!quot;Breaking the Silence: Truth and Lies in the War on Terro The Brecht Forum, 122 West 27th Street, 10th Floor, New York, NY Award-winning journalist John Pilger investigates the discrepancies between American and British claims for the 'war on terror' and the facts on the ground as he finds them in Afghanistan and Washington, DC. Discussion follows. Suggested donation: $6/$8/$10 More Info: Web: http://www.brechtforum.org http://www.CounterConvention.org/lightningbug/index.php?action=detail&mode=v iew&listing=739 ______________________________________________________ 7| [Thursday, Aug 19 AT 08:00 PM] Rude Mechanical Orchestra weekly rehearsal DUMBO, Brooklyn, NY The Rude Mechanical Orchestra is a new radical brass band and entourage affinity group forming for the events against the RNC. We are seeking brass and wind players, drummers, dancers, and tactical squad members. We encourage women, queer/trans folks, and people of color to join us! We gather at Pedro's Restaurant in DUMBO, Brooklyn, at 8pm SHARP, then proceed to the practice space around 8:15. Pedro's is located 2 blocks down from the York F stop (the first stop in Brooklyn). Please contact us for more information and to let us know you're coming! Please bring your instrument - your first rehearsal serves as an informal audition. More Info: Phone: (718) 499-0434 Contact Person: Michele E-mail: michele AT riseup.net http://www.CounterConvention.org/lightningbug/index.php?action=detail&mode=v iew&listing=705 ______________________________________________________ 8| [Thursday, Aug 19 AT 08:00 PM] OPENING: NYC Grassroots Media Retrospective and Indymedia INFOSHOP 59 Franklin Street, between Lafayette and Broadway, New York, NY On August 19, we invite you to join us for the opening of GAS as an Infoshop and to celebrate the quality and tradition of independent journalism. Indymedia photographers will showcase their work on gallery walls and offer them in a silent fundraising auction; videographers will screen their footage on the five gallery monitors; you can tune into the I-pod installations to hear radio coverage of events, protests and conventions past, and browse through the archives of NYC IMC?s newspaper, The Indypendent. >From August 19 to September 4, the Gigantic Art Space in downtown New York will serve as an Independent Media Infoshop for a public hungry for truth. This will also be a great opportunity to find out how we plan to cover the voices of people on the street during the upcoming Republican National Convention, and most importantly, how you can directly plug in. During the Republican National Convention, the GOP spin machine will make every effort to airbrush the hundreds of thousands of expected protesters out of the happy GOP Convention picture, or worse, paint them as dangerous &!quot;Un-American&!quot; thugs. To facilitate this, they have outfitted the Farleigh Post Office building as the corporate media?s newsroom, and built a bridge from there to Madison Square Garden, so that the corporate press never has to touch the streets. But the NYC Grassroots Media Coalition and the Indymedia Network have a different mission. We will build our own newsroom with the support and resources of our communities and use it to produce a daily newspaper, a daily television show, a 24-hour radio webstream and a website with up-to-the-minute reports and photographs. If you want to know what the people have to say, this is where you need to look. To help showcase this work, the Gigantic Art Space has generously offered independent journalists their gallery. Special presentation: Rick Rowley of Big Noise Films and producer of the documentary, Fourth World War has just returned from Sadr City, Baghdad. He will talk about what we don?t necessarily see in the corporate media regarding Iraq while showing never before seen footage. Having traveled the world and worked with dozens of independent media centers across the globe, he will discuss the importance of independent media in a time of war. Participating groups: NYC Grassroots Media Coalition The Indymedia Network Paper Tiger The Indypendent NYC IMC Sound Collective NYC IMC Photo Collective Blacked-Out Media Third World Newsreel Big Noise Films Pacifica Radio Independent Journalists REGISTER FOR THE MEDIA SPACE AT THE GAS GALLERY 59 Franklin Street, between Lafayette and Broadway: fri 5-10 sat & sun 12- 6 mon-wed 5-10 aug 26 - sept 3, 8:30 to midnight More Info: Phone: 212-420-9045 Contact Person: Jen AT paper tiger E-mail: support AT nycimc.org Web: http://giganticartspace.com/index.html http://www.CounterConvention.org/lightningbug/index.php?action=detail&mode=v iew&listing=1368 ______________________________________________________ 9| [Thursday, Aug 19 AT 09:30 PM] Pretty Flowers' &!quot;Laura's Bush&!quot; Release Party! Rothko, 116 Suffolk St. AT Rivington, New York, NY Lick Bush Ltd. and Bananaseat Records present... Pretty Flowers' &!quot;Laura's Bush&!quot; Release Party! Thursday, August 19th, 9:30 AT Rothko 116 Suffolk St./Rivington, Lower East Side, NYC Please join Pretty Flowers for the release of their newest single, Laura's Bush! Everyone gets a free copy! Yay! Also pick up info about the RNC convention, where to protest, where to party, etc. Also playing are The Killer Elite and special guests. Tickets are $8. For more info, visit www.prettyflowers.org. More Info: Web: http://www.prettyflowers.org http://www.CounterConvention.org/lightningbug/index.php?action=detail&mode=v iew&listing=1068 ______________________________________________________ 10| [Friday, Aug 20] Life After Capitalism Conference TBA, New York, NY As a new wave of activism in the US and abroad popularizes opposition to global capitalism, it is essential that we continue to develop alternative visions of a post-capitalist society. This conference seeks to create a forum for people from diverse movements to refine collectively our analysis of capitalism, to develop new visions for directly democratic economic and political systems, and to build effective organizing strategies for actualizing our visions. This conference builds on the project initiated by ZNet at the 2003 World Social Forum in Porto Alegre, Brazil. More Info: Web: http://www.lifeaftercapitalism.org http://www.CounterConvention.org/lightningbug/index.php?action=detail&mode=v iew&listing=111 ______________________________________________________ 11| [Friday, Aug 20 AT 06:00 PM] This is Not about the GRASS! This is about our future! Strawberry Fields Central Park,72nd & Central Park West, New York, NY When the city denied a permit for Central Park for a massive outpouring of resistance against the Bush agenda at the RNC, they cited concern for the grass- claiming it would be damaged by so many people gathered at once. Not in Our Name is calling on all poets and wordsmiths of New York to Strawberry Fields for an outpouring of love and defiance, of determination and conviction. So please, bring your passion and your poetry to the permit battle for Central Park. The Park belongs to the people The people are voicing dissent Saying NO to Bush & Company And everything they represent? More Info: Phone: 2127601722 Contact Person: Mo Kinberg E-mail: nyc AT notinourname.net Web: http://www.notinourname.net http://www.CounterConvention.org/lightningbug/index.php?action=detail&mode=v iew&listing=1276 ______________________________________________________ 12| [Friday, Aug 20 AT 07:00 PM] Opening Reception for &!quot;Rivers of Blood&!quot; exhibit Stefanie Ludyny Gallery, 312 W. 36th Street, between 8th & 9th Ave, 3rd, New York, NY The &!quot;Rivers of Blood&!quot; exhibit runs from August 16-September 11, 2004, in conjunction with the UnConvention, an American Theater Festival for political change. Vermont artist Janet Van Fleet shows paintings and three-dimensional work exploring violence and change in human history. More Info: Web: http://www.theunconvention.org http://www.CounterConvention.org/lightningbug/index.php?action=detail&mode=v iew&listing=1024 ______________________________________________________ 13| [Saturday, Aug 21] Life After Capitalism Conference TBA, New York, NY As a new wave of activism in the US and abroad popularizes opposition to global capitalism, it is essential that we continue to develop alternative visions of a post-capitalist society. This conference seeks to create a forum for people from diverse movements to refine collectively our analysis of capitalism, to develop new visions for directly democratic economic and political systems, and to build effective organizing strategies for actualizing our visions. This conference builds on the project initiated by ZNet at the 2003 World Social Forum in Porto Alegre, Brazil. More Info: Web: http://www.lifeaftercapitalism.org http://www.CounterConvention.org/lightningbug/index.php?action=detail&mode=v iew&listing=112 ______________________________________________________ 14| [Saturday, Aug 21 AT 12:00 PM] Street Theater Workshops 209 West 38th Street, 9th floor, New York, NY We will be preparing pieces to perform during the Republican National Convention. Please bring your ideas, wear comfortable clothes, and be prepared to create. All ages and experience levels welcome. More Info: E-mail: joyful_grrrl AT hotmail.com Web: http://www.thawaction.org http://www.CounterConvention.org/lightningbug/index.php?action=detail&mode=v iew&listing=994 ______________________________________________________ 15| [Saturday, Aug 21 AT 12:00 PM] DRUM & Still We Rise Immigrant Justice Rally & March Broadway between 72rd & 73rd Street, Jackson Heights, Queens, NY Join immigrant families and youth members of DRUM and Still We Rise/ Racial Justice 911 organizations in raising the voices of people of color and immigrants against the ongoing WAR on Immigrants and WAR abroad! Support us in our fight to protest and organize in our neighborhoods as the city and cops prepare for the Republican National Convention! With support from many organizations, we have gotten a permit for the event. Speakers include: - Razia Sultana Jahangir, wife of Special Registrant (DRUM) - Mohammed Linkgon, Special Registrant (DRUM) - Jonas Pullo, Esperanza del Barrio - FIERCE! - Sheila Stowell- Still We Rise/ RJ 911 - YouthPower! members of students & cops harrassment (DRUM) - Nodutdol - Latin American Workers Project - Andolan (Organizing South Asian Workers) - Chayya Choum, CAAAV- Khmer Freedom Campaign - Local street vendors - Hiram Monserratte, NY City Councilmember Performances: - Danza Azteca - Poetry by DRUM youth members - Dhaka Drama- Bengali Folk Songs Activities: - TABLING by variuos NYC grassroots organizing groups! - Families SPEAKOUT against DEPORTATION! - Collect signatures to win AMNESTY & other campaigns! - Raffles & Prizes! - UNITE with other immigrant & communities of color! - Send a message to BUSH AND KERRY to stop targeting immigrants & start respecting our dignity, labor, and rights to education, housing, and services without fear! WE NEED YOUR HELP: - Outreach to your community- Pick Up flyers from DRUM office (availabe in Urdu, Bangla, Spanish, and English) - Volunteer for the mela - Contact politicians and media to attend & hear our demands When: Saturday, August 21st 1pm-5pm Street Rally 3-6 pm Speakers & Performances 5pm Neighborhood March Where: On Broadway between 72rd & 73rd Street (across from DRUM office) Jackson Heights, Queens [Take the 7/E/F/G/R/ or V train to 74th Street/Roosevelt stop] More Info: Phone: (718) 205-3036 Contact Person: Namita or Shoshi Web: http://www.drumnation.org/rally/index.htm http://www.CounterConvention.org/lightningbug/index.php?action=detail&mode=v iew&listing=1405 ______________________________________________________ 16| [Saturday, Aug 21 AT 01:00 PM] Know Your Rights Training 520 8th Avenue, New York, NY Know Your Rights Training - (7:00 PM - 9:00 PM) Know Your Rights! Throughout the month of August, the New York Civil Liberties Union will offer a series of Know Your Rights trainings for people taking part in activities surrounding the Republican National Convention. This interactive training will cover your legal rights as a protester at the RNC and what to do if those rights are infringed upon. It will explore how new laws have changed the nature of demonstrations in NYC, as well as how to interact with the police on the street, what to do if you are stopped or searched, and how to report police misconduct. The trainings will be offered at our Protecting Protest Storefront in midtown (520 8th Ave) on the following dates. If you would like to arrange a separate training for your organization please contact us. Saturday August 14th 1-3pm Wednesday August 18th 7-9pm Saturday August 21st 1-3pm Wednesday August 25th 7-9pm Space is limited, so please RSVP to Steve Theberge at 212-344-3005 x266 or stheberge AT nyclu.org. Organizer - Steve Theberge Status - CONFIRMED Location - 520 8th Avenue More Info: Phone: (212) 344-3005 Contact Person: Steve Theberge E-mail: stheberge AT nyclu.org Web: http://www.rncprotestrights.org http://www.CounterConvention.org/lightningbug/index.php?action=detail&mode=v iew&listing=883 ______________________________________________________ 17| [Saturday, Aug 21 AT 02:30 PM] I-Witness Video Intensive Training for the RNC Protests NYU Law School, Furman Hall, Room 216 at 245 Sullivan Street, NYC, NY Protect the Right to Protest! Be a Video Witness for the Republican National Convention protests What is a video witness? Video witnesses use a video camera to collect evidence of arrests and police abuse. Video images of police actions at protests can be crucial evidence at trials of people arrested and in civil lawsuits against police misconduct. Come to either an intensive or a mini training! Buddies Needed! No video camera? No problem! Each camera person will need a &!quot;buddy&!quot; - someone who can &!quot;watch their back&!quot; and be a second pair of eyes to identify areas that need to be filmed. Buddies should also attend a Video Witness training. I-Witness Intensive Training recommended Thursday, August 19, 6:30-8:30 pm Judson Memorial Church 243 Thompson Street corner of Washington Square South press the buzzer for the Gym Saturday, August 21, 2:30-4:30 pm NYU Law School, Furman Hall, Room 216 245 Sullivan Street at West 3rd St., following NLG Observer Training Thursday, August 26, 6:30- 8:30 pm St. Mary's Episcopal Church 521 West 126th St, b/w B'way and Amsterdam 1/9 to 125th Street and Broadway or A/B/C/D to 125th and St. Nicholas and walk west Mini-Video Trainings Short trainings will follow the National Lawyers Guild's Legal Observer Orientations. NLG's RNC Legal Observer Orientations * August 25 - 7-9 pm 4th Universalist Church - 76th Street/Central Park West. * August 28 - (Saturday) 10-11 am NYU Law School, Furman Hall - Room 216, 245 Sullivan Street. * August 30 - (Monday) - 10-11 am Location TBA ----------------------- To register for Video Witness Trainings or to find out more about our meetings, contact: iwitnessvideo [at] hotmail.com Bring your camera, if you have one, to the training. RSVPs encouraged, but not required. I-Witness is collaborating with the National Lawyers Guild and People's Law Collective I-Witness Video is a NYC-based group that organizes video for legal purposes during protests. We work with local legal teams to use video to support the defense of arrested activists, to file civil suits against the city/police, and to discourage illegal police aggression overall. Join our organizing efforts - come to a meeting! I-Witness Meetings: Tuesdays at 6:30 pm More Info: Contact Person: Ady E-mail: iwitnessvideo AT hotmail.com http://www.CounterConvention.org/lightningbug/index.php?action=detail&mode=v iew&listing=1266 ______________________________________________________ 18| [Saturday, Aug 21 AT 06:00 PM] Experimental Party DisInformation Center / Propaganda Hospitality Suite LUXE gallery, 24 W. 57th St., 5th Floor, #503, New York, NY The Experimental Party rolls into New York on Saturday, August 21st just ahead of the Republican National Convention with the opening of its Propaganda Hospitality Suite at LUXE Gallery, 24 West 57th Street, NYC from 6 - 8 PM. Politicos, press, protestors, Republicans, performance artists, and the public will gather for a first look at the Experimental Party DisInformation Center, a state-of-the-art media installation presented by the US Department of Art & Technology. The exhibition runs through Saturday, September 4th, when it will close with a Post-Mortem Lounge from 6 - 8 PM. Regular hours for the installation are Tuesday through Saturday from 11 AM to 6 PM. More Info: Phone: 212-404-7455 Contact Person: Randall Packer E-mail: info AT experimentalparty.org Web: http://www.experimentalparty.org http://www.CounterConvention.org/lightningbug/index.php?action=detail&mode=v iew&listing=869 ______________________________________________________ 19| [Saturday, Aug 21 AT 07:00 PM] Fear Will Not Silence Us!!!!!!!! ALWAN 16 Beaver St. (between broad and broadway), New York, NY Join Not In Our Name to celebrate creative resistance with &!quot;Fear Will Not Silence Us&!quot; an anti-militarism art show. The Republican National Convention is on its way to invade NYC and as part of our efforts to deliver a resounding NO! to the Bush agenda of war and repression, we have collected artwork from all over the country to support a movement based on creative, never-ending resistance.The art includes photos, sculptures, posters, films, and paintings that all unite against the repression here at home and abroad. There will be an auction, film, dj's and live music. Proceeds will go to Not In Our Name will be used to build for protests at the Republican National Convention. Check out pictures from our art show on the west coast! http://www.indybay.org/news/2004/06/1687257.php More Info: Phone: 212-760-1722 Contact Person: jaz. E-mail: fearwillnotsilenceus AT yahoo.com Web: http://www.notinourname.net http://www.CounterConvention.org/lightningbug/index.php?action=detail&mode=v iew&listing=1006 ______________________________________________________ 20| [Saturday, Aug 21 AT 07:30 PM] Mouths Wide Open: Poets Reading in Horrified Anticipation of the RNC Washington Square Church,135 West 4th Street, New York, NY Mouths Wide Open: Poets Reading in Horrified Anticipation of the RNC Saturday August 21st at 7:30 p.m.: FREE! at Washington Square Church 135 West 4th Street (6th Ave. & MacDougal) West 4th Street stop on the A, C, E, F, V, D, B Featuring Michael Lally (author of It's Not Nostalgia), Bob Holman (author of The Collect Call of the Wild and director of the Bowery Poetry Club), Ange Mlinko (author of Matinees), Tonya Foster (co-editor of Third Mind), Lydia Cortes (author of Lust for Lust) Lisa Jarnot (author of Ring of Fire) and others. MC'd by Daniel Kane, author of All Poets Welcome: The Lower East Side Poetry Scene in the 1960s. After the reading, pick up your free &!quot;No RNC&!quot; activist gift bag, which includes a pocket-sized copy of the Constitution and Bill of Rights ? just in case ? More Info: Contact Person: Daniel Kane E-mail: dkane AT panix.com http://www.CounterConvention.org/lightningbug/index.php?action=detail&mode=v iew&listing=1176 ______________________________________________________ Unsubscribe here: http://www.counterconvention.org/index.php?name=pt_blastemail_manage&email=l ee AT leewells.org&default=unsubscribe + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + 4. Date: 8.14.04 From: marcin ramocki <mramocki AT earthlink.net> Subject: 3-d animation teaching New Jersey City University is looking for an adjunct to teach 3-d animation (3-d Studio Max), starting September 2004. Class meets once a week (evenings), 3 hours, 30 minutes from NYC. If interested please contact mramocki AT earthlink.net. + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + 5. Date: 8.15.04 From: You Minowa <webmaster AT netarts.org> Subject: "Project netarts.org" 2004 - 1st announcement 1. From "Art on the Net" to the new "Project netarts.org" 2. Call for the nomination 3. The schedule ------------------------------------------------------------- 1. From "Art on the Net" to the "Project netarts.org" Since 1995, The Machida City Museum of Graphic Arts has been hosting the "Art on the Net" project promoting the Internet as a space for artistic expression. For almost a decade now, this project has been calling on artists around the world to investigate the relationship between Art, the Internet and the Society. This summer, to celebrate the success of our "Art on the Net" project, we are going to launch a new event called "Project netarts.org." The "Project netarts.org" consists of an Internet Art exhibition, artist essays, theoretical articles, and an online forum. The Exhibition section of the project will feature recent developments in Internet Art and is open to all forms of creative expression that use the Internet as their primary medium. The essays and articles from artists, critics, curators and other contributors, will be featured in the Writings section. The Online Forum is open to everyone who is interested in Internet Art and other hybridized forms of Digital or Media Art that use network technologies. Although this project is primarily focused on the latest developments in the field of Internet Art, we are also very interested in considering contributions that reflect the influence of Internet Art production on the wider fields of Media-Art, Digital Art, curatorial practice, digital pedagogy, and online publishing. The new "Project netarts.org" will be launched 1st, Nov. 2004, at http://www.netarts.org/ ------------------------------------------------------------- 2. Call for the nomination This year, the artworks for the exhibition and the "netarts.org 2004 prize" will be chosen by our Selection Committee. The prize fee for the top selection will be 200,000 yen. The members of the Selection Committee are: Mark Amerika (http://www.markamerika.com/) John Hopkins (http://www.neoscenes.net/) Trace Reddell (http://www.du.edu/~treddell/) Anne-Marie Schleiner (http://www.opensorcery.net/) You Minowa (Curator, MCMOGATK) The members will make their own nominations, but we will accept nominations from the web also. Please send your nomination to us directly at the website http://www.netarts.org. DO NOT SEND YOUR NOMINATIONS TO SELECTION COMMITTEE MEMBERS. The coordinators of "Project netarts.org" will also review essays and articles that focus on Internet art. Selected essays and articles will be featured in our Writings section, in English and Japanese. ------------------------------------------------------------- 3. The schedule We will accept nominations by mail from 1st, Aug. 2004 to 15th, Sept. 2004. Check out our website for details. The award-winning artwork will be selected by 15th Oct. The exhibition will be launched 1st, Nov. 2004. We will soon announce some physical events to take place in Nov. at the Machida City Museum of Graphic Arts, Tokyo. ------------------------------------------------------------- -- You Minowa Curator Machida City Museum of Graphic Arts http://www.netarts.org/ webmaster AT netarts.org + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + Rhizome is now offering organizational subscriptions, memberships purchased at the institutional level. These subscriptions allow participants of an institution to access Rhizome's services without having to purchase individual memberships. (Rhizome is also offering subsidized memberships to qualifying institutions in poor or excluded communities.) Please visit http://rhizome.org/info/org.php for more information or contact Rachel Greene at Rachel AT Rhizome.org. + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + 6. Date: 8.18.04 From: Kevin McGarry <Kevin AT rhizome.org> Subject: Call for Rhizome.org ArtBase intern Feel free to pass this along, especially to any friends who are students or teachers Thanks, Kevin + + + Rhizome.org Seeks Intern to Archive Net Art for Rhizome ArtBase Rhizome.org, a nonprofit organization focused on new media art, is seeking an Intern to work on expanding the Rhizome ArtBase, an indexed archive of historically significant new media artworks. We seek an exceptionally smart, web savvy, friendly and reliable individual - perhaps ideally an Art History or Library Sciences student - who can work well independently as well as in close collaboration with Rhizome staff. The successful candidate will be articulate, interested in new media art, archives, non-profit development and able to maintain a high standard of detail and consistency. Rhizome.org is among the oldest and most well-respected organizations in the field of new media art. For more information about the organization and our programs, please check out our web site: http://rhizome.org. PRIMARY RESPONSIBILITIES + work independently, as well as with the ArtBase Coordinator and participating artists, to gather and produce metadata, images, and descriptive and biographical texts about historically significant net artworks and artists. + maintain and add to (research) a list of historically significant net artworks and artists. + initiate, follow-up, and summarize correspondences with artists about adding their artworks to the Rhizome ArtBase. + research and fact check histories of net artists and of their artworks. + keep detailed records of progress and status of all artworks and media/texts relating to them. REQUIRED QUALIFICATIONS + computer fluency: Mac OS X, Word, Excel. + excellent written and spoken communication skills (critical arts writing, letter-writing, email, phone, follow-up). + strong interests in Internet art and archives. + ability to index information consistently and to maintain numerous ongoing correspondences. DESIRED QUALIFICATIONS + experience working within an archive, online or physical. + ability to telecommute (reliable access to Internet and computer). START DATE September 2004. END DATE TBD (earliest, December 2004). LOCATION Rhizome is currently located at the New Museum of Contemporary Art's interim office space in Chelsea, New York City. HOURS 1-2 days a week. REMUNERATION This internship is unpaid but there is the option to earn credit within a degree program. TO APPLY Please email a cover letter and resume to Kevin McGarry, ArtBase Coordinator: kevin AT rhizome.org Kevin McGarry Rhizome.org New Museum of Contemporary Art 210 11th Avenue 2nd Fl. New York, NY 10001 212.218.1288 X 220 + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + 7. Date: 8.18.04 From: Kevin McGarry <Kevin AT rhizome.org> Subject: FW: LMCC workspace ------ Forwarded Message From: calls AT theredproject.com Date: Thu, 12 Aug 2004 13:58:58 -0700 (PDT) To: kevin AT rhizome.org Subject: calls x + need bkyn apt asap OPEN CALL FOR SUBMISSIONS - LMCC/Workspace: 120 Broadway - Session B Residency Dates: November 15, 2004-April 30, 2005 Deadline for application materials: 4:00 pm, September 13, 2004 About LMCC/Workspace: LMCC continues its residency program LMCC/Workspace on the 8th floor of 120 Broadway in space donated by Silverstein Properties. Like its former location at the Woolworth Building this program encourages consideration of location and context while continuing LMCC's mission to position artists in lower Manhattan, create ties between the arts and business communities, and support the careers of emerging artists. In 1997 LMCC began offering artist residencies in the World Trade Center known as the World Views program, after September 11th LMCC continued the program by establishing the New Views residencies in the World Financial Center and DUMBO, Brooklyn. LMCC/Workspace builds on the success of past residencies which included some of today's significant young artists such as Stephen Vitiello, Paul Pfeiffer, Naomi Ben-Shahar, Monika Bravo, Gelatin, Patty Chang, John Pilson, Nadine Robinson, Sanford Biggers, Lucky DeBellevue, Emily Jacir, Jennie C. Jones, Kristin Lucas, Jennifer & Kevin McCoy, and Olu Oguibe. <http://lmcc.pmail.biz/pmailweb/ct?id=-35+34020120+196+1+12998> [ more information and application download here ] Attend an LMCC/Workspace Info Session Staff will review the application guidelines, answer questions about the selection process, and help prepare your submission. Held at LMCC's One Wall Street Court Office on Tuesday, August 3, from 6-7:30 pm. RSVP, by email rsvp AT lmcc.net or call 212-219-9401 x302. ------ End of Forwarded Message + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + For $65 annually, Rhizome members can put their sites on a Linux server, with a whopping 350MB disk storage space, 1GB data transfer per month, catch-all email forwarding, daily web traffic stats, 1 FTP account, and the capability to host your own domain name (or use http://rhizome.net/your_account_name). Details at: http://rhizome.org/services/1.php + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + 8. Date: 8.20.04 From: Rhizome.org <artbase AT rhizome.org> Subject: Just added to the Rhizome ArtBase: INTERVALS by Peter Horvath Just added to the Rhizome ArtBase ... http://rhizome.org/object.rhiz?26360 + INTERVALS + + Peter Horvath + Intervals explores a series of characters whose investigation of self and identity unfold and elide through a sequence of cinematic interludes. Hovering through an amorphous landscape we begin by observing the mirror images of four animated figures. At once seductive and illusive, these portraits successively expose their most intimate selves through accounts of lost innocence, fear of the unknown, masculine ritual and the mystery of love. Here identity is subject to slippages, distortions, and to filmic alter egos that mimic and echo their subjectsâ?? memory. Horvathâ??s innovative use of pop-up windows create a virtual collage that posit identity as a series of random â??memory actsâ?? but whose inquiry accumulate into a slowly revealing narrative of the human condition.- Celina Jeffery + + + Biography Peter Horvath works in video, sound, photo-based and new media. Camera in hand since age 6, he inhaled darkroom fumes until his late 20â??s, then began exploring art forms in time based media. Immersed himself in digital technologies at the birth of the Web, co-founded 6168.org, a site for net.art, and adopted techniques of photo-montage which he uses in his net based and 2D works. Exhibitions include the Whitney Museum Of American Artâ??s Artport, the 17th Stuttgarter Filmwinter (Stuttgart, Germany) FILE 2004 (Sâo Paulo, Brazil), Video Zone International Video Art Biennial (Tel Aviv, Israel) the Thailand New Media Art Festival (Bangkok, Thailand) the Musée national des beaux-arts du Québec (Québec City, Canada) as well as venues in New York, Tokyo, London, and numerous net.art showings. He is a founding member of the net.art collective Hell.com. He likes to consider a future when high bandwidth will be free. ALSO: Life is Like Water - http://www.6168.org/subway/ Turbulence Artists Studio - http://turbulence.org/studios/horvath/index.html . . High Speed access makes us happy. . . + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + 9. 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Date: 8.17.04 From: jeremy <jeremy AT silencematters.com> Subject: life A friend just sent me this HAWKING quote, "I think computer viruses should count as life. I think it says something about human nature that the only form of life we have created so far is purely destructive. We've created life in our own image.-- Stephen Hawking" I wanted to see what others had to say about the whole thing. I was surprised. I really disagree with the destructive aspect.... i dont know that viruses are created with intent to destroy. They are an actual act of creation. I think they maybe be intended for subversion, but not destruction. if something gets destroyed, it should be a poor reflection on the maker of the system itself for leaving holes and windows - or, just plainly not taking care or having a respect for the end user of the system. The system needs to be designed to include the most distent end user..... and if it is not, that end user will eventually break the system with the weight of its mind. I think it is part of our nature to subvert systems, to what extent we take that subversion and the way we go about administering our sense of change is a whole other issue. * I cant help but to look at what i just said,.. and see it in a global context,.. and question the ramifications of such a point of view. :) hmmm I will have more to say on this after i devise a way too cook some eggs. -jeremy http://silencematters.com/shhhh/shhhh.html + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + 11. Date: 8.20.04 From: Lauren Cornell <lclclc70 AT hotmail.com> Subject: Interview with Natalie Jeremijenko by Lauren Cornell. Interview with Natalie Jeremijenko by Lauren Cornell. Wednesday, June 30, 2004, 9:45 pm. The scene: Natalie Jeremijenko enters frantically with her young children, E and Yo, who disperse towards their bedroom. She spots me waiting on a chair in her living room and remembers our interview (³Oh, its Wednesday²). Turning to her roommate, who had let me in, she explains the dilemma of her lost goose. After procuring a flashlight, her roommate headed to the Hudson river to look for it. NJ puts E (6yo) and Yo (4yo) to sleep and we begin the interview over white wine on ice. NJ remains in a state of readiness for the wayward goose by keeping phone in hand. +++ LC: Is it too complicated to explain what happened with the goose? Or, perhaps too traumatic? NJ: One of my robotic geese is at large on the Hudson. We were just goosing: using it to play with and talk to the Canada Geese that live near the garbage pier, at 12th street. But, the robot ran away, or went out of range and is floating around out there--transmitting its POV to no-one--totally out of control. The goose robots are part of my current obsession and project: the OOZ. It¹s a project to rethink the relationship between humans and non-humans institutionalized in contexts like zoos. You know, places where animals are incarcerated, incapacitated, and made dependant. So, all the interesting things that animals do: territorial negotiations, social stratification, courtship? is taken away. Its all chopped food and arranged marriages in places like zoos, or worse, artificial insemination because most of the animals are too depressed to get it up, so to speak. The zoo is one kind of institutionalization we all know-- there is also pets or hunting, bestiality ? So the question of the OOZ is whether there is another way of relating, because none of those kinds of institutionalized contexts work particularly well for the animals, or for us, especially if you want to know anything about their complex social functioning. For instance, hunters might get to know their huntees quite well, and surprisingly they do, but the interaction is limited. OOZ is a project to re-think all of that. And it all started out of this fantastic place called De Verbeeling {www.verbeelding.nl] who commissioned a new project? (Yo enters and reports a possible Zombie problem in the bedroom. We discuss possible Zombie deterrents.. Yo stays.) NJ: So, we started with this commission from the De Verbeelding (translation from Dutch: The Imagination) . An interesting place to work at because it is in the newest village in the Netherlands, a mere 30 year old really verdant landscape, reclaimed, as the Dutch will do, from the sea. Build a few dykes, pump out the water, and voila vast new territory: green expanses and, you know, a thoroughly constructed nature. There is no delusion that there is a pristine state to return to, nor any idea of untouched nature, none of those kinds of manufactured hallucinations. The first thing to do - if you want to facilitate positive interaction between urban populations of humans and urban populations of non-humans - is to think about the context, or niche, and designing an environment from a non-humancentric pov. An ooz is a zoo backwards and without cages, right so: what do places that animals and humans cohabit look like? ; can we ensure a quality of life such that the animals willingly inhabit without confinement and coercement? and they like it enough to even tolerate human interaction Verbeelding had already been appropriated by the local population of feral geese as their nesting ground. It was lovely to see the award winning glam architectural structure taken over by the local gaggle of geese. So, the first OOZ interface is there: an interface to facilitate interaction between the geese and the De Verbeelding audience. LC: So, where is the interaction part? NJ: Well, the main interactive interface is this robotic goose that can drive around amongst the geese, follow them, play with them and just, be in there. You drive the robot around from this chair positioned at the back of the pavilion overlooking the lake: when you lean forward, your goose agent leans forward, and when you go to the side, it goes to the side etc. You can talk to the geese as well, through robotic ventriloquism so to speak. You can say ³hello² ³quack² or ³howdoyoudo² or issue these pre-recorded goose words. Then see what the geese do back. You can try all sorts of ways of communicating through proximity, verbal utterances, or through the actuated neck--neck positions turns out to be important if you want to strike up friendly relations. So, there is an experiment behind this-- each time you issue an utterance , the robotic goose samples back the response. That is, the video camera in the goose head, records back 2-4 seconds of their response and that uploads to a database. And, you can annotate that : you might say ³I think the goose was saying ³hello² ³ ?..or ³ piss off² , or whatever you think the geese meant. You have this ongoing database that people can interpret-- a distributed interpretation of the goose/goose robot creole as it develops. Traditionally, understanding the study of goose language is the activity of an expert: Konrad Lorenz who is the Nobel Prize winning guy who took on geese. But this is a strange way to learn a language-- we all understand that you don¹t learn language from the dictionary, from a single person, from a top-down authority. Language is a distributed phenomenon. It depends on shared meaning. The experiment of this project is that we can learn goose(!), but that we can learn it in the distributed, participatory manner that defines what language is. LC: So, that lost goose is precious. NJ: Ooooo yes. about 800 dollars worth of video and circuitry. But this one was called White Cheek (by Yo) and it was rather a nice one. LC: Does the OOZ project only focus on geese, or are you getting inside other animal populations..? NJ: There are many species I would like to interact with. We have built an interface for water striders, designed one for bats and Koalas, and I am studying beavers, bears and elephants ?. thinking about how to facilitate productive interaction between these species. (us and them that is) LC: I didn¹t realize you were currently so involved in OOZ and these other projects over the summer. In talking to you as we set up this meeting, it seemed you had dropped everything to focus on Kurtz. NJ: Not dropped. But, the Kurtz issue is horrible and, well what to do? We did just launch the Kurtz shout-out line today. Have you seen the Anti-terror line? LC: Yes the line to report cases of civil liberty infringement. Its modeled on John Ashcrofts¹ TIPS (and others like it: 1800NYCSAFE) , right? Except the Anti-Terror line is about criticizing the kind of distrust and discriminatory tips they collect, , and the paranoid, acclimate of anxiety that TIPS climate brings on. I like how it attempts to share information, and make isolated cases publicly accumulated and available where TIPS would do the opposite. NJ: Yes - The Kurtz Shout Out line tries to capture the public outcry, literally, around his case. LC: What will you do once you have gathered all the messages on the Anti-terror and Kurtz lines? NJ: We might mix it some with a nice drum and bass beat to make an ambient track. They have also be used in radio and tv documentaries, quoted by the press. The potentials for use are open. For the Anti-terror line, for example, there has been one traditional documentary film. And, as you suggested, we are doing ongoing analysis of the anatomy of antiterrorism attacks. It is one thing just to bemoan civil liberties, but to actually record the banality of what civil liberties infringements are, what are we actually losing and to have a kind of aural evidence for it is another.. Its ready for supporting many cases, films, radio stories or forms of media production that don¹t translate in a text. Its data. And in this case, I think its really interesting that the Kurtz shout-out line can capture the sheer emotions of his persecution, prosecution. You know there is an absolute crisis of confidence in the federal administration. Of course, there is a cynicism and skepticism, but to see it as this brute, inept, bullying you know is a tremendous crisis. While only some people feel authorized to write a letter, many people will just feel ok just to say something, just to say ?this really scares me¹, or ?this is really crazy¹. You know the rant or the performance. To be able to accumulate this does capture the public outcry in a way that might be more vivid than a headcount at a rally/ demonstration, than placards, t-shirts or sloganeering that are otherwise used. LC: So, these lines are produced through the Bureau of Inverse Technology. Are you the Bureau of Inverse Technology now, or are there significant others involved? NJ: It¹s a huge, multi-national network.. LC: Oh, is it really because I know how these collectives work.. NJ: Huge! LC: Right. NJ: Extensive? Unending. LC: Yeah, I run a huge not-for-profit, too, but actually, its largely volunteer run, and everyone involved is enormously busy, so often I am just the director of myself (and everything else). It really is unending.. So, since it is so vast then, how do you account for BIT Activities? NJ: Well we have a Decade Report we are actually coming out with that reveals who is behind the Bureau. And, it talks about why that has all been a bit unclear, you know, why Corporate Art?art produced with a bureaucratic front - has been a response that people have had to the information age: Bureau is not alone RtMark, Etoy, Institute for Applied Autonomy, Critical Art Ensemble, Electronic Disturbance Theater, The Yes Men, bureau of low technology, survival research labs, and various other new media/technology collectives of different sorts. It is not the kind of 70¹s anonymous, collective of Guerilla Girl anonymity they each explore different takes on what authorship and authority are in the information age ? Roommate RE-ENTERS. LC: He¹s goose-less. ( there had been a few phone calls ?. updating Natalie. She is not surprised but visibly disappointed) NJ: Oh - Thank you Robb, for night goose searching. LC: What happened? ROB: Well I went out there and saw many things that weren¹t it. I was watching a piece of wood for a while that I thought might be it, and then a buoy. (Natalie makes plans to go out later) NJ: Right, so for Yes Men and RtMark, they play anonymity in order to facilitate a prankmanship. This is very different from what we are doing, albeit funnier Or ETOY is more rock-band, all wearing the same uniform. A visual thing, a larger brand with consistency. But with the Bureau, its very much the issue of the conditions of production of technological artifacts. There is always a diffused accountability, you are never quite sure who made this or that program, you can never call up and say Joe, I don¹t like your spellchecker, why is the dictionary in microsoft-word so 5th grade, can¹t you use Oxford English? There are always these kind of layers and layers of uncertainty, you never quite know who has done what, nor who is responsible, authorship is diffuse. It is this that motivated the Bureau to use a bureaucratic front. And so, this Decade Report, makes a pointed accountability, as in the end, the only way to counter the bureaucracy is this direct accountability. It doesn¹t mitigate different roles or different ways bureau agents have played into different projects but it seems now is the time to provide accountability for those, because the way to understand bureaucracy is through the people involved. Like Milgram did. And that¹s coming. Soon. ROB: Are faces going to be revealed? NJ: Faces, names, roles ? LC: So you¹ll still put us on hold, but we¹ll know exactly who you are. <Break> LC: I am interested in the new D4PA Weapons project the idea of equipping anyone from pedestrians or protestors with their own surveillance or communication technologies. Things like Bit Rocket that can capture picture of crowds, seems like it could be really useful at a protest where documentation is so important, and always so lacking. Or BIT radio, which transmits news ³break-ins² on established stations Maybe you could an pack an R N C toolkit with these. Or the Bureau should have some lower chain mignons do so. The Bureau is behind D4PA weapons, yes? NJ: Yes, that¹s a Bureau archive. LC: You seem to be kicking off so many projects at the minute. How do you have time for the distribution bit? Getting the word out. Specifically with the lines, which are designed to be so wide-ranging, how will you outreach for them? NJ: Asking people informally to call that kind of propagation through social network is in effect, and that¹s how things really get done. The official press releases and releases while that evokes some interest and has some documentation, it doesn¹t necessarily get the project done. It doesn¹t really get to the East Asian journalist association or the various immigrant groups who you¹d like to have these numbers programmed into their cell phone. LC: Right what about stickers? You could put those up in phone-booths. I¹d help. But I don¹t know if anybody uses phone-booths anymore.. NJ: Stickers would be good. But I like credit cards because how many credit cards do you get sent in the mail with you know ³Your Name Here² and it¹s the idea of one that you don¹t actually keep but that you pass on, again re-enforcing the idea of a social network. Once you have programmed it ( the number) into your cell phone , you can pass it on, its sort of a torch relaying thing? There is this another line in New York and London, by the way, called the Sparrow line.. LC: I didn¹t think there were any sparrows in New York before the Sparrow line your line that asks people to call in with sightings from around the city? NJ: Yes - There are only a few (left). And it¹s interesting because sparrows have co-existed with Western civilization for centuries and centuries I think to quote Macbeth that there are ³there is a special providence in the Fall of the sparrow². If you think of sparrows as canaries, it is a tremendous indictment of contemporary urban environments for this creature, who has co-habited very closely with humans for centuries has disappeared in a sudden catastrophic population decline in the last 8 years, no one can provide any explanations. I would argue that artists, like people can and do generate knowledge. I mean the traditional view is that knowledge is generated by highly disciplined experts in highly credential, proper institutions. Knowledge is a privileged institution. I would beg to differ. Disciplined knowledge can produce some kinds of truth claims, but there is a controversial idea that in fact some questions are better suited to this diverse participation In this case, with what I am a getting a through sparrow line, we¹ll have a better chance of understanding why the sparrow population is declining than all the other EPA-funded scientists because of the sheer statistical variance involved. Getting the speculative explanations, and sightings from a whole bunch of friends who live in New York, is just more information, and more diverse date than they have. so basically, if you see a sparrow you can upload a report. The interesting thing is that in Paris the sparrows are doing fine. In New York and London, they are not. And there are Bureau offices in both cities. L:C: These lines are interesting because of how they riff ideas of participatory democracy. They set up structures that encourage a plurality of voices. At the same time, their structure (built and mediated by an anonymous bureau, display of calls) references the systems of focus groups, news opinion polls or corporate feedback that inaccurately represent people, and distort what free participation, choice or expression could look like. NJ: What really is participation? There is a lot of new media sites and projects that ask you to ³put in your perspective², ³share your experience.², ³what do you think?² "give us your feedback" "fill out this survey, and win a car². In fact, Creative Time did that thing - public input on whether or not the towers of light should go up. It is tremendously problematic to assert art by consensus, that you need to do a survey, or create a consensual committee - - I am very critical of this kind of vague gesture at participatory protocols. Structures of participation are very specific and very political. Vague inclusiveness fails to represent collectives and individuals. What technology does primarily is structure participation. That means who gets to participate, and how, and what they get to talk about or you can have an opinion about, or in how in some way you can be involved is extraordinarily political. It is the political issue of the information age. I would argue, different structures of participation produce radically different information. With Amazon.com you upload your review, you can click people-who-liked-this-book-also-liked/bought, and get other books recommended ! I don¹t want that kind of anonymous, bland inclusive information. it is worse than useless, it doesn't take me anywhere interesting. I want to know who wrote that review, an email address, from Okron Ohio doesn't tell me that. I want to know what you, Lauren Cornell are interested in, what my students are reading, what my chair, curator or mother has read. This is a very structural issue. Participation should not mean bland free-for-alls. LC: So, I didn¹t see the through-line of your interest in human relationship to animals, I have seen that you were interested in giving voice to inanimate objects? NJ: I am interested in agency, which is something that is not just human despite a long philosophical tradition to assert exactly this. It¹s a fundamental political question: how you think about agency. The OOZ project really interests me because it is about addressing "the other", demarcating differences that have political consequences. Subhumans, be they women, aborigines, perverts or animals do not have, or at some points in history, have not had a political voice, have their agency curtailed and controlled through territory, editing or other devices. What is interesting about our relationships to animals is we use exactly the same xenophobic language, the same discursive structures on immigrants as we use for "invasive species". We work out all sorts of things this way: homosexuality was normalized through demonstrating its ubiquity in nonhumans; conversely the opposition to same sex marriage is that people claim "itsnot natural", the same argument that has been used against interracial and cross-cultural marriages. Scientific explanations of animal behavior have political saliency. As the sociologist of science Bruno Latour says: "Nature, far from being an obvious domain of reality, is a way of assembling political order without due process." He, like the OOZ project proposes ending the dichotomy between nature and society, and would also assert in its place a collective incorporating humans and nonhumans. There is a great book on homosexuality in animals if you are interested .... the title is wonderful: "Biological Exuberance: Animal Homosexuality and Natural Diversity² by an obsessive fellow called Bagemihl. The interesting thing about animals is that they demonstrate that we, and our urban megapolis, are inside nature, not separate or distinct from it. When animals make autonomous choices to inhabit places that we do not recognize as 'natural' they teach us that we actually live in something natural. Take for instance the geese that have taken on the garbage truck parking lot down the block on the Hudson as their nesting ground. They are thriving .... despite every effort to make things impossible for them., cutting the long grasses, paving over any feeding ground, leaking a terrible cocktails of garbage juice?. Yet they survive!! In the OOZ project we can look at animals and see, if we try, models of governance, territory negotiations, and social dynamics like class mobility in geese .... In many ways, animals are a better test of agency than avatars and digital creatures. The animals actually do have character. They do talk back in ways that we haven't coded, predicted nor programmed. We may have mastery and dominion over digital creatures and simulated complexity, but what is interesting is how much we don't have dominion over animals and their(our) actual environment. Despite all the poisons, trapping technologies, urban and structural strategies, NY has as many mice as it does people..... 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