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I must correct a technical error that has crept into these discussions at least twice. Analog film frames are not digital. The case in point is simply this: you can take the letters of the Bible and re-arrange them to produce, for example, War and Peace. But you _cannot_ take the frames of, for example, "The Birth of a Nation" and use them to produce, say, "Psycho". The point is that a text is assembled from a finite set of fixed, conventional, symbols called letters. The number of texts that can be created from the same finite set of letters is infinite. Each and every frame of film is unique, each an analog work in itself (the same as a photograph), and is infinite in variety. You can probably re-arrange the shots (each a collection of frames that interdepend to produce the illusion of movement) in a given film to produce an infinite nubmer of new films (assuming you allow repetition of shots) but, it seems certain to me that the collection of films so produced will not exibit the same level diversity (mos...

For me, "digital" is a woody kind of word. Similar to "shruberries". # distributed via : no commercial use without permission # is a moderated mailing list for net criticism, # collaborative text filtering and cultural politics of the nets # more info: http://mail.kein.org/mailman/listinfo/nettime-l # archive: http://www.nettime.org contact: nettime@kein.org

In definitions, we always must ask: why? We use the words usefully already, why (politically) make the definition include or exclude something? I certainly don't have a clear answer to this question, which makes me hesitant to contribute; nevertheless, I feel I have a few things that might build on the discussion. For me, "digital" means "linguistic" or "grammatical" or any other of the problematic and non-neutral words that try to encapsulate language. Digitization is a system that functions through absolute difference (or differance, if you prefer), the ability to separate the phenomena of "1" from that of "0" (or any other symbols, e.g. "a" from "b" from "c"). As someone has mentioned, the size of the symbol set must be finite. It is precisely through making the infinite finite that we create absolute difference. This has nothing to do with numbers. Rather, numbers have to do with it, numbers are representable with digital content and entangled with the idea of digitality somehow. The convention of turning...

frank Re: sondheimogram [x4: looking/whirr, when, check out 2L, Alan Sondheim theory packed analysis Weather, Sync, and Physics in SL from yesterday The Newborn Age (My review of Jon's Marshall's book among other things): RCCS: - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - Date: Tue, 20 Jan 2009 10:32:40 +0100 From: frank Subject: Re: sondheimogram [x4: looking/whirr, when, check out 2L, wtf? Alan Sondheim schrieb: > [digested @ nettime --mod(tb)] > > Alan Sondheim > > looking for aylan whirr whirr whirr > when the meet > Check out installation in Second Life by DC Spensley (fwd) > Complaynte of Numbers - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - Date: Wed, 21 Jan 2009 16:24:40 -0500 (EST) From: Alan Sondheim sondheim@panix.comt; Sub...

original to: http://globalraver.blogspot.com/ 31 January 2009 Drugs, Terror and Noise: The New Regime of Rave Surveillance (in Goa) Unusual things happened in the trance scene in Goa (India) this season. I start with an apparently trivial story. The police arrested a group of party promoters led by a German and a Russian DJ in the remote beach of Morjim this last January 11. Nothing really different here, had they been caught selling drugs (which was not the case). Since the early 2000s, the government has largely eradicated the trance scene, but smaller secret parties still take place under informal agreements among villagers, cops and expatriates. In any case, whenever the police raid these unauthorized events, the same outcome is expected: Western party promoters get away with a warning, perhaps losing the sound system, if not paying baksheesh (institutional bribe). However, the recent January arrest was different. To the best of my knowledge, this was the first time that Western party promoters have been ...

Hi, My name is Jung-Hua Liu and my art project is about visualizing Wi-Fi network into colourful landscape portrait. The aim of this project is to construct a collaborative website where wireless internet connection is used as an artistic medium. Besides my fieldwork in different cities to collect the Wi-Fi information, we also invite Wi-Fi users to connect and take part on this innovative project. Any participant simply needs to provide the number of their wireless rooter, which is available for everyone and does not involve disclosing any kind of private or secure information. Each of these numbers is then converted into colours which are reflected by the specific location of the users. Having various users connecting to the project will automatically produce something like a wi-fi abstract paintings, working simultaneously in cyberspace and the real world. This project depends then on the participation of wi-fi users. It will become ever more complex and fascinating as more people connect from different l...

> The People v The Banksters: A mass snow ball fight in the City > > They play with our money we play in the snow! > > Rumours are abounding about a mass snow ball fight between The > People and The Banksters in the City of London tommorow. > > Text messages inviting people are bouncing around like snow balls > and bail outs. It looks like its going to be big.. > > 6.4 million of us did not got work today..we decided to play in the > snow instead.... how many will spread that spirit of play to the > financial district tomorrow..? > > TOMORROW > > 3rd Feb - 1pm Royal Bank of Scotland, Bishops Gate, City of London. > > see you there, put the gloves on and keep it fluffy like snow.. > ??? > > > > ??? > lab of ii e-list > http://www.labofii.net > > To unsubscribe - > http://lists.riseup.net/www/sigrequest/labofii ************************************ "As if individual speculators were to be allowed to export the clouds out of the sky, or the stars out of the firmament, one by one. We shall be reduced to gnaw the v...

THIS IS AN EXCITING TIME FOR PEOPLE WORKING WITH VIDEO -- SAM GREGORY Sam Gregory is WITNESS's programme director, a video producer, trainer, human rights advocate and on the board of the Tactical Technology Collective, among others. Extracts from an interview: FN: Tell us about WITNESS? WITNESS [http://www.witness.org] is a human rights organization which uses video and related online technologies to help people use video for change. We work in a number of different ways: we partner with local human rights group on campaigns that incorporate video in many different forms (for evidence, for community organizing, for decision-maker lobbying). We train hundreds of groups each year in short-term trainings including a Video Advocacy Institute [http://www.witness.org/vai]; we maintain an archive of human rights footage, and we have an initiative called the Hub [http://hub.witness.org] This is an online platform for human rights media and action where you can share video and propose actions. We're...

The People v The Banksters: A mass snow ball fight in the City They play with our money we play in the snow! Rumours are abounding about a mass snow ball fight between The People and The Banksters in the City of London tommorow. Text messages inviting people are bouncing around like snow balls and bail outs. It looks like its going to be big.. 6.4 million of us did not got work today..we decided to play in the snow instead.... how many will spread that spirit of play to the financial district tomorrow..? TOMORROW 3rd Feb - 1pm Royal Bank of Scotland, Bishops Gate, City of London. see you there, put the gloves on and keep it fluffy like snow.. ??? ??? lab of ii e-list http://www.labofii.net To unsubscribe - http://lists.riseup.net/www/sigrequest/labofii ************************************ "As if individual speculators were to be allowed to export the clouds out of the sky, or the stars out of the firmament, one by one. We shall be reduced to gnaw the very crust of the earth for nutriment." Henry David Thorea...

Giving relief that edge, via maps and GIS -- Sandra Sudhoff (France) _ French NGO CartONG uses mapping and GIS. So what, you might ask. It's goal is unusual: to offer info-management services to relief organisations. It also uses geo-spacial data to manage displaced populations. At cartong.org, Sandra Sudhoff is the Information Manager. She's keen on developing web mapping for advocacy. Likewise, she's also spearheading an initiative called GeONG. It's goal is to link diverse French humanitarian organisations in the fields of GIS and mapping. FN: Could you explain cartong.org in brief? It's history and current focus? CartONG is a non-profit organization registered in France since Fall 2006 and based in Chambery. [Chambéry (Italian: Ciamberì or Sciamberì) is the capital of the department of Savoie, France. It has been the historical capital of the Savoy region since the 13th century, when Amadeus V of Savoy made it his seat of power.] CartONG provides information management services and GIS to humanitarian rel...

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This is a short text which appears in "Public Netbase: Non Stop Future. New Practices in Art and Media" edited by the fine people at the New Media Center_kuda.org, in cooperation with World-Information Institute / t0. We recently presented this book at transmediale in Berlin. "An ultimate reference book for those who want to find out about cultural discourse and practice from the beginning of the internet explosion in the nineties to the present..." Brian Holmes http://nonstop-future.org 30 Years of Tactical Media [1] Felix Stalder Tactical media as a practice has a long history and, it seems save to predict, an even longer future. Yet its existence as a distinct concept around which something of a social movement, or more precisely, a self- aware network of people and projects would coalesce has been relatively short lived, largely confined to the internet's first decade as a mass medium (1995-2005). During that time Geert Lovink and David Garcia, two Dutch media activists/theorists at the heart of this netw...

It should be noted that "open source" has been appropriated by the spy-media-education industry as an asymmetrical method for taking from open sources but not giving back, instead classifying putting within password-gated campuses the open source material in order to obscure that the filchers have a pecuniary interest in freely cultivated goodies. So say the SMEs and their beneficiary contractors in their openly proclaimed suck-you fuck-you policy to advertise for adjunct-academic and edu-start-ups to participate in (get bribe money for) in national security (spit) national patriomny (spit) endeavors, hand out a few contracts to the willingly witting desperately-seeking down but not out bazaarists, and shut-out the disfavored with cathredral-like secrecy (tenure) orders, learning from the churches and banks to profess unction for believers and tithers while gathering wealth for the belly laughers of TARP for the top. Bill Gates himself did that, preached that, as did Steve Jobs. It is the golden egg luring mi...

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Hello Donna, > I am looking at open source and implementing this metaphor to a curatorial > practice. What effect would this have on exhibiting artists? Would the > audience benefit? There already is a rich tradition of applying Open Source/free software principles to art; "curatorship" seems a bit problematic as a term (which it is not only in this context), self-organization may be more appropriate. Examples can be found in the hack meetings which, particularly in Italy, were hybrids of activist and artistic events, and many related Internet art projects. But actually, the tradition is older than even the terms "Open Source" and "free software". Since Ray Johnson's New York Correspondance School in the 1960s, the Mail Art network had its own codified system of decentralized, international, open participation art exhibitions, events and publications, with the festivals and non-juried exhibitions of older avant-garde movements forming yet another historical pretext. > Also anyone with an interest in Eric S. R...

In light of the seriousness of the attacks on digital rights that are currently being pacted, to a greater or lesser degree, by the governments of the European community, and given that a summit of Ministers for Industry is set to take place on February 17, we believe it is extremely important for all of the agents involved in the front line fight for the defence of digital freedoms to reach a consensus on a series of common points. At the bottom you will find the link to a document that we've been working on recently (a more detailed version in Spanish can be found at http://molinapirateblogspot.com). We hope that it will be a first step towards creating a European platform that can coordinate all the work and effort going into this struggle. It may be difficult at first, but we think that if we all start circulating the material, we could eventually reach a consensus on consistent, recurring claims that we can use to "harrass" industry and government propaganda and reach out to and involve civil society. Th...

============================================================================= A show on public space in Nairobi, hosted by the Goethe-Institut Nairobi, curated by African Maximalism . Opening 13th February 2009 ============================================================================= Art, understood as an imaginative representation of the world, is not only an integral part of everyday life, but can also be seen as a barometer of intellectual freedom. Art in the public sphere, that is the performing of cultural expressions in public, is a further distillation of this and a critical indicator of a culturally healthy society. Nairobi, a vibrant city and a leading African metropolis, pulsates with a wealth of new forms of cultural expression, many of which exist beyond the frontiers of conventional institutions. 'It's a pity that we only exist in the future' is an exploration of the city's terrain with the aim of representing these fascinating phenomena within the context of a discourse about public space. T...

Dear All It would be great to get you opinion on the following: I am looking at open source and implementing this metaphor to a curatorial practice. What effect would this have on exhibiting artists? Would the audience benefit? Also anyone with an interest in Eric S. Raymond?s free software development model. I would like to know the following: 1. What are your personal views about the ?Cathedral? and the ?Bazaar?? 2. If you subscribe to one of these models how much of it applies to the whole of your life? 3. Do you jump from one to another to suit your needs? 4. Besides in a software engineering world, can the Cathedral and the Bazaar be seen any where else? or could it be applied to something else? I believe we need to get art out of its Cathedral ? could this metaphor work? Many thanks Donna -- The University of Abertay Dundee is a charity registered in Scotland, No:SC016040 # distributed via : no commercial use without permission # is a moderated mailing list for net criticism, # collab...

X-posted from Sarai Reader list/ Lalitha Kamath February 5, 2009 Driven down by debt, Dubai expats give new meaning to long-stay car park Sonia Verma in Dubai For many expatriate workers in Dubai it was the ultimate symbol of their tax-free wealth: a luxurious car that few could have afforded on the money they earned at home. Now, faced with crippling debts as a result of their high living and Dubai's fading fortunes, many expatriates are abandoning their cars at the airport and fleeing home rather than risk jail for defaulting on loans. Police have found more than 3,000 cars outside Dubai's international airport in recent months. Most of the cars - four-wheel drives, saloons and "a few" Mercedes - had keys left in the ignition. Some had used-to-the-limit credit cards in the glove box. Others had notes of apology attached to the windscreen. "Every day we find more and more cars," said one senior airport security official, who did not want to be named. "Christmas was the worst - we found more than two dozen on...

http://www.edu-factory.org *York University - Toronto* Four people were arrested during a march to Queen's Park Tuesday where supporters of striking York University staff gathered to protest back-to-work legislation. [...] Bangladesh- Student protests A Bangladeshi riot police officer subdues a student (C) with a baton during a demonstration in Dhaka on January 27, 2009. At least 50 people including policemen were injured as Jagannath University students clashed with police, the violence sparked by a dispute over occupation of halls. Students allege that local leaders and businessmen have taken over 12 halls outside the campus. [...] Kenya teachers, gov't, reach deal, call off strike: Nearly a quarter of a million public school teachers in Kenya have ended at strike after the government offered to more than double their pay over the next three years, officials said Thursday. [...] 1,000 Ariz. students protest budget cuts: More than 1,000 students from Arizona state universities staged a protest at the Capitol...