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Don't forget NYC: New School Students Announce Ultimatum and Action Background - http://www.nytimes.com/2009/02/11/nyregion/11kerrey.html http://chronicle.com/news/article/5952/new-school-faculty-members-renew-standoff-with-president-bob-kerrey "Although the meeting was intended as a forum for faculty members, a student representative was allowed to briefly address the gathering. She read from a prepared statement announcing that student activists were calling for the resignation of Mr. Kerrey and the New School’s vice president, James Murtha, by April 1. “If, on that day, the current leadership remains in place, we will shut down the functions of the university,” she said. “We will bring it to a halt. We will make it stop.” The assembled faculty members warmly applauded her comments." --------------- >From Where We Stand: A Statement from the New School in Exile http://www.newschoolinexile.com/ OUR POSITION The New School is now at a critical point. Our ability to do the very thing we came here to do—receive...

Social networking, the new pressure group in India Posted in Inside India by Swati Prasad on 2009/02/11 13:40:09 On Feb. 6, I received an invitation from a friend to join a group on Facebook--A Consortium of Pub-going, Loose and Forward Women. The group had been created a day back and had garnered a few hundred members. I instantly recognized what this movement was all about and decided to join it. Here's the group's description: "Join us on Feb. 14, Valentine's Day, the day on which Indian women's virginity and honor will self-destruct unless they marry or tie a rakhi. Walk to the nearest pub and buy a drink. Raise a toast to the Sri Ram Sene." The group already has nearly 16,000 members and is growing by the minute. Sri Ram Sene is a "right-wing" organization that calls itself the custodian of the Indian (read: Hindu) culture. They view the growing popularity of the Valentine's Day, the rising culture of going to pubs and discotheques (by young boys and girls) an organized conspiracy of the West. In an inte...

On 26th January 2009, members of "The Association of Blacklisted Students of Tokyo" (*burakkurisuto no kai in tokyo*) visited the office of the Japan Student Services Organization (JASSO) in Ichigaya, Tokyo, with the aim of demanding the withdrawal of the "Blacklisting Plan" aimed at those who cannot afford to repay their scholarship loans. They also demanded the realization of providing true scholarships as opposed to State-sponsored student loans [under the name of "scholarships"]. As of this writing, they are still waiting for an answer from JASSO. Below is the Open Letter addressed to JASSO. [...] www.edu-factory.org # 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

That was the upside of offshoring - it also offshored at least some of the crookery, speculations and sheer idiocy. # 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

“Wash Your Dirty Money With My Art” - Hedvig Turai in Conversation with János Sugár Sunday, 25 January 2009, see also: http://www.artmargins.com/ In the summer of 2008, János Sugár exhibited the sentence "Wash your dirty money with my art" at the Kunsthalle, Budapest, as part of an exhibition entitled What's up?(1) Parallel with exhibiting the sentence in this safe context, he also displayed it on the pavement in front of and on the wall of two private art institutions in Budapest. Soon after this, one of these institutions sued him for damaging its property. After Sugár's exhibition at the Kunsthalle it was easy to identify him as the artist, and soon Sugár was summoned by the police and prosecuted. Sugár admitted that he had sprayed the sentences and added that he considered them a continuation of the art work he had earlier displayed at the Kunsthalle. However, Sugár's gesture was not deemed art by the authorities and was classified as vandalism. The damage was estimated at $7,500, a startling amount give...

Dear nettime, Noemalab.org just published the Preface to the book "The Technological Herbarium" (see link below). At Geert Lovink's suggestion, i have decided to send you one-third (38% to be exact) of the text to publish on nettime. If you decide to publish it (i hope so), please include the link to the full text at noemalab. So i paste below the one-third text that i have selected. I trust that plain-text format is appropriate, rather than Microsoft Word? Best regards, Alan N. Shapiro ----- Original Message ----- From: "Geert Lovink" To: "Alan Shapiro" Sent: Monday, February 09, 2009 11:09 AM Subject: Re: Preface to "The Technological Herbarium" published > hi, I would just send this text, or a part of it to nettime. > the list is closed anyway so it doesn't matter if you are > not subscribed to nettime-l. send it to: > nettime-l@kein.org. best, geert > > On 9 Feb 2009, at 9:46 AM, Alan Shapiro wrote: > >> Preface to "The Technological Herbarium" published here: >gt; ...

[orig From: "Jaqueline Jolie" ] To buy a degree is quite easy these days. Nevertheless most students just sit around in their usually boring local University classes, wasting money. Why would you do that? These days buying a degree is a matter of personal motivation. But why should you buy a degree? The main reason is the fact that buying a degree on1ine is going to save you time, a lot of time. Usually you have to verify your life experience and you instantly qualify. Even though that is not the main cause why people are buying life experience degree. The actual reason why people buy a life experience degree is because they can not go to a institution in their surrounding area that offers the diploma program they are heading for: For example, if you live near a College which only offers renowned marketing degree, then this doesn't help you a bit if you're looking for a marketing degree. To attend classes you might have to travel long distances. Then it might be that the degree that y...

[ digested @ nettime -- mod (tb) ] Alan Sondheim need publisher, help, please reply backchannel performance upcoming getting-up and go ( Julu Twine joined the session, sir ) * Installation shots of a new piece new location - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - Date: Sat, 7 Feb 2009 17:21:02 -0500 (EST) From: Alan Sondheim Subject: need publisher, help, please reply backchannel Hi - I'm writing a generic letter, apologies; I want to find a publisher for my theoretical work, and everything continues to fall through. At one point Minnesota was going to work with us - us being Sandy Baldwin, who created a framework for my texts - and Sandy wasn't able to continue on the project (he's fully supportive; it was a question of time) - Minnesota withdrew. If you have any idea or better yet, the possibility of publica- tion, please let me know. I have a text out with Fort-Da but th...

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Following an extensive debate, the 'Wikipedia Art' entry was deleted at 6:32am UTC 15 February, 2009. The Wikipedia gatekeepers referred to it as a "non-notable, self-referential mess" ... that "does not exist in any way that merits an article." As the work's creators note, "The work still resides at its own domain, and has passed into its second (historical/evidentiary) phase." (link below) My subsequent art historical intervention - adding 'Wikipedia Art' to the Conceptual Art entry in Wikipedia - was also deleted. This entry, the last in a long line of examples of conceptual art (written in the present tense), noted that the "'Wikipedia Art' entry (deleted) generates over seven thousand words of debate on whether or not the article should be kept or deleted, ineluctibly instantiating the existence of Wikipedia Art as a viable artwork, the identity of which consists of its evolving Wikipedia definition, including the debate surrounding it." The deletion of my addition to Wikipedia is mysterious but not unju...

2009/2/16 jeremy hunsinger : > I just submitted this for semi-protection which will block all > anonymous edits, which should prevent the defacement/disagreement from > continuing. Well, I don't see that technical measure stopping the disagreement, but it will help. I just removed someone's edit of "((LABOUR))" from the top line which was corrupting the page (because they used "(" not "{"). What I find ironic about Alex's request is that he's just concerned about the categorization of the article, not the rest of the content (about which there is, presumably, consensus?). The idea of the term "belonging" to the labour movement and indeed the valorization of the idea of classification is not progressive. If, as the page itself says, "In its English usage, Precarity was first used by Léonce Crenier, a Catholic monk who had previously been active as an anarcho-communist." then the situation is more subtle and less antagonistic than Alex suggests. The most inclusive option would be to place the page...

http://tinyurl.com/c7dbna Simple Navigation and Access Platform http://tinyurl.com/bholu5 Greensweeper -- A Mobile Game for Environmental Landscape Awareness http://tinyurl.com/b5qpy8 VoiceList -- User-generated Audio Content for Socio-economic Development http://tinyurl.com/broog6 Nithya Sambasivan, researcher, ICTs for social and econ dvpt, from a human-centered standpoint http://www.ics.uci.edu/~nsambasi/ Have you seen the OLPC India project? http://wiki.laptop.org/go/OLPC_India Building a Social Entrepreneurial Garage Startup in India http://tinyurl.com/cqrbwx INFOACTIVISM This is an exciting time for people working with video -- Sam Gregory (Witness) http://www.informationactivism.org/node/45 Training communities in video is exciting -- Namita Singh http://www.informationactivism.org/node/49 Info-activism is of special relevance to take exiles' message through -- Phuntsok Dorjee http://tinyurl.com/dzj7ro Australia has done some great work in info-activism -- Andrew 'And' Lowenthal href="http://www.inform...

Furtherfield Blog - Recent Posts of Interest on Media Art Practice and Culture (Feb 09). The Furtherfield Blog is a shared space for personal reflections on Media Art practice: making it, curating it, translating it. Here is a selection of recent Blog entries below, to read more visit - http://blog.furtherfield.org WikiPedia art? Submitted by Patrick Lichty. On WIKI as Art - On Valentine's Day 2009, Scott Kildall and Nathaniel Stern launched the Wikipedia art page, which resonated with the history of media art, authorship, and media formalism on many levels. Has this particular piece updated Beuys' admonition of the openness of art? Not only that, does art based on open Web 2.0 standards like the Wiki define art that is a palimpsest by definition? What is interesting yet disturbing about this is not only the obliteration of discrete authorship, but the total indeterminacy of intellectual ownership whatsoever. For example, what happens when the conceptual work of art is left open, such as Douglas Davis C;World...

Wasn't it the intention of the Wikipedia Artists to be deleted, rejected, booted, driven outside the fold in order to raise hell about it, hurl rotten eggs at the temple of acceptability? Else why bother when there are so many slits online begging for glorifying disgust, why even counterterrorism weeps at its loss of cash register gravitas. True, oh so true, there is hardly a place online where illegitimate, much less illegal, worse, outright criminal, art can last for long in the face of near-absolute indifference, well, outside of capacious welcoming nirvana of pornography which remains the fertilist op for old time formulaic aesthetic protest to garner a smidgen of smitedness, well, excepting kiddie porn which breeds drooling cops and prosecutors as if there were no other useful jismatic sport for undercover curators forebad sex. Yeah, set a viewing spot for high-toned art of naked kids being mincemeated by CIA drones. This is the plasma screen fare on the Langley 7th floor corner office just occupied by L...

Andreas Broeckmann wrote: > i think that this says much about what the wikipedia system thinks > about itself, and Wikipedia Artists will have to realise that it > might practically be more difficult to realise Wikipedia Art than, > for instance, Land Art, or Internet Art, or Video Art. For obvious > reasons. The same might be true of Walmart Art that somebody wishes > to realise in Walmart stores, or (formerly) KGB Art, or uninvited > International Red Cross Art happening in IRC hospitals and then asking > for the scissors. There is no curatorial equivalent of Deletionism (see http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Deletionism ), although I guess land art could get bulldozed. >From the Meta-Wiki article on Deletionism: "Deletionism is a philosophy held by some Wikipedians that favors clear and relatively rigorous standards for accepting articles, templates or other pages to the encyclopedia... They are more likely to suggest that it is unnecessary to create individual articles on topics that are difficult or impossi...

Talent-Ghetto Ponzi Rehash as Global Slump Worsens "The spillovers in knowledge that result from talent-clustering are the main cause of economic growth. Well-educated professionals and creative workers who live together in dense ecosystems, interacting directly, generate ideas and turn them into products and services faster than talented people in other places can. There is no evidence that globalization or the Internet has changed that. Indeed, as globalization has increased the financial return on innovation widening the consumer market, the pull of innovative places, already dense with highly talented workers, has only grown stronger, creating a snowball effect. Talent-rich ecosystems are not easy to replicate, and to realize their full economic value, talented and ambitious people increasingly need to live within them." --- You cannot politically defy the institutions when all you really wanted was to be clasped to their bosoms and hope in time to be cherished under the very framework of oppressive value...

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pfff this is how you make a sinking star look sexy again: by making it a private party. quite different to your "anyone who believes to be somehow interested - come!" -calls from the late 90ies. would you have thought yourselves you would end up one day like this? n -------- Original-Nachricht -------- > Datum: Mon, 16 Feb 2009 14:58:35 +0100 > Von: Geert Lovink > An: nettime-l@kein.org > Betreff: Winter Camp 09: How Would You Organize Your Network? > > (Dear nettimers, in two weeks we're organizing a networks-of-networks > event in Amsterdam called Wintercamp. It looks a bit like Hybrid > WorkSpace in 1997 or Temp MediaLab in 1999 but then it is 12 networks > gathering at the same time, for five days. Around 150 participants > were invited to come to Amsterdam. Like a decade ago it is a mix of > artists, hackers, activists and researchers, but the topics are, of > course, different -- and so are the people. It's the biggest event so > far in the five years existence of the Institu...

(Dear nettimers, in two weeks we're organizing a networks-of-networks event in Amsterdam called Wintercamp. It looks a bit like Hybrid WorkSpace in 1997 or Temp MediaLab in 1999 but then it is 12 networks gathering at the same time, for five days. Around 150 participants were invited to come to Amsterdam. Like a decade ago it is a mix of artists, hackers, activists and researchers, but the topics are, of course, different -- and so are the people. It's the biggest event so far in the five years existence of the Institute of Network Cultures. Attached are two intro texts and the program. Please note, this not a conference. There are some plenary sessions, though, that are open to the public, in particular the closing session on Saturday afternoon where the results of all the networks and the event as such will be presented. There is a group of bloggers that will post their reports on the main INC website during the week, and video interviews with participants will be posted on the Net. A so-called meta-group ...

[For archival purposes, I copy below in ASCII form the complete text of the Wikipedia Art deletion debate. Retrieved from http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Articles_for_deletion/Wikipedia_Art16 Feb 2009 - ES] The following discussion is an archived debate of the proposed deletion of the article below. Please do not modify it. Subsequent comments should be made on the appropriate discussion page (such as the article's talk page or in a deletion review). No further edits should be made to this page. * The result was Speedy delete (CSD#A7) by User:Werdna. Equazcion •✗/C • 06:38, 15 Feb 2009 (UTC) o A deletion review was requested regarding this decision. See Wikipedia:Deletion review/Log/2009 February 15. Equazcion •✗/C • 07:15, 15 Feb 2009 (UTC) [edit] Wikipedia Art Wikipedia Art (edit|talk|history|links|watch|logs) (delete) 3; (View log) This is an attempt to use Wikipedia as an "art platform". It is not encyclopaedic. It can never be encyclopaedic by its very nature. It can't be referenced to anything o...