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Interface

Submitted by Lindsay on Thu, 12/11/2008 - 08:28
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Professor Kerstin Mey from the School of Art and Design at the University of Ulster will be giving a talk the Interface: Research in Technologies and Design project that she convenes (see http://interface.rehabstudio.co.uk/ ). The title of her talk is , `Art, Archives and Publics. INTERFACE explores two key processes that underlie innovative research practice in art and design. One is the investigation and redefinition of inherited categories of value and the other is the impact of digital media and new technologies on the production, distribution and mediation of art and design.

Second Fins...

Submitted by Lindsay on Sat, 11/22/2008 - 16:02
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... as a rite of passage.

Where the Radio Stops, the Music Begins

Submitted by Lindsay on Sat, 11/22/2008 - 11:26
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Where the Radio Stops,

In 1895, Breuer and Freud published Studies on Hysteria, a seminal account of the development of the first scientific method for analysing the realities of the human mind, which suggested a new way of making inferences from the symbolic forms created in dreams using techniques such as free-association. This same year also saw the development of one of the first motion picture cameras by the Lumiere Brothers. The Cinematograph, a device that acted as a camera, developer and a projector, had its first public demonstration in the form of a twelve-film screening in Paris. The Cinematograph not only pipped Thomas Edison’s Kinetoscope to the post as the first publicised machine to enable a ‘cinematic’ event, but also hailed the start of an era of innovative communication, story telling and recording of realities.

Spectropia Texts

Submitted by Lindsay on Sat, 11/22/2008 - 11:11
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A book for the collection of finished papers on Waves; electromagnetism as the medium of art which appeared in the Spectropia Reader.

Nodel skeleton II

Submitted by hadzi on Tue, 09/16/2008 - 12:35

node.l reader skeleton II

intro (ed. team Mia, Anna, Armin, Jonas, Adnan)

reflection:
"node.l economics" by julie freeman - (Adnan)
"a few notes on the present" by ashok (draft contributed Mia)
"why open and not free" by tony prug (contributed but need to clarify cc-sa-by/gpl) (Mia)
?"pad.ma" shaina? (if at all or someone else / Mia)
"paid in full" by armin & jonas (Jonas)
?"whose economy, which sustainability?" andrea & adnan (Adnan)
"Urban Versioning System 1.0.1 (super-mini-special)" by matthew fuller & usman haque (contributed Mia)
"future of node.l" by ruth catlow (Adnan)

The Ultimate Avant-garde: New Tendencies and Bit International

Submitted by Armin Medosch on Thu, 09/11/2008 - 16:22
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Since more than 10 years the Croatian media artist Darko Fritz has been researching the archives of the Museum for Contemporary Arts Zagreb to gather material about the New Tendencies series of exhibitions and events in Zagreb, Ex-Yugoslavia, now Croatia, from 1961 to 1973 and the Bit International journal published by that same art movement. An exhibition in 2007 at Neue Galerie Graz and now at ZKM Karlsruhe shows the works of this important but almost lost art movement, were it not for the effort of Darko Fritz. For the Graz exhibition a little catalogue came out with contributions by Peter Weibel, Jesa Denegri and Margit Rosen. I have data mined those articles and present this material in the manner of a literature review for other researchers to study it and draw their own conclusions. All translations from German are my translations.

A few notes on the present (work in progress)

Submitted by annac on Fri, 08/29/2008 - 12:02

Networks:
The emancipatory potential of networks has proven false: in domains from social networks to communications to infrastructure to "hypertext", to thought, we find networks leading to the hardening of relationships, the insulation of dreams, the extension of modes of exploitation. Networks operate via a "tyrrany of nodes", they privilege "peers", or consumers, people like us. They end up recuperating and formalising: reifying, what is already known, already present.

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