From sondheim at panix.com Mon May 12 00:08:36 2008 From: sondheim at panix.com (Alan Sondheim) Date: Sun, 11 May 2008 19:08:36 -0400 (EDT) Subject: [NetBehaviour] Travis and Julu and Jennifer and Travis and Nikuko and Jennifer and Julu and Nikuko Message-ID: Travis and Julu and Jennifer and Travis and Nikuko and Jennifer and Julu and Nikuko convulsions riding doubled figured churned through girl girl fields through boy girl fields through girl boy fields through girl girl girl and boy through girl and boy girl girl and fields Travis and Julu Jennifer and Travis Nikuko and Jennifer Julu and Nikuko everyone a multiplicity, here's a community for you: internal, what goes on outside the heart or cocoon is ruined, is nourishment, sustenance left alone. jennifer conforms to travis, nikuko and julu inhabit travis, travis is blind in one eye, lame in one foot, stumbles, churns, girls girls girls girls, now we're inside all of them, they don't breath, they're in vacuum, they're running the show, they are the show. analog and digital meat sutured by the abject, digital flees, analog embraces, there's a smell about them, you listen to the scent, hearing's left to you above the well of tinnitus. digital doesn't flee, digital is fled, we're sorry about forces beyond our control. analog curdles, digital extrudes; analog corrodes, digital cleans, analog says analog says travis and julu are used up analog says jennifer and nikuko are used up digital says travis and nikuko are hyperrealisms digital says jennifer and julu are hyperrealisms (laughtrack: analog says bite me, digital says byte me) Nikuko and Travis: We're used and abused. Nikuko and Travis: We love it. Look, sores. Look, wounds, scars, tattoos. Jennifer and Julu: We're clean. We wash our cocks. We wash our cunts. Jennifer and Julu: Look, shiny prims, texture-maps, clean all the way down. Nikuko and Travis beg Jennifer and Julu to abuse them. Jennifer and Julu control Nikuko and Travis. They say: Jennifer and Julu: Clean yourselves, you dirty boys! Jennifer and Julu: Clean yourselves, you dirty girls! Travis: We're boys, boys, boys, boys, boys. Nikuko and Jennifer and Julu: We're girls, girls, girls, girls, girls. digital, analog dancing inside it. i, alan sondheim, wrote them. i, alan sondheim, told them to do it. i told them to do this and that. i told them to keep their eyes and ears shut. i told them to look elsewhere, hear nothing, see nothing. i told them they smelled. i told them they had to smell, had to smell as hard as possible, had to leave trails, had to leave dampness, had to be moist, wet up there, wet down there. they said, they said, nothing but dryness, nothing stays wet, we're in vacuum, you can't hear us, you can hardly see us. (laughtrack: i said listen, they said glisten) now we will go for a swim says jennifer, i will wet myself and swim inside myself. now i will swim in you says travis, look you are all wet. now we move just like one, just like another, just like another. oh i forgot says nikuko, julu is our other, julu is our other mother, no says julu, travis is our other mother, no no says travis. no says nikuko, jennifer is our other mother, no says jennifer, nikuko is our other travis, no says julu, jennifer is our other nikuko, and we will play here we will play where no one comes no one bothers, no one bothers to come, no one bothers us. we are all wet up there and down there, before there and beyond there, up here and down here, beyond here and before here, and to the sides, yes says jennifer, to the sides also, yes says travis, to the sides as well. we will talk and we will say hello hello, we are very tiny we will say hello hello hello, we will live forever we will say hello, we are very tiny and we will live forever http://www.alansondheim.org/crisisgirlboy.mov = From look at e-garde.com Mon May 12 13:03:16 2008 From: look at e-garde.com (sachiko hayashi) Date: Mon, 12 May 2008 14:03:16 +0200 Subject: [NetBehaviour] CALL FOR ARTICLES AND NET ART Message-ID: <05EF843B-0734-4B16-A393-905D69C54637@e-garde.com> Call for Articles and Net Art On-line journal Hz (http://www.hz-journal.org) is looking for articles on New Media, Net Art, Sound Art and Electro-Acoustic Music. We accept earlier published and unpublished articles in English. Please send your submissions to hz-journal at telia.com Hz is also looking for Net Art works to be included in its virtual gallery (www.hz-journal.org/netg). Please send your URLs to hz-journal at telia.com Dead-line: 10 June Hz is published by the non-profit organization Fylkingen in Stockholm. Established in 1933, Fylkingen has been known for introducing yet-to-be-established art forms throughout its history. Nam June Paik, Stockhausen, Cage, etc. have all been introduced to the Swedish audience through Fylkingen. Its members consist of leading composers, musicians, sound artists, dancers, performance artists and video artists in Sweden. For more information on Fylkingen, please visit http:// www.fylkingen.se/about or http://www.hz-journal.org/n4/hultberg.html Sachiko Hayashi/Hz -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: http://www.netbehaviour.org/pipermail/netbehaviour/attachments/20080512/b6c7cfbf/attachment.html From jennifer.stoddart at folly.co.uk Mon May 12 16:11:23 2008 From: jennifer.stoddart at folly.co.uk (Jennifer Stoddart) Date: Mon, 12 May 2008 16:11:23 +0100 Subject: [NetBehaviour] LIVERPOOL TO HOST _OPEN SOURCE CITY MICRO- FESTIVAL Message-ID: <0256B6C2667A3E4882F0FEF08218671335DCB4@follyone.FOLLY.local> LIVERPOOL TO HOST _OPEN SOURCE CITY MICRO- FESTIVAL 20th to 22nd June 2008 A micro-festival of open source practice in the production of media art and music folly and SoundNetwork are kicking off the Summer with an exciting collaboration bringing a micro-festival of art and music to Liverpool, as part of the European Capital of Culture. Liverpool has a strong history of doing innovative things with electricity, from the birth of the power grid (Sebastian Ferranti) to the early computer games industry (Psygnosis, Ocean, and ZTT). Liverpool also has a formidable musical legacy inevitably centred around the pop phenomenon of The Beatles but which spans every musical genre from classical to electro. Open Source City tips its hat to Liverpool's pioneering spirit by offering a programme of art, workshops, masterclasses, talks and concerts that shed light on the growing impact of Free/Libre Open Source Software on the creative practices of today, in particular in media art and music. "FLOSS" offers opportunities to users, and developers at every skill level to participate in the creative process, starting from the writing of code all the way up to the final mix of your masterpiece. These are tools that have the power to bring people together through creativity, collaboration, knowledge sharing and, importantly, technology. So, how will Open Source play a part in the music and art scenes of the future? Maybe the answer lies in your hands....take part. Artists and speakers involved include goto10, Access Space, Polytechnic, Simon Blackmore, Tom Chance, MediaShed and 64 Studio... Talks include "The role of FOSS in urban regeneration" and a brief philosophical tour of "Copyright and Freedom". The hub of the festival is at Mello Mello in the heart of Liverpool's creative quarter; 40-42 Slater St, Liverpool L1 4BX. To view the whole programme for the festival, please download the pdf Festival Programme, and to book a paid workshop, download the workshop booking form. Both available from folly's website at http://www.folly.co.uk/click/1060/9 Open Source City is a Liverpool European Capital of Culture Commission - a micro-festival of open source practice in media art and music presented by folly and SoundNetwork. A Cultural Commission for Liverpool 2008 European Capital of Culture. Supported by Arts Council England and P H Holt Trust. From drp01mc at gold.ac.uk Mon May 12 16:29:32 2008 From: drp01mc at gold.ac.uk (Maria Chatzichristodoulou) Date: Mon, 12 May 2008 16:29:32 +0100 (BST) Subject: [NetBehaviour] New Thursday Club: on 15 May with Colm Lally & Verina Gfader (Goldsmiths) Message-ID: <49442.83.167.185.30.1210606172.squirrel@secure2.gold.ac.uk> ** NEW THURSDAY CLUB ** NEW THURSDAY CLUB ** Supported by the Goldsmiths GRADUATE SCHOOL and the Goldsmiths DIGITAL STUDIOS 6pm until 8pm, Seminar Rooms at Ben Pimlott Building (Ground Floor, right), Goldsmiths, University of London, New Cross, SE14 6NW FREE, ALL ARE WELCOME. No booking required. *15 MAY with COLM LALLY & VERINA GFADER : Condensation revisited: strategic walking / access to knowledge / economics of things / the locatable document / conversation pieces * In June 2007 Colm and Verina undertook a residency programme at the New Media Institute in Banff, Alberta, Canada. During the residency they expanded the notion of ?interface? associated with various forms of online communication and exchange, to other, perhaps more radical, forms of spaces between different entities. At the core of the non-methodical walking and other actions Colm & Verina undertook emerged the search for where a site of potential resides beside of technologies? restrictive mode of ex/inter-change and so-called collaborative or networked practices. Conceptual detours led their research into speculations on the substances of exchange and artistic agency. At The Thursday Club Colm & Verina will present a lecture, a 'document' of the process that their project Condensation took during the residency at Banff. This includes questions of: the necessity of temporary frameworks; the character of dialogical communication processes; the failure as a site of potential. In an informal setting the 'document' will take the format of a line, or ?walking? - of virtually making a tour through various landscapes... COLM LALLY is founder and director of E:vent. Since 2003 Colm has taken a hands-on role developing the E:vent programme, focusing on media art; video; performance; and electronic music. Colm was a co-organiser of Node.London 06 and is co-director of Arts in Action artists community. VERINA GFADER completed a practice-based Ph.D. in Fine Arts at Central Saint Martins College, London in 2006, and recently joined CRUMB (web resource for new media art curators) as post-doc research assistant. --- 29 MAY with RICHARD COLSON : Linking the Senses --- 5 JUNE with ALEX MCLEAN & DAVE GRIFFITHS : Live Coding --- THE THURSDAY CLUB is an open forum discussion group for anyone interested in the theories and practices of cross-disciplinarity, interactivity, technologies and philosophies of the state-of-the-art in today?s (and tomorrow?s) cultural landscape(s). For more information check http://www.goldsmiths.ac.uk/gds/events.php or email Maria X at drp01mc at gold.ac.uk To find Goldsmiths check http://www.goldsmiths.ac.uk/find-us/ -- Maria Chatzichristodoulou [aka maria x] PhD Art & Computational Technologies Goldsmiths Digital Studios From arcangel at unosunosyunosceros.com Mon May 12 18:26:26 2008 From: arcangel at unosunosyunosceros.com (arcangel) Date: Mon, 12 May 2008 12:26:26 -0500 Subject: [NetBehaviour] inmerso cyberlounge museo tamayo / james paterson / performance inaugural 14 de mayo Message-ID: <48287DC2.8080406@unosunosyunosceros.com> El Cyberlounge del Museo Tamayo Arte Contempor?neo invita al performance inaugural de *James Paterson www.presstube.com * Mi?rcoles 14 de mayo de 2008 a las 20:00 horas Entrada libre I cupo limitado www.museotamayo.org/inmerso El flujo y la din?mica evolutiva acelerada son caracter?sticas predo- minantes y esenciales en la obra de James Patterson. Dibujante, animador y programador, ha creado una obra sustancial apro- pi?ndose de los nuevos recursos ofrecidos por la tecnolog?a de redes, logrando el reconocimiento internacional de su propuesta est?tica. Los acontecimientos que tienen lugar en su obra se desbordan a manera de un flujo continuo; las nubes de su ima- ginaci?n est?n repletas de seres on?ricos que son y dejan de ser, surgen, existen y mutan reencontr?ndose inesperadamente. Sus animaciones interactivas est?n compuestas de elementos org?- nicos ilustrados que se transforman en situaciones fant?sticas, cuyos trazos animados vibran incesantes con la intenci?n de con- tinuar en proceso de metamorfosis indefinidamente. El flujo en la obra de Patterson est? formal y metaf?ricamente ligado a la forma como se dispersa en la red, disemin?ndose hasta lo m?s rec?ndito de ?sta y sorprendiendo a conocedores e inicia- dos que interact?an en su construcci?n y apreciaci?n est?tica. El trabajo formal y obsesivo, propio de las t?cnicas tradicionales del dibujante/animador, es afectado de manera din?mica por las variaciones algor?tmicas implementadas en el c?digo y la baja reso- luci?n vectorial del p?xel como sustituto del carb?n. Despu?s de realizar estudios en la Nova Scotia College of Art and Design en Canad?, Patterson se muda a Nueva York en 1997 , donde empieza a experimentar con las herramientas proporcio- nadas por flash 2, apropi?ndose de sus capacidades gr?ficas y de programaci?n para lanzar el sitio presstube.com en el a?o 2000. Inicialmente concebido como un sitio para creaciones en colaboraci?n, m?s tarde se convirti? en el espacio particular de Patterson funcionando como un libro de bocetos, un lugar donde su obra es resguardada a diario mediante una interface-obra que permite a los usuarios, de un modo ?gil, una lectura vislumbradora de la capacidad creativa del autor. Arc?ngel Constantini Curador El trabajo de James Patterson (Londres, 1980. Reside en Montreal, Canad?) ha sido exhibido internacionalmente en espacios como: Centre Pompidou, Par?s;Museum of Contemporary Art, Taipei; Institute for Contemporary Arts, Londres;Seoul Museum of Art, Korea; Israel Museum, Jerusalem; Centro de CulturaContempor?nea, Barcelona. Ha realizado parte de su obra en colaboraci?ncon Amit Pitaru, m?sico y programador de www.pitaru.com con el proyectowww.insertsilence.com www.presstube.com May 14?August 17, 2008 Flux and an accelerated evolutionary dynamic are essential features of James Patterson?s internationally acclaimed practice. In his substantial body of work?which involves drawing, animation and computer programming?Patterson takes advantage of new tools of Internet technology. The events that take place in his work seem to be in a continual state of transformation; in his imaginary world, dreamlike beings are born and then cease to exist, emerging, breathing and mutating, then disappearing and reappearing unexpectedly. His interactive animations are composed of illustrated organic elements that evolve into fantastic situations where animated drawings vibrate incessantly, apparently intent on continuing the process of metamorphosis indefinitely. In Patterson?s practice, the idea of flux is formally and metaphorically tied to the way in which his work expands through the Web, distributed to its remotest corners and surprising both novices and more experienced surfers who interact with its construction and aesthetic interpretation. The formal, obsessive work characteristic of traditional drawing and animation techniques is influenced in a dynamic manner by the algorithmic variations implemented by its encoding and the low resolution of vectorial pixels substituting charcoal. After studying at the Nova Scotia College of Art and Design in Canada, Patterson moved to New York City in 1997, where he began experimenting with new programs such as Flash II, making use of his drawing and programming skills in order to launch the Website presstube.com in 2000. First conceived as a site for collaborative creations, it subsequently became Patterson?s own personal space, functioning as a sketchbook: a space where his work is uploaded day-by-day, employing a user-friendly interface that provides viewers with a revealing look at his creative abilities. Arc?ngel Constantini Curator James Patterson (London, 1980; lives in Montreal) has shown his work internationally in venues such as the Centre Pompidou in Paris, the Taipei Museum of Contemporary Art, the Institute for Contemporary Art in London, Seoul Museum of Art, Israel Museum in Jerusalem and Centro de Cultura Contempor?nea in Barcelona. He has worked collaboratively with musician and programmer Amit Pitaru (www.pitaru.com ) on such projects as www.insertsilence.com From sondheim at panix.com Mon May 12 20:38:09 2008 From: sondheim at panix.com (Alan Sondheim) Date: Mon, 12 May 2008 15:38:09 -0400 (EDT) Subject: [NetBehaviour] courtship displays of the manifolds: Message-ID: courtship displays of the manifolds: coagulation or cohesion of elements, fold-catastrophic jumps, convulsions, collocations, substructural part-objects, articulations; bendings, affine and other morphological transformations. from one end of the spectrum, the schrodinger cat paradox resolves as leakage, what i'd term abjection, in relation to container and thinging contained; from the other, it makes no difference since particles _jump,_ not to mention coordinations at distances, etc. it's almost code, codons. it's almost discrete, symbolic. it breaks down only where the continuum appears, continuity at the periphery. another tactic, that of binary particle, that of continuous wave. or does the wave become discrete or broth, roiled. modes of string vibrations. think of dimensional collapse as the real. think of this as _metaphor-engine,_ nothing more, swamped by ignorance. think of mathesis among continuums and anything mapped where, surreal or other numbers, integers; are natural numbers _natural_? thinned line or stepping among infinitesimals. courtship displays of the manifolds: http://www.alansondheim.org/brokenwarp.mp4 (and see http://www.alansondheim.org/crisisgirlboy.mov if you haven't)