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      12 Jun 2008

      Check-in Architecture

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      txt: What is Check-in Architecture
      What is Check-In Architecture? Check-In Architecture is 300 documentaries. Check-in Architecture is a free-press and a blog. Check-in Architecture is 2 exhibitions. Check-in Architecture is hundreds of student-produced, online and offlinedistributed videos. Check-in Architecture is 600 students and researchers from all over Europe traveling across the continent to investigate folds in urban space. Check-in Architecture is a generation living low-cost, travelling low-cost, aware of communication dynamics and their roles in it. Check-in Architecture: the project Check-in Architecture is a participatory research project, supported by the International Union of Architects (UIA), the Venice Biennale of Architecture, and the 2008 World Design Capital, Turin. We invite art, architecture, design and creativity students from the best universities in Europe (you can find the complete list under the heading universities) to film spaces and people all over the continent. You will have the opportunity to travel for free, with logistical support from the Check-in Architecture office. In every city, you will accomplish a mission, producing a short documentary based on a script and a set of instructions
      video: Tutorial: the explanation of the project - checkinarchitecture on youtube.com [youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=afEo5bAD2uI]
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      12 Jun 2008

      Pop art remix

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      txt: Andy Warhol - Wikipedia
      Warhol's work from this period revolves around American Pop (Popular) culture. He painted dollar bills, celebrities, brand name products and images from newspaper clippings - many of the latter were iconic images from headline stories of the decade (e.g. photographs of mushroom clouds, and police dogs attacking civil rights protesters). His subjects were instantly recognizable and often had a mass appeal. This aspect interested him most and it unifies his paintings from this period. Take for example Warhol's comments on the appeal of Coke: "What's great about this country is that America started the tradition where the richest consumers buy essentially the same things as the poorest. You can be watching TV and see Coca Cola, and you know that the President drinks Coca Cola, Liz Taylor drinks Coca Cola, and just think, you can drink Coca Cola, too. A coke is a coke and no amount of money can get you a better coke than the one the bum on the corner is drinking. All the cokes are the same and all the cokes are good. Liz Taylor knows it, the President knows it, the bum knows it, and you know it." The Philosophy of Andy Warhol: (From A to B and Back Again), 1975
      video: Bill O'Reilly Flips Out — DANCE REMIX - levmyshkin on youtube.com [youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5j2YDq6FkVE]
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      11 Jun 2008

      Find your passion

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      txt: Italian Hacktivism: Theory, Practice and History - blog.wired.com Alessandro Ludovico has engaged in communication and media aesthetics as a practitioner, theorist and curator. Since 1993, he has been the editor-in-chief of Neural, an influential new media culture magazine published in both English and Italian www.neural.it. He is also one of the founding members of the nettime list and of the Mag.Net (Magazine Network of Electronic Cultural Publishers) organisation. In the following brief interview, conducted via email between January and May 2008, Ludovico discusses topics ranging from Italian traditions of hacktivism, the apparent institutional marginalisation of media art and possibilities for conceptual aesthetic approaches to the digital culture.
      1. Could you explain something of how you originally developed an interest in media art? We understand you had an early involvement with 'mail art' and fanzines, to what extent have these practices informed your thought around exploratory and aesthetic approaches to distributed communication networks? Fanzines were an effective, cheap and archival medium for sharing ideas in freedom of expression soaked subcultures. Mail Art in my opinion was 'the net before the net'. Its spontaneous network of artist supporting themselves and sharing 'performative' action through the postal network, connecting local exhibitions with interrelated social relationships was simply unique. Furthermore I developed an interest in computers and IT, especially in its internal mechanisms and aesthetic (as many young guys did during the 80's). With the BBS phenomenon first and the early net practices later all these interests were short-circuited. I had a medium to express my approach (the magazine), a background in artistic networking (mail art), a technical knowledge to understand them and a rising avant garde that I was accidentally part of (after being invited in the first nettime meeting): the net art. Could I have asked for more?
      video: Randy Pausch Inspires Graduates - carnegiemellonu on youtube.com [youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RcYv5x6gZTA]
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      10 Jun 2008

      Please Stand Up

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      via: Conscientious txt: Click here to disappear: thoughts on images and democracy
      Has democracy increased with the growth of the internet? Obviously not. It has diminished significantly. Why? Because the desire for public, democratic participation has been displaced onto consumer goods and services and dispersed into isolated individual speech. Whatever else it is, the internet is primarily an advertising medium. Access to images and information has certainly increased, but has this led to better informed citizens? No. It has led to more docile citizens, who spend more of their time in the collection and sorting of images and information (and in what Simon Schama has called the computer's "lazy democracy of significance") and less time on analysis, critical thinking, or real "socialising". Perhaps we need to find a word other than "democracy" to describe what's happening in our communications environment.
      txt: Digital Democracy and the New Age of Reason
      Franklin Roosevelt said that "Democracy is not a static thing." He was right. It is constantly changing; reinventing itself; expanding and retracting as the political environment warms and cools to its precepts. Digital democracy will be no different at its core, but it has an opportunity unlike any in the history of the world to bring people and ideas together. If we embrace this exciting digital world, our own democracy will be strengthened and civilization will surely embark on a new Age of Reason and a new era of individual freedom.
      video: Simpsons-The real slim shady - EminemGuy47 on youtube.com [youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UDd4Ly9cD4c]
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      8 Jun 2008

      Save the internet

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      txt: Net Neutrality 101 - www.savetheinternet.com
      Net Neutrality 101 When we log onto the Internet, we take lots of things for granted. We assume that we'll be able to access whatever Web site we want, whenever we want to go there. We assume that we can use any feature we like -- watching online video, listening to podcasts, searching, emailing, and instant messaging -- anytime we choose. We assume that we can attach devices like wireless routers, game controllers, or extra hard drives to make our online experience better. What makes all these assumptions possible is "Network Neutrality," the guiding principle that ensures the Internet remains free and unrestricted. Net Neutrality prevents the companies that control the wires bringing you the Internet from discriminating against content based on its ownership or source. But that could all change. The biggest cable and telephone companies would like to charge money for smooth access to Web sites, speed to run applications, and permission to plug in devices. These network giants believe they should be able to charge Web site operators, application providers, and device manufacturers for the right to use the network. Those who don't make a deal and pay up will experience discrimination: Their sites won't load as quickly, their applications and devices won't work as well. Without legal protection, consumers could find that a network operator has blocked the Web site of a competitor, or slowed it down so much that it's unusable. The network owners say they want a "tiered" Internet. If you pay to get in the top tier, your site and your service will run fast. If you don't, you'll be in the slow lane. What's the problem here? Discrimination: The Internet was designed as an open medium. The fundamental idea on the Internet since its inception is that every Web site, every feature, and every service should be treated without discrimination. That's how bloggers can compete with the CNN or USA Today for readers. That's how up-and-coming musicians can build underground audiences before they get their first top-40 single. That's why when you use a search engine, you see a hit list of the sites that are the closest match to your request -- not those who paid the most to reach you. Discrimination endangers our basic Internet freedoms. Double-dipping: Traditionally, network owners have built a business model by charging consumers for access. Now they want to charge you for access to the network, and then charge you again for the things you do while you're online. They may not charge you directly via pay-per-view Web sites. But they will charge all the service providers you use -- who will pass those costs along to you in the form of price hikes or new charges to view content. Stifling innovation: Net Neutrality ensures that innovators can start small and dream big about being the next EBay or Google without facing insurmountable hurdles. Unless we preserve Net Neutrality, startups and entrepreneurs will be muscled out of the marketplace by big corporations that pay for a top spot on the Web. On a tiered Internet controlled by the phone and cable companies, only their own content and services -- or those offered by corporate partners who pony up enough "protection money" -- will enjoy life in the fast lane. The End of the Internet? Make no mistake: The freewheeling Internet as we know it could very well become history. What does that mean? It means we could be heading toward a pay-per-view Internet where Web sites have fees. It means we may have to pay a network tax to run voice-over-the-Internet phones, use an advanced search engine, or chat via Instant Messenger. The next generation of magical new inventions will be shut out of the top-tier service level. Meanwhile the network owners will rake in even greater profits.
      video: Save the Internet! - SaveTheInternet on youtube.com [youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cWt0XUocViE]
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      7 Jun 2008

      A new Cultural Economy

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      link: Ars Electronica 2008 - A New Cultural Economy: The Limits of Intellectual Property LINZ 04-09 september 2008 txt: Curatorial Statement (Joichi Ito)
      Computers and the Internet has lowered the cost of communication and the creation and distribution of information so much that many fundamental notions of organizations, economics and property have completely changed or require major upgrades. There is a new generation of youth across the globe which lead the charge into this changing world, modifying their basic behaviors to adapt to technology as it develops. Some businesses and artists have been able to keep up with these trends while other struggle and fail. The much slower to adapt legal system is being pushed to its limits with organizations on all sides of the issues trying very hard to adapt outdated laws. Most of the new behaviors and organizations creating value have a completely different notion property. Intellectual property, while key to the post-industrial revolution nature of the firm, is more of an encumbrance than an asset to the sharing oriented mode of creation now central to the Internet. This year, we will bring together the users, artists, businesses, policy makers and academics involved intentionally or beyond their control in this change to understand this new world and to try to adapt to it. Joichi Ito
      video: Company Picnic - The Meth Minute 39 - Channel Frederator on blip.tv [blip.tv ?posts_id=971429&dest=-1]
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      7 Jun 2008

      Mixed media

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      txt: Mixed media - Wikipedia.org
      Mixed media, in visual art, refers to an artwork in the making of which more than one medium has been employed. There is an important distinction between "mixed media" artworks and "multimedia art". Mixed media tends to refer to a work of visual art that combines various traditionally distinct visual art media. For example, a work on canvas that combines paint, ink, and collage could properly be called a "mixed media" work - but not a work of "multimedia art." The term multimedia art implies a broader scope than mixed media, combining visual art with non-visual elements (such as recorded sound, for example) or with elements of the other arts (such as literature, drama, dance, motion graphics, music, or interactivity).
      video: Mixed Media With Suzi Blu: Byzantia and LuLu gets a haircut - suziblutube on youtube.com [youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zepDd0dz3Gk]
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      4 Jun 2008

      iGoogle art

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      link: iGoogle - Introducing artist themes for iGoogle Introducing artist themes for iGoogle: Now you can put the work of world-class artists and innovators on your personalized Google homepage. txt: Google: art - www.artworldsalon.com
      Most of the custom themes are from the hands and keypads of web designers and animators whose names few gallery-goers would recognize. Many are from Asia (but no Murakami here). Then there’s Coldplay, Beastie Boys, Lance Armstrong, and Mark Morris. Lesson? Though Google’s developers are clearly not trying to draw an all-inclusive map of global visual culture here, what if their selections are, in fact, faithful to what our society understands under the rubric of “artists”? Is Koons the best choice for this virtual Noah’s Ark?
      img: Lily Franky (リリー・フランキー)'s theme for iGoogle
      One of Japan's best-selling writers, Lily Franky is the author of the novel Tokyo Tower:Mom, Me and Sometimes Dad and the illustrated book Oden-kun, the subject of an animated series. He is also an illustrator and actor. www.lilyfranky.com
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      1 Jun 2008

      We must become the change we want to see in the world

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      "We must become the change we want to see in the world" - M.K. Gandhi txt: Change - Wikipedia
      Change can mean: * The process of becoming different. - Social Change - Metamorphosis - Calculus * Small denominations of money given in exchange for a larger denomination.
      video: Eric Clapton - Change The World (live) - youtube.com [youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VUXDBK1lZb0]
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      30 May 2008

      Unleash Your Creativity

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      txt: How to Unleash Your Creativity - Scientific American
      John Houtz: There’s so much power in a new idea taking shape and changing the way people live and act. Often the rest of us are in awe, or we are even afraid of a new idea, and sometimes our fears spur us to learn more about it. In addition to what some academics call Big Creativity or “Big C”—profound ideas that sometimes change the world—there is what we call the “little c” type of creativity: the everyday problem solving that we all do. The bottom line is that we’d all like to be more creative. We’d all like to be able to solve our problems in a better way. We don’t like being frustrated. We don’t like having obstacles in our path. [...] DiChristina: When my children have a question that I might be able to answer, I sometimes instead say, “Why don’t we find out?” Then I guide them through a process of discovering the answer for themselves. They sometimes find amazing ways to get there. Are we leaving anything out? Epstein: Maybe just that there’s something both humbling and exhilarating about generating a new idea. I’m looking at Julia Cameron’s eyes right now, trying to imagine the extraordinary things she’s put on paper that have never been seen before by anyone in human history. I believe everyone has that kind of potential. Imagine that.
      img: weekend creative : punch collage - ali edwards on flickr.com
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