[-empyre-] waging peace
Definitely off topic,
With this war are we seeing the West in decline? Is this monumental failure
on the part of 3 powerful western governments the prelude to the failure of
western ,civilization,? Probably not, but maybe we should all take out
Chinese citizenship just in case.
I.ve spent every day of the last month emailing friends, family, media and
government. Researching the war and the issues surrounding it and all the
evidence I have discovered so far points to just another land grab using
gung ho diplomacy with oil as the prize. So what's new.
But why is the oil so important? Well, if you look on the U.S. D.O.E.
website you will find a Powerpoint presentation which indicates that oil
won't be around for much longer as an energy source. About 50 years if we're
lucky. So, what next, hydrogen I suspect, but is anyone planning for it?
Iceland is, and China and Italy have signed a co-development deal.
Australia? Nahhh.
I feel so sad that it has come to this, a war for short term gain. A lot of
pain, shame, despair and just plain stupidity.
There is a lot of action going on in the arts camp.
I particularly like http://www.poetsagainstthewar.org/
!2,000+ poems against war is a brilliant effort.
See the quoted email below from newmedia-ann for a couple more arts actions
re the war.
Namely message 2. cfpart: .intl: .uk: guerilla performance (anti-war)
(Adrian Miles)
message 3. art show: .intl: .us: .banner art iraq war (Adrian Miles)
Wasn't it Brecht who said war is business as usual, just with different
methods.
Barrie
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> 1. festival: .au: .brisbane: .ideas (Adrian Miles)
> 2. cfpart: .intl: .uk: guerilla performance (anti-war) (Adrian Miles)
> 3. art show: .intl: .us: .banner art iraq war (Adrian Miles)
> 4. prop: .au: .darwin (Adrian Miles)
> 5. Coded Characters - Jill Scott (Melinda Rackham)
> 6. talk: .us: .ny: new media reader (Adrian Miles)
> 7. cfp: .us: .intl: dig tools in cultural contexts (Adrian Miles)
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> From: Adrian Miles <adrian.miles@uib.no>
> Subject: newmedia:: festival: .au: .brisbane: .ideas
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> Ideas at the Powerhouse
> 14-17 August 2003 * Brisbane Powerhouse
> http://www.ideasatthepowerhouse.com.au
>
> Following the overwhelming success of the inaugural event in 2001,
> Ideas at the Powerhouse returns on 14 August 2003 with a four-day
> program of ideas, innovation and invention.
>
> Brisbane's Ideas Festival aims to promote public debate, engagement
> with ideas and robust discussion. Confronting ideas about health,
> generations, prosperity, justice, cities, spirit, sustainability,
> education, governance, communication, population, innovation,
> technology and change will fill the four days. The festival is
> comprised of four major elements: Ideas speakers; the Ideas Bazaar;
> Ideas Online and Kids Ideas. The 2003 program will be mostly free,
> open to all and offer something for everyone.
>
> The Ideas Advisors Jacqui Katona, Phillip Adams, Marina Vit, Dr Dale
> Spender, Dr Wendy Sarkissian and Professor Ian Lowe are putting the
> final touches to the program. The full details on speakers and
> sessions for Ideas 2003 will be released in June, but for now put the
> dates for Ideas at the Powerhouse 2003, August 14 -17 in your diary.
>
> Register your interest to receive regular email updates about Ideas
> at the Powerhouse and to be the first to know about Ideas' sessions,
> speakers and events.
> http://www.ideasatthepowerhouse.com.au/03_interested/interested.htm
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> Info:
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> To: newmedia-ann@uib.no
> From: Adrian Miles <adrian.miles@uib.no>
> Subject: newmedia:: cfpart: .intl: .uk: guerilla performance (anti-war)
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> CALL FOR PARTICIPANTS - "Guerilla Performance Locator" website
>
> Suffragettes Invented Performance Art - make a spectacle of yourself
> for the Guerilla Performance Locator Artists Leslie Hill and Helen
> Paris have created the Guerilla Performance Locator, a live net map
> of art and activism at this time of global crisis. As belief in
> direct public action surges in the face of impending war, the
> Guerilla Performance Locator brings non-violent politically motivated
> performances and iconoclastic art works together by inviting
> contributions from artists and activists around the world.
>
> Long before Karen Finley smeared chocolate on her bottom, Annie
> Sprinkle showed us her cervix or Orlan began her course of
> reconstructive cosmetic surgery, comely Edwardian ladies were
> pioneering a new hybrid art form in which the personal was political.
> As a catalyst for other artists to produce contributions to the site,
> Hill and Paris present Suffragettes Invented Performance Art: Make a
> Spectacle of Yourself, in which they pay homage to suffragettes by
> recreating some of their work in contemporary political contexts.
>
> This project is one of six to be commissioned by the BBC and the Arts
> Council of England for the prestigious Shooting Live Artists scheme
> 2003, co-funded by Studio of the North and managed by b.tv. Like all
> the commissions, the Guerilla Performance Locator centres around the
> use of new digital media with live art and will be exclusive to the
> Shooting Live Artists site for the next two years.
>
> The Guerilla Performance Locator The unique website invites people to
> make public spectacles of themselves for things they believe in,
> following in the great tradition of the suffragettes, who coined the
> phrase 'the personal is political'. Work is invited from around the
> world on any political subject and can be submitted via the website
> at www.placelessness.com/guerilla
>
> 'Guerilla Performance' is defined as any nonviolent act undertaken by
> individuals to draw public attention to a political issue. The site
> will act as a mapping of iconoclastic works by artist and activists
> and the political issues and ideas they are fighting for.
>
> The collected works will plot a global map of art and activism. The
> work is being disseminated through the BBC's leading contemporary
> arts website: www.bbc.co.uk/arts/shootinglive
>
> The site is online from the 14th February 2003 and will remain on the
> BBC Shooting Live Artists site for two years after which Hill and
> Paris will maintain the site in perpetuity.
>
> www.bbc.co.uk/arts/shootinglive | www.placelessness.com/guerilla
>
> Leslie Hill and Helen Paris are internationally acclaimed artists
> working in performance, video and digital arts, known for their edgy,
> humorous interrogations of contemporary culture and politics, work
> which has been called 'as smart as it is seductive'. Their company,
> curious.com, was formed in 1996 has been supported by institutions
> such as the Arts Council of England, the National Endowment for the
> Arts (USA), the National Center for Biological Sciences (India) and
> the Australia Council. The company's work has been exhibited and
> published widely. Hill and Paris's recent book, 'Guerilla Performance
> and Multimedia' is published by Continuum. Details of their work can
> be seen at:www.placelessness.com .
>
> Frequently Asked Questions regarding submissions for the Guerilla
> Performance Locator: Images should be submitted as jpegs, no wider or
> higher than 200 pixels. After the work has been submitted, it will
> appear on the GPL map. Artists with questions about their submissions
> are free to contact Hill and Paris at placelessness@aol.com.
>
> Does my submission have to be a new piece made specifically for this
> site? No, you can submit a description and image of any of your work
> that you feel fits the bill of political performance or making a
> spectacle of yourself for something you believe in, whether it was
> today or 25 years ago. If you identify as an activist rather than an
> artist we are also very interested in your submission.
>
> If it was a group piece do I need copyright permission from everyone
> in the group? You only need copyright permission from another person
> if you are sending an image that you don't hold the copyright to (a
> photograph taken by a professional photographer for example) or a
> piece of text written by someone other than you. In these cases, you
> are responsible for obtaining permission from the writer or
> photographer even if they represent your work.
>
> Why does submitting an image to the site mean in terms of my own
> copyright over my work? What does it mean to give the GPL site and
> the BBC copyright 'in perpetuity'? Submitting an image and
> description of your work does not mean that the BBC gains the
> copyright to your entire piece. It means simply that you grant Hill
> and Paris and the BBC the copyright to display the image and text
> that you submit to the site on the Guerilla Performance Locator as
> well as the right to archive your image and text as part of the
> project and potentially display it in future broadcasts about the
> project or a continuing version of the site.
>
> Shooting Live Artists is produced and funded by The Culture Company,
> The Arts Council of England, The BBC and The Studio of the North with
> support from the European Regional Development Fund.
>
> The six leading contemporary artists commissioned by the BBC and the
> Arts Council of England to produce work that fuses technology with
> live art performance are:
>
> Daniel Gosling Leslie Hill & Helen Paris Third Angel Iain Forsyth &
> Jane Pollard Ronald Fraser-Munroe Completely Naked & Furtherfield
>
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> Date: Tue, 18 Mar 2003 09:37:13 +1100
> To: newmedia-ann@uib.no
> From: Adrian Miles <adrian.miles@uib.no>
> Subject: newmedia:: art show: .intl: .us: .banner art iraq war
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> The Banner Art Collective (http://bannerart.org/), in collaboration
> with Velvet-Strike (http://www.opensorcery.net/velvet-strike/),
> announces the Banner-Strike Contest.
>
> Banner-Strike is a contest for digital graffiti and net.art that is
> created under specific limitations and which critically examines the
> impending war in Iraq. All entries will be displayed in
> bannerart.org's ongoing banner art exhibition and also turned into a
> Velvet-Strike spray (to be installed in Counter-Strike). The winner
> of the contest will win the October 2003 release of Counter-Strike:
> Condition Zero and will be highlighted on the front page of both
> sites for one month.
>
> The deadline for submissions is 16 April, 2003. The winner will be
> announced on 18 April, 2003.
>
> - Technical Requirements -
>
>
> Submitted banners need to be in gif or jpeg/jpg format with no
> animation. All of the following sizes are acceptable: 234x60, 88x31,
> 120x60, 120x240, 125x125, 240x400, 300x250, 336x280 and 250x250. To
> submit, go to bannerart.org and use the submission form upload your
> work for review. Please mark in the "special requirements" field on
> the upload form that your submission is for the contest and not just
> for normal entry to the site's continuing banner art exhibition,
> submissions for which are continuing as usual.
>
> All entries will be shrunk proportionally and converted to a spray
> paint .wad file by the creators of Velvet-Strike. You can do this
> conversion yourself to test how your work might look, by downloading
> the freeware application "Wally 1.55b" on the "Counterspray" site
>
> (http://www.counterspray.com/makeyourown.htm).
>
> Below is the list of conversion sizes that will be used: 234x60
> half-banner->192x48 88x31 microbar->96x32 (with a transparent border)
> 120x60 button->96x48 120x240 button->64x128 125x125 button->96x96
> 240x400 rect->48x80 300x250 rect->96x80 336x280 rect->96x80 250x250
> popup->96x96
>
> Any technical questions should be directed to Brandon Barr
> (brandon@bannerart.org), Garrett Lynch (garrett@almost.be), or
> Anne-Marie Schleiner (opensorcery@opensorcery.net).
>
>
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> Date: Tue, 18 Mar 2003 09:37:54 +1100
> To: newmedia-ann@uib.no
> From: Adrian Miles <adrian.miles@uib.no>
> Subject: newmedia:: prop: .au: .darwin
>
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>
> PROPOSALS DUE: 30th April
>
> Darwin (australia)
>
> 24HR Art: Northern Territory Centre for Contemporary Art is currently
> calling for proposals for it's 2004 Exhibition Program. Proposals will
> be accepted for both the Main Gallery and the New Media Gallery.
>
> For guidelines and gallery floorplans, contact:
> ONLINE: http://www.24hrart.org.au
> PH: 08 8981 5368
> fax 212 995 4571
> http://hemi.ps.tsoa.nyu.edu
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> Message: 5
> From: "Melinda Rackham" <melinda@unsw.edu.au>
> To: <newmedia-ann@uib.no>
> Date: Tue, 18 Mar 2003 11:41:26 +1100
> Subject: newmedia:: Coded Characters - Jill Scott
>
> Dear Friends and Collegues -
>
> We are pleased to announce the recent bi-lingual publication of the new book
> by Jill Scott entitled "CODED CHARACTERS".
>
> The book "CODED CHARACTERS" and the DVD with related film documents carry
> the reader through three chapters and continents: 'Analog Figures' (USA
> 1975-82), 'Digital Beings' (Australia 1982-92) and 'Mediated Nomads' (Europe
> 1992-2002).
> From surveillance-performance-events to video art onto new computer art and
> interactive cinema: Leading theorists analyse the development of the
> Australian artist Jill Scott whose work has pointed to a new concept of the
> mediated body.
> (Marille Hahne, Editor)
>
> "CODED CHARACTERS" provides a challenging perspective on a singular vision
> and gives access to an art that infuses its technology with humanity.
> (Roy Ascott)
>
> Scott's models of interaction probe new ways of learning which could easily
> become part of the classrooms of the twenty-first century.
> (Anne Marsh)
>
>
> Ordering CODED CHARACTERS
>
> English / German | 240 pp | 400 illus. | 200 in color | 20 x 25 cm |
> hardcover | with DVD | ISBN 3-7757-1272-0 | Euro 29.80
>
> © 2003 | Published by Hatje Cantz Verlag | Texts: Roy Ascott (UK), Robert
> Atkins (USA), Anne Marsh (Australia), Jill Scott (Australia / Germany),
> Yvonne Spielmann (Germany) | Graphic Design: Claudia Stöckli, Stefanie
> Herrmann (Switzerland) | Reproduction: Repromayer, Reutlingen | DVD: Marcel
> Lenz, Bauhaus-University Weimar, Germany | Printed by Dr. Cantz'sche
> Druckerei, Ostfildern-Ruit, Germany
>
>> Order online by logging on to http://www.hatjecantz.de or
> http://www.jillscott.org
>> To order direct please contact your nearest distributer:
>
> Europe: contact@hatjecantz.de
> Hatje Cantz Publishers / Verlag (Stuttgart, Germany)
>
> USA & South America: dap@dapinc.com
> D.A.P., Distributed Art Publishers, Inc. (New York)
>
> Australia: towerbks@zipworld.com.au
> Tower Books Pty. Ltd. (Sydney)
> ____________________________________________________________________
>
> +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
>
> Latest News:
> Premiere Book Launch with lecture by the artist Jill Scott: 19.03.03 -
>
> 19.00h - ZKM Zentrum für Kunst und Medientechnologie, Lorenz Tr 19,
> Karlsruhe, Germany
>
> ____________________________________________________________________
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> Message: 6
> Date: Tue, 18 Mar 2003 16:53:06 +1100
> To: newmedia-ann@uib.no
> From: Adrian Miles <adrian.miles@uib.no>
> Subject: newmedia:: talk: .us: .ny: new media reader
>
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>
> NEW MEDIA: Foundations and Futures
>
>
> Six years ago an NYU CAT-sponsored project began
> to create a resource for understanding new media's
> foundations - aimed at educators and students,
> technologists and artists, critics and journalists.
>
>
> Announcing a celebration of
>
> The New Media Reader (MIT Press, 2003)
>
> featuring two advisors to the project:
> - Ken Perlin, scientist, designer, and artist
> - Christiane Paul, curator, publisher, and author
> in discussion with Noah Wardrip-Fruin and
> Nick Montfort, editors of The New Media Reader
> (for sale at a 1/3 event discount: $30)
>
>
> // Wednesday // March 19 // 7-9pm
> // NYU Center for Advanced Technology
> // 719 Broadway, 12th floor, NYC
>
>
> The New Media Reader collects
> articles, essays, images, and other documents
> about the development of the computer
> as a means of expression - as well as
> functioning new media objects (from Eliza
> to Missile Command) and digitized video
> (from Engelbart's 1968 demonstration to
> Lynn Hershman's Lorna)
>
> Wednesday's event will include discussion of
> The New Media Reader, presentations of
> new projects from Ken Perlin and
> Christiane Paul, conversation about how
> new media's past can inform its future,
> and light refreshments
>
> Ken Perlin
> is co-director of both the NYU CAT and
> NYU's Media Research Laboratory; as well as
> a major figure in computer graphics,
> animation, and human-computer interaction;
> and winner of a technical Academy Award for
> "Perlin Noise"
>
> Christiane Paul
> is the Whitney Museum of American Art's
> adjunct curator for new media; as well as
> the publisher of the new media journal
> Intelligent Agent; and author of Digital Art
> (forthcoming from Thames and Hudson)
>
>
> // Wednesday // March 19 // 7-9pm
> // NYU Center for Advanced Technology
> // 719 Broadway, 12th floor, NYC
> // http://www.cat.nyu.edu
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> Message: 7
> Date: Tue, 18 Mar 2003 16:54:34 +1100
> To: newmedia-ann@uib.no
> From: Adrian Miles <adrian.miles@uib.no>
> Subject: newmedia:: cfp: .us: .intl: dig tools in cultural contexts
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> Call for Contributions
>
> Digital Tools in Cultural Contexts:
> Assessing the Implications of New Media
>
> Eds. Byron Hawk, James A. Inman, and Ollie Oviedo
>
> The editors invite submissions for a new edited collection exploring
> new media and its effects on aesthetics, cultures, and pedagogies. We
> are interested in pieces that investigate a specific digital tool and
> the impact it has on the writing and rhetoric that is produce through
> it. Questions this collection will address include the following:
>
> - How does a specific digital tool affect the production of various
> cultures in cyberspace or our notion of cyberculture?
> - What digital tools create new aesthetics and what are the
> implications of those new art forms?
> - How do we define new media in cultural terms, and what are the
> digital tools that enable/affect these definitions?
> - How do we define the writing and/or rhetoric associated with new
> media in cultural terms, and how do digital tools enable these
> rhetorics?
> - What new opportunities and new challenges do particular digital
> tools create when placed in a particular ecological or pedagogical
> setting?
> - What does the future of communication/composition look like, and
> how do we know? What will be the challenges for artists, writers, and
> educators?
>
> The editors encourage interdisciplinary submissions, as well as
> submissions international in scope, and they welcome submissions from
> scholars at all stages of their professional careers.
>
> The editors also welcome the opportunity to discuss submission ideas
> with prospective authors. Please email as early as possible with any
> queries.
>
> Byron Hawk (bhawk@gmu.edu)
> James A. Inman (jinman@english.cas.usf.edu)
> Ollie Oviedo (ollie.oviedo@enmu.edu)
>
> An initial 250 word abstract will need to be sent. Initial drafts
> will start being reviewed May 20, 2003.
>
> Full submissions should be 15-25 double-spaced pages and presented in
> MLA style, with electronic resources cited according to the Columbia
> Guide for Online Style. Projected due date for final drafts of essays
> is October 1, 2003.
>
>
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