[-empyre-] Viral Witnessing Part 6
Lynn Hershman
lynn2 at well.com
Tue Dec 8 01:53:36 EST 2009
I had a live feed of my own last night munching dinner and the
conference tidbits simultaneously.
Of course the ownership of posts to a private corporation sent for
viral consumption extends the menu further.
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On Dec 6, 2009, at 12:37 PM, Ashley Ferro-Murray wrote:
> Hello all!
>
> After spending yesterday's Future of the Forum symposium at Berkeley
> hearing big-wig social media executives dodge questions regarding
> intersubjectivity and marginality, while still preaching net
> neutrality (from their perspectives in support of their own companies
> and therefore the online communities that they reach), I have a lot of
> questions about online anonymity, individual as opposed to collective
> action and/or responsibility online, and the temporality of the net.
>
> Should I feel relieved that Google Wave is going to be 100% open
> source and that people like Jane McGonigal with the Institute of the
> Future are creating games that encourage a positive future and deal
> with issues such energy conservation? Or, should I continue to feel
> discouraged by PhD student Jen Schradie's research on the direct
> correlation between class and online activity, and by the fact that
> many games are conceived and funded by the military, like DARPA's Red
> Balloon Challenge that occurred just yesterday?
> (https://networkchallenge.darpa.mil/default.aspx).
>
> I would argue that spreadable media is not necessarily marked by the
> now and although it might be presented as "ephemeral" data, may indeed
> be a product produced over a longer period of time. Yesterday Jimmy
> Wales, founder of Wikipedia, reminded us all that despite a seemingly
> immediate action available online, most programs that enable these
> interactions are built and conceived very carefully and with specific
> attention to long term affects on its users and the online
> environment. As a programmer myself who uses online networks in
> aesthetic products I constantly remind myself that although I may
> conceptually use online networking to present the theoretical now, in
> practice these products take more careful planning and political
> situation than if I were to throw my body on a stage and move around.
>
> When we think about viral/spreadable forms we must remember: whose
> network are we working in? It seems that if we work to keep this
> question in mind we are more enabled to disrupt online architectures
> that were created by and for the military, and take advantage of
> opportunities to spend years developing our own networks designed to
> facilitate a space for contemplation that furthers more progressive
> aims.
>
> Thank you for bearing with my musings as a process what was a full and
> challenging day yesterday!
> Ashley
>
>
>
>
> On Sat, Dec 5, 2009 at 10:43 PM, Patricia R. Zimmermann
> <patty at ithaca.edu> wrote:
>>
>> More (alas) speculations and unresolved questions from Patty and
>> Sam, on viral witnessing:
>>
>> How can we begin to understand the different temporalities of
>> fixed media forms and viral/spreadable forms?
>>
>> *Temporalities are different between these two forms
>>
>> * The curated object is an aestheticized product produced, often,
>> over a longer duration of years, designed to create a space for
>> contemplation.
>>
>> *The spreadable media is not about years but about the now and it
>> marked by its own ephemerality: it is made to disappear as
>> networks of discourse and practice and politics shift., issues
>> resolve or get more complex, move.
>>
>> *This temporality does indeed have a bottom line: live humans are
>> impacted by images that become increasingly time sensitive and
>> time volatile. The urgency of the act of circulation is augmented.
>>
>> *Yet there is a reverse side of this coin. What is the half-life
>> of an image in digital open space? Do images and their
>> circulation wax and wane?
>>
>> *With the emphasis on temporality and urgency we can neglect an
>> understanding of the continued resonance of the images. In a
>> digital era images last for years, and find their homes with those
>> who are most vested in seeing it. Audiences often find images and
>> form provisional communities around images and networks.
>>
>> *When this villager in Karen State, Burma, spoke out about the
>> situation in her community, was she to know that three years later
>> a million people on YouTube would have heard her speak?
>>
>> *Yet this villager who speaks out against their local military
>> commander and is captured on digital video should do so knowing
>> that this clip will circulate and re-circulate, and if it
>> successfully re-circulates it will eventually be seen by that
>> military commander.
>>
>> *If earlier we talked about the idea of spreadable media as
>> relying on the choice of the individual to share, as opposed to
>> the coercive ideas of viral media, then how do we think about this
>> element of coercion as opposed to choice in the case of the people
>> filmed, not just the people filming or distributing.
>>
>> *The ecstasies and democratic hopes of online culture can occlude
>> issues of safety and consent – for example, how the video and cell-
>> phone images from Burma were the basis for the jailing of
>> participants (physical, virtual and viral) in the 2007 Saffron
>> Revolution, and how the Iranian government is crowd-sourcing the
>> identification of dissidents on its Gerdab website, using photo
>> and video grabs from YouTube and other video sources.
>>
>>
>> -------
>> Patricia R. Zimmermann, Ph.D.
>> Professor, Cinema, Photography and Media Arts
>> Roy H. Park School of Communications
>> Codirector, Finger Lakes Environmental Film Festival
>> Division of Interdisciplinary and International Studies
>> 953 Danby Road
>> Ithaca College
>> Ithaca, New York 14850 USA
>> Office: +1 (607) 274 3431
>> FAX: +1 (607) 274 7078
>> http://faculty.ithaca.edu/patty/
>> http://www.ithaca.edu/fleff
>> BLOG: http://www.ithaca.edu/fleff10/blogs/open_spaces/
>> patty at ithaca.edu
>>
>>
>> ---- Original message ----
>>> Date: Sat, 5 Dec 2009 07:21:33 -0800
>>> From: empyre-bounces at gamera.cofa.unsw.edu.au (on behalf of Ashley
>>> Ferro-Murray <aferromurray at gmail.com>)
>>> Subject: [Spam:****** ] Re: [-empyre-] Viral Witnessing Part 2
>>> To: soft_skinned_space <empyre at gamera.cofa.unsw.edu.au>
>>> Cc: sam at witness.org,soft_skinned_space
>>> <empyre at gamera.cofa.unsw.edu.au>
>>>
>>> Good morning from a cold and rainy California,
>>>
>>> I have so enjoyed Patty and Sam's thoughts on viral media as it
>>> relates to ethical, political and social issues. Today I will
>>> attend a
>>> symposium on "The Future of the Forum" with speakers including Jimmy
>>> Wales, Founder of Wikipedia, Jim Buckmaster, CEO of craigslist, Dick
>>> Costolo, COO of Twitter, Seth Goldstein, Co-Founder and CEO of
>>> SocialMedia Networks, Reid Hoffman, Founder of Linkedin.com, Lars
>>> Rasmussen, co-developer of Google Wave, Marc Davis, Chief Scientist
>>> and Co-Founder of Invention Arts, and
>>> Jane McGonigal, Director of Game Research & Development at Institute
>>> for the Future. I will be curious to see how their thoughts on the
>>> state and future of the forum and social media will relate to Patty
>>> and Sam have raised, especially:
>>>
>>> **In the current environment of the user-generated, imagined
>>> virality, and circulatory vortex of Web 2.0 media, the capacity to
>>> produce and share media, testimony, and visual evidence is more
>>> widely
>>> dispersed.
>>>
>>> **Amateurism has been redefined and reconfigured not as an adjunct
>>> to other forms of media but as an infiltration of other forms of
>>> media. Media practice, therefore, is no longer solely and
>>> exclusively
>>> about visibility: circulation and aggregation have acquired
>>> equal if
>>> not greater importance.
>>>
>>> Watch talks live online [http://bcnm.berkeley.edu/fotf/live.html]. I
>>> will also live blog throughout the day [ferromurray.net]. Later
>>> today
>>> I hope to check in here with any more specific resonances.
>>>
>>> Ashley
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>> On Sat, Dec 5, 2009 at 6:20 AM, Patricia R. Zimmermann
>>> <patty at ithaca.edu> wrote:
>>>>
>>>> The second installment of speculations from Patricia Zimmermann
>>>> and Sam Gregory:
>>>>
>>>> We have been asking ourselves and interrogating a series of
>>>> questions related to the ethical, political and social issues of
>>>> viral media.
>>>>
>>>> What is at stake in the changing and mutating visual, virtual
>>>> and viral economies of representing and circulating other
>>>> peoples’ suffering?
>>>>
>>>> • Professional human rights documentation – both textual
>>>> and visual - has traditionally functioned as a largely closed
>>>> space.
>>>>
>>>> • This closed space has included participants from the UN
>>>> and inter-regional human rights bodies, people responsible for
>>>> mechanisms at a national level in countries, and documentors,
>>>> researchers, lawyers, campaigners and advocates in local and
>>>> international NGOS.
>>>>
>>>> • This closed space has organized networks with rules and
>>>> codification of practices, including patterns to discern the
>>>> compromise between the individual and the collective when making
>>>> decisions about strategy in the distribution of documentation.
>>>>
>>>> • In the last three decades, human rights workers have
>>>> developed highly professionalized identities, towards a trend
>>>> where only certain people with particular training gather
>>>> evidence as “human rights professionals.” The visual evidence
>>>> and testimonies gathered are designed to create documentation of
>>>> abuses—and to circulate in defined evidentiary, awareness-
>>>> raising, advocacy or fundraising spaces, or to be provided in
>>>> packaged form to traditional mass media outlets.
>>>>
>>>> • WITNESS (http://www.witness.org), where Sam works, has
>>>> specialized in a particular form of this – developing the
>>>> capacity of human rights defenders to use video in lobbying,
>>>> evidence and advocacy towards defined audiences from the
>>>> International Criminal Court, the US Congress, and the UN to
>>>> grassroots communities in the Congo and Burma.
>>>>
>>>> • Witness’ focus has been on supporting grassroots voices
>>>> to identify audiences who can be shamed, persuaded, motivated to
>>>> engage in social change via the power of visual media, and then
>>>> placing that media in front of people at the right time and
>>>> place, and within a campaign strategy.
>>>>
>>>> • In the current environment of the user-generated,
>>>> imagined virality, and circulatory vortex of Web 2.0 media, the
>>>> capacity to produce and share media, testimony, and visual
>>>> evidence is more widely dispersed.
>>>>
>>>> • Amateurism has been redefined and reconfigured not as an
>>>> adjunct to other forms of media but as an infiltration of other
>>>> forms of media. Media practice, therefore, is no longer solely
>>>> and exclusively about visibility: circulation and aggregation
>>>> have acquired equal if not greater importance.
>>>>
>>>> • This new human rights media is not produced with the
>>>> same rigor as professional human rights documentation, but is
>>>> nonetheless functioning as an expansion of human rights advocacy
>>>> into open space, and with the potential to expand the potency
>>>> and efficacy of this rights promotion. Now, we must begin to
>>>> understand who creates it and how it circulates in these more
>>>> open spaces.
>>>>
>>>> • We offer these interrogations in the context of an
>>>> epistemological challenge for both human rights activists and
>>>> for documentary and new media scholars.
>>>>
>>>> • We see alliances between these sectors, with human
>>>> rights victims and advocates on the ground, as an essential,
>>>> urgent nexus.
>>>>
>>>> • What is the meaning of “documentation” (‘x did y to z’)
>>>> and/or “documentary” in an age of a thousand, a million, a
>>>> billion documentors/documentarians, where monopolies of power/
>>>> categorization are lost, erased, confused, obscured?
>>>>
>>>> • And we do it all against a backdrop,( and Sam says this
>>>> primarily from his perspective in WITNESS) of significant
>>>> ethical questions of safety, security, dignity, consent and re-
>>>> victimization that we will return to later in more postings on
>>>> Empyre.
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> -------
>>>> Patricia R. Zimmermann, Ph.D.
>>>> Professor, Cinema, Photography and Media Arts
>>>> Roy H. Park School of Communications
>>>> Codirector, Finger Lakes Environmental Film Festival
>>>> Division of Interdisciplinary and International Studies
>>>> 953 Danby Road
>>>> Ithaca College
>>>> Ithaca, New York 14850 USA
>>>> Office: +1 (607) 274 3431
>>>> FAX: +1 (607) 274 7078
>>>> http://faculty.ithaca.edu/patty/
>>>> http://www.ithaca.edu/fleff
>>>> BLOG: http://www.ithaca.edu/fleff10/blogs/open_spaces/
>>>> patty at ithaca.edu
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> ---- Original message ----
>>>>> Date: Thu, 3 Dec 2009 11:14:09 -0500 (EST)
>>>>> From: empyre-bounces at gamera.cofa.unsw.edu.au (on behalf of
>>>>> "Patricia R. Zimmermann" <patty at ithaca.edu>)
>>>>> Subject: [Spam:****** ] [-empyre-] Viral Witnessing
>>>>> To: "soft_skinned_space" <empyre at gamera.cofa.unsw.edu.au>
>>>>> Cc: sam at witness.rog
>>>>>
>>>>> Hello everyone:
>>>>>
>>>>> We (Patty and Sam) want to raise the issue of the ethical
>>>>> questions of the shifting landscapes of international human
>>>>> rights work and the circulation of imagery in the new viral Web
>>>>> 2.0 world.
>>>>>
>>>>> It might be useful to check out Witness at http://
>>>>> www.witness.org, where Sam works, and a leader in human rights
>>>>> advocacy in both analog and digital forms that is "user
>>>>> generated" Also, check out Witness' THE HUB, a user generated
>>>>> human rights portal.
>>>>>
>>>>> Corporate entitities have inscribed viral into their DNA,
>>>>> moving from marketing to engagement cross multiple platforms to
>>>>> increase shelf life of media products through what Axel Bruns
>>>>> has called "produsage". A product is no longer a product but a
>>>>> process of consumer engagement, whether with a movie or with
>>>>> Mentos candy. As many studies have shown, viral is more of a
>>>>> myth than a reality: not many campaigns, whether corporate or
>>>>> political, go viral, because it is unpredictable and
>>>>> uncontrollable. Viral is perhaps more myth than fact, more
>>>>> fantasy than embodied reality, more vaudeville than intervention.
>>>>>
>>>>> Yet counter movements have emerged to interrogate the user-
>>>>> centric, the viral, the multiplatformed. Ricardo's important
>>>>> transborder projects discusssed last week point to new ways of
>>>>> thinking and practicing the viral.
>>>>>
>>>>> We want to raise questions and contradictions about the viral,
>>>>> the virtual, and the spreadable in the world of human rights, a
>>>>> node where issues on the ground meet circulatory culture. This
>>>>> area is unresolved, emerging, problematic and hopeful.
>>>>>
>>>>> This week, then, we offer our speculations and unresolved
>>>>> Questions as an opening for discussion about the manners in
>>>>> which new circulatory networks of media, new participants in
>>>>> documentation and documentary and ubiquitous tools for film-
>>>>> making impact on the possibilities for creating human rights
>>>>> action through media, and also impact the traditions of
>>>>> established analog social issue documentary.
>>>>>
>>>>> Where do issues of circulation, aggregation and remix intersect
>>>>> with human rights values, documentary tradition and real-life
>>>>> social change?
>>>>>
>>>>> We focus here on nodal points that are unresolved conundrums,
>>>>> knots that need unknotting, questions that need collaborative
>>>>> thinking and action… These are questions that are very real and
>>>>> concrete for human rights practitioners, filmmakers and people
>>>>> facing human rights violations in diverse communities around
>>>>> the world.
>>>>>
>>>>> What is at stake, we ask, for documentary media in this new
>>>>> human rights advocacy landscape?
>>>>>
>>>>> Let me (Sam Gregory, from Witness)start with an anecdote.
>>>>>
>>>>> Recently I was driving down a remote country road in Syria in a
>>>>> shared taxi. A man turned back to me and offered me his
>>>>> cellphone, saying ‘Change’. His Spider-man themed phone was far
>>>>> more modern than my old Nokia so I was puzzled.
>>>>>
>>>>> But as he showed me the phone what he wanted to do became
>>>>> clear: he wanted to change clips. And what he wanted to
>>>>> exchange were not just silly pet tricks, the money shots from
>>>>> porn videos, and young girls dancing, but violent videos of
>>>>> people being hit and beaten-up, so-called ‘happy-slapping videos’.
>>>>>
>>>>> I realized he wanted to swap what I would consider abuse
>>>>> videos. Filmed by perpetrators, professionals and amateurs,
>>>>> circulated by bystanders and ordinary citizens human rights
>>>>> videos are entering new spaces. For us this is a starting point
>>>>> to consider the new issues and questions that arise around
>>>>> circulation, exhibition and action in human rights media in a
>>>>> world of radically increased, pervasive and transformed
>>>>> production, distribution and usage.
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>> -------
>>>>> Patricia R. Zimmermann, Ph.D.
>>>>> Professor, Cinema, Photography and Media Arts
>>>>> Roy H. Park School of Communications
>>>>> Codirector, Finger Lakes Environmental Film Festival
>>>>> Division of Interdisciplinary and International Studies
>>>>> 953 Danby Road
>>>>> Ithaca College
>>>>> Ithaca, New York 14850 USA
>>>>> Office: +1 (607) 274 3431
>>>>> FAX: +1 (607) 274 7078
>>>>> http://faculty.ithaca.edu/patty/
>>>>> http://www.ithaca.edu/fleff
>>>>> BLOG: http://www.ithaca.edu/fleff10/blogs/open_spaces/
>>>>> patty at ithaca.edu
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>> ---- Original message ----
>>>>>> Date: Wed, 2 Dec 2009 12:28:48 -0500 (EST)
>>>>>> From: empyre-bounces at gamera.cofa.unsw.edu.au (on behalf of
>>>>>> "Renate Ferro" <rtf9 at cornell.edu>)
>>>>>> Subject: [-empyre-] Two new guests.....
>>>>>> To: "soft_skinned_space" <empyre at gamera.cofa.unsw.edu.au>
>>>>>>
>>>>>> Thanks Ricardo for the update. I'd like to introduce you to
>>>>>> two other
>>>>>> guests who will taking our discussion threads into the first
>>>>>> week of
>>>>>> November. Welcome to Patty Zimmermann and Sam Gregory. Here
>>>>>> are their
>>>>>> bios and they will be making introductory posts to you soon.
>>>>>>
>>>>>> Renate
>>>>>>
>>>>>>
>>>>>> Sam Gregory and Patricia Zimmermann are collaborators working
>>>>>> on an on-going
>>>>>> research and presentation project, Speculations on the Virtual
>>>>>> and Viral
>>>>>> Witness.
>>>>>> The project explores and opens up the contradictions, ethical
>>>>>> and political
>>>>>> implications of circulatory culture for transnational and
>>>>>> international
>>>>>> human rights
>>>>>> as it moves from fixed analog representations by professionals
>>>>>> to more
>>>>>> fluid and
>>>>>> changeable user generated modes designed to move across
>>>>>> cultures for
>>>>>> advocacy.
>>>>>>
>>>>>> Sam Gregory is the Program Director at WITNESS (www.witness.org,
>>>>>> hub.witness.org)
>>>>>> which uses video and online technologies to support human
>>>>>> rights advocacy
>>>>>> worldwide.
>>>>>> He is a video producer, trainer, and human rights advocate. In
>>>>>> 2005 he was
>>>>>> the lead
>>>>>> editor on Video for Change: A Guide for Advocacy and Activism
>>>>>> (Pluto
>>>>>> Press), and in
>>>>>> 2007 he lead the development of the curriculum for WITNESS'
>>>>>> first ever Video
>>>>>> Advocacy Institute, an intensive two-week training program. He
>>>>>> has worked
>>>>>> extensively with grassroots human rights activists -
>>>>>> particularly in Latin
>>>>>> America
>>>>>> and Asia, including the Philippines, Burma and Indonesia,
>>>>>> integrating
>>>>>> video into
>>>>>> campaigns on a range of civil, political, social, economic and
>>>>>> cultural
>>>>>> human rights
>>>>>> issues.Videos he has co-produced have been screened to
>>>>>> decision-makers at
>>>>>> the US
>>>>>> Congress,the UK Houses of Parliament, the United Nations, and
>>>>>> at film
>>>>>> festivals
>>>>>> worldwide. He has been interviewed on using video in advocacy
>>>>>> for the
>>>>>> Christian
>>>>>> Science Monitor, the National Journal, Videomaker Magazine,
>>>>>> Reason, PBS
>>>>>> Now, Voice
>>>>>> of America and many other media outlets. In 2004 he was a jury
>>>>>> member for
>>>>>> the IDFA
>>>>>> Amnesty International/Doen Award. He has also worked as a
>>>>>> television
>>>>>> researcher/producer in both the UK and USA, and for development
>>>>>> organizations in
>>>>>> Nepal and Vietnam. He is on the Board of the US Campaign for
>>>>>> Burma, and
>>>>>> the Tactical
>>>>>> Technology Collective.
>>>>>>
>>>>>> Patricia Zimmermann is professor of cinema, photography and
>>>>>> media arts at
>>>>>> Ithaca
>>>>>> College in Ithaca New York and codirector of the Finger Lakes
>>>>>> Environmental Film
>>>>>> Festival (http://www.ithaca.edu/fleff) This year’s festival
>>>>>> explores the
>>>>>> theme of
>>>>>> Open Space in an online, web 2.0 environment. She is the
>>>>>> author and/or
>>>>>> coeditor of
>>>>>> Reel Families: A Social History of Amateur Film (Indiana),
>>>>>> States of
>>>>>> Emergency:
>>>>>> Documentaries, Wars, Democracies (Minnesota), Mining the Home
>>>>>> Movie:
>>>>>> Excavations in
>>>>>> Histories and Memories (California), and The Flaherty: Four
>>>>>> Decades in the
>>>>>> Cause of
>>>>>> Independent Cinema (Wide Angle). She has published extensively
>>>>>> and
>>>>>> internationally
>>>>>> in the areas of film history, documentary, new media,
>>>>>> political economy of
>>>>>> media,
>>>>>> technological history, critical historiography, and film/new
>>>>>> media theory. In
>>>>>> addition to her scholarly work, for the last six years, she
>>>>>> has written,
>>>>>> produced
>>>>>> and directed many collaborative projects in the area of live
>>>>>> music and
>>>>>> multimedia
>>>>>> projection that combines archival material with new
>>>>>> technologies, in
>>>>>> collaboration
>>>>>> with major archives in the United States and internationally.
>>>>>> In 2010,
>>>>>> she will be
>>>>>> the Shaw Foundation Professor Endowed Chair of New Media
>>>>>> Technology in the
>>>>>> Wee Kim
>>>>>> Wee School of Communication and Information at Nanyang
>>>>>> Technological
>>>>>> University in
>>>>>> Singapore. She blogs at http://www.ithaca.edu/fleff10/blogs/
>>>>>> open_spaces/
>>>>>>> Hola all soft_skinned_Trans(i)s,
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> We the Chicana Coyotek Gangs (CCG)
>>>>>>> are really happy to bring today's
>>>>>>> Transborder Immigrant Tool Weather Report.
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> We are well liked in the Netherlands,
>>>>>>> but just down the road from our
>>>>>>> super lab we are not:
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> On Nov 29, 2009, at 5:32 AM, whtguy916 at yahoo.com wrote:
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> "Give the illegals a map to your house ASSHOLE
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> DON'T GIVE THEM A MAP TO MINE
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> YOU SON OF A BITCH YOU SHOULD BE ARRESTED AND BEATEN
>>>>>>> FOR HELPING ILLEGAL CRIMES BE COMMITTED."
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> A VERY LOUD NOTE que no? CCG is getting lots these
>>>>>>> very LOUD notes.
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> WE hope that the LUNAR BRACEROS from 2125-2148
>>>>>>> can send some amor sin borders
>>>>>>> now rather than tomorrow.
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> Also, we are happy to report
>>>>>>> that one of our lead chica del trans
>>>>>>> dr. cardenas did some radio time:
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> http://www.ksro.com/Programs/KSROAMNews/Interviews/
>>>>>>> blogentry.aspx?BlogEntryID=10074465
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> by the way she connected sonically with her new little
>>>>>>> chipped-in toe
>>>>>>> ring!
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> Other side of el code dr. stalbaum has been doing double duty as
>>>>>>> mistress of the universe and tireless dislocative tester. Her
>>>>>>> new magik tool will be ready to make a scene next week!
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> http://www.walkingtools.net/
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> Over in OC land our poll number are down!
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> Do we not give you enough LUV?!
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> December 01, 2009 7:44 AM
>>>>>>> Poll: 56% say border-crossing tool threatens national security
>>>>>>> http://www.ocregister.com/news/tool-221803-border-poll.html
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> CCG is now going to have to give up our Vegas Dreams of
>>>>>>> becoming Las Gagas ricas y famous and just be one more poll
>>>>>>> dancing
>>>>>>> trans-national threat.
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> Meanwhile here in New Aztlán, otherwise known as North County
>>>>>>> Times
>>>>>>> we have entered into a temporal cold war:
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> Here's help crossing the border illegally but safely
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> http://www.nctimes.com/news/local/columnists/vandoorn/
>>>>>>> article_6c7c6ca2-89dc-55a8-a206-b19bd80e657f.html
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> This vato say SI!
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> But, just click away it all become Fear of the nanocommunist
>>>>>>> Planet!
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> http://www.nctimes.com/news/opinion/columnists/strickland/
>>>>>>> article_d06ba121-0a35-5632-b278-0b2df98cd9ff.html
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> What can we say CCG likes their nanonuts con un poco de
>>>>>>> programable
>>>>>>> matter:
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4B6NJy9d7Vo
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> Which by the way is playing at the Kid's Museum of Art in SD!
>>>>>>> No one is safe now! Ha..Ha..Ha!!!
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> Bueno much mas to tell but we have to go hit the dance flores
>>>>>>> they are playing our song.
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> Abrazos grandes,
>>>>>>> CCG
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> P.S. The pome of the day just for you chic at as:
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> DUBLINERS
>>>>>>> “La isla que
>>>>>>> se repite”:
>>>>>>> dub liners,
>>>>>>> el Caribe.
>>>>>>> Derridian
>>>>>>> hospitality,
>>>>>>> Joycean as
>>>>>>> a “Yes,” resounding.
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> por la doctor carroll
>>>>>>> http://vimeo.com/6108310
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> --
>>>>>>> Ricardo Dominguez
>>>>>>> Associate Professor
>>>>>>> Hellman Fellow
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> Visual Arts Department, UCSD
>>>>>>> http://visarts.ucsd.edu/
>>>>>>> Principal Investigator, CALIT2
>>>>>>> http://calit2.net
>>>>>>> Co-Chair gallery at calit2
>>>>>>> http://gallery.calit2.net
>>>>>>> CRCA Researcher
>>>>>>> http://crca.ucsd.edu/
>>>>>>> Ethnic Studies Affiliate
>>>>>>> http://www.ethnicstudies.ucsd.edu/
>>>>>>> Center for Iberian and Latin American Studies Affiliate
>>>>>>> http://cilas.ucsd.edu
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> Hemispheric Institute of Performance and Politics,
>>>>>>> Board Member
>>>>>>> http://hemi.nyu.edu
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> University of California, San Diego,
>>>>>>> 9500 Gilman Drive Drive,
>>>>>>> La Jolla, CA 92093-0436
>>>>>>> Phone: (619) 322-7571
>>>>>>> e-mail: rrdominguez at ucsd.edu
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> Project sites:
>>>>>>> site: http://gallery.calit2.net
>>>>>>> site: http://pitmm.net
>>>>>>> site: http://bang.calit2.net
>>>>>>> site: http://www.thing.net/~rdom
>>>>>>> blog:http://post.thing.net/blog/rdom
>>>>>>> _______________________________________________
>>>>>>> empyre forum
>>>>>>> empyre at lists.cofa.unsw.edu.au
>>>>>>> http://www.subtle.net/empyre
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>
>>>>>>
>>>>>> Renate Ferro
>>>>>> Visiting Assistant Professor
>>>>>> Department of Art
>>>>>> Cornell University, Tjaden Hall
>>>>>> Ithaca, NY 14853
>>>>>>
>>>>>> Email: <rtf9 at cornell.edu>
>>>>>> Website: http://www.renateferro.net
>>>>>>
>>>>>>
>>>>>> Co-moderator of _empyre soft skinned space
>>>>>> http://www.subtle.net/empyre
>>>>>> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Empyre
>>>>>>
>>>>>> Art Editor, diacritics
>>>>>> http://muse.jhu.edu/journals/dia/
>>>>>>
>>>>>>
>>>>>>
>>>>>> _______________________________________________
>>>>>> empyre forum
>>>>>> empyre at lists.cofa.unsw.edu.au
>>>>>> http://www.subtle.net/empyre
>>>>> _______________________________________________
>>>>> empyre forum
>>>>> empyre at lists.cofa.unsw.edu.au
>>>>> http://www.subtle.net/empyre
>>>> _______________________________________________
>>>> empyre forum
>>>> empyre at lists.cofa.unsw.edu.au
>>>> http://www.subtle.net/empyre
>>>
>>>
>>> --
>>> Ashley Ferro-Murray
>>> PhD Student
>>> Dept. Theater, Dance & Performance Studies
>>> University of California, Berkeley
>>> ferromurray.net
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