Is the new video 'film,' video or film?
Tom Sherman

Video art has been pushed around and roughed up by a technological revolution throughout its forty-year history. Analog video, rolling through several formats of technological evolution, has been completely replaced by digital video.

Filmmakers, in the meantime, have lost their photochemical medium. Production in 16mm or 35mm film has become cost prohibitive beyond film's perceived advantages over video. Those who still shoot in photochemical film end up editing in and outputting in video. And film projection is a dying art.

Karl Zinsmeister

President Bush's new chief domestic policy adviser, Karl Zinsmeister, writes about art:

When Art Becomes Inhuman
Karl Zinsmeister

"There are post-modernist works featured in this article that some may find disturbing. Our sole intention in including these works has been to illustrate the aesthetic and moral 'values' championed by the contemporary art establishment. We do not endorse these self-proclaimed 'artists'."
http://www.artrenewal.org/articles/2002/Art_Inhuman/inhuman1.asp

SpacePlace: Art in the Age of Orbitization
An Art Satellite.
A work in progress.

A project of the ZKM | Center for Art and Media Karlsruhe, 2006

presented at the ZKMax, Munich, from 07 June to 31 December 2006

SpacePlace [web] :: http://www.orbit.zkm.de
SpacePlace [mobile] :: http://mobile.orbit.zkm.de
SpacePlace [Bluetooth dual-screen public access] :: ZKMax, Munich, 07 June - 31 Dec. 2006
[Underpass Maximilianstrasse/ Altstadtring passage; accessible 24 hrs]

Press release: http://www.orbit.zkm.de/?q=node/292

A discussion on the CRUMB New Media Curating list about this project: "web-'curating' in the age of consumer generated content"

Every once in a while the mailing list "nettime" takes a look at itself and many don't like what they see. This time the cause was a meeting of list members in Montreal called the Nettime North America Gathering.

The thread starts here:
report_on_NNA tobias c. van Veen

Vieille Femme aux Tatouages 2002

Gilles Barbier
Carré d'Art -Museé d'Art Contemporain
Place de la Maison Carrée in Nîmes, France
May 31st to September 17th, 2006
http://musees.nimes.fr/carreart/ac-carre.htm

By Joseph Nechvatal
http://www.nechvatal.net

Gilles Barbier’s remarkably ambitious exhibition at the Carré d'Art Museé d'Art Contemporain in Nîmes (Southern France) plays pithily with many current intellectual strands which interest me: net culture, artificial intelligence, image profusion, micro-organisms and science fiction (among others). But what struck me as most exact to its weird visual propositions was its deep reflection (one might even say brooding) on the theme of ignobility, and this grubbily shifted something in my head.

A Documentary by Canal 6 de Julio and Promedios (47 minutes)

http://salonchingon.com/

This video analyzes the events in San Salvador Atenco during the first days of May, 2006 and denounces the violation of the civilian population’s human rights by state and federal police forces. The documentary deconstructs the mass media’s operating methods, which were responsible for creating a climate of fear and an information blockade on the events in San Salvador Atenco, in the midst of an especially delicate situation: the 2006 process of presidential succession in Mexico.

The copyright debate is an absurd debate for emerging or the average artist. Only "A" list artists and their handlers worry about copyright and illegal copying. It's actually a 20th century obsession first laid out by Walter Benjamin in his essay, Art in the Age of Mechanical Reproduction. What's strange and new about digital networks is how the information flows and changes. Some of the most advanced information theorists of the 1960's talked about equating information decay with the second law of thermodynamics that talks about entropy. This new century is about information. The question is how does an artist gain support when they produce information? Is information collectible?

Added on June 03, 2006, 07:07 AM
by subcommendantepirate (1 videos)

http://youtube.com/watch?v=1bGxxrwhC38&search=pirate%20bay

Swedish police raiding the ISP that hosted Bit torrent-tracker The
Pirate Bay. (http://thepiratebay.org)

Tags:
bust raid pirate bay bit torrent

A new political party focused on decriminalizing so-called Internet piracy and making copyrighted material free for all is planning to run in Sweden's next general elections, the head of the party said on Tuesday.

"We will participate in the general elections in the autumn," head of the new "Pirate Party" Rickard Falkvinge told AFP.

Read more:
http://www.thelocal.se/article.php?ID=2791&date=20060103

Download the pdf here:
http://theclassofthenew.net/3.html

Netizens, elancers, cognitarians, swarm-capitalists, hackers, produsumers, knowledge workers, pro-ams... these are just a few of the monikers that have been applied to the new social class emerging from the networked workplace.

In this short book, Richard Barbrook presents a collection of quotations from authors who in different ways attempt to identify an innovative element within society – ‘the class of the new’. Announcing a new economic and social paradigm, this class constitutes a ‘social prophecy’ of the shape of work to come. From Adam Smith’s ‘Philosophers’ of the late 18th century, down to the ‘Creative Class’ celebrated by sociologist Richard Florida today, the class of the new represents the future of production within and beyond capitalism.

As one of the first artists to start working on the internet I’m acutely aware of how the online environment-language-discourse-semiology is evolving. People are beginning to talk about Web 2.0 as the next wave of the net.

Meta tagging is a key issue as more information is created for or migrates to the web. Meta-CC just went on line at: http://meta-cc.net/faq-new.php . Perpetual Art Machine offers a slightly different take on tagging; http://perpetualartmachine.com. My own piece RANTAPOD, http://spaghetti.nujus.net/rantapod has a rudimentory, evolving internal tagging system as well.