THE INFLUENCERS
Festival of media action and radical entertainment

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*July 6 7 8 - 2006*
Center of Contemporary Culture Barcelona
http://d-i-n-a.net/influencers
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with VUK COSIC, PAUL D. MILLER / DJ SPOOKY, MOLLEINDUSTRIA, IRWIN / NEUE SLOWENISCHE KUNST, VINCENZO SPARAGNA, OSCAR BRAHIM, CHICKS ON SPEED
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program: http://d-i-n-a.net/influencers/06/en
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You heard it first. MP3 You first it heard. MP3 Heard you first it. MP3 First heard it you. MP3 Or something like that. MP3 This is it. MP3 First it heard you. MP3 The first DaDa@MoMA Mashup.
MP3

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.

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

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"Pirate Party" targets Swedish election

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

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The Networks Flow Through Your Mind
rantapod.027
G.H. Hovagimyan
http://post.thing.net/node/919