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The challenges of curating net art

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The challenges of curating net art - an international web conference

Friday, May 26, 3:30 - 5 PM EST.

This web conference is presented within the framework of the local
Upgrade!-meeting in Sofia and is hosted by the Mobile Studios project http://www.mobile-studios.org and Eyebeam http://www.eyebeam.org in New York. A panel of international artists and curators is meeting up virtually to discuss various aspects of the mediation, curation and funding of net art.


The Moral Equivalent of War

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Thanks to Gregg Bordowitz for reminding me of the brilliance of William James. It's not enough to take a stand that war is bad, you have to deliver a moral and ethical alternative to engage people. That was the lesson I learned from ACT UP and why the colab model doesn't work. To quote Peter Fend, pointing and saying BOO HOO (a la Jenny Holzer) isn't enough. The question now is what is adequate, how do we negotiate?


gh_news_003

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Taxonomy is everywhere.

This past week, I did two Art Dirt Redux http://spaghetti.nujus.net/artDirt interviews,that indicate a new discourse of sorts for the digital art arena. One was with Marc Garret of http://www.furtherfield.org and the other with [PAM] http://perpetualartmachine.com

Garret talks about node London, a media arts festival that was de-centralized and non-hierarchical and [PAM] talks about video art folksonomy. Things are getting interesting when you look at the steve.museum http://www.steve.museum as well.


Marching Plague from Critical Art Ensemble at Eyebeam

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Book launch, screenings and talk

Wednesday, May 24, 2006
6:00 PM - 8:30 PM
Eyebeam
540 W. 21st St. NYC

Join Eyebeam for a book launch and an evening of conversation concerning contemporary warfare: an anti-war event. Critical Art Ensemble present their latest book, Marching Plague: Germ Warfare and Global Public Health published by Autonomedia and appearing in conjunction with their piece “Marching Plague” in the 2006 Whitney Biennial. This event is open to the public free of charge.

http://eyebeam.org/engage/events_unique.php?id=96


On Everything by Pall Thayer

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On Everything
an art project by Pall Thayer
2006

"On Everything" generates a real-time audio/visual presentation of
everything by appropriating material being shared by the worldwide
public in the form of shared images and diaries. The source material
is endless, thus the work goes on forever. Material is synthesized,
mixed and, ultimately, abstracted, to allow for varied


THING Editions Open House May 13 - 20

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Noritoshi Hirakawa


THING EDITIONS OPEN HOUSE
MAY 13 - MAY 20, 2006
RECEPTION: MAY 13, 2006, 4 PM - 7 PM
125 MAIDEN LANE, 10TH FLOOR (bring photo ID)
NEW YORK, NEW YORK 10038

Works by:
Jan Baracz, Christoph Draeger, Peter Fend, Rainer Ganahl,
Amy Granat & Olivier Mosset, Noritoshi Hirakawa, Simone Huelser,
Joerg Lohse, Daniel Pflumm, Wolfgang Staehle, Caspar Stracke, Beat Streuli.

More info at http://editions.thing.net

For more information or to make an appointment contact editions (at) thing.net or call Gisela Ehrenfried at 917 362 1844.

Swing Space at 125 Maiden Lane provided by the Lower Manhattan Cultural Council. Thank you!


Art Dirt Redux: Interview with Marc Garrett

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GH talks with Marc Garrett via Skype about furtherfield.org and NODE.London.

Art Dirt Redux Marc Garrett interview part 1, part 2

A discussion of NODE.London from the New Media Curating


The Wealth of Networks Onliine

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From Joseph Nechvatal:
I don't know if you are familiar with this new
book by Yale law professor Yochai Benkler, The Wealth
of Networks: How Social Production Transforms Markets
and Freedom
. Its theorizing of the "networked public
sphere" is particularly interesting. Also, it factors in
economics and culture along with the political. This
online version is made available under a Creative
Commons Noncommercial Sharealike license:

http://habitat.igc.org/wealth-of-networks/


Time for Marching

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John Lennon had it right; Television is the opiate of the masses.

Popbitch is 300!

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Our guilty email pleasure even though we have no idea who they're talking about half the time we like the jodi.orgish banner:

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Popbitch is 300! Celebrate with us tonight, 11 May,
at Tribeca Grand, New York, (Church & White St).
DJs include Erol Alkan from Trash, London and
special guests. 10pm-late. Hurry and email
for guest list: events@tribecagrand.com