Gilles Deleuze

What is real is the becoming itself, the block of becoming, not supposedly fixed terms through which that which becomes passes.
- Gilles Deleuze and Félix Guattari, A Thousand Plateaus

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Forwarding along from our good friends at Lumpen.org in Chicago.

Many of you may already be aware of the situation but for those who do not please read, pass and forward.

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An Iraqi born artist, now US citizen, Wafaa Bilal's ( http://wafaabilal.com ) work was shut down at the West Hall Art Department Gallery and will now be reopened tomorrow (March 11), but conservative public pressure threatens to close it once again.

murmuring tOngue Of Ovid: XS: The Opera, a collaboration with Jane Smith, Rhys Chatham, Yves Musard, Karen Hansgen et al at Shakespeare Theatre, Boston
1985 (photo by Paula Court)

murmuring tOngue Of Ovid was just posted at:
http://www.ubu.com/sound/nechvatal.html

Review of DEEP TRANCE BEHAVIOR IN POTATOLAND
(A RICHARD FOREMAN THEATER MACHINE)
by Joseph Nechvatal
DEEP TRANCE BEHAVIOR IN POTATOLAND Photo @ Paula Court

Tellus Power Electronics
Tellus #13 - Power Electronics : a 1986 classic tape-only release from Tellus; the NYC underground art label (which was at times supported by Colab).

Download Tellus #13 @ Shards Of Beauty (at bottom of the artist's list):
http://shardsofbeauty.blogspot.com/

glorious ninth new work:
invisibility phial, dead scene scrollworks #1 [sound on]

http://www.gloriousninth.net/invisibility_phial/

Review ofRyoji Ikeda
Datamatics [ver 2.0]
Centre Pompidou, Paris
October 29th 2007 20h30

Brion Gysin and William Burroughs's Dream Machine

A review of
THE THIRD MIND at Le Palais de Tokyo
Curated by Ugo Rondinone
By Joseph Nechvatal

THE THIRD MIND
Le Palais de Tokyo
13, avenue du président Wilson 75116 Paris

IF/THEN
A Book Review of “Digital Contagions: A Media Archaeology of Computer Viruses” by Jussi Parikka (Peter Lang Books, 2007, 327 pages) by Joseph Nechvatal

{loop:file = get-random-executable-file;
if first-line-of-file = then goto loop;
prepend virus to file;}