By Geert Lovink and Patrice Riemens
posted on 30 August, 2010
http://networkcultures.org/wpmu/geert/2010/08/30/ten-theses-on-wikileaks/
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“What do I think of Wikileaks? I think it would be a good idea!” (after Mahatma Gandhi’s famous quip on ‘Western Civilisation’)
Tuesday October 26 at 7pm (177 Livingston) - Avery Gilbert will be giving a presentation around the psychology of "Smellscapes"
Would anyone be interested in an introductory sound art class? We could go over the basics of collecting sounds around the house and in the field, editing audio, composing non-beat based electronic music, and hopefully building simple interactive programs in Max/MSP or Pd.
It would be great if we could teach the class using only open source/free tools like Audacity, Soundhack, Pd, etc. I'm far more familiar with Max/MSP than Pd but I'm sure someone out there coud help, or if not people could use the 30 day trials.
We could also put together a list of electronic music pieces to listen to and readings like 'The Art of Noises' if it would be helpful.
I'd love to hear from anyone else interested in developing this, or taking a class on the topic.
On September 4-5, we will be discussing the Future of the Public School and continuing some of the conversations from The UC strikes and beyond and Continental Drift / Control Society / Metamorphosis. We're fortunate that Brian Holmes will be back in Los Angeles and proposed the class, which will "look at the cultural roots of the current university crisis, and in that light, to explore the role that experiments like The Public School could play in re-imagining education."
Anyone is invited to come to Boston, MA on September 1st for a 100% free shopping spree.
I will be moving into a new space that morning, so all are welcome to stay over.
Most of the leases in the city change hands on the 1st and being College, USA- Boston has quite a nice variety of items. There are a few bikes available for guest use. Groceries will most likely be available after 1AM Sept. 2nd
Some of us are planning to stay up from the morning of the first until the night of the 2nd, if this kind of shopping binge appeals to you, please contact HeapHQ@gmail.com or visit http://www.impulsepurchase.org
shop until you drop,
dan mooradian
I mention to a couple of people who were at the Gleaners & I film screening for UFG v2 that two classmates and I recently put together this short doumentary on Urban Fishing in downtown NYC... Thought it might be of interest to some people in the group.
by Lacey Peckenpaugh, John Gatti, and Antonio Serna
May, 2010. 09.51min
www.youtube.com/watch?v=4MidM268eS4
Great to see everyone who came to the preliminary meeting! The next meeting for Deleuzian reading group is Tuesday 14th September 6pm, followed by Monday 4th October 6pm. Location to be confirmed. Initial readings will be from "Two Regimes of Madness"..... the English version will soon be uploaded to Aaaargh. More updates soon.
Park Avenue was once a park.
Since the ratification of the Bill of Rights, the right to free assembly has served as an outlet for popular discontent, with our parks, squares, avenues and plazas serving as our front lines. In the 20th century however, these same spaces fell as casualties to the increasing demands of private interest. Most recently, government response to threats of global terrorism has yielded tightened constraints on what little space remains in our urban landscape. National security now justifies unprecedented incursions into civil liberties, with public officials using permits, fees, and bureaucratic hassles to frustrate the vocalizations of public sentiment.
This might be of interest to people in this workshop:
September Saturdays: Fashion Re/Action Festival
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Topographies of Apprehension
A film leaves my body trembling and spent, my breathe short, but my thoughts calm. When something inhabits me like a film or text, the location in the subterranean sites of my apprehension are often already habitat to the elements of memory and meaning. The process of experience is not then merely a reception of vessels of certain values