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    Don’t Shout it, Tratt’ it by Laura Beloff & Martin Pichlmair 

    A work by Laura Beloff & Martin Pichlmair

    From http://www.we-make-money-not-art.com/archives/008588.php

    The work is based on the idea of using the world as the constantly changing score for the sounds and on the notion of kids being very loud at certain age. The interest was to create a real-time composition with a focus of making a media-art piece for children.

    The TRATTIs are wearable screaming devices for children. TRATTIs generate noise and sound and music (depending on your ear) according to what the kid is looking at. Each TRATTI is different, yet all are similar. The prototype plays the visual world as the score for the sounds.

    Though the TRATTI looks very low tech, it actually is a high tech device. A mobilephone with camera runs the system. It also contains a megaphone-shaped horn, an amplifier and electronics. TRATTI uses custom-made software, developed in mobile processing, to interpret the images as sound that the phone takes, then it plays out loud the sound it generates.

    A work by Laura Beloff & Martin Pichlmair.

     

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    Flashback: The Rhizome Project/2002/Jakarta/Indonesia 

    The Rhizome Project

    In April ’till June 2002, The British Council Jakarta and Bandung Center for New Media Arts organized a workshop and exhibition located at The Library of The British Council Jakarta. Young artists from Bandung and Jakarta were invited to explore and respond the library space for two months working-period. The opening presented Biosampler, a collective multimedia-performance group from Bandung.

    Participating artists:
    Acit
    Adi Cumi
    Andri Moch.
    Anggun Priambodo
    Arief Tousiga
    Biosampler
    Dewi Aditya
    DJ Y
    Gustaff H. Iskandar
    Hendi Hendarsyah
    Hendry Foundation
    Indra Ameng
    J.D. Avianto
    Puji Siswanti
    Siti Nazariah

    More info: http://www.commonroom.info/bcfnma/rhizome.html

     

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    sCrAmBlEd?HaCkZ! by Sven König 

    sCrAmBlEd?HaCkZ! is the result of an effort to develop an artistic strategy that could shed some light on evident but very confusing problems of intellectual property. Intellectual property is a misconception deeply conflicting with the basic principles of any cultural production because it is completely negating its collaborative nature.

    Nevertheless IP laws are continuously expanded as if romantic notions of geniality and originality would not have been put ad acta quite a while ago. At the very latest in todays society which is, to an ever increasing degree, shaped by digital networks und computers it is getting obvious what IP actually is: an instrument of power and censorship to secure economic interests.

    Fascinated by the effects caused by a small program called Napster (and its successors) I wondered to what extent certain software could unfold discursive power in such a situation if that software would open up new technical possibilities for something which is already the (subconscious) desire of many.

    Because of my interests in artistic strategies and social practises of appropriation – collage, montage, sampling and remix in general and plunderphonics, bastardpop and mashups in particular – the idea of a hypothetical mind music machine has evolved which, as a metaphor, helped the concept and the design of sCrAmBlEd?HaCkZ! to take shape.

    More info please visit: http://www.popmodernism.org/scrambledhackz/?c=0

     

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    IASLonline Lessons in NetArt 

    URL: http://iasl.uni-muenchen.de/links/NATheoriee.html

    Conceptual Art and Software Art: Notations, Algorithms and Codes
    URL: http://iasl.uni-muenchen.de/links/NAKSe.html

    Self-replicative and generative codes have been developed in Software Art. Intermedia Arts relations between notation and realisation are expanded by new mutations in relations between readable code and computer processing: Examples of program codes appear as the next step after formalizations of verbal concepts in Dada, Fluxus and Conceptual Art. And on the other hand: These formalized notations can be presented as precursors of Software Art.

    Participation with Camera: From the Video Camera to the Camera Phone
    URL: http://iasl.uni-muenchen.de/links/NAPKe.html

    The development of the camera technology (video camera, WebCam, camera phone) and its context had and has consequencies for the development of strategies to integrate participative uses of cameras into projects. The article outlines the camera use as a subject of change from video and net projects to collaborative mapping with locative media.

    The article “Participation with Camera” offers an overview on some of the nearly hundred projects described in German in:

    Collected tips: Interactive Urban Experience with Locative Media (Mapping)
    Part 1: URL: http://iasl.uni-muenchen.de/links/TippSammel1.html
    Part 2: URL: http://iasl.uni-muenchen.de/links/TippSammel1B.html

    The project “Interactive Urban Experience” is presented in all its parts (Mapping, Pervasive Games, Installations) in German in:

    Collected tips 1-3: Interactive Urban Experience with Digital Media (Internet, Mobile Telephone and Locative Media):
    URL: http://iasl.uni-muenchen.de/links/TippSammel1-3.html

    Thomas Dreher
    URL: http://dreher.netzliteratur.net/

    –
    Dr. phil. Thomas Dreher
    Schwanthalerstraße 158
    D-80339 München
    B.R.D.
    Tel.: 0049/89/5029513 (privat);
    0049/89/23033-214
    URL: http://dreher.netzliteratur.net
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    [Reader-list] Wiki politics – special issue 

    The democratic promise of the Internet has remained partly unfulfilled. It is still doubtful how the use of new collaborative tools (wikis, blogs, forums, mailing lists, podcasting, and videos) can transform the ways politics are practiced and how the increasing prospects for larger political participation can result to the emergence of active citizens. Perhaps, it is essential to start from the concrete: Wiki politics is a concept that encompasses existing practices which instantly give birth to new democratic forms. They produce a particular form of political participation -horizontal and equitable- which operates on the basis of the principles of decentralisation and openness. This issue aims to explore the openings that the concept of the ‘wiki politics’ presents for democratic theory and practice.

    New online journal Re-public < http://www.republic.gr/en >, has just published the first part of its special issue “Wiki politics”. The issue explores how the use of new collaborative tools (wikis, blogs, forums, mailing lists, podcasting, and videos) can transform the ways politics are practiced. Articles include:

    McKenzie Wark celebrates Wikipedia as an example of a new kind of social relation, as a model for producing knowledge outside the commodity form…

    http://www.re-public.gr/en/?p=132

    An interview with the author of A Hacker’s Manifesto on how wikipedia is an example of a new kind of social relation.
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    Geert Lovink – Theses on wiki politics

    http://www.re-public.gr/en/?p=135

    Wikis reflect a culture of pragmatic non-commitment, argues Geert Lovink. One edits, adds, deletes, changes and quits. Then it is time to stand up, get a coffee, smoke a cigarette, talk on the phone or chats, and return to the screen again…

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    Trebor Scholz – What the MySpace generation should know about working for free

    http://www.re-public.gr/en/?p=138

    Driven by hormones and a sea of desires, millions are sucked into networked screens for hours on end. For the media and news industries these are the heydays of participatory cultures. Cultural anthropologists study “interactivity,” and the networked sociality of teens, fans, and bloggers of all ages who are trying to impress their friends or seek a platform for their ideas. Rather than balancing affordances and pitfalls (democratizing effects such as the massification of voice and harmful aspects such as addiction and continuous partial attention), this essay focuses on creative labor from the perspective of the MySpace generation.

    MySpace addicts formulate comments, tag, rank, forward, read, subscribe, re-post media, link, moderate, remix, share, collaborate, favorite, and write. What kind of labor is this, asks Trebor Scholz?
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    Michel Bauwens – P2P politics, the state, and the renewal of the emancipatory traditions

    http://www.re-public.gr/en/?p=133#more-133

    Michel Bauwens explores the possibilities opened up by P2P projects for progressive politics, arguing that they could present an alternative to neoliberal privatization, and to the Blairite introduction of private logics in the public sphere.

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    All articles of Re-public are published with a Creative Commons license and can be re-printed freely, by acknowledging their source.

     

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