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We have released on Public Record the fourth and final collection of one-minute audio responses to the question: What is the sound of the war on the poor? This instalment in the series features recordings from the below contributors...
links for 2009-07-01
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links for 2009-7-1
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We have released on Public Record the fourth and final collection of one-minute audio responses to the question: What is the sound of the war on the poor? This instalment in the series features recordings from the below contributors...
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links for 2009-06-30
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The world's most high-profile file-sharing website, The Pirate Bay (TPB), has lifted the lid on its new video sharing website, The Video Bay.
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nula is the source of a series of filecasts, each consisting of an assemblage of sounds, images, or words, made available for download, sharing, commentary, and further manipulation.
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The Hacker Camp co-operates as a team, only true Hackers are accepted and can participate. Participating in a Social RFID Hacker Camp normally costs € 1.250,-. For 30 students the Apollo program pays the access to Social RFID Hacker Camp ’09—1 on August 24th to 28th 2009 . You can be one of them if you have the right skills. This applies only to students from eductional programs in Amsterdam like Articifial Intelligence, Robotica, Computer Science, Software Engineering, Interaction Design. If you do not fit this description but still want to participate, follow the instructions here.
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VVAA Pioneers - The Beginning Of Danish Electronic Music
CD - LjudThis is a collection of historical recordings, dating back primarily to the sixties-seventies, with a selection that accomplishes meticulous research into early Danish electronic avant-garde. This CD collects experiments done with the help of seminal analog instrumentation, in studios where it was easy to find DIY mixing console, between 'sine-wave', 'pulse', 'noise-generators' and 'ringmodulator', and where, more often than not, several racks full of effects, microphones of every kind and tape recorders could be found. These 'Danish pioneers' were in a condition which was strongly stimulated in co-operation and in comparison with the main centres of the emerging electronic music scene in Europe - Germany, France, Italy and Sweden - which together with the United States imposed themselves as the most significant production centres of these new sounds. Two CDs and a nice booklet of 48 pages, with very interesting texts by Birthe Dalby, Finn Egeland and Andreas Hanse report a quality and a compositional rigor that still keeps up with the latest genre developments.
Aurelio Cianciotta
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links for 2009-6-30
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The Hacker Camp co-operates as a team, only true Hackers are accepted and can participate. Participating in a Social RFID Hacker Camp normally costs € 1.250,-. For 30 students the Apollo program pays the access to Social RFID Hacker Camp ’09—1 on August 24th to 28th 2009 . You can be one of them if you have the right skills. This applies only to students from eductional programs in Amsterdam like Articifial Intelligence, Robotica, Computer Science, Software Engineering, Interaction Design. If you do not fit this description but still want to participate, follow the instructions here.
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links for 2009-6-29
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The Russian Orthodox Church has started to sell stickers that, when put on a mobile phone, will miraculously protect its owner from hazardous electromagnetic waves.
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links for 2009-06-28
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The Russian Orthodox Church has started to sell stickers that, when put on a mobile phone, will miraculously protect its owner from hazardous electromagnetic waves.
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Neural 33, Scripting Green
The new Neural issue is out. Subscribe now.
You can also buy the magazine from the closest of the almost 200 stores stocking it. A back issues pack is available.Issue #33, summer 2009
Centerfold: 'Common Flowers' by Shiho Fukuhara and Georg Tremmel.
new media art
.Amy Franceschini / Futurefarmers interview.
.Beatriz da Costa interview.
.HeHe interview.
.Transmediale report.
.Green Platform report.
.news: X-Train, Dead Pixel in Google Earth, TimeStopper, Suffering Machine, Thumbarumba.
.reviews:
. ..books/dvds/floppys: White Heat Cold Logic, New Media in the White Cube and Beyond, Optical Vacuum, nkdlunch.mp4, tapetrff.mp4, Synthetic Times: Media Art China.
emusic
.Jacob Kirkegaard interview.
.The Owl Project interview.
.news: MusMusopen, Decryptopattern, Sound Chaser, Strobovj, Felix's Machines.
.reviews:
..books/dvds: The Movement of People Working, Nocturne, Trax Rednight/Notterossa, Explicit Content Only, Harmonic Ratio.
.cd reviews: AtomTM, Shinkei / Luigi Turra, Pioneers-The Beginning Of Danish Electronic Music, Domenico Sciajno, Yaco, Monoton, DNE, Phroq, Rhythm, Muslimgauze, Ibitsu, Michael Peters, Israel M, Mikhail, Source Records 1-6 Music Of The Avant Garde 1968-1971, Thanos Chrysakis, The Smiling Buddhas, Frank Rothkamm, Nicolas Bernier, Pato.
hacktivism
.Guerrilla Gardening interview.
.Esther Polak interview.
.Eco-Pornography and the Alt-Economy.
.news: Wikileaks, Internet-avgift, Feral Trade, Bicycle Built for Two Thousand, Oil Prospecting.
.reviews:
..books: FLOSS+Art, Wizzywig, volume 1: phreak, volume 2:hacker, Cyberchiefs, Animal Spirits, Experimental Geography.
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Mikhail - Morphica
CD - Sub RosaMorphica comes in a package that certainly does not pass unnoticed (a 17x24 cm envelope, silver-metallic, transparent even, coming with a hexagonal cardboard CD container that opens as a 'bud'). The first of the three CDs is called 'Electronics', and when listening it is clear that the artwork has been designed in fifteen different "multiples", each made by a different visual artist. And, in the tradition of the prestigious label, all this stuff is accompanied by significant theoretical texts, produced by Guy-Marc Hinant, Kersten Glandien and Mikhail Karikis, which are also laid out in an effectively composed poster-booklet. The sophisticated remix project is inspired by Mikhail's 2007 album 'Orphica', deconstructing the music with an avant-garde and experimental attitude, and featuring sounds that still retain a strong oneiric-kinematic component. Many different styles gently coexist in the concept reworking, to which the 'Voices' of the Alamir choir and the 'Strings' (Telekaster and Claudia Molitor) are then added. Special guests include the always hyperactive DJ Spooky 'That Subliminal Kid', a.k.a. Paul D. Miller, with his lively and interesting mix of interwoven sounds and textual narratives.
Aurelio Cianciotta
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Common Flowers, treating the genetic manipulation as common
If more and more of the flowers we buy at florist are cloned and if food is less and less spottable as genetically manipulated, we are facing times when the intervention with the dna of different living organisms will be considered as pop culture. Common Flowers by Shiho Fukuhara and Georg Tremmel is a peculiar art project using genetic engineering
to short-circuit the sophisticated system of GM (Genetically Modified) crops. First it relies on an exemplary case: the blue "Moondust" GM carnation that has been developed by the Japanese company Suntory. Even if the company could have got the permission to grow the flowers from authorities, they decided not to do that, but to outsource the growing and harvesting in Columbia - from there they are globally sold and shipped as cut-flowers. Fukuhara and Tremmel then purchased these cut-flowers and started technically cloning new plants from them, using the so-called Plant Tissue Culture method. It consists of DIY biotech methods, involving kitchen utensils and other materials that can be easily purchased. The plants are rated as "non harmful", so the artists are bringing them back to life again, planting them into the environment, and then making them a Common. The controversial gesture, in the very spirit of the best "bio art" movement, addresses the abyss of bio manipulation and bioethical aspects. Both of them are just exposed and hacked, proving once more that (as Yukiko Shikata notes), natural codes have a lot in common with software, and so personally re-writing and releasing information becomes a powerful and challenging statement.Filed under: Cyberpunk feeds, Neural news | Comments Off
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