Ada_list July 2004

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by luke

hi thought this conference sounded pertinent to the ada agenda & it looks like there will be a web stream of it from http://freebitflows.t0.or.at/f/livestreaming but it's hard to tell exactly because the website's crazy blue and black. it looks like the stream would be thursday 3rd & friday 4th, 2-7pm of june vienna time, so could happen in the middle of the night here? not a good time to listent to a conference, but is anyone on the list able to automatically set their computer to record the stream? --- THE INTERNET came with a promise that "everybody can be a publisher". Although not everybody wants to be a publisher, those who actually do, find it hard to make it work. As it turns out, this promise is only true in an extremely limited, technical sense. Yes, I can set up a website, or put my song on the Net, but what next? The problem becomes not so much technical as social -- there is a lot of sharing, but little in terms of making a living. Money remains squarely in the hands of the old industry. The issue of distribution is not just an economic question. It's also a political one. At stake is the 'semiotic democracy', that is the ability of the largest number of people to create and share culture freely. It is about making sure that despite of heavy-hitting marketing machines, new, independent content can still fill its audience. In short, the question is how do innovative production and distribution come together to support each other. Free Software seems to have found a way to do just that, but what about the rest of cultural production? How do we get from technological visions to actual cultures that are open yet sustainable in a climate where funding runs short? FreeBitflows will bring together artists, researchers, activists, and hackers from Europe and beyond to investigate current strategies to build sustainable, open and experimental cultures through electronic media. A conference, workshops, performances and an exhibition will examine cultures of access and the politics of dissemination from a broad range of perspectives. http://freebitflows.t0.or.at S P E A K E R S Ian Clarke (IE/US) architect and coordinator of the Freenet project http://www.freenetproject.org Marco Deserlis (IT) freelance journalist, Internet critic and media activist http://www.thething.it http://www.d-i-n-a.net Volker Grassmuck (DE) researcher at the Humbold University Berlin and initiator of the Wizards of OS conference. http://waste.informatik.hu-berlin.de/Grassmuck/ Menno Grootveld (NL) co-founder of the former pirate TV channel Robotnik TV and co-founder of the festival for tactical media, Next 5 Minutes. http://www.next5minutes.org Bjoern Hartmann (DE/FR) conceived the Net label textone.org http://www.textone.org http://www.bjoern.org Reni Hofmueller (AT) media artist and activist http://helsinki.at http://www.mur.at Brewster Kahle (US) founder and digital librarian for the Internat Archive (IA) http://www.archive.org Paula Le Dieu (UK) project director of the Creative Archive, a BBC initiative to distribute its audio and video archival content in ways that allows the UK public to use it to fuel their own creative endeavours http://www.bbc.co.uk/pressoffice/pressreleases/stories/2004/03_march/02/on_… nd.shtml Pauline van Mourik Broekman (UK) founding co-editor and co-publisher of the techno culture magazine Mute, co-founded as "the Arts and Technology Newspaper" in 1994. http://www.metamute.com/ http://www.openmute.org Sjoera Nas (NL) works with Bits of Freedom, a not-for-profit privacy and civil rights organisation http://www.edri.org or http://www.bof.nl Istvan Rev (HU) professor of History and Political Science, Central European University, Budapest http://www.osa.ceu.hu Janko Roettgers (DE/US) writes for on- and offline-media about net culture, net policy and music on the Internet. http://www.mixburnrip.de http://www.lowpass.de Thorsten Schilling (DE) founder and president of mikro.org also http://www.bpb.de Pit Schultz (DE) author, artist and computer professional. Co-founder of Bootlab, Berlin and before that the mailing list Nettime. Currently, project manager for reboot.fm, a Berlin-based open radio http://www.Bootlab.org or http://www.reboot.fm Wendy Selzer (US) staff attorney with the Electronic Frontier Foundation, where she focusses on intellectual property an dfree speech issues. http://www.eff.org http://cyber.law.havard.edu/seltzer.html Kristin Thomas (US) research director and organizer with The Future of Music Coalition and works for a DC-based PR firm. http://www.futureofmusic.org Exhibitions run from June 3 to 17, 2004. Locations: Semperdepot, K-Hause, Temporary locations: Karlsplatz, Vienna.

17 years, 2 months

digestive audio #2

by The Audio Foundation

Hi Folks from the depths of winter comes the second Audio Foundation newsletter... Additions to the site : (with thanks to http://www.pipedreams.net.nz for the excellent php development) A new section for critical discourse. There is a number of interesting articles there already, but not so much from NZ. Anyone with essays, reviews or just thoughts is welcome to submit. A discography/performance field is now available in the artists upload area. Just go back to your admin area with your password and put in your details. As always, any feedback is welcome. Warm toddies to you all SELECTED SNIPPETS OF NEWS AND EVENTS - MORE DETAILS ONLINE... <http://www.audiofoundation.org.nz> High St project is looking for proposals for their new Sounding Board venture. Contact Hamish jasperjhons(a)hotmail.com NZ Version Festival 2004 - call for proposals. The 2nd Version presents 7 days of electro-centric performance, presentation and discussion. The festival programme will span: CONCERT / CLUB / LOUNGE / INSTALLATION / WORKSHOP. We are seeking original and innovative compositions and/or re-contextualisation of media. Email: proposals(a)version.org.nz Entries open for Vodafone Digital Art Awards 01-Jul-04 http://www.vodafone.co.nz/vdaa . No category for digital sound, but room for collaboration. The more people that question this the better! Static Mansion is still open for entries. Email address has changed, contact SallySAM99(a)student.canterbury.ac.nz "TIRAMIZU is a playable place for on-the-edge musics and audio projects."http://tiramizu.free.fr/frameINFO.html Call for articles and works - Organised Sound is an international peer-reviewed journal which focuses on the rapidly developing methods and issues arising from the use of technology in music today http://uk.cambridge.org/journals/oso ÄÄNIRADIO is an experiment in public broadcasting. ääniradio is seeking open radio content. http://aura.siba.fi/aaniradio ************************************************************************

17 years, 4 months

RE: [Ada_list] SPARK 04

by Clare O'Leary -WLG

HI Cheryll Bad timing for me unfortunately - I'll be at www.siggraph.org. but good luck with it this year. Would love to come and visit you when I get back and touch base. Clare O -----Original Message----- From: Cheryl Reynolds [mailto:cheryl@mediarts.net.nz] Sent: Monday, 26 July 2004 11:19 a.m. To: ADA LIST Subject: [Ada_list] SPARK 04 SPARK 04 A week of international arts, media and culture Tuesday 10 August Saturday 14 August Hamilton, New Zealand SPARK is a one-of-a-kind, one-week-only, once-a-year celebration of contemporary arts organised by WINTEC¹s Creative Industries Research Centre and School of Media Arts. Not just a conference, not just a festival, SPARK 04 offers non-stop performances, exhibitions, talks, discussions and entertainment from the cultural cutting edge, morning, noon and night, five days running. Visitors to SPARK see and hear the latest from a dynamic array of national and international artists, musicians, filmmakers, designers, critics, writers and multi-media and inter-disciplinary practitioners. This year¹s guests include LISA REIHANA (NZ), CHRISTINE JEFFS (NZ), CHRISTIAN JANKOWSKI (Germany), HORI AHIPENE (NZ), CHERINE FAHD (Australia), TIM CORBALLIS (NZ), DAVID HAINES & JOYCE HINTERDING (Australia), MATT OWENS (USA), SARAH DE JONG & PHILIP HOWE (Australia), NIKLAS OSTHOLM (Sweden), ZOE BALL (USA), BLAIR TRETHOWAN (Australia), STUART SHEPHERD (NZ), and many, many more. Best of all, by bringing these people together SPARK offers everyone interested or involved in the arts a unique opportunity to fuse their energy and ideas and see what ignites. Because the arts aren¹t just about getting current. They¹re about creating the current. SPARK 04 takes place between 1014 August 2004. In the spirit of all previous SPARKs it will highlight and promote the fluidity and diversity of creative practice in New Zealand. It¹s a fantastic chance to get inspired, see what¹s happening, find out who¹s doing what, how they¹re doing it, meet some amazing people, foster connections and start creating some sparks of your own. People really should park themselves at Spark and let the fireworks begin! SPARK 04 is presented in Hamilton by WINTEC with generous support from our partners Creative New Zealand, The University of Waikato - Department of Screen & Media, and Artspace - Auckland, plus our sponsors Rongopai Wines and Red Bull. What: SPARK 04: A week of international arts, media and culture Where: Department of Media Arts, Wintec, Collingwood Street, Hamilton When: Tuesday 10 Saturday 14 August 2004 For further information please contact the Creative Industries Research Centre at WINTEC on 07 838 6386. To register please go to: www.spark.mediarts.net.nz _______________________________________________ Ada_list mailing list Ada_list(a)list.waikato.ac.nz http://list.waikato.ac.nz/mailman/listinfo/ada_list *********************************************************************************** This e-mail message, together with any attachments, is for the intended recipient only and may not be disclosed to any other person. If you are not the intended recipient and you have received or seen this message through an error, please notify the sender immediately and delete the email from your system. Unauthorised use or disclosure of the message, or the information it contains, may be unlawful. New Zealand Trade and Enterprise accepts no responsibility for changes made to this email or to any attachments after transmission from New Zealand Trade and Enterprise. The information contained in this email, together with any attachments, does not necessarily represent the official view of New Zealand Trade and Enterprise. It is your responsibility to check this email and any attachments for viruses. ***********************************************************************************

17 years, 4 months

SPARK 04

by Cheryl Reynolds

SPARK 04 A week of international arts, media and culture Tuesday 10 August Saturday 14 August Hamilton, New Zealand SPARK is a one-of-a-kind, one-week-only, once-a-year celebration of contemporary arts organised by WINTEC¹s Creative Industries Research Centre and School of Media Arts. Not just a conference, not just a festival, SPARK 04 offers non-stop performances, exhibitions, talks, discussions and entertainment from the cultural cutting edge, morning, noon and night, five days running. Visitors to SPARK see and hear the latest from a dynamic array of national and international artists, musicians, filmmakers, designers, critics, writers and multi-media and inter-disciplinary practitioners. This year¹s guests include LISA REIHANA (NZ), CHRISTINE JEFFS (NZ), CHRISTIAN JANKOWSKI (Germany), HORI AHIPENE (NZ), CHERINE FAHD (Australia), TIM CORBALLIS (NZ), DAVID HAINES & JOYCE HINTERDING (Australia), MATT OWENS (USA), SARAH DE JONG & PHILIP HOWE (Australia), NIKLAS OSTHOLM (Sweden), ZOE BALL (USA), BLAIR TRETHOWAN (Australia), STUART SHEPHERD (NZ), and many, many more. Best of all, by bringing these people together SPARK offers everyone interested or involved in the arts a unique opportunity to fuse their energy and ideas and see what ignites. Because the arts aren¹t just about getting current. They¹re about creating the current. SPARK 04 takes place between 1014 August 2004. In the spirit of all previous SPARKs it will highlight and promote the fluidity and diversity of creative practice in New Zealand. It¹s a fantastic chance to get inspired, see what¹s happening, find out who¹s doing what, how they¹re doing it, meet some amazing people, foster connections and start creating some sparks of your own. People really should park themselves at Spark and let the fireworks begin! SPARK 04 is presented in Hamilton by WINTEC with generous support from our partners Creative New Zealand, The University of Waikato - Department of Screen & Media, and Artspace - Auckland, plus our sponsors Rongopai Wines and Red Bull. What: SPARK 04: A week of international arts, media and culture Where: Department of Media Arts, Wintec, Collingwood Street, Hamilton When: Tuesday 10 Saturday 14 August 2004 For further information please contact the Creative Industries Research Centre at WINTEC on 07 838 6386. To register please go to: www.spark.mediarts.net.nz

17 years, 4 months

WSIS GENDER CAUCUS Research Program: Engendering ICT Policy

by Helen Varley Jamieson

WSIS GENDER CAUCUS Research Program: Engendering ICT Policy The WSIS Gender Caucus is launching a program of small grants to support innovative research on gender and information communications technologies, during 2004-05. It is anticipated that there will be two rounds of calls for proposals and that the supported research will be completed in time to be presented on Gender Caucus panels at the second World Summit on the Information Society, slated for Tunis, Tunisia in November 2005. The overall objective of the research program is to enlarge the knowledge base for gender-sensitive policy on information communications technologies. Projects, which can be related to activities anywhere in the world, are expected to fall into one of the following three general areas: 1. Documentation, analysis and evaluation of efforts to mainstream gender into ICT policy. This could include a critique of existing initiatives or the documentation of best practices, including the implementation of gender-sensitive ICT policy. 2. Applications and content. This could include case studies of cultural, social and technical perspectives on ICT policy or political economy-based studies of applications in education, health, e-governance, e-commerce, etc. 3. Theories and methodologies. This could include the development of conceptual frameworks and methodologies for better understanding and analyzing the relationship between ICTs and gender. In each of the two rounds, 20 research grants will be made, each to a maximum of US$1000. This total is expected to cover all associated research costs and recipients would be expected to plan their projects accordingly. One half of the grants will be used to support young scholars (female or male) who are currently registered in a higher degree program (master's or doctoral level). The remaining grants are intended to support university and research center based scholars. Projects that involve collaboration beyond national borders will be considered for slightly higher grants (to a maximum of US$2500). Successful applicants will receive one half of their grant at the beginning of the project and the remainder when the final report has been received. There will be no exceptions. Proposals must be submitted by e-mail and must meet the following requirements: - clear statement of the problem - objectives of the research - methodology - method of data analysis - time line - preliminary bibliography Proposals should be a maximum of five pages. Proposals longer than five pages will automatically be rejected. An international panel of experts will select the winning proposals and their decisions will be final. In addition to the criteria listed above, the panel will give consideration to regional balance. To be considered for the first round of research grants, interestedparties should submit their proposal to research(a)genderwsis.org by August 15, 2004. It is anticipated that the first grants will be made by the end of September 2004. -- ____________________________________________________________ helen varley jamieson: creative catalyst helen(a)creative-catalyst.com http://www.creative-catalyst.com http://www.avatarbodycollision.org http://www.writerfind.com/hjamieson.htm ____________________________________________________________

17 years, 4 months

Re: Ada_list Digest, Vol 17, Issue 22

by nick

Hi all, Seven is seven!! We are off to celebrate this momentous occasion with what will start as lunch and probably end up as dinner in the same place. Due to this we will not be in the office from midday on. Apologies for the lateness of warning. We will have our mobiles with us if there is anything urgent that needs attending to. Thanks from Seven -- Seven Visual Communications Ph. 09 360 1994 Fx. 09 360 0730 http://www.seven.co.nz ________________________ IMPORTANT NOTICE: Do you reckon you were supposed to get this? No? Well maybe you could reply to the sender and tell them as much. It won¹t take very long and in return we¹ll send you any prize from the middle shelf.

17 years, 4 months

Re: Ada_list Digest, Vol 17, Issue 21

by nick

17 years, 4 months

RE: [Ada_list] digits & names

by Sean Cubitt

the argument over terms is always a valuable experience. And decisive - the Orthodox churches split from the catholic over the menaing of the trinity. etc. One group I was involved with dropped 'digital', 'electronic' and other acronym-friendly terms in favour of 'creative technology'. Admittedly a tactic that can only be used once, but which opened doors for biogentic art like Eduardo Kac's genesis and Transgenic Bunny. Interactive is also tricky. There is a sliding scale from silent reading to reading aloud to reading critically in reading groups . . . . . to authoring work on existing software . . . . to authoring tools and technologies (Walter Benjamin: The author who does not teach other authors teaches no-one) 'New' is an indication of attitude and a perspective. The academy in general - the critical academy and the art schools - will generally lag a year or two behind developments, and sometimes longer (so too do galleries in many instances, especially national cllections): the funding for media arts has always lagged way behind painting and sculpture. Likewise purchasing for national collections (et al at venice is a case in point). We have little going on intellectually and only slightly more artistically in mobile media. I always liked Carolyn Marvin's 'When Old technologies were new' as a title, and the Amsterdam media arts centre'For Old and New media' And as to 'media', which Douglas thinks is more likely to fade out - I hope not: media mediate - they are physical and dimensional and informational structures of real materiality that communication embodies in. The word says what it means. Unlike, for example (some of you have heard me make this case) 'art', which refuses definition, is scarcely descriptive, and pori=vides alibis for gatekeeping of the most merciless elite kind (?) More pertinent to this discussion: what happens when computers stop being binary and move to, say, hexadecimal - binary after all was a sop to the engineers when it was harder to distinguish levels of electrical current. Now the engineering standards are higher. What would a hexadecimal logic be like? Will we finally get rid of those lists - ("There are only two kinds of people in the world : those who divide people into two kinds and thosethat don't") great discussion so far - thanks sean PS if anyone wanted to collate, proof and publish, the discussion is all at the ada_list archive online s

17 years, 4 months

Re: [Ada_list] continued exposition

by su ballard

> information will be lost. Ok, i may be wrong here again, but the way I understand it when Claude Shannon was trying to sort out information compression he actually located entropy as an essential (and positive) force within the information channel itself. To me, this means that the apparent loss of information (or increased noise) is actually central to the making of information itself. (We never see a diagram of even simple information systems without a big arrow pointing up labelled NOISE). So that when Robinson encodes glitches, and the code 'fails' , or when my CD burner once again produces a nice warm tea coaster (grr!) information is not actually 'failing' but doing exactly what it has always done. It is playing with noise. So we don't need to 'see past' the typos in Robinson, to do that you have to be able to recognise them in the first place. The typos are essential. They also mark this piece out as not simply there to 'be read' - ie. a symbolic representation. It is only symbolic if i choose it to be. Instead the noise in the language allows for more gaps, glitches, noises, or material to enter - that is, us. . su

17 years, 4 months

RE: [Ada_list] continued exposition

by Sean Cubitt

It is bizarre n'est-ce pas: Shannon and Weaver were working on a probabilistic model - the least probable is random and terefore entropic. The most probable is without information at all - which is also entropic. The trick is to use redundancy (the probable - Hi, hello, how are you? - to secure a channel, and then use a mix of probable - the english language for example - and the less probable - someone flew a plane into the world trade centre - to construct messages. In early info theory, esp in Neuman and Winer, entropy was a bad thing indeed, to be combatted with hoeostasis: Cold War paranoia as N Kathrine Hayles argues. Only in Maturana and Varela, second generation info theorists, does it begin to feel safe; and in contemporary ('emergence') information theory its a positive. s Entropy! In information theory entropy represents the amount of independent information contained in a system and is basically the opposite of noise. Entropy of course implies disorder, however Shannon used the term to describe the amount of information present in a system. ??? (what was he thinking?) The larger the entropy, the more information is present. If noise is added to a system the entropy is reduced. so, yes, in information theory entropy is a positive thing. ian _______________________________________________ Ada_list mailing list Ada_list(a)list.waikato.ac.nz http://list.waikato.ac.nz/mailman/listinfo/ada_list

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