[NetBehaviour] Geograph British Isles

[james morris]

The Geograph British Isles project aims to collect geographically
representative photographs and information for every square kilometre of
Great Britain and Ireland, and you can be part of it.

What is Geographing?
· It's a game - how many grid squares will you contribute? ·
· It's a geography project for the people ·
· It's a national photography project ·
· It's a good excuse to get out more! ·
· It's a free and open online community project for all · ...

...except those who don't live in the uk :-/

http://www.geograph.org.uk/

[richard willis]

i've been using geograph.org.uk a lot these last few weeks. it is everything
you claim it to be, i'm really struck by its similarity to
http://urbandead.com



2009/11/12 james morris <james at jwm-art.net>

Post by james morris
The Geograph British Isles project aims to collect geographically
representative photographs and information for every square kilometre of
Great Britain and Ireland, and you can be part of it.
What is Geographing?
· It's a game - how many grid squares will you contribute? ·
· It's a geography project for the people ·
· It's a national photography project ·
· It's a good excuse to get out more! ·
· It's a free and open online community project for all · ...
...except those who don't live in the uk :-/
http://www.geograph.org.uk/
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[james morris]

Post by richard willis
i've been using geograph.org.uk a lot these last few weeks. it is everything
you claim it to be,

I'm claiming nothing - I just copied the text off the front page.

Post by richard willis
i'm really struck by its similarity to http://urbandead.com

Eh?

Post by richard willis
2009/11/12 james morris <james at jwm-art.net>

Post by james morris
The Geograph British Isles project aims to collect geographically
representative photographs and information for every square kilometre of
Great Britain and Ireland, and you can be part of it.
What is Geographing?
· It's a game - how many grid squares will you contribute? ·
· It's a geography project for the people ·
· It's a national photography project ·
· It's a good excuse to get out more! ·
· It's a free and open online community project for all · ...
...except those who don't live in the uk :-/
http://www.geograph.org.uk/

[info]

whitney.org - sunset / sunrise series presents
Untitled Landscape #5 by ecoarttech
http://whitney.org/Sunset

A series of Internet art projects commissioned by the Whitney
specifically for its new whitney.org site mark sunset and sunrise in New
York City every day. Unfolding over a timeframe of ten to thirty
seconds, each project accompanies a transition of the websiteâ??s
background color from white (day) to black (night) and vice versa. A new
project will be posted every three to four months.

First in the series of commissions is Untitled Landscape #5, a project
by the collaborative ecoarttech (Cary Peppermint and Christine Nadir -
http://ecoarttech.net). At sunrise and sunset, fluctuating orbs of light
disrupt the "digital landscape," and the information environment of
whitney.org is disordered by ecoarttech's visuals, suggesting a natural
phenomenon. The size and speed of the orbs will vary based on the number
of visitors to whitney.org since the previous sunrise (for sunset) or
sunset (for sunrise); higher visitation results in larger, slower-moving
orbs. ecoarttech's work has consistently explored relationships between
landscape, technology, and culture, and their commissioned work for
whitney.org metaphorically explores the museum's information landscape
as it is shaped by its visitors.

To see sunset or sunrise, be anywhere on whitney.org.
For sunset / sunrise times see http://whitney.org/Sunset

[marc garrett]

Mimicking the Building Prowess of Nature

Scientists build new materials using inspiration from complex biological
forms.

By Emily Singer

Joanna Aizenberg, a materials scientist at Harvard University, has
scoured the natural world for clues to biological building codes. She
aims to decipher some of Mother Nature?s unique designs, including
dirt-resistant sea urchins and sea sponges made of super-strong
light-conducting glass, to develop novel materials that, like these
organisms, can self-assemble and sense and respond to their environment.

?We try to identify biological systems that have unusual and
sophisticated properties, such as optical, structural, or magnetic
properties, to make extremely sophisticated, efficient, and highly
potent devices and materials,? says Aizenberg, who is also a core
faculty member at the Wyss Institute for Biologically Inspired
Engineering. ?Then we take these principles and try to integrate them
with what we already know in materials science--incorporating them into
existing materials or fabricating a new generation of materials based on
biological principles.? The work could result in better fiber optics,
paint that changes color in response to temperature or light, and new
ways of delivering drugs or clearing arterial plaques.

This collection of striking images explores some of Aizenberg?s new
materials, as well as the organisms that inspired them.

http://www.technologyreview.com/biomedicine/23933/

[marc garrett]

Keeping Pacemakers Safe From Hackers.

By Erica Naone

Manufacturers have started adding wireless capabilities to many
implantable medical devices, including pacemakers and cardioverter
defibrillators. This allows doctors to access vital information and send
commands to these devices quickly, but security researchers have raised
concerns that it could also make them vulnerable to attack.

http://www.technologyreview.in/computing/23923/

[info]

Joseph Beuys' direct democracy today
Invitation to art performance with Johannes Stüttgen

Akademie der Bildenden Künste, Munich
Akademiestrasse 3, 80799 Munich, Germany
Contact:
jvocht at goldmannpr.de

www.democracy-in-motion.eu

LAST EXIT:
Munich, November 14, 2009
Akademie der Bildenden Künste, 4 pm

6 pm Johannes Stüttgen - classic lecture with blackboard and white chalk:
The birth of democracy through art ? the 'erweiterte Kunstbegriff'
(extendend concept of art) on its way through South Eastern Europe

On September 4, 2009 a project, led by Wolfger P?hlmann (Goethe
Institute Athens) in cooperation with eleven other South Eastern
European Goethe Institutes, started which revives the idea of social
sculpture by Joseph Beuys and his concept of direct democracy.

Along with Joseph Beuys' extended concept of art, the OMNIBUS for direct
democracy will arrive in Munich this week packed with new impetus after
two months of touring through South Eastern Europe. To conclude the
Democracy in Motion-tour, a reception and art performance by Johannes
Stüttgen, master-class student and companion of Joseph Beuys, will take
place at the Akademie der Bildenden Künste in Munich on Saturday,
November 14, 2009 at 4 pm.

On its 8,000 kilometers long journey, the OMNIBUS visited twelve
countries and 21 cities under the guiding theme of Democracy in Motion.
With the intention of combining art and politics and agreeing with
locals on a self-determined society according to Beuys' concept, the
OMNIBUS will finally return to Germany after stops in Slovenia, Croatia,
Bosnia and Herzegovina, Bulgaria, Macedonia, Greece, Turkey, Romania,
Serbia, Hungary, Slovakia and Austria.

In 1971 Joseph Beuys founded the Organization for Democracy by Popular
Vote along with Johannes Stüttgen. With this organization Beuys found an
equivalent to his utopian concept of a society as social sculpture, on
which the OMNIBUS team's approach is based upon. 'The OMNIBUS works with
Beuys' concept of social sculpture, which is rooted in the idea that
everybody should take a responsible part in creating a society according
to their own special abilities' states Michael von der Lohe, managing
director of the OMNIBUS.

The tour draws to a close in Munich where the OMNIBUS will reach its
final destination at the Akademie der Bildenden Künste on November 14, 2009.

We would be pleased to welcome you at the Akademie der Bildenden Künste
in Munich.
For further information and the complete program of 11-14-2009 please go to

www.democracy-in-motion.eu
www.omnibus.org

[info]

From: Fernando Llanos <fllanos at fllanos.com>
Subject: 10th aluCine / Toronto Latin Media Festival
Date: Thu, 12 Nov 2009 17:48:24 -0500


10th aluCine
Toronto Latin Media Festival
Nov. 12-28, 2009

http://www.alucinefestival.com/

Contemporary Mexican Art in AluCine 2009:

Fernando LLANOS / Punto suspensivo? (sculpture video, talk and screnning)
Tania AEDO, Memory, New Media in Mexico (talk and screening)
Laura BARRON, Nostalgia (video installation)

November, Thursday 12th 2009, 7:30pm
Fernando Llanos y Laura Barron: Installations (part of group show)
Lennox Contemporary
12 Ossington Ave.
Toronto, ON M6J 2Y7
(Closing, November, Saturday 28th 2009)

November Friday 13th, 7:00pm.
Fernando Llanos: "Videoman" talk and screening
Lennox Contemporary

November Friday 21th 2009, 9:00pm
Tania Aedo: "Memory, New Media in Mexico" (Talk and screening. Complete
program bellow. Co-presented by Images Festival)
CineCycle
129 Spadina Ave.
(In the alley south of Spadina Ave & Richmond St.)
Toronto, ON

This year aluCine's Installations bring together Canadians and
Latin-American artists. Regardless of their place of residence, they are
all tightly connected and bound by the process of constant
transformation when art and new technology meet. In their video
projections, these artists combine classical techniques of visual
representation (drawing, painting, sculpture and photography) with
digital reproduction practices, creating an on-going dialogue between
traditional and modern techniques. Programmers, Curators: Hugo Ares,
Jorge Lozano.
.

Fernando Llanos studied at La Esmeralda National School of Painting,
Sculpture and Engraving in Mexico, specializing in video. In 2000 he
became interested in the relation between video and the Internet,
e-mailing short works to a circle of 500 in countries such as the US,
Cuba, Mexico and in Brazil. He created a website (fllanos.com) with
videos lasting less than 26 seconds.

Punto Suspensivo Sculpture Video: "Chamaco, my Chihuahua dog, gave me an
iPhone at Christmas 2007. Since then I have been taking several daily
pictures, with multiple interests and purposes. In these 20 months I
have taken 13,921 iphoneographys, for this piece transferred to video
and showed in a display that second to second present them for
approximately four hours. The way of presenting them is through a
mini-plasma that rotates 90 degrees left to right, depending on the
photograph format, vertical or horizontal, highlighting with this rhythm
the immediacy and excessive generation of images nowadays (2,000,000
pictures are uploaded daily on the site www.flickr.com). It shows the
day to day (if you have the patience to see it completely) for over a
year of an artist that has made the sharing of his privacy one of his
concerns. This point is only one of the many that are suspended on the
cyberspace."
www.fllanos.com/puntosuspensivo



Fernando Llanos, Punto suspensivo

Videoman (Talk and screening). "Fernando Llanos is one of the most
interesting experimental artists in contemporary Mexico. His work shifts
between several territories and disciplines, including video, robotics,
ciberart and performance." Guillermo Gómez-Peña. Videoman captures the
collective subconscious precisely where culture and counterculture meet.
The stage is the street, a laboratory where people make their way
without noticing how they transform their environment and create new
models of coexistence. The artist makes us reflect on the type of
conscious which can be generated by a society where the masses obstruct,
uniform and ignore but nevertheless create certain voids where the human
being can flow individually - voids employed by Llanos to change both
our routine and our spaces. His reflections are projected in video
format in different, previously analyzed points of the city. The
ephemeral and mobile nature of the project involves the public through a
closed-circuit system that records the reactions to this participative
action defined by its creator as "urban acupuncture".
www.fllanos.com/vi_video

Laura Barron, Nostalgia


Laura Barron was born in Mexico. She received her undergraduate in
Visual Arts at the UNAM and her Master in Visual Arts at York
University. Since 1993 she has been actively producing and has exhibited
en Mexico, Canada, Japan, Venezuela, and USA. Her work is a part of the
following public collections: Kiyasoto Museum of Photography Art, Japan,
Museo del Carmen, Mexico City, Centro de la Imagen, Mexico City, Walter
Philip's Gallery, Canada, Cultural Foundation Omnilife, Mexico City,
Museum of Fine Art, Houston, USA, and the Banff Centre for the Arts,
Canada. In 2003 she immigrates to Toronto, the long process to
adaptation to a new culture became a new focus point of her art.
Nostalgia Video Installation: "Throughout my art practice I've been
concerned with transforming images of existing landscapes into images of
places that do not exist. My work was devoted to exploring landscape and
its connection with memory. These images were my own private paradises,
deeply desolate and de-populated yet functioning as a kind of antidote
to the very large, sprawling and crowded city where I was raised-a place
that in my mind I often imagined as some massive body of water. (This
image in fact derives in part from the fact that the former
Mexico-Tenochtitlan, today's Mexico City, was built on small islands.) I
no longer live in Mexico City, but its presence lingers within my
imagination nevertheless. In keeping with my interest in creating images
as alternative worlds, worlds that at once reflect actual geographical
spaces and interior spaces or reflections of the unconscious mind, the
work I'm presenting explores the ambivalence of the nostalgic condition,
the desire to be always where one is not, and its inherent impossibility".

Tania Aedo has used digital technology in her artistic practice since
1993. Her work has been exhibited in Mexico and abroad, including the
Museum of Modern Art in Mexico City, the Montreal International Festival
of New Cinema, and New Media, and the Kyoto Art Center. She have been
the director of the Centro Multimedia at the Centro Nacional de las
Artes (CENART) and currently is the director of Laboratorio Arte
Alamenda, both in Mexico City. In addition, she teaches and lectures on
art and new media in other national and international forums. Aedo has
been recognized with several fellowships and grants, including a 1998
residency at the Banff Centre for the Arts in Canada. She studied Visual
Arts at the Escuela Nacional de Artes Plásticas at Universidad Nacional
Autónoma de México (UNAM). Her talk "Memory, New Media in Mexico"
contextualizes a project intended to recuperate, and to expose Mexican
new media productions. The laboratory "Arte Alameda" commissioned a
group of curators-researchers to put together programs that will help to
build an archeology of the new media practice in Mexico, to compile
documents for the creation of an archive specifically related to new
media production. This project was presented at the aperture of the
first Centre for the Documentation of New Media in Mexico. The centre
houses in its numerous archives the theoretical work by and about
Mexican artists including the work of Príamo Lozada founder of the
Alameda Laboratory. With the recuperation of this Memory the project has
become a centre of reference for present and future generations.


Screening Schedule
November Friday 21th 2009, 9:00pm

CineCycle
129 Spadina Ave.
(In the alley south of Spadina Ave & Richmond St.)
Toronto, ON

Program: Origens and Technology
Los rollos perdidos de Pancho Villa.
Gregorio rocha
2003. 45:00 min. Video. (fragment)
Lost Portraits: Lula
Ricardo Nicolayevsky
1982-1985/2000. 00:25 min. Super-8. (fragment)
Program: Otredad
The American Egypt
Jesse Lerner
2001. 57:00 min. 16mm. (fragment)
Exotic Nippon
Bruno varela
2008. 01:35. Super-8 (fragment)

Program: Frontera
Fronterilandia
Rubén Ortiz/Jesse Lerner
1995. 16mm. 77:00 min. (fragment)
Scarlet, en Tracking Memory
Amanda Gutiérrez
05:45 min. (fragment)

Program: Cuerpo
Golpeando la gelatina
Claudia Prado
2002. 04:26 min. (fragment)
Cama
Ximena Cuevas
1998. 02:00 min. (fragment)

Program: Movimiento/percepción
Correr entre bejucos
Bruno Varela
2006. 00:58 min. Super-8 intervenido. (fragment)

Program: Mediación/Consumo
?de negocios y placer
Iván Edeza
2000. 01:39 min. (fragment)
Invasión doméstica
Paulina del Paso
2002. 03:13 min. (fragment)
Phonesex
Doménico Cappello
2001.00:56 min.
No D.R.
A. Salomón
2002. (fragment)

Sound Art
Curated by Manuel Rocha e Israel M
Selection of audiovisual material from
the sound program
Música de cámara (fragment)
Colectivo música de cámara
1982. Video, Registro de acción

Memorable Family
Curated by Grace Quintanilla
Fragment selection of some of the
works from the program
Daniel Reyes para presidente (fragment)
Danny Reyes
2009.Documental
Panóptico (fragment)
Roberto Reyes
Videoarte

Revision of authors
Curated by Karla Jasso and Tania Aedo
Selection
Sarah Minter Documentary (fragment)
Andrés Padilla y Dalia Huerta Cano
Campermedia



Co-presented by Images Festival:


www.startright.scotiabank.com
www.artealameda.bellasartes.gob.mx www.consulmex.com

[Olga]

Great, thanks!