jamie king on Fri, 12 Mar 2010 11:25:46 +0100 (CET) |
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Re: <nettime> fun with ACTA astrohoovering (was Re: Internet for Democracy. Shut down the Euro Parliament. Now!) |
... or it could an arrrrrrt project :) Just saying... being a bit jealous of Ted's sleuthing (seriously, why do I never think of doing things like this instead of -- for example -- getting worked up over Facebook 'status'* updates?) I thought I'd have a trawl through my inbox for instances of 'notworking', just in case it had encountered the device in other contexts. Only two such contexts resulted. One is really more of an academic pun and I won't bother you with it. The other turned out to be more apropos and it's reproduced below, with header intact. I also appended the artist's bio, received in another mail a while back, because it seemed pertinent. The "concerns" and "themes" are just too closely matched, I thought, to our putative astrohoovering project Interest piqued, I even compared the whois on the artist's site in-vacua.com with those presented by Ted. But Drat! Nothing doing! .... But the fact is that you only need to load this putative petition site 'RepetitionR; to see it's 'kindly supported by Arnolfini' (Gallery)! I _cannot believe_ you didn't notice that Ted! I out arrrrrrtist Wayne Clements as the perpetrator of this fraud. I also call bullshit on your rat-smelling and 'Demand' that you -- and probably all Nettime Moderators -- are in on it! All your arrrrrtists are in it together and you must be stopped. I blame the gallery system, Say no to Arrrrrt. Etc. etc., J ---------- Forwarded message ---------- From: geoff cox <gcox@plymouth.ac.uk> Date: Thu, May 1, 2008 at 12:01 AM Subject: antisocial notworking To: Geoff Cox <geoff.cox@plymouth.ac.uk> ANTISOCIAL NOTWORKING http://project.arnolfini.org.uk/antisocial/ 'antisocial notworking' is a repository of projects that explore the pseudo-agency of online social platforms. The concern is how the Internet is increasingly charactised as a 'platform' (or collective machine) for 'social' uses, but to question what is meant by the terms in such descriptions. Although social networking platforms rely on user-generated content, what is the nature of this participation? What alternatives (or antitheses) can be identified? We are looking to add examples of existing and new projects to our 'antisocial notworking' repository that address these themes in uncompromising ways. To submit a project, go to: http://project.arnolfini.org.uk/projects/2008/antisocial/form.php The project is launched with a selection of existing projects, including: Wayne Clements's 'logo_wiki' (2007); Linda Hilfling's 'Participation 0.0 - Part I' (2007); Ubermorgen.com, Alessandro Ludovico, Paolo Cirio's 'Google Will Eat Itself' (2005) & 'Amazon Noir' (2006). Also featured is Rui Guerra's 'www_hack' (2008), a script installed on the host site allowing all visitors to a single page to observe each others mouse movements and to reflect on the server-client relationship: http://project.arnolfini.org.uk/www_hack/ 'antisocial notworking' is launched on 1st May at Futuresonic 2008: Urban Festival of Art, Music & Ideas, Manchester, UK. Some notes on the project are here: http://project.arnolfini.org.uk/projects/2008/antisocial/notes.php The projects and other online resources are available as part of the subdomain 'project.arnolfini' - an online experimental production and management system: http://project.arnolfini.org.uk Wayne CLEMENTS is a visual artist and a writer. His artworks have been shown in many festivals and exhibitions of electronic art. un_wiki received the Award of Distinction, Net Vision, Prix Ars Electronica (2006), and was shown in Connecting Worlds, ICC Gallery Tokyo (2006), in a specially commissioned Japanese language version. His artworks have been shown recently in Madrid, Barcelona, and Athens; notably also in Valencia where logo_wiki was part of the curated presentation antisocial notworking. Wayne is a Research Fellow at Chelsea College of Art and Design, London. http://www.in-vacua.com On Fri, Mar 12, 2010 at 7:58 AM, t byfield <tbyfield@panix.com> wrote: > richard.deboer@xs4all.nl (Wed 03/10/10 at 06:19 PM +0100): > >> NotWorking Youth declaimed: >> >> > With this petition, we are demanding the European Parliament: >> > >> > * Desists, with immediate effect, from all its activities. >> > We don't want to continue paying the bill of an expensive and >> > bureaucratic machine for something we can do better ourselves from >> > the comfort of our armchairs. > <...> > > You're far too kind. "Notworking Youth's" timing couldn't be better: > they denounced the EP right before it voted against ACTA 663-13 -- and > NWY did so as "digital natives [and] web-enthusiasts" (WTF?), purportedly > in the name of (this is really priceless) "a brand new click-based > model of democracy." If NWY had their way, their new democracy would be > subject to a EULA under ACTA. <....> * (p.s. I really don't want to bring up Facebook but it was only just now that I observed the resonance between 'status' as in 'status symbol' and 'status' as in 'status update'.) # distributed via <nettime>: no commercial use without permission # <nettime> is a moderated mailing list for net criticism, # collaborative text filtering and cultural politics of the nets # more info: http://mail.kein.org/mailman/listinfo/nettime-l # archive: http://www.nettime.org contact: nettime@kein.org