Saturday
11am: The Coming Insurrection
2pm: Stock footage workshop

Sunday
Noon: The Three R’s’… Review, Response and a Reception

We have three classes at The Public School this weekend - one will be a reading group, one will be a functional stock footage company, and one will be a closing reception for Tom Leeser’s exhibition at the Distributed Gallery.

The closing reception is actually called The Three R’s’… Review, Response and a Reception, in which media artist and curator Tom Leeser will lead a class in three parts based on the current June show at the Distributed Gallery, titled ‘24/7 Truth.’ The first part of the Public School class will be a Review of the show. The Review will be in the form of a meandering tour of the four locations of the Distributed Gallery. The tour will begin and conclude at the Public School. The class will be encouraged to take pictures, field recordings, videos and written notes while on the tour. The class will also engage in discussions with the curator about the show and its premise of “the illusionary nature of truth, narrative, media and the gesture.” After the tour, the class will retreat back to the Public School environs to engage in the second part, a participatory ‘Response.’ The goal of the Response will be to solicit first impressions of the show and the tour and transform the impressions into individual and collaborative forms of written and spoken texts. The third part of the class will be a closing Reception for the show with snacks, drinks and unrestricted dialogue. For more information about the show and the class, please visit:
http://la.thepublicschool.org/class/1353

On Saturday (tomorrow Saturday) come from 11am-2pm for a discussion of The Coming Insurrection, a short book by an anonymous collective called The Invisible Committee. The text is an eloquent call to arms arising from the recent waves of social contestation in France and Europe. It has been proclaimed a manual for terrorism by the French government (who recently arrested its alleged authors). One of its members more adequately described the group as “the name given to a collective voice bent on denouncing contemporary cynicism and reality.” The discussion will be facilitated by Jason Smith, who translated one of the chapters. For more information and for a link to the book as a PDF:
http://la.thepublicschool.org/class/1366

Last, but not least, on Saturday afternoon at 2pm, Guthrie Lonergan will be leading a Stock footage workshop, which is related to his March exhibition at the Distributed Gallery. The class becomes a functional stock footage company — participants come up with generic scenarios and scripts, then act in, and film many short stock footage clips. Finally, using extensive keyword-ing, they upload and organize the clips onto their company’s own searchable online database.
http://la.thepublicschool.org/class/1273

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Telic Arts Exchange
972B Chung King Road
Los Angeles, CA 90012
T: 213.344.6137
http://www.telic.info
info@telic.info

The 4th Inclusiva-net Encounter: P2P Networks and Processes will take place in Medialab-Prado Madrid from July 6 to 10, 2009.

The goal of this international meeting is to debate about social and cultural potentials of these peer-to-peer networked systems, as well as their feasibility as an alternative model of knowledge production, based in collaboration, decentralization and the lack of hierarchy.

This new edition of the Inclusiva-net platform includes a program of lectures, seminars, round tables, paper presentations, and debate groups. The topic will be addressed from many different perspectives, such as cultural, philosophy, politics, technology, or law.

Core themes: artistic and social potentials; application of P2P organizational models to knowledge and social life, legal controversies of file downloading, “panarchy” and “P2P governance” concepts, roles in the emergent countries, the future of P2P, among others.

Participants: Andoni Alonso (writer and philosopher), Michel Bauwens (Foundation for Peer-to-Peer Alternatives), Javier de la Cueva (derecho-internet.org), Juan Freire (Business School EOI), Antonio Lafuente (Blog Tecnocidanos / CSIC), Margarita Padilla (Sindominio.net) or Juan Martín Prada (director of Inclusiva-net), among others.

Limited seating. RSVP for general program and debate groups.
http://medialab-prado.es/article/
4_encuentro_internacional_inclusiva-net_redes_y_procesos_p2p

Inclusiva-net: P2P Networks and Processes
Internacional Seminar
July 6 - 10, 2009
in Medialab-Prado
Plaza de las Letras
Calle Alameda, 15
28014 Madrid (Spain)
tel. 914020 754
difusion@medialab-prado.es

a web-based shortfilm project from berlin/germany,
experimenting with specific ways of storytelling on the web.

archive of beginnings.

In 15 episodes one can see on www.apartment666.com a Variation about the beginnings of a story. 15 characters are going to enter the Apartment , to make a new beginning and leave their past behind. 15 times the first few minutes of a movie, in which we decide wether, we like it or not. 15 times the first few shots and already the entire movie. Everybody has got a secret. Everybody wants to go somewhere. But what if no one will ever be able to leave?

SAVE THE DATE
Sunday July 19, 5-8pm

A Summertime Sundowner at The Mandrake Bar in Culver City
To raise funds for the programs of Telic Arts Exchange

Please put us in your calendar for an early evening of cocktails, classes, food and music. Invitations and information coming soon.
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Telic Arts Exchange is a non-profit organization that provides a place for multiple publics to engage with contemporary forms of media, art and architecture. Currently comprised of three projects - The Public School, the Distributed Gallery, and Berlin - its program emphasizes social exchange, interactivity and public participation to produce a critical engagement with new media and culture.

telic.info / la.thepublicschool.org / dg.telic.info / berlinberlin.info

newmediaFIX will be back on June 29. Please visit us then.

http://iran2009election.opinionware.net/

Please join us in this urgent action in solidarity with the large numbers of Iranian people who have been taking to the streets since June 13, 2009 to claim their right to free and fair elections. This electronic sit-in targets the websites of the Guardian Council, the Interior Ministry, the Presidency of Iran, Ali Khamenei, Hashemi-Rafsanjani, Ahmadinejad and the Islamic Republic of Iran Broadcasting.

Our demands:

* Ahmadinejad must resign immediately.
* All political prisoners, including all of the people who have been arrested on political charges in the past several days must be immediately released.
* A new and independently monitored election must be held.* The list of presidential candidates must be open and free of interference by the Guardian Council.

This action is NOT in support of Mir Hossein Mousavi or other presidential candidates in the 12 June 2009 election. The race for presidential candidacy was itself fundamentally flawed. The Guardian Council, a clerical body overseeing the governance of Iran, rejected 90% of eligible candidates the right to run in the election, leaving only 4 candidates on the list, all of whom are connected to one or other of the factions of the ruling theocracy and should equally be held accountable for the atrocities committed against Iranians over the past 30 years and for the countless social and economic ills that are inflicting the country.

This action is in solidarity with hundreds of thousands of Iranians from diverse social groups and classes who, since Saturday, 13 June 2009, have been defying the official ban on mass rally and taken to the streets in many cities across Iran to voice their anger at seeing their right as citizens to have their votes counted trampled upon in a rigged election.

Sirens of Solidarity

http://iran2009election.opinionware.net/

El Museo Tamayo Arte Contemporáneo invita a la presentación inaugural de la obra digital de Gustavo Romano. Utilitarios para un universo inestable

Miércoles 17 de junio de 2009 a las 20:00 horas
Cyberlounge
Entrada libre  I  Cupo limitado

Desde sus inicios creativos como artista, Gustavo Romano ha experimentado con las posibilidades conceptuales y los procesos de producción de los nuevos medios como el video, la animación y el Internet.

Mi deseo es tu deseo (1996) es una de las primeras obras en las que Romano trabajó con los procesos de la red; expuesta por primera vez en México en 1997, esta pieza habla sobre la falsa identidad en el entramado de los networks. En Hyperbody (2000-2004), el artista recurre a la compleja temática de la corporeidad digital. Mediante el desmembramiento de los órganos de un hombre y una mujer, dispersos en los dominios de la red a partir de una imagen obtenida de la sonda espacial Pioneer 10, como referente interespacial de la humanidad, el artista vincula cada parte de esos órganos humanos con en el espacio digital de la red.

Romano devela su etapa de “clasificador” en Cyberzoo (2003-2005), al construir un zoológico de la era digital donde se resguardan peligrosas especies en peligro de extinción. En este zoológico de la info-esfera, famosos virus informáticos, considerados como vida artificial, son resguardados y estudiados. En The World 1:1 (2003), se vincula la experiencia de la navegación de Internet con latitudes y percepciones “reales” de la urbanidad. A su vez, el proyecto IP Poetry (2006) se basa en la generación de poesía que existe a partir de la búsqueda, en tiempo real, de material textual en la Web. En esta pieza, robots que se encuentran conectados a Internet convierten los textos hallados por ellos en sonidos e imágenes pregrabados, los cuales emite una boca humana que recita los fonemas. Las diferentes instrucciones de búsqueda conforman la estructura y el sentido de cada poema IP.

Para Romano, la autorreflexión que realiza del arte en red se da de manera lúdica y espontánea, contraponiéndola con la realidad concreta, lo cual representa una constante en el sentido de producción en Internet.

Curaduría: Arcángel Constantini

Gustavo Romano (Buenos Aires, 1958) ha realizado exposiciones individuales en el Museo de Arte Moderno de Buenos Aires; Galería Ruth Benzacar; Centro Cultural Recoleta; Centro Cultural de España en Montevideo; MEIAC de Badajoz, entre otros. Sus obras han sido exhibidas también en el New Museum of Contemporary Art, Nueva York; Casa de América y Fundación Telefónica, Madrid; Museo de Arte Contemporáneo de Vigo; IFA en Bonn, Stuttgart y Berlín; Massachusetts College of Arts, Boston; Instituto Cervantes en Viena, Nueva York y Beijing. Además, ha participado en bienales como las de La Habana, Singapur, Lima, Porto Alegre, Bienal del Fin del Mundo y Videonale. Romano es uno de los directores de Fin del Mundo, espacio virtual en Internet que, desde 1996, reúne proyectos de net art. Entre otros reconocimientos, recibió el Primer Premio en Buenos Aires Video XII y fue ganador del concurso internacional Vida 7.0, patrocinado por la Fundación Telefónica; en 2006 se le otorgó la beca Guggenheim.

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Gustavo Romano

Utilitarian Objects for an Unstable Universe
http://www.gustavoromano.com.ar/

Ever since he started working as an artist, Gustavo Romano has experimented with the conceptual possibilities and processes of the production of new media such as video, animation and the Internet. For Romano, this self-reflexive Web-based work is playful and spontaneous; it is also meant to be contrasted with day-to-day reality‹a consistent characteristic of Internet art practice.

This exhibition, Gustavo Romano. Utilitarian Objects for an Unstable Universe, includes Mi deseo es tu deseo (My Desire Is Your Desire, 1996) which is one of the first pieces in which Romano worked with the Web; this piece deals with the concept of assumed identities within the interplay of networks. In Hyperbody (2000 2004), the artist refers to the complex issue of digital corporeity and associates human body parts with the Web¹s digital space. Romano began a stage of work as a ³classifier² of species with the construction of Cyberzoo (2003 2005), a digital-era menagerie for endangered creatures that are harmful to mankind. In The World 1:1 (2003), the experience of navigating the Internet is associated with ³real² coordinates and perceptions of urban space. In turn, the project IP Poetry (2006) is about generating poems based on a real-time search for text materials on the Web.

Curator: Arcángel Constantini

Actividad relacionada

Desmontajes. Del net art 0.1 al 2.0
Taller de Curaduría orientada a nuevos medios

Imparte: Gustavo Romano
Jueves 18 de junio de 2009, 11:00 a 14:00 horas Para curadores e investigadores especializados y público interesado Auditorio del museo I Gratuito I Cupo limitado

Informes e inscripciones
Departamento de Educación del Museo Tamayo
Tels. 5286-6519 ó 5286-6529 ext. 2229

Museo Tamayo Arte Contemporáneo
Paseo de la Reforma y Gandhi s/n
Bosque de Chapultepec, México, D.F.
Tels. 5286-6519 ó 5286-6529

Newspaper Ignites Hope, Announces “Civil Disobedience Database”

* Civil-disobedience database: http://BeyondTalk.net
* PDF of printed newspaper: http://iht.greenpeace.org/todays-paper/
- Online version: http://www.iht-se.com/
* Video: http://iht.greenpeace.org/video/ (coming soon)
* CONTACT:
- The Yes Men, mailto:press@theyesmen.org
- Mark Breddy (Greenpeace), mailto:mark.breddy@greenpeace.org,
(+32) (0)2 2741 903, (+32) (0)496 15 62 29 (mob.)
- Lawrence Bogad, mailto:l.m.bogad@gmail.com,
+1-212 300 7943

In a front-page ad in today’s International Herald Tribune, the leaders of the European Union thank the European public for having engaged in months of civil disobedience leading up to the Copenhagen climate conference that will be held this December. “It was only thanks to your massive pressure over the past six months that we could so dramatically shift our climate-change policies…. To those who were arrested, we thank you.”

There was only one catch: the paper was fake.

Looking exactly like the real thing, but dated December 19th, 2009, a million copies of the fake paper were distributed worldwide by thousands of volunteers in order to show what could be achieved at the Copenhagen climate conference that is scheduled for Dec. 7-18, 2009. (At the moment, the conference is aiming for much more modest cuts, dismissed by leading climate scientists as too little, too late to stave off runaway processes that will lead to millions or even billions of casualties.)

The paper describes in detail a powerful (and entirely possible) new treaty to bring carbon levels down below 350 parts per million - the level climate scientists say we need to achieve to avoid climate catastrophe. One article describes how a website, http://BeyondTalk.net, mobilized thousands of people to put their bodies on the line to confront climate change policies - ever since way back in June, 2009.

Although the newspaper is a fake (its production and launch were coordinated by Greenpeace), the website is real. Beyondtalk.net is part of a growing network of websites calling for direct action on climate change, building on statements made in recent months by noted political figures. (For example, in September Nobel laureate Al Gore asserted that “we have reached the stage where it is time for civil disobedience to prevent the construction of new coal plants.”)

Leading American environmentalist Bill McKibben was enthusiastic about the newspaper’s message and the methods BeyondTalk.net calls for. “We need a political solution grounded in reality - grounded in physics and chemistry. That will only come if we can muster a wide variety of political tactics, including civil disobedience.”

“Non-violent civil disobedience has been at the forefront of almost every successful campaign for change,” said Andy Bichlbaum of The Yes Men, who helped write and edit the newspaper and are furnishing the technology for BeyondTalk.net. “Especially in America, and especially today, we need to push our leaders hard to stand up to industry lobbyists and make the sorts of changes we need.”

“Roosevelt would never have been able to push through the New Deal if people hadn’t taken to the streets, occupied factories, and demanded it,” noted newspaper writer/editor and University of California professor Lawrence Bogad. Segregation, British rule in India, and apartheid wouldn’t have ended without a lot of people being creatively uncooperative - even if that meant getting arrested. Nonviolent civil disobedience is the bread and butter of progress.”

The fake newspaper also has an ad for “Action Offsets,” whereby those who aren’t willing to risk arrest can help those who are.

A HOPEFUL NEWS PANDEMIC?

Today’s fake International Herald Tribune is part of a rash of recent publications which mimic prominent newspapers. Last November, a fake edition of the New York Times announced that the Iraq War was over. A few days earlier, a hoax USA Today featured the US presidential election result: “Capitalism Wins at the Polls: Anarchy Brewing in the Streets.” And this April 1st, a spoof edition of Germany’s Zeit newspaper triumphantly announced the end of “casino capitalism” and the abolition of poor-country debt.

The rash of fakes is likely to continue. “People are going to keep finding ways to get the word out about common-sense solutions those in power say are impossible,” said Kelli Anderson, one of the designers of the fake International Herald Tribune and co-designer (with Daniel Dunnam) of BeyondTalk.net.

“We already know what we need to do about climate change,” said Agnes de Rooij of Greenpeace International. “It’s a no-brainer. Reduce carbon emissions, or put the survival of billions of people at risk. If the political will isn’t there now, it’s our duty to inspire it.”

Kurator and LX 2.0 are pleased to announce the first of two commissions selected from an open call to infect the 2012 Olympics, as part of the Anti-Bodies contemporary art programme.

vir.us.exe, carlos katastrofsky
http://www.anti-bodies.net/vir.us.exe

vir.us.exe is a windows program, communicated and spread by e-mail
announcements, mailing lists and other networked (viral) press activities.

katastrofsky explains that a virus lives upon the reproduction of itself with the aim to survive as long as possible. However, the most dangerous parts of such an infection are not always the harmful cells a virus is based upon; it is the psychological concept of fear acting invisibly in the background. The project thus strips down the mechanisms of a viral infection and transfers its core principles into the digital realm. By avoiding everything a virus should do, only the virus itself will be left. This way it will become a meta-virus spreading not because it is an actual virus but because it is perceived as such.

vir.us.exe is commissioned by KURATOR and LX 2.0, as part of the Anti-Bodies programme co-ordinated by Relational with support from Arts Council England, granted the London 2012 Inspire mark as part of the Cultural Olympiad.

KURATOR
http://www.kurator.org

LX 2.0 / Lisboa 20 Arte Contemporanea
http://www.lisboa20.pt/lx20/

Relational
http://www.relational.org.uk

Anti-Bodies
http://www.anti-bodies.net

carlos katastrofsky is a Vienna-based artist working primarily in the field of new media art. His work examines the politics of Internet-based art production, distribution and consumption, and how dominant practices of the artistic modus vivendi - curating, dealing, showing, and reviewing- function in the virtual realm, where the immaterial has replaced the object. His works explore characteristic features of the Internet such as software, interfaces, language, and discussion forums - to question the current development of the Web. He is co-founder of CONT3XT.NET (2006) – a collaborative platform for the dicussion and presentation of issues related to Media Art.

http://katastrofsky.cont3xt.net/

Sorpresas culturales para abrigar el destape informativo.
Conduce: Fernando Llanos

“Porque no hace falta hablar de arte para hablar de arte”

Escucha a Fernando Llanos,
todos los lunes a las 21:00 horas en Código DF:
www.codigoradio.cultura.df.gob.mx/

* Se habla español / just in spanish.

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Entrevistas y canciones seleccionadas por personajes como:
Arcangel Constantini, Sarah Minter, un pirata de Tepito, Hector Falcón, Rogelio Sosa, Pacho Paredes, Dick el Demasiado, Juan José Gurrola, Vicente Fox, Felipe Ehrenberg, Jordi Soler, el sobrino de Rigo Tovar, Andrea di Castro, Issac Broid, Regine Debatty, Lucas Bambozzi, Gustavo Romano, Graciela Taquini, Laura Baigorri, Carlos Capelan, Oscar Sarkis, Uriel Waizel, Maris Bustamante, José Wolffer, Cuauhtemoc Medina, Sol Henaro, Manuel Rocha…y más!!!

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Para escuchar en vivo:
www.codigoradio.cultura.df.gob.mx/index.php/nuestra-programacion-codigo-df/rajo http://www.codigoradio.cultura.df.gob.mx/index.php/nuestra-programacion-codigo-df/rajo

Archivos:
www.fllanos.com/rajo

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* RAJO, Radio Jorongo es parte de la espectacular programación de Código Radio, una iniciativa de la Secretaría de Cultura del Gobierno del Distrito Federal. México 2008/2009.
Muchas gracias a Verónica Ortíz Lawrenz, Gabriela Lemus, Alejandra Gilling, Dulce Oliva, Carlos Díaz, Edna de Lucio, J. A. González y a todos los entrevistados.