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links for 2010-09-02

2010-09-02T14:30:15+00:00

YouTube - The real life Like @ coca-cola Village

The real life Like @ coca-cola Village

(tags: social net)
15 Pieces of Papers Under Creative Commons License (Attribution Non-Commercial Share Alike) | F.A.T.

15 Pieces of Papers Under Creative Commons License

(tags: money art copyright)
U B U W E B - Film & Video: JODI - My Desktop OS X 10.4.7 (2007)

Internet provocateurs JODI pioneered Web art in the mid-1990s

(tags: art interface net)

Max Eastley - Installation Recordings (1973 - 2008)

2010-09-02T05:00:00+00:00

2CD - Paradigm Discs
An essential retrospective of Max Eastley's sound installations, a prolific artist who's been active since the late sixties. The oldest works presented here were made in 1973, the year when, in addition to gallery exhibitions and collaborations with Thomas Koner and film director Peter Greenaway, he began to collect the first recordings for use in his 1975 album New And Rediscovered Musical Instruments. This record was conceived with David Toop and published by Brian Eno's Obscure Records label. Accompanied by a 20 page photo booklet that introduces many of the extreme, articulated installations – sometimes in stunning natural settings - the "pieces" in this double CD collection expand upon that seminal release. It also adds, especially in the second section, new starting points for reflecting upon the dynamic scores, which are much more detailed and "surgical" in their audio emergencies. These are left in the foreground or are accompanied by sensitive and responsive ambient drones.
Aurelio Cianciotta

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2010-09-02T04:04:40+00:00

[Reposted from zerojanvier via elNacho]

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2010-09-02T03:58:43+00:00

[Reposted from SteadyEddie via sickworld]

SYoungReports: RT @Eliseirena: Si guardáramos 1 minuto de silencio por c/1 de los 28 mil mexicanos muertos en la guerra vs el narcotráfico pasaríamos 1 ...

2010-09-02T00:52:32+00:00

links for 2010-09-01

2010-09-01T14:30:51+00:00

NIKE78 - Nick Marsh | ‘NIKE Wiis’ on Vimeo

NIKE Wiis

(tags: videogame hacking)
System simulates effects of spaceflight by tricking the brain - fabric | rblg

System simulates effects of spaceflight by tricking the brain

(tags: science neural)

Global Safari (Powered by Google), the formation of the world's image

2010-09-01T12:43:06+00:00

"Images are meant to render the world accessible and imaginable to man" Villem Flusser wrote in his well-known 1983 book "Towards a Philosophy of Photography" which analyzed the transition from prehistoric, traditional images to posthistorical, technical ones. No longer formed by "authors", but by anyone who operates a camera or other apparatus, technical images have been opening windows to our contemporary world. Images meant to be maps for the world became screens according to Flusser and people learned to trust these images and the situations captured as extensions of their own sense data. But, how were technical images able to change our perception and imagination of the world when they simultaneously became maps, screens and interfaces ? How was our view of the globe modified when a geographic information program took over the role of the apparatus operator? Global Safari by artists Wellington Cançado and Renata Marquez is an exploration and a deep dive into one of the most popular contemporary apparatuses, Google Earth. A navigation film shot within the program itself takes us on a journey in 10 different cities around the world in 12 minutes. Starting from Chicago, ending in Tokyo, moving vertically and horizontally, zooming in and out in city locations as Google Earth allows, the film is at the same time a visual narration and a documentation of a performative mapping. It is a safari of images, where the artists discover the possibilities and the limits given for seeing places and moments in the internet reality of our times. "What is the meaning of making a photographic safari without a camera in the streets chasing the capture of the decisive moment?" the artists ask while remembering the magic and unique moments saved in time by photographers like Henri Cartier Bresson. What do Google's satellites, aircrafts and cars really capture? There is no author, no specific photographer deciding which images form the world within Google Earth; there is instead an automatic and trustworthy process of capturing images as well as a matrix of related user-generated images. In this frame, where Google programs seem like the outmost sovereignty of Flusser's automata for their imagery, Global Safari looks for situations and moments that entail intimacy within them. Passengers at the streets, people playing tennis photographed by chance and appearing as the closest zoom into a city life through Google are being re-captured by the artists. Their moments are being purposely refrozen and the presence of the eye taking the picture returns, questioning a new authorship on a found photo through a program. Global Safari is a project exploring the changes to the formation of the world's image, its influence by the continuous advance of technology as well as on the demolition of the value of scale. The project reminds us of "Powers of Ten" (1968/1977), a film by Charles and Ray Eames which - if watched today - seems like an prophesy of Google Earth. The camera in Eames' film also moves steadily back and forth, zooming in and out, with the aim of revealing the relative size of things. From the human scale of a man lying in a park, to the image of the globe, "Powers of Ten", like Global Safari, is a film about our desire and capacity to imagine the world. Cançado and Marquez's direct referral to Eames' film intends to show how the possibilities for this imaginary world journey changed in the era of googols. While the technologies of Google have made a journey around the world possible for anybody with a computer and an internet connection, at the same time Google Earth territories follow a new form of scale and pose new questions around what the artists call Myopia Index. The scale of cloudiness varies in the different territories captured; resolution changes from centers to peripheries. How is this defined? Which geopolitical mechanisms finally influence our view on the world today? Why is the world accessible but filtered? In the networked era, the roles of photographers, cartographers and explorers interweave but can they/we influence what we see? Maybe we are still in the need of the critical awakening and approach that Flusser was discussing. Global Safari's artists take such a stance, one that requires a critical attitude towards digital culture itself, that questions the liberation we are faced with when navigating within virtual geospatial environments. A call for restructuring, rethinking while being involved is what we need today. "Freedom equals playing against the apparatus".
Daphne Dragona

No More Poodles II: Bogue versus Vogue

2010-09-01T12:34:44+00:00

By Ben Watson

Presenting a Vision for Dublin at the NCAD Graduate Exhibition

2010-08-31T15:47:05+00:00

Dublin’s lack of comprehensive and integrated public transport map has been a major obstacle. The entry point for people new to the network for using Dublin Bus in particular is very high. It demands existing geographic knowledge of the city and putting up with a confusing layout of bus connections. A city centre public transport map has been missing for years.

Apple's latest DRM patent

2010-08-31T15:24:18+00:00

Apple has a long history of imposing innovative restrictions on its users. The Digital Restrictions Management (DRM) used in the iPhone to prevent users from installing what they want or tinkering with their devices are well-known examples.

Yet not so many people expected their latest move in that direction -- Apple's recent patent application on a new spying technology revealed their plan to dedicate users' devices to their unlimited control.

They say that they want to protect the devices from "unauthorized usage" (i.e. theft). For that reason, your device will take a photo of the person who uses it and the surrounding place, it will record his or her voice and it will record his or her heartbeats. Once it suspects something, it will send the information to Apple which will talk to the "responsible party."

To be continuously able to access millions of devices and know exactly who uses each one of them and where they are is too much for securing anything. It is a clear dedication for people's properties to surveillance tools that can be misused or cracked, as we learned from the Swindle.

The spying technology will also detect and prevent any tinkering in the name of security and preventing thieves from disabling the protection. When users can't control the technology, it's not about their security -- it's about Apple's.

Please join us in taking a stand against such malicious features.

links for 2010-08-31

2010-08-31T14:30:27+00:00

Piracy Is Promotion, Says CEO of Porn Multinational | TorrentFreak

Piracy Is Promotion, Says CEO of Porn Multinational

(tags: copyright sex)
<nettime> Ten Theses on Wikileaks by Geert Lovink and Patrice Riemens

Ten Theses on Wikileaks by Geert Lovink and Patrice Riemens

(tags: net hacktivism)
Windows 68 | Random Magazine - New Media Art / E-Culture

Windows 68 is a modification of Windows XP that starts a revolutionary in the system.

(tags: art software interface)

¿alguien sabe qien es el creador de esta maravilloso retrato de la captura de...

2010-08-31T13:17:50+00:00

¿alguien sabe qien es el creador de esta maravilloso retrato de la captura de #LaBarbie? http://is.gd/eNmyW

Mexico says drug lord 'the Barbie' captured

2010-08-31T13:10:07+00:00

Mexico says drug lord 'the Barbie' captured

Help us stamp out DRM in education

2010-08-31T12:17:55+00:00

With the new school year starting, many students will head off to
college for the first time.

For some, college offers a chance to learn about computing and
even free software, or to use computers productively in their
learning about other subjects. For others, college brings with it
a new restriction to the house of learning: DRM. Some colleges
are now requiring and even supplying DRM-laden hardware to new
students in lieu of textbooks and other materials.

We're compiling a list of colleges and other schools that either
require or supply DRM-laden hardware, such as the iPod, iPhone,
iPad or Amazon Kindle. Feel free to add other DRM-laden devices
too, but these are the most commonly found. We need your help to
do it!

Take action

http://libreplanet.org/wiki/Group:Defective_by_Design/Schools

Michael J. Schumacher - Weave

2010-08-31T05:00:00+00:00

CD - Entr'acte
Based in New York City, Michael J. Schumacher focuses his research primarily on electronic and digital media, computer-generated sounds that iterate over fairly long periods of time, serializing sequences from multiple physical sources and structural elements. In Weave there are sampled engines, pumps and urban field recordings, in addition to sounds of traditional instruments, such as guitars, pianos and organs. Among the techniques used, we find improvised recordings, carried out simultaneously and then spread through time using algorithmic processes. There are also more intimate and everyday "captures", such as voices - those of children at a birthday party - or atypical field recordings, which were selected not only for their frequencies and tones, but also for their "narrative" empathy; for their emotional contiguity and character. The CD - wrapped in the traditional packaging of Entr'acte, made of silver/transparent plastic - also includes two interesting videos, in which the concrete parameters of the sounds are rendered into stylized graphic designs.
Aurelio Cianciotta

links for 2010-08-30

2010-08-30T14:30:43+00:00

Swedish Pirate Party to Host New WikiLeaks Servers | Piratpartiet

Swedish Pirate Party to Host New WikiLeaks Servers

(tags: hacktivism hacking net)

Por razones políticas, trata de personas y #narcoguerra 3 mil desaparecidos d...

2010-08-30T14:13:22+00:00

Por razones políticas, trata de personas y #narcoguerra 3 mil desaparecidos desde 2006 en el #mexicorojo http://is.gd/eLAt8

Bash Pitfalls

2010-08-28T22:29:24+00:00

This page shows common errors that Bash programmers make. The following examples are all flawed in some way.

SYoungReports: RT @contralinea Liberan a Hernández Abundio, preso de conciencia del Estado mexicano | Revista Con.. http://bit.ly/coLLVX

2010-08-28T15:19:04+00:00

SYoungReports: RT @reneefeltz: Immigrant women detained, then harassed or assaulted http://to.pbs.org/bNv8ip #dwn

2010-08-28T14:56:52+00:00

Loic Blairon - x\0

2010-08-28T05:00:00+00:00

CD - w.m.o/r
Loic Blairon proposes a postulate. He listens and thinks he has no ideas to make music, but that people, through listening, can hold reality. Loic Blairon, in a way, says no to music - and it could not be otherwise, with a "work" based only on scattered tolls every minute. This "no" - finally - precisely defines the unilateral relationship that the "author" seeks to stabilize within and through sound itself, by following reality, as negative and precluded. It is an extreme work, supported by Mattin, the wmo/r head honcho, another maker of questions and "theories" that begin from very radical and intransigent audio-abuses. Silence dominates, but even when listening with closed headphones to the absorbing hiss of the 30-minute long suite, the noises of street traffic and the birds chirping in a nearby garden are not barred from this execution of non-time. Reality always takes its revenge somehow, and that timeless nothing already explored by Cage always reaffirms itself as openness to every possibility: life, more than music, which certainly does not need to be composed.
Aurelio Cianciotta

SYoungReports: This week in Tamaulipas: 72-victim massacre, lead investigator murdered, car bomb explodes outside of Televisa office http://bit.ly/94jQKj

2010-08-27T18:45:24+00:00

SYoungReports: More than 230,000 people have fled Ciudad Juárez in the last 2 years according to @LaVoz_deJuarez (in Spanish) http://fb.me/Fxtblcke

2010-08-27T18:30:59+00:00

Legal Warning

2010-08-27T13:44:21+00:00

Section 6 Criminal Law Act 1977, as amended by Criminal Justice and Public Order Act 1994 (United Kingdom, applies to England and Wales)

Take notice

That we live in this property, it is our home and we intend to stay here.
That at all times there is at least one person in this property.
That any entry or attempt to enter into this property without our permission is a criminal offence as any one of us who is in physical possession is opposed to entry without our permission.
That if you attempt to enter by violence or by threatening violence we will prosecute you. You may receive a sentence of up to six months imprisonment and/or a fine of up to £5,000.
That if you want to get us out you will have to issue a claim in the County Court or in the High Court, or produce to us a written statement or certificate in terms of S.12A Criminal Law Act, 1977 (as inserted by Criminal Justice and Public Order Act, 1994).
That it is an offence under S.12A (8) Criminal Law Act 1977 (as amended) to knowingly make a false statement to obtain a written statement for the purposes of S. 12A. A person guilty of such an offence may receive a sentence of up to six months imprisonment and/or a fine of up to £5,000.

Signed

The Occupiers

(To be posted at the entrance of a squatted property, also valid if not signed by name)

This states the current squatter’s rights in England and Wales and basically means that the owner or landlady/landlord of a property can not evict you from your squat without going through court, proving that they have plans to actually use the property again. Court procedures usually take weeks or months, so once you are in you will have a home for a while. If they try to evict illegally they can end up in prison for 6 months and having to pay £5,000 (currently around €6000) in fines. This makes squatting more or less legal in England and Wales. Sweet.

We have an upcoming court case for one flat in our squat on 3 September 2010. Visiting the Advisory Service For Squatters (ASS) office at Whitechapel today should allow us to get a good defense going. We suspect that the owner (council) wants to save some paperwork by getting an eviction warrant for one flat and evict the other flat while they are at it on eviction day. Which, of course, is not legal..

Until then we will continue to take good care of the building: keep it clean, fix little damages, trim plants in the garden, prevent decay and be good neighbours – while enjoying a free home with a garden in Brixton. :)

PHSF 2010 !!

2010-08-27T00:34:32+00:00

Call for proposals :

/tmp/lab annonces the Hacker Space Festival 2010 !!
Plastic Hacker Space Festival
29-31 October 2010

/tmp/lab
6Bis rue Leon Geffroy
94400 Vitry sur Seine

Fablab, amazing DIY world, new gender studies,…
All the ways to realize all your phantasms…
Plastic, electronic, flesh to make almost everything.

Suggestions :

- Change your way to consume, make your own objects:
* Daily useful objects.
* Repair and fix around you.
* Add functionalities everywere.
* Real life scripted : make robots, automates in the same way you make
a Perl script !
* Real life search engine with RFID patches at home.

- Change the way you would live for the next 90 years !
* Holidays : to think how to keep going with no money and without the
need to work.
* Find your own “private Idaho”.
* Humanism, neo-humanism, hackerism, transhumanism.
* Blog 2.0, self documentation : log yourself just after brushing your
teeth !
* Every day R&D, technological survey for all : we are the researchers
and we can be the heroes.
* Embrace the Unknown : to boldly go where no man has gone before.
* Adventurers : going deeper everywere : deep oceans, forests, outer
space.
* Auto-fiction : your life slowly but surely create shapes, colors,
sounds, ideas and concepts.

- Hack yourself :
* Feminism, masculinism, trans-sexualism : play your ism !
* Open source phantasms.
* Cyber Fantasy : esthetic, body parts substitutes, transformations.
* Open source inexpensive prosthetics for legs, arms, hands.
* Enhance your body : “We have the technology” said Oscar Goldman in
late 70′. Now, with this technology and robotics helpers, can we be
harder, better, faster, stronger ?
* How to change your sex ? cross-gender, crypto-anarchism vs identity.
* Technology as a sensual and sensitive interface.

- Biology :
* Make your own food and share recipes.
* Open source pharmaceuticals to be healthy.
* Organic computers.
* The Grey Goo in your shampoo !

- Travel :
* Path : “gens du voyage”, trailer park boys, roms, hackers : stuck in
place ?
* By wheels, by legs, by air or floating, my vessel cost me almost
nothing !

- Hack your lanscape :
* Be a gardener everywere !
* How to use “non-lieux” and ugly “in-between” places in the cities ?
* Architecture : size matters ?
* Self replicating architecture : a home in your caterpillar or the reverse.
* Troglodysm : Don’t like the sun ? dig !
* Self-construction : tired of lego houses ?
* Rehab for towers, bars and malls

- Energy :
* Efficiency : my house is powered by a hamster.
* Alternative energy : squeezing plutonium out of a pinecone.
* Storage : the electric doggy bag.
* Ascetism : candle ? what for ?

We’re preparing to explore these known or unknown worlds during the upcoming edition of the Hacker Space Festival 2010, from the 29th to 31th
october 2010 at Vitry sur Seine.

Type of the proposals :

1. conference (45mn presentation + 10mn for questions)
2. workshop/demo (30mn until a few hours)
3. installation/performance (music, plastic, sound, video)

Lightning talks can be proposed and organized until the last moment,
according to available space and schedule, in the form of BarCamps or
Blitz Conferences.

Required Information:

* Title of the presentation
* Type (see above)
* Language : french or english
* Name of speaker(s)
* Affiliation (organization/company)
* Abstract (5 to 10 lines)
* Topics/Keywords
* Short biography
* Internet connection required ? YES | NO

Send you contributions to cfp-phsf2010@usinette.org

Deadline : 5 October 2010

–
Plastic Hacker-Space Festival 2010
29, 30, 31 octobre 2010
/tmp/lab
6Bis rue Leon Geffroy
94400 Vitry sur Seine
http://www.tmplab.org/contact/

PHSF 2010!!

2010-08-27T00:30:35+00:00

Plastic Hacker Space Festival 2010

29-31 Octobre 2010
/tmp/lab
6Bis rue Leon Geffroy
94400 Vitry sur Seine
http://www.tmplab.org/contact/

Usinette, Fablab, RepRap, transidentités et transpalettes : l’univers du D.I.Y croise, pour cette nouvelle édition trans-disciplinaire, les univers variés de l’autogestion, de la post-pornographie et des séxualités plurielles, des questions de genre, de l’architecture, de l’environnement,…, et sème le trouble au cœur de nos habitudes en reposant la question de nos désirs.
Plastique, électronique et chair pour fabriquer presque tout : enfin tous les moyens de réaliser ses envies et de construire un monde à son image.
Il n’est plus question de se demander “de quoi demain sera fait?” mais “comment veut-on faire demain?”.

Appel à projet :

- Changer notre façon de consommer et fabriquer soi-même ses objets :
* Réaliser enfin des objets utiles et fiables.
* Réparer tout, réparer partout.
* Ajouter des fonctionalités à votre service à raclette.
* Automatiser sa vie : fabriquer des robots et des automates comme on
écrit un script Perl ou Python.
* Moteur de recherche dans la vraie vie avec des puces RFID à la maison.

- Repenser notre façon de vivre pour les 90 prochaines années :
* Les vacances 2.0 : où comment ne plus retourner au boulot.
* Retrouver le pays de Cocagne et son jardin secret.
* Humanisme, néo-humanisme, transhumanisme…hackerisme ?
* Pommunautés autogérée et nouvelles structures sociales
* Pédagogie alternative
* Blog : auto-documentez comme vous respirez !
* Recherche et développement, veille technologique pour tous : nous sommes les inventeurs et pouvons aussi être les héros !
* Embrasser l’inconnu, aller où nul homme n’a encore jamais été.
* Aventuriers : aller de plus en plus loin : le fond des océans, les forêts inexplorées, l’ espace.
* Auto-fiction : votre vie produit tranquillement des formes, des
couleurs, des sons, des idées et des concepts.

- Hack yourself:
* Féminisme, “masculinisme”, “transgenrisme”, … : jouez-vous des -ismes!
* Fantasmes open-sources.
* Fantaisies Cybernétiques : prothèses, pluggs, transformations,
j’aimerais tellement avoir huit bras !
* Prothèses sur mesure, accessibles et open-sources.
* Amplifier son corps : Oscar Goldman disait dans les années 70 : «we
have the technology». Aujourd’hui, la cybernétique nous a -t-elle fait
plus fort et plus rapide ?
* Crypto-anarchisme et identité.
* La technologie comme une interface sensible et sensuelle.

- Bio-hack :
* Cuisine : faites vos propres aliments et partager les recettes.
* Pharmacopée open-source.
* Ordinateurs organiques.
* Nanosciences : de la matière grise dans votre shampooing.

- Voyages :
* Dynamiques : «Gens du voyage», roms, trailer park boys, travellers :
stoppés ? plus envie de repartir ?
* A pied, en tandem, en moteur à l’huile, en volant, à cheval : mon
véhicule ne me coûte presque rien.

- Environnement :
* Jardiner partout.
* S’approprier les “non-lieux” et les zones urbaines hideuses.
* Architecture durable, auto-construction, troglodysme, squat.
* Cure de désintox pour les barres, les tours et les centres commerciaux.

- Energie :
* Efficacité : «mon électricité est générée par un hamster !»
* Energies alternatives : Comment extraire le plutonium des pommes de pin !
* Stockage : inventez le doggy-bag électrique.
* Ascétisme : de l’utilité des bougies en dehors des anniversaires et des dîners en amoureux.

L’objectif du HSF 2010 sera d’explorer ces savoirs et ces mondes connus ou méconnus.

Type de propositions :

1. Conférence (45mn de présentation + 10mn pour les questions)

2. Atelier/démonstration (de 2h à 2 jours)

3. Installation/performance (musicale, plastique, sonore…)

Des lightning talks pouront être organisés au dernier moment, en fonction
du temps et de l’espace disponible.

Informations requises :

- Titre de la proposition
- Type de proposition (voir ci-dessus)
- Nom(s) du/des intervenant(s)
- Affiliation (Organisation, collectif…)
- Langue : français/anglais
- Présentation de la proposition (5 à 10 lignes)
- Sujets/mots-clés
- Une courte biographie
- Connection internet nécessaire OUI/NON

Envoyez-nous vos propositions à
cfp-phsf2010@usinette.org

Date limite : 5 octobre 2010.

Multi-Sentence Compression: Finding Shortest Paths in Word Graphs

2010-08-26T16:19:08+00:00

We consider the task of summarizing a cluster of related sentences with a short sentence which we call multi-sentence compression and present a simple approach based on shortest paths in word graphs. The advantage and the novelty of the proposed method is that it is syntax-lean and requires little more than a tokenizer and a tagger. Despite its simplicity, it is capable of generating grammatical and informative summaries as our experiments with English and Spanish data demonstrate.

César Bolaños - Peruvian Electroacoustic and Experimental Music (1964-1970)

2010-08-26T05:00:00+00:00

2CD - Pogus
A pioneer of avant-garde experiments, well defined between electroacoustic and improvisational influences, the Peruvian composer César Bolaños, in this double CD, releases the pieces composed in Argentina during his collaboration with the Latin-American Center of High Musical Studies (CLAEM). The result is quite satisfactory for technique and style, and it's not surprising that it has attracted the interest of a label as strict as Pogus. Pianos, wind instruments and percussion, magnetic tapes - this is the usual set-up, in intimate sequences, often crossed by voices, we hear the sounds of a harpsichord and a double bass, always rich in tonal expressions and textures. Audio recordings, especially in the second part of the first (which attests to the proximity of those politically themed experiments of the time in a Marxist-burlesque and authorial manner), are always adventurous and over the top. More intimate moments of planning make the artifacts coherent and valuable, worthy of being enjoyed time and time again.
Aurelio Cianciotta

EDRi-gram - Number 8.16, 25 August 2010

2010-08-25T16:38:59+00:00

VV. AA. - Twisted Cabaret

2010-08-25T04:00:00+00:00

cd+dvd Volvox, VOL0902, France, 2010
This is a collection of music and video (on cd and dvd) tracking artists that are altering or simply using codes from what has been known as the "Weimar Cabaret." This Cabaret included burlesque, darkness and comedy, and while its practices ended decades ago, its legacy can be found here in the form of modern music video artifacts. Culturally this is an environment that pushes on a theatrical and satirical anti-spectacle, including moments of self-derision (something currently unusual). It's a micro-world, but one that nevertheless joyfully and theatrically plays with the audience. And that makes a clear point against the current overproduction of spectacle. Besides that, a compilation like this makes a very strong case: in the global mess of the millions of videos available on YouTube, or any online or TV digital music channel, connecting what seems to be a common cultural reference point for twenty-odd quite well known artists is a valuable effort. In the intoxicating abundance of moving images there's a reconstruction of cultural archetypes used in alternative music without caring for the respective musical styles. Among the bands selected there are a couple of electronic music icons (the Residents and the Legendary Pink Dots) and there's a clear effort to make the video section distinct from the audio section. This product seems more of a form of archiving, even a form of curating, more than just compiling. And having all the artifacts offline, in this case, seems valuable for preservation rather than just for limiting access.

Occultural Studies 1.0: Black Meta

2010-08-24T11:31:47+00:00

By Eugene Thacker

Increasingly DIY and nihilistic, it's not surprising that contemporary philosophy is drawn to the untilled fields of undead subculture. Recent book, Hideous Gnosis, unleashes a bloodthirsty plague of para-academic commentary upon Black Metal, but, asks contributor Eugene Thacker, ‘how to talk about a music that refuses to be talked about?’

Final Cut Express, crashes with AVCHD & little MacOS X walkthrough

2010-08-19T19:58:20+00:00

Update: whereas Fincal Cut Express keeps on crashing, it looks like Blender (free open source software) is managing AVCHD files (MTS or else) natively and cleanly. The alternative is there and obviously better than FCE. Time to switch back to open & free.

We mostly use FLOSS (Free Libre Open Source Software) for a reason. But very often, some support for a format forces us to use non-free software, and lastly it was Final Cut Express 4.0 on MacOS X. Well, of course i’m going to tell you about a CRASH. That is something undocumented by Apple, that web searches and forums shows as very frequent, and that Apple seldom documents.

It happens when you’re using FCE4 to import new format for HD video called AVCHD (it’s just MPEG TS with H264 video codec and AC3 audio codec). When you go in the File > Log and Transfer and then drag and drop the video, during playback it CRASHES each time you read the video, reliably. ;-(

Even some companies sell software that do a patch, specifically citing this problem. Their patch ? Convert AVCHD to MPEG/MOV in order to edit it…

Actually, the problem lies in FCE4 which is bad at handling audio codec during the AVCHD playback. You wil have clue about this when looking for solution, one user mentions he unloaded some old audio codecs and got it working; also in the crash reporter you can see this:

Thread 4:
0   libSystem.B.dylib                 0×9fe48817 mach_msg_trap + 7
1   com.apple.CoreFoundation          0×9082d227 CFRunLoopRunSpecific + 2014
2   com.apple.CoreFoundation          0×9082ca42 CFRunLoopRunInMode + 61
3   com.apple.audio.CoreAudio         0×91469356 HALRunLoop::OwnThread(void*) + 158
4   com.apple.audio.CoreAudio         0×91469171 CAPThread::Entry(CAPThread*) + 93
5   libSystem.B.dylib                 0×9fe62d67 _pthread_body + 84

So I got to list the audio/sound related kernel modules:

root# kextstat -l|grep -ri audio
91    5 0×5374e000 0×17000    0×16000    com.apple.iokit.IOAudioFamily (1.6.0b7) <90 37 11>
92    1 0×537cd000 0×4e000    0×4d000    com.apple.driver.AppleFWAudio (2.2.0fc9) <91 80 47 11>
93    0 0×5381b000 0×3000     0×2000     com.apple.driver.AppleMLANAudio (2.2.0fc9) <92 80 47 11>
96    0 0×53883000 0×4000     0×3000     com.apple.driver.AudioIPCDriver (1.0.2) <91 5 4 3 2>
root# kextstat -l|grep -ri sound
181    0 0×40726000 0×4000     0×3000     com.Cycling74.driver.Soundflower (1.2.1) <91 11>

aha!! What is this?

and then I checked the audio drivers I am supporting on the system:

root# ls -al /System/Library/Extensions/ | grep -i sound
drwxr-xr-x     3 root wheel   102 Jan 16 2007 Soundflower.kext
root# ls -al /System/Library/Extensions/ | grep -i audio
drwxr-xr-x     3 root wheel   102 Jun 28 2007 Apple02Audio.kext
drwxr-xr-x     3 root wheel   102 Jul 10 2007 AppleFWAudio.kext
drwxr-xr-x     3 root wheel   102 Jul 10 2007 AppleMLANAudio.kext
drwxr-xr-x     3 root wheel   102 Jun 28 2007 AppleOnboardAudio.kext
drwxr-xr-x     3 root wheel   102 Jul 10 2007 AppleUSBAudio.kext
drwxr-xr-x     3 root wheel   102 Jun 28 2007 AudioDeviceTreeUpdater.kext
drwxr-xr-x     3 root wheel   102 Jun 28 2007 AudioIPCDriver.kext
drwxr-xr-x     3 root wheel   102 Jun 28 2007 IOAudioFamily.kext
drwxr-xr-x     3 root wheel   102 Jun 28 2007 SM56KUSBAudioFamily.kext
drwxr-xr-x     3 root wheel   102 Jun 28 2007 VirtualAudioDriver.kext

and then unloaded the Soundflower audio extension:

root# kextunload /System/Library/Extensions/Soundflower.kext
kextunload: unload kext /System/Library/Extensions/Soundflower.kext succeeded

(you may have to quit any program using the sound subsytem in order to succeed in kernel extension unloading).

And then FCE4 started to load AVCHD properly, not crashing each time you read the AVCHD footage, but only from time to time… I suggest apple fix their “com.apple.AVCHDPlugin”. #applefail

Out of this nightmare, no patch possible, because FCE4 is not opensource. Let’s hope someone will integrate that quickly in the supported codecs for a FLOSS video editing platform

The act of looking changes what is seen and what we think we know slips out of our grasp...

2010-08-17T20:35:39+00:00

Tasmania is one of the most refreshing places i like its edges although sometimes they hurt - but what's more real than that.

If you want to check out (give me some feedback) &/or just stalk
some of what i've been up to :

AUGUST 2010
Long Gallery Salamanca Arts Centre Tasmania
TRAJECTORIES

Experimedia Melbourne Victoria Australia
FREEPLAY

Hordon Pavilion Sydney October 2010
BUMPP

SEAM2010 Sydney October 2010
Critial Path

Velato

2010-08-17T20:30:01+00:00

Velato is a programming language which uses MIDI files as source code: the pattern of notes determines commands. Velato offers an unusual challenge to programmer-musicians: to compose a musical piece that, in addition to expressing their aims musically, fills the constraints necessary to compile to a working Velato program. Each song has a secret message: the program it determines when compiled as Velato.

smslingshot | reclaim the screens

2010-08-17T20:24:04+00:00

As a follow-up of the spreadgun performance in 2008, SMSlingshot is an extension of VR/Urban's digital intervention activism. The installation features a handheld digital slingshot device for spreading information on public screens.

Politics here is death

2010-08-16T07:54:52+00:00

By Anthony Iles

For one week the Psychogeophysical Summit merged renegade earth science, geekery and subjective mapping. Accompanied by Silje Hyenes Lysne, waving a magical video wand, remote reviewer Anthony Iles scryed what he could

Video: The Psychogeophysical Summit London | 2-7 August 2010, a Mute and BLIP co-production.

Eleonore, part 2: Mobile Desires

2010-08-15T08:19:34+00:00

In my last article, I described Eleonore as a conceptual art work, a non-utopian 'social sculpture'. It carries a proposal for the role of artists in society, working out alternative routes for social-artistic-technological development. It does so without the universalistic-totalitarian notions inscribed into previous avant-garde projects. Yet still, it contains 'future' - therefore its' characterisation as non-utopian. It is real and realistic: small, cheap, livable and as far as possible, environmentally friendly. After spending one week here, I try to summarise my insights.

Workshop Réalisation de patches Milkymist, 19 août 19:45@/tmp/lab

2010-08-14T23:09:01+00:00

Video Jam Session sur plate-forme Milkymist One!
CE QUE C’EST

Une introduction au système de synthèse de visuels sur [http://www.milkymist.org Milkymist] (venez à l’heure pour ne pas manquer la présentation)
L’écriture de vos propre patches
L’occasion de jeter un oeil aux premiers prototypes…
…et de les utiliser pour tester vos propre patches!
L’occasion d’une soirée sympa, même si vous venez en “spectateur”

CE QUE CE N’EST PAS

Un workshop FPGA
Un workshop de développement de logiciel embarqué
Un workshop nécessitant des compétences techniques avancées
Une démonstration exhaustive de toutes les possibilités de la plate-forme, il manque encore énormément de choses qui prendront des mois à développer.
Une représentation de la facilité d’utilisation finale de la plate-forme; l’interface graphique intégrée n’est pas encore développée.

AMENEZ

Pour interagir avec les visuels et/ou pour l’ambiance de la salle:
- Vos tables DMX, qui pourront servir à interagir avec votre patch
- Vos spots (PAR à LED ou non) DMX qui pourront etre contrôlés par le patch. Plus il y en aura, plus ça mettra une ambiance psyché dans la salle, façon trip glasses sans les lunettes.
- Un gradateur DMX si vous avez des vieux PARs à incandescence.
- Vos claviers et contrôleurs MIDI, qui pourront servir à interagir avec votre patch
- Câbles DMX (XLR 3 broches) et MIDI
Vos CDs, vinyls, … ou toute autre source sonore, vous pouvez aussi venir mixer en live Ca réagit bien à la techno minimale avec des bonnes basses.

INFOS PRATIQUES
Jeudi 19 août à partir de 19:45 au /tmp/lab
Inscriptions sur la page du wiki /tmp/lab.
Comment venir: les infos sont ici.

Packt launch the fifth annual awards for free and open source software

2010-08-10T09:09:18+00:00

Packt publishing is now organising the 2010 Open Source Awards. The winning projects will actually get a monetary prize (which I am sure will be most welcome).

I am always a little skeptical of these awards. However, I have to say that Packt really have proved themselves here: they started with the Open Source CMS Award a few years back, and they have now expanded it to several different categories.

Go and check out their web site, and make sure you nominate the projects you think should win!

Eleonore: a really existing non-utopian social sculpture

2010-08-10T06:51:01+00:00

(notes, Artist in Residency, Day 2) Yesterday I arrived at the Eleonore in Linz. Already before leaving I had the first insight. I was packing and couldn't find any suitable string to tie together my Yoga map. So I took a Cat 5 ethernet cable because I thought I might need that as well. And then I thought what connects Linux with Yoga? That both can show up, sometimes painfully, the limitations of the human being, especially in my case.

Première visite de l’Electrolab

2010-08-08T14:09:36+00:00

L’Electrolab (http://www.electrolab.fr) est un hacker space en cours de création dans la zone industrielle de Nanterre. Ce nouveau hack-lab sera, comme son nom l’indique, dédié aux projets ayant une forte connotation électronique et / ou mécanique.

Installé dans les sous-sols d’une des entreprises de la zone, à 5 minutes à pieds de la gare de Nanterre Ville, il prévoit d’accueillir dans ses 200 m² utilisables, tous les outils et matériaux nécessaires au développement et à la réalisation de circuits électroniques, robots et autres machins-qui-font-du-bruit-et-qui-clignottent.

Il devrait être équipé entre autres d’une zone chimie avec perchlo et matériel de révélation de PCB, d’une zone mécanique pouvant accueillir un véhicule de taille normale avec tour, fraiseuse, poste à souder, d’une zone électronique avec de grands plans de travails tout équipés (fers à souder, alimentations, oscilloscopes…) et bien sûr de grandes tables pour se poser avec son laptop et geeker tranquillement.

L’un des axes de travail de ce lieu seront les véhicules électriques. Deux véhicules de type volta sont déjà présents sur place ainsi que tout le matériel nécessaire à la motorisation d’autres engins divers et variés. Des workshops “do it your self electric vehicle” sont en cours de préparation pour les mois à venir.

Pour l’instant, comme vous pouvez le voir sur les photos, le lieu est encore brut de décoffrage, les travaux de maçonnerie ont été terminés en début de semaine, il faut encore préparer les sols, peindre les murs, poser les éclairages, bref, rendre le lieu confortable et fonctionnel.

C’est dans ce but qu’une première visite de l’électrolab est prévue mardi 10/08/2010 avec toutes les personnes désireuses de participer à l’installation de l’électrolab. Le rendez vous est fixé à 20h30 à la gare RER de Nanterre ville. Si vous êtes intéressé et souhaitez venir, merci de vous signaler sur le canal irc de l’électrolab (#electrolab@irc.freenode.net). Nous profiterons de cette soirée pour vous faire découvrir le lieux et vous proposer de participer à son installation tout en discutant des projets que vous aimeriez y faire vivre. N’hésitez pas à venir nombreux !

L’objectif serait d’ouvrir l’électrolab au public fin septembre, si tous les travaux et aménagements intérieurs sont terminés. Nous pensons organiser des réunions hebdomadaires (à priori le mardi soir) ainsi que quelques week ends “rush” pour faire avancer les projets le plus possible.

En attendant, si vous avez envie de participer à cette création de hackerspace from scratch, rendez vous mardi soir et/ou sur #electrolab

Birth of a band

2010-08-06T17:37:46+00:00

The World House Fusion Band

First gig at the OUTSIDE ART FESTIVAL

click to listen to part 1

listen to part 2

listen to part 3

Close to you Djallo Love song Wailer

In the World House in Amsterdam African and other musicians come together to play.

Listen to Papa Sakho talking with Smiles in the World House studio.

Listen to Deeq’s song from Somalia

Come and see this African Fusion on Friday August 13th live in the garden of the World House!

Near Waterlooplein at Nieuwe Herengracht 20

Estive Numerique – Digital Peak : morning lights

2010-08-05T14:41:54+00:00

Estive Numerique – Digital Peak debrief 1

2010-08-05T14:39:05+00:00

Music is the Crime that Contains All Others

2010-08-04T16:53:48+00:00

By Demetra Kotouza

In this month's music column Demetra Kotouza plucks rebetiko, music of the dangerous classes in Greece, from the stifling assumptions of its detractors and defenders

Coma: The Art of Unconsciousness

2010-08-03T16:51:19+00:00

By Stephen Barber

Pierre Guyotat's books break down language, bodies and the self to stage an estranged eternal present. Stephen Barber sifts through Guyotat's extraordinary history and prises apart the pages of his most recent work

10 years on: free software wins, but you have nowhere to install it

2010-07-29T08:14:29+00:00

I am typing this as I am finally connected in shell to my Android phone. The prompt reminds me that it’s based on the Linux kernel (it’s free), the Dalvik virtual machine (it’s free), and free libraries. Millions of Android devices are shipped every day, each one is a Linux system. Today, it’s phone. Soon, it will be tablets: Android 3.0 (coming out at the end of the year) will finally be very suitable for tablets. Apple alone will have to face fierce competition on pretty much every front. Microsoft… who? They are more irrelevant every day. I should be happy, right? Well, sort of. Looking back at how long it took me to get this shell prompt makes me worried. Very worried. We are heading towards a world where we no longer own the hardware we buy — and there is no point in having free software if you can’t own your hardware.

Apollo Project and Contact Management

Drowning in your TODO list? Trouble organizing project and contacts? Try Apollo, project and contact management done right.

http://www.apollohq.com

A single-page Ajax application that finally looks and feels like an application.

VideoLectures

2010-07-28T23:12:25+00:00

VideoLectures.NET is a free and open access educational video lectures repository. The lectures are given by distinguished scholars and scientists at the most important and prominent events like conferences, summer schools, workshops and science promotional events from many fields of Science.

Reject UltraViolet DRM

2010-07-28T17:10:35+00:00

Throughout the relatively short history of Digital Restrictions Management, we have seen various methods of user restriction come and go. Now, there is a new threat on the horizon: UltraViolet. A soon to be implemented DRM scheme, UltraViolet -- or should that be Ultraviolent -- is a joint effort between companies such as Sony, Adobe, Cisco, HP, Microsoft and Intel. What seperates UltraViolet apart from other types of DRM is its use of "the cloud." Whereas most other DRM schemes are implemented locally, UltraViolet intends to store the digital media you purchase on a centralized server with the goal of preventing users from storing their digital media on unauthorized devices, sharing and making copies.

We at Defective By Design view this as a major threat to the right of people to have control of their digital media. That is why today we are announcing a new action targeted towards companies involved with UltraViolet. We ask you to reject any piece of hardware or software that is encoumbered with UltraViolet DRM and to further show your rejection of this dangerous new technology, please sign our pact.

The fight against UltraViolet and other forms of DRM does not end with rejection of DRM -- we need to actively promote this action in any way possible. Some ways you can help include customizing your email signature to show your rejection of UltraViolet, writing a blog post and getting the word out to your friends on social networking websites.

Take action!

Call/email/write to these companies that you do business with:

Adobe, Alcatel-Lucent, Ascent Media, Best Buy, Blueprint, BT, CableLabs, Catch Media, CinemaNow, Cineplex Entertainment, Cisco, Comcast, Cox Communications, CSG Systems, Deluxe, DivX, Dolby, DTS, ExtendMedia, Fox Entertainment, Hewlett-Packard, Huawei Technologies, IBM, Intel, Irdeto, LG Electronics, Liberty Global, Lionsgate, LOVEFiLM, Marvell Semiconductor, Microsoft, MOD Systems, Motorola, Nagravision, NBC Universal, NDS Group, Netflix, Neustar, Nokia, Panasonic, Paramount Pictures, Philips, RIAA, Red Bee Media, Rovi, Saffron Digital, Samsung, Secure Path, Sonic Solutions, Sony, Switch Communications, Tesco, Thomson, Toshiba, Verimatrix, VeriSign, Warner Brothers, Widevine Technologies, Zoran

Add these buttons to your website/blog to help spread the message.

EDRi-gram - Number 8.15, 28 July 2010

2010-07-28T16:09:39+00:00