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Alan Sondheim | 3 Nov 16:55
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sondheimogram [x3: 2L phenom, shorter world desc, plateau reached]

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Alan Sondheim <sondheim@...>
     Second Life Installation Phenomenology (please post)
     description of the world in a few sentences  
     Plateau Reached    

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Date: Tue, 21 Oct 2008 19:01:53 -0400 (EDT)
From: Alan Sondheim <sondheim@...>
Subject: Second Life Installation Phenomenology (please post)

Second Life Installation Phenomenology

The Second Life show at http://slurl.com/secondlife/Odyssey/48/12/22
continues to change; since it's complex and interactive, it makes sense
for you to visit it. The images and videos I put up almost daily can
present one or another new (static or dynamic) topographic feature, but
only in an isolated and framed configuration; one doesn't get a sense of
the roil or negotiated pathways of the spaces which are always under
construction.

At one point symmetries dominated, as well as moire patterns related to
early cinema; at another, flat black areas created a problematic of depth
that remained unresolved. At times a machine-structure (gears, wheels,
cams) appeared out of partial assemblages; at best, these were metaphors,
doing nothing in the virtual or the real. In the exhibition, objects tend
to ignore one another unless given physical weight; few objects have that,
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nettime's_parliament | 4 Nov 07:31

chocolate city digest [x3: niss, recktenwald, hars]

Millie Niss <men2@...>
     Video documentation of unusable/inaccessible absentee ballot
Heiko Recktenwald <heikorecktenwald@...>
     Starbucks and the US Elections
Anne Hars <annehars@...>
     obama world dance party

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Date: Sun, 02 Nov 2008 19:22:49 -0500
From: Millie Niss <men2@...>
Subject: Video documentation of unusable/inaccessible absentee ballot

Several organizations are urging voters in the current US election to 
videotape and/or photograph their voting experiences.  Spork voted today 
using an absentee ballot, and discovered that the ballot was unsuitable 
for the disabled voters who depend on it most.  She has posted 
photographs, a lumiere video, and a lengthy video with sound (as a link, 
microblog does not have huge automatic downloads) showing how hard it 
was to submit her absentee ballot.  There are also links to relevant 
articles and organizations.

Last month's microblog is in memory of Louise Salls Deed, Martha's 
mother, who died on October 23, 2008, after a brief illness.  Both 
Sporks attended the memorial service and read eulogies.  (Texts to be 
posted soon.)

There are also further medical and technological misadventures as usual, 
and some book references.
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Jane Crayton | 4 Nov 15:57

I video taped, as Team America fucked Allen Ginsberg

In Honor of Election Day, may I present this American Poem....

A poem created in retrospective to Allen Ginsberg's America. What  
would he have thought about America since his death? Penny Lane is  
gone, Boulder is not really 'hip' anymore, and politics are in the  
gutter during the election of 2008. Ginsberg would have been  
horrified, and disappointed, and he would have called to duty, every  
pot head capable of fighting the mediocrity, and impending doom of our  
disembodied nature.

<img src="http://www.greatmodernpictures.com/fwm-ginsbergtophat325.jpg"/>

Listen to: "I video taped, as Team America fucked Allen Ginsberg" by  
JanedaPain read by Jane and American Audio remixed by JdaP
http://janedapain.net/tuneitin/mp3s/GinsbergaudiomixbyJdaP.wav

I video taped, as Team America fucked Allen Ginsberg
By JanedaPain

America, is home of the Buffs, who Ruffies women during halftime.
America if I went to your game, I would wear a chastity belt and pasties.
America doesn?t see
McCain is like death warmed over, a day old Palin kill.
America we can?t go ?trick or treating? with toy guns after Columbine.
America, I can?t travel past the security gate with my buck knife after 9-11
we can?t move our lids through the puffers
seeking those bombs and anthrax for the 5 o? clock news.
America can we tighten those pants on the lonely flight attendants budge
America I want porn on the back of their seats too
	I will wait to ejaculate in the lavatory, when the fasten your
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carlos katastrofsky | 3 Nov 17:39
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4 theses on exhibiting internet art

[if you're interested to discuss these topics in detail please go to
http://cont3xt.net/interference - thank you]
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[internet art in real spaces]
the border between the work of an internet artist and the curating
done by a curator who wants to show the work in a physical exhibition
is shifting. it is not enough to put computers in an exhibition and
let artworks be on display. internet works have to be adapted to be
shown in an exhibition space. since the original context of those
artworks -the private surroundings of people consuming internet art on
their computers at home- is lost, there has to be some kind of setup
that makes the work suitable for the gallery-context. on one hand this
is the responsibility of the curator -(s)he is the one who provides
the exhibition context- but on the other hand it is also the
responsibility of the artist to think of possibilities how the pieces
can be transformed. thus a intense communication process is needed
between curator and internet artist.

[exhibition setup]
exhibiting internet art has to take on forms that are different from
the current widespread "independend" setup that build on the setup of
festival exhibitions. if internet art wants to become recognised as
"art" and not as funny gadget/tech stuff/industry whore then putting
such art forms on display needs to be done carefully. the focus has to
shift away from the technical part of the work to something more
reliable (todays tech is more than old tomorrow): the cultural
context. technology is a cultural context, and nowadays even one of
the most powerful ones. but it is not alone. technology is embedded in
a framework of cultural developments that exist for a much longer time
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eyescratch | 4 Nov 19:13
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http://www.nytimes.com/2008/10/20/world/americas/20burro.html
http://www.nytimes.com/slideshow/2008/10/19/world/20081020BURRO_index.html

October 20, 2008
Acclaimed Colombian Institution Has 4,800 Books and 10 Legs
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Dan S. Wang | 5 Nov 20:31
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First thoughts on the American election

Anyone else?  --dsw

Already there?s been quite a bit of writing, remarking, and blogging on the
Obama victory as a sort of national catharsis. But like the fluid identity
of Obama himself, the emotional healing enters the picture from any number
of angles. Here?s mine.

Forty years after the Chicago Police, under orders from Mayor Richard J.
Daley?remembered by more than a few from that time as an out and out
racist?beat down the anti-war demonstrators in Grant Park during the DNC and
in the process established definitively a split between the New Left and the
Democratic Party, the younger Mayor Daley welcomed supporters of Barack
Obama downtown for the election night celebration party, whether they had
tickets or not. He did this knowing full well he was putting his fate into
the hands of a young leader who, if he?d had the curse to stand before the
throngs in defeat, or worse, perceived criminal theft of an election, would
have had the responsibility to quell an unfolding riot, if not a new civil
war. 

This act of faith on the part of Richard Daley the Son, seemed to offer
another dimension to the feeling of this election?s seeming resolution of
long-standing divides:  after ?68, Nixon, the ineffective Carter, the
victorious Reagan, the centrist Clinton, and the nightmare that is Bush the
Younger, is the Left back in the fold of the Democratic Party? It is a fair
question, because the activist Left put in some serious work for the Obama
campaign, in the meantime shelving work on many other struggles. Also, there
is the plain reality of the incessent right wing chatter/incantation of the
names Bill Ayers, ACORN, and Jeremiah Wright?names, groups, and lineages
(SDS, Weather Underground, Alinsky-style organizing around poverty issues,
black liberation theology) to which, really, only the activist Left are
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brian | 5 Nov 22:15
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Re: First thoughts on the American election

These are great comments, useful, basic, from the place where it is 
happening.

Dan's perspective on the marginal but real role of the Left (as opposed 
to the Democratic Center) are what merit attention everywhere that such 
a divide exists. What do we do in the face of majorities or at least, 
power blocs, which do not satisfy us, and in the face of our own 
marginalized "identities," which at times appear so inconsequential but 
are utlimately what we have got? And not the worst end of the deal either?

I think it is time for the far Left to argue propositionally, without 
forgetting where we come from and what we believe and aspire to. The 
fallback to whatever base and sphere of activity one has is always a 
possibility, always a necessity. But this is a moment to push the 
mainstream. Every theme we have ever rallied around, fought over or 
against, is now on the table, not only in the USA but everywhere. War, 
racism, social programs, climate change, financialization, to name only 
the most huge: all these issues are now up for grabs. It would be a pity 
if the exponentially great grandchildren of Marx and Bakunin did not 
have something real to say right now.

best, Brian

Dan S. Wang wrote:

> Anyone else?  --dsw
> 
> 
> Already there?s been quite a bit of writing, remarking, and blogging on the
> Obama victory as a sort of national catharsis. But like the fluid identity
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John Hopkins | 6 Nov 04:37
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Re: second thoughts on the American election

>These are great comments, useful, basic, from the place where it is
>happening.

just a few fast words:

speaking from rural Arizona, a couple km from where McCain gave his last
rally (featuring Hank Williams, Junior) after midnight on Monday and where
Dick Cheney recently bought a large chunk of land to 'retire' to: I would
disagree alarmingly with the term 'chatter' -- it's at minimum a
foaming-at-the-mouth snarl that will proceed to shred any and everything
that surfaces media-wise and Washington-wise that the 'Left' will attempt
or do until the self-same wolves return to power.  The machine grinds on.
I agree with Brian -- EVERYTHING, EVERYWHERE is not only on the table, but
it is in the advanced stages of being carved up by the same-old same-old
forces and webs of power, whatever you want to call them.  And it's all
heightened (esp here in the US) by this now
backed-up-to-the-wall-and-deeply-paranoic population segment who refuse any
change, and difference, anything that compromises their GOD-GIVEN right to
continue feasting on the GOD-GIVEN cake that they are already stuffed with.

The first thing I heard this morning (live, not in the media) was a
question along the lines of what's the first Marxist move that Obama will
make?  Suspending freedom of speech?

I kid you not.  These people are warped extremists by any global standard.
They will not 'give up' anything, they will not engage in any civil society
unless they control it.

My friend Frieder Nake reminded me a couple days ago: "The anarchists have
this beautiful principal line: If elections were capable of changing
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carl guderian | 6 Nov 18:16

Re: second thoughts on the American election


Not all of those 46% Republicans are nuts. If Obama really does pick  
a few Republicans for his cabinet and work with the more reasonable  
ones, he'll get at least the acquiescence if not cooperation of the  
non-rabid portion of the GOP. The crazier the remaining hardcore, the  
less they can organize toward their goal of wrecking the country as  
long as Democrats are in charge. If Obama is as stable as he appears,  
more and more people will tune out the rightwing mediasphere, which  
will end up as the monkey house where you go to watch them screech  
andd fling poo at each other. Just don't feed them or get too close  
to the bars.
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John Young | 6 Nov 21:58
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Re: second thoughts on the American election

Agreed. And not all Dems and Indies are friends of Obama. There are
wide gaps among his supporters, separated by race, by age, by politics,
by income, by gender, by prejudice, and more. His avowed intention
to combine these disparates into a workable whole has come to
pass for the election but it is not at all certain this is more than
a temporary infatuation with him and his eloquence, and, to be sure,
disgust with the current regime.

Obama has not yet gone beyond quite effective rhetoric and promissories,
and that is what marks him as a professional politician, for now, and it
remains to be seen if he can perform up to the level of his promises.

Many of his supporters have filled his inviting vessel with their hopes
and aspirations. Can he work magic in deed as well as word? Let us
hope he can, we can, if you will, beyond hope of the electoral stage.

There are ample precedents for a winning demogoguery that becomes
its opposite, by slow degrees as it fails to deliver to all those who
succumbed to wishful thinking -- wishes all too common when
desparate.

Vote for Obama's and our success in the long run by not expecting 
him to do what is ours to do: work for democracy among the people
and never pin our hopes on a leader, and certainly not on the present
form of heirarchical US government.
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