From a.munster at unsw.edu.au Thu Jun 3 03:06:45 2010 From: a.munster at unsw.edu.au (Anna Munster) Date: Thu, 3 Jun 2010 11:06:45 +1000 Subject: ::fibreculture:: HotHouse: call for short videos on urban design and environment Message-ID: HotHouse: Call for 1-min videos on sustainable futures Hothouse is new long-term project focusing on the role of art, design and creative action in transforming the urban environment and promoting sustainability. An initiative of the National Institute of Experimental Arts (COFA, UNSW) in conjunction with Object: Australian Centre for Craft and Design, Hothouse is supported by the City of Sydney and the Sydney Opera house. In July we will be launching the Hothouse website and holding a 2-day event at the Sydney Opera House, leading to further large-scale exhibitions and public art events. For the website, we are looking for short [up to 1-min] videos by artists, designers and any creative thinkers interested in the environment. DETAILS: Topic: "What the City needs ... " (envisaging sustainable futures/the transformation of the urban environment through environmentally conscious art/design) Format: short videos [up to 1 minute long] uploaded to Vimeo (or YouTube) Send link to r.kiang at unsw.edu.au by 15 June if possible To be part of HotHouse?s 2-day event at the Sydney Opera House on 27-28 July see: http://www.sydneyoperahouse.com/whatson/hothouse.aspx A/Prof. Anna Munster Deputy Director Centre for Contemporary Art and Politics School of Art History and Art Education College of Fine Arts UNSW P.O. Box 259 Paddington NSW 2021 612 9385 0741 (tel) 612 9385 0615(fax) a.munster at unsw.edu.au From a.munster at unsw.edu.au Wed Jun 9 01:28:59 2010 From: a.munster at unsw.edu.au (Anna Munster) Date: Wed, 9 Jun 2010 09:28:59 +1000 Subject: ::fibreculture:: Maurizio Lazzarato and Angela Melitopoulos - Public Talk in Sydney Message-ID: ?the creative class doesn?t exist? Maurizio Lazzarato and Angela Melitopoulos in dialogue on artists, precarity and collective experimentation (In Australia for one public event only) ARTSPACE: Tuesday July 6, 6pm. FREE EVENT In this evening?s talk between the sociologist and philosopher Maurizzio Lazzarato and the artist Angela Melitopoulos, a space opens up for questioning the current place of artists and of ?creativity? within cognitive capitalism. They discuss the contradiction deep at the heart of creative industries and contemporary cognitive capitalism: the erasure of non-productive time, which is precisely the time required for creation to take place at all. They debate the question, initiated by Marcel Duchamp, of how ?an-artist?, rather than the Artist, might function to open up new ways of feeling, doing and saying and of experimenting with new institutions that might promote different forms of collective creation. Maurizio Lazzarato is a sociologist and philosopher who lives and works in Paris. Among his recent publications are: Lavoro immateriale. Forme di vita e produzione di soggettivita (1997); Videofilosofia. Percezione e lavoro nel postfordismo (1997); Tute Bianche. Disoccupazione di massa et reddito di cittadinanza (1999); Post-face ? Monadologie et sociologie (1999); Puissance de l?invention. La psychologie economique de Gabriel Tarde contre l?economie politique (2002); Les Revolutions du capitalisme (2004). Angela Melitopoulos, is an time-based artist, realizes video-essays, installations, documentaries and sound pieces and curates exhibitions and seminars. Her work focuses on duration and mnemonic micro-processes in documentation. Her work has been shown in many international video and film festivals, exhibitions and museums (Antonin Tapies Foundation Barcelona, Manifesta 7, Centre Georges Pompidou Paris, Whitney Museum New York). Currently she is a research fellow at the Matrix East Lab in the University of East London. This event is jointly hosted by: The Centre for Cultural Research, University of Western Sydney, Artspace and the Centre for Contemporary Art and Politics, University of New South Wales A/Prof. Anna Munster Deputy Director Centre for Contemporary Art and Politics School of Art History and Art Education College of Fine Arts UNSW P.O. Box 259 Paddington NSW 2021 612 9385 0741 (tel) 612 9385 0615(fax) a.munster at unsw.edu.au From geert at xs4all.nl Thu Jun 10 12:21:56 2010 From: geert at xs4all.nl (Geert Lovink) Date: Thu, 10 Jun 2010 12:21:56 +0200 Subject: ::fibreculture:: old fibreculture list archives available again Message-ID: Dear all, a part of the Fibreculture list archive is online again. The fibreculture list, from October 2005 till November 2008: http://listcultures.org/pipermail/fibreculture-list-archive_listcultures.org/ The fc-announce list, from November 2005 till October 2009: http://listcultures.org/pipermail/fibreculture-archive_listcultures.org/ Yours, Geert From geert at xs4all.nl Sat Jun 12 21:53:49 2010 From: geert at xs4all.nl (Geert Lovink) Date: Sat, 12 Jun 2010 21:53:49 +0200 Subject: ::fibreculture:: Pentagon hunts WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange in bid to gag website Message-ID: <56A77ED8-2279-42B5-8DFE-6C7433AC920E@xs4all.nl> http://www.guardian.co.uk/media/2010/jun/11/wikileaks-founder-assange-pentagon-manning Pentagon hunts WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange in bid to gag website Soldier Bradley Manning said to have leaked diplomatic cables to whistleblower, plus video of US troops killing Iraqis Chris McGreal in Washington guardian.co.uk Friday 11 June 2010 19.02 BST American officials are searching for Julian Assange, the founder of WikiLeaks in an attempt to pressure him not to publish thousands of confidential and potentially hugely embarrassing diplomatic cables that offer unfiltered assessments of Middle East governments and leaders. The Daily Beast, a US news reporting and opinion website, reported that Pentagon investigators are trying to track down Julian Assange ? an Australian citizen who moves frequently between countries ? after the arrest of a US soldier last week who is alleged to have given the whistleblower website a classified video of American troops killing civilians in Baghdad. (...) From vanessa.duke at sydney.edu.au Wed Jun 16 05:36:00 2010 From: vanessa.duke at sydney.edu.au (Vanessa Duke) Date: Wed, 16 Jun 2010 13:36:00 +1000 Subject: ::fibreculture:: The University of Sydney Job Announcement Message-ID: PROFESSOR IN DESIGN AND COMPUTATION FACULTY OF ARCHITECTURE, DESIGN AND PLANNING Design creates the future. Bring your vision for research and teaching in design and computation to a creative and internationally renowned group of academics in the Design Lab at the Faculty of Architecture, Design and Planning. Our strengths are in computational design, interaction design, and electronic media arts. We teach principles of computation, interaction, and design within the context of innovative design studios at the undergraduate and graduate level. We have a dynamic and cutting edge research program funded through grants from the Australian Research Council. The Faculty of Architecture, Design and Planning at the University of Sydney is internationally recognised for its teaching on a wide range of highly sought after undergraduate and graduate degrees. We have extensive dedicated design studios, the best-equipped design computing and digital architecture laboratories and the largest architecture, urban design and planning library in the Southern Hemisphere. In addition to our Design Lab, our research disciplines include Architecture and Urbanism, Urban and Regional Planning (including the Planning Research Centre) and Architectural Science. 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URL: From geert at xs4all.nl Wed Jun 23 23:24:38 2010 From: geert at xs4all.nl (Geert Lovink) Date: Wed, 23 Jun 2010 23:24:38 +0200 Subject: ::fibreculture:: Pentagon hunts WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange in bid to gag website References: <4C227185.3090503@koot.biz> Message-ID: <00E2237A-96BE-4F47-AECF-48EDF5853845@xs4all.nl> > "Assange Tries To Bury Insider Output from Cryptome" > http://cryptome.org/0001/wikileaks-auth.htm From melinda at subtle.net Thu Jun 24 07:49:14 2010 From: melinda at subtle.net (Melinda Rackham) Date: Thu, 24 Jun 2010 15:19:14 +0930 Subject: ::fibreculture:: transmediale Awards: Open Web Award - Call for Entries Message-ID: Some Australian/NZ/Pacifica entries would be great :) M from Stephen Kovats.... This past Thursday at W2, Vancouver's Community Media Arts Society , I had the pleasure to announce, in collaboration with the Mozilla Foundation, the creation and launch of the new 'Open Web Award 2011' - a special third platform for creative excellence alongside the 'transmediale Award 2011' and the 'Vil?m Flusser Theory Award 2011'. The 'Open Web Award' is a new platform aimed at highlighting and promoting radical, creative and innovative art works and projects that: - are on the web and about the web - use open source, free, libre or other non-proprietary technology (may they be soft- or hardware) - incite participation and/or collaboration They can be critical, celebratory or both. Projects should have the potential to demonstrate and/or objectively critique the potential of open web issues, and those employing the creative use of HTML5 and other developing 'open' technologies will be given specific consideration. The point is to play with both the idea and materiality of the (open) web in ways that spark new thinking and practice. The winner(s) of the 'Open Web Award 2011' will receive a total prize of 5000 EUR, and be given the opportunity to have 'supported' status on Drumbeat . Beyond the specific 'Open Web Award' criteria, the same rules, conditions and application procedures apply as the 'transmediale Award 2011' The Deadline for Entries to the transmediale 'Open Web Award 2011' is also July 31, 2010 (2400 CEST / UST+2)! greetings, Stephen Kovats *we invite you to subscribe to transmediale's newsletter at , join the transmediale facebook group or fan page, or follow us on twitter* > > > artistic director > -------------------------------------------------------- > transmediale.11 | 1 - 6 feb 2011 > festival for art and digital culture berlin > > Call for Entries Open! > transmediale Award 2011 > Vil?m Flusser Theory Award 2011 > *new* transmediale Open Web Award 2011 > > Deadline for all awards: July 31, 2010 > http://www.transmediale.de/en/awards2011 best wishes Melinda Melinda Rackham melinda at subtle.net From melinda at subtle.net Fri Jun 25 10:52:54 2010 From: melinda at subtle.net (Melinda Rackham) Date: Fri, 25 Jun 2010 18:22:54 +0930 Subject: ::fibreculture:: Invite: The Memorial: Opening Tuesday June 29 2010 6-8pm Message-ID: <96075D01-F193-4ED2-A5DB-C01EA6744744@subtle.net> Hi there If u are in Melbourne next week it would be lovely to see you at the opening of the Memorial - in which I have a tapestry of the Laughing Cavalier made by my late mother. http://www.deathbekind.com/exhibitions/the_memorial.html The Memorial Opening Tuesday June 29 2010 6-8pm For the first exhibition of DEATH BE KIND, curators Claire Lambe and Elvis Richardson present The Memorial - an elaborate display-case housing a collection of beloved objects that once belonged to a deceased relative, friend, acquaintance or lover chosen by over 100 people from all walks of life who have kindly participated in this project. The Memorial presentation is reminiscent of the small private museum and employs the language of display to create symbiotic dialogues through the relational placement of the works. A complex display case has been constructed so as to elevate the importance and meanings of the beloved objects and gently navigate the viewers experience of the gallery space. The Memorial retells the stories behind the objects that we keep to evoke memory of the deceased, how these objects maintain ongoing relationship with the dead, and how these material possessions remain important in memory making. Each object has been documented and texts collected from the holder about their object to create a catalogue of texts that caption the objects personal meanings in a zine. Zine also features writers Morgan Fayle, David Luker and Ruth Learner and artist Marina Lutz. best wishes Melinda Melinda Rackham melinda at subtle.net From andrew.murphie at gmail.com Sun Jun 27 06:48:43 2010 From: andrew.murphie at gmail.com (Andrew Murphie) Date: Sun, 27 Jun 2010 14:48:43 +1000 Subject: ::fibreculture:: Design and Open Publishing Message-ID: (fwd. from the Empyre list discussion where open published was discussed this month in which andrew talks about the fibreculture journals. /geert) Hi All, I must admit that, as is often the case, I hadn't had time until the last few days to read through the discussion. I was amazed when I did. It's been a very rich month indeed, and has shifted my own thinking profoundly. More simply, I've just learned heaps! So many thanks to all involved. Thanks also for inviting Mat Wall-Smith and I to discuss "design", although I have to agree with Femke when she writes "It seems almost too much to add 'design' to the mix now, but here we go". In this spirit .. here I go! The discussion has pushed things along for me so much of what I might have said is redundant. This post will have three sections, if your digital-neurological brain needs to scan (and I have to say the neurological turn is of immense importance to me but I'll leave that to another time perhaps). In fact, you'll have to scan as I'm sure this post will be way too long for anyone to read. I'll discuss "me", then Fibreculture Journal, then design, then add some of my own responses to other discussions from this month into the mix in a separate post. First, briefly _Me_ I never know how to describe myself or my research beyond being "transdisciplinary", which I suspect is probably quite common these days. I might describe myself as an "accidental publisher". A (very) long while ago, when we had to study editing and publishing (Shakespeare!) as part of an undergraduate program in literature, I didn't see the point. It was "boring". Now I've kind of stumbled into it big time (sans Shakespeare). It's been a richly rewarding experience, in part because of all the wonderful people I've met through various publishing adventures. Yet sometimes I think I might like to stop publishing taking over my life. It's not my whole life, not even my whole professional life, though it keeps trying to be. I'm also not a coder, or even really a geek (maybe a wanna be geek), even if I find the new convergences (and divergences, which for me are always more important) exciting for all the obvious reasons. Indeed though in theoretical terms I'm completely into ongoing differentiation, in practical terms I find it troubling because I'm always chasing formats, information architectures, etc. It sometimes seems like to much simple hard work towards some kind of goal that never seems to be reached. As our friend here, Chris Chesher, always says, the great thing about standards is that there's so many to choose from! Also since I'm not a coder, or a librarian, there is a language problem. I have had many meetings with excellent people concerning new forms of publishing in which it's been like we're all speaking different languages. Design often means translation here: in many senses. I also have an accidental interest in design (probably coming from my theatre background, but also from ongoing work on digital media and interactivity). And recently spent a wonderful month at the Kolding Design School in Denmark, which gave me some sense of the power of contemporary design. More practically, I edit the Fibreculture Journal (more below) .... among other publishing activities (including a traditional book and book chapters, less traditional essays and a manifesto concerning publishing, 'Ghosted Publics - the "unacknowledged collective" in the contemporary transformation of the circulation of ideas' in Nat Muller and Alessandro Ludovico (eds.) The Mag.net reader 3 ... this reader itself is an interesting example of publishing http://www.labforculture.org/content/view/full/35568 .. I also teach an undergraduate course with Gillian Fuller on new modes of publishing) ... _The Fibreculture Journal_ Since 2002, I've edited the Fibreculture Journal (FCJ) ... http://fibreculturejournal.org/ but the old site is at http://journal.fibreculture.org/ This is an open access, online academic journal devoted to transdisciplinary critique of digital and network media and cultures. FCJ was established by the Fibreculture community in 2002 specifically to play the publishing game better in both traditional and more interesting directions, and, we thought, to be active in moving things on, on behalf of what is a loose group of people interested in critical debates around digital and networked media. By moving on we mean doing more interesting things, but also making these interesting things "count" more among the institutions. We have eight issues in train, and our latest CFP received more submissions than ever before. In fact, we are somewhat overburdened and, just for the moment, turning down interesting projects (anecdotally, this is a problem all round with OA publishing projects ... they're far too successful and something we haven't discussed is how traditional institutions beyond commercial or even university presses are reacting to this. My feeling is that, for example, funding bodies and governments are not too happy about it). We have virtually no funding beyond a few hundred dollars here and there, and like many other such journals have relied on the generosity of both tenured academics and just as often untenured academics, including many desperately trying to finish PhDs, to keep going. I'm proud of the fact that we've published many emergent thinkers alongside many "big names". Through it all, many things have kept us going, primarily the committed community of people (Lisa Gye, Mat Wall-Smith, Anna Munster, Gillian Fuller, Ned Rossiter, Esther Milne, Ingrid Richardson, Chris Chesher, and many, many more, including the like of Michael Dieter who is one of the editors of our new issue) ... We were also very fortunate to be taken up as part of Open Humanities Press. This really was a lifesaver and remains an ongoing lifeline (I've received maybe 4 or 5 wondrous emails bringing miracles in my life ... the email from Sigi/OHP was certainly one of these!). The Fibreculture Journal, then, was designed to be part of shifts in academic publishing, indeed to push them into new territories. How much it's done that is an interesting question, precisely because FCJ has also tried to play several publishing games at the same time, and we spend as much time negotiating old (and frankly newer reactionary) regimes as we do heading into new territory. Even more interesting is the question of how much we will be able to do interesting things in the future. This is the complex design question we've been trying to solve. It's been a great trip so far but ... Recently, in part because I think we were all exhausted, and in part because there were genuine opportunities in terms of redesigning our online platform and the opportunities it provided, FCJ decided to undergo a major redesign (design here in every sense?look but for us more importantly information architecture and in terms of something like "service design" - see below). We somehow wanted to be able to "play the academic game" (refereed journal, high profile board, etc), so as to support more interesting critical work in the area ... and, at the same time, step outside this game in order to foster new opportunities for fostering discussing, for publishing and so on. We would like to see ourselves as a kind of double agent I guess, or that's where we try to head. How to design a platform to do this became a huge question, not to mention a stumbling block. We had a great platform, just basic html, very nicely designed and put together by Lisa Gye. But by around 2007 it was obviously not quite going to allow us to foster feeds, metadata, and more simply, experiments in discussion. I thought the changes would take 2 or 3 months to find solutions for and implement. It has so far taken around 3 years (although we are pretty much there .. at least at "stage one"). So I guess I'm saying that both FCJ and people like myself are good examples of the tensions involved in contemporary shifts in publishing. Trying to live in several worlds at once. Trying to be able to talk to traditional academic communities, funding bodies, governments, tenure committees etc, and to transdisciplinary thought, critical engagements often with the traditions we're also trying to court, and also talk to Twitter, Facebook, DOAJ, libraries, the community of other journals, new forms of (un)conferences, new publishing and discussion formats, etc etc. And if we're going to talk design, it's many of these tensions that need to be addressed in design. A simple example. As part of revamping FCJ, we decided at one point to use OJS (Open Journal Systems). It does look very easy to use once you've set it up, and indeed it's easy to set up (I've done it, so you can too!). Lots of people use it very successfully. However, for us it had two large failings. First up, it was a nightmare if you were already established. Importing 100 or so articles proved so much work, and in fact, just so difficult, that it held us up for at least 6 months, when we switched to WordPress Multiple-User (although now with WPress 3 it's all now MU), assisted by a small grant that allowed us to pay someone to drag everything across. Second, however, for us at least, OJS seemed very good at replicating a formal academic journal online (and this is good). We wanted that but more than that ... FCJ is both a very formal, refereed, etc, academic journal, and a site at which we want to be open to new forms of communication .. discussion, but also perhaps sometimes extending into new forms of writing/publishing process. In the end, we want to have our cake and eat it too, and why not? WP seemed more open precisely perhaps because it wasn't quite so completely tied up with academic publishing standards-though the problem then is how to reintroduce these (Dublin Core up). Though of course what we really need is something like OJS/WP .. plugins are I suspect the answer, although there's been so much evidence of things moving quickly far beyond this on this list, that I wonder what new goodies and exciting relationships we can head towards next (taking into account the overstretched good will of those doing much of the hard work on the site) ... I had lunch not too long ago with Mat Wall-Smith, David Ottina, and Sigi J?ttkandt and was witness to a fascinating discussion between Mat and David about technical standards ... not only what were best, but really how to reconcile the standards that are going to work in terms of well, standardizing the system, and a perhaps more open and adaptive approach (Mat might say recursive or generative, in his PhD work) approach so that publishing process won't only converge, but allow for ongoing divergence, we might say ecological adaptation. (interestingly enough this repeats two very different neurological/cognitive models that are often seen in tension but more recently are gaining much from talking to each other, for example in cognitive semiotics impact within design. I've recently seen work by Thomas Markussen and Jonas Fritsch on this in Denmark, and hope they might edit an issue of FCJ for us soon). _Design_ Trying to distill some of the above, design here has to be ecological .. by which I don't only mean sustainable (which itself means adapting to convergence and divergences), but mean that which takes into account the publishing equivalents of Felix Guattari's "Three ecologies" of the self, socius and environment (including the technical aspects of this, and their actual complexity and more importantly virtual complexity .. that is to say, relational potentials, the "complexity to come" .. well that is coming at us all the time). I'll try and simplify. There are three aspects to design and I see very few projects that manage all three well: * look * information architecture * something like service design ... although the term is so loaded I'll just call this the truly ecological part of things. But it means designing so that people like me can not only publish, but allow for the flexibility of engagement with other platforms, people, groups etc, both within out publishing platform and between ours and other platforms. It also means thinking in terms of how (very different) people enter and exit publishing experiences, how these experiences are engineered on the way through, and how they might in turn contribute to an ongoing reengineering (Mat Wall-Smith's point). Many of the points I found most interesting in this discussion have been heading in this direction. A kind of push towards "publishing to come" ... it's very hard to know what either publishing or "publics" (the publishing's "people to come") will actually mean, or mean now ... when pushed by many of the projects discussed during this June .. and that's a good thing. One of my favourite responses to the iPad captures this kind of things, in which Adrian Miles writes a post in which as he held the iPad he "thought of a novel" ... meaning in large part that the iPad as a platform required a completely different form of video production/publishing because of the different relationship people had to the iPad. http://vogmae.net.au/vlog/2010/04/i-thought-of-the-novel/ The problem is integrating all three of these aspects of design. I won't say too much more here. And I'll actually make my other responses to previous discussions in another post (except that I've been too tricky with myself and lost a lot of it ... lucky perhaps!). all the best, Andrew _Some Links_ Online academic (or related) journals I like, and which many people will know: http://www.horizonzero.ca/ (wonderful look in what is perhaps now an old-fashioned aesthetics but I love it) http://www.ctheory.net/home.aspx (a founding publishing exercise for us all in this area) http://cosmosandhistory.org/index.php/journal (Paul Ashton edited journal, a great journal that using OJS .. Open Journal Systems) http://www.culturemachine.net/index.php/cm (another very important founding journal, edited by Dave Boothroyd, Gary Hall and Joanna Zylinska) http://www.senselab.ca/inflexions/volume_3/index_french_english.html (this is a great example of what you can achieve when you really do step outside of the "system", academic system that is .. more invention, more freedom with design and sometimes ironically higher level discussion of ideas perhaps?) http://www.parrhesiajournal.org/index.html (another OHP journal ... ) http://vagueterrain.net/ (what you gain with a little informality) http://www.plos.org/ (there is so much going on in science publishing .. especially when it comes to information architecture design and research culture .. it's interesting we haven't discussed this very much this month, especially as for my money the sciences are way ahead of the digital humanities ... see also http://delicious.com/ibbertelsen/openscience and other basic links I've put together http://delicious.com/ibbertelsen/journals http://delicious.com/ibbertelsen/epubproject of course, like many of us here, I probably get more research information etc via Twitter (andrewmurphie), delicious (ibbertelsen) and even, yes, the dreaded Facebook .. than from journals. Old fashioned person that I am, I still read a lot of (paper) books. I have a kindle but haven't been seduced by an iPad yet (in part because Apple "design" is not so corporate egocentric that it's killing the publishing ecology). someone else might have mentioned this but here http://openreflections.wordpress.com/ there is a great article by Ted Striphas on contemporary academic publishing in Cultural Studies (although relevant way beyond that). His new book is also downloadable ... -- "A traveller, who has lost his way, should not ask, Where am I? What he really wants to know is, Where are the other places" - Alfred North Whitehead Andrew Murphie - Associate Professor School of English, Media and Performing Arts, University of New South Wales, Sydney, Australia, 2052 Editor - The Fibreculture Journal http://fibreculturejournal.org/> web: http://www.andrewmurphie.org/ http://dynamicmedianetwork.org/ fax:612 93856812 tlf:612 93855548 email: a.murphie at unsw.edu.au room 311H, Webster Building _______________________________________________ empyre forum empyre at lists.cofa.unsw.edu.au http://www.subtle.net/empyre