From geert at xs4all.nl Thu Oct 6 19:31:02 2011 From: geert at xs4all.nl (Geert Lovink) Date: Thu, 6 Oct 2011 19:31:02 +0200 Subject: ::fibreculture:: Copyright Trolls Invading Australia References: <20111004023110.78795325@techdirt.com> Message-ID: Techdirt Daily Email for Tuesday, 04 October 2011 > (Click here to visit the site) > Copyright Trolls Invading Australia (Copyright) > by Mike Masnick from the next-on-the-list dept on Monday, October > 3rd, 2011 @ 11:04PM > It appears that the plague of copyright trolls is moving down under > to Australia. There's really not much of a surprise here. It's yet > another example of some lawyers finding an opportunity to abuse > copyright law to shake people down by offering "settlement fees" > that are less than the cost of going to court. In the UK, such plans > have been pretty harshly beat back, but they continue to spread > elsewhere. In this case, it's an operation called Movie Rights > Group, and it's planning to sue an awful lot of folks. Of course, > whether or not it can actually get anyone to pay up is another story. > 4 Comments -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From jhuns at vt.edu Fri Oct 7 13:01:40 2011 From: jhuns at vt.edu (jeremy hunsinger) Date: Fri, 7 Oct 2011 07:01:40 -0400 Subject: ::fibreculture:: today is Ada Lovelace Day Message-ID: <05CD8F36-986C-439F-85A8-636362E92836@vt.edu> Distribute as appropriate -jh http://findingada.com/ Ada Lovelace Day aims to raise the profile of women in science, technology, engineering and maths by encouraging people around the world to talk about the women whose work they admire. This international day of celebration helps people learn about the achievements of women in STEM, inspiring others and creating new role models for young and old alike. The inspiration for Ada Lovelace Day came from psychologist Penelope Lockwood, who carried out a study which found that women need to see female role models more than men need to see male role models. "Outstanding women can function as inspirational examples of success," she said, "illustrating the kinds of achievements that are possible for women around them. They demonstrate that it is possible to overcome traditional gender barriers, indicating to other women that high levels of success are indeed attainable." The day begins in Kiribati, the easternmost country in the world, and continues for a mindbending 50 hours, ending in American Samoa. Ada Lovelace Day is on 7th October 2011 and we encourage you to talk about women in stem that you admire and add your story to our directory so that others can find and read it. Jeremy Hunsinger Communication Studies Wilfrid Laurier University Center for Digital Discourse and Culture Virginia Tech Computers are useless. They can only give you answers. --Pablo Picasso From andrew.murphie at gmail.com Thu Oct 13 09:02:31 2011 From: andrew.murphie at gmail.com (Andrew Murphie) Date: Thu, 13 Oct 2011 09:02:31 +0200 Subject: ::fibreculture:: =?windows-1252?q?The_Fibreculture_Journal_18=97T?= =?windows-1252?q?rans_Issue=97online?= Message-ID: Fibreculture Journal 18, the Trans issue? We have now launched FCJ 18, the Trans issue. There is slippery robotic chaos, VR, lots of interesting thinking with Simondon, Guattari's ecosophy, a radical approach to Interaction Design, software, the TwitterAPI, and more! More information below but you can skip to the real thing at http://eighteen.fibreculturejournal.org/ -- The Fibreculture Journal ? Issue 18 ? The Trans issue (transduction, transmateriality, transversality) It is now perhaps a commonplace that digital, networked and informational media are extremely transient. They diversify in form and function at a dizzying rate. At the same time, they transit and fuse ?social? and ?natural? differences in a manner which reconfigures all the worlds involved. It is also perhaps a commonplace to suggest that some established powers have found it difficult to come to grips with this (although this is perhaps beginning to change). For many, from seriously challenged newspaper proprietors to established media disciplines, it might be time to pause for breath, if only for a moment?to regroup and adapt established practices and ideas, to count the survivors from among the old media worlds of just a few years ago. While occasionally sympathetic, issue 18 of the Fibreculture Journalquestions this approach. If we pause for breath, it is to take in the new air. This issue draws on the accelerated evolutions of media forms and processes, the microrevolutions in the social (and even the natural sciences) that dynamic media foster, even the way in which ?new? media lead us to reconsider the diversity of ?old? media species. Summed up simply here under the sign/event of the ?trans,? this issue catalyzes new concepts, accounts of and suggestions for new practices for working with all these processes. The issue was edited by Andrew Murphie, Adrian Mackenzie and Mitchell Whitelaw. Articles include: Petra Gemeinboeck and Rob Saunders? ?Other Ways Of Knowing: Embodied Investigations of the Unstable, Slippery and Incomplete?, John Tinnell?s ?Transversalising the Ecological Turn: Four Components of Felix Guattari?s Ecosophical Perspective?, Vince Dziekan?s ?Anxious Atmospheres, and the Transdisciplinary Practice of United Visual Artists?, Kristoffer Gansing?s ?The Transversal Generic: Media-Archaeology and Network Culture?, Christoph Brunner and Jonas Fritsch?s ?Interactive Technologies as Fields of Transduction?, Troy Rhoades? ?From Representation to Sensation: The Transduction of Images in John F. Simon Jr.?s Every Icon?, Michael Dieter?s ?The Becoming Environmental of Power: Tactical Media After Control?, Simon Mills? ?Concrete Software: Simondon?s mechanology and the techno-social? Fenwick McKelvey?s ?A Programmable Platform? Drupal, Modularity, and the Future of the Web?. More on issue 18 here. -- "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 -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From holly.randell-moon at mq.edu.au Mon Oct 17 12:47:29 2011 From: holly.randell-moon at mq.edu.au (Holly Randell-Moon) Date: Mon, 17 Oct 2011 21:47:29 +1100 Subject: ::fibreculture:: Register now for GAME: A Three Day Video Games Event Message-ID: *Register now for **GAME: A Three Day Video Games Event** **at* *Macquarie University Sydney, Australia* Running from October 27th ? 29th at Macquarie University, North Ryde, Sydney Australia, *GAME* consists of a free public debate on video game politics and policy, an academic conference featuring world renowned keynote speakers *Ian Bogost *(Georgia Institute of Technology) and *Espen Aarseth* (IT University of Copenhagen), and a games festival. Other speakers include: ? *Martin Slater** *(2K Games) ? *Professor Terry Flew* (Australian Law Reform Commission) ? *Paul Hunt* (MLCS Management & Former Deputy Director of the OFLC) ? *Associate Professor Jeffery Brand* (Bond University) and more ? *Details:* *Thursday October 27 - The Politics of Play Public Debate* This public roundtable will discuss the contentious and complex issues surrounding the content, classification and effect of video games on our society. Speakers at this roundtable include: *Professor **Terry Flew*(Australian Law Reform Commission), *David Emery* (Classification Branch), *Zahid Gameldien* (Classification Board), *Paul Hunt* (MLCS Management & Former Deputy Director of the OFLC), *Associate Professor Jeffery Brand* (Bond University), *Dr John Martino*(Victoria University), *Dr Peter Chen* (University of Sydney) and *Dr Rowan Tulloch *(Macquarie University). The debate is free and open to members of the public. *Friday October 28 ? Theorycraft* The study of video games is a recent endeavour, bringing together disciplines from within the humanities such as media and literary studies with computer and human sciences. This conference will explore some of the key developments in contemporary research both internationally and here in Australia. The keynote speakers for this event are *Professor Ian Bogost*(Georgia Institute of Technology) and *Associate Professor Espen Aarseth* (IT University of Copenhagen). Other speakers include: *Dr Chris Chesher *(University of Sydney), *Dr John Banks *(QUT), *Peggy Sheehy* and *Dean Groom*. The conference will feature a final panel, 'The Future of Games' which will explore the future of game development including: augmented reality, social, mobile and casual gaming, and the increasing use of video games in educational settings. Participants in this panel include: *Martin Slater *(2K Games), *Dr Larissa Hjorth *(RMIT) and *Dr Mark Finn *(Swinburne). The cost for entry to Theorycraft is $120 standard entry, $50 for students. *Saturday October 29 - Game On! Festival Day* Join *Goose *from *ABC?s Good Game* to design & play games, chat with indie developers, listen to info sessions & participate in live action Zombie games. There is something for everyone! Game On will also host a showcase of primary, secondary and tertiary student design projects as well as information sessions on gaming in education, studying games design and cyber safety. * * To register for these events, please visit the Interactive Media Institute?s website at: http://imi.mq.edu.au/game/ For enquires please contact Holly Randell-Moon at: holly.randell-moon at mq.edu.au -- Dr. Holly Randell-Moon Department of Media, Music, Communication and Cultural Studies Faculty of Arts Macquarie University, NSW 2109 Australia -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... 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This discussion paper seeks your views on a wide range of issues, including how we can together minimise cyber risks so we can maximise social and economic opportunities in the digital economy. We greatly value your views on how we can get the right balance between Australia?s social, economic and security needs. The discussion paper is not designed for a technical audience. However, a glossary of terms has been provided at the back of the document to assist readers unfamiliar with terms or concepts. The Cyber White Paper website: http://www.cyberwhitepaper.dpmc.gov.au will enable electronic lodgement of submissions relating to questions in the discussion paper. Written submissions can be forwarded electronically to cyberwhitepaper at pmc.gov.au or via mail to the Department of the Prime Minister and Cabinet, One National Circuit, Barton, 2600, ACT. The White Paper team will accept written submissions from 14 September to 14 November, after which formal submissions will close. The final White Paper will be released in the first half of 2012. -- Cheers, Stephen From vince.dziekan at monash.edu Thu Oct 13 00:22:13 2011 From: vince.dziekan at monash.edu (Vince Dziekan) Date: Thu, 13 Oct 2011 09:22:13 +1100 Subject: ::fibreculture:: =?windows-1252?q?The_Fibreculture_Journal_18_=97?= =?windows-1252?q?_Trans_issue_=97launched?= In-Reply-To: References: Message-ID: Great effort Andrew, Adrian and Mitchell; appreciated. Congrats to all involved CHeers Vince On 12 October 2011 21:09, Andrew Murphie wrote: > (please spread the word among your own networks/contacts) > > Dear Friends of the Fibreculture Journal, > > We have now launched FCJ 18, the Trans issue. There is slippery robotic > chaos, VR, lots of interesting thinking with Simondon, Guattari's ecosophy, > a radical approach to Interaction Design, software, the TwitterAPI, and > more! > > I hope you'll agree that Mat (Wall-Smith) has done an outstanding job on > this issue (and many thanks to him for what has been an extraordinary amount > of work. It looks glorious. It's also a big issue (over 250 pages if you > download the very splendid pdf/book version). > > More information below but you can skip to the real thing at > http://eighteen.fibreculturejournal.org/ > > with warm wishes to you all, > > Andrew > > (please spread the word among your own networks/contacts) > > -- > The Fibreculture Journal ? Issue 18 ? The Trans issue (transduction, > transmateriality, transversality) > > It is now perhaps a commonplace that digital, networked and informational > media are extremely transient. They diversify in form and function at a > dizzying rate. At the same time, they transit and fuse ?social? and > ?natural? differences in a manner which reconfigures all the worlds > involved. It is also perhaps a commonplace to suggest that some established > powers have found it difficult to come to grips with this (although this is > perhaps beginning to change). For many, from seriously challenged newspaper > proprietors to established media disciplines, it might be time to pause for > breath, if only for a moment?to regroup and adapt established practices and > ideas, to count the survivors from among the old media worlds of just a few > years ago. > > While occasionally sympathetic, issue 18 of the Fibreculture Journalquestions this approach. If we pause for breath, it is to take in the new > air. This issue draws on the accelerated evolutions of media forms and > processes, the microrevolutions in the social (and even the natural > sciences) that dynamic media foster, even the way in which ?new? media lead > us to reconsider the diversity of ?old? media species. Summed up simply here > under the sign/event of the ?trans,? this issue catalyzes new concepts, > accounts of and suggestions for new practices for working with all these > processes. > > The issue was edited by Andrew Murphie, Adrian Mackenzie and Mitchell > Whitelaw. > > Articles include: > > Petra Gemeinboeck and Rob Saunders? ?Other Ways Of Knowing: Embodied > Investigations of the Unstable, Slippery and Incomplete?, > > John Tinnell?s ?Transversalising the Ecological Turn: Four Components of > Felix Guattari?s Ecosophical Perspective?, > > Vince Dziekan?s ?Anxious Atmospheres, and the Transdisciplinary Practice of > United Visual Artists?, > > Kristoffer Gansing?s ?The Transversal Generic: Media-Archaeology and > Network Culture?, > > Christoph Brunner and Jonas Fritsch?s ?Interactive Technologies as Fields > of Transduction?, > > Troy Rhoades? ?From Representation to Sensation: The Transduction of Images > in John F. Simon Jr.?s Every Icon?, > > Michael Dieter?s ?The Becoming Environmental of Power: Tactical Media After > Control?, > > Simon Mills? ?Concrete Software: Simondon?s mechanology and the > techno-social? > > Fenwick McKelvey?s ?A Programmable Platform? Drupal, Modularity, and the > Future of the Web?. > > More on issue 18 here. > > > -- > > "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 > -- Dr Vince Dziekan Deputy Associate Dean (Research) Faculty of Art & Design Monash University Melbourne, Australia FACT Associate Foundation for Art & Creative Technology Liverpool, Great Britain Digital Media Curator - International Curatoriate Leonardo Electronic Almanac http://www.leoalmanac.org/ e: vince.dziekan at artdes.monash.edu.au www.vincedziekan.com -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From marghanita at ramin.com.au Fri Oct 21 00:10:59 2011 From: marghanita at ramin.com.au (Marghanita da Cruz) Date: Fri, 21 Oct 2011 09:10:59 +1100 Subject: ::fibreculture:: [LINK] The Cyber White Paper In-Reply-To: <20111020101112.610729AF@eagle.melbpc.org.au> References: <20111020101112.610729AF@eagle.melbpc.org.au> Message-ID: <4EA09C73.7050307@ramin.com.au> FWIW my comment is still awaiting moderation: > October 19, 2011 at 9:50 am > > The capability of Directors and Office Bearers to meet their obligations in relation to privacy laws would be assisted with the implementation of a Responsible Collection and Management of Data Certificate similar to the Responsible Serving of Alcohol Certificate. > > See example here: > http://mailman.anu.edu.au/pipermail/link/2011-October/095195.html > > More about Corporate Governance of ICT at > http://ramin.com.au/itgovernance/as8015.html Marghanita stephen at melbpc.org.au wrote: > Connecting with confidence: optimising Australia's digital future > > Department of Prime Minister and Cabinet > > "Connecting with confidence: optimising Australia's digital future" > > 18 October 2011 > > This paper seeks to start discussion how government, industry and the > community can work together to address the challenges and risks arising > from greater digital engagement. > > The result of this conversation will be the release of Australia's first > Cyber White Paper in the first half of 2012. > > This discussion paper seeks your views on a wide range of issues, > including how we can together minimise cyber risks so we can maximise > social and economic opportunities in the digital economy. > > We greatly value your views on how we can get the right balance between > Australia's social, economic and security needs. The discussion paper is > not designed for a technical audience. However, a glossary of terms has > been provided at the back of the document to assist readers unfamiliar > with terms or concepts. > > The Cyber White Paper website: http://www.cyberwhitepaper.dpmc.gov.au > will enable electronic lodgement of submissions relating to questions in > the discussion paper. > > Written submissions can be forwarded electronically to > cyberwhitepaper at pmc.gov.au or via mail to the Department of the Prime > Minister and Cabinet, One National Circuit, Barton, 2600, ACT. > > The White Paper team will accept written submissions from 14 September to > 14 November, after which formal submissions will close. > > The final White Paper will be released in the first half of 2012. > -- > > Cheers, > Stephen > > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------ > > _______________________________________________ > Link mailing list > Link at mailman.anu.edu.au > http://mailman.anu.edu.au/mailman/listinfo/link -- Marghanita da Cruz http://ramin.com.au Tel: 0414-869202 From a.munster at unsw.edu.au Fri Oct 28 11:15:52 2011 From: a.munster at unsw.edu.au (Anna Munster) Date: Fri, 28 Oct 2011 09:15:52 +0000 Subject: ::fibreculture:: LIVING BOOKS ABOUT LIFE - Open Humanities Press initiative Message-ID: <9B3CEF5C-408B-43F4-A31C-CF211EF71397@unsw.edu.au> Open Humanities Press publishes twenty-one open access Living Books About Life LIVING BOOKS ABOUT LIFE http://www.livingbooksaboutlife.org The pioneering open access humanities publishing initiative, Open Humanities Press (OHP) (http://openhumanitiespress.org), is pleased to announce the release of 21 open access books in its series Living Books About Life (http://www.livingbooksaboutlife.org). Funded by the Joint Information Systems Committee (JISC), and edited by Gary Hall, Joanna Zylinska and Clare Birchall, Living Books About Life is a series of curated, open access books about life -- with life understood both philosophically and biologically -- which provide a bridge between the humanities and the sciences. Produced by a globally-distributed network of writers and editors, the books in the series repackage existing open access science research by clustering it around selected topics whose unifying theme is life: e.g., air, agriculture, bioethics, cosmetic surgery, electronic waste, energy, neurology and pharmacology. Peter Suber, Open Access Project Director, Public Knowledge, said: ?This book series would not be possible without open access. On the author side, it takes splendid advantage of the freedom to reuse and repurpose open-access research articles. On the other side, it passes on that freedom to readers. In between, the editors made intelligent selections and wrote original introductions, enhancing each article by placing it in the new context of an ambitious, integrated understanding of life, drawing equally from the sciences and humanities?. By creating twenty one ?living books about life? in just seven months, the series represents an exciting new model for publishing, in a sustainable, low-cost, low-tech manner, many more such books in the future. These books can be freely shared with other academic and non-academic institutions and individuals. Nicholas Mirzoeff, Professor of Media, Culture and Communication at New York University, commented: ?This remarkable series transforms the humble Reader into a living form, while breaking down the conceptual barrier between the humanities and the sciences in a time when scholars and activists of all kinds have taken the understanding of life to be central. Brilliant in its simplicity and concept, this series is a leap towards an exciting new future?. One of the most important aspects of the Living Books About Life series is the impact it has had on the attitudes of the researchers taking part, changing their views on open access and raising awareness of issues around publishers? licensing and copyright agreements. Many have become open access advocates themselves, keen to disseminate this model among their own scholarly and student communities. As Professor Erica Fudge of the University of Strathclyde and co-editor of the living book on Veterinary Science, put it, ?I am now evangelical about making work publicly available, and am really encouraging colleagues to put things out there?. These ?books about life? are themselves ?living?, in the sense they are open to ongoing collaborative processes of writing, editing, updating, remixing and commenting by readers. As well as repackaging open access science research -- together with interactive maps and audio-visual material -- into a series of books, Living Books About Life is thus involved in rethinking ?the book? itself as a living, collaborative endeavour in the age of open science, open education, open data, iPad apps and e-book readers such as Kindle. Tara McPherson, editor of VECTORS, Journal of Culture and Technology in a Dynamic Vernacular, said: ?It is no hyperbole to say that this series will help us reimagine everything we think we know about academic publishing. It points to a future that is interdisciplinary, open access, and expansive.? Funded by JISC, Living Books About Life is a collaboration between Open Humanities Press and three academic institutions, Coventry University, Goldsmiths, University of London, and the University of Kent. Books: * Astrobiology and the Search for Life on Mars, edited by Sarah Kember (Goldsmiths, University of London) * Bioethics?: Life, Politics, Economics, edited by Joanna Zylinska (Goldsmiths, University of London) * Biosemiotics: Nature, Culture, Science, Semiosis, edited by Wendy Wheeler (London Metropolitan University) * Cognition and Decision in Non-Human Biological Organisms, edited by Steven Shaviro (Wayne State University) * Cosmetic Surgery: Medicine, Culture, Beauty, edited by Bernadette Wegenstein (Johns Hopkins University) * Creative Evolution: Natural Selection and the Urge to Remix, edited by Mark Amerika (University of Colorado at Boulder) * Digitize Me, Visualize Me, Search Me: Open Science and its Discontents, edited by Gary Hall (Coventry University) * Energy Connections: Living Forces in Creative Inter/Intra-Action, edited by Manuela Rossini (td-net for Transdisciplinary Research, Switzerland) * Human Genomics: From Hypothetical Genes to Biodigital Materialisations, edited by Kate O?Riordan (Sussex University) * Medianatures: The Materiality of Information Technology and Electronic Waste, edited by Jussi Parikka (Winchester School of Art, University of Southampton) * Nerves of Perception: Motor and Sensory Experience in Neuroscience, edited by Anna Munster (University of New South Wales) * Neurofutures, edited by Timothy Lenoir (Duke University) * Partial Life, edited by Oron Catts and Ionat Zurr (SymbioticA, University of Western Australia) * Pharmacology, edited by Dave Boothroyd (University of Kent) * Symbiosis, edited by Janneke Adema and Pete Woodbridge (Coventry University) * Another Technoscience is Possible: Agricultural Lessons for the Posthumanities, edited by Gabriela Mendez Cota (Goldsmiths, University of London) * The In/visible, edited by Clare Birchall (University of Kent) * The Life of Air: Dwelling, Communicating, Manipulating, edited by Monika Bakke (University of Poznan) * The Mediations of Consciousness, edited by Alberto L?pez Cuenca (Universidad de las Am?ricas, Puebla) * Ubiquitous Surveillance, edited by David Parry (University of Texas at Dallas) * Veterinary Science: Animals, Humans and Health, edited by Erica Fudge (Strathclyde University) and Clare Palmer (Texas A&M University) Contact the Living Books about Life series editors: Gary Hall, Joanna Zylinska and Clare Birchall E: gary.hall at coventry.ac.uk E: j.zylinska at gold.ac.uk E: c.s.birchall at kent.ac.uk W: http://www.livingbooksaboutlife.org Open Humanities Press is a non-profit, international Open Access publishing collective specializing in critical and cultural theory. OHP was formed by academics to overcome the current crisis in scholarly publishing that threatens intellectual freedom and academic rigor worldwide. OHP journals are academically certified by OHP?s independent board of international scholars. All OHP publications are peer-reviewed, published under open access licenses, and freely and immediately available online at http://openhumanitiespress.org. A/Prof. Anna Munster Deputy Director Centre for Contemporary Art and Politics 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 -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: