From andrew.murphie at gmail.com Tue Jul 3 05:08:29 2012 From: andrew.murphie at gmail.com (Andrew Murphie) Date: Tue, 3 Jul 2012 13:08:29 +1000 Subject: ::fibreculture:: =?windows-1252?q?New_Issue_Launched=3A_Networked?= =?windows-1252?q?_Utopias_and_Speculative_Futures_=97_The_Fibrecul?= =?windows-1252?q?ture_Journal_=97_FCJ20?= Message-ID: Dear Fibreculturalists, New Issue Launched: Networked Utopias and Speculative Futures ? The Fibreculture Journal ? FCJ20 Edited by Su Ballard, Zita Joyce and Lizzie Muller http://twenty.fibreculturejournal.org/ Our 20th fully Open Access issue, in our 10th year of publishing! Articles on: The material substrate of networks; the Arab Spring; re-imagining mobile communications via encounters with a neolithic village; the 'freedom of movement and freedom of knowledge' events that have taken place between Spain and Morocco; utopias and political economies of networks, space and time; networks and health; networks and food; and Montr?al residents' appropriation of train tracks. >From the Su Ballard, Zita Joyce and Lizzie Muller's Editorial Essay: The future began somewhere. The impulse behind this issue of *The Fibreculture Journal* was a crisis of imagination with regards to how the future might look and behave. Our starting point was the notion of post-millennial tension ? the idea that in the decades following the year 2000 we find ourselves living in an era that was meant to be the future, but where many of our futuristic hopes and fantasies remain unfulfilled. Worse, our historical visions of hyper-technological futures seem to have propelled us into a perilous position where humankind may not have any kind of future at all. In the space between ever-hopeful techno-futurism and the realities of a world forever changed by the pursuit of the resources required to fuel it, we asked if the age-old concept of utopia still has the strength to generate galvanising visions of the future. Articles: FCJ-138 This is not a Bit-Pipe: A Political Economy of the Substrate NetworkRachel O?Dwyer and Linda Doyle FCJ-139 Sand14: Reconstructing the Future of the Mobile Telecoms IndustryLaura Watts FCJ-140 Radio Feeds, Satellite Feeds, Network Feeds: Subjectivity Across the Straits of GibraltarNicholas Knouf FCJ-141 Spaces for Play ? Architectures of Wisdom: Towards a Utopic Spatial Practice Dan Frodsham FCJ-142 Spectacles and Tropes: Speculative Design and Contemporary Food Cultures Carl DiSalvo FCJ-143 Ouvert/Open: Common Utopias Nathalie Casemajor Loustau and Heather Davis FCJ-144 Healthymagination: Anticipating Health of our Future Selves Marina Levina FCJ-145 Temporal Utopianism and Global Information Networks Andrew White FCJ-146 Mannheim?s Paradox: Ideology, Utopia, Media Technologies, and the Arab Spring Rowan Wilkens FCJ-147 Liberation Technology and the Arab Spring: From Utopia to Atopia and Beyond Ulises A. Mejias http://twenty.fibreculturejournal.org/ -- "A traveller, who has lost his way, should not ask, Where am I? 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URL: From ned at nedrossiter.org Tue Jul 3 12:19:00 2012 From: ned at nedrossiter.org (Ned Rossiter) Date: Tue, 3 Jul 2012 20:19:00 +1000 Subject: ::fibreculture:: Ctrl-Z: New Media Philosophy Message-ID: Dear colleagues We're pleased to announce that the inaugural issue of international journal Ctrl-Z: New Media Philosophy is now live: http://www.ctrl-z.net.au/journal/ See the main site for information on the journal and editorial board, as well as footage, stills and other documentation of our first event, Writing in the Age of New Media, held at Fremantle Arts Centre last November: http://www.ctrl-z.net.au/ Planning is underway for an event to be held in Melbourne in early 2013. The second issue of the journal is scheduled for publication in December 2012. Please forward the link to your networks. Niall & Robert -- Dr Robert Briggs Senior Lecturer ? Mass Communication/Cultural Studies Course Coordinator ? Mass Communication School of Media Culture & Creative Arts Curtin University GPO Box U1987 PERTH WA 6845 AUSTRALIA Founding Co-Editor Ctrl-Z: new media philosophy http://www.ctrl-z.net.au/ http://curtin.academia.edu/RobertBriggs -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From gerard.goggin at sydney.edu.au Thu Jul 5 09:14:29 2012 From: gerard.goggin at sydney.edu.au (Gerard Goggin) Date: Thu, 5 Jul 2012 07:14:29 +0000 Subject: ::fibreculture:: Jordan/'Communicative Practices-/+ Internet', USyd, Thurs 12 July, 3-5pm Message-ID: 'Media @ Sydney' and Digital Cultures presents 'Communicative Practices Before and After the Internet' Dr Tim Jordan (King's College London) with responses by Chris Chesher, Kathy Cleland, and Gerard Goggin (Sydney) 3-5pm, Thursday 12 July 2012 Rogers Room, Woolley Building (A20), University of Sydney -- see map: http://db.auth.usyd.edu.au/directories/map/building.stm?location=12E Abstract: How do we communicate? What makes it possible for a sender and receiver to exchange some form of meaning? What role do technologies play in communication? This paper will explore these questions by examining communication both before and after the rise to mass use of internet technologies. The everyday moment of communication is most often understood as the transmission from A to B of a message C. This transmission model of communication has been criticised in both communication studies and cultural studies and instead an idea of the cultures of communication or communicative practices has been proposed in the work of Carey, Peters and others. This will be critically examined in relation the work of Milne and Derrida on the importance of presence in communication and presence will be reconsidered in the light of Levinas' idea of 'face-to-face' and Haraway's criticism of Heidegger on boredom. Communicative presence it is argued can be understood as a being-with/becoming-with generated between selves and others that must be understood as both care and capture, as both conversation and hostage. Communication is then understood as the generation of presence which in enables the possibility of transmission. To examine this idea of communicative practices before and after the internet. two case studies will be presented. One case study is of pre-internet communicative practices and one of internet-dependant communicative practices. The first case study is of letters to colonial Australia 1835-1858 and the second is of mmpog gaming. In the former the techno-social practices of seals, letter folding, inks, greetings and farewells, signatures and so on, construct a presence based on confirmation that the body of the sender has touched the letter. This is examined in relation to over 200 letters between Australia and the UK between 1835-1858. A case study of a guild in mmpog gaming will demonstrate how the technologies of virtual worlds show presence to be based not on untrustworthy identity-markers but on the style of interaction. This comparison shows how different types of communicative practice enable the ability to 'transmit' messages based on forms of technologically-mediate presence which itself makes possible and stabilises senders, receivers and the message. Some consequences of this are examined in living simultaneously in two contradictory communicative practices. About the presenter: Tim Jordan is a Senior Lecturer at King's College London, leading development there of analysis of digital culture. He is a member of the Department of Culture, Media and Creative Industries and the Department of Digital Humanities. Tim has been involved in analysis of the social and cultural meaning of the internet and cyberspace since the mid-1990s,and his latest book will be forthcoming in January 2013 called, Internet, Culture and Society: communicative practices before and after the internet (Continuum). He has also published the books: Hacking: digital media and technological determinism (2008), Cyberpower (1999) and, with Paul Taylor, Hacktivism and Cyberwars (2004). He has also played a role in analysing social movements and popular protest, as a founding editor of the journal Social Movement Studies. In addition to his books on social movements and internet cultures, Tim has published on Pokemon, surfing and technology and social theory. Media @ Sydney is presented by the Department of Media and Communications (http://sydney.edu.au/arts/media_communications/) and the Digital Cultures Program (http://sydney.edu.au/arts/digital_cultures/), University of Sydney For further information, contact Gerard Goggin (gerard.goggin at sydney.edu.au). -- \\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\ Gerard Goggin Professor and Chair Department of Media and Communications University of Sydney Adjunct Professor, Social Policy Research Centre University of New South Wales e: gerard.goggin at sydney.edu.au p: +61 2 9114 1218 m: +61 428 66 88 24 w: http://sydney.edu.au/arts/media_communications/staff/ggoggin -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From geert at desk.nl Mon Jul 9 11:19:16 2012 From: geert at desk.nl (Geert Lovink) Date: Mon, 9 Jul 2012 11:19:16 +0200 Subject: ::fibreculture:: From Joh Bjelke to Julian Assange Message-ID: <4651B88A-89A9-48C0-9886-D92F6A273064@desk.nl> > YOUTUBE - "From Joh Bjelke to Julian Assange, Free Speech Use it or > Lose It!" *Photos & interviews re: ongoing solidarity with Julian > Assange > > YOUTUBE - > From Joh Bjelke to Julian Assange. > Free Speech Use it or Lose it! > That was Then This is Now! > > http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZSyZI1kGrHs [1] > > Brisbane (Queensland, Australia) born and raised, former anti-war > prisoner of the United States, Ciaron O'Reilly reflects on a life of > free expression & nonviolent anti-war resistance. > > Music "Rum Corps" by "The Joes". > Tech support from Damien and Simon. > > "I will tell you something about stories, he said. > They aren't just entertainment > Don't be fooled, > They all we have, you see, > all we have to fight off illness and death. > > You don't have anything > If you don't have stories. > > Their evil is mighty > but it can't stand up to our stories, > So they try to destroy the stories > let the stories be confused or forgotten, > They would like that > They would be happy > because we would be defenseless then....." > > - Leslie Marmon Silko, Native American writer of the Laguna Pueblo > tribe > > INTERVIEWS/PHOTOS London/Brisbane - Gig in Solidarity with Julian > Assange @ Turnstyles in Brisbane July 7th. 2012 > > Free Speech Use it or Lose it! > From Joh Bjelke Petersen to Julian Assange. > That was Then This is Now! > > PHOTO - Ciaron O'Reilly MCing describing a life of > protest, with music and pics from 70s till Wikileaks. > http://twitpic.com/a4verg [2] > > PHOTO = J7 gig takes a phone call from ex-SAS Iraq War vet Ben Griffin > to the J7 Gig. > http://twitpic.com/a4vj2a [3] > > Ben now joins a daily solidarity outside the Ecuadoran Embassy in > London > Slideshow http://tinyurl.com/bmflbrm [4] > > AUDIO - July 3rd. John Jiggins interviews Ciaron O'Reilly before the > July 7 Solidarity Gig in Brisbane for Julian Assange > http://soundcloud.com/ian-curr/sets/wikileakes [5] > > June 26th. ABC RADIO Brisbane > Steve Austin interviews Ciaron O'Reilly on the Persecution of Julian > Assange > http://blogs.abc.net.au/files/260612-sa-ciaron-oreilly.mp3 [6] > > Ciaron O'Reilly > Blog http://ciaron.wordpress.com/ > > "The poor tell us who we are, > The prophets tell us who we could be, > So we hide the poor, > And kill the prophets." > Phil Berrigan > > Links: > ------ > [1] http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZSyZI1kGrHs > [2] http://twitpic.com/a4verg > [3] http://twitpic.com/a4vj2a > [4] http://tinyurl.com/bmflbrm > [5] http://soundcloud.com/ian-curr/sets/wikileakes > [6] http://blogs.abc.net.au/files/260612-sa-ciaron-oreilly.mp3 From difusion at medialab-prado.es Tue Jul 17 15:43:06 2012 From: difusion at medialab-prado.es (Medialab-Prado comunicacion) Date: Tue, 17 Jul 2012 15:43:06 +0200 Subject: ::fibreculture:: Call for Collaborators | Interactivos?'12 Ljubljana: Obsolete Technologies of the Future Message-ID: <50056BEA.4000108@medialab-prado.es> *MEDIALAB-PRADO* Temporarily at Matadero Madrid Paseo de la Chopera, 14 ? 28045 Madrid +34 915 177 288 www.medialab-prado.es* * Interactivos?'12 Ljubljana: Obsolete Technologies of the Future Call for Collaborators Deadline: August 31, 2012 Workshop: September 5 - 15, 2012 Call for collaborations in the advanced workshop for project development /Interactivos?'12 Ljubljana: Obsolete Technologies of the Future/, that takes place in September 5 - 15, 2012 in Ljubljana (Slovenia). Collaborators will participate in the production of six prototypes in the fields of art and technology using existing or outdated technologies in an entirely unexpected way to encourage novel approaches, promote sustainability, and explore possibilities in the far future. The collaborator is basic in the planning and development of the workshops of Medialab-Prado, thus these are conceived as spaces for collaborative work, knowledge exchange and theoretical and practical training. It is an environment in which there is a horizontal relationship among professors, developers and the collaborators. Workshop advisors: Luka Frelih (director of Ljudmila, artist, programmer), Ida Hir?enfelder (art critic, art consultant), Chris Sugrue (artist, programmer) and Yago Torroja (hardware, electronics). Complete information and guidelines: http://medialab-prado.es/article/interactivos12_ljubljana_call_collaborators **An activity within the framework of Studiolab European project: http://www.studiolabproject.eu/ http://medialab-prado.es http://www.ljudmila.org/ -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From johan.soderberg at sts.gu.se Mon Jul 23 10:44:12 2012 From: johan.soderberg at sts.gu.se (=?Windows-1252?Q?Johan_S=F6derberg?=) Date: Mon, 23 Jul 2012 08:44:12 +0000 Subject: ::fibreculture:: Bio/Hardware Hacking: New Special Issue published in the Journal of Peer Production Message-ID: <407D780F3E26B94EA7B14343F9986C7C815FF856@gu-mbx04.ad.gumail.local> [Apologies for multiple posts] ?Bio/Hardware Hacking?: a new special issue of the Journal of Peer Production is now published (LINK) During the past two decades, hacking has chiefly been associated with software and computers. This is changing with the surge of synthetic biology, fablabs and hackerspaces, all of which suggests the wider diffusion of hacking practices and hacker politics. Hardware development and biological science are about to be infused with the same kind of contestations and contradictions that already characterize software hacking. This is because hackers are not simply innovating new technology, but are at the same time discovering new ways of engaging with the world. The issue highlights how hacking practices are inscribed in and shaped by the cultural and political contexts in which the hackers find themselves, with implications for the ways hacker politics are framed. The special issue is curated by Alessandro Delfanti and Johan S?derberg. It includes four research papers and two invited comments: Denisa Kera, Hackerspaces and DIYbio in Asia: Connecting Science and Community with Open Data, Kits and Protocols Maxigas, Hacklabs and Hackerspaces - Tracing Two Genealogies Sara Tocchetti, DIYbiologists as ?Makers? of Personal Biologies: How MAKE Magazine and Maker Faires Contribute in Constituting Biology as a Personal Technology Paolo Magaudda, How to make a ?Hackintosh?. A Journey into the ?Consumerization? of Hacking Practices and Culture Morgan Meyer, Build Your Own Lab: Do-it-yourself Biology and the Rise of Citizen Biotech-Economies Mitch Altman, Hacking at the Crossroad - US Military Funding of Hackerspaces Feel free to tweet, blog, share, comment the content of this special issue. We hope it will be a good starting point for further studies of the spreading of hacking practices outside the software field. Finally, we take advantage of this email to invite you to attend the panel we will chair, together with Eric Deibel, at the 4S/EASST Conference in Copenhagen in October. It is titled ?Hacking STS - bio-hacking, open hardware development, and hackerspaces?, and will be another space to discuss the topics of this special issue. Sincerely, Alessandro and Johan -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From natasa.lakic at cuzs.org Mon Jul 23 16:00:57 2012 From: natasa.lakic at cuzs.org (Natasa Lakic) Date: Mon, 23 Jul 2012 16:00:57 +0200 Subject: ::fibreculture:: Open call for film entries for Green Fest - Belgrade, Serbia Message-ID: To whom it may concern, I am sending you news on the International Green Culture Festival ?Green Fest? (www.greenfest.rs) with the kind request that you please announce the following information on your site. 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