From carusi.annamaria at gmail.com Mon Jun 4 19:44:16 2012 From: carusi.annamaria at gmail.com (Annamaria Carusi) Date: Mon, 4 Jun 2012 18:44:16 +0100 Subject: ::fibreculture:: Visualisation Conference: Imaging Technology Truth and Trust Message-ID: We invite people to attend or to apply to give a short talk (10-15 minutes) or poster at our European Science Foundation conference, ?Images and Visualisation: Imaging Technology, Truth and Trust? on the 17th to 21st September, 2012. The aim of this conference is to bring together experts from across the natural and social sciences, with curators, artists, producers and users of images based on advanced visual engineering. The conference will be interested in the construction, circulation and interpretation of images from across the sciences with a specific interest in articulating common issues and differences across the scales of representation. For more information please see the conference website or contact the organisers. If you?d like to discuss a potential presentation then do please get in touch with Andrew.balmer at manchester.ac.uk Some funding is available and this may cover costs of the conference and/or travel fees for accepted proposals. Submissions are particularly welcome from PhD students and early career scholars. Decisions on presentations and funding will be made on the basis of merit and relevance. The conference already has a stellar list of speakers, please see the programme here: http://www.esf.org/activities/esf-conferences/details/2012/confdetail385/385-preliminary-programme.html To apply to present at what we hope will be an exciting and productive event please complete the registration form here: http://www2.esf.org/asp/esfrcaf.asp?confcode=385&meetno=1 If you would like to attend the conference but not to speak or present a poster then of course you are welcome and we encourage you to register using the link above. The conference website is here: http://www.esf.org/index.php?id=9115 DEADLINE FOR REGISTRATION/APPLICATIONS: 15th June 2012 Andy Balmer, Brigitte Nerlich and Annamaria Carusi -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From difusion at medialab-prado.es Fri Jun 8 15:18:02 2012 From: difusion at medialab-prado.es (Medialab-Prado comunicacion) Date: Fri, 08 Jun 2012 15:18:02 +0200 Subject: ::fibreculture:: Call for Collaborators | Interactivos?'12 Dublin: Hack the City Message-ID: <4FD1FB8A.4070409@medialab-prado.es> *MEDIALAB-PRADO* Plaza de las Letras C/ Alameda, 15 ? 28014 Madrid +34 913 692 303 www.medialab-prado.es* * * * Interactivos?'12 Dublin: Hack the City. Current and Future Needs Call for Collaborators Call for collaborations in the advanced workshop for project pevelopment Interactivos?'12 Dublin: Hack the City. Current and Future Needs, that takes place in July 11 - 26, 2012 in Dublin (Ireland). Collaborators will participate in the production of selected projects that will create an experimental laboratory to channel hacker culture, and allow artists, designers, makers, doers, data nerds, hobbyists, citizen scientists, tech geeks, activists, edgy engineers and DIY urban planners to take control over the resolution of problems that affect and link together worldwide 'communities of concern'. Workshop: July 11 - 26, 2012. Seminar: June 11 and 12, 2012 Open call collaborators through July 5, 2012. Workshop advisors: Tim Redfern, Carolina Garc?a Cata?o, John Lynch with Teresa Dillon (HACK THE CITY curator). Workshop assistant: Max Kazemzadeh Complete information and guidelines: http://medialab-prado.es/article/interactivos_dublin_call_collaborators **Activity within the framework of Studiolab European project: http://www.studiolabproject.eu/ http://medialab-prado.es http://www.sciencegallery.com/ -- Nerea Garc?a Garmendia Medialab-Prado ?rea de Las Artes, Ayuntamiento de Madrid Plaza de las Letras Alameda, 15 28014 Madrid Tfno. +34 914 202 754 nerea at medialab-prado.es www.medialab-prado.es http://www.facebook.com/MedialabPradoMadrid Twitter: @medialabprado "Antes de imprimir este documento aseg?rate de que es realmente necesario. ?Gracias por tu colaboraci?n!" -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From rachel.odwyer at gmail.com Fri Jun 8 15:29:54 2012 From: rachel.odwyer at gmail.com (Rachel O' Dwyer) Date: Fri, 8 Jun 2012 14:29:54 +0100 Subject: ::fibreculture:: Openhere Festival Dublin 28/06-01/07 In-Reply-To: References: Message-ID: Hi there, I'm distributing information about a four day festival taking place in Dublin at the end of June. *Open*here will bring together a transdisciplinary community of critical theorists, engineers, artists, designers and industry professionals to expand debates surrounding the digital commons.Key points of discussion will include the conflictive spaces of the digital commons, tactical media, net-art, digital policy, disruptive wireless practices, alternative spectrum ownership models, next-generation networks and the political economy of infrastructure. I'd really appreciate it if you could forward this information to interested parties. Kind Regards, Rachel O'Dwyer [image: Inline image 1] OpenHere 28/06-01/07 Where: Science Gallery and CTVR headquarters, Trinity College Dublin, Ireland When: 28th of June ? 1st July 2012 Admission: Events are free, but booking is recommended, & essential for workshops with limited capacity. More info: openhere.data.ie What does it mean to be open today? CTVR / The Telecommunications Research Centre, in collaboration with the Dublin Art and Technology Association (D.A.T.A) present Openhere, a free four day festival that addresses social, technological and cultural issues surrounding the notion of the digital commons. If we speak of ?the commons? today as a general phenomenon, this has much to do with the modes of production, consumption and distribution that have emerged over the last two decades around information and communication technologies. This period has seen a growing emphasis on the social and juridical implications of sharing in the online domain, where a range of nonmarket and non-proprietary activities such as open source software, remix cultures and commons-based peer-production have lead some to propose the advent of a ?digital socialism?. However, as sharing and openness become the watchwords of the new corporation - as the commons is increasingly central to capitalism - such positions are no longer straightforward. Open Here will bring together a transdisciplinary community of critical theorists, engineers, artists, designers and industry professionals to expand debates surrounding the digital commons. Key points of discussion will include the conflictive spaces of the digital commons, tactical media, net-art, digital policy, disruptive wireless practices, alternative spectrum ownership models, next-generation networks and the political economy of infrastructure. This festival takes the form of talks, presentations, workshops, discussions and screenings. It will be held in The Science Gallery and in CTVR headquarters in Trinity College from June 28th to July 1st, 2012. Participants include: Amelia Andersdotter (SE), Michel Bauwens (BE), Ralph Borland, (ZA) Sarah Browne (IRL), Alexander Chemeris (RU), Florian Cramer (NE), CTVR (IRL), DATA (IRL), Linda Doyle (IRL), Fairwaves (RU), Jessica Foley (IRL), Tim Forde (IRL), Benjamin Gaulon (FR/IRL), Saoirse Higgins (IRL) Robert Horvitz (US), Dmytri Kleiner (UA/CA), Franco Iacomella (AR), Nicolas Maigret (FR), Rachel O?Dwyer (IRL), Julian Oliver (NZ), Nora O?Murchu (IRL) Jussi Parikka (FI), Tom Rondeau (US), Lourens Rozema (NL), Paul Sutton (IRL), Danja Vasiliev (RU), Martin Weiss (US), Harald Welte (DE), Mick Wilson and Thomas Wilson (IRL). Open Here is curated by Linda Doyle, Benjamin Gaulon and Rachel O?Dwyer and supported by ESOF2012, CTVR, & Science Gallery, Trinity College Dublin. All events are free but booking is recommended, especially for workshops with limited capacity. For more information and to book a place see www.openhere.data.ie. -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: -------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... Name: image001.png Type: image/png Size: 4171 bytes Desc: not available URL: From geert at xs4all.nl Thu Jun 14 15:57:41 2012 From: geert at xs4all.nl (Geert Lovink) Date: Thu, 14 Jun 2012 15:57:41 +0200 Subject: ::fibreculture:: Webinar on 'Blog Monetization' with Darren Rowse Message-ID: Greetings from ProBlogger Headquarters. Last week I spent the week in Queensland Australia on a special trip where Tourism Queensland flew in 10 bloggers from around the world to see the sights. On the trip I ran a couple o workshops for the winners on different aspects of blogging. One of the topics we covered was 'Monetization' where I gave an intro to monetizing blogs and shared a case study of my own biggest blog - Digital Photography School. Word got out about this session via Twitter and I've since had a lot of requests to share the session notes. I've decided to go one better and share the session again on a free hour long webinar next week. This webinar will run for an hour from 8pm Eastern US time next Tuesday evening (if you're in other parts of the world the times are listed on the registration page at http://clicks.aweber.com/y/ct/?l=DdhQ3&m=JF4fZ5_gL0PjGf&b=hvh63tcaDJVHLuvchKo_sQ This webinar is for bloggers who already have a blog but will be pitched at beginner to intermediate bloggers. In the session I will share: - how realistic it is to make money blogging - the foundations of profitable blogging - key foundations that most profitable blogs have - a quick overview of how bloggers make money (37+ methods) - a case study of how I built and monetized my own main blog over the last 5 years - Digital Photography School This week I'll be sharing some visuals via a powerpoint presentation - so it'll be audio with some visual. I will also take attendee questions - please submit questions as you register at http://clicks.aweber.com/y/ct/?l=DdhQ3&m=JF4fZ5_gL0PjGf&b=hvh63tcaDJVHLuvchKo_sQ Note #1: this is not a 'pitch' webinar. While ProBlogger does sell products that may help bloggers monetize their blogs this is a free and 'no pitch' webinar. Note #2: this is not a 'get rich quick' approach to making money online. No 'blue print' that will 'guarantee' success will be presented. Rather I will talk about how I've built my blogging business. I hope that something in my approach will connect with your own situation. Note #3: I will attempt to record this webinar and will email anyone who registers for it with a link to the recording in the days after it is run. So to get the recording please register. Note #4: this webinar is already filling up fast after just a tweet and share on Facebook. On the day we can only fit 1000 people on the webinar live - apologies if we can't squeeze everyone in - arrive on the day a little early to get your spot. If you miss out you'll get access to the recording. Registration for this webinar is now open at http://clicks.aweber.com/y/ct/?l=DdhQ3&m=JF4fZ5_gL0PjGf&b=hvh63tcaDJVHLuvchKo_sQ I look forward to chatting with you next week! Darren Rowse PO Box 1295, North Fitzroy, Victoria 3068, AUSTRALIA To unsubscribe or change subscriber options visit: http://www.aweber.com/z/r/?bMwMjGyctCxMTMwcrOystEa0jCzsDAzs7Kw= From ned at nedrossiter.org Tue Jun 26 12:30:02 2012 From: ned at nedrossiter.org (Ned Rossiter) Date: Tue, 26 Jun 2012 20:30:02 +1000 Subject: ::fibreculture:: Digital Media Seminar: Patrick Crogan on Military Robotics Message-ID: Digital Media Research Seminar in collaboration with Transit Labour, http://transitlabour.asia/events School of Humanities and Communication Arts, University of Western Sydney http://www.uws.edu.au/hca Date: Tuesday 3 July Time: 2-4pm Venue: EB2.21 Parramatta Campus, UWS All welcome. Please RSVP to Katie Hepworth, k.hepworth at uws.edu.au by Friday 29 June. Patrick Crogan, Digital Cultures Research Centre, University of West England From the ?Man in the Loop? to the ?Perceive and Act Vector?: Animating Military Robotics This paper examines the massive and intensive development of military robotics, a development that can be understood (and not metaphorically) as envisaging their bringing to life as fully functioning perceiving and acting beings. The mid-term goal the United States Air Force has for its Unmanned Aircraft Systems is, for example, to pass from the current deployment of robots as the extension into ?battlespace? of operators?a ?man in the loop? system resembling the classic cybernetic configuration of the ?man in the middle? recalled in the videogame controller interfaces of the UAS operators?to a ?man on the loop? deployment where the human monitors the execution of the robot?s now realtime ?perceive and act vector?. What is projected here is the robot system living out what Henri Bergson called the ?sensory-motor scheme? of everyday experience. The ethical and political challenges such a developmental trajectory are evident, even if, today, there is very little acknowledgment or critical debate about the extraordinary proliferation of robotic warfighting systems in Iraq and Afghanistan. In this paper I want to characterise this trajectory of military robotics development as a crucial engine of technological development today, one in which the ?animation machine? of perceptual experience converges with that driving the intentional vector of the automoted robot weapon-system. Aside from asking the old question about what happens when the ?man? goes out of the loop, I want to consider what and who is reanimated, and how, when the loop becomes the vector of perception and action. Bio Patrick Crogan teaches film and media at the University of the West of England, Bristol. His book, Gameplay Mode: Between War, Simulation and Technoculture (University of Minessota Press, 2011) explores the complex technocultural legacy of military technoscientific research and development readable in the exemplary entertainment form of computer culture, videogames. He is working on a project with Routledge whose provisional title is ?Post-cinematic media?. He guest edited the special issue of Cultural Politics on Bernard Stiegler. He has published on film, animation, video games and digital media forms. From andrew.murphie at gmail.com Wed Jun 27 06:12:59 2012 From: andrew.murphie at gmail.com (Andrew Murphie) Date: Wed, 27 Jun 2012 14:12:59 +1000 Subject: ::fibreculture:: =?windows-1252?q?Wednesday=2C_July_4=2C_4pm=2C_U?= =?windows-1252?q?NSW=3A_Patrick_Crogan_talk=3A_Attention=2C_techni?= =?windows-1252?q?cs=2C_and_the_digital=3A_Bernard_Stiegler=92s_Pos?= =?windows-1252?q?t-Grammatology?= Message-ID: [feel free to distribute] "Attention, technics, and the digital: Bernard Stiegler?s Post-Grammatology" a talk by Patrick Crogan, Digital Cultures Research Centre, University of West England School of the Arts and Media, Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences University of New South Wales Date: Wednesday, July 4 Time: 4-5:30pm Venue: Webster Theatre A, Robert Webster Building, UNSW, Kensington Campus Maps here: http://www.facilities.unsw.edu.au/Maps/maps.html All welcome. "Attention, technics, and the digital: Bernard Stiegler?s Post-Grammatology" This paper will situate Stiegler?s critical diagnosis of digital media technoculture in relation to his post-Derridean philosophy of technology. Elaborated in recent works as a ?pharmacological? account of the emergence of the prevailing digital technoculture, this diagnosis identifies the threat posed by the increasing ?grammatisation? of experience produced by the ?short termism? of commercial design and marketing logics dedicated to the coordination of consumption with the needs of industrial production. Contributing to the critique of the ?attention economy? and ?experience design? notions popular in the promotion of e-commerce and digital media marketing, Stiegler identifies the channelling and impoverishment of forms of ?attention? as a central topos for the waging of a ?battle for criticality? to rescue a properly cultural and intersubjective notion of attention as a taught and learnt technique of individual calibration with the collective. Stiegler recalls that Derrida offered his account of the deconstruction of the ?logos? in a context in which a cybernetic ?deconstruction? of language was already well in train. Derrida proposed his ?grammatology? in an ironic but serious, strategically hypothetical gesture to cite and respond to the ambition of a ?science? of the logic and function of communication operating across the history of Western metaphysics as much as in its culmination, as Heidegger said, in something like cybernetics. Stiegler, for his part, develops an account of the material history of grammatisations in order to better apprehend the digital transformation of the media milieu. The cybernetic procedures of information flow and realtime communications, and the audiovisual forms of cinema, the phonogram and their derivatives combine in the digital. The mediated milieu is, he says, the ?and? in the phrase ?individual and collective?. Drawing on Gilbert Simondon?s notion of individuation?something which Stiegler argues is a telling absence from Derrida?s project?Stiegler argues that human individual and collective becoming is always mediated, always co-constituted with and in technical milieux, and is always contingent, or ?metastable? (somewhat stable, but also therefore somewhat unstable). ?Anthropogenesis? is always composed with a ?technogenesis?. Or, at least, it *has* always been. The political stakes and motivations of Stiegler?s philosophical response to Derrida?s gesture toward a grammatology become apparent from this perspective. The pharmacological account of the digital milieu?s conditions is an attempt to think its potential (as much as its threat) to a continuing becoming-human, or becoming-not-inhuman (as Stiegler would have it), something whose nature, legitimacy, or value have absolutely no essential basis or inevitable future. If any particular articulation of what ?human being? states or projects is deconstructible, then for Stiegler this articulation and this deconstruction are technically, and historically conditioned, and open up the question of their political ramifications. Bio Patrick Crogan teaches film and media at the University of the West of England, Bristol. His book, Gameplay Mode: Between War, Simulation and Technoculture (University of Minessota Press, 2011) explores the complex technocultural legacy of military technoscientific research and development readable in the exemplary entertainment form of computer culture, videogames. He is working on a project with Routledge whose provisional title is ?Post-cinematic media?. He guest edited the special issue of Cultural Politics on Bernard Stiegler. He has published on film, animation, video games and digital media forms. -- "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 the Arts and Media, University of New South Wales, Sydney, Australia, 2052 Editor - The Fibreculture Journal http://fibreculturejournal.org/> web: http://www.andrewmurphie.org/ tlf:612 93855548 fax:612 93856812 room 311H, Robert Webster Building -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From geert at desk.nl Thu Jun 28 07:47:48 2012 From: geert at desk.nl (Geert Lovink) Date: Thu, 28 Jun 2012 07:47:48 +0200 Subject: ::fibreculture:: video on Atlassian and state of the arts of the AU start-up scene and its difficulties Message-ID: <39ABCC7B-2DAB-4E84-8EE7-548CC5EE1E07@desk.nl> http://www.theage.com.au/technology/technology-news/the-boys-who-built-a-1b-company-in-the-cloud-20120627-212d1.html From info at transitlabour.asia Thu Jun 28 09:35:36 2012 From: info at transitlabour.asia (transit info) Date: Thu, 28 Jun 2012 17:35:36 +1000 Subject: ::fibreculture:: Sydney Platform Message-ID: We are pleased to announce the program for the Sydney platform of Transit Labour, which will run from 3-11 July. Planning for this platform has been underway the past year, and has included background research and a digital visualisation of land-side and water-side operations at Port Botany. Our interest in this visualisation was to translate publicly accessible datasets into a design concept that began to register the impact upon labour of productivity measures within the Port over the past 10 years. The digital visualisation can be found at: http://transitlabour.asia/documentation/ A range of events are scheduled for July, including seminars and site visits of Port Botany and various intermodal terminals, warehouses and container facilities. A concluding workshop will reflect on the Sydney platform in relation to our collective research in Shanghai (2010) and Kolkata (2011). This will be followed by three panels on Zones, Corridors and Circuits at the Knowing Asia conference, held at the University of Western Sydney. Unfortunately participation in the site visits and some seminars is restricted. For those interested, the Transit Labour Workshop on the 10 July will be an open session and all are welcome. The platform schedule is pasted below, with full details of all activities at: http://transitlabour.asia/events/ Transit Labour Sydney Platform - Program 3 ? 11 July 2012 Tuesday 3 July 14.00 ? 16.00: Seminar on military robotics by Patrick Crogan, Digital Cultures Research Centre, University of West England. Thursday 5 July 14.00 ? 16.30: Visit to Intermodal Terminal (TBC) Friday 6 July 10.00 ? 12.00: Drive to western Sydney to tour intermodal terminals and distribution centres. 14.30 ? 16.30: Seminar at NICTA (National ICT of Australia) offices with logistics industry representatives Dr Glenn Geers, Director of Intelligent Transport Systems Technologies, NICTA Simon Hemli, Manager - Transport and Logistics Industry Sectors, Department of State and Regional Development, NSW Michael Bourari, General Manager, 1-stop Venue: Future Logistics Living Lab, NICTA, Australian Technology Park, Level 5, 13 Garden Street, Eveleigh NSW Saturday 7 July 10.00 ? 13.00: Visit to Flemington markets to observe informal logistics networks. 14.30 ? 15.30: Visit to Bunnings in Alexandra and to the St Peters logistics zone, stopping at key sites for discussion. Sunday 8 July: Rest Monday 9 July 10.30 ? 12.00: Port Botany visit. Presentation from Micah Clark (PBLIS) and driving tour of Port Botany to note key tenants and activities. 14.00 ? 16.30 Seminar at Trades Hall with union representatives. Tuesday 10 July 10.00 ? 17.00 Transit Labour Workshop Venue: Institute for Culture and Society, Parramatta Campus, University of Western Sydney Wed 11 July: Knowing Asia Conference Venue: University of Western Sydney