The Institute for Artivist Studies

Yep !! The Institute for Artivist Studies going to come true in a few months. We have been “researching” where would be the best place to “site” this iniciative, and oooppsss right now we have 3 places in mind.

In our minds are to create a free, open and participatory place to learn and share experience, knowledge, co-working, etc. As example, all know the price of the film or photography courses, so we would like to share the experience and knowledge of professionals with persons interested in, and all for fre. It’s amazing and unmoral the price of the courses.

At same time, we would like to collaborate with all collectives and persons with similars “visions” (hahaha), aims, or with all people who want to collaborate ;oP

This is just an advance soon more

Under night-time’s lovely coat: Solidarity with anarchist Jonatan (Sweden)

from imc, 21 November 2009:

This is the call for Revolutionary Solidarity with our Swedish anarchist comrade Jonatan and for all fighting prisoners! Please spread it and publish it on your websites, blogs and lists.

from ABC-Orkan:

On the 14th of October 2008 the Swedish secret police SAPO raided 3 houses in different places in Sweden. They arrested the anarchist Jonatan and took different tools, political pamphlets, his computer and other personal stuff with them. After two months in custody he had his trial and was sentenced to about 15 Months in Prison, which he begins in October ‘09. He is accused of three ELF-Actions.

“Urban Sprawl is the destruction of the natural world in order to expand the cities according to the ever-increasing mode of development and progress. Middle class villas, luxury mansions and industry are threatening wildlife and endangered species, as this is present on a global scale, in every major or minor city, it is a threat to the continuation of life in this planet. It must be therefore be met with no-compromising resistance! It must be destroyed!” Jonatan.

On the night between the 20th and the 21st if April 2008 ELF claimed responsibility for three actions in Almhult/Sweden. A communication tower connected to the Department of Defence infrastructure was sabotaged with a firebomb, a building crane in a urban-sprawl project was sabotaged and a logging truck got its security ropes and hydraulic cables disabled. Nearly at the same time another ELF-cell has claimed responsibility for destroying a new luxury villa under construction in the forest by arson. This action Jonatan was accused of, too. But the case was dropped.

Especially when comrades take action on their own, without a group or community around them and are faced with repression its more important then ever to show them that they are not alone! In this and other cases, for example in the case of Michel Sykes, a 17 year old North American anarchist comrade sentenced for different ELF actions against urban sprawl to up to 10 years in prison, we have to be there, not just waiting on the outside.

We have to show that attacks by the state won’t crush our ideas and break us. It just gives us more rage and strength! But solidarity is not just mutual aid! Solidarity is a way to be a partner in struggle and crime, a way of showing your happiness about an action and deep affinity with a hostage of the state.

Its not just about giving a comrade infrastructural help. Its about showing the incarcerated that she/he is not alone and that her/his struggle was just the beginning and will be continued on the outside.

Build up Revolutionary Solidarity!

Let us make the time in prison for Jonatan and all the others as short as possible and fight for the freedom of all and against every kind of oppression! For social war, anarchy and total freedom!

Write letters of support and attack!

Jonatan Strandberg
BOX 248
593 23 Vastervik
Sweden

Information and contact:
http://noprisonnostate.blogsport.de

email:
freejonatan@yahoo.se, abc-orkan@riseup.net

http://www.wombles.org.uk/article2009115740.php 

Other comrade:   http://supportmichael.wordpress.com/about/

Christiania Researcher in Residence Open Call 2010

Christiania Researcher in Residence (CRIR) offers residency for artists and academic researchers with a specific interest in Christiania as an important field of study. Time of residency is between January 1st and September 1st 2010. Typically 1-4 weeks depending on the project.

The aim of the Christiania Researcher in Residence project is to involve artists, researchers and academics in an open, critical and reflective dialog around the free town Christiania in Copenhagen, and to feed new creative and critical thinking into the public realm. Christiania’s insight and experience into local organization, alternative architecture, lifestyle, culture, sustainable environments, quality of life, democracy and innovation is unique in the world and could generate important knowledge that may inspire new urban thinking.

For 2010 we especially encourage applications dealing with the legal situation in Christiania since the Danish High Court is supposed to deliver a central ruling on Christiania beginning 2011. But all applications dealing with aspects of Christiania are welcome.

The CRIR house has few and simple facilities; heating, Internet, kitchen and a terrace with a view in the front. The house and rent is free of charge. Residents will pay for electricity, water and heating. A deposit  500DKK @14 days, 1000 DKK @1 month stay is paid upon arrival. Researchers are expected to finance their own living costs.

How to apply
To apply you need to write a short application. You need to:
-Describe your project.
-Explain your project’s expected audience and method of distribution in Denmark or abroad.
-Indicate your preferred period of stay (typically 1-4 weeks).
-Consider how your project may be communicated internally in Christiania.

Send your application to: emmerikw@tiscali.dk

Applications are dealt with on a continuous basis but the sooner we receive it, the better the chances for finding a free time slot. Your application will be evaluated by the steering group and we will get in touch with you as soon as possible.

For more info go to: http://www.crir.net

Ambient.TV’s Mapping CCTV around Whitehall.

Review by Rob Myers

Two-part exercise to map CCTV cameras around Whitehall, London, within a zone covered by SOCPA (Serious and Organized Crime and Police Act 2005). A map of the hundreds of cameras in the zone was made over two days of observation. The second part involved mapping the range of one of these cameras, no. 40 in Villiers street, by intercepting its signal as it was transmitted wirelessly without encryption. As passers-by entered the marked area covered by the camera, they were alerted to the its presence and handed a copy of the map of CCTV cameras in Whitehall.

“Mapping CCTV around Whitehall”, 2008, is, as its name implies, a performance of mapping Closed Circuit Television (CCTV) security cameras around the UK’s parliament in London and a video record of that performance by Ambient.tv’s Manu Luksch. Starting with a HAL 9000-like image of a CCTV lens, the video of “Mapping CCTV In Whitehall” has a glitchy techno aesthetic of sound and images with a post-MTV-Style Guide reportage feel. The first half consists of a recording of the police stop-and-search interviewing Luksch under anti-terrorism legislation, with a map of the area superimposed. The second half consists of CCTV views of the range of Camera number 40 being taped out, and of the people caught within those bounds. Words flash on the screen to identify the subjects of CCTV. This redeployment of the language of mass media visual persuasion opens up what we see rather than closing it down, making it a very effective encapsulation of the project’s ideas and aesthetics.

Mukul Patel and Manu Luksch codirect Ambient Information Systems (AIS), a crucible for the conception and production of collaborative, interdisciplinary, and critical artworks, events, and tools. They work as artists under their own names and also as ambientTV.NET. They have a history of conceiving works that integrate curatorial and collaborative aspects (e.g., VBI), research (FACELESS and the Data Protection Act), community involvement (BOW SPACE), and hybrid media installations (ORCHESTRA OF ANXIETY). Of particular interest are  concrete, contemporary issues that arise at the interface of social and technical infrastructures: access to information, privacy, surveillance. The establishment of participative processes, creation of tools, and archiving and documentation are signal features of recent projects.

http://ambienttv.net/content/?q=mappingcctv

cIMATIC fESTIVAL cITYWIdE InTERNaTIONAL fESTIvAL FOR ADVANCEd CREATIVItY

For this 7th edition of the Cimatics festival, we try to go at full throttle again with todays image culture. As an audiovisual festival Cimatics puts the focus both on art, media, design and music. We invite you for a mix of concerts, film-screenings, exhibitions, workshops, conferences, public interventions and parties.

Cimatics is spread out all over the city of Brussels. For 10 days and nights it will be hosted by numerous venues, both underground and above. It intends to be a citywide international festival for advanced creativity, a node where underground, pop and art become mixed in an exciting cultural mash-up.

Cimatics is an ongoing experiment. What was initially a festival for VJing, and soon after for live audiovisual art, has now become an exercise and celebration focusing on ‘advanced creativity’. Todays urban and digital culture in all its diversity

http://www.cimatics.com/festival2009/index.php

Thinking Network Politics: Methods, Epistemology, Process

Call For Papers 
Thinking Network Politics: Methods, Epistemology, Process
We invite the submission of abstracts for the first event of the AHRC funded networking project ‘Exploring New Configurations of Network Politics’. The event will combine a series of position papers followed by round table discussions and interventions exploring the issues and challenges raised by those papers.
The attempt to grasp the depth and breadth of network politics demands novel and transdisciplinary approaches not always native to the humanities and social sciences, such as graph theory and the study of code as cultural practice. Thus there is a drive to explore the broad spectrum of practices and discourses to help rethink the articulations of politics in network culture. New modes of political activity that take advantage of new platforms from Twitter to YouTube necessitate new conceptual positions for network culture, counter-power and resistance.

The papers should work towards adapting concepts such as, for example but by no means exclusively, the Multitude, free and immaterial labour, emergence, swarms and ’smart mobs’ and new forms of creation, activism and engagement in civil society. The aim is to rethink what we understand by politics. Further questions which need to be asked include: what kind of epistemologies do we need to incorporate into our analysis? How can we take into account the particularities of networks when approaching the elusive, ephemeral nature of politics of/in networks? These are just examples of the directions into which considerations of “network politics” might lead us.

Because this is such a fast developing and challenging arena of research the event will aim to be open and fluid, encouraging engagement, conversation and innovation wherever possible, while focusing on this core problematic of the tools and processes for thinking network politics. 
The papers for this event will thus ideally investigate the methods and innovative approaches to mapping and thinking such new network politics. The March event will thus aim elaborate on the nature of the network and forge new routes to thinking about the processual, dynamic nature of networks as well as the particular “objects” such approaches fabricate.
The papers should be in the format of short (max 10 minute) position papers on key concepts or keywords that lead into group work and discussions into the questions of network politics and methods and approaches for analysis. Instead of normal academic papers followed by a short Q&A, we would like the event to encourage collaboration, collective discussions and agenda setting.
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The event takes place in Cambridge, UK, Anglia Ruskin University, on Thursday 25 and Friday 26 March 2010.
Please submit your abstracts and any suggestions (max 300 words) by January 8, 2010 to
joss.hands@anglia.ac.uk and/or jussi.parikka@anglia.ac.uk.
The research project functions under the auspices of the Anglia Research Centre in Digital Culture (ArcDigital ) – http://www.anglia.ac.uk/arcdigital
Please forward any inquiries to either Dr Joss Hands or Dr Jussi Parikka.

Clandestine Insurgent Rebel Clown Army at Milano

Se smettiamo di lamenatarci dopo le solite manifestazioni,

non sentiamo crescere una voglia rampante di prenderci gioco, di mescolare le carte, di ridicolizzare ancora di più le autorità, con l’irriverenza e magari un po di ironia?

la militanza e l’attivismo possono provare a trasformarsi in sovversione risonante e creativa,nella resistenza ludica.
Arriva in città la due giorni della

Clandestine Insurgent Rebel Clown Army

il 21 e 22 novembre a Milano la CIRCA recluta.

La Rebel Clown Army é alla ricerca di pazzi, ribelli, radicali e farabutti, mascalzoni e ciarlatani, disertori e scontenti che vogliano unirsi ai suoi ranghi.

Potrai far parte di una forza combattente armata di ironia spietata e formata nell’antica arte della clownerie e dell’azione diretta non violenta. Potrai imparare tattiche ingegnosamente stupide che confondono i potenti, scoprire il clown interiore che dorme dentro e conoscere la sovversiva libertà di ingannare. Non ti devono piacere i clown o i soldati. Forse c’é bisogno di vitalità e risate tanto quanto di ribellione.
Allora segui il rumore e join CIRCA!

Sabato 21 novembre @ Centro Sociale Torchiera senz’acqua
piazzale cimitero maggiore, 18 Milano
11-18.00 workshop Rebel clown Army first round
dalle 19.00 assemblea verso il Cop 15
21.00 cena
gioiosa fiesta

domenica 22 novembre @ Associazione Scighera

via candiani, 131 Milano
11.00-15.30 workshop seconda parte
16.00 prima uscita della CIRCA improvvisa e scende in quartiere
il workshop è gratuito; basta iscriverti chiamando il 3384259218 o 3408558278 o scrivendo a
sciame-rebelde@inventati.org

se arrivi da terre lontane e hai bisogno di essere ospitato sabato sera, faccelo sapere!

The sky within my house. Contemporary Art in 16 Cordoba patios

Cordoba Cultural City Foundation presents The sky within my house. Contemporary Art in 16 Cordoba patios

Curator Gerardo Mosquera

Project Carlota Alvarez Basso

Assistant Commissioner Oscar Fernandez Lopez

Venue 16 private patios and monumental patios in Cordoba (Spain)

 Organized by Cordoba Provincial Government

Executive producer Rafael Boti

Provincial Arts Foundation

Promoted by Cordoba City of Culture Foundation

Date October 22nd to November 29th, 2009

Patios – opening hours Wednesday to Friday 4.00pm to 8.00pm / Saturday 10.00am to 2.00pm and 4.00pm to 8.00pm / Sunday 11.00am to 2.00pm.

Introduction

This exhibition The sky within my house. Contemporary Art in 16 Cordoba patios presents works by 16 contemporary artists from several countries in 16 private and monumental patios in Cordoba, Spain. Patios constitute a most emblematic heritage of the city, providing a synthesis of Cordoba’s long multicultural history. Historically traceable to Mesopotamia and later to the atrium of ancient Rome, the patio was developed by Arabic and Mudejar architecture. This architectural element reached its height in Andalucia.

Cordoban patios are unique, with the explosion of color and beauty provided by its baroque proliferation of flowers. Aesthetic environments for communal life, they embrace pieces of nature and of open urban space within the home, becoming a sort of family’s Gardens of Eden in the Arab tradition. Moreover, they are places to see and feel the sky: a way to appropriate a bit of the cosmos for private use.

The artworks shown are mainly site-specific interventions inspired by each patio, or they correspond to existing projects that have been adapted to the patio’s setting. The objective is to reach a balance, or rather a mutually enriching conversation between patios and contemporary art. Thus, the patios are not mere spaces to show artworks, but active components in a relationship. The artistic interventions are bigger or smaller, depending on each case, but they carry out a meaningful dialogue. The works test and explore the relations between public and private milieus, between art and daily life, and among contemporary culture, history and tradition.

The Sky Within my House includes two exhibitions in one: visitors are able to enjoy both the art as the patios, several of which are opening especially for the occasion. Each one of the 16 patios constitutes a particular encounter between patio and artwork, a sort of micro-exhibition that has its own content and imagery and is addressed to a general audience. The exhibition’s “theme” is the patios as aesthetic, cultural, historical and semantic milieus.

Cordoba in Mode 16: The future has roots

To mark the preparation for the city of Cordoba’s candidature as European Capital of Culture, the Cordoba City of Culture Foundation, the organization responsible for designing that project, has promoted 16 different kinds of cultural activities to be organized throughout 2009 by the four public institutions in Cordoba that form the foundation: the Town Hall, the Provincial Government of Cordoba, the Andalusian Regional Government and the University of Cordoba. With this programme, grouped together under the title Cordoba in Mode 16: The future has roots, the aim is to put Cordoban culture firmly on the Spanish and international map.

List of Artists and patios

 1. Mounira Al Solh (Lebanon / Amsterdam) / Calle Martín de Roa, 2

2. Cristina Lucas (Spain) / Casa de las Campanas, calle Siete Revueltas, 21

3. Magdalena Atria (Chile) / Calle San Basilio, 50

4. Fernando Baena (Spain) / Calle Pastora, 2

5. Mariana Castillo Deball (Mexico / Berlin) / Archaeological Museum of Cordoba, Patio de la Grada, Plaza Jerónimo Páez, 7

6. Carlos Garaicoa (Cuba) / Faculty of Arts, Art Department patio. Plaza Cardenal Salazar, 3 (*)

 7. Cai Gou-Qiang (China/NY) / Cordoba Municipal Archives, main courtyard, Calle Sánchez de Feria, 6

8. Federico Guzmán (Spain) / Cordoba Municipal Archives, reception courtyard, Calle Sánchez de Feria, 6

9. Mona Hatoum (United Kingdom) / Viana Palace, Courtyard of the Gateway. Plaza de Viana s/n (*)

10. Glenda León (Cuba) / Calle Isabel II, 1

11. Rubens Mano (Brazil) / Courtyard of the Fine Arts and Julio Romero de Torres Museums in Cordoba, Plaza del Potro, 1

12. Priscilla Monge (Costa Rica) / Calle La Palma, 3

13. Jorge Perianes (Spain) / Courtyard of the Orive Palace, Plaza Orive, s / n

14. Nedko Solakov (Bulgaria) / Calle Parras, 5

15. Kan Xuan (China) / Calle Maese Luis, 22

16. Nina Yuen (USA / Amsterdam) / Calle San Basilio, 17

Find out more:

Cordoba Cultural City Foundation

María José Martín Press & Communication 957.21.22.55 / 659.80.88.16 comunicacion.capitalidad@uco.e  http://www.cordoba2016.es

Responses in a research questionnaire

I have participated in this questionnaire..mmmm… would you know my answer??? haha

 

Original text by Athina Karatzogianni http://virt3c.wordpress.com/about/ 

 

 

August 17, 2009

The Virtual Communication, Collaboration and Conflict Research Group (VIRT3C) is about passionate collaborative production and exploring the strengths and weakness of peer technology and open projects. VIRT3C will bring leading cybertheorists, internet, peer production and social networking experts together for knowledge-sharing, and collaboration in interdisciplinary academic projects, facilitating original ideas for research and funding applications. It will provide a physical base and a hub of activity, provoking and supporting new ideas of research to several successful virtual networks, such as the P2P Foundation, Oekonux and other virtual communities.

The reason people participate in online collaborative projects is to learn and develop new skills, which have economic value to developers and employers. It encourages and increases the value that can be added locally, instead of concentrating value with the proprietor. For example free software facilitates local economies, indicating a powerful organizational model, harnessing innovation and allocating scarce resources in a sustainable fashion. This new politico-economic model is currently having a great impact on business, media and global politics, to the extent that sociopolitical movements have taken notice of the potential of the new technoscape for societal change, as much as governments are more and more engaging with the financial benefits, challenges and threats of these informal communities and skills-development environments.

Intended outcomes

1. A physical base in Hull for dozens of virtual networks academic and otherwise on the area of virtual communication, collaboration and conflict.
2. A cooperative forum for dialogue about the standards and changes in online collaborative environments.
   
3. A participatory group, exchanging ideas, experiences, and creating collaborative research agendas.
4. Promoting ideas and values of online collaboration, conflict resolution and raising the visibility of alternative governance and organization.
   
5. Networking with individuals and organizations working in the identified areas to develop contacts and knowledge exchange opportunities with participants.
6. Creating educational activities in the forms of seminars, workshops and conferences and working groups for knowledge exchange.
   
7. Developing new research and publications in this field, new research outlets, such a electronic journals in collaboration with partners.
   
8. Coordinating funding applications for European, international projects and smaller grants in collaboration with member individuals and organizations.
   

WE GOT IT !!!!!

yep !! after so many time searching and searching we have found 2 perfect places in Berlin )) Right now are to big flats, I know, i know, we were talking about an old factory but seems very difficult to find one, so we going to start step by step.

and….what happen with A’dam ??

hahaha A’dam is too well haha.

Silke found a house in Noord, not to far of city centre, this house has 3 bedrooms and some friends are living there now, Markus goes and comes, as I’m going to be soon.

Our relation have arrived to a new stage, I never have had a relation like this, so It’s time to explore !! haha

It’s interesting, I met some guys who are creating a project as our also in Berlin , we going to collaborate together. Things start to become true, all hard work ….

very intense and special days for me, a lot of  friends, a lot of talks, in fact I’m talking with several people about very deep thoughts, from socialism of  S. XXI (yep, and all know I’m developing some thoughts upon colectivism S.XXI),  to what should be the new key concept of S.XX I philosophy. I have been admited in 2 european societies of philosophers (I’m charmed), and expressing my thoguhts thru words and thru my art work (my creative attack is still alive yeah !! ) it’s helping my to grow as person and as artivist.

I can’t wait to go to London meeting in October but it’s very far………