Chris Joseph

The Sound of eBay - an UBERMORGEN.COM project
http://www.Sound-of-eBay.com

Forget the technology,
it’s lustful entertainment, baby!


ABSTRACT

How does it really work?

We generate unique songs by using eBay user-data. You simply enter any eBay username (your own or someone else’s) and add your email address so we can notify you as soon as the song is ready for downloading. Then click „generate“ and our robots sprawl out into the net to collect data. Then the robots bring back the data to our sc3 supercollider soundgeneration-engine. Finally, the complex software-machine starts generating a score-file which is then transformed into your unique but uniform song and presented in teletext porn style! We sell out your human needs digitally…

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The first issue of the Future of Creative Technologies, a new bi-annual transdisciplinary publication by the Institute of Creative Technologies is now available as a download from
http://www.ioct.dmu.ac.uk/archive.html

If you would like a hard copy of the Journal of the Institute of Creative Technologies please contact lmcnicoll [at] dmu.ac.uk .

An interview with Marc Garrett & Ruth Catlow from Furtherfield.org and HTTP Gallery on Digicult / Digimag.

Txt: Marco Mancuso / Eng: Francesca Magnaghi

Let’s talk again about Marc Garrett and Ruth Catlow , two people that don’t need to be introduced in the context of networking and mailing list about new international media art. Marc Garret and Ruth Catlow promoted many on-line debates, through not only their channel, NetBehaviour , many art networking projects, and they’ve been working for ten years on their project Furtherfield.org . They already wrote an important text of reflections and theories about art, that was published on Digimag 33 - April 2008 . And they promised us to be interviewed; let’s see what they answered.

English Version:
http://www.digicult.it/digimag/article.asp?id=1205
Italian Version:
http://www.digicult.it/digimag/article.asp?id=1183

Two new reviews on Furtherfield by Rob Myers.

http://www.furtherfield.org

Abstract Hacktivism: the making of a hacker culture.
A book collecting two essays by Otto von Busch and Karl Palmas transforms the concept of “hacktivism” with well-argued historical analysis and a number of informative case studies.

“Hacktivism” is a cool-sounding portmanteau word combining “hacking” and “activism”. Activism means political organisation and activity directed toward particular issues. Hacking can mean either “creative mastery and reworking” or “breaking and entering” of various systems, usually computer systems. The latter is more properly called “cracking”. Hacktivism tend to mean cracking rather than creative hacking. This means that hacktivism usually identifies at most a negativist posture of technological resistance to socioeconomic ills.
Permlink - http://www.furtherfield.org/displayreview.php?review_id=307

Big Buck Bunny. The Blender Foundation.
Big Buck Bunny is the second short 3D computer animated cartoon from the Blender Foundation. The Blender Foundation produces these films to stimulate development of and promote use of their popular eponymous free software 3D modelling and rendering package.

The Foundation’s first film, codenamed Orange, was “Elephants Dream”. This was in the European experimental stop-frame animation tradition, a dark Gilliamesque fantasy with two men trying to escape a threatening clockwork labyrinth that may or may not really exist. The character and scenery designs were excellent, and the film as a whole was very atmospheric. The quality of the facial animation and the comprehensibility of the plot were criticized, though. And the full release of the soundtrack for the film was not Free due to being limited to noncommercial use. These minor criticisms aside, Elephants Dream was a very successful production.
Permlink - http://www.furtherfield.org/displayreview.php?review_id=306

New Media Scotland’s new Twitterist-in-residence, Netwurker Mez will begin her stream of tweets from the 1st July.

_Event Info_

Host: New Media Scotland
Type: Music/Arts - Jam Session

_Time and Place_

Start Time: Tuesday, July 1, 2008 at 12:00pm
End Time: Thursday, July 31, 2008 at 12:00pm
Location: http://twitter.com/mediascot
City/Town: Edinburgh, United Kingdom

_Contact Info_

Email:hello [at] mediascot.org

_Description_

“Mez does for code poetry as jodi and Vuk Cosic have done for ASCII Art: Turning a great, but naively executed concept into something brilliant, paving the ground for a whole generation of digital artists” (Florian Cramer).

We are proud to announce our second Twitter artist residency is Australian-based artist Netwurker Mez.

The impact of her unique code/net.wurks [constructed via her pioneering net.language "mezangelle"] has been equated with the work of Shakespeare, James Joyce, Emily Dickinson, and Larry Wall.

Mez is also an online journalist + constructor of _Augmentology_ [see: augmentology.com].

* To follow Netwurker Mez’s tweets visit: http://www.twitter.com/mediascot
* To read her own meta_tweet commentary regarding the Residency follow:
http://www.twitter.com/netwurker

Limited availability Netwurker Mez t[weet]shirts will be released daily from
the 1st - 31st July.
http://www.mediascot.spreadshirt.net

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: http://augmentology.com
: http://knott404.blogspot.com
: http://netwurker.livejournal.com

From Sofia Oliveira:

“TODAY is a piece of generative design for mobile phones.

It’s an application that visualizes personal mobile communication. It sits on the periphery of the machine, monitoring our connectivity through the number and type of calls we receive, subtly displaying them back to us, in the form of a generative graphic. Here, the visual result is a figurative and seemingly abstract picture – the story of your day. Some days will be really colourful and wired, others quieter and more reflective, either way the resulting visuals will always be personal, unrepeatable and unique.

What lies at TODAY’s core was the idea of using personal data as the basis for an aesthetic system, while providing individuals with a visual diary of their communication patterns.

It’s an intimate piece that ‘lives’ in your pocket.”

It’s freely distributed for Symbian phones at today.cada1.net

Credits:
A Project by CADA – www.cada1.net
Idea and Design: Sofia Oliveira/Jared Hawkey
Symbian Programming: Heitor Ferreira
Site Developer: Damian Stewart
Second phase of development funded by: DGArtes, Ministério Cultura, Portugal

BALTIMORE VS. THE WORLD
DEADLINE WORLDWIDE: AUGUST 15 (POSTMARK)

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Current Gallery invites video artists and enthusiasts to submit videos of all genres (experimental, animation, music video, documentary, short, home video, outtakes, unfinished films, scientific studies, etc). Works selected from this call will be featured in baltimore vs. the world DVD publication due out this winter.

baltimore vs. the world will incorporate two separate DVD compilations. One DVD will feature selected works from around the world and the other DVD will focus on selected works from Baltimore, Maryland. Accompanying the DVDs will be a booklet with interviews and support materials.

To Download Application Please Visit : www.currentspace.com

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2nd Nokia Ubimedia MindTrek Awards Competition
MindTrek Conference
October 7-9, 2008 | Tampere, Finland
Entry form: http://www.mindtrek.org/competition/ubi
Event website: http://www.mindtrek.org
Award sum: 7000 Euros
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The Nokia Ubimedia MindTrek Awards is an international competition arranged by MindTrek, Nokia
and Tampere Region Centre of Expertise in Ubiquitous Computing, and the NAMU research group.

The purpose of the competition is to encourage makers of digital media to generate ideas and
develop new and innovative ubimedia products & services. The entries are expected to take a
stand on the following questions, for example:

• How does ubiquitous computing affect media environments?
• What are intelligent media environments like?
• What will the location- and context-aware media services of the future be like?

A few other examples are:

• Pervasive and ubiquitous games
• Ambient installations
• Artistic works related to ubiquitous media and computation
• Business models
• Ambient and ubiquitous media technology
• Ubiquitous and ambient media services, devices, and environments
• Context aware, sensing, and interfaces for ubiquitous computation
• Ergonomics, human-computer interaction designs, and product prototypes
• Software, hardware and middleware framework demonstrations
• Ambient television
• etc.

The total award sum for the Nokia Ubimedia MindTrek competition category is 7 000€. The sum can be awarded to one entry, divided between several entries or not awarded at all if the award criteria set by the jury are not fulfilled.

All ubimedia, ubiquitous, pervasive, or ambient products or product and service concepts which have been finalized during the previous year after 1st January 2007 are eligible to take part in the competition.

How to participate?

Please check out the website http://www.mindtrek.org/competition/ubi for entry forms and actual information.

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Exploring the relationship between visual arts and education

A Process of Living includes
John Aiken
Ed Allington
Glenn Boulter
Copenhagen Free University
John Hilliard
John Latham
Measure by Measure
Michael Craig Martin
Bruce McLean
United Nations Plaza
Annika Ström
tenantspin
Gary Woodley

Open 11 July to 29 August
Tuesday to Friday 11am to 6pm
Saturday 10am to 5pm

The City Gallery
90 Granby Street
Leicester
LE1 1DJ
0116 223 2060

city.gallery@leicester.gov.uk
www.leicester.gov.uk/citygallery

for further information and press please contact:
Hugo Worthy on hugo.worthy [at] leicester.gov.uk
or +44 (0)116 223 2063

Education, therefore, is a process of living and not a preparation for future living
- John Dewey