Thursday, June 2, 2011

Re: [Yasmin_discussions] Boundaries

Vicki,

I love the title "Echology". echo/ecology=data and even feedback loop

It sounds fascinating and very timely. I have studied meteorology and
climatology since I was a little kid and Australia in the last year has
had some wild events. Yassi comes to mind first, but also the unusual
inland flooding both in the east and in the west central dry regions that
had a temporary lake. The effects of La Nina and arguably climate change
have been immense and wide ranging to the extreme there. As I write we are
expecting a storm in a few days to bring up to 2 inches of rain in parts
of northern california which is unheard of in June (some all time records
are .89 inches down to near a trace).

I would love to know what you and other yasminers think of data and how it
is timely in relation to larger issues and concerns. I think right away
of archiving and older platforms and hardware as well as the work being
down by the Buckminster Fuller Insitute and the recent challenge winners
among a wide array of ecological and semiotic concerns around data and
measure.

best,

Jeremy

> On 30/05/11 4:24 AM, "hight@34n118w.net" <hight@34n118w.net> wrote:
>> Good point. I think the fascinating thing is the larger gestalt
>
> Jeremy,
>
> You're not kidding about the larger gestalt! Just in the past couple of
> months arts/culture orgs including Future Everything, Eyebeam and MediaLab
> Prado, have presented some really exciting projects around data.
>
> Here at ANAT in Australia we've been developing 'ECHOLOGY: making sense of
> data', which will take place from 2011-13. Kicking off with a travelling
> seminar in November, the project is especially interested in data
> representations that move beyond the screen and play to the fuller suite
> of
> senses, embracing sound, light, kinetics, materials (water, sand, gas,
> fire,
> etc) in their realisation.
>
> We're not quite at launch stage, but I thought yasminers might be
> interested
> in what we're planning, so I've included a brief overview below.. If you'd
> like to know more, please get in touch.
>
> Cheers
> Vicki
>
> ----
> ECHOLOGY: making sense of data
>
> The 21st Century is an era of pervasive and ever-increasing data
> collection;
> it tracks who we are, what we do and how we live our lives ­ in effect
> creating a complex, connected universe of information-based ecologies.
> Alongside this, there has been a rapid proliferation of proprietary and
> open
> source publication and aggregation tools, enabling critical and creative
> approaches to data representation well beyond the intent and scope of
> those
> involved in its collection.
>
> Presented by the Australian Network of Art & Technology (ANAT) and Carbon
> Arts, ECHOLOGY: making sense of data introduces artists and other creative
> types to the use of real-time data in the production of artworks for the
> public realm ­ bringing these abstract information ecologies into our more
> grounded, local spaces. We are especially interested in approaches that
> embrace new ways of representing data through the use of sound, kinetics,
> materials (water, sand, plants) and light.
>
> Timeline
> 2011: Travelling roadshow featuring Julie Freeman, Usman Haque, Joyce
> Hinterding, Geo Homsy, Natalie Jeremijenko and DV Rogers.
> 2012: Site identification, call for proposals, development lab
> 2013: Production, unveiling at ISEA2013 (hosted by ANAT in Sydney).
>
>
>
>
>
>
>
>
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Re: [Yasmin_discussions] Boundaries

Rob,

Great interview and it is cool to see Christian Nold on your team (he is
also in the exhibition and we met back in 2004).

this section to me is of great interest:

RVK: Can you find connections to the FB generation? Do you want to?

"It has a useful API as do all these new big sites; however there are
restrictions entering the domains and boundaries of others especially when
they try to cross over and get monitised."

RvK: The key (or one of the keys) is the granularity of input for these
'smart' systems. How do you see this?

"Yes, small unit blocks, simplified then re built , re-cored re-formed
into an understanding that can re-communicate the complexity of the larger
system. Strip the city down and re- configure it as a real-time
visualization and plug it into other cities.".

This small section of your exchange touches on a lot of deeply prescient
elements and issues in this cartographic as well as transitional moment
(for better or worse in several spheres).

Facebook is now about as semiotically loaded as things get but it also has
an odd duality. Many artists still use it despite the several waves of
unsettling privacy and file re-usage issues. Social networking and
locative media are right now the big topic in many advertising areas as is
data mining. This is disturbing as it ties into uncomfortable issues of
what our experience in the online space is as far as transparency and
autonomy and how the near future may even see things really akin to the
film Minority Report with site specific intuitive ad streams not only
online but in smart skin architecture.

The other side of the coin finds the meta-research and examination stanza
and others are exploring as to smarter non semantic web searches, geo
spatial archiving and resources and of Marcos Novak's concepts of Eversion
and liquid architecture. The dystopic moment right now of people
wandering around like zombies on smart phones also is tied into a need for
a more mixed reality sense of space and moving within shared spaces

> Hi Roger,
>
> I am not sure if this is really answered in this interview I did with
> Stanza
> but it might go in that direction:
>
> http://www.theinternetofthings.eu/content/stanza-can-we-use-new-technologies-imagine-world-where-we-are-liberated-and-empowered
>
> have a good week! Rob
>
>
>> whats not clear to me is whether these kinds of work
>> can really change our behaviours or relationship
>> to the world= to the extenthat they occupy our
>> mediated spaces they can perhaps "re thicken" our
>> connection to phenomena that we only have
>> abstract awareness of) but without embodiment
>> do they remain un=intimate ? that boundary
>> between the virtual and physical is multi layered
>>
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[Yasmin_discussions] grading the lebanese constitution

yasminers

187 of you have now graded the Lebanese Constitution and it
is currently rated at:

11.20320855615 out of 20

http://www.dastooronline.com/

'Grading the Lebanese Constitution' is a web based project by Ricardo
Mbarkho where people can make anonymous grading for any and every
article of the actual Lebanese Constitution. An Overall Average Grade
is constantly displayed and updated. This grading centered project
with its mass evaluation process implies different ways of reading the
numbers and graphs of all the statistical results. It's a work that
deals with data interpretation to offer multiple analysis levels
relative to our emotional and rational attitude toward the
Constitution.

http://www.dastooronline.com/

Roger
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[Yasmin_discussions] art agency and its constitution

yasminers

the venice biennale activities are under way= goerge
rabbath and team are reporting daily on their\blog =we hope
you will contribute

roger

http://thestateofmind.be/


With the current change in Middle-Eastern and North African countries,
>> it has become clear that the use of new media has apparently given
>> people the power to change status quos. This new (media) kind of
>> freedom is being addressed by attempts by governments to control the
>> web and exert better censorship and press intimidation. At the same
>> time the exercise of freedom of speech through new media gives rise to
>> new questions about the close relation to freedom and chaos.
>>
>> A R A B means W E S T, the words عرب (Arab) and غرب (West) have the
>> same root. The A R A B S were named thus because they were to the west
>> of the Assyrians. It so happens that this name has come to give E U R
>> O P E its name through the myth of Europa, being kidnapped by Zeus
>> from kingdom of Tyre and ending up in an island at equal distance of
>> East and West. Being A R A B has become an allegory of change.
>>
>> Change is happening, the question is whether change entails freedom or
>> whether it just refers to the unpredictability of chaos. The growing
>> aspect of participation in contemporary art, questions under new light
>> whether artistic practice per se, entails conditions of freedom, or
>> whether it stops at agency. Agency is a notion closely tied to that of
>> freedom. When we refer to agency, we usually combine the two words and
>> say free agency. But we sometimes use this term to refer to freedom as
>> well as agency. T H E A R A B S T A T E S O F M I N D is the
>> performative displacement, and the conceptual wandering of the 'State
>> of Mind' exhibition projected in Venice in June 2011.

http://thestateofmind.be/

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Wednesday, June 1, 2011

[Yasmin_discussions] Fwd: [Yasmin_an] International conference on women and the new media in the Meditetrranean region (Fez, June 24-26, 2011)

yasminers

i am reposting this post that samirak allassim sent
to the YASMIN announcement list as its relevant
to our Art and Science Agency Their Constitutions

How are the scientists of the region involved ?

roger


---------- Forwarded message ----------
From: Samirah Alkassim <salkasim@aucegypt.edu>
YASMIN <yasmin@estia.media.uoa.gr>


H-Gender-MidEast

From: Fatima Sadiqi <sadiqi_fatima@yahoo.fr>
Date: May 30, 2011 10:40:29 PM GMT+03:00

>From Fatima Sadiqi (sadiqi_fatima@yahoo.fr)
I am pleased to inform you that Isis Centre for Women and Development is
organizing an international conference on "Women and the New Media in the
Mediterranean Region" on June 24, 25 and 26, 2011 at Palais des Congrès,
Fez, Morocco
Presentation will be in Arabic, French and English with simultaneous
translation. Here is a sketchy program


Friday June 24
 8:30 : Registration
9:00 : Opening: Welcome speeches
9: 30-10: 00 :   Reception


Keynote Speaker: Marlyn Tadros (Director, Virtual Activism)

Revolutionaries vs governments: use and abuse of  new media in the Arab
Revolutions of 2011 (Arabic)

Isabelle Collet (University of Geneva, Switzerland)
Cybersoda : A pedagogical tool to "de-genderdize" the mastery of computer
science (in French)

 Alia Papageourgious (European Commission, Brussels)
Following media via social media and learning more

Chemseddoha Boraki (Abdelmalek Saadi Faculty, Tangiers)
When Walls are Silenced… The women bloggers!

Sheila Lalwani (University of Georgetown, USA)
Muslim women-led new media in Morocco, Germany and the United States

Sussan Tahmasebi (Founder of the "One million signatures", Iran)
The internet as a tool for transforming the discourse on women's rights and
building a women's movement in Iran

Mozn Hassan (President, Nazra for Feminist Studies, Egypt)
Egyptian women and social media tools (in Arabic)

Zahir Rahman (Wake Forest University, Winston-Salem, USA)
>From the Keyboard to the Megaphone: Defining the Moroccan Female Youth
Activist
Moussa El-Hadji-Mama (Journalist, Vie et Espoir, Republic of Benin)
New media, communication and advocacy in Bénin (in French)

Teresa-Claudia Tavares (Polytechnic Institut of Santarém, Portugal)
Defeat the trolls, become a troll oneself : The conquest of public space by
women in the 19th century and the present time

Christine Fontanini (University of Montpelier 3, France)
The role of video games in the school and professional orientation choices
(French)

Olena Goroshko (National University of Vasyl Karazin, Ukrainia)
Is e-learning a gender-sensitive model of modern education?

Jennifer Hall (University of Michigan, USA)Old languages and new media:
women and emerging forms of Moroccan Arabic in public space

Malika Benaouda (University of Blida, Algeria)
Women and Media Tools in Algeria (in Arabic)

Nadia Lamhaidi (Higher Institute of Information and Communication, Rabat,
Maroc)
The new media and education (in Arabic)

Madina Borana Touré (Mauritania)
Some language minorities in North Africa: The role of TICs in the expansion
of mother tongues in Southern Mauritania (in French)

Mary Koutselini (Director, UNESCO Chair "Gender Equality and Women's
Empowerment", University of Cyprus)
Gender inequalities in new media work: What and whose knowledge is of most
worth?

Moha Ennaji (President, International Institute for Languages and Cultures,
Fez)
Using New Media to Combat Violence Against Women

Anissa Daoudi (Université Durham, Grande Bretagne)
Female voices in the MENA region: any chance of "change" of gender
discourse(s)? after the revolutions" (in Arabic)

Melodee Baines (Université Old Dominion, Virginia USA) and et Natalie
 McGarry (The Brookings Institute, Washington)Obstacles to and victims in
development: The treatment of illiterate women in Arab media and society
Christie Edwards (Vital Voices, Washington DC)Approaches to literacy and
information through social media by international donors and civil society
groups
Hela Kochbati (Researcher, Tunisia)
Arab women's rights and images in the media: The promotion of gender beyond
sexism (French)

Farida Bouassoune (President, Center for Studies and Research on Women, Sidi
Mohamed Ben Abdellah University, Fez)
'Women of Morocco' : What reading of Moroccan society?

Film Screening:  "Dry Eyes (By Narjiss Nejjar)
Chair: Aziz El Hakem (Al Huriyyah Cultural Complex, Fez)

Sara Borillo (University of Naples L'Orientale, Italy)
Islamic feminism and feminine Islamism online: An analysis of the female
public sphere on the web. The case of webpages of Morocco

Osire Glacier (University of Bishop, Sherbrook, Canada)
Moroccan feminism as universal feminism

Karen Vintges (University of Amsterdam, The Netherlands) and Nuria Andreu
(Film and Photography, Spain)
New images of Muslim women and new feminisms in the media

Faiza Shereen (California State Polytechnic University Pomona USA)
Body and Byte:  New Media and Live Performance

Teresa Pepe (Université d'Oslo, Norvège)
Autofiction on the screen: Self-representation of  Egyptian women in
literary blogs

Zehra Handan Salta (Université d'Istanbul) et Zerrin Yanikkaya (Université
de  Yeditepe, Turquie)
A storm in a teacup: could a TV serial unveil the privacy of Ottoman
palaces? Protests, discussions and comments
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[Yasmin_discussions] art agency and its constitution

from piratas.de.la.ciencia@gmail.com

There are many artist working in the organization and dthe eveloping
commisions of the spanish assemblies in all cities squares.

There are activities with poetry and phonetic poetry. There are individual
works of artist that present in their work some critical aspect, or thinkin=
g
in a critical way.

However, i can not fin any direct scientific involucration. I know that
there are many scientists in the popular assemblies, but i can not fin any
scientist helping to this movement through his work.

This point is interesting, because i don=C2=B4t think that there is any rea=
listic
cause for this. The artists who helps in the assemblies are people who
export to their work any critical thinking. Lot of scientis have social
critical thinking but there is not easy to find any activity of this kind
developed at any work place (for example, we don not have any regular
meeting for our science social producing results. At least not for the
younger and without any science policies responsablilities). I try to
express that social critical thinking is an individual activity for
scientist which is not easyly view as conected to our work, but of course i=
t
is. We are dealing with technology, industry, so, we are part of the
&quot;product&quot; developing and comercialization, so science has
tremendous impact
in society and needs lot of social critical thinking. Indeed, we have
tremendous social problems, as for example the percentual annual state
butget dedicated to science, the numbers of grants and contracts, ... , and
some time appears movements for the scientis rights (here at spain we have =
a
scientists plataform called &quot;Precarios&quot;, or &quot;Joves
Investigadors&quot;, for
example (it works as a king of syndicate, although it is not the same). But
it is dificult to find and scientist involucration to social commonly
problems. As an experimental data: art is represented commonly in all this
assemblies but science is not offering any, for example, concrete
discussion, any science commission. If this would be tha case, could be we
can develope another example for science contact with people: not to
develope a science popularization event (which at the same time could be on=
e
parallel idea) but to make science policies realistic debates of within our
neiborghoods. The finality of this debates would not be to take action to
the science policies (there are many experts and profesionals for this
work), but of course it would be to listen people, put science and
scientists in social contexts and collect any sugestions.

One week and a half after the democratic ellections here at Spain, the
assemblies are following their work and thinking the way to create an
perennial activity (segmenting the mean assemblies moving to multiple and
more local ones, ...).

Best,

Guillermo.
El 26 de mayo de 2011 18:20, Sim=C3=B3n P=C3=A9rez
&lt;jmurieta01@gmail.com&gt; e=
scribi=C3=B3:

&gt; Very interesting video
&gt; in Chile, people take to the streets to protest for a change to!!!
&gt; in USA for Winsconsin and others
&gt; in Spain for democracy
&gt; in middle east for democracy
&gt; in Chile to protest against hidroaysen
&gt;
&gt; On Thu, May 26, 2011 at 3:45 AM, ciencia pirata &lt;
&gt; piratas.de.la.ciencia@gmail.com&gt; wrote:
&gt;
&gt; &gt; Dear Nawel, Lab and Jasmin,
&gt; &gt;
&gt; &gt; It is very interesting all these people reactions on the squares all
&gt; around
&gt; &gt; the globe. There are mutual characteristics and at the same time there
&gt; are
&gt; &gt; some differences, but all of this is a call to changes.
&gt; &gt;
&gt; &gt; Here in Spain, after the democratic use of the vote, all the people is
&gt; &gt; trying to create an alternative and progresive way to follow this
&gt; &gt; spirit. Many culturals associations and plataforms are recovering this
&gt; &gt; spirit and the democratic sense trying to evolve to a more local
&gt; &gt; areas, generating a more reactive neighborhoods.
&gt; &gt;
&gt; &gt; i=C2=B4m sure that artists and scienctis can participate on
this scheme=
s. If
&gt; &gt; this
&gt; &gt; movement finally evolves to a more rutinary and day to day process,
&gt; artists
&gt; &gt; could colaborate with their localities. Or scientis could
have their ow=
n
&gt; &gt; space to dialogate in th
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[Yasmin_discussions] art agency and its constitution

Hello, i send you a link for my article on this subject:


* Discussion: What is the role of art and science in the middle
east and north africa today

bsr, de passage je vous transmets mon lien sur le sujet:
Hello, i send you a link for my article on this subject:


http://culturevisuelle.org/wafaborges/archives/104


thanks a lot


Les artistes en Tunisie ont beaucoup influencé la société que ce soit
avant ou après la révolution. Allant de la résistance à la révolution,
ces arts ont subi plusieurs métamorphoses durant ces dernières années
surtout pendant cette vague révolutionnaire que subissent les sociétés
arabes. Ainsi, les pratiques artistiques (Musique, arts plastiques,
cinéma, théâtre, etc…) ont une étroite relation avec les différents
problèmes socio-politiques.


Wafa

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