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  • place: Cedaredge, Colorado

typical day’s contribution

As a participant in the aporee::maps project I receive a daily email listing/linking the past 24-hours-worth of field recording contributions to the project. I will often check these emails when I am still in bed, and select the longest recording of the day and let it ease me into the day. Here’s a sample from 15 February 2024. A link will bring up the aporee::maps google interface, with the particular location indicated by a pulsing red circle centered on the map. Selecting the dot will reveal a pop-up with further information about the recording, and there is a play button/bar in the upper right bar at the top of the map. Aside from simply scrolling around the (global!) map, radio aporee is another way of tapping into the project with a 24/7 stream of contributions and with built-in code that will preemptively mix in material proximal to whomever is listening.

All the recordings are simultaneously posted to https://archive.org, providing yet another way to explore this vast collection of sonic work. [all neoscenes recordings on aporee]

New sounds since 14.02.2024 12:00 Europe/Berlin time:
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Cafe, Aldeburgh, UK: https://aporee.org/maps/?loc=62936 — Cafe, Aldeburgh, UK (17:34min., by david.j.pitt@btinternet.com)

Wusterauer Anger, Kirchmöser Ost: https://aporee.org/maps/?loc=60944 — garden ambience w/ bells, birds, train and airplane (10:00min., by radio aporee)

40 Bd Carnot, 59153 Grand-Fort-Philippe, France: https://aporee.org/maps/?loc=62937 — Carnaval de Grand Fort Philippe (C.U. Dunkerque) Ambiance et chant avec des carnavaleux. (1:28min., by Jean-François CAVRO)

11 Bd Léon Marchal, 59153 Grand-Fort-Philippe, France: https://aporee.org/maps/?loc=62938 — Carnaval de Grand Fort Philippe (C.U. Dunkerque) Rigodon final (13:45min., by Jean-François CAVRO)

Västerbron, 117 33 Stockholm, Sverige: https://aporee.org/maps/?loc=62939 — Under Västerbron (3:18min., by milton@jordansson.net)

11 Bd Léon Marchal, 59153 Grand-Fort-Philippe, France: https://aporee.org/maps/?loc=62940 — Carnaval de Grand Fort Philippe (C.U. Dunkerque) Rigodon final – Pendant que les géants brûlent.. Hymne à Jean Bart et hommage à Copinard (8:47min., by Jean-François CAVRO)

7 Pl. Joseph Leprêtre, 59153 Grand-Fort-Philippe, France: https://aporee.org/maps/?loc=62941 — Carnaval de Grand Fort Philippe (C.U. Dunkerque) Le lancé de harengs des fenêtres de l’Hôtel de Ville aux cris de “Liberez les Harengs !!!” (9:43min., by Jean-François CAVRO)

25 Rue Pasteur, 59153 Grand-Fort-Philippe, France: https://aporee.org/maps/?loc=62942” rel=”noopener” target=”_blank”>https://aporee.org/maps/?loc=62942 — Carnaval de Grand Fort Philippe (C.U. Dunkerque) Au cœur de la bande (5:19min., by Jean-François CAVRO)

25B Av. de Calais, 59153 Grand-Fort-Philippe, France: https://aporee.org/maps/?loc=62943 — Carnaval de Grand Fort Philippe (C.U. Dunkerque) Départ du Carnaval (4:45min., by Jean-François CAVRO)

28 Rue Pierre Merlen, 59153 Grand-Fort-Philippe, France: https://aporee.org/maps/?loc=62944 — Carnaval de Grand Fort Philippe (C.U. Dunkerque) La bande… (2:23min., by Jean-François CAVRO)

55 Av. de Dunkerque, 59153 Grand-Fort-Philippe, France: https://aporee.org/maps/?loc=62945 — Carnaval de Grand Fort Philippe (C.U. Dunkerque) Au cœur de la bande… (8:36min., by Jean-François CAVRO)

8 Bd François Lévêque, 59153 Grand-Fort-Philippe, France: https://aporee.org/maps/?loc=62946 — Carnaval de Grand Fort Philippe (C.U. Dunkerque) Au cœur de la bande… (1:58min., by Jean-François CAVRO)

29 Bd Carnot, 59153 Grand-Fort-Philippe, France: https://aporee.org/maps/?loc=62947 — Carnaval de Grand Fort Philippe (C.U. Dunkerque) Au cœur de la bande… (3:34min., by Jean-François CAVRO)

1 Av. du Calvaire, 59153 Grand-Fort-Philippe, France: https://aporee.org/maps/?loc=62948 — Carnaval de Grand Fort Philippe (C.U. Dunkerque) Ambiance sur la plage avant la mise à feu des géants (5:23min., by Jean-François CAVRO)

2 Pl. Charles Valentin, 59153 Grand-Fort-Philippe, France: https://aporee.org/maps/?loc=62949 — Carnaval de Grand Fort Philippe (C.U. Dunkerque) Dernière pause avant le Rigodon. (3:04min., by Jean-François CAVRO)

Oppundavägen 18, 122 48 Enskede, Sverige: https://aporee.org/maps/?loc=62950 — bones (3:36min., by e3yes)

Nuti, Metsküla, 71302 Viljandi maakond, Estonia: https://aporee.org/maps/?loc=62953 — ice falling from trees (10:00min., by patrick tubin mcginley)

Thaurer Alm .204, 6065 Thaur, Österreich: https://aporee.org/maps/?loc=62951 — cow bells and motorway (6:09min., by hannes strobl)

8C7W+FX Thaur, Österreich: https://aporee.org/maps/?loc=62952 — water stream (3:01min., by hannes strobl)

Sound Walk, The Scallop, Aldeburgh, UK: https://aporee.org/maps/?loc=62954 — Sound Walk, The Scallop, Aldeburgh, UK (16:05min., by david.j.pitt@btinternet.com)

66313 sounds with a cumulative total length of 217d, 07h, 43m, 13s from 57950 locations.

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Gelassenheit & Dada

Dada is the activated inverse operation of Gelassenheit: what could be more accurate a statement? Now, to completely destabilize it. Mr. Summers says, from Maastricht, “I bought a parachute for my orangutan today. And to celebrate the centenary of Dada I took a plastic sieve for a walk.” There you have it.

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The BricoReader wants You and You :: I and I

The call goes out to the brico network for the reader that Jerneja and I put together a few days ago.

Dear Bricoleurs!

In preparation for the upcoming projects and the BricoReader that we are planning for Pixelache in Helsinki in May, we are asking that folks within the Bricolabs sphere of action generate some special conversations with each other. We believe the relevant knowledge-base available here among us is of great value to share (more) widely.

The conversations, dialogues, and/or interviews that you generate may include anything that you think is relevant: for example, what issues you think define the Pixelache theme Facing North/Facing South; what is (your) theoretical approach to open infrastructures and open communities; what is your practice to bring this theory to life; and so on. These textual conversations may not necessarily form an essay, but will provide us with an array of rich material to assemble the BricoReader from. These dialogues may also include material relating to what you find most interesting/powerful/engaging about the distributed bricolabs network, how it functions, and how it affects participants and the wider communities that it serves around the globe. We are also playing with a few sub-themes for the Brico-Pixelache presence: deep resonant networks; anti-disciplinary collaboration; subjective infrastructures – autonomy vs. connectivity; the reversal of polarities; and the smell of Bricolabs. These phrases might give you some things to think and talk about as well.

To participate in this process, we would like you to start by considering who you would like to start a conversation with. We would encourage every Bricoleur to participate and especially to perhaps reach out to an unfamiliar Brico on the mailing list — imagine the power of such a set of dialogues that will then be collected and bricolaged into the BricoReader! Once you’ve got a dialogue partner, please send us yours & their names so that we might begin planning and mapping out where we can go with the Reader. At this point, there are 182 (!!!) people on the mailing list: plenty of energizing possibilities. If you are not aware of all the people on the list, it is also possible to go to:

https://mailinglists.dyne.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/brico

and after logging in at the bottom of that page you can see see a full list of subscribers (by email address). If you need help on this let us know.

We will also list partners on this piratepad (you can add your name(s) yourself as well):

https://piratepad.net/briconversations

In addition, if any of you can think of other interesting individuals or groups to engage with but who are not on the mailing list please feel free to invite them into the conversation.

The conversations can be initiated immediately, and certainly may be conducted in any way you like — of course a text output suits us best. We see these as email or perhaps other text-chat transcripts, whatever.

To help the editing process (and the busy editors!) along we propose a formal deadline of 21 March 2013 to give us time to review and collate things. We are looking forward to your energized expressions!

kiitos/thanks/gracias/danke/takk fyrir/hvala/bedankt/obrigado/terima kasih!!

Jerneja & John

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bricolabs @ pixelache

Helping Felipe, Jerneja, Bronac and other bricos get the following text out for our Pixelache Festival presence — still not sure that I can make it, logistically, between cost and timing: it will be a nice conclave of old and new friends, though, and a good landing back in Europe.

Bricolabs (https://bricolabs.net) is a fluid network created in 2006 to investigate — from a critical and creative perspective — the loop of free/libre/open content, software and hardware for community applications. Bricolabs promotes open debate and critical making on such themes, between people with diverse backgrounds, in areas of expertise from Latin America, Europe, Asia and North America. Special attention is given to affective networking as a shared value.

Responding in a collaborative fashion to the call to reflect on the theme “Facing North – Facing South,” Bricolabs is currently planning, organising and developing part of the Pixelache Helsinki 2013 programme. Bricolabs wants to bring a multilayer perspective to trans-local networking, engaging the participants of Pixelache 2013 in new ways of being as well as new ways of doing things together. Bricolabs proposes a critical perspective on the usual north/south dichotomy, interested and rooted in deep resonant networks where borders are seldom taken into account. This is as true for geographic boundaries as it is for disciplinary ones – recently Bricolabs members have turned their attention to anti-disciplinary collaboration as an escape from the common traps of western/northern paradigms of development.

The Bricolabs programme will include live remote sessions with a number of collaborative groups sharing their perspectives from different parts of the world, as well as an exhibition articulating models of open source culture, translocality, DIWO, and subjective infrastructures. Several practical workshops will be conducted along these same lines. The festival will give Bricolabs members a rare face-to-face opportunity to meet and organise working sessions for particular collaborative projects. Bricolabs will also be facilitating discussions and panels, portraying collective efforts that take place across diverse practices engaging the work of artists, developers, thinkers – thus redefining the geophysical and virtual ecologies of their practices, as well as methodologies in the context of open source models and the theme of the festival.

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  • place: Boulder, Colorado

screening: Jeanne Liotta

Make a pilgrimage to Longmont to the Firehouse Arts Center to catch an evening screening of work by a CU Film Studies faculty-member Jeanne Liotta. I had met her the evening before at another university-sponsored cultural event. Alex had mentioned there was a reception/opening in the Rare Books Room of the Library, and, as a professional nomadic cultural participant (and observer), I thought I’d check it out. Turns out it was the effort of a Humanities class that had curated a small show of works from the collection of artist’s books that Lucy Lippard had given to the University. Strangely enough two of the pieces in the exhibition are from old friend/networker node, Paul Rutkovsky (aka. floridada). I talked to some of the student curators about Paul, Lucy, and about networking. I was lucky to have been doing my MFA at CU-Boulder when Lucy was in residence and received some of her teachings. Age brings the role of information carrier, holder of historical perspective and knowing, story-teller. No corner on wisdom, but at least some stories are related. I query the kids about what their thinking is about the use of photocopy machines as art tools. This is a very novel idea for them (given they only know the digital type of photocopy machines at most, not the old analog devices). Paper output is novel in itself. I don’t have much documentation online of some of the prior (ancien-régime!) photocopy-based projects I’ve run: just The Xerox Book that included mp3 files of the accompanying collaborative audio cassette mix, unfortunately there are no scans of the 300 actual pages … some day I’ll get to that corner of the archive & revive it in the digital zone.

At any rate, Jeanne’s work dances around cosmology, astronomy, and very much the syntax of the various filmic media she plays with — from Second Life pieces to found footage, analog and digital to Ray-o-gram-printed 35mm film stock. The sonic accompaniments well synergize with the visuals. I missed not seeing some of the analog film pieces in their original form (vs digital reproductions), as most of the pieces are (at least in part) deeply about what mediation they are conveyed upon. (Not that that aspect is meant to completely frame them materialistically: it’s only one order of correlation.) There are plenty of other resonant aspects and sources: the eclipse, the sky, the procession of stellar energies, the transposition of Light from various enigmatic sources onto halating film substrates: she always maintains an alchemical and, consequently, an experimental edge through her attention to immediate and spontaneous situation. This sensitivity is combined with an aware curiosity of phenomenon: yielding Light works that are simultaneously playful and yet connected to/suffused with an insistent and sometimes overwhelming gravity. Escaping the gravitational field of be-ing requires an empathy for the intense sadness that pervades our current times: this potential is achieved on occasion and reminded me of the intent of Bruce Elder’s magnum opus “The Book of All the Dead” and the constant struggle against the gravity of it all, in search of Light. It goes ever back to Simone Weil’s “Two forces rule the universe: light and gravity.”

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bricoleurs

abira_a, acracia, adrianobf, agger, agryfp, ale, alejo, alewei, anais.gabaut, andrea.mayr, andreslov4, ann.light, aoifejohanna, arlequim, armin, arrow.training, asbesto, atteqa, befree, ben.schouten, beppo, blauloretta, brian.degger, bronac, brunotarin, burbano, ca, calnoguiera, camilacorazza, catadores, cgfoster, christian, circletide, ciron, contact, cristiano, danilo_to, danlatorre.tint, davidg, desislaciones, dmartins, doma, doutorsocrateseidofutebol, drew, drica, edycop, eiriniskouta, ellen.sluis, erwann.thoraval, feijun, felipefonseca, fernandorabelo, filippo.gianetta, francesca.bria, fredbomba, freire, frontierlab, g.a.jones1, gif, gif, giles, gnu2007_dyne, habib, hdimantas, hellekin, henk, ho, honzasvasek, info, irlawence, ivanovic900, j.j.froehlich, jakeharries, james, jaromil, jean.habib, jerneja99, jhopkins, jnm, john.haltowanger, john, jonpaludan, josephgray, jp, juhuu, junk.bitte, k, khuramsdesk, ki.ber, kikomayorga, kovats, kranenbu, kurt, laubanech, laura, lurker, mail, maja, marc.garrett, matt.ratto,matt.trivett, mathew t. craig, mickfuzz, miles, myers.alex, nameeraa, nancy, nmagnan, nynke, olivierschulbaum, organismo,orlandosillva,osfa, phumphreys, patrice, paulo.hartmann, pauloandringa, paulolara, penelope.di.pixel, philippe.langlois, pvelezbr, rafael, ramsespetronia,rbrazileiro, rdom, ricardopalmieri, rm, root, rui, ruth.catlow, scur, shulea, siliamoan, soenke, sonjavank, sskoutas, tapio, tati.xx, thenetworked,theoparmakis, thomas, tiagobugarin, tnovaes, tomak, tvlibre, udrugauke, vanessa, venzha, vickysinclair, vilson, vjpixel, vladfiscutean, voodoo_rays, w, web33_matthieu, yannick.rumpala, yasir.media, yb, yto.lab

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  • place: Prescott, Arizona

gridcosm & slacker

it’s been ages since I’ve spent time checking out gridcosm — a SiTO project initiated by net amigos Ed Stasny and Jon Van Oast pushing a decade ago already. it’s getting very active again, as a new generation of SiTO artists have at it. I’m quite sure it’s the oldest and longest-running collaborative visual network project around. a singularly deep (literally!) visual essay on the past decade of network pop-being. or so. explore it! Jon and Ed are brilliant networkers and an inspiration to me over the years with their easy-going attitudes and intuitive insights into distributed creativity. last time I saw those guys in meat-space was in Montreal at the 1996 ISEA. Keep up the great work!

then, watching Slacker on DVD by Richard Linklater, appreciate the smoothness of film-making and a fluid and spontaneous anti-narrative:

… When young we mourn for one woman … as we grow old, for women in general. The tragedy of life is that man is never free yet strives for what can never be. The thing most feared in secret always happens. My life, my loves, what are they now? But the more the pain grows, the more this instinct for life somehow asserts itself. The necessary beauty in life is in giving yourself to it completely. — Joseph Jones, Slacker actor

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  • place: Prescott, Arizona

PNEK

hang down your head Tom Dooley! Kingston Trio. vintage. Prescott is a desert for water and radio — public or otherwise.

and pondering this PNEK project in Norway, to see what it can be. will there be culture producers swarming and so tough, well. or will it be a complicated cross-cultural event (where I have been, in the minority for the last 12 years). gees. and trying to juggle Colorado into this equation. for the spring. a carapace to put on. but it could also be a lot of fun. working with a crew of hypersensitive networkers. why not!

dialogue and the re-presentation of being. contemplating my practice. how rooted it is in various levels of presence.

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  • place: Brussels, Belgium

the end of cafe9.net

I joke with Peter — this is the way the World ends, this is the way the World ends, this is the way the World ends, not with a Bang but with a whimper — about the demise of cafe9.net. it ends in a Chinese restaurant, with the group seated around a long table, an argument breaks out about the bill, and all the frustrations and disagreements boil to the surface in a second. I walk out as Elukka and Paschatan are starting to use dirty words to describe each other — and as they happen to be seated at either ends of the table, they are standing and shouting. the polarity of the francophone contingent versus the Northern European contingent had developed over time. so, this expensive pan-European cultural project falls apart. the networkers, those working on the project with a deep desire and understanding about connections, will remain connected in the future. those who were just on the project as a a product of the “Cultural Industry” sector — as I disparagingly label it — neither understood the principle nor had any human interest in what the project stands for.

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  • place: Helsinki, Finland

neoscenes occupation: an international network-building project

[ED: written and published as part of the acoustic.space initiative established by friends Rasa Smite and Raitis Smits at the re-lab in Riga, Latvia net audio issue 1999 ISSN 1407-2858.]

acoustic.space #2 (1999 ISSN 1407-2858), Riga, Latvia, September 1999

In September of 1998, neoscenes occupation (nso) was formally launched as a networking project in the second Open-X venue at the 1998 Ars Electronica Festival in Linz, Austria.

The basic concept for the project is rooted in several facets of my former and current involvement as a networker, and my broad experience in arts and design education in Europe and North America during the last fifteen years.

Having taught or lectured in, and visited many tens of art and design institutions, and engaged in wide-ranging discussions with many educators, I had gradually come to the conclusion that much of the (formal) educational process in the developed world is irrelevant, dead, or dying. I viewed neoscenes occupation as a vehicle for the re-creation and renewal of the learning process—applying a series of conditions to make it an “omni-directional flow of energies with a force multiplied far beyond the meat count and with a reach that is far ahead of the game.”

Rhetoric aside, the project has several interlinked concepts and goals relating to creating a viable independent social network of people who share creative aspirations.

Dialogue is at the core of the whole nso idea — dialogue as the bi-directional movement of energies between any two people who engage each other in honest and open exchange. Dialogue that moves in opposition to the oppression of monologue and centralized patriarchal infotainment; that stands as two quiet voices versus the blasting inferno of social emission. Dialogue, as pure expression of heart and soul, is the core of all meaningful activism. more “neoscenes occupation: an international network-building project”

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  • place: Amsterdam, The Netherlands

next five minutes 3 review

© Steve Cisler 1999. Non-profit servers and archives may distribute this document, as long as it is not on the same page as annoying banner ads or animated gif files. Others may contact the author. [Ed: sadly, networker and friend Steve passed away in 2008, as this text doesn’t seem to be floating around anywhere else, I decided to extract and revive it from my archive!]

“Tactical media” refers to the use of old and new media to achieve non commercial goals and to emphasize “a plethora of potentially subversive political issues.”

In spite of all the electronic connectivity, there is still a hunger to meet in one place. The more we communicate online, the greater the number of real world conferences and meetings. People realize they still need to get together, no matter how smoothly a video conference or email exchange may be. In March 1999, I took part in a multi-ring circus of activities called Next Five Minutes 3 (N5M3) in Amsterdam. It followed several years of my online participation.

Background

In April of 1996, Bruce Sterling started a discussion topic in the Wired magazine conference on The WELL, an online site where I had been hanging out since it started. The topic was entitled “Goofy leftists sniping at Wired [magazine]” and included a lot of posts from the nettime mailing list that Sterling found amusing or outrageous. I joined nettime (www.nettime.org) the source of most of the pieces and found it was quite a bit more varied and interesting than the wired conference had been. It’s hard to typify the kind of messages you see on nettime, but it includes criticism of the current trends in Internet growth, reports from hot spots in Eastern Europe, innovative art exhibits and experiments, meeting reports, and controversies ranging from the provocative use of new media to the role of George Soros and his Open Society Institute. There are also text experiments and word plays plus weekly calendars and announcements for obscure journals, literary web sites, and new media experiments. The strength of it, the lure of it for me is that many worlds intersect, and through the distributed moderation by people in North America and Europe, just about the right mix of messages reaches the readers who number less than 1000. Originally, many were from Holland, Germany, and eastern Europe. Now, people from Asia, North America, Africa, and Australia take part. more “next five minutes 3 review”

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  • place: Boulder, Colorado

the traveler

Met with Mark this afternoon. After my Friday afternoon Critical Thinking class. One of the significant reverberations of Open-X was his presence and our meeting and subsequent dialogues which developed, are developing. He is an artist who has made transitions from medium-to-medium, and has come away with a depth of experiential insight that is among the most principled-understanding data-sets I have run across in my networking experience. Our sentiments seem to align in similar directions, probably because of my leanings to the written word, and his to networking and Web-based possibilities. An over-simplification. How energies align is rather something of a mystery for me. How last week at ARS, there was a massive alignment of human essences, bipolar networking molecules, magnetic bio-phage dipoles, whatever. In rare dis-position against the cult of the object that still dominates the cultural industry sector. Definitely the unit for alignment is the individual. Networking. The minimum unit of human interaction is…

Somehow, I feel like I am still traveling, though I can root here in Colorado for three more months. There came a realization last week that I am a member of a sub-group of artist-educator-networkers who are mobile (by choice and by force in recombinant measure), transient, and have this in common. But this common thread is far more powerful than would be immediately evident. As buried in each of these folks is an essential open-ness to the Other. Travelers almost always have this trait. A natural curiosity about the Others met on the road. Combined with a creative spirit, these people can be fiery teachers, not beholden to local institutions, allegiances, or structures. Speaking a tongue unwarped by local political dialects and desires, expressing what is beyond the seen (what is over the horizon), moving, constantly in paced motion, blurring edges and leaping barriers with presence of will.

The ignorant are tied to their native land, the mediocre consider themselves citizens of the world, but only the wise realize that they are a stranger everywhere. — Motto of Los Straniero journal