Glasgow 1980, as viewed by Oscar Marzaroli, from 1971. In reference to Nostalgia Now brief.
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Like a Phoenix from the flames, Book and Web of the Week resume usual service, with the first website — the Café Society — suggested by Alex Lunn (thankyou), and the first book being Studio X NY.
Oliver Pitt (Vis Com Person) is one of a group of alumni representing Glasgow School of Art at this weekends Vault Art event. I might be missing something but the main vault website seems a bit thin on information, but there are various talks and events and things happening too.
Back of the Envelope announces the launch of the British Councils ADF papers, which can be downloaded for free, or requested, in ‘reality’. The first series is on ‘collectives’.
The latest installment of Adam Curtis’s ‘All Watched Over by Machines of Loving Grace’ reminded me about this event that I went to at the front end of this year, and never got round to writing about. The linking thread is cybernetics, and the study of feedback loops. The programme prompted me to look out some notes, and while 92% of them are barely intelligible, I thought I’d repeat the soundbites that were less so. They are not arranged in any sort of order, make of them what you will.
“Cybernetic systems involve a governor, a moderating mechanism which shuts the system down if the feedback goes beyond a certain level.”
“Markets were the first computers”
“The (main) product of commercial TV is not programmes, but the audience” (I wonder if the same is true of the Internet and www? Is the main product there the searchers rather than the search results?)
“Cybernetics, in popular culture at least, tends to be presented in a dystopian light, i.e. Cybermen…”
A fuller (and probably better remembered) review of the event can be found here.
Image: Steve Rushton discusses mindspace, as part of talk.
The Serving Library is online, and the first edition is out in print. Making the articles available online as PDF’s, and by print then post distribution, in parallel, (and with an online document of those recently ‘served‘) questions are raised about the false dichotomy of analogue vs digital. On a purely practical level, students (or others) with zero budget (but a functioning network connection) can download and read/print some very interesting design/art/media documents. Below is a beautiful picture of me interacting with the Serving Library through the arcane/bizarre/logical aesthetic and anti-perspective quandry that is iBooks.
More on the Serving Library statement of intent here.
Loads of interesting reports now online from the Unbound Book conference. Some in Dutch, some in English. Dare-say video’s may follow.
It’s Nice That have been in touch about 2 themes they’re running on their website; Student of the Month and Graduates of 2011. If you’re interested in having your work profiled on the site please get in touch with Bryony at ‘It’s Nice That’ [bryony -at- itsnicethat.com] with a folio of your work or link to your website.
More from Paleofuture, set against this more recent exploration of tablet news and magazines from Berg (bottom). (The Berg piece has featured on the VC blog before, but not together with this interesting predecessor). N.B. there are some online queries about the originality of the 1994 clip, but it seems to be genuine.
Skirmishes have organised for a mobile FABLAB to visit Glasgow on Friday 6th May 2010 — you can get more details at www.skirmishes.org/?p=292 The duo who run the van will have traveled from the Netherlands…
Bring an idea of something to make, or a project to share that shows how useful digital fabrication can be! They would like to make this event into a handy meet up for the wide community of makers in Glasgow, to share, learn and make, in the same way that we could in the Glasgow Fablab (AKA Maklab). It will also be a great opportunity for those who are unfamiliar with these tools and methods to experience the fablab and get a sense of what it could be used for.
The event is an informal drop in and forms part of Skirmishes Edge City design charette being held on the same day [http://www.skirmishes.org/?p=263].
The details:
St Francis Community Center, 405 Cumberland Street. Gorbals. Glasgow. G5 0YT.
A student was talking yesterday about an idea for a space agency for the East End of Glasgow, (Glasgow East End Space Agency, or GEESA for short, I felt it should be called) which put me in mind of the Open Source Satellite Initiative. My awful name idea in turn put me in mind of Geezer Gotta Flame Thrower, by GSA staff Beagles and Ramsay.
Video Vortex is a really interesting conference run by the Institute of Network Cultures, and which focusses on the messy but interesting world of online video, the most recent one looking at Online Video Aesthetics, Platforms, Standards and the Trouble with Translation, Civil Rights, Online Video Art and Online Video as a Political Tool. It has much to say about how images are created and transmitted, and what’s really great is that the Readers which accompany each conference are free to download from their website.
This project (by Chris O’Shea) is one of several recent examples of ways to hook up the motion sensor and camera for Xbox kinect, and languages such as openframeworks, (as also discussed during our visit to Lust)
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