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WHAT A LEDGE

TIMELINE

CURRENTLY WORKING ON THE TIMELINE FOR MY DISSERTATION. SOLID. BUT I'M GETTING THERE. WELL, KIND OF, I'M NOT EVEN PAST THE 1920'S YET, ONLY 90 MORE YEARS OF TECHNOLOGICAL DEVELOPMENT TO DOCUMENT! CHEESE. I KNOW HOW TO MAKE LIFE EASIER.

So L.A

http://johnnysbird.com/

Can't wait to go back to LA one day

NAM JUNE PAIK

TV SHOW!! GOODMORNING MR ORWEL

Analog Drum Machine

Jack and I just bought a Korg Electribe Es1 analog drum machine/sampler. YES

Jacks Beats!

This is what I do!

Digital Stitch - What I Do *[UNSIGNED]* by Digital Stitch

MC Freeflow - Doin It Right (Digital Stitch Remix) by Digital Stitch

Dissertation Outline

WKND listening! Astro Unicorn Radio, what's not to love! Mixes from the legendary Durtch DJ/Producer Legowelt! http://www.moosleybay.com/astro.htm

www.intergalactic.fm


Beats to get me through the dissertation!

Good show last night! Congrats to PEM4. Degree sho is going to be a belter. Pics to follow soon!

Pre Degree Show

I don't have a title for this yet. Maybe.... Dead Ends, Digressions and serendipity :)

dissertation conclusion

Wise words from my Dissertation tutor. Wise Words.

MayaJaneCole///Joni Mitchell//Stardust

= gooooosebumps!

ABLETON///MAKING NOISE!!!!

I have created some sound samples using parts that I pulled off of the circuit board and the can, I've distorted them farther using effects on ableton and audacity. I don't want the audio for this piece to be heard but if anyone interacts with the piece, ie the TV and turns up the volume they will be confronted with dark noise! I have added in some Synthy bits and a kick drum too. Just because I love a pounding kick drum and it gives it a bit of structure. I'm going to record it live on Ableton for about an hour whilst watching the videos that I have made. Once I have edited the video to it's exact state will add a second layer of sound making sound effects for when I'm pulling bits off and dropping them in the can/china bowl. So the noise is completely synthetic and unnatural. It's all sounding a bit David Lynch at the moment.

Police Brutality

I feel sick.

What are the police doing? Scummy!!! necessary evil I know but when it comes to protest why are they always shaming themselves and acting like total dim wits. pepper spraying an 84 yea old woman? come on. when i seen this video I actually thought we were living in medievil times. JUST for one second.

Nam June Paiks living room....

or mine? Definitely mine!

FERGUSON

I found Ferguson on the street, he was looking very dead. His plug extension had been cut off, why would someone do such a thing? I asked Jack and he figured Ferguson might be able to be rescued. I picked him up on my way home and brought him back to mine. This is the story (in photographs) of how I turned Ferguson on. He hadn't been this aroused since the 80's

Hello Ferguson

These are my tools

I'm going to open you up and see what's inside you, how can I fix your plug. Stella fell for him instantly.

That is some beautiful Circuitry you have there.

And all those fabulous cables!

you re soooo dirty!

BISH BASH BOSH (rewired a plug with a 3 AMP fuse- thank you engineer bf)

KAPOW! He's ON IT! Hotter than ever Ferguson, hotter than EVER!

Baird

Baird from MWX on Vimeo.

CRIT

NUMBER ONE

this is how I set up my desk at the first crit to present my work and try to communicate my i.d.e.a.s. I am going to post soon my photographs but they are mostly analogue so I am going to have to scan them all in first! Watch this space, they're a comin! The bottom image is a little readymade sculpture I created with a mirror, an LCD screen from a TV and some computer keyboard keys!

"Psychosexual"

Photos from Alan Bond and Quins ....... exhibition at Grays!

scary stuff.

Facebook 'to seek consent for privacy changes'

Facebook's founder, Mark Zuckerberg, has defended its privacy policies

Privacy campaigners have welcomed a report that Facebook is to ask users to opt into any changes in the way it uses their personal information.

The social network previously announced alterations to its members' settings without asking for fresh consent.

The website is changing its policy after an investigation by the US Federal Trade Commission, according to a report by the Wall Street Journal.

Facebook is not commenting on the story at this time.

The report suggests the site has also agreed to privacy audits by an independent organisation over the next 20 years.

However, it says the FTC does not prescribe how consent should be obtained.

Suspicion

"Facebook has historically been extremely resistant to transparency in its own operations, so we welcome measures that would force the company to obtain express consent of its users," said the London based advocacy group Privacy International.

"However, it seems likely that the FTC's demands will only present a temporary obstacle in the path of Facebook's ambitions to collect its users' information.

"Faced with reams of small print, most users are likely to automatically agree to policy changes, with each change bringing us one step closer to Zuckerberg's vision of a privacy-free future."

The website's founder, Mark Zuckerberg, was questioned about the firm's privacy policies on the US television network PBS' Charlie Rose show earlier this week.

"You have control over every single thing you've shared on Facebook," he said, "You can take it down."

He also said other search engines and advertising networks gathered "huge amount of information" about internet users through cookies, which he claimed was "less transparent than what is happening at Facebook".

Users are not social networking sites' primary customers, advertisers and marketers are”

End Quote Andrew Charlesworth University of Bristol

Complaints

The FTC's intervention is being linked to the Washington-based campaign group, Electronic Privacy Information Center (EPIC).

It filed a complaint with the commission in December 2009 claiming that privacy setting changes "violate user expectations, diminish user privacy and contradict Facebook's own representations".

EPIC noted that the website's users, security experts and others had voiced opposition to the change.

The organisation filed a follow-up complaint in 2010 claiming the social network had violated consumer protection law.

This year, EPIC also asked the FTC to investigate Facebook's use of facial recognition software on users' uploaded photographs and changes that gave the firm "far greater ability to disclose the personal information of its users to its business partners".

Knock-on effects

Facebook says it has more than 800 million members who have used the site at least once in the past 30 days.

The Reuters news agency recently reported that the site's revenues totalled $1.6bn (£1bn) in the first six months of the year thanks to its popularity with advertisers.

Facebook does not release detailed results as it is not a publicly traded company, although there is speculation it will float its stock in 2012.

Legal experts say any settlement with the FTC is likely to have implications for other internet firms.

"Users are not social networking sites' primary customers, advertisers and marketers are," said Andrew Charlesworth, director of the centre for IT and law at the University of Bristol.

"While the FTC settlement indicates sites must be more open about the ways they make personal data available, and provide users with greater control, Facebook and others will already be rethinking the techniques they use to persuade users to keep their personal data publicly accessible."

songs you love

and then find out that there is an old version!!

The Yardbirds - For Your Love



Chilly - For Your Love



W.K.N.D B.E.A.T.S

Dirty Parafin

Dirty Paraffin-Drip Dry from Cuss on Vimeo.

Love this style!

Experimentation with Film

Hans Richters film reminds me of some of the shapes you can see used in the work of Jaygo Bloom. The music for the piece is by the painter Karel appel whose work I have visited before in at the Cobra museum for contemporary art in Amstelveen, just outside Amsterdam :)



This is a clip from a film called Dreams that money can buy. It's directed by Hans Richter but is made with a collection of fragments from artists working in the avant garde movement. This is Marcel Duchamps input and the music is by John Cage. As you can see Duchamp has used oe of his beautiful optical machines to make this work.



John Whitney Matrix iii. I don't know a lot about this work other than it inspired early computer graphics and Whitney is highly regarded in the pioneering of computer graphics and art.

CHAMPAIGNE VALENTINE

Champagne Valentine/ Black Material Video from Champagne Valentine on Vimeo.

cmd Z

Is it weird that sometimes in my head when I make a mistake,
for example loosing a page in my book because i've accidently
closed it that I think cmd Z ?

Online Performance Art

A new online space. BMW Tate Live: Performance Room

We’re pleased to announce a major new partnership and the first artistic programme created purely for live web broadcast.

BMW Tate Live will be a four-year programme focused on performance and interdisciplinary art. We will launch the programme with BMW Tate Live: Performance Room, a series of artist performances created specifically to be broadcast live online.

Each performance will take place in a dedicated gallery-cum-studio space at Tate Modern, but they will be conceived specifically for the online audience (and there will be no audience physically present in the space). The performances will be filmed and streamed live online, with discussion channels open either during or after the performances, depending on the works. We’re most excited to be moving away from thinking of online streaming as a secondary way of accessing the live programme and to think about it as a primary space in which artists can present work and perform. This format will provide global, online audiences the opportunity to experience new works first-hand in the format they were devised for and also create a space for people to discuss those works directly.

There will be five commissions for BMW Tate Live: Performance Room in 2012, and the first will be by the French choreographer, Jérôme Bel in March. Bel’s work explores the relationship between performer and spectators, and the role of dance within culture, often using humour to break the formality of a traditional theatre setting.

hmmmm.

An artist living in a gallery for the duration of a show is a trope of visual art performance, which left a mark in popular culture portrayals of performance art. Even though these works emphasize considerations of the gallery space, the relationship between the artist and the audience is not always the center of the piece. In the iconic I Love America and America Loves Me, Joseph Beuys was rushed from the airport to a New York gallery in an ambulance and left in an ambulance, leaving the US without having set foot on its soil or conversed with any of the country's residents. Tracy Emin lived in a locked room in a Stockholm gallery as part of Exorcism of the Last Painting I Ever Made in 1996. The audience could only see her naked figure through fish-eye lenses embedded in the walls as she spent her days painting.

In a new project launching November 2, Berlin-based artist Gretta Louw takes this relationship two steps forward, one step back. Like Beuys, she could not be seen at the gallery, but like Emin, she will be viewed through a lens. Twenty-four hours a day for the ten day duration of the show, Louw will be in constant communication with her audience via different online platforms: Skype, Facebook, Twitter, and so forth. The project, Controlling_Connectivity, is described on Art Laboratory Berlin's site,

Controlling_Connectivity uses the pervasiveness of internet-based social networking, as well as the obligation and opportunity for constant connection with these platforms as a paradigm for a severe and systematic disruption of normal, socially accepted patterns of life and interpersonal interaction during a self-documented performance. Taking to its natural extreme the notion that new technologies are increasingly dictating our social interaction, professional life, and have a far reaching effect on many other aspects of daily life, Gretta Louw will complete a durational performance, living in the gallery space in complete isolation except for contact through various social networking sites and the internet.

Reading and hearing about this project, I was surprised that in the decade since JenniCam or weliveinpublic.com (both late 90s lifecasting experiments, but whereas Jennifer Ringley's JenniCam became a cultural phenomenon, Josh Harris's weliveinpublic.com was framed as a conceptual art project and ended citing mental, personal, and financial losses) the culture of constant connectivity was not more critically commented on in the art around me. I can think of numerous examples of direct streaming of performances, liveblogging, constant twitting, etc., but not of many examples of a critical practice that examines these platforms in and of themselves. This is what Louw is hoping to do.

And Louw seems to be in good company these days. Tate Modern is launching BMW Tate Live: Performance Room, a series of artist performances created specifically to be broadcast live online. Catherine Wood, curator of contemporary art/performance at Tate Modern, writes that this initiative marks a shift from thinking of online streaming as "a secondary way of accessing the live program and to think about it as a primary space in which the artists can present work and perform." Again, the actual performance room at Tate will be closed to the public, who will be experiencing the performance directly online. The relationship between performance art and online presence offers so much, that it is about time for it to be further complicated, questioned, and surveyed.

I am going to ask to talk to her online on skype about her work, it's relevant to what i'm doing. I found her article on rhizome.org really good web page and she is related to Art Laboratory Berlin! The Tate website is really good too. Lots of Interesting topics!

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