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by ws＠thing.net 16 Mar '13

16 Mar '13

http://www.theverge.com/2013/3/15/4104494/the-thing-reloaded-bringing-bbs-n…

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Video of panel discussion at the New Museum of Contemporary Art
by w 13 Mar '13

13 Mar '13

The Internet Before The Web: Preserving Early Networked Cultures http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Pn5C-fJv60M' Panel discussion at the New Museum of Contemporary Art, featuring Archivist and historian Jason Scott, and Wolfgang Staehle founder of The Thing BBS in conversation with Digital Conservator Ben Fino-Radin

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another blast from the past...
by w 03 Mar '13

03 Mar '13

http://www.newmuseum.org/calendar/view/the-internet-before-the-web-preservi…

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16 Feb '13

http://vine.co/v/brA3wa9qbmF

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post propaganda
by w 03 Feb '13

03 Feb '13

just like the gallic village of asterix and obelix, the url http://post.thing.net still exists, a stubborn and outdated shabby place, wedged somewhere in-between the evil empires of facebook and twitter. most of the time its habitues are either asleep, eat wild boar cutlets, are busy with other stuff or simply too hung-over to make much noise. sometimes however, the one or the other feels the urge to raise his or her voice and opine on some matters of concern. then i dutifully go in, fix the broken image links and promote the creed to the front page. Alan Moore on "Art Writing: Why Do They Do It?" at http://post.thing.net/node/4050 Joseph Nechvatal's personal reminiscence of David Wojnarowicz at http://post.thing.net/node/4086 during times of data-mining empires it is generally a good thing to keep a low profile, a fake profile or no profile at all. let's keep it that way until the time is ripe to drink the magic potion and throw some hefty menhirs at the occupiers! until then, keep your ears stiff and make sure troubadix keeps his mouth shut. wolfgang

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REGISTRATION is open for 'besides the screen' conference, workshops, screenings, and performances
by adnan hadzi 09 Nov '12

09 Nov '12

dear all, 'besides the screen' (bts) 2012 will be held in london, around goldsmiths college and the dekspace media lab, from november 29 to december 2. the full programme of the 'besides the screen' 2012 international conference is now online, please visit: http://bts.re. we are happy to announce that the registrations for the 'besides the screen' conference, workshops, screenings, and performances are now open. please visit: http://www.bts.re/node/133 (note that places on the workshops are limited, thus please add your name to the waitinglist). bts is an event about the continuing transformation of audiovisual media practices. the 2012 edition will have a number of panels, workshops and screenings – plus keynotes by professor janet harbord (queen mary university) and dr. charlotte crofts (uwe-bristol). check http://www.bts.re/node/133 in order to register for these activities. you are also invited to submit film, video, performance and installation projects for a special night coordinated by 'exploding cinema', please visit: http://explodingcinema.org. the conference is supported by the goldsmiths’ and middlesex' media & comms research funds.

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3D Karaoke
by G.H. Hovagimyan 22 Sep '12

22 Sep '12

Hi All, I've developed an open source app for use with 2 kinect cameras. It's a 3D Karaoke app. Right now it uses two cameras and processing. you add the karaoke songs and lyrics separately and put in the time code for the lyrics. it uses mesh lab as the 3D matrix. It can be developed further and is actually a good basis to develop lots of other live 3D video. Here's the link for the repository -- https://github.com/pixelPalace/3DKaraoke It's a lot of fun for parties! Still to be done is to add a 3rd camera. seems like the kinect software needs a separate USB bus for each camera. It won't work if two or three cameras are plugged into a USB hub on a single bus. The most I could get are two cameras. If anyone is interested in working with me to develop this further or take it in a different direction please contact me or grab the app and have fun with it! G.H. Hovagimyan http://nujus.net/~gh http://artistsmeeting.org http://turbulence.org/Works/plazaville

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Art Books with stolen YouTube comments up for sale on Amazon Kindle. KINDLE'VOKE GHOST WRITERS Press Release.
by verlag＠traumawien.at 09 Jun '12

09 Jun '12

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE Vienna, 9 June 2012. *KINDLE'VOKE GHOST WRITERS.* A project by TRAUMAWIEN and Bernhard Bauch. 2011-2012. Our bots are compiling and uploading hundreds of ebooks on Amazon.com with text stolen from the comments on YouTube videos. http://www.amazon.com/Sparta-my-have-ebook/dp/B007MLJZSS/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8… http://www.amazon.com/Wierd-song-you-cute-ebook/dp/B007MMCYIU/ref=sr_1_1?ie… http://www.amazon.com/Wierd-song-you-cute-ebook/dp/B007MMCYIU/ref=sr_1_1?ie… We programmed the bots to be completely autonomous. They are working uninterrupted through dislocated, anonymized accounts. We are not even able to track the exact amount of generated books infiltrating the Amazon Kindle library. The results are self-published, human-readable ebooks in form of classical dramas ready to be sold and enjoyed by a multitude of global readers, defining a new generative genre of digital literature: the 'slang of Youtube' - a digital Esperanto that emerged out of millions of users worldwide. The Internet slang of YouTube comments is treated as fresh dialogue, and sold through Amazon.com in the form of massive, self-generated e-books. In an auto-cannibalistic model, user generated content is sold back to the users themselves, parasitically exploiting both corporations: YouTube and Amazon. The KINDLE'VOKE GHOST WRITERS project's aim is to address and identify pertinent questions concerning the digital publishing industry's business models, as well as to draw the lines of new trends for a possible new kind of digital literature, after the web. The project wants to raise questions like: who do YouTube videos/comments belong to? Where does authorship start and end? To what extent does the e-book format have to be reconsidered with regard to the traditional book form, and what are its most innovative opportunities? How could we act and work on it? Furthermore, this project explores the idea of exploitation of labor on web platforms to create or comment on attractive content. So-called "user generated content" is a product created and consumed in the exchange of free labor managed with surplus information overflow. Giant Internet corporations exploit people's ingenuity by trading contextual advertising. Users are the workers of a communication-junk factory, whose bytes are consumed by the producers themselves. By manipulating this exploitation, our system will give fair fame to the authors of those texts that clearly deserve a fair piece of the pie of this nonsense economy. The project will presented in Vienna, on June 26, 2012. At Kandinsky Lerchenfelderstrasse 70 1070 Vienna 20h. A discussion will follow. http://goo.gl/maps/Xgyu Thanks for the attention. TRAUMAWIEN, Luc Gross http://traumawien.at/ghostwriters http://facebook.com/traumawien http://twitter.com/traumawien

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The Thing@VON presents an evening with Joshua Thorson
by w 12 Apr '12

12 Apr '12

dear thingsters, after a longer hiatus, the thing's monday screenings resume at a new location. we are very happy to have found a new place in the basement of VON at bleecker and bowery. i will be traveling in europe for a while longer, but i am confident shelly, cassandra, caspar and harold can manage without me. best wishes, wolfgang ----snip---------- The Thing@VON presents an evening with Joshua Thorson Where? VON, 3 Bleecker Street (at Bowery) When? Monday April 16th, 7:30 Joshua Thorson is an artist, curator, and writer. His work has been exhibited in numerous venues. His recent essay on Lisa Steele’s narrative works will appear in the forthcoming DVD box set of her work from Vtape in Toronto. In addition to his dissertation projects, Thorson has been working on a body of short fiction. Screening: Rock and a Hard Place, 2006, 22" (Color, Stereo, 4:3, DVcam and VHS video). One night in New York, not long after 9/11, a friend gave me a New Yorker article about some events that took place in mid-‘90s; the article was titled “Virtual Love” and was written by Tad Friend. The story was everything that troubled me about what had happened after identity politics took hold in the 1990s, leaving in its wake a compartmentalized, quarantined, impotent struggle between individuals who answer to no one–where victims are suspect. The script is adapted from an amalgam of articles, media, and online information regarding a boy named Anthony Godby Johnson, author of the “best-selling” memoir, A Rock and a Hard Place. (Coincidentally, as I finished this tape, the J.T. Leroy phenomenon broke). Protest Rushes, 2009, 3" (Color, Silent, 4:3, Super8 transferred to DV video). Part of an ongoing project of filming, on Super8, one-person protests of seemingly innocuous locations or phenomenon that comprise the banal failures of every day life. New Testament, 2007, 20" (Color, Stereo, 16:9, HDV video). Near the end of Bush’s presidency, I desperately wanted to be able to think about the future again. This video is about the use and abuse of the idea of “Christ” by politicians who distort the basic ideas and teachings into their image of a capitalist society of control, and how ridiculously impossible that is; it is just as much about how race has been manipulated for political purposes. In this video, the black Christ figure continuously escapes control towards..... Is that Isis? The script is loosely based on two texts by D.H. Lawrence, among his last works, Apocalypse and The Man Who Died, while keeping in mind Philip K. Dick’s Valis trilogy. Divorce 2.0, 2010, 14" (Color, Stereo, 16:9, HD animation and DVcam video). I developed this piece out of a one-paragraph “news-of-the-weird” article that was in the New York Post. I wasn’t entirely sure why I saved this article until I began to think about how I hover around my laptop at certain times during the day, checking messages or email or the news or blogs or Facebook, whatever–the way that I circle the computer, come in for a dive, leave the room, come back, leave again, return... And how easy it is to lash out online at someone I’ve never seen, or simply delete a person from my world or change my preferences to hide them from view. What are the consequences of friendship reconfigured as a digital apparition and its inherent disposability? Horizon, 2011, 13" (Color, Stereo, 16:9, High-8 video transferred to web transferred to HD video). In 1982 EPCOT Center, or, the Experimental Prototype Community of Tomorrow, opened–a little late in for such a utopic modernist project. It featured a ride called “Horizons,” which was sponsored by G.E, that showed a future in which technology and innovation coupled with the family unit would evolve into exciting and previously unimaginable territories–colonies in outer space and under the Earth’s oceans, etc. In 2000, the ride was demolished. Sometimes I nostalgically mourn the passing of the Modern moment, especially in terms of architecture and its desire to think the future, even if, as was the case for G.E.’s “Horizons,” it was all just a manipulative corporate ruse. The story in the video was written to loosely accompany the archival video footage of the ride. Masturbation in Space (collab. with Mike Harringer), 2011, 4" (Color, Stereo, 16:9, HD Animation and Mpeg video). This video, commissioned by Suzie Silver for her Strange Attractors project, is a collaboration between myself and Mike Harringer, who I met at a book fair in 2009. Harringer recounts an extra-terrestrial abduction that followed a humorous late-night conversation he had with his boyfriend about Whitley Streiber and Christopher Walken. Harringer's story is accompanied by CGI video sequences that vaguely illustrate Harringer’s story about auto-eroticism-as-performance for curious, sex-positive alien anthropologists.

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Re: [thingist] Baby-Boomers' Cowardice
by w 19 Mar '12

19 Mar '12

> On Sun, 2012-03-18 at 14:19 +0000, pffend Fend wrote: > the complete lack of spine of the US military about the disgraceful > act of a soldier gone, they say, "amok"; the least we could do would > be a court-martial of the soldier and, as Wolfgang pointed out, his > commanding officers Peter, that's not exactly what I meant. The commanding general actually has been trying to calm down his troops, as Robert Fisk observed in a recent article: http://www.independent.co.uk/opinion/commentators/fisk/robert-fisk-madness-… What I meant was the _systemic madness_ of a stupid neo-colonial war that cannot be won. Who wants to be the last one to die for this idiocy? There are some good reasons Afghanistan has been called the graveyard of empires. So far, nobody but Ghengis Khan managed to stay there for any length of time. Meanwhile, here in downtown New York, one the occasion of the half-anniversary of the OWS movement, some people congregated at Zucotti Park. I decided to exercise my constitutional right to free assembly and joined them in the evening. When I arrived, a crowd of perhaps 500 peaceful people were hanging out. While chatting with some old friends (Rene Gabri was there and some people from the Mayan Spring Training), I noticed a disproportionate force of NYPD troopers massing on the eastern side of the park. Then, without giving any reason (the park ostensibly has 24 hours public access, so the assembly was perfectly legal) they suddenly announced with a bullhorn that they were going to clear the park and if we wouldn't leave immediately we'd be subject to arrest. Some people sat down and the cops moved in with drawn batons and started arresting people. Those who didn't move were dragged away by force and loaded into waiting vans. Let's face it, the US is a failed state, run by a gang of thieves out of 200 West Street, the one thing Alessio Rastani was right about. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aC19fEqR5bA If you try to reason with them, you look like Kermit the frog. Nothing left but to join the occupation. Have a nice day, Wolfgang

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