[iDC] More on Wafaa Bilal and RPI

Tue Mar 18 00:29:22 UTC 2008

I just wanted to add that if anyone has sent a letter to either the  
president
of RPI or to the Mayor regarding either incident, we
are asking for the letters to be CC'ed or forwarded to

freetroyletters at gmail.com

we are attempting to collect them on this blog
http://freetroyletters.wordpress.com

we also have some video doc's up here and may be
putting more up soon:
http://www.youtube.com/user/TroyisFree

best, Dara

On Mar 12, 2008, at 12:29 PM, Andrew Mount wrote:

> See as how Bilal’s work has already employed the web, and the govt  
> have the power to shut down a server if they want to (but they  
> haven't), isn't this an interesting example of the precious power  
> of physicality? The web has just as much ability to operate the  
> motors that object-based art does (beauty, scale, etc etc etc), yet  
> in its virtual existence, its not seen as such an immediate threat.
> There has just been a far more overt, related circumstance of  
> censorship in Kosovo that seemed to express to me as I read through  
> it the physicality of art, and the difference this brings up.
> Hmmm.
> BTW, yes, gophers all around. Moles just get killed by cats.
> Regards
> A
>
> On 3/12/08 10:28 AM, "Simon Biggs" <s.biggs at eca.ac.uk> wrote:
>
>> No gopher’s in Scotland. Some moles. They also have an  
>> appropriately rhizomic-like existence. Perhaps this is an example  
>> of rhizomic curating. The project could take it title from that  
>> connection (eg: Gopher)?
>>
>> Regards
>>
>> Simon
>>
>>
>> On 12/3/08 14:19, "Pauline Oliveros" <paulineo at deeplistening.org>  
>> wrote:
>>
>>> Great idea Simon!
>>>
>>> Popping up like gophers everywhere
>>>
>>> Thanks,
>>>
>>> PO
>>>
>>> On Wed, Mar 12, 2008 at 5:26 AM, Simon Biggs <s.biggs at eca.ac.uk>  
>>> wrote:
>>>> What about turning the show into an exercise in urban guerilla  
>>>> curating. If possible, open the show in a different venue every  
>>>> night. If the authorities close it down it doesn't matter as it  
>>>> will be opening somewhere else the next day. If they impound the  
>>>> work then you have made your point that this is a clear case of  
>>>> political censorship, which I imagine a good lawyer could turn  
>>>> into an interesting case. It also means you can have an opening  
>>>> bash every night.
>>>>
>>>> Regards
>>>>
>>>> Simon
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> On 11/3/08 21:43, "Brian Holmes" <brian.holmes at wanadoo.fr> wrote:
>>>>
>>>>> Hello everyone -
>>>>>
>>>>> Thanks to all of you who wrote back (and especially, who wrote  
>>>>> to RPI
>>>>> president Jackson) about this clash. Now you should know the  
>>>>> latest:
>>>>> Wafaa Bilal's show has been restaged in the nearby Sanctuary for
>>>>> Independent Media and guess what? The police has closed it on a
>>>>> building code technicality.
>>>>>
>>>>> See:
>>>>> http://thesanctuaryforindependentmedia.org
>>>>>
>>>>> And for a complete strory of the affair with links:
>>>>> http://thesanctuaryforindependentmedia.org/node/120
>>>>>
>>>>> All of this is going very far and looks like a true case of  
>>>>> hysteria.
>>>>> The symbolic gap between a cosmopolitan outlook able to  
>>>>> understand what
>>>>> is going on from an Iraki point of view and a pure America first
>>>>> rejection of anything foreign is frightening to behold.
>>>>>
>>>>> Your support still matters.
>>>>>
>>>>> best, Brian
>>>>>
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