This saturday (April 26th), I will perform pieces from Meta-Control at the SINK event at Reboot, East Village (map). This is a good summer night of electronic music and visuals. See you if you can make it.
Update: Unfortunately the party was shut down by the police. Devrim Kadirbeyoglu shot and edited a 4 min video (police at the end):
New generation of finance entrepreneurs will be gathering tomorrow (April 12) at the BarCampMoneyNYC 2008 event. It will be an ad-hoc gathering for the people who work in, cover or seek to change the finance industry to share and learn in an open environment. There is sure something about Paul Kedrosky’s signal as New York City being a financial tech startup hub.
I will talk about my recent project MYPOCKET, the personal spending prediction software, and Meta-Markets, an experimental stock market for trading socially networked creative products.
BarCampMoneyNYC Event Details:
Date: April 12, 2008
Time: 9am - 5pm
Venue: Wilson Sonsini Goodrich and Rosati, 1301 Avenue of the Americas (between 52nd & 53rd street), 40th Floor.
Lots happening these days in NYC.
Casey Reas is in town, leading to two exhibitions today at Bitforms and the Pratt Gallery. His new work from the Process series are really nice. Both shows are open through the first week in April.
ABSOLUT QUARTET, an interactive robotic musical installation by Jeff Lieberman and Dan Paluska is currently on display until April 25th at 186 Orchard Street, Lower East Side (map). You can enter a melody through the absolutmachines website, initiating an original and unique piece of music to be played live by the machine in its lower Manhattan home. A short lo-res movie of the piece in action can be seen here: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v
I will do a presentation at Dorkbot-NYC on Wednesday (March 5). I will talk about my recent projects MYPOCKET, the personal spending prediction software (earlier post), and Meta-Markets, an experimental stock market for trading socially networked creative products.
http://transition.turbulence.org/Works/mypocket
http://meta-markets.com
Other presenter Noel Hidalgo will talk about his amazing project the Luck of Seven, an open-source journey around the world documenting free culture, social innovators & global change. I am quiet interested in the discussion on what he says 21st century anthropological view of the personalities in physical / digital world.
http://luckofseven.com
Marie Evelyn will present the Analogous initiative, an organization that seeks to support complexity-driven art and artists. She calls it a sort of “Santa Fe Institute” for the arts.
http://analogousprojects.org
See you if you are around. It is Wednesday 7pm at Location One in Soho.
* The image on top is the stamp I use to mark the predicted receipts of MYPOCKET.
Today I am leaving to Boston to attend the Turbulence Mixed Realities Symposium. It is an exhibition and symposium that explores the convergence—through cyberspace—of real and synthetic places made possible by computers and networks. Well, what is mixed reality?
Mixed Reality is the merging of real and virtual worlds to produce new environments where physical and digital objects can co-exist and interact in real-time.
With the panel participants we’ve done a teleconference session to layout the panel topics. Based on our discussions, panel moderators Gene Koo and Eric Gordon posted the tentative plans on their blogs:
Please participate by asking your own questions in the comments of these blogs. We will try to address them in the panel.
UPDATE
Join the panel in Second Life location (Emerson Island)
Ask and vote questions live at Backchannel
In terms of economy, I think there is no virtual vs. physical separation, they are extensions of each other. Micro-labor on the social web has lots in common with the labor in Second Life and World of Warcraft type environments. I will to raise questions about the closeness of these worlds, discuss how micro-labor relates to micro-politics, bring in pragmatic approaches, and discuss the resonance, as Maurizio Lazzarato puts it, between neo-archaism and hyper-modernity.
RSG is launching a new project, KRIEGSPIEL – Guy Debord’s 1978 “Game of War” produced for computer. They port this forgotten game to a downloadable computer game. Pre-launch LAN party is on Friday, Feb 8 from 7 pm to 10 pm at MTAA’s Brooklyn Studio. I wish I could join the game, but I will be in Boston at this time.
Update: LAN party postponed to today (Feb 22, Friday). Instructions on how to play the game and more info is here:
The announcement:
KRIEGSPIEL
Guy Debord’s 1978 “Game of War”
Produced for computer by RSG
* bring your own laptop *
In 1978 the French Situationist Guy Debord designed and fabricated a board game called “The Game of War.” Thirty years later RSG is resurrecting this largely forgotten game, translating the game instructions from French to Java and releasing it as an online computer game. We explore the contradiction between Debord, a symbol of radical politics and art in 1960s France, and the Napoleonic war game he created. In Debord’s own words the game was the only thing in his entire body of work that had any value. Was it nostalgia, or a vision of things to come?
Founded in 2000, RSG is a collective of programmers and artists working on experimental software products. The Kriegspiel team consists of: Alexander R. Galloway, producer and programming; Carolyn Kane, research; Adam Parrish, programming; Daniel Perlin, sound; DJ /rupture and Matt Shadetek, music; and Mushon Zer-Aviv, design.
* bring your own laptop *
* Image on top is from the RSG website, more images at http://r-s-g.org/kriegspiel/images_300dpi.html
Turbulence MUST raise $25,000 by December 31, 2007.
I’ve been reading and learning from Turbluence for the past 5 years. They not only publish but also organize events and support artists (see the past comissions). Turbulence is unique in their effort and a great motivation for networked arts. We owe them a lot. No need to say, supporting experimental art practice has no monetary return in the “free market economy”. So please support Turbulence if you:
or
You don’t know us but you support experimental practice in the arts… Please PLEDGE NOW!
WHAT TURBULENCE ACCOMPLISHED IN 2007
In addition to an exceptional year of supporting artists through commissions, public events, and our world-renowned resource, Networked Performance, we started a second blog called Networked Music Review (NMR). On it you will find in-depth interviews with sonic artists and musicians; world-wide events highlighted in real time; a “Weekly” post spotlighting interesting works, artists and conversations; a monthly newsletter which summarizes each month’s activities; and much more.
WHAT YOU CAN EXPECT IN 2008
On November 15, NMR began launching fifteen commissioned works, several of which will premiere live at Programmable Media II: Networked Music, a 2-day symposium at Pace University, New York City in April 2008.
In addition to launching 20 commissioned works, other upcoming highlights include Mixed Realities, an exhibition and symposium at Emerson College, winter 2008; and Re(Connecting) the Adamses, a major exhibition co-presented with Greylock Arts (Adams, Massachusetts) and MCLA Gallery 51 (North Adams, Massachusetts), summer 2008.
I’ve been doing a series of events in Istanbul for the last ten days. These include the Terms&Conditions show at the Amber Festival exhibition, lectures on generative and networked arts at Aksanat and Marmara University, Meta-Control performance at the Dugumkume party, and the Networked Arts Workshop at ITU TBT. The last event will be another Meta-Control performance tonight. Then I will fly back to New York.
Tonight we are performing with Özer Yalçinkaya (Klaustro at Myspace), he also put up the flyer below for tonight’s show. See you if you are around.
Check out the iPhone waiting line happening in front of the Apple Store 5th Ave, New York. This is a concrete Long Tail.
I got some live YouTube videos and Flickr streaming.
I will do a performance with Ali Demirel and Richie Hawtin at the Time Warp festival in Mannheim, Germany on April 1st. It will start at 7 am on sunday morning. Yes for the vampires! There will be no lazer shows nor fog machines, just the visual software set we call Meta-Control. Most part of the set is the reincarnation of the Dynamic Compositions I did back in 2003.
Here I put some shots from the software set for now. I’ll post movies and the source code after the show. We’ll also have a DVD of the whole thing including the footage by Demirel. For the reincarnated pieces, the 2003 version of the source code is available in the Dynamic Compositions pages if you want to play now.
UPDATE: Videos
Minus
Ticker
Drops
Master Balance
Walk 1D
Walk 2D
Cell Packing
Stairs
Gridnet
Hoffman Blocks
Surveil
Arb (See the ARB movies)
MYPOCKET del.icio.us/arikan