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Archive for March, 2007
March 24, 2007 at 2:19 pm · Filed under news, media, vj, audio, diy, software, hardware, network, theory
Después de una larga ausencia low-electronico regresa a la red completamente actualizado y con mejor información para todos aquellos interesados en la cultura de los nuevos medios. En esta ocasión el proyecto se une a Open:América una iniciativa desarrollada en el centro de arte y tecnología: Eyebeam, la cual se enfoca en la difusión de información open source para Latinoamérica.
El lanzamiento del nuevo sitio será la primera semana de abril.
Que es esto de low-electronico?
Low Electrónico es un Index virtual que integra proyectos de medios digitales y análogos, así como tutoriales y textos de teoría en medios, como un modo de fortalecer y ampliar los margenes de conocimiento de todos los involucrados en esta sociedad de intercambio libre y gratuito. Creemos que la información es un bien colectivo, y que se debe permitir y propiciar el flujo libre del conocimiento para que éste pueda ser procesado y tranformado hasta convertirse en un proceso cultural activo y no en un sistema de elite exclusivo.
Low Electrónico es una red de de CoLabs (Colectivos y Laboratorios) e individuos relacionados con las prácticas de producción digital. Nuestro fin no es imponer un formato de apreciación y comprensión de la cultura digital actual, el objetivo es servir como plataforma para la generación de redes que reflejen los avances y procesos de este nuevo esquema en constante transformación. El conociemiento es una vez más el arma impresindible para librar la batalla en la era de la globalización y el mercado capitalista. Nos unimos intimamente a la visión del Open Source y las tecnologías DIY (Do It Yourself) como artistas y como individuos en busca de nuevas formas de relación y de intercambio.
March 17, 2007 at 5:03 pm · Filed under news, net, network
“Architecture or Revolution. Revolution can be avoided.” Le Corbusier, Vers une Architecture, 1923
Le Corbusier had it all wrong.
One billion people live in abject poverty. Four billion live in fragile but growing economies. One in seven people live in slum settlements. By 2020 it will be one in three. We don’t need to choose between architecture or revolution. What we need is an architectural revolution.
The U.N. Millennium Development Goals aim to “achieve improvement in the lives of 100 million slum dwellers by the year 2015.” Reaching this goal will require a profoundly new approach to improving the built environment.
The Open Architecture Network aims to be just such a catalyst for change.
What is the Open Architecture Network?
The Open Architecture Network is an online, open source community dedicated to improving living conditions through innovative and sustainable design. Here designers of all persuasions can:
• Share their ideas, designs and plans
• View and review designs posted by others
• Collaborate with each other, people in other professions and community leaders to address specific design challenges
• Manage design projects from concept to implementation
• Communicate easily amongst team members
• Protect their intellectual property rights using the Creative Commons “some rights reserved” licensing system and be shielded from unwarranted liability
• Build a more sustainable future
March 16, 2007 at 10:53 am · Filed under news, live, installation, diy, circuit bent, hardware
Make zine presenta la edición 2007 de su festival. la convocatoria para enviar proyectos diy, hardware, bent asi como workshops o presentaciones en vivo vence el 18 marzo , la forma de suscripción la pueden encontrar en el siguiente link.
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March 16, 2007 at 10:31 am · Filed under news, media, live, installation, diy, network
“unDEAF is an uncurated, unmoderated, self-organizational online and offline ecosystem where the content and development is driven and created by the participants. Your work will not be judged, or restricted by a theme, neither it has to be finalized. unDEAF is self-organized. You organize and promote your own event, whether an art piece, a performance, a talk, a workshop, a meal, a song, a party or other as-yet-undefined events.”
To participate, you just have to announce your event on their website and show up in “person or avatar” from 10th to 15th of April. If you’d like to help them organize it, they might even have accommodation for you as well.
Call for participation.
March 7, 2007 at 1:23 pm · Filed under news, theory
Jean Baudrillard (1929-2007)
On Tuesday, March 6, French theorist Jean Baudrillard passed away. Trained as a sociologist, Baudrillard put his knack for observing society and its engagement with mass media to work as a philosopher. His writings on television, video, and electronic mediation placed him among the earliest writers to have been called ‘media theorists,’ and after publishing approximately thirty books and many more essays, he is certainly one of the field’s most prolific. Baudrillard pioneered the notion of ‘hyperreality,’ and his theories on simulation and simulacra are often employed in contemporary analyses of new media art. Baudrillard was also an active photographer whose art career was overshadowed by his academic celebrity, but whose creativity was nevertheless reflected in his writings on the ‘ecstacy’ and ’seduction’ of the media. While his writing on the ‘political economy’ at play in semiotic exchange leaned slightly toward abstraction, he was steadfastly attentive to the real. He authored outspoken essays on AIDS, the Gulf War, the Rushdie affair, cloning, and other politicized issues. Baudrillard’s more recent, albeit controversial writings about the nature of terrorism plumbed at contemporary western morality and boldly scrutinized the fear manufactured and perpetuated within networked society. He died in Paris, at the age of 77. - Marisa Olson
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