From On the River
- http://www.massobs.org.uk/index.htm The Mass Observation Archive specialises in material about everyday life in Britain. Since 1937.
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Gatherings
- http://www.16beavergroup.org/drift/ conference and program at 16 Beaver
- http://www.uchri.org/page-home.php?page_id=1289&cat_id=2
HASTAC II Second Annual HASTAC Conference MAY 22-24, 2008 University of California, Irvine and University of California, Los Angeles This year's theme is "techno-travels" and explores the multiple ways in which place, movement, borders, and identities are being renegotiated and remapped by new locative technologies. Featuredprojects will delve into mobility as a modality of knowledge and stake out new spaces for humanistic inquiry. How are border-crossings being re-conceptualized, experienced, and narrated in a world permeated by technologies of mobility? How is the geo-spatial web remapping physical geographies, location, and borderlands? How are digital cities interfacing with physical space? How do we move between virtual worlds? And what has become of sites of dwelling and stasis in a world saturated by techno-travels?
This year's conference literalizes and metaphorizes travel, as attendees will participate in sessions at Irvine, Los Angeles, San Diego, and on the connecting corridors of Southern California.
CALL FOR PROPOSALS Deadline: February 25, 2008
Media and Public Space
- http://www.eyebeam.org Eyebeam is an art and technology center that provides a fertile context and state-of-the-art tools for digital research and experimentation. It is a lively incubator of creativity and thought, where artists and technologists actively engage with culture, addressing the issues and concerns of our time. Eyebeam challenges convention, celebrates the hack, educates the next generation, encourages collaboration, freely offers its contributions to the community, and invites the public to share in a spirit of openness: open source, open content and open distribution.
- http://graffitiresearchlab.com/ dedicated to outfitting graffiti artists with open source technologies for urban communication.
Other Collegiate Projects
- http://www.borderculture.org a collaborative course in art and new media between the University of Windsor and the University of Detroit Mercy
- http://www.tentshow.org/ from the Art in Context project at Carnegie Mellon in Pittsburg
Studios
- http://www.municipalworkshop.org/ Richard Saxton and the Municipal workshop are another midwestern project focussed on work in public. Check out the work with bikes and other structures of mobility and assembly.
Spacing
- http://spacing.ca/ - great magazine and website devoted to the hard work of representing spatial issues in Toronto.
- http://spacing.org - space oriented architecture/art projects
- http://www.spaceandculture.org/ great journal on all things about space and why it is so significant in human experience.
Mapping
http://www.waag.org/project/amsterdamrealtime - a project to record people's mental maps of the city of Amsterdam. Done at the Waag society a model project that uses art in relation to public even commercial products."Every citizen of Amsterdam carries an invisible map of the city in his head. The way he moves through the city are determined by this mental map. Amsterdam Real Time 2002 visualizes these maps."
Organizations
- http://www.communityarts.net/ promoting information exchange, research and critical dialogue within the field of community-based art
Texts
- EMPIRE - The Thompson essay from the Interventionists quotes Hardt and Negri's Empire, which was an important resource for a lot of my research last semester. In true anarchist fashion, you can download the whole book online in PDF format. I recommend it: [1] Negri's life is pretty interesting too. --George 15:10, 15 February 2008 (EST)
