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Sep

NEW WORK

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Categories: Event

OK, this blog thing has become totally backlogged with all the newer work I’ve been doing, so rather than re-doing the whole thing at the moment (which needs to happen), I thought I’d just send an update full of links and information.

Happening right now:

DAREDX - a tactical media project for the electromagnetic spectrum.

at DARE-DARE

Cabot Square

Montreal, QC

August 29th - September 21st

5-9pm (except mondays)

Sundays Conferences and Workshops

for more information, please see:

http://radio.dare-dare.org

Office of Spectral Ecology

Public Installation of the Office

at: Oboro

4001 Berri

Montreal, QC

part of the group show “Amplified Intimacies” organized by the Interstices Lab at Hexagram

PDF

and see the Office of Spectral Ecology website.

PARIS-QUEBEC

94 rue Jean-Pierre Timbaud

75011 Paris

September 22nd - 25th

I’ve got a bunch of things happening there:

Oroborous (premiere) of a new generative installation for screen.

PULSE (short version) performance, documented all over the place on this site.

and PULSE in the Optofonica Capsule

more details here: http://www.maisondesmetallos.org/Paris-Quebec-Carte-blanche-a.html

Then, I’m taking a holiday.

Mar

SCATTER! Documentation

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Categories: Spectrum and projects

At long last, an update! I’ve been starting to store vids on the vimeo website, they seem to pay close attention to video quality and it’s a far cry from most of what one sees on You Tube. Below is the video - there is lots of info on the video page…

SCATTER! @ AV Festival 2008 from delray on Vimeo.

Dec

The Telecom Trotskyites

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Categories: Media, Spectrum and technology

Looks like we’re all quite a thorn to the big business folks. I actually really like this article - it says allot about the folks we’re fighting on the issue. How can someone actually think that if they downloaded an ‘itune’ that the only place you should be allowed to listen is on your ipod? well here’s to the converts that I hope the article makes.

The Telecom Trotskyites

Dec

CANADIANS Tomorrow is your best chance to fight the Canadian DMCA Event in Calgary, national phone-in - Boing Boing

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Categories: Media and privacy

On BoinBoing this am (via Michael Geist’s Blog)
Let’s do it people. If this passes, it would mean a huge infringement on our fair use rights by corporations that are too greedy to see that they are dinosaurs in the digital media age. They are simply too worried that they wont be able to overcharge for media, and get away with only paying the artist involved a tiny percentage. I wont even get into the ideas around appropriation and culture. See Craig Baldwin’s Sonic Outlaws for what is likely to be the best filmic renditions of its importance.

CANADIANS Tomorrow is your best chance to fight the Canadian DMCA Event in Calgary, national phone-in - Boing Boing
Not in Calgary? NO PROBLEM Plan on calling the Minister tomorrow or on dropping him an email, expressing your regrets that you cant attend the open house, but letting him know how you feel. Here are the numbers:

Ottawa office - 613 992-4275
Calgary office - 403 216-7777
Minister office - 613 995-9001

His email address is: Prentice.J@parl.gc.ca. Once you send an email, print it out and mail it no stamp needed to:

Jim Prentice
House of Commons
Parliament Buildings
Ottawa, Ontario
K1A 0A6

Dec

What can you do? Canadian DMCA threat

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Categories: Media

I hope you all have been keeping up with Canada’s incoming copyright bill - rather than me rewrite it all here, I thought I would just give you a slew of links so you could catch up. Basically I’ll tell you this - Jim Prentice (Industry Minister), has stated that no matter how many questions concerned citizens send to him, he will not answer them. He’s likely a bit scared, as the last two Ministers who have tried to introduce this bill have lost their jobs. Under Harper, it appears that Canada has given in to just towing the line to US business interests. It’s really sad.

“(It will) put digital locks on our computers, cellphones, iPods, other gadgets and tools and, ultimately, our culture” -Copyright lawyer Howard Knopf (link)

CBC’s Search Engine Coverage
Ten Question for Jim Prentice
What you can do according to Michael Giest
(ala video)