ideacritik

i am currently looking into the 'art of collecting'...

Libellés : collection

a successful performance of little red riding hood by the aether9 crew at the tenderpixel gallery film festival

i streamed my performance from perte de signal's graciously provided studio... :)


still from performance :

Libellés : aether9, performance, tenderpixel

currently working away @ perte-de-signal in hometown montreal...

Libellés : artist space, montreal, perte de signal

Microsoft Word documents can use macros, which can potentially carry macro viruses. To minimize this possibility dissable macro support...

then i find these instructions:

"Word 2007 uses a feature called the Trust Center to manage macro security settings."

trust center?! hahaha

link to a sped up version of the last aether9 performance @ mapping festival in geneva

little red riding hood @ Mapping

Libellés : aether9, performance

Libellés : crash, mac

Libellés : ETC, tech

During /ETC - Lambdaistanbul was ‘shut-down’. On Thursday the 28th of May, the local court in Istanbul announced its judgment for Lambdaistanbul LGBT Solidarity Association to be shut down. The City Government of Istanbul has claimed the association’s statute to be against the law and public morality.

/ETC decided to have a benefit party for Lambdaistanbul at Vrankrijk that same evening.


Some links about it in the news about the case:

German media:
[About lambda istanbul]
Deutschlandradio:
-dradio.de
-ondemand-mp3.dradio.de

[About the closing of it]
Agence France Presse
Tageszeitung:
-der lange weg zur toleranz
-gegen die moral der tuerkei
Tagesspiegel
Online Austrian newspaper dieStandard

Libellés : Lambdaistanbul

Stream on Giss.tv server
Chat server and channel: irc.indymedia.org #etc

Libellés : /etc, amsterdam, festival, stream, tech

...along with pieces by Walter Langelaar (Netherlands), Tsila Hassine (Israel), Shahee Ilyas (Maldives), Nancy Mauro-Flude (Australia) in a show called GPS at the blaak10 gallery in Rotterdam.

Libellés : blaak10, exhibition, threads

Libellés : /etc, amsterdam, tech

the keyboard toilet installation ...
conjured up during the wee hours of the morn?...

am presently installing 'spectres?' at ESC im labor in graz (A). apart from the occasional ardour 'buffer writing' (?) bug, a PMS-ing transmitter, and the austrian mood altering pressure changing wind called 'fön', it's lovely here!
recounts of mourning are currently being transmitted in the space, fine-tuning. opening tomorrow along with book presentation: 'new feminism', and performance by Matahari.
pictures/short clip to come...

La Presse Canadienne

MORIN HEIGHTS - Le toit d'un entrepôt situé sur la même rue que l'édifice qui s'est effondré la semaine dernière à Morin Heights, dans les Laurentides, faisant 3 morts, s'est lui aussi affaissé jeudi, en raison du poids de la neige.

Heureusement, il n'y a eu aucun blessé. Le propriétaire du bâtiment, qui avait été partiellement déneigé, y entreposait de la ferraille.

Pendant ce temps, la ville de Morin Heights a remis des avis de déneigement à plus d'une vingtaine de citoyens. Depuis la tragédie du 12 mars, le service des incendies a effectué une inspection de toutes les toitures.

festival de la imagen 18 april - Columbia
+
mapping festival 19 april - Switzerland

and am currently preparing to bring spectres? to ESC Gallery in Graz, (A).

(on est dans le jus! ;)

.
LE CHÊNE ET LE ROSEAU

Le chêne un jour dit au roseau:
«Vous avez bien sujet d'accuser la nature;
Un roitelet pour vous est un pesant fardeau;
Le moindre vent qui d'aventure
Fait rider la face de l'eau,
Vous oblige à baisser la tête.
Cependant que mon front, au Caucase pareil,
Non content d'arrêter les rayons du soleil,
Brave l'effort de la tempête.
Tout vous est aquilon, tout me semble zéphyr.
Encor si vous naissiez à l'abri du feuillage
Dont je couvre le voisinage,
Vous n'auriez pas tant à souffrir:
Je vous défendrai de l'orage;
Mais vous naissez le plus souvent
Sur les humides bords des royaumes du vent.
La nature envers vous me semble bien injuste.
—Votre compassion, lui répondit l'arbuste,
Part d'un bon naturel; mais quittez ce souci:
Les vents me sont moins qu'à vous redoutables;
Je plie, et ne romps pas. Vous avez jusqu'ici
Contre leurs coups épouvantables
Résisté sans courber le dos;
Mais attendons la fin.» Comme il disait ces mots,
Du bout de l'horizon accourt avec furie
Le plus terrible des enfants
Que le nord eût porté jusque là dans ses flancs.
L'arbre tient bon; le roseau plie.
Le vent redouble ses efforts,
Et fait si bien qu'il déracine
Celui de qui la tête au ciel était voisine,
Et dont les pieds touchaient à l'empire des morts.


--------------------

THE OAK AND THE REED

The oak one day address'd the reed:--
'To you ungenerous indeed
Has nature been, my humble friend,
With weakness aye obliged to bend.
The smallest bird that flits in air
Is quite too much for you to bear;
The slightest wind that wreathes the lake
Your ever-trembling head doth shake.
The while, my towering form
Dares with the mountain top
The solar blaze to stop,
And wrestle with the storm.
What seems to you the blast of death,
To me is but a zephyr's breath.
Beneath my branches had you grown,
That spread far round their friendly bower,
Less suffering would your life have known,
Defended from the tempest's power.
Unhappily you oftenest show
In open air your slender form,
Along the marshes wet and low,
That fringe the kingdom of the storm.
To you, declare I must,
Dame Nature seems unjust.'
Then modestly replied the reed:
'Your pity, sir, is kind indeed,
But wholly needless for my sake.
The wildest wind that ever blew
Is safe to me compared with you.
I bend, indeed, but never break.
Thus far, I own, the hurricane
Has beat your sturdy back in vain;
But wait the end.' Just at the word,
The tempest's hollow voice was heard.
The North sent forth her fiercest child,
Dark, jagged, pitiless, and wild.
The oak, erect, endured the blow;
The reed bow'd gracefully and low.
But, gathering up its strength once more,
In greater fury than before,
The savage blast
O'erthrew, at last,
That proud, old, sky-encircled head,
Whose feet entwined the empire of the dead!

Libellés : fable, LaFontaine, roseau

plein de monde qui se prennent pour d'autres et certains autres qui en valent la peine promènent les rues de rotterdam ces jours-ci pour le festival international de film de rotterdam...
IFFR

dans le cadre de ce festival, nous avons organisé une soirée, la première des soirees _numerotées_ ou nous avons eu la chance de recevoir Matterlink pour une performance de 'live cinema' et One Man Nation. details sur le site du poortgebouw. l'ambiance était vraiment nice, et la salle pleine!

Libellés : festival, iffr, Matterlink, onemannation

ah... the xmas breakfast of champions! :)

Libellés : "kraft dinner", canada, xmas

surely a magical weekend with a skyline like that...

view of rotterdam from the willemsbrug (bridge) crossing the maas river (which splits north/south rotterdam)

Libellés : rotterdam, skyline, willemsbrug

danja and i will present the proToytyping workshop @ impakt's zondagschool on 02.12.2007

Libellés : zondagschool

check ca! trop nice. specialement a la fin dans le salon...

am i... offline. sporadic news at best in these 'disconnected' times. (though good for reading!)

last month danja vasiliev and i headed the Protoytyping workshop at Crosslab.




presented my thesis paper at the death and beyond conference...

i was @ (re)Actor2 digital live art showing my threads/ installation.


i was also interviewing women about their relationship to technology to later integrate into the piece. i was lucky enough to meet/interview kathe kollwitz from the guerrilla girls!

august 1-6:
ladyfest berlin - giving another genderchanger style 'build your own website with html' workshop... (hopefully picture to come).

july:
graduated!!!!!!
spectres? presented @ WORM. i now have my MA in media design from the Piet Zwart Institute. yippy skip ////\\\\ ...__|--__-->>><<>>

Libellés : berlin, genderchanger, graduation, ladyfest, pzi, workshop, WORM

a few links as to the happenings:

html/css workshop given by urska and myself:
workshop details
(no photos of this as far as i can tell)

soldering workshop given by yours truly:
a few sizzled boards a small clouds of smoked emerged during this one :)
(below the 'demonstration')

ah, the soldering bliss ... ;)


preparing for the 'polyphonic' performance -- including this time bycicle, sewing machine, digereedoo, megaphone, and of course laptops...


a pitstop homebound in eerie bavaria (würzburg), a sweltering 43 degrees!


tons more photos here

link to the /eclectic tech carnival site

Libellés : /etc, tech, women, workshop