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Pablo of the blog Centre For the Aesthetic Revolution put together a nice list of independent art schools in Latin and South America, you can read it here. I thought his list could be a useful resource for our readers. If there are other programs in the region missing from his list, feel free to post them below in the comments section. via http://rhizome.org/editorial/3122
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Article from Liberation, 25 November 2009. How false evidence was obtained and/or manufactured..
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The Chto Delat platform unites artists, philosophers, social researchers, activists, and all those whose aim is the collaborative realization of critical and independent research, publication, artistic, educational and activist projects. All of the platforms initiatives are based on the principles of selforganization and collectivism. These principles are realized through the political coordination of working groupsthe contemporary analogue of soviets.
The projects undertaken by any of these groups represent the entire platform and are closely coordinated with one another. At the same time, the existence of the platform creates a common context for interpreting the projects of its individual participants. We are likewise guided by the principle of solidarity. We organize and support mutual assistance networks with all grassroots groups who share the principles of internationalism, feminism, and equality.
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Agamben chimes in:
"Being president of the University of California is like being manager of a cemetery: there are many people under you, but no one is listening."
-UC President Mark Yudof
"Capital is dead labor which, vampire-like, lives only by sucking living labor."
-Karl Marx
"Politics is death that lives a human life."
-Achille MbembeYes, very much a cemetery. Only here there are no dirges, no prayers, only the repeated testing of our threshold for anxiety, humiliation, and debt. The classroom just like the workplace just like the university just like the state just like the economy manages our social death, translating what we once knew from high school, from work, from our family life into academic parlance, into acceptable forms of social conflict.
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DMLcentral.net is the online presence for the Digital Media and Learning Research Hub located at the systemwide University of California Humanities Research Institute and hosted at the UC Irvine campus. We think digital media practices are fundamentally reshaping society in far-reaching ways, especially in how people all around the world are learning and connecting with one another.
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With this venture, Burak and Engin have developed User Labor Markup Language (ULML), an XML format for determining the value of online activity, interaction and connectivity. The project neatly dovetails with other web initiatives like Data Portability and OpenSocial but moves beyond discussions about online identity and data ownership into the realm of quantifying the value of user contributions to web services.
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SCARY: Nebul.us is a new startup focusing on revealing the online activities of users through the interactive visualization of Internet usage patterns in real-time. It aims to become a social site for sharing content with friends (or to the public at large), or a productivity enhancing site for figuring out how one is spending time online.
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This interview with Maurizio Lazzarato (ML) was conducted on 27 November 2008 by Brian Massumi (BM) and Erin Manning (EM). It is reposted from "Micropolitics: Exploring Ethico-Aesthetics," Inflexions: A Journal for Research-Creation, No. 3. October 2009.
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Los Angeles Nomadic Division (LAND) is a non-profit art organization founded in 2009 by Director Shamim M. Momin, former contemporary curator at the Whitney Museum of American Art, and board member Christine Y. Kim, Associate Curator of Contemporary Art at the Los Angeles County Museum of Modern Art (LACMA).
INTERVIEW
CHRISTINA MCPHEE
Throughout the ’80s, Christina McPhee used drawing and painting to investigate landscape and its relationship to time through work at archaeological and geological sites. By the mid-’90s, she began new media explorations of human technology and the environment by mining traumatic memory patterns and what they might uncover about geomorphologies in sites such as the San Andreas Fault. Her current exhibition Tesserae of Venus at Silverman Gallery in San Francisco imagines a world simultaneously on the verge of destruction and regeneration. Videos of alternative energy facilities at dawn on the edges of cities—as well as her richly layered photo montages and drawings—inspire consideration of what she describes as “bastard spaces,” places we will reimagine in order to survive the coming carbon storm, when atmospheric carbon concentration exceeds limits beyond our control.
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The Stanford University Libraries, in association with the Estate of R. Buckminster Fuller, welcome you to this digital collection designed to support use and study of the audio-visual materials from the historic Fuller Collection at Stanford University.
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The next Research Architecture Roundtable (http://roundtable.kein.org/) will take place 12-13 December 2009 in Antwerp. It is held in conjunction with the exhibition/ciné club, Of A People Who Are Missing: On films by Danièle Huillet & Jean-Marie Straub, curated by Florian Schneider and Annett Busch running from 13 November – 20 December (http://www.extracity.org/en/projects/view/51).
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Filmmakers Silvia Maglioni and Graeme Thomson have edited a special trailer of their feature film "Facs of Life" (2009) which seeks traces of a Deleuzian pedagogy in the bodies, voices and life trajectories of a number of his former students.
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Since it is the system that ratifies the product—ipso facto, no one outside the community of experts is qualified to rate the value of the work produced within it—the most important function of the system is not the production of knowledge. It is the reproduction of the system
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40th anniversary of the first stirrings of the internet