open source /copyrights alternative

Bare Code: Net Art and the Free Software Movement

Open Source Publishing Design Tools For Designers

Copyleft attitude The Free Art licence authorises you to freely copy, spread, and transform creative works while respecting the author's rights.

Copyrights: a choice of no-choice for artists and third world countries; the public domain is losing anyway

Licensing: copyright, legal issues, authorship, media work licensing, Creative Commons

OPEN SOURCE COLLECTIVE
Constantvzw
Gender Changer
raqs media collective
metareciclagem

CREATIVE COMMON SOUND AND MOVIE ARCHIVES
PrelingerArchives
freesound archives

Cross atlantic underground cable

Here are a couple of links about the underground cable, since you all were interested in it. The first is a write up of the artist's work and the second is the artist's site.

http://www.we-make-money-not-art.com/archives/2008/01/taryn-simons-talk-at-dld.php
http://www.themorningnews.org/archives/galleries/hidden_and_unfamiliar/03hau.php

Here are the wikipedia entries for this particular one:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/VSNL_Transatlantic_%28cable_system%29

And Transatlantic cable in general:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Transatlantic_telephone_cable

-Ian

Net.art precursors

http://adaweb.walkerart.org/(1994)
http://irational.org/cybercafe/xrel.html(1994) Heath Bunting (England)
http://www.nettime.org/info.html (1995)
Jodi.org (1995) jodi (Spain)
Alexi Shulgin Manifesto(1995) Alexei Shulgin (Russia)
olia Lialina (1996) (Russia)
http://www.ljudmila.org/naps/cnn/cnn.htm (1996) Vuc Cosic (Serbia)
http://www.ljudmila.org/~woelle/lajka/war/(1996) Vuc Cosic (Serbia)
http://www.easylife.org/desktop (1995) Alexei Shulgin (Russia)
http://www.desk.nl/~you/linkx/(1996)Alexei Shulgin (Russia)
Female Extension (1996) Cornelia Solfrank (Gemany)
http://www.irational.org/heath/imaging_natalie/(1997) Heath Bunting (England)
http://bookchin.net/firstTruth/(1997) Natalie Bookchin (USA)
http://www.potatoland.org/(1998) Mark Napier (USA)
http://bookchin.net/intruder/(1999)Natalie Bookchin (USA)

Panel Discussion on Paper Tiger Television

Monday, 18 February at 7:30pm
Lecture Hall
800 Chestnut Street campus
Free and open to the public

In partnership with Pacific Film Archive, the University of San Francisco, Berkeley Community Media, Media Alliance, the Bay Area Video Coalition (BAVC), and SF Access, SFAI is hosting a panel discussion on and celebration of Paper Tiger Television and its nearly thirty years of producing alternative media. Participants include cofounder of Deep Dish Television and long-time Paper Tiger member Martha Wallner and guest respondent Dalida María Benfield from UC Berkeley's Ethnic Studies department. The event is moderated by SFAI faculty member and director of SFAI's City Studio tammy ko Robinson.

donna harraway

Donna Haraway: When Species Meet
Thursday, February 14, 2008
7:00 PM

City Lights Bookstore
261 Columbus Ave
San Francisco, California 94133


In 'When Species Meet,' Donna J. Haraway digs into this larger phenomenon to contemplate the interactions of humans with many kinds of critters, especially with those called domestic.

monday night lecture at SFAI: Ruby Rich

Visiting Artists and Scholars Lecture: B. Ruby Rich

Monday, 11 February at 7:30pm
Lecture Hall
800 Chestnut Street campus
Free and open to the public

A critic, curator, and cultural theorist, B. Ruby Rich is identified with movements in feminist film, Latin American cinema, independent film, and New Queer Cinema—a phrase that she coined and that is also the subject of her lecture: “From ID to IQ: Looking Backwards and Forwards at the New Queer Cinema.” Rich has contributed to the Village Voice and the Nation, and writes for the Guardian (UK) and Sight and Sound (UK). She is the author of Chick Flicks: Theories and Memories of the Feminist Film Movement. Professor of Community Studies and Social Documentation at UC Santa Cruz, Rich is the recipient of the 2006 Honorary Life Membership Award from the Society for Cinema and Media Studies and of the 2007 Brudner Prize at Yale University. Cosponsored by the SFAI Film department.

www.brubyrich.com

SFMOMA ANNOUNCES LIFEn (Life to the power of n)

The San Francisco Museum of Modern Art (SFMOMA) is pleased to announce Lifen (Life to the power of n)—or, life to the power of infinity—a series of exhibitions highlighting the work of Lynn Hershman Leeson that will take place throughout the Bay Area in 2008. Internationally recognized as one of the most influential among San
Francisco–based media artists, Hershman Leeson has shaped the history of contemporary art in the Bay Area since the early 1970s. This collaborative survey of the artist’s past and current projects is a joint effort among local institutions and art collections; it will feature six presentations over the course of the year (see calendar below), individually organized by each participating venue but jointly promoted under the title of Lifen (Life to the power of n).
Lifen (Life to the power of n) was initiated by SFMOMA and coordinated by Rudolf Frieling, the museum’s curator of media arts. The project is jointly organized by the UC Berkeley Art Museum and Pacific Film Archive, the de Young Museum, The Hess Collection, New Langton Arts, SFMOMA, and 01SJ A Global Festival of Art on the Edge at the San Jose Museum of Art.
Lifen (Life to the power of n) proposes that there is not just one “real life” and one “virtual life,” but potentially endless manifestations of life and art that combine and mutate into hybrid forms of exhibition display, performance,
online communities, interactive interfaces, user-generated content, and public screenings. As they become available, exhibition materials from each project in Lifen (Life to the power of n) will be digitally relocated to a site in Second Life (URL to be announced), which will eventually become the content and record for a “meta-archive,” facilitating deeper analysis, active investigation, and social exploration of the work. Updates on the project and Second Life access information will be posted at www.life-n.net.

CALENDAR OF EVENTS (in chronological order)
Lynn Hershman Leeson: No Body Special
de Young Museum
February 2–June 1, 2008

San Jose Museum of Art
May 10–September 7, 2008

UC Berkeley Art Museum and Pacific Film Archive
June 1, 2008 / noon–8 p.m.

The Floating Museum Archive
New Langton Arts
September 4–October 25, 2008

A project included in the exhibition The Art of Participation: 1950 to Now
San Francisco Museum of Modern Art
November 15, 2008–February 15, 2009

UPCOMING EVENTS

Friday February 8th, 6pm, CCA
EMERGENCY BIENNALE in Chechnya/ World Tour stop 10: San Francisco CA
San Francisco: 2008 World Social Forum & CCA Playspace gallery
Talk with Evelyne Jouanno and the artists at CCA Playspace Gallery
http://www.emergency-biennale.org/

Monday, February 18th, 7:30pm Chestnut Campus Lecture Hall
Paper Tiger Television, a celebration of their two and a half decades of leadership in media art, media activism and media analysis. A screening and panel discussion will take place together with Co-founder of Deep Dish Television and long time Tiger Martha Wallner and guest respondent Dalida Maria Benfield in person. Moderated by tammy ko Robinson, the event is free and open to the public. Presented in partnership with hosting organizations Pacific Film Archives, USF, Berkeley Community Media, Media Alliance, Bay Area Video Coalition(BAVC) and SF Access. For more information: http://www.papertiger.org/AAA

Monday, March 24th, lunch time Chestnut Campus Lecture Hall
together with Allan deSouza's courses, we will be hosting a special
presentation and visit with the subrosa collective. subRosa will be
presenting a new project in "The Way That We Rhyme: Women, Art &
Politics," Yerba Buena Center for the Arts, San Francisco, March 29-June
29, curated by Berin Golonu.
Everyone's invited to the opening on the 28th.