A/SA/SYN

2008-04-23T13:45:00.000-07:00

http://www.foldedin.net

Folded in game

2008-04-23T13:26:00.000-07:00

Folded in at Laboral centre for art and creative industries

2008-04-23T13:04:00.000-07:00

First presentation of the Folded-in in the show

HOMO LUDENS LUDENS
Locating play in contemporary culture and society

from 18 April to 22 September 2008
@ LABoral Centro de Arte y Creación Industrial, Gijón/Spain
http://www.laboralcentrodearte.org/

HOMO LUDENS LUDENS is an exhibition that looks into the expressions
of play in the life and culture of our digital times and examines the
formations of the contemporary magic circles. Focusing on play, rather
than games, the exhibition sets a setting that embraces different forms
of works who address, describe or criticize today's play. Play is being
reversed and reformed; being able to embody social and political acts
and issues, it becomes a tool for critique and social change; connecting
the virtual and the real, it brings new dimensions for social
encounters; approaching other disciplines, it gives birth to new art and
play forms; But at the same time, play is being exploited becoming a
terrain for labour where the player is asked to be a creator or else a
worker. What are the opportunities and what are the risks that need to
be balanced in such a context?

The exhibition is an examination and speculation about Homo Ludens
Ludens -the contemporary playful man- and the new playgrounds
(s)he is invited to join and to respond to.

Exhibiting Artists:
John Paul Bichard, France Cadet, Derivart, Devart, Hannah Perner-Wilson & Mika Satomi
Ge Jin, Vladan Joler, Radwan Kasmiya, John Klima, La Fiambrera Obrera & Mar de Niebla
Danny Ledonne, Valeriano López, Ludic Society, Marcin Ramocki & Justin Strawhand, Martin Pichlmair & Fares Kayali, Brian Mackern, Larry Miller, MIT Lab - Drew Harry & Dietmar Offenhuber & Orkan Telhan, Molleindustria, Julian Oliver, Orna Portu galy & Daphna Talithman & Sharon Younger, Personal Cinema & the Erasers, Rolando Sánchez, Alex Sanjurjo, Gordan Savicic,
Axel Stockburger,Silver & True, Román Torre, David Valentine/MediaShed (ft. Methods of Movement), Volker Morawe & Tilman Reiff, William Wegman

Curatorial team:
Erich Berger, Chief Curator, LABoral Centro de Arte y Creación Industrial, Gijón
Laura Baigorri, Independent Curator, Barcelona
Daphne Dragona, New Media Arts Curator, Athens

Festival of Architecture (Modena, December 7, 2007)

2007-12-26T10:05:00.000-08:00

Videogames and virtual spaces are the focus of today's agenda at the annual Festival of Architecture in Modena, Italy. Among the others, several game scholars from the University of Bologna will be presenting a work-in-progress research on avatars, while Matteo Bittanti will talk about the new geographies of videogames.

2007-12-08T16:48:00.001-08:00

"Game Art is any art in which digital games played a significant role in the creation, production, and/or display of the artwork. The resulting artwork can exist as a game, painting,photograhpy, sound, animation, video, performance or gallery installation." from the book Gamescenes Art in the Age of Videogames ed. Matteo Bittanti, 2006.

2007-11-29T08:49:00.000-08:00

Code is not a law

2007-11-28T16:08:00.000-08:00

Relife

2007-11-28T16:01:00.001-08:00

Relife

Ludic Society BLITZ PLAY at Piksel Norway

2007-11-17T03:47:00.000-08:00

A new project by the ''one and only'' Margarete Jahrmann and the Ludic Society.

//a live (LIVED and LIVE CODED) concert on the street! played by a RFID
street/warchalking game.

In the DÉTOURNEMENT OF THE BLITZ WAR, WAR-CHALKING (introduced by the
WIFI-sniffer counter culture) action of drawing GAME KNOBS WITH CHALK on
walls enlightens the invisible architecture of the ACTUAL BLITZ INVASION
of three kinds of electromagnetic WAVES in a city: WIFIs, RFIDs and
DS-Sound-waves!

The futility of this everyday-play-gadgetry bears some resistance to
the wave-invasion!

In an absurde performance within the city Theremin Wave-Lan clouds
players subjectively place RFID tags on walls. These knobs
(RFID-Tags)literally become play-knobs for other players, if they are
equipped with everday lifes consumer gadgetry, as the Nintendo DS, as
Wifi Sniffers - or even GPS gadgets.

The Ludic Society play-team Bergen provides the missing link: homebrew
software and fantastically pataboard designed electronic Wunderbäumchens//

EACH WALL IS YOUR GAME CONSOLE!
BECOME BLITZ PLAY HEROIII
Bergen Borges Tertius in Calvinos Invisible City Thereminvox.
http://www.ludic-society.net/blitz/

# live stream 14:00-16:00. 17th 11. 07:
http://www.piksel.no/piksel07/streams.htm
piksel-FESTIVAL http://1010.co.uk/xxxxx_at_piksel2007.html

join in the comfort of your warm home
warmly
marguerite

2007-11-15T12:24:00.000-08:00

Second Life performance series

2007-11-15T05:41:00.000-08:00

Saturday 18^th of November 2006, place Hard Alley (mature), lot of avatars, some lag, but still sim is running. Laura Demozay (me) do not participate at the cyber sexual orgy today, she stands on the top of a box just ignoring all invitations.

Basic text used: Corruption, democracy and virtual environments

[18:11] Ron Kostolany: that pussy realy love is so hot it is

[18:11] levent Diplomat: mmm

[18:11] Cherry Harpoon: Mmm my pussy is so wet

[18:11] You: ladies and gentlemen may I have your attention please?

[18:11] levent Diplomat: yeah slut

[18:11] Cherry Harpoon: Take your fingers and taste my juices!

[18:11] You: please..i am on my knees…

[18:11] Ron Kostolany: agggggghhhh

[18:11] levent Diplomat: mmmm you have all my attention Laura come closer

[18:11] Ron Kostolany: u want my attention or my big fat cock Laura? Come and get

[18:11] Alex Breaker: Come and get it ha ha ha

[18:11] You: Ladies,furies and gentlemen.. a spectre is haunting Virtual

Environments, their democratisation.

[18:11] Alex Breaker: jealous laura

[18:11] Cherry Harpoon: Oooh yes

[18:12] Cherry Harpoon: Fill me!

[18:12] You: It is the spectre of democracy, which after the abandonment of its

physical space [real life]

[18:12] levent Diplomat: oooh yeah I love spectres I fuck one right now lol

[18:12] Cherry Harpoon: Fuck me hard!

[18:12] Cherry Harpoon: Fuck me deep!

[18:12] You: sinking more and more in the contradiction of lies and the

cancellations that lead to its constitution..

[18:12] levent Diplomat: yeah baby but tell me pls if you are the body of the myth?

[18:12] Cherry Harpoon: Mmm it gets hot here, what’s going on really?

[18:12] Ron Kostolany: levent she is a body liberated from the mirror of itself but

delivered in any kind of seduction I am afraid….

[18:12] You: ..it breached the relations with the real and it became itself a

spectre.

[18:12] Cherry Harpoon: I want feel your cum

[18:12] Cherry Harpoon: are you a spectre ?

[18:13] levent Diplomat: am I a spectre lol? Your pussy is real?

[18:13] You: This is how the paradox of spectre occurred, the wandering

shadow of democracy.

[18:13] Cherry Harpoon: what?

[18:13] Ron Kostolany: wou want some

[18:13] levent Diplomat: yes baby go on what are you doing up there? Come closer I

have an excite here for you grab my balls…

[18:13] Cherry Harpoon: Fill my pussy!

[18:13] Ron Kostolany: you

[18:13] Alex Breaker: educated girl i see

[18:13] Cherry Harpoon: Oooh yes!

[18:13] levent Diplomat: wait situation becomes bizarre here eh?

[18:13] Cherry Harpoon: Mmmm

[18:13] Alex Breaker: that’s not so usual here eh? I am afraid I like her style although

I feel a bit ashamed

[18:13] You: A spectre that tries to penetrate, and aims to democratise the new

kind of ghosts

[18:13] Cherry Harpoon: Laura needs some big cock

[18:13] You: that constitute the space which forms a major element of human

experience:

[18:13] Cherry Harpoon: Oooh yes

[18:13] Cherry Harpoon: Fuck me!

[18:13] Alex Breaker: you should try to relax and enjoy yourself

[18:13] You: The Virtual Environments.

[18:14] les Zond: hi alex

[18:14] les Zond: I feel strange too…what is going on with her? Is she gonna use

illegal scripts or something?

[18:14] Spectra Octagon: ha ha are you afraid loosing your avatr Zond?

[18:14] levent Diplomat: life offers nothing if there is no seduction cmon….

[18:14] You: The democratisation of virtual environments, computer and video

games is one main debate issue in the industry of interactive

media.

[18:14] Ron Kostolany: we are part of a video game if I don’t get it wrong at least

[18:14] Alex Breaker: hi les

[18:14] levent Diplomat: yeah baby

[18:14] Cherry Harpoon: Come to me!

[18:14] Cherry Harpoon: Cum inside of my tight body

[18:14] Ron Kostolany: oooohhhh

[18:14] Cherry Harpoon: I am fucking it!

[18:14] les Zond: what I am doing is loosing myself in the ceremony processes

[18:14] You: In new media and especially video games the democratisation is

related mainly to the fact that the user..

[18:14] les Zond: I just feel strange thats all she makes me feel uncomfortable

[18:14] Cherry Harpoon: Real deep

[18:14] Cherry Harpoon: well me too but my pussy is dripping with juices

[18:14] Alex Breaker: laura are you kind of politician?

[18:14] You: ..in the context of interaction and personalisation, takes major part

in the creation process..

[18:15] Cherry Harpoon: Fuck my young firm body

[18:15] Alex Breaker: does seduction accepts any kind of symbolic order Laura?

[18:15] levent Diplomat: mmmm

[18:15] Ron Kostolany: omg i gwill gone all wet

[18:15] You: No , I don’t think so alex

[18:15] levent Diplomat: yeah me neither, seduction is desire

[18:15] Cherry Harpoon: MMm

[18:15] You: ..of the games themselves.

[18:15] levent Diplomat: dude

[18:15] Cherry Harpoon: My pussy is dripping all over your balls while you fuck me

[18:15] You: Mods, thousands of volunteer designers in Half Life, Everquest,

Oblivion, and Quake..

[18:15] You: ..are examples of how the users participate in the creation process.

[18:15] Ron Kostolany: agg thats feels hot

[18:15] Ron Kostolany: sl is a different kind of game though laura

[18:15] Cherry Harpoon: Take a finger and taste me, I want to knoe if you like my

sweet juice!

[18:16] You: If we are able to discuss something new in new media it is the

user’s capability to participate in the creation process.

[18:16] levent Diplomat: yeah baby sure it is

[18:16] levent Diplomat: tell me more about it….

[18:16] Cherry Harpoon: Oooh yeah!

[18:16] You: This capability is not a gift or an offer of a generous democratic

technology..

[18:16] Ron Kostolany: mmm your juice taste sweet like honny

[18:16] Cherry Harpoon: Mmmm

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[18:16] levent Diplomat: whats the idea of being a public sculpture into the frame

context of online games?

[18:16] You: question remains unanswered but still the answer is visible as you

may see.

[18:16] You: ..but immanence within its own structure, it is an immediate

reflection of the conflicts..

[18:16] Cherry Harpoon: Keep talking to me! Stop paying attention to her she is a

freak!!!!!!

[18:16] levent Diplomat: mmm very very nice looking freak though no?

[18:16] Cherry Harpoon: Im gonna come again!

[18:16] You: ..that constitute this capability of participation which has as its

final destination democracy.

[18:16] Ron Kostolany: the power.. that’s all about the power

[18:16] Cherry Harpoon: Oooh yes, you are soooo gooood!

[18:17] levent Diplomat: yeah slut lick my dick again slower no faster Cherry

bitch!!!!

[18:17] Spectra Octagon: hey laura do we know each other?

[18:17] Cherry Harpoon: MMm oooh yes, that makes me soo horny!

[18:17] levent Diplomat: mmm

[18:17] You: in other words, speaking of the conditions which arose from the

utopian meeting of spectres..

[18:17] Spectra Octagon: laura I want to attract your attention pls

[18:17] Cherry Harpoon: Im cooooommmiiingggg!

[18:17] Cherry Harpoon: Fuck me hard now!

[18:17] levent Diplomat: oooh I think laura is far more interesting case than u cherry

bitch

[18:17] Cherry Harpoon: Make me come for longer!

[18:17] levent Diplomat: fuck

[18:17] Ron Kostolany: yeah yeah yeah

[18:17] Cherry Harpoon: Ooh yeag!

[18:17] You shout: ..which magical ritual could be useful for both the old

spectre of democracy and the ‘spectral’ world of virtual

environments?

[18:17] Cherry Harpoon: AAaah! I want you guys …

[18:17] Ron Kostolany: aggggg

[18:17] Cherry Harpoon: Oooooooohhhhh!

[18:17] levent Diplomat: mmm

[18:17] Cherry Harpoon: Aaaarrrrgghhhhhh!

[18:18] Spectra Octagon: I noticed that you appear and you disappear.. is it part of

your action ?

[18:18] You: The vast majority of the users understand democracy according to

the quantity of interactive “clicks”..

[18:18] Cherry Harpoon: Mmmmmm that’s me

[18:18] Ron Kostolany: ooooooohhhhh

[18:18] You: what do u think spectra? It’s the lag maybe?

[18:18] Cherry Harpoon: Rrrrroooaarrrrrrr......

[18:18] You: ..which represent the voting “right” in cyber space.

[18:18] Cherry Harpoon: Nite my nipples while you fuck me

[18:18] levent Diplomat: ooooh baby slut

[18:18] Spectra Octagon: disappearing means to spread out in different forms of

appearance, is that part of your lecture here?

[18:18] Cherry Harpoon: Pull my hair back!

[18:18] Ron Kostolany: keep pounding cherry

[18:18] You: yeah lol now you see me now you don’t bb

[18:18] Cherry Harpoon: Ooh yes I am your slave sex slut don’t talk to her

[18:18] You: The image of the voting procedure and democratisation in virtual

space.

[18:19] levent Diplomat: oooh laura can u believe that cherry makes me cum on her

tits?

[18:19] Cherry Harpoon: Aaaahhhh!

[18:19] Ron Kostolany: my balls almost enters your pussy

[18:19] You: isn’t the supposed infinite choice of different web pages

[18:19] levent Diplomat: mmmm I really cum yeaaaaaaah symbolically at least…

[18:19] Cherry Harpoon: MMm i can feel it!

[18:19] You: or the user’s ability to create personalised narration in a video

game

[18:19] You: it is the image of the cursor itself over the icon of “choice”

accompanied by the sound of the “click”..

[18:19] Cherry Harpoon: Oooh yes!

[18:19] Ron Kostolany: laura you r getting very serious don’t you think?

[18:19] Cherry Harpoon: Fill me with your cum!

[18:19] You: ..which really is the extension of the image of the poll and the hand

that is “capable of choosing”.

[18:19] Cherry Harpoon: Fill me now!

[18:20] levent Diplomat: i am gonna cum again why not in sl I am a god….

[18:20] levent Diplomat: baby

[18:20] levent Diplomat: aaah

[18:20] You: How is possible to revive democracy in the realm of the potential..

[18:20] Ron Kostolany: wish you could be a god in perception as well but its limited

to cum and fly eh?

[18:20] levent Diplomat: don’t be sarcastic Ron with me I will report you

[18:20] Ron Kostolany: aaaa that too it’s a den of

iniquity here and laura is the chief I am afraid…

[18:20] Cherry Harpoon: I want to feel your cocks grow just a little bit more before I

will feel your sperm flood in me

[18:20] You: ..when within the context of the objective it became a commodity..

[18:20] DeLano Kyger is Online

[18:20] Ron Kostolany: AAAAAaaaagggghhhhhhrrrrrrr

[18:20] You: ..that has usually been exported and imported via violence?

[18:20] Cherry Harpoon: Your warm and hot cum!

[18:20] Arlo Ferlinghetti: Come here Laura want to fuck you now babe u cant say all

these things just like that…how you dare?

[18:20] Cherry Harpoon: My pussy and my ass wants to drink it all

[18:20] levent Diplomat: she is a public sculpture Arlo you don’t fuck a public

sculpture newbee…

[18:21]You: Corruption is a form of violence, separating the body from the

mind, and from what these can achieve only when combined.

[18:21] Ron Kostolany: i'm coooommmiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiing

[18:21] Cherry Harpoon: Ooooh yyyyessssss!

[18:21] Arlo Ferlinghetti: sorry levent is she a friend of yours?

[18:21]You: Corruption is the essence and the body of capitalist production and

an interesting oxymoron can be observed.

[18:21] levent Diplomat: yeah cherry you are a real slut keep on sucking me but let

me listen to her don’t disturb my ears pls

[18:21]You: Corporate capitalism on one hand recognizes and gets profit from

the fact that bodies in collaboration produce more and communities

increase satisfaction for the bodies (MMORPGs).

[18:21] levent Diplomat: yes Arlo we collude against you lol

[18:21] Cherry Harpoon: Mmmm slurp you are a bastard mmmmmmm

[18:21]You: On the other, collaborative autonomy shall be precluded and

controlled to stop the structure from being ruined.

[18:21] Cherry Harpoon: Mmmm

[18:21]You:Corruption is invited to play its role.

[18:21]You: A solution is difficult to find for this paradox.

[18:21]You:The richer the world becomes the more corporate capitalism, which

is based on this wealth, needs to deny the conditions of wealth’s

production.

[18:21]You:The production of corruption needs to be encouraged, as far as it can

be controlled.

[18:21] You: thank you for your profound attention all

[18:21] Cherry Harpoon: Mmmm

[18:21] levent Diplomat: m2

[18:21] Cherry Harpoon: I can feel your cum

[18:21] levent Diplomat: cherry stop feeling baby it becomes ridiculous

[18:21] Cherry Harpoon: Fill me up!

[18:21] You: does anyone have any questions?

[18:21] Cherry Harpoon: Aaaaaahhhhh!

[18:21] levent Diplomat: I have a lot laura but this is not the right place for me to ask

[18:21] Cherry Harpoon: Mmmmmmm

[18:21] You: i am ready to answer

[18:21] Cherry Harpoon: Ooooh yyyeeeessss!

[18:21] Ravna Uralia: Hello everybody

[18:21] Ron Kostolany: sorry levent i squirt also against your ass

[18:21] You: Tell me Cherry

[18:21] levent Diplomat: lol… Laura you have a special sense of humour

[18:22] You: you have a question?

[18:22] Cherry Harpoon: Thanlk you boys

[18:22] You: dears now the conclusion , your attention pls..

[18:22] Ron Kostolany:lol laura just great

[18:22] Ron Kostolany: ha ha ha

[18:22] You:Are we talking of laws that arise from people’s participation and

users’ dominance or of ethics that arise from the higher

enforcement of software design ‘superiors’ and the supreme

economies of the massive entertainment of the gaming industry?

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[18:22] Arlo Ferlinghetti: are you serious laura ?

[18:22] Nika Ferlinghetti is Offline

[18:22] DeLano Kyger: of course she is…. you are not

[18:22] levent Diplomat: mm

[18:22] Xcite! X2 Cock: Touched.

[18:22] levent Diplomat: ty very much laura for the chat

[18:22] Cherry Harpoon: Yes Laura i do

[18:22] Ron Kostolany: Ty verry much Cherrry

[18:22] You: go on

[18:22] Ron Kostolany: ty Levent

[18:22] levent Diplomat: y 2 ron

[18:22] Cherry Harpoon: Why do you come in here disturbing people in their fun

with your bullshit?

[18:22] levent Diplomat: cherry give me back my cum you r absolutely stupid baby

[18:23] Cherry Harpoon: Go to a mall or something instead>

[18:23] Arlo Ferlinghetti: Hi gain Diane

[18:23] You: you dont find my speech sexy?

[18:23] Arlo Ferlinghetti: Yeah Laura

[18:23] Cherry Harpoon: I dont mean to be a bitch, but it is annoying when you are

having a real good fuck

[18:23] Arlo Ferlinghetti: You talk the talk but don't walk the walk babe

[18:23] Cherry Harpoon: HAHAHAHAHAAAAA

[18:23] levent Diplomat: cherry keep your mouth open anyway

[18:23] nick345 Aldrich: ok follow me

[18:23] You: i am sorry if i disturb your polygon’s ecstasy cherry

[18:23] Arlo Ferlinghetti: HAha cherry you crack me up you are a bitch

[18:24] Red Mangala: Hi Kat

[18:24] Red Mangala: laura I have to admit you had all my attention all this time

although my English are not that gd

[18:24] nick345 Aldrich: vlack

[18:24] Vlack Talon: ok me too I am polish

[18:24] Cherry Harpoon:you r a policeman in rl u mean?

[18:24] Vlack Talon: my god keep your mouth shut cherry

[18:24] Cherry Harpoon: You are a real dictator laura

[18:24] nick345 Aldrich: no no keep your mouth open Cherry pls

[18:24] Vlack Talon: where are we? WHATS GOING ON HERE?

[18:24] levent Diplomat: fuck off arlo

[18:24] You: no my dear your pleasure is a dictator

[18:25] You: me i am just a mere public sculpture, we already said that before

[18:25] levent Diplomat: bye ron

[18:25] Vlack Talon: hey, i'm gonna relog

[18:25] Cherry Harpoon: Ok Ron, we are going now, its a freak show in here :)

[18:25] Cherry Harpoon: lol

[18:25] Cherry Harpoon: See ya

[18:25] Cherry Harpoon: Thanks for 2night

[18:25] Ron Kostolany: By levent By Cherry hope to see you aal soon again

[18:25] levent Diplomat: ye

[18:25] Cherry Harpoon: U2 laura u confuse me I don’t know what to say

[18:25] Vlack Talon: ok

[18:25] Ron Kostolany: laura u r an exception thnks a lot

[18:25] You: information is an inhuman force most of the time cherry

[18:25] Ron Kostolany: cherry don’t forget to keep your mouth open bb

[18:25] Ron Kostolany: np your welcome any time

[18:26] Ron Kostolany: gn all

[18:25] levent Diplomat: ha ha ha cherry baby slut cherry baby

[18:26] nick345 Aldrich: ok follow

[18:26] Vlack Talon:we are like those blinds playing the ball game the torball we

perceive each other via conditioned reflexes, as them we are just

reflexes cherry is a good example I think.

[18:26] Vlack Talon: unfortunately she doesn’t know it

[18:26] Ron Kostolany: cherry don’t forget to keep your mouth open baby lol

antichrista

2007-11-15T04:45:00.000-08:00

antichrista is here and is an avatar

Zero Gamer

2007-11-12T03:14:00.001-08:00

Zero Gamer looks at games played, unplayed and unplayable, the spectator and the spectacle. Sometimes we just like to watch, and machinima, gameplay videos and spectator gaming events take the activity out of interactivity. Zero Gamer presents games that play themselves, video documents of in-game performance, game engine experiments and challenging documentaries on gameplay.

Romeo and Julliet reloaded

2007-11-04T09:25:00.001-08:00

...And a trashbin for the posters

2007-10-31T12:08:00.000-07:00

2007-10-31T12:07:00.001-07:00

A bunch of flowers for all the bloggers of this world

2007-10-31T11:06:00.000-07:00

Global Citizenship

2007-10-22T13:27:00.000-07:00

Are MMO (Massive Multiplayer Online) worlds ideal late capitalist machine based on the social interaction, play and cultural simulation, or they can be seen as ideal social laboratories based on social interaction, play and cultural simulation?'

Networked innovation and collaboration means quantity may have a quality all its own.
As education systems around the world approach parity, nations will finally be able to maximize the skills and potential of their populations... No nation-state will be able to compete counting only on the people within her borders. The most successful 21st century nations will be those that redefine what it means to be a citizen and build the largest networks of innovators.

Consider a second type of citizenship, dubbed “virtual citizenship” or “v-citizenship.”
Rather than building around a specific geography or event, v-citizens are tied to a nation-state by mind share and time. They meet and collaborate within virtual worlds, enabling them to ignore geographic limitations and focus instead on challenges and connections with other v-citizens. Rather than spending four days per year thinking about a particular nation, a v-citizen could spend one hour per week or five hours per month. More importantly, that time could be spent in virtual locations populated by other v- and g-citizens (Geography citizens) of the nation.

V-citizenship (Virtual citizenship) is a natural extension of the global information connections being built around the world. In a time of increasingly nationalistic and geographic biases, a nation-state embracing v-citizenship, making it easy for innovators and entrepreneurs around the world to collaborate with its g-citizens would change innovation for all of its citizens and set a new bar for economic growth.

References: Cory Ondrejka , Kristian Lukic

Faceless

2007-10-20T16:02:00.000-07:00

In a current alcohol advertisement a'' melancholic '' android faces the public and volunteering grant certain privileges of ''major importance'' to humans. It grants almost everything but at the same time it steals, hides and keeps for itself the most considerable one. The privilege of self-knowledge reserved so far to the man of discrimination. The wisdom to know by yourself who you are. In brief: the machine knows better than humans, for humans who they ''really'' are.
There are people that destroy and burn surveillance cameras and by that act, confirm the android's stance and its message. By destroying a street camera, one not only accepts that he/she ignores who he/she is, but also that he/she is incapable to understand the system that ''attacks''. Fortunately, there are exceptions.
The following case is one of them:

The FACELESS Project (2002–2007) deals with legal issues around surveillance (CCTV) images. Besides the 50 minute sci-fi film, the project has resulted in works including The Manifesto for CCTV Filmmakers; The Eye: Choreography for surveilled space; The Making-of Lounge: Research and behind-the scenes materials; and The Spectral Children: a multiple screen video installation.

pattern recognition

2007-10-20T03:29:00.000-07:00

18 May 2007, Somers Point, New Jersey:

"Graphic Fatal Crash Video Leaked to the Internet," Associated Press.

Graphic video of a fatal car crash has been circulating on the Internet, and the agency that operates the toll road where the crash occurred has launched an investigation to determine how the surveillance footage was leaked.

"We're not happy about it, that goes without saying," Joseph Orlando, spokesman for the New Jersey Turnpike Authority, said Friday. The crash occurred May 10 at a toll plaza on the Garden State Parkway, which is operated by the Turnpike Authority.

Orlando said the agency has contacted Web sites including Youtube.com and LiveLeak.com to request that the video be removed. The Press of Atlantic City, which had posted a copy downloaded from the Internet on its Web site, said it removed the video voluntarily on Friday after learning of the Turnpike Authority's objections.

The crash video was still posted at the YouTube and LiveLeak Web sites as of late Friday night. Messages left Friday night by The Associated Press for Jaime Schopflin, a spokeswoman for San Bruno, Calif.-based YouTube, and at a media contact number in England for LiveLeak were not immediately returned.

The video depicts a car slamming into the Garden State Parkway's Great Egg Harbor toll plaza, about 10 miles south of Atlantic City, at high speed and bursting into flames. Killed in the crash was Bernard King, 52, a casino dealer from Lower Township. State police said Friday that they are still investigating the cause and are trying to determine if King's history of seizures was a factor.

An Atlantic City television station, WMGM-TV 40, also aired the video on a Thursday night newscast, with a warning that it could upset some viewers. The station's news director, Harvey Cox, said the station did not receive any complaints about the video.

Orlando said the toll plaza surveillance cameras are controlled by the parkway's operations and toll personnel but that officials have "no inkling" at this time who leaked the video.

Surveillance Camera Players

levelHead, a Spatial Memory Game

2007-10-19T04:33:00.001-07:00

Julian Oliver just released a short video of his latest project, levelHead. This is how it works. You plug a webcam on your computer and you physically move around a little cube. The cube is shown on your computer but, magically, you get to see different rooms inside it and a little character that you control by tilting the cube. The game´s goal is to get the character out of the house. As he said he will soon release the code that is of course open source.
Excellent.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5ks1u0A8xdU

Attack church

2007-10-18T08:14:00.000-07:00

Operation: Pedopriest

Once again the Church is in the midst of controversies for the sexual abuses committed by the priests. The Vatican created a task force to prevent sinners from being captured and put on trial according to the secular states' laws. You have to control the operations: estabilish a code of silence and hide the scandal until the media attention moves elsewhere!

Church attack

2007-10-18T07:44:00.000-07:00

Entertainment giant Sony has apologized to the Church of England for using Manchester cathedral as a backdrop to one of its violent computer games.

Destratify Athens

2007-10-15T18:02:00.000-07:00

...in terms of the stratified and the destratified, human history is not marked by stages of progress but by coexistence of accumulated material of diverse kinds, as well as by the processes of stratification and destratification that these interacting accumulations undergo. In this sense, we could characterize our era as the ''age of information'' or, equally validly, as the ''second age of insects and germs''.
Manuel De Landa, A thousand years of nonlinear history.

‘I Can’t Go On, I’ll Go On’

2007-10-15T14:14:00.000-07:00

‘I Can’t Go On, I’ll Go On’

A metaphor

2007-10-14T15:47:00.000-07:00

Reforming Athens.
The ''metaphor'' of the marbles carries the whole of the city ''from a time of Time to a time of Space, from a time of succession to a time of co-existence''.
Acropolis is no longer a classical modernistic hierarchical symbol but a post modern heteriarchical one. What will be our new “matters of concern”?

2007-10-14T03:07:00.000-07:00

What exactly can someone tell from your IP address and what can they do with it? Can they find personal details or my precise geographical location?
In most cases your IP address is very easy to determine. But how much it says about you, specifically, depends on your ISP and what kind of IP address you have.

Finding someone else's IP can be as easy as looking at the full headers of email that they've sent you, or monitoring network connections for certain types of instant messaging and chat applications. Web sites routinely get IP address information for all visitors. They very nature of how the internet works dictates that when two computers talk to each other, they know each other's IP addresses.

But once you've received an IP address, what can you tell about it?

Some IP's are easy - they're static, and have a DNS name associated with them. For example, in a Windows XP Command Shell, enter the following command:

ping -a 17.254.3.183
The "-a" switch tells ping to do a "reverse DNS lookup", and print the first domain name it finds associated with the IP address you've specified. In this case, ping should include "apple.com" in its output, which is a domain name assigned to that IP.

With that domain name you can then do a "whois" lookup through using whois tools. That information will often include the information about the individual or organization that owns the domain. In this example, it does not, but includes the name of the registrar, markmonitor.com. Visiting that site there is a small "whois" link which, when run against "apple.com" returns all the information that you might want. Apple.com is owned, not surprisingly, by Apple Computer, Inc., and full address and contact information is available.

What if the ping doesn't work, or doesn't return a domain name? Then things get less precise.

In this case, we go to ARIN and use their IP "whois" tool. If we enter an IP address such as 206.124.145.17, we'll find that it's part of a block of addresses assigned to an ISP. In order to determine who actually is using that IP address, if anyone, the ISP would have to get involved. Note that without their involvement, the physical location of a machine at a specific IP address can not be determined.

Now, it's important to note that an IP address may, or may not, identify a specific computer. In many cases, such as large corporations, it identifies a gateway of some sort that acts as a router or proxy for any number of computers. Behind the gateway, the computers can all see each other, but from the internet the individual machines are indistinguishable from each other ... they all look like they come from the same IP address.

The same is true when you use a router at home. You might have any number of computers behind it, but from the internet, it appears as if you have only one IP address. Your individual computers are not directly accessible by default.

And that leads to my final point: use a router or a firewall. If you connect directly to the internet, then your IP address can be used by others on the network to attempt to connect directly to your PC and exploit any vulnerabilities. By using a router your computer cannot be contacted directly. Alternately, a firewall blocks the intruders from gaining access to your machine even if they do reach it.

Alternative search

2007-10-13T03:31:00.001-07:00

KASSANDRA'S SECRET

2007-10-12T07:06:00.000-07:00

Only a Dead Avatar is a Good Avatar

2007-10-12T06:34:00.000-07:00

Avatarik Prologue

for God's shake why technology is not neutral?

2007-10-11T16:15:00.000-07:00

V/L

2007-10-11T02:06:00.000-07:00

Technology is not neutral. It is not neutral ; it's a black continent

Fifteen Theses on Contemporary Art

2007-10-09T13:18:00.000-07:00

Fifteen Theses on Contemporary Art

In Contemporary Cultural Wars, it is quite appropriate to know the pieces that form the consistency of the play ground that one is striving.

1. Art is not the sublime descent of the infinite into the finite abjection of the body and sexuality. It is the production of an infinite subjective series through the finite means of a material subtraction. 2. Art cannot merely be the expression of a particularity (be it ethnic or personal). Art is the impersonal production of a truth that is addressed to everyone. 3. Art is the process of a truth, and this truth is always the truth of the sensible or sensual, the sensible as sensible. This means: the transformation of the sensible into a happening of the Idea. 4. There is necessarily a plurality of arts, and however we may imagine the ways in which the arts might intersect there is no imaginable way of totalizing this plurality. 5. Every art develops from an impure form, and the progressive purification of this impurity shapes the history both of a particular artistic truth and of its exhaustion. 6. The subject of an artistic truth is the set of the works which compose it. 7. This composition is an infinite configuration, which, in our own contemporary artistic context, is a generic totality. 8. The real of art is ideal impurity conceived through the immanent process of its purification. In other words, the raw material of art is determined by the contingent inception of a form. Art is the secondary formalization of the advent of a hitherto formless form. 9. The only maxim of contemporary art is not to be imperial. This also means: it does not have to be democratic, if democracy implies conformity with the imperial idea of political liberty. 10. Non-imperial art is necessarily abstract art, in this sense: it abstracts itself from all particularity, and formalizes this gesture of abstraction. 11. The abstraction of non-imperial art is not concerned with any particular public or audience. Non-imperial art is related to a kind of aristocratic-proletarian ethic: Alone, it does what it says, without distinguishing between kinds of people. 12. Non-imperial art must be as rigorous as a mathematical demonstration, as surprising as an ambush in the night, and as elevated as a star. 13. Today art can only be made from the starting point of that which, as far as Empire is concerned, doesn't exist. Through its abstraction, art renders this inexistence visible. This is what governs the formal principle of every art : the effort to render visible to everyone that which for Empire (and so by extension for everyone, though from a different point of view), doesn't exist. 14. Since it is sure of its ability to control the entire domain of the visible and the audible via the laws governing commercial circulation and democratic communication, Empire no longer censures anything. All art, and all thought, is ruined when we accept this permission to consume, to communicate and to enjoy. We should become the pitiless censors of ourselves. 15. It is better to do nothing than to contribute to the invention of formal ways of rendering visible that which Empire already recognizes as existent. Art: Mark Lombardi, George W. Bush, Harken Energy and Jackson Stephens c. 1979-90, fifth version, 1999 courtesy of Independent Curators international, NYC.

Regressive Tendencies

2007-10-08T13:25:00.000-07:00

rEGRESSIVE tENDENCIEs

tor

2007-10-07T19:17:00.000-07:00

a distributed, anonymous network?

Export of cryptography

2007-10-07T18:47:00.000-07:00

The export of cryptography refers to the transfer from one country to another of devices and technology related to cryptography. Since World War II, Western governments, including the U.S.NATO allies, have regulated the export of cryptography for national security considerations, and, for a time, defined cryptography to be a munition.

In light of the enormous impact of cryptanalysis in WWII, it was abundantly clear to these governments that denying current and potential enemies access to cryptographic systems looked to be militarily valuable. They also wished to monitor the diplomatic communications of other nations, including the many new nations that were emerging in the post-colonial period and whose position on Cold War issues was regarded as vital. (Kahn, The Codebreakers, Ch. 19) Since the U.S. and U.K. had, they believed, developed more advanced cryptographic capabilities than others, there arose a notion that controlling all dissemination of the more effective crypto techniques might be beneficial. The First Amendment made controlling all use of cryptography inside the U.S. difficult, but controlling access to U.S. developments by others was thought to be more practical — there were at least no constitutional impediments. Accordingly, regulations were introduced as part of munitions controls which required licenses to export cryptographic methods (and even their description); the regulations established that cryptography beyond a certain strength (defined by algorithm and length of key) would not be licensed for export except on a case-by-case basis. The expectation seems to have been that this would further national interests in reading 'their' communications and prevent others from reading 'ours'. This policy was also adopted elsewhere for various reasons.

The development, and public release, of DES and asymmetric key techniques in the 1970s, the rise of the Internet, and the willingness of some to risk and resist prosecution, eventually made this policy impossible to enforce, and by the late 1990s it was being relaxed in the US, and to some extent (e.g. France) elsewhere. Nevertheless, some officials in the U.S. believe that widespread availability of strong cryptography world-wide has hampered the ability of the NSA to read intercepted communications that might reveal important information about intentions hostile to the United States.[1] Others feel that the export controls in place in the last half of the 20th century discouraged incorporation of widely known cryptographic tools into commercial products, particularly personal computer operating systems, and are a root cause of the present crisis in information security, aside from interfering with U.S. trade in such products. They observe that many of the advances, including asymmetric key cryptography and many of its algorithms, were already public in any case.

again from wikipedia

cookies & thieves

2007-10-07T18:30:00.000-07:00

During normal operation, cookies are sent back and forth between a server (or a group of servers in the same domain) and the computer of the browsing user. Since cookies may contain sensitive information (user name, a token used for authentication, etc.), their values should not be accessible to other computers. Cookies theft is any process allowing an unauthorised party to receive a cookie.

A first way cookies can be stolen is via packet sniffing. Traffic on a network can be read by computers on the network other than its sender and its receiver. This traffic includes cookies sent on ordinary HTTP sessions. Users on these computers can read the traffic on the network, including the cookies, using programs called packet sniffers. This problem can be overcome by using the https URI scheme, which invokes Transport Layer Security to encrypt the connection. A server can specify the secure flag while setting a cookie; the browser will then send it only over a secure channel, such as an SSL connection.

A different way to steal cookies is cross-site scripting, which makes the browser itself send cookies to servers that should not receive them. Modern browsers allow execution of pieces of code retrieved from the server. If cookies are accessible during execution, their value may be communicated in some form to servers that should not access them. Encrypting cookies before sending them on the network does not help against this attack.^[12]

This possibility is typically exploited by attackers on sites that allow users to post HTMLHttpOnly flag;^[13] this is a Microsoft option that makes a cookie inaccessible to client side script. content. By embedding a suitable piece of code in an HTML post, an attacker may receive cookies of other users. Knowledge of these cookies can then be exploited by connecting to the same site using the stolen cookies, thus being recognised as the user whose cookies have been stolen. A way for preventing such attacks is by the

from wikipedia

Allegorythms

2007-10-07T17:47:00.001-07:00

more echelon keywords

2007-10-07T15:06:00.000-07:00

It's always good to know what the government is interested in...

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There are some interesting things up there. I was fascinated to notice that obscure topics that the government claims not to be interested in or is keeping secret are there, as well as our old friends the 'illuminati'. There are loads of what I presume are code names and alphabet agencies, so if anyone knows what they are, I would be intruiged to know...

2007-10-07T15:04:00.001-07:00

hack to learn
and not
learn to hack.

Real time manifesto (after the Tales of Tales)_part4

2007-10-07T09:51:00.000-07:00

Reject dehumanisation: tell stories.
Stories ground people in culture,
(and remove the alienation that causes aggression)
stimulate their imagination,
(and therefore improve the capability to change)
teach them about themselves
and connect them with each other.
Stories are a vital element of society.
Embrace non-linearity.
Let go of the idea of plot.
Realtime is non-linear.
Tell the story through interaction.
Do not use in-game movies or other non-realtime devices to tell the story.
Do not create a “drama manager”: let go of plot!
Plot is not compatible with realtime.
Think “poetry”, not “prose”.
The ancient Greek philosopher Aristotle recognized six elements in Drama.
PLOT
what happens in a play, the order of events,is only one of them.
Next to plot we have
THEME
or the main idea in the work
CHARACTER
or the personality or role played by an actor
DICTION
the choice and delivery of words
MUSIC/RHYTHM
the sound, rhythm and melody of what is being said
SPECTACLE
the visual elements of the work.
All of these can be useful in non-linear realtime experiences. Except plot.
But the realtime medium offers additional elements that easily augment or replace plot.
INTERACTIVITY
the direct influence of the viewer on the work
IMMERSION
the presence of the viewer in the work
AN AUDIENCE OF ONE
every staging of the work is done for an audience of a single person in the privacy of his
or her
home.
These new elements add the viewer as an active participant to the experience.
This is not a reduction of the idea of story but an enrichment.
Realtime media allow us to tell stories that could not be told before.
Many of the mythical fantasies about art can now be made real.
Now we can step into paintings and become part of them.
Now sculptures can come alive and talk to us.
Now we walk onto the stage and take part in the action.
We can live the lives of romance characters.
Be the poet or the muse.
Do not reject stortelling in realtime because it is not straightforward.
Realtime media allow us to make ambiguity and imagination active parts of the experience.
Embrace the ambiguity:
it is enriching.
The realtime medium allows for telling stories that canot be told in any other language.
But realtime is not suitable for linear stories:
Embrace non-linearity!
Reject plot!
Realtime is a poetic technology.
Populate the virtual world with narrative elements that allow the player to make up his or her
own story.
Imagination moves the story into the user’s mind.
It allows the story to penetrate the surface and take its place amongst the user’s thoughts &
memories.
The bulk of your story should be told in realtime, through interaction.
Do not use in-game movies or other devices.
Do not fall back on a machine to create plot on the fly:
let go of plot,plot is not compatible with realtime.
Do not squeeze the realtime medium into a linear frame.
Stories in games are not impossible or irrelevant, even if “all that matters is gameplay”
Humans need stories and will find stories in everything.
Use this to your advantage.
Yes, “all that matters is gameplay”,
if you extend gameplay to mean all interaction in the game.
Because it is through this interaction that the realtime medium will tell its stories.
The situation is the story.
Choose your characters and environment carefully
so that the situation immediately triggers narrative associations in the mind of the user.

godgame/metaphysical machines/ jesus christ superstore

2007-10-05T06:28:00.000-07:00

Real Time Strategy Games

2007-10-04T08:03:00.000-07:00

magnetron

2007-10-03T07:35:00.000-07:00

video games are the first step in a plan for machines to help the human race, the only plan that offers a future for intelligence

KRIEGSSPIEL

2007-10-02T12:26:00.001-07:00

cockpit

2007-10-01T17:30:00.000-07:00

Real time manifesto (after the Tales of Tales)_part3

2007-10-01T17:19:00.000-07:00

Embed the user in the environment.
The user is not disembodied in virtual space but takes the body into the experience.
The avatar is not a neutral vessel but allows the user to navigate not only through the virtual
space but also through the narrative content.
Interaction is the link between the user and the piece.
Provide for references
(both conceptual and sensorial)
to connect the user to the environment.
Reject abstraction.
Make the user feel at home.
(and then play with his
or her
expectations-just don’t start with alienation,
the real world is alienation enough as it is)
Reject the body-mind duality.
The user is the center of the experience.
Think “architecture”, not “film”.
Interaction is pivot alto “put the user in the environment”.
The user is not disembodied but is provided with a device
(similar to a diving suit or astronaut’s outfit)
which allows him
or her
to visit a place that would otherwise not be accessible.
You bring your body with you to this place,
or at least your memories of it.
Strictly speaking, our output media only allow for the reproduction of visuals and sound.
But real-time interaction and processing can help us to achieve simulation of touch, smell and
taste as well, through visuals and sound.
In fact, force feedback already provides for a way to communicate with touch.
And the activity of fingers on the mouse or hands holding a joystick allows for physical communication.
Don’t underestimate this connection.
From the USB port to the joystick. Through the hand to the nervous system.
One network.
Soon as smell and taste can be reproduced, those media can quickly be incorporated into our
technology.
The virtual place is not necessarily alien.On the contrary:It can deal with any subject.
References to the real world
(of nature as well as culture)
(both conceptual and sensorial)
create links between the environment and the user.
Since interaction is pivotal, these links are crucial.
Make it feel real, not necessarily look real.
Develop a unique language for the realtime 3D medium and do not fall in McLuhan's trap
(don’t allow any old medium to become the content of the new)
Imitate life and not photography, or drawings, or comic strips or even old-school games.
Realism does not equal photo -realism!
In a multisensory medium, realism is a multisensory experience:
It has to feel real.

Chardin, Jean-Baptiste-Siméon

2007-09-29T17:54:00.000-07:00

Real time manifesto (after the Tales of Tales)_part2

2007-09-29T14:20:00.000-07:00

Part2

Be an author.
Do not hide behind the freedom of the user in an interactive environment to ignore your responsibility
as a creator.
This only ends in confirming cliches.
Do not design in board room meetings or give marketeers creative power.
Your work needs to come from a singular vision and be driven by a personal passion.
Do not delegate direction jobs.
Be a dictator.
But collaborate with artisans more skilled than you.
Ignore the critics and the fanboys.
Make work for your audience instead.
Embrace the ambiguity that the realtime medium excells in.
Leave interpretation open where appropriatebut keep the user focused and immersed the worlds
that you create.
Commercial games are conservative, both in design as in mentality.
They eschew authorship, pretending to offer the player a neutral vessel to take him or her through
the virtual world.
But the refusal to author results in a mimicing of generally accepted notions, of television and
other mass media.
Banality.
Reject pure commercialism.
Individual elements of many commercial games made with craft and care produce artistic effects
but the overall product is not art.
Some commercial games have artistic moments,
but we need to go further.
Step one: drop the requirement of making a game.
The game structure of rules and competition stands in the way of expressiveness.
Interactivity wants to be free.
Gaming stands in the way of playing.
There are so many other ways of interacting in virtual environments.
We have only just begun to discover the possibilities.
Games are games.
They are ancient forms of play that have their place in our societies.
But they are by far not the only things one can do with realtime technologies.
Stop making games.
Be an author.

x : delete

2007-09-27T02:53:00.002-07:00

transmission transgression

2007-09-26T05:59:00.000-07:00

WIRE FRAUD - 18 USC 1343, makes it a Federal crime or offense for anyone to use interstate wire communications facilities in carrying out a scheme to defraud.

A person can be found guilty of that offense only if all of the following facts are proved beyond a reasonable doubt:

First: That the person knowingly and willfully devised a scheme to defraud, or for obtaining money or property by means of false pretenses, representations or promises; and

Second: That the person knowingly transmitted or caused to be transmitted by wire in interstate commerce some sound for the purpose of executing the scheme to defraud.

It is not necessary that the Government prove all of the details concerning the precise nature and purpose of the scheme; or that the material transmitted by wire was itself false or fraudulent; or that the alleged scheme actually succeeded in defrauding anyone; or that the use of interstate wire communications facilities was intended as the specific or exclusive means of accomplishing the alleged fraud.

What must be proved is that the person knowingly and willfully devised or intended to devise a scheme to defraud; and that the use of the interstate wire communications facilities was closely related to the scheme because the person either wired something or caused it to be wired in interstate commerce in an attempt to execute or carry out the scheme.

To "cause" interstate wire facilities to be used is to do an act with knowledge that the use of the wires will follow in the ordinary course of business or where such use can reasonably be foreseen.

Each separate use of the interstate wire facilities in furtherance of a scheme to defraud constitutes a separate offense.

Real time manifesto (after the Tales of Tales)

2007-09-22T14:39:00.000-07:00

REALTIME ART MANIFESTO

1. Realtime 3D is a medium for artistic expression.

Games are not the only things you can make with realtime 3D technology.

And modification of commercial games is not the only option accessible to artists.

Realtime 3D is the most remarkable new creative technology since oil on canvas.

It is much too important to remain in the hands of toy makers and propaganda machines.

We need to rip the technology out of their greedy claws and put them to shame by producingthe

most stunning art to grace this planet so far.

(And claim the name “game” for what we do even if it is inappropriate.)

Real-time 3d interactives can be an art form unto themselves.

Do not render!

All elements serve the realisation of the piece as a whole.

Models, textures, sound, interaction, environment, atmosphere, drama, story, programming are

all equally important.

Do not rely on static renderings.

Everything happens in real time.

The visuals as well as the logic.

Create multi-sensorial experiences.

Simulate sensorial sensations for which output hardware does not exist (yet).

Make the experience feel real (it does not need to look real).

to be continued:

curatorial need

2007-09-22T05:56:00.001-07:00

Greek ammunition

2007-09-20T14:04:00.000-07:00

MMORPG

2007-09-20T04:40:00.001-07:00

Are MMO worlds ideal late capitalist machine
based on the social interaction
play and cultural simulation
or they can be seen as ideal
social laboratories based on
social interaction, play
and cultural simulation?'

drugi obieg (Samizdatsoftware)

2007-09-20T03:34:00.000-07:00

Dogfights Park

2007-09-19T17:45:00.001-07:00

1900 _reloaded

2007-09-19T15:13:00.000-07:00

Bernardo Bertolucci 1900 _reloaded

asasyn8: program to de-program

2007-09-19T11:13:00.000-07:00

CONTROL TACTICS /THE PLAN : phase one_press assault

2007-09-19T11:09:00.000-07:00

.....on the darker side, there are also weapons armouries in SL where people can get access to guns, including automatic weapons and AK47s. Searches of the SL website show there are three jihadi terrorists registered and two elite jihadist terrorist groups.

With the game taking such a sinister turn, terrorism experts are warning that SL attacks have ramifications for the real world. Just as September 11 terrorists practised flying planes on simulators in preparation for their deadly assault on US buildings, law enforcement agencies believe some of those behind the Second Life attacks are home-grown Australian jihadists who are rehearsing for strikes against real targets. Terrorist organisations al-Qaeda and Jemaah Islamiah traditionally sent potential jihadists to train in military camps in Pakistan, Afghanistan and Southeast Asia. But due to increased surveillance and intelligence-gathering, they are swapping some military training to online camps to evade detection and avoid prosecution.

Rohan Gunaratna, author of Inside al-Qaeda, says it is a new phenomena that, until now, has not been openly discussed outside the intelligence community….”They are rehearsing their operations in Second Life because they don’t have the opportunity to rehearse in the real world”

a message sent to A/SA/SYN from the dotcommune

2007-09-19T09:14:00.000-07:00

A Spectre is haunting multinational capitalism--the spectre of free information. All the powers of ``globalism'' have entered into an unholy alliance to exorcize this spectre: Microsoft and Disney, the World Trade Organization, the United States Congress and the European Commission.

the bill of rights VERSUS the right to force

2007-09-19T08:11:00.001-07:00

1. Freedom of Opinion, Expression, thought and conscience.

2.Right to Privacy and Anonymity

3.Right to Due Process
including the Right to an Effective Remedy
and a fair Hearing of Avatarpeers

4.  Right to the Presumption of Innocence

5. Freedom from Arbitrary Suspension or Banning

6. Right to Cryptography

7. Right to Access to the Grid
including the right of access to any publicly available information,
restricted only by the cost to disclose.

8.  Right to avatar life and liberty

9.  Right to be free from cruel, in-avataran and degrading punishment

10.Right to Dignity

11.Right to Equal Protection of the Rules governing SL

12.Freedom of Assembly and Association

13.Freedom of Movement

14.Freedom of Access to Information

15.Freedom of Access to Information Infrastructure

16.Adequate standard of Connectivity

17.Rights in and to all property and copyright
including the right to control and license intellectual property
 invested in original expressions.

18.Entitlement to Rights and Freedoms Without Distinction

19.The Right to accept any information from any source,
including the right to transform in any way any information
an avatar originates or receives.

20.The Right of every avatar to refuse to disclose any information
they originate or receive,
including the right to transmit any information
to any person or avatar received by them.

21.The Right to ignore information of any nature.

22.The Right to seek legal recourse for damages
 caused by the actions and expressions of others.

23.The Right to publish any information in any public forum,
and to submit any information to any moderated forum,
limited only by intellectual property rights
but otherwise without censorship
of any kind by any forum moderator or the Developer.

24.The Right to distribute in electronic form any publicly available report,
policy, regulation or law.

25.The Right to require the Developer to observe,
discuss, refine and promote the rights and responsibilities of all SL Avatars
as those rights are identified in this document.

26.The Right to be free from contracts of adhesion and oppression.

the phantasm of democracy or direct action ?

2007-09-19T07:16:00.000-07:00

THE SECOND LIFE CONSTITUTION

We the Avatars of Second Life, in Order to form a more perfect Virtual Grid Community, to establish Justice, to insure grid Tranquility, to promote the general Welfare, and to secure Liberty, Privacy, Persistence, and Connectivity to ourselves and our Posterity, do ordain and establish this to be the Second Life Constitution.
Article. I.
Section 1.

All Powers herein granted shall be vested in a Congress of Second Life, which shall consist of a Senate and House of Representatives.
Section. 2.

Clause 1: The House of Representatives shall be composed of Members chosen to serve for one term of three (3) months at a general election by the Avatars of Second Life. The House shall provide for one Member for every 100,000 registered residents. The Developer shall implement the elective technology necessary to enable elections of these Representatives, at the rate of one Avatar one vote without regard to avatars with multiple accounts. Any Avatar that obtains the “signature” of 500 other Avatars shall receive a Writ of Election and be placed on the next ballot for election to the House. The Members with the highest number of popular votes shall constitute the Elected Representatives.

Clause 2: The Developer shall not participate in the election and it and its representatives shall do no more than provide the mechanism, maintain its integrity, announce the results, and archive the results for a twelve month period with all results to be transparent to the entire Population.

Clause 3: The Developer shall provide a sufficient number of adjacent sims to allow the then existing total number of Members to meet on a regular monthly basis to convene and consider the Business and Welfare of the Population.

Clause 4: All actions, directives, orders and requests by the House shall be approved by a simple majority vote of the Members attending at any regularly scheduled Meeting of Members. No quorum or minimum number of Members shall be required to be present to open the meeting or to take or commit any official act at any regularly scheduled Meeting of Members.

Clause 5: The House of Representatives shall retain exclusive responsibility for updating and managing the Open Letter Project and the Developer shall timely respond and address all issues raised in that letter to the satisfaction of a majority of the Members.

Clause 6: The Developer or its appointee, shall be the Speaker of the House and maintain decorum and professionalism throughout all proceedings and meetings. In the event the Developer or its appointee fails, is unable, or refuses to act, the Members may appoint a Substitute Speaker to oversee any regularly scheduled Member Meeting with all powers and authority of the original Speaker. The Substitute Speaker shall be appointed by a majority vote of the attending Members present at the regularly scheduled Monthly Meeting.
Section. 3.

Clause 1: The Second Life Senate shall be composed of all current landowners. Neither a landowner or tenant shall have any obligation or duty to act as a Senator; however, the right to act as a Senator shall not be abrogated and may be asserted at any time without regard to any action or non-action previously taken by that Senator.

Clause 2: Each Senator shall be entitled to one vote regardless of the amount of land owned.

Clause 3: The Developer or its appointee shall be the Speaker of the Senate. The Speaker of the Senate shall not be the same avatar as the Speaker of the House.

Clause 4: The term of a Senator shall be equal to the term of time the Senator remains a landowner.

Clause 5: The Senate shall have the exclusive sole Power to resolve all suspensions and bans initiated and/or proposed by the Developer that exceed a period of seven (7) consecutive days, or that aggregate to a total of thirty (30) days in any twelve month period of time.

Clause 6: The Senate shall have the exclusive sole Power to resolve all forfeitures initiated and/or proposed by the Developer in connection with any avatar’s property interests of any kind.

Clause 7: Any decisions, resolutions, orders, or directives issued by the Senate in connection with any matter except that which involves a forfeiture or any avatar’s property of any kind, shall be by a simple majority vote of the present Senators attending at a regularly scheduled Meeting of the Senators.

Clause 8: Any decisions, resolutions, orders, or directives issued by the Senate in connection with a permanent ban of privileges or rights of any kind, a suspension in aggregate totaling more than thirty (30) days in any twelve month period, or any forfeiture of any property of any Avatar of any kind, shall require a two-thirds vote of the present Senators attending at a regularly scheduled Meeting fof the Senators.

Clause 9: Neither the Developer nor any of its employees, appointees, surrogates, or other representatives of any kind shall intentionally cause a forfeiture of any Avatar’s property of any kind without the Senate’s approval as described above except in a situation that is deemed by the Developer to be an emergency situation threatening an un-repairable or irreversible substantial and material detrimental impact on the Second Life grid as a whole. In the event of such an Emergency, the Developer shall limit its actions to the minimum necessary to protect the community as a whole, and shall immediately notify all Senators by instant IM of the action taken and the reasons therefore. The Senate shall then immediately convene with the then available on-line Senators present and willing who shall review the action taken by the Developer and either Affirm, Reverse, or Modify in a directive directly to the Developer which shall be immediately accepted and implemented by the Developer.

Clause 10: The Senate shall be the High Court of the grid and vested with the authority to create lower courts for hearings of disputes between Avatars and to resolve all disputes appealed from the lower courts to the Senate. No punishment of any kind shall be imposed by the Senate without just notice and due process. The Senate shall be responsible for suggesting the notice and process requirements to be used by the Population, submitting the requirements to the Population for consideration and comment, revising the requirements consistent with the general populace sentiment, and the finalizing those requirements for submission to the Population for vote. The Developer shall submit the requirements as suggested by the Senate to the Population via each Avatar’s email account, explaining the process for comment, and ultimately to ensure each Avatar has been provided a reasonable opportunity to vote. The final requirements created by the Senate and approved by a simple majority of the voting Population shall be adopted and technologically implemented by the Developer.

Section. 4.

Clause 1: Each House shall keep a Journal of its Proceedings which shall contain the vote of each Member and Senator to each issue presented, and from time to time, the Developer shall publish the same without censorship or editing.
Section. 5.

Clause 1: The Developer shall have Power To lay and collect Tier Taxes from land owners only, in amounts that are reasonably necessary to grow and maintain the grid consistent with the Powers and Rights reserved in this Constitution.

Clause 2: The Developer shall not have the right to regulate Commerce between Avatars. The regulation of commerce between Avatars shall not be regulated except as may be implemented by the Senate upon approval of a two-thirds majority vote by the general Population.

Clause 3: To Developer shall have the exclusive right to regulate the its Linden exchange and/or to modify, assign, and implement its Lindens as it deems fit in its own discretion.

Clause 4: The Developer shall have the continuing affirmative duty to promote the Progress of Science and Arts, by securing for limited Times to Authors and Inventors the exclusive Right to their respective Creations, Objects, Scripts, Writings and Discoveries.
Section. 6.

Clause 1: No ex post facto rules or technological devices shall be implemented by the Developer without two-thirds approval by the Senate and simple majority vote of the House.

Clause 2: No Preference shall be given by the Developer to any Avatar or corporate entity, except that the Developer may in its discretion provide preferences and assistance to any non or not for profit SL Group pursuing artistic goals or education as their primary priority.

Clause 3: The Developer shall not intentionally destroy, erase, or remove any creations, property, or script of any Avatar without a majority vote of both houses of Congress. The Developer may temporarily disable or suspend access to any creation, property, or script of any Avatar only for emergency reasons which the Developer believes in good faith cause an imminent danger to the functionality of the grid, or the property of another Avatar; however, any act by the Developer to disable or suspend access must be submitted for immediate review to the delegates of Congress identified by its Members for the receipt and resolution of any emergency suspensions or disablements
Article. II.
Section. 1.

Clause 1: There shall be no executive branch or executive Powers conferred on any Avatar, person, corporate or other legal entity, or the Developer; its assigns, employees, representatives, heirs, or appointees.
Article. III.
Section. 1.

The judicial Power of Second Life shall be vested in the Senate, and in such inferior Courts as the Congress may from time to time ordain and establish. The Judges shall be appointed by a simple majority vote of both houses, and shall hold their Offices for a period of one (1) year from the date of appointment provided they timely and reasonably attend to the matters assigned to them.
Section. 2.

Clause 1: The judicial Power of the Senate shall extend to all Cases, in Law and Equity, arising under this Constitution, including the Laws of each country from which the Avatars accounts originated to the extent that those laws are consistent between the Avatars involved in any dispute. In the event there is a conflict of laws, then the laws of the United States shall be deemed to prevail, and in the case of a conflict of laws between the several states of the United States from which the Avatars originate, then the law of the State of California shall prevail.

Clause 2: The Trial of all cases where suspension in excess of seven (7) days or banishment is a possibility, shall be by a Jury of twelve Avatars; and such Trial shall be held in the sim where the said act giving rise to the trial shall have been committed; but when not committed within any sim, the Trial shall be at such sim or sims as the Congress may by directive so direct.
Article. IV.
Section. 1.

Clause 1: All Avatars shall be entitled to all Privileges and Immunities across the grid.
Section. 2.

Second Life shall guarantee to every Avatar a continuing elective Form of Government.
Article. V.

The Congress, whenever two thirds of both Houses shall deem it necessary, shall propose Amendments to this Constitution and shall call a Convention for proposing Amendments, which, shall be valid to all Intents and Purposes, as Part of this Constitution, when ratified by a two thirds vote of each House.

propaganda_TWO

2007-09-19T06:09:00.001-07:00

2007-09-19T05:27:00.001-07:00

Καλορίζικη η νέα κυβέρνηση

2007-09-19T04:38:00.000-07:00

That is what we call real labor exploitation in a fake world.

"The union is expecting hundreds of avatars of Italian IBM workers, as well as IBM staff from around the world, and other trades unionists, to converge flash-mob style later this month, to demonstrate and spread the word about the dispute..." writes John Wood of Tigmoo, a blog network for UK labor unions.
That is what we call real labor exploitation in a fake world.
Real? Fake? Come on, it's all good. Or bad. I don't know whether I think paying less than the minimum wage in one country for virtual labor by a worker sitting in front of a computer in another country really qualifies as "sweatshop" work. And I don't know whether the spectacle of avatars creating a picket line around a virtual IBM office is clever or ridiculous. But somewhere there is a budding labor economist who is going to make his or her career with a dissertation on this topic, and I can't wait to read it.
Source:www.salon.com

propaganda_ONE

2007-09-19T03:58:00.000-07:00

A/A

2007-09-19T03:55:00.000-07:00

2007-09-14T04:50:00.000-07:00

2007-09-14T03:22:00.001-07:00

American Apparel Store in SL Taken Hostage in Fight for Voting Rights.
''Following the lack of any progress towards introducting citizens voting rights to Second Life the [Second Life Liberation Army] began in-world military operations.
As more and more mainstream politicians--like Democratic presidential hopeful John Edwards--begin using Second Life as a campaign venue, the question arises of whether more radical political parties, grassroots groups and activist organizations will also take root in the virtual world. And if they do, it raises the possibility, as comical as it may seem, that these online groups could carry their activities over into the physical world''.

mal_function

2007-09-12T08:14:00.000-07:00

DIGITAL DURRUTI

2007-09-12T03:55:00.001-07:00