3 Research Fellows »Life vs. Object, Comrade Things and Alien Life«
– We are looking for three people/projects to work with the Post-Media Lab for our coming theme: [ more ] about 3 Research Fellows »Life vs. Object, Comrade Things and Alien Life«
commons
How Music Takes Place
Rasmus Fleischer : How Music Takes Place: Excerpts From “The Post-digital Manifesto”
from: e-flux #42
< This essay is an edited selection from Rasmus Fleischer’s book “Det postdigitala manifestet,” published in Swedish in 2009. This is its first English translation, thanks to Mikael Kopimi Altemark.
29C3: C3S versucht den GEMA-Hack
end-of-the-year tunes: subsuming walled gardens
sometimes solutions to the technical fractalization brought about by cultural industries, following the ideology of the »walled gardens«, are themselves technical in appearance. that is, if ou are prepared to accept use-value as the currency you are re-imbursed with.
- so here is a nice exeamplary tune to whistle and to listen to at the change of the years.
... it is also a comment, displaying how the landscapes of copyright are not easily resolvable in the new paradigm; and how easy it sometimes is to (temporarily) resolve them in a senseful way.
so listen up, and listen whatever you like to.
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Join the HAIP 2012!
nov. 27th - nov 30th, Lublijana, Kiberpipa
... the PML and fellows join into this years HAIP-festival in Lublijana --- in different functions, but with shared interest in taking part in the time-teleportation of »the Public Library«...
--- come there, read with us, meat with us!
>> more here @ HAIP-website
» In the catalog of History the Public Library is listed in the category of phenomena that we humans are most proud of. Along with the free public education, public health care, scientific method, Universal Declaration of Human Rights, Wikipedia, Free Software... « (Marcell Mars) [ more ] about Join the HAIP 2012!
Urheberrechte für alle ... sonst gibt's Krawalle!
Kulturrisse 01/2012
Spätestens seit den Protesten gegen das Anti-Piraterie-Abkommen ACTA (Anti-Counterfeiting Trade Agreement) im heurigen Frühjahr sind sie wieder in aller Munde: die Debatten um Urheber- und Verwertungsrechte und ihre längst überfällige Reform. [ more ] about Urheberrechte für alle ... sonst gibt's Krawalle!
The Land Matrix
» The Land Matrix, an online interactive database on large-scale land deals is launched today 27h April 2012 at 00:01 CET during the Annual World Bank Conference on Land and Poverty.
Tactical Studios (with Tactical Tech's reveal programme) has worked with the Land Coalition partnership (CDE, CIRAD, GIGA, GIZ and ILC) to create a public interface providing unprecedented access to the largest public database on large-scale land deals worldwide.
The Coalition have documented over 2300 land acquisitions over the past 15 years ? and we have created an online interactive interface of all records over 200 hectars since 2000.
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