Act 4 | AZUL Aλφάβητο. The fourth and last part of a polyptych in 4 acts: Two alphabets and two retables. Music The Song of Sirens by Sofia Koubli. Vocal improvisation by Chrysa Tsaltampasi. Video: Isabel Perez Del Pulgar & Roland Quelven. Sofia Koubli - Music/Sound Design. vimeo.com/sofiakoubli Isabel Perez del Pulgar - La Dama Roja. vimeo.com/perezdelpulgar Chrysa Tsaltampasi myspace.com/chproject1 Roland Quelven mubi.com/garage/films?user_id=383715
Digital Rights Management Update
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Action Alert: Stop Broadcasters from Blocking Open Networks
(BAY AREA MEDIA ALLIANCE) The Media Alliance has issued another of its Action Alerts, asking the public to notify the US Federal Communications Commission (FCC) Chairman, Kevin Martin of opposition against the agency's delay in implementing engineers' recommendation that vacant TV channel spectrum could be used to provide Internet service to underserved urban neighborhoods and hard to reach rural areas.
Said the action alert, "Opening this new spectrum is the Holy Grail for those of us who have been working to: solve the rural broadband and low-income/urban digital divides; and create the "third pipe" alternative to the cable/telco "duopoly," in order to preserve Internet freedom and to create a competitive broadband marketplace.
Martin said that the FCC would vote on opening the "white spaces" on Nov. 4, less than three days away.
But then the National Association of Broadcasters (NAB) filed an emergency appeal to block the Nov. 4 vote!
WE NEED YOUR HELP!! E-mail FCC Chair Kevin Martin at: KJMWEB@fcc.gov "
Free Culture, by Lawrence Lessig
In FREE CULTURE, Lessig shows how media monopolies have used fear of new technologies, particularly the Internet, to shrink the public domain of ideas, even as the same corporations use the same technologies to control more and more what we can and can’t do with culture. As more and more culture becomes digitized, more and more becomes controllable, even as laws are being toughened at the behest of the big media groups. What’s at stake is our freedom—freedom to create, freedom to build, and ultimately, freedom to imagine. Visit the Free Culture web site.
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Rupert Garcia: The Magnolia Editions Projects 1991–2011
Renowned Bay Area artist Rupert Garcia is committed to creating artwork not only as a means of achieving aesthetic ends, but also as a viable way of addressing social and political concerns. Through his bold silkscreens and layered pastels and paintings, Garcia catalyzes discussion and debate in a broad audience about the pressing issues that have faced the late 20th and early 21st centuries. His recent editions elaborate on his political concerns, as well as addressing his interest in challenging notions of folk and high art.
For over two decades Magnolia has worked closely with artists to produce and publish fine art projects, including unique and editioned works on paper, artist books and public art. The exhibition includes approximately 25 prints made by Garcia at the presses of Magnolia Editions, Oakland.
More information at the DeYoung Museum website >
Rupert v.5 from scott stohler on Vimeo.
Upcoming Festivals
The 3rd edition of the Electronic Arts and Video International Festival Transitio_mx03, Autonomies of Disagreement, will take place from October the 1st to October the 10th, 2009
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The Festival, organized by the Multimedia Center, will be held in different venues: the Centro Nacional de las Artes, the Laboratorio Arte Alameda/INBA, the Fonoteca Nacional and the Universidad Iberoamericana; on this occasion the Centro Mexicano para la Musica y las Artes Sonoras (CMMAS) is also supporting the event. As has been since Transitio_mx first edition, we rely on the valuable aid of Fundacion Televisa.
The Electronic Arts and Video International Festival Transitio_mx is the most important platform for expressing and analyzing the contemporary praxes of electronic
arts and digital culture.
The festival activities include:
• Symposium and forums
• International Contest Awards ceremony and exhibit
• Workshops and clinics
• International exhibit
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Del 01 al 10 de octubre de 2009 se llevará a cabo la tercera edición del Festival Internacional de Artes Electrónicas y Video Transitio_mx 03 titulada Autonomías del desacuerdo. Las sedes del Festival, organizado por el Centro Multimedia, son el Centro Nacional de las Artes, el Laboratorio Arte Alameda/INBA, la Fonoteca Nacional y la Universidad Iberoamericana; en esta ocasión tenemos también el apoyo del Centro Mexicano para la Música y las Artes Sonoras (CMMAS). Así mismo, como desde la primera edición de Transitio_mx, contaremos con el valioso apoyo de la Fundación Televisa.
El Festival Internacional de Artes Electrónicas y Video Transitio_mx es la plataforma en México más importante para la expresión y análisis de las prácticas contemporáneas de creación artística con medios electrónicos y cultura digital.
El Festival Internacional de Artes Electrónicas y Video Transitio_mx 03 Autonomías del desacuerdo comprende las siguientes actividades centrales:
- Simposio y foros
- Premiación y Muestra del Concurso Internacional
- Talleres y clínicas
- Muestra Internacional
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