tinynoise :: TALKS in BETHANIEN, BERLIN :: May 11;  16h  @ HACKfemEAST exhibition, Kunstraum Kreuzberg / Bethanien :: Mariannenplatz 2 - 10997 Berlin, Germany. HACKfemEAST is an exhibition about women, technology and networks in Eastern Europe. The exhibition project HACK.Fem.EAST seeks to present experimental and artistic practices of artists and activists working in digital networks in [...]

My [public] space :: May 24 –- June 21, 2008 :: Opening May 23, 5:00 p.m. :: Netherlands Media Art Institute, Keizersgracht 264, 1016 EV Amsterdam :: with Aram Bartholl, Hasan Elahi, Martijn Engelbregt, Kota Ezawa, Dora García, Susan Härtig, Jill Magid, Eva and Franco Mattes a.k.a. 0100101110101101.ORG, Eduardo Navas, Guy Ben-Ner, Marisa Olson. The [...]

the largest color LED display worldwide, & the first photo-voltaic system integrated into a glass curtain wall in China. the display requires zero external energy, as the facade harvests solar energy by day & uses it to illuminate the screen after dark. the display comprises of 2,292 color (RGB) LED’s light points comparable to a [...]

Call for Artist in Residence Programme 2008 at LABoral Centro de Arte y Creacion Industrial LABoral Centro de Arte y Creacion Industrial is calling for proposals from artists to develop a research and production project at LABoral for two months during 2008. LABoral Centro de Arte y Creacion Industrial is an interdisciplinary art centre created in [...]

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  Somerset House relaunches its Embankment Galleries with Skin + Bones, devoted to ideas shared by fashion and architecture. It examines themes of geometry, identity, tectonic strategies and more, using breathtaking examples of structural play from some of
• Entramos en los lugares prohibidos de América · ELPAÍS.com
  La caja'. Lugar de recreo del corredor de la muerte en Mansfield, Ohio. Presume de ser la democracia más adelantada del mundo occidental, pero en Estados Unidos aún está vigente la pena de muerte y es una sociedad capaz de tolerar un limbo de los derec
• Berlín estrena un GPS para buscar el muro perdido · ELPAÍS.com
  El GPS localiza la situación del propietario de la agenda y le informa del trazado de muro que tiene más próximo. La información se acompaña de fotografías, vídeos y grabaciones radiofónicas sobre la historia del muro de la vergüenza, en donde se
• Humans ‘to grow replacement body parts’ - Times Online
  Robert Edwards said emerging field of regenerative medicine would enable a patient’s own cells to be used to build hearts, livers and kidneys with their own blood supply, to replace diseased organs.
• Will cards for inmates solve crimes? | Oddly Enough | Reuters
  Inmates in 58 county jails across New York are getting playing cards with the pictures of missing persons in hopes the photos will jog memories and help solve cold cases.
• Britain’s rivers and lakes are to be restocked with trout carrying genetic modifications that make them easier to catch. - Times Online
  The move has been ordered by the Environment Agency which wants to prevent interbreeding between native brown trout and those introduced for anglers.
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  ampoules sans ondes, appareils de détection, ou des kits mains libres pour portables dont les câbles sont des tubes en plastique dans lesquels le son, comme dans les stéthoscopes, est véhiculé par l'air

Wooden boxes that deliver Situation(ist) quotes, order you to bring them to their friends upstairs within 30 seconds, and treat you like delinquents or servants

Why not fill it with 1 or more of 3 Rhizome-related activities?

1) Attend Blank Spots on a Map: State Secrecy and the Limits of the Visible, Trevor Paglen's talk at the New Museum tonight at 7:30pm

2) Buy tickets for the Rhizome Benefit.

3) For our members all over the world: view and vote on Rhizome Commissions. Every year, our community selects two of our seven commissions. Cast your votes today!

After its March premiere at the Dark Fair, Wordless Chorus will convene for the second time this Saturday evening at New York's Canada Gallery. Composed by artist Brian Belott and dancer Larissa Velez, the piece involves the participation of over 25 choreographed members howling, singing, and grunting nonsensical verse while wielding props such as chattering teeth and batons. Lounge music is cited as an inspiration for the project, an unsurprising fact considering Belott's love for kitsch and distinct sense of humor, which recalls the media savvy and subversive wit of Michael Smith paired with a Dada-inspired penchant for the absurd. While, evidently, the Wordless Chorus is an event that needs to be seen to be believed, those unable to attend can pick up a limited-edition vinyl record of the ensemble's performance later this year from Grey Ghost Press. - Ceci Moss

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POSTED BY Erika Parkins “Violence, conflict and who we are all converge in French choreographer Rachid Ouramdane’s work to show how we can or cannot, do or do not find a sensitivity within ourselves in this cruel world. The choreographer, of Algerian descent, is one of France’s top young choreographers contemplating self and searching for different [...]

Rachid Ouramdane revisits his father’s past in Vietnam to study the aftermath of violence. Time Out New York By Gia Kourlas Time Out New York / Issue 658 : May 7–13, 2008 Rachid Ouramdane, a French choreographer of Algerian heritage, is a master at accumulating stories and distilling them to their bare essence. When last in New York, [...]

This year, we decided to set up shop at the 3rd annual Bay Area Maker Faire in San Mateo, CA. Last year, Cycling '74 shared a little corner of a booth with the nice people at MakingThings, and that was enough to get us hooked on this crazy annual celebration of all things DIY and electrified.

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Visual Programming Language Reinvented

San Francisco, CA • April 22, 2008 -- Cycling ’74 today released Version 5.0 of its Max/MSP media development tools. This version represents a new era of Max programming, with a completely redesigned multi-processing kernel and a streamlined development environment built on a platform-independent foundation. With a new patcher interface, searchable database of objects and examples, integrated documentation and new tutorials, the new Max user will find a smoother learning curve while experienced users will see improved productivity. These improvements to the Max/MSP/Jitter bundle are provided at a more affordable price of MSRP US $699, with academic discounts available.

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DigiWall from the Interactive Institute looks like a traditional climbing-wall but it’s actually a computer game you climb upon. Every climbing-hold is equipped with a sensor that registers hands and feet. In that way DigiWall can keep track on where on the wall the climber or climbers are. This opens up for a large number [...]

Here are a number videos of installations and sculptures on the theme of artificial life which won awards at VIDA last year. Via wmmna Mission eternity sarcophagus Etoy.corporation launched the Mission Eternity Project in 2005, foregrounding on the one hand respect for the human longing to survive in some way after death, and on the other a [...]

by Christina Pinnell, Marketing & Audience Development Associate Did you know? The Egyptians were one of the first civilizations to use numerals to represent numbers, dating back to around 3000 B.C. What? The Egyptians used a distinct hieroglyphic numeral system with a base of 10, like ours, that counted all the way to a million but did [...]

by Christina Pinnell, Marketing & Audience Development Associate Did you know? April 29th is International Dance Day! What? In 1982, the International Dance Committee, which was part of UNESCO’s International Theater Institute, introduced the holiday. The date was chosen in honor of the birthday of Jean-George Noverre, a French ballet master. The day is now promoted by the International [...]

The audience in Cairo: Audience at Mumbai: From the audience in LA taking a picture: Photo: Marla Aufmuth Hypernova performing in LA: Photo: Marla Aufmuth Jonathan Harris in L.A.: Photo: Marla Aufmuth Audience in L.A.: A crowd shot at Rio:...

Panthea Lee and Dan Shemie write from Shanghai: So after weeks of plotting, scheming and ceaseless fretting, our Friends of Pangea Day event in Shanghai has gone off without a hitch. For those unfamiliar with the situation, a brief explanation:...

Mycologist Paul Stamets studies mycelium and lists 6 ways that this astonishing fungus can help save the universe. Cleaning polluted soil, creating new insecticides, treating smallpox and maybe even the flu ... in 18 minutes, he doesn't get all the way through his list, but he has plenty of time to blow your mind. An audience favorite at TED2008.

Hector Ruiz talks about his commitment to giving the whole world access to the Internet. Ruiz is the CEO of AMD, and through AMD's 50x15 initiative, Ruiz and his company hope to connect 50 percent of the world to the Internet by 2015. Sharing his own extraordinary life story, Ruiz makes the case that access to education is life-changing.

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