MachineMachine /stream - tagged with london http://machinemachine.net/stream/feed en-us http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/tech/rss Sweetcron text@machinemachine.net Alan Moore's Masks: A Face to Face http://www.metafilter.com/mefi/111586 Alan Moore and David Lloyd designed it 30 years ago. The V for Vendetta mask appropriated by Occupy protesters the world over. The Guardian recently asked Alan what he thought about the masks. Now Channel 4 news takes him into Occupy territory to face that face. But who is the true anarchist? ]]> Fri, 13 Jan 2012 09:20:01 -0700 http://www.metafilter.com/mefi/111586 Barbarians on the Thames http://www.city-journal.org/2011/21_4_otbie-british-riots.html/barbarians-on-the-thames-by-theodore-dalrymple-city-journal Barbarians on the Thames : A postmortem of the British riots http://t.co/WzF5lhtZ ]]> Thu, 08 Dec 2011 10:36:18 -0700 http://www.city-journal.org/2011/21_4_otbie-british-riots.html/barbarians-on-the-thames-by-theodore-dalrymple-city-journal GLTI.CH Karaoke IV: Where Will You Sing? http://glti.ch/karaoke-iv/

When?

7pm, Thursday 27th October

Where?

London: Meanwhile Space, upstairs in the O2 Centre, Finchley Road

Liverpool: Elevator Cafe/Bar, 25 Parliament Street

Where will you sing?

]]> Sun, 16 Oct 2011 07:07:47 -0700 http://glti.ch/karaoke-iv/ The Segway Looter http://tumblr.machinemachine.net/post/8816535922

The Segway Looter

]]> Fri, 12 Aug 2011 02:05:00 -0700 http://tumblr.machinemachine.net/post/8816535922 The London Riots: On Consumerism coming Home to Roost http://www.social-europe.eu/2011/08/the-london-riots-on-consumerism-coming-home-to-roost/ These are not hunger or bread riots. These are riots of defective and disqualified consumers.
Revolutions are not staple products of social inequality; but minefields are. Minefields are areas filled with randomly scattered explosives: one can be pretty sure that some of them, some time, will explode – but one can’t say with any degree of certainty which ones and when. Social revolutions being focused and targeted affairs, one can possibly do something to locate them and defuse in time. Not the minefield-type explosions, though. In case of the minefields laid out by soldiers of one army you can… ]]> Tue, 09 Aug 2011 15:32:53 -0700 http://www.social-europe.eu/2011/08/the-london-riots-on-consumerism-coming-home-to-roost/ Michel Serres, The Natural Contract http://tumblr.machinemachine.net/post/8687570754 “Suppose two speakers, determined to contradict each other. As violent as their confrontation may be, as long as they are willing to continue the discussion they must speak a common language in order for the dialogue to take place. There can’t be an argument between two people if one speaks a language the other can’t understand. […] Can an individual actor, lost in these gigantic masses, still say ‘I’ when the old collectivities, themselves so lightweight, have already been reduced to uttering a paltry and outmoded ‘we’?”

- Michel Serres, The Natural Contract ]]> Tue, 09 Aug 2011 05:36:00 -0700 http://tumblr.machinemachine.net/post/8687570754 Violence at the Edge: Tottenham, Athens, Paris http://www.criticallegalthinking.com/?p=4142 "The everyday experience of liberal capitalism rests upon the violent defence of the boundaries against the other that the system itself produces. That banal and pacifying phrase ‘social exclusion’ allows us to forget the material experience of exclusion and the subjectivities that it tends to generate." ]]> Tue, 09 Aug 2011 04:39:01 -0700 http://www.criticallegalthinking.com/?p=4142 GLTI.CH Karaoke http://www.flickr.com/photos/huge-entity/5584726853/

Mr. Daniel posted a photo:

GLTI.CH Karaoke

GLTI.CH Karaoke event, hosted 2nd April 2011 at Meanwhile Space, Whitechapel.

See our website: glti.ch or follow us on twitter @gltich for more information!

]]> Sun, 03 Apr 2011 07:04:34 -0700 http://www.flickr.com/photos/huge-entity/5584726853/ Projects: GLTI.CH Karaoke http://projects.metafilter.com/3042/GLTICH-Karaoke is a virtual jukebox oozing with time-delayed, glitchy fun. Streaming live over the web, London and Kumamoto will be joined in a sing off to end all sing offs. The first GLTI.CH KARAOKE event will laugh in the face of the nine hour time difference, of poor bandwidth, bad lip syncing, and terrible foreign language translations. All that matters is that the interwebs keep running and the participants keep on singing.From our first event we will encourage a whole series GLTI.CH Karaoke happenings. Using webstreaming software our eventual aim is to link up multiple cities across the globe… ]]> Fri, 25 Mar 2011 11:17:46 -0700 http://projects.metafilter.com/3042/GLTICH-Karaoke GLTI.CH Karaoke http://glti.ch

Saturday 2nd April : Come and join us a for an afternoon of GLTI.CH KARAOKE!

GLTI.CH KARAOKE will be hosting this live karaoke event in conjunction with the citizens of Kumamoto City, Japan. All proceeds raised at Glitch Karaoke will go to The Japan Society Tohoku Earthquake Relief Fund.

Defy human spacetime by warbling Elvis, the Spice Girls, and Beat Crusaders with friends in London and Kumamoto at the Meanwhile Space (Whitechapel) at the End of the Universe with the power of Skype, hand-me-down computers, and mutual love of amateur live singing.

Free to attend, donations encouraged. There… ]]> Fri, 25 Mar 2011 09:38:00 -0700 http://glti.ch/Gltich-Karaoke Cory Arcangel, Beat The Champ @ The Barbican, Curve http://www.flickr.com/photos/huge-entity/5499774166/

Mr. Daniel posted a photo:

Cory Arcangel, Beat The Champ @ The Barbican, Curve

]]> Sat, 05 Mar 2011 08:36:08 -0700 http://www.flickr.com/photos/huge-entity/5499774166/ White Cube — The Clock http://www.whitecube.com/exhibitions/cm/ 'The Clock' is constructed out of moments in cinema when time is expressed or when a character interacts with a clock, watch or just a particular time of day. Marclay has excerpted thousands of these fragments and edited them so that they flow in real time. While 'The Clock' examines how time, plot and duration are depicted in cinema, the video is also a working timepiece that is synchronised to the local time zone. At any moment, the viewer can look at the work and use it to tell the time. Yet the audience watching 'The Clock' experiences a vast… ]]> Fri, 05 Nov 2010 07:21:00 -0700 http://www.whitecube.com/exhibitions/cm/ Serpentine-Edge Map Marathon Gallery http://www.edge.org/documents/Edge-Serpentine-MapsGallery/index.html Three years ago, Edge collaborated with The Serpentine Gallery in London in a program of "table-top experiments" as part of the Serpentine's Experiment Marathon . This live event was featured along with the Edge/Serpentine collaboration: "What Is Your Formula? Your Equation? Your Algorithm? Formulae For the 21st Century."

Hans Ulrich Obrist, curator of the Serpentine, has invited Edge to collaborate in his latest project, The Serpentine Map Marathon, Saturday and Sunday, 16 – 17 October, at Royal Geographical Society, 1 Kensington Gore, London SW7 2AR (Map).

The multi-dimensional Map Marathon features non-stop live presentations… ]]> Fri, 15 Oct 2010 06:52:00 -0700 http://www.edge.org/documents/Edge-Serpentine-MapsGallery/index.html Going (London) Underground http://www.metafilter.com/mefi/94713 The London Underground. Every Londoner has used it, but has everyone really seen it? The old map is looking a bit dusty. Perhaps its time for Geographic precision or maybe 3D projection. If we add bicycles to the map, is it still an underground? ]]> Fri, 13 Aug 2010 05:47:00 -0700 http://www.metafilter.com/mefi/94713 Writing off the UK's last palaeographer http://www.guardian.co.uk/education/2010/feb/09/writing-off-last-palaeographer-university Dry, dusty and shortly to be dead. Palaeographers are used to making sense of fragments of ancient manuscripts, but King's College London couldn't have been plainer when it announced recently that it was to close the UK's only chair of palaeography. From ­September, the current holder of the chair, Professor David Ganz, will be out of a job, and the subject will no longer exist as a separate academic discipline in British universities. Its survival will now depend entirely on the whim of classicists and medievalists studying in other fields.

The decision took everyone by ­surprise. "It… ]]> Sat, 29 May 2010 10:04:00 -0700 http://www.guardian.co.uk/education/2010/feb/09/writing-off-last-palaeographer-university Ignoring the mainstream, spreading enthusiasm for difficult music and sustaining sonic subcultures: Colin Marshall talks to Chris Bohn, editor of The Wire http://www.3quarksdaily.com/3quarksdaily/2010/03/ignoring-the-mainstream-spreading-enthusiasm-for-difficult-music-and-sustaining-sonic-subcultures-co.html Chris Bohn is the editor of London-based monthly music magazine The Wire. Subtitled “Adventures in Modern Music”, the magazine has covered the alternative, the underground, the experimental, the avant-garde and the generally non-mainstream since 1982, featuring a span of artists from Ornette Coleman to Björk to David Sylvian to Jim O’Rourke to field recordists like Lee Patterson to emerging Chinese sounds artists like Yun Jun. The magazine is also well known as a rarity in its industry for both its profitability and its loyal, growing readership. Colin Marshall originally conducted this conversation on the public radio program and podcast The… ]]> Mon, 29 Mar 2010 08:51:00 -0700 http://www.3quarksdaily.com/3quarksdaily/2010/03/ignoring-the-mainstream-spreading-enthusiasm-for-difficult-music-and-sustaining-sonic-subcultures-co.html Arcangel and the future of digi/net art http://www.metafilter.com/mefi/87272 Corey Arcangel is perhaps the internet's most infamous hack, masher-upper, digi/net artist. His work stands for a growing culture of artists who run wildly through animated GIF landscapes populated with corrupted data-compressed bunny rabbits and tinny, MIDI renditions of Savage Garden ballads. As the Lisson Gallery, London, opens its archives to Arcangel's curatorial eye, could digi/net art be set to infect the real, fleshy world, like a rampant Conficker Worm? Has YouTube become the truest reflection of our anthropological selves? Are… ]]> Tue, 08 Dec 2009 06:44:50 -0700 http://www.metafilter.com/mefi/87272 A Certain Realism: 'The Known Unknowns' - 4 hours of continuous readings at Whitechapel Gallery http://acertainrealism.blogspot.com/2009/11/known-unknowns-4-hours-continues.html The Known Unknowns is a scheduled cycle of continuous readings running parallel to Volatile Dispersal: Festival of Art Writing, an evening organised by Maria Fusco and Book Works at Whitechapel Gallery. The festival reflects on the materialisation and dematerialisation of art writing through six newly commissioned works by Adam Chodzko, Ruth Ewan, Babak Ghazi, Beatrice Gibson, Nathaniel Mellors and Gail Pickering. The aim of The Known Unknowns is to gather an interesting number of contributors to publicly read extracts or entire sections of their own texts. The fluidity and the continuity of the act of reading-aloud will unveil a focus… ]]> Sat, 21 Nov 2009 05:45:00 -0700 http://acertainrealism.blogspot.com/2009/11/known-unknowns-4-hours-continues.html Whitechapel - Volatile Dispersal: Festival of Art Writing http://www.whitechapelgallery.org/shop/product/category_id/27/product_id/385?session_id=1258455028383f96137d95bc221d98b5ce7b7b0bfb Saturday 21 November, 6pm - 11pm Showcasing UK artists and writers, this parley-based event speculates on the materialisation and dematerialisation of art writing through newly commissioned works, together with readings drawn from open submission. The event is hosted by Maria Fusco with Book Works and structured around issue three of The Happy Hypocrite, themed ‘Volatile Dispersal: Speed and Reading’. A specially produced publication is available on the day, published by Book Works. New commissions include a lecture, readings, performances and installations by Adam Chodzko, Ruth Ewan, Babak Ghazi, Beatrice Gibson, Nathaniel Mellors, and Gail Pickering, together with The Known Unknowns,… ]]> Sat, 21 Nov 2009 05:43:00 -0700 http://www.whitechapelgallery.org/shop/product/category_id/27/product_id/385?session_id=1258455028383f96137d95bc221d98b5ce7b7b0bfb Seriousness is the New Black: The Turner Prize at Tate Britain and Anish Kapoor at The Royal Academy http://www.3quarksdaily.com/3quarksdaily/2009/10/seriousness-is-the-new-black--the-turner-prize-at-tate-britain-and-anish-kapoor-at-the-royal-academy--sue-hubbard------many.html Many factors have lead to London’s pre-eminence in the contemporary art world: the importance of Goldsmith’s College to the Hirst generation of YBAs, Saatchi’s ubiquitous influence as a collector, Jay Joplin’s White Cube gallery, the founding of the annual Frieze art fair, and of course, the Turner Prize, that annual award set up in 1984 to celebrate new developments in contemporary art presented each year to a British artist under fifty for an outstanding exhibition in the preceding twelve months. It has always been a controversial affair. There was, of course, that bed (it didn’t win) and Martin Creed’s minimal… ]]> Mon, 19 Oct 2009 03:50:00 -0700 http://www.3quarksdaily.com/3quarksdaily/2009/10/seriousness-is-the-new-black--the-turner-prize-at-tate-britain-and-anish-kapoor-at-the-royal-academy--sue-hubbard------many.html