hole punch: a register of interesting stuff from louisemakesstuff
Wednesday, November 09, 2011
Wednesday, October 26, 2011
Sunday, February 14, 2010
Indymedia - 10 years on
reading message is medium is message by Sydney-based Zanny Begg.
The UK Indymedia does not have Wales designated branch but does have a Bristol and South West branch. Noted articles covering Welsh topics include:
Wales, the first and final colony speech by Adam Price, the MP for Dinefwr and East Carmarthenshire, presented to the Institute of Welsh Politics, Annual Address, Aberystwyth, 16th November 2009.
2nd Landslide Win Against Biofuel Power At Newport, South Wales
Wednesday, February 03, 2010
BBC - Virtual Revolution: Episode 1
episode 1: The Great Levelling?
The wonder and walls of Wikipedia; the blogger media revolution; the price of peer-to-peer piracy... who really has power on the web? Is it the online crowd or the 'gatekeepers'? Is the web a platform for sharing or is it inequality writ large?
Dr. Aleks Krotoski meets some of the biggest names of the web, including Jimmy Wales, Arianna Huffington, YouTube CEO Chad Hurley, and the inventor of the web himself, Tim Berners Lee.
Open Souce Mean Business - BBC R4
Inside the Virtual Anthill: Open Source Means Business: Gerry Northam goes behind the scenes to investigate 'open source' computer software. available here: http://www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/console/b00kp806
First Broadcast 1 June 2009 - which I missed
broadcast again on Radio 4 on 2 Feb 2010
Cloud Culture: The internet’s next revolution
up and coming from the British Council's think tank counterpoint...
Cloud computing promises a huge liberation of human creativity and communication; but can this precious space for our collaboration be kept open and free? Charles Leadbeater, leading thinker on creativity and innovation writes here about the issues he addresses in his new pamphlet published by Counterpoint on 8 February - Cloud Culture: the global future of cultural relations.
Ordering pizza in the future
Sunday, June 21, 2009
Friday, April 17, 2009
Tuesday, March 24, 2009
Sunday, March 01, 2009
Cultural stuff I have been to in Wales - Jan/Feb 2009
Ffresh 2009- student moving image festival held at the Aberystwth Arts Centre - 11-13 Feb
3 Men Running - Marc Rees in performance at Sherman Cymru
Marriage of Figaro - Welsh National Opera
Boulevard of Broken Dreams - music by Charlie Barber, Choreography Jean Abreu - at Sherman Cymru
Sweet Baboo and Threatmantics - Fragmented Orchestra project at the Millenium Stadium
Gallops! - Mathrock electronica from Wrexham seen at Clwb Ifor Bach
BP Portrait Award 2008 - at Aberystwth Arts Centre
Overview- a painting exhibition at the Elysium Artspace an artist and volunteer run space in Swansea
Ian Grainger, Printmaker - BayArt Gallery, Bute Street, Cardiff
Ruthin Craft Centre Touring Exhibition by Nancy Baldwin & Gordon Baldwin, painter and potter respectively - exhibition at Mission Gallery, Marine Quarter, Swansea
Supernova - British Council Touring Exhibition at the Glynn Vivian Arts Gallery, Swansea
Welsh Curry Awards 2009 - hosted by the festivals company held at The Point
Yarn and Yarn - a bi-weekly Knitting group meeting at Chapter (and City Road)
Friday, January 30, 2009
Northern Bloc - Llandudno - Thursday 29 Jan 2009
The personal computer promises everything faster, better, cheaper. You can even conduct your social life online. But does this shift risk damaging our local economies and communities? What happens when you turn your back on the computer and use technology to build communities in real life instead?The workshops and seminars explored the uses and implementation of social media technologies and of open methodologies in the area of research and creative practice. The event focused on the practical.
The presenters at the seminar were:
Adrain Bowyer: Wealth without money
Look at your computer setup. Imagine if you hooked up a 3D printer. Instead of printing on bits of paper this 3D printer makes real, robust, mechanical items. To give you an idea of how robust these items are think of Lego bricks and you`re in the right area. You could make lots of useful stuff, but interestingly you could also make most of the parts to make another 3D printer. That would be a machine that could copy itself.
Paul Miller -Why Don’t You? -School of Everything
This talk will be about RepRap - the Replicating Rapid-prototyper. This 3D printer will make items by building them up in layers of plastic. This technology already exists, but the cheapest commercial machine would cost you EUR 30,000. And it isn`t even designed so that it can make itself. So what the RepRap team are doing is to develop and to give away the designs for a much cheaper machine with the novel capability of being able to self-copy (material costs will be about EUR 400). That way it`ll be accessible to small communities in the developing world as well as individuals in the developed world. Anyone will be able to swap designs for anything to be made on RepRap using the Internet in the same way that music is currently shared. The RepRap machine is being distributed entirely free to everyone using open-source - so, if you have one, you can make another and give it to a friend.In the 80s and 90s, the kids TV show `Why Don`t You` was more revolutionary than you might think. Its full title was `Why Don`t You Just Switch Off Your Television Set And Go Out And Do Something Less Boring Instead?` and it was all about the interesting stuff you should do instead of watching telly.
Simon Whitehead - Movement Artist
Now there are a whole range of internet services that have a `Why Don`t You ethic`. They`re not interested in creating a service that sucks people in - instead they focus on getting people out doing stuff with other people. In the case of School of Everything that`s about learning new stuff but there are others such as Meetup.com, ThePoint.com, PledgeBank.org, Dopplr.com that are all about helping people organise activity and not about them uploading their brains. This presentation will look at how you design an online service that helps people do things in the real world.Simon will talk about the development of his practice - from working as a dance artist in a theatre setting to his current movement work, which often involves basic technologies and technologists. He will discuss several projects which combine the use of basic, often renewable technologies such as solar and wind power, mobile phones, sound and film, with an element of collaboration - working with other artists , the public and animals.
Simon will discuss some of his most productive collaborations in more detail, exploring how his work often involves working closely with technologists, such as long-standing collaborator Barnaby Oliver, who now lives thousands of miles away in Melbourne as well as more commercial relationships which have resulted in projects such as Walking to Work.
Simon will discuss several projects which don`t foreground the use of technology and the factors which influence these decisions. He will be rounding off his presentation with some observations about his experience of making his work and finding and developing an audience for it in his location in rural west Wales.
Wednesday, January 28, 2009
The Public - West Bromwich - money n' innovation gone bad
£500,000 annual grant withdrawn with centrepiece gallery still not working seven months after building opened
West Bromwich's arts centre: the most ill-judged building since the Dome
What looks like a magenta fish, cost £52m and closed before it opened?
The fate of the Public arts centre in West Bromwich should make us re-evaluate the worth of publicly funded buildings
It’s not what West Bromwich needs and it’s not going to kickstart regeneration, says Tony Ward; while Sally Luton argues that it will provide a centre for innovation and creative expression
want to see list
twelthfloor by Tanja Liedtke on Tuesday 24 March at Sherman Cymru
Miss Brown to You by Hijinx Theatre on 4 April at wmc
Tuesday, January 27, 2009
BBC National Orchestra Wales
The BBC National Orchestra of Wales play Hoddinott, Sibelius, Ravel, Beethoven, Simon Holt and Varese
Art Tribute to Alun Hoddinott by Lubna Chowdhary
Saturday, January 24, 2009
The 50 most influential movers and shakers on the welsh arts scene - according to the Western Mail
2 Russell T Davies
3 Duffy
4 John Fisher
5 Bryn Terfel
6 Michael Sheen
7 Katherine Jenkins
8 Matthew Rhys
9 Alun Ffred Jones
10 Andrew Davies
11 Nick Capaldi
12 Judith Isherwood
13 Peter Florence
14 Tessa Jackson
15 Michael Tooby
16 Peter Stead
17 Michael Bogdanov
18 Jo Bartlett and Danny Hagan
20 Pauline Burt
21 Steven Moffat
22 Owain Arwel Hughes
23 Mari Beynon Owen
24 Terry Hands
25 Chris Ricketts
26 Ann Sholem
27 Geraint Talfan Davies
28 Tim Rhys-Evans
29 Cefin Roberts
30 John E McGrath
31 Thierry Fischer
32 Peter Finch
33 Tim Baker
34 Karl Jenkins
35 Sir David Rowe-Beddoe
36 Gruff Rhys
37 Peter Doran
38 Pablo Janczur
39 Gareth Jones
40 Rebecca Evans
41 Kathryn Gray
42 Dannie Abse
43 Doreen O'Neill
44 Llyr Williams
45 Gillian Clarke
46 Aled Jones
47 Catrin Finch
48 Peter Gill
49 Rhod Gilbert
50 Roger Burnell
Sunday, March 30, 2008
Disclosures
Disclosures seeks to scrutinise the notion of openness across fields of cultural production at large. A first reading of openness refers to situations in which the viewer, reader, listener or internet user becomes emancipated through egalitarian participation, collaborative authorship and/or the breaking down of hierarchical and social boundaries.I didn' attend Saurday's presentations with seminars on Node.London and Open Congress. Instead I opted to attend sessions on 'Blue Skies, Grey Skies' to explore the limitations of FLOSS as a tool and as a model. I went to the morning seminar, presented by Toni Prug from LSE and attended a Resource Camp held by Critical Practice with the aim of drafting a set of guidelines for open budgeting.
The ResourceCamp will explore the ‘elephant in the room’ of open organisations and art institutions – the management of money and more generally the administration of resources. Through presentations, discussions and dissent we aim to draft ‘open’ budget guidelines for all.The camp was similar to an open space technology event with participants setting the agenda for the sessions. Together the group explored issues concerning 'Opportunity Cost', generosity, exploitation, transitional practice, case studies of open budget participation, definition and balance of resources, issues of defining value.
Peter Dunn gave a presentation, providing some pragmatic advice on managing distributed budgets. I supported Peter when he mentioned measuring in-kind income/cost incurred during a project so that a 'real' monetary value is assigned to project budgets. The group concurred that if we gave value and budgeted for in-kind generated income the institutions we work for would be burdened with a heavy debt. Interesting thought ;-)
Jem McKay pointed out a useful report: open budget evaluation by Harrow Council. This sites Influence, Information, Diliberation, Feedback, Independence as the upholding principles for open budgeting. With this in hand Jem and Peter offered a a much needed practical view point.
A mailing list will be started with the aim of distributing notes from the days discussion, and carry it on - perhaps towards the stated aim of creating the guidelines. Lets see.
I just found an interesting report at infonomics.nl looks like it's also worth a read in the perspective of working with transactions that are not traded in monetary system.