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1,000,045
  • place: Glen Ridge, New Jersey

17::January::2008 22:33 → permalink

so, art’s birthday is over and done with. for another year. number 1,000,045. broadcast from the basement, not really sure I had any audience anyway, another one of those events. I was using the waag.nl QuickTime server in Amsterdam, and for some reason it kept kicking me out every 9:59, so I have 6 chunks of the stream. can’t decide whether just to glue them together into one sixty minute file or keep the pieces as they are. hmmmm. will get that happening later.

I’d rather jump into the share.dj projects, though, at least there are other folks out there online to chat with. the arts birthday crowd is too dispersed and anarchic to manage a single meeting place. pity, though, it would have been nice to chat with some of them. maybe next year. (later) finally tack an edit of the fragments together — archive stream

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dogs
  • place: Bremen, Germany

17::October::2007 21:45 → permalink

okay, how does this guy in Bremen manage to sell these things so cheap? Martin says that the wursts are made locally, too. as we make a short tour of downtown on share-bremen night. Jürgen is sick. but we see some interesting art work.

The truth is that there is not enough of the right kind of freedom, the fundamental freedom to choose to be free or not to be free, according to one’s preference …. Thus I demand, for each and every member of human society, freedom of association according to inclination and of activity according to aptitude. In other words, the absolute right to choose the political surroundings in which to live, and to ask for nothing else. — Paul Emile de Puydt

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urban recall
  • place: Brooklyn, New York

24::September::2007 21:51 → permalink

overnight at Eric and Sylvia’s (aka Asteria) place

in Brooklyn after that nice share.dj evening at reboot in the City.

meet Trebor for lunch and coffee in Park Slope. hanging in a coffee house, cyber cafe. where hardly anyone is talking. this is the social venue of the time. wouldn’t have been this way five years, ten, twenty years ago. with Bob Marley playing non-stop on the sound system. and photographic portraits of old gypsy women on the walls. the guy across from me, in the cluster of couches full of typers gets up and leaves, leaving an ipod or iphone behind. a gal next to him in an overstuffed smoking chair gets up and runs after him. no one else looks up at the ripple fluttering of off energy. I smile at her when she returns to her seat and her computer. no more contact.

and the urban vibrato in the space from ankle to nose. along with hard pavement. I walked two miles from Eric’s down to Trebor’s. it always surprises me, the condition of the general infrastructure of the city. would it be better if there wasn’t a war going on?

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share
  • place: Manhattan, New York

23::September::2007 22:40 → permalink

on the way in, a curious Indian national promotion in Bryant Park. fashion show in a miniature Taj Mahal.

and finally met dear Keiko. hang for the evening, some nice performances. do a little ambient mixing in later. head home with Eric after he graciously offered a place to crash so that I didn’t have to negotiate the train to Jersey…

and am working on a redux audio of the evening.

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share.nomad
  • place: Livermore, California

28::April::2007 22:16 → permalink

as the share-nomad node, participate remotely at the conference at MIT MiT5: creativity, ownership, and collaboration in the digital age in Boston with share people, as share.nomad node. Martin was there from Bremen along with quite a few other nodes being represented.

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amazon bonanza
  • place: Bremen, Germany

27::February::2007 21:01 → permalink

crossing another path with sharedj people — Martin and Jürgen of the Bremen crew. turns out Jürgen participated in difusion 2002 using iVisit — he was doing some crazy things with the video image he was sending, and I remember that the students were really intrigued with his mysterious presence…

but the first time in a smoky German bar is too much for me. horrible environment. the Germans are on the verge of passing a law to cut off smoking in public places as have other European states have already passed — Norway, Ireland, Italy, France. it’s about time. head back to Frieder & Susi’s place.

wow, and I made all of $0.69 on Amazon referrals last month from my reading list of books and other media that has crossed my radar lately. I can retire now.

earlier, breakfast at Kuku, and a stop by the Kunsthalle, Frieder gets me in free (as Icelandic/Finnish artist union member) to look at the work of Annamaria and Marzio Sala. interesting, but not compelling. one video installation is absolutely juvenile and would not stand in a bachelors-level class. strange. hanging out in the permanent John Cage sonic installation work Essay.

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sharedj performance
  • place: Lower East Side, New York

16::July::2006 15:49 → permalink

head into the City early in the afternoon, burning heat. take the bus to Port Authority in plenty of time to get to Mundial for the performance at the regular Sunday evening sharedj happening. too early. sit in a café across the street for an hour.

then wander around to a garage sale in the paved yard of a Catholic Church.

then back to Mundial, grateful for the cool air when finally Patrick, one of the owners, arrives. Eric comes a bit later as does Dan, both main movers in the sharedj collective. Stefan, Sophea, and Randy are there for my simple mix, and only one glitch when the HD on the sound system crashes out because it gets too full when archiving the sound part of the mix. the only thing left is to continue with video mixing to carry the energy. then later, the video fragments are lost as well in the quicktime editing process — a mistake. so, yet another loss of archive. dogs of war.

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