tired of the mirrors, noise and eyes.

tired of prickly, intimate and fleshy human relationships being flattened into ‘friend’-nodes, the erasure of myth by constant visibility and exhausting availability.

what kind of network society do i want to support? a closed compound of willingly data-mined crayons or an open net of chance and unpredictability?

if facebook is the brightly-lit suburban mall of internet communication, i want to be under the bridges; in the torrent-swapping irc channels, small social networks, anonymous message boards and darker locations thriving with their own individual languages and codes.

tired of feeling exposed, of being infantilised, of being farmed.

the incessant ‘now’ of FB started to infect my creative process; making for ‘blip’ attention spans and the enormous appetite of the beast, as Geert Lovink puts it ‘feeding a machine’. I want to think in longer time frames to make deeper work.

tired of feelings of interpassivity and the formless mild angst it instills in me; spectacle 2.0 and the build-your-own-ego-ghetto.

hello friends, goodbye facebook.

https://youtube.com/watch?v=eZmGXEA6xNA

31/12/10 – 01/01/11 Amsterdam
‘Romance of Black Grief’
NAKED GIZA STAR
Les Rallizes Dénudés

camera and cut by emile zile

On Friday, January 14 2011 the Netherlands Media Art Institute (NIMk) will host a night profiling the work of Sandberg Institute students from all departments. Theus Zwakhals of NIMk and Emile Zile (ex-S.I. Fine Arts, emilezile.com) are curating and producing the event. The last two editions have hosted installations, performances and a screening program to a broad public audience.

Participating artists:
Manon van Trier, Samantha Thole, Tom Milnes, Katja Novitskova, Maartje Smits, Salomé Lamas, Edwin Stolk, Jetske Verhoeven, Eva Marie Rodbro, Sina Khani, Lida Krul, Sayaka Abe, Marc Barreda

e3.50 entry, students free.

http://sandberg.nl/

http://nimk.nl/eng/sandbergnimk-3

http://www.facebook.com/event.php?eid=168300599877016

Conducting a week-long video workshop in Luang Prabang, Lao People’s Democratic Republic for 1minutes foundation/UNICEF. Two days at the tail to shoot material. Looking for an actor to deliver a monologue in an internet cafe. Lao bluescreen pop, country groove and karaoke music videos are fuelling my anticipation.

https://youtube.com/watch?v=9RBde7GCn3Y

https://youtube.com/watch?v=7JmXhG2kQfE

This Friday night I will be in Eindhoven, providing musical accompaniment to Alexei Shulgin (386DX!) and Amy Alexander’s performances during the opening night of the Funware exhibition at Mu. Artists exhibiting include Adrian Ward, Amy Alexander, Annina Ruest, Bob Zimbinski, Carmen Weisskopf / Domagoj Smoljo / Roger Wigger, Christoph Haag / Franziska Windisch / Ludwig Zeller / Martin Rumori, Colin Green / Matthew Fuller / Simon Pope, Dave Griffiths / Aymeric Mansoux / Marloes de Valk, David Link, Electroboutique, Gazira Babeli, Joan Leandre, JODI, Jon Satrom / Ben Syverson, RTmark, Runme.org.

Freaks run the world. It is through fun that they invent what becomes our reality, even if their jokes are later updated to guide matters in unappetizing ways. Our society is built and managed by software. To understand how we can act in relation to such systems and how they are made, we need to get a sense of the energy that drives software, the energy based on fun. We can come closer to these practices through the territories that are in-between geeky humour, digital folklore, cultures of using conventional software, artistic software and history of computation. It is in the fact that exploration takes place through fun and the bizarre territories always exist that there is a hope for an open horizon.

Read an interview with curator Olga Goriunova on Rhizome http://rhizome.org/editorial/3843

Full details at http://www.mu.nl/?cl=uk

Producing the event and performing as DJ Bushdoof this Saturday at Netherlands Institute for Media Art, Amsterdam. Museum Night 2010, from 22.00-02.00. NIMk has a busy public program starting at 7pm, we wind up the night with a big doofing party. Selector Tiny Tim is bringing fresh Jamaican bashment and live MC’s, the visuals are arriving via filetransfer services as I type; Mexico, London, Melbourne, New York and Amsterdam Oost.

http://www.bushdoof.eu/?p=33
http://nimk.nl/eng/museum-night-2010

DJ Bushdoof http://www.bushdoof.eu
Sensiriti Sound w/ MC http://www.myspace.com/sensiritisound
Visuals by
Maximum Rim (Australia) http://moopjaw.tumblr.com
Yoshi Sodeoka (Japan/U.S.A.) http://www.sodeoka.com
TV aka Clickjaw (Mexico/Australia) http://clickjaw.com
Flyer image by Antuong Nguyen of Maximum Rim.

Analog media seizure. Sony Cassette Walkman discontinued in Japan and Technics 1200 turntables discontinued globally. 30 year old technology. Beginning of personal audio. Beginning of scratching, club culture. Analog components difficult to source. Challenges in the marketplace. Walkman’s death announced on the birthday of the ipod.

http://pocketcalculatorshow.com/walkman/sony/

Bring Your Own Beamer group exhibition curated by Angelo Plessas

Athens Kunsthalle, 23 October 2010

Participating Artists: Alexandros Georgiou, Alexandros Psychoulis, Aliki Panagiotopoulou, Amateurboyz, Andreas Angelidakis, Angelo Plessas, Anne de Vries, Billy Rennekamp, Dimitris Foutris, Dimitris Papadatos, Dionisis Kavallieratos, Eftihis Patsourakis, Emile Zile, Irini Karayannopoulou, Ioanna Myrka, Georgia Sagri, Katerina Kana, Kostis Velonis, Lakis & Aris Ionas/The Callas, Mai Ueda, Makis Faros, Mano Plizzi, Maria Papadimitriou, Natasha Papadopoulou, Pantelis Pantelopoulos, Pegy Zali, Petros Moris, Poka-Yio, Rafaël Rozendaal, Sifis Lykakis, Spiros Hadjidjanos, The Erasers, Theo Michael, Theodoros D Giannakis, Vassilis, Patmios Karouk

Saturday 23rd October 2010, 8 p.m.

Kerameikou 28 str., Kerameikos – Metaxourgeio, Athens

Κunsthalle Athena has the honour to host “Bring your own beamer” (BYOB) event, an “exemplary” and crucial gesture supporting creative expression in a period of financial, social and cultural crisis.

“Bring your own beamer” (BYOB) exhibition comprises an edition of a broader set of events organised by different artists in different cities every time. In every occasion the organisers choose the participating artists with the aim to experiment and discover “what will occur in site when it is filled with moving light”.

In this special evening, under the acronym BYOB (a symbolic reference to bring your own booze parties), artists are invited to bring their own beamer and present any work they choose in any place they desire to. It is a case of “presenting” moving images and performances in a DIY context, expected to evolve organically in progress of the evening. Therefore, a significant aspect of BYOB’s concept is to be realized without the financial support of any third parties beyond the immediate participants.

The first BYOB event was held with great success in Büro Friedrich, Berlin with the initiative of Rafaël Rozendaal and Anne de Vries. Now, curated by Angelo Plessas, BYOB makes its second worldwide appearance in Kunsthalle Athena. All the artists will attend the event, even those who are not based in Athens, so you are welcomed to contact them. Complementary to the event and during the night a joined performance will take place by artist Angelo Plessas and japanese artist Mai Ueda followed by DJ sets from Amateur Boys and Emile Zile.

EMILE ZILE ARTIST TALK AT FAVSC, SEP 23 FOOTSCRAY ARTS

LIVE A/V YOUTUBE ESSAY PERFORMANCE SEP 22 AT STUTTER

DJ BUSHDOOF SEP 17 AT OPENING OF NEW GALLERY PARADISE HILLS

One night exhibition in Berlin, hosted by Anne de Vries and Rafael Rozendaal.

21:00, Tuesday July 20 2010. Bureau Friederich Holzmarktstraße 14 Berlin.

http://bringyourownbeamer.tumblr.com

https://emilezile.com/installation/spielberg-on-kubrick/

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