Tokyo F.A.T
Wednesday June 8, 2011, 7:00pm – 10:00pm
Internet Garage, 218 Bedford Avenue, Williamsburg, Brooklyn
The phrase “Awareness of Everything” is drawn from a recent essay published by Erik Stinson called Towards A New Theory of Creativity. At the heart of this essay, Stinson describes the role of the contemporary creative, and outlines the skills one must develop in order to ‘become creative’ or ‘more creative’.Inspired by this theory, the projects collected in Awareness of Everything embody these seminal skills, chiefly: humor, surprise, effective communication, extensive knowledge of a wide variety of cultures and forms, along with the proposal that “the internet has rendered originality meaningless as a strictly policed absolute.”
Visitors are encouraged to play, surf, copy/paste, tweet, blog, and email during the opening, an involvement which is built into the Speed Show exhibition format as an ode to the user’s active engagement, expression and move toward an awareness of everything.
Body by Body
John Transue
Jeanette Hayes & Bea Fremderman
#hi11
Jasper Elings
Emilio Gomariz
Preteen Gallery
For more information, please contact Lindsay Howard at lindsay@319scholes.org.
Image credit: Â John Transue
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picture by Benni Walther & Florian Kröner
June 8, 2011
18:00 -20:00 Uhr
Kiosk&Internetcafe Chatroom
Willi-Brandt-Str.23
Staatsgalerie U-Haltestelle in der Unterführung
Stuttgart, Germany
Curated by Olia Lialina & Aram Bartholl
WWW by students and former students of Merz Akademie
Participating artist:
Saskia Aldinger
Stefan Krappitz
Daniel Stäbler, Arne Hübner, Theo Seemann, Chris Heller
Manuel Bürger
Dennis Knopf
Linus Suter
Sebastian Schmieg
Johannes P Osterhoff
The source code for a single point of GML written on a train. Writing and updated Spray Can POV design by Drawvolution (original here).
(“Let the Bullets Fly is the highest grossing domestic film in China’s cinematic history.” Wikipedia)
China’s lack of restriction over copyrighted material can be exploited to help spread outlawed content to a large online audience seeking entertainment. Youku and toudo.com are mainland China’s largest online video providers *, and are fertile soil for planting seeds of democracy in the cracks of copyright violation.
How To:
1) Download movies popular in China. Make sure they are in Mandarin, or with Chinese subtitles. If searching on Youku or Tudou, search for the Chinese title of the movie (rather than the English equivalent) and then download the video (Download Helper is a good tool). English Wikipedia entries will often include the Chinese characters of Chinese movies, people and events.
2) Download videos of issues outlawed in mainland China. A good place to find this kind of content in Mandarin is on Taiwanese news websites or on youtube by searching for a topic in Chinese (e.g., 茉莉花é©å‘½ = “jasmine revolution”).
3) Edit clips from step #2 into the clip from step #1. Keep the added content short and sporadic enough that they don’t draw too much attention away from the main attraction. I’ve been inserting about 30 seconds of political content for every 30 minutes of entertainment.
4) Upload the finished product to youku.com, toudo.com or others. Remember that all text should be in Chinese. It may be helpful to copy and paste text from existing uploads of the same the movie. Chinese video sites are more likely to remove a video for political content rather than copyright violations, so once the movie is uploaded don’t draw attention to it by linking to it.
Notes on uploading videos: To upload a video, you will need to create an account on the video hosting website. The steps are identical to all other websites (you supply an email, password and captcha code). Google translate is useful for figuring things out. Once logged in, most sites have upload arrows in the upper right-hand corner. You can upload up to 200 mb online and up to 10 gb if you download a site’s uploader application. This process seems to run smoother on Windows machines.
Example clips:
Make your own FREE Ai Weiwei glasses today!! Download the post card PDF, print double sided, cut and mount the parts!! Show off your pair of FREE Ai Weiwei glasses!!
Aram Bartholl 2011
Download FREE Ai Weiwei glasses!
based on First Person Shooter – glasses 2006
see also FUCK 3D glasses
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