Reaction to rave in the bull ring

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Shit Dance - Except from Rolys dance film, by Roly Carline

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Flash Mob manifesto

I found this interesting flashmob manifesto. It's translated English about half way down.

Flash mob?

This article in Vulture Droppings is an interview with Bill Wasik who lays claim to the first ever Flash mob which took place in NY 2003. In it he describes his reasons for creating a flash mob event as a comment hipsters always looking to be part of next big thing.

Vulture Dropping Interview

And some more

A giant rave in Liverpool Street organised byMobile-Clubbing.com





And a pillow fight in Oxford:

Zombie Walk

Some interesting Flash Mob sites:
Flashmob.co.uk - out of knowhere
flashmob.com

These guys definitively wouldn't call them selves Flash Mob sites [read this article] but are sites where spontaneous events are organised.
Newmindspace
Nonsensenyc
Laughing squid

Flash mobbing is
'A flash mob is a large group of people who assemble suddenly in a public place, perform an unusual action for a brief period of time, then quickly disperse.'
Wikipedia

Post a Secret Blog

PostSecret blog has been rated the 15th most popular in the world by technorati. People submit secrets about themselves on a post card anonymously. Frank Warren the creator has receives around 200 cards per day. He then chooses 20 or so a week to post on the blog. He has made books, exhibitions and tours using the cards he is sent.

Gillian Wearing

Pie fight Flash Mob

Steve Rhodes' photostream
Original post advertising fight

Gillian Wearing

Edelstein: The sociality of London seems quite strong in works like Dancing in Peckham (1994) . . .

Wearing: Well my first idea was to dance in Covent Garden, but I chose Peckham because it reminds me a bit more of Birmingham and it's quite local to where I live, but it also reminds me of those other aspects where you're not expecting something extraordinary to happen unless you're seeing someone who's mad, and how people deal with that. When it's a very mundane day with people doing very mundane activities, how do you actually cope with that situation? A lot of people just look out of the corner of their eyes — that's true or British people in general, I think.

Edelstein: It's also this idea of embarrassment.

Wearing: I first wanted to do the piece because I saw a woman in the Royal Festival Hall and she was dancing to a jazz band and I was more fascinated by her than the jazz band! She was going wild and wasn't with anyone. She was dancing by the tables rather than where the dance floor was. It was hysterical and kind of weird, and she obviously might have known that, and I was thinking that was quite an enviable position to be in, to lose your inhibitions and not worry about what other people think. So it's about the idea of losing your inhibitions — or trying to, for me it's quite hard.

Journal of Contemporary Art online - Interviews

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Flash mobbing with ballons in the Moscow underground

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Rave in the Bullring

Rave in the Bullring

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FLASH MOBBING! - Brum pillow fight

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Essays

I think both of these essays are of great significance to Fine art and new media practices.

Net Art in the age of Digital reproduction [1997]
Art in the age of mechanical reproduction [1937]

Read these as I'd like to discuss them during one of our sessions. Also please leave any ideas, comments, questions or thoughts about it on this blog.

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Blogging

Hi guys this post is about how to start a blog. The next session will be next Tueday. I hope to concentrate on the more technical side of creating a blog and adding images, video etc.

The blog we're going to look at is
Tumblr.com
This is a website that allows you to create a 'Tumble Blog'. The difference between a norma blog and a tumble blog are explained here: http://www.tumblr.com/faqs

So the first thing to do is goto Tumblr.com and press the button that says, 'Start your own in 30 sec.'
Follow the on screen instructions to start your blog. For now that's all I want you to do. If you want and can follow the instructions and add some posts. However on Tuesday we will look at how to add media, links and customise your blog. We will also look at how to use web browser tools to quickly add intersting media as well as your own.

Other Blog providers:
Blogger - Widely used blogging website
Wordpress - Widely used blogger website

Tools:
Flock - Free web browser has built in tools to blog, add photos, search video. Take a look.
Firefox - Free web browser - can add extensions which allow you to blog simply and quickly.
Deepest Sender - Extension that allows you to post from th ebrwoser

Blog search:
Technorati - Main search engine for searching blogs on the web.

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Maya Deren

Film maker, performer, artist, voodoo priestess [really]. Pioneered the dance film note her use of cutting to reconstruct time, space and form.

A selection of her films can be seen here.

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Some videos of Keir's work

Here's a few random youtube movies of pieces I've done in the last year:

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Massive art archive

This site is an amazing resource for art film, sound and texts.
HERE

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Online Projects

Here are projects and archives that are designed to be viewed through a web browser. They include Flash and html sites.

Tubulence - Archive and commissioning organisation for net art.
Tate Online - Net ART
Superbad - Html Madness
Infinite wheel - Dub selection Flash stylee
Tokyo Plastic - Slick U.K. Flash, design site
Rhizome.org - - Archive and commissioning organisation for net art.

D.I.Y. gorilla technology

Graffiti Research Lab

Home Page

This group of artist, computer scientist and graffiti writers collaborate on projects ranging from drawing on skyscrapers to bikes that can print text messages. Amazing.

Throwies

"LED Throwies are an inexpensive way to add color to any ferromagnetic surface in your neighborhood. A Throwie consists of a lithium battery, a 10mm diffused LED and a rare-earth magnet taped together. Throw it up high and in quantity to impress your friends and city officials." - Graffiti Research Lab

Train Bombing, Venice

Laser Tagging

A system that allows you to 'draw' on massive buildings.

Audio Projects

I've attached some links and videos of sound based new media projects.

Reactable

This is an instrument that uses infrared project, motion detection and audio synthesis. Bjork has uses it as part of her new album.

Basic Overview



Bjork-Declare Independence-Live ( Later with Jools Holland )



@ Sonar Festival

Messa Di Voce

"A performance and installation in which the speech, shouts and songs produced by two vocalists are augmented in real-time by custom interactive visualization software."
- http://www.tmema.org/messa/

Messa Di Voce Project Site
Messa Di Voce Video page

Pitch Paint


Bubbles


Messa di Voce: Space Chicken Module (2003)

Fluid

Marek Choloniewski

-Image studiomch.art.pl

Home Page

"1979 member of Cracovian Group Art Association. Choloniewski writes instrumental and electroacoustic music for theater, film and radio, author of sond and video installations, audio-visual, outdoor and net projects. A world renown lecturer, composer, sound artist and live art performer." - Global music Village

In this performance Face Choloniewski uses three light sensors positioned around his face to modulate and trigger sound.