))) The Public Broadcast Cart ((( In Berlin

))) The Public Broadcast Cart (((
Ricardo Miranda Zuniga in Berlin
Berlin Walks: **VIEW VIDEO**

From June 1st through July 17, the Public Broadcast Cart will be traversing the streets of Berlin to produce edited broadcasts for tesla Radio 1:1. Below are excerpts from these street broadcasts and upcoming dates with locations.

Add comment Datestamp: June 28th, 2006

Games for Change Conference. June 27th and 28th, NYC

Games for Change Conference. June 27th and 28th, 2006. New York, NY
Trailblazers: Artists and Individuals Creating New Games for Change Moderated by Mary Flanagan (Artist/Academic, Hunter College), with artists Brooke Singer, Lillian Ball and Skawennati Fragnito
Small games by individuals or informal teams have achieved incredible distribution and visibility. How can individuals realistically launch new games or make art in virtual worlds? This panel will consider the extraordinary impact of individuals in starting grassroots wildfires and building guerilla technologies. We’ll also consider how organizations can interface with individuals to leverage their raw power for viral and longer-term institutional goals.

Add comment Datestamp: June 28th, 2006

Tracking the Torture Planes : Talk at PS1 on 6/29

ps1.org
Fine Print: Bidoun
Thursday, June 29, 6:30 pm

Comprised of editors and contributors based around the world, Bidoun’s concern is the arts and culture of the Middle East. The magazine is dedicated to serving as an open forum for exchange on and about ideas related to that part of the world, and far beyond. For Fine Print, Bidoun hosts the first in a series of events devoted to the intersection of art and politics. Tracking the CIA’s “Torture Planes,” a talk by artist and geographer Trevor Paglen on the CIA’s use of civilian planes to ‘render’ and ‘disappear’ suspected terrorists. Paglen will also take on his recent trip to Kabul on the trail of secret prisons, black sites in the US, as well as what unmarked airplanes can tell us, and what they cannot. Thomas Keenan, head of Bard College’s Human Rights Project, will act as respondent.

Add comment Datestamp: June 27th, 2006

FOILED by FOIA

NYCTA Metrocard FOIL Project
Herein lies the tale of one Eyebeam researcher’s futile attempt to exhume a relevant and interesting data set from the depths of a public administration. The story is brief, the details are in the documents, feel free to read between the lines.

History

In the fall of 2004, Eyebeam’s researchers were fresh off of project FundRace and inspired by their success in turning an abstruse government database into a topic of mass public realization. Resident hacker Michael Frumin, experienced in network simulations, data acquisition, and information visualization, looked only as far as his pocket for inspiration as to what to work on next.

The fares for New York City’s subways are collected electronically via the Metrocard system, which validates and records all transactions (over 4 million per day) in a centralized database. To Frumin, a native Brooklynite with a particular interest in mass transit as a social and economic force, this lode of information was as rich in meaning as the gold color of the cards in every New Yorker’s wallet.

Add comment Datestamp: June 21st, 2006

blue air

Bluegrass Unlimited

Add comment Datestamp: June 19th, 2006

World Cup 2006 ‘abused for mega-surveillance project’

World Cup 2006 and RFID
“The World Cup will be abused to stage a mega-surveillance project, that allows total control over football fans,” warned Thilo Weichert, data protection officer of the Independent Center of Data Protection in Schleswig-Holstein (www.datenschutzzentrum.de). While RFID technology makes good sense for logistics purposes, to use it on people breaks the principles of German data protection; also, the amount of information stored by the DFB is against the law, Weichart argues. He is supported in his analysis by several civil rights and consumer organisations such as Foebud.

Add comment Datestamp: June 19th, 2006

AIR Workshop on June 24th — Eyebeam, NYC

E Y E B E A M

June 24, 2006
1:00 PM - 5:00 PM
540 W. 21st St.

Preemptive Media (Beatriz da Costa, Jamie Schulte and Brooke Singer) is holding a public workshop on June 24th from 1pm-5pm at Eyebeam, 540 W. 21st Street between 10th & 11th Avenues. During this workshop Preemptive Media will present and field-test AIR (Area’s Immediate Reading), a work in progress being developed as the 2005 Social Sculpture Commission awarded by Eyebeam and Lower Manhattan Cultural Council.

Add comment Datestamp: June 14th, 2006

Eastern State Penitentiary

ESP :: Online Tour :: Virtual Reality Tour

This is the oldest penitentiary in the US and considered by many to be the first modern building. An incredible tour not to miss if you are in Philidelphia. Some highlights: Al Capone was imprisioned here for 8 months, Janet Cardiff has a sound installation and Jeremy Bentham’s panopticon realized in a star formation.

Add comment Datestamp: June 10th, 2006