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Hi all,

Breaking News: Rirkrit Tiravanija confirmed for Spark 08 ...

PECHA KUCHA NIGHT COMES TO CHRISTCHURCH

PKNCHCH01 Thursday 29 May 2008 Start 8.20pm / Door open 7.30pm ...

Kia ora Ada,

I hope this email finds you well and enjoying your summer. Here there is a howling gale outside and it is sub-zero, so enjoy your warm summer days! ;-) ...

Dear Janine/all (Janine, I'm guessing you are doing the manual
linking of this discussion into YASMIN and the other networks?) ...

A complilation of the posts so far: feel free to respond to these threads on ADA

ANDREA POLLI [...] As an artist working with weather and climate ideas, I've been thrilled by the opportunities presented by the recent explosion of art exhibitions related to climate and sustainability, but it has brought up some larger questions in my mind about the role of art in society. Here are the questions in two groups: ...

Really enjoying Window. !!

Moderately avoiding the usual glory worship of new media art, the measured criticism's of works and ideas is like a refreshing breeze. ...

Hi there,

Thought I'd do a quick mention of some new posts on the blog, as some were sparked by interesting ADA discussions...

• Gina Tornatore's "The insuperable phenomena of hidden behaviour" at MIC
• Hye Rim Lee's "Obsession/Love Forever" at Starkwhite
• Green pixels: Thinking sustainable in art and technology
• Visualising the future: Data as art
• TradeMe eats itself: Auction sites reused by artists

http://window.org.nz/ ...

SPARK 07 [AUGUST 6 7 8 9 10]

http://www.spark.net.nz ...

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this is a great event that i've been involved with for the past few years - not happening in aotearoa but if any women happen to be in europe in july then check it out. h : )

Hi well me too, i love the reports issuing from ISEA 2006. Below are some notes, incomplete from Bill viola's talk. Thanks to all the others who have submitted their thoughts and summaries. this report will be archived on trudy's blog, eh trudy? ...

Ditto - reports are much appreciated! They have made great reading on rainy auckland days. Lots of connections sparked for me! ...

hi trudy et al, apologies too for being silent, sometimes Life intrudes on the virtual realm ...

first question - how hard has it been to create & maintain a collaborative practice: my answer to that is that it has been both incredibly difficult & incredibly easy. what's been easy about it is that right from the start we've shared the desire & motivation to experiment in this area together, for whatever reason. we formed as the colliders after a project that involved about 16 people which was much less manageable, & made a concious decision & commitment to each other to work together as a foursome; that perhaps forged the bond between us, which has meant even when we've all been busy with other parts of our lives, we've never drifted away from our common ideas. ...

Hi Zita + all

I have really enjoyed the dialogue created by your post Zita. In response to the issue of power relationships in our soundscapes ...

...I was reminded of how often the law is evoked by neighbours to police sound. I can think of a few memorable occasions where I was involved in the joyous flouting of noise control regulations - at one party the DJ symbolically ate the second noise control warning. Unfortunately this was (of course) closely followed by the confiscation of equipment. ...

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Hi all,

Apologies for not being present earlier - tied up with school holidays in a non-internet environment (they still exist!). Anyway, have enjoyed all the ruminations which I hope to digest soon... I'm interested Zita in your thoughts on noise - have to think about anthropological theories associating noise with a change of state. The very loud red crackers that the Chinese let off en masse for the New Year for instance. The adolescents fascination for the loud - on various levels (cars/motorbikes/speaker power etc etc) can be seen as a response/recognition of their changing state into adulthood. The tin cans on the back of the wedding vehicle, now often replaced (at least in my current neck of the woods) by a procession of cars - horns blaring jubilantly... Does this connect with any of your reflections? ...

Hi Zika,

thanks for your interesting abstract.

I want to add some reflections. They might be of use. ...

Hi Zika,

thanks for your interesting abstract.

I want to add some reflections. They might be of use. ...

Hi Zika,

thanks for your interesting abstract.

I want to add some reflections. They might be of use. ...

No real argument here, just a collection of contrarian points.

zita wrote:

The sun is always going to be the primary source of electro-magnetic energy (By a factor of trillions, if you count secondary radiation due to heating). The regions of the spectrum "dominated" by technological emissions are those in which nature doesn't really compete (ie, the "available" or "useful" spectrum). So human use is better described in terms of scavenging than conquest. But I suppose this is a minor quibble. The natural bits are naturally less interesting.

Not necessarily, at least on a net basis. Many electronic devices absorb more radiation than they emit, with extreme examples being old crystal radio sets and RFID tags that power themselves entirely from energy sucked out of passing waves. A few years ago New Scientist postulated that electricity could be generated from wide spectrum radio absorbers. This would of course be annoying to people trying to communicate past it.

In Wellington, the trolley bus wire network is segmented. If there is a bus touching wires in the same section as those above your radio, you can hear the sound of the driver operating the pedals. ...

Hi Caleb + all

thanks for your comments, i think i overedited my original musings and left out my references to Joyce Hinterding, who is responsible for my basic understandings in this field - I would have no intention of leaving her out of an actual discussion! The work of Dunne and Raby in a more design oriented context is also really important in mapping out other dimensions of the spectrumscape, such as the leakage from baby monitors into the street, and the base-finding signals of mobile phones. ...