Sat, 07 Jun 2008 00:00:00 -0700 http://www.imaginify.org/post/ PostNuke Powered Site en-us http://www.imaginify.org/post/images/logo.gif http://www.imaginify.org/post/ info@imaginify.org http://www.imaginify.org/post/Article138.html Unmuseum recommended reading "Possibilities for Transformational Conferences" by Sunrise Facilitation, a collective that met regularly in Eugene, Oregon from 2000-2006. While no longer active, the ideas and connections from it generated this paper. Formats include: Appreciative Inquiry, Expert Time vs. Participatory Time, Fishbowls, Kinetic Spectrum, Pause for Pairs, Small Group Sharing, Speed Geeking/Dating, Storytelling, Open Space, World Café, and more. Published (CC) Attribution-Noncommercial-Share Alike 3.0. "Basic Open System Model" by Anonymous, wikipedia, Public Domain > UC Berkeley Art Museum and Pacific Film Archive, Digital Art Media Progam (DMAX) ...the first open-source museum collection - is a preservation repository and online database of born-digital art. This next-generation cultural works project, currently in the planning phase, also provides a testbed for developing innovative legal, economic, and cultural frameworks for the digital arts. > Brown University, Department of Modern Culture and Media ...the museum is entirely in the public domain (add, modify, or remove art, likewise, elements of the building). Our goal is to reimagine definitions of art, artist, curator, museum, culture, and open source. This project is underway in a virtual reality called Second Life. > "Galactic Trading Cards Installation" Illuminated, by PodCollective p.s. worth checking out when in a deeply reflective state... Molotov Alva and His Search for the Creator [Part I] [Part II] ... more to come ... Sat, 07 Jun 2008 00:00:00 -0700 http://www.imaginify.org/post/Article137.html "WCI student isolates microbe that lunches on plastic bags" (via The Record) Synopsis: Daniel Burd's stew contains ground-up plastic in a mix of landfill dirt, yeast and tap water. After experimenting with different temperatures and configurations, he isolated the microbial remediators. He discovered that it biodegrades over 40% of the weight of plastic bags in less than three months. The only waste is water and a bit of carbon dioxide. "This is a huge, huge step forward... We're using nature to solve a man-made problem." Daniel Burd, 16-yr-old junior, Waterloo Collegiate Institute & Canada-Wide Science Fair winner Additionally, in re-meditation, continuing to reduce our consumption of packaged goods and non-reusable baggage remains a high priority. "String is king" by fixlr (via Flickr) (CC) Attribution-Noncommercial-Share Alike 2.0 Generic How to help limit the ever-growing patch of garbage floating in the Pacific Ocean: • Limit use of plastics when possible. • Use a reusable bag when shopping. • Take your trash with you when you leave the beach. • Make sure trash bins are securely closed. Fri, 23 May 2008 23:55:00 -0700 http://www.imaginify.org/post/Article136.html FLEXIBILITY OF MIND!!! Two featured open source artisans on Imaginify, The Graffiti Research Lab and MM2+3 collaborator Scott Draves are now featured in the Museum of Modern Art's "Design and the Elastic Mind" (2008) curated by Paola Antonelli and Patricia Juncosa Vecchierini. "Over the past twenty-five years, people have weathered dramatic changes in their experience of time, space, matter, and identity. Individuals cope daily with a multitude of changes in scale and pace... The exhibition highlights designers’ ability to grasp momentous changes in technology, science, and history..." L.A.S.E.R. Tag Graffiti Projection System (The Mobile Broadcast Unit) PopRally presents Graffiti Research Lab: The Complete First Season (May 4, 2008 @ MOMA) funded by the generous support of Katherine Farley & Jerry I. Speyer [Trailer] Imaginify : ::::::::::::: EXPERIENTIAL GRAFFITI ::::::::::::::::::::::::: (April 2006) TORRENTURL : torrentz.com/d8153e785b737b8f355c7a0ce9864de21059661a (April 2008) Electric Sheep (Spotworks) MOMA Online by Scott Draves Leonardo (cover) : Vol. 41, Issue 1 (January 2008) Discover Magazine : 14 Best Ways to Use Your Computer’s Spare Time (March 2008) Imaginify : Distributed Stimuli (October 2005) BLIP.TV : Dreams in in High Fidelity/Electric Sheep Sample (March 2007) Tue, 29 Apr 2008 04:00:00 -0700 http://www.imaginify.org/post/Article135.html MIT Press Journals has recently published (under Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial-No Derivative Works Unported 3.0 license) a series on Digital Media & Learning, definitely worth examining "...the effect of digital media tools on how people learn, network, communicate, and play, and how growing up with these tools may affect peoples sense of self, how they express themselves, and their ability to learn, exercise judgment, and think systematically..." Read the complete creative commons'd, free & open access editions . . . Digital Youth, Innovation, & the Unexpected (cc) Edited by Tara McPherson, Associate Professor, School of Cinematic Arts, University of Southern California. How emergent practices and developments in young people's digital media can result in technological innovation or lead to unintended learning experiences and unanticipated social encounters. Youth, Identity, & Digital Media (cc) Edited by David Buckingham, Professor, Institute of Education, London University. Contributors discuss how growing up in a world saturated with digital media affects the development of young people's individual and social identities. Mon, 31 Mar 2008 18:20:00 -0700 http://www.imaginify.org/post/Article134.html "Loops got its name from the circular movements Merce could do with his wrists . . . sometimes Merce set the order of the Loops sections by chance operations . . . The 2008 version [an abstract digital portrait of Merce Cunningham that runs in real time and never repeats] is open source, part of the Loops Preservation Project. The project addresses cultural memory as endangered by the computer age — an age that perhaps offers a solution . . ." - The OpenEnded Group ". . . we’re trying to change the eco-system of digital art and performance . . . how digital art is taught and thought about . . . the very thing that we are trying to address in this “preservation project”: that is preservation itself . . . what if performance (or installation) of an artwork counted as distribution?" - The OpenEnded Group "loops-twenty-1202233329111-00002.jpg" "Loops is opened up completely" "Loops" by Merce Cunningham solo dance choreography : CC 3.0 license "Loops" by OpenEnded Group digital artwork : GPL license, v3 "FIELD" by OpenEnded Group development environment : GPL license, v3 Fri, 29 Feb 2008 03:40:00 -0800 http://www.imaginify.org/post/Article133.html Wikitecture [wiki+architecture] "...a diverse spectrum of individuals interested in exploring the potential of applying an Open Source paradigm to the design and production of both real and virtual architecture and urban planning... conducting ‘Wikitecture’ experiments to work out the exact procedures and protocols necessary to harness a group’s collective intelligence in designing architecture... in much the same way Wikipedia enables a loose, self-organizing network of contributors to collaborate on content creation, the Studio Wikitecture group has been using these experiments to work out the manner by which a group of geographical disperse individuals can come together to share ideas, edit the contributions of others, and to vote on the success or failure of proposed design iterations..." "OAN Nepal Challenge" via Flickr (updated March 4, 2008) "Wikitecture Progress Machinima" (video update February 10, 2008) the Open Architecture Challenge 3D Wiki interface, architectural collaboration, Building Information Model (BIM) technology. Music by DJ BLUE, via ccMixter. "Improving Architecture and City Planning by Harnessing the Ideas behind... Mass Collaboration, Social Networking, Wikis, Folksonomies, Open Source, Prosumers, Networked Intelligence, Crowd Sourcing, Crowd Wisdom, Smart Mobs, Peer Production, Lightweight Collaboration, Emergent Intelligence, Social Production, Self-Organized Communities... and the like." Sun, 20 Jan 2008 00:00:00 -0800 http://www.imaginify.org/post/Article132.html " R E - R E M I X " Imaginify 'synchron'icity This happened by coincidence ! (0º) CLICK ABOVE IMAGINAL IMAGE " R E - R E - A R C H I V E " Imaginify 'synchron'ization This simply happened ! "Cowley-Vädersolstavlan-HaloSim-stockholm38" A HaloSim ray tracing calculation of the sky over Stockholm on April 21, 1535 Produced by Les Cowley, 25 February 2008, GNU Free Documentation license "Vädersolstavlan" ("The Sun Dog Painting") by Urban målare, 1535 Copy by Jacob Heinrich Elbfas at Storkyrkan in Stockholm, Sweden, 1636 1998-1999 restoration, Public Domain Mon, 31 Dec 2007 00:00:00 -0800 http://www.imaginify.org/post/Article131.html "When generativity, creativity, generosity, and the capacity to embrace life dry up, the Water of Life has gone underground. At such times, the earth becomes arid, life becomes devoid of meaning, the ground of culture cracks and splits, and gaps develop among peoples and between people and nature. Only water can bring the pieces back together, awaken seeds hidden in the ground, and enliven the parched Tree of Life." - Michael J. Meade, Men and the Water of Life: Initiation and the Tempering of Men (1994) "...the simplest, most direct answer to the question of how do we make our society stronger. Whether your working for the environment, health, or education, it doesn't matter so much as long as you're working at it. The great resource of any country is the energy and intelligence of its people. That's where the investment of money and thought ought to go..." - Lewis H. Lapham, Editor & Historian ("if you're not in, you're out." ?) "The future is now." "I make technology ridiculous." - Nam June Paik, Composer & Video Artist (1932-2006) & author of the phrase "Information Superhighway" "The crime of difference is eclipsed by the power of self realization" by Steven "Frustr8" Lopez, © used with permission by Imaginify Sun, 25 Nov 2007 20:59:23 -0800 http://www.imaginify.org/post/Article129.html "Media Ecology is the study of media environments, the idea that technology (codes) and techniques (modes), affect human perception, understanding, feeling, and value; and how our interaction with media facilitates or impedes our chances of survival." - Integration of definitions by various Media Ecologists * + *** "the postindustrial and the postmodern, & the preliterate and prehistoric." - Lance Strate, Professor, Communication & Media Studies, & Co-Founder, Media Ecology Association, Fordham University. "the medium (figure) operates through its context (ground)" ** Enhancement (figure) : What does the (new) medium improve or enhance, amplify or accelerate? Obsolescence (ground) : What is driven out of prominence, obsolesced, pushed aside by the (new) medium? Retrieval (figure) : What earlier action or service is brought back into play or recovered by the (new) medium? What older, previously lost ground is brought back and becomes an essential part of the (new) medium? Reversal (ground) : When pushed to its limits or extremes, of its potential, the (new) medium will reverse what was its original characteristics. What is the potential reversal of the new form? **** * Image: "Media Tetrad" under GNU Free Documentation License, Version 1.2 ** Image: "The Resonating Interval: Exploring the Process of the Tetrad" by Anthony Hempell, Communication 453, Simon Fraser University American Society for Information Science and Technology "Parts of this web site may be reproduced freely if not for profit ©" *** Video: "A Vision of Students Today" by Michael Wesch Digital Ethnography, Mediated Cultures, Kansas State University 2007 Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial-Share Alike 3.0 Unported License. **** Image: "Tetrad" is Public Domain. Recycle Thu, 18 Oct 2007 10:29:51 -0700 http://www.imaginify.org/post/Article130.html "More and more practitioners are seeing the past-present divide is not something that's absolutely critical to the definition of what archaeology is... Many are beginning to understand archaeology more as a wider sensibility about how humans live with their material environments." - Christopher Witmore, Landscape Archaeologist & Post-doctoral Research Associate, Joukowsky Institute for Archaeology and the Ancient World, Brown University from "Writing on the Walls" by Samir S. Patel, Archeology [Magazine], July/August 2007 "Meta" by Schröedinger's Cat (São Paulo, São Paulo) (CC) 20 February 2007 Attribution-Noncommercial-Share Alike 2.0 Generic "A project devoted to the study of graffiti-covered walls as they change over time." - BY CASSIDY CURTIS, THE GRAFFITI ARCHEOLOGY PROJECT & FLICKR SLIDESHOW POOL "Archaeological sensibility" ? "...it resonants with the notion... that foregoes defining the discipline upon subject matter criteria ('the remote past') and instead emphasizes what is unique to how archaeology understands our complex relationships to things. Attention to minutiae of the everyday; detailed documentation of change through time; the processes behind the accretion of an archaeological trace; the individual and creative acts of even 'marginalized' groups. This broader and bolder view of what is unique to archaeology takes action and practice over etymology and definition to contribute a specialized perspective to deep time and modern material practices." - Timothy Aaron Webmoor, Department of Anthropology, Interdisciplinary Archaeology Center, MetaMedia Laboratories, Stanford University Sat, 29 Sep 2007 00:00:00 -0700 http://www.imaginify.org/post/Article127.html "Net Art" also known as "Software Art" Image: "Jackson_Pollock_by_Miltos_Manetas" by Amalyah Keshet, 2006 Software Remix: "JacksonPollock.org" by Miltos Manetas, 2003 Software: "Splatter" by Michal Migurski & re-elaborated by Iashido, 2003 CC Atttribution Non-Commerical Share-Alike 2.5 License "Jackson Pollock painting "One: Number 31, 1950" at the Museum of Modern Art", 2007 Image: "Pollock31.jpg" by Americasroof (wikipedia) CC Attribution Share-Alike License version 2.5 Wed, 22 Aug 2007 22:46:09 -0700 http://www.imaginify.org/post/Article126.html Letter from Second Life (Ginsu Yoon) to First Life (Darren Barefoot) Archive: JAN 2007: darrenbarefoot.com Creative Commons License • • • • "Symposium on Creativity" "Why Creativity Matters", Aug 2007 Larry Johnson, CEO, The New Media Consortium (NMC) NMC Creative Commons License ••••• InternetGen Communicator ••••••• Post-New Silent Gen... Wed, 08 Aug 2007 16:43:47 -0700 http://www.imaginify.org/post/Article125.html Image: "The Flammarion woodcut" (Recoloured 1998) - anonymous, wood engraving (wikipedia) Link: "Sogno ad Occhi Aperti (Daydream) PART 1" by Giovanni Sollima. Sun, 29 Jul 2007 20:30:34 -0700 http://www.imaginify.org/post/Article124.html "VISION OF AN OPEN LIBRARY" | "LIBRARIES GOING OPEN (2007)" By Brewster Kahle • Table of Contents • Guided Tour Wed, 23 May 2007 01:29:45 -0700 http://www.imaginify.org/post/Article123.html "Kurt Gödel's (1906-1978) monumental theorem of incompleteness demonstrated that in every formal system of arithmetic there are true statements that nevertheless cannot be proved. The result was an upheaval that spread far beyond mathematics, challenging conceptions of the nature of the mind."- Rebecca Goldstein, Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study Harvard University "I am a Strange Loop" (2007), seeks to demonstrate how the properties of self-referential systems, demonstrated most famously in Gödel's Incompleteness Theorem, can be used to describe the unique properties of minds. - Douglas_Hofstadter, Center for Research on Concepts and Cognition Indiana University "Douglas R. Hofstadter: Analogy as Core, Core as Analogy" Glen Worthey, Humanities Digital Information Service (HDIS), Stanford University Libraries, 2006 "Is the core of cognition and animacy essentially only self-representation and self-reference (as in Bach, in our DNA and elsewhere)? Is it essential incompleteness (as in Gödel’s Theorem and elsewhere)? Is it strange loops and tangled hierarchies (as in Escher, in Hofstadter’s own book, I Am a Strange Loop, and elsewhere)? Is it in the patterns, puzzles, paradoxes, puns, poetry, and programming that we see throughout Hofstadter’s work? Or is it elsewhere? Elsewhere.... Perhaps it is precisely in analogy that we find the common thread of all these cognitive and creative phenomena, and thus the common element in the endeavors that make us human, and thus the core of our humanity..." "The Year of Mathemagical Thinking" Lev Grossman, TIME Magazine, March 15, 2007 Review: "A Reflection on The Loopy Self" Ben C. Burns, Harvard Crimson, April 27, 2007 “I Am a Strange Loop” sets out to probe the essence of the soul—in a philosophical, cognitive sense... Consciousness, soul, and “a light on inside” are all terms referring to the essential “I” which somehow composes an individual human self... ...is very self-referential, and that any explanation of the concept bends back onto the same concept again. The resulting loop, though, isn’t like most loops caused by self-reference, since there’s no feedback as in... an infinite corridor of TV screens on videotape. So consciousness isn’t a regular loop; it’s a strange loop. ..while presenting arguments of logic, clever bits of analogy here and there add up to reveal that the book itself is more than just a friendly essay: everywhere you turn, “Strange Loop” is drawing back on itself, too. For example, the book’s arguments are made almost entirely through symbols, analogies, and tales of personal experience. Appropriately, Hofstadter devotes much discussion to the reasons that symbols, analogies, and empathy (or, as he calls it, “Varying Degrees of Being Another”) actually work. This book is a work of art, unabashedly self-referential on every level..." "Trying to Muse Rationally about the Singularity Scenario" [Quicktime] [MP3] Singularity Summit, Stanford University, May 13, 2006 Abstract: "...And yet there are some basic ideas that we should not lose track of, and that should help to keep us from confusing wild speculation with grounded reality. In my talk, I will attempt to chart out a way of looking at the “singularity scenario” with one's feet on the ground, and I will try to give, using my moderate familiarity with a number of different scientific disciplines, a personal appraisal of what I see as the likelihood of our being eclipsed by (or absorbed into) a vast computational network of superminds, in the course of the next few decades." "The So-called Singularity: An Onrushing Tsunami, or Another Y2K?" [MP3] Artificial Life X: Tenth International Conference on the Simulation and Synthesis of Living Systems Bloomington Campus, Indiana University, June 3-7, 2006 Abstract: "In the past few years, a number of futurologists, extrapolating on the basis of many interrelated exponential curves such as Moore's Law, have come to the conclusion that computer intelligence is rising so swiftly that quite soon, it will inevitably reach and then surpass human intelligence, and that at that monumental juncture in the history of this planet, humanity will be eclipsed and replaced by its own creations. Within a few decades, these cyberprophets proclaim, we humans will be living among superintelligent entities that are just as incomprehensible to us as we are incomprehensible to bacteria, and the upward spiral will continue from there on without limit, resulting in entities "who" are literally billions of times more intelligent than today's humans are, and "who" will soon commandeer stars and then whole galaxies, finally turning the entire universe into one single inconceivably intelligent self-reflective organism akin to the Omega Point of the mystic Jesuit philosopher Teilhard de Chardin..." Fri, 18 May 2007 17:08:21 -0700 http://www.imaginify.org/post/Article122.html Holistic Options for Planet Earth Sustainability is the only ecological design conference developed and managed by students... working to promote the deeper understanding and broader application of sustainable design principles. "We live on a water planet. Its complex properties have been inspirational for science and art since time immemorial. As water sculpts our physical landscape, it manifests energy to form civilizations or erode them. Its power is shadowed by continuing degradation and scarcity throughout the world. As designers, we are called to a confluence to understand our interdependence and connection to water." Descrption: Lena River Delta (Visible Earth v1 ID: 18024) Public Domain Credit: Image provided by the USGS EROS Data Center Satellite Systems Branch. This image was acquired by Landsat 7’s Enhanced Thematic Mapper plus (ETM+) Sun, 15 Apr 2007 01:57:36 -0700 http://www.imaginify.org/post/Article121.html The American Journal of Public Health recently published a study (field action report) featuring Metamedia collaborator, Mark Lakeman of City Repair Project. "The Intersection of Urban Planning, Art, and Public Health: The Sunnyside Piazza." A Quote from the Abstract: "...In an attempt to invigorate neighborhood stewardship, the community organized and created a public gathering place; together, they painted a gigantic sunflower in the middle of an intersection and installed several interactive art features. As a result of these collective actions of "place-making," social capital has increased, thus revitalizing the community, and expanded social networks among residents have stimulated a sense of well-being..." - Jan C. Semenza, PhD, MPH, MS School of Community Health, College of Urban and Public Affairs, Portland State University, Oregon View: Abstract | Full Text | Figures Only | Download: PDF Wed, 11 Apr 2007 19:06:57 -0700 http://www.imaginify.org/post/Article120.html *NEW* FROM BERKMAN CENTER @ HARVARD LAW "What Ben Franklin Teaches us about Intellectual Property" or “I Own Creative Content, Therefore I Am, Not” MP3 AUDIO | MP4 VIDEO - Lewis Hyde, Richard L. Thomas Professor of Creative Writing, Kenyon College & Fellow, Berkman Center for Internet and Society, Harvard University Author: Trickster Makes This World: Mischief, Myth, and Art "We have lived by the assumption that what was good for us would be good for the world. We have been wrong. We must change our lives, so that it will be possible to live by the contrary assumption that what is good for the world will be good for us. . . We must recover the sense of the majesty of the creation and the ability to be worshipful in its presence. For it is only on the condition of humility and reverence before the world that our species will be able to remain in it." - Wendell Berry, American man of letters, academic and farmer Tue, 10 Apr 2007 02:48:41 -0700 http://www.imaginify.org/post/Article119.html Initiative to Provide Digital Images to Scholars at No Charge "In a new initiative designed to assist scholars with teaching, study, and the publication of academic works, The Metropolitan Museum of Art will distribute, free of charge, high-resolution digital images from an expanding array of works in its renowned collection for use in academic publications... effective immediately. Scholars – in higher education and in museums – have been struggling with the question of how digitization might help to enable, rather than hinder, scholarly communications. For all involved, it is obvious that, when faced with an important directional challenge, the Metropolitan is providing decisive leadership." "...often referred to simply as "the Met", is one of the world's largest and most important art museums." (wikipedia) "It first opened on February 20, 1872 with a mission to collect, preserve, and display works of art spanning 5,000 years of world culture from every part of the globe, and to educate the public about art – is the most comprehensive art museum in the Western Hemisphere with a collection now including more than two million works of art." Title: Deutsch: Einschiffung nach Kythera Artist: Watteau, Antoine Source: Wikipedia, public domain License: GNU Free Documentation License, The Yorck Project Tue, 27 Mar 2007 01:52:44 -0700 http://www.imaginify.org/post/Article115.html ON THE BRAIN by The Harvard Mahoney Neuroscience Institute "For more than 2,500 years, Buddhist monks have known that practicing meditation leads to increased inner strength, calmness and self-awareness, strengthened contact with subconscious feelings and thoughts, and greater spiritual growth. Now, Harvard Medical School scientists have found that regular meditation can also alter the structure of our brain..." Volume 12, Number 3 - Fall 2006: Download Paper [med.harvard.edu] Thu, 01 Feb 2007 10:19:08 -0800 http://www.imaginify.org/post/Article114.html Come support this event and Help... Heal The Ocean! The ocean can no longer be used as a dump! Course of Action: instead of lobbying the government for action on ocean-pollution issues, we study the problem ourselves and recommend practical solutions. We undertake scientific studies to identify sources of pollution - from leaking sewer pipes, offshore sewage disposal, leaking coastal landfills or septic systems. They test for viruses in the ocean, creeks and groundwater to determine if human sources of pollution are present, and what are the likely sources. In cooperation with Santa Barbara County, Heal the Ocean pioneered both the use of environmental DNA testing and virus testing in the local area. Sun, 21 Jan 2007 13:52:35 -0800 http://www.imaginify.org/post/Article112.html click to watch film • wikipedia Sun, 14 Jan 2007 22:24:37 -0800 http://www.imaginify.org/post/Article111.html Free Software for Starving Students from Kairosnews: A Weblog for Discussing Rhetoric, Technology and Pedagogy Meta- • Metacognition • Metadata • Meta-discussion • Meta-ethics • Metafiction • Metafilm • Metaknowledge • Metamechanics • Meta-reference ...6...7...8...9...10 Sat, 13 Jan 2007 21:54:33 -0800 http://www.imaginify.org/post/Article110.html The Portland International Initiative for Leadership in Ecology, Culture and Learning (PIIECL) prepares future educators and leaders who are dedicated to creating a world that is livable, ecologically sustainable, bio-culturally diverse and socially just. WISE WEBSITE featuring Eco! Free and Open Source Wikibooks : • Ecology • Climate Change • Earth Science • Open Culture • Outdoor Survival • Social Psychology • Utopia • Wikipedia in the Classroom Thu, 11 Jan 2007 19:43:51 -0800 http://www.imaginify.org/post/Article107.html "Information Wants To Be Free. Information also wants to be expensive..." -StewBrand, The First Hackers' Conference, circa 1984 "At some level, the expression does carry the moral judgement that "Information should be free": the idea that access to information and knowledge should not necessitate a class war, that such access is a basic human right, and, as technology improves, the whole of humanity should be able to partake in its gifts and services." - Wikipedia, circa 2006 (All text is available under the terms of the GNU Free Documentation License) From MURL Seminar Archive, Stanford, CA --- circa 2003 --- From Counterculture To Cyberculture: How The Whole Earth Catalog Brought Us "Virtual Community." VIDEO * --- circa 2005 --- Where the Counterculture Met the New Economy: Revisiting the WELL and the Origins of Virtual Community. --- circa 2006 --- From Counterculture to Cyberculture: StewBrand, the Whole Earth Network and the Rise of Digital Utopianism. INTRO | EXCERPT ** Synchronisticly, Worldchanging: The Book is being made available NOW! --- circa late 2006 --- From The Legacy of the Whole Earth Catalog Stanford University Libraries & Department of Communication INVITE | VIDEO "Leading a Double Life" 10/25/2006 From the Berkman Center at Harvard University. Their mission is to explore and understand cyberspace, its development, dynamics, norms, standards, and need or lack thereof for laws and sanctions. They are a research center, premised on the observation that what we seek to learn is not already recorded. Their method is to build out into cyberspace, record data as we go, self-study, and publish. Their mode is entrepreneurial nonprofit. Presents: From Counterculture to Cyberculture: The Rise of Digital Utopianism MP3 AUDIO | MP4 VIDEO By Fred Turner [FredTurner] Department of Communication, Stanford University --- circa 2007 --- University of California at Berkeley, School of Information Howard Rheingold/Qiang Xiao Participatory Media / Collective Action Part I: Participatory Media and Theory of Networks Part II: Communication, Media and Cyberpower Part III: Networked Activism "...Instructors and students will discuss finalizing the wiki we have contructed over the previous ten weeks and publishing it as a public resource on collective action and participatory media. We'll discuss how to maintain and grow this resource in the future. We will speculate about future possibilities, given the technologies, social forces, and cultural trends discussed during previous weeks, and about ways in which media can be used to strengthen democracy, advance human freedom and dignity, and enable sustainable development." *NEW* The National Autonomous University of Mexico Cyberculture and Cybercultur@</b> "emphasize three directions of meaning from the elements that compose the neologism: the Greek prefix “Κψβερ” (cyber), the Latin word “cultur”, and I will take analogically the spiral form of the sign “@”... “cybercultur@” - Jorge A. González, Professor, Latin American Media Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México FlowTV, Vol.5, April 20, 2007 Wed, 25 Oct 2006 17:08:08 -0700