Trans-Siberian Radio is a low-power FM station that will operate on the train from Moscow to Beijing via Novosibirsk, during the conference Capturing the Moving Mind: Management and Movement in the Age of Temporary War, September 11-20.

The station will be a mobile lab for on-air experimentation, featuring music and ideas created collaboratively by passengers on the train and accessible to everyone along the Trans-Siberian route. As curator Natilee Harren writes, the ever-moving symbol of the train fits the conference's theme: "The spirit of the conference is to cross fixed boundaries and to create an environment that is open to the 'contaminating influences' of the communities through which the train will pass. In fact, the point of having the conference on a train is to escape any restrictions relating to a particular time or place." Visit the project's site when the train is rolling to contribute with audio works or hear—and manipulate—audio clips from the ride.

Via eye-teeth.

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Appendix2 features an alternative state of urban landscape. The multimedia exhibition consists of short video works and interactive, computer based works displayed in the Kresija Gallery (Ljubljana, Slovenia) and interventions in the soundscape of the center of Ljubljana.

Small scale mechanisms (automata), made of sensors react to movement and small broadcasting units are hidden at several locations in the center of the city. Sounds are activated by passers-by and intervene into the structure of the town soundscape. The sensors are attached to the garbage bins and passers-by are then blessed with sounds of Chinese market and rickshaw drivers, laundry machine and parody ads for perfume. Well, I should write "the sensors WERE atached" as they've just been stolen. Fortunately, the rest of the exhibition is still up and running till August 28.

Authors of project: Tanja Vujinovic and Zvonka Simcic. Photos by: Jan Kusej.

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Eyebeam is pleased to present Circuit, a new program developed to provide professional exhibition, critique and networking opportunities for emerging artists. The Circuit exhibition will take Sept. 9 and 10 with artists presentations on Sept. 10 at 4pm.

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Evil Interiors is a reconstruction of environments of concentrated fear and violence from movies like the corridor in The Shining, the motel room in Psycho, the home in A Clockwork Orange, the storage in Reservoir Dogs and the hotel room in Scarface.

Working with stills from the movie Stockholm-based artist Palle Torsson estimated the architecture and created textures in the computer in order to reconstruct the interior. The reconstruction is created in the first person shooter game Unreal Tournament 2003. The project has resulted in 16 large sized photos and a real time data animation of the different rooms in slow motion, yet to be presented to the public.

Via selectparks.

Related: Manipulated gamespace interiors.

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"Another rubicon was crossed in the mid-'00s with the publication of the GNY05OG (Greater New York 2005 Online Gallery). This Borgesian project began at the instigation of "blogger" James Wagner (as citizen journalists were then known). In response to a Stalinesque ban on photography at the PS1 Contemporary Art Gallery in New York, Wagner called for artists to sketch the show and offered to post the sketches to the Internet. The response was overwhelming--overcoming their natural territoriality, apathy about other artists' work and fear of not being seen as "playas," hundreds of artists flocked to the institution and submitted drawings. The gallery was so personal, idiosyncratic and non-hierarchical that critics began describing it as "better than the original show" (Village Voice) and a "case of the map becoming the territory" (October). The art was viewed all over the world, revitalizing New York as a "dynamic center of art rather than just a series of year-round vegetable stalls" (The Guardian).

The show also marked the beginning of a new, meta-art, wherein artists used powers of observation, drawing ability, and Photoshop skills to create an enhanced online product somewhere between the physical and the virtual. The new work had a torqued up effect akin to the sampling phenomenon in music, where tweaked sounds become more punchy and "present" than live playing. Eventually museums became physical "sample banks," with real-space objects serving much the same function as plaster casts of still life subjects in the academy, that is, mere shells used as starting points for finished electronic work.

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Linking Struggles Against The Border: A Call to Come to San Diego and Strategize Against Borders and The Minutemen

deletetheborder.org - august 27-28th, san diego

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Hola todos. Crazy times we find ourselves in. Millions of people forced to live underground, more than 3200 dead and tens of thousands more incapacitated crossing the border. Communities and families split by the wall. As if the border and its myriad forms of violence were not enough, racist paramilitaries are openly organizing across the US and finding enthusiastic partners in politicians and corporate press outlets alike. And then there are the numerous Neo-nazi groups crawling out from beneath their rocks, thrilled with the “Trojan Horse

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Today, the Rhizome Location feature is getting even better: We're going to start creating city nodes, too, so people can list themselves, and find other people, by cities.

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Via Gawker, It’s Art So Long As You Don’t Detonate It via NY Observer, The Transom

Continuing with our insistence that FEAR IS BACK, today’s Transom has a downright disturbing item about Brooklyn artist Chris Hackett […], who is constructing a fully-functional suitcase bomb. The piece is courtesy of the Madagascar Institute, a radical art organization which is organizing an exhibition to be shown at either Cooper Union or South Street Seaport the week of September 11. Here’s to the power of perfect timing:

[Hackett] said the strength of the bomb would be equivalent to “about four pounds of TNT. It doesn’t sound like much,

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Sigalarm writes "CNN is reporting that Synthesizer pioneer and all around vanguard of electronic music, Bob Moog, has passed away at age 71. Dr Moog built his first electronic instrument - a theremin - aged 14 and made the MiniMoog, "the first compact, easy-to-use synthesizer", in 1964. He was the first to bring the electronic synthesizer within reach of most musicians, and his early work, the "Minimoog" is still highly praised, and often emulated, to this day."

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The San Francisco Independent Film Festival seeks your most delicous, twisted, unique, historical, fictional, subtitled, stop-motion, curious, cadaverous, outsider, outstanding and otherwise brilliantly-executed indie-films and videos.

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