Martin John Callanan is an artist whose work spans numerous mediums and engages both emerging and commonplace technology. His work has included translating active communication data into music; freezing in time the earth’s water system; writing thousands of letters; capturing newspapers from around the world as they are published; taming wind onto the internet and broadcasting his precise physical location live for over two years.
Martin's work is always decidedly deadpan and served with a dash of ennui. Some of his more well-known pieces include Letters 2004-2006 published by Book Works, the ambient audio installation Sonification of You, the meta-news aggregator I Wanted to See All the News From Today and Text Trends, which abstracts the casual manner in which we receive, scan and process information and language on a daily basis.
Martin's work has been exhibited, published and screened at venues throughout Europe, Russia, North America, South America, Asia and Australia. Participating with, among others, Es Baluard Modern and Contemporary Art Museum, Moscow International Film Festival, Ars Electronic Centre, ISEA 2010, FutureEverything, Museum of Contemporary Art of Vojvodina, Riga Centre for New Media Culture, UCL Environment Institute, Science Museum (London), Tate Britain, Folly Festival of Digital Culture, Book Works, The Institute for Modern and Contemporary Culture, File Prix Lux, and in several editions of the FILE Electronic Language International Festival in Brasil.
Martin is currently:
- Teaching Fellow in Fine Art Media (Digital Media & Print) at the Slade School of Fine Art, University College London and a member of Slade Centre for Electronic Media in Fine Art (SCEMFA) and Word Image research group.
- Editor, Leonardo Electronic Almanac
- Publisher, Merkske
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Re: RHIZOME_RAW: Clash of Discourses: Living in a Hysterical World
On 25/9/07 15:38, "utku omeroglu" <utku_omeroglu@yahoo.com> wrote:
> it's very normal.. you walk on the street.. you are a researcher.. a stone of
> building falls on you...it should be accident! definiteley
>
> you are shooting a documentary in a park in between blues and greens(not
> only (nearby sea and trees ) but also many big textures in these colours
> exist there becaose of different reasons...then they make an ugly chromakey
> ugly film of you..,they're using your face...ugly pictures,they send allyour
> frirnds and family.. you have nowhere to go.....they listen your phone for
> years it's very normal! and this street accident is very normal?
>
> Martin John Callanan <m@greyisgood.eu> wrote:
>
>>
>> TV is TV. It doesn't matter where the physical location of the set may or
>> may not be.
>>
>> Everything that could be discussed about TV has been. There is no point at
>> all in discussing what already has been. Read what has already been written.
>> There is plenty of it.
>>
>> There are now other [new] things to discuss.
>>
>>
>>
>> On 25/9/07 15:04, "utku omeroglu" wrote:
>>
>>> No, there is m.....i recognized that your TV is there, in Kadykoy,istanbul.
>>> they eat you in a cafe
>>>
>>> Martin John Callanan wrote:
>>>>
>>>> It's irreverent to include "TV" [in it's own right] within any discourse of
>>>> the present. TV used basic electronics controlling an analogue display
>>>> (more
>>>> than 100 years ago). This was superseded by digital then digital using HD.
>>>> The signals and the decoding equipment it requires are; a computer. The
>>>> display resolution even matches a computer screen. It is a computer. They
>>>> converged a while ago. It's irreverent to separate TV from a computer; it's
>>>> simply one of the many tasks people rely on computers to perform.
>>>>
>>>> Personally, I have never even owned a TV.
>>>>
>>>> m
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> On 24/9/07 23:43, "Pall Thayer" wrote:
>>>>
>>>>> The TV does not produce moving images and sounds. People produce
>>>>> moving images and sounds and relay them through TVs, directly into
>>>>> people's homes. That's what makes what you say in the next sentence
>>>>> important. A machine that produces moving images and sounds can't be
>>>>> malevolent. That requires a human.
>>>>>
>>>>> Pall
>>>>>
>>>>> On 9/24/07, Andreas Jacobs wrote:
>>>>>> A tv is a human invented technical device , which produces (moving)
>>>>>> images
>>>>>> and sounds through media space.
>>>>>> In the hands of the malevolent it is a means to propagate ideas,
>>>>>> thoughts
>>>>>> and opinions which are not ours.
>>>>>> In the hands of the benevolent it is a means to express our feelings ,
>>>>>> thoughts and opinions to share with each other.
>>>>>>
>>>>>> A, Andreas
>>>>>>
>>>>>> Publisher Nictoglobe
>>>>>>
>>>>>> http://www.nictoglobe.com
>>>>>>
>>>>>>
>>>>>> On Sep 24, 2007, at 1:06 AM, Martin John Callanan wrote:
>>>>>> What is a tv?
>>>>>>
>>>>>>
>>>>>>
>>>>>> On 23/9/07 16:32, "utku omeroglu" wrote:
>>>>>>
>>>>>>
>>>>>> Private and public must have clash i think.
>>>>>>
>>>>>>
>>>>>>
>>>>>> Do you think we are living in a big tv?If we wanted to be there we would
>>>>>> try to. we would try to become famous
>>>>>>
>>>>>>
>>>>>>
>>>>>> Actors,musicians,famous people etc i think normally become visible on
>>>>>> tv's
>>>>>>
>>>>>>
>>>>>>
>>>>>> Andreas Jacobs wrote:
>>>>>>
>>>>>>
>>>>>> Clash of Discourses: Living in a Hysterical World
>>>>>>
>>>>>> Materiality / Immateriality
>>>>>> Money Economy Gift Economy
>>>>>> Science / Religion
>>>>>> Aesthetics Politics
>>>>>> Private / Public
>>>>>> Individual Collective
>>>>>> Elite / Masses
>>>>>> Socialism Fascism
>>>>>> Institutionalized Culture / Underground
>>>>>> The Wise Guys The Men from the Streets
>>>>>> Urban / Rural
>>>>>> Outsiders Insiders
>>>>>> Literated / Illiterated
>>>>>> Artist Audience
>>>>>> Consumer / Producer
>>>>>> Ignorance Awareness
>>>>>>
>>>>>> Determination of your position, and more,
>>>>>>
>>>>>> 14 September, 20:30 CEST @ De Balie - Centre for Culture and
>>>>>> Politics, Amsterdam, Nictoglobe organized, using free publicly
>>>>>> accessible open source software tools, developed and provided by de
>>>>>> Balie, a DIY CoolMediaHotTalkShow about 'Creative Resistance, New
>>>>>> Media as Soft Arms'
>>>>>>
>>>>>>
>>>>>> In case you missed it, see archived show:
>>>>>>
>>>>>> http://www.coolmediahottalk.net/archive.jsp?showidC55
>>>>>>
>>>>>>
>>>>>> Below our call as sent on May 15th 2007:
>>>>>>
>>>>>> "Nictoglobe invites you to send a short (max 500 words)
>>>>>> submission which reflects upon 'creative resistance - new media as
>>>>>> soft arms' as an starting point to develop a more profound and
>>>>>> public, artistic led discussion about this subject."
>>>>>>
>>>>>>
>>>>>> Best
>>>>>>
>>>>>> A. Andreas - Publisher Nictoglobe
>>>>>>
>>>>>>
>>>>>> http://www.nictoglobe.com
>>>>>>
>>>>>>
>>>>>>
>>>>>> +
>>>>>> -> post: list@rhizome.org
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>>>>>> +
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>>>>>> Membership Agreement available online at http://rhizome.org/info/29.php
>>>>>>
>>>>>>
>>>>>> Send instant messages to your online friends
>>>>>> http://uk.messenger.yahoo.com
>>>>>>
>>>>>>
>>>>>>
>>>>>>
>>>>>>
>>>>>> Martin John Callanan
>>>>>> http://greyisgood.eu
>>>>>>
>>>>>> http://okay.greyisgood.eu
>>>>>> http://location.greyisgood.eu
>>>>>>
>>>>>> Location of I will be part of this year's Velocity Festival
>>>>>> http://velocity.greyisgood.eu
>>>>>>
>>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> Martin John Callanan
>>>> http://greyisgood.eu
>>>>
>>>> http://okay.greyisgood.eu
>>>> http://location.greyisgood.eu
>>>>
>>>> Location of I will be part of this year's Velocity Festival
>>>> http://velocity.greyisgood.eu
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> +
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>>>
>>>
>>> Send instant messages to your online friends http://uk.messenger.yahoo.com
>>
>>
>>
>>
>>
>> Martin John Callanan
>> http://greyisgood.eu
>>
>> http://okay.greyisgood.eu
>> http://location.greyisgood.eu
>>
>> Location of I will be part of this year's Velocity Festival
>> http://velocity.greyisgood.eu
>>
>
>
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Re: RHIZOME_RAW: Clash of Discourses: Living in a Hysterical World
may not be.
Everything that could be discussed about TV has been. There is no point at
all in discussing what already has been. Read what has already been written.
There is plenty of it.
There are now other [new] things to discuss.
On 25/9/07 15:04, "utku omeroglu" <utku_omeroglu@yahoo.com> wrote:
> No, there is m.....i recognized that your TV is there, in Kadykoy,istanbul.
> they eat you in a cafe
>
> Martin John Callanan <m@greyisgood.eu> wrote:
>>
>> It's irreverent to include "TV" [in it's own right] within any discourse of
>> the present. TV used basic electronics controlling an analogue display (more
>> than 100 years ago). This was superseded by digital then digital using HD.
>> The signals and the decoding equipment it requires are; a computer. The
>> display resolution even matches a computer screen. It is a computer. They
>> converged a while ago. It's irreverent to separate TV from a computer; it's
>> simply one of the many tasks people rely on computers to perform.
>>
>> Personally, I have never even owned a TV.
>>
>> m
>>
>>
>>
>> On 24/9/07 23:43, "Pall Thayer" wrote:
>>
>>> The TV does not produce moving images and sounds. People produce
>>> moving images and sounds and relay them through TVs, directly into
>>> people's homes. That's what makes what you say in the next sentence
>>> important. A machine that produces moving images and sounds can't be
>>> malevolent. That requires a human.
>>>
>>> Pall
>>>
>>> On 9/24/07, Andreas Jacobs wrote:
>>>> A tv is a human invented technical device , which produces (moving) images
>>>> and sounds through media space.
>>>> In the hands of the malevolent it is a means to propagate ideas, thoughts
>>>> and opinions which are not ours.
>>>> In the hands of the benevolent it is a means to express our feelings ,
>>>> thoughts and opinions to share with each other.
>>>>
>>>> A, Andreas
>>>>
>>>> Publisher Nictoglobe
>>>>
>>>> http://www.nictoglobe.com
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> On Sep 24, 2007, at 1:06 AM, Martin John Callanan wrote:
>>>> What is a tv?
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> On 23/9/07 16:32, "utku omeroglu" wrote:
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> Private and public must have clash i think.
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> Do you think we are living in a big tv?If we wanted to be there we would
>>>> try to. we would try to become famous
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> Actors,musicians,famous people etc i think normally become visible on tv's
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> Andreas Jacobs wrote:
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> Clash of Discourses: Living in a Hysterical World
>>>>
>>>> Materiality / Immateriality
>>>> Money Economy Gift Economy
>>>> Science / Religion
>>>> Aesthetics Politics
>>>> Private / Public
>>>> Individual Collective
>>>> Elite / Masses
>>>> Socialism Fascism
>>>> Institutionalized Culture / Underground
>>>> The Wise Guys The Men from the Streets
>>>> Urban / Rural
>>>> Outsiders Insiders
>>>> Literated / Illiterated
>>>> Artist Audience
>>>> Consumer / Producer
>>>> Ignorance Awareness
>>>>
>>>> Determination of your position, and more,
>>>>
>>>> 14 September, 20:30 CEST @ De Balie - Centre for Culture and
>>>> Politics, Amsterdam, Nictoglobe organized, using free publicly
>>>> accessible open source software tools, developed and provided by de
>>>> Balie, a DIY CoolMediaHotTalkShow about 'Creative Resistance, New
>>>> Media as Soft Arms'
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> In case you missed it, see archived show:
>>>>
>>>> http://www.coolmediahottalk.net/archive.jsp?showidC55
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> Below our call as sent on May 15th 2007:
>>>>
>>>> "Nictoglobe invites you to send a short (max 500 words)
>>>> submission which reflects upon 'creative resistance - new media as
>>>> soft arms' as an starting point to develop a more profound and
>>>> public, artistic led discussion about this subject."
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> Best
>>>>
>>>> A. Andreas - Publisher Nictoglobe
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> http://www.nictoglobe.com
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> +
>>>> -> post: list@rhizome.org
>>>> -> questions: info@rhizome.org
>>>> -> subscribe/unsubscribe:
>>>> http://rhizome.org/preferences/subscribe.rhiz
>>>> -> give: http://rhizome.org/support
>>>> +
>>>> Subscribers to Rhizome are subject to the terms set out in the
>>>> Membership Agreement available online at http://rhizome.org/info/29.php
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> Send instant messages to your online friends http://uk.messenger.yahoo.com
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> Martin John Callanan
>>>> http://greyisgood.eu
>>>>
>>>> http://okay.greyisgood.eu
>>>> http://location.greyisgood.eu
>>>>
>>>> Location of I will be part of this year's Velocity Festival
>>>> http://velocity.greyisgood.eu
>>>>
>>>>
>>>
>>
>>
>>
>>
>> Martin John Callanan
>> http://greyisgood.eu
>>
>> http://okay.greyisgood.eu
>> http://location.greyisgood.eu
>>
>> Location of I will be part of this year's Velocity Festival
>> http://velocity.greyisgood.eu
>>
>>
>> +
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>> -> questions: info@rhizome.org
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>> -> give: http://rhizome.org/support
>> +
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>
>
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Re: RHIZOME_RAW: Clash of Discourses: Living in a Hysterical World
the present. TV used basic electronics controlling an analogue display (more
than 100 years ago). This was superseded by digital then digital using HD.
The signals and the decoding equipment it requires are; a computer. The
display resolution even matches a computer screen. It is a computer. They
converged a while ago. It's irreverent to separate TV from a computer; it's
simply one of the many tasks people rely on computers to perform.
Personally, I have never even owned a TV.
m
On 24/9/07 23:43, "Pall Thayer" <pallthay@gmail.com> wrote:
> The TV does not produce moving images and sounds. People produce
> moving images and sounds and relay them through TVs, directly into
> people's homes. That's what makes what you say in the next sentence
> important. A machine that produces moving images and sounds can't be
> malevolent. That requires a human.
>
> Pall
>
> On 9/24/07, Andreas Jacobs <ajaco@xs4all.nl> wrote:
>> A tv is a human invented technical device , which produces (moving) images
>> and sounds through media space.
>> In the hands of the malevolent it is a means to propagate ideas, thoughts
>> and opinions which are not ours.
>> In the hands of the benevolent it is a means to express our feelings ,
>> thoughts and opinions to share with each other.
>>
>> A, Andreas
>>
>> Publisher Nictoglobe
>>
>> http://www.nictoglobe.com
>>
>>
>> On Sep 24, 2007, at 1:06 AM, Martin John Callanan wrote:
>> What is a tv?
>>
>>
>>
>> On 23/9/07 16:32, "utku omeroglu" <utku_omeroglu@yahoo.com> wrote:
>>
>>
>> Private and public must have clash i think.
>>
>>
>>
>> Do you think we are living in a big tv?If we wanted to be there we would
>> try to. we would try to become famous
>>
>>
>>
>> Actors,musicians,famous people etc i think normally become visible on tv's
>>
>>
>>
>> Andreas Jacobs <ajaco@xs4all.nl> wrote:
>>
>>
>> Clash of Discourses: Living in a Hysterical World
>>
>> Materiality / Immateriality
>> Money Economy Gift Economy
>> Science / Religion
>> Aesthetics Politics
>> Private / Public
>> Individual Collective
>> Elite / Masses
>> Socialism Fascism
>> Institutionalized Culture / Underground
>> The Wise Guys The Men from the Streets
>> Urban / Rural
>> Outsiders Insiders
>> Literated / Illiterated
>> Artist Audience
>> Consumer / Producer
>> Ignorance Awareness
>>
>> Determination of your position, and more,
>>
>> 14 September, 20:30 CEST @ De Balie - Centre for Culture and
>> Politics, Amsterdam, Nictoglobe organized, using free publicly
>> accessible open source software tools, developed and provided by de
>> Balie, a DIY CoolMediaHotTalkShow about 'Creative Resistance, New
>> Media as Soft Arms'
>>
>>
>> In case you missed it, see archived show:
>>
>> http://www.coolmediahottalk.net/archive.jsp?showidC55
>>
>>
>> Below our call as sent on May 15th 2007:
>>
>> "Nictoglobe invites you to send a short (max 500 words)
>> submission which reflects upon 'creative resistance
Re: RHIZOME_RAW: Clash of Discourses: Living in a Hysterical World
On 23/9/07 16:32, "utku omeroglu" <utku\_omeroglu@yahoo.com> wrote:
> Private and public must have clash i think.
>
>
>
> Do you think we are living in a big tv?If we wanted to be there we would =
try
> to. we would try to become famous
>
>
>
> Actors,musicians,famous people etc i think normally become visible on tv's
>
>
>
> Andreas Jacobs <ajaco@xs4all.nl> wrote:
>
>> Clash of Discourses: Living in a Hysterical World
>>
>> Materiality / Immateriality
>> Money Economy Gift Economy
>> Science / Religion
>> Aesthetics Politics
>> Private / Public
>> Individual Collective
>> Elite / Masses
>> Socialism Fascism
>> Institutionalized Culture / Underground
>> The Wise Guys The Men from the Streets
>> Urban / Rural
>> Outsiders Insiders
>> Literated / Illiterated
>> Artist Audience
>> Consumer / Producer
>> Ignorance Awareness
>>
>> Determination of your position, and more,
>>
>> 14 September, 20:30 CEST @ De Balie - Centre for Culture and
>> Politics, Amsterdam, Nictoglobe organized, using free publicly
>> accessible open source software tools, developed and provided by de
>> Balie, a DIY CoolMediaHotTalkShow about 'Creative Resistance, New
>> Media as Soft Arms'
>>
>>
>> In case you missed it, see archived show:
>>
>> http://www.coolmediahottalk.net/archive.jsp?showid=4355
>>
>>
>> Below our call as sent on May 15th 2007:
>>
>> "Nictoglobe invites you to send a short (max 500 words)
>> submission which reflects upon
Re: RHIZOME_RAW: How deep is Rhizome stuff rascizm?
On 8/9/07 11:35, "manik" <manik@sbb.co.yu> wrote:
> Hi Pall,
>
> Your question about love is very difficult. I wake up last night and it was
> in my mind. I can't tell anything direct, but I have one story which, at
> least it seems to me, could be appropriate for this issue.
>
> My friend from high school drive with his permanent discontent was unhappy
> until day he find some book about Zen.He even learn English to read more
> books about Zen.But it wasn't enough. He decided to become Zen student in on
> Korean Zen monastery. That time wasn't so easy to stranger to be Zen
> student. There were strong stream against them in monastery. My friend told
> me how happy he was and he was afraid even with possibility to be thrown
> away from this place. He devoted meditate but often he was in position to be
> near Zen students who fight and this violence was potential dangerous for
> drastic penalty against those who make disorder. As witness my friend was in
> difficult position. What to do? To tell who was in fight and harm some
> colegue, or to imperil his own position with avoid to tell anything.
>
> One day he meet his mentor (teacher, or master.I'm not sure how's that on
> English) in garden. Master was alone and my friend told him about his
> problem.
>
> "There're students who fight, and students who meditate. You must make
> choice: which group you belong to."Said teacher.
>
> MANIK
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Pall Thayer" <pallthay@gmail.com>
> To: "manik" <manik@sbb.co.yu>
> Cc: <list@rhizome.org>
> Sent: Friday, September 07, 2007 3:58 PM
> Subject: Re: Fw: RHIZOME_RAW: How deep is Rhizome stuff rascizm?
>
>
>> How deep is your love?
>> I really need to learn
>> Cause we're living in a world of fools
>> Breaking us down
>> When they all should let us be
>>
>> On 9/7/07, manik <manik@sbb.co.yu> wrote:
>>> What race is the finish line?
>>> MANIK
>>> ----- Original Message -----
>>> From: "Robert Spahr" <rob@robertspahr.com>
>>> To: "Martin John Callanan" <m@greyisgood.eu>
>>> Cc: "manik" <manik@sbb.co.yu>; "rhizome raw" <list@rhizome.org>
>>> Sent: Thursday, September 06, 2007 8:00 PM
>>> Subject: Re: RHIZOME_RAW: How deep is Rhizome stuff rascizm?
>>>
>>>
>>>>
>>>> It's not who wins the race that counts, but the process of getting
>>>> across the finish line
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> On Thu, 06 Sep 2007 18:04:36 +0100
>>>> Martin John Callanan <m@greyisgood.eu> wrote:
>>>>
>>>>> What race is MANIK?
>>>>> What race is Rhizome?
>>>>>
>>>>> On 6/9/07 15:59, "manik" <manik@sbb.co.yu> wrote:
>>>>>
>>>>>> In last "Rhizome Digest", thread- "Where is The Rhizome", MANIK was
>>>>>> represent with two texts under this title(and few others tight
>>>>>> conected with this thread but under different names). In 'Digest'
>>>>>> MANIK couldn't find his name. This is proof and sad fact that MANIK
>>>>>> was absolutely right considered Rhizome stuff racism.It's not the
>>>>>> first time that this stuff wipe MANIK's name from Digest!
>>>>>> Moreover this racism became institutional(economical) in Rhizome
>>>>>> vs. MANIK case because previously editor Kevin McGarry order text
>>>>>> from MANIK (about Chris Ashley.if you want you could see that essay
>>>>>> in his blog, or in Rhizome database, and by the way Chris use parts
>>>>>> of this essay in his lecture in New Museum-'About bloging',if we
>>>>>> remember correctly). Kevin own 100$ to MANIK for that essay and 40$
>>>>>> for two text in NAN.Instead 140$ Lauren Cornel pay to MANIK 40$ for
>>>>>> two texts published in NAN! And she generous "(for) give"25$ for
>>>>>> this year Rhizome membership to MANIK).So instead 140$ MANIK get
>>>>>> 40$ in check, and 25 as "gift"! Where's 75$ Rhizome own to MANIK?
>>>>>> Is that your stile-steal money from membership?
>>>>>> And after that wipe members name from documents? What should we
>>>>>> aspect next? Wipe MANIK's name from every database in Rhizome? Wipe
>>>>>> even his cloned object? How deep is Rhizome stuff rascizm?
>>>>>> Is that just Rhizome stuff opinion and politics or they having
>>>>>> support from membership? If members of Rhizome decided to throw
>>>>>> MANIK from Raw!?.O.k.!We could accept this kind of 'democracy'. If
>>>>>> not, we demand our name and texts on Digest.
>>>>>> And, of course 75$!
>>>>>> And resignation from Lauren Cornel and Marisa Olsen.
>>>>>>
>>>>>> MANIK
>>>>>>
>>>>>>
>>>>>>
>>>>>>
>>>>>> Monday, September 03, 2007 12:38 AM
>>>>>>
>>>>>> list@rhizome.org <list@rhizome.org>
>>>>>>
>>>>>> RHIZOME_RAW: WHERE IS THE RHIZOME?
>>>>>>
>>>>>> As always MANIK goes far ahead with ideas and observations.
>>>>>> Considered Rhizome front page: its look like many other
>>>>>> Organizations front page. And content's same as everywhere.Which
>>>>>> mean no trace of something creative. Art-in one word. But "first
>>>>>> blood" was Pall's lucid analysis considered Raw. We wonder how came
>>>>>> so many well educated people could observe Raw as separate
>>>>>> phenomenon with its own rules, like something which existed in
>>>>>> world far from any social and ethic /aesthetic
>>>>>> fermentation(?!?)Global situation in World is very different sense
>>>>>> day 'Berlin wall' fall ('89). Other words-this event mark day when
>>>>>> fascism officially win after 44 years! Of course leading role was
>>>>>> USA.Disintegrate of former USSR and bloody war in former Yugoslavia
>>>>>> were only few consequences of this catastrophy.USA felt so strong
>>>>>> to take obvious step against civilization and low norm with bombing
>>>>>> Serbia '99.NATO and filthy propaganda 'about Serbs ethnical
>>>>>> cleaning'(it's just opposite, about 200.000 Serbs was throw out
>>>>>> from Kosovo that time and they still live in Serbia like 'internal
>>>>>> displaced persons')was poor excuse for mainly USA interest in this
>>>>>> area (Kosovo)where America install largest military base on the
>>>>>> world,Bondsteel.
>>>>>> http://www.globalsecurity.org/military/facility/camp-bondsteel.htm
>>>>>> Lowly? But, meanwhile Russia with president Putin find out what's
>>>>>> in The Bush.Surounded with republic from former
>>>>>> USSR(Georgija,Ukraine,Moldavia.etc)where USA influence became very
>>>>>> hard,Rusian decided to make 'bipolar' world. In few words: Amerika
>>>>>> can't make bullshit all over the world anymore. For example-USA
>>>>>> need Kosovo for strategic control over south Euro-Asia, but now
>>>>>> they are faced with serious threat.Russia have huge nuclear
>>>>>> potential, and also they're pissed on American sense they humiliate
>>>>>> them in '99 bombing Kosovo. President Gorbachov was blackmailed
>>>>>> idiot, Jelcin was drunk full, but now with Putin American have big
>>>>>> problem. War in Iraq goes bad for America-to many dead people. In
>>>>>> America slowly but surely grow unpleasant comprehension about
>>>>>> limitations and serious dangerous for they own safety. In few days
>>>>>> we could refresh our memories (9/11) and ask ourselves is there any
>>>>>> positive change in the world sense this date and this happening
>>>>>> (?)We doubt. New constellation in world strategic (count also on
>>>>>> China and India growing economic power) and possible Iran atomic
>>>>>> bomb.That look like bad dream for USA? And it is. In next few month
>>>>>> America must make a mowe.USA administration promise independent to
>>>>>> Shiptars from Kosovo but it won't be easy like
>>>>>> in '99.Why?Because,one tiny example which is main point. We think
>>>>>> (MANIK) to endure possible new NATO bombing more than 79 days as it
>>>>>> was last time. That mean we don't care for our life's anymore.
>>>>>> After 17 years of isolation, sanction, all kind of humiliation we
>>>>>> understand it's better to die than to live like slave of American
>>>>>> anti-human rule. That also mean we have nothing to loose and we
>>>>>> (following) Baudrillard's words could be very dangerous in any
>>>>>> sense of this word. America live in overrate Myth of value of life,
>>>>>> on the other side this "life "mean American life, not other people
>>>>>> life, which mean it's all pure rascism.Baudrillard said
>>>>>> (paraphrase):"Live in desacralised country(USA)mean that their
>>>>>> idea of life have no support in any other area of spiritual sphere.
>>>>>> Idea of sacrifice in Muslim religion show all vulnerable of
>>>>>> American tiny "ideology"." What are you going to doo with your
>>>>>> precious lifes? Intercontinental missile doesn't care for
>>>>>> distance.We believe it's time to live your unconscious and start to
>>>>>> prepare for new big war.Or to change your ideology.That'l be hard?
>>>>>> And that's why you should think about war. Now, when we became
>>>>>> conscience about this unhappy and ugly world, about injustice which
>>>>>> goes far over possibility to call mercy for people who commit them
>>>>>> (no mercy) about what we could talk on Raw. That's The Reason
>>>>>> Rhizome_Raw's empty, pathetic, and full of nonsense calls for
>>>>>> submissions. It could be some tiny chance to talk about dangerous
>>>>>> which came so fast and inexorability. First you must forget art and
>>>>>> ephemeral thing. In time of dangerous Muses are quiet. MANIK
>>>>>>
>>>>>>
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>>>>>> Tuesday, September 04, 2007 2:11 PM
>>>>>>
>>>>>> list@rhizome.org <list@rhizome.org>
>>>>>>
>>>>>> Fw: Re: RHIZOME_RAW: Where is the Rhizome?
>>>>>>
>>>>>>
>>>>>> Hi Max,
>>>>>>
>>>>>> (IDEA OF)Tree in [post]structural way of imagination follow
>>>>>> spatial type of visualizing mind(thinking)which could be explained
>>>>>> as 'hyerarhical'.That mean tree couldn't be 'rhizomatic' because in
>>>>>> structure its repeat vertical, or "pyramid "type of
>>>>>> imagination(it's not wrong or right, it's just fact).Vertical
>>>>>> imagination mean, in short,base,or root(people) and administration,
>>>>>> leader(treetop).parallels in social structure is dictatorship and
>>>>>> vertical distribution of power(faschism,comunism or
>>>>>> neoliberal/corporative capitalism("West democracy").
>>>>>>
>>>>>> Other way supposes dispersion from one point (imagined root) and
>>>>>> endless number of germinate. This is rhizomatic way. You couldn't
>>>>>> direct when, how much, on which place and with how strong intensity
>>>>>> grown of some idea is going to erupt as brand new and equal (with
>>>>>> other) worst or better.
>>>>>>
>>>>>> That could be anarchy as last level of democracy ('Society of
>>>>>> 'Anonymous strangers') or 'retro distributions of power'-or,
>>>>>> horizontal distribution of power (prehistory tribe with their
>>>>>> distribution of social income and classification of social
>>>>>> influence).
>>>>>>
>>>>>> That's why we could see image of some swamp plant on (for example)
>>>>>> front page of Rhizome org.We doubt that any of recent Rhizome org.
>>>>>> stuff have knowledge about that. We wish we are wrong.
>>>>>>
>>>>>> MANIK hope that, at least, with his observation could help to
>>>>>> recognize problem of 'rhizomatic' on more complex way.
>>>>>>
>>>>>> MANIK
>>>>>>
>>>>>> PS:We are sure Curt don't mind we answer on your mail.At least all
>>>>>> of us try to understand what's going on here.
>>>>>>
>>>>>> ----- Original Message -----
>>>>>> From: "Max Herman" <maxnmherman@hotmail.com>
>>>>>> To: <list@rhizome.org>
>>>>>> Sent: Monday, September 03, 2007 10:40 PM
>>>>>> Subject: Re: Re: RHIZOME_RAW: Where is the Rhizome?
>>>>>>
>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>> Hi Curt,
>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>> I noticed in this text by Dreher I didn't think he talked about
>>>>>>>> Guattari. Did he?
>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>> In any case, I looked up Guattari and found out some interesting
>>>>>>>> things.
>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>> First off, his main book was called "1000 Plateaus" where each
>>>>>>>> section was dated to represent a time. This reminded me
>>>>>>>> frightfully of my own composition of "Genius 2000: a New
>>>>>>>> Network." You may find it impossible to believe but I never
>>>>>>>> read 1000 Plateaus and only found out about its format today.
>>>>>>>> Oh well. I also never knew that Pascal said "ineffable union"
>>>>>>>> as the main idea of life either. But that's also not believable
>>>>>>>> to hear me say that.
>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>> Anyhow, I noticed that Guattari wanted to counter the "rhizome"
>>>>>>>> composition or form to the "arborescent" i.e. tree-like I would
>>>>>>>> guess.
>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>> I've also used the image of the tree in my ideas for a while,
>>>>>>>> such as "Political Aesthetics." I think the tree aspect of
>>>>>>>> aesthetics is pretty good and important however so I'm curious
>>>>>>>> why Guattari didn't like it.
>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>> Moreover, Guattari's final Plateau is the "noosphere," which is
>>>>>>>> Teilhard de Chardin, who P.B. Medawar is very against, and I
>>>>>>>> cited Medawar in Political Aesthetics also.
>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>> Maybe it's relevant that computers use a tree structure more so
>>>>>>>> than a rhizome structure? Or, sometimes they do? Maybe history
>>>>>>>> goes back and forth, favoring a tree sometimes or a rhizome at
>>>>>>>> other times but neither one is evil per se.
>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>>> From: curt cloninger <curt@lab404.com>
>>>>>>>>>> Reply-To: curt cloninger <curt@lab404.com>
>>>>>>>>>> To: list@rhizome.org
>>>>>>>>>> Subject: Re: Re: RHIZOME_RAW: Where is the Rhizome?
>>>>>>>>>> Date: Sun, 2 Sep 2007 23:41:31 -0400
>>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>>> I think one way to make a listserv dangerous is by using it to
>>>>>>>>>> make actual art rather than as a para-art promotional
>>>>>>>>>> platform. This is why posts by NN, kandinsky42, mez, Dirk
>>>>>>>>>> Vekemans, Max Herman, manik, and others have been poet[h]ically
>>>>>>>>>> appealing to me. They presume that something is happening on
>>>>>>>>>> the list itself right now, rather than using the list to
>>>>>>>>>> dialogue about something happening somewhere else.
>>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>>> Here is a perspicacious essay on conceptual software art by
>>>>>>>>>> Thomas Dreher, translated from German:
>>>>>>>>>> http://iasl.uni-muenchen.de/links/NAKSe.html
>>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>>> Here are the accompanying illustrations in pdf form:
>>>>>>>>>> http://iasl.uni-muenchen.de/links/NAKSe.pdf (11 Mb)
>>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>>> There amongst examples by Cage, George Brecht, Lewitt, and
>>>>>>>>>> Debord is a piece I posted to RAW in 2005. Dreher's online
>>>>>>>>>> essay links to my actual rhizome post, which now takes you to a
>>>>>>>>>> page saying that the post is archived and you can no longer
>>>>>>>>>> view it unless you pay to become a member.
>>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>>> http://lyricwiki.org/The_White_Stripes:Little_Cream_Soda ,
>>>>>>>>>> Curt
>>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>>> +++++++
>>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>>> pall wrote:
>>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>>> That's a great analogy. I definitely think people should look
>>>>>>>>>> into making Rhizome "dangerous" again.
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WORDS / WORLDS: Lancaster Institute for Contemporary Practice
Date: 9 May 2013
Time: 1.30-5.30pm
9th May 2013 The Nuffield Theatre, Lancaster University: Centre for Performance and Practice
Convened to mark the appointment of Tim Etchells as Professor of Performance and Practice at LICA, Words / Worlds is an afternoon symposium focused on approaches to writing in an interdisciplinary context. The event takes its title from a two-part neon work All We Have is Words / All We Have is Worlds by Etchells, which quotes and then repeats with modification, a line from Samuel Beckett.
Beginning with a keynote paper/performance from Etchells, which opens questions relating his to text-work in different media, WORDS / WORLDS proceeds with panels and presentations from visual artists Martin John Callanan and Penny McCarthy, from curator Mathieu Copeland, from the novelist Tony White and from the performance maker and scholar Andrew Quick. WORDS / WORLDS celebrates the possibilities of a cross-disciplinary conversation between and about text-based work and writing. A statement by William Burroughs – that the purpose of writing is to make things happen – provides one point of departure for the discussions, which will see each of the participants touch upon key works and ideas from their practise as they think around texts and inter-texts, texts as interventions in, and transformations of, the world, texts as tests or probes of reality, and text as a tool for fragile and temporary world-building.
Free to attend
Organising departments and research centres: Lancaster Institute for the Contemporary Arts
(Im)material Labour, Art Exchange, Colchester
(IM)MATERIAL LABOUR
MONDAY 24 JUNE 2013 – SATURDAY 20 JULY 2013
(Im)material Labour explores our shifting position in an economically functioning society. From the systemisation of post-fordist labour through to the de-materialisation of the service sector, our patterns of working behaviour are constantly being reconfigured.
(Im)material Labour draws together the work of a number of artists who interrogate this phenomenon in light of the current economic climate. Seeking to decode and humanise the financial crisis through analytical ideas and research, the works on display often result in therapeutic and humorous outcomes.
The exhibition includes works by SUPERFLEX, Zachary Formwalt, Ignacio Uriarte, Martin John Callanan, Paul Westcombe and Arnaud Desjardin.
The exhibition will take place both onsite and offsite in a disused office block situated in Colchester Town. Curated by MA Critical Curating students Warren Harper, Matylda Taszycka and alumnus Jonathan Weston.
Curators Tour
Saturday 1 June, 1-2pm
Join the exhibition’s curators for a tour of (Im)material Labour at Art Exchange. To reserve your place, please email immaterial.labour@live.co.uk
Boing Boing: Big pictures of small change
David Pescovitz writes on Boing Boing: Artist Martin John Callanan and the Advanced Engineered Materials Group at the UK’s National Physical Laboratory used an infinite 3D optical microscope to capture 400 million pixel images of the lowest denomination coin from many currencies. “The Fundamental Units”
Business Insider: The World’s Currencies Like You’ve Never Seen Them Before
Max Rosenberg writes:
Some nations have debated getting rid of their smallest monetary denominations.
Even President Obama came out against the penny earlier this year.
Photographer Martin John Callanan is trying to save these coins for future generations, using images.
and Capital Online
Daily Mail: Look after your pennies: microscopic pictures of world’s lowest value coins to save them for future generations
Look after your pennies: Photographer takes microscopic pictures of world’s lowest value coins to save them for future generations
With every battered line, scrape and knock, each coin has been rendered as individual as the many thousands of hands they have passed through.
Now, as governments across the world debate whether to do away with their lowest value coins, one photographer is on a mission to save as many pennies as he can before they are consigned forever to history,
Photographer Martin John Callanan is busy working on a photo project entitled The Fundamental Units – a series of extremely large prints showing the lowest value coins of countries around the world.
He has teamed up with National Physical Laboratory in Teddington, to use ‘Europe’s best microscope’ to show each coin in all its worn charm.
Each coin is photographed with 4,000 individual tiny exposures, and it takes three days of processing to turn the individual photos into a single composite photograph weighing 400 megapixels. Printed out, each photo measures 1.2 and 1.2 meters (~3.9 square feet).
‘In this sense, and in response to the dominance of macroeconomics in the discourse of the media, the artist chooses a microscopic view of the world economy.
‘The Fundamental Units, a series that begins with the works produced by Horrach Moyà Gallery for this exhibition, is an exploration of the lowest denomination coins from the world’s currencies using an infinite focus 3D optical microscope at the National Physical Laboratory in Teddington.’
‘The images obtained with the microscope have been combined to form an extremely detailed large scale reproduction of the least valuable coins from Australia, Chile, the Euro, Myanmar and the Kingdom of Swaziland.
‘In these images the humble metal acquires a planetary dimension and is displayed as the atoms that shape the global economy.’
There are many precedents for scrapping small coins.
In America, the half-cent was abolished in 1857, and in 1984 the UK’s halfpenny was withdrawn.
New Zealand and Australia abandoned the one-cent and two-cent coin in the 1990s.
Campaigners in the US and UK also want the penny and cent coins to be consigned to history, because nothing can be bought with a one-cent or one-penny coin.
see the full article by Amanda Williams
Reposted on Numismatica
Small Change Writ Large: ‘The Fundamental Units’ by Martin John Callanan
Rain Noe at Core77 writes:
What does that look like to you? The cave drawings at Lascaux, maybe?
How about this one? A shield from an ancient civilization?
Nope, these are the lowest of the world’s low-value coins, those forgotten bits of metal that keep lint company in our pockets or fill forgotten jars. Perhaps sensing that cents are on the way out, Martin John Callanan—self-described as “an artist researching an individual’s place within systems”—is photographically preserving them for posterity with his The Fundamental Units project.
The kicker is that a regular camera wouldn’t do, not for what Callanan had in mind; so he teamed up with the UK’s National Physical Laboratory, which is that country’s national measurement standards lab, to use their infinite focus 3D optical microscope. Callanan then captured some 4,000 exposures of each freaking coin, resulting in a series of 400 megapixel images that, blown up and hanging on a gallery wall, reveal details you’d never spot on the real deal. Every nick, scratch, dent, ding and discoloration are laid bare.
So far he’s captured cents, pesos and pence from Australia, Bulgaria, Chile, Croatia, Denmark, Iceland, Latvia, Lituania, Myanmar, Poland, Romania, Swaziland, Sweden, and the United Kingdom, not to mention the Euro; but by the project’s end, Callanan plans to have captured “the lowest denomination coin from each of the world’s 166 active currencies.”
Coins of the World Photographed Using Europe’s Best Microscope
Michael Zhang writes about the Fundamental Units over on Peta Pixel with lots of images.
Did you know that it costs the US Mint 2 cents to produce every 1 cent coin due to the cost of materials and production? Countries such as Canada have already done away with their lowest denomination coins due to their costs and lack of usefulness.
As these “worthless” coins cause debates in their governments about whether or not they should be abolished, photographer Martin John Callanan is on a mission to save them… not as a currency, but rather in photographs.
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Directory Of Fictitious Telephone Numbers – Impossible Transmissions
An aseptic space. One white table and on it a printed directory, accompanied by an apparently normal looking telephone. It would seem the right environment to make a call. And calls are, in fact, made. The phone operates automatically, dialling random numbers from the many listed in the phone book . The diffused audio allows visitors to listen to the classic dialling sounds, followed by a precise dead tone or a message saying, in varying languages, ‘the number you dialled does not exist’. The process repeats itself tirelessly; another number, another country, another language. A loop of sounds and dead time; a form of a dance, a ritual. A monologue or perhaps a soliloquy. No matter which of the many available numbers are dialled, it is certain that no calls will ever be answered because the list of numbers is officially exposed as The International Directory of Fictitious Telephone Numbers – an extensive list of numbers certified as non-existent and neatly divided into geographic areas of the world. The compilation of this phone book includes official requests from telecommunication regulators in different countries. The artwork, resulting from research by the British artist John Martin Callanan and presented first in Spain and then at the Whitechapel Gallery in London, is indefinitely offered as a resource for use in drama or film productions so that unsuspecting people aren’t disturbed by inquisitive viewers. Art in defence of privacy?
Data as Culture: Open Day 16 March
Your chance to get hold of issue #3 of Text Trends newspaper.
The Open Data Institute (ODI) and MzTEK invite you to the Data as Culture Open Day.
The Data as Culture collection is set in the offices of the ODI, and aims to bring tangible interventions into the
mass accretion of data around us. This is an opportunity to see the artworks in the collection and speak to the curators and some of the artists.
Informal presentations from 2.30pm – 4pm, refreshments provided.
Find out more about the artists and the collection visit: theodi.org/culture/collection
Data as Culture: Open Day
16 March 2013, 12pm – 6pm.
Open Data Institute, 3rd Floor, 65 Clifton Street, London, EC2A 4JE
Along Some Sympathetic Lines, Or Gallery, Berlin
23 February – 27 April 2013
Opening 7pm, 22 February 2013
Or Gallery, Oranienstr 37, Berlin 10999, Germany
Or Gallery is pleased to present Along Some Sympathetic Lines, an exhibition of artwork by London-based artist Martin John Callanan, and an archive project by curator Liz Bruchet. The exhibition considers the poetic possibilities of data and its documentation, and the tenuous process of making meaning.
Martin John Callanan is an artist researching an individual’s place within systems. Callanan generates and reworks photographs, letters and electronic data into evidence of exchanges – between the individual, the institution and the networks of power that intertwine them. The exhibition presents four of the artist’s series: The Fundamental Units, the result of amassing millions of pixels of data, to photographs, in microscopic detail far beyond the capacity of the human eye, the lowest monetary unit of each of the 166 active currencies of world, only to enlarge and print them to vast scale; Wars During My Lifetime, an evolving newspaper listing of every war fought during the course of the artist’s life; Grounds, an ongoing photographic archive which charts ‘important places’ in the world where security restrictions limit the image to the carpeted, tiled or concrete floors; and Letters 2004-2006, Callanan’s correspondence with various heads of states and religious leaders which implicate them in conversations that question their very rationale of their authority. These acts of excavating, accumulating and visualising data draw out the sympathetic aspects within documentation and in so doing, mark and disrupt the underlying power dynamics.
A second gallery features an archive project by London-based curator Liz Bruchet. The display of ephemera from the personal archive of the curator’s grandfather, a Canadian insurance salesman and aspiring radio presenter, takes its inspiration from a found audio recording – part monologue, part autobiography, and part radio show – made in 1974. Harnessing the impulses of the collector, archivist and biographer, the curator reasserts her role as custodian and caretaker to nurture narratives and give weight to the subjective remnants of one man’s life.
This exhibition is curated by Liz Bruchet.
The exhibition is possible with the generous support of Or Gallery, the National Physical Laboratory, and UCL European Institute.
With thanks to Galeria Horrach Moya, (Hiper)vincles, Whitechapel Gallery, Book Works, David Karl, and Pau Waelder.
