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BIO
Patrick Lichty is a digital intermedia artist, writer, and independent curator of over 15 years whose work comments upon the impact of technology on society and how it shapes the perception of the world around us. He works in diverse technological media, including activism, printmaking, kinetics, video, generative music, and neon. He is Editor-in Chief of Intelligent Agent, an electronic arts/culture journal, part of the activist group The Yes Men, and operates IALA Gallery in Baton Rogue, Louisiana.
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MANIK MIGHT BE ABLE TO AUTONOMOUSLY EMERGE IRONIC CONCEPTUAL ART.
PATRICK
LICHTY,OCTOBER 2005
PATRICK
LICHTY,OCTOBER 2005
New Orleans
Hey,
Sorry to bulk mail (small numbers), but I've been getting a lot of
letters of concerns, and with helping on the phone, doing the work, and
running interference, I'm pressed to answer everything individually.
I'm OK, for those who didn't know, my wife and family are based in Baton
Rouge.
Our house is ok, we lost some 6-inch boughs,and we're pretty certain
that the house was not damaged.
Took 3 days for the electricity to be restored, and the cell phones are
spotty, still.
My wife, Leigh and our three cats are still there, and they're OK.
This is where it gets dodgy.
Gas is disrupted. There are 3-4 am gas station searches.
We have taken in several friends who are currently indefinitely
displaced. My cat is appreciative of the kids who play with her
endlessly.
I'm very worried about violence spreading across the area, and the
potential for devastation of the general economy of two of the poorest
states in the nation is very high. I'm waiting to see the result, but
we may have to sell if the area falls into depression.
New Orleans is screwed, though. I can't talk about it too much right
now. Let's leave it at that.
Your good wishes are appreciated, but I'm in good shape, and my wife is
in one piece.
We might have hard times ahead, but compared to the people starving in
New Orleans, we're golden.
Thanks again,
Patrick Lichty
Editor-In-Chief
Intelligent Agent Magazine
http://www.intelligentagent.com
1556 Clough Street, #28
Bowling Green, OH 43402
225 288 5813
voyd@voyd.com
"It is better to die on your feet
than to live on your knees.
Sorry to bulk mail (small numbers), but I've been getting a lot of
letters of concerns, and with helping on the phone, doing the work, and
running interference, I'm pressed to answer everything individually.
I'm OK, for those who didn't know, my wife and family are based in Baton
Rouge.
Our house is ok, we lost some 6-inch boughs,and we're pretty certain
that the house was not damaged.
Took 3 days for the electricity to be restored, and the cell phones are
spotty, still.
My wife, Leigh and our three cats are still there, and they're OK.
This is where it gets dodgy.
Gas is disrupted. There are 3-4 am gas station searches.
We have taken in several friends who are currently indefinitely
displaced. My cat is appreciative of the kids who play with her
endlessly.
I'm very worried about violence spreading across the area, and the
potential for devastation of the general economy of two of the poorest
states in the nation is very high. I'm waiting to see the result, but
we may have to sell if the area falls into depression.
New Orleans is screwed, though. I can't talk about it too much right
now. Let's leave it at that.
Your good wishes are appreciated, but I'm in good shape, and my wife is
in one piece.
We might have hard times ahead, but compared to the people starving in
New Orleans, we're golden.
Thanks again,
Patrick Lichty
Editor-In-Chief
Intelligent Agent Magazine
http://www.intelligentagent.com
1556 Clough Street, #28
Bowling Green, OH 43402
225 288 5813
voyd@voyd.com
"It is better to die on your feet
than to live on your knees.
Re: microwave weapon tests revealed
no, no, no!
I have it!
Walk down the road with fluorescent tubes like a host of mad jedi.
When they turn on the juice, it'd freak the marines out for sure.
I have it!
Walk down the road with fluorescent tubes like a host of mad jedi.
When they turn on the juice, it'd freak the marines out for sure.
Re: microwave weapon tests revealed
probably eminent domain.
What I'm waiting for is someone with a generator, an old Amana Radarange, a vacuum cleaner hose, a pringle's can, and some tinfoil to be standing in the riot crowd, aiming at the operators.
By the way, mirrors work pretty well, too.
---- ryan griffis <grifray@yahoo.com> wrote:
>
> so, does this mean the 95-gigahertz band is unlicensed?
>
> Begin forwarded message:
>
> >
> > http://www.newscientist.com/article.ns?id=mg18725095.600
> >
> > New Scientist
> > 23 July 2005
> >
> >
> > Details of US microwave-weapon tests revealed
> >
> > VOLUNTEERS taking part in tests of the Pentagon's "less-lethal"
> > microwave weapon were banned from wearing glasses or contact lenses
> > due to safety fears. The precautions raise concerns about how safe
> > the Active Denial System (ADS) weapon would be if used in real
> > crowd-control situations.
> >
> > The ADS fires a 95-gigahertz microwave beam, which is supposed to
> > heat skin and to cause pain but no physical damage (New Scientist, 27
> > October 2001, p 26). Little information about its effects has been
> > released, but details of tests in 2003 and 2004 were revealed after
> > Edward Hammond, director of the US Sunshine Project - an organisation
> > campaigning against the use of biological and non-lethal weapons -
> > requested them under the Freedom of Information Act.
> >
> > The tests were carried out at Kirtland Air Force Base in Albuquerque,
> > New Mexico. Two experiments tested pain tolerance levels, while in a
> > third, a "limited military utility assessment", volunteers played the
> > part of rioters or intruders and the ADS was used to drive them away.
> >
> > The experimenters banned glasses and contact lenses to prevent
> > possible eye damage to the subjects, and in the second and third
> > tests removed any metallic objects such as coins and keys to stop hot
> > spots being created on the skin. They also checked the volunteers'
> > clothes for certain seams, buttons and zips which might also cause
> > hot spots.
> >
> > The ADS weapon's beam causes pain within 2 to 3 seconds and it
> > becomes intolerable after less than 5 seconds. People's reflex
> > responses to the pain is expected to force them to move out of the
> > beam before their skin can be burnt.
> >
> > But Neil Davison, co-ordinator of the non-lethal weapons research
> > project at the University of Bradford in the UK, says controlling the
> > amount of radiation received may not be that simple. "How do you
> > ensure that the dose doesn't cross the threshold for permanent
> > damage?" he asks. "What happens if someone in a crowd is unable, for
> > whatever reason, to move away from the beam? Does the weapon cut out
> > to prevent overexposure?"
> >
> > During the experiments, people playing rioters put up their hands
> > when hit and were given a 15-second cooling-down period before being
> > targeted again. One person suffered a burn in a previous test when
> > the beam was accidentally used on the wrong power setting.
> >
> > A vehicle-mounted version of ADS called Sheriff could be in service
> > in Iraq in 2006 according to the Department of Defense, and it is
> > also being evaluated by the US Department of Energy for use in
> > defending nuclear facilities. The US marines and police are both
> > working on portable versions, and the US air force is building a
> > system for controlling riots from the air.
> >
> > From issue 2509 of New Scientist magazine, 23 July 2005, page 26
>
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What I'm waiting for is someone with a generator, an old Amana Radarange, a vacuum cleaner hose, a pringle's can, and some tinfoil to be standing in the riot crowd, aiming at the operators.
By the way, mirrors work pretty well, too.
---- ryan griffis <grifray@yahoo.com> wrote:
>
> so, does this mean the 95-gigahertz band is unlicensed?
>
> Begin forwarded message:
>
> >
> > http://www.newscientist.com/article.ns?id=mg18725095.600
> >
> > New Scientist
> > 23 July 2005
> >
> >
> > Details of US microwave-weapon tests revealed
> >
> > VOLUNTEERS taking part in tests of the Pentagon's "less-lethal"
> > microwave weapon were banned from wearing glasses or contact lenses
> > due to safety fears. The precautions raise concerns about how safe
> > the Active Denial System (ADS) weapon would be if used in real
> > crowd-control situations.
> >
> > The ADS fires a 95-gigahertz microwave beam, which is supposed to
> > heat skin and to cause pain but no physical damage (New Scientist, 27
> > October 2001, p 26). Little information about its effects has been
> > released, but details of tests in 2003 and 2004 were revealed after
> > Edward Hammond, director of the US Sunshine Project - an organisation
> > campaigning against the use of biological and non-lethal weapons -
> > requested them under the Freedom of Information Act.
> >
> > The tests were carried out at Kirtland Air Force Base in Albuquerque,
> > New Mexico. Two experiments tested pain tolerance levels, while in a
> > third, a "limited military utility assessment", volunteers played the
> > part of rioters or intruders and the ADS was used to drive them away.
> >
> > The experimenters banned glasses and contact lenses to prevent
> > possible eye damage to the subjects, and in the second and third
> > tests removed any metallic objects such as coins and keys to stop hot
> > spots being created on the skin. They also checked the volunteers'
> > clothes for certain seams, buttons and zips which might also cause
> > hot spots.
> >
> > The ADS weapon's beam causes pain within 2 to 3 seconds and it
> > becomes intolerable after less than 5 seconds. People's reflex
> > responses to the pain is expected to force them to move out of the
> > beam before their skin can be burnt.
> >
> > But Neil Davison, co-ordinator of the non-lethal weapons research
> > project at the University of Bradford in the UK, says controlling the
> > amount of radiation received may not be that simple. "How do you
> > ensure that the dose doesn't cross the threshold for permanent
> > damage?" he asks. "What happens if someone in a crowd is unable, for
> > whatever reason, to move away from the beam? Does the weapon cut out
> > to prevent overexposure?"
> >
> > During the experiments, people playing rioters put up their hands
> > when hit and were given a 15-second cooling-down period before being
> > targeted again. One person suffered a burn in a previous test when
> > the beam was accidentally used on the wrong power setting.
> >
> > A vehicle-mounted version of ADS called Sheriff could be in service
> > in Iraq in 2006 according to the Department of Defense, and it is
> > also being evaluated by the US Department of Energy for use in
> > defending nuclear facilities. The US marines and police are both
> > working on portable versions, and the US air force is building a
> > system for controlling riots from the air.
> >
> > From issue 2509 of New Scientist magazine, 23 July 2005, page 26
>
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> Subscribers to Rhizome are subject to the terms set out in the
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