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Archive for September, 2005

Strategic Failure: an artist’s talk

Friday, September 16th, 2005

The Topological Media Lab, Mobile Digital Commons Network and Interstices present: Strategic Failure an artist’s talk by Nola Farman Wednesday, Sept. 21, 2005 @ 7:30 @ Topological Media Lab [TML] : EV.11-435 : 1515 St. Catherine W. : Engineering, Computer Science and Visual Arts Complex The idea of strategic failure pinpoints the instability of communication. [...]

Some Questions Answered by a Guy who Makes Robots.

Thursday, September 15th, 2005

I met this funny, soft-spoken gentleman at a sushi party being thrown by his roomates and found out, in my nosy way, that he’s a PhD in robotics. He sweetly agreed to answer some questions for me, so I emailed him a small stack of queries to get started. Here they are, and here are [...]

Workin’ It: towards a theory of photographed performance.

Wednesday, September 14th, 2005

By Risa Dickens. I have had the strange experience a few times this year of modeling for photographs- most recently for the cover of the brand new fashion journal Worn, which we’ll be launching on Monday Oct.3 at the Green Room in Montreal, and in 16 stores across Quebec, Ontario and New York. I have [...]

Open Source-ing the Oxford English Dictionary

Wednesday, September 14th, 2005

“The big dictionary’s making began with the speech (made by Richard Chenevix Trench) at the London Library, on Guy Fawkes Day, 1857… The new venture that Tench seemed now to be proposing would demonstrate not merely meaning but the history of meaning, the life story of each word. And that would mean the reading of [...]

Speaking about Open at FACIL.

Tuesday, September 13th, 2005

This month, FACIL presents: Robin Millette with a review of the free software community in Quebec. This tour will describe about sixty organizations, research centers, newspapers and other groups dealing with free software. This represents an ideal opportunity to discover the extent of this vast community. This part will be in French but questions and [...]

THE UPGRADE! event plays host for a cause.

Tuesday, September 13th, 2005

The Upgrade! Montréal, Artivistic & [ctrl] collective présentent: An evening of music, performance and art to support the Critical Art Ensemble Legal Defense Fund. (Why do they need support? What happened?) JEUDI, le 22 septembre, 2005 / THURSDAY, the 22nd of September, 2005 La Société des arts et technologiques (SAT) – 1195 St. Laurent Featuring: [...]










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