william gibson website

hi, have you seen: http://www.williamgibsonbooks.com/books/spook.asp

The Fractious Fractal Chronograph

Just wanting to muse about this fractal time notion, meander in a Burroughs-esque manner and see what comes out of it. I hope you'll join me as we might find ourselves unfolding something under the auspices of daydreaming.

Article about GB presentation in Santa Monica. http://www.opednews.com/articles/1/2012-Armegeddon-or-Quantu-by-Meryl-Ann-Butler-090228-921.html

Little dreamtime inhabitent: Who else lives in that space?

Fancy, what is the link to that site where you can align the future with the past?

Research Links

We can post websites that are general reference in this thread. I am finding a bunch of them as I am researching for my classes.

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http://www.aesthetics-online.org/

Intervention

I was thinking about the kind of project sometimes called an "intervention," which I understand to be a placing of an artwork (object, action, idea) in an already existing stream of activity. The existing stream could be political (like interrupting a city hall meeting for example), art-related (moving paintings around in the museum HEE HEE), public space-oriented etc. I'm giving examples that are just coming to mind and they are very obvious, but I wonder what an Inland Empire-specific intervention would be like.

I was thinking about this inSite project [www.insite05.org] that happened a few years ago in San Diego that was about mapping the liminal space of borders : "Operating through a unique collaborative structure that is based on the active participation of cultural and educational institutions in the US and Mexico, inSite is focused on promoting artistic investigation and activation of urban space." (from the website).

This is a huge scale project but since it's nature was institutional collaboration to explore a difficult idea/position in that region, I thought it was interesting for us to look at as a model, thinking all the time what how it might relate to our project/practice in MP and how it could manifest in the Inland Empire.

What borders/liminal spaces are there to explore here? What would an intervention look like here that involves collaboration and elasticizing the self-imposed borders/barriers of creative activity in this region?

Post-Studio Practice

Let's discuss and post links to information about PSP:

http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/yulelog/articles-published-in-focus-magazine-victoria-canada/about-2/why-is-this-blog-called-post-studio/ ; This guy's blog, first page, has a definition and a couple of historical antecedents (Hugo Ball) etc.

I believe we need to compile a kind of bibliography of all references and research that inspires or flows from our conversations; it can include books, magazines, media broadcasts, and websites, etc etc. I think it's important to our position as "researchers" and will help our discussions as they grow to make sense to others as we begin to include other practitioners.

If we can do this on the blog, we don't have to worry about saving emails or backtracking long after the fact to substantiate a finding. I feel this would be a really great use of the blog.

Paul Thek and the Artist's Co-Op

This is a 1970's collective that might be interesting for us to look at and discuss in terms of collaborative teams ...

1. http://www.fundaciotapies.com/site/spip.php?rubrique466
2. http://www02.zkm.de/thek/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=35&Itemid=48
3. http://findarticles.com/p/articles/mi_m1248/is_7_91/ai_104836773

Self Directed Teams References

I'm just going to post links to research I find on this topic here. Please feel free to add to it and perhaps we can have an ongoing discussion of how this information can apply to our project since most of the information is for business.

1. http://www.masternewmedia.org/news/2008/01/10/small_team_collaboration_seven_key.htm
2. http://www.bioteams.com/tags/collective%20leadership :
3. http://www.qualitydigest.com/nov95/html/self-dir.html : "There must be interdependence and joint responsibility for outputs if there is to be a self-directed work team."
4. http://www.organizedchange.com/selfdir.htm : Titled "Nailing Jelly to a Tree"
5. http://ezinearticles.com/?Difference-Between-Self-Managed-and-Self-Directed-Teams&id=1521183
6. http://www.emeraldinsight.com/Insight/viewContentItem.do;jsessionid=1768007123D073C077B6435B68521152?contentType=Article&contentId=881832 :"Building Empowered Culture"