Aug 29, 2010
From October 21st to 26th, Graz’s Elevate Festival once again stimulates new ways of thinking and listening through an extraordinary combination of electronic music, art and political discourse. Elevate highlights the role and importance of social movements as well as progressive initiatives in civil society and the importance of generating positive change in our society as a whole. At the same time, Elevate presents many live acts that offer fascinating odysseys into innovative worlds of sound far off the beaten path.
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Jul 28, 2010
By Eliot Van Buskirk
In a never-ending race to react to minute fluctuations in stock prices faster than anyone else in the world, financial firms have gone to extraordinary lengths to build the fastest possible networks, processors and software.
They measure their success by the nanosecond, which is the amount of time it takes light to travel a scant eight inches through a fiber-optic cable. While that might seem absurd to those of us still stuck on sluggish and overpriced consumer net connections, their obsession will, one day, likely become our gain.
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May 3, 2010
The shoe company ‘Palladium’ has released a very nice documentary that covers some of the pirate radio activities going on in London.
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Mar 9, 2010
‘We don’t want anybody just turning a radio telescope on the sky and sending their own messages to the source.’
by Jon Ronson
If we are ever contacted by aliens, the man I’m having lunch with will be one of the first humans to know. His name is Paul Davies and he’s chair of the Seti (Search For Extraterrestrial Intelligence) Post-Detection Task Group. They’re a group of the world’s most eminent scientists and will be, come the big day, the planet’s alien welcome committee. His is an awesome responsibility, and one he doesn’t take lightly.
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Mar 8, 2010
Micah Frank, born 1977 in Columbia, Missouri, is a New York City based composer, sound designer and live performer developed Tectonic system to create realtime synthesis based on data from seismic activity.
Tectonic is a sound sculpture created in real time by earthquakes as they occur across the globe. A tightly integrated system between Max/MSP, Google Earth and Ableton Live processes a stream of real-time data that is translated into synthesis and sample playback parameters.
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Mar 3, 2010
Photo: Michael McConnell, then-Director of National Intelligence, watches on in 2008 as President Bush announced the Protect America Act. White House file photo.
The biggest threat to the open internet is not Chinese government hackers or greedy anti-net-neutrality ISPs, it’s Michael McConnell, the former director of national intelligence.
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Feb 9, 2010
How the NSA Deal Could Kill Google
The company once known for its “don’t be evil” motto is now in bed with the spy agency known for the mass surveillance of American citizens.
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Oct 29, 2009
The EU is funding ambitious programmes to monitor human behaviour in the fight against crime and terrorism. Some people are afraid this will turn us all into suspects.
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Oct 22, 2009
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Source: elevate.at
Sep 29, 2009
‘The partners do not precede their relating: all that is, is the fruit of becoming with.’
-Donna Haraway, When Species Meet
Mixed Relations is a collaboration between Elle Mehrmand and Micha Cárdenas consisting of a series of performances and workshops that explore the relations between bodies and technology within mixed realities. The performances will focus on using the body as an instrument and as a site of exploration for performance in mixed realities. The goal is to look at bodies in relation to each other in these realities, as well as in relation to their instruments and to the technologies which extend and multiply them, sonically, visually and physically.
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