...just notes on possible activities while here :)
here the info about:
http://www.spacehijackers.co.uk/
Saul Albert was my contact with them:
some essays and reveiws...interviews
http://twenteenthcentury.com/saul/
Saul Albert's Profile
http://www.twenteenthcentury.com/cv.php?mem_id=1
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MEET:
- Golan Levin
- Alex Galloway
- survaillance camera players
GO-TO:
ATTEND:
- 24thNov Cathy Weis performance
- 04thDec dorkbot NYC
TECH
- Hardware :
- mess around with SGI - O2 and try to learn something about this machines and possibly make TheThingO2 to run with some free or abandondware applications, as aquiring knowledge from computer culture/history is something I haven't done for a while ... so I will start know.computers.SGI
- _______get stuff from MaterialForTheArts on Tuesday 14th (9:30)
- analogue camera 4 survaillance (any would do)
- any PPC hardware 2 resurect (with RAM) old Umax PPC
- PC hardware parts : audio cards for old Dell PCs
- BUY myself a Laptop (test it and if something is unsuported return/ try another one...):
- try support for wirelles network on different OSes (Lin/Win/BeOS)
- try support for firewire on different OSes (Lin/Win/BeOS)
- ...
- BeOS related :
- install BeOS x86 machine and test a few softwares that can be of benefit for TheTHING (media juxebox) and maybe play around with DanielFischer's survaillance entertainment software/setup
- try to set-up BeOS on PPC machine running Frederico's fm.thing.net/radiopolyphony in MacOS environment under BeOS and save a x86 machine from being used just as encoder ... probe.artwork.radiopolyphony
- try to get aged UMAX PPC working (currently unused as it also misses RAM) with BeOS for playing around
- Content Managment related :
- install TWiki on sf.net
- organise content and move it to sf.net
- try sindication with other TWiki/Wiki nodes
... AMBITIOUS isn't it :)
Presentations:
- ________@TheTHING on Friday 15th
- @TheThing party maybe atound 20th
- @TheRockaffeller sometimes in the late Nov. (Ricardo's call)
- @TheUniversity of Maine (RaphaelDiLuzio)
- @CalArts (CarolHobson's call)
Networking/(art)managment/fun(d)raising...
- NyTheTHING.Sustainability
- networking
- possible partners in US:
- Rhizome? | Location1
- universities (UniMaine?)
- fundraising
- TMA
- Rockaffeller's
- German Federal Foundation for Arts (?Culture)
- Goethe Institutes
- Soros (SEE media-labs/service-providers 2 US media-labs/service-providers)
- investigate global possibilities for future large-scale grants like Unesco
- Daniel Langlois ?