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Updated at 9:02 p.m. The Federal Trade Commission filed a complaint today charging T-Mobile with making hundreds of millions of dollars by placing dubious charges on its customers' phone bills. According to the FTC press release, T-Mobile used a practice known as "cramming" to charge customers for fake subscriptions to content such as flirting tips or celebrity gossip. The company then pocketed up to 40 percent of the subscription amount. The FTC claims that customers were charged for these services without their consent, often not receiving full refunds after they detected the scam. T-Mobile Chief Executive John Legere called the FTC's complaint "unfounded and without merit," according to a Seattle Times report. — E.W.
Dear Parent, Your child was left behind
Late this summer, thousands of parents across the state will get a letter from their school districts informing them that their child's school is failing to meet No Child Left Behind standards. These parents have two options: They can enroll their kids in tutoring programs or send them to better-performing schools. Either way, the state foots the bill. Unfortunately, there aren't always better-performing schools nearby. That's one reason Randy Dorn, Washington's Superintendent of Public Instruction, is asking the US Department of Education to exempt Washington school districts from its letter-writing campaign.
"I've been an opponent of No Child Left Behind for many years now," Dorn said in a statement. "It's only hurting our students and our schools." In April, Washington became the first state to lose its No Child Left Behind waiver — along with $40 million in education funding — after state legislators failed to make student performance part of teacher evaluations. — M.L.
Pot and programmers unite
2:44 p.m. Magical Butter hosted the first-ever Cannabis Tech Meetup last night, in part to show nerds and pot-enthusiasts how they can get high with a little help from … an appliance? That's right. Garyn Angel, founder and CEO of the Seattle-based company, has created a machine that mimics a large coffee pot (while offering a different kind of fix), infusing fats, oils and butters with marijuana magic, or other botanical extractions. The company's warehouse Magical Butter Studios is striving to be the "epicenter for the cannabis community" Jeremy Cooper, chef and director of Magical Butter's West Coast operations, told GeekWire.
What will Magic Butter serve up next, other than future networking events and a food truck offering TCH in your PB&J? A new bluetooth-enabled model of the Magic Butter machine, allowing users to upload and download their favorite edible recipes. — E.W.
What's worse . . . ?
A Seattle Weekly report on Monday questioned whether the loss of the Sonics may put the brakes on the region's basketball fame. In the past decade, 11 first-round NBA draft picks came out of Seattle. These homegrown hoopsters all grew up during the Sonic's golden age, when Shawn Kemp and Gary Payton ruled the court. Without a hometown NBA team, will Seattle (gasp) lose interest in basketball and let the legacy die? Or should we be more worried about a recent Center on Budget and Policy Priorities report, which found that since 2008 Washington owned the second-highest average tuition increase for public, four-year colleges in the country. Hmmm. Fewer college grads vs. fewer NBA first-round draft picks. Tough choice. — E.W.
New transportation leader for city
Mayor Ed Murray will name a director with "progressive" credentials to head the Seattle Department of Transportation, according to Publicola. The report says Murray's pick is a former Chicago deputy director of transportation, Scott Kubly. The Chicago tie could be significant, because the Windy City has a reputation for actually carrying out bike and transit improvements. And its 50-mile system of bike lanes protected from traffic pretty much puts Seattle to total shame. With Kubly coming here, could bike riders also dare dream that the city might actually complete the Burke-Gilman missing link segment through Ballard? So far, SDOT'S more visible accomplishments on that score include posting a blog update on the project every year or so. Yes, we know the city has faced opposition from a couple of businesses, but could a little Chicago-style cracking of the whip be in order? — J.C.
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Adam bore the brunt of the criticism when the teams clashed in Cardiff last October as Wales came from behind to win 2-1.
Gareth Bale won and subsequently scored from a penalty to level the match, and the Wales winger then gave Adam the slip to lash home a spectacular winner.
"It's a different game and a different challenge for us, we are ready and hope we can get three points," Adam said.
"I thought we were OK until a certain stage in the game in Wales. We got a disallowed goal that should have been a goal and that changes the game. That was hard for us to take.
"They got a penalty that probably was a penalty and he (Bale) had a wonder strike that went into the top corner, that's what happens."
And Adam believes Scotland are well prepared for the match as they play their first competitive fixture under new boss Gordon Strachan.
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NY1's weekly segment "Your Weekend Starts Now" shows entertaining picks for great things to do this weekend all around the city. NY1's Arts reporter Stephanie Simon filed the following report.
Beth Carney Quilts In ChelseaThe ART Quilt Gallery133 West 25th Streetwww.cityquilter.comThe ART Quilt Gallery in Chelsea Here on west 25th street see quilts as abstract art
"This particular artist, Beth Carney, she hand-dyes all of her fabrics. And it might be really hard to see without getting up close, but she does incredible stitching that just gives these pieces so much texture," says Cathy Izzo of Art Quilt Gallery.
The gallery is connected to The City Quilter shop, where people can pick up everything needed to quilt and even take lessons. The entire space was recently featured in the PBS series "New York Original."
Faith Ringgold Quilts In Chelseawww.acagalleries.com For more quilt work in Chelsea, head to the ACA Gallery for "Faith Ringgold's America: Early Works And Story Quilts." The exhibit, which is up through April 27, showcases the Harlem native's view on racism and gender inequality on quilts. "The Power Of Words" In Times Squarewww.timessquarenyc.orgWith the world's attention turned to the health of Nelson Mandela, let's not forget to celebrate the former South African president's upcoming 95th birthday with new video art in Times Square. "The Power Of Words" is on view every night this month from 11:57 p.m. to midnight.
Sargent Watercolors At Brooklyn Museumwww.brooklynmuseum.orgJohn Singer Sargent is know as one of the greatest portrait painters of all time, but his watercolors have not been fully explored until now. A new exhibit of the watercolors at the Brooklyn Museum is up until July 28. Admission is $12 for adults and $8 for students and seniors.
Performances By Jazz Bassist Charnett Moffettwww.smallsjazzclub.comBringing new meaning to the term "running the bases," bass player Charnett Moffett is really celebrating Jazz Appreciation Month. He is playing eight venues to celebrate the release of his new album "The Bridge," including Smalls Jazz Club on Monday night. Tickets are $20. Visit motema.com for the full performance schedule.
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Wavelength: "Japanese Noise: A Reminder" by C. Spencer Yeh
This post is part of a new monthly series of guest curated mixes for the Rhizome blog, entitled Wavelength.
Compiled Summer 2012 by C. Spencer Yeh
Back when I was an undergraduate and involved with college radio, we would hold educational meetings covering a wide variety of music by genre, artist, and geography. I was very much in thrall of the Japanese musical underground at the time, so I developed a presentation and this was the handout I made as an accompaniment. [See above.]
I've noticed the term 'noise' thrown around quite a bit lately, to encompass particular variations of form, ideology, and even affect, within organized sound culture. I generally have no qualms with what 'noise' can now mean and manifest. With that said, Japanese noise is my preeminent definition of 'noise'–my first and most formative experience. The birth and development of Japanese noise is singular, defined by its relation to time and place, to culture and aesthetic. Japanese noise taught me about freedom, fetish, listening, autodidactism, self-mythology, self-publishing, senzuri.
The selections for this mix date from the mid-'80s to the early '00s, are edited for length, and intentionally eschew the array of strategies in the scene (often deployed under the same project name) to focus on NOISE. Big parties can be a blast, but once in a while, a long visit with an old friend is incredibly fulfilling and necessary.
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01. Violent Onsen Geisha 'Heavy Introduction'
02. Government Alpha 'Anonym Slander'
03. The Gerogerigegege 'Nothing to Hear, Nothing to... 1985'
04. K2 'We Destroyed Barcelona Again'
05. Aube 'Aquatremble 2'
06. Merzbow 'Chant 2 (Part 1)'
07. Hedlah 'Proud Flesh'
08. Solmania 'Panic Bend Rock'
09. MSBR 'Psychic Blue'
10. Incapacitants 'Necrosis'
11. Masonna 'Spectrum Ripper (Part XVII/Part XII)'
12. Hanatarash 'We Are 0:00'
13. Killer Bug 'One-Eyed Nudist'
14. Monde Bruits 'Continuum'
15. Hijokaidan 'What A Nuisance!'
16. Masomania 'Burn Me Fast'
17. C.C.C.C. 'Loud Sounds Dopa (Part II)'
18. Gomikawa Fumio 'Satan's Tail, Santa's Head'
19. Niku-Zidousha 'Untitled'
20. Flying Testicle 'Testicle Rider'
21. Pain Jerk 'Crack n' Roll'
22. Kazumoto Endo 'Itabashi Girl'
C. Spencer Yeh is an artist and musician in Brooklyn, New York. He will perform at the New Museum on June 22nd with Graham Lambkin.
Introducing Wavelength
Wavelength is a new series for Rhizome's blog that will examine sound art and music, with some attention towards the technologies that enable them. One significant aspect of Wavelength will be thematic guest curated mixes, which will appear on the blog monthly.
Artist Profile: Jacqueline Kiyomi Gordon
Our Best Machines are Made of Sunshine, 2009.
The notion of "feedback" is an important element for your sonic sculptures, where the viewer/listener is pulled into and directed by the work. As you stated in our visit, "What you hear affects how you move and how you move affects how you hear." Your work SA-3, which you developed as a MFA student at Stanford, is a prime example of this technique. Could you discuss this piece and your research going into the project?
Well, for that piece it really started with noticing the moment in which I would become conscious of a localized sound, and how that awareness would pull me into or out of a particular relationship to the space. You could say an in-body/out-of-body type mediation. Through research in sound localization I learned of various directional speaker technologies and I combined that with an ongoing interest in how and why speaker systems are installed and controlled.
I was already looking into military projects involving sound as well as new developments in sound system technology. Talking with some folks at Meyer Sound in Berkeley, I was particularly interested in their Constellation system and their long-range speakers while I was also learning about spatial sound at Stanford's CCRMA (Center for Computer Music and Research in Acoustics). I came across the "audio spotlight" by Holosonics and the LRAD speakers at the time made by American Technologies. These both use ultra sonic transducers that heterodyne into an audible frequency controlling the localization of the sound through the inherent directionality of ultrasonic waves. The police and military are using the LRAD as hailing devices and have occasionally used them for crowd dispersal, a technique which is super dangerous because the key component of these speakers is that the user can control them without affecting their own ears. The person in control of the sound can inhabit the same space with those that it affects, while remaining immune to its force. Never before has this been the case. There's a frightening disjunction in that control loop. So I was doing this research and I found a few really cheap small ultrasonic speakers on EBay and combined them into a hanging speaker array loosely based off of one of the Meyer Sound systems. I have always been attracted to the hanging speaker arrays and wanted to combine the ultrasonic speaker technology with the aesthetics of the stadium speakers to address the ways these more known systems control our bodily relationship to sound. In a theater or performance setting there's a loop between the performer, the sound engineer, the speaker system and the audience that returns back to the performer. With the LRAD system there's a different loop where the person controlling the sound (performer and the sound engineer) do not experience the sound, yet they could see their "audience."
Going back to SA-3, I wanted to play between those experiences by having the speakers of SA-3 play the sounds that you as a viewer make in the gallery. A mirror of sorts where you control what the sound is but how you chose to place yourself inline with the directionality of the speakers decides how you experience that sound in space. The audience is the performer. And I guess, as the designer of this system, I am the sound engineer.
Artist Profile: Michael Guidetti
Michael Guidetti, Bell, Book, and Candle, 2010
You originally studied painting as an undergraduate. How did this spark or inform your interest in perspective? How and when did you begin to investigate 3D digital imaging software (like Maya) and its use of perspective?
When studying painting I became interested in the viewer's physical relationship to the image and that naturally led into thinking about perspective. Since then, a lot of my paintings have been composed from a one-point perspective with the idea that the scene is drawn from the perspective of the viewer as they are standing in front of it. This began to dovetail with my longstanding interests in computer graphics and virtual environments, which due to their dependence on the user's subjective viewpoint, most often use this same visual perspective. With an image drawn from this type of perspective, one may feel as if they are no longer looking at an objective depiction of a space, but are looking into or existing inside it.
I was also interested in the relationship between abstract and representational imagery in painting, a pretty common painting concern. I was particularly curious about how the context of a semi-representational setting could influence the reading of an abstract shape. My early paintings were trying to smash these two types of representation together. I was then intrigued by the possibility of expanding this idea further into the work's form and I began layering projected 3D computer graphics on top of the mixed-media paintings I was doing.
A few of your pieces, such as Untitled (Standards) (2009), Bounce Room 1 (2009), and Bounce Room 2 (2009), depict standard figures and shapes used in digital animation, such as balls and the Utah teapot. Why are these ubiquitous and recognizable figures featured so prominently in your work?
Untitled (Standards) may be the most intentional in acknowledging these standard objects' historical roles like you mention. The objects in the piece are shown as some type of archetypical virtual object reverently being preserved in a timeless environment. Most of the models on the pedestals in that piece are rendered with the actual data from Stanford where they were originally digitally scanned (all but the teapot). It's interesting to think of these early models as an origin story for computer graphics and the starting point for a new kind of visual experience. When a new 3D graphics technology is developed, out of some sense of lineage or tribute, the creators make sure that rendering a teapot or a clay bunny work nicely. I find something funny and compelling about that.
On the other hand, Bounce Room 1 and Bounce Room 2 are using that aesthetic for more economical reasons. I think both of these works are attempting to embody something basic about their form in order to make the co-operative relationship between the two separate elements as evident as possible; a one-point perspective painting with a projected digital image overlaid. The digital projection represented as three red, green, and blue spherical lights; and the painted environment as five flat planes receding in perspective. That's about as far as I could boil them down to. Separately they are elementary and flat, but when they come together, the simulated light and physics of the spheres bouncing around in the space becomes illusionistic. Bounce Room 2 complicates things a little further by adding the wood structure and lights....
Artist Profile: Joe Winter
The Stars Below, 2011. Mixed media installation
One thing I like about your work is the fact that you seem to operate like a hacker, taking things apart, finding new ways to misuse technology. But throughout your approach appears to be deliberately poetic, wherein you bring out these singular moments of beauty. For example, when you first started working on your scanner films during a residency at the MacDowell Colony, you mentioned that you began by simply placing a scanner outside of your cabin at night. The footage became a kind of accidental biological study, as the scanner intrigued light-seeking moths and other bugs, resulting in a time-lapsed nighttime sample of the various critters in the forest. I'm wondering if you can comment on how you "hack" technology in your work, and what you hope to achieve in that process. Are you guided by a kind of poetic hacking? How so?
In most of my works that involve a technological device (printer, scanner, photocopier, etc.) the technology itself is actually fairly un-altered. I tend to adjust the context in which the object is placed, or introduce variables or conditions that exist outside what I might call the area of expertise of the device. To use your example of the scanner: whether I'm scanning documents or moths in the woods, the scanner is still executing its function in exactly the same way; I've simply adjusted the expected input. I'm interested in looking at a given system and seeing what else it has the potential to speak about aside from its narrow band of acceptable usage, and how its native landscape (office, classroom, computer lab) might be related to other sorts of spaces, systems, or sets of ideas.
Since you brought up the topic of systems, I'm wondering if you could discuss that further. How do you approach the notion of "system" in your work? How do you reveal the presence of these systems, is it simply an act of mimesis or a disturbance or something else?
At different moments, I might describe my work in terms of systems, structures, frameworks, rules, and/or devices. I think there are a few things at play for me on that page of the thesaurus. The first is that I am always looking for various sorts of engines to move a project forward. Just like a physical device I take up may immediately describe a set of material and procedural constraints, I'll often involve a secondary framework--south polar exploration, the history of astronomy--that will both move a material system beyond itself and help to select supporting materials, an installation's logic, etc. The second is developing a relationship between the system immediately at work and the secondary framework through a third, usually less visible system. To use my recent piece, The Stars Below, as an example: I first developed the material process. A series of solenoid valves release drips of water onto upright sticks of chalk, slowly eroding them. The secondary framework--an installation space suggesting something between an office and a classroom--arises from the materials involved (what is the domain of a stick of chalk? Where does this drip of water originate?) and provides a context in which to situate the erosive activity. Between these two things is a conception of Deep Time, of which slate and chalk are both products, which complicates the scales of time at play within institutional spaces. So, the work tries to establish a series of interrelations between a set of materials, landscapes, and ideas. In short, a system. Whether or not the audience is able to unravel all of that immediately is not as important to me as their awareness that there is a sense of order, an underlying logic at work.
Lucy Raven: Hollywood Chop Riding
United States of America
For her solo presentation at YBCA, Raven stages a new anaglyph 3D video installation entitled Curtains (2014). The project emerges out of the artist's ongoing research into the global network of post-production facilities that create the visual effects for Hollywood's blockbuster films. Post-production is meticulous and labor intensive, involving hours of frame-by-frame detailing. Film studios seek the least expensive labor force worldwide to complete their work, outsourcing labor to studios that span Bombay, Beijing, Toronto, London, and Vancouver. Raven visited and documented some of these spaces through sound and image. The result is Curtains, a 3D video that creates a portrait of an otherwise invisible global assembly line, providing a glimpse into the quiet reality and human hands that lie behind the spectacle of fantastic computer-generated simulations found in today's mainstream films.
A series of screenprints from Raven's ongoing RPx project are also featured in the exhibition, as well as a new lenticular print. RPx emerged from research undertaken during a 2011 residency at the Hammer Museum in Los Angeles, where Raven unearthed and archived motion picture test patterns used by projectionists to calibrate the quality of film projection. The "RP" in Raven's project stands for "recommended practices," a directive set by the standards-developing committee in Hollywood, the Society of Motion Pictures, and Television Engineers (SMPTE) to ensure continuity across viewing experiences. The test patterns featured in the RPx prints are images meant for machines and the technicians who maneuver them, a relic and a precursor to the standards that surround our current high definition images. Both RPx and Curtains point towards the careful engineering involved in the fabrication of illusion, including the construction of human vision within that process.
About the Series
Control: Technology in Culture is a new series of exhibitions in the YBCA Upstairs Galleries showcasing work by emerging and mid-career artists who examine the social, cultural, and experiential implications of technology. The exhibitions in this series seek to prompt timely questions about the profound and far-reaching influence of technology in our daily lives by focusing on artists whose work spans a multitude of disciplines and relates to a diverse set of issues, including architecture, acoustics, psychology, labor, consumerism, the environment, and the military.
The term "control" refers to philosopher Gilles Deleuze's theory that, as a result of the ever-increasing role of information technology, Michel Foucault's "disciplinary society" of the 20th century has given way to a "control society" in the 21st century. In contrast to discipline, which molds the individual through confinement in factories, prisons, and schools, control is diffuse, adaptable, and ubiquitous, modulating rather than molding the individual.
Control: Technology in Culture is curated by Ceci Moss, Assistant Curator of Visual Arts.
Jacqueline Kiyomi Gordon: It Only Happens All of the Time
United States of America
Commissioned by YBCA, Gordon's new installation—part of her solo exhibition It Only Happens All of the Time—is an immersive sonic experience that emphasizes the primacy of the embodied experience; one that encourages the visitor to navigate the space through a mode of listening that is both felt and heard. Gordon explores sound's ability to establish different levels of intimacy, and the exhibition's title points towards the ubiquitous presence of sound in that process, whether it exists at the periphery or center of our awareness. The installation's sound-absorbing walls reference the design of anechoic chambers found in military and scientific testing facilities, which insulate and absorb sound reflections. In contrast to the walls of the installation, which gestures towards a calculated experience, the sculpture Love Seat situated within this contained environment suggests another, more emancipated, arrangement. Surrounded by a multichannel speaker system distributed throughout the gallery, Love Seat encourages visitors to sit and share in a listening experience with others, while maintaining a physical separation. Fostering an exchange between visitors that wavers between proximity and distance, Love Seat parallels how we listen together.
Gordon's other works for the exhibition echo a similar concept—sound as experienced within the body becomes a way to feel with others, and to experience the mechanisms of built space through non-visual means. Her film Everyone Will Be Here Now But Me documents a site-specific sound environment created within the empty offices of the Los Angeles Food Center. It follows visitors as they explore sound installations distributed throughout the building, with the option to listen through binaural microphones that captured the 3D stereo sound of the space. The suspended figures in Gordon's new series of drawings and watercolors Filter Resonance B more subtly signal the body; wire-like lines protrude and drift through these organ-like forms, a reference to the potential for connectivity. Gordon imagines that the drawings represent actual filters, which isolate information, and their presentation is meant to evoke the interfaces of audio filters in music software, which allow the user to directly regulate reverb, equalization, and so on by manipulating graphic elements. Much like the show itself, these strange configurations invite reflection on the many ways the body is instrumentalized through technology.
About Control: Technology in Culture
Control: Technology in Culture, curated by Ceci Moss, Assistant Curator of Visual Arts, is YBCA's new series of exhibitions showcasing work by emerging and mid-career artists who examine the social, cultural, and experiential implications of technology. The series seeks to prompt timely questions about the profound and far-reaching influence of technology in our daily lives by focusing on artists whose work spans a multitude of disciplines and relates to a diverse set of issues, including architecture, acoustics, psychology, labor, consumerism, the environment, and the military.
The term "control" refers to philosopher Gilles Deleuze's theory that, as a result of the ever-increasing role of information technology, Michel Foucault's "disciplinary society" of the 20th century has given way to a "control society" in the 21st century. In contrast to discipline, which molds the individual through confinement in factories, prisons, and schools, control is diffuse, adaptable, and ubiquitous, modulating rather than molding the individual.
Brenna Murphy: Liquid Vehicle Transmitter
United States of America
For her new installation, emergent entity chant array, Murphy has designed a type of fractal involving self-similar patterns at varying scales. Constructed out of a precisely configured assemblage of 3D printed sculptures, LED lights, light boxes, and wood cut forms, the installation resembles a real life version of her complex and dizzying internet-based works. Like Murphy's virtual video game environments, emergent entity chant array plays upon the visitor's perception of both space and dimension, encouraging the exploration of elevated states of consciousness.
Deeply post-humanist in her approach, Murphy views her creative process as a form of meditation in which she seeks an intuitive, harmonious relation with the tools used to produce her work. Her intricate arrangement of forms focuses her own energy and that of the viewer, drawing them in. This sense of an attuned connection with an audience is also an active element in the art collectives of which she is a member, MSHR and Oregon Painting Society.
Architecture and Computation with Keller Easterling and Erica Robles (Part of PROGRAM: Media and Literature at NYU)
United States of America
Architecture and Computation
19 University Place, Great Room
New York, NY 10003
Map: http://goo.gl/maps/f2ad3
Free and Open to the Public
"PROGRAM" is an interdisciplinary event series organized by graduate students within New York University's Media, Culture and Communication, English, and Comparative Literature Departments. Intentionally broad in scope, the series will present talks that explore the cultural, historical, aesthetic and political impact of software and programming logic.
This first event in our year-long lecture series explores the intersection of architecture and the logic of computation. How does computation structure our physical world, and in what ways has the function of computational media been applied to the spaces we inhabit?
Keller Easterling (Yale University, Architecture)
Extrastatecraft: Global Infrastructure and Political Arts
Repeatable formulas and spatial products make most of the space in the world. Now, not only buildings but also entire cities have become spatial products that typically reproduce free zone world cities like Shenzhen or Dubai. Space has become a mobile, monetized, almost infrastructural, technology, where infrastructure is not only the urban substructure, but also the urban structure itself. Some of the most radical changes to the globalizing world are being written, not in the language of law and diplomacy, but rather in the language of this matrix space. Massive global infrastructure systems, administered by mixtures of public and private cohorts and driven by profound irrationalities, generate de facto, undeclared forms of polity faster than any even quasi-official forms of governance can legislate them—a wilder mongrel than any storied Leviathan for which we have studied political response. Infrastructure space is one crucible within which multiple fields of analysis encounter ample complexity, and it tutors special approaches to both form making and political arts.
Keller Easterling is is an architect, urbanist, writer, and Professor of Architecture at Yale University. Her latest project is titled Extrastatecraft.
Erica Robles (New York University, MCC)
Mediated Congregation: The Crystal Cathedral and God's Place in a Networked WorldThis talk focuses on an often-overlooked institution that has helped produce and legitimate transformations in 20th century social life: the church. Through an analysis of the Crystal Cathedral Robles situates Protestant spatial production within a broader project of cultural re-formation whereby collective life became conducted via increasingly mediated, mobile, and distributed arrangements. For more than half a century, this influential Southern California ministry helped reshape the style and material conditions for worship. At its height, the Crystal Cathedral was perhaps the most visible Protestant church in the world.
Robles will render three distinctive and successive portraits of the church as a drive-in theater (1955-1957), an indoor-outdoor/television church (1962-1970), and then a globally-broadcast, glass and steel cathedral (1980 – 2012). Each site was a re-imagining of the socio-technical conditions for communion. Together, these portraits will trace a trajectory from the post-war to the present whereby the church helped determine technological and architectural meanings. By designing for mediated congregation, ministries like the Crystal Cathedral inscribed the production of broadcast and then networked geographies with spiritual significance. In so doing, they also translated Christian cosmology into a new technological regime.
Erica Robles is an Assistant Professor of Media, Culture, and Communication at New York University.
Upcoming 2012-2013 PROGRAM events
Media Archaeology with Matthew Kirschenbaum and Wendy Hui Kyong Chun, March 1st, 2013
Values in Technological Design with Geoffrey Bowker and Sara Hendren, April 12th, 2013
The series is sponsored by NYU's Information Futures, the Humanities Initiative, and the Departments of Media Culture, and Communication, English, and Comparative Literature.
Music, Language, Thought V
Friday, December 10th 2010 / 3:00 - 7:00pm
Myles Jackson (History and Philosophy of Science and Technology, NYU): "The Role of Physicists in Measuring and Defining Nineteenth-Century Musical Aesthetics"
Kevin Bell (English, SUNY Albany): "Non-Cognitive Aspects of the City: Sound as Break in Christopher Harris's "Still/Here""
Ana María Ochoa (Music, Columbia University): "Orality and Orthography in Nineteenth-Century Colombia""
Gary Tomlinson (Music, University of Pennsylvania): "Paleolithic Formalism"
Reception to follow
New York University / Silver Center for Arts and Science / 100 Washington Square East / Department of Music, Rm 220, 2nd floor
Sponsored by the departments of Music and Comparative Literature; with support from the NYU Humanities Initiative
Music, Language, Thought" is an interdisciplinary event series organized by graduate students within New York University's Music and Comparative Literature Departments. Broadly speaking, the series focuses on the relationship between music and language, and our speakers will examine its theoretical ramifications for politics, aesthetics and historiography. The project stems from ongoing conversation and collaboration between graduate students within these two departments, and will continue on an annual basis.


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Zinco Do Brasil Announces Equity Financing At $1.50 Per Share From Institutional Investor
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Wednesday, April 30, 2014 - 7:00pm
Hagerstown Community College will present its annual Kreykenbohm lecture series on Wednesday, April 30, beginning at 7 p.m., in the Kepler Center on HCC's main campus.
This year's lecture will feature Maryland-based sculptor Toby Mendez, who specializes in creating classical figure sculptures with a contemporary edge. The event is free and is open to the public.
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The white supremacist group tried to adopt a highway stretch in Georgia last week. But no amount of public service can offset its hateful history.
Last week, a local chapter of the International Keystone Knights of Ku Klux Klan proposed adopting one-mile stretch of highway in north Georgia. The possibility of Klan members picking up roadside litter and getting credit on a highway sign provoked as much confusion as outrage. One reporter asked, "Is the latest effort to adopt a highway an introduction of a new era of a kinder, gentler Klan or merely an effort to gain attention?"
In public statements, the group's leaders signaled that volunteer work was part of their message of love. "We love the white race," April Chambers, secretary of the Georgia Klan, told a local television correspondent. "Why is that so hard for people to understand? But we don't hate anybody!" In a quote at CNN's In America blog, Frank Ancona, the imperial wizard of the Traditionalist American Knights of the Ku Klux Klan echoed that sentiment, portraying the Klan as "a fraternal organization" that commits "good works."
Benevolence, love, and volunteering seem out of place with hoods, robes, and burning crosses. But what may surprise many is that these statements are consistent with the larger history of the Klan, wherein declarations of love are intimately bound to the Klan's better-known gospel of hate. That paradox holds the key to understanding both the order's past popularity and its continuing inability to halt its decline.
The Ku Klux Klan is the oldest hate group in the United States. It emerged between 1865 and 1870 in response to the trauma of the South's war loss and the supposed threat posed by newly freed slaves. Founded by Civil War veterans in Pulaski, Tennessee, the Reconstruction Klan began as a social organization, but soon raided homes, committed acts of violence, and interfered with elections.
The Klan's first victims were primarily African Americans, sympathetic whites and Northern carpetbaggers. Its violent tactics permanently linked the Klan in the American imagination to brutality, terror and white supremacy. A hundred years later, the Klan entered the public eye again, hooded uniforms and all, when its members mobilized against Civil Rights legislation. The Klan's stark, committed racism was most evident in the bombing of the Sixteenth Street Baptist Church in Birmingham, Alabama, in 1963.
In between these two eras, however, there was another Klan. It rose half a century after the first Klan had faded away, spurred into existence by D.W. Griffith's film Birth of Nation and the efforts of minister William Simmons. Along with 15 others, including two elderly men from the original Klan, Simmons officially resurrected the movement on Thanksgiving night of 1915, borrowing the image of the burning cross from Griffith's film. Members of the new Klan emphasized Protestant virtues alongside white supremacy, declaring themselves superior to Catholics, Jews, and African-Americans. The second Klan boasted four million members in 1924, proof of the powerful appeal of both white racial pride and Christian nationalism in early 20th century America.
While honoring the Reconstruction Klansmen as heroes, the second Klan worked to distance its members from the previous order's vigilante violence (though they themselves were also involved in violent actions). Imperial Wizard Simmons emphasized Christian virtue, morality, and good behavior as crucial for the lives of Klansmen. His successor, Hiram Wesley Evans, emphasized that the Klan was "altruistic or it was nothing."
The motto of the second order, "Not for self, but for others," inspired the Klan to document acts of benevolence in its official newspaper, the Imperial Night-Hawk. Its members delivered baskets of food, donated money to churches and orphanages, developed memorial and scholarship funds, and provided gifts to poor children at Christmas. Benevolence was limited by both skin color and religious affiliation, though a Pennsylvania Klan in 1924 claimed to donate to a building fund for a local African American church. Hate rarely appeared in print.
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- Connected for a Purpose (Jim Stogdill) — At a recent conference, an executive at a major auto manufacturer described his company's efforts to digitize their line-up like this: "We're basically wrapping a two-ton car around an iPad. Eloquent critique of the Internet of Shallow Things.
- Why Nate Silver Can't Explain It All — Data extrapolation is a very impressive trick when performed with skill and grace, like ice sculpting or analytical philosophy, but it doesn't come equipped with the humility we should demand from our writers. Would be a shame for Nate Silver to become Malcolm Gladwell: nice stories but they don't really hold up.
- Gender and VR (danah boyd) — Although there was variability across the board, biological men were significantly more likely to prioritize motion parallax. Biological women relied more heavily on shape-from-shading. In other words, men are more likely to use the cues that 3D virtual reality systems relied on. Great article, especially notable for there are more sex hormones on the retina than in anywhere else in the body except for the gonads.
- Even The Innocent Should Worry About Sex Offender Apps (Quartz) — And when data becomes compressed by third parties, when it gets flattened out into one single data stream, your present and your past collide with potentially huge ramifications for your future. When it comes to personal data—of any kind—we not only need to consider what it will be used for but how that data will be represented, and what such representation might mean for us and others. Data policies are like justice systems: either you suffer a few innocent people being wrongly condemned (bad uses of open data0, or your system permits some wrongdoers to escape (mould grows in the dark).
"open data" entries
Four short links: 1 April 2014
Unimaginative Vehicular Connectivity, Data Journalism, VR and Gender, and Open Data Justice
Four short links: 27 March 2014
Understanding Image Processing, Sharing Data, Fixing Bad Science, and Delightful Dashboard
- 2D Image Post-Processing Techniques and Algorithms (DIY Drones) — understanding how automated image matching and processing tools work means you can also get a better understanding how to shoot your images and what to prevent to get good matches.
- Scientists Need to Learn to Share — despite science's reputation for rigor, sloppiness is a substantial problem in some fields. You're much more likely to check your work and follow best data-handling practices when you know someone is going to run your code and parse your data.
- METRICS — Meta-Research Innovation Center at Stanford. John Ioannidis has a posse: connecting researchers into weak science, running conferences, creating a "journal watch", and engaging policy makers. (says The Economist)
- Grafana — elegant dashboard for graphite (the realtime data graphing engine).
Open data can drive partnerships with government
An exploration of themes in Joel Gurin's book Open Data Now.
As governments and businesses — and increasingly, all of us who are Internet-connected — release data out in the open, we come closer to resolving the tiresomely famous and perplexing quote from Stewart Brand: "Information wants to be free. Information also wants to be expensive." Open data brings home to us how much free information is available and how productive it is in its free state, but one subterranean thread I found in Joel Gurin's book Open Data Now highlights an important point: information is very expensive.
In this article, I'll explore a few themes that piqued my interest in Gurin's book: the value of open data, the expense it entails, the questions of how much we can use and trust it, and the role the general public and the private sector play in bringing us data's benefits. This is not meant to be a summary or a review of Gurin's book; it is an exploration of themes that interest me, inspired by my reading of Gurin.
Open, trustworthy, and useful
"Open data" occupies hierarchies of usefulness. One way of describing its usefulness is the structure of its presentation, as Gurin and others such as Tim Berners-Lee have pointed out. Much data is still fairly unstructured, like the reviews and social media status postings that people generate by the millions and that are funneled into eager consumption by marketing analysts. Some data is more structured, existing as tables. And finally, a tiny fragment can be reached through the RESTful APIs supported by libraries in every modern programming language. Read more…
Four short links: 10 March 2014
Wolfram Language, Historic Innovation, SF Culture Wars, and Privacy's Death
- Wolfram Language — a broad attempt to integrate types, operations, and databases along with deployment, parallelism, and real-time I/O. The demo video is impressive, not just in execution but in ambition. Healthy skepticism still necessary.
- Maury, Innovation, and Change (Cory Ondrejka) — amazing historical story of open data, analysis, visualisation, and change. In the mid-1800's, over the course of 15 years, a disabled Lieutenant changed the US Navy and the world. He did it by finding space to maneuver (as a trouble maker exiled to the Navy Depot), demonstrating value with his early publications, and creating a massive network effect by establishing the Naval Observatory as the clearing house for Navigational data. 150 years before Web 2.0, he built a valuable service around common APIs and aggregated data by distributing it freely to the people who needed it.
- Commuter Shuttle and 21-Hayes EB Bus Stop Observations (Vimeo) — timelapse of 6:15AM to 9:15AM at an SF bus stop Worth watching if you're outside SF and wondering what they're talking about when the locals rage against SF becoming a bedroom community for Valley workers.
- A Day of Speaking Truth to Power (Quinn Norton) — It was a room that had written off privacy as an archaic structure. I tried to push back, not only by pointing out this was the opening days of networked life, and so custom hadn't caught up yet, but also by recommending danah boyd's new book It's Complicated repeatedly. To claim "people trade privacy for free email therefore privacy is dead" is like 1800s sweatshop owners claiming "people trade long hours in unpleasant conditions for miserable pay therefore human rights are dead". Report of privacy's death are greatly exaggerated.
Four short links: 28 February 2014
Minecraft+Pi+Python, Science Torrents, Web App Performance Measurement, and Streaming Data
- Programming Minecraft Pi with Python — an early draft, but shows promise for kids. (via Raspberry Pi)
- Terasaur — BitTorrent for mad-large files, making it easy for datasets to be saved and exchanged.
- Bucky — Open-source tool to measure the performance of your web app directly from your users' browsers. Nifty graph.
- Zoe Keating's Streaming Payouts — actual data on a real musician's distribution and revenues through various channels. Hint: streaming is tragicomically low-paying. (via Andy Baio)
Four short links: 13 February 2014
Open Web Ranking, Quantified Self Gadgets, Armband Input, and Bitcoin Exchanges Threatened
- The Common Crawl WWW Ranking — open data, open methodology, behind an open ranking of the top sites on the web. Preprint paper available. (via Slashdot)
- Felton's Sensors (Quartz) — inside the gadgets Nicholas Felton uses to quantify himself.
- Myo Armband (IEEE Spectrum) — armband input device with eight EMG (electromyography) muscle activity sensors along with a nine-axis inertial measurement unit (that's three axes each for accelerometer, gyro, and magnetometer), meaning that you get forearm gesture sensing along with relative motion sensing (as opposed to absolute position). The EMG sensors pick up on the electrical potential generated by muscle cells, and with the Myo on your forearm, the sensors can read all of the muscles that control your fingers, letting them spy on finger position as well as grip strength.
- Bitcoin Exchanges Under Massive and Concerted Attack — he who lives by the network dies by the network. a DDoS attack is taking Bitcoin's transaction malleability problem and applying it to many transactions in the network, simultaneously. "So as transactions are being created, malformed/parallel transactions are also being created so as to create a fog of confusion over the entire network, which then affects almost every single implementation out there," he added. Antonopoulos went on to say that Blockchain.info's implementation is not affected, but some exchanges have been affected – their internal accounting systems are gradually going out of sync with the network.
Four short links: 30 January 2014
In-Game Economy, AI Ethics, Data Repository, and Regulated Disruption
- $200k of Spaceships Destroyed (The Verge) — More than 2,200 of the game's players, members of EVE's largest alliances, came together to shoot each other out of the sky. The resultant damage was valued at more than $200,000 of real-world money. […] Already, the battle has had an impact on the economics and politics of EVE's universe: as both side scramble to rearm and rebuild, the price of in-game resource tritanium is starting to rise. "This sort of conflict," Coker said, "is what science fiction warned us about."
- Google Now Has an AI Ethics Committee (HufPo) — sorry for the HufPo link. One of the requirements of the DeepMind acquisition was that Google agreed to create an AI safety and ethics review board to ensure this technology is developed safely. Page's First Law of Robotics: A robot may not block an advertisement, nor through inaction, allow an advertisement to come to harm.
- Academic Torrents — a scalable, secure, and fault-tolerant repository for data, with blazing fast download speeds built on BitTorrent.
- Hack Schools Meet California Regulators (Venturebeat) — turns out vocational training is a regulated profession. Regulation meets disruption, annihilate in burst of press releases.
Four short links: 21 January 2014
Mature Engineering, Control Theory, Open Access USA, and UK Health Data Too-Open?
- On Being a Senior Engineer (Etsy) — Mature engineers know that no matter how complete, elegant, or superior their designs are, it won't matter if no one wants to work alongside them because they are assholes.
- Control Theory (Coursera) — Learn about how to make mobile robots move in effective, safe, predictable, and collaborative ways using modern control theory. (via DIY Drones)
- US Moves Towards Open Access (WaPo) — Congress passed a budget that will make about half of taxpayer-funded research available to the public.
- NHS Patient Data Available for Companies to Buy (The Guardian) — Once live, organisations such as university research departments – but also insurers and drug companies – will be able to apply to the new Health and Social Care Information Centre (HSCIC) to gain access to the database, called care.data. If an application is approved then firms will have to pay to extract this information, which will be scrubbed of some personal identifiers but not enough to make the information completely anonymous – a process known as "pseudonymisation". Recipe for disaster as it has been repeatedly shown that it's easy to identify individuals, given enough scrubbed data. Can't see why the NHS just doesn't make it an app in Facebook. "Nat's Prostate status: it's complicated."
Four short links: 23 December 2013
Lightweight Flying Robot, Autonomous Weapons, Scientific Irony, and Insecurity of Password Management Extensions
- DelFly Explorer — 20 grams, 9 minutes of autonomous flight, via barometer and new stereo vision system. (via Wayne Radinsky)
- Banning Autonomous Killing Machines (Tech Republic) — While no autonomous weapons have been built yet, it's not a theoretical concern, either. Late last year, the U.S. Department of Defense (DoD) released its policy around how autonomous weapons should be used if they were to be deployed in the battlefield. The policy limits how they should operate, but definitely doesn't ban them. (via Slashdot)
- Scientific Data Lost at Alarming Rate — says scientific paper PUBLISHED BEHIND A PAYWALL.
- Security of Browser Extension Password Managers (PDF) — This research shows that the examined password managers made design decisions that greatly increase the chance of users unknowingly exposing their passwords through application-level flaws. Many of the flaws relate to the browser-integrated password managers that don't follow the same-origin policy that is crucial to browser security. In the case of password managers, this means that passwords could be filled into unintended credential forms, making password theft easier.
Four short links: 4 December 2013
Zombie Drones, Algebra Through Code, Data Toolkit, and Crowdsourcing Antibiotic Discovery
- Skyjack — drone that takes over other drones. Welcome to the Malware of Things.
- Bootstrap World — a curricular module for students ages 12-16, which teaches algebraic and geometric concepts through computer programming. (via Esther Wojicki)
- Harvest — open source BSD-licensed toolkit for building web applications for integrating, discovering, and reporting data. Designed for biomedical data first. (via Mozilla Science Lab)
- Project ILIAD — crowdsourced antibiotic discovery.


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|Alphonse Bashiya (left), PRODEK's Community Health Endowment coordinator, in a 2013 discussion with a CHE group in Bena Tshiadi, Western Kasai
"You are salt for the whole human race." Jesus sets a challenging standard for his disciples. Salt preserves and gives savor to food. It is essential, indispensable. Do we live up to that description? We claim to have the Spirit of Jesus living in us and leading us into all truth, righteousness and goodness. Still most of us barely distinguish ourselves from the broad spectrum of humanity that doesn't even flirt with these claims. However, from time to time we see behavior that gives a glimpse of God's goodness. This past week Christian partners stood apart, showing what the world might be like if we allowed God to remold us more completely.
Three weeks ago Miriam and I appealed for prayer. The Community Health Endowment (CHE) program has encouraged more than 400 community groups in Western Kasai province to plant a community field in support of the health center that gives primary health care to their village. Income from the field pays the subscription fee for a health plan that reduces out of pocket fees at the health center, making health care more accessible at times when family cash is scarce. This year the project is distributing seed of high-yielding varieties to participating groups with the idea of boosting productivity while improving access to affordable health care.
The glitch is that the rains have started and people want to (and should) plant right now. But the project bureaucracy remains oblivious to such nasty details as optimum planting dates and human needs, despite repeated reminders of the absolute necessity of distributing seed on time. The group distributing seed (PRODEK) still has no contract, nor any funding to ensure that seed gets into the hands of community groups. The project bureaucracy shows no signs of urgency. Even the prospect of failure (significantly reduced yields, loss of community group respect, and ineffective demonstration of the new varieties' potential) seems to have no motivating effect on the local project managers.
In the midst of this bureaucratic indifference (some might say all-too-human indifference) PRODEK, a health and development initiative of the Presbyterian Church of Kasai, has made a Christian statement. This week I heard part of the story. PRODEK agreed to advance its own (very limited) funds to get seed out to CHE groups. In a courageous statement, its agents agreed to work without a contract. They paid with their own money to arrange transport of seed. They worked from dawn to dusk for two weeks, putting community groups' needs above their own. When others faced with difficult circumstances and possible failure were preparing excuses for why the operation couldn't be done, the PRODEK team was figuring out a way forward. They still do not have a contract, but literally hundreds of CHE community groups may still salvage something from this year because of their sacrifice. They have nurtured hope instead of allowing hope to die.
Aid projects are big business in Congo. But spending money on activities is often very different from making a very real difference in people's lives. Progressing from the first to the second usually takes a special extraordinary dedication. We can be the salt for the whole human race. But I think it takes the living Spirit of God dwelling in us, prompting us to love our neighbors as we do ourselves, leading us to dedicate ourselves to showing Christ. Thank you, Lord, for Alphonse's willing sacrificial spirit sowing hope as PRODEK distributes seed.


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Cabomba, genus Cabomba(noun)
alternatively, a member of the family Nymphaeaceae; a small genus of American aquatic plants
Cabomba is an aquatic plant genus, one of two belonging to the family Cabombaceae. It has divided submerged leaves in the shape of a fan and is much favoured by aquarists as an ornamental and oxygenating plant for fishtanks. Use in the aquarium trade has led to some species being introduced to parts of the world, such as Australia, where they have become pestilential weeds.
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an aquatic plant with feathery leaves.
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The rand weakened for a second day as commodities declined after China's manufacturing industry shrank and a rise in U.S. jobless claims increased speculation that the Federal Reserve will stimulate economic growth.
South Africa's currency declined as much as 0.5 percent and traded 0.4 percent weaker at 8.3460 per dollar as of 8:52 a.m. in Johannesburg. Yields on the nation's 6.75 percent bonds due 2021 rose one basis point, or 0.01 percentage point, to 6.75 percent.
The preliminary reading for a purchasing managers' index for China released by HSBC Holdings Plc and Markit Economics fell to 47.8 in August, the 10th month below 50. Europe accounts for more than 20 percent of China's exports. Minutes of the U.S. central bank's latest policy meeting released yesterday showed officials remain supportive of a third round of asset purchases under quantitative easing, or QE, as unemployment has been mired at more than 8 percent since 2009.
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Courtesy of a new tell-all book by ex-Vogue editor Kirstie Clements.
"It's a Twiggy sort of style."
Some customers feel Coco Rocha doesn't adequately reflect the show's curvier silhouettes.
Cristóbal couldn't refuse a good zaftig gal.
Allison Williams's weight loss gets discussed in season two.
From large mainstream brands, at least. Small labels are another story.
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Dried-up crackers made of old oatmeal.
They're certainly trying.
"That starvation look isn't for everybody."
It has "nothing to do with fashion," he says.
Ribs are disposable, really.
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The same group that demonstrated against Seventeen magazine will pay a visit to the Condé Nast building tomorrow.
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Their global Health Initiative will launch in Vogue's nineteen international June editions.