"I Know New Media Art When I See It"

The Art of Participation: Collaborative Mapping

Dr. Judith Rodenbeck and Trebor Scholz

Monday, May 16, 6:30pm

The Thing at Postmasters

459 West 19th Street,
New York, NY 10011

A lecture by Dr. Judith Rodenbeck and Trebor Scholz

Museum curators often frame new media art in modernist terms that attempt to
provide easy and familiar rules for institutional inclusion or exclusion.
Yet while many emerging participatory mapping projects can be experienced at
art festivals such as Transmediale, ISEA, and Ars Electronica, when it comes
to more traditional art institutions their validity as art is often
questioned. Emerging art needs new venues and old venues need a new
definition of art.

Anonymous Comrade writes:
BLACK SHEEP BOOKS presents

"Anarchy in Montp"
Monday, May 23 from 10 a.m. to 11 p.m.

a day of talks, panels, performances, and socializing at 4 Langdon Street
in Montpelier, Vermont

* 1:00 p.m.
BORN TO LOSE, FIGHT TO WIN!
WORKING-CLASS EXPERIENCE AND ANARCHISM
A panel with Mark Laskey, Sean, and Kristin

In this panel, three working-class anarchists will share personal stories and ideas about coming to anarchism from a working-class background, and what it means -- if anything in particular -- to be a "working-class anarchist." This highly subjective panel hopes to be a spark that ignites a lively discussion among the audience about class, struggle, revolution, anarchism, and really anything we decide to get into.

New York City Benefit for

Made in Palestine


[Editor's Note: Made In Palestine showcases a collection of contemporary art made by 23 Palestinian artists and refugees, who live in the occupied territories and in the Diaspora. Using oil paintings, works on paper, video, sculpture, textile art, ceramics, and photography,
the works on display present individual reflections on the Palestinian
contemporary experience and the political situation, in Palestine.]

We are very excited and pleased to announce our next event -- Feast for
Falasteen --hosted by the very generous owners of Mamlouk restaurant in
the East Village. Mamlouk has given us the entire restaurant for one
night to raise money for Made In Palestine. The ticket buys you one of
the best Arabic meals in the city, everything include, Argila water-pipe
as well, and the entire price of the ticket will go towards bringing the
Made In Palestineart exhibit to New York. Cash bar available.

Feast for Falasteen
Monday, May 16, 7pm @ Mamlouk
211 E. 4th St. (btwn Ave. A and B)
Tickets: $60 ($50 for students), $100 Patron Tickets
All proceeds go toward bringing Made In Palestine to New York City!
Music by Dhafer Tawil and Johnny Farraj.
Slides of Made In Palestine will appear on the Mamlouk balcony.

Anarchist6913 writes
:
"The New York release party for the great new book Wobblies!, co-edited by Nicole Schulman, is set for next Friday at the new(ish) Vox Pop bookstore & coffeehouse in Flatbush, Brooklyn. Featuring multi-media presentations by: Mac McGill, Sabrina Jones, Tom Keough, Nicole Schulman and Seth Tobocman, it’s sure to be a great event. Come out, buy a book, and say hello.

Anarchist6913 writes:
A New World in our Hearts: Building for Revolution May Day Festival!
New York City
April 28-May 1, 2005

http://www.anewworldinourhearts.mahost.org/

Confirmed Workshops and Presentations:

Thursday, April 28th...
3:45pm -5:45pm
Horizontalism in Argentina
Time's Up
5:00pm -7:00pm
Beehive Collective
Washington Square Park (the rain location would be close by in an NYU building)
6:00pm -8:00pm
Afropunk Film Screening
Time's Up
6:00pm -8:00pm

Trans Politics, Social Change, and Justice Conference

New York City, May 6th–7th, 2005

Hundreds of activists working for equal rights for transgender people will
gather at the Center for Lesbian and Gay Studies (CLAGS) in New York City from
May 6-7, 2005 for a major national conference, "Trans Politics, Social Change
and Justice."

"Agonistic Friendship from the Ancient Greeks to Nietzsche"

Horst Hutter, New York, April 30, 2005

Friendship is universal but expresses itself variably in different cultural settings. Given our mobility, solitude, and uncertainty in advanced industrial societies, friendship is very different than the model offered to us by Plato and Aristotle. Dr. Hutter will explore Nietzsche's ideas of having 'beautiful enemies' and 'stellar friends' and how to avoid defective friendships, as well as negotiating the drives to serve some public good on the one hand and natural egoisms on the other.

Horst Hutter will be in New York City at the

Lower East Side Girls Club

51 East 1st Street @ 1st Avenue

6pm * Saturday April 30, 2005 * free

Refreshments. (more information: 646-413-9305)

Tabloid Culutre and Media Spectacle Symposium

Roehampton, UK, May 21, 2005

'Tabloid Culture and Media Spectacle' is the second annual symposium
organised by the Centre for Research in Film and Audiovisual Cultures London. The
event will explore the evolution, parameters and new directions of tabloid
culture in order to think through its cultural and political implications –
addressing issues including politics and thhe popular, celebrity culture, media
spectacle, tabloid news, journalism and factual programming.

Rally to Support Critical Mass Bike Rides and Free Expression
Friday, April 29th 5:30, Union Sq. Park, New York City

NYC's Police and Parks Departments have just issued summonses to four people associated with the Critical Mass bicycle rides and are asserting that, not only are un-programmed group bike rides a crime, or any celebratory or other gathering of more than 20 people in a park, without a permit, but most chillingly, that ANNOUNCING THE LOCATION (Union Square) AND TIME (7:30 P.M. ON THE LAST FRIDAY OF EACH MONTH) OF ANY SUCH UNAPPROVED EVENT CONSTITUTES A CRIME.

New York Activist Calendar

April 23, 2005

The NY Activist Calendar (formerly the CREED NY Calendar) is a

weekly listing of events of interest to NYC-area activists. It is

compiled by volunteer labor and published by the Nicaragua

Solidarity Network of Greater NY. Send listings and corrections

to: NSN, 339 Lafayette St, New York, NY 10012, fax 212-674-9139,

email editor@nycalendar.org (plain text only; no attachments,

please). For info, call 212-674-9499 or email wnu@igc.org New or

updated info is marked **. To subscribe, send a blank email to:

nycalendar-subscribe@lists.riseup.net

Archived at: http://nycalendar.org

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CONTENTS

Events: {1} Regular; {2} Ongoing. Selected Resources: {3} Tours

and Delegations; {4} Classes; {5} Calendars & Event Listings; {6}

Books & Videos; {7} Radio & TV; {8} Other Resources.