From joshua at artsandmedia.net Thu Feb 7 09:31:10 2008 From: joshua at artsandmedia.net (Josh Wilson) Date: Thu Feb 7 09:32:10 2008 Subject: [Pollinator] [Fwd: DIY ELECTRONICS SWAPMEET AT GILMAN 2/10] Message-ID: <47AB405E.5070709@artsandmedia.net> Hey pollinators! Here's great happening for arts-and-media-makers, over at an amazing local space ... josh -------- Original Message -------- Subject: DIY ELECTRONICS SWAPMEET AT GILMAN 2/10 Date: Thu, 7 Feb 2008 04:46:54 -0800 (PST) forward this shit far and wide SUNDAY SUNDAY SUNDAY february 10th The Bay Area Do It Yourself Electronics Group is having their DIY ELECTRONICS SWAP-O-RAMA-RAMA at the Gilman in Berkeley. 924 Gilman, "The Gilman", home of Mummy Baby will host this event. 11:00AM start time, goes till 2:PM and its over! There will be actual shows at the gilman later, including PINHEAD GUNPOWDER and La Plebe, Zomo, and Carnal Knowledge (NYC) Amps! Vacuum tubes! Electric guitars! synthesizers! Pedals! Useless shit! Useful shit! I got a clarinet last time! plus its a nice place to hang out even if you don't like electronics. 924 gilman in berkeley - it's near the albany landfill! SUNDAY SUNDAY SUNDAY february 10th _______________________________________________ S.P.A.Z. - http://www.spaz.org Semi-Permanent Autonomous Zone Spazlist mailing list Spazlist@lists.spaz.org http://lists.spaz.org/mailman/listinfo.cgi/spazlist -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: http://gdc.groupd.com/pipermail/pollinator/attachments/20080207/6aacb1c7/attachment.html From sgerson at nature.berkeley.edu Fri Feb 8 01:34:29 2008 From: sgerson at nature.berkeley.edu (Stephanie Gerson) Date: Fri Feb 8 01:35:25 2008 Subject: [Pollinator] 'so close yet so far away' In-Reply-To: <47AB405E.5070709@artsandmedia.net> References: <47AB405E.5070709@artsandmedia.net> Message-ID: <53841.67.101.102.200.1202463269.squirrel@nature.berkeley.edu> speaking of cross-pollination...Valentine's Day is coming up. and whether or not you have a Valentine, live in Berkeley, or have a videoconference-enabled laptop, there are possibilities for you. so please. bless the event below with your presence and/or tele-presence. not only am I organizing it; it has the potential to be perty darned fantastic. *s <3<3<3<3<3<3<3<3 Why talk/twitter/whatever with your long-distance Loved one when you can share a romantic meal with them? Announcing 'So Close Yet So Far Away,' a videoconference lunch for Valentine's Day. Tables for two: you across from your date via your videoconference-enabled laptop. Thursday, February 14th, 2008 Berkeley Art Museum?s Cafe Muse 3:30-5:15 PST And if you don't have a long-distance date or a laptop, check the website, because there are still possibilities for you... Event website:http://lauragreig.com/valentine/ Taste test: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mNf9vvzC-jU Questions/comments: Stephanie Gerson (sgerson@nature.berkeley.edu) <3<3<3<3<3<3<3<3 -- Stephanie Gerson MS Candidate Department of Environmental Science, Policy, and Management University of California, Berkeley sgerson@nature.berkeley.edu . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . what came first, the node or the link? From joshua at artsandmedia.net Fri Feb 8 11:46:41 2008 From: joshua at artsandmedia.net (Josh Wilson) Date: Fri Feb 8 11:47:39 2008 Subject: [Pollinator] Writers wanted Message-ID: <47ACB1A1.1030400@artsandmedia.net> Hey. So I have this "story blog" called The Fabulist, specializing in the 'literature of the fantastic.' It is inspired by everything from Marquez to LeGuin. We've had a few contributors, and the work has been good. But we're lookin' for more. I want to be updating it monthly, and the goal is to do an annual print publication -- square bound, nice typography, etc. -- drawing from the best of the year's work published. Are you a writer or artist with a fantastical inclination? Do you know any? Please contribute to The Fabulist! The site is not very fancy right now. It doesn't even have a proper "front page" ... but it's the contents that count, and we'll work on looks later. Here are some recent works. Spread the word, and drop me a line if you'd like to get in on it. "With Virgil" by Josh Mulholland http://the-fabulist.org/yarns/?p=25 "The Sea-King and the City" by Josh Wilson http://the-fabulist.org/yarns/?p=24 THANKS FOR YOUR READS AND WRITES!!! josh w From scarlett at womensfilmfestival.us Fri Feb 15 12:14:53 2008 From: scarlett at womensfilmfestival.us (Scarlett Shepard) Date: Fri Feb 15 12:15:55 2008 Subject: [Pollinator] Documentary and Activism Shorts Program on 2/17 at 7 PM in SF Message-ID: <745850.17278.qm@web308.biz.mail.mud.yahoo.com> SF Women's Film Festival Presents.... Join us as we screen various short films that are designed to raise awareness about social, political and environmental issues around the world. Films include: New Woman: Annie London Londonderry Kopchovsky (Dir. Gillian Klempner) Meet the first woman to cycle around the world in 1895. Crutch (Dir. Sachi Cunningham/Chandler Evans) Bill Shannon shows us that there is no stopping the spirit of one that feels the rhythm of expression through dance. Getting a Grip (Dir. Rosa Maria Ruvalcaba/Sarah Jun) Meet Fannie Barnes who became the first woman cable car operator in January 1998 - at age 52. Fashion Resistance to Militarism (Dir. Kimberly Alvarenga) A fresh, provocative look at the Military's influence on fashion and popular culture. Flag Day (Dir. Kristy Higby) Tom Sadowski of Rockport, Maine, got tired of the limited reporting on the rising death toll in Iraq. As a result, he creates a garden of flags, each representing a fallen U.S solider. Meet Moby (Dir. Kathy Milani) Musician Moby composes a powerful message for those with an appetite for humane living, and ask that we look at life on today's farm before deciding what to eat. Texas Gold (Dir. Carolyn Scott) Diane Wilson began her fight with the giants of the petro-chemical industry in 1989, when she discovered that her small Texas county has been named the most toxic place in America. I Choose Me (Dir. Michele Eggers) An experimental documentary addressing a brief and current trend toward criminalizing abortion rights. Sinew (Dir. Patty L. Collins) At the age of six, Betty Cooper, Blackfeet, is ripped from her loving family and culture and forced into Cut Bank boarding school. Gone is her native language, religion and Blackfeet family values. Event Details: When: Sunday, February 17 Where: Climate Theater, 285 9th Street (at Folsom) Time: 7 PM Cost: $5 Space is limited. To RSVP email: events@sfwff.com For more information about the location: http://climatetheater.com Official Site: http://www.sfwff.com -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... 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The receipt > deadline for letters of inquiry is 5 p.m. Wednesday, March 5, 2008.? > For detailed guidelines, visit http://www.creativeworkfund.org. > ? > The Creative Work Fund is a program of the Walter and Elise Haas Fund, > also supported by generous grants from The William and Flora Hewlett > Foundation and The James Irvine Foundation. > ? From joshua at artsandmedia.net Fri Feb 22 09:49:04 2008 From: joshua at artsandmedia.net (Josh Wilson) Date: Fri Feb 22 09:50:02 2008 Subject: [Pollinator] [Fwd: INDONESIA Collaboration-- Sustainable Arts Network International] Message-ID: <47BF0B10.3040407@artsandmedia.net> Talk about pollination ... howbout crosspollinating with an Indonesian collective looking for international collaborators? josh -------- Original Message -------- Subject: [SpAzLiSt] INDONESIA Collaboration-- Sustainable Arts Network International Date: Fri, 22 Feb 2008 12:04:10 -0000 From: To: INDONESIA COLLABORATION-- SUSTAINABLE ARTS NETWORK INTERNATIONAL This is another update from Indonesia about collaborations with Taring Padi and the wider community in Java. Its very long but please pay attention that this is also an invitation and plea for people to get involved with things either from San Francisco Bay Area or join us here Indonesia. If your interested in coming to Indonesia, there's help with financing it available through a rolling deadline $2000 travel grant offered from the USINDO society. This is for the purpose of some educational/cultural exchange or conference, and we can help you arrange the info needed to qualify. The website is http://www.usindo.org/education/travelgrants.html Once here there are free places to stay including at Taring Padi space 10 min bike ride from the city in a beautiful friendly jungly village area, or squatting an empty building at the Gampingan Museum campus which is big social gathering place for everyone and has wifi and the ?squattable? building was made cozy and cute by our Cyclown friends who were here. Also for longer stays you can rent your own house for a few hundred dollars a YEAR. Its amazingly cheap to live here, a meal is usually less than $1 and the community is helpful, radical, and collective style. The specific projects that we need help with are listed towards the bottom of this post if you want to skip down to whats currently going on in Yogyakarta. So finally back in Indonesia? Arriving here was like a moment of truth metaphorically and literally in regards to being able to start actualizing the projects I have been planning and obsessing over. I will see if what I talk (since I talk so much) has something to back it eventually. Also a moment of truth in addressing more personal issues that were left lingering when I last left Indonesia. ←Backtrack Overview→ Last time I was in Indonesia I was staying with Taring Padi collective and theorizing everyday about collaboration ideas and how to connect our communities more. Over the years a few SPAZ crew have been to Indonesia and involved with Taring Padi. We talked about trying to get some Taring Padi crew to the states to do a tour with SPAZ, but a big issue to overcome was funding for such an endeavor. When I returned to the states in the end of September I devoted the four months I was there to burying myself in research on the non-profit funding world. I knew that the main goal was to get money to pay for airfare and visas for Taring Padi, but exactly what the proposed project was, why it was socially, culturally, and artistically beneficial, what angle to take, and who to get funding from was mind boggling. I had a lot of bits of info to start researching but in the end the problem was credentials, track record, and 501c3 status, or sponsorship from another non-profit group to vouch for us in order to receive funds for any project. After going to some conferences in SF about non-profit stuff, tons of internet research, and being a bookworm, getting Media Island in Olympia to fiscally sponsor us, I wrote one grant proposal to the San Francisco Foundation?which was unsuccessful- But a very big learning experience. What its come down to now is the formation of the Sustainable Arts Network International (SANI), which I still pretty theoretical, but will (once I?m back in the states later this year) file for federal non-profit status. SANI acts as an umbrella to connect art communities for research, documentation, collaboration, exchanges, and information sharing to develop long term working relationships with a focus on using art as a vehicle for social and ecologic justice/awareness. (Within a grass-roots framework we are working together globally to improve our communities locally) There is a focus on solidarity with less developed countries. Basically this be our user-friendly face and will help keep track of all of our international wanderings and in the future provide funding possibilities to travel and do collaborative projects and invite our international friends to the states. I have on file a constantly edited version of what SANI is, the mission statement, the details, and so on. So now realizing that getting funding to ship a bunch of radical Indonesian art activist to the USA is a bit further in the future we are here working on creating a track record of smaller projects? ←Jakarta Overview→ So arriving in Jakarta we stayed a few nights on campus at the Jakarta Art Institute (IKJ), hosted by our friend Yuda with the Sakit Kuning Collective. http://sakitkuning.blogspot.com/ The campus is crazy and painted and half run down in continual renovation. Most of the students squat the campus, especially since other options would mostly be commuting outside of the city to their family?s homes. People seem to be hard at work on projects but there is a lot of chillin at the open air caf??s smoking and drinking, especially at night when the faculty is gone and the campus is more like a big art commune. We were also hanging out with Toni from Taring Padi who was in Jakarta and he brought us to Ruang Rupa art collective space to stay while in Jakarta, but still spending alot of time at IKJ. http://www.ruangrupa.org/home/about_eng.html Ruang Rupa had an awesome space, which was big with multiple large rooms, computer/office room, library, kitchen, bedrooms. We had our own guestroom too. They do a lot of film and video works, documentation and research stuff including producing the OK film festival, and Karbon (a quarterly journal focusing on topics like alternative spaces, performance art, audience?) Yuda set up events on the IKJ campus for us to give a presentation/discussion with a bunch of the students introducing ourselves, our art, SPAZ, and our ideas for a new non-profit Sustainable Arts Network International (SANI). We broke it up into two parts with a little slideshow of photos. We talked about stuff like examples of art communities in the states, how we use our urban and natural environment to provide what we need, resourcefulness, DIY mentality? Importance of space, physical space like shared studios, buses for tours, festivals like Mutant Fest, other events, and mental space? Importance of collaboration and networking locally, regionally, nationally, and internationally. How to make money as an artist and support yourself, but also continue creating art within your community without monetary needs/expenses. How to use your art focus like theater for example for self-designated ideas and experimentation with in process development and public art like street theater, as apposed to only auditioning for other peoples shows, preparing your art for prestigious stage theater or cinema/television acting. Second, we talked about our particular art focus together as performance and circus theater/music. We did some performance stuff and took an audience volunteer to do a theater workshop and Maya used technique about character development of facial expression, speach, posture, movement, costume, makeup, props. And of course a little acrobalance stuff too. Friday we did a performance with Sakit Kuning and some other performance groups with experimental music and projection. We were interviewed by a local television channel in reference to young artists, and they talked with Sakit Kuning and some people there about what was going on. IKJ gave us certificates of appreciation for workshops, presentation, and performances which included our names, SPAZ, and Sustainable Arts Network International. This is a good step in building a track record and credentials. We even got to go to an awesome Drum and Bass party put on by http://www.javabass.com. Our friends Asung from Rueng Rupa DJ?d and Eloopz from Sakit Kuning MC?d too. Fucking amazing. The energy was awesome, the venue was quite posh, though still underground and tucked away in a corner of the city. People danced all night long. We left the party early when things were still jumping at about 3am. I brought with me about a bunch of Beehive Collective posters and about 50 art/anarchist/history zines from the states for indi-literature exchange and gave copies of some to a girl who does zine distro in Jakarta and she gave me a stack of stuff she had too. I?ve been reading a lot of local journals and zines from Java understanding layers to whats going on here. We also visited a few other community spaces and collectives in Jakarta too. ← Yogyakarta and Future Project Overview→ So being in Yogyakarta is a nice change of pace though especially because its been our destination during this journey and I can feel a bit of rest and settling. This morning we walked through the village that the Taring Padi space is at to a ?restaurant? to eat near the river. We walked between houses with smiling children playing outside, goat stables, free roaming chickens, people constructing new buildings with bamboo, to a small house with tables out front which functions as a little village caf?. Taring Padi arranged for the Yogyakarta National Museum at Gampingan to give us letters of invitation for art residencies for use to extend our visas and also apply for a small grant from the USINDO society. The main projects with them right now will be to work on curating a ?call to artists? Second Hand themed exhibition at Gampingan and organizing with some folks (maybe ArtSF) for a simultaneous exhibition to happen in San Francisco. This would be a two-part exhibit, which will include swapping the artwork for a second display the American artwork in Yogya, and the Indonesian artwork in SF. We want the develop a deeper thesis of questioning, implied value, things passed down, stories told, antiquity vs new, consumerism, reuse, and also a double meaning of the exhibition being second hand with the trading of artwork between countries. We have lots of ideas of how to make this exhibit interactive and participatory involving video projects, documentation, "free-box" donations requests from all the people who attend the exhibit then donating the stuff to a school or group who needs it.(freebox is not a common practice yet in Indonesia) If anyone has ideas for the SF side please let me know. We also just got the opportunity to be involved with a Global Warming awareness art festival, which Taring Padi is also involved with. This will be April 15-20. Clear ideas for what we will contribute have not been formulated but the invitation is there. We invite anyone to join us here by then to create a workshop, and or performance for this festival. Also since we have access to a very nice video camera I want to work on a Taring Padi documentary about current issue with new footage, collecting, editing, and translating old footage. I?ll be doing a lot of photography, maybe painting a little bit, playing music, working on performance stuff with Maya, working with children, and whatever else comes up. Please feel free to repost this. I tried to post it on the spaz site as a report, but was having problems... so next time I will try to post it on the site and some more photos. So we?ll see how things go from here? Thanks thanks thanks Rio ------ _______________________________________________ S.P.A.Z. - http://www.spaz.org Semi-Permanent Autonomous Zone Spazlist mailing list Spazlist@lists.spaz.org http://lists.spaz.org/mailman/listinfo.cgi/spazlist -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: http://gdc.groupd.com/pipermail/pollinator/attachments/20080222/d3747146/attachment-0001.html