Glowlab

“Estimating the Future”

“Estimating the Future” by Glowlab friend Ben Collier is featured at badarchitecture.org. Ben has been living in Bejing for the past few months making regular documentations of derives and other walking related projects. His images are rich and facinating, especially for individuals who have not made the trip to China. His site is regularly updated with exhibitions and web posts.

OPSOUND LAUNCHES COPYLEFT RECORD LABEL TO SELL FREE MUSIC

Glowlab's good friends at Opsound are throwing a party and we think you should attend!

Thursday, December 2, CBGB Lounge 8pm - midnight and beyond.
313 Bowery, NYC - between 1st and 2nd streets - F train to Second Ave, or 6 train to Bleecker

"Opsound is an experimental record label and open sound pool of copyleft music, organized through the website opsound.org. It is a laboratory for looking at how artists can release music in a manner synergistic with the internet's capacity to encourage communication and sharing. Opsound explores the possibilities of developing a gift economy among musicians, borrowing from the model of the free and open source software communities."

OPSOUND LAUNCHES COPYLEFT RECORD LABEL TO SELL FREE MUSIC

Glowlab's good friends at Opsound are throwing a party and we think you should attend!

Thursday, December 2, CBGB Lounge 8pm - midnight and beyond.
313 Bowery, NYC- between 1st and 2nd streets - F train to Second Ave, or 6 train to Bleecker

"Opsound is an experimental record label and open sound pool of copyleft music, organized through the website opsound.org. It is a laboratory for looking at how artists can release music in a manner synergistic with the internet's capacity to encourage communication and sharing. Opsound explores the possibilities of developing a gift economy among musicians, borrowing from the model of the free and open source software communities."

Million-Dollar Blocks

Mapping city blocks by prison spending: Million-Dollar Blocks by Jennifer Gonnerman.

the Chengwins vs the Chunks

Glowlab attended HOMECOMING 2004 in full force today, rooting for Chunk, then for Chengwin, and then for Chunk again.

Experience the madness: view the photos >>.

TIANNA KENNEDY'S "STUBBLEFIELD'S BLACK BOX: AN INTRICATE GAME OF POSITION EXHIBITION OPENING

Friday 11.12.04.TIANNA KENNEDY'S "STUBBLEFIELD'S BLACK BOX: AN INTRICATE GAME OF POSITION EXHIBITION OPENING @ free103point9 Gallery, Second Floor, 97 S. 6th St. btw Bedford Ave. + Berry St., Southside, Williamsburg, Brooklyn. 8 p.m., free. Gallery hours Tuesdays 6-10 p.m. through Dec. 10.

Stubblefield's Black Box: An Intricate Game of Position "...an intricate game of position - a game that unfolds among far-flung bodies, for the most part unknown to each other...." --Gregory Whitehead

Tianna Kennedy will broadcast from the black box Friday, Nov. 12 at 9 p.m. A party will follow. Participants will receive the broadcast and respond in their chosen medium. Throughout the duration of the show, during gallery hours (Tuesday nights 6-10 p.m.) Kennedy will continue her broadcast, and will accept and install participant responses in person. If a participant is unable to visit during the scheduled hours, Kennedy will accept documentation of responses to be sent to the free103point9 Brooklyn mailing address (free103point9, 302 Bedford Ave., Box 261, Brooklyn, NY 11211). These will be displayed, played, and used as well. There will be a closing party Friday, Dec. 10 to review and celebrate all participants' contributions. In this exercise, Kennedy hopes to demonstrate that sound will
always be a practice as well as a representation. Kennedy is interested in furthering the idea of a praxical transmission, which would occasion vast networks of communication and participation and which would be inextricably bound up with uniqueness, plurality and action. Tianna hopes that by participating in this game we are in some small way participating in the deconstruction of the dominant one-way-broadcast radio paradigm, because we are no longer listeners, but actors in the performance. She also hopes to promote a non- hierarchic/distributed approach to art(and politics)making, and to generate a small space of camaraderie in an environment of complexity and disequilibrium

For my far-flung pals, you will be able to listen to the broadcast on-line at free103point9.org. It should also be on FM by friday, but maybe only in the gallery. i'll keep you posted. Try to pick up the web-stream now and if you have problems e-mail me and i'll walk you through it... tk"at" free103point9 "dot" org.

Everyone's welcome. The idea, in plain english, is that this 'opening' is about getting the ball rolling – Kennedy is working with a couple of transmission groups and, they would like to get more people involved. Kind of like the old 'telephone' game only the message goes around the table for a month or so. If you have technical questions about whether your response has to be sound, or whether you could write a letter, or whether videos are ok, or if you can put on a play, or if you'd like to bake a pie, or whatnot - the answers are: not necessarily, yes, yes, yes, yes, yes most definitely and, we'll figure out how to go about it.

CHENGWIN PRESENTS

IT'S GO TIME.

CHENGWIN PRESENTS:

HOMECOMING 2004
THE CHENGWINS vs. THE CHUNKS
- -THE BATTLE FOR CHOVE - -

THIS SATURDAY, NOV. 13TH, **3pm SHARP**
COME PREPARED TO PLAY
AT THE NORTH CORNER OF HOUSTON/LAFAYETTE ST.

WEAR WHITE IF YOU'RE A CHENGWIN.
WEAR BLACK IF YOU'RE A CHUNK.
WINNER GETS CHOVE.
EVERYBODY ELSE GETS A PARTY.

if weather is an issue, visit the web site
for any late breaking news and commentary,
plus details on the after-game party at Subtonic:

http://www.chengwin.com

Jenny Holzer: Airplane Banners

Jenny Holzer: Airplane Banners have been resceduled for tomorrow, Nov 6th. They were cancelled last week due to high winds. Keep an eye to the sky 1:00pm-3:30pm.

el topo does your laundry

This is just so great we have to post it:

"Doesn't going to the laundromat suck? It's a Wednesday night, you're burned out from work and the weekend before, and you're sitting underneath a sputtering fluorescent light, pawing through a two-and-a-half year old issue of Redbook, while a crying toddler kicks the leg of your chair. You're wearing sweatpants, and you're paying for the privilege of using someone else's washing machine.

Isn't that the single worst moment of the week? Don't you wish some kind of angel would descend and save you from the tedium? That you could be whisked away from your misery and suddenly transported to -- oh, say, a rock show?

Well, El Topo is that angel. Thanks to us, doing the laundry can actually be something you look forward to, at least this one time. For we will be invading Wash 'N Clean on 14. We pledge the following: 1) We will perform original rock and roll music, to the best of our ability. 2) Your laundry will be free. That's right, free laundry. It's on us."

Wednesday, November 10
Wash N Clean
14th Street between Avenues A and B, Manhattan
8p; $free

[via the Nonsense list.]

Thanks for VOTING...

Thanks to everyone for voting on November 2nd. Maybe this will bring out new positive ideas from us and our communities where ever they may be.

Peace.