Define: antiresearch
Anti·re·search
1 : hasty or convenient search
2 : haphazard inquiry or partial examination; especially: nonsystematic aggregation of information or request for information conjoined by random attributes aimed at the discovery of non sequiturs, or revision or confirmation of existing non sequiturs.
Stigmergy
The concept of stigmergy was introduced by French entomologist Pierre-Paul Grassé in the 1950s to describe the indirect communications taking place among individuals in a social insect colony. Stigmergy was originally defined by Grassé in his studies of the reconstruction of termite nests. Grassé showed that the regulation and coordination of the building activity do not depend on the workers themselves but are mainly achieved by the nest: A stimulating configuration triggers the response of a termite worker, transforming the configuration into another configuration that may trigger in turn another, possibly different, action performed by the same termite or any other working in the colony.
From Artificial Life
Here Is The Future
[From nytimes.com: A screenshot of a Konica Minolta advertisement depicting human life on a planet that appears to be about the same distance to Earth as the moon.]
PDFs by Erica Baum
From Ubu:
Frick (1998) PDF, 8mb
Strange Bedfellows (2008) PDF, 6.7mb
Index (2000) PDF, 10mb
Them (2004) PDF, 12.8mb
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This issue of Private Circulation, featuring an artist’s project by Martijn Hendriks, is part of the exhibition In Real Life.
This month’s headlines:
• Thousands of Tiny Lead Weights Hanging
• A Brief History of Negatively Charged Objects
• Scans of Scattered Smiles
• Also Known as the Billion-Dollar Game
• Endless Equivalence
• Short-Term Insight
• Serotonin Levels in Locusts Determine Whether the Insects Are Solitary or Gregarious: High levels of the chemical produce the latter
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Slide Shows for Private Circulation at Capricious Space
Sunday 8 March, 12–4 pm
For Private Circulation’s four-hour residency, during the exhibition IN REAL LIFE, I’ll be sending the fifteenth issue of Private Circulation, featuring a project by artist Martijn Hendriks, from Capricious Space.
Please stop by for coffee and tea as well as slide shows by Patrick Arnold, Derek Beaulieu, Michael Bell-Smith, Charles Beronio, Dawn Cerny, Jesse Aaron Cohen, Claude Closky, Charles Gute, Anna Nordquist Andersson, Guillaume Paris, Penelope Umbrico, Jon Rafman, Rebecca Sears, Danny Snelson, Zoe Strauss, Luke Stettner, and Damon Zucconi.
Slide Shows for Private Circulation is part of the larger exhibition IN REAL LIFE. Please see below for more events.
IN REAL LIFE
At Capricious Space
March 7–28, 2009
Art Fag City, ASDF, Club Internet, Ffffound, The Highlights, Humble Arts Foundation, I Heart Photograph, Loshadka, Netmares/Netdreams, Platform For Pedagogy, Private Circulation, UbuWeb , VVORK, Why + Wherefore
An exhibition that invites innovative and independent online art initiatives to each come do a 4-hour residency inside the space of a gallery—attempting to explore how the distribution, production, analysis, and consumption of culture are rapidly evolving in an online context. In particular the exhibition aims to render the labor of these online practices transparent, providing “real life” access to these cultural producers, and overall inspiring public dialogue around their practices.
Capricious Space
103 Broadway
Brooklyn, NY 11211
(between Bedford and Berry)
718.384.1208
Gallery hours (from March 7–March 28 only):
Sunday noon–8pm
www.letsmeetinreallife.com
www.capriciousspace.com
For press and other inquires, please contact Karen Codd: karen@becapricious.com