thursday+friday 5.27 & 5.28.04 – Eating Security – 16 Beaver at "Social Capital"
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Note these two events do NOT
take place at 16beaver street
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1. Introduction
2. Thursday 05.27.04 ˆ baking: an Idea — East Village
3. Friday 05.28.04 Lunchtime event ‘Eating Security’ — Whitney ISP
4. Lunchtime‚s Special Guest 1:00 pm Demonstrations by Joshua Kinberg
5. About Joshua Kinberg
6. About ŒSocial Capitalˆ Forms of Interaction‚ Whitney ISP Exhibition
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1. Introduction
What are the ultimate ingredients for a better society?
To have a good amount of Social Security and be capable of Eating Capital
or to have good Social Capital and be capable of Eating Security.
We thought the second is best, this is why we are organizing this two
part event. The first on Thursday is a party-like preparation baking
event and the second on Friday is the lunch time to eat security with
special guest Joshua Kinberg who will be demonstrating two of his
interventions.
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2. Thursday 05.27.04 ˆ baking: an Idea — East Village
When: 7.45 pm, Thursday 05.27.04
Where: East Village
What: Cake Baking Event
Who: All are invited
What to do: please bring drinks. we will have basic ingredients, but all
are invited to bring their own baking recipes. please bring any special
ingredients.
This event is in preparation for the lunchtime event, i.e. part of our
participation in the Whitney Independent Study Program Exhibition of this
year entitled „ Social Capital ˆ Forms of Interaction‰ (see # 6, 7
below).
The preparatory baking is taking place at Anita‚s Place in the east
village. Anita will be cooking a soup for all, and we will all bake cakes
for ŒEating Security‚. Please bring drinks, what you like to drink is
good.
Anita‚s address is as follows:
Anita Di Bianco
331 East 9th St. Apt. #5
Between 1st and 2nd Avenue
212-477-0601
Directions
Subway 6, N, R Astor Place
F 2nd Avenue
L 1st. Avenue
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3. Friday 05.28.04 Lunchtime event ‘Eating Security’– Whitney ISP
When: 12:00 ˆ 2:00 pm, Friday 05.28.04
Where: CUNY Graduate Center ˆ 365 Fifth Avenue @34th st.
What: Lunchtime event ŒEating Security‚
What When: 1:00 pm demonstration Joshua Kinberg see # 7 below
Who: All are invited
This event in the 16Beaver Lunchtime Series is part of our participation
in the Whitney Independent Study Program Exhibition of entitled „ Social
Capital ˆ Forms of Interaction‰ at CUNY Graduate Center (365 Fifth Avenue
@34thstreet) in the Lobby of the Baisley Powell Elesbash recital hall.
If you couldn’t make it to the baking Thursday night, but can come to the
lunch on Friday, please feel free to bring your own cake (baked or
purchased) that day at noon. Don’t worry if you can’t bring anything. Just
come. We will arrange all cakes bought and baked into a unified American
flag cake. The three-color icing will be applied on-site. How it will look
does not matter as much as how we will bring it together. United by icing
the cakes will stand, ready for consumption. Be ready to leave “blue
lipped-red mouthed-white tongued.”
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4. Lunchtime‚s Special Guest 1:00 pm Demonstrations by Joshua Kinberg
At the lunch Joshua Kinberg will demonstrate two works : Shoebox
Projector and Bikes Against Bush.
Below are short descriptions
Title: Shoebox Projector
Shoebox Projector is a prototype device intended for disposable culture
jamming. The device, inspired by the Hactivist Flashpoint
(http://www.hactivist.com/flashpoint/), consists of a series of
disposable cameras that have been transformed into do-it-yourself
projectors. The device subtly blends into the urban environment, where it
can repeatedly insert subversive messages onto any dark surface. I want
to make this device more efficient, cost effective to produce, and
scalable so that it can easily incorporate a multiplicity of cameras.
Upon further development, I will mass-produce devices (with the help of
various activist groups), and then distribute them throughout the city
for their dissemination of counter-messages to the RNC.
Title: Bikes Against Bush
Bikes Against Bush transforms ordinary bicycles into Internet-enabled,
tactical media Œweapons‚ for non-violent, creative resistance to the 2004
Republican National Convention in NYC. Bikes Against Bush uses wireless
bicycles that incorporate a mechanical printing device
consisting of a series of spray-chalk aerosol cans. This mechanical
ChalkWriter can print text messages from web users to the street
surfaces on which the bike cruises. Online users can send messages to the
bicycle in real-time through the project website,
bikesagainstbush.com, and the cyclist can decide when and where to print
them. When the cyclist prints a message, bikesagainstbush.com
automatically updates a live map marking the location of the message. A
webcam on the bike also documents this with a snapshot at the moment of
printing. The spray-chalk text message remains on the street for 4 to 5
days till the chalk biodegrades. Thus, the goal of Bikes Against Bush is
to serve as an inspirational and working model for alternative, creative
political resistance.
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5. About Joshua Kinberg
Joshua Kinberg is a multimedia artist and activist. He works with the
convergence of cyberspace and real space, and is interested in social
networks, contagious media, and wireless communities.
In 2002, Joshua designed and programmed the notorious website
BlackPeopleLoveUs.com. Within a few weeks, the satirical site about
subtle forms of racism received over a million unique visits, and was
covered in the mass media by the New York Times, Good Morning America,
Black Entertainment Television (BET), and National Public Radio (NPR). He
has been an instructor at Parsons School of Design and at Eyebeam where
he recently taught a course on civil disobedience, cyberactivism, and
moblogging. He is currently an MFA candidate in the Design and Technology
program at Parsons School of Design. His master’s thesis seeks to develop
tactical media interventions in resistance to the 2004 Republican
National Convention in NYC.
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6. About ŒSocial Capitalˆ Forms of Interaction‚ Whitney ISP Exhibition
the Whitney Independent Study Program Exhibition this year entitled „
Social Capital ˆ Forms of Interaction‰ is curated by Howie Chen, Leta
Ming, Allison Moore, and Nadia Perucic.
The exhibition brings together contemporary artists who make the
complexities of social relations the subject, material or form of their
work. Responding to contemporary societal conditions, some artists
consider the influence of new technologies on human connections, while
some explore the effects of cultural difference and geo-politics. Others
orchestrate situations in which viewers interact directly with the
artwork or with one another, forging a community within the space of the
gallery. Considered together, the artists in ŒSocial Capital‚ present
various models of human interaction, encouraging viewers to reflect
critically on their own positions within different social networks.
It can be viewed at CUNY Graduate Center (365 Fifth Avenue @34thstreet)
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