*Bits.Atoms.Neurons.Genes* Micro_Gestures at the Edge of Invisibility will be an On/Off line space for MFA artists in the Visual Arts Department at UCSD to explore and present works at the edge of invisibility, at the edge of the digital and biological, at the edge of micro-robotics and nano-art, from in-virtu to in-vivo works and back.
Global Electronic Sit-in In Solidarity with Iranians Protesting against the Rigged 2009 Presidential Elections - 18June2009 - ongoing until further notice
Please join us in this urgent action in solidarity with the large numbers of Iranian people who have been taking to the streets since June 13, 2009 to claim their right to free and fair elections. This electronic sit-in targets the websites of the Guardian Council, the Interior Ministry, the Presidency of Iran, Ali Khamenei, Hashemi-Rafsanjani, Ahmadinejad and the Islamic Republic of Iran Broadcasting.
Our demands:
* Ahmadinejad must resign immediately. * All political prisoners, including all of the people who have been arrested on political charges in the past several days must be immediately released. * A new and independently monitored election must be held. * The list of presidential candidates must be open and free of interference by the Guardian Council.
This action is NOT in support of Mir Hossein Mousavi or other presidential candidates in the 12 June 2009 election. The race for presidential candidacy was itself fundamentally flawed. The Guardian Council, a clerical body overseeing the governance of Iran, rejected 90% of eligible candidates the right to run in the election, leaving only 4 candidates on the list, all of whom are connected to one or other of the factions of the ruling theocracy and should equally be held accountable for the atrocities committed against Iranians over the past 30 years and for the countless social and economic ills that are inflicting the country.
This action is in solidarity with hundreds of thousands of Iranians from diverse social groups and classes who, since Saturday, 13 June 2009, have been defying the official ban on mass rally and taken to the streets in many cities across Iran to voice their anger at seeing their right as citizens to have their votes counted trampled upon in a rigged election.
Trans_patent 7,098,056: Meta-materials and reverse friction containment.
Assingnee: Ulf Leonhardt and Thomas G Philbin, Casimir BioForce Inc. Dates: Nov. 6, 2007 Expiration Jan 22,2089
Casimir nano-mirrors levitated a stream of particle 89 towards their new host zones that the trans_patent agreements had set during the dipole tensions a few seconds ago. It was a strong flow space to end up contracted to - no neo-tribal force fields to enclose movement or shut down the ability to circle so many attraction nodes. “Life is not so vital now, you have to give a little to get a little.” Ulf and Thomas were sitting naked around the edges of the Surplus Vida bios as a velvet sun shivered in the distant horizon of the Pacific through a large window, “I mean just look at us now.” It was true. The faces reflecting back at them were full of something more than life, something more than desire, they were like new pearls born without friction. The bios clicked and de-linked. “Are you ready, baby?” After a brief moment, a whisper came, “yes.” Particle 89 started to unpack them into their smallest phylum points. It felt like love floating in an infinite mirror.
by: Ricardo Domínguez place: Medialab-Prado. Plaza de las Letras, C/ Alameda, 15 · Madrid
Lecture by Ricardo Domínguez within the frame of the Seminario Interactivos'09 Garage Science, an event celebrated at Medialab-Prado January 28 and 29, 2009
By 2015 the first cheap rapid prototyping fabricator hardware flows into the streets and quickly creates global networks of nano_Garage(s) that make up the first layer of future matter hacking tactics. All the usual suspects start to push towards the development of an Open_matter(s) Group that set the stage for the first true nano_fab engine technologies complete with uncooked nano_blocks that become available. While the dream of A.I and the singularity do not happen with the wide area distribution of nano_fab engines - the nano_Garage(s) around the world (especially in the southern cone) taking rapid advantage of adding this new method of lobal and horizontal production to shift away from the locked down economies of past. It also allows the emerges of a *science of the oppressed* as a strategic mapping of the tactical advances being side_loaded by the nano_Garage(s) movement(s).
*an interactive installation of multilingual meditations on nanotechnology, culture, and property*
Opening Reception: Wednesday, January 14, 5-7pm Exhibit Dates: January 14 - February 4 CALIFORNIA NanoSystems Institute (CN(S)I) UCLA
As part of the *Scalable Relations* series of networked exhibitions that present media artworks by faculty of the UC Digital Arts Research Network (DARnet) across UC campuses from January 9 - March 14, 2009. The exhibition takes place at the BEALL Center for Art + Technology at UC Irvine as well as other venues at UCDARnet institutions. Scalable Relations brings together works that explore digital media's capability of representing a growing amount of data in constantly evolving relations. Addressing a range of issues, the projects in Scalable Relations illustrate the complexities and shifting contexts of today's information society.
*particle group* is a collective consisting of Principal Investigators Ricardo Dominguez, artist Diane Ludin, interactive sound/installation artist Nina Waisman, poet/critic Amy Sara Carroll and pd programmer Marius Schebella, with a number of other collaborators flowing in and out of the project since 2006. The collective draws inspiration from sonification, performance, poetry, critical theory, popular culture, and the hard and social sciences to develop installations that engage with the politics and poetics of nano-science and its markets. *particle group* aims to shed light on both the lack of regulation of nanoparticles in consumer goods and the emergence of the nano-sublime. The group combines digital technology, investigative research, and multimedia formats in works that forge subversive relationships with the twenty-first century's frontiers of nano-science and the para/literary. *particle group* has exhibited at ISEA 2006; House of World Cultures (Berlin) and San Diego Museum of Art in 2007; O Futuro (Brazil) and Gallery@CALIT2 (UCSD) in 2008. The *particle group* is funded by CALIT2 and the UCSD Division of Arts and Humanities.
Ice ICE/Proposition 8 E-Action: A 3 Day Virtual Sit-In! NOVEMBER 20th to NOVEMBER 23rd, 2008
JOIN THE VIRTUAL SIT-IN FOR LOVE! JOIN OUR LOVE-IN!!
VALUE FAMILY! STOP THE CRIMMIGATION! HALT LOVE’S LEGISLATION!
A 3 Day Virtual Sit-in on the Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) and Pro-California Proposition 8 Groups for their refusal to support HUMAN RIGHTS FOR ALL!
FROM NOVEMBER 20th to NOVEMBER 23rd, 2008
STOP THE LITERAL AND SYMBOLIC VIOLENCE AGAINST IMMIGRANT AND LGBTQ (Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Transgender and Queer) FAMILIES!
STOP THE CRIMINALIZATION OF THE SO-CALLED UNDOCUMENTED AND NON-NORMATIVE!
STOP THE DETENTION ABUSES OF IMMIGRANT FAMILIES BY ICE! STOP THE REFUSAL TO RECOGNIZE SAME-SEX KITH AND KIN!
JOIN A 3 DAY GLOBAL ACTION AGAINST ICE AND PRO-CALIFORNIA PROPOSTION 8 GROUPS!
A 3 Day Virtual Sit-in on the Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) and Pro-California Proposition 8 Groups for their refusal to support HUMAN RIGHTS FOR ALL!
The Virtual Sit-In On ICE and Pro-8 Groups
STARTS Midnight November 20th, 2008 - Pacific Coast Time (U.S)
ENDS Midnight November 23rd, 2008 - Pacific Coast Time (U.S)
In the past few years we have witnessed and felt the sting of the anti-immigrant movement in the United States, its violent targeting and criminalization of immigrants. The results: heightened levels of fear among immigrants, escalated racialized violence perpetrated by civilians against immigrant communities, and increased levels of detention and imprisonment of migrants by local, state, and federal agencies. These phenomena either performed or encouraged by the powers-that-be have contributed to the massive separation of immigrant family across time-space. Simultaneously in the past few years we have witnessed the effects of other concerted attacks on the integrity of love’s many manifestations—a rolling back of legislation that begins to recognize same-sex family structures. The results: an embargo on family and love, blocked adoptions, healthcare, unions. Whether one supports gay marriage or not in the theoretical, the ongoing perpetuation of inequalities presents a clear-cut case of human rights abuse. Queers of color know that attacks on immigrant and LGBTQ (Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Trans and Queer) families are not distinct, but instead are clearly linked examples of the U.S. right-wing’s “acts of transfer.” “Lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender immigrants and their families are uniquely vulnerable,” says Rachel B. Tiven, Immigration Equality Executive Director, “detaining more immigrants, with less judicial review, will put the lives of innocent people at risk.” Don’t cede the category of “family”! Realize political kinships and affinities! Bypass EITHER/OR politics, embrace BOTH/AND coalitions!
This call for a virtual sit-in represents a two-pronged attempt to gerrymander solidarity against the actions of the Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE), an agency of the Department of Homeland Security established to allegedly guard national security by targeting “criminals” and “terrorists,” and the actions of right-wing organizations which devalue and terrorize families in their attempts to define the category of Family in the narrowest terms imaginable. Constructions of immigrant and queer families as violable are rooted in long histories of aggression against humanity; which have and continue to establish hierarchies of personhood. The forced biological reproduction of slaves; the enforcement of boarding schools for indigenous children; the banned migration of Asians beginning in the late 19th century and ending in the mid 20th century; massive deportations during the 1930s and again in the 1950s; systemic legislative and juridical “privileges of unknowing” against lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, and queer communities—these American (sic) projects are but a few examples of the continuous violation of “family values” in the United States. The contemporary separation of immigrant and queer families resulting from state practices to police internal and external borders is a piece with the long trajectory of violence inflicted on so-called non-normative families. Join this nonviolent direct action against ICE and Pro-California Proposition 8 Groups to speak out against BOTH recent atrocities against families AND persistent violence(s) exacted on peoples with histories.
1] Senate Immigration Bill Removes Added Burden on Same-Sex Couples Sought by House http://www.hrc.org/1462.htm
A 3 Day Virtual Sit-in on the Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) and Pro-California Proposition 8 Groups for their refusal to support HUMAN RIGHTS FOR ALL!
STARTS Midnight November 20th, 2008 - Pacific Coast Time (U.S)
ENDS Midnight November 23rd, 2008 - Pacific Coast Time (U.S)
Dr. Dominguez 
