Thanks to the scores of visitors who visited our opening at the DigitalArt.LA festival last weekend.  Below are some photos.  Full set here.

Joint Custody Project collaborator Despina Stokou has recently launched an initiative, Apply Softly, best described as people who “are friends in myspace and facebook…but not in life, at least not the conventional way.”  She and her four ‘friends’ will preview work at this year’s Preview Berlin [the city’s premier emerging arts fair this fall].

Visit the newly launched site applysoftly.

The Found Luddites in Berlin [Chris and myself] were obviously not present for this past weekend’s activities at Found [Money & Run kickoff party/DataPortability meetup/Sunday Sweets 4]. Our own crowd of Techno-utopianists, however [Brady, Drew, Renata], were in full effect.

Click on the links above to see the individual sets. Photos by Renata Popenhagen, Drew Baldwin, and Brady Brim-DeForest.

Weekend Recap From Brady: The festivities kicked off on Friday with the Money & Run party – which returns this Friday and Saturday nights, starting at 8:30pm, and featuring DJ Tarantino [White Minstrel Show]. Saturday saw a meeting of nerds and ne’re-do-wells (nerd-o-wells, anyone?) for the DataPortability Meetup. On Sunday, we were graced with the sweet sounds of Jenny Jenkins, Mad Gregs, and Flowers From the Man Who Shot Your Uncle.

Thanks to Holly Willis [Director of Academic Programs at the Institute for Multimedia Literacy], Rex Bruce [Director, Los Angeles Center for Digital Art], Jack Lerner [Acting Director, USC Intellectual Property and Technology Law Clinic], and Chris Weibart + Michael Wilson [Multimedia Designers, Interactive Hologram Forgers] for their excellent presentations at last week’s Creative Commons Salon.  

Cameron Parkins from CC was kind enough to take some lovely, ethereal portraits during the presentation.   They are all Attribution 2.0 labeled, so you can use them however you see fit, as long as you give credit to the creator, Cameron.

We will post links to their presentations as soon as they are up.  Our next Salon is tentatively scheduled for June.

View all of the photos here.

Benjamin Edwards has been busy on his computer lately, it seems.  The prolific, detailed straddler of digital and practical techniques has not only been painting a ton; he’s also begun two projects that I don’t really understand at all.

And I like that.  Click the links below:

automaticcity.com / ETHERZONE MACHINE / MORE MACHINES

Starting tomorrow, Wired presents a four day ‘New Worlds Fair’ of all things new in all realms of technology & design at the Convention Center.  The people behind this massive expo haven’t been too forthcoming with details, but tasty images like the one above suggest missing what Wired’s NextFest has to offer would be downright irresponsible.

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LA’s first new-fashioned Salon Series hosted by Creative Commons is taking place this Thursday night at LAND in Little Tokyo [366 E. 2nd St.].  The evening promises to be both a social mixer and a series of presentations by the following:

Eric Steuer, Creative Director for Creative Commons
Zadi Diaz, JetSet Show/Pixelodeon
John Gillilan, Vosotros Music

Los Angeles will be added to the exciting list of other cities which have been added to this series, including San Francisco, Toronto, Berlin, Beijing, Warsaw, Seoul, Brisbane, and Johannesburg.

In brief, Creative Commons, as a non-profit entity, creates licenses which define to what extent a certain property can be made available to the public while maintaining a certain level of rights for the property holder.  Creative Commons’ goals rest in the realm of appreciation for the ‘unlocking of information’ so that societal/technological evolution won’t be restrained and to find a reasonable compromise for the media ‘owner’ to be able to share and subsist of his/her creations/properties.

Also, the Salon is Free.