yes, these pay to play gigs are often simply scams. they exist throughout
the arts. there's no end of offers to pay to publish your poetry or have
your visual art in shows or whatever or pay to enter some idiotic
competition. i suggest that unless you have personal knowledge ...

July 6, 2004
Turbulence Commission: "Tap Evol: The Setup" by Victor Liu
http://turbulence.org/works/liu/index.html
Needs Java and broadband connection

"Tap Evol" is a customized video player tapped into a database of video
clips. Fragments of video from the database are mixed in real-time,
generating an ...

Begin forwarded message:

> From: kanarinka <kanarinka@ikatun.com>
> Date: July 3, 2004 9:04:35 AM EDT
> To: <list@ikatun.com>
> Subject: Infinitely Small Things @ DCKT Contemporary
>
> Hello all,
>
> If you are in NYC or travelling there over the next 2 months ...

Institutions live mainly not on paper but in people's
lives. It is in the details of everyday life that people
will cooperatively enact the institutions and hold one
another to the expectations they create. If people do not
comprehend or believe in an institution then it will
eventually fall apart ...

a great petition for Kerry. Please take a look at it.
it is one of the better ones i have seen.


http://www.musicforamerica.org/kerrypetition

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>Subject: Michael Moore - Just in!]
>Date: Mon, 05 Jul 2004 10:11:28 -0700
>
>Read on everyone! Interesting GREAT news!
>
>
>Hi,
>It's a must film to see. No matter what political persuasion you are aligned
with, this is an ...

my mission://update July 2004

Contents:
://New entries
://"My mission" on Biennale for Electronic Art Perth/Australia
://Call for entries
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—> "My Mission"
The ongoing collection of textual self-representations in form of artistic
statements —-> as part of
"{self}_representation 2003" -
the new show on Le Musee di-visioniste ...

This call for entries has a pretty large fee attached just to enter, no
jurors are mentioned, the turn around time is very short, the curatorial
position is not stated, the print work is done for profit. Fair enough, and
this is much like the hundreds and hundreds of calls ...

have a look:
http://site.voila.fr/bowman
thanks!

gDHOWss

"Twinned With"
by the artist Cliona Harmey.

Started 22nd June 2004 at http://www.variablemedia.org
Further information at http://www.variablemedia.info


Variablemedia's latest project is "Twinned With" by the artist Cliona Harmey. Online at variablemedia.org, this work is developing over a 40-day period.

The project starts ...

Hello all

Some people that I work with are putting on a John Kerry fundraising event
on July 22nd in New York City that I would like to invite you to. It will be a night of
political short films, and should be a good time.

Information and a flyer ...

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July 2004
JavaMuseum://updates—>
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Forum for Internet Technologies in Contemporary Art
www.javamuseum.org <http://www.javamuseum.org>
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1. the last show in the framework of 3rd of Java series (2003-2004),
will be launched and as a contribution to [R][R][F] 2004—>XP ...

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July 4, 2004
OP-ED COLUMNIST

Their George and Ours
By BARBARA EHRENREICH

hen they first heard the Declaration of Independence in July of 1776, New
Yorkers were so electrified that they toppled a statue of King George III
and had it melted down to make 42,000 bullets for ...