"Angel-F" a.i. censored

Angel-F is an artificial intelligence, he forms opinions through meta-data and the web, does his opinion count when it's based on all of ours? Officially no, even when he fills in all the same forms we do, he claims he was born but we know he's created.
Remember he's just a baby, he was six months old when he traveled to Rome and complained in person to the internet governance forum (I suspect by hacking all their phones bluetooth connections and sending them the videos below. Although officially he was not there and his discussion removed from the official documentation of the event. A giant leap was taken for all A.I. kind, all roads lead to Rome and Angel-F will be a name that will pop up again and again for some time to come.

enjoy!









Angel_F @ DFIR Internet Governance Forum Rome 27th Sept 2007

On September 27th, in Rome, the Dialogue Forum on Internet Rights took place at the Protomoteca hall in the Campidoglio. This was an important meeting in preparation of the Internet Governance Forum, that will take place in Rio de Janeiro this November : the forum is an organization created inside the United Nations , born to continue the work begun at the World Summit on Information Society, and it adopted a form of multi-stakeholder collaborative dialogue suitable for the inclusion of governaments, civil society and enterprises to the dialogue.

On September 26th, one day before the conference, Angel_f, a young artificial intelligence, decided to offer his contribution to the international debate, registering on the online forum that was created to allow for the collection of all the points of view and to truly transform the decisional process of the conference into an open, accessible practice.

His message - the point of view of a young digital being, not really different in structure from the ones we interact with in our everyday life (search engines, google, banks, post offices, multinationals… ) - addressed ecological issues that are constantly excluded in the dialogues about innovation, perspectives on the public identity of human beings and on its materialization on the network, showing the multiple idiosyncrasies appearing in the social, political, anthropological and cultural systems of the human beings.

Furthermore, Angel_f noticed how technology enabled the viable alterntives, but that these are obfuscated from the perception of the members of the mass society, and they hardly can be integrated to it, because society doesn’t yet seem prepared to accept the changes brought on by the evolution/revolution that the information society represents.

Angel_f’s message was never published on the DFIR forum, just like the conference’s live audience was not allowed to autonomously videotape and document the event, but the complete text can be read online here:

A short report from the september 27th conference can be found at this address:

Angel_f’s message contained insights that were too important to leave unpublished: the text has been placed on hundreds of forums, mailing lists and blogs, obtaining a good media coverage, thanks to the tools offered by the collaborative web. Even more: the spontaneous interest of Guido Vetere allowed the whole story to arrive on the main webpage of the italian newspaper “il Sole 24 Ore“.

The DFIR conference organizers know about the existence of this young digital being, and of his message: they denied that Angel_f was ever registered on the forum, claiming that his message was merely sent to their own mailing list.

Luckily, we were able to contradict them, as we held proof of little Angel_f’s registration (and of the 2 sent messages) through this screenshot:

The DFIR’s responsibles know it, too, but Angel_f’s message still doesn’t show up.

Sign to have it published!

[W]e[W]ant[W]it!
[W]e[W]ant[W]ays!

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The spivs @ Gibbos

For those of you that missed it, The Spivs (Ben Edge and Steve Coley) have started a bi-weekly residency at Gibbos bar shoreditch, every second saturday. My advice is get down there! You're not going to know what you're in for as the line up is always changing but the night ends with "THE SPIVS" and that is IMPORTANT!

Gibbos formally Montunos (the Jazzist bar around, had fantastic open mic jazz session on a monday where the glitterati of the jazz world gathered and played ad hoc mixes of experimental jazz and jazz singers met the circuit) formally The spiral staircase (a dark gay bar, dark as in they saw no need for light in the establishment). In between it being Gibbos and it being Montunos it was a fairly unsuccessful restaurant, whose name has slipped from my memory).




Here we find Ben Edge busily painting away in his studio space, isn't he cute, Unfortunately he had shaved for the gig and looked like a flashy black-marketeer, the french guy from the matrix movies, the one that keeps vampires and ghosts as friends and get gorgeous women to go down on him in club toilets. Which incidentally happened a lot when it was the spiral staircase, not to Ben, just on the premises, well maybe to Ben I haven't asked him yet.



I chatted to Steve (also clean shaved for the gig) about the drumming . . .

Sayshun Jay: You like them more than food, I guess?

Steve Coley: They are food! Eat drums! Eat cymbals!

Sayshun Jay: How symbolic!

Beautiful fucking Steve plays drums as if possessed by fucking Satan. The Duo play of each other well on stage and really get the crowd going.
And while we're on about the crowd, the crowd was full of characters, I found myself repeatedly shouting "get your Cock OUT!" while the geezer next to me (name left out on purpose) shouted "Deep THROAT", crazy girl chucked her shoes away and bopped bare feet.

and the night need not end there with Rock-A-Billy Rebels at Ye Olde Axe it being a saturday night, you're in Shoreditch don't try and party, just PARTY! £5 12 - 6

next two weeks exhibitions

Monday February 11th
Man and Eve, Mea Culpa roundtable discussion on Public Apology, 3-4.30pm, info: www.manandeve.co.uk

Tuesday February 12th
Rod Barton Invites, Hypersurface, Ian Monroe, Michale Stubbs, Caragh Thuring, 7pm, info: www.rodbarton.com
Tate Britain, BP Artist Talk, David Batchelor, 18.30-20.00, 7 quid, info: www.tate.org.uk/britain
Rokeby, Simon Keenleyside, 6.30-9.30pm, info: www.rokebygallery.com

Wednesday 13th February
Wyer, Jennifer Taylor, installation, 6.30-8.30pm, info: www.thewyergallery.co.uk

Thursday February 14th
Sartorial, Anti-Valentine's Day, 2pm-11pm, performances, exhibition, stuff, info: www.sartorialart.com
Transition, Sex and Witchcraft, group show, Kate Street, Hilary Jack, Lisa Penny, Rachel Tweddell, Anne Marie Kennedy, Susan Taylor, Beata Veszely, 7-9pm, info: www.transitiongallery.co.uk
Nettie Horn, Mike Newton, My Private Idaho, 6-9pm, info: www.nettiehorn.com

Friday February 15th
Crimes Town, Lucy May, Conglomerates, 6.30-9pm, info: www.crimestown.co.uk

Saturday February 16th
Cut a Shine, Valentine's Barn Dating Ball, Finsbury Town Hall, 8pm-2am, 10 quid, info: www.cutashine.co.uk

Tuesday February 19th
Jerwood, Jerwood Moving Image Awards Exhibition, 6.30-8.30pm, info: www.jerwoodmovingimageaward.org

Wednesday February 20th
Alexandre Pollazzon, Andreas Dobler, Paintings from the Comfort Zone, 6-8.30pm, info: www.alex-pollazzon.com

Thursday February 21st
Anthony Reynolds, Georgia Sagri, three performances, one today, and one on the next two days, check details with gallery rare, www.anthonyreynolds.com

Friday February 22nd
Fieldgate, Gothic, group show, 6-9pm, info: www.fieldgategallery.com

Saturday February 23rd
Carter Presents, Dallas Seitz, Georgette Magritte and the Exotic Sea, 6.30-9.30pm, info: www.carterpresents.com
Decima, The Famous, the Infamous and the Really Quite Good, check the website on this for sure, info: www.decimagallery.com

Conference: Art in the Public Imagination

29 February 2008
Have your say at this conference on art in the public realm to be held on Friday 29 February from 10am–1.30pm in the Sainsbury Wing Theatre, The National Gallery, Trafalgar Square.

Programme
The conference will include presentations on the Fourth Plinth commissions within the broader context of art in the public realm in London and discussions led by Sandy Nairne, Director of the National Portrait Gallery. There will be a panel discussion with the shortlisted artists - Jeremy Deller, Antony Gormley, Yinka Shonibare, and Bob & Roberta Smith - chaired by art critic Louisa Buck.

How to get your ticket
Tickets for the conference can be purchased in advance and cost £5 - £3 for senior citizens, full-time students and the unemployed.

Online: www.nationalgallery.org.uk
In person: From the Advance Tickets and Audio Guide desks, Level 0, Getty Entrance.
By post: Please complete the booking form included in the leaflet and send it with full payment and a stamped self-addressed envelope to The National Gallery.

Art in the Public Imagination conference leaflet/booking form PDF

On the day of the conference any remaining tickets will be on sale half an hour before the start of the event. Payment is by cash or cheque only.

GiG! all profit from entry goes to ART degree show....

more music!!!!!

Gibbo Makes a Scene

Hanna Clarke, Ben Edge, Matt Giraudeau, Wendy McLean, Cai Nyahoe

6th - 20th December

Opening night 6th December

with a special performance from Dogtanion

This group exhibition brings together a diverse selection of satirical work by young emerging artists.

Ben Edge works with found imagery from the 50's and 60's, inviting us to insert narratives to his paintings. Wendy McLean’s drawings study rock like structures which, like the souvenir pebble sounds on the beach, might just resemble something apart from itself. Hanna Clarke’s paintings explore and celebrate the bestial and fundamental traits that still linger in contemporary culture through an exuberant and playful manipulation of paint.

Matt Giraudeau says 'Ducks do not like art, or understand the concept of trampolining. They are all that we are not.' Cai Nyahoe believes Vladmir Putin and Kerry Catona are the only true heroes in this world. One is Welsh, and one is a Communist.

The unusual dimensions of Flospace provides a certain movement, tension and dialogue between these paintings and drawings. A hybrid of the theatrical and the mundane, this exhibition invites the viewer to go with the flow and celebrate the quirky.

Holidays Over...Here's To A Great Third &Final Year

Hi! Everyone,
Hope you have had an enjoyable holiday time.
Here's to an enjoyable,challenging and adventurous Third & Final year.
May the force be with us all!