Wi-Fi Camera Prototype

Wifi Camera Obscura reveals the electromagnetic space of our devices and the shadows that we create within such spaces, in particular our wifi networks which are increasingly found in coffee shops, offices and homes throughout cities of the developed world. We will take realtime "photos" of wifi space. This experiment is a collaboration between Usman Haque, Bengt Sjölén and Adam Somlai-Fischer.

Exhibition: Version 1 at Waves in Riga Aug 25 - Sept 17, 2006, then Version 2 at Perimeters, Boundaries and Borders in Lancaster, UK from Sept 29 to October 21.

OPEN CALL: La Superette 2006

La Superette is an annual event, an art sale held usually around the holiday season in December. We organize a temporary store where artists sell functional art in multiples at affordable prices. In addition to the sale we usually schedule musical performances as well as puppet shows, and video screenings to run throughout the day. The project is conceived and organized as a place for artists to meet and collaborate on a specific project. We publish a catalog zine, which distributes contact information of all participating artists, host a web catalog on this site, and produce a video catalog which is screened at the event. La Superette 2005 included more than 100 artists and attracted thousands of visitors and shoppers.

The 9th Annual La Superette will take place on Saturday December 9th at Eyebeam in conjunction with the Holiday Hackshop. Eyebeam is located at 540 West 21st Street, in Manhattan.

The deadline for online submission is October 30, 2006
* Work must be functional, original and cheap.
* Preference is given to: hacks, idea based crafts, amateurs, artists merchandising, and inventions.
* You price your own work, and receive 80% of the proceeds from any sale.
* La Superette is not responsible for damage to or loss of your work.

Read more rules and guidelines at http://www.lasuperette.org/call.php.

OPEN CALL: Sound works (under 1 min.) for Peter Stuyvesant's Ghost - Telephone Walk

OPEN CALL: Sound works (under 1 min.) for Peter Stuyvesant's Ghost - Telephone Walk

Dates of Event: November 15-19, 2006. Files will be archived www.cityinasoundwalk.org and www.free103point9.org after the 5 day project period.

What To Make: Digital sound files of no more than 1 minute that will be heard by the audience via calls from either pay or cell phones to an ASTERIX server

PETER STUYVESANT'S GHOST is a public art project that mixes sound art with historical and environmental research. PSG was initiated by Lise Brenner and made possible through the skills and collaborative efforts of free103point9, New York Society for Acoustic Ecology, the NY Audubon Society, the Mannahatta Project, and the St. Mark's Historical Landmarks Fund, and features the work of individual artists Michelle Nagai, Edmund Mooney, Ryan Holsopple, Melissa Bliss, Nienke Rooijjakers, and others yet to be determined.

This call is for both 'realistic' and interpretive reactions, in the form of up to one minute long sound files, to history related to the Dutch colonial period (mid-late 17th century). PSG is sited within the footprint of Peter Stuyvesant's original farm (the Great Bowerie). Today this is the East Village, between 4th Avenue and the original East River shore, and from 23rd to 4th Streets.

The question is how, through sound, to create a non-urban space in the listeners mind, if only for a few seconds. The goal is that listening to the phone messages will create an imaginative link to historical reality.

Specific Event Description for THE TELEPHONE WALK: A self-guided walk through the area of Peter Stuyvesant's farm, referring to a guide booklet created by PSG collaborators and utilizing cell or payphones to access a open-source telephony server (Asterix). The printed material will indicate routes around the farm, with specific points indicated where participants are asked to stop and call into the server. A payphone will be available at all chosen points. After making the phone call, the participant will dial the message code indicated for that particular site, thereby accessing a short (no more than 1 minute) sound file made in response to historical/topographical information provided to the artist about the site, which could include information about Dutch cows and pigs, church bells, hymns, language; memories of shops, streets, sounds of Holland; local sounds of nature (wind, birds, water, shoreline, fields, orchards, dirt road); local work sounds (blacksmiths, milking, carpentry, printing); or other information/metaphors/ideas suggested by artists.

PROCESS OF APPLICATION: Send an email describing your idea, in a TEXT ONLY SINGLE PARAGRAPH, to twowhitecats24@hotmail.com. You will be contacted within 1-3 days.

IF ACCEPTED: The deadline for submission of completed files is NOVEMBER 1, 2006.

For more information of PETER STUYVESANT'S GHOST and its participating organizations and artists, see: http://www.cityinasoundwalk.org/psg

Mexican teachers seize radio stations after masked gunmen destroy their station

From Duncan Kennedy, BBC News

Striking teachers seized 12 private radio stations in the southern Mexican city of Oaxaca and set buses on fire, as a long-running protest worsened.

They acted after unidentified gunmen opened fire on a government radio station already under their control. The strikers used the stations to tell parents to ignore Monday's start of the school year and keep children at home.

Teachers have been striking since May to demand higher wages and Oaxaca Governor Ulises Ruiz's resignation.

The shooting began at a government-owned radio station already in the hands of the striking teachers. A number of rounds were fired by unknown gunmen, and the teachers say one of their members was injured. The attack prompted a violent retaliation by the teachers, and a number of buses were overturned and set on fire.

Dozens of the protesters also took over the privately-run radio stations and started broadcasting messages of defiance. Others armed with crude weapons blocked off some of the main roads into Oaxaca.

A spokesman for President Vicente Fox blamed the state government for attempting to take back the radio station by force. He said the attack was carried out without consulting the federal authorities and described it as a unilateral decision by the governor of Oaxaca, Ulises Ruiz.

Governor Ruiz has become a key target for the teachers. Although their dispute started out in May as a campaign for more pay, it has since transformed into an attempt to get the governor to resign from office. The teachers say he is guilty of rigging the state election two years ago and of using heavy-handed tactics to deal with the strikers. The governor, who belongs to the former ruling party, the PRI, has refused to step down.

Last week a number of people were taken hostage by activists after gunmen opened fired on a teachers' march. They were later released.

The protests have also taken on a much wider context and have become woven into the continuing row over who won Mexico's presidential election.

Four months into this round of tension and parts of Oaxaca are starting to look ungovernable, and that could be a real challenge for the country's new leader.

OPEN CALL: Time Labs: One-Minute Radio Works

At the closing conference of the EU Culture 2000 project 'Radio.Territories' in Vienna, Sarah Washington and Knut Aufermann will be presenting a spectacle of European radio art, featuring highlights of the work that developed from the radio.territories project.

We would like people to send us miscellaneous one minute radio works which will be broadcast live on radio stations (including free103point9) across 7 countries on the 15th September 2006 from 19:00 - 20:00 Central European Time (+1 GMT). This is 2 p.m. EDT.

There will also be live micro-appearances in the studio from representatives of the contributing radio stations including Ed Baxter, the mastermind of Resonance 104.4-FM in London. Meistersoundtwister Dieb 13 from Vienna will be on hand to distort the proceedings.

Contributions are due by Sunday 10th September. Email them as high quality mp3 (256kbps stereo) to Sarah Washington at: washsarah@gmail.com.

Listen live on free103point9 Online Radio, www.free103point9.org.

Program will also air on:

Orange 94.0 (Vienna), fm station, http://o94.at/
Tlis (Bratislava), web station, http://www.tlis.sk/
Lemurie (Prague), web station, http://www.lemurie.cz/
Radio Grenouille (Marseille), fm station, http://www.grenouille888.org/
Resonance104.4fm (London), fm station, http://resonancefm.com/
Tilos Radio (Budapest), fm station, http://tilos.hu/
Radio Zero (Lisbon), web station, http://radio.ist.utl.pt/

OPEN CALL: Society for a Subliminal State Newsletter

Call for Submissions
Society for a Subliminal State Newsletter
Aka: Subliminal Statements
Due September 4, 2006

The ground speaks and has its way. It is beyond and below us yet
we take claim for what we do atop of it. Does it not have a mind of its
own - its own agency?

The Society for a Subliminal State is looking for true stories:
- Stories of land, sea, and air speaking.
- Time when presence, past and future combine.
- What is an alternative time of now.
- Do you know that islands move,
- Dead little animals create our homes,
- Lighthouses fall in love and transmit informative maps.
- History is a feeling not just a fact.

If you know anything about this please write us.

Send us your articles and poetry for the first issue of the Society for a
Subliminal State Newsletter.

Details

Deadline: Monday, September 4, 2006

Submission Requirements: The Society welcomes your articles and poetry on
any topics provoked by the above preamble. Submissions should be a maximum
of 500 words in length, but shorter submissions are appreciated. You may
submit images along with your written submission, but please do not submit
images alone.

In addition, please submit your full name as you would like it to appear
in print, and contact information that we can use to reach you.

Acceptable Formats:
• Text: rtf, txt, doc
• Images: png, tiff, jpeg, gif (8 MB max)

Email your Submissions to: subhist@subliminalstate.org

If accepted, your submissions will be published in the first issue of the
Society for a Subliminal State Newsletter, a compact format print
publication, and on the Society's web site. The print version will be
distributed for free to bookstores, art events and historical centers in
New York. It may be downloaded and copied for wider distribution.

About the Society

The Society for a Subliminal State is germinal organization started by
Carrie Dashow and Jesse Pearlman Karlsberg. The Society for a Subliminal
State agitates against the exclusive use of empirical evidence in the
search for truth. It is an organization that believes there many different
types of digging that may be productively undertaken. Still in its
infancy, the Society for a Subliminal State mirrors the form of a
traditional historical society, contributing to the public discourse
through a newsletter and a website. Governed by a growing board of
directors including artists, historians, and folklorists, the Society
accepts articles on topics avoided by publications that advocate fact
checking. The Society believes that if you see it three times then it too
may be the path to truth.

Visit the society's web site at http://www.subliminalstate.org/

OPEN CALL: Hairwaves

Hairwaves: Call for works

WANTED: Radio, sound works & audio recordings on the theme of hair & hairdressing of any duration.
Hair themed playlists & musical dedications to hairstyles loved and loathed also welcomed.

DETAIL: this FM radio project will broadcast live from Glasgow for one day only. Transmitting to hair workers and their customers - barbers, hairdressers, salons stylists, wigmakers and other coiffed Glasgow listeners.

WHEN: deadline for receipt of work is Sep 29th 2006. The broadcast will take place in the Autumn.

FORMATS: Audio CD is the preferred format. But Dat, Mini Disc, MP3 (please do not send by email) Tape also accepted.

SEND TO: Hairwaves
Flat 2/2, 1088 Argyle Street,
Glasgow G3 8LY
SCOTLAND

CONTACT: hairwaves@gmail.com

The HAIRWAVES broadcast is part of a collaboration between Freight Design Glasgow and artists Mark Vernon & Zoë Irvine. It’s technical realization has been supported by Arts & Business Glasgow.