ENTER_ the blog

Shadow

2007-12-13T11:23:00.001Z

Shadow
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from the Biennale

Clearing up and looking forward

2007-05-07T08:02:00.000Z

Parker's Piece shows little sign that we were ever there, and the students have reoccupied the spaces in Downing College where the conference took place, but the impact of ENTER_ continues to be felt. The main ENTER_ site lists forthcoming events and new commissions, and this blog will remain open for news, speculation, announcements and general debate.

kopet.net & opensourcesound photos

2007-04-28T16:14:00.000Z

For anyone that experienced the true majesty of the Enter_ opening night rave hut extravaganza and doubted its flatpack credentials...

For more photos, head over to opensourcesound.org.

Network: Mark Dixon

2007-04-28T10:04:00.001Z

Removed at Mark Dixon's request.

>>Check out our YouTube channel for more <<

John Naughton

2007-04-28T09:26:00.001Z

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Academic, journalist, thinker, and chair of the Future Space session at the ENTER_ conference on Thursday.

>> Listen to John Naughton <<

Listening to ENTER_

2007-04-28T09:14:00.000Z

We've been out and about throughout the ENTER_ festival and now have a great selection of short interviews posted on the Cambridge Film Trust's podcast service at http://cff.libsyn.com/ - you can listen to them from the site or subscribe to the feed and get them downloaded direct.

How is it going so far?

2007-04-27T18:37:00.001Z

Giles Lane from Proboscis at Work

2007-04-27T18:32:00.001Z

Listen to Giles on our podcast

Giles at Work
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Control Technologies

2007-04-27T18:31:00.001Z

Control Technologies
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Vicky, Drew, James, Manu on stage at the final conference session

Crumb

2007-04-27T18:00:00.001Z

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Cake, tea, technology

StoryCubes: Friday afternoon

2007-04-27T13:14:00.000Z

The evolving landscape.

StoryCubes: End of Day 1

2007-04-27T11:48:00.000Z

A couple of photos of the StoryCube Landscape at the end of Day 1.

Does Sunday school equal Big Brother?

2007-04-27T11:35:00.000Z

Growing up as a Christian prepared journalist Michael Anti, for the routine monitoring of his email by the Chinese authorities. "I was monitored every day by God,” he said. "You get used to being monitored by the government."

Anti gained renown in 2005 after Microsoft suppressed his blog at the request of the authorities in China. He added that he had recently been to see The Lives of Others, but that life in China is not necessarily the same as life under the Stasi.

"China is just a free country," he said. "You can now set up a company, go abroad and even have sex with girls freely. Only in politics are things not free." Even so he admitted that, "Everyone telephone I regard as monitored by government and every email will be monitored. But I get used to it. Big Brother is watching me, but we get used to it ... Even Confucius told us that we should be careful when we are alone."

DIFFUSION eBook: Sean's Blog posts

2007-04-27T10:33:00.000Z

Last night we quickly put an eBook together combining all of Sean's blog posts from the first day of the conference. Click the links below to download and print out a copy:
A4 version | US Letter Version

Sniffin' video

2007-04-27T09:49:00.000Z

Sniffin' video might sound like a punk fanzine for a generation raised on YouTube, and in a way that is exactly what it is. Like Mark Perry's legendary Sniffin' Glue, the project creates radical culture using materials that are extremely cheap and abundantly available.

Graham Harwood of Mongrel gave a demonstration about video 'sniffing' a project he helped instigate while working in Southend-on-Sea in Essex. Harwood recruited a group of local youth with the initial idea of creating some kind of Free Media. What they ended up with a film made by utilising the very CCTV cameras that had been installed to spy on them. The kids found the 24 hotspots in the town and mapped them out. They then 'sniffed' the video by using an off-the-shelf electronic device from Maplins that bought for less than £30. This enabled them to record the footage from the cameras. The group were able to make a film using on no other cameras apart from the CCTV.

Harwood said that, in Southend at least, that "there is a confusion" about the meaning of free media. Richard Stallman's famous maxim. free as in free speech, not as in free beer was mostly irrelevant, he explained, "as people have no money, both are seen as equally important," what people do instead is "replace money with imagination” Incredibly, the group went to the local Tory council and explained what they were doing. Rather than call the police the Tories were actually supportive and saw sniffing video as "a good way to get young people involved in democracy."

See more here.

Friday morning, 10am

2007-04-27T09:15:00.000Z

Sitting in the conference session in Downing College as Sally Jane Norman kicks off the first panel, looking at 'Open Technologies'. Q isn't here, and will be missed, but the others offer a good range of approaches and should - if we're lucky - lead nicely into the final panel which I'm chairing. Or hosting. Or compering.

Or refereeing :-)

Festival visitor

2007-04-27T05:48:00.001Z

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Gunter, a festival visitor, at work in a dome

Active Ingredient

2007-04-26T20:32:00.001Z

Some nice pictures and interesting discussion from Active Ingredient over at their blog - one to watch.

Active Ingredient

2007-04-26T20:32:00.000Z

Some nice pictures and interesting discussion from Active Ingredient over at their blog - one to watch.

Vox Pod #1

2007-04-26T20:24:00.000Z

Hear Jan Gilbert talk to Adam, a visitor to ENTER_

Listen here

Chris Rogers

2007-04-26T17:31:00.001Z

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Programme and Production Manager, outside a dome

Work in Progress on Parker's Piece

2007-04-26T17:30:00.001Z

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Putting up the tents... final touches

The Box Office

2007-04-26T17:29:00.001Z

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this is where to go to find out all about ENTER_ - on Parker's Piece, Cambridge

Steve Mullen

2007-04-26T17:16:00.001Z

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On Parker's Piece this afternoon, looking suave as usual

The cat with many smiles

2007-04-26T17:06:00.000Z

In a talk entitled Grasping the Smile, Matt Ratto used an extended Alice in Wonderland metaphor to describe the need to focus on creative spaces rather than conventional creative knowledge transfers. In this way, at least, his talk echoes that of both Bob Stein with his notion of ‘frozen’ and ‘unfrozen’ books and professor Heppell's plea for an unfinished architecture. In different ways all three advocate ongoing, open-ended projects rather than, as Ratto put it, an "over emphasis on the end product."