The Dot Masters

The Dot Master series

http://c6.org/thedotmasters

A series of stencils for gallery exteriors.

Graffiti is an act of vandalism.
Does making the subject of that criminal damage an image of merit
question its classification as a crime?
Can beauty be is used to damage property?
If that image is subsequently vandalized which is the greater crime
the decoration of a white wall or the vandalism of the image?

Ahh... the curatorial choices!

http://c6.org

Watch The Election Film of 2006: GNN's American Blackout

Want to know what to expect in the upcoming elections?
Check out the Sundance award winning AMERICAN BLACKOUT Directed by
GNN's Ian Inaba

NOW AVAILABLE ON DVD. Support the work of GNN...buy direct at the
American Blackout website for only $14.95.

Called "Impossible to Ignore" by the New York Times and "One of the
most important political docs of the past several years" by LA WEEKLY,
American Blackout chronicles the voter disenfranchisement that occurred
in the 2000 and 2004 presidential elections.

As we approach November, it's important that we keep a vigilant eye on
our election systems, making sure that all voters can get to the polls,
and that their votes are counted properly. We want to raise awareness
of the problem of voter suppression now, and be equipped to be a part
of the solution.

You can watch clips from AMERICAN BLACKOUT at:
http://www.AmericanBlackout.org 

For Love and Money: Resonance, Frieze Art Fair, 14-15 October, 1-2pm

For Love and Money

Two part Resonance 104.4FM radio show to be broadcast live during the Frieze Art Fair

Saturday 14 and Sunday 15 October 2006, 1-2pm

More information at http://www.forloveandmoney.org.uk/

- Last year the Freize Art Fair had a turnover of £33 million.

- The average artist in London earns below the minimum wage.

These two facts are inspiration for the radio program 'For Love and Money'  to be broadcast on Resonance FM from the Frieze Art Fair on Saturday 14 and Sunday 15 October 2006.

For Love and Money takes a look at the art economy through the eyes and experiences of artists and curators, far removed from the glitz of one of the world's most profitable and popular art fairs.  Supporting and enriching the art world as the creators of the objects exhibited, traded and profited from, what place does the average artist or curator have in the jamboree?

For Love and Money invites artists and cultural workers at the thin end of the financial wedge to respond and react to the fair, moving the agenda away from profit towards a greater sympathy concerning art in contemporary society.

Programme highlights include Personal Culture Therapy sessions with Cecilia Wee and Anna Laura Lopez de la Torre, works by Laura Malacart, Fernando Arias and Santiago Posada, Paula Roush, Melanie Clifford and the vacuum cleaner as well as the One Minute Soapbox open commission.

For Love and Money is produced by Joanna Callaghan and Russell Martin. 

Full programme details are available online at http://www.forloveandmoney.org.uk/

DIY Renewable Energy Workshop - 21 October CCA Glasgow

DIY Renewable Energy Workshop
presented by Beth Hamer

at the Electron Club, Centre for Contemporary Arts (CCA), 350
Sauchiehall Street, Glasgow
Saturday 21st October 2006, 11.00 am - 1.30 pm
admission free

Artist Beth Hamer has been exploring survival techniques within the
city streets and finding solutions in sustaining a lifestyle whilst
using the debris of society to create energy in order to power and
compliment our everyday needs.

Beth will be exploring ideas of creating renewable energy using
reclaimed materials using her previous works as examples. She will be
talking about her works 'Bike Generator', 'The Wind Machine', a recent
work made from discarded agricultural material, arranged to harness
wind power and used to power photocopiers, distributing information
related the current environmental climate. 'PPIS' is a new work that
includes a bicycle trailer, folding into a working environment with
pedal powered equipment used to distribute information on route.
During January 2007, as part of PPIS, Hamer will cycle from South
Lanarkshire to the Centre of Alternative Technology (Wales) engaging
with people and projects on her way.

The workshop will generate discussion and demonstrate simple examples
of DIY Renewable Energy.

ABOUT THE ARTIST

Beth Hamer is a recent graduate from the Glasgow School of Art,
Environmental Art Department, and winner of the 2006 Eco Prize. Beth's
artworks are designed to inspire and assist people to take small steps
to overcome an enormous challenge - how to live sustainably and
ecologically in an urban area. She is interested in low-cost,
low-tech, resourceful ways of presenting and elaborating artistic
work, which engages its viewers.

Eco prize website: http://www.eco-prize.org.uk

ABOUT THE ELECTRON CLUB

The Electron Club is a voluntary project creating a public space where
people interested in things like free open source software, circuit
bending, hardware hacking, computer recycling, streaming, audio and
video editing, green technologies, and amateur radio can meet, use
equipment, and share and disseminate their skills and ideas. All are
welcome. For more information see:

http://www.electronclub.org

Electron Club, Centre for Contemporary Arts,
350 Sauchiehall Street, Glasgow
Saturday 21st October 2006, 11.00 am - 1.30 pm
contact: info@electronclub.org, or CCA box office: 0141 352 4900

RADICAL INDEPENDENT BOOK FAIR Starts this Friday

RIB - RADICAL INDEPENDENT BOOK FAIR The Glasgow User Manual stall at
the book fair. Come and have a look at the stalls and the films. On
from Fri 13 to Mon16. Document 4 : Human Rights Film Festival Program.

Holy shit. Select Media Festival 5!

Man.
after freaking out at all the bad things we now feel real frickin good.
We are ready to freak your shit out.

October 13, 2006

Select Media festival Presents:
the Work in Progress

Location:
3219 South Morgan Street in the community of the future.

this is the opening event for the Select Media Festival and the release of our 101th issue of Lumpen. Its taking place in our new space which will be open for just one opening nite extravaganza....

Just go to the website;
www.selectmediafestival.org/2006/archives/2006_10_13.html#000027
dress warm.
and be ready/


or read on here:::

Friday, October 13, 2006
Work in Progress
3219 South Morgan St.
7pm
$10 suggested donation

The Work in Progress
Select Media Festival 5 opens with an experimental live television show taping and multimedia vaudeville happening at our new base of operations in the Community of the Future: Bridgeport. The yet to be named space at 3219 S Morgan will host our opening show.

Installations created by Brendan Missett and Ringmar will act as sets in which we will tape live performances by Kill Comedy hosts Eric "Guns" Graf and Nick Sexy Bahr. Andres J Laracuente, the Jugglers of Doom, Brother John, Rotten Milk, Boneyard, Kareza, Al Burian, Marc Arcuri, Ghostbusters and other special guests will perform.

Installations: Our inaugural Storefront Window Gallery installations are created by Elisa Harkins and Mark McGinnis. The installations are on view in our storefront windows throughout the festival.

INSTALLATIONS BY:::

A FOREST HAPPENING By Elisa Harkins
A forest with creatures inhabiting it will energize our new storefront window which has been lifeless, lightless and empty for the past ten years.

PLEXISTAGE by Ringmar
Re-using colored plexiglass and recycled wood Ringmar will create our first "Make your Own TV" installation.

NEWSPEAK DECODING MISINFORMATION 2 by Mark McGinnis
Mark installs a satellite series of incons representing corporate and political "newspeak in our sotrefront window galleries.


The Community of the Future Clashes with La MisseCuente Familia de Muerte and their Time Traveling Lab Mice.
by Andres Laracuente and Brendan Missett

Player A: Scarecrow Pharaoh
Player B: Californian Woodlands Creature
Player J: Brother John
Player L: Heavenly Mother
Player M: Drowned Demigod

MISSECUENTE IS MYTH. THEY EXIST IN A NARRATIVE OF IMAGES, COMMUNICATING THROUGH A CLAREVOYANT UNDERSTANDING OF SHARED TEMPORAL EXPERIENCE AND SUPERHUMAN PHENOMENA.

ON FRIDAY, OCTOBER 13TH THEY EVOKE A NEW SET OF ENERGY SPIRITS TO TELL THE STORY OF A SURREAL AND IDIOSYNCRATIC EXPERIMENT IN TIME TRAVEL. ENDLESS PSYCHIC POSSIBILITIES ENSUE AS A CAST OF LEGENDARY AND ETHEREAL BEINGS EMERGE IN AN EPIC TALE OF TRIAL AND ERROR.

Program
3219 South Morgan St.
8pm
$10 suggested donation

B-17: A Mini Epic
by Artura Cubacub and Sarah Weis
Sarah And Yumi are top-secret sex slaves for a high ranking government official. They spend their days in a bizarre play-pen/torture chamber/slave-labor station, where they produce pro-war polo shirts by han and live in constant fear. Tumi, having lived in the cell the longest, is almost completely brainwashed and paralyzed, but Sarah still posseses enough spunk to try to escape. Her impulsive scheme is thwarted by a few terrifying obstacles... will Sarah's inner courage be enough to save the day?

with:
Fast, Faster, Fastest (American Tradition)
by Brian Block (2004-5) 14:54
Brian Block has created an edit of police chase footage set to live rock concert recording. The video shows individuals' desperate grip on liberty against the state, as they run it down to its most intense moments in their carsm notorcycles ad on foot.

Also showing:

Works by Murta
Takeshi Murata is one of today's leading new media artists. His videos are shon inernationally and his acclaim is well deserved. We are honored to present a few of his works. Featuring:

Melter 2 (2003) 3 min
Sound by Maso Yamazaki

Monster Movie (2005) 4 min
A distorted and manipulated video of a special creature using custom made filters. Sound by Plate Tectonics

Cone Eater (2004) 4 min. Sound by Robert Beatty. Acid symmetry.

Tarpit (2004) loop. Equisite globular shapes for hypnotic effect.

AFTER THE SCREENINGS:

Make your Own TV!
The live television taping begins. Our new space is also an experimental television studio.

Extra Special Stuff!
Select 10: Bootleg This! We will be giving our latest Select #10 DVDR to the first 100 visitors. The Bootleg This! edition contains fresh work by Paper Rad, Mike Miles, Tv Sheriff, Ton Meijdam, E*Rock and Nick Bahr. With a few secret videos bootlegged from the past.

Community of the Future T-shirts
Last year Dave Weik and his buddy made the Community of the Future logo that defined the vision for the south side community of Bridgeport. Bring something to silkscreen on and you can be the first to sport the Bridgecot Center on your clothes. Silkscreening powered by the empty v people!

TERRA FIRMA - WAR

Good track - Good video

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=k4PL5UQkhNM

Unusual sign appeared overnight causes controversy

October 3, 2006
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE

UNUSUAL SIGN APPEARED OVERNIGHT CAUSES CONTROVERSY
A new artwork by the Mattes duo (aka 0100101110101101.ORG)

On the night of September the 20th 2006 a sign appeared on a building
in the center of Viterbo, an ancient city in central Italy, not far
from Rome. Apparently put by the City Council it has already caused
quite a stir. The sign is in fact an art piece by controversial artist
duo Eva and Franco Mattes (aka 0100101110101101.ORG). Looking as
official as any other street sign, it reads:

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An Ordinary Building

This building was designed by an unknown architect in an irrelevant
epoch and never belonged to an important person. The complex does not
show any original architectural solutions, nor does it conserve any
important works of art within. No memory is kept of any significant
historical events occurring on this site. No known personality was
born, lived or died here, nor is any excellent artist or sublime poet
still working here.

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Hundreds of unaware passersby have been staring at the sign: "It's
brilliant!" comments an elderly woman "But I have no idea how to
interpret it". While an outraged citizen living nearby comments "This
is just unacceptable, look around, there are buildings much worse than
this one, especially in the suburbs".

When asked to give an explanation of the sign, Franco Mattes, currently
in New York, declared "It means what it says".

Italian curator Claudio Zecchi, who commissioned the work, comments:
"This piece has a strong provocative nature like all their previous
ones. The ideal stage for their art is not the official places where
artworks get recognition and celebration like galleries and museums,
but the city itself. It is only there that they can obtain the most
genuine reaction".

The artists plan to leave the sign on the building until mid October,
but whether or not the City Council and citizens will allow this, is an
open question.

"History is not given" adds Eva Mattes "it has to be constructed, it's
pure fiction, like in a novel".

The Mattes are not new to this kind of interventions. Over the last
decade they drawn worldwide acclaim - and contempt - for producing some
of the most paradoxical artworks ever, including staging a hoax
involving a completely made-up artist, challenging and defeating Nike
Corporation in a legal battle for a fake advertisement campaign and
inventing ‘United We Stand', a non-existent Hollywood-style
blockbuster.

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Info and contacts:
http://www.0100101110101101.org

Downloadable images:
http://www.0100101110101101.ORG/download/ordinary.html

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Urban Food Foraging Workshop - Dundee

Urban Food Foraging Workshop

11am, Saturday 14th October 2006

meet at the dragon sculpture on the High Street, Dundee

free to all

Artist Beth Hamer will introduce people to the various kinds of edible
plants that grow wild around the city. This workshop will be in the form
of guided tour around areas of Dundee where such plants can be found.

The foraging workshop will involve a walk around the city of Dundee,
looking for and identifying edible plants, which grow abundantly
throughout the city streets and green areas. The workshop will include
collecting edibles and a foraged feast at the end of the day. As a
response to oil depletion and our heavy reliance on supermarkets, this
workshop will provide a foundation in the knowledge that we can provide
for ourselves by being more aware of our environment.

The workshop will be outdoors, please wear suitable clothing.

Beth Hamer is a recent graduate from the Glasgow School of Art,
Environmental Art Department, and winner of the 2006 Eco Prize.
Beth's artworks are designed to inspire and assist people to take small
steps to overcome an enormous challenge - how to live sustainably and
ecologically in an urban area. She is interested in low-cost, low-tech,
resourceful ways of presenting and elaborating artistic work, which
engages its viewers.

The workshop is part of the exhibition 'diggers', with Simon Yuill, Chad
McCail and Beth Hamer, at the Hannah Maclure Centre Gallery, September
15th to December 15th. Gallery and Coffee Shop opening Hours: 9.30am to
4.45pm Monday to Friday. The Hannah Maclure Centre, 3rd Floor, Student
Union Centre, University of Abertay, Bell Street, Dundee. Supported by
the Scottish Arts Council and the University of Abertay.

'diggers' is part of the spring_alpha project. spring_alpha is
supported by Alt-W, the British Council, Centre for Contemporary Art
(Glasgow), Dundee Contemporary Arts, Media Arts and Imaging (University
of Dundee), Media Centre (Huddersfield), the National Lottery through
the Scottish Arts Council, Netherlands Institute for Media Art, New
Media Scotland, Piet Zwart Institute, and the University of Abertay.

http://www.spring-alpha.org

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DOCUMENT 4 : International Human Rights Documentary Film Festival - Glasgow

http://www.docfilmfest.org.uk

DOCUMENT 4 : International Human Rights Documentary Film Festival

13-16 October @ CCA & GFT Cinemas, Glasgow

Launch Night
Thursday 12th October · 7.30pm · CCA 4&5

Screening of 'La Isla durmiente' - David Martín de los Santos, Cuba ·
2005 · 58 mins
Illusions,hope and faith are the weapons that we create to survive in
the face of adversity. Religion, superstition and art are the spaces
where we can develop the concepts created my our imagination to fight
suffering. The Cuban citizen is a dreamer, and this film attempts to
make a trip towards a real Cuba, as real as its dreams.

Screening 90 films over 4 day - for the full programme and festival
details, please see: http://www.docfilmfest.org.uk

Tickets:
Single Screenings £2/£4
Day Passes £5/£10
Weekend Passes £15/£30
Asylum Seekers Free

Venues:
CCA, 350 Sauchiehall Street, Glasgow G2 3JD
GFT, 12 Rose Street, Glasgow G3 6RB

AND

independent / radical book fair
· stalls at CCA throughout the festival
· titles with which you can make a positive change in the world
· cornerstoned by AK Press: making available radical political books,
pamphlets, media and other materials published by independent
presses, not the corporate giants,
· self-organised bi-monthly events, bringing regular access to
independent / radical publishers and producers back to Glasgow

Document Festival, 15 Argyle Court, 1103 Argyle Street, Glasgow,
Scotland, UK, G3 8ND
Tel: 0141 4290185 m: 07963 476204 Email: docfest@gmail.com
www.docfilmfest.org.uk

FIELD MUSIC

TUESDAY 3rd OCTOBER
At The Admiral Bar (72a Waterloo st) 9pm
Four Pounds is the cost

FIELD MUSIC
Field Music are without question one of the finest of
a glut of excellent bands emerging from Sunderland.
They seamlessly blend barbed, awesome pop
craftsmanship with an edgy new wave sound. I saw them
play at a hardcore all dayer about three years ago or
something and the just blew everyone of the stage.
Their second LP Write Your Own History is out on
Memphis Industries you can buy for ten pounds from
Monorail Music.

FOXFACE
Handsomely crafted folk rock music with punk
sensibilities. Driving and urgent with moments of
quirky experimentation and gentle, tender vocals.
www.myspace.com/foxfacemusic.

DANANANANAYKROYD
Special musics by a duel-drummered sextet fresh off
the telly.
www.dananananaykroyd.co.uk

There’ll be a disco after the bands until 1am

This is the first of a run of gigs that we're putting
on over the next month or so, you can download a PDF
of the programme from here

http://www.bigwowbadges.com/nutsandseeds/NutsandSeeds.pdf

or you can go to the myspace which is

www.myspace.com/nutsseeds