Summer berries in Europe…
Hugh and I have arranged to meet up in Dublin, Ireland, tomorrow:-)
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Ciara Finnegan
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Vanessa
## Emoji Only Social Net If you use…
Emoji Only Social Net!
If you use this link to sign up, they’ll connect us when they launch! 🙂
http://emoj.li/#7aC97bGv7aC97bGT-
Ciara
Oh, thank you, Vanessa! This is great!! I updated my OS from snow leopard to mavericks last night, allowing me access a whole new world of pictograms and hieroglyphs 🙂
I’m an octopus on a bicycle (well, two bicycles, actually – so many limbs to arrange…)
This is the link I received in order to connect with friends: http://emoj.li/#7aC97bCZ7aC97bqy7aC97bqy-
Vanessa Blaylock
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Vanessa Blaylock
hey… how come my emoji’s not showin up? Oh no, we found .Re/act’s weakness!
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Ciara Finnegan
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Ciara Finnegan
Octopus-bike-bike not showing up for me either though it gives the illusion of display before posting in Safari whereas in Chrome the emoji display only as empty rectangles…Mysterious…
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Vanessa Blaylock
IDK… maybe it’s something about the text formatting of .Re/act’s “theme”… try Twitter! Works great there… I’ve sort of started my own Emoji only campaign on Twitter. Or, of course, anything on your mobile!
Hope 2CU on Emoj.li soon! 🙂
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Christa Forster
Mixed Berry Shake Hangout (unofficial) Minutes
Vanessa
Kate and MichaelPhotos from today’s Mixed Berry Shake Hangout. In virtual attendance: Ciara Finnegan, Christa Forster, Michael Masucci, Kate Johnson, Vanessa Blaylock.Molly Ross and Rebecca Longworth chimed in by email but were not able to meet up with us today.Items discussed:
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Ciara
Thank you for posting the minutes, Christa. It’s really helpful to have this record of our meeting and the links are great too. I enjoyed the Ant Farm documentary trailer – it was interesting to hear Doug Michaels speak of how they arrived at the name Ant Farm – (though I think “Chip, Chuck and Doug” has a catchy ring to it too and happy associations of chipping away at an idea, chucking out the stuff that doesn’t work and er…Doug…hm…dug, past tense of dig and…eh…erm…well, okay, just Doug then!)
I think I conveyed a slightly wrong impression about the name issue in our hangout – it was not so much the name itself that I struggled with (I’m fond of “The Berries”) but rather more that felt uncertain about the identity of the group to which the name refers. This only really became a problem for me when I tried to describe us in an email to Sher Doruff. I’d grown to think of us as a sort of online artist collective/artist-led initiative but I wasn’t quite sure if this was a view held by the other members. I didn’t feel entitled to make such assumptions about the identity of the group, particularly as I wasn’t “with the band” at the beginning 😉
Anyway, I absolutely love Christa’s idea of doing an action or performance together that celebrates our commitment to the group, opens it to further participation and, in some way, serves as a little signatory act.
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Vanessa Blaylock
It’s so interesting that Christa & Ciara & Michael & Kate all seemed to be bring up ideas that I thought fit well together. I agree with all of it! Or at least whatever I thought the zeitgeist of it all was! 😀
I’d love to move on these compelling ideas right away! However for myself, I think July & August are just too buried in other responsibilities. But you all certainly don’t have to wait for me! You can totally run with any of this in whatever form(s) make sense.
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xtaforster
I never thought I’d hear Vanessa say she was buried under too much work! She IS mortal, after all. xoxoxo
Here’s a name I’ll throw out there — ARACHNET (did you remember my mentioning that spiders are my spirit animals?) Anyway…definitely has a stronger bite than berries. I do love the anti-oxidant connotations of berries, though.
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Vanessa
## The Team is whoever comes to play…
The Team is whoever comes to play
Ciara made an interesting comment at the end of today’s hangout, that since she wasn’t one of the “Original Blueberries” she always felt a sort of “imposter complex” (my word not hers) about her participation.
It reminded me of why Richard Stallman left his beloved MIT AI lab and founded the Free Software movement. It all started the day Passwords arrived at the MIT AI lab. He hated the idea that someone who sat at the computer yesterday could have control over what someone who sat there today could do with it.
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Christa Forster
Interesting, Vanessa. Ownership is a very powerful force in the American experience, isn’t it?
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Christa Forster
Some Mixed Berries rolled into Los Angeles
and had a physical meet up. It happened today at the Natural History Museum of Los Angeles County. Michael Masucci, Kate Johnson and I — Christa Forster — lunched at the outdoor cafe and loitered in the “Becoming Los Angeles” exhibit.
Michael Masucci, Christa Forster, Kate Johnson, July 13, 2014, Los Angeles
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Ciara
Ah, Christa, what a good idea to point one another toward residencies in our respective “hometowns”…
This Dutch website offers a fairly comprehensive list of residency opportunities in Europe and beyond:
http://www.transartists.org/And, off the top of my head, a few others that spring to mind:
In Amsterdam:
http://www.de-ateliers.nl/en/and a super one here:
http://www.rijksakademie.nl/NL/residency/another great one in the southern part of the Netherlands:
http://www.janvaneyck.nl/en/home/A really nice one in Belfast, N. Ireland:
http://flaxartstudios.com/international-residency/and one in Dubin, Ireland:
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Christa Forster
Thanks, Ciara! Great to have these resource links. xo
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Vanessa
ONE Night Video
Michael just sent over a video from our mixed reality collaboration with EZTV & Donna Sternberg & Dancers. TY!!
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Monerda Skute
Wow! The live dancers were wonderful. And they had a freaking drone flying around! How cool is that!?! Congrats to everyone involved in the production!
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Vanessa Blaylock
Yessy! Which color were you?? 🙂
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Vanessa Blaylock 14:17 on 28/07/2014 Permalink |
OMG! That’s so cool! Have a great time! Post pix! Say hi to Molly Bloom!
Hopefully at the August hangout we can introduce Hugh to Edie’s friend Nasrene who’s up the road from him in Dubai.
xtaforster 17:36 on 04/08/2014 Permalink |
Did y’all take pics?