Mike Davis recent talk at San Diego on: 45 minutes audio talk, partial transcript and about 20 minutes of q & a:
" . . .Mike Davis recently gave a talk in San Diego about
slums and their relationship to resistance movements. Here is a
partial transcript and an audio link from san diego indymedia:
http://sandiego.indymedia.org/en/2006/05/116000.shtml
"On May 11 in International House's Great Hall at UCSD, urbanist,
author and Professor of History at UC Irvine Mike Davis spoke to
an audience of about 200 people about slums. Citing the UN-Habitat
report, "The Challenge of Slums," Davis outlined the tragic facts
about slums, including 1 billion current slum dwellers, an overlapping
1 billion people with no formal connection to their national or the
global economy, and 2-3 billion people over the next half century
most likely destined for slums. Summarizing his recent book, "Planet
of Slums," Davis argued that slum expansion has reached a limit
- an absence of free squatable land and the declining ability of
slum dwellers to occupy survival niches has given rise to sectarian
violence, child abandonment and other rational responses to desperate
circumstances. He concluded with the hopeful picture of slums as
incubators for burgeoning resistance movements.
Includes audio and partial transcript."
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Game/Play.
Playful interaction and goal-oriented gaming explored through media arts
practice.
http://www.game-play.org.uk/
The exhibition opens at two different venues, in the UK and then joins,
to tour as a single touring show. Game/Play is a networked national
touring exhibition in the UK, focusing on the rhetorical constructs game
and play. This collaboration between Q Arts, Derby and HTTP Gallery,
London provides a basis for exchange and interaction between audiences,
artists, curators and writers through the exhibitions and networked
activity.
Projects fall under three main categories:-
installations,
independent video games,
online (networked) artworks.
Launch and tour-
Game/Play opens at two venues, HTTP galleries Q Arts.
HTTP Gallery, London.
Saturday 22 July 7pm – 9pm.
Unit A2, Arena Business Centre,
71 Ashfield Rd, London N4 1NY
http://www.http.uk.net
Q Arts, Derby:
21 July 6.30pm – 8.30pm Q Arts – Gallery
35/36 Queen Street,
Derby, DE1 3DS
http://www.q-arts.co.uk
Game/Play Artists:
Michael Mateas and Andrew Stern, Jetro Lauha, Julian Oliver, Kenta Cho,
Mary Flanagan, Low Brow Trash, Paul Granjon, Simon Poulter, Giles
Askham, Jakub Dvorsky, Long Journey Home, PRU, Q Club, Furtherfield,
Tale of Tales.
Game/Play Writers:
Giles Askham / Jon Bird / Peter Bowcott / Javier Candeira / Rebecca
Cannon / Ele Carpenter, Ruth Catlow, Louise Clements, Mary Flanagan,
Marc Garrett, Keiron Gillen, Mark R Hancock, Martijn Hendriks, Pat Kane,
Ana-Marija Koljanin, Maaike Lauwaert, Corrado Morgana, Patrick Lichty,
Christiane Paul, Thomas Petersen, Andy Pollaine, Jonathan Willett.
- enjoy the Ermajello performance of Plankton at Q Arts,
- test drive Mary Flanagan's [giantJoystick] at HTTP,
- view the works and connect and collaborate with visitors in both
galleries in the online,
multiuser spaces of Furtherfield's VisitorsStudio and Endless Forest by
Tale of Tales.
Curated by Giles Askham, Marc Garrett, Ruth Catlow, Corrado Morgana &
Louise Clements.
Game/Play is funded by The Arts Council of England and Awards For All.
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