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Flipping the Script Editorial content | Articles
Submitted by mute on Friday, 15 August, 2008 - 12:28
Imogen O’Rorke

As western audiences increasingly switch off from generic reporting of the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan, Imogen O'Rorke finds the news-unworthy testimonies at Tate Modern a much needed corrective

 


THE ASSAULT ON CULTURE: A Mute Magazine talk on privatisation and critical artistic practice Editorial content | Articles
Submitted by mute on Wednesday, 30 July, 2008 - 16:16
Mute

3-5pm, Sunday 3 August 2008. Upstairs at Publish And Be Damned self-publishing fair, Rochelle School, Arnold Circus, London E2. Free, no booking required.

Does private-public funding and management of culture mark the death of institutional and critical autonomy? And is direct censorship an anomaly, the most visible form of a wider constriction of cultural freedom, or the shape of cultural policy to come?


FLOSS and Art: A critique of Simon Yuill's "All Problems of Notation ..." News & Analysis
Submitted by Armin Medosch on Friday, 18 July, 2008 - 08:37
Armin Medosch

In his essay All problems of Notation Will be Solved by the Masses Simon Yuill claims that the emergent practice of livecoding 'most directly embodies the key principles of FLOSS production into the creation and experience of the work itself.' Unfortunately this claim is supportet by an argumentation which is elitist, draws on the criterium of virtuosity and thereby stands in stark contrast to the culture of particpation that FLOSS has engendered. While his central argument is not supported, the piece offers enough food for thought to be considered interesting reading.

subject: Art

A Scandal in New Bohemia OpenPublishing | News & Analysis
Submitted by anthony on Tuesday, 17 June, 2008 - 11:50
Culture and Sport Glasgow structure diagram
Rebecca Gordon Nesbitt / Variant editorial

Variant, one of the few magazines covering the grim process of stealth privatisation of Glasgow's cultural assets, appears to have been specifically targeted by one of the very privateers it criticised, and who has banned its distribution at Tramway gallery, in a highly defensive abuse of power:

 


A Weak Power Thinking Bringing to a Halt Editorial content | Articles
Submitted by mute on Wednesday, 28 May, 2008 - 18:12
John Wollaston


The recent London performance of Luigi Nono's composition for orchestra and live-processing, Prometeo, was presented as an apotheosis of the Italian composer's work. John Wollaston essays a paraphrase of this complex 'super-capsule' of the untransmittable


All Problems of Notation Will Be Solved By the Masses Editorial content | Articles
Submitted by admin on Friday, 23 May, 2008 - 16:56
Simon Yuill

In the 1960s and '70s musicians devised innovative forms of notation and protocol to liberate themselves from aesthetic and social conventions. Today's digital devotees of code based production and improvisation are continuing this tradition, argues Simon Yuill*


Mute Vol 2 #8 Editorial content | Vol II
Submitted by mute on Friday, 23 May, 2008 - 15:07

Mute 2 8 cover

Mute Vol 2 #8 features Stewart Martin on aesthetic education in post-Fordism, a prizewinning essay on music and code by Simon Yuill (Vilém Flusser theory award, Transmediale 2008), comic-strip satire from Plastique Fantastique, Tom Campbell and Dmitry Vorobyev on carcino-regen in St Petersburg, and by Benedict Seymour on art-sport implosion and the 2012 Olympics.


Staabucks Fukkee is Your Enemy Editorial content | Articles
Submitted by mute on Tuesday, 13 May, 2008 - 14:56
David Burrows and Simon Sullivan/Plastique Fantastique

The comic 'Staabucks Fukkee is Your Enemy' ran between articles by John Cunningham and Stewart Martin in the print edition of Mute Vol 2 #8

 


Staabucks Fukkee fourteen Editorial content |
Submitted by mute on Tuesday, 13 May, 2008 - 14:46
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Staabucks Fukkee by Plastique Fantastique

subject: Art

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Submitted by mute on Tuesday, 13 May, 2008 - 14:42
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Staabucks Fukkee by Plastique Fantastique 

subject: Art

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Submitted by mute on Tuesday, 13 May, 2008 - 14:39
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Staabucks Fukkee by Plastique Fantastique  

subject: Art

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Submitted by mute on Tuesday, 13 May, 2008 - 14:38
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Staabucks Fukkee by Plastique Fantastique

subject: Art | Biotechnology

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Submitted by mute on Tuesday, 13 May, 2008 - 14:34
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Staabucks Fukkee by Plastique Fantastique

subject: Art | Socially Engaged

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Submitted by mute on Tuesday, 13 May, 2008 - 14:32
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Staabucks Fukkee by Plastique Fantastique

subject: Art

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Submitted by mute on Tuesday, 13 May, 2008 - 14:30
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Staabucks Fukkee by Plastique Fantastique

subject: Art | Quantum Physics

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