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Submitted by mute on Wednesday, 10 March, 2010 - 13:18
M. Beatrice Fazi Tackling the conundrum of the future's relationship to the present through the prism of digital culture, this year's Transmediale festival strayed into some chaotic philosophical territory. In her review, M. Beatrice Fazi dismisses conceptions of the future as linear effect of the present, instead embracing models of ‘atemporality' and untimeliness
subject: Festivals | New Media Art
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Submitted by mute on Wednesday, 4 November, 2009 - 17:54
Damian Abbott Having chosen the conspicuously tranquil site of Blackheath for Climate Camp 2009, attention shifted from the politics of land occupation to the camp’s panic-fuelled green authoritarianism. Report by Damian Abbott
subject: Activism | Climate Change | Festivals | Mute Vol 2 #14 | Squatting
Fertile sounds of ripe Polish hip-hop
Submitted by CJ.Lotz on Wednesday, 20 May, 2009 - 17:23
CJ Lotz The room smelled like a beer-drenched cement basement. Industrial piping hung low, visible in the moody lighting only when flash bulbs popped. As soon as Polish hip-hop artist Fisz took the back-room stage at Cargo Sunday night, mobiles slid out of pockets to snap photos and hands drew cameras out of their purse holsters. Fisz and his band, along with producer Emade, are musical mavericks in Poland. They capped off the "Fertilizer Festival: Good Shit from Poland" in a night that was as surprising as the words "Polish hip-hop."
Commu-tunes: Music by Mail
Submitted by CJ.Lotz on Thursday, 14 May, 2009 - 17:15
CJ Lotz Music swapping didn’t used to be as easy as a log on. Technology has made music attainment as simple as breathing, but not every nation’s rise to wires has followed the same path. Communist rule stifled the distribution of albums in Poland in the 60s and 70s, so teenagers made popular their own form of musical exchange: the Pocztowka Dzwiekowa, or Sound Postcard.
subject: Communism | Culture Studies | Europe | Festivals | Music
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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
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Submitted by mute on Wednesday, 12 March, 2008 - 15:07
London Musicians' Collective Twenty Five Years from Scratch, ed. Michael Parsons, London: London Musician's Collective, 1994.
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Submitted by mute on Tuesday, 11 March, 2008 - 16:48
Richard Wright The BBC's Live Sites 2012 program is set to roll out 60 big screens in urban centres around the UK by 2012. Considering the vague agenda currently guiding their use, Richard Wright asks whether these big screens will ever open themselves to creative use or simply remain giant TVs controlled by giants subject: Arts funding | Broadcast Media | Cultural Industries | Festivals | New Media Art | Regeneration | Socially Engaged | Technology | Television | Urbanism
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Submitted by saladofpearls on Monday, 29 October, 2007 - 13:33
London Coalition Against Poverty CALL TO ACTION: Halloween Picket at Hackney Council Meeting to demand housing rights! WEDNESDAY 31 OCTOBER 6 - 7:30 PM Hackney Town Hall Contact: 07932241737 londoncoalitionagainstpoverty@gmail.com This Halloween we demand our rights! 'A NIGHT LEFT ON MARE ST' - Hackney council turns the homeless away London Coalition Against Poverty have called for people to picket the Hackney Council meeting this Halloween.  |
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