Social Practice

The Wooster Collective gave a talk at the Conflux Festival in New York and Regine of “we make money not art” transcribed some of her notes.

On location– “A work of street art reclaims the public space and the best street art has a context, builds a relationship with its environment, dialogs with the city.”

all the city lights of reykjavik
will be turned off
the 28th of september 2006
from 10:00 - 10:30 PM
a renowned astronomer will talk about the stars
on national broadcast radio
everyone is invited

Looks like it’s organized by Andri Snær Magnason (an Icelandic writer) as part of the Reykjavik International Film Festival.

Just stumbled across the research of Danah Boyd. She’s a PhD candidate over at Berkeley (and, somehow also a graduate fellow at USC– not quite sure how that works)– her research involves “how people negotiate a presentation of self to unknown audiences in mediated contexts.” She also works at Yahoo as a social media researcher (gotta love the job title).
There’s a video of a recent talk she gave at ibiblio.

She has all sorts of papers and presentations available online in PDF/html/powerpoint format– with titles ranging from Sexing the Internet to Public displays of connection to Dating on Friendster.

And, of course, she also has a blog.

I’ve locked up the blog so that only people who are logged in may post/comment.

To get a user account send me an email ( soprblog AT borro DOT ws ) — include what name you would like your posts attributed to “posted by _______”, your first and last name, the email address that you would like to get blog-related mail at (it will contain your password), and if you would like your website listed.

p.s. — email addresses @socialpractice.org are also up for grabs– lemme know if you want one