[spectre] plenum- 12 hour- 5 acts - expandable software

[shu lea cheang]

>in the context of Node London media season,
>in consideration of poly-media self-structuring,
>the durational acts of totally expanded, expandable software.
>
>
>PLENUM at NodeL
>- A plenary meeting session in  12 hours, 5 acts , 2 interludes.
>- Plus the optional epilogue.
>- 7pm, March 25 to 7am, March 26, 2006 (door opens 6pm)
>- Lime House Townhall, East London
>
>- admission by a piece of raw (meat, fish, veggie +++++++++++)
>
>PLENUM is a <KOP> + xxxxx collaboration
>in association with Open Congress and Boxing Club
>
>PLENUM  is a novel event format governed by a live-algorithm  that 
>can variably be adapted to a number of issues affecting communities, 
>groups and initiatives within the independent, self- organising 
>framework of net culture today.
>
>PLENUM refers to the space of open public meetings and public 
>speeches/debates as a commons. The project relates to the current 
>discourse on  open source software and open culture practice. It 
>strives to probe consensual and participatory organisations, hold to 
>account notions of transparency, shared commons and the underlying 
>power structures.
>
>PLENUM comes out of KOP's <Kingdom of Piracy> ongoing research 
>project Commons/Tales and its "RULE OUT: Autonomy takes on Openness" 
>workshop session at Open Congress, Tate Britain 2005. PLENUM at 
>NodeL takes into account the media funding initiative and 
>self-organizing efforts that produces this citywide London media 
>season of March, 2006.  On a larger scheme,  PLENUM is concerned 
>with the poly-independent system that we operate within.
>
>In collaboration with <KOP>, XXXXX orchestrates five expanded software
>acts with readily extendible Pd (pure data), SuperCollider patches or
>any networked OSC-enabled code. The software is concerned with an
>interface which operates in two directions - from the realm of
>speculative or expanded software (aka. the social) to the reduced yet
>equally effective realm of codified software and (as output, as
>interference, as noise) the entry of executed results back. A
>repetitive return trip. A two way street.
>
>We invite media practitioners , cultural workers , Pders and all speculative
>coders in any chosen language, who are part or not part of NodeL as 
>speakers, moderators, performers, and participants for  PLENUM's 12 
>hour tour de force.  With an aim at developing a working module for 
>agenda setting  and self-organization, PLENUM further explores the 
>tension between the individual and the group voice, the human 
>material and machine factor,  the coming together and the falling 
>apart, ultimately, the potential escalation of arguments leading to 
>the (un)aviodable crash of self-made social units. Hopefully, a 
>final walk out to River Thames at sunrise would revive the drained 
>codes and souls.
>
>*** Totally expanded software exercise bike supreme work out.***
>
>http://kop.kein.org/plenum
>http://xxxxx.1010.co.uk
>
>Node London media season
>http://www.nodel.org
>
>PLENUM at NodeL
>Call for remote and local participation of Pders and all speculative
>coders no/any SC3, OSC (bitte RSVP) with five software patches or
>modules being all extensible, expandable, open to any further
>interpretation. All code strategies, such as the neural, audience
>simulation, timeslicing, and rabbit holing welcome.
>
>send e-mail to  m <m at 1010.co.uk>