[spectre] Rosalind - Upstart Media Art lexicon.

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Rosalind - Upstart Media Art lexicon.
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http://www.furtherfield.org/rosalind/

Feed Rosalind with your own words and definitions to express and declare 
what you are, what you do and the worlds you create, on your own terms.

Influence and mutate her, help her to maturity.

Your words may :

- describe something very particular to your life/experience/work.
- be invented in a moment of desperation.
- arise in conversation with others.
- already be in circulation.

Examples:

mociology - The study of the effect of mobile technology and ubiquitous 
networks on our social interactions. A combination of mobile and 
sociology.  An important term in the rising world-network that we're all 
blips in the midst of. Reference : 
rockngo.org/archives/2006/01/mociology.html
Added by Jon Beardsley.

Mail listlessness.
Anxiety and ennui due to overwhelming list mail in inbox as a 
consequence of phobic sense of missing something which is not there. 
Added by Patrick Simons.

Glass Roots.
An unacknowledged discriminatory barrier that prevents those minorities 
privileged by class or financial resources from accessing the source of 
distributed power or responsibility, as exists within a local community.
Added by ruth catlow.

Alpha Revisionism.
Promoting or 'selling' an audience on a concept/product in nascent 
(possibly premature) stages in order to create popular sentiment & hype 
about A given idea, product, or action.
Added by Patrick Lichty

Telememetics.
Study of how memes transmit over networks, what effect the existence and 
use of networks has on the spread and uptake of memetic infection I 
invented the word, it is itself a meme. Reference : www.telememetics.com -
Added by ivan007.

Anna Karenin Function.
A function which returns zero on success and a variety of error codes 
otherwise  source:Zack Booth; Inspired by the first line of Tolstoy's 
Anna Karenin ("Happy families are all alike; every unhappy family is 
unhappy in its own way.") i.e. all happy function calls are alike, every 
unhappy function call is unhappy in its own way.
Added by maya

D.I.W.O (Diwo's, or Diwo groups).
Expanded from the original term known as D.I.Y. (Do It Yourself). 
D.I.W.I.O 'Do It With Others'. Is more representive of contemporary, 
collaborative - art practice which explores through the creative process 
of using networks, in a collective manner.
Added by Marc Garrett.

Netropy.
Propriety that implies that through time, the Internet is forced to 
always become more and more chaotic.
Added by Clemos.

Catechstrophy - a disastrous technology problem or breakdown, 
particularly used in the context of live art, performance or 
installation which involves computers.
Added by Neil Jenkins.

Parasitic Media.
"The parasite is the mystical computer glitch. The parasite is the 
bandwidth thief. The parasite is the invisible usurper. The shift that 
takes place in the host, if any, is one so gradual the parasite will be 
able to feed and thrive without detection. The invisibility of the 
parasite is only through the eyes of its host organism." Reference : 
www.carbondefense.org/writing_7.html -
Added by Ryan griffis.

gxxgle - verb- (to gxxgle).
To search for a search engine that fights censorship in the face of 
shareholder greed or state pressure. That doesn't contribute to the 
development of technology used to implement state firewalls see 
Reporters Without Borders http://www.rsf.org/article.php3?id_article=16262
Reference : furtherfield.org/boycott.html
Added by Rosalind.

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