Announcing: gg hootenanny: gandhi’s release party and global gaming singalong!
January 26th, in Second Life and beyond…
http://www.gghootenanny.blogspot.com/

Call for Participation!
Media Artist Joseph DeLappe presents the first ever internet-wide global gaming voicechat singalong, the “gg hootenanny!”, a day long festival featuring songs of freedom and protest in celebration of the release of his avatar, MGandhi Chakrabarti, from his nine-month imprisonment/durational reenactment in Second Life. This is a call for participation for all gamers and residents of online communities to come together and sing!

1) Three Live Performances! Second Life: 10am, 6pm and 11pm.
http://slurl.com/secondlife/Odyssey/75/24/23
Live streaming link TBA:
Join MGandhi Chakrabarti in Second Life on Odyssey Art and Performance Island at 10am, 6pm and 11pm, SLT (Pacific daylight) on January 26th, for the “gg hootenanny”, voice chat performances of songs of freedom and protest. Special appearance by Second Front! Or join us at the Digital Media Studio of the University of Nevada, Reno on January 26th at 10am, 6pm and 11pm, bring your instruments and/or voices and come prepared to play and sing! We are presently arranging for live streaming of the performances in Second Life, visit the blog for further information as the event nears…

Scheduled performers in Second Life include: The Beatles, Amy Winehouse, Pope Benedict XVI, Hello Kitty, Jim Morrison, Prince Charles, Spongebob Squarepants, Marilyn Monroe, Robert Smith (of the Cure), Wonder Woman and many, many more!

2) Global Gaming Singalong!
Log on to your favorite online game or community any time on January 26th and sing songs of freedom and protest! Solo and group performances are encouraged! A list of recommended songs will be posted soon on the event blog! Please video document your performances! Post your videos to youtube or vimeo and I will embed your videos on the blog for this project.

About the Gandhi work in Second Life:
In the Spring of 2008, Joseph DeLappe/MGandhi Chakrabarti reenacted Gandhi’s famous 1930 Salt March using a treadmill converted for use in cyberspace to walk 240 miles guiding his Gandhi avatar throughout the online community of Second Life. For the past 9 months, DeLappe has continued the reenactment by imprisoning MGandhi in a virtual recreation of Mahatma Gandhi’s 1930, post-Salt March jail cell where he was held by the British from May 5, 1930 to January 26, 1931. MGandhi has sat in his virtual cell at Yeravda Prison, 24 hours a day on Odyssey Contemporary Art and Performance island in Second Life, greeting visitors and engaging in daily “readings” from the infamous Bush era “torture memos”. These performative readings, entitled “Twitter Torture” have been fed, live, from the local text chat in Second Life to DeLappe’s Twitter and Facebook updates.
For further information: http://www.saltmarchsecondlife.wordpress.com

Contact: Joseph DeLappe aka MGandhi Chakrabarti
Digital Media Studio
Department of Art/224
University of Nevada, Reno
Reno, Nevada 89557
http://www.delappe.net

Dear artists,

I’m slowly entering your narratives into our leviathan-like peoplesoft system. After I save each eval, you might have access to it, but I might also still be editing it. I’ll post again here when I’m all done. In this little window of editing time (~48 hours starting now), please be in touch (via e-mail) if there is something special that you feel you accomplished in 20c and that you would like highlighted in your evaluation. I’ll do my best to sync that with the eval info I already have from your TA. This has to be something done for a grade for the class, but could include things like learning new technologies, understanding a difficult text in new ways, etc.

Cheers from Oz!

haven’t got time for the spam!

thanks for a great class, everyone! I will be in touch re Add-Art show soon, & have a lovely break.

We did choose the 4 most popular questions based on your responses to the survey. Luckily, your preferences aligned with ours.

http://www.performative.com/fdm20c/?p=181

fyi re my approval of new posts & my schedule in general, in the event of urgent questions, I will be quasi-available for answering posted questions about the final exam until 8 am tomorrow.

I encourage those of you already approved for posting comments to post your ideas about answers if I leave anyone hanging. The approval process only exists to block spam; I have about 100 spam msgs in the blog queue right now.

Another must-attend event on Friday afternoon–hopefully you can make it to both this and the open studios event in Baskin Fine Arts/the CAVE.

I would encourage everyone who supports anti-racist politics to attend this event, even if you do not identify as a student of color. Allies are very important.

(via Ashley)

The Student of Color Collective invites you to…

“Where My People At?”
Student Of Color Call to Action
Budget Cut Information & Forum
Friday, December 4
3-5pm Stevenson Event Center

Join us for a forum of education and dialogue where we can collectively address how we are DIRECTLY IMPACTED as INDIVIDUALS AND AS A COMMUNITY by budget cuts.

There will be speakers, education, and discussion!!

We want your voice, ideas, and knowledge to move forward and take action as a community.

In solidarity,
UCSC Student of Color Collective

For questions/comments/concerns E-MAIL: ucsc.soc.collective@gmail.com

http://danm.ucsc.edu/~elizabeth/FDM20C/FDM_20C_Present.ppt

Good work this quarter, all! See you Monday 12:00 for the final, which I know you will all WIN. EPIC WIN.

behold, all the second-half-of-the-quarter lectures are posted!

http://people.ucsc.edu/~lkelley/classes/fdm20cfall_slides/

You should have a survey link in your e-mail. If you take the survey before tomorrow’s class, I’ll consider your thoughts when I decide which questions to choose for the final exam. But please, do take it eventually, even if you are not able to take it by tomorrow’s class. I would like to know what you think about the other questions.

post study group info, questions, ideas.

Note the following URLs, which point to your TAs’ work:

http://danm.ucsc.edu/web/aaron

http://danm.ucsc.edu/web/elizabeth

http://danm.ucsc.edu/web/cmaraffi

http://danm.ucsc.edu/web/elaine

& look for that survey soon. I’m sending it to your UCSC accounts. Look for it there even if we usually correspond on a not-UCSC acct.