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Tuesday
Jun102008

Readings Section / Didier / Studio / Manchester

Ladies and gentlemen, a few announcements: We have launched a new Readings section. It contains full-length video recordings of Openned nights, as well as recordings of other nights in the London and Manchester areas and wherever else we manage to get to. Charles Bernstein, Maggie O'Sullivan and Sean Bonney feature prominently in the opening gambit. Didier the crow is now guarding the Journal until its launch later this year. Changes are afoot at the Studio. Watch this space. With the success of the first two Other Room nights, the Manchester site has now expanded to include the same sections and content as its London counterpart. Enjoy.

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Sunday
Jun082008

Experimental Fiction & Poetry

'Reviews, interviews, commentary.' Not enough people reading what is being written, good to see this, this being what it is. We, as Openned, are reading, and will soon be regurgitating and contributing. Link

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Saturday
Jun072008

Carnival

Steve McCaffery is reading on June 12th with Karen Mac Cormack at Birkbeck (details on the Noticeboard. To whet the old whistle, here's a link to McCaffery's Carnival. You've probably seen it before, but spend some time with it today, for a while - you'll feel better about the world; Dr. Phil told me so. It's the first time poetry gave me that strange ring of shivers around the neck, like the onset of a George Lucas-style goiter.

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Friday
Jun062008

Feckedy Boobles by Alex Davies

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Friday
Jun062008

Glitch art

378193426_5c7219dd0f_m.jpg 'By the early 1980s, I was playing with the early crop of home computers, such as the Sinclair ZX81 and Dragon 32. It was about this time that I discovered the esoteric beauty of computer crashes, tape loading screens, memory visualisation, loose cartridges, and what happens when you run out of 1K of memory. My glitch art site began in July 2001. By January 2006 it had over 400 images, but then I decided to start over with fresh work. I'm slowly moving away from pure digital glitches, towards physical artworks which combine aspects of the glitch aesthetic with traditional photographic printmaking.' Link Also, this glorious Flickr set.

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Wednesday
Jun042008

moria e-books

Have a dabble. E-Books are the future, it's the screens that are in the past. One day paper will look like a ming vase. Link

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Wednesday
Jun042008

Auto-icon

Jeremy Bentham, the original exponent and inventor of Foucault's Panopticon: 'As requested in his will, his body was preserved and stored in a wooden cabinet, termed his "Auto-icon". Originally kept by his disciple Dr. Southwood Smith, it was acquired by University College London in 1850. The Auto-icon is kept on public display at the end of the South Cloisters in the main building of the College. For the 100th and 150th anniversaries of the college, the Auto-icon was brought to the meeting of the College Council, where he was listed as "present but not voting". Tradition holds that if the council's vote on any motion is tied, the auto-icon always breaks the tie by voting in favour of the motion. The Auto-icon has always had a wax head, as Bentham's head was badly damaged in the preservation process. The real head was displayed in the same case for many years, but became the target of repeated pranks by King's College London students including being stolen on more than one occasion. It is now locked away securely.' Link

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Tuesday
Jun032008

Gonzo

[youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uxJtzzOx534&hl=en] The point about Thompson, whether you love him as a polemicist or despise him as a chancer who was born in the only era that would entertain the thought of accepting him... where was I. Doubters should gorge on The Great Shark Hunt. Yes, that was it. Goddamn bats.

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Monday
Jun022008

May 1968 Graffiti

Favourites: People who work get bored when they don’t work. People who don’t work never get bored. This concerns everyone. The most beautiful sculpture is a paving stone thrown at a cop’s head. I’m a Groucho Marxist. Arise, ye wretched of the university. The Old Mole of history seems to be splendidly undermining the Sorbonne. (telegram from Marx, 13 May 1968) SEX: It’s okay, says Mao, as long as you don’t do it too often. I’m coming in the paving stones. Yell. Reform my ass. Link

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Sunday
Jun012008

Fresh mucus

Somethings compelling from Frances Kruk, all things dated 01/06/08. Link

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