rosas, por que não fazer a chamada pra nego escrever direto lá? e sem mencionar, por enquanto, a publicação, pra não gerar disputinhas políticas... f 2005/5/25, ricardorosas <ricardorosas@xxxxxxxxxx>: > OI Felipe, a chamada é para enviar textos e os textos a gente coloca no > xemelê. > > Abraços > Ricardo > > > > respondendo por aqui... > > > > ainda não gosto de net_cultura. por que não cultura em rede? tem que > > ter nome gringo? > > > > reitero a necessidade do texto inicial do site, e pergunto se o call > > vai ser pra publicação ou pra colaborar livremente com o site, como a > > gente tinha conversado, e depois escolher colaborativamente o que é > > publicado. porque senão a própria idéia do site fica meio inútil. > > > > quero divulgar o platform.xemele em breve. assim que sair um nome > > definitivo. de preferência antes de viajar (terça). > > > > > > > > ---------- Forwarded message ---------- > > From: ricardorosas > > Date: 25/05/2005 00:44 > > Subject: [platform] Book Release > > To: platform > > > > > > > > > Hi Everybody, > > > > Here follows the release of the publication as we have thought and > > will be disseminating now, along with the call for works (this one in > > Portuguese): > > > > > > > > Net_Cultura - A Reader on Contemporary Electronic and Internet Brazilian > Culture > > > > Net_Cultura (Net_Culture) is a reader thought to be published on a year > basis > > by the Midiatatica.org Network from Brazil. It aims to map diverse and > > contrasting visions and practices of Brazilian electronic culture. > Focusing on > > different aspects of that culture, it will try to approach both > marginalized > > features as well as well-established characteristics, but always trying to > > portrait it in a unexpected way, in a unforeseen angle, be it with > > contributions by practioners, artists, programmers, theoreticians, > cultural > > actors, activists, writers or the audience in general. Escaping the > traditional > > format of most Brazilian cyberculture books, it will always try to > encompass > > the most distinct voices from the many communities that compose that > > production, in its rich diversity and multiplicity of points of view. As > such, > > it will be both academic and amateurish, practical and theoretical, > mainstream > > and underground, making a cross-over of the sometimes dichotomic aspect of > that > > same culture. In fact, Net_Cultura will try to make a bridge that > sometimes > > seems to be so difficult to do between the academia and popular electronic > > culture that growns almost unseen throughout the whole country. The > > proliferation of popular networks, net-based or not, creating different > kinds > > of productions, be it musical, informational of communitarian, as well as > many > > researches and projects done inside and outside the universities do need > sort > > of a dialogue that can help to define a Brazilian face in what is made, > > produced, thought and programmed in here. Net_Cultura tries to help this > face > > to emerge. > > > > This year´s release, our first number, will focus on "Digitofagia" > > ("Digitophagy"), which refers to the very Brazilian practice of > Anthropohagy, > > the ancient ritual of Brazilian Indians that used to eat their enemies > (other > > tribes, the colonnizers) in order to get their power. Such a practice > inspired > > one of the most important Brazilian modernist movements to count, Oswald > de > > Andrade´s Antropofagia, which had a great influence in the whole > Brazialian > > culture from the 1920´s till now. Digitofagia tries to bring this issue to > the > > present questions of the digital culture, not only focusing in its obvious > > questions of intellectual properties, but also in the practice of > remixing, the > > popular practices of improvisation with electronic devices (the > "tricknology"), > > but also many questions as for collaboration, artistic and activist > > collectives, piracy, and many other subjects that are related to the main > theme. > > > > Digitofagia is planned to be 200 pages long and will be released in > September > > 2005. Besides the publication of the first Net_Cultura reader, a > conference > > will be held in Campinas in order to think up some of the main subjects > dealt > > in the book as well as to deepen some questions related to Brazilian > electronic > > culture nowadays. The conference might be 4 days long and will bring lots > of > > theoreticians, practioners, artists, activists and writers to discuss and > > research some of the aspects of this culture. As such, it will have an > > immersion character in order to avoid superficial approaches. In addition, > sort > > of an exhibition of Brazilian productions in net and electronic art will > be > > shown in a venue in Campinas to complement the conference. > > > > > > > > Best > > > > Ricardo Rosas > > > > > __________________________________________________________________________ > > UOL Fone: Fale com o Brasil e o Mundo com até 90% de economia > > http://www.uol.com.br/fone > > > > -- > > FelipeFonseca > > http://fff.hipercortex.com > > > > __________________________________________________________________________ > UOL Fone: Fale com o Brasil e o Mundo com até 90% de economia > http://www.uol.com.br/fone -- FelipeFonseca http://fff.hipercortex.com