also today for "mini symposium" , part of this project :

http://natural-fiber.com/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=283:mini-symposium-qthe-mcluhan-perspective-of-massaging-mind-a-mediaq&catid=1:latest-news&Itemid=50

 




venzha
the house of natural fiber
yogyakarta new media art laboratory (HONF)
Jl.wora wari A80/6
Baciro - Yogyakarta
Indonesia
T : +62 (0) 817468621
F : +62 (0) 274 564276
E : venzha@???
      venzha@???
URL : http://www.natural-fiber.com



----- Original Message -----
From: victoria sinclair <vickysinclair@???>
To: Bricolabs <brico@???>
Cc:
Sent: Thursday, April 26, 2012 1:32 AM
Subject: Re: [Bricolabs] Fwd: [spectre] MICRONATION/MACRONATION - HONF project 2012

hey stephen

thanks so much for this update

i am wondering if it might be possible to use some of your accounts of
the new platform/project as part of my paper in the forthcoming
Technomagias convergence in Brasil 10th to13th of May please?

I am looking at traditional concepts of shamanism and magia work and
drawing on the concepts of

community-minded alchemies, namely through free software movements and
free party movements of recent decades and to look at encoding,
responsibility of/for information and decoding.  i will also be
drawing on experiences with traditional ´shamans´ and their approaches
to knowledge sharing and problem solving based on my ongoing travels
in the Americas

i emailed HONF and Gustaff a few days ago,  just right when they were
embarking on this work after one of those messages you receive from
another place late at night and i guess they are super-busy right now.
  If HONF and yourself would be up for sharing a bit more about the
recent work it would be amazing...we really want to show
cross-cultural perspectives and the platform would sit really nicely
with the other projects and alchemists extraordinaire i hope to
introduce....

love to indonesia and transient bricos in residency and congrats on the work!

vx

2012/4/25, stephen kovats <kovats@???>:
> hi brico folks,
>
> together with nina czegledy, alessandro ludovico and a huge local crowd I
> had the great pleasure tonight in Yogyakarta to attend the launch of HONF's
> new platform / project,  MICRONATION/MACRONATION - democratising energy
> (more info in the spectre post below). The work is really exciting for its
> systemic  - and equally artistic/cultural take on open source and crowd
> sharing solutions for energy creation. The info online is still minimal ...
> they've been working on setting up the complex installation (a la post
> 'intelligent bacteria), but there are a series of videos/interviews with
> people involved in the project, subtitled in english, which will be posted
> shortly.
>
> cheers,
>
> stephen
>
> Begin forwarded message:
>
>> From: venzha christ <venzha@???>
>> Date: 17. April 2012 03:26:27 GMT+08:00
>> To: Spectre <spectre@???>
>> Subject: [spectre] MICRONATION/MACRONATION - HONF project 2012
>> Reply-To: venzha christ <venzha@???>
>>
>> http://natural-fiber.com/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=280:micronation-macronation-2012&catid=63:latest-projects&Itemid=65
>>
>>
>>
>>
>> HONF
>> MICRONATION/MACRONATION
>> 2012
>>
>> During the end of March 2012, Indonesians from various backgrounds were
>> voicing outrage against the Indonesian Government's plan to cut subsidies
>> on the type of fuel used by most of the population, which would directly
>> result in fuel price hike. Hundreds of demonstrations and rallies took
>> place in many Indonesian major cities.
>>
>> Days before 1 April 2012, the date when the Government's decision is due,
>> the demonstrations escalated in intensity, which culminated in clashes
>> between police and protesters. The situation grew alarming nationwide as
>> conflicts between people and the Government were in the rise. Finally,
>> after an intense plenary session, the House rejected the fuel price hike
>> proposal. Shortly afterwards, the issue of fuel subsididies removal
>> gradually went out of public attention. The general public were pleased
>> and soothed.
>>
>> Nevertheless, isn't it the truth that our dependence—and the rest of the
>> world's dependence—on unrenewable fossil fuel has grown to such a large
>> extent? Isn't it the truth that fuel prices will continually increase as
>> supply grows scarce? Also, how long can the Government keep subsidizing
>> fuel with its ever-increasing price? At the moment, with fuel subsidies in
>> place, the important, urgent matters of fuel availability and fuel
>> dependence are gone from public discussions; not deserving of public
>> attention, let alone thoughts.
>>
>> Amidst such circumstances, the House of Natural Fiber (HONF, Yogyakarta,
>> Indonesia) have been cooking up ideas and experiments to discover
>> alternative ways of obtaining alternative energy sources, which comprise
>> the substance and the socio-economic-political context of the
>> MICRONATION/MACRONATION project development.
>>
>> HONF's presentation at Langgeng Art Foundation (LAF) is their starting
>> point to introduce these ideas as well as the technical-practical
>> implementation possibilities. The presentation—as a sustainable design
>> prototype—consists of 3 core components: a) Installation of a
>> fermentation/distillation machine to process hay (raw material) into
>> ethanol (alternative energy to substitute fossil fuel); b) Satellite data
>> grabber: to obtain data related to agricultural production (weather,
>> climate, seasons); c) Super-Computer: to process data (weather, seasons as
>> well as ethanol production capacity), which is also capable of predicting
>> when Indonesia can reach energy and food independence if this
>> MICRONATION/MACRONATION sustainable project design were to be implemented
>> as a public strategy and policy to achieve the condition of energy and
>> food independence in Indonesia. [1]
>>
>> This presentation is a good opportunity for us to reassess basic
>> performative premises of various practices combining science, technology
>> and arts. HONF's project—as with their previous projects—actually blurs
>> the boundaries that have thus far been setting apart science, technology
>> and arts. They combine all three, which to us brings home the question:
>> where is the boundary between aesthetic experience and function? What
>> possibilities could the relationship among science, technology and arts
>> bring when confronted to actual problems in today's communities?
>>
>> Compared to various other fine arts practices involving elements of social
>> activism which have hitherto been tested and conducted by a number of
>> artists in Indonesia, HONF’s current project actually proposes something
>> new and different. They no longer practice the “taking to the streets” or
>> “teaching/utilizing arts to raise mass awareness” kinds of activism, nor
>> do they practice arts that involve local environmental/community issues.
>> [2] Instead they view social-political issues by assessing various
>> strategic areas, which are not solely based on the “people versus
>> corporate” or “people versus the State” axes.
>>
>> By widening our acceptance of various dimensions of relationship which
>> exist between the artists and the public today, we can see that HONF still
>> employ ‘aesthetics’ in their work, although their chosen strategy of
>> visualization naturally no longer focuses on the ‘fine arts’ conventions.
>> For instance, data processing and presentation in their work—be it related
>> to nature, environment or various calculations—will be shown in various
>> forms of visualization. But this time we need to take it as visualization
>> that may not necessarily always serve as representation (art).
>>
>> Faced with ecological issues, HONF choose to activate their creativity to
>> render such ecological issues more open and accessible by the public
>> (creative ecology). Data which are unfamiliar—or perhaps even concealed
>> and made secret from the general public’s knowledge—are presented in an
>> easy-to-undertand visualization. In other words, data pertaining to public
>> interests and public life are returned to the public (hacktivism,
>> open-source, democratization of information dan knowledge).
>>
>> Furthermore, the use of science, technology and arts in HONF’s projects
>> should no longer be viewed through a conventional formalistic aesthetic
>> perspective, if we can accept that this project is a design which involves
>> a number of systems (physics, biology, mechanics, digital data-processing,
>> and so on)
>>
>> That way, MICRONATION/MACRONATION is a practice which may possibly bring
>> various new elements into the practices of fine arts that have been taking
>> place in Indonesia. Through HONF’s works so far, we are in fact presented
>> with the opportunity to re-formulate basic relationships which can exist
>> between the art(ists) and the public. Is this not a truly relevant issue,
>> considering how the faster, more complex public (social, economic,
>> politic, cultural and global) reality keeps on changing? — HONF | Enin
>> Supriyanto | April 2012.
>> - translated by Eka Jayani Ayuningtyas -
>> ________________________________
>>
>>
>> [1]At the same time, the prototype of this design is being tested through
>> the
>> MICRONATION/MACRONATION project simulation land in several agricultural
>> fields
>> and villages around Cangkringan, Merapi, Yogyakarta, in cooperation with
>> local
>> residents.
>>
>> [2]Compare with the environment-related fine art activities and activism
>> in Indonesia in
>> the past.
>>
>>
>> http://natural-fiber.com/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=280:micronation-macronation-2012&catid=63:latest-projects&Itemid=65
>>
>>
>>
>>
>>
>>
>>
>> venzha
>> the house of natural fiber
>> yogyakarta new media art laboratory (HONF)
>> Jl.wora wari A80/6
>> Baciro - Yogyakarta
>> Indonesia
>> T : +62 (0) 817468621
>> F : +62 (0) 274 564276
>> E : venzha@???
>>      venzha@???
>> URL : http://www.natural-fiber.com
>>
>>
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