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Lähettäjä: Jerneja Rebernak
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Vastaanottaja: natacha
Kopio: alejo duque, James Wallbank, Irene Agrivine, brico
Aihe: Re: [Bricolabs] after festival, how was Bricolabs activity in Pixelache ?
I will gladly read this one. thank you Natacha.

On Tue, May 28, 2013 at 10:28 PM, natacha <natacha@???>wrote:

> Hi all
>
> Also want to thank and applause pixelache luxury of exchange and informal
> time crazy learning and beautiful instants.
> I will also try to make a late but emphatic response from a newcomer point
> of view.
>
> My feeling was one of having found finally a group of person who would
> value thinking about they means they use to interac with the world but I
> agree hat currenly seems to be somewhat of an important timing rethink
> neworks as an active proposition that can make a difference. And indeed
> this lies into concrete projects and sustaining community support.
>
> Bricolabs as a grounding action but also Brico as a current dynamic of
> knowledge what is to do where; energy for the move , think things in
> lenght launch out calls, I welcome bricos to Bruxelles hub as an active
> place to exchange and develop where community culture is already very high
> and embeded in the way of life, proposed goal find tools to speak and keep
> traces with current voluntary/forced mobility of persons.
> a link to a great article by Stijn Peeters trying to sort out empowerment
> characteristics for alternative social network from looking at IRC
> specificities (rather than characterising alternative social network them
> in their difference from facebook etc......)
> http://networkcultures.org/**wpmu/weblog/files/2013/05/IRC_**
> Alternative_Approach_Stijn_**Peeters_INC_2013.pdf<http://networkcultures.org/wpmu/weblog/files/2013/05/IRC_Alternative_Approach_Stijn_Peeters_INC_2013.pdf>
>
> some great stuff all of know, but great to see now attempts to structure
> and formulate them around the values of sharing a common room/space and
> gathering thanks to a common protocol rather than an interface.
>
>
> ++
>
> I send mail to the list and to some individuals since apparently my mails
> get bounced by brico list .............;;
>
> natacha
>
>
>
>
> On 05/28/2013 01:16 PM, James Wallbank wrote:
>
>> Hello All,
>>
>> After a few days to decompress, I would also like to add my voice to the
>> general chorus of "Bravo!" for another Bricolabs meeting, and I'd like to
>> reflect PixelAche's gracious and welcoming hosting of the event.
>>
>> The smell of Bricolabs is certainly still present - in fact, I am
>> starting to detect it in unexpected places. But I still can't help getting
>> the feeling that, at this stage in the game, we are all somewhat at a loss
>> to see how to go forward. Bricos have clear values, and positive impulses
>> towards DIY, relocalisation, critical engagement, creative practices,
>> empowering relationships with technologies (where they are possible) and
>> see the value of playful, exploratory activity, both for the participant,
>> and for the insights that may emerge.
>>
>> Yet I sense that we (all of us individually, and us as a loose group) are
>> finding our values more and more marginal to the conventional, spectacular
>> world of the mainstream arts and media, increasingly disconnecting from
>> academia, and at odds with conventional political and economic discourse.
>>
>> I also sense that the major action that the Bricolabs Network will
>> catalyse (or precipitate?) has not yet happened.
>>
>> * Can I prove any of this? No.
>> * Do I have quantative evidence and a robust research methodology? No.
>> * Do I sense that this is the case? Yes.
>>
>> There is not even a name for the practices, methodologies and
>> relationships that Bricolabs advocate. (And this may be for the best.)
>> Pixelache call themselves a "transdisciplinary platform for experimental
>> art, design, research and activism" and this phrase certainly reeks of the
>> Brico smell... But somehow, this seems to align uncomfortably closely with
>> research. I feel that there is something else - a spiritual dimension (not
>> articulated but implied) by John Hopkins and others, about finding a new
>> way to thrive in a world which is increasingly out of balance.
>>
>> Personally, I'm starting to think more and more about possibilities for
>> "making your own entertainment" - the significance of (real world)
>> do-it-yourself, in-person games, and play for its own sake, (distinct from
>> spectacularised professional sports, pyramids of corporate video game
>> power, and other such pass times that strip away of agency and marginalise
>> peer relationships).
>>
>> Hmmm... Just thoughts. I shall now snap back into "advanced manufacture"
>> mode and see if I can craft some words to unlock some financial support. ;-)
>>
>> All the best - and stay positive!
>>
>> James
>>
>> P.S. Ubatuba? I'm in.
>> =====
>>
>> On 24/05/13 01:54, Felipe Fonseca wrote:
>>
>>> Hey all,
>>>
>>> I'm also in the process of getting back home - realised a couple hours
>>> ago that since wednesday last week I've been sleeping every night in a
>>> different place (only repeated at Tapio's, but it wasn't consecutive
>>> nights). Am now in São Paulo, and will hopefully get back to Ubatuba
>>> tomorrow or saturday.
>>>
>>> I want to thank everyone who was involved with the pixel-brico
>>> connection. Not only those of you who were there last week (as I already
>>> tried to express f2f), but also everyone who tried to connect somehow, who
>>> joined discussions and IRC meetings. It's always a good thing to find that
>>> the brico-smell is still around (right, James?)
>>>
>>> Pixelache crew was very welcoming and had shown lots of patience with
>>> our sometimes messy way of making decisions, commit and communicate.
>>>
>>> Great to be close to you, Bricos! Fragmented conversations and dreamlike
>>> memories in a separate chapter. But also purposeless spaces, getting people
>>> to stop talking fundish, replace statements for open questions and
>>> reflecting upon the very role of festivals, exhibitions, meetings, etc.
>>>
>>> Next step: Ubatuba, late october. Who's coming?
>>>
>>> efe
>>>
>>>
>>> On 22-05-2013 20:32, Molly Hankwitz wrote:
>>>
>>>> the website was fantastic to read. great projects and ideas for a
>>>> gathering of minds. good videos. excellent.
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> On Wed, May 22, 2013 at 8:16 AM, Paula Vélez <pvelezbr@???
>>>> <mailto:pvelezbr@gmail.com>> wrote:
>>>>
>>>>     Hey Jerneja,

>>>>
>>>>     As brico-people you will be able to send us drawings of your
>>>>     prototype or fishing rod for survive in the island and how did you
>>>>     manage to sculpt the silex-lighter for the fire !

>>>>
>>>>     Jean-Noël, the meeting was very interesting, we could speak and have
>>>>     some great exchanges.
>>>>     Nevertheless we couldn't join all of us in a brico-meeting and
>>>>     conversations to do some brieffings about what was going to be the
>>>>     spirit of the reader.

>>>>
>>>>     At least, Tapio, Jerneja, Alejo, John can be together to get in the
>>>>     mood and try to put in one piece a Brico-reader.

>>>>
>>>>     Have a nice time in the archipielago.

>>>>
>>>>     salute,

>>>>
>>>>     Paula

>>>>
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>     2013/5/22 Jerneja Rebernak <jerneja99@???
>>>> <mailto:jerneja99@gmail.com>>

>>>>
>>>>         Hello JN,

>>>>
>>>>         we haven't really get back yet. together with John, Alejo and
>>>>         Tapio we are trapped on the Turku arhipelago fishing and
>>>>         rainbathing now...we did lit the fireplace and are compiling
>>>>         text for the Bricoreader.

>>>>
>>>>         Anyone still interested in sending some conversations or text
>>>>         that relates to Bricolabs, please do so now :)

>>>>
>>>>         most welcome to check on the other conversations which happen on
>>>>         Friday on brico conference, which is documented here.

>>>>
>>>> http://bambuser.com/channel/**pixelversity<http://bambuser.com/channel/pixelversity>
>>>>
>>>>         moi, salut
>>>>         Jerneja

>>>>
>>>>         On Wed, May 22, 2013 at 3:55 PM, Jean-Noël Montagné
>>>> <jnm@??? <mailto:jnm@autistici.org>> wrote:

>>>>
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>             some comments and descriptions of the festival ?

>>>>
>>>>             how was it ?

>>>>
>>>>
>>>>               thanks, JN
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