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20180401

Youtube is my #1 source for marxist propaganda entertainment: What’s Wrong with Capitalism (Part 2) by ContraPoints.

My busker name is to be Thuomas EnBusker.

Tiny Tramp live at Void Bordeaux is a solid live gig documentation. He’s using cassette decks, spring reverbs and lo-fi microphones to build evolving dark ambient. There is singing and distortion too. I particularly enjoy (the digital?) artifacts which combine into random cheerful melodies.

Christianity the faith of a Zombie.

Re-reading Is a Museum a Factory? (2009) by Hito Steyerl. The idea that museum guests are laborers, working to make sense of exhibitions is appealing.

Today, cinematic politics are post-representational. They do not educate the crowd, but produce it. They articulate the crowd in space and in time. They submerge it in partial invisibility and then orchestrate their dispersion, movement, and reconfiguration. They organize the crowd without preaching to it. They replace the gaze of the bourgeois sovereign spectator of the white cube with the incomplete, obscured, fractured, and overwhelmed vision of the spectator-as-laborer.

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20180331

Sound of Work: Blacksmith is linked as a “sound publication” on the Finnish Society for Acoustic Ecology website. It’s right next to publications made by Meri Kytö – Which is very flattering! Her article on modern cities as acoustic spaces (Moderni kaupunkilaisuus akustisena järjestyksenä 2011) was a very influential text when I worked on the Hear and There+ project for Ihme-days.

Also discovered a EU funded labor themed audio archive project Work with Sound (my favorite sound is Pump). There is going to be an international conference in Tampere in June Exhibiting Sounds of Changes. I send them a proposal for a gig!

Send a grand-application for Frame. Asked for 500€ to have my Land- and Environmental Art Conservation article translated into English. I proposed to make it into a A5 size booklet (like Gastroeconomy 2014) with bw illustrations (like in Reseptejä Kemistä 2013).

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20180329

Deleted my old portfolio-site, made a new one and merged it with my (previously hidden) log-site which I’ve use for notes, to collect links and articles etc. I’m still in the process of cleaning formatting errors caused by the migration and adding missing medias (.pdf files are a pain to re-upload-and-link to).

The Doc part of my new site hosts majority of the texts I’ve published in various blogs over the years and the Art part has a selection of artworks I’ve worked on (I’ll have to add newer pieces during the spring). I also made a Info page for an artist bio (which links to a work cv of sorts) and added links to external sites (such as Ore.e Ref.). Everything works well on a mobile device. I chose to add the Jetpack plugin (by WP), which makes me a stalker (I can see which posts viewed most). I added it for security reasons, it also made organizing the content more easy (through the Portfolio plugin).

Please let me know if when you find errors.

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20180326

Saw Oscar Hagen & Rasmus Hedlund “Shift / Ambient Drawing” live at Galleria Kalleria over the weekend (had to spend most of the gig outdoors because the space was full). Worked as a camera operator for the the Media Art Worlds conference (organized by M-Cult). Sarah Cook’s presentation was great. She provided the audience with a historical overview on the dissident roots of media arts, problematizing tentiontions between artistic creativity & appropriation, techno-lure & big business. Unfortunately the panel discussions were a tad unfocused.