Date: Fri, 5 Feb 93 18:44:55 PST Reply-To: Return-Path: Message-ID: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain From: surfpunk@osc.versant.com (be whfg fraq pnfu) To: surfpunk@osc.versant.com (SURFPUNK Technical Journal) Subject: [surfpunk-0049] ART: Public Domain: Perforations; Working Papers 5 Keywords: surfpunk, Public Domain, Working Papers, Perforations + Kathy is hoping Gene will be in town for the + birth [of their first child this July], but Gene + feels he's already contributed his part to the + process! -- spaf & the heaph +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ Public Domain will be remembered for the annual Destroy All Music Festivals in Atlanta in the mid-to-late eighties. Since that time, as noise has become "commercialized and set to a disco beat", Public Domain has been migrating away from noise and into technology. They're not an easy organization to box into categories, so I hate to say much more about them. Email addresses are provided below -- write for more info. PERFORATIONS usually includes a disk (Macintosh Hypercard, I think). It's a real quality publication from Atlanta's most interesting underground artists. It's nicely produced, as in it takes time and attention, not as in commercial slime. I like it! And congratulations to Public Domain on their new node pd.org. --strick ________________________________________________________________________ ________________________________________________________________________ From jd21@prism.gatech.EDU (Jim Demmers) Newsgroups: git.general,ga.general,atl.general Subject: Working Papers 5 Date: 26 Jan 93 20:55:14 GMT WORKING PAPERS 5 This marks the fifth year that PUBLIC DOMAIN has provided an informal forum for the presentation and discussion of ideas and arts for what has been called the crises in representation (art), legitimation (politics), and communication. PUBLIC DOMAIN as an organization is devoted in both theory and practice to examinations of the relationships between art and ideas, and more specifically, the role that technology plays in constituting modern life and thought. To facilitate these explorations we conduct a series of presentations called WORKING PAPERS several times a year, publish a limited edition of the journal PERFORATIONS, and provide on-line computer network services for PUBLIC DOMAIN members. This Winter's series of WORKING PAPERS will be held at the Homage Coffee House at 255 Trinity Ave. (near the Trinity gallery) in downtown Atlanta. (Their phone number is 525-7546). Each session will begin at 7:30 p.m. and last approximately one hour. There will be an opportunity for discussion following each presentation. Admission is free and open to the public. We are however, a small, non-profit organization with limited funding, so we do accept and appreciate any and all contributions that you might care to make..... Further information concerning WORKING PAPERS and PUBLIC DOMAIN may be had by contacting: MAIL: PUBLIC DOMAIN P.O. box 8899 Atlanta, GA 30306-0899 VOICE MAIL: (404) 612-7529 ELECTRONIC MAIL: zeug@pd.org (Robert Cheatham) jdemmers@pd.org (Jim Demmers) cprince@pd.org (Chea Prince) ____________________________________ February 8 / Michael Greer WHERE POETRY HAS BEEN: THE SPACE OF LANGUAGE WRITING Language poetry is artistic noise: it resists the dreams of pure communication, placing before us the heterogenous, ruptured, anti-subjective writing of the American tradition which extend forward from the poetics of Gertrude Stein. This tangent within contemporary North American poetry bridges gaps between theory (postmodern, poststructuralist, feminist), performance art (Cage, Mac Low, Antin), and the technological metadiscourses (Foucault, Baudrillard, Haraway) which fill the air. It is aggressively and humorously political: is sets the ear on edge. I will present a montage of textual exemplars, and offer a provisional account of this new writing's place in the postmodern scene. |========================================================================| | Jim Demmers Public Domain, Inc. INET: jdemmers@pd.org | |========================================================================| ________________________________________________________________________ ________________________________________________________________________ The SURFPUNK Technical Journal is a dangerous multinational hacker zine originating near BARRNET in the fashionable western arm of the northern California matrix. Quantum Californians appear in one of two states, spin surf or spin punk. Undetected, we are both, or might be neither. ________________________________________________________________________ Send postings to , subscription requests to . MIME encouraged. Xanalogical archive access soon. Noise is for heros -- music is for zeros. ________________________________________________________________________ ________________________________________________________________________