04 PM | 07 May

Open Call – #Mycelium Network Society #transmediale2017 deadline 20/05/17 [#geekgirl]

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Mycelium Network Society is an underground network imagination powered by fungus, spores, culture, kitchen, radio, transmission, installations, workshops and performances.

Mycelium Network Society, a brand new network initiative situated in a post-internet mudland, diverts the pursuit of the magic mushroom, from a state of hyper-hallucination to collective fungal consciousness, and investigates the fungi culture, its network capacity to communicate and process information. The mushroom as a commodity, a medium, an element, commands its own domain in human-disturbed forests. Sprouting across the moisture of rich soils, expanding its colonies, sharing informations, networking co-habitants, the mycelium is ordained by Paul Stamets as “the neurological network of nature.” In this post-digital, post-media, post-internet, post-enlightenment phase of current-day investigation into cultural practices, Mycelium Network Society seeks out mycelium to lead us out of the ruins, to construct political tactics, to salvage economic meltdown. Ultimately at nature’s mercy, the artists / cultural producers strive to convene a nature’s network merging our research in technology, biology, and ecology, persisting in constant molecular communication à la mycelium mode.

Mycelium Network Society is a joint network initiative

Stadtwerkstatt, Linz, Austria, http://stwst.at

Zavod Kersnikova, Ljubljana, Slovania,  http://kapelica.org

cycleX, USA, http://cyclex.info

Residency ELEONORE summer residency, Linz, Austria

Deadline 20/5/17

11 AM | 26 Aug

The Anti-Facebook [#geekgirl]

[From this article at The Verge] “Founded in 2010 and based in San Francisco, Nextdoor is a odd outlier among today’s social networks. Signing up is an onerous process, requiring substantial proof of both your identification and address. People post messages, but they are seen only by others in the immediate area, and there is no share or retweet button to proliferate messages across the network. It feels more like a modern update on a message board or web forum than a social network. But it has struck a chord across the country. When The Verge first reported on Nextdoor back in July of 2012, it was in 3,500 neighborhoods. Today, the company is announcing that its reached 40,000 neighborhoods, or roughly one in four American communities, with 10 or more active users.”