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Screenings at Emma's are back after a summer hiatus!  On August 29,
check out two groundbreaking documentaries about abortion by
filmmakers SARAH DIEHL AND ANGIE YOUNG.  Berlin-based Diehl's film,
*Abortion Democracy: Poland/South Africa,* compares and contrasts
abortion policy in the two countries and argues for a liberalization
of abortion laws. Young's *The Coat Hanger Project* focuses on the
current state of the US pro-choice/reproductive justice movement 35
years after Roe v. Wade and specifically targets the post-1973
generation.  FREE!

http://film.guardian.co.uk/news/story/0,,2288390,00.html

I don’t know, is this really “high tech” and it seems a little silly. But thats just me. Projecting on17 years of recent restoration is questionable.. Cups of blood?

http://www.getty.edu/vow/AATServlet?english=N&find=photography&logic=AND&page=1&note=

This is the source I use this at work while cataloging. This is a widely used authority for cataloging works of art. Widely used to inform curators, historians, librarians… also for tagging. etc.

I am finding that in discussion in this field there is much confusion in defining photography. And I hate to say still the question:

“Is it art?” This seems especially true with documentary works or anonymous “historical” images. There is no immediate need to source the creator if it is a photograph without “artistic value” or if it is only used as a reference material.

I have been thinking a lot about conversations we had at seminar. All of our ideas of documentary, “fine” (yuck hate this expression) photography and especially non lens based “digital imaging” and God willing Jeff Wall’s “near documentary”

I see an article coming on. A photographer’s perspective for cataloguers around the globe.

Check out the definition for electronic imaging. So when will the MFA program just call itself Photography and Electronic Imaging?

This seems more appropriate than the digital imaging part and maybe better than “electronic arts”

Although by having the title electronic arts - we are expanding the definition of photo -but is is correct?

Once again viva photography

“electronic” is fun too:

http://www.getty.edu/vow/AATServlet?english=N&find=electronic&logic=AND&page=1&note= 

From the New York Times:

F.C.C. Chief Would Bar Comcast From Imposing Web Restrictions
By SAUL HANSELL
Kevin J. Martin’s recommendation is a strong statement in favor of network neutrality, the idea that Internet access providers should not be allowed to favor some uses of their networks over others.

“Federal regulators are prepared to take action against sellers of Internet access that want to restrict what their customers can do online.

Kevin J. Martin, chairman of the Federal Communications Commission, said Friday that Comcast, the nation’s largest cable company, should be sanctioned because it had interfered with the Internet connections of users who were exchanging files with other people…” [more]

Sitting at your computer, procrastinating? Play Attention Hog and Feel the Love.
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Attention Hog in “Art of the Game” one night show/fundraiser at NYCResistor, Brooklyn, July 26, 2008, 9pm.

“Two monkeys with tiny sensors in their brains have learned to control a mechanical arm with just their thoughts, using it to reach for and grab food and even to adjust for the size and stickiness of morsels when necessary, scientists reported on Wednesday.”

http://www.nytimes.com/2008/05/29/science/29brain.html?_r=2&hp&oref=slogin&oref=slogin

http://tineye.com/login

TinEye is an image search engine built by Idée currently in private beta. Give it an image and it will tell you where the image appears on the web.

From the V&A Museum

nice info and images to add to that history of photo (processes) course you will teach someday
http://www.vam.ac.uk/vastatic/microsites/photography/processes.php

As an artist, you have to read this article or you could lose everything you’ve ever created?

“An Orphaned Work is any creative work of art where the artist or copyright owner has released their copyright, whether on purpose, by passage of time, or by lack of proper registration. In the same way that an orphaned child loses the protection of his or her parents, your creative work can become an orphan for others to use without your permission”

one concerned opinion:http://mag.awn.com/index.php?ltype=pageone&article_no=3605&page=1

INFO: http://www.illustratorspartnership.org/01_topics/article.php?searchterm=00185

a response:

http://maradydd.livejournal.com/374886.html