Welcome to the new year, and the April 2024 edition of The Miaaw Monthly which provides a few pointers to things you might like to explore, including (but not limited to) our podcasts.
These represent one way to have (hopefully) interesting conversations about some of the things we care about. Please spread the word as widely as you can, and encourage people to subscribe to The Miaaw Monthly.
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TODAY’S PODCAST
This morning, this afternoon, or this evening you can enjoy a freshly-baked episode of the highly irregular Friday Number 5 series.
In today’s episode (number 12, fact fans) we learn about Agnieszka Pokrywka and Humberto Duque’s new project Super Eclectic, and listen to Episode 40 of their podcast Ferment Radio.
THE APRIL PODCASTS
Every Friday a podcast appears at approximately 12:12 Helsinki time (which you may like to think of as 10:12 UTC).
Sometimes we get so eager that they appear an hour or two early to allow for any lag across the internet. Mostly they arrive on time. With that in mind, here are the podcasts that will drop in April.
Friday April 5: Meanwhile in an Abandoned Warehouse | Episode 72
This month Owen Kelly completes a mini-series that looks at whether or not we should feel concerned about the digital tools we use and the effects that they have on us. In this episode he suggests some practical examples of changes we can make and tools we can use.
Friday April 12: Ways of Listening | Episode 6
In an episode that we call Resourcing Listening Hannah Kemp-Welch talks to Marley Starskey Butler, a multidisciplinary artist and social worker.
Marley talks about workshops as spaces for listening.
Friday April 19: A Culture of Possibility | Episode 39
Arlene Goldbard and François Matarasso talk about the difficult conditions community-based artists and groups must work under as austerity measures, encroaching authoritarianism, and challenging world problems increase.
Friday April 26: Common Practice | Episode 34
Sophie Hope talks to Karen Pilkington about her inspiring work as a community activist in Plymouth.
They discuss the origins of the Village Hub, how they’ve been organising their work through collaborative decision-making, transparent finances, disaster-proofing and how making relationships, equitable collaborations and decent conversations underpin everything.
LISTENING
All our podcasts are available from Apple podcasts, Google podcasts, Overcast, RadioPublic, Soundcloud, Spotify, and Stitcher.
You can also listen to them at the miaaw.net website where you will find additional links, notes, and references accompanying each episode. You will also find a full archive of all the previous podcasts there.
OFF SITE
Ham Radio Archives
In a move that will delight Hannah Kemp-Welch, Archive.org have announced in their blog that they have recently made available all the episodes of Ham Radio & More, which “was a radio show about amateur radio that was broadcast from 1991 through 1997”.
They go on to say that “Ham Radio & More was the first radio show devoted to ham radio on the commercial radio band. It began as a one-hour show on KFNN 1510 AM in Phoenix, Arizona, then expanded to a two-hour format and national syndication. The program’s host, Len Winkler, invited guests to discuss the issues of the day and educate listeners about various aspects of the radio hobby. Today the episodes, some more than 30 years old, provide an invaluable time capsule of the ham radio hobby”.
More than 300 episodes of the program are now available online as part of the Digital Library of Amateur Radio & Communications (DLARC). You can find the details here.
Richard Serra
Alexander Verbeek publishes a newsletter on subStack called The Planet. It comes as a free email newsletter or a paid subscription. He describes the newsletter as “the popular newsletter for you and all those who love our fragile, beautiful planet” and suggests that you “start your day with independent writing on climate, wildlife, oceans, and the beauty of nature; often combined with historical anecdotes, art and travel stories”.
The sculptor Richard Serra died on March 26.
(Photo by Karsten Koehn on Unsplash)
Put these two facts together and you get an interesting, informative, and moving essay that you can read on the web, or in his email newsletter if you subscribe.
The Planet does not arrive too often and you can always unsubscribe if you discover that you don’t want to “start your day with independent writing on climate, wildlife, oceans, and the beauty of nature”…
Desire, Dopamine, and the Internet
It’s newsletters a-go-go this month, for reasons that might well relate in one way or another to next week’s episode of Meanwhile in an Abandoned Warehouse.
This week LM Sacasas published The Convivial Society: Vol. 5, No. 5, the newsletter that he distributes via subStack.
He begins the essay by announcing that “In this installment, I’m considering a popular essay Ted Gioia published last month arguing for the rise of what he called “dopamine culture.” I’m uneasy with the argument and the framing. I’ll explain why here, while hopefully offering a wider-ranging set of perspectives on the variety of ways we relate to the internet and internet-enabled devices. Many of you reading will, I think, have found yourself in agreement with Gioia’s argument, so I’ll be curious to know what you make of my reservations. I’m expecting a fair amount of push back! As always, thank you for reading”.
Owen says “in my view The Convivial Society never fails to be worth reading. The essays are lengthy and very considered”.
Auriea Harvey: net art
This just in from Rhizome News:
On Wednesday, April 3 at 12pm, join us at Onassis ONX, New York (and online!) for a conversation about net art history and conservation with artist Auriea Harvey, hosted by Rhizome in partnership with Museum of the Moving Image. The event marks the launch of ArtBase Anthologies, Rhizome’s new initiative offering perspectives on digital art history through selected works.
Over the past year, Rhizome undertook a major restoration of early online artworks by Harvey and Entropy8Zuper! for an online exhibition from Rhizome and an ongoing solo show at Museum of the Moving Image. Learn about how Rhizome preserves early works of net art, the challenges of presenting born-digital art within a museum context, and the curatorial decisions at play in this body of work. Harvey will be joined by Rhizome Co-Executive Director Michael Connor, MoMI Associate Curator of Media Art Regina Harsanyi, and Rhizome Director of Digital Preservation Dragan Espenschied.
You can subscribe to the Rhizome Newsletter at the bottom of this page. The current newsletter will give you an invitation to the online event.
Want to know more? You can find out exactly how “Auriea Harvey Has Been Breaking the Internet for Three Decades” right here, at ArtNews.
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