upgradeny
About this original series
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# Episodes
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Rating
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Episodes of upgradeny
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Freedom as in what? A debate on open source vs. ...
What do we mean by 'freedom'? Should Free/Libre/Open Source Software (FLOSS) necessarily be powered by radical politics of ownership and collaboration? Or is the latching of "Free Software" ideological baggage limiting the full transformative power of "Open Source". How are these questions informed by licenses? Are some licenses more open than others? More ethical than others? This emotional debate has been in the heart of FLOSS from its early days and has created camps and animosities within ...
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Release date
Feb 24, 2010
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Runtime
01:31:25
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Upgrade! New York 10th Anniversary 2009
Upgrade! NY May 21, 2009Upgrade! New York celebrates its 10th anniversary with a reception, video screening, and presentations by Upgrade alumni.After a humble beginning in a New York bar in 1999, Upgrade! has blossomed into an international network with over thirty nodes meeting regularly all across Europe, Asia, Africa, and the Americas. To celebrate ten years of dialog and debate on issues related to art and technology, Eyebeam and Not An Alternative hosted an evening of presentations by Up...
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Release date
Jan 26, 2010
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Runtime
01:18:10
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Graham Harwood 2007
Upgrade! NY July 31, 2007Graham Harwood presented his projects and collaborations, including his Eyebeam commission with MediaShed, and work with free media. Joined by the Eyebeam Production Fellows, his collaborators on his commissioned piece with Eyebeam, Harwood presented Gearbox, an open source video editing resource. A representative from Picture New York made a special appearance to discuss proposed restrictions on photographing rights in public space.
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Release date
Jan 26, 2010
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Runtime
01:29:26
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MTAA 2002
An evening spent catching up with MTAA, T. Whid and M. River took the opportunity to consider recent past projects and updated the group regarding their current work and process. T. Whid and M. River reviewed the Website Unseen and Updates series, discussed the installation work at PS1 and SmackMellon, perused new works in progress at Tinjail.com, and provided highlights of the new features at MT Enterprises WorldWide. MTAA used the meeting to contextualize a body of work via a presentation ba...
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Release date
Oct 30, 2009
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Runtime
43:05
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Yael Kanarek
Yael Kanarek took the stage for her second Upgrade! presentation after nearly two years since the first in April 2000. She had much to report regarding the status of the changes, updates and new collaborations, which have transpired in her on-going project, World of Awe. By request from a fellow colleague she took a few steps back to review the World of Awe schema since its inception: An original non-linear narrative written in fantastical realism that uses the ancient genre of the traveler?s ...
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Release date
Oct 30, 2009
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Runtime
01:53:01
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Golan Levin 2002
Golan presented an overview of a few projects created over the course of the last two years. He described Audiovisual Environment Suite (2000) as a system engineered for the creation and performance of simultaneous animation and sound. Golan also discussed Dialtones (2001), an electronic concert, comprised of sounds wholly produced through the choreographed ringing of the audience?s own mobile phones. Later, he introduced his collaborator, Zachary Lieberman, whose been working with him on Re:m...
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Release date
Oct 30, 2009
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Runtime
01:51:42
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Patterson, Zurkow, Bleecker 2003
Scott Patterson talked about Your Show Here, a prototype for StaticVehicle, *-scope, and his most recent collaborative effort, PDPal. Marina Zurkow and Julian Bleecker joined Scott for the PDPal demonstration and discussion.
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Release date
Oct 30, 2009
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Runtime
01:13:19
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Andreas Angelidakis 2003
Andreas is an architect whose work addresses you and your avatar. He makes buildings and places for real people and their machines.
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Release date
Oct 30, 2009
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Runtime
01:13:45
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Christiane Paul 2002
Christiane Paul provided an overview of the hypertext scene. She began with a pre-web history of hypertext by describing Ted Nelson’s 1961 dream of hypermedia: grand collaborations in linked reading and writing that connect to reader-response criticism and theories of post-modernism and post-structuralism. Paul moved into the strategies and structures of hypertext by highlighting a number of projects created in Storyspace, the hypertext writing software. Michael Joyce’s Twilight Symphony uses ...
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Release date
Oct 9, 2009
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Runtime
01:21:04
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Michael Rees 2002
Upgrade! NY July 2002: Michael Rees discussed his work against ideas about artificial intelligence, artificial sculpture, and art history with special emphasis on his hybrid virtual/physical practice.
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Release date
Oct 9, 2009
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Runtime
01:14:10
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