offshoring a festival

|001emdaer| exiled dispositiv towards a collaborative social deportment by:alejandro duque




Outsourcing [Illegal] Information Traffic
.a call for software and ideas.


-this project aims to motivate the inspiration of young programmers,
hackers, crackers. all kinds of computer users in south america.
-for it we will be opening a contest [OIIT] that will give prizes to 2
ideas (let them be viable in practical computer terms as software -code-
or as literary inspiration in the lineage of the "fantastic reality"
literature, in reference not to that what is fantastic and far from
real, but to what is inspired in reality and appears fantastic.
-it will be the way to create a festival outside of a
festival(readme100 offshoring and nourishing far from its statements,
beyond its basic propositions), if elected, we will use the money
(500euros) to set up an open call in the L.U.G's (linux user groups)
mailing lists and support the free software agents in far away continents.
-We will document and edit a text (article) that will reflect the
potentialities and drives towards "insurgent" practices, those that
intrinsically belong to the essence of network and collide interestingly
in a country with a renowned infamous tradition on trafficking and
smuggling: Colombia (we will pay close attention to trace ideas related
with electronic borders, demilitarized zones and servers, i.p's black
holes, replicators, virtual tunnels, etc.)

The result of this feedback research will serve to address the following
question:
How can networking be a more than magical way for crossing natural wisdoms?

Some part of South America faces its sell-out signing a treaty called
TCL, (Tratado de Libre Comercio) Peru, Ecuador, Colombia and the U.S.A.
This countries are basically forced to agree in points that will allow
genetical apropiation and exploitation by North American corporations.
Via the patenting figure they (U.S.A) will steal the basic wisdoms of
ancient cultures. It's not only about drugs, but about plants, animals
and perhaps even water resources. This is anyway old news since its been
taking place since the encounter of pre-colombian cultures with the
Spanish colonizers some 500 years ago.

iIlegality raises the price of drugs, so in the particular case of
cocaine its better to keep them illegal and avoid talking about them in
these TCL treaty, but ironically drugs are the one produce that
represents more income to both parts is not a topic to be consider in
the tables that define the conditions for this treaty.


alejo duque (kolumbien)
"politics of friendship" as a guideline for the logic behind smuggling
goods and ideas. research for a PhD dissertation at www.egs.edu. what
resourceful minds can do to all kinds of new or old
technical/conceptual/devices. ("good" examples are found under criminal
records and drug trafficking techniques). networking and collaborating
with programmers trying to develop a way to interface place, location
and trajectory with audiovisual representations...so called "real-time
mapping":


urls:


http://co.lab.cohete.net/index.htm (and all the embedded links) +:
http://free.freespeech.org/10ochokpies/MathurinMilan/ways.html
http://co.lab.cohete.net/OPENSur/index.html
http://locative.net/blog/mixreality/archives/15#comment-19 (in process)
http://www.dorkbot.org/dorkbotmde/

alicia

Down, down, down. Would the fall never come to an end? "I wonder how many miles I've fallen by this time?" she said aloud. "I must be getting somewhere near the centre of the earth. Let me see: that would be four thousand miles down, I think-" (for, you see, Alice had learnt several things of this sort in her lessons in the school-room, and though this was not a very good opportunity for showing off her knowledge, as there was no one to listen to her, still it was good practice to say it over) "-- yes that's about the right distance -- but then I wonder what Latitude or Longitude I've got to?" (Alice had not the slightest idea what Latitude was, or Longitude either, but she thought they were nice grand words to say.)