This video, made with agit-pop.com with music by DJ Spooky, helped
launch our campaign against the so-called Clash of Civilizations--starting
with a call for real Middle East peace talks now. Sign up at www.avaaz.org!
Paul D. Miller participates in this year's Venice Bienniale with
a large scale video installation entitled "New York is Now"
that originally appeared at the Luanda Triennial in Angola in
2006. The new version of "New York is Now" is in the
Africa Pavilion as part of the Dokolo Collection at the Arsenale
Artiglierie. The Pavilion is curated by Simon Njambi and Fernando
Alvim.
DJ
Spooky’s Best of 2006, “A Guide for the Perplexed”
I get asked to list my “best of” a lot. Considering
there’s a glut of boring stuff in the world, my usual response
is—why more? The main issue is that there’s a howling
emptiness out there in the world, a vacuum left by so much of
which that happens to be lame: people don’t get multi-culturalism
in the digital media scene, they don’t get dynamic art,
they don’t get the fact that digital culture has blurred
the lines between creativity and participation to the point that
the viewer is part of the process of creativity, the list goes
on…. View
the Best of 2006 Guide
System
Error: Al-Yamamah Mix (Podcast Aesthetics)
A couple of years ago, a Saudi oil minister made what has become
one of the more prophetic statements to come out of the Middle
East in a long time: “The Stone Age didn’t end for
lack of stone, and the Oil Age will end long before the world
runs out of oil.” It was a lament, an acknowledgement that
a day of reckoning was coming that would change the global balance
of wealth and power.
In the first major effort of its kind in Italy, the Palazzo Papesse
Centre for Contemporary Art in Siena will present a new show "System
Error: War Is A Force That Gives Us Meaning". The show is co-curated
by Papesse curator Lorenzo Fusi and New York/Dhaka based artist
Naeem Mohaiemen. It will open on February 3, 2007, and will run
through May 6, 2007. http://papesse.org
Dj Spooky writes about the state of the Nation for The Nation
Magazine with accompanying
downloadable PDF map of the economics of the political/
commercial environment.
This piece is available as a limited edition from The
Nation Magazine
Trojan Records asked me to do a "selections" mix of their
archive, and these are the liner notes to the project. I spent almost
every summer when I was a kid in Jamaica, and all I can say is that
when I was putting together this compilation, it was kind of like
a time warp back to a different era. Check it! Read
the Article Visit
Trojan Records website
30 min mix by DJ Spooky featuring The Monks
of Deprung Loesling Monastery, Daniel Bernhard Roumain, King Tubby, Philip
Glass, The Beastie Boys, Saul Williams, John Coltrane and Alice Coltrane. The Rubin Museum of Art Art Asia Pacific Magazine
Waterline:
The Sounds of Katrina
On the eve of Mardi Gras, Weekend America sent DJ Spooky
to New Orleans to share his experiences in the city through words
and music.
America has had a long history of urban disaster: from the British's attempted
destruction of Washington D.C. in 1814, to later events like the Great
Fire of Chicago in 1871, to the earthquake and subsequent fires that burned
most of San Francisco in 1906. What made New Orlean's encounter with Katrina
in August, 2005 different from all of the previous disasters was the scope,
speed, and sheer sense of uncanny precision that destroyed man made levees
that were specifically designed to stop just such an occurence. The flood
waters that Katrina released follow a trajectory that mirrored many of
the problems of America at the beginning of the 21st century, and showed
that issues such as race, class, and how people respond to environmental
devastation are still scripted by many of the issues that drove the 20th
century's core conflicts. W.E.B. Dubois once proclaimed that "the
problem of the 20th century will be the colorline." In effect he
described a situation where race divided people along lines, that in many
senses were artificial. At the beginning of the 21st century - as we face
a rapidly changing global environment, Katrina pointed out - many of the
issues that he described are still with us. The material I have gathered
is for a show based on interviews that were conducted with people from
many different walks of life. The show is called "Waterline"
- a pun of W.E.B. Dubois infamous phrase that "the problem of the
20th Century will be the colorline" - the water that came and destroyed
New Orleans didn't care about skin color, and it was about the rapidly
changing environment of North America.
Exploring
a Media Ecology
Paul D. Miller a.k.a. DJ Spooky That Subliminal Kid, Independent
artist, writer, producer, and musician. Quicktime
video webcast on WGBH
Five new Dj Spooky Ringtones available from Flux! Preview them and purchase them
HERE DJ
Spooky Interview Podcast Dj Spooky interviewed
on Steve Gordon ESQ's "The Future of the Music Business" show
for www.myrealbroadcast.com.
Rhythm
Science has been chosen
as one of the 50 best designed books by the AIGA, as part of "AIGA
50 Books/50 Covers" competition. Great Interview
from KQED, San Francisco
from May 3rd, 2005: HERE
DJ
SPOOKY and
DAVE LOMBARDO (SLAYER)
present
DRUMS OF DEATH
Recorded with:
Dave Lombardo/Slayer
Chuck D./Public Enemy
Vernon Reid/Living Color
Jack Dangers/Meat Beat Manifesto
