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On September 4-5, we will be discussing the Future of the Public School and continuing some of the conversations from The UC strikes and beyond and Continental Drift / Control Society / Metamorphosis. We're fortunate that Brian Holmes will be back in Los Angeles and proposed the class, which will "look at the cultural roots of the current university crisis, and in that light, to explore the role that experiments like The Public School could play in re-imagining education." more..

i am putting out an open call for semiotext(e) reading group facilitators. each facilitator would focus on one book and follow some of the source material and references used in the book. the idea is to have at least one person well versed in each book's material to help keep the discussion moving. here is a list of volunteers so far: the coming insurrection - zen dochterman 9/18 the screwball asses - liz glynn 11/20 the violence of financial capitalism - sean dockray 10/2 more..

We have setup a mailing list for “There is nothing less passive than the act of fleeing.”Click here to signup.   This is a discussion list for The Public School project, “There is nothing less passive than the act of fleeing.”   ** What this list is for **   1. We will post any last minute details for or changes to meeting places here. 2. It will be the place for any follow-up discussion and some kind of daily summary. more..

There is nothing less passive than the act of fleeing... Deadlock: perpetual war, failing economies, the crumbling of education, capitalist realism, our environment in ruin, hostility everywhere. Resistance? Confrontation? Insurrection? Exodus: silence, autonomy, occupation, withdrawl, invisibility, friendship. more..

Hey All, Just a reminder. We will be meeting this coming Saturday on the northwest corner of Olympic and Lorena. Here is a link to a map. http://maps.google.com/maps/ms?ie=UTF8&hl=en&t=h&om=1&msa=0&msid=114348827927018138645.00000112f4c1b1972adb5&ll=34.04217,-118.199372&spn=0.012251,0.020084&z=16   Also, FYI I posted a couple of PDF's on muralism to our class readings uploaded on AAAAARG Max Benavides: The Wall: Image and Boundary in Chicano Art more..

Hi Everyone, Just a reminder that the first meeting of Specters of LA History & Site-specific Resurrections will be held this Saturday @ noon at The Public School. Here is a note from Zen, one of the class facilitators, about what will take place: JUNE 19THThe first class will be an opportunity for us to meet each other, discuss our interests in LA lost communities, and plan out the future "site visits" to explore. more..

Sample a variety of sushi styles of the past to bring to life the historical shifts and developments of Japan. Led by Yoko Isassi, this one-afternoon workshop and taste-shop will be an adventure for all the senses. Space is limited; Please RSVP from the class page.more..

Just a quick reminder that the second, "practice"-oriented installment of the Theory/Practice based workshop on the manifesto is happening TOMORROW at TPS at 1 PM. Join us (again)!more..

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Come one, come all to this evening's workshop on the manifesto at TPS. 7 - 9 PM; hope to see you there, manifestoes and manifesto-ish items in tow!more..

There are not many people who, upon reaching positions of relative power and security, continue to fight for social justice with the same ferocity and determination as they did before there was something to lose.  Professor Ricardo Dominguez is one of those rare examples and he is currently under attack from the University of California, ostensibly for a Virtual Sit-In during the March 4 system-wide walkout.more..

  [caption align="alignnone" width="640" caption="Tracts from The Tract House, courtesy of Lisa Anne Auerbach"][/caption]   [caption align="alignnone" width="640" caption="X-TRA volumes 10-12, courtesy of X-TRA"][/caption]   [caption align="alignnone" width="640" caption="Donated by Cybelle Tondu (for when we restart the Outdoor Chess Club!)"][/caption]   more..

The class "Greywater Systems" with Leigh Jerrard is set to begin next month. The class will be one-part classroom one-part backyard. We are looking for a volunteer to offer their home for the second meeting in exchange for your own Laundry-to-Landscape greywater system.   If you are interested in installing a greywater system in your home, let's talk! Our volunteer must: Own your home (sorry, no renters) in or around Los Angeles more..

The first session(s) of Making Furniture will be taking place this weekend! We still have a few spots open so if you are interested in taking the class please sign up. Everyone who has paid will be in one of the two time slots. Please be sure to fill out this form as soon as you can: http://spreadsheets.google.com/viewform?formkey=dHZ4ZUE2N2ZiMWcwUjlmeFl5VnZqZmc6MA Looking forward to seeing everyone on Saturday at Issac's studio  located at: 4006 N Figueroa St Los Angeles, CA 90031more..

Strike, March 4! http://occupyeverything.com/events/march-4/http://occupyca.wordpress.com/2010/02/06/occupy-everything-fight-everywhere-strike-march-4/ http://checkingeducation.com/faculty-statementhttp://takethecity.wordpress.com/ http://afterthefallcommuniques.info/more..

Just a reminder that Ambivalence will be meeting *at the MAG* this afternoon at our usual time (3-5 PM). We will be joined by Karen Pinkus, author of Alchemical Mercury: A Theory of Ambivalence, and will be meeting in a screening room to the right side of the "Actions, Conversations, and Intersections" exhibition - if you can't find us, ask at the front desk and they will direct you. Hope to see you soon!more..

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Due to overwhelming popular demand, the second session of Ambivalence will take place at The Public School's Chinatown space tomorrow at 3 PM. Let there be no uncertainty: We will be meeting at our regular time (3-5) at 951 Chung King Road, Los Angeles, 90012. Come one, come all, for face-to-face interaction! Our meeting will be "broadcast" to the MAG via Skype, but we thought it'd be nice for us all to be together this time around:) See you tomorrow!more..

Just a friendly reminder that the initial session of Theory/Practice will be held TOMORROW at TPS from 12 noon until 2! Come one, come all, with passages or other media relating to theory/practice in hand!more..

On Sunday, February 21, we are lucky to have Silvia Maglioni and Graeme Thomson visiting us from Paris to screen their 2009 film, Facs of Life.  The screening will begin at 7pm, but we invite you to come earlier for a conversation with Silvia and Graeme.     more..

Just a friendly reminder that "Ambivalence" starts tomorrow, at 3 PM, at either the Los Angeles Municipal Art Gallery or The Public School! Please join us! All relevant information available here: http://la.thepublicschool.org/class/1765.more..

Nonstophome will be in residence for the next week (beginning tonight at 7pm!) with their four-day listening, reading, and discussion-based seminar, The Last of my Time Makes a Cosmos: Rhythm and Space Analysis toward the de-gentrification of the Black Avant Garde.  The class description is below, but a practical note: if you can't make it to the first meeting, feel free to come to the second class, on Thursday.   Schedule: Tuesday, 2 February at 7pm more..

The tenth Fucked Up Drawing Party will happen at The Public School on Saturday from 5-8pm. MANIFESTO: more..

On Sunday, January 31, we'll be meeting at 7pm for the second screening in the Cinecultural Practice and the Political Avant-Garde series. Everyone is welcome - synopsis and review are below:   Synopsis more..

"The philosophers have only interpreted the world, in various ways; the point, however, is to change it." If you read that sentence then you have done the assigned reading for the first meeting of Theory / Practice, which meets Sunday night at 7pm. The class will kick off with a discussion of all sorts of condensed examples of the historically uneasy relationship between theory and practice, so bring your own (for example, maybe: "Change we can believe in")   more..

Happy new year! After a couple weeks off, classes are starting up again this weekend: openFrameworks is full, but there are a couple of spots left in the Writing a Business Plan, which begins Sunday evening. The ongoing UC Strikes and beyond group meets again on Saturday afternoon - all newcomers are welcome! Immaterial Labor and Biopolitics discusses Chapter 3 of Hardt and Negri's Commonwealth on January 16 more..

Classes may be on hiatus for the holidays, but you can still get involved before 2010! Our new yearbook is in the works to chronicle this past year and we need your help to make it complete. We are asking for submissions of images of interesting materials, notes, diagrams, doodles, and creations that you have garnered from attending classes at The Public School. These can be digital photographs, scans, screen caps, or whatever format you feel most convenient/appropriate.more..

We've gotten two new books into The Public School library, donated by the Canadian artist, Bill Burns: 0800.0FAUNA0FLORA, by Bill Burns. Subtitled "A Users Guide to The Flora and Fauna Information Service Interactive Voice Mail System." Published in 2008. Bird Radio - Vogelradio, also by Bill Burns, explains how to operate Bird Radio's seventeen bird calls. Published in 2007. The Public School's library is open every Friday, Saturday, and Sunday from noon to 6pm beginning in 2010.more..

"A reading and analysis and strategy discussion" will be coming together at noon on Saturday, December 5, before the final Performance/ Performativity/ Enactment class. On the class webpage you can find various resources and materials for the class: texts, links to resources on the internet, and discussions.more..

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A short excerpt from Transmission: The Rules of Engagement, one of the readings for Kultural Kapital, which begins Sunday at noon. See all texts under the AAAARG tab on the class webpage. more..

Jacques Rancière's on The Emancipated Spectator, 5th International Summer Academy, Frankfurt, 20 August 2004 (part 1/6)more..

Jacques Rancière's on The Emancipated Spectator, 5th International Summer Academy, Frankfurt, 20 August 2004 (part 1/6)more..

The first business class will be held Sunday, November 8 at 2pm. This class is a prerequisite for the upcoming Business Plan class and will be a helpful resource to anyone looking to start their own business. There is still room in the class, so if you haven't already signed up, please do so by clicking the "Buy Now" button on the class page.more..

Join us again at 8pm! This is a casual meeting where anyone and everyone can get together to play a few games. Take advantage of the last warm days of the year. It is free and refreshments will be available. Remember to bring a board if you have one.more..

Since the early to mid-20th century artists conceived the viewer as a passive recipient of "aesthetic experience" / the "spectacle of mass culture" (for example, Brecht's critique of theater that made the viewer passive and his theorization of "epic theater," the Situationist International and Debord's "Society of the Spectacle" and the Independent Group, which both critiqued the passive spectator versus the active spectator).more..

The Elysian Park Museum of Art will be holding its first meeting this Sunday @ noon!  more..

We have a couple midweek meetings this week - first, Wednesday evening's Regular Expressions class would teach you how to find things in text files by searching for a pattern instead of a word (for example, looking for all email addresses in a document instead of just searching for one email address that you already know). Applications range from saving yourself lots of time (for chess) ... to spidering a website to acquire all of the data it contains.   more..

We will be writing more about this soon, but Telic Arts Exchange and The Public School have moved and from now on all classes will be held at the new location, which is 951 Chung King Road.more..

In November the UCLA Department of Design | Media Arts is hosting a conference on Mobile Media that includes lectures, a one-day symposium, and a day of workshops at UCLA. The Public School will be organizing the workshops, opening up not only the workshops themselves to the broader public but the conversation around the planning of those workshops as well.   more..

If you missed our first session of the SELF HELP GRAPHICS: SILKSCREENING THEORY/PRACTICE WORKSHOP (http://la.thepublicschool.org/class/1393) please still consider attending this Saturday's meeting at SHG to learn how to screen print! more..

Just about every class at The Public School has a small fee, which goes entirely towards overhead. Our membership program helps ensure low class fees and keeps the classes accessible to a diverse audience. MEMBERSHIP PROGRAM $200 for a year or $60 for a quarterly subscription + Unlimited free classes (except for materials) + Early sign up for classes with limited enrollment + Biannual meeting with Public School Committee + Reduced price for Telic publications more..

"notes" is a way to post information, ideas, videos, etc. and attach it to a class.  We'd also like to think of notes as a way for knowledge generated during a class to be redistributed outward again. Do this from a class page or from your homepage. more useful homepages the link for offering to teach a class is back! (finally) more..

This course teaches the basics of how to be better at chess aimed at the novice player. We'll discuss the basics, common and classic openings, and common paths to checkmate. Meanwhile talking about Duchamp's love of chess and the effect is may or may not have had on his life. Taught by Mick Bighamian of LA Chess Club. Starting July 22 at The Public School http://la.thepublicschool.org/class/263 more..

Learn to make and process audio signals using the Arduino platform. One-session workshop on July 18 will cover topics such as synthesis, sequencing, MIDI, OSC... jump-start your electronic music-making or audio installation project! For more information visit: http://la.thepublicschool.org/class/1341more..

The Public School will host a one-day class on June 27 to discuss The Coming Insurrection It's useless to wait—for a breakthrough, for the revolution, the nuclear apocalypse or a social movement. To go on waiting is madness. The catastrophe is not coming, it is here. We are already situated within the collapse of a civilization. It is within this reality the me must choose sides. http://la.thepublicschool.org/class/1366more..

Discuss the need for community members to assist in the beautification of problem community sites. Discuss the legalities of "gardening" on public land. Discuss positive examples in LA and other communities. Hands on creation of "Seed bombs", or other take-home ideas for guerilla gardening, etc. This will be a two session course. more..

Redefining the 'Three R's' as a Review, a Response and a Reception, media artist and curator Tom Leeser will lead a Public School class in three parts based on the current June show at the Distributed Gallery, titled '24/7 Truth.' more..

This society meets outside of the Public School to interpret different public spaces in Los Angeles. As you may know, Plein Air is a traditional method of painting/image making popular before the convenience of digital photography. To find out where the UPASLA is meeting next, visit http://la.thepublicschool.org/class/245 more..

TRANSIENCE AS A VIABLE AND SUSTAINABLE CREATIVE ACTION, HISTORICAL MODELS AND RESOURCES Class starts this week - in LA and Philadelphia. Includes film screenings, readings and a radio show.... Transience as a viable and sustainable creative action, historical models and resources more..

MAY 23: 8-bit Lab: LEDs All you can learn about LEDs (light-emitting diodes) in a one-session course. MAY 26: Vagabondism Transience as a viable and sustainable creative actionwill involve a review of historical models and resources. Two groups, one in Los Angeles and one in Philadelphia, as well as itinerant participants scattered about the globe will gather weekly.more..

Join us on Sunday afternoon to learn more about The Public School while eating some delicious soup. If you've had questions about the way The Public School works (what classes get chosen? why? what is the decision-making process?) then come down and ask. If you have ideas about how the school could work better, this class is intended to be one opportunity to put them forward.more..

Telic Arts Exchange has released new publications under the label Editions. These DVD's and books are available to purchase at The Public School and from our online store. more..

Celebrating the release of recent publications from Telic Arts Exchange -Events (2003-2008) - The Public School Yearbook 2008 - Distributed Gallery #1: Tom Moody - Gravity Art (DVD) - Jordan Crandall: Showing (DVD) - Horror Show (DVD) BOOKSWAP Bring a book, take a book! Literature, art, architecture, theory, how-to manuals, anything goes… The book swap is an opportunity to trade in an old favorite for some new reading material. Bring just one, or bring a pile. more..

Thank you to everyone who came out and participated in our weekend program during the CAA conference. Unlike the big event down at the convention center, we welcomed everybody to join a long, open, informal conversation. The schedule is posted here. view additional images from our flickr goup more..

The Public School is hosting its own conference with many of the same amazing people who are visiting Los Angeles for CAA. Ours will be free; it will be modeled as a long, open, informal conversation, occasionally interrupted by screenings and short presentations; and it will encourage as much overlap, cross-pollination, and running over time as possible. Drop in and drop out when you can - the following schedule is a guide to what might be happening. FRIDAY 5:00-? more..

The Public School will be offering the following classes for the next four Sundays in the Richard Serra sculpture(s) at LACMA. To take any of these classes, you will need to register in advance (by the Friday before the class begins) so that we can put you on the list for entrance to LACMA. Visit the link for the class and then click the Google Checkout button. October 19th: One Place After Another (is Never the Same Place), 2 meetings October 26th: more..

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This reading group will involve a close reading of Ernesto Laclau and Chantal Mouffe's "Hegemony and Socialist Strategy" and selections from Mouffe and Laclau's writing on Antagonism. We will also explore related texts by Richard Rorty, Jurgen Habermas, and possibly Hans Blumenberg. Date: September 14, 23, and 28 from 7-9pm (3 meetings) Location: TELIC Arts Exchange Teacher: Chandler McWilliams Limit: 15 people Fee: $30. more..

Learn how to set up your own time bank. Looking for an alternative to the cash economy? Time banking builds self reliance and relationships. Time banking is a "pay it forward" system for weaving community. When you spend an hour doing something for your neighbor you earn a time dollar. Then you can spend a time dollar to have someone in your community do something for you such as, dog walking, tutoring, yard work, haircuts and massage. We are all assets. more..

Screening three extremely rare performances and shows of/by Vaginal Davis (specific pieces to be announced closer to the screening date). An informal discussion will be held after the screening. Date: Thursday: August 21, 8pm Location: TELIC Arts Exchange Fee: $5. more..

Although World War II is most highly represented within the war film genre, the Vietnam War is arguably the most prominently featured in films of the past 30 years. Unlike their propagandistic counterparts of WWII, Vietnam War flicks tend to represent the disillusion of the American people towards the war and what it represented. Films such as Apocalypse Now and Full Metal Jacket shocked audiences with their graphic and horrific depictions from the battlefield. more..

People Watching is a monthly film-screening series with the goal of approaching movies for their anthropological significance, over their contribution to film history and academia. The title of each film will be a mystery until the night of the screening. The inaugural session of People Watching will feature a classic Film Noir thriller about a serial killer. The aim of this screening is not to figure out more..

DAN (The Public School committee) met on Saturday, June 14 in its new configuration. more..

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UFO Theory Continuum chart shown by Scott Davis (available at high resolution at the Davis and Davis website)more..

The Ranciere: The Politics of Aesthetics (and/as an Ethics) reading group, facilitated by Robert Summers concluded yesterday. I will try and have Robert write his thoughts about the three meetings here sometime soon, but in the meantime I wanted to post an interesting outcome of the course -- the supplementary syllabus (below).more..

here is a breakdown of classes that we're going to act on in one way or another this month. NAND = remove from proposals list DAN = comment to get clarification go = move the class into planning process language classes - NAND, providing resources for where to take language classes around town walter benjamin: arcades project - go knitting 101 - DAN sadism & masochism - DAN associative remote viewing - DAN taxonomies & classification - go digital textile printing - go more..

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paper pens toilet paper instant coffee tea bottled water electric kettle paper towels blank CD's and DVD's paint rollers folders x-acto blades envelopes 3-ring binders more..

Elise Co, Sean Dockray, John Houck, Chandler McWilliams, Naoko Miyano, and Nikita Pashenkov met to establish processes and select classes: more..

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