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proposed A school for a socialist colony
The Public School is participating in "An Exhibition of Proposals for a Socialist Colony" in Houston, presented by the artists run-space, Skydive. Our contribution will be 40 class proposals, much in the same spirit as the way the school works already. It is purely speculative, an exercise in desire and imagination, but maybe also a context in which to argue about utopias and overcoming capitalism.
This class would be a 2 hour workshop where we would produce the 40 (or more) proposals, alternating between discussing, making, sharing, and repeating. In addition to the exhibition, we will also print a small publication with the same material, using our fantastic new (to us) Risograph.
Everyone who participates will be credited equally in both the exhibition as well as the publication. If you can't make it on Saturday but wish you could, then you're encouraged to add proposals in the comments below!
2 people are interested
is interested in Architectural Reading Group- 2
made a note: Occupy Everything
made a note: Letter from Brian Holmes
Dear friends -
Greetings, this is just a note to say how much I'm looking forward to meet everyone who will participate in the upcoming sessions in Southern California. All those I've been in touch with seem to be taking it as a chance to reflect on the current political and economic situation and on the shocks affecting cultural and intellectual production - which is exactly the point. I'm committed to the project of self-organized seminars and also to critical insertions in institutional contexts, and I really appreciate the enthusiasm that has been put into preparing these events. Thanks in advance to everyone who has been organizing: Zen Dochterman, Cara Baldwin, Jason Smith, Sean Dockray, Liz Glynn, Solomon Bothwell, Christina Ulke, Marc Herbst, Robby Herbst, the Journal of Aesthetics & Protest and the Public School, as well as a number of others in various corners of the UC system.
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39 people are interested
is interested in Ambivalence
made a note: typography is back!
Sometimes a class proposal generates a lot of interest and then when it is finally offered, nobody registers for it. That's what happened almost two years ago when we first tried to offer typography.
Well we're excited to say that we've finally rescheduled the class to meet on 4 consecutive Sundays beginning January 24th. And this time it will definitely be happening, as it is already beginning to fill up! So if you want to register, you can do it at the class web page.
The class will be taught by Sean Deyoe to make you more typographically self-sufficient... there are rumors of bicycles, Risographs, and in situ signage typeface history.
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made a note: Classes starting back up again this week
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
- Look out for the first meeting of Theory / Practice and a 4 week typography class, both starting on January 24th
made a note: this weekend: Latex Mold Making & Gold Leafing
Although any time is a good time to learn how to make latex molds and how to cover things in gold, now is the best time! Who wouldn't want the gift of a golden VCR for the holidays? A box of chocolates molded from 9 volt batteries?
Sara Simon is teaching two workshops at 1pm on Saturday (Latex Mold Making) and 1pm on Sunday (Gold Leafing). There are only a few spots left for Saturday's workshop so register soon!
more..is interested in Ranciere: The Emancipated Spectator
proposed Stupid Rhino Tricks
demonstation of things to do (and not do) with Rhino. (this class was accidentally deleted and is now being reconstructed... please forgive any glitches!)
46 people are interested
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.
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made a note: The Public School has moved
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.
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In this class, we will view and discuss cinema from around the world, mainly focusing on the discursive essay-film. We aim to catalyze a space in which to explore under-known histories that have been archived in film, with special attention paid to postwar liberation movements, such as the Tricontinentalist and Non-alignment projects (as seen in such films as Hour of the Furances and Videograms of a Revolution). How can these films help us perform an archeology of visions of futurity? What potentialities are still available to us in these visions, and what does our relationship to them reveal? What sorts of political imaginaries can film build? What is the state of the political avant-garde in film?