[NetBehaviour] Your Vote is Important to the People's Park Plinth! ✨🗳
Helen Varley Jamieson
helen at creative-catalyst.com
Mon Aug 30 01:21:34 CEST 2021
hmm, i guess i must have deleted it; i registered the other day but
never saw a token. i'm unable to keep up with my lists for a while so
have been randomly deleting stuff ... :/
On 30.08.21 03:05, Ruth Catlow via NetBehaviour wrote:
> Lovely writing and very appreciative of your ongoing attention Max.
>
> If any others here haven't yet voted...you can look at the work and
> register here https://peoplesparkplinth.org/
> <https://peoplesparkplinth.org/> until Tuesday 31st.
> Registration closes at 8.30pm and then the vote closes at 12 midnight. BST
>
> We are discovering a few wrinkles <sigh>
> If you already registered or are a subscriber to Furtherfield then
> your token has already been delivered to you by email with the subject
> header “It’s Time to Vote for the People’s Park Plinth at Furtherfield
> Gallery”. Please check in your inbox (and spam folders).
>
> Warmly
> Ruth
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> On Thu, Aug 26, 2021 at 5:51 PM Max Herman <maxnmherman at hotmail.com
> <mailto:maxnmherman at hotmail.com>> wrote:
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>
> Hi Ruth,
>
> I just finished voting and think this is a fantastic concept and
> framework. The participatory nature of it is so important for
> sustainable and resilient art community. Mammoth frameworks of
> big-data algorithms and high-dollar collector transactions simply
> don't do certain things that are well worth doing. Perhaps these
> omitted processes may be even more than just worth doing, but
> simply necessary for that which we call aesthetic culture to thrive.
>
> It's so easy to forget that the big-name objects collecting
> mega-price transactions started off as people hanging out in
> coffee shops speculating about art and life and literature and
> participating actively, experimenting, with little or no audience
> and on a shoestring. It's equally easy to forget that we are all
> writing and revising our own inner algorithms so to speak, our
> choices and plans and modes of experience, all day every day
> whether we do so consciously or not.
>
> One aspect of Leonardo which I have found so surprising is his
> genuine sense of his own transience. He very much wanted for his
> work to be preserved over time -- given the hostility to all art
> and science that our daily crises can foster by default -- but he
> understood perhaps even better than we do the limits of fame,
> immortality, and adulation. He wrote, "Once daylight appears, we
> can put out the lamp we lit to see in the dark." It's a metaphor
> of course -- he wasn't trying to help us with our literal home
> lighting decisions -- and one that makes the most sense to me in a
> context of knowledge-sharing, the metamorphic nature of art, and
> the transient cyclical nature of aesthetic value. Trying to
> freeze such transience he knew would merely lead to oversized
> edifices of diminishing function and, paradoxically, increasing
> instability as the massive structures lose proportionality to
> place, time, people, nature, and so on.
>
> Thanks again for sharing this great work on list. The in-person
> event sounds like it was even more excellent!
>
> All best and congratulations,
>
> Max
>
>
> ------------------------------------------------------------------------
> *From:* NetBehaviour <netbehaviour-bounces at lists.netbehaviour.org
> <mailto:netbehaviour-bounces at lists.netbehaviour.org>> on behalf of
> Ruth Catlow via NetBehaviour <netbehaviour at lists.netbehaviour.org
> <mailto:netbehaviour at lists.netbehaviour.org>>
> *Sent:* Wednesday, August 25, 2021 10:47 AM
> *To:* NetBehaviour for networked distributed creativity
> <netbehaviour at lists.netbehaviour.org
> <mailto:netbehaviour at lists.netbehaviour.org>>
> *Cc:* Ruth Catlow <ruthcatlow at gmail.com <mailto:ruthcatlow at gmail.com>>
> *Subject:* [NetBehaviour] Your Vote is Important to the People's
> Park Plinth! ✨🗳
>
> And finally an unseemly plea to anyone who has not yet voted...
>
> Please do vote now, here https://peoplesparkplinth.org/
> <https://peoplesparkplinth.org/> (on your smart phone)
>
> We know YOU know what great digital art looks like!
> So your vote matters as well as any feedback you can give us about
> the voting process.
>
> See below for more details about the project.
>
> Thank you!
>
> :) Ruth
>
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> View this email in your browser
> <https://mailchi.mp/furtherfield/join-the-inaugural-culturestake-vote?e=d1746ee6ff>
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> * <https://furtherfield.us4.list-manage.com/track/click?u=9d227b6380a87c752902c8a55&id=7a71a5271c&e=d1746ee6ff>*
>
> On the *14th of August 2021*, we launched
> the *CultureStake* collective cultural decision-making app
> <https://furtherfield.us4.list-manage.com/track/click?u=9d227b6380a87c752902c8a55&id=ae99b600b1&e=d1746ee6ff> at
> a live voting event with hundreds of people in
> a hot and sunny Finsbury Park.
>
> Furtherfield Gallery. Photo: Hydar Dewachi ®
>
> You too can now experience collective cultural decision making
> using the *CultureStake app* by:
>
> 1.
>
> Heading over to the *Furtherfield Gallery* in *Finsbury
> Park* or clicking this link
> <https://furtherfield.us4.list-manage.com/track/click?u=9d227b6380a87c752902c8a55&id=8267aca03c&e=d1746ee6ff> to
> the exhibition website.
>
> 2.
>
> Providing your *email address* so we can send you a *magical
> voting token*.
>
> 3.
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> Viewing all *3 digital artworks* currently on display on
> the *People’s Park Plinth*. (Either go to Furtherfield Gallery
> and scan the QR codes and follow them around the park or click
> the links on the website and experience the remote versions)
>
> 4.
>
> Activating your *magical voting token* when it arrives by
> email *(within 24 hours)*
>
> 5.
>
> Using the *CultureStake app* to express your opinions on the
> artworks.
>
>
> <https://furtherfield.us4.list-manage.com/track/click?u=9d227b6380a87c752902c8a55&id=b9a0f9108c&e=d1746ee6ff>
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> *CultureStake* *app* preview for the People's Park Plinth (August
> 2021)
>
>
> <https://furtherfield.us4.list-manage.com/track/click?u=9d227b6380a87c752902c8a55&id=7092483291&e=d1746ee6ff>
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> At *CultureStake* we want to:
>
> *
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> End elitism around the arts - by opening cultural decision
> making to wider groups and providing more agency to communities.
>
> *
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> Enable people to have a stake in what cultural activities get
> produced in their locality
>
> *
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> Explore together as communities what cultural experiences we
> want to have in the places that matter to us.
>
> Furtherfield Gallery. Photo: Hydar Dewachi ®
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> <https://furtherfield.us4.list-manage.com/track/click?u=9d227b6380a87c752902c8a55&id=adcf96c437&e=d1746ee6ff>
>
> *CultureStake* is a web app for community decision making around
> culture:
>
>
> *For Communities *
>
> We *create* an *appetite* for culture by encouraging communities
> to explore and learn together what we want to experience in our
> localities. For example, how might a theatre audience cast a play
> differently or a park community curate a public art exhibition?
>
>
> *For Cultural Organisations *
>
> We *facilitate* a deeper and richer, more open consultation with
> the communities cultural organisations work for. For example, a
> city council might need to find out which new artwork should
> occupy a recently vacated public plinth. Or an arts organisation
> might need to know which artist on their shortlist should be next
> summer’s blockbuster.
>
>
> *For All *
>
> We *create data commons* that widens the conversation about how
> art is valued by different communities around the world.
>
> <https://furtherfield.us4.list-manage.com/track/click?u=9d227b6380a87c752902c8a55&id=cb9ed7abd5&e=d1746ee6ff>
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> *A Portfolio of Cultural Communities *
>
> Over time we aim to add *thousands of cultural experiences* to
> the *CultureStake portfolio* in league with other cultural
> communities. Cultural organisations can add to this with new
> artist commissions or pick from the portfolio. This will allow
> artists and arts organisations to explore and test new ideas in
> new contexts and enable projects to be easily picked up in
> different locations with different communities.
>
>
> *Vote Weighting For People in Places*
>
> Any *voting event* can apply vote weighting in a number of
> different scenarios. This means for example, that those closest to
> the issues can have their vote weighted to mean more overall. For
> instance, local votes might be given more weight in an
> international selection process for a new public artwork.
>
>
> For more about CultureStake see our website
> <https://furtherfield.us4.list-manage.com/track/click?u=9d227b6380a87c752902c8a55&id=8ad4a0f0a5&e=d1746ee6ff> and FAQs
> <https://furtherfield.us4.list-manage.com/track/click?u=9d227b6380a87c752902c8a55&id=52f8cc8f4d&e=d1746ee6ff>.
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> --
> Ruth Catlow
> she/her
> Co-founder & Artistic director of Furtherfield & DECAL Decentralised
> Arts Lab
> +44 (0) 77370 02879
>
> *I will only agree to speak at events that are racially and gender
> balanced.
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