Feedback on SXSW 2007 made me feel pretty good - one of the sessions I helped organize, Henry Jenkins' presentation, had the highest rating of all sessions and panels (4.95 of 5 points) - thanks also to Joel Greenberg and danah boyd fro their invaluable help on that session. The session I coordinated and moderated, "Blogging Where Speech Isn't Free," rated seventh (4.71 of 5 points). - thanks to all the participants in that session - Ethan Zuckerman, Rob Faris, Shava Nerad, and especially Shahed Amanullah, who also won the Dewey Winburne Award for his work at altmuslim.com. Link to Ratings | [Link to Overview]
Austin dorkbotistas and former polycots David Nunez and Maida Barbour are hosting Transparent Mike Night – tonight at Brentwood Tavern. [Link]
It's an exploration of open-source, DIY audio. Presenters, musicians, engineers, and artists are invited to take the stage, open-mike style, to talk about and perform seriously strange sounds.
This event will be an open mike format showcasing various local inventers who have created instruments, recording devices, mixing tools and other audio devices (anything to do with sound that hasn't ever been done quite that way before). The venue and the show are kid-friendly.
Interesting long week at SXSW Interactive, wherein I had the persistent feeling that I was missing something, because there was always so much going on. Great meetings, great friends, too little music, a few movies, and lots to think about on the interactive side, where I primarily focus. Honoria Starbuck and I were talking today over pozole about how, after years online pushing for an Internet bursting with art and community, we're seeing it happen everywhere we look, and especially at SXSW Interactive. Honoria incidentally has great watercolor notes she's taken at various sessions, and she's considering how she could make those available. (I've posted a sample above, a piece of her notes page from Bruce's talk at the conference).
Standard technologies are falling into place as part of "web 2.0" (though I had a web 3.0 discussion the other day...I don't know that those labels with version numbers are very meaningful; it makes more sense to me to talk about what they represent, the evolution of the Internet as a machine with an operating system, data, and many innovative applications beginning to emerge, as long as some fairly standard way of doing things: blogs and other messaging systems, including Twitter, which was background noise for the Interactive conference this year; wiki and other tools for collaboration; avatar-based virtual realities like Second Life, etc. Mark Meadows told me about the work he's doing (with my former partner, Paco Nathan) building autonomous avatars, though I wondered whether graphically high-end systems will ever be pervasive; I tend to think not. In a way sustaining lifelike representations seems like a waste of cycles.
From the Moleskine:
- I heard stats to suggest that ecommerce sites with community features sell more products, and I heard a lot about the need to be authentic online
- Think like a human (!!).
- The key to passionate users is helping them learn.
- In mitigating Y2K, we learned that Open Source is embedded in many systems because the engineers love it. They love it because Open Source leverages the power of (development) communities.
- More and more companies are forming around Open Source and succeeding at the margins, outsourcing R&D to the OSS community.
- Revenue models that reward the user fairly are the next frontier.
- A relatively small number (8%) of Open Source users actually make code changes.
- Legislation before congress (DOPA) would remove social networks and online communities from school computers. therefore ensuring that teachers and librarians won't have an opportunity to teach kids how to handle participation on line.
- (From Henry Jenkins) We need democracy to be a lifestyle, and we need to change the language we use to talk about engagement. The language of fan culture will be the language of political activity in the near future.
- Knowledge is process, not product.
- The political candidate just serves. The Internet gives us effective input into the direction and quality of that service.
- "You are brilliant and the world is hiring!" – Paul Hawken quoted by Alex Steffen.
- You don't get people to change by criticizing them. You have to show them a better way that they want more.
BarCamp Austin
One place you'll find me during SXSW Interactive that isn't SXSW Interactive: BarCamp II, which is sorta the Open Source alternative (though many of the folks at BarCamp are also signed up for SXSW Interactive; having two places to go plays to our attention deficits). The sessions are looking pretty interesting... I love this one, being of a diverse age:
Aging In Community - How can we support the aging process and welcome age diversity (both young, old, and inbetween) in our design process and implementation?
BarCamp venue's finally been announced: Bourbon Rocks at 508 E 6th St.
Zilker Park Kite Festival
We took a break today and hung out at the Zilker Park Kite Festival. I shot some videos of the kites, including the one below. It was nice to spend some time offline, not thinking, just hanging out. A bazillion kites were in the air, every imaginable shape and size. The few really massive kites were spectacular.
I shot video of the Intel building demolition this morning. Got up late; I would've missed it if not for the kids on bicycles that were cruising too close, delaying demolition as police tried to track 'em down and clear the area. Downtown was packed, but a lucked into a parking spot a few blocks away and made it to the site minutes before the blast. I was standing by the KVUE crew and probably popped up, unkempt, in the news coverage. They were all set to interview the guy who won the contest push the plunger and trigger the blast, but he was called to do the deed before he got a word out. The blast vibrated my bones, but it didn't quite seem to flatten the building. The resulting cloud of dust made for a creepy 9/11 deja vu.
I've also posted a Flickr photo set.
WorldChanging in AustinThis has been a good week for WorldChanging, where I''m a regular contributor. I also contributed to the book WorldChanging: A Guide to the 21st Century
It's pretty wonderful to see how the WorldChanging solutions-oriented message lights a fire – people are ready to stop complaining and start working to build a sustainable future, and they're psyched to encounter a vocal crew who insist that we focus on what works. WorldChanging has never been merely optimistic – we embody a very practical kind of optimism that says
the tools, models and ideas for building a better future lie all around us. That plenty of people are working on tools for change, but the fields in which they work remain unconnected. That the motive, means and opportunity for profound positive change are already present. That another world is not just possible, it's here. We only need to put the pieces together.
The book is catching on; this week there were positive reviews in Wired News (Jenn Shreve's "Saving the World Without Hippies") and Whole Life Times.
In my own latest WorldChanging post, I argue that the most extreme dytopian visions of future climate change are detrimental.
What is "Freedom to Connect"?David Isenberg's held two conferences called "Freedom to Connect"; the idea first emerged from a private meeting in 2004 which I attended. Several of us were gathering thoughts on a private wiki, where Martin Geddes posted this:
Freedom to Connect is a thinking tool to enable you to think about the role of networks in the future.
It will give you the questions and the words you will need to participate in the discussions and decision-making about how and where networks are built, who has access to them and under what conditions and how we should be able to use them.
Freecon will lay out the reasoning behind enabling universal public access to these broadband communication networks and the benefits that can flow from that kind of access. It will also provide the case against restricting access, limiting publication or broadcast rights and controlling or prioritising the kinds of traffic that flow through those networks.
Armed with these tools you will be able to argue for the best possible communications future, against the constraints that vested interests will want to place on your ability to communicate. ...
We never got real clarify about the "freedom to connect" concept, often addressed since then by the more limited term "net neutrality."
Net neutrality isn't a great label because it doesn't mean anything to most who hear it and to many who say it. It's supposed to suggest a lack of bias in prioritizing data transmission... a small-d democratic Internet, where every packet has the same opportunity to reach its targeted location, so you can expect content you send to get where it's going expeditiously, and you can expect your requests for content to be honored in the same way.
The Internet is build around the end to end principle, which says that the network is relatively "dumb" with "intelligence" - e.g. communications protocols or rules - running at the end points. This "dumb network with smart terminals" that doesn't act on data in transmission any more than is necessary to manage the flow of data and acceptable performance along the routes from end to end. The dumb network is "neutral," it doesn't care what's in the data it's transmitting. It doesn't give priority to, say, streaming video (which is one reason your streaming videos occasionally stop for a few seconds while streaming).
From the perspective of those who operate broadcast or voice networks, the dumb network is a dumb idea. Because they focus on delivery of content that needs sustained flow, they advocate a network that gives priority to some packets over others... for better "quality of service." If you followed their lead to make the Internet more multimedia-friendly, you would change the character of the Internet - and it might be harder to ensure access to, say, Weblogsky with all that video streaming everywhwere. Bad for me, but okay for companies that deliver digital media and voice over IP - especially the former telcos that already dominate the network.
If we had much fatter pipes, more bandwidth, that would also mitigate their delivery problem. Why don't we have more bandwidth? Why is last mile service (to your door) constrained and asymmetrical? In part it's because they don't want a world where anyone and everyone can deliver content and services. A fully two-way symmetrical system threatens distribution systems that are already difficult to control.
I don't pretend to be an expert on networks, but I've learned a lot since I started paying attention. You can learn a lot, too, by joining the discussions at the Freedom to Connect BarCamp tomorrow evening. We've invited experts and hope to hear many sides of the 'neutrality' question. The future of the Internet is clearly a significant public issue, poorly understood by legislators and policy wonks, as well as the general public. There are many calls to action from interest groups coming from different perspectives, and ne telecom legislation that shouldn't be considered or passed until all of us, and especially lawmakers, have a clear understanding of the issues. (At the moment, legislators have a one-sided perspective, because what they hear on the subject comes from telco and cable industry lobbyists).
O'Reilly's Web 2.0 trademarkO'Reilly has a claim on Web 2.0 as a trademark when used in the name of a conference. Cory has a thoughtful post suggesting that O'Reilly reconsider. O'Reilly always tries to "do no evil" (or has that been trademarked by Google?), so they might agree with Cory, but I personally wish the term would go away. At Polycot we're starting to get requests to build "Web 2.0 sites" as though the term represented something more tangible than an evolution in our thinking about the web (as more like an operating system, and emphasizing its power as a platform for group-forming and collaboration). What's gonna happen when talented people start putting their time and energy into "web businesses" that are built around utilites that would've been Open Source projects a year or two ago? The various pieces that Dale Dougherty and Tim O'Reilly associated with Web 2.0 are important to understand, and I argued before that it's useful to have label for that rich set of memes. But now I'm thinking I'd like to see the term's use limited so that people can zero in on specific elements and patterns.
51 Birch Street
"51 Birch Street" is a powerful documentary about a post-WWII American family that, on the surface, appears much like any other. Dad has a corporate job, Mom stays at home with the kids, and the kids grow up seeing only the surfaces of their parents' lives. Many families leave it there, but in the case of Doug Block's family, his mother's sudden death led to a process of discovery revealing a surprising emotional complexity behind the American middle class facade.
It happens that Doug Block is a documentary filmmaker whose last film, "Home Page", explored online journals and relationships before anybody had ever heard the word "blog." He also shoots weddings, where he catches the first moments and mysteries of nuclear family relationships, experience that he leverages for this latest film.
Doug and I met when he was screening "Home Page" in San Francisco, at a Web '98 screening, and later in Austin at SXSW Interactive '99. He's a bright, curious, garrulous guy, a devoted husband and father, the kind of guy who comes from a solid loving home. After watching "51 Birch Street", I can see that he came from a loving home, but a home that appeared more solid than was the case. Doug approaches his parents' story as the mystery it was, for him. The question was, after his mother died, why his father rather quickly announced his intention to marry his secretary of 35 years past and move to Florida. This leads to other questions, and Doug skillfully documents the pursuit of the answers so that the revelation opens doors for all of us. (In fact, I was tearful at the end, and that never happens.)
Doug is screening "51 Birch Street" at SXSW Interactive. I strongly recommend the film, especially for boomers, since I think it's most relevant to those of us whose parents lived through the depression and WWII and raised their kids - my generation - through the 50s and 60s. I think many or most of them concealed their inner lives, sometimes even from themselves, while the kids (that would be us) made assumptions about reality that owed more to our safe consumption of media, especially television, than to our perception of the less palatable real world.
This film's power owes much to the fact that Doug had been filming his family for years, and partly to his mother's extensive documentation of her thoughts in a huge pile of notebooks (there are scenes where Doug and his siblings wonder whether, by reading her private notebooks, they're somehow intruding.)
There will be three screenings of "51 Birch Street" during SXSW Interactive:
- Sunday, March 12 at Alamo South - 5:30 pm
- Tuesday, March 14 at Alamo South - 2:45 pm
- Friday, March 17 at Alamo Downtown - 11:00 am
Doug's father and his wife Kitty will be in Austin for Q&A's after the first two screenings. Says Doug, "People were floored when they spoke after our showings in Toronto and Amsterdam. Especially me!"
Doug will also be on the "Blogging About Film" panel on Monday the 13th at 3pm.
SXSW 2006SXSW is just over a month away, and I've had my nose in projects for the Interactive conference for several months now, both related to pro bono work I've been doing – for the Digital Convergence Initiative of the Texas Technology Corridor (DCI), where I'm a board member, and for EFF-Austin, where I'm president. My Polycot partners and I figure this is important work relevant to our business. DCI is an economic development project without which the Central Texas region may fall even farther behind the rest of the (flat) world, and EFF-Austin is focused on technology policy that favors open systems and net neutrality, which are relevant to broad innovation in a world of creatively disruptive technologies and practices, and accelerating change.
But I digress (and potentially rant)... back to the original subject, SXSW Interactive. Working with a volunteers, I've been coordinating a digital convergence track that addresses the impact of the remixification of the world on creatives and developers as well as entrepreneurs and businesspeeps. The changes brewing are immense, and those of us who're early adopters are watching other parts of the world catch on faster while the U.S. slides, potentially into oblivion if we don't take steps, the first of which is to acknowledge that something's happening, and it's something that requires us to think hard, establish new neural paths, and not incidentally do a better job of teaching. It's not really accurat that no child's left behind when every child's left behind, though relative perception might make it seem that way. We need engineers, innovators, and smart policy in the USA, and DCI is one incubator for that sort of change, focused on the region along IH35 from San Antonio to Waco (but talking to many folks from many regions during SXSW Interactive).
Along with the track of sessions DCI's coordinated, there's a major event in the works, a party where we'll demonstrate convergent technologies while we're hanging out and having phun. The party's March 14 at Austin Ballet Theatre downtown (maybe we'll dance, too.) A very interesting team of forward-looking volunteers, including artists, technologists, and creative thought leaders have been brewing this party (or should I be lowering your expectations?)
The night before, March 13, EFF-Austin will throw its annual soireé with national EFF and Creative Commons. Not sure of the venue yet, but (as in the past) entertainment will include sets by Mr. Fang, Gift Culture, Kilowatts, and David Demaris. More about this party when we have the venue nailed.
Global Voices London Summit 2005
The Global Voices London Summit today gave the GV bloggers a chance to meet and talk about the state and future of the GV web site, including a chance to give feedback to site wizard Boris Anthony and the inevitable discussion of blogging relative to journalism. Dean Wright from Reuters, who was part of that discussion via videoconference, expressed an interest in working with bloggers. Dina Mehta talked about the Southeast Asian Earthquake and Tsunami blog... I'm still reading, there's a wealth of information in the record of the event, and this was just one day (as Ethan commented, it should have been three).
Global Voices is important, perhaps essential. The USA is in a state of economic decline, and the developing world is growing. Balance depends on understanding and collaboration, and you won't get the communication to support that from traditional media or politicians. It'll come from ordinary people in extraordinary times, publishing their thoughts and perspectives via the blogosphere.
Bimbophonics, Bubbles, and 2.0The Web 2.0 meme seems to create quite a fuss. At the Seattle Mind Camp (the sort thing, incidentally, that we should be doing in Austin), Chris Pirillo evidently dissed Web 2.0 as a sign of a new Bubblocalypse, which John Cook reported here...
"Web 2.0 is a $2,800 ticket to a tech conference. That's all it is." He went on to say that he tries not to use the term.Moore made the mistake of dragging out a (mis-) quote, Tara Hunt of Riya.com saying "For me, it's the free parties and beer." Taken out of context, she felt it suggested she was a beer-soaked bimbo...
"I am praying it is not another bubble. If VCs are funding 'me-too' ideas than it is going to be another mess."
What I believe I actually said was, "Web 2.0 is all about the beer and free parties", which was a tonge-in-cheek reference to the frenzy in the community (where there IS beer and free parties), not that beer is my only experience of it. Yes, like I uprooted my entire family and moved to a new country to be the sole breadwinner for parties and beer. I'm afraid I could have done that quite comfortably in Toronto.The "bimbo" thing is weird and dismissive, but she hits the real issue in her second graf, where she says
All of the grand demos and in-depth conversations and contacts over the weekend were instantly twisted to "I'm a Bimbo" in that moment.Sounds like it was a swell weekend, and she was a little offended that Cook didn't say more about that. Meanwhile Cook posts an update that says
I just spoke with Tara again this morning to clear the air and set the record straight. We both agreed that the quote was in the context of Web 2.0 and was not a reflection on her. Just so we are clear here, my intention in using that quote was to show that energy and enthusiasm is once again surging in the Internet community -- and that has led to free parties and beer. Hunt's quote, which was set up by Chris Pirillo's comments about the possibility of another bubble, was a tongue-in-cheek way of commenting about what is happening in the Internet world. That was the spirit of the quote and that is why I used it -- not to cast some negative impression on Hunt or women in general.(Liz Lawley's in there, too, but 'nuff said.)
Then again, one more thing: Web 2.0 is much maligned as a bubble-blowing buzzword, but I happen to think it's useful to have some way to acknowledge new web paradigms. And if the insane valuation of Google hasn't set off a new bubble-binge, I don't know what would. However there does seem to be some business going on, and that's okay.
Kind of a Penguin Day
Spent today at Urban 15 in San Antonio, at an Open Source workshop based on Aspiration's Penguin Day events. Despite Aspiration co-director Allen Gunn's presence and leadership, we saw this as more of a precursor to a larger regional Penguin Day that we'll put together sometime after the first of the year, probably in February. Today's event wasn't far off the mark, though. We started with general explanations of Open Source for the diverse group that showed up, the discussed actual Open Source implementations such as the use of Webmin to manage the sites hosted by the Metropolitan Austin Information Network, the San Antonio Independent School District's use of Open Source content management systems to support school web sites, the Drupal-based Write On Austin! web site, and the Urban 15 project Nos Unimos, which hosts family photos from San Antonio's historic West Side. In breakout sessions we talked about content management systems, licensing, and Open Source history. We also had a speed-geeking session (where I demo'd WordPress via the "You're It!" blog). Check out a few photos.
PlaNetwork Austin: Katrina ResponseLast night I spoke at a PlaNetwork event at City Hall in Austin, which was about the response to Katrina. First speaker was Austin's CIO, Pete Collins, talking about Austin's IT Incident Preparedness Group. Pete said they essentially had to build a cityw ithin a city within 20 hours when they set up the local evacuee center. Some of the lessons learned:
- They needed a boundariless prequalified IT pool representing key skill sets.
- In an emergency response situation, it's important to get to operational mode as quickly as possible.
- There's more pure labor than you would expect in moving and setting up PCs.
- Focus on communication - very helpful to have phones so that people can let others know where they are, that they're okay.
- We need to be better prepared overall or "we might not be able to do this again, especially in a situation that's far worse.
Gary Chapman showed the Austin Helping New Orleans web site he'd set up with help from volunteers. The site, based on pMachine's Expression Engine. His focus was on aggregating information for people who were confused about what was going on and how they could help. Gary said there had also been work on an online volunteer database for Austin, not finished in time for the Katrina effort, but it'll be there in the future.
I talked about my work with the Katrina PeopleFinder Project and its sister project, ShelterFinder. Check out this pdf from my presentation. I've blogged about PeopleFinder here, at Smart Mobs, and at WorldChanging.
Staci Kramer on BlogHerBlogHer was, I gather from the reports I've read, a unique conference, possibly because it wasn't just the usual suspects having the usual conversations. I wasn't there, so I've been looking for a good overview; today I ran across a rich account of the conference at the Annenberg Online Journalism Review, written by Staci Kramer. Staci has some thoughts about why this conference was different:
It would be easy to ascribe the difference to the overwhelmingly female majority, but it goes deeper than that.There were intense feelings, and "...it wasn't all sweetness and light. Anger, frustration, disagreement, disappointment – all made frequent appearances during the weekend and after." From Staci's report, I get the sense that BlogHer was great because it was a truly authentic experience for most of the participants, and authentic experiences are rare anywhere these days, especially at the myriad conferences focusing on talking-head panels pontificating for 45 minutes followed by ten minutes of questions. Sounds like everybody was talking – and listening – at this one. John Shirley makes out!
Part of it came from the cross-section of bloggers self-selected as participants or attending as invited panelists. We could -- and did -- break into smaller groups (one time slot was set aside for "birds of a feather" groups) but we were there for reasons that pulled us together more than they pulled us apart. Plus, we were determined to make it work.
If you're in the San Francisco Bay Area, you can catch the Kosher Kimchi Tour's latest stop, "The Greatest staged Reading of Prose and Poetry in the World." My pal John Shirley is joining Joseph Kim and Allison Landa... the blurb:
How to make Kosher Kimchi: Bring together a Korean and a Jew at a Catholic school then add a secret ingredient known as a Special Guest. Mix it up and you've got the best-tasting literary dish this side of the Red Sea. We are a fearless bunch of hooligans who never should've been writers, but are, so just accept it -- dammit.It's 7:30 - 9:30PM Monday night at The Makeout Room (3225 22nd Street, SF CA), and it'll be the best three bucks you ever spent! Personal Democracy Forum
I posted my notes on last Monday's Personal Democracy Forum at Worldchanging.com: [Link]
Pop and Politics Mashup
DJ Spooky
If you're in the Bay Area Tuesday, don't miss Farai Chideya's Pop and Politics Mashup!
PopandPolitics.com (www.popandpolitics.com) is proud to present its first MASH-UP, an innovative series pairing newsmakers from the worlds of culture and public policy. This inaugural benefit event will feature a conversation on THE FUTURE OF CREATIVITY IN THE DIGITAL AGE with Stanford law professor LAWRENCE LESSIG and musician/artist/filmmaker PAUL MILLER AKA DJ SPOOKY. It will be moderated by multimedia journalist FARAI CHIDEYA.SXSW InteractiveAdmission to the event includes an after-party at which DJ Spooky will spin a guest set. His new album “Drums of Death,” featuring Chuck D and Dave Lombardo of Slayer, was just released on Thirsty Ear.
Date: Tuesday May 3
Time: 7:00 to 8:30 (conversation), 8:30 to 11:00 (after-party)
Place: Swedish American Hall
2174 Market Street
San Francisco, CA 94114
Price: $23, tickets are available online at www.PopandPoltics.com
Contact: popandpolitics@gmail.com / 415-338-2542
Spring, and an old phart's fancy turns to SXSW Interactive, where various communities will meet in hopefully Dionysian collision - WorldChanging bloggers, open standards hackers, wireless mavens, technopolitical activists, plus wonkette (sans glasses) and Malcolm Gladwell. It's gonna be a good one. Needless to say, I expect to be blogging bits and pieces of the conference, given some combination of physical, mental, and electrical energy.
Party!
I'll be leading a couple of discussions in the political track of OSN 2005. The conference, which starts tomorrow, is 100% online; registration is $35 through today. Here's a press release with more info:
Group Jazz and Rheingold Associates announce Online Social Networks 2005, a two-week online conference featuring an all-star line up including Howard Rheingold, Lisa Kimball, Joi Ito, and, Brian Reich, along with other trendsetters who are using interactive social applications to support projects, issues, causes, teams and communities across the globe.
Join OSN participants to explore how virtual social networks impact the way we collect, share, and interact with information. Discover how early adopters are using interactive applications to facilitate social change. The conference serves as a follow-up to the inaugural OSN 2001 event, which focused on online social networks as emerging technology. Four years later, OSN 2005 examines how online social networks are altering our information resources, modifying the way we learn and changing our approaches to civil engagement and public discourse.
The conference is scheduled to start February 9, 2005 and continue for two weeks, concluding on February 23rd. Content for the virtual event is organized into three areas:
- Online Social Networks in organizations What organizations are using Online Social Networks, and why? What challenges and opportunities do they present? What are the practical applications of OSNs?
- Online Social Networks for social and business use
How are OSN's being used in the workplace and by individuals?
- Online Social Networks in the political arena
How have political parties and politicians used OSNs to raise money, explore issues, and mobilize at the grassroots level?
If you are interested in the topics above, participate in OSN 2005 and learn more about…
- Effective strategies for creating & sustaining on-line communities;
- Methods for getting people to your event, party or conference
- Adding value to earn trust and sustain participation;
- Using effective design, style and form;
- Impact and potential of OSNs in different sectors; and
- Trends in the OSN arena.
Featured guests include:
- Howard Rheingold
- Lisa Kimball
- Joi Ito
- Brian Reich
In addition, OSN 2005 will be featuring companies, organizations, associations, and individuals in an online Exhibit Hall where participants browse virtual booths with exciting new products and services related to online social networks.
The online "Meet and Greet " sessions feature exhibitors available to answer questions and share their experience with participants. Sessions are scheduled throughout the event and include product demonstrations and "trial" products during OSN2005.
SPICE for Project Re:BuildVia Cameron Sinclair at Architecture for Humanity:
SPICE
A photography show and anonymous silent auction to benefit Architecture for Humanity's Project Re:Build. This fundraiser is apart of the Worldchanging/Architecture for Humanity Reconstruction Appeal.January 27th to February 8th 2004:
Gallery Show at ABC No Rio, New York, New York:
Wednesday, February 9th 2004:
Silent Auction at a gallery to be announced
Step 1. Submit one 5”x7” to SPICE by January 23rd
Step 2. Participate in gallery show and anonymous auction
Step 3. Bid on a work of art and help us rebuild in South East Asia
Jennifer MacFarlane, a NYC based photojournalist, and Architecture for Humanity New York (AFHNY) are organizing a photography show and anonymous silent auction to aid the organizations’ rebuilding work in South East Asia.
We are asking people to please submit one 5”x7” photo under the theme SPICE, whose theme is to celebrate the culture, color, sights and sounds of region. SPICE will run from January 27th to February 7th at the ABC No Rio gallery in downtown NYC with an opening reception on the evening of the 27th.
During the the run of the show all the photos will be displayed without labels and on the wall there will be a list of all those participating. The auction will be held on February 9th 2004 at a gallery to be announced. At the end of the bidding the names of the photographers will be revealed and you could be the proud owner of a snap from a backpacker, someone from the region, an award winning designer or a world-class photographer.
If you are interested in participating please email spice (at) architectureforhumanity (dot) org and we will send you information on submitting your work.