Information Department announces the initial implementation of Question Group, an Information Department module.
This Question Group will be dedicated to generating questions regarding the concept of the future. Participants will generate these questions via an intensive reading/discussion of two recent volumes relating to the future: After the Future, by Franco “Bifo” Berardi; and No Future: Queer Theory and the Death Drive, by Lee Edelman. Over the course of six meetings between June 15 and August 15, 2012, Question Group: The Future will generate and discuss questions that emerge from between the two texts. These questions will progress from this initial question from Information Department: is the future necessary?
To participate in Question Group: The Future, please e-mail contact@information-department.net or message Information Department on Facebook. This action will result in an Information Department: Document.
Tuesday, May 15
7pm @ overca$h
834 32nd St
Oakland, CA 94608
Free and open to the public
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Join Ted Purves and Jacob Wick as they reprise their October discussion, Character Rol(l/e): Dungeons & Dragons, with twin talks regarding the last eight months of research and activity, as well as recent visits to art/gaming events at Haverford College and UCLA, including Purves’s recent collaboration with Zachary Wallace, Beyond the Shadow’s Reach. For this event, overca$h has agreed to make Settlers of Catan, chess, Risk, and cribbage available to attendees.
This event is part of Lecture Series, an Information Department module.
Posted: May 8th, 2012
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Thursday, April 12
gal*in_dog: TAROT as Post-Artistic Practice
7pm @ overca$h
834 32nd St, Oakland, CA 94608
Free and open to the public
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Information Department presents composer, multimedia artist, and performer gal*in_dog for a discussion/performance of conceptual TAROT a post-artistic practice. Hosted by overca$h at overca$h in West Oakland.
This event is part of Lecture Series, an Information Department initiative.
gal*in_dog’s artistic work spans a wide spectrum of expression from symphonic composition to the domains of musical and visual computer interaction, electro-acoustic music, opera, film music, instrument building, three dimensional installation, live performance and sound design. His music has been performed and shown at major festivals and art exhibits throughout the United States, Latin America, Europe, and Asia.
His orchestral works include two symphonies: “Ome Acatl”, (1997), premiered by the OFUNAM Mexican National University Philharmonic Orchestra and “Trade Routes” (2005) for orchestra, spoken word and chorus, with text and spoken word by devorah major, commissioned and performed by the Oakland East Bay Symphony Orchestra and chorus.
On Sunday, April 1st, five informationists will conduct a survey of visitors to the California College of the Arts Open Studios. This survey will center on an investigation of what the interviewees are working on and how they might describe their process. An analysis of the results will be posted in mid- to late April.
Information Department, in collaboration with the California College of the Arts MFA Social Practice Workshop and the Stanford MFA Art Practice department, announces Chair: In Support of Creative Development. Chair consists of a chair, formerly belonging to the Social Practice Workshop at CCA, lent to a Stanford MFA student for a period of 2 years, or until the occupant’s studies are completed. The occupant will use Chair in activities relating to personal creative development, including research and creative practice. In 2013, Chair will be returned to the CCA Social Practice Workshop, where a new occupant will be announced.
The 2011 - 2013 occupant.
Character Rol(l/e): Dungeons & Dragons, Social Practice
Join Ted Purves and Jacob Wick as they create Dungeons & Dragons player-characters and conduct a reciprocal interview about their mutual histories playing Dungeons & Dragons, their current engagements with social practice, and how the two might relate.
Wednesday, November 9th
7pm at overca$h
Free and open to the public
Open Call: Lecture series
Deadline: Rolling
Information Department invites any interested party to propose a lecture on a subject of your choice as part of a monthly series, sponsored by Information Department, at overca$h in West Oakland.
Your proposal should include a brief outline of your subject matter and how you would prefer to present it. Although overca$h is available for use during all lecture times, another location may be requested.
There is no preferred subject matter. Proposals for group presentations are welcome. A projector will be provided for those who require one.
The lectures will occur from 7 – 9 pm on the second Thursday of every month, beginning November 9th with a discussion between Ted Purves and Jacob Wick entitled “Character Rol(l/e): Dungeons & Dragons, Social Practice.”
Subsequent lectures will be announced as they are confirmed.
To submit a proposal, please send an e-mail to contact@information-department.net.
Posted: October 6th, 2011
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From July 31st to August 7th, Information Department contributer Jacob Wick drove along the indirect route from Asheville, NC to San Francisco, CA. Along the way, he performed a participatory score entitled what news (2011):
To participate:
- Send a text to Information Department at 575-446-3676 in the following format: what news [a name] [an address]. If you are comfortable with Wick taking a photograph of your postcard and posting it on his Tumblr, please also include a “Y”.
- The ID number is temporarily set up to forward directly to Wick’s cellphone; a postcard will be sent to the name and address you sent with the top headlines of the newspaper from the nearest locality to where your text was received; in this way we can all keep each other informed.
View all posted postcards here.
On April 29 and 30, Information Department contributer Jacob Wick set up a booth in the campcamp area of the Transmodern Festival. At this booth, visitors were invited to participate in a number of activities: a book/equipment swap; a score, let me tell you about it, written by Wick for the occasion; a suggestion box; and a worksheet. This worksheet contained four frames in which individuals were invited to draw and/or describe their experience at campcamp, at Transmodern, or in general, while keeping in mind their possible roles as field guides.
These frames have been compiled into 4-volume community field guide to campcamp. These volumes will be available for free on this website and will be released on a weekly basis, beginning with Volume 1: I’m in a constant Ebb and flow of reality and illusion in a world both intangible + concrete.
WHERE AM I: a community field guide to campcamp
