Birdcall
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Dear reader,
How are you? I’m keeping it short this week as sickness and travel distorted the week. But I promise that the links are as great as always, and that’s what matters. Thank you for being here.
With care,
Kristoffer
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Jisu: Birdcall
Jisu is an initiator, organizer and educator of Birdcall.
What is Birdcall?
Birdcall is a space and a community for artistic research. It holds workshops to motivate people to initiate and develop their own projects. I think of Birdcall more as an organism or an ecosystem than a foundation or an institution.
Why did you start it?
I wanted to make a space where people gather with a simple motivation or prompt and build community. A place where they can naturally learn from each other. When I was coming up with the name, I made a list of verbs I wanted to focus on while running the space. 'Learn, gather, interact, grow' were some of the verbs. Then 'invite' was the last verb that remained. With the verb 'invite' I was looking for an object that has the function of invitation. Then I noticed the birdcalls that I've been collecting for years. Which is an object that has different shapes and mechanism to invite birds with small sounds.
Who or what inspired you?
World Wide Web and its fundamentals. I try to keep Birdcall open and participatory. Birdcall aims to function as a collective library and a tool for learning which is the role the World Wide Web is serving from its birth. Birdcall tries to equalize its presence on and offline so people can participate and feel the friendship from anywhere around the wide world.
Visit Birdcall, and follow Jisu on Are.na and Instagram or subscribe to World Wide Letter.
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Field notes
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Electric Myths. Daniel Murray is the closest possible to an embodiment of the web. Please read and share. More people should know of Melonland and Ozwomp.
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Walking on the Internet. Join Spencer Chang and me online this Wednesday for an informal chat and websurfing.
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The Endless Barrier in Reading. On code, language, and dyslexia. Lovely.
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Calls for Participation: Sfpc is open for applications (Due, today!), Lullaby Machine is open for submissions (Due 1/5), Processing Foundation is looking for fellows (Due 2/5), Developh is looking for co-directors (Due 10/5).
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Poetic Web Calendar: Chat is Real (Berlin, 29/4), Walking on the Internet (online, 30/4), Tiat #11 (SF, 4/5), Making Poetry Machine (Sydney, 6/5), 7x7 (NYC, 9/5), Digital Interventions (Berlin, 10/5), Screenshot Conf (NYC, 11/5), A Maze (Berlin, 14/5), New Media Writing Prize Awards Evening (URL, 14/5), Adela (Ljubljana, 16-18/5), and Demo Day (NYC, 4/6).
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