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Fwd: [P2P-F] #P2PDataJam - Mapping the Commons - Wed 12th

by Jenny Ryan

---------- Forwarded message ---------- From: "Kevin Flanagan" <kev.flanagan(a)gmail.com> Date: Mar 11, 2014 2:49 PM Subject: [P2P-F] #P2PDataJam - Mapping the Commons - Wed 12th To: "P2P Foundation mailing list" <p2p-foundation(a)lists.ourproject.org> Cc: *Hello,* Please spread the word and join us tomorrow Wed 12th mapping the commons for the #P2PDataJam, with live discussion on the P2PValue project streamed throughout the day. Kevin *(ENGLISH, CATALAN, SPANISH)* * Launch and Data Jam of the P2Pvalue Directory of Commons Based Peer Production* *Join us Wednesday March 12th for the launch and Data Jam (hackathon) of the P2Pvalue Directory of Commons Based Peer Production* *Commons Based Peer Production (CBPP)* means collaborative production and sharing of resources among peers under commons settings. From the initial cases, such as Wikipedia and FLOSS, recently there has been an expansion to other areas of activity, such as citizen science, product design, management of common spaces and open data sources. The mission of the *Directory of Commons Based Peer Production *is mapping the diffusion and hybridization of peer production by collecting and typifying digital platforms or projects that are Commons Based Peer Productions (CBPP). The directory currently holds more than *300 cases* of CBPP such as platforms for collective research, citizen journalism, peer to peer financing, and hackerspaces. Projects that produce software, hardware, texts, images, videos, music or sounds, collaborative research projects that give access to the data, and produce resources for public use. The directory serves as a valuable *tool for anyone* interested on CBPP such as "commoners", "prosumers" or researchers. It also aims to give visibility to the CBPP and support the networking among CBPP projects. The directory itself is *based on collaborative production. *Join the collaborative mapping of CBPP: Reuse and remix the data, insert new cases, send your feedback on the directory design, etc. The data contributed to the directory is published with an open license and accessible through our API or for downloaded in various formats. To celebrate the launch we will be hosting a P2Pvalue *Data Jam *12th March 2014, a collective effort to populate the directory and document as many examples of CBPP as possible. Additionally, on the day we will be having a live streamed program with introduction to the P2Pvalue project, and with instruction on how to use the directory and discussion around CBPP issues. Starting at 11:30 am (+1 GMT), Mayo Fuster Morell (IGOPnet.cc) will talk about the P2Pvalue research on delimitation criteria of CBPP and the conditions that favor CBPP. (12:34h) David Rozas (University of Surrey) will explain the directory from a technical perspective. (13:45h) Antonio Tenorio (UCM) will present Kune, a decentralized platform also resulting from the P2Pvalue project. (17h) There will be presentations of cases such as Guifi.net (by Jaume Barcelo and Pedro) and (18h) Goteo.org (by Maria G. Perulero). Finally (19h), there will be a discussion group on "Analyzing value in CBPP experiences" moderated by Mayo Fuster Morell and with interventions by Michel Bauwens (P2PFoundation), Marco Berlinguer (IGOPnet.cc) and Marcos García (Medialab Prado). *How to join the Data Jam (12th March 2014)?* *Directory:* *http://directory.p2pvalue.eu* <http://directory.p2pvalue.eu/> *Live streaming link:* *https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IRE7D1CHamQ*<https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IRE7D1CHamQ> * Twitter: *@P2Pvalue Hash tags #P2PDATAJAM and #P2PVALUE * Local Data Jam: *Local Data Jam will take place in Barcelona, Madrid, and Quito*MailScanner has detected a possible fraud attempt from "p2pdatajam.titanpad.com" claiming to be* (timetable and physical address availeble here *http://p2pdatajam.titanpad.com/1*<http://p2pdatajam.titanpad.com/1>) Organize a local Data Jam also if you like around your place! <http://p2pdatajam.titanpad.com/1> * Mailing list:* *http://lists.p2pvalue.eu/wws/info/datajam*<http://lists.p2pvalue.eu/wws/info/datajam> The directory development is supported by the *European Project* <http://www.p2pvalue.eu/>*P2Pvalue.eu* (Techno-social platform for sustainable models and value generation in commons-based peer production in the Future Internet), and promoted by a consortium of organizations including P2Pvalue project partner members (mainly: IGOPnet.cc (conceptualization and coordination of CBPP Directory), University of Surrey (technical development of the Directory) and P2P Foundation (dissemination of the Directory)), and the contribution of the other partners of the project GRASIA - Complutense University of Madrid, CNRS and University of Milan), and the support of the Spanish Chapter of Open Knowledge Foundation, among others. The *P2P Data Jam Team *are (coordination) Ruben Martinez (IGOPnet.cc) ruben(a)leyseca.net @RubenMartinez David Rozas (University of Surrey) david.rozas(a)gmail.com @drozas and Kevin Flanagan (P2P Foundation) kevin(a)p2pvalue.eu @flgnk Plus, Mayo Fuster Morell (IGOPnet.cc) mayo.fuster(a)eui.eu @lilaroja Jorge Salcedo (IGOPnet.cc) @jorgelsalcedo and Antonio Tapiador (UCM) atapiador(a)ucm.es @atapiador *(CATALA)* *Llançament i Data Jam (hackathon) del Directori de producció col·laborativa entre iguals procomú - 12 març 2014* La producció col·laborativa entre iguals procomú (CBPP) és una modalitat emergent de producció i compartició de recursos entre iguals sota una lògica procomú. A partir dels casos inicials, com ara Wikipedia i el programari lliure, recentment ha hagut una expansió de la CBPP a altres àrees d'activitat, com ara la ciència ciutadana, disseny de productes, la gestió dels espais comuns i les fonts de dades obertes. La missió del Directori de CBPP és el mapatge de la difusió i la hibridació de la producció entre iguals mitjançant la recopilació i tipificant de plataformes digitals o projectes. El directori té actualment més de *300 casos *de CBPP com ara plataformes per a la investigació col·lectiva, periodisme ciutadà, finançament P2P i hackerspaces. Projectes que produeixen de forma col·laborativa i oberta programari, maquinaria, textos, imatges, vídeos, o música, que donen accés a les dades generades i produeixen recursos per a l'ús públic. El directori serveix com una eina valuosa per a qualsevol persona interessada en la CBPP , com ara "comuners", " prosumidors" o persones investigadores. El directori així mateix vol ajudar a donar visibilitat a la CBPP i donar suport al enxarxament entre projectes CBPP. El directori en si es basa en producció col·laborativa. Uneix-te a la cartografia col·laborativa de CBPP : Reutilitzant i remesclant les dades, inserint nous casos, enviant els teus suggeriments sobre el disseny del directori, unint-se com a organització al consorci promotor del directori, etc La base de dades del directori es publica amb una llicència oberta i les dades estan accessible a través d'API o descarregables en diversos formats. Per celebrar el llançament del directori el 12 de Març celebrarem un Data Jam (hackathon), un esforç col·lectiu per poblar el directori amb el major nombre de casos de CBPP possible. A més d'incorporar casos al directori, durant el dia celebrarem un programa via streaming en directe. Iniciant a les (11:30h) Mayo Fuster Morell (IGOPnet.cc) presentarà la investigació P2Pvalue sobre els criteris de delimitació de la CBPP i les condicions que l'afavoreixen . (12:34h) David Rozas (Universitat de Surrey) explicarà el directori des d'una perspectiva tècnica. (13:45 h) Antonio Tenorio ( UCM ) presentarà Kune, una plataforma descentralitzada on també esta contribuint el projecte P2Pvalue. (17h) Hi haurà presentacions de casos com Guifi.net (per Jaume Barceló i Pedro) i (18h) Goteo.org (per Maria G. Perulero). Finalment (19h), celebrarem un debat sobre el "dimensions de valor a les experiències de CBPP" moderat per Mayo Fuster Morell i amb intervencions de Michel Bauwens (P2PFoundation), Marco Berlinguer (IGOPnet.cc) i Marcos García (Medialab Prado). *Com unir-se al Data Jam (12 de març 2014)?* *Directori: *http://directory.p2pvalue.eu *Enllaç de streaming en viu: *https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IRE7D1CHamQ * Twitter:* @ P2Pvalue hashtag # P2PDATAJAM # P2PVALUE * Data Jam locals: *Data Jam locals es duran a terme a Barcelona, Madrid i Quito (horari i adreça física de les trobades accessible aquí http://p2pdatajam.titanpad.com/1). Organitza un Data Jam a la teva localitat també si vols! * Llista de correu: *http://lists.p2pvalue.eu/wws/info/datajam El desenvolupament del directori es porta a terme amb el suport del Projecte Europeu P2Pvalue.eu (Plataforma Tecno - social pel desenvolupament de models sostenibles i la generació de valor en la producció entre iguals basada en el procomu a l'Internet del Futur), i promogut per un consorci d'organitzacions, entre aquestes, els socis del projecte P2Pvalue (principalment: IGOPnet.cc (conceptualització i coordinació del CBPP), Universitat de Surrey (desenvolupament tècnic del Directori) i la Fundació P2P (difusió del Directori)) , i el suport dels altres socis GRASIA - Universitat Complutense de Madrid, CNRS i la Universitat de Milà), i la col·laboració del Capítol Espanyol de la Fundació pel coneixement obert, entre d'altres. L'Equip del Data Jam esta compost per (coordinació) Rubén Martínez (IGOPnet.cc) ruben(a)leyseca.net @RubenMartinez David Rozas (Universitat de Surrey) david.rozas(a)gmail.com @drozas i Kevin Flanagan (Fundació P2P) kevin(a)p2pvalue.eu @flgnk Amb el suport de Mayo Fuster Morell (IGOPnet.cc) mayo.fuster(a)eui.eu @lilaroja Jorge Salcedo (IGOPnet.cc) @jorgelsalcedo i Antonio Tapiador (UCM) atapiador(a)ucm.es @ atapiador *(CASTELLANO) * *Lanzamiento y Data Jam (hackathon) del Directorio de producción colaborativa entre iguales procomún - 12 de Marzo 2014 * *La producción colaborativa entre iguales procomún* (CBPP) es una modalidad emergente de producción y compartición de recursos entre iguales bajo una lógica procomún. A partir de los casos iniciales, tales como Wikipedia y el software libre, recientemente ha habido una expansión de la CBPP a otras áreas de actividad, tales como la ciencia ciudadana, diseño de productos, la gestión de los espacios comunes y las fuentes de datos abiertas. La misión del Directorio de CBPP es el mapeo de la difusión y la hibridación de la producción entre iguales mediante la recopilación y tipificando de plataformas digitales o proyectos. El directorio tiene actualmente más de 300 casos de CBPP como plataformas para la investigación colectiva, periodismo ciudadano, financiamiento P2P y hackerspaces. Proyectos que producen de forma colaborativa y abierta software, hardware, textos, imágenes, vídeos, música o sonidos, que dan acceso a los datos generados y producen recursos para el uso público. El directorio sirve como una herramienta valiosa para cualquier persona interesada en la CBPP, como "comuner@s", "prosumidores" o personas investigadoras. El directorio así mismo quiere ayudar a dar visibilidad a la CBPP y apoyar el enredamiento entre proyectos CBPP. El directorio en sí se basa en producción colaborativa. ¡Únete a la cartografía colaborativa de CBPP: Reutilizando y remezclando los datos, insertando nuevos casos, enviando tus sugerencias sobre el diseño del directorio, uniéndoos como organización al consorcio promotor del directorio, etc La base de datos del directorio se publica con una licencia abierta y los datos están accesible a través de API o descargables en varios formatos. Para celebrar el lanzamiento del directorio el 12 de Marzo celebraremos un Data Jam (hackathon), un esfuerzo colectivo para poblar el directorio con el mayor número de casos de CBPP posible. Ademas de incorporar casos en el directorio, durante el día celebraremos un programa via streaming en directo. Iniciando a las (11:30 h) Mayo Fuster Morell (IGOPnet.cc) presentará la investigación P2Pvalue sobre los criterios de delimitación de la CBPP y las condiciones que la favorecen. (12:34h) David Rozas (Universidad de Surrey) explicará el directorio desde una perspectiva técnica. (13:45h) Antonio Tenorio (UCM) presentará Kune, una plataforma descentralizada a cuyo desarrollo también contribuye el proyecto P2Pvalue. (17h) Habrá presentaciones de casos como Guifi.net (por Jaume Barceló y Pedro) y (18h) Goteo.org (por Maria G. Perulero). Finalmente (19h), celebraremos un debate sobre el "valor Analizar experiencias en la CBPP" moderado por Mayo Fuster Morell y con intervenciones de Michel Bauwens (P2PFoundation), Marco Berlinguer (IGOPnet.cc) y Marcos García (Medialab Prado) . *¿Cómo unirse a la Data Jam (12 de marzo 2014)?* *Directorio:* http://directory.p2pvalue.eu * Enlace de streaming en vivo:* https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IRE7D1CHamQ * Twitter:* @ P2Pvalue etiquetas hash # P2PDATAJAM y # P2PVALUE * Data Jam locales: * Data Jam locales se llevaran a cabo en Barcelona, Madrid y Quito (horario y dirección física de los encuentros *http://p2pdatajam.titanpad.com/1* <http://p2pdatajam.titanpad.com/1>). Organiza un Data Jam en tu localidad tambien si quieres! * Lista de correo: *http://lists.p2pvalue.eu/wws/info/datajam El desarrollo de directorio se lleva a cabo con el apoyo del Proyecto Europeo P2Pvalue.eu (Plataforma Tecno - social para el desarrollo de modelos sostenibles y la generación de valor en la producción entre iguales basada en el procomun en el Internet del Futuro), y promovido por un consorcio de organizaciones, entre estas, los socios del proyecto P2Pvalue (principalmente: IGOPnet.cc (conceptualización y coordinación del CBPP), Universidad de Surrey (desarrollo técnico del Directorio) y la Fundación P2P (difusión del Directorio)), y el apoyo de los otros socios GRASIA - Universidad Complutense de Madrid, CNRS y la Universidad de Milán), y la colaboración del Capítulo Español de la Fundación por el conocimiento abierto, entre otros. El Equipo del Data Jam esta compuesto por (coordinación) Rubén Martínez (IGOPnet.cc) ruben(a)leyseca.net @RubenMartinez David Rozas (Universidad de Surrey) david.rozas(a)gmail.com @drozas y Kevin Flanagan (Fundación P2P) kevin(a)p2pvalue.eu @flgnk Con el apoyo de Mayo Fuster Morell (IGOPnet.cc) mayo.fuster(a)eui.eu @lilaroja Jorge Salcedo (IGOPnet.cc) @jorgelsalcedo y Antonio Tapiador (UCM) atapiador(a)ucm.es @atapiador _______________________________________________ P2P Foundation - Mailing list http://www.p2pfoundation.net https://lists.ourproject.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/p2p-foundation

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Open Access: Rethinking Resource Access in the Food System

by refugia

http://berkeleyfoodinstitute.org/open-access/ Open Access: Rethinking Resource Access in the Food System Monday, March 17, 2014, 3-5pm In this panel, we explore the frontiers of “open access regimes” within the food system, using seeds and land as starting points from which to reassess resource ownership and property rights in agriculture. We also consider how open access regimes connect to food sovereignty – the rights of local people to define their own food systems. In recent years, open-source licensing has emerged as a new approach to protect the seed innovations of farmers and plant breeders and provide them with access to diversified germplasm. Like open-source software, open-source seeds would create a protected commons in which materials are freely available and widely exchanged, but are protected from appropriation by monopoly interests. Similarly, land has become the focus of redoubled efforts to facilitate open access to resources for food production – the Landless Workers Movement in Brazil is one prominent example. We ask: what are the ways in which managing access to agricultural resources – whether plant genes or land –can promote the common good, and how might these ways change in different cultural and political contexts? A panel discussion moderated by David Winickoff, Associate Professor of Bioethics and Society in CNR, and Director of the Berkeley Program in Science and Technology Studies. The panel will feature: Jack Kloppenburg, Professor of Community and Environmental Sociology, University of Wisconsin-Madison; Co-Director of the Center for Integrated Agriculture Systems Kloppenburg specializes in the social impacts of biotechnology and the global controversy over access to and control over genetic resources. He is interested in applying “open source” principles in the biosciences. Wendy Wolford, Associate Professor of Sociology, Cornell University Wolford focuses on issues within and between the political economy of development, agrarian studies, social mobilization, land reform, and political ecologies of conservation.

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Re: [sudo-discuss] $ sudo reboot

by Yardena Cohen

On Sun, Mar 9, 2014 at 5:36 PM, David Keenan <dkeenan44(a)gmail.com> wrote: > So just re: the common area, I'm not sure it makes sense spending any time > cleaning it Sat 3/22. And on Sun 3/23, you/we will be cleaning up after an > all-night rave. Y'all might ask george if he is getting a janitorial crew in > on 3/23, as he really should. And focus solely on cleaning sudo's space.. We're mostly talking about cleaning inside Sudoroom, so I don't know if it has to be a conflict.

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Words of Resistance: If You Surveil Me I'll Yell At You

by Vicky Knox

Friday March 14th | 7-9PM Rock Paper Scissors Collective 2278 Telegraph Ave. Gather your words to destroy the surveillance state, poetry style, rhymes so good they shatter camera lenses.

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Impromptu mushroom foray tomorrow, Leona Heights/Merritt College

by Peter Werner

-------- Original Message -------- Subject: Impromptu mushroom foray tomorrow, Leona Heights/Merritt College Date: 2014-03-09 17:57 From: Peter Werner <germpore(a)sonic.net> To: Merritt Microscopy list <MerrittMicroscopy(a)yahoogroups.com>, BAMS List <BayAreaMushrooms(a)yahoogroups.com>, Nerds for Nature BioBlitz group <nfn-bioblitz(a)googlegroups.com>, Ron Felzer <rfelzer(a)peralta.edu>, Loralei Dewe <lldewe(a)gmail.com> Hi - I'll be leading a mushroom foray in Leona Heights Park and perhaps the main portion of Merritt College campus tomorrow (Monday) at 10 AM to Noon. It's a short-notice, strike-while-the-iron-is-hot event, scouting out the possibility of a more formal and widely-announced event next week. Meeting place: York Trailhead, across Campus Drive from Merritt College. Map here: https://goo.gl/maps/CJw08 NOTE: The first part of the foray is "Leona Heights Park", NOT "Leona Canyon Regional Open Space", the latter of which has a trailhead on the other side of Merritt College, a considerable source of confusion. Leona Heights Park is a benignly neglected property of City of Oakland, and generally a place where amateur naturalists can operate without official sanction. Various Merritt classes take advantage of its proximity as a site for nature walks. Afterward (noon) - for those who are interested, I might be able to lead a small group through mushroom microscopy at the Merritt College Microscopy classroom if there is interest. For those who are not familiar with wild mushrooms in California - wild mushroom fruiting follows a definite seasonal pattern, analogous to the large scale blooming of flowering plants during a given time in Spring, and is variable dependent on weather conditions during a given year. The majority of mushrooms in California fruit in late Autumn, after the first large rains of saturated the dry soil, and generally before temperatures become their coldest. Smaller fruitings of often different species of mushrooms generally follow through Winter and into Spring. This year, due to extremely unusual weather conditions, we are having a full scale fruiting of fall mushroom species some 3 months late. We are probably at the peak of our mushroom season now, and it may or may not extend further depending on if more rain will come in the next week or not. Peter

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Re: [sudo-discuss] [sudo-announce] Sudo at TeenZone, Wed 3pm

by Yardena Cohen

On Sat, Mar 8, 2014 at 12:59 PM, Vicky Knox <vknoxsironi(a)gmail.com> wrote: >> How did 3D's public appearance go last night at Art Murmur/1st Friday? That >> was CLASSIC! On Sat, Mar 8, 2014 at 3:31 PM, Marc Juul <juul(a)labitat.dk> wrote: > It went great! For those who weren't at sudo last night: Jordan, Jake > and myself set up the 3D printer on a movable cart with a car battery > and some lights and rolled it to first friday and used the attention > to talk about sudo room. Picture! https://twitter.com/marinakukso/status/442150164803760128

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Need more stickers & flyers!

by Yardena Cohen

We had a very successful Art Murmur last night and it cleaned us out of stickers. Who made these stickers? What can we do to get more? We also made a stack of quarter-sheet flyers but almost all of those got taken as well. Who wants to design new, even better ones? :)

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Sudo at TeenZone, Wed 3pm

by Yardena Cohen

Sudoroom's 3D printer is travelling to the library this week, for Teen Tech Week! Main branch, downtown 14th St bw Madison & Oak/Lakeside Wednesday March 12, 3:00 PM http://oaklandlibrary.org/events/main-library/sudoroom-presents-3-d-printing

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Tonight during Art Murmur: Draw Oakland at Sudo Room!

by Marina Kukso

Hi everyone, Drop by Sudo Room during art murmur tonight to Draw Oakland<http://oaklandwiki.org/Draw_Oakland>with us. We'll get started around 7PM and will just be there throughout the evening. Paper and drawing supplies will be provided but you are, of course, welcome to bring your own materials. We'll be scanning our images and adding them to Oakland Wiki <http://oaklandwiki.org> to illustrate entries, like all of these neighborhoods<http://oaklandwiki.org/neighborhoods>which would be significantly improved with beautiful drawings. Best, Marina

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RARP: RAVE ACTION ROLE PLAY - THE NEW RAVE TREND Behind the RAVE | DJBROADCAST

by Romy Snowyla

http://www.djbroadcast.net/features/featureitem_id=243/RARP_Rave_Action_Rol… This is so awesome RARP: RAVE ACTION ROLE PLAY - THE NEW RAVE TREND BEHIND THE RAVE 110 Thursday 6 March, 2014. Text: Maria Mouk. RARPing is a fresh and somewhat secretive new rave form that involves costuming, hidden identities, and random missions while being an off-shoot of LARPing (live action role playing.) Those we interviewed about the subject were not very forthcoming, fearing they would be ousted by their RARP community. Read on to find out more. The History of LARP Live Action Role Playing, more commonly known as “LARPing,” is a free form of (mostly) unscripted role-playing (or live acting) that ranges from the purely theatrical through to combative, political or historical. Dozens or hundreds of characters meet in a decided location to freestyle through a framework of accepted scenarios, and live out an abstraction of their appointed avatar, whether it be magician, warrior, or other deviation from their everyday self. Gaining most of it’s momentum across the globe in the 70s with the invent of tabletop role-playing games. LARP identities or genres have since included science fiction, historical recreations, dystopian or zombie apocalypses, and even gender reconstruction scenarios. "...reconstructed realities aim to suspend or even rewrite normal rules of behavior..." Typically LARPing participants have identified with Medieval themes and battlefield scenarios, but as electronic music gains value in the 21st century, so LAPRing has spread a larger and more raving, music party goer.  This is where I stumbled across a story about RARPing. Rave Action Role Playing; a re-reality where electronic music forms the backbone for leaving your real name and day-to-day personality behind. Of course it was only a matter of time until the more bookish genres of LARPing were re-appropriated into more approachable models for a younger social generation. So what exactly is RARPing? Isn’t that just a veil for further party themes? Actually yes. Modes of this experience have often been portrayed by dedicated festival goers, people living in squats or communes, and other alternative scenarios in the vein of USA’s Burning Man Festival/City, where the variety-show and counter-culture freak-flag flies high. (I can attest to being one of the freaks). The details that tie any of this to the LARPing category are that these reconstructed realities aim to suspend or even rewrite normal rules of behavior, through unscripted acting and deviation from those day-to-day identities the person possessed normally. However even these communities have steered away from the complete submersion into the LARPing ethos, since there is not just one organized game under one scenario but too many, and rarely can the events be considered forms of interactive literature, as are many LARPing prompts. (I did however once sit in on a Last Supper at Burning Man, and many attendees there are actually living out “tribal” fantasies, but this was more impromptu than some long lasting role-play.) CONTINUE READING (1 of 2) Next 110 Thursday 6 March, 2014. Text: Maria Mouk. RARPing goes more niche, subtly scripted, and inclusive (or is that reclusive?) An insider told me about his ritual weekend of attending such RARP Festivals. He said that once on site at a secret location, where only former attendees can invite the new, everyone adjusts to the character and “power” they have chosen for themselves. Real names are never revealed. Upon entering the event, the characters are split into “families” and group activities, plots, and assignments throughout the day are supported by notes with clues to help one get through the various tasks. It’s kind of like a psychedelic team building, except no one is able to reveal their identities. At some point during this fantasy rave, the whole thing breaks into a party, where you, the Space Cowboy or whatever you have come as, dances with your “family”, maintaining your secret identity, never to reveal your name, or participate with the society outside of this setting. "...maybe our over stimulated minds need more context than familiar party models can deliver...?" There are also not-so-secretive breakouts of RARP. Take the performative group Micro Rave for example, you might just see them at your next music camp-out. Born as an experiment in 2009, with a focus on “Free-party Rave scenes, Live Action Role-playing, Computer Games, Immersive Theatre and 8-bit Music” this micro-hub of RARPing focuses on creating mini, dance party, experiences at festivals with missions that include “8-bit sounds / 2-bit costumes / Inferior AI / Boss Battles” and of course “Rave Challenges.“ So what role do these modern re-appropriations serve? Certainly it’s an opportunity for interacting with a community more geared to your musical and social interests than the Game Of Thrones model. But is it a form of escapism or extended meaning? Maybe our over stimulated minds need more context than familiar party models can deliver? Maybe we need to add theater and characters to our nights out? Just look at the British for example - they need the barest of excuses to dress up at any occassion. An art theorist researching game theory and LARPing recently suggested that “the terrible beauty of LARP's promise: “[is] you can play whatever rules you like, whenever you like, wherever you like. All you have to do is define them,” but well “we're all playing, and so involved... that we've forgotten that the rules are all our own creation.” This refreshing reminder in real life philosophy serves to ask “who do you want to be today?” The answer: Whoever you want to be. This is no 90s rave, it’s 2014, and these are the questions that push the box past limitations, be it in music or other creative pursuits. Previous CONTINUE READING (2 of 2) Sent from my iPhone

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