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Dear Internets: Just wanted to let you know what is really going on in Mexico City for the last 3 days.

Is Disinformation…and it sucks .  Maybe is more like an EPIMEDIA, a viral collective hysteria/paranoia, fed by Media, people, twits, newspapers, assumptions, rumours, fake conclusions, updates that don’t update and the super loose and weak goverment announcements

All together seems to be a genetically engineered virus that re-arrange every morning to hide information and make everything more confusing.  We really need vaccines for EPIMEDIA. There is nothing in wikipedia and i google it .. but there are no images for it. blah.

Stay Calm. Stay informed. Well we are missing one thing in this equation…

Rhizome published today an interview with my dearest inCUBATE, where they mentioned a bit  the Tanda Foundation in relation with open-source models for arts funding, together with FEAST Brooklyn, Tanda Josh Greene’s Service Works, and Sweet Tooth of the Tiger.

By the way… we have already a winner for the Tanda of this month, our first Auto-Tanda awarded and 2 fame grants this month!.. Results go out on the 30th of this month. Check it out!. Apply? Donate?!! and Create!  New cycle starts on May 1st!

Here is picture of our installation at State of the Art: New York called: Prototypes for Bent Infrastructures.  Our portable steam oven features a hackchart to learn how to cook with excess steam of NYC, together with a video of our exploration at the end of the world in 2008.  Hacking= Infrastructure – Control.

You can download the Hackchart in here.

On April 17th the opera prima of Alex Rivera, The Sleepdealer opens in cinemas in New York and Los Angeles. As i type the new fancy wall between the US and Mexico is been constructed and you are lucky enough to the watch simultaneously the distopyan fiction of the very near future created by Alex, where the New American Dream is here: ALL THE WORK WITHOUT THE WORKERS. Don’t miss it!

Also for the record, this movie was my last attempt to became a prolific vfx compositor and well.. it worth it! This trailer makes me feel really proud of participate in such an amazing movie!

Felicidades Alex!!! Esta de po-ca-ma-drrre!! *hearts*

The Alternative Economy Cultures Seminar at Pixelache was truly amazing! I think my brain is slighter bigger now after haning out with Felix Stadler, Michael Bauwens and Sara Sajjad, Here is a little video of the amazing conversation about banks,money, funding and participation held at Demos, Helsinki and don’t miss the video documentation of the whole seminar!.

We broke the latest Tanda Foundation widget and we donate the 27 euros collected  towards covering some production costs of the event. There is a little nice video on Bambuser about it.

Special thanks to Andrew Patterson and many thanks to Jon, Minna, Nathalie, Olly and Juha!

Good luck UVVA and Free Warsaw

“State of the Art: New York” opens today at URBIS, The City Centre, In Manchester, UK. Since November 2008, Forays has been participated in a preview mini-exhibition at the Shudehill Bus Station with the comission “Hackcharts: a field guide for dissident infrastructures”. Download the hackcharts here.

Now the collective exhibition opens featuring 16 artists, including: Joe Winter , Leon Reid IV, eteam , The Bruce High Quality Foundation , Forays and more.

“Prototypes for Bent infrastructures” is the name of our installation, that features a hackchart to repurpose excess steam of the city to power-up a DIY oven and the video-documentation of our exploration at the end of the world.

We are super excited about this exhibition! Thanks tons to Paul.