[MCN-L] mcn-l Digest, Vol 51, Issue 14

Wed Dec 16 13:40:33 PST 2009

Oh boy!!
Can't wait! Baby needs a drink.

On Wed Dec 16th, 2009 12:00 PM PST mcn-l-request at mcn.edu wrote:

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>   1. IP SIG: " Hybrid Copyright: Sustaining Culture in Copyright,
>      " Univ. of Maryland Center for Intellectual Property
>      (Amalyah Keshet  [akeshet at imj.org.il])
>   2. Re: MCN conference: MYSTERY ITEM (Jeff Doyle)
>   3. Re: MCN conference: MYSTERY ITEM (TAMSEN SCHWARTZMAN)
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>Message: 1
>Date: Wed, 16 Dec 2009 13:49:42 +0200
>From: "Amalyah Keshet  [akeshet at imj.org.il]" <akeshet at imj.org.il>
>Subject: [MCN-L] IP SIG: " Hybrid Copyright: Sustaining Culture in
>	Copyright, " Univ. of Maryland Center for Intellectual Property
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>Run, don't walk, to register for "Hybrid Copyright: Sustaining Culture in Copyright."  Two of the best speakers on the planet.
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>http://www.umuc.edu/distance/odell/cip/symposium/symposium.shtml
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>________________________________
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>Save the Dates...Be There!
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>Join scholars and experts to discuss today's copyright concerns.
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>Featured Keynotes:
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> *   Peter Jaszi, Washington College of Law, American University
> *   William Patry, Google, Inc.
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>Registration opens January 4, 2010.
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>Message: 2
>Date: Wed, 16 Dec 2009 12:28:46 -0500
>From: Jeff Doyle <jeff at openmuseum.org>
>Subject: Re: [MCN-L] MCN conference: MYSTERY ITEM
>To: Museum Computer Network Listserv <mcn-l at mcn.edu>
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>On Fri, Dec 11, 2009 at 3:59 PM, Jana Hill <jana.hill at cartermuseum.org>wrote:
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>> Would the kind & generous person who donated the alien technology mug to
>> the MCN silent auction please come forward so that I can thank you?
>> Somehow this item ended up on the silent auction table without the
>> donor's name being recorded and no obvious clues as to its origins.
>>
>>
>I just discovered that this was no run of the mill, garden variety, Alien
>Technology mug, but Issue 8 of The Thing:
>
>THE THING Quarterly is a periodical in the form of an object. Each year,
>four artists, writers, musicians or filmmakers are invited by the editors
>(Jonn Herschend and Will Rogan) to create a useful object that somehow
>incorporates text. This object will be reproduced and hand wrapped at a
>wrapping party and then mailed to the homes of the subscribers with the help
>of the United States Postal Service.
>
>http://www.thethingquarterly.com/issues/issue-8-trevor-paglen.html
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>
>
>-- 
>Jeff Doyle
>www.openmuseum.org
>@jeffdoyle
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>Message: 3
>Date: Wed, 16 Dec 2009 13:40:11 -0500
>From: TAMSEN SCHWARTZMAN <TAMSEN_SCHWARTZMAN at exchange.fitnyc.edu>
>Subject: Re: [MCN-L] MCN conference: MYSTERY ITEM
>To: 'Museum Computer Network Listserv' <mcn-l at mcn.edu>
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>This was certainly no alien technology mug. Nope! It was a Trevor Paglen mug? He is brilliant! He was in the Democracy in America exhibition put together by Creative Time in the Armory on Park Avenue. 
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>-----Original Message-----
>From: mcn-l-bounces at mcn.edu [mailto:mcn-l-bounces at mcn.edu] On Behalf Of Jeff Doyle
>Sent: Wednesday, December 16, 2009 12:29 PM
>To: Museum Computer Network Listserv
>Subject: Re: [MCN-L] MCN conference: MYSTERY ITEM
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>On Fri, Dec 11, 2009 at 3:59 PM, Jana Hill <jana.hill at cartermuseum.org>wrote:
>
>> Would the kind & generous person who donated the alien technology mug to
>> the MCN silent auction please come forward so that I can thank you?
>> Somehow this item ended up on the silent auction table without the
>> donor's name being recorded and no obvious clues as to its origins.
>>
>>
>I just discovered that this was no run of the mill, garden variety, Alien
>Technology mug, but Issue 8 of The Thing:
>
>THE THING Quarterly is a periodical in the form of an object. Each year,
>four artists, writers, musicians or filmmakers are invited by the editors
>(Jonn Herschend and Will Rogan) to create a useful object that somehow
>incorporates text. This object will be reproduced and hand wrapped at a
>wrapping party and then mailed to the homes of the subscribers with the help
>of the United States Postal Service.
>
>http://www.thethingquarterly.com/issues/issue-8-trevor-paglen.html
>
>
>
>-- 
>Jeff Doyle
>www.openmuseum.org
>@jeffdoyle
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