RAP NEWS episode 10: The year we've all been waiting for - 2012AD (or 13.0.0.0.0, if you ask a Mayan) - is finally here. What will happen? Will we see the poles shift or a paradigm shift? Will a rogue Sumerian planet smash into our solar system, plunging us into serfdom under the iron fist of a race of gold-hungry aliens? Or are the aliens already here? Or are all these merely humanity's collective projections of itself as it careens towards an ever-accelerating super-connected cyber-reality - whatever that means... One thing's sure, if 2011 was a prelude of things to come, 2012 is going to be one hell of a year. Now that it has arrived, are we ready? Join your host Robert Foster and his guests, Terrence Moonseed and General Baxter, as they conduct an in-depth rap analysis into the future, and humanity's place in it. Happy New YERA!
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**** CREDITS ****

** BEAT: "Tancz Glupia" by Mateusz Schmidt "Matheo"
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DCFC9PmPcZ4
www.facebook.com/MatheoProductions
from LP "Sobotaz" by MC SOBOTA
Uploaded with permission

** We are hugely grateful to all of our collaborators for their time and patience: Our awesomely reliable and talented artist/designer, Zoe Tame from http://visualtonic.com.au for creating all the original artwork; Dave Abbot for syncing and chromakey. Ben Erwin for awesome on-location filming at Liberty Plaza, with the help of John Sidorovich and #Occupy protesters: Tim Pool, Radagast Istari Brown, Jessica, Darrell, Jake, Dan and others who shall remain 'anonymous'. Thanks to Lucy, Paula, Daniel, Adso and Taegan for Protester voiceovers; and Cepstral Dave for Anonymous voiceover. Trav and Nick for lights and tech assistance. Gilles Gundermann & Mily Langworth for props. Lucy & Caitlin for ongoing patience and support. Koolfy & Siltaar for creating English caption file. Above all we are indebted to the Herculean efforts of Melissa McCollough and Professor Stuart Reese at the Sydney Peace Foundation (http://www.sydneypeacefoundation.org.au) who made our trip to Sydney possible and thus our special interview with Noam Chomsky. A very special thanks to Clinton Fernandes who gave us time and space in his hotel room to consult the great Oracle, to whom we are also very grateful for being such an inspiration; and a sport. :)

Hugo & Giordano

http://www.sensorium.net.au/

The Sensorium is a community-based mobile arts project, a multidisciplinary collaborative gallery, created to exhibit interactive media, visionary art and sculpture. It is an independent self-contained multi-media installation fusing entertainment and education and is set to tour festivals, expositions and events around Australia.

Surrounding a raised 11.11m geodesic dome is a 13 sided (moon cycle) exhibition structure displaying a large array of visionary art and illuminated sculptures. Inside is an expansive space with six video projectors covering the entire inner surface. Combined with surround sound and motion sensor technology this produces a completely immersive environment.

THERE WAS ONCE AN ENORMOUS ROCK. It was smooth and round, and the only thing of its kind. As such, the local people loved and adored it. Streams of people came to visit it. Eventually they built homes around it, so that they could be close to it. Gradually a town formed around it. Everybody had the rock in common.

   The rock was so perfect and symmetrical that people said it could not possibly be natural. On the other hand, however, just as many people thought that it could not possibly be man-made for the same reasons.

Danny Macaskill: Industrial Revolutions from Cut Media on Vimeo.

Inbetween nature and industry, we stand, we move, we dance, we ride.

Nothing is impossible.

Gravity is merely a myth.

Everything is permitted...

CutMedia.com
DannyMacaskill.com

Production team : Renegade Pictures
Thomas Scott Evans, Eddie Sears, Sunita Mirchandani
Line Producer : Renegade Pictures
Rachel Naughton
Producer : Mike Christie
Directed by: Stu Thomson
Filmed by: Stu Thomson, Aaron Bartlett

This short film focuses on wind energy and the common myths and confusions that threaten its developement. It includes Wind Turbine Sickness (WTS), sound emmisions and impact on bird populations.

Written and produced by Pablo Tochez Anderson. 2011
http://pablotochez.com/

'Yes to Renewables,' Friends of the Earth Victoria
http://yes2renewables.org/
http://www.melbourne.foe.org.au
http://www.foei.org/

On Media and Consciousness

   Neil Postman, in his book Amusing Ourselves to Death, puts forth the idea that different types of media are ideal for different types of knowledge. This is something of an expansion on Marshal McLuhan’s concept of ‘hot’ and ‘cold’ types of media – that is, media which requires little participation (TV), and media which requires much participation (books, or even more, dialogue). This example of Postman’s idea I take from wikipedia—

Andrez Bergen is an expat Aussie journalist/musician (from Melbourne) who's been ensconced in Tokyo these past 10 years. This extract from his debut novel, Tobacco-Stained Mountain Goat, is a sci-fi/noir/post-apocalyptic tones set in Melbourne, Australia as the last city in the world. Melbourne, after all, is his home town. But he's also heavily influenced by Japan, a country he's lived in for the past 10 years, and the novel also owes about 60% of its content to classic noir cinema. Enjoy!

In this talk, Social Media strategists and developers Rome Viharo and Maf Lewis reveal the likelihood that Google's search algorithm may already be sentient, what it means, and what it represents as a metaphor for collective problem solving.

Mentioned are Egypt 2.0, Revolution 2.0, Guillermo Arevalo, Francois Demange, Daniel Dennet, Francis Heylighen, The Shipibo of Peru and Ayahuasca.

Wikileaks, Anonymous,Facebook, Wikipedia, 4chan, Reddit, Stumbleupon, Google, Rene Descarte, Dualism, Global Brain movement are also referenced in the talk.