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Today on Pop Culture Intelligentsia we\u2019ll talk with producer, engineer and mixer, Mark Pistel<\/a> about protest music. Is it relevant? Does it change anything? Mark was a founding member of the band Consolidated<\/a>, who had radical activist leanings. We\u2019ll also talk with Eric Drass<\/a>, who is an artist who paints, creates digital installation, and generative experiments that live on the net. In particular, we\u2019re going to talk about his latest foray, The Glitch News Network<\/a>, a bot that scrapes various online news sources for images of the latest stories and glitches and mashes them into a 2 second video. In our third and last segment we\u2019ll discuss Storium<\/a>, an online storytelling game. Storium is based around creative writing. As you play, the game helps you figure out what to write next and how to keep your story interesting. We\u2019ll be joined by Storium\u2019s CEO and co-founder, Stephen Hood<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Show Notes & Links<\/h2>\n
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Protest music<\/a><\/li>\n
Consolidated<\/a>\u2018s Friendly Fa$cism<\/a><\/em> LP
Friendly Fa$cism<\/em> is the second full-length album by industrial\/hip hop artists Consolidated which was released in 1991. The name comes from the title of a 1980 book by political scientist Bertram Gross<\/a>, Friendly Fascism: The New Face of Power in America, which laid out the form of \u201ccreeping fascism\u201d that Gross feared might come to pass in the United States.<\/li>\n
Michael Franti<\/a>
Michael Franti is an American rapper, musician, poet, spoken word artist and singer-songwriter.<\/li>\n
Disposable Heroes of Hiphoprisy<\/a>
The Disposable Heroes of Hiphoprisy was an American industrial hip-hop band, active during the early 1990s.<\/li>\n
The Beatnigs<\/a>
The Beatnigs was a San Francisco band, which combined hard-core punk, industrial and hip hop influences, described as \u201ca kind of avant-garde industrial jazz poets collective\u201d.<\/li>\n
Spearhead<\/a>
In 1994, Franti formed a new band called Spearhead with a few studio musicians, including mainstay Carl Young, and announced the dissolution of Disposable Heroes of Hiphoprisy.<\/li>\n
Donald Trump<\/a>
Donald John Trump (born June 14, 1946) is an American businessman, politician, television personality, and candidate for the Republican nomination for President of the United States in the 2016 election.<\/li>\n
Vegetarianism<\/li>\n
Holly Herndon<\/a>
Holly Herndon is an American composer, musician, and sound artist based in San Francisco, California.<\/li>\n
Honey Soundsystem<\/a>
San Francisco\u2019s coveted queer dj collective and production group.<\/li>\n
Dark Entries<\/a>
Dark Entries takes great care in preserving sound quality and respecting the aesthetics of its artists.<\/li>\n
B\u00e9zier<\/a>
Robert started DJing in 2003 and joined SF\u2019s DJ collective Honey Soundsystem in 2007. He produces music under the moniker B\u00e9zier.<\/li>\n
Rykarda Parasol<\/a>
Rykarda Parasol is a composer, lyricist, vocalist, musician, and performer.<\/li>\n
Blipvert<\/a>
A blipvert is a very brief television advertisement, that lasts just one or several seconds.<\/li>\n
tl;drbot<\/a>
This bot takes works of literature and algorithmically summarizes them, a chapter at a time, to 1% of their original length.<\/li>\n
bffbot<\/a>
If you follow her, she\u2019ll follow you back and send you a cheery greeting. She\u2019ll favourite your tweets (she especially likes your \u2018plain text\u2019 tweets, rather than recycled links or retweets). Every now and then she\u2019ll reply.<\/li>\n
Machinima news<\/li>\n
trippingbot<\/a>
MARTA (Meta. Aphoric. Recurrent. Tripping. Algopoet) starts taking drugs at 6pm each day, and then reports on its mental state intermittently over the next 6 hours. As the evening progresses, the bot takes more drugs and becomes more intoxicated, which is reflected in the (in)choherence of the reports it delivers. This reaches a peak at midnight, when the reports cease until it begins again at 6pm the next day.<\/li>\n
Conspiracybot<\/li>\n
Robin Rimbaud<\/a> A.K.A. Scanner<\/a>
Robin Rimbaud is an electronic musician who works under the name Scanner due to his use of cell phone and police scanners in live performance.<\/li>\n
Private Sector
Multimedia band that Eric Drass is involved in.<\/li>\n
Matthew Plummer-Fernandez<\/a>
Matthew Plummer-Fernandez is a Colombian-British artist based in London known for playfully and critically exploring socio-cultural entanglements with technology, through 3D printed sculpture, autonomous bots, software, and his ongoing research blog Algopop<\/a>.<\/li>\n
sekuMoi Mecy<\/a>
Ongoing exploration of derivatives of a 3D scan of Mickey Mouse, titled sekuMoi Mecy (a simple computer generated anagram). Each derivative demonstrates the progression of scanning and remixing processes Matthew Plummer-Fernandez is developing. The choice of character also raises issues of potential clashes with big copyright holders that could potentially choose to lobby for legislation against 3D scanning.<\/li>\n
Julian Oliver<\/a>\u2018s cell phone jamming battle tank<\/a>
With the flick of a switch No Network implements a blanket ban of mobile telephony in its presence. All access to the cellular (mobile) network within a 6-15m diameter aura around the object is jammed, including calls, SMS and data connectivity.<\/li>\n
Culture jamming<\/a>
Culture jamming (sometimes guerrilla communication) is a tactic used by many anti-consumerist social movements to disrupt or subvert media culture and its mainstream cultural institutions, including corporate advertising. It attempts to \u201cexpose the methods of domination\u201d of a mass society to foster progressive change.<\/li>\n
Democracy Now!<\/a>
Democracy Now! is a daily progressive, nonprofit, independently syndicated news hour that airs on more than 1,250 radio, television, satellite and cable TV networks around the globe.<\/li>\n
Storium<\/a>
Storium is the online storytelling game.<\/li>\n
Role-playing game (RPG)<\/a>
A role-playing game (RPG and sometimes roleplaying game is a game in which players assume the roles of characters in a fictional setting. Players take responsibility for acting out these roles within a narrative, either through literal acting or through a process of structured decision-making or character development. Actions taken within many games succeed or fail according to a formal system of rules and guidelines.<\/li>\n
J.C. Hutchins<\/a>
J.C. Hutchins is the pseudonym for American podcast novelist and journalist Chris Hutchins. Hutchins is best known for his 7th Son<\/em> series.<\/li>\n
Beowulf: Beyond the Black<\/a>
Storium game that takes place in the Traveller RPG<\/a> universe.<\/li>\n
Play-by-post role-playing game<\/a>
A play-by-post role-playing game game (or sim) is an online text-based role-playing game in which players interact with each other and a predefined environment via text.<\/li>\n
Dungeons & Dragons<\/a>
Dungeons & Dragons (abbreviated as D&D or DnD) is a fantasy tabletop role-playing game (RPG) originally designed by Gary Gygax and Dave Arneson, and first published in 1974 by Tactical Studies Rules, Inc. (TSR).<\/li>\n
Champions<\/a>
Champions is a role-playing game published by Hero Games designed to simulate and function in a four-color superhero comic book world.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n
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