Three frames from the life and death of Jean Charles de Menezes

jaromil — Tue, 22 Jun 2010 12:03:20 +0000

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This article is a theoretical inquiry about the death of the Brazilian citizen Jean Charles de Menezes, shot in London at Stockwell tube station on 22 July 2005 by unknown specialist firearms’ officers. The previous day some stations of the Tube were struck by failed bombing attacks. The police were chasing four suspects. Some hours after the murder, de Menezes was discovered to be innocent and not involved in the terrorist act.

Section 8 of this article include a short addendum "False Positives".

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jaromil — Fri, 11 Apr 2008 11:43:22 +0000

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As privatisation of educational structures progresses, the Academy assumes corporate and business mind-set, while we assist to a shift of the educational mission in society from inclusive to exclusive. The inﬂuential play of industries has permeated most academical disciplines, in particular regarding the adoption of technologies. The choice of educators has become biased by logics of short term proﬁt, rather than Solid Knowledge.
Notions are rapidly becoming universally available. Heuristic, maieutic and infrastructure functions provided by Academies are best satisﬁed by the global action of free software communities horizontally sharing methods, experiences, working implementations, on distributed and versioned R&D platforms.
As components can be combined and redistributed, copied and modiﬁed (GNU GPL) students learn a knowledge that is durable, free from “intellectual properties ” restricting their rights to produce and redistribute creations. This situation will provide an advantage for new generations, as it does for developing countries.

Biography
Jaromilhttp://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Special:Search?search=Jaromil is a developer and media artist inspired by the GNU free software movement: he follows the ideal of creating FOSS for freedom of expression, to let people communicate, freed from consumerist speculations and the need for expensive hardware.
Related essays: J. Bosma on net-arthttp://www.medienkunstnetz.de/themes/public_sphere_s/media_spaces/ , A. Broeckmann on software arthttp://runtimeart.mi2.hr/TextAndreasBroeckmann , N. Emmenegger on Virtual Borders and Migrant Cyber-Tacticshttp://www.republicart.net/art/concept/airerev_en.htm , F. Cramer on Digital code and literary texthttp://cramer.plaintext.cc/essays/digital_code_and_literary_text/digital... .
Among open source software he created and maintains are: MuSEhttp://muse.dyne.org (for running a web radio), FreeJhttp://freej.dyne.org (for vee-jay and real-time video manipulation), HasciiCamhttp://ascii.dyne.org (ASCII video streaming) and dyne:bolichttp://dynebolic.org (eﬃcient live-CD widely employed for media production and broadcasting). These creations are redis-tributed by the Free Software Foundationhttp://www.fsf.org/ and several other educational institutions worldwide.

Based in Amsterdam, Jaromil is currently active on FOSS R&D for the NIMK`,http://www.nimk.nl , adjunct lecturer (year 2008/09) for the Media Design MA at PZwart / WDKAhttp://pzwart.wdka.hro.nl/mdma/staﬀ/ in Rotterdam and the Digital Environment Design MA at NABAhttp://www.master-naba-d3d.net/ in Milano. Jaromil is a featured artist in CODeDOC IIhttp://www.aec.at/en/festival/programm/codedoc.asp (Whitney Museum Artport), Read_Me 2.3http://www.m-cult.org/read_me (runme.orghttp://www.runme.org/feature/read/+forkbombsh/+47/ software art), negotiations 2003http://rhizome.org/discuss/view/8978 (Toronto CA), I LOVE YOUhttp://www.digitalcraft.org/iloveyou/ (MAK Frankfurt), Netartshttp://www.netarts.org/mcmogatk/2003/ (Machida Tokyo), Rhizomehttp://rhizome.org/query.rhiz?words=jaromil&submit.x=0&submit.y=0 , Data Browser 02http://www.data-browser.net/02/ (engineering culture), Crosstalkshttp://crosstalks.vub.ac.be/ (Vrĳe Universiteit Brussel) and in several other publicationshttp://books.google.com/books?q=jaromil+dyne

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Three frames from the life and death of Jean Charles de Menezes

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