In the Fall of 2003 Sam and Laura were sitting in the Polish Laundromat (Laundry/Prania) around the corner from the then Red76 headquarters in Chicago, IL. They got to thinking about places you wait in. Places wherein their function is mainly sitting around for something to happen. From this the Laundry Lecture Series was initiated.
Why not set up a series of talks in your local Laundromat? Why even ask the owners? We didn't. As long as you are a paying customer what's to stop you from gathering you and your friends to talk about whatever you'd like, as the socks get lost, and your favorite pink t-shirt gets frayed one more time in the dryer? Nothing, we say. Go ahead, get your friends together, feel free to be open and honest wherever you are. Speak your mind. Share your thoughts: in Laundromats, on checkout lines, and so many other wonderful shared-use venues all over the world.
@ F & I U Wash
Wednesday, January19 6pm
28th st. (btw. E. Burnside and S.E. Ankeny)
Portland, Oregon
About N.I.N.E's Lecture Topic
A Non-exhaustive Survey of Pervasive Gaming
summary:
Games are becoming more and more real, life more surreal. This is a
sight seeing tour through the various neighborhoods of life/game
interconnectedness, highlighting historical and contemporary pillars of
the community that you may or may not be acquainted with.
This particular presentation was put together for a lecture at
Utrecht's HKU Design School in the Netherlands as part their own
research and development for the new 2005 Meta.Pervasive.Gaming version
of the HERE Game (0009.org/here). It has been reformatted to fit your
screen here in Portland, Oregon.
The HERE Game is distributed through their anti-dichotomy cult:
N.I.N.E. The site's mission statement reads:
New Ideas for a New Era is building a more future oriented present by
way of cultivating both personal and institutional veneration of
paradigm shifts. N.I.N.E. is committed to the research and development
of change by inviting and facilitating the exchange of information in
person, in print, in public, in art and online. Workshops, lectures,
field trips, camps, campaigns, performances, exhibitions, mixers,
posters, protests, publications, websites, traditional and
non-traditional media, email, and word of mouth are some of our
potential channels of communication, collaboration and education.
N.I.N.E. fills a crucial niche in the tapestry of social organizations
with it?s uniquely hopeful and much needed embrace of transformation.
About N.I.N.E.
Jason Wilson and Di-Ann Eisnor collaborate on work, art, kids and
trouble. They hail from Portland and Taunton respectively but
currently live in Amsterdam, NL.