Book Launch and Lecture Performances : Performance Society by Books From The Future Organised as part of the current class on Performance and Performing Identities. 6th July 7.30pm @Evening Class ABOUT THE LECTURE PERFORMANCES Performance Society Curated by Yvan Martinez and Joshua Trees with lecture performances by:

Claude Marzotto and Maia Sambonet (Milan) The Nose Theory & Other Masks NY City, 1967. The Italian director Sergio Zavoli and his troupe meet Saul Steinberg in his Manhattan apartment. As the conversation unfolds across the rooms, the illustrator engages a subtle play with graphic materials – paper, drawing and photos – to constantly question and shape his own identity in front of his interlocutors. Tom Joyes (Glasgow) Performing Truth: Non-Fiction-Science-Fiction Non-Fiction-Science-Fiction is a genre that aims to be documentary, speculative and highly aesthetic at the same time. How does this combination produce a convincing science-fiction through the performance of truth? And to what extent does the designer have an obligation to tell the truth in a time of slippery subjects and uncertain sources?

Palmyra is rapidly becoming the symbol of Isis’s cultural iconoclasm.

If Isis is permitted to wipe the slate clean and rewrite the history of a region that defined global aesthetic and political sensibilities, we will collectively suffer a costly and irreversible defeat.

But there is hope. By placing the record of our past in the digital realm, it will lie for ever beyond the reach of vandals and terrorists.

– ROGER MICHEL, IDA DIRECTOR

Scientists launch hi-tech plan to save ancient Middle East relics from Islamic State

In collaboration with UNESCO World Heritage and the epigraphical database project at NYU’s Institute for the Study of the Ancient World and engineering specialists at Oxford University, we hope to capture one million 3D images of at-risk objects by the end of 2016.  To that end, we have created a heavily modified version of an inexpensive consumer 3D camera that will permit inexperienced users to capture archival-quality scans.  The camera has the facility to upload these images automatically to database servers where they can be used for study or, if required, 3D replication.  It is our intention to deploy up to five-thousand of these low-cost 3D cameras in conflict zones throughout the world by the end of 2015.

The Million Image Database Project - Institute of Digital Archaeology

More on Digital Archeology: Indiana Joneses run hi-tech race against Islamic State - BBC

‘Ignore sat-nav’ sign (by rowanC82)

A council has put up a sign warning lorry drivers to ignore their satellite navigation systems after faulty sat-nav directions caused traffic chaos in Wales. Vale of Glamorgan Council in South Wales is the first in the UK to use visual signs warning drivers not to believe sat-nav advice after once peaceful villages were reduced to bedlam when heavy-goods lorries got stuck in tiny country lanes. Now a sign aimed largely at foreign drivers has been put up on the outskirts of the village of St Hilary. “The proliferation of satellite navigation aids used in heavy goods vehicles, and their over-reliance, especially by overseas drivers, has presented itself as a problem within the Vale of Glamorgan,” a spokesman for the council’s highways department said.