[Metalab] gamejew/metalab

[Peter Kuhm]

[ redirected from intern@ - relevant to teh business not only
[ for Metalab members which might have seen it already on
[ http://metalab.at/wiki/Pressespiegel or on friendly soups
[ e.g. http://angelol.soup.io/post/254746

On Thu, 8 Nov 2007 22:01:49 +0100 Jay Vaughan wrote:
 
> On Nov 8, 2007, at 6:46 PM, das ende der nahrungskette wrote:
> 
> > gamejew: "Wenn wir so etwas wie das Metalab in
> > L.A. hätten, wäre das großartig."
> 
| > http://www.chilli.cc/index.php?noframes=1&id=74-1-139&from=

Markus Peyerl obliged my wish on Tuesday to add a link to the Metalab
as well. 

> We had a 'metalab' in Hollywood in the 90's, it was called  
> 'teklab' (I started it) .. 

I wanted to have a look on teklab.com via archive.org but it seems the
new domain owner has excluded this lookup with robots.txt 

> and before that (even still) in Santa  
> Monica is the world-famous "electric cafe" which was a similar thing  
> as well .. 

any leads?

I found two related Usenet postings I enjoyed: 

http://groups.google.com/group/alt.drugs/browse_thread/thread/423b98829f3fbdf5/94ac016f6e14d091

| Review of psychedlic videos of McKenna & Abramson by Rose X 
| "David A. Honig" 16 Okt. 1990, 22:51 
|
| Usenet Exclusive (Gnu copyleft applies): 
|
| Electric Cafe, Santa Monica, Ca., Sat 13 Oct 1990 
|
| A crowd of about 40 watched two psychedelic videos produced by a team of two 
| video artists that call themselves Rose X.  Using a commodore amiga, 
| video cameras, and high-8 VCR equiptment, they produced two separate 
| documentaries on  two modern fringe thinkers, Terrence McKenna 
| and Prof. Ralph Abramson, both of whom have ties to the psychedelic culture. 
|
| McKenna is an ethnobotanist, who was available for discussion and 
| audience questioning via videophone in NYC.  Abramson, a mathematics 
| prof at UC Santa Cruz who specialises in dynamics and chaos, was in the 
| Cafe live. ...


http://groups.google.com/group/dc.dining/browse_thread/thread/e0aa6e13be9572e6/6ce8788a60c04841

| >>> I for one would *never* go to a place where there is a terminal at 
| >>> the table. What ever happened to conversation???  Just muy 
| >>> opinion. 
| > I agree - sounds perverse. I've heard of a place in Santa Monica 
| > called the Electric Cafe which allegedly had terminals connected 
| > with other such Cafes "around the world", so patrons could discuss 
| > stuff with other people at these remote sites. Seems like a dumb 
| > pseudo-trendy idea to me. Easy to picture hardware that would only 
| > have been functional during the first week of operations... 
|
| It sounds perverse when you compare it to having a nice time at 
| a restaurant.  But when you compare it to being shut up alone all 
| day in front of your computer - it actually sounds quite appealing.
| ...

unrelated but also nice: Kraftwerk's Electric Cafe / Technopop song
-> http://youtube.com/watch?v=4ZcUu9Kl_7A

> and while I concur with Jonathan (gamejew) that a fresh  
> young metalab in LA would be a nice thing to have today, I believe he  
> needs to look a little closer around UCLA and UCal campuses, perhaps  
> he'll find exactly the same sort of hacker esprit as we have here in  
> Vienna ..

perhaps but I understand he is more looking for a digital culture
of video/computer games less hacking esprit and the question is
how open is something in the campus surrounding for the general public?
(compared to a Subotron Shop in the MQ circus or the open Metalab)

cheers,
Peter