Owen Kelly @owen@social.privacytools.io
I write, design, create objects and events, take photographs, make sounds, and teach. Currently I spend most of my time as principal lecturer in online media at Arcada, a university of applied science in Helsinki, Finland. I also play with and in Pixelache, a digital arts collective in Helsinki.
Joined Jul 2019
TODAY @ 12:34UTC
Meanwhile in an Abandoned Warehouse reaches its 50th episode & its final episode in its current form.
We retrace our journey, discuss what we’ve learned, & lay out our new plans.
Tomorrow!
Fri December 20 @ 12:34UTC
Noises from the Commons
In this episode we look at four other, quite different, musics made available in this way.
Karine Gilanyan plays the first movement of Beethoven’s Piano Sonata number 15 in D Major. Jahzzar plays the self-composed Fibonacci from his album kontra-punkte. Bob Ostertag performs Arms and Legs. Julie Licata presents her work resound.
Meanwhile in an Abandoned Warehouse
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TOMORROW: Friday July 31 @ 12:34UTC
In this episode Sophie Hope and Owen Kelly talk with Loraine Leeson about her work from the 1970s onwards, including her work with Peter Dunn in the 1980s in London Docklands, and her subsequent work online and with The Geezers
PLUS: Active Energy, her new book Art:Process:Change & Arts for Labour!
Tomorrow at 12:34 UTC!!!
David Teevan Part 2: a look at some of the people, places & events from the history of collaborative arts in Ireland.
With @alicemellings & @OwenKelly
#culturaldemocracy #irisharts #ireland #participation #collaboration
Tomorrow!!!
David Teevan, an Irish cultural producer, discusses his take on the complex history of collaborative and participatory arts in Ireland.
Sophie & Owen join in.
Friday July 3 @ 12:34UTC
#culturaldemocracy #irisharts #ireland #participation #collaboration
Friday June 19 @ 12:34UTC
In this episode Monika Dutta and Jake Harries discuss their project to rewild "a little piece of land". They explain what it is actually like to do this as a day to day practice. How does rewilding work? How do they know what to eat? How do they know how to cook it? How does this fit into their wider practice, and to ideas of cultural democracy?
Listen and PASS IT ON!
#culturaldemocracy #rewilding #sustainability #farming #practice
Friday May 22 @ 12:34UTC
Owen Kelly talks with Jake Harries, the director of art and innovation at Access Space, in Sheffield, England.
They discuss the ways in which the current lockdown has affected Access Space, as well as a range of issues including the commons, laser printing, open source, and possible futures.
Today @ 12:34UTC
Locked down, Owen Kelly dives into the historical cultural commons and discusses and plays the very first episode of The Shadow radio series, starring Orson Welles.
#culturaldemocracy #creativecommons #history #radio #theshadow #coronavirus
Friday April 10 @ 12:34 UTC
In a time of lockdown Owen Kelly looks at a range of music currently available under a creative commons licence.
He looks at artist-released music as well as songs available through the Free Music Archive, Jamendo and Tribe of Noise.
You will hear David Rovics, Samie Power, Kat Penkin, Solsar, Jon Worthy & the Bends, Radha Thomas, Shoemansky, Starmob, ...mmm and Lessazo.
#culturaldemocracy #creativecommons #music #free #coronavirus
FRIDAY 12:34UTC
Sophie Hope (@alicemellings) and Mike Neary discuss Students as Producers, the current academic strikes across England, the idea behind teach-outs, and the role of education in establishing a post-capitalist society.
#culturaldemocracy #unions, activism #teach-out #teaching #post-capitalism
Friday Feb 14 @ 12:34UTC
@owenkelly & Irma Sippola have begun 2 cultural projects in India: empowering women & teaching teenage girls to code. @alicemellings asks why & gets very long answers
Meanwhile in an Abandoned Warehouse
OUT TOMORROW 12:34UTC
@alicemellings & @owenkelly talk to Russell Southwood about What A Way To Run A Railroad. He co-authored it in 1985. We ask how the book got written, and what effects it had.
#culturaldemocracy #history #distribution #markets
Find us at https://miaaw.net
Also available on https://anchor.fm/miaaw and at Apple, Google, Soundcloud, Spotify and more...
Friday December 20 @ 12:34UTC
Sofia Bustamante works with conflict resolution. She has a black belt in Aikido and bases her many of her workshop exercises & techniques on insights she has gained from this.
Her current work involves developing a systematic Conflict Resolution Pattern Language. In this episode we talk about the relationships between this, traditional fears of naming, and General Semantics.
#culturaldemocracy #conflict #livingsystems #podcast #peacework
Available at 12:34 UTC on Friday!
MIAAW Ep 31: Problematising in Zagreb
In November 2019, Sophie Hope attended a seminar at Kultura Nova in Zagreb. Sarah Feinstein and Lucy Wright also attended.
After the event they sat and discussed what they had learned.
Quite a lot, apparently.
#culturaldemocracy #access #conferences #participation
Also available on https://anchor.fm/miaaw and at Apple, Google, Soundcloud, Spotify and more...
Available at 12:34 UTC on Friday!
#podcast Episode 27 of Meanwhile in an Abandoned Warehouse!
In this episode Owen Kelly and Sophie Hope dig out their copies of Marxism & Literature and discuss the cultural theory that Raymond Williams develops there in considerably more detail.
#culturaldemocracy #feeling #hegemony #raymondwilliams #theory
Find us at https://miaaw.net Also available on https://anchor.fm/miaaw and at Apple, Google, Soundcloud, Spotify and more...
Available at 12:34 UTC today!
#podcast Episode 27 of Meanwhile in an Abandoned Warehouse!
Sophie Hope & Owen Kelly discuss the relationship between community art, participatory arts, cultural democracy & cultural diversity with film maker George Fleming. He introduces us to the work of Rachel Davis Dubois, who developed plans for intercultural education in the 1930s.
#culturaldemocracy #diversity #movie
Also available on https://anchor.fm/miaaw & more...
MIAAW! PODCAST!
This Friday at 12:34 UTC
The climate strikes raise important questions about how we might respond. In this episode Sophie Hope and Owen Kelly discuss the question of how consumer choice and climate change might crash into each other.
Is “doing our bit” a way of keeping us busy to stop us making trouble, when trouble is exactly what needs making?
Please have a listen and PASS IT ON!
MIAAW
This Friday at 12:34 UTC
@OwenKelly introduces the work of David Rovics: plays some of his songs, and discusses his writings, community-supported arts club, crowdfunding activities, & A Penny A Play campaign.
#culturaldemocracy #movement #organising #distributing
#music #streaming
Available at 12:34 UTC on Friday! #podcast
Episode 24 of Meanwhile in an Abandoned Warehouse! Sophie Hope & Owen Kelly discuss the increasingly effective protests at Mauna Kea on the Big Island in Hawaii. They explain the issues with the Thirty Metre Telescope, and the long, complex historical background.
#manuakea #culturaldemocracy #directaction #organising
Find it at https://miaaw.net Also available on https://anchor.fm/miaaw and at Apple, Google, Soundcloud, Spotify and more...
Available at 12:34 UTC on Friday! #podcast
Episode 23 of Meanwhile in an Abandoned Warehouse! https://miaaw.net
Timo Cantell talks with Owen Kelly about the ways Helsinki deals with public data. They discuss Kvartti, open data, and the APIs the city has helped develop
#access #data #culturaldemocracy #opendata #public.
Also available on https://anchor.fm/miaaw and at Apple, Google, Soundcloud, Spotify and more...
I write, design, create objects and events, take photographs, make sounds, and teach. Currently I spend most of my time as principal lecturer in online media at Arcada, a university of applied science in Helsinki, Finland. I also play with and in Pixelache, a digital arts collective in Helsinki.
Joined Jul 2019
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