<nettime> sad news
Via: Lucas Bambozzi
This is sad news for us Brazilians and friends of
Ricardo Rosas. He passed away on the 11th of
April, in Fortaleza, where he was born. It was a
shock for most of his friends, like me, as the
recent lack of news about him unfortunately came
followed by such cheerless information.
As far as I know, many participants of this lists
[such as Brian Holmes, David Garcia, Felix
Stalder, Geert Lovink, Trebor Scholz, Derek
Holzer and other ones] were aware about his
consistent contributions regarding the
dissemination of critical ideas around new media,
always raising political concerns embedded on new
technologies.
Ricardo was moderator of nettime-br [actually an
enthusiast of such nettime version], editor of
the electronic magazine Rizoma [www.rizoma.net -
currently off-line] and member of the
Midiatatica.org network. He participated actively
in the organization of the Mdia Ttica Brasil,
in 2003, a key event in So Paulo where many
groups were able to meet, discuss and see that
some spare initiatives could be better understood
as a movement aiming 'tactical' actions, opposing
hegemonic media, questioning the art system, etc.
I got to better know him personally by this
occasion, as I was in a consultant condition that
helped to convince Casa das Rosas, a cultural
institution, to host this Midia Tatica event. We
then joined forces for the organization of
Digitofagia at MIS in 2004 [in which participated
Ricardo M. Zuiga, Felix Stalder and others] and
for writing articles such as the Urgency,
describing the context of art collectives dealing
with urban concerns, for a special issue of
Parachute Magazine. Many other collaborations
followed this one, as true collaboration was one
of his most foremost qualities. Differently from
others that would speech in the name of openness
merely as a strategy, Rosas really worked to
widen the access to open knowledge and open
practices.
He was currently taking part on the Documenta's
publication project for the Documenta 2007 and
was about to publish 'Net Cultura', a book
commissioned by Waag-Sarai, co-organized by
Giseli Vasconcelos -- another key person on free
culture in Brazil.
Well, sorry for such a personal approach for
contextualizing his contributions. I speak in the
name of others: we will all miss Ricardo Rosas.
Best,
L.
I have collected some spare URLs [sorry, some of
them are only available in Portuguese]:
http://tinyurl.com/2233fj [really fresh hommage by Trebor Scholz]
http://www.rizoma.net [off line for the moment]
http://midiatatica.org
http://www.nettime.org/Lists-Archives/nettime-br-0609/msg00001.html
http://findarticles.com/p/articles/mi_go1913/is_200410/ai_n6493511
http://forumpermanente.incubadora.fapesp.br/portal/.convidados/ricardorosas/
http://www.sescsp.org.br/sesc/videobrasil/up/arquivos/200611/20061117_160212_CadernoVB02_p.36-53_P.pdf
http://www.sescsp.org.br/sesc/videobrasil/up/arquivos/200611/20061117_160212_CadernoVB02_p.36-53_P.pdf
http://www.midiaindependente.org/pt/blue/2007/04/380125.shtml
This is sad news for us Brazilians and friends of
Ricardo Rosas. He passed away on the 11th of
April, in Fortaleza, where he was born. It was a
shock for most of his friends, like me, as the
recent lack of news about him unfortunately came
followed by such cheerless information.
As far as I know, many participants of this lists
[such as Brian Holmes, David Garcia, Felix
Stalder, Geert Lovink, Trebor Scholz, Derek
Holzer and other ones] were aware about his
consistent contributions regarding the
dissemination of critical ideas around new media,
always raising political concerns embedded on new
technologies.
Ricardo was moderator of nettime-br [actually an
enthusiast of such nettime version], editor of
the electronic magazine Rizoma [www.rizoma.net -
currently off-line] and member of the
Midiatatica.org network. He participated actively
in the organization of the Mdia Ttica Brasil,
in 2003, a key event in So Paulo where many
groups were able to meet, discuss and see that
some spare initiatives could be better understood
as a movement aiming 'tactical' actions, opposing
hegemonic media, questioning the art system, etc.
I got to better know him personally by this
occasion, as I was in a consultant condition that
helped to convince Casa das Rosas, a cultural
institution, to host this Midia Tatica event. We
then joined forces for the organization of
Digitofagia at MIS in 2004 [in which participated
Ricardo M. Zuiga, Felix Stalder and others] and
for writing articles such as the Urgency,
describing the context of art collectives dealing
with urban concerns, for a special issue of
Parachute Magazine. Many other collaborations
followed this one, as true collaboration was one
of his most foremost qualities. Differently from
others that would speech in the name of openness
merely as a strategy, Rosas really worked to
widen the access to open knowledge and open
practices.
He was currently taking part on the Documenta's
publication project for the Documenta 2007 and
was about to publish 'Net Cultura', a book
commissioned by Waag-Sarai, co-organized by
Giseli Vasconcelos -- another key person on free
culture in Brazil.
Well, sorry for such a personal approach for
contextualizing his contributions. I speak in the
name of others: we will all miss Ricardo Rosas.
Best,
L.
I have collected some spare URLs [sorry, some of
them are only available in Portuguese]:
http://tinyurl.com/2233fj [really fresh hommage by Trebor Scholz]
http://www.rizoma.net [off line for the moment]
http://midiatatica.org
http://www.nettime.org/Lists-Archives/nettime-br-0609/msg00001.html
http://findarticles.com/p/articles/mi_go1913/is_200410/ai_n6493511
http://forumpermanente.incubadora.fapesp.br/portal/.convidados/ricardorosas/
http://www.sescsp.org.br/sesc/videobrasil/up/arquivos/200611/20061117_160212_CadernoVB02_p.36-53_P.pdf
http://www.sescsp.org.br/sesc/videobrasil/up/arquivos/200611/20061117_160212_CadernoVB02_p.36-53_P.pdf
http://www.midiaindependente.org/pt/blue/2007/04/380125.shtml
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