For the next meeting of the Happy Friends Reading Club, scheduled for 5 pm on Sunday, September 1st, 2013 we will cover chapters 8–10 of Who Owns the Future? by Jaron Lanier (2013… read what you can).

Following a sequence of readings on science fiction, utopia, human economies, and value, we turn to the words of “the prophet of Silicon Valley” (Simon & Schuster, publisher) to wonder whether micropayments can redeem the promises of this dystopia we have sunk into. mmm, sounds a little Utopian.

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Tyler Coburn (USA) will be performing I’m that angel in HomeShop at 7 pm on Saturday, August 3rd. The language of performance will be English.

“I’m that angel is a cycle of writings and performances that explore the conditions of how we work on and against the computer, narrated from the perspective of a “content farmer”: an emergent type of online journalist contracted to generate articles based on words peaking in Google Trends.” —Tyler Coburn

八月三日下午7时，泰勒科伯恩（美国）将在家作坊做《我是那个天使》行为艺术表演。工作语言：英语。 “我是天使”是一个系列写作和行为艺术，探讨我们是如何用电脑工作又对其充满无奈的状态。从一个“时文佃户”的视角来叙述：一种新兴网络记者，受雇于人，以谷歌高频词为基础生成文章。

泰勒科伯恩(出生1983年,紐約市),長年在纽约市發展,具有藝術家和作家背景。 他獲得耶魯大學的比較文學文學士以及洛杉磯南加州大學美 術碩士。
科伯恩的作品已在倫 敦當代藝術院以及惠特尼美國藝術博物館、安特衛普和紐約的雕塑中心展示。

春天近了，沙尘暴也随之而来。正值“尘土飞扬”的好时机，DUSTbar开始了它的新计划：Letters漫游。

“Letter”在英文中既有字母的意思，也指代信件。在DUSTbar的“字母表”中，每个字母代表一个人，他们曾经与DUSTbar相遇，并建立了友谊。比如，A代表“阿布”，B代表“本杰明”。在Google Maps的帮助下，上面的图片展示了DUSTbar的“关系地图”。更多细节：字母表。

同时，信件往往蕴藏着寄信人与收信人之间的亲密关系。借着狂风，DUSTbar给“字母表”中的每个“字母”寄出了一封信。打开它，看看记忆和情绪在胶片与文字中留下了怎样的印迹。

“尘土”何时飞扬到你家？

Spring is approaching along with the sand storms. Now it’s exact the right time for flying dust, and DUSTbar starts its new plan: letters wandering.

“Letter” means either an alphabetic character or a mail. Here in the DUSTbar’s “Alphabet”, each letter stands for one person who has ever encountered DUSTbar and built up friendship with it. For example, A stands for “A Bu”, B stands for “Benjamin”. With the help of Google maps, the picture above shows the relation-map of DUSTbar. More details: Alphabet

Meanwhile, letters (mails) also hide the intimate relationship between two. As the sand storm blows, DUSTbar sends the letters to each letter on the “Alphabet”. Open it to see how the memories/emotions are left in photos/words.

When will the dust fly to your home? 

制作已花费了很长时间，我们一直在努力将已有的资源整合并分享，现在是收获的季节 啦：
www.homeshop.org.cn 或者 www.homeshopbeijing.org 。
由于网站包含众多内容，访问时请耐心等待…

点击链接访问家作坊的新网站之后，您可在四周活动一圈，做下伸展运动或者泡杯茶，网站正在加载中——慢工出细活——需要时间…

最后，站在兔年的尾巴上，家作坊祝大家龙年“张牙舞爪”！

It’s been a long time in the making, but here we are, an attempt to gather together and share some of what we do:
www.homeshop.org.cn or www.homeshopbeijing.org.
There’s a lot of space in-between; please visit and stick around…

Go ahead and click on the link to visit HomeShop’s brand new website, then take a small walk around the room, do some stretching exercises or make tea; this website is a work-in-progress, and—like all good things—takes time…

But don’t let that stop us from multi-tasking——Michael, 何颖雅 Elaine, Fotini, 欧阳潇 Xiao, 曲一箴 Twist, 植村 絵美 Emi and 王尘尘 Cici at HomeShop wish you all fierce flights and a happy Dragon year.

《你吃了吗？》是一篇有关农业以及食品生产和消费的艺术家实践汇编。本汇编相当于一个 数据库,其目的是帮助人们收集,对比,和学习这些艺术家的实践,意图,方法,社会网络。它是一 个正在进行中的列表,这一列表是在中国的语境和可获得的信息条件下为《市集/Country Fair》项目 所做的。但它也寻求这类实践的国际信息。本汇编在网络和市集上都可以找到。 因为这类艺术实践在现代艺术中谈及的较少,所以本数据库是很有必要的。颇具讽刺的是可及性还是许多这类艺术 家的项目所关注的。泛泛地说,虽然这些艺术实行常常跟本地环境、经济和社会体 系有关,但是它们大部分也关系到共有知识网络,在许多情况下 也巧妙地,综合地使用了科技手段。 当 然,艺术家个人网站上的信息是更深入的;《你吃了吗？》只是走近他们工作的一个切入点 。

“Have you eaten yet?” is a collection of artist practices that work with farming and food production and consumption. It is meant as a database to find, compare and learn from these art practices, and their intentions, their methods, their networks. This is an ongoing list being compiled for the project Country Fair, within the context of China and the information available here, but it seeks to connect information of these practices internationally. It is presented online as well as at each Country Fair.

请访问！ Please visit!
http://www.homeshopbeijing.org/nichilema/

感谢大家一直以来对北京有机农夫市集的关注和支持。

下一次市集将和小毛驴市民农园合作，作为他们4月16 日开锄节的配套活动同时举行。届时将有20多家北京本地的农户、食品作坊、环保和三农NGO、艺术家和音乐家前来参加。您不但可以买到健康、有机、环保的农产品，还可以品尝到我们用有机食材制作的中西式美食、甜品和饮料（数量有限，欢迎您自带餐具）。同时，您还能在市集上了解与食品安全、环保、可持续生活相关的信息，让您吃得更放心，生活更低碳。市集志愿者的小厨房收入将会捐给日本和云南盈江地震灾区。欢迎您来市集了解更多我们在两地合作的NGO的工作。

开锄节的活动也非常丰富，详情请参考附件。

集市／Country Fair
北京有机农夫市集

时间：2011年4月16日星期六　上午10点至下午4点
地址：小毛驴市民农园
北京市海淀区苏家坨镇后沙涧村西
http://www.littledonkeyfarm.com/introduct/nav_8_21.aspx

Happy Friends met on February 26th.
The significance of “Electronic Civil Disobedience,” the text by Critical Art Ensemble that had been chosen back in January, had somehow shifted over the course of a month that had elapsed rather dramatically throughout the world.
A month before, the most salient resonance with the text in the present had been the ongoing case of Wikileaks.
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北京有机农夫市集
认识北京的有机农民
品尝用本地有机食材制作的美食和饮料
时间：2011年3月12日星期六　上午10点至下午3点 (3点ー圆桌会议）
地点：Studio-X Beijing 北京东城区安定门内大街方家胡同46, A103
交通：地铁5号线北新桥站A出口；地铁5号线,2号线 雍和宫站D出口 ; 地铁2号线安定门站B出口

<< Beijing Farmers Market >>
Come and meet the farmers who grow your food.
Enjoy food and drinks made from local products.
March 12th Sat, 2011 10:00 a.m. ~15:00 p.m. (15:00~ round table discussion)
Address: Studio-X Beijing A103, 46 Fangjia Hutong, Andingmen Inner Street, Dongcheng District, Beijing, China, 100007
Subway: Line5 Beixinqiao station Exit A ; Line5 and 2 Yonghegong station Exit D; Line2 Andingmen Exit B

Beijing Farm Map: http://pangbianr.com/farmmap.html

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芳嘉园 Fangjia Farm
圣林生态农庄 Sun Lin Farm
凤凰公社 Phoenix Commune
小毛驴市民农园 Little Donkey Farm
德润屋生态环境科技中心 De Run Wo
国仁绿色联盟 Ground Green Union
北京布乐奶酪坊 Le Fromager de Pekin
瀚海沙 Han Hai Sha
手土义坊 Shou Tu Yi Fang
薛倩 Xue Qian
(茶艺展示) 全球和平妇女 Peace Women Across the Globe
謝睿慈 Lily HSIEH (廚餘回收變黃金 EM compost)
日历餐厅 Calendar Restaurant
旁边儿 Pangbianr
家作坊 HomeShop
农业与贸易政策研究所 Institute for Agriculture and Trade Policy
…以及更多 and more

/// 联系方式 ///
电话：134 0105 6422（中文）/ 136 9363 9394 (English）
邮箱：farmersmarketbj@gmail.com
微博：http://t.sina.com.cn/1918547924
豆瓣 Douban：http://www.douban.com/event/13499133/

来来找我们！Come and find us!

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Dead Drops is an offline peer to peer file sharing network in public. Drop any files you want on this drive. Download any files you find here which look interesting to you. For more information, comments and a map on all dead drops world wide please go to: http://deaddrops.com.

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此台Dead Drop的创建者为：家作坊，2010年12月
This Dead Drop was installed by:  HomeShop, December 2010

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