Jon Leidecker, aka Wobbly, on Negativland and fair use

• Stand By for Failure: A Documentary About Negativland (Sunday, August 11, 2024 – doors at 6:30pm, film at 7pm). Hosted by Station Manager Ken Freedman. Live Zoom Q&A to follow with director Ryan Worsley.

• Negativland website

• Wobbly website (Jon’s solo project)

• Over the Edge at KPFA

• Over the Edge archives at the Internet Archive

• Variations podcast, curated by Jon Leidecker, from the Museum of Contemporary Art of Barcelona (MACBA)

• Fair Use: The Story of the Letter U and the Numeral 2, the book by Negativland

• Fair Use as Market Failure: A Structural and Economic Analysis of the Betamax Case and Its Predecess (Columbia Law Review, December 1982) by Wendy J. Gordon

• Station Manager Ken’s show from Jan 24, 2024 – interview with Mark Hosler, Jon Leidecker, and David Wills

• People Like Us (Vicki Bennett) and her WFMU show Do or DIY

• The Statute of Anne, “also known as the Copyright Act 1709 or the Copyright Act 1710, was an act of the Parliament of Great Britain passed in 1710, [and] was the first statute to provide for copyright regulated by the government and courts, rather than by private parties.”

• P(doom) is “a term in AI safety that refers to the probability of catastrophic outcomes (or “doom”) as a result of artificial intelligence.”

• 13 Ways of Looking at AI, Art & Music by Jennifer Walshe (Dec 15, 2023): “AI isn’t coming for your jobs. Humans are. ‘A.I.’ is a way to avoid talking about that.”

• DADABOTS: “Eliminate humans from music”

• RELENTLESS DOPPELGANGER \m/ \m/ \m/ \m/ \m/ \m/ \m/ \m/ \m/ \m/ \m/ \m/ \m/ \m/: recording of livestream by Dadabots

• PIZZAFIRE (Oct 23, 2023): documentary telling the “origin story of AI band DADABOTS”

• Beatboxing thru a Neural Net (Nov 9, 2023) by DADABOTS

• KRAFTWERK

• The League of Automatic Music Composers

• Jon Leidecker – United Feedback

• Louis and Bebe Barron, electronic music pioneers

• David Tudor, experimental music composer

• The Sonic Arts Union, experimental music collective

• Feedback works of Éliane Radigue (1969-1970)

• Roland Kayn, electronic music composer

• Gregory Bateson, an “English anthropologist, social scientist, linguist, visual anthropologist, semiotician, and cyberneticist whose work intersected that of many other fields.”

• George Dyson and his books Darwin Among the Machines: The Evolution of Global Intelligence and Turing’s Cathedral, which covers the work of John von Neumann