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Christina McPhee http://christinamcphee.net
Slipstream Konza
:SLIPSTREAM KONZA:
Digital Prints in a Data Landscape
Slipstream Konza is an art/science collaborative project that addresses
aesthetics of digital data expression of land as a breathing ecosystem.
Slipstream Konza uses the time based data stream of carbon flux as a basis
for a generative, rhythmic, virtual expression of sound and image in net
based and spatial installation.
<http://christinamcphee.net>
<http://christinamcphee.net/texts/konzasuite.asp>
Slipstream Konza is complemented by a group of digital prints based on
medium format photography shot on location at the Konza Prairie Biological
Field Station, a UNESCO World Heritage Site. The digital prints of the
KONZA series are created from photographs shot at sites of scientific
experimentation and instrumentation on the prairie.
Remnants of tallgrass prairie in North America are concentrated in an area
east of the Rockies where the dry, prevailing winds from the Pacific over
the Rockies collides with the moist, warmer air rising north from the Gulf
of Mexico. Annual rainfall is around 35 to 40 inches in an area immediately
east of the arid high plains (about 10 -15 inches per year). Thanks to the
frequent lightening storms as well as human intervention, the tallgrass
prairie is a fire based ecosystem: its grasslands are created and
perpetuated by frequent intervals of fire, much like the chaparral of
California. Without fire, the grassland reverts to a cedar and oak
savannah. Intensive biological study of tallgrass prairie has characterized
the last thirty years as its range has receded. The prairie is of global
interest for research on immediate and long-term climate change.
Konza is the Osage term for
Digital Prints in a Data Landscape
Slipstream Konza is an art/science collaborative project that addresses
aesthetics of digital data expression of land as a breathing ecosystem.
Slipstream Konza uses the time based data stream of carbon flux as a basis
for a generative, rhythmic, virtual expression of sound and image in net
based and spatial installation.
<http://christinamcphee.net>
<http://christinamcphee.net/texts/konzasuite.asp>
Slipstream Konza is complemented by a group of digital prints based on
medium format photography shot on location at the Konza Prairie Biological
Field Station, a UNESCO World Heritage Site. The digital prints of the
KONZA series are created from photographs shot at sites of scientific
experimentation and instrumentation on the prairie.
Remnants of tallgrass prairie in North America are concentrated in an area
east of the Rockies where the dry, prevailing winds from the Pacific over
the Rockies collides with the moist, warmer air rising north from the Gulf
of Mexico. Annual rainfall is around 35 to 40 inches in an area immediately
east of the arid high plains (about 10 -15 inches per year). Thanks to the
frequent lightening storms as well as human intervention, the tallgrass
prairie is a fire based ecosystem: its grasslands are created and
perpetuated by frequent intervals of fire, much like the chaparral of
California. Without fire, the grassland reverts to a cedar and oak
savannah. Intensive biological study of tallgrass prairie has characterized
the last thirty years as its range has receded. The prairie is of global
interest for research on immediate and long-term climate change.
Konza is the Osage term for
NETNOISE and "Sound Culture"
Apologies for cross posting
Live and online, with the new release "NETNOISE" this weekend,
Cornell hosts "Sound Culture" September 12-13, sponsored by the Rose
Goldsen Archive of New Media Art --workshop details below
NETNOISE............online at
<http://ctheorymultimedia.cornell.edu/four.php>
Including----
* noise velocity --by Simon Biggs, Plasma Studii, Akuvido, Candy Factory
* culture pitch --by mez, Shu Lea Cheang,
And re "Sound Culture",
Kongo and Chang Heavy Industries with Candy Factory, Tanja Vujinovic and
Zvonka Simcic
* sound motion --by Jody Zellen, Christina McPhee and Michael Sellam
This from a recent note from Tim Murray... Tim writes,
" Readers in the New York/New England area might be interested in a 2 day
art and theory workshop on "Sound Culture" to be held at Cornell University
Ithaca, New York,Sept. 12-13, sponsored by The Rose Goldsen Archive of New
Media Art.
The event is free and open to the public and will be preceded by a
virtual seminar organized by Norie Neumark between sound artists in
Australia and those gathered in Ithaca."
NETNOISE is edited by Tim Murray and Arthur and Marilouise Kroker for
CTHEORY Multimedia 2003
<www.ctheorymultimedia.cornell.edu>
Live and online, with the new release "NETNOISE" this weekend,
Cornell hosts "Sound Culture" September 12-13, sponsored by the Rose
Goldsen Archive of New Media Art --workshop details below
NETNOISE............online at
<http://ctheorymultimedia.cornell.edu/four.php>
Including----
* noise velocity --by Simon Biggs, Plasma Studii, Akuvido, Candy Factory
* culture pitch --by mez, Shu Lea Cheang,
And re "Sound Culture",
Kongo and Chang Heavy Industries with Candy Factory, Tanja Vujinovic and
Zvonka Simcic
* sound motion --by Jody Zellen, Christina McPhee and Michael Sellam
This from a recent note from Tim Murray... Tim writes,
" Readers in the New York/New England area might be interested in a 2 day
art and theory workshop on "Sound Culture" to be held at Cornell University
Ithaca, New York,Sept. 12-13, sponsored by The Rose Goldsen Archive of New
Media Art.
The event is free and open to the public and will be preceded by a
virtual seminar organized by Norie Neumark between sound artists in
Australia and those gathered in Ithaca."
NETNOISE is edited by Tim Murray and Arthur and Marilouise Kroker for
CTHEORY Multimedia 2003
<www.ctheorymultimedia.cornell.edu>
Re: alijazeera blocked
It's online now early Monday
>>
>> http://english.aljazeera.net/
On 3/26/03 11:36 AM, "t.whid" <twhid@mteww.com> wrote:
>
>
> blocked? hacked? or something else?
>
> it's strange. i saw this story this morning:
>
> English Al-Jazeera Website Hacked
> http://www.wired.com/news/politics/0,1283,58200,00.html
>
> which says this,
>
> "Ayman Arrashid, Internet system administrator at the Horizons Media
> and Information Services, the site's Web host, said the attack began
> Tuesday morning local time.
>
> Nabil Hegazi, assistant to the managing editor of the English
> website, denied that an attack was the reason the site was
> unavailable. He said it was difficult to access because of traffic
> that was almost four times more than expected. "
>
> yesterday the front page would resolve, but very slowly. the interior
> pages would come up with "500 server to busy" errors on the asp
> pages. basic behavior you would expect from a heavy load on the
> server.
>
> BUT now it comes up 'not found'
>
> hmmm...
>
>> Blocked...
>>
>>
>> http://english.aljazeera.net/
>>
>>
>> http://english.aljazeera.net/
On 3/26/03 11:36 AM, "t.whid" <twhid@mteww.com> wrote:
>
>
> blocked? hacked? or something else?
>
> it's strange. i saw this story this morning:
>
> English Al-Jazeera Website Hacked
> http://www.wired.com/news/politics/0,1283,58200,00.html
>
> which says this,
>
> "Ayman Arrashid, Internet system administrator at the Horizons Media
> and Information Services, the site's Web host, said the attack began
> Tuesday morning local time.
>
> Nabil Hegazi, assistant to the managing editor of the English
> website, denied that an attack was the reason the site was
> unavailable. He said it was difficult to access because of traffic
> that was almost four times more than expected. "
>
> yesterday the front page would resolve, but very slowly. the interior
> pages would come up with "500 server to busy" errors on the asp
> pages. basic behavior you would expect from a heavy load on the
> server.
>
> BUT now it comes up 'not found'
>
> hmmm...
>
>> Blocked...
>>
>>
>> http://english.aljazeera.net/
>>
Review of <Alt> DigitalMedia at AMMI
From John Haber in New York...........
<http://www.haberarts.com/altmedia.htm>
> ------ Forwarded Message
> From: Brooke Singer <brooke@bsing.net>
> Reply-To: Brooke Singer <brooke@bsing.net>
> Date: Fri, 28 Feb 2003 10:37:12 -0500
> To: list@rhizome.org
> Subject: RHIZOME\_RAW: <Alt> DigitalMedia Event at AMMI March 6
>
> <Alt> DigitalMedia
> at the American Museum of the Moving Image
>
> Thursday, March 6, 2003
> 6:00
<http://www.haberarts.com/altmedia.htm>
> ------ Forwarded Message
> From: Brooke Singer <brooke@bsing.net>
> Reply-To: Brooke Singer <brooke@bsing.net>
> Date: Fri, 28 Feb 2003 10:37:12 -0500
> To: list@rhizome.org
> Subject: RHIZOME\_RAW: <Alt> DigitalMedia Event at AMMI March 6
>
> <Alt> DigitalMedia
> at the American Museum of the Moving Image
>
> Thursday, March 6, 2003
> 6:00
April on -empyre-: Datascape with Teri Rueb, Brett Stalbaum and John Tonkin
April on -empyre-:
Datascape with Teri Rueb, Brett Stalbaum and John Tonkin
-empyre- takes pleasure in welcoming three artists whose work engages GPS
and data-base systems as an exploration of new content in landscape
aesthetics, data mapping and psycho-geographies.
Today our new media landscape moves from an aesthetic of representation and
mimesis to a data driven generative model for exploration. Data is the
actual expression of our ability to model both humanity and the planet
as a system.
Because it is actual, data plays an intermediary and "actualizing" role in
the human relationship to the landscape. The role of the virtual in the
unfolding of the actual is quickened, more dynamic, more widespread, and
more embedded in our culture at this moment in time than at any other. What
are the implications for digital culture, artistic practice and tactical
media?
Specifically, in the current context of war, we are seeing satellite
imaging and GPS technology used to guide missiles, construct high definition
maps, direct movement of troops and aircraft, and image space as
territory. Questions regarding the representation of space and corollary
constructions of identity are raised with every broadcast, press briefing,
illustration and photograph. Real-time unpacking of the rhetoric behind
these cartographic texts is urgently needed and we look forward to this
month's forum unfolding as a space for such discussion and
debate.
Please join Teri, Brett and John starting April 1 on
-empyre-
<www.subtle.net/empyre>
==============================
--------Teri Rueb (Baltimore, MD) has used global positioning satellite
(GPS) technology in her work since 1996 to explore issues of space, mapping,
landscape, memory, the body and cultural identity. Her current research
explores sonic and acoustic constructions of space, spatialized narrative,
human movement and psycho-social geography.
<http://www.umbc.edu/~rueb>
--------------Brett Stalbaum (San Jose, California) is a C5 research
theorist specializing in theory,database,and software development. The C5
Landscape projects, initiated in 2001, involve mapping, navigation and
search of the landscape using internally produced Geographic Information
Systems. He has recently been involved in code development and
research/theory work on database, the artist's role in the problems of large
data, and landscape art.
<http://cadre.sjsu.edu/beestal>
----------John Tonkin (Sydney, Australia) is a artist, programmer and
curator who has worked for nearly two decades with animation, software
development and databases. His recent works are formed through the
accumulated interactions of users and investigate assumptions relating to
subjectivity, scientific belief systems and the body. John recently curated
"All Star Data Mappers" for d.lux Media Arts, a survey of artists and
designers who are building information visualisation software to navigate
the complex terrain of the electronic datasphere.
http://www.johnt.org
http://www.dlux.org.au/dataterra/exhibition.html
-empyre- at <www.subtle.net/empyre>
Datascape with Teri Rueb, Brett Stalbaum and John Tonkin
-empyre- takes pleasure in welcoming three artists whose work engages GPS
and data-base systems as an exploration of new content in landscape
aesthetics, data mapping and psycho-geographies.
Today our new media landscape moves from an aesthetic of representation and
mimesis to a data driven generative model for exploration. Data is the
actual expression of our ability to model both humanity and the planet
as a system.
Because it is actual, data plays an intermediary and "actualizing" role in
the human relationship to the landscape. The role of the virtual in the
unfolding of the actual is quickened, more dynamic, more widespread, and
more embedded in our culture at this moment in time than at any other. What
are the implications for digital culture, artistic practice and tactical
media?
Specifically, in the current context of war, we are seeing satellite
imaging and GPS technology used to guide missiles, construct high definition
maps, direct movement of troops and aircraft, and image space as
territory. Questions regarding the representation of space and corollary
constructions of identity are raised with every broadcast, press briefing,
illustration and photograph. Real-time unpacking of the rhetoric behind
these cartographic texts is urgently needed and we look forward to this
month's forum unfolding as a space for such discussion and
debate.
Please join Teri, Brett and John starting April 1 on
-empyre-
<www.subtle.net/empyre>
==============================
--------Teri Rueb (Baltimore, MD) has used global positioning satellite
(GPS) technology in her work since 1996 to explore issues of space, mapping,
landscape, memory, the body and cultural identity. Her current research
explores sonic and acoustic constructions of space, spatialized narrative,
human movement and psycho-social geography.
<http://www.umbc.edu/~rueb>
--------------Brett Stalbaum (San Jose, California) is a C5 research
theorist specializing in theory,database,and software development. The C5
Landscape projects, initiated in 2001, involve mapping, navigation and
search of the landscape using internally produced Geographic Information
Systems. He has recently been involved in code development and
research/theory work on database, the artist's role in the problems of large
data, and landscape art.
<http://cadre.sjsu.edu/beestal>
----------John Tonkin (Sydney, Australia) is a artist, programmer and
curator who has worked for nearly two decades with animation, software
development and databases. His recent works are formed through the
accumulated interactions of users and investigate assumptions relating to
subjectivity, scientific belief systems and the body. John recently curated
"All Star Data Mappers" for d.lux Media Arts, a survey of artists and
designers who are building information visualisation software to navigate
the complex terrain of the electronic datasphere.
http://www.johnt.org
http://www.dlux.org.au/dataterra/exhibition.html
-empyre- at <www.subtle.net/empyre>