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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 globa 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

DISCUSSION

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>

DISCUSSION

"let's take a moment of silence..."


------ Forwarded Message
From: Matthew Rogalsky <mrogalsky@mail.wesleyan.edu>
Date: Mon, 17 Mar 2003 22:05:14 -0500 (EST)
To: mrogalsky@wesleyan.edu

just a little treatment of tonight's speech...
http://mrogalsky.net/gwb170303

pass it along if you like...

best
m.

------ End of Forwarded Message

DISCUSSION

New on -empyre- for March--Unstable Ground: Curating New Media


New for -empyre- March 2003

Please join us for conversation .... on

Unstable Ground: Curating New Media

With Timothy Murray (US) and guests Norie Neumark (AU) and Priamo Lozada
(MX)

Often in collaboration with artists, new media curators are moving into
areas of online unstable work whose "ground" is, for instance, the digital
crawler, hypertext link, speech recognition or artificial vision system.
How does this unstable ground create crisis and opportunity for digital
archive and new media exhibitions in the international context?

join us at empyre forum <http://www.subtle.net/empyre>

Time will be joined by Norie Neumark of UTS for a week, with whom Tim has
taught new media collaboratively through video streaming, and then by Priamo
Lazado, Curator of Laboratoria Arte Alemeda in Mexico City, who will join
in a discussion of the imperative of outsourcing work from Latin American
and other regions, from Asia to Eastern Europe, where tenuous economic
structures have impaired stability of the curatorial platform.

============================================================================

Timothy Murray's new media curatorial projects have led him in different
directions. Many readers might be familiar with his exhibition, "Contact
Zones: The Art of CD-Rom" (http://contactzones.cit.cornell.edu) which toured
from 1999-2001 in the US, Mexico, Canada, and France. He co-curated the
"(off-line) 'net.art' contest" for INFOS 2002 in Ljubljana, Slovenia. He
co-curates with Arthur and Marilouise Kroker the on-line exhibition space,
CTHEORY Multimedia, at <http://ctheorymultimedia.cornell.edu>: recent issues
include "Wired Ruins: Digital Terror and Ethnic Paranoia" and "Tech Flesh:
The Promise and Perils of the Human Genome Project." He also is founder and
curator of The Rose Goldsen Archive of New Media Art at the Cornell
University Library. A Professor of Comparative Literature and English, he
has written catalogue essays for the ZKM in Karlsruhe, The Power Plant in
Toronto, Centro de la Imagen in Mexico City, the Museum of Macau in Macau;
and he is completing Digital Intensities: Cultural Memory, Baroque Theory,
and Electronic Art (University of Minnesota Press), and editing Digitality
and the Memory of Cinema (Temple University Press). His other books include
Drama Trauma: Specters of Race and Sexuality in Performance, Video, and Art
(Routledge 1997) and Like a Film: Ideological Fantasy on Screen, Camera, and
Canvas (Routledge 1993). At Cornell University, he teaches courses in the
history of video art, electronic art, digital bodies, French film, and
Introduction to Visual Studies, and most recently co-taught a course with
Norie Neumark, of the University of Technology, Sydney, on "Electronic
Innovations: Technology and Art."

Norie Neumark <http://www.out-of-sync.com> is a sound/radio and new media
artist. As part of Out-of-Sync, a new media artistic partnership with Maria
Miranda, she has collaborated on CD-Rom art, installations and recently, on
net.art works. Their works include Shock in the Ear, Dead Centre, Machine
Organs, Volcano and Journey to the C/enter. A significant concern for Norie
is to work with and develop the sound interfaces to allow for interactivity
in which sound plays an essential and engaging role. Norie is also a
critical theorist and teacher at the University of Technology, Sydney. Norie
is currently a member of the Board of Sound Culture.

Priamo Lozada is resident curator at Laboratorio Arte Alameda, Mexico City
<http://www.artealameda.inba.gob.mx/> Curatorial projects in 2002-3 in
electronic arts and new media include Thomas Glassford: Event Horizon,
Laboratorio Arte Alameda, Mexico City;

DISCUSSION

Berlin Transmediale 03 Diaries, part 3: Relational Aesthetics


Berlin Transmediale Diaries part 3 Relational Aesthetics

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