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Still frame from Cory Arcangel, Various Self Playing Bowling Games (2011), as featured in Cory Arcangel: Pro Tools, curated by Christiane Paul for the Whitney Museum of American Art.

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What I appreciate about Rhizome is that even as it continues to evolve and reinvent itself year after year, seeking out emerging ideas, artists, and areas of practice, it remains firmly rooted in a historical context. This can be seen not only in its pioneering work in the field of digital preservation, but also in programming and writing that finds contemporary relevance in media archives and brings different generations into dialogue.

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DISCUSSION

reminder: Virtual Art: From Illusion to Immersion -- tomorrow, De c. 10


Virtual Art: From Illusion to Immersion
A Lecture by Oliver Grau
Tuesday, December 10 7 pm
Tishman Auditorium, New School University
66 West 12th Street
live webcast @ http://netart-init.org, 7pm EST

In conjunction with the publication of Oliver Grau's Virtual Art: From
Illusion to Immersion (forthcoming from The MIT Press), the author discusses
how virtual art fits into the history of art, and specifically artists'
search for illusionary visual space, which can be traced back to antiquity.
He describes the metamorphosis of the concepts of art and the image and
relates those concepts to interactive art, interface design, agents,
telepresence, and image evolution. He traces immersive cinema through
Cinerama, Sensorama, Expanded Cinema, 3-D, Omnimax and IMAX, and the
Head-Mounted Display with its military origins. His analysis draws on the
work of contemporary artists and groups ART+COM, Maurice Benayoun, Charlotte
Davies, Monika Fleischmann, Ken Goldberg, Agnes Hegedues, Eduardo Kac,
Knowbotic Research, Laurent Mignonneau, Michael Naimark, Simon Penny,
Daniela Plewe, Paul Sermon, Jeffrey Shaw, Karl Sims, Christa Sommerer, and
Wolfgang Strauss. Oliver Grau is Lecturer in Art History at Humboldt
University, Berlin, and head of the German Science Foundation's project on
"Immersive Art."

The lecture is moderated by Christiane Paul, the Whitney Museum's adjunct
curator of new media arts, and is jointly organized by the Goethe-Institut
New York, the Whitney Museum of American Art, The MIT Press, and the NetArt
Initiative.

The program is sponsored by the Center for New Design at Parsons School of
Design, a Division of New School University
Free admission
Reserve online @ http://netart-init.org/event

DISCUSSION

Chris Fahey, "Concentric Empathy"


Chris Fahey, "Concentric Empathy"
artport gatepage November 02
http://artport.whitney.org

Soon, humans will no longer be uncontested as the sole posessors of the
intangible phenomenon we call consciousness. Even today, we are potentially
surrounded by a wide array of barely-human or even non-human intelligences.
Our society's response to these thinking beings will certainly be debated
scientifically, philosophically, and spiritually, but ultimately we will
make up our minds on an individual emotional level. Our emotional reaction
will in large part be determined by our willingness to allow these strange
new beings into what Jaron Lanier calls our 'circle of empathy.'

Contemplate your place in this universe of consciousness. Build your own
concentric circles of empathy, with yourself at the center, and find your
place in this new world. Your responses may be recorded and used in future
philosophical and legal debates.

DISCUSSION

intelligent agent - coming soon: Vol. 2 No. 4


Vol. 2 No. 4, Fall '02

intelligent agent will soon resume its quarterly publication as an online
magazine in a new modular format:
*3 thematic threads with contributing writers
*reviews on festivals, net art, books, tech sector

All content will be available in html and as pdf files with layout, which
allow readers to assemble customized issues. The content of each quarterly
issue will become available over a period of 3 months.

For a table of contents of Vol. 2 No. 4
please visit http://www.intelligentagent.com

AVAILABLE NOW
US Department of Art & Technology, Joint Resolution to Authorize the Use of
Artistic Acts of Mediation

COMING SOON (with more content TBA):

THREADS
*the political sphere
with contributions by Mike Mosher, RSG, Nathan M. Martin (Carbon Defense
League), Sam Snith

*biotech/transgenics
with contributions by Eduardo Kac, Ricardo Dominguez, Gregory Little

*new media curation
with contributions by Jennifer Crowe (an interview with Steve Dietz),
Anne-Marie Schleiner et. al.

PROBE
MTAA, MTAA's Amazing Criswell Future Algorithm System

REVIEWS
festivals, net art, books, tech sector

++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
intelligent agent
Editor-in-Chief: Patrick Lichty
Director: Christiane Paul

http://www.intelligentagent.com
intelligent agent is a service organization and information
provider dedicated to interpreting and promoting art that
uses digital technologies for production and presentation.
++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++

DISCUSSION

intelligent agent - coming soon: Vol. 2 No. 4


Vol. 2 No. 4, Fall '02

intelligent agent will soon resume its quarterly publication as an online
magazine in a new modular format:
*3 thematic threads with contributing writers
*reviews on festivals, net art, books, tech sector

All content will be available in html and as pdf files with layout, which
allow readers to assemble customized issues. The content of each quarterly
issue will become available over a period of 3 months.

For a table of contents of Vol. 2 No. 4
please visit http://www.intelligentagent.com

AVAILABLE NOW
US Department of Art & Technology, Joint Resolution to Authorize the Use of
Artistic Acts of Mediation

COMING SOON (with more content TBA):

THREADS
*the political sphere
with contributions by Mike Mosher, RSG, Nathan M. Martin (Carbon Defense
League), Sam Snith

*biotech/transgenics
with contributions by Eduardo Kac, Ricardo Dominguez, Gregory Little

*new media curation
with contributions by Jennifer Crowe (an interview with Steve Dietz),
Anne-Marie Schleiner et. al.

PROBE
MTAA, MTAA's Amazing Criswell Future Algorithm System

REVIEWS
festivals, net art, books, tech sector

++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
intelligent agent
Editor-in-Chief: Patrick Lichty
Director: Christiane Paul

http://www.intelligentagent.com
intelligent agent is a service organization and information
provider dedicated to interpreting and promoting art that
uses digital technologies for production and presentation.
++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++

EVENT

Virtual Art: From Illusion to Immersion -- A Lecture by Oliver Grau, Tues 12/10/02


Dates:
Tue Dec 10, 2002 00:00 - Wed Nov 13, 2002

Virtual Art: From Illusion to Immersion
A Lecture by Oliver Grau
Tuesday, December 10 7 pm
Tishman Auditorium, New School University
66 West 12th Street
live webcast @ http://netart-init.org, 7pm EST

In conjunction with the publication of Oliver Grau's Virtual Art: From Illusion to Immersion (forthcoming from The MIT Press), the author describes how virtual art fits into the history of art, and specifically artists'search for illusionary visual space, which can be traced back to antiquity. He describes the metamorphosis of the concepts of art and the image and relates those concepts to interactive art, interface design, agents, telepresence, and image evolution. He traces immersive cinema through
Cinerama, Sensorama, Expanded Cinema, 3-D, Omnimax and IMAX, and the Head-Mounted Display with its military origins. His analysis draws on the work of contemporary artists and groups ART+COM, Maurice Benayoun, Charlotte Davies, Monika Fleischmann, Ken Goldberg, Agnes Hegedues, Eduardo Kac, Knowbotic Research, Laurent Mignonneau, Michael Naimark, Simon Penny, Daniela Plewe, Paul Sermon, Jeffrey Shaw, Karl Sims, Christa Sommerer, and Wolfgang
Strauss. Oliver Grau is Lecturer in Art History at Humboldt University, Berlin, and head of the German Science Foundation's project on "Immersive Art."

The lecture is moderated by Christiane Paul, the Whitney's adjunct curator of new media arts, and is jointly organized by the Goethe-Institut New York, the Whitney Museum of
American Art, The MIT Press, and the NetArt Initiative.

The program is sponsored by the Center for New Design at Parsons School of Design, a Division of New School University

Free admission
Reserve online @ http://netart-init.org/event