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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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DISCUSSION

jihui presents Kathleen Brandt + Brian Lonsway -- Thursday June 19, 7PM


jihui - Digital Salon
presents
Kathleen Brandt + Brian Lonsway
Thursday, June 19, 2003 7 PM
@ Parsons Center for New Design
55 West 13th Street, 9th Fl.
New York, NY 10011
Live Webcast @ (http://agent.netart-init.org) starts 7pm EST.

The artists will explore the seemingly increasing craving for data in our
everyday lives and will present a series of projects that take this craving
as a critical starting point. The work of "brandway," their artist
organization, looks at the way in which the concept of data has shifted from
a primarily scientific necessity to a measure of social existence. The
artists argue that data is a concept inextricable from the acts of
collection, storage, and representation, and that its existence in this
social realm embodies the power structures of the organizations performing
these acts. As the scientific concept of data has become increasingly
significant in areas of society outside of the scientific community --
mass-marketing, opinion polls, weather predictions, environmental awareness
-- it has become both a measure of "truth" and a measure of the extents of
political and social manipulation. Brandway's artistic work looks creatively
at these ambiguous measures of data as a way of exploring its politics,
especially in areas where its "truth" is (or is intended to be) taken for
granted.

Prudent Avoidance, brandway's most recent project, was funded through
Franklin Furnace's THE FUTURE OF THE PRESENT 2002 program, and looks at data
through the lens of electro-magnetic frequency exposure. Through an evolving
online database and wearable data collection device, the work explores the
contradictions of data collection, measurement, and representation when used
to measure things like "human risk." The artists will talk about the
development of this work, as well as other projects that explore related
issues in the creative representation of data.

Artist Bios:
Kathleen Brandt is an electronic media and installation artist whose work
engages the assumed relationships we have with technology and
technologically-mediated environments. Of her most recent installations,
Exclusion Zone documents the Chernobyl nuclear plant explosion through the
cultural and social representations of radioactive exposure; Maximum
Security explores the construction of the maximum-security prisoner through
the engineering of prison furnishings; and Prudent Avoidance -- in
conjunction with Brian Lonsway -- critically examines the role that
'scientific' data plays in the construction of environmental risk. Kathleen
is also an instructor of video and installation art and has taught at
numerous universities, including Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, The State
University of New York at Albany, and Siena College.

Brian Lonsway is a cultural theorist, information technology researcher, and
architectural designer who studies the relationships between advancing
technologies and spatial design. He is director of the Informatics and
Architecture program at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute in Troy, NY, and is
a founding researcher in the Synthetic Space Environment, a technologically
mediated environment for embodied tele-collaboration. He has published on
various subjects, from the political structure of spatial environments to
the architectural applications of computation. His current work includes the
completion of a book entitled Making Leisure Work: Architecture and the
Entertainment Economy, an in depth exploration of design practices in themed
environments; and the development of a series of essays on the historical
and contemporary relationship between design and computational theory.

THE FUTURE OF THE PRESENT is Franklin Furnace's artist residency program,
founded in 1998 when Franklin Furnace transformed itself from a real to a
virtual entity. Franklin Furnace offers artists an honorarium and a
residency to create "live art on the Internet" for a 2-4 month duration at a
physical or online venue appropriate to the artists' work. THE FUTURE OF THE
PRESENT 2003 is made possible by grants from Jerome Foundation, and The Andy
Warhol Foundation for the Visual Arts.

jihui (the meeting point), a self-regulated digital salon, invites all
interested people to send ideas for discussion/performance/etc.
jihui is where your voice is heard and your vision shared.
jihui is sponsored by Digital Design Department and Center for New
Design @ Parsons School of Design
jihui is organized by agent.netart (http://agent.netart-init.org), a joint
public program by NETART INITIATIVE and INTELLIGENT AGENT

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DISCUSSION

Artport gatepage June 03: Jonah Brucker Cohen's "BumpList"


BumpList
by Jonah-Brucker Cohen
artport gatepage June 03
http://artport.whitney.org

Jonah Brucker-Cohen's project "BumpList" re-examines the culture and
rules of online e-mail lists by subverting and denying the paradigms of
online communication that we usually take for granted.

"BumpList" is an e-mail list that only allows for a minimum amount of
subscribers: when a new person joins the list, the person who subscribed
first is 'bumped' off the list. Once subscribed, you can only be
unsubscribed if someone else subscribes and bumps you off.

"BumpList" is an experiment that 'studies' the effects of these
self-imposed constraints: will method and manner of correspondences and
behaviors of subscribers change over time? E-mail lists provide an
ongoing public forum that usually isn't characterized by exclusivity and
competitive behaviors such as elbowing for 'air time.' BumpList is an
attempt to investigate how communication changes under pressures of
competition.

DISCUSSION

Artport gatepage June 03: Jonah Brucker Cohen's "BumpList"


BumpList
by Jonah-Brucker Cohen
artport gatepage June 03
http://www.artport.whitney.org

Jonah Brucker-Cohen's project "BumpList" re-examines the culture and rules
of online e-mail lists by subverting and denying the paradigms of online
communication that we usually take for granted.

"BumpList" is an e-mail list that only allows for a minimum amount of
subscribers: when a new person joins the list, the person who subscribed
first is 'bumped' off the list. Once subscribed, you can only be
unsubscribed if someone else subscribes and bumps you off.

"BumpList" is an experiment that 'studies' the effects of these self-imposed
constraints: will method and manner of correspondences and behaviors of
subscribers change over time? E-mail lists provide an ongoing public forum
that usually isn't characterized by exclusivity and competitive behaviors
such as elbowing for 'air time.' BumpList is an attempt to investigate how
communication changes under pressures of competition.

DISCUSSION

jihui presents Grahame Weinbren -- Friday, 4/18, 7PM


jihui - Digital Salon
presents
Grahame Weinbren
Friday, April 18, 2003 7 PM
@ Parsons Center for New Design
55 West 13th Street, 9th Fl.
New York, NY 10011
Live Webcast @ http://agent.netart-init.org starts 7pm EST.

Grahame Weinbren's talk, titled "In the Ocean of Streams of Stories," is
centered on the problematics of interactivity. What expressive possibilities
does it open? How is it connected with concepts of non-and multi-linearity?
Is the notion of interactive narrative a useful one, or is it no more than
old wine in new bottles? What are the psychological and ideological
implications of interactivity? Weinbren will discuss and present his own
projects in the light of these questions, which take on a particular
currency as computer interfaces are increasingly integrated into our
environments, from toys and games, to kitchen gadgets, to advanced weapons
of warfare.

Grahame Weinbren has worked in film and video since the early 1970s and was
one of the first artists to incorporate interactivity with the moving image
in the work The Erl King (1983-86). His interactive cinema installations
have been exhibited internationally since 1984. TUNNEL (2000), a large scale
interactive environment, was made in collaboration with architect James
Cathcart for a disused coal-mine in the Ruhr Valley, and his three-screen
interactive cinema installation Frames, based on the first photographs of
mental patients, was commissioned by the NTT/ICC in Tokyo for its 1999
Biennial. Frames was recently exhibited in "Interactive Legends" at the
Kitchen in New York. Weinbren's documentary film George, made in
collaboration with Henry Corra, was broadcast in 2000 on HBO. Weinbren has
been an editor of the Millennium Film Journal since 1985, and his writings
on cinema, new technology, and media art have been widely published. He is
on the faculty of the graduate division of the School of Visual Arts and has
recently been a visiting artist in the Department of Visual and
Environmental Studies at Harvard.

jihui (the meeting point), a self-regulated digital salon, invites
all interested people to send ideas for discussion/performance/etc.
jihui is where your voice is heard and your vision shared.
jihui is sponsored by the Digital Design Department
and Center for New Design @ Parsons School of Design
jihui is organized by agent.netart (http://agent.netart-init.org),
a joint public program by NETART INITIATIVE and INTELLIGENT AGENT

DISCUSSION

intelligent agent - Vol. 3 No. 1, New Articles


Vol. 3 No. 1, Winter '03
A new series of articles from Vol. 3 No. 1 is now available at
http://www.intelligentagent.com

intelligent agent is published as a quarterly online magazine in a modular
format:
*3 thematic threads
Threads of Vol. 3 No. 1:
//the political sphere//
//biotech/transgenics//
//new media curation//
*reviews on festivals, net art, exhibitions, books, tech sector

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

NEW:
//the political sphere//
+ Nathan M. Martin (for the Carbon Defense League), Parasitic Media:
Creating Invisible Slicing Parasites and Other Forms of Tactical
Augmentation
Martin outlines possibilities of 'parasitic tactical response,' applying
mechanisms of biological parasites to invisible subversion of existing
communication systems. Distinguishing genres of parasitic media, he explores
the potential of a practice and tactical response that hops the meta-train
of media.
Coming soon: Mike Mosher, G.H. Hovagimyan.

//biotech/transgenics//
+ Gregory Little, Toward an Aesthetics of Synnoetic Interactivity
Gregory Little analyzes interactive, telematic art in terms of the
meta-discipline of "synnoetics" -- a term coined by Louis Fein to describe
the cooperative interaction of people, mechanisms, plant or animal
organisms, and automata into a system that results in a mental power greater
than that of its components. According to Little, synnoetics predicts the
current development of biological, genetic, and transgenic art forms
currently under development by artists like Vibeke Sorensen, Eduardo Kac,
and Tiffany Holmes.
Coming soon: Ricardo Dominguez, Tiffany Holmes.

//new media curation//
+ Jennifer Crowe, An Interview with Steve Dietz
Jennifer Crowe talks to Steve Dietz, Director of New Media Initiatives at
the Walker Art Center, about the status of the "New Media Art" exhibition
within the American institution, the problems of introducing new forms of
artistic expression, as well as possible new media spaces and their
functions.
Coming soon: Patrick Lichty

EXHIBITION REVIEW
+Hope Childers and Susan Ryan, Documenta11_Platform5: Exhibition as Research
Childers and Ryan discuss D11 as archive and "research," an ongoing project
that must be "finished" by its audience. "The entire event may be emblematic
of our age: our society's inability to keep up its own technical
capabilities."

Questions? Comments?
Please post responses to the issue at
http://agent.netart-init.org/forum/

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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.
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