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Always Evolving, Historically Rooted — Rhizome Needs Your Support


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.

Rhizome puts the future of new media art in dialogue with its past — support the conversation, donate today.

Rhizome has been online since 1996 and I have been lucky enough to witness its growth from an informal email list to the organization it is today.

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

artport gate page April 04: Victor Liu's "The life of American machines_"


The April 04 artport gate page
features
"The life of American machines_"
by Victor Liu

http://artport.whitney.org

Victor Liu's "The life of American machines_" presents pris, a machine put
to the task of eternal rebuild. The rebuild process consists of downloading
her source code -- freely available from various sites on the Net -- and
compiling the source code into her operating system and programs. The gate
page presents a live stream of pris going about her task. It shows the
commands she is running, followed by the output of the commands.

Pris is downloading the latest version of the Linux operating system code,
as well as the latest versions of the rest of her, and compiling herself.
When she is finished (after several days), she is in a shiny new state:
she's got the latest Mozilla web browser, the latest Apache web server, and
much more. There isn't much time to enjoy her new digs because Liu gives her
a day to rest, then she reboots and begins the rebuild process anew.

DISCUSSION

intelligent agent - Vol. 4 No. 1, Wave 2


The second installment of articles from Vol. 4 No. 1 is now available at
http://www.intelligentagent.com

intelligent agent is published in a modular format:
*3 thematic threads
Threads of Vol. 4 No. 1:
//the DEMO scene//
//generativity//
//vj/dj//
*reviews on DVDs, Web, books, projects

All content is available in html and as pdf files.

NEW:

//the DEMO scene //
+ Weston Hilton talks to Patrick Lichty, Globetrotter: A Dialogue on DEMOing
Weston Hilton's Globetrotter is a demo cartridge for an Atari 2600. Hilton's
vision of the project is to see it make full circuits around the world by
sending it to Atari 2600 aficionados all over the globe. Part DEMO, part
conceptual art project, Globetrotter accesses part of the memory of the
digital culture and mixes it with contemporary retro gaming sensibilities.

//generativity//
+ Roman Verostko, Algorithmic Art -- Composing the Score for Visual Art
Verostko gives a survey of algorithmic art, including its origins,
definitions, and applications; as well as comments on the role that
algorithms play in art and historical notes on the 'early algorists.'

//vj/dj//
+ Eric Redlinger, New Media Counterpoint
Redlinger applies the concept of 'counterpoint' -- a dominant compositional
principle in the 15th century chorus -- to VJ/Djing where collaboration
feels a lot like what it looked like at the dawn of polyphonic music: a
semi-ordered, semi-transparent, exquisite chaos whose effect is often judged
more by the sum of its parts than by some manner of traditional criteria.

//free radical//
Gregory Little, The Work of Art in the Age of Techno-Somaticism
As a prelude to the thread on embodiment (forthcoming in IA 4.2), Gregory
Little revisits Paul Valery's prediction that western culture will enter an
age of somaticism. In our current condition, the somatic -- that is,
everything relating to the body -- is positioned in counterpoint to rapid
developments in networked, ubiquitous, and viractual technologies.

//reviews//
software:
+ Patrick Lichty, Sseyo Koan Generative Music Tool
The Koan Pro Generative Music System in many ways is like a Swiss Army knife
for those who wish to do a number of things affordably; for example, create
web-based generative music that can interface with Flash, Java, and
Javascript; produce algorithmically-based music and sound for live and
installation settings; or even ringtones.

festival:
+ Patrick Lichty, New Orleans Media Experience
The New Orleans Media Experience -- a 7-day festival devoted to the
convergence of film, video, advertising, music and video games -- can be
seen as emblematic of many cities and states' attempt to tap into the
burgeoning markets of new media.

For a full Table of Contents, visit http://www.intelligentagent.com
This issue was made possible by funding from the Rockefeller Foundation.

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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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EVENT

jihui presents Mark Amerika, Wed. March 24, 7 PM


Dates:
Wed Mar 24, 2004 00:00 - Thu Mar 18, 2004

jihui - Digital Salon presents Mark Amerika
Wednesday, March 24, 2004, 7 - 8:30 PM
Parsons Design Lab
55 West 13th Street, 9th Fl.
New York, NY 10011
http://agent.netart-init.org

"Digital Personas"
A Presentation by Mark Amerika

Mark Amerika will present a variety of his creative and collaborative works, including his experimental novels, large-scale hypertexts, net art projects, and recent VJ-inspired surround sound installations and collaborative DVDs. He will also discuss how his background as a creative writer informs his digital art practice. Amerika's work plays with constructing fictional identities as a process of creative visualization and disseminates his flux personas across a wide spectrum of digital media platforms.

Mark will showcase a number of his innovative works, including "FILMTEXT" (2001-2002), "CODEWORK" (2003-2004); and his current djrabbi.com collaboration with Colorado artists Trace Reddell and Rick Silva entitled "Society of the Spectacle (A Digital Remix)."

Mark Amerika, who has been named a "Time Magazine 100 Innovator" (as part of their continuing series of features on the most influential artists, scientists, entertainers and philosophers in the 21st century) recently had two large-scale retrospectives of his digital art work, one at the Institute of Contemporary Arts (ICA) in London and one at the Media Arts Plaza in Tokyo. His epic online narrative, GRAMMATRON, was selected for the 2000 Whitney Biennial and his sound art work, PHON:E:ME, was commissioned by the Walker Art Center and the Perth Institute of Contemporary Art. The third and final project in Amerika's net art trilogy, FILMTEXT, was commissioned by Playstation 2 for his European retrospective and can be accessed at his website, markamerika.com.

Amerika has recently toured parts of Japan, Europe, Australia, and the USA as a VJ performance artist and out of these performances has produced a DVD with surround sound installation entitled CODEWORK. CODEWORK will be featured as part of his upcoming retrospective at Ciber@rt Bilbao 2004 and was recently purchased by the Denver Art Museum for its permanent collection, where it will be on exhibit from May 8 - August 29, 2004.

Amerika is a professor of digital art and new media theory in the Department of Art and Art History at the University of Colorado, Boulder.

jihui (the meeting point), a self-regulated digital salon, invites all interested people to send ideas for discussion/performance/etc.

jihui is made possible through the generous support from the Digital Design Department and Parsons Design Lab of the Parsons School of Design and from the Rockefeller Foundation

A joint public program by NETART INITIATIVE and INTELLIGENT AGENT


DISCUSSION

artport gatepage March 04: Futurefarmers' Playshop


artport gatepage March 04
features
Futurefarmers Playshop
http://artport.whitney.org

Futurefarmers Playshop is an open-access laboratory that consists of
projects, workshops, seminars, art installations and a website, which
collectively question or challenge the role of technology and propose
alternatives to the cultural social and economic systems we live in.
Playshop is currently hosted by the Yerba Buena Center for the Arts in San
Francisco, and the online component functions as a window to the events and
projects within the space. Among these are Circuit Bending, Java and
Processing, Fingerprint Maze, Botanical Gameboy, Wireless/Cantennae workshop
and others. Participating artists and workshop leaders include Artech, Jonah
Brucker-Cohen, Amy Franceschini, Richard Mortimer Humphrey, David Lu, Suzi
Pritchett, Jocelyn Robert, Stijn Schiffeleers, Scott Snibbe, Michael Swaine,
Elmar Trefzs et. al.

EVENT

jihui presents Camille Utterback , Wed. Feb. 25, 7PM


Dates:
Wed Feb 25, 2004 00:00 - Tue Feb 17, 2004

jihui - Digital Salon presents Camille Utterback
Wednesday, Feb. 25, 2003 7 PM
Parsons Design Lab
55 West 13th Street, 9th Fl.
New York, NY 10011

"Physical Grammars of 'Interactivity'"

Camille Utterback will present her widely exhibited interactive installations, and discuss how she uses sensing technologies to deconstruct and refigure traditional media forms. Utterback's work refocuses attention on the embodied self in an increasingly mediated culture. The goal of her work is to question simplistic tropes of 'interaction,' while at the same time pointing at deeper emotional states implied by the physical grammar of interactivity.

Camille will discuss a number of her innovative video tracking pieces, including 'Text Rain' (1999) created with Romy Achituv; 'Liquid Time Series' (2001-2002), currently on display at the Exploratorium in San Francisco; and her newest piece 'Untitled 5' (2004), commissioned by the Marlborough Chelsea Gallery where it is also currently on exhibit. Camille will also present works from her 'Potent Objects' series -- a set of sensor based 'reactive objects' which explore our social anxiety about machines which can feel or emote.

Camille Utterback's work has been exhibited throughout the United States and internationally at venues including The NTT InterCommunication Center, Tokyo; The Seoul Metropolitan Museum of Art; The Netherlands Institute for Media Art; The Taipei Museum of Contemporary Art; The Center for Contemporary Art, Kiev, Ukraine; and the Ars Electronica Center, Austria. Recent awards include a Rockefeller Foundation New Media Fellowship (2002-2003), a commission from the Whitney Museum for their artport website (2002), and inclusion in the'TR100 -- the top 100 innovators of the year under 35' by MIT's Technology Review (2002). Utterback also develops installations for commercial and museum settings via her company Creative Nerve. Recent commissions include projects for The American Museum of Natural History in New York and The Pittsburgh Children's Museum.

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 made possible through the generous support from the Digital Design Department and Parsons Design Lab of Parsons School of Design and from the Rockefeller Foundation
A joint public program by NETART INITIATIVE and INTELLIGENT AGENT