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ARTBASE (7)

1 year performance video (aka samHsiehUpdate)
onKawaraUpdate (v2)
Simple Net Art Diagram
TIME!
To Be Listened To…
vieweratstar67@yahoo.com (the 3mb annexation)
Website Unseen
PORTFOLIO (3)

Five Small Videos About Interruption Or Disappearing
Rhizome Reception [part 1]
whereas T.Whid wonders about art in relation to 2bl2
BIO

Artists M. River and T. Whid formed MTAA in 1996 and soon after began to explore the internet, video, software and sculpture as mediums for their conceptually-based art. The duo’s exhibition history includes group shows and screenings at The New Museum of Contemporary Art, Postmasters Gallery and Artists Space, all in New York City, and at The Getty Research Institute in Los Angeles. In "New Media Art" (Taschen, 2006), authors Mark Tribe and Reena Jana describe MTAA’s "One Year Performance Video (aka samHsiehUpdate)" as “a deftly transparent demonstration of new media’s ability to manipulate our perceptions of time.” The collaboration has earned grants and awards from Creative Capital, Rhizome.org, Eyebeam, New Radio & Performing Arts, Inc. and The Whitney Museum of American Art.
BLOG POSTS

Published on Tue Apr 17, 2007

## TRACEPLACESPACE

New audio by Cary Peppermint, check it out…
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TRACEPLACESPACE
seven audio works .mp3 - Cary Peppermint 2007

The audio works of TRACEPLACESPACE were formed loosely in response to ever-accelerating technological developments, passing time, urgent ecological issues, and remarkable events of our globally connected system in process long before but brought to the forefront since the latter part of the year 2001. The works of TRACEPLACESPACE are components of a digital, multi-media, network-infused performance of the same title.
I like to perform this work in small community venues, outdoor gatherings, art-spaces, and galleries where everyone is welcome and can sit on the floor, talk to one another, and drink green tea. However I will perform TRACEPLACESPACE approximately anywhere.

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Published on Fri Aug 18, 2006

## Filming Outside the Cinema

I have to admit that I'd not given much thought to film outside the cinema, web film or live video, or anything like that, but I've spent lots of time here hanging out with Peter Horvath and I'm impressed.
Peter makes very beautiful films for the web, and you can check them all out online. Today he showed us The Presence of Absence, which was comissioned for the Whitney Museum's Artport in 2003, and then Tenderly Yours from 2005, which "resituates the personal, casual and ambiguous approach of French new wave cinema in a net art narrative that explores love, loss and memory. The story is recited by a striking and illustrious persona, who moves through the city with her lover. Her willful independence is intoxicating, though her sense of self is ambiguous..." Gorgeous.

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Published on Sun Jun 04, 2006

## Cut Piece - Yoko Ono

Cut Piece (2006, 36.5MB, 9 min)

“Ono had first done the performance in 1964, in Japan,
and again at Carnegie Hall, in New York, in 1965.
Ono sat motionless on the stage after inviting the audience
to come up and cut away her clothing, covering her breasts
at the moment of unbosoming.”
from Bedazzled .

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Published on Sun Jun 04, 2006

## Conglomco Media Network announces http://meta-cc.net live

Conglomco Media Network is pleased to announce the official beta release of the META[CC] video engine at http://meta-cc.net.

META[CC] seeks to create an open forum for real time discussion, commentary, and cross-refrencing of electronic news and televised media. By combining strategies employed in web-based discussion forums, blogs , tele-text subtitling, on-demand video streaming, and search engines, the open captioning format employed by META[CC] will allow users to gain multiple perspectives and resources engaging current events. The system is adaptable for use with any cable or broadcast television network.

We hope that you will take a moment from your viewing time to add the RSS feed of a blog you find noteworthy. As more information sources are supplied to META[CC], the more intelligent the system becomes. As such, the META[CC] search engine is apolitical and influenced only by the news and information sources supplied by its viewers/users. We apologize, but at this time podcasts and vlogs are not supported.

Many thanks for your interest and participation,
The META[CC] team
http://meta-cc.net

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Published on Thu Jan 26, 2006

## Open Call for Sound Works : WILD INFORMATION NETWORK

Cary Peppermint:

WILD INFORMATION NETWORK
The Department of Ecology, Art, and Technology
Open Call for Sound Works In Mp3 Format - Deadline April 1, 2006

http://www.restlessculture.net/deepwoods

If we encountered a pod-cast, or a streaming radio server in the woods, in the “natural

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RHIZOME ACTIVITIES

Discussions (875) Opportunities (2) Events (9) Jobs (1)
DISCUSSION
Posted on Mon Jun 02, 2003

## Re: Re: fresh air & real soul...

On Monday, June 2, 2003, at 07:08 PM, neil jenkins wrote:
>
>
>> but I've always felt that Rhizome should be more than a mutual
>> applause society. We should strive for professional level of
>> critique. I'm not saying it's wrong to toss off some quick praise for
>> a piece, but I would hate to see Rhizome descend into a perpetual
>> 'i'm ok, you're ok' session.
>
> sure, but then rhizome has always been open.. from karei's rants to
> manik's beginners; sometimes an immediate piece of work initiates
> nothing, sometimes an immediate reaction; a piece posted with a
> humourous nudge and wink or a cynical dig often draws more reaction
> than the originator had thought..
i like that Rhiz is open, just my opinion regarding the way-to-many,
'hey! it's great' posts carrying no substance. luckily we have
Charlotte Frost to give us some insight into the piece in her post :-)
>
>> Of course, artists are the worst critics there are.
>
> its a wonder anyone listens to this stuff then...
>
>> jealousy and/or one's own blinders get in the way more often than
>> not. It would be nice if we had a house critic like Blackhawk over on
>> thingist
>>
>> Vague sentiments of praise are no more materially helpful to an
>> artist than vague insults, tho the praise feels much better. I would
>> rather have no 'social integration' with pithy remarks eviscerating a
>> piece of mine than all the good natured cheers combined.
>
> damn, cos i really like 5 short videos.. please don't be insulted..
WHY I AUGHTA... see, I was right, the praise, tho it's without
substance, feels much better than if you had said, "damn, cos i really
hate 5 short videos." my whole post regarding this all was just an
obtuse attempt at working up some praise for my own work anyway, thanks
for playing along
:-)
>
>> What gets me about this praise, which may be my inference totally, is
>> that it goes beyond back-slapping to head-patting. I've met Jess, she
>> definitely doesn't need her head patted.
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<t.whid>
www.mteww.com
</t.whid>

DISCUSSION
Posted on Mon Jun 02, 2003

## Re: Re: fresh air & real soul...

I'll withhold my opinion of Jess's piece and crit the critics.
It seems to me that the good-natured back-slapping copied below is
all fine and good for dilettantes, amateurs and 'sunday painters',
but I've always felt that Rhizome should be more than a mutual
applause society. We should strive for professional level of
critique. I'm not saying it's wrong to toss off some quick praise for
a piece, but I would hate to see Rhizome descend into a perpetual
'i'm ok, you're ok' session.
Of course, artists are the worst critics there are. jealousy and/or
one's own blinders get in the way more often than not. It would be
nice if we had a house critic like Blackhawk over on thingist
Vague sentiments of praise are no more materially helpful to an
artist than vague insults, tho the praise feels much better. I would
rather have no 'social integration' with pithy remarks eviscerating a
piece of mine than all the good natured cheers combined.
What gets me about this praise, which may be my inference totally, is
that it goes beyond back-slapping to head-patting. I've met Jess, she
definitely doesn't need her head patted.
At 21:37 +0100 6/2/03, furtherfield wrote:
>
>After all the continual cynicism on here & lack of social intigration grace,
>this blows it all away.
>
>I love the soul here - it communicates, its with you, its real & is not
>pretentious or self-conscious.
>
>Thanx Jess - breath of fresh air...beautiful.
At 18:35 +0100 6/2/03, ruth catlow wrote:
>I love this piece of work!
>beautiful choreography- have they been dancing long?
At 18:57 +0100 6/2/03, neil jenkins wrote:
>fantastic jess..
>if only my video camera were working, I'd be
>creating a 'fingermouse' remix
At 12:09 -0700 6/2/03, Michael Szpakowski wrote:
>I totally agree with all the acclaim.
>It's a beautiful piece of work - both funny and
>moving.
> You do yourself a disservice by your diffidence about
>the piece.
>I think you've done something that has way more
>resonance than maybe you thought it had to start with.
At 17:11 -0400 6/2/03, Lewis LaCook wrote:
>better than anything i could ever do---
>
>(which is probably why i'm thinking about quitting...)
>
>bliss
>l
>
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<twhid>
http://www.mteww.com
</twhid>

DISCUSSION
Posted on Mon Jun 02, 2003

## lifelog

sounds like a performance piece. why has it been that ever since 9/11
I've felt like I've been living in a bad dystopian sci-fi novel?
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Pentagon tool to record a user's every sensation
- - - - - - - - - - - -
By Michael J. Sniffen
June 2, 2003 | WASHINGTON (AP) -- Coming to you soon from the
Pentagon: the diary to end all diaries -- a multimedia, digital
record of everywhere you go and everything you see, hear, read, say
and touch.
Known as LifeLog, the project has been put out for contractor bids by
the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency, or DARPA, the agency
that helped build the Internet and that is now developing the next
generation of anti-terrorism tools.
The agency doesn't consider LifeLog an anti-terrorism system, but
rather a tool to capture "one person's experience in and interactions
with the world" through a camera, microphone and sensors worn by the
user. Everything from heartbeats to travel to Internet chatting would
be recorded.
The goal is to create breakthrough software that helps analyze
behavior, habits and routines, according to Pentagon documents
reviewed by The Associated Press. The products of the unclassified
project would be available to both the private sector and other
government agencies -- a concern to privacy advocates.
DARPA's Jan Walker said LifeLog is intended for users who give their
consent to be monitored. It could enhance the memory of military
commanders and improve computerized military training by chronicling
how users learn and then tailoring training accordingly, officials
said.
But John Pike of Global Security.org, a defense analysis group, is
dubious the project has military application.
"I have a much easier time understanding how Big Brother would want
this than how (Defense Secretary Donald) Rumsfeld would use it," Pike
said. "They have not identified a military application."
Steven Aftergood, a Federation of American Scientists defense
analyst, said LifeLog would collect far more information than needed
to improve a general's memory -- enough "to measure human experience
on an unprecedentedly specific level." And that, privacy experts say,
raises powerful concerns.
DARPA rejects any notion LifeLog will be used for spying. "The
allegation that this technology would create a machine to spy on
others and invade people's privacy is way off the mark," Walker said.
She said LifeLog is not connected with DARPA's data-mining project,
recently renamed Terrorism Information Awareness. Each LifeLog user
could "decide when to turn the sensors on or off and who would share
the data," she added. "The goal ... is to 'see what I see,' rather
than to 'see me."'
One critic sees a silver lining in the government taking the lead.
"If government weren't doing this, it would still be done by
companies and in universities all over the country, but we would have
less say about it," said James X. Dempsey of the Center for Democracy
and Technology, which advocates online privacy. Because the
government is involved, "you can read about it and influence it."
DARPA's Web site says the agency investigates ideas "the traditional
research and development community finds too outlandish or risky."
But in LifeLog's case, some similar technology is already being
funded and researched by well-heeled outfits.
Professor Steve Mann of the University of Toronto has spent 30 years
developing a wearable camera and computer, progressing from intricate
metallic headgear to dark frame eyeglasses and a cellphone-sized belt
attachment. He's working with Samsung on a commercial version.
And Microsoft's Gordon Bell scans his mail and other papers and
records phone, Web, video and voice transactions into a computerized
file called MyLifeBits. The company may include the capability in
upcoming products.
Neither Mann nor Bell intends to bid on DARPA's project. Bell said
DARPA wants to go further than he has into artificial intelligence to
analyze data.
The Pentagon agency plans to award up to four 18-month contracts for
LifeLog beginning this summer. Contracting documents give a sense of
the project's scope.
Cameras and microphones would capture what the user sees or hears;
sensors would record what he or she feels. Global positioning
satellite sensors would log every movement. Biomedical sensors would
monitor vital signs. E-mails, instant messages, Web-based
transactions, telephone calls and voicemails would be stored. Mail
and faxes would be scanned. Links to every radio and television
broadcast heard and every newspaper, magazine, book, Web site or
database seen would be recorded.
Breakthrough software would automatically produce an electronic diary
that organizes the data into "episodes" of the user's life, such as
"I took the 08:30 a.m. flight from Washington's Reagan National
Airport to Boston's Logan Airport," according to the documents.
LifeLog's software also "will be able to find meaningful patterns in
the timetable, to infer the user's routines, habits and relationships
with other people, organizations, places and objects," DARPA told
contractors in an advisory.
Walker said DARPA has no plans to develop software to analyze
multiple LifeLogs. But DARPA advised contractors that ultimately,
with proper anonymity, data from many LifeLogs could facilitate
"early detection of an emerging epidemic."
Dempsey, the privacy advocate, says his concern is that users
ultimately won't control LifeLog data.
"Because you collected it voluntarily, the government can get it with
a search warrant," he said. "And an increasing amount of personal
data is also available from third parties. The government can get
data from them simply by asking or signing a subpoena."
He cites examples from current technology such as traffic cameras and
automated toll booth passes that police already use to trace a
person's path. Dempsey questions how LifeLog's analytical software
will interpret such data and how Americans will be protected from
errors.
"You can go to the airport to pick up a friend, to claim lost luggage
or to case it for a terrorist attack. What story will LifeLog write
from this data?" he asked. "At the very least, you ought to know when
someone is using it and have the right to correct the 'story' it
writes."
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<twhid>
http://www.mteww.com
</twhid>

DISCUSSION
Posted on Sat May 31, 2003

## Re: Oro Bourous, Outsider Net.Artist

his self-righteousness is very refreshing.
On Saturday, May 31, 2003, at 01:25 PM, Eryk Salvaggio wrote:
>
>
> "There is nothing else to do except complain about the way the art
> system
> works. I have never allowed my work to enter into the process of the
> art
> world because I know how vicious and unfair it is just from looking in
> on
> the outside. This is why I don't bother to try- and why I dedicate my
> time
> to challenging this system from the outside, and why all my work is
> molded
> by my unwillingness to participate in that art world. That way I have
> the
> freedom to say and do what I want, instead of building art that fits
> *into*
> thier idea of what art should be- I make my own rules by rejecting
> _everything_ they tell me to do, and I define myself by the acts I take
> against those institutions. In fact, I don't even make art, I make
> excuses.
> I do what I want, because what I do is right."
>
> -Oro Bourous, Outsider Net.Artist
>
>
>

DISCUSSION
Posted on Thu May 29, 2003

## the onion is funny

Magical Gallery Transforms Dull Objects Into Art
NEW YORK-A magical New York art gallery has the power to turn dull,
everyday items into brilliant works of art, sources reported Monday.
"Seth Clayton's devastating Untitled No. 7 captures the despair of
urban ennui in a way that's post-ironic yet somehow pre-pomo," said
David E. Sherry, owner of the David E. Sherry Gallery, while admiring
a rusty bucket and tattered boot lying on the gallery floor. "Its
eloquence is truly heartbreaking."
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hahahahaha
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