Rachel Greene
Since the beginning
Works in New York, Nebraska United States of America

BIO
Rhizome is friends and family for Rachel, who has been involved with the org. in one capacity or another since 1997 when it was rhizome.com!!
Rachel wrote a book on internet art for thames & hudson's well-known WORLD OF ART series: it was published in June 2004. She was a consultant and catalogue author for the 2004 Whitney Biennial. She has also written for publications including frieze, artforum, timeout and bomb.
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DISCUSSION

Fwd: {PDPal} Celebration


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> From: Carol Stakenas <carols@creativetime.org>
> Date: Mon Oct 6, 2003 12:31:16 PM US/Eastern
> To: Carol Stakenas <carols@creativetime.org>
> Subject: {PDPal} Celebration
> ------------------
>
> Creative Time
>
> would like to invite you
> to celebrate the launch of
>
> PDPal
>
> by
> Marina Zurkow, Scott Paterson, Julian Bleecker & Adam Chapman
> with an opening in Times Square at
> Noche
> 1604 Broadway (bet. 48th and 49th Streets)
> Thursday, October 9, 8:00 pm - 10:00 pm
> cash bar
>
> PDPal (Personal Digital Pal) is a multi-component public art project
> that allows audiences to create playful logs of their daily encounters
> in the dazzling urban environment of Times Square.

DISCUSSION

Fwd: Joshua Davis invited to speak in Beijing China for the Olympic Committee.


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> From: "joshua davis / praystation" <studio_reply@joshuadavis.com>
> Date: Mon Oct 6, 2003 10:30:46 AM US/Eastern
> To: <announcements@joshuadavis.com>
> Subject: Joshua Davis invited to speak in Beijing China for the
> Olympic Committee.
> Reply-To: "joshua davis / praystation" <studio_reply@joshuadavis.com>
>
> Dear Friends, Family, Peers, and Press...
>
> Joshua Davis has been requested to participate in a series of lectures
> and
> forums in Beijing China, curated by the Olympic Committee to open
> discussions on international web design issues, while mixing in a lot
> of
> topics ranging from web applications, content architecture, web
> management
> and promotion. The Olympic Committee hopes that gathering
> internationally
> recognized speakers (designers, technologists, architects, and
> thinkers)
> will provide thoughts, views, ideas, strengths, and solutions, which
> will be
> compiled into a comprehensive proposal, making the Beijing 2008 Olympic
> Website a success.
>
> The forums which will take place on November 3rd, 4th, 5th, and 6th,
> 2003.
> Joshua Davis, and his partner Branden Hall will represent Joshua Davis
> Studios, offering their expertise in the category of New Media
> Applications
> using the popular interactive web based technology "Flash MX 2004".
>
> --
>
> biography :
>
> Joshua Davis helps create some of the most head-turning websites in the
> world. Joshua was named one of the Ten Most Creative People by the IPPA
> (Internet Professional Publishers Association), and was the winner of
> the
> 2001 Prix Ars Electronica Golden Nica in the category " Net Excellence
> ",
> the highest honor in international digital art and design. He is a
> professional designer and creative thinker, and spreads his time among
> working with clients, traveling the world speaking at design seminars
> about
> his inspirations and motivations, building his own creative projects,
> and
> teaching as a professor at the School of Visual Arts in New York City.
>
> for further information please contact the studio at :
>
> // joshua davis studios
> // studio@joshuadavis.com
> // http://www.joshuadavis.com
>
> // 130 Shore Road, #202
> // Port Washington, New York 11050
> // tel : 1.516.242.3039
> // fax : 1.516.883.5505
>
>

DISCUSSION

Fwd: Vida 6.0 / Life 6.0


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> From: Parga <fat@telefonica.es>
> Date: Mon Oct 6, 2003 9:20:51 AM US/Eastern
> To: fat@telefonica.es
> Subject: Vida 6.0 / Life 6.0
>
>
> x x x x x Message in English follows x x x x x
>
> CONCURSO INTERNACIONAL VIDA 6.0 - CONVOCATORIA
>
> Quinta edicion de la competicion internacional sobre "arte y vida
> artificial" patrocinada por la Fundacion Telefonica en Espana. Estamos
> buscando obras de arte basadas en tecnicas o temas como la genetica
> digital, robotica autonoma, algoritmos caoticos recursivos, cogni-bots,
> virus informaticos, inteligencia artificial, avatares, comportamientos
> evolutivos o ecosistemas virtuales.
>
> Un jurado internacional --Daniel Canogar, Chris Csikszentmihalyi,
> Machiko
> Kusahara, Rafael Lozano-Hemmer, Jane Prophet y Nell Tenhaaf-- concedera
> cuatro premios en metalico con un monto total de 20.000 Euros, de los
> cuales 10.000 se destinaran a incentivar la produccion de nuevas
> piezas en
> el ambito Iberoamericano.
>
> El sitio web del concurso se encuentra en la direccion
> http://www.vidalife.org y tiene las bases, el impreso de inscripcion e
> informacion sobre las ediciones anteriores, incluyendo textos, videos,
> imagenes y enlaces.
>
> Viernes 31 de Octobre del 2003: Fin del plazo de presentacion de
> trabajos.
>
> Para cualquier consulta sobre los requisitos para participar en el
> concurso
> dirigirse a: Nell Tenhaaf, Directora Artistica <tenhaaf@yorku.ca>
> Para cualquier otra consulta: Ana Parga <fat@telefonica.es>
> http://www.vidalife.org
>
>
> x x x English version x x x
>
> LIFE 6.0 INTERNATIONAL COMPETITION - CALL FOR PARTICIPATION
>
> Announcing the fifth edition of the competition on "art and artificial
> life" sponsored by the Telefonica Foundation in Madrid. We are looking
> for
> outstanding electronic art projects employing techniques such as
> digital
> genetics, autonomous robotics, recursive chaotic algorithms, knowbots,
> computer viruses, embodied artificial intelligence, avatars, evolving
> behaviours and virtual ecosystems.
>
> An international jury --Daniel Canogar, Chris Csikszentmihalyi, Machiko
> Kusahara, Rafael Lozano-Hemmer, Jane Prophet and Nell Tenhaaf-- will
> grant
> four cash awards totaling 20,000 Euros.
>
> The competition's website at http://www.vidalife.org has the
> guidelines,
> application form, and information on the previous award-winners,
> including
> texts, videos, images and links.
>
> Deadline: Friday, October 31, 2003.
>
> For questions concerning eligibility of entries: Nell Tenhaaf, Artistic
> Director <tenhaaf@yorku.ca>
> For other questions: Ana Parga <fat@telefonica.es>
> http://www.vidalife.org
>

DISCUSSION

Fwd: executed-coat-thief


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> From: Harwood <Harwood@scotoma.org>
> Date: Sun Oct 5, 2003 10:00:15 AM US/Eastern
> To: Recipient List Suppressed <Harwood@scotoma.org>
> Subject: executed-coat-thief
>
> Forward@will
>
> C2C Railway Journey <-> ADULT RETURN = The mouth of the Thames to the
> Tower of London.
>
> I close my eyes and the distribution of animals, objects, motions,
> events and places flash - red . grey . grey . red - as blood vessels
> enlarge my eyelids. I remember that some metaphysical poet or another
> in 1500 + (something) said that if you rub your eyes and see a white
> light - it is the glow of your soul.
>
>> From the random noise of light reflected through the window and over
>> photo-receptors situated in my ocular mechanism (eyes, with intrinsic
>> and extrinsic eye muscles, as related to the vestibular organs, the
>> head and the whole body), my system fails to explore and find
>> convergence.
>
> Even so the variables and structure of the ambient light engage me, as
> I slowly remember my ability to de-code, acquired from an early
> scouting lesson in the Morse codec. (1791 - Samuel Finley Breese Morse
> a painting and sculpture professor with an early interest in Wired
> Networks)I quickly wrote down the dots and dashes of code entering my
> much-adorned visual system and it is these notes I pass on.
>
> use Context;
>
> We exist in a world where powerful social elites live their life
> through exceptional fantasies - they mistakenly believe they can best
> safeguard their privilege by hiding their bonsai trees of knowledge in
> secret societies, under the tomes of law court papers, magic rituals -
> art - religions, and the use of well tooled-up armies.
>
> On the other hand mongrels everywhere lust for the experience of
> transportation->new() while being firmly rooted to the ground. We
> require transportation->new() from present situations to other states
> of pleasure and pain. Out of the gutters and into the stratosphere of
> the imaginary - the vehicle of our transportation is of little
> consequence.
>
> @Transportation = qw (Fast_Cars Art Science Code illness
> Critical_theory A_chat_in_the_street Sex difference food Music );
> # WHATEVER
>
> Our desire is to fly with our own wings forged from the manacles of
> oppressive abstraction - that is all that is important.
>
> use Constant; VISIONARY (depreciated) = ("the birth of the telescope
> 1608") == ("objectification of vision");
>
> Bobby Reason was born weak from typhus fever and unable to crawl away
> from his body of infection. He spends his time passing voltage
> through the pathways of least resistance to help him amplify, copy,
> and replay sounds. Extending his ears to where his eyes used to be. He
> forms lenses to put in place of his imagination. Whilst doing so he
> manages to split light and holds the lower end of the spectrum
> (radiation) with special tools he forged out of the industrial
> revolution to replace his hands.
>
> And after all is done.
>
> He gets out the air-freshener to replace his nose.
>
> use Constant;CODE_OF_WAR = ("anything taken out of the hands of the
> many and put in the hands of a few");
>
> use Constant;PUBLIC_DOMAIN = "ALL knowledge NO MATTER WHAT, should be
> available to us. Whether nuclear arms manufacture, anthrax breeding
> colonies or the environmental impact of nail-varnish remover in the
> tanning factories of Southend-on-sea Essex U.K.";
>
> Rise up on wings of desire. Fly from rats lice poverty famine &&
> violence - escape the CODE_OF_WAR enter the palace of the
> PUBLIC_DOMAIN.
>
> use Constant;POCEDURAL_CORRUPTION = "mathematical models used outside
> of their purist application follow the agenda of a well aimed machine
> gun"
>
> (hutton enquiry <=> CODE_OF_WAR )
>
> (WTO <=> (Merchandise trade by region and selected economies,
> 1980-2002 Excel format (file size 487KB)) == ((Commercial services
> trade by region and selected economies, 1980-2002 Excel format (file
> size 282KB)) == ((Merchandise exports, production and gross domestic
> product, 1950-2002 Excel format (file size 91KB))
>
> (The Revolutionary Politics of Bar-Charts) == (Towards a critique of
> data-visualization)
>
> It is a questionable assumption that problems in economics, sociology,
> politics, language, law and healthcare can be resolved by
> quantification and computation.
>
>
> sub WhyIsTheBlackManPoor{
>
> foreach(@PoorBlackMan){
> $Embedded_Culture = &Calculate_cultural_context; # returns
> IMPOSSIBLE
> $Economic_Poverty = &EveryRichFatBloatedArseLickingWanker; # returns
> CODE_OF_WAR
> $NaturalResources; # Depreciated
> }
> }
>
> (pre-requisites of the computer) == (Money, mechanisation and algebra);
>
> We need wings to investigate procedural corruption wherever and
> whenever it takes place.
>
> Critique the mathematical formulae (formulation of statistical data)
> that are used to report on the psychosocial sphere in the media, and
> on the bottom of bills sent through our doors.
>
> - Language as Data:
>
> Mary, Queen of Scots' head fell ceremoniously from her shoulders into
> a basket. Peterborough, England: 8:30am on 8th February 1587. From
> under her skirts ran a small dog. The seed master of the modern
> English Bull Terrier. Mary's plot against Queen Elizabeth I was
> discovered by comparing her secret communications with a word
> frequency table of English, derived from Arabic learning.
>
> Paranoid social elites on the way to or from war have always composed,
> spawned, coded systems by which they and their minions may sleep
> better at night.
>
> Language as Data, a mathematical study of the periodicity or norms of
> word use in a language. In English text generated from some none
> linguistically impaired peoples, 'the' makes up 6.18 percent of the
> corpus of English words. We find that 43% of the corpus is pronouns,
> conjunctions, other function words and a few common verbs. Word
> frequency is used to inform religious scholars of who authored various
> parts of various bibles and to inform search engines of content words
> in web sites, AI development and in detecting the normalcy of > language.
>
> Critique_it!
>
> The exceptional fantasies that the social elite has been living
> through have spawned strange and bewildering hierarchies of knowledge
> and war. We need to squash these at the level of algorithm and
> representation. The algorithm creates the scaffolding on which the
> author of a knowledge based system hangs himself.
>
> Pre-flight checklist:
>
> A critical theory of media systems ecology. To enable and locate
> weaknesses in systems that keep us grounded. Or look for possibilities
> for new flight paths.
>
> Data-visualization revised.
>
> Aesthetics of computer-code formation (experiencing the sheer beauty
> of elegant mathematical patterns that surround elegant computational
> procedures). How these aesthetics - poetics motivate peoples or allow
> for the formation of amnesia in the construction of oppressive
> abstraction.
>
> (Oppressive abstraction) == (History-> from the personal plunging in
> of the knife to missile guidance systems)
>
> The bomb seen from the point of view of the pilot is remarkably
> beautiful->{oresome} == OPPRESSIVE->{abstraction}.
>
> History of computing - both hardware and software from the
> VISIONARY->{depreciated} -> (the Birth of the telescope) -> to the
> present. The economy and cultures of key algorithms and hardware.
>
> Subroutine(Descartes@Waag->{Amsterdam} - the executed coat-thief & the
> birth of hardware){
>
> Did Descartes' feet, in ancient times, meet the hand of Rembrandt?
>
> 1630 - anatomical investigations - de Waag
>
> erysipelas (skin disease)
> |
> infection
> |
> Marin Mersenne (tells) ->Descartes (goes to Amsterdam)
> |
> de Waag
>
> The French man - sniffs and swallows in Amsterdam's butchers' stalls
> purchasing carcasses for our dissection.
>
> SEEK:
>
> (practical therapeutics) <-> (from his rational reform of
> philosophy.)
> |
> find the cure for Marin Mersenne in 7 years
>
>
> "the body as a machine animated by soul" == 'culture of dissection'
>
> Sawday places Descartes in Amsterdam (by then becoming one of the
> major centres for anatomy in Northern Europe) during the early 1630s
> at exactly the same time as Rembrandt, and allows the ghostly spectre
> of a possible meeting between the two deliciously haunting his
> description of the centrepiece of Rembrandt's painting:
>
>
>

DISCUSSION

Fwd: teletaxi


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> From: year01 <curator@year01.com>
> Date: Sun Oct 5, 2003 5:30:22 PM US/Eastern
> To: webmaster@rhizome.org
> Subject: teletaxi
> Reply-To: curator@year01.com
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