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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Fwd: Press Release: "Behind the Blip" by Matthew Fuller


Begin forwarded message:

> From: David Mandl <dmandl@panix.com>
> Date: Sun Aug 17, 2003 11:16:54 PM US/Eastern
> To: Rachel Greene <rachel@rhizome.org>
> Subject: Press Release: "Behind the Blip" by Matthew Fuller
>
> For Immediate Release
> September 1, 2003
>
> BEHIND THE BLIP: ESSAYS ON THE CULTURE OF SOFTWARE
> by Matthew Fuller
>
> Software actively shapes the way we know, see, and do things in the
> world. In BEHIND THE BLIP, a far-reaching and strikingly original
> collection of essays on the "culture of software," new-media critic
> Matthew Fuller sets out some of the ways in which people are opening
> this process up to greater debate and experimentation. BEHIND THE
> BLIP brings together insights from social studies of science and
> philosophies of technology, with accounts and ideas from hackers,
> artists, inventors, programmers, and other users of software.
>
> BEHIND THE BLIP surveys the potential grounds for software criticism
> and proposes some currents in software that call for new ways of
> thinking about the subject. It also offers numerous case studies
> taken from Fuller's own experience participating in the production of
> a popular experimental web browser; a site parasiting search engines
> to hack racism on the net; and a large-scale disassembly of the
> world's "favorite" writing machine, Microsoft Word. BEHIND THE BLIP
> refuses to stop asking questions or settle for what's served up on the
> desktop. Along the way, fundamental possibilities for technology,
> computers, and culture are set loose.
>
> ************
>
> "While most institutions are still trying to figure out what to do
> with 'new media,' some of the best new-media artists and theorists
> have already moved on to the next paradigm: the study of software
> culture. Matthew Fuller's excellent collection is the first monograph
> in this emerging field. Combining solid understanding of theory and
> modern art history with the groundbreaking practical work in software
> culture, Fuller brilliantly analyzes the tools which we all use every
> day to interface with the world and each other: web browsers, search
> engines, word processors. What Fuller gives us is not just a usual
> book of theory but rather a kind of software--a 'critical help system'
> to help us understand what is really going on behind the menu and the
> windows of our computer screens."
> --Lev Manovich, Visual Arts Department, University of California, San
> Diego;
> author of THE LANGUAGE OF NEW MEDIA (MIT Press)
>
> ************
>
> "A compelling hybrid of sci-fi style merged with hard-edged software
> criticism from the perspective of a very dissatisfied customer. This
> book is your chance to ingest the venom and bile of Bill Gates's evil
> twin."
> --Critical Art Ensemble
>
> ************
>
> Matthew Fuller is Reader in Media Design at Piet Zwart Institute,
> Rotterdam. As a member of the group I/O/D and collaborator with the
> group Mongrel, he participated in some of the key experiments in
> software that ground this book. He is the author of ATM (Shake
> Editions) and co-editor of README! ASCII CULTURE AND THE REVENGE OF
> KNOWLEDGE (Autonomedia).
>
> BEHIND THE BLIP is published by Autonomedia: http://www.autonomedia.org
>
> Paper, $14.95, 6"x9", 165 pages, ISBN 1-57027-139-9
> Information: http://www.autonomedia.org/behindtheblip
> Individual orders and course adoptions: Autonomedia, Phone/Fax (718)
> 963-2603
> email: orders@autonomedia.org
> Regular mail orders: PO Box 568, Brooklyn, NY. 11211-0568
>
> --
> Dave Mandl
> dmandl@panix.com
> davem@wfmu.org
> http://www.wfmu.org/~davem
>

DISCUSSION

Fwd: Ars Electronica 2003 - 4th Announcement: Exhibitions


Begin forwarded message:

> From: Ars Electronica Center <announce@aec.at>
> Date: Thu Aug 14, 2003 8:19:18 AM US/Eastern
> Subject: Ars Electronica 2003 - 4th Announcement: Exhibitions
> Reply-To: announcement@aec.at
>
> CODE - The Language of Our Time
> Code=Law, Code=Art, Code=Life
> Ars Electronica 2003
> September 6-11
> Linz, Austria
> <http://www.aec.at/code
>
> You are reading the fourth issue of the Ars Electronica 2003
> newsletter, providing information about the program of exhibitions at
> this year's festival, CODE - The Language of Our Time.
>
> Ars Electronica 2003 - 4th Announcement: Exhibitions
>
> 1. Update: CODE Exhibitions
>
> 2. Update: CAMPUS
>
> 3. Update: Cyberarts
>
> 4. Update: ARS ELECTRONICA Center
>
>
>
> 1. UPDATE: CODE EXHIBITIONS
>
>
> Brucknerhaus: Sunday, September 7, 2003 to Thursday, September 11,
> 2003 from 10 AM to 7 PM
> Ars Electronica Center: Sunday, September 7, 2003 to Thursday,
> September 11, 2003 from 10 AM to 9 PM
>
>
> *The Universal Datawork*
> *datawork:man*
>
> Richard Kriesche has conceptualized his experimental set-up entitled
> *The Universal Datawork* as a redefinition of the grand idea of the
> Gesamtkunstwerk within the context of the informational reordering of
> reality. In contrast to the traditional understanding of the
> Gesamtkunstwerk which, as the expression of supreme artistic
> consummation, aimed to achieve the unification of the senses fused
> together with the arts, *The Universal Datawork* takes as its basis
> the findings of biogenetics and the segmentation of the natural
> sciences as well as the informational fractalization of mankind to
> reveal the shared bio-cosmic data structures and the universal form of
> all living creatures. Code, understood as the definitive key to the
> understanding of images, becomes the art of understanding reality.
>
> *datawork:man* focuses on the foundations of human existence and art,
> and their metamorphoses under the novel circumstances of Information
> Society, a simultaneously philosophical and artistic encounter with
> the tradition and the future of the artistic process. The work of
> Casey Reas, on the other hand, is relatively lively and
> straightforward. The artist is a representative of the generation that
> grew up with software and for whom artistic work without this medium
> would have been inconceivable from the very outset.
>
> *MicroImage*
>
> *MicroImage* by Casey Reas does not analyze the cosmos surrounding us;
> rather, it creates its own microcosm, a software ecosystem in which
> thousands of software organisms interact. In response to environmental
> change, they gather or disperse depending on their programmed
> behavior. The organisms are displayed in the form of colored lines
> connecting their current positions with their previous ones, which is
> how their movements become visible in static, animated images. In the
> context of *MicroImage*, "genesis" means that none of the overall
> structures that result from the interaction of the mini-programs is
> predetermined or planned; instead, they emerge individually as the
> outcome of the movements that every organism goes through.
>
> *CODeDOC II*
>
> *CODeDOC II* is the sequel to an online exhibition that New York's
> Whitney Museum commissioned Christiane Paul to curate for *artport*, a
> website that functions as a portal for web-art. Participating artists
> / groups are Ed Burton, epidemiC, Graham Harwood, Jaromil, Annja
> Krautgasser & Rainer Mandl, Joan Leandre, Antoine Schmitt and John F.
> Simon Jr. *CODeDOCII* has been conceived as a process-oriented display
> focusing on how art is done and shown. The essential common element of
> the exhibited works is the free availability of the software that was
> programmed to create them.
>
> Additional exhibits making up the CODE Exhibition are:
>
>
> *Visually Deconstructing Code*
> Ben Fry
>
> *F00D*
> John Maeda
>
> *Epigenetic Painting*
> Roman Verostko
>
> *Bitforms Gallery*
> Steve Sacks
>
> *Music Creatures*
> Marc Downie
>
> *24!*
> Michael Aschauer, Norbert Pfaffenbichler, Lotte Schreiber
>
> *Audiopad*
> James Patten / Ben Recht
>
> *co.in.cide*
> Heimo Ranzenbacher / Ars Electronica Futurelab
>
>
>
> 2. UPDATE: CAMPUS
>
>
> Linz University of Art and Industrial Design: Saturday, September 6,
> 2003, 1:30 PM to 7 PM; Sunday, September 7, 2003 to Thursday,
> September 11, 2003, 10 AM to 7 PM.
>
> 2.1. Portal Project: Teleklettergarten
>
> The reciprocal interaction that takes place between interface and
> human individual will be illustrated by means of a colossally outsized
> input device-a Kletterwand (a climbing wall like the ones alpinists
> use to train for a vertical ascent) hooked up to a monitor. Visitors
> go through a training program to acquire software development skills.
> These programmers then work in collaboration with climbers who, as
> their human input-aids, range up, down and across the spacious
> interface, climbing to different points on the keyboard that is their
> oversized programming environment. Conventional input
> devices-keyboards, for instance-are usually small and do not provide
> ample space for the human body. Through its very dimensions, the
> *Teleklettergarten* prompts reflection upon our everyday communication
> with machines.
>
> 2.2. Exhibition
>
> The Department of Media and Art at Zurich's University of Art, Media
> and Design (HGKZ) shows the work of young artists doing the media art
> of tomorrow. The CAMPUS Exhibition is being held in cooperation with
> the Linz University of Art, which has made three floors of its
> facility available as the presentation venue.
>
> 2.3. Movieline
>
> The HGKZ's Movieline also offers a cross-section of student
> productions, which make it clear that enhanced digital tools are
> having a growing impact on the creative work of young student
> filmmakers.
>
>
> 3. UPDATE: CYBERARTS
>
>
> O.K Center for Contemporary Art: Saturday, September 6, 2003 to
> Thursday, September 11, 2003, 10 AM to Midnight
> O.K Center for Contemporary Art: exhibition run extended from Friday,
> September 12, 2003 to Sunday, September 21, 2003; Tuesday-Thursday: 4
> PM to 10 PM; Fridays 4 PM to Midnight; Saturdays/Sundays: 10 AM to 6 > PM
>
>
> Cyberarts 2003 presents the prizewinners in the PRIX ARS ELECTRONICA's
> Interactive Art category.
>
>
> GOLDEN NICA / INTERACTIVE ART
> *Can You See Me Now?*
> Blast Theory / Mixed Media Lab (UK)
>
> *Can you see me now?* by the British artists' collective Blast Theory
> in collaboration with the University of Nottingham's Mixed Reality Lab
> plays with the omnipresence of human beings on the basis of various
> portable electronic devices-cell phone, GPS, wireless LAN and digital
> camera-and with the superimposition of real and virtual spaces.
> The field of play is a section of the city-both on the virtual level
> in the form of a city map, and as a real space on site. The opposing
> participants are online players as well as four runners in real space
> who have been equipped with mobile devices. The runners' task is to
> find the online players who remain in hiding in virtual space. When a
> runner tracks down a player, then it's "Game Over!" for him.
>
>
> AWARD OF DISTINCTION / INTERACTIVE ART
> *Tsukuba Series*
> Maywa Denki (J)
>
> Maywa Denki is an electronic Gesamtkunstwerk. Ingenious engineering,
> wit, inventiveness and musicality combined with an inimitable
> performance style characterize this project.
> This studio's creations-all highly diverse, custom-developed musical
> instruments that are played by motors and electromagnets-demonstrate
> wittiness and know-how. With live performances, Maywa Denki has been
> filling concert halls in Japan and abroad.
>
>
> AWARD OF DISTINCTION / INTERACTIVE ART
> *nybble-engine-toolZ*
> Margarete Jahrmann, Max Moswitzer (A)
>
> *Nybble-Engine-Toolz* is a peer-to-peer server network. The
> installation transforms network processes into three-dimensional
> abstract films and projects them in a movie-theater setting onto a
> semicircular 180

DISCUSSION

Fwd: alpha 3.8 translocated


Begin forwarded message:

> From: tien <tien@tsunamiii.net>
> Date: Fri Aug 15, 2003 3:58:21 PM US/Eastern
> To: rjohnston74@yahoo.co.uk
> Subject: alpha 3.8 translocated
>
> ps. sorry for cross posting. Please forward to interested parties!
>
>
> ====================================
> * A website coming near you soon. *
> ======================================
> == alpha 3.8 Bulletin, issue 3, 16 Aug 2003 ==
> == < http://www.tsunamii.net > =====
> == edited by Charles ========
> ====================================
> * alpha 3.8: translocation commissioned by Gallery 9/Walker Art Centre
> through a grant from Jerome Foundation
>
>
>
> Welcome to the alpha 3.8 Bulletin. This is a regular, free, email
> bulletin to inform you of the translocation of the tsunamii.net
> website, new additions to the site, news and writings related to the
> alpha 3.8 project. The bulletin is distributed every time the site is
> being translocated.
> # NEW: webserver Location
> The tsunamii.net website has moved on the 2 Aug 2003. It is hosted on
> a web server in Philippines.
> www.tsunamii.net
>
> # New:
> translocating to Philippines was a little difficult at first, due to
> the looming net pressence
> of 'Filipino' companies who resell web servers located in USA.
> Through chance of links I found a web hosting company located in
> Dagupan Philippines.
> And spoke to server admin -- Francis -- Nice fellow -- He was
> sympathetic to the alpha 3.8
> and allowed us to run our 'dreaded' exe file. and host the site before
> our bank transfer is
> done (it takes 3 weeks).
> Thx Franicis.
> I have now managed to find a server in Hanoi, after much searching ---
> alot of the
> other refused to host tsunamii.net becuase we don't have a registered
> company in Vietnam. Lots of interesting things happened - away I will
> report them when we get there.
> tsunamii.net translocates to Philippines - Dagupan
> www.dagupan.com
> Check out this link to find out where Dagupan is in Philippines.
> http://www.investph.com/rpmap.asp?provIbu
> by Charles.
>
> #NEW: Plot a Traceroute
> The traceroute world map is reset for Philippines. How do you connect
> to the tsunamii.net website located in Philippines from where you are?
> GOTO: alpha 3.8: dedicated Traceroute.
> Plot and find out...
> http://www.tsunamii.net/cgi-bin/tracecgi.exe
>
> #Wanna discuss more on the alpha 3.8: translocation forum?
> Or discuss local situations / recommend servers / imagine countries.
> http://www.tsunamiii.net/forum/
>
> Related Links for alpha 3.8:
> Translocation : alpha 3.8 - http://www.fragnetics.com/articles/alpha38
> Walker Arts Center : http://www.walkerart.org/gallery9
> Server Suicide : alpha 3.5 Crush -
> http://www.fragnetics.com/projects/crush
>
>
> To unsuscribe please e-mail to tien@dangermuseum.com
>
>

DISCUSSION

Fwd: etoy.RECREATION / naherholung in zurich


Begin forwarded message:

> From: ir@etoy.com
> Date: Thu Aug 14, 2003 5:56:19 PM US/Eastern
> Subject: etoy.RECREATION / naherholung in zurich
>
>
>
> BURN YOUR PASSPORT!
> CANCEL YOUR HOLIDAYS!
>
> instant recreation trip to etoy.TANK-PLANT2
> (powered by etoy.CORPORATION & IBM schweiz)
> --------------------------------------------
> protected by etoy.H-CARE/NURSES-FOR-NERDS
> system by debian & transnational republic
>
> another twisted party battery is about to
> refresh the totally overheated crowd in zurich
> -> this weekend on TONI PARKDECK / etoy.PLANT
> foerrlibuckstrasse 109 (use the ramp or take
> the elevator to enter the new dimension)
> don't miss: wonderful FREE* etoy.CITY-SUNSET!
>
> DJs: ROCK DELUXE (WORLD'S END), STYRO 2000
> (defekt) aka etoy.DEXTER, SHE-J AST & MR.FIL,
> POLAR JUKEBOX SYSTEM (GPL), mono (TOYWAR.hero),
> zai.MIDI-MILLIONAIRE (etoy.TREASURER)...a.m.m.
>
>
> DETAILS & SCHEDULE:
> ---------------------------------------------
> ***FRIDAY 15.8.2003: transnational republic
> immigration party. starting at 8PM. diplomats
> from berlin, munich, torino and sidney install
> a TR immigration office and establish their
> own administration including TR-currency, cash
> counting devices, bankers, food, cooks, sound,
> passport office ...etc)
>
> entry fee: you will be FORCED to change 5 SFR
> or EURO to revolutionary transnational payola
> currency (with which you can buy snacks, beer,
> etoy.DRINKS or very useful international
> identities). also available: crispy duck in
> mango-mint-chili-basil and other TR highlights.
>
> http://www.transnationalrepublic.org/
>
>
> ***SATURDAY 16.8.2003: 10 years debian gnu
> linux anniversary - the official swiss
> celebration party. starting around 7.30 PM.
> DISCLAIMER: this is a real nerd show! DON'T
> come near TONI AREAL if you don't like to
> hear strange people talking about source
> code romance and kernel dramas or if you
> have microsoft products in your luggage.
>
> for hardcore developers who did not leave
> their house for many years etoy.CORPORATION
> will provide NURSES FOR NERDS (male/female).
>
> guests MUST REGISTER / strict door policy!
> the program: http://www.etoy.com/debian
>
> etoy.TANK opening hours: friday/saturday
> until 1AM. saturday after-hour: turbinen
> brau hometrainer contest with party at
> dachkantine (till late / entry fee!)
>
> ***SUNDAY: chill out with transnational
> republic diplomats, exhausted etoy.AGENTS
> & cooks. brunch starting at 11AM
>
>
> PROFIT FROM etoy.RECREATION-SERVICES:
> --------------------------------------------------------
> COLD SHOWER * REFRESHING DRINKS
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>
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DISCUSSION

Fwd: Teknolust Opening Weekend Party!


Begin forwarded message:

> From: Heather Cummins <heather@lynnhershman.com>
> Date: Thu Aug 14, 2003 8:00:18 PM US/Eastern
> To: Teknolust Group 1 <heather@lynnhershman.com>
> Subject: Teknolust Opening Weekend Party!
>
>
>
> Dear Friends.
>
>
> We're FINALLY opening next week.


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