ryan griffis
Since 2002
Works in United States of America

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Ryan Griffis currently teaches new media art at the University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign. He often works under the name Temporary Travel Office and collaborates with many other writers, artists, activists and interesting people in the Midwest Radical Culture Corridor.
The Temporary Travel Office produces a variety of services relating to tourism and technology aimed at exploring the non-rational connections existing between public and private spaces. The Travel Office has operated in a variety of locations, including Missouri, Chicago, Southern California and Norway.

Is MySpace a Place?


Networked Performance pointed me toward an interview (download in PDF)with Networked Publics speaker Henry Jenkins and Networked Publics friend danah boyd about Myspace. The site, popular with teenagers, has become increasingly controversial as parents and the press raise concerns about the openness of information on the site and the vulnerability this supposedly poses to predators (Henry points out that only .1% of abductions are by strangers) and the behavior of teens towards each other (certainly nothing new, only now in persistent form). In another essay on Identity Production in Networked Culture, danah suggests that Myspace is popular not only because the technology makes new forms of interaction possible, but because older hang-outs such as the mall and the convenience store are prohibiting teens from congregating and roller rinks and burger joints are disappearing.

This begs the question, is Myspace media or is it space? Architecture theorists have long had this thorn in their side. "This will kill that," wrote Victor Hugo with respect to the book and the building. In the early 1990s, concern about a dwindling public culture and the character of late twentieth century urban space led us to investigate Jürgen Habermas's idea of the public sphere. But the public sphere, for Habermas is a forum, something that, for the most part, emerges in media and in the institutions of the state:

The bourgeois public sphere may be conceived above all as the sphere of private people come together as a public; they soon claimed the public sphere regulated from above against the public authorities themselves, to engage them in a debate over the general rules governing relations in the basically privatized but publicly relevant sphere of commodity exchange and social labor. The medium of this political confrontation was peculiar and without historical precedent: people's ...

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SWITCH: Issue 22



Carlos Castellanos:

HI everyone. Just wanted to announce the new issue of SWITCH:

SWITCH : The online New Media Art Journal of the CADRE Laboratory for
New Media at San Jose State University

http://switch.sjsu.edu switch@cadre.sjsu.edu

SWITCH Journal is proud to announce the launch of Issue 22: A Special
Preview Edition to ISEA 2006/ ZeroOne San Jose.

As San Jose State University and the CADRE Laboratory are serving as
the academic host for the ZeroOne San Jose /ISEA 2006 Symposium,
SWITCH has dedicated itself to serving as an official media
correspondent of the Festival and Symposium. SWITCH has focused the
past three issues of publication prior to ZeroOne San Jose/ISEA2006
on publishing content reflecting on the themes of the symposium. Our
editorial staff has interviewed and reported on artists, theorists,
and practitioners interested in the intersections of Art & Technology
as related to the themes of ZeroOne San Jose/ ISEA 2006. While some
of those featured in SWITCH are part of the festival and symposium,
others provide a complimentary perspective.

Issue 22 focuses on the intersections of CADRE and ZeroOne San Jose/
ISEA 2006. Over the past year, students at the CADRE Laboratory for
New Media have been working intensely with artists on two different
residency projects for the festival – “Social Networking” with Antoni
Muntadas and the City as Interface Residency, “Karaoke Ice” with
Nancy Nowacek, Marina Zurkow & Katie Salen. Carlos Castellanos,
James Morgan, Aaron Siegel, all give us a sneak preview of their
projects which will be featured at the ISEA 2006 exhibition. Alumni
Sheila Malone introduces ex_XX:: post position, an exhibition
celebrating the 20th anniversary of the CADRE Institute that will run
as a parallel exhibition to ZeroOne San Jose/ ISEA 2006. LeE
Montgomery provides a preview of NPR (Neighborhood Public Radio)
presence at ...

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Art & Mapping



The North American Cartographic Information Society (NACIS) has released a special issue of their journal, Cartographic Perspectives:
Art and Mapping Issue 53, Winter 2006 Edited by Denis Wood and and John Krygier Price: $25
The issue includes articles by kanarinka, Denis Wood, Dalia Varanka and John Krygier, and an extensive catalogue of map artists compiled by Denis Wood.

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[-empyre-] Liquid Narrative for June 2006


Christina McPhee:

hi all, I am not sure we got this message out to Rhizome!

Please join our guests this month, Dene Grigar (US), Jim Barrett
(AU/SE), Lucio Santaella (BR), and Sergio Basbaum (BR) , with
moderator Marcus Bastos (BR), for a spirited discussion of "Liquid
Narratives" ----- digital media story telling with a dash, perhaps,
of 'aura' .

Here's the intro from Marcus:

The topic of June at the - empyre - mailing list will be Liquid Narratives. The concept of 'liquid narrative' is interesting in that it allows to think about the unfoldings of contemporary languages beyond tech achievements, by relating user controlled applications with formats such as the essay (as described by Adorno in "Der Essay als Form", The essay as a form) and procedures related to the figure of the narrator (as described by Benjamin in his writings about Nikolai Leskov). Both authors are accute critics of modern culture, but a lot of his ideas can be expanded towards contemporary culture. As a matter of fact, one of the main concerns in Benjamin's essay is a description of how the rise of modernism happens on account of an increasing nprivilege of information over knowledge, which is even more intense nowadays. To understand this proposal, it is important to remember how Benjamin distinguishes between an oral oriented knowledge, that results from 'an experience that goes from person to person' and is sometimes anonymous, from the information and authoritative oriented print culture. One of the aspects of this discussion is how contemporary networked culture rescues this 'person to person' dimension, given the distributed and non-authoritative procedures that technologies such as the GPS, mobile phones and others stimulate.

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state of the planet infographics


stateoftheplanet.jpg
a small collection of beautiful information graphics documenting the current state of the planet.
see also gapminder & 3d data globe.
[seedmagazine.com]

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art instruction schools ad


what... no net art?
http://198.173.255.55/ais\_lp/ais\_lp\_yaba/index.php?p1=&pageid=yaba\_atestNtest\_cpc\_.25\_.10\_ais\_submit&property=mail&position=N&lineidB25872&adid26761&bann=&area=&site=Yaba&camp=atestNtest
(the link may break cause of the php?)

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YOUgenics + Temporary Travel Office updates


Travel Office Update
The Temporary Travel Office has completed the beta
version of an audio tour of the Chicago Technology
Park, to be part of Versionfest4 (in Chicago) this
April.
MP3 audio and the PDF guide can be downloaded at:
http://www.yougenics.net/traveloffice/current.html
A web-based tour will be released sometime this
Spring.

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YOUgenics update
short list of recent genetic news items:
Genetically Engineered DNA Found in Traditional Seeds
http://www.genet-info.org/genet/2004/Mar/msg00002.html
USDA Announces First Steps To Update Biotechnology
Regulations
http://www.usda.gov/Newsroom/0033.04.html
The 2004 National GEAN Conference
http://geaction.org/conference2004.html
Can a new politics emerge from bacterial sex?
http://www.metamute.com/look/article.tpl?IdLanguage=1&IdPublication=1&NrIssue'&NrSection&NrArticle

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FWD: Reverse Imagineering


Reverse Imagineering:
Toward the New Urban Struggles,
Or: Why Smash the State When Your Neighborhood Theme
Park Is So Much Closer?"
Brian Holmes

"What are the steps in the creation of a Disney
attraction? According to literature sent out by WDW
[Walt Disney World], the steps are: storyboard,
script, concept, show models, sculpture, show set
design, graphics, interiors, architectural design,
molds and casting, wardrobe and figure finishing,
electronic and mechanical design and manufacture, show
sets and prop construction, animation, audio, special
effects and lighting, and engineering." [The
Unofficial Walt Disney Imagineering Page
(www.imagineering.org).]

On October 17, 2003, seven groups of some 20 to 30
persons descended into the Paris underground, with
paint pots, glue, rollers, brushes, spray cans, sheets
of paper and marking pens in their hands. Their aim?
To overwrite, cover up, deface, subvert, recompose or
simply rip to shreds as many advertisements as
possible, without violence to any individual or to any
piece of property other than the images which impinge
on our most intimate desires.

This story continues at:

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Re: The Myth of Meritocracy in Fine Arts


Hi Rob - thanks for your response -
sounds like i misinterpreted some of your comments...
i too am an A&L fan (or was for a long time), and think, for the most part i'm on the same page with your comments below. tho i do find cultural studies useful that help me be more engaged.
best,
ryan

> I'm a biiiiig fan of Art & Language. I wrote my BA dissertation on
> them
> (and Julain Opie), and one of the comments my tutor had was that
> "they've got stuck in the idea of art as institution". I didn't think
> that this was the case, but I do think that "art as institution"
> doesn't go very far. Art's social content is more interesting than
> its
> supporting social structures, IMHO. Cultural studies is different
> from
> cultural engagement. You can't stop a nuke exploding by
> deconstructing
> the text of its history or science.
>
> - Rob.
>