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 ...
SWITCH: Issue 22
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 ...
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.
[-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.state of the planet infographics
a small collection of beautiful information graphics documenting the current state of the planet.
see also gapminder & 3d data globe.
[seedmagazine.com]
institutional uses of GIS...
uses for GIS info...
http://gislounge.com/news/kinetic030519c.shtml
Fugazi live series
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Fugazi bass player, Joe Lally, has announced the
launch of a new
website to sell CDs of the first of the many live
recordings Fugazi has
collected over the band's 15+ year career. The website
can be found by
going to:
http://www.fugaziliveseries.com
PLEASE NOTE that while the Fugazi Live website is an
official site run
by the band, it is NOT a part of the regular
Dischord.com webstore.
Orders can ONLY be processed at
http://www.fugaziliveseries.com. You
may contact <info.fuglive@earthlink.net> with any
questions or orders.
Now, here is a description of the Fugazi "Live" site
from the band:
"For many years, Fugazi has made a point of taping our
live shows. We
started out using a simple cassette recorder, moved on
to a digital
audio tape recorder (DAT) and finally just burned
straight on to CDs.
Our past attempts at releasing a definitive live show
proved fruitless
as we could never settle on performances we all felt
represented the
band at it's best. Instead it was decided that some
day we would try to
find an easy way to make as many of the tapes
available to people as we
could.
This site marks the beginning of that concept - a
basic testing of the
waters to see what, if any, interest there is. We have
digitally
transferred an initial sampling of tapes from our
archives and for
every order we receive, we will burn a CD copy of the
show requested
using a generic cover with concert information and a
track listing.
These are very much the original recordings without
any attempt to
correct for things like volume changes, strange mixing
effects, or the
occasionally out-of-tune guitar. Though the sound
quality on these
tapes does vary, if a show was too poorly recorded it
didn't make the
cut. There will be more shows added as interest
indicates and time
permits but for now here's twenty.
copyright activisism
Siva Vaidhyanathan
One of the great hopes I had while I researched and wrote Copyrights and
Copywrongs (New York: New York University Press, 2001), a cultural
history of American copyright, during the late 1990s was that copyright
debates might puncture the bubble of public consciousness and become
important global policy questions. My wish has come true.
Since 1998 questions about whether the United States has constructed an
equitable or effective copyright system frequently appear on the pages
of
daily newspapers. Activist movements for both stronger and looser
copyright systems have grown in volume and furor. And the U.S. Supreme
Court ruled in early 2003 that the foundations of American copyright, as
expressed in the Constitution, are barely relevant in an age in which
both media companies and clever consumers enjoy unprecedented power over
the use of works.
This story continues at:
http://info.interactivist.net/article.pl?sid/04/15/1634206
Versionfest NFO XPO: Chicago
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78 E. Washington, Chicago IL 60602
April 28 and 29, 2004 11-2pm on Both Days
For more information go to: www.versionfest.org
Not satisfied by online contact? Want to meet people doing radical art
in
Chicago and from other cities? The Nfo Xpo networking fair offers an
opportunity for you to meet art and activist collectives from Chicago,
representatives of other cities and people with ideas who are initiating
exciting new projects. This face to face networking opportunity allows
you to
meet other artists working in your field and to ask people questions
directly.
Learn about new projects going on in your own city and elsewhere! Share
resources! Meet possible collaborators! The Nfo Xpo Networking Fair
(pronounced 'Info Expo