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]
US priority indicators
some giving up and leaving buses to walk to work.
Nebiye Solom, who manages a downtown parking garage,
said his customers have been complaining that their
30-minute commutes have turned into two-tour
nightmares."
D.C. Police, Tractor Driver in Standoff
2 hours, 7 minutes ago
By DERRILL HOLLY
WASHINGTON - A North Carolina tobacco farmer remained
inside his tractor Tuesday morning in a small lake
nestled among some of America's best known symbols.
The standoff caused police to close streets blocks
from the scene snarling the city's morning rush hour.
"We're looking at every possible option, to make sure
this comes to a peaceful resolution," said Sgt. Scott
Fear, a spokesman for the U.S. Park Police.
The incident began around noon Monday when a man
wearing a military medic's helmet drove a jeep and
trailer carrying the tractor and a motorcycle into
Constitution Gardens, a federal park bordered by the
Washington Monument, the Vietnam War Memorial and the
Lincoln Memorial. After driving the jeep into the
lake, the man drove the tractor off the trailer and
into the water.
"We're going to be patient with him and we're going to
make sure that human life and safety is number one,"
Fear said. Officials said the uncertainty of the
situation presents both safety and facilities
concerns. They declined to specify his demands.
The man was identified as Dwight Watson, 50, of
Whitakers, N.C.
Shortly after the incident began, police established a
400 yard security perimeter around the site. The
decision snarled downtown traffic for commuters Monday
evening and again Tuesday morning, as vehicles were
restricted over a much broader area.
For many motorists frustration was boiling over with
some giving up and leaving buses to walk to work.
Nebiye Solom, who manages a downtown parking garage,
said his customers have been complaining that their
30-minute commutes have turned into two-tour
nightmares.
Tactical officers armed with automatic weapons, bomb
squad technicians and fire department hazardous
materials specialists were among the more than 100
public safety personnel involved in the incident.
The location has also hampered access to several
federal and independent agencies. Offices of the
National Academy of Sciences (news - web sites), the
Interior Department and the Federal Reserve (news -
web sites) are located inside the security zone. The
State Department headquarters is also nearby.
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Re: Do Media Know That War Kills?
eryk's post (and those that followed) had a huge impact on my mood today...
when do priorities shift?
but i do have to say that there is a myth that activism must be heroic and risky (i saw Patrick Lichty speak post 9/11 at San Jose about CAE, EDT and rtmark, and one woman railed him because she said they weren't putting their lives on the line). a lot of the time it is, but does it always have to be. i agree with marc (and curt's gestural advice) that there's a lot to our mundane actions. while life is always a crisis, we can't always live in a reactionary state. but it does seem necessary now.
the US media's portrayal of all war is horrendous to say the least. but it's not too different from anything else.
the film maker barbara trent (the panama deception) was recently at my school and had a dialogue with students to the effect of:
students: "We have to fight terrorism with force don't we?"
BT: "why?"
students: "because people are being killed here. it's about saving lives."
BT: "yeah, but compared to the number of people dying from heat, cold, and the flu every year, not very many are dying from terrorism."
students: "but those things are just part of life."
BT: "but is it part of your life? if you want to save lives 'fight' for housing and health care."
students: "but that's different."
take care everyone,
ryan
Re: New Art Ideas Update
"gas huffer", yeah.
i remember bad times with freon...
what would jesus huff?
best,
ryan