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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DISCUSSION

right wing eye flash


not much needed to set this one up...
http://www.rightwingeye.com/

DISCUSSION

DNA and CARBs


A debate over the origins of what is sometimes called "junk" DNA has
been settled by research involving scientists at the Center for
Advanced Research in Biotechnology (CARB) and a collaborator, who
developed rigorous proof that these mysterious sections were added to
DNA "late" in the evolution of life on earth--after the formation of
modern-sized genes, which contain instructions for making proteins.
A biologist with the Commerce Department's National Institute of
Standards and Technology (NIST) led the research team"
The more interesting thing to me is the "biologist with the Commerce
Department"...
from http://feed.proteinos.com/001954.html
ryan

DISCUSSION

FWD: new CLUI events


On display in the Center for Land Use Interpretation
Los Angeles exhibit space April 09 - May 02, 2004

DIVERSIONS AND DISLOCATIONS:
CALIFORNIA'S OWENS VALLEY

Featuring work by:
Eva Castringius
Aaron Forrest
Andrew Freeman
David Maisel

Opening reception Saturday, April 10 7-10pm

http://www.clui.org/clui_4_1/ondisplay/owens/index.html

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Bus tour: Saturday, April 24 - Sunday, April 25

DIVERSIONS AND DISLOCATIONS:
CALIFORNIA'S OWENS VALLEY IN THE SPRING OF 2004

As part of the exhibit, the CLUI will conduct a two
day bus tour of
the Owens Valley area, with an overnight in Bishop,
CA.
Tickets go on sale online Friday, April 09 @ noon PST.

http://www.clui.org/clui_4_1/ondisplay/owens/tour.html

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New guidebook

The CLUI, in association with Kazys Varnelis, has
published
a new guidebook of the Owens Valley area.

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The CLUI Los Angeles Exhibit Hall is open noon to five
PM,
Fridays, Saturdays, and Sundays, or by appointment.
Admission is free.

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DISCUSSION

FWD: censorship at USD


This was sent to me by an acquaintance who had some
work pulled from an exhibit at the Univ. of San
Diego... forwarding here for anyone in the area and
interested.
ryan

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Hi,
As some of you know, and some of you may be interested
to know, I had
some work removed from an art exhibit on GLBT issues
at the University
of San Diego.
This has resulted in a panel discussion on "academic
freedom, freedom
of
expression, and artistic freedom" at the USD on
Thursday April 15,
7-9pm.
If anyone is in the area, or is inclined to drive
down, your support
would be very welcome.
If anyone has connections to indy media folks or queer
press down
there,
please pass on this info or pass their info on to me.
If anyone can publicize the event or the situation I
would welcome that
support as well.

For more info on the panel go to
www.ncac.org
look under "Upcoming Events" for the "Panel on Freedom
of Expression"

I have included the letter I wrote detailing my
experience below.

Please feel free to pass this message on.

On January 9, 2004 work from my series titled 'Blue
Things I Wear

DISCUSSION

e-voting and election connections


lengthy story in Wired that showed up as a top link in
the blogosphere, at least some people are reading
about this...
http://www.wired.com/news/evote/0,2645,62790,00.html

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