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]
Fwd: [Hactivist_news] 'Parasitic Media' Course at Carnegie Mellon University Ignites International Debate
> FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
>
>
>
> 'Parasitic Media' Course at Carnegie Mellon University Ignites
> International Debate
>
>
>
> PITTSBURGH, PA - A course entitled 'Parasitic Media: Creative Methods
> for Media Manipulation' offered this Spring through the Carnegie
> Mellon University Art Department attracted international attention
> when two online parody projects received threatening 'Cease and
> Desist' letters from attorneys representing corporate giants Wal Mart
> Stores and the Christian Broadcasting Network. The interdisciplinary
> course featured students from Political Science, Art, Design,
> Engineering, Computer Science, Philosophy, Public Policy, Cultural
> Studies, and Computer Science.
>
>
>
> On April 18th, Daniel Papasian, a twenty year old political science
> student, created a website mocking the Wal Mart Foundation. The
> satirical website looks as if it is about the corporation's
> philanthropic efforts, but the content attempts to generate discussion
> about the company's negative impact on communities. Papasian's site,
> found online at www.walmart-foundation.org, used much of the
> legitimate site's content but added satiric spin to several components
> including statements about Wal Mart's positive influence on community
> by uniting protesters around a common enemy and an advertised in-store
> Bingo game to be played by locating countries of manufacture on
> products in Wal Mart represented as blocks on the game's playing card.
> Daniel complied with the terms of the cease and desist and has since
> been featured in publications such as Forbes, the New York Post, and
> BusinessWeek. Much of the discussion around Daniel's site is focused
> on Wal Mart's use of the Digital Millenium Copyright Act (DMCA) which
> was wielded by the retailer's attorneys to censor the parody site's
> content. The focus of the project is now on how the DMCA has used
> copyright as the new form of censorship. With the DMCA beginning to
> extend to legal systems outside the United States, this is a timely
> issue.
>
>
>
> On April 22nd, a set of anonymous students represented by pseudonym
> Fred Timbly, received a similar letter from attorneys representing Pat
> Robertson's Christian Broadcasting Network (CBN). The student's site,
> www.700-club.org, satirized the CBN website by including many
> legitimate pieces of content alongside the announcement that the 700
> Club had been granted exclusive rights by the Vatican to issue the
> online sale of 'Indulgences.' An indulgence is a remission of a
> temporal sin. Some of the sins offered for remission included 'Failure
> to Honor the Sabbath' and the popular 'Practicing Judaism.' Since its
> online launch in mid-April, the site's creators have received numerous
> emails from individuals voicing their opinions on the Indulgence
> Program.
>
>
>
> The class, taught by Adjunct Professor of Art and Research Fellow at
> the CMU STUDIO for Creative Inquiry Nathan Martin, was a great success
> in getting a large number of students from multiple disciplines to
> collaborate with one another and learn to both activate and react to
> the media around them. Other student projects which created less of a
> stir in the mainstream press included Support Our Transit, a
> performance and marketing campaign to combat the city's proposed cuts
> to public bus routes and increases in fares. The group held eulogies
> at Bus Stops, created marketing materials including popular pins, and
> even produced a hit song by DJ Thermos called 'Bus Rap'. The group's
> documentation is online at www.supportourtransit.org. Other projects
> included a site promoting the elimination of the US Military's 'Don't
> Ask,. Don't Tell' policy found online at www.dodgethedraft.us, a snail
> mail based stenciling campaign to create cellphone free zones, and a
> satire of the McDonald's fitness campaign found at www.mcactive.com.
>
>
>
> Martin believes the class, which invites students to use the media in
> the way that a painter would use a canvas, was a success. He says of
> the course "Students were excited, active, and working together across
> disciplines with respect for one another. None of the projects were
> malicious or illegal. The course was designed to get students to think
> about becoming producers of media and not simply consumers and to also
> see the media around them as something they can activate and work with
> to create meaning, narrative, and Art." The course description stated
> '.students will work collaboratively across media including: print,
> web, video, electronics, performance, and writing on projects that
> attempt to intervene in communications systems and mainstream media.
> we will create a project, promote it through a press campaign, and
> attempt to get exposure for the work with a focus on satire.'. The
> work in the course that has come under fire is arguably protected as
> 'Fair Use' and comes from a history of political satire, parody and
> collage in the Fine Arts.
>
>
>
> While there is no plan for the course to be taught in the Fall
> semester at CMU, the school has been supportive of the class and of
> Professor Martin. This inaugural offering of Parasitic Media has
> created quite a stir among students and any future offering is likely
> to not suffer from poor attendance or lack of public profile. In
> Martin's words "this was a learning experience among creative
> students, and that is the purpose of higher education."
>
>
>
> Contact Information:
>
>
>
> Nathan Martin
>
> Adjunct Professor of Art
>
> Research Fellow
>
> STUDIO for Creative Inquiry
>
> Carnegie Mellon University
>
> 412-726-2338 (cell)
>
> nmm@andrew.cmu.edu
>
>
>
> Daniel Papasian
>
> Owner and Creator
>
> http://www.walmart-foundation.org
>
> (860) 977-1398
>
> papasian@cmu.edu
>
>
>
> Fred Timbly
>
> http://www.700-club.org
>
> 731 Copeland Street
>
> Shadyside, PA 15232
>
> Phone: 908-656-0520
>
> info.aid@700-club.org
>
>
>
> Links:
>
> Wal-Mart Foundation
> http://www.walmartfoundation.org
>
>
>
> Papasian's parody site
> http://www.walmart-foundation.org
>
>
>
> Wal Mart Cease and Desist letter
>
> http://www.walmart-foundation.org/walmart.pdf
>
>
>
> CBN
>
> http://www.700club.org
>
>
>
> Timbly's Parody Site
>
> http://www.700-club.org
>
>
>
> CBN Cease and Desist letter
>
> www.hactivist.com/pm/700ClubCease.pd
Fwd: Carnegie Mellon Student Threatened by Wal-Mart Lawyers over Parody Website
>
> FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
>
>
>
> Contact:
>
> Daniel Papasian
>
> (860) 977-1398
>
> papasian@cmu.edu
>
>
>
> April 23rd, 2005
>
>
>
> Carnegie Mellon Student Threatened by Wal-Mart Lawyers over Parody
> Website
>
>
>
> (Pittsburgh, PA) - Lawyers representing Wal-Mart Stores Inc. have used
> a cease and desist order to force a website ran by a Carnegie Mellon
> University student offline. The website, created by junior Political
> Science major Daniel Papasian, parodied The Wal-Mart Foundation
> (www.walmartfoundation.org), a subsidiary of Wal-Mart that promotes
> community development.
>
>
>
> The website was a project was for a class called "Parasitic Media,"
> an offering in the College of Fine Arts that encourages students to
> participate in political criticism through the tactical use of satire
> in the mainstream media. Other projects created in the class include
> mcactive.com, a parody of McDonald's Go Active campaign, and
> 700-club.org, which announces the online sale of indulgences for
> Catholics.
>
>
>
> "The site was a form of 'identity correction,' in which I used a
> parody to highlight real problems with companies like Wal-Mart. My
> site was designed to get people thinking about the consequences of
> importing goods from countries with poor labor laws, the environmental
> effects of big-box stores, and whether Wal-Mart is as benign as some
> would like us to believe," Papasian said. "The site was designed to
> look like a page belonging to the real Foundation, but I can't imagine
> anyone who read the site didn't realize it was a parody."
>
>
>
> The cease and desist alleged copyright infringement, claiming that
> Papasian's usage of graphics found on the real Wal-Mart Foundation
> website were in violation of the Digital Millennium Copyright Act.
> Papasian, however, believes the content of his site is protected as
> "fair use." He said Wal-Mart's motives for serving the order are far
> more sinister.
>
>
>
> "They're trying to shut me down by going after me for copyright
> infringement, but I have a hard time believing that's what they care
> about. They didn't even bother to contact me to ask that anything be
> removed from my site. They're not worried because my page has a
> similar layout or design. They're worried because my ideas are a
> threat to them. They're threatened by my belief that big corporations
> like Wal-Mart have too much influence on the world. Multinational
> corporations have won immense powers over governments with recent
> international trade agreements, so it's no surprise they're going to
> start going after people directly."
>
>
>
> Papasian is not discouraged by the cease and desist, however. He
> plans on documenting his experience and making it available on his
> site, www.walmart-foundation.org.
>
>
>
> "I don't want to get sued," said Papasian. "But I won't be silenced."
>
>
>
> Papasian is available for interview.
>
>
>
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Re: Net Art Market
>> art only exists as a solution, a vehicle, for getting
>> what you really want, be it respect or a new pair of shoes.
>
> This kind of statement always riles me. It's so materialistic,
> cynical, and overly simplistic. It's like something a marxist
> economist would teach to freshmen. What if making art is a
> celebration? What if it's play? What if it's worship out of a heart
> of thanksgiving for the mere fact that we exist? It's pretty cold
> (but not at all uncommon) to reduce play and celebration and worship
> to unconscious self-serving activity. I object.
curt,
i understand your response to the above statement, which i object to as
well... i agree with many of your contributions to the discussion on
selling net art, etc.
but to label that above statement as similar to a marxist position
might as well be red baiting. marx was not anti-play. and the notion
that someone would work as something other than an artist, then spend
leisure time engaging in creative activity in order to create something
aesthetic, participate in a community, or learn more about something is
entirely a marxist one.
i would replace "marxist economist" in your response to "classical
economist" or if you want to be more specific, possibly a "free market
economist." viewing work as a means to obtaining shoes (unless you're
making your own shoes) is the position of capital, not marxism.
ryan
Fwd: MAKE News No. 10
> ==MAKE: Audio==
> We're started our audio program MAKE: Audio, or as we like to call it,
> the
> DIYcast. The MAKE audio programs, like the magazine, are loaded with
> exciting projects, hacks, science, and news that help you make the
> most of
> your technology. MAKE: Audio offers a news-related program as well as
> an
> interview series with authors, engineers, artists, scientists, and
> Makers
> in the world today. We plan on having at least a couple of shows a
> week,
> so let us know what you think about them!
>
> Download the MP3 or add the program to your podcast fetcher here:
>
> http://www.makezine.com/blog/archive/2005/04/makediycast_our.html
>
> If you're new to podcasting, we'll have a how-to up soon on getting
> great
> audio programs from around the web. Stay tuned.
Re: Net Art Market
i tried to find the Altoids projects again, but only found promotion of
their investments in contemporary art. i know that they had a net
art-based project...
ryan
On Apr 22, 2005, at 12:21 PM, curt cloninger wrote:
> Hi Jason,
>
> Sony PlayStation 2 sponsored such an "online gallery" a while back,
> curated by hi-res.net and commissioning/hosting work by various
> experimental designers. The space is archived here:
> http://archive.hi-res.net/thethirdplace.com/