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: Disney/Volvo get into geocaching...
got this story from a map history list, but here's a link to a
advertising blog about it:
http://adweek.blogs.com/adfreak/2006/06/volvo_holds_tre.html
Fwd: AIR project + Public Workshop 6/24
> From: "Preemptive Media" <info@preemptivemedia.net>
> Date: June 14, 2006 5:08:01 AM CDT
> To: info@preemptivemedia.net
> Subject: AIR project + Public Workshop 6/24
>
> Dear Friends,
>
> Preemptive Media is getting ready to launch a new project, AIR (Area's
> Immediate Reading), in New York City this September. AIR is a
> networked,
> social experiment in which individuals will self-monitor the
> byproducts of
> fossil fuel combustion by carrying small, portable devices. These
> devices
> display current levels of air pollution and locations of other
> roaming AIR
> devices for participants to better understand that they are part of a
> nomadic network. Online viewers can send text messages to prompt
> people to
> go to specific locations or volunteer to become a carrier to keep the
> network moving and alive. Data from the devices will be dynamically
> visualized along with other information on a digital billboard in
> Lower
> Manhattan and the web when the project launches in September 2006.
>
> Come help us beta test the devices and data visualization application
> currently in development on Saturday, June 24, from 1-5pm at
> Eyebeam Art +
> Technology Center in New York City. For more information on the
> workshop
> and to enroll, visit
> http://www.eyebeam.org/engage/engage.php?page=unique&id'.
>
> And for more information on the project: www.pm-air.net.
>
> Hope to see you at the workshop or project launch in the Fall!
> Beatriz, Brooke and Jamie of Preemptive Media
>
> This project was made possible with support from Eyebeam/Lower
> Manhattan
> Cultural Council's 2005 Social Sculpture Commission.
>
>
>
Re: ass dislikes art
sounds like Karl Zinsmeister was gearing up for his own degenerate
art exhibition.
nevertheless, i'm sure the ARC is the laughing stock of cultural
conservatism (i'm sure Hilton Kramer would take him to task for
equating abstraction with YBA stuff)... which is no solace. scary,
actually.
Fwd: ARTECONTEXTO, art, culture and new media, Issue 10
ARTECONTEXTO, art, culture and new media
Issue 10
Dossier: Comic World
(Carles Santamaría, John Carlin, Trina
Robbins, Peter Frank,
Jordi Costa) Oscar Seco, Chefer
+ Interview: Hal Foster + Nicola de Maria + Habana
Bienal +
Cybercontext + Info + Books + International Reviews
Quarterly publication. Bilingual: Spanish / English.
156 pages in colour Distributed around the world in
specialised bookstores. Edited in Spain
Publisher and Editor: Alicia Murría
http://www.artecontexto.com
ARTECONTEXTO, art culture and new media is a
magazine about the art of today that is intended to
stimulate discussion and theoretical analysis of
artistic practices in the international context. It
pays particular attention to new media and net.art.
ARTECONTEXTO is a bridge connecting Europe and Latin
America.
The profound changes that the world of art is
undergoing call for new approaches. Artistic
practices are now affected by formulas coming from
other fields which call for greater complexity in
their analysis and new and different tools of
understanding. ARTECONTEXTO takes up and reflects
this complexity and constitutes a new critical space
in progress.
http://www.artecontexto.com
Fwd: School of Panamerican Unrest event in Chicago
> THE SCHOOL OF PANAMERICAN UNREST Arriving in Chicago!
> The School of Panamerican Unrest is an artist-led, not-for profit
> public art project that seeks to generate connections between the
> different regions of the Americas through discussions, both short-term
> and long-term collaborations between organizations and individuals.
>
> The project also seeks to involve a wide range of publics and engage
> them at different levels in a dialogue about alternative ways to
> understand the history, ideology, and lines of thought that have
> significantly impacted in the political, social and cultural events in
> the Americas.
>
> Its main component is a nomadic forum or think-tank that is crossing
> the hemisphere by land, from Anchorage, Alaska, to Ushuaia, Argentina
> (Tierra del Fuego). This hybrid project includes a collapsible and
> movable architectural structure in the form of a Schoolhouse, as well
> as a video and book collection component inside the van in which the
> journey is being made.
>
> On each of its stops, the SPU will offer a number of public
> programs in
> collaboration with its host.
>
> CHICAGO PANEL
> At each stop, the School will facilitate a discussion/roundtable with
> local participants on a subject that is of both local and Panamerican
> relevance. The discussions will be summarized in the daily blog, and
> papers and other information will be posted on the main website
> (www.panamericanismo.org).
>
> MUSEUM OF CONTEMPORARY ART, 220 East Chicago Ave. (Tel. 312-280-2660)
> Saturday, June 10th at 2:00 pm, FREE ADMISSION
>
> The Chicago Eccentrics
> Moderators: Pablo Helguera and Encarnacion Teruel
>
> John Corbett, Professor, SAIC, Co-director, Corbett vs. Dempsey
> Gallery
> Ed Marszewski, Executive Director Version Festival, Lumpen Magazine
> Tony Fitzpatrick, Artist, Entrepreneur
> Ruth Lopez, Art & Design Editor, Timeout Chicago
> Elvia Rodriguez, Visual artist, Co-Founder, Artist Collective POLVO