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

YOUgenics2.0 opens


YOUgenics2.0 began Thursday October 2, 2003 with a new
performance by subRosa - U-GEN-A-CHIX and a panel
discussion with subRosa and Don Fitz of the Gateway
Green Education Foundation.
The exhibition opened Friday October 3 at the
Southwest Missouri State University Art & Design
Gallery.
Images of the performance and exhibition, as well as
web-based works and links to resources and information
about genetics, eugenics and biotechnology are
available at:
http://www.yougenics.net

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DISCUSSION

genetics & tax cuts


http://www.markfiore.com/animation/dna.html

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FWD: ABC No Rio anouncements


ABC No Rio Announces
COPS
COMA
Meet the Composer
We Interrupt this Empire...
HC/Punk Matinee
Our Unorganicized Reading
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COPS -- a group exhibition
OPENING: Friday September 26 at 7:00pm
GALLERY HOURS: Sundays 1:00pm to 3:00pm
Tuesdays & Thursdays 5:00pm to 7:00pm
Thru October 23

Cops are the ultimate symbols of authority in
contemporary society.
With
power to decide freedom or incarceration, life or
death, the police are
both local and direct embodiments of power. This
power, however, has
deep
roots and many faces. In addition to the police,
authority is manifest
in
the forms of clergy, governments, McManagers,
teachers, media, and
cultural
mores.

This show explores encounters with, and opinions of
authority. With
the
recent increase in police presence, both literal and
through
legislative
measures such as The Patriot Act, it is more important
than ever to
discuss
the role of authority in our lives. Do cops make us
safer, or are they
symbols of the loss of our civil liberties?

COPS on-line at http://www.abcnorio.org/cops
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COMA -- $3
Sunday September 28 at 8:00 pm
Motoko Chang (voice, guitar, recorder and toys)
Followed with an open session

Sunday October 5 at 8:00 pm
from L.A.:
Bonnie Barnett (voice) & Ken Filiano (bass
Followed with an open session

Monday October 6 at 8:00 pm
from Portland, OR:
Kathleen Keogh-movement, voice
Bryan Eubanks-soprano saxophone
Followed with an open session

Sunday October 12 8:00pm
from Australia & NYC:
Stephen Morley French horn
Ursel Schlicht Piano
Followed with an open session

Sunday October 19 at 8:00 pm
Dave Smith - trombone, flutes
John Kennedy - percussion & sampling
Followed with an open session

October 26 at 8:00 pm
Sarah Weaver trombone
James Ilgenfritz bass
Followed with an open session

free music*free mind*free world
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MEET THE COMPOSER -- $5
Monday September 29 at 8:00 pm
Blaise Siwula - reeds
Adam Lane - bass
Ravi Padmanabha - percussion

The evening will include a series of spontaneous
compositions with
solos/duets and trio based on improvised music in
various cultural
encounters.

Sponsored by Meet the Composer.
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'We Interrupt this Empire...'
-video screening-
THURSDAY OCTOBER 2
at 7:00 and 9:00pm
$5--$10 (sliding scale)

"We Interrupt This Empire..." is a collaborative work
by many of the
Bay
Area's independent video activists which documents the
direct actions
that
shut down the financial district of San Francisco in
the weeks
following
the United States' invasion of Iraq. With the audio
backdrop including
the
live broadcasts of Enemy Combatant Radio from the SF
Independent Media
Center to SFPD's tactical communications that were
picked up by police
scanners, the documentary takes a look at the diverse
show of
resistance
from the streets of San Francisco as well as providing
a critique of
the
coporate media coverage of the war and exploring such
issues as the
Military Industrial Complex, attacks on civil
liberties, and the United
States' current imperialist drive.

For more information: http://www.videoactivism.org

Proceeds from 'We Interrupt This Empire...' go to the
Video Activist
Network (VAN) and the rncnotwelcome.org collective.
VAN is an informal
association of activists and politically conscious
artists using video
to
support social, economic and environmental justice
campaigns.
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HC/Punk Matinee - $6

SATURDAY September 27 at 3:00pm
-On the Rise (melodic old-school NYHC w/members of
Agnostic Front
on Bridge Nine Records)
-The Funeral (aggressive, thought-provoking hardcore
fury from
Syracuse, NY)
-XLooking ForwardX (posi- straight edge, old school
hardcore mosh
from MD)
-Regression (straight-up HC from Long Island)
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EVERY SUNDAY at 3:00pm
Our Unorganicized Reading
an open poetry reading
No sign-up. No time limit. No b.s.
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ABC No Rio
156 Rivington Street
New York, NY 10002
(212) 254-3697

ABC No Rio: http://www.abcnorio.org
InterActivist Network: http://www.interactivist.net
InterActivist INFO EXCHANGE:
http://slash.interactivist.net
SUPPORT ABC No Rio:
http://www.abcnorio.org/support/support.html
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DISCUSSION

RE: pre-modern [kodachrome/wunderkammer remix]


For one thing, people believed that words and objects
really corresponded to each other -- that there was
something inherently
'lionny' about the word 'lion'..."

or another way...

"To extend or operationalize these insights about
language as material to genetics research

DISCUSSION

FWD: Digitales, call for papers/tales


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DIGITALES - 3rd edition
CALL FOR PAPERS/TALES

Tell the stories * of women and technologies

Rather than falling into techno-phobia or becoming
techno-fans,
"Digitales"
has always approached digital techniques with a
critical and creative
eye.
They exist, they are here, so we might as well use
them, understand
them and
make use of them in a way that will serve our
objectives.

We cannot ignore the history of information
technologies, their
mythology,
symbols, heroines, male or female. The history and
mythology being
transmitted still influences the way they are written
and taught. One
often
hears that girls are not interested in technical
things because they
are too
cold and too systematic, but what about telling them
that one of the
pioneers of computing wanted to create a machine that
would enable him
to
contact his lost loved one and that he died like Snow
White after
eating a
poisoned apple : isn't that a beautiful fairy tale?

Understanding the languages and structures in this new
grammar, and
maybe
even imagining others. How these standards and
structures have been
able to
exclude or involve certain types of people, because of
certain types of
reflexes and expectations, but by discovering that,
also discover the
possibility of re-writing and inventing processes.

We would like to receive stories and herstories about
what we call the
"founding myths": Ada Lovelace, Alan Turing, Grace
Hopper, etc.

And also tales of/about women and techniques

* Send a ' fragment ' or a whole story in words and/or
images on one A4
format page; RTF or JPG files, 300k maximum, to be
uploaded ONLY on
http://www.digitales-online.org/tales

Deadline : 15 November 2003

Questions? Info@constantvzw.com

DIGITALES