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]
RE-CODE update
** HACTIVIST_NEWS **
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The Corporation Wins Again
http://www.re-code.com
we are still doing interviews and still have videos
available
press@re-code.com
Today was a very difficult day for us at re-code.com.
We have decided to heed the warnings of our lawyer and
have closed up
much
of the shop - but not without a media frenzy.
We have not yet calculated our traffic from today but
at any given time
during business hours there were 300+ people on
re-code.com
This has smashed our record last friday which saw
90,000 hits in one
hour
alone. Today was worse.
7:50 AM EST I did a small spot on a talk radio show in
Illinois. It
went
alright but I didn't get a chance to make any
anti-clear channel
commentary
(the station - like most - was owned by the media
giant Clear Channel).
It
was one of those crazy shock jock twenty something
morning shows.
that was how it started
then we get this email which we later confirmed to be
true
"Bad news. Kellogg's just found out, and are PISSED. I
am serious. You
will
be hearing from their lawyers soon. (Said lawyers
actually watched your
video on my computer, right after the Wal-Mart
business lawyers
contacted
them.)"
then this
"Their head legal guy actually sat at my computer to
watch the video.
Copy-Right infringement is what I overheard. You
mention their product,
show
it being stolen and how, and make derogatory remarks
about it, in the
video."
and later this from the same Kellogg's employee
"FYI: about ten more higher-ups came and wanted to see
the video since
my
last email. They are pissed off..."
This was occurring while I was speaking to a reporter
on the phone that
had
just spoken to Wal Mart reps who claimed to have
arrested "several
youth"
that are in custody now who were using the re-code.com
to steal goods.
The
reporter doubted the claims as did I. But still a bit
scary.
At this point I am getting quite scared - I mean my
group the CDL
(hactivist.com) has not been very clean itself in the
past several
years.
We called our lawyer who on our behalf called the Wal
Mart attorney on
the
cease and desist letter.
Our lawyer said that the woman was laughing and seemed
to generally
"get"
the humor of the site, but she also said she was the
only one who felt
that
way and that the case was not in her hands anymore.
She had also heard
the
rumors of the alleged "youth" that were arrested but
didn't believe it.
She
then started rattling off my name, address,
occupation, etc. She said
to
"let Nathan know we know who he is and where he is." I
still don't know
how
this was all tracked down.
At the same time another friend was receiving strange
and perplexingly
involved and detailed phone calls. Much digging was
being done by
someone on
the side of the big W. Scary tactics were in place.
Hate mail was
rolling
in. The media machine was rolling.
The lawyer for Wal Mart confirmed that Wal Mart was
now working with
Kellogg's as well as a number of other corporations
that she could not
reveal the identity of.
Our lawyer asked if any local, state, or federal legal
officials had
been
commented and she said she was unable to respond to
that.
I began to clean my room at this point - I am still in
the process as
we
speak.
We talked with DOD.net who was running our site and
they didn't think
their
machines running re-code.com (2 boxes each on separate
T1's mirroring
the
site and a separate machine somewhere else running the
video file)
could
hold out much longer. We were clogged most of the day
actually and had
real
difficulty in even updating information.
Articles appeared on the front pages of MSNBC.com, and
WIRED.com as
well as
in print all over the country.
Over 40 papers for sure. Then the TV stations came
calling, Florida,
California, Texas, Illinois, Arkansas, ....
BBC World called and we did an interview with them
about what was
happening.
They said everyone there loved the site.
It got scary very quickly and we were advised by our
lawyer that
"unless our
art is about a legal battle" we should dismantle the
site.
our lawyer is great and we trust him. We had gotten
way more press than
we
were hoping for and Wal Mart was proving themselves to
be exactly what
we
had been claiming all along - a tyrant and a bully.
We gave in. Scare tactics worked. We are scared. I am
26 and I don't
want to
go to jail, pay a fine, or worse - keep alive and
manage a UPC database
for
any extended amount of time.
We have also removed the collective Carbon Defense
League from the web.
I wish we could have been stronger. We are going to
try to continue to
work
on this situation but it was in our best interest to
take down the
service
for now.
I wonder if others might see how simple it is to do
what we did and
replicate it?
We are still doing interviews, it is now after
midnight and I have been
trying to take a bath since 8am - time to get to it.
Please read our new announcement on the front page of
re-code.com.
Help us document the news footage and print press.
Help us use this
story to
create a scandal.
I thank everyone for their interest and support. Now
help us work to
build a
document of the scare tactics of these corporations.
We will be publishing our email correspondences in the
next few days
which
consists of both supportive and abusive commentary.
We will also have up soon PDFs of the places we found
carrying news
articles.
thanks
nathan hactivist
gone fishin'
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FWD: tactical TV in Italy
people here.
best,
ryan
Date: Tue, 15 Apr 2003 04:50:05 +0200
From: matteo pasquinelli <mat@rekombinant.org>
Subject: <nettime> Tactical Television in Italy
Dear nextimers,
an instant-report from Italy, where a wave of tactical
televisions is rising connected to no-war mobs and new
global movement. After video activism and net activism
we can consider this a new kind of tv activism for the
number of people, energies, ideas involved.
Telestreet (http://telestreet.it) is a spontaneous
network of very-tactical street tvs (like french
proximity tvs) that broadcast lo-fi videos only few
hours a week troughout a 1000euro 400meters-range
equipment. Telestreet was born to protest against
Mister B* media monopoly: according to Italian law
they are pirate and illegal. Low-budget and
self-funded.
No War TV (http://nowartv.it) is a satellite channel
for an alternative coverage during the Iraq war (in
these day it stopped but next should start again with
another name - interesting problem). It gathers media
activists from a wide political spectrum: Indymedia,
Social Forums, "Girotondi", Mediawatch groups (like
Megachip.info) and mainstream media practioners too.
Global TV (http://tvglobal.org) is the satellite
channel from "Disobbedienti" and the Communist Youth.
They claim to be a militant partisan tv and not an
indipendent tv: a kind of I-say-what-I-think rap. They
started in Florence during but out of the European
Social Forum.
Urban TV (http://urbantv.it) is a project (where I am
involved after Telestreet) for an open access
television in Bologna and in other Italian cities,
filling the level between the street and the
satellite. If you like an attempt to bring the
here-unknown Open Channel format. It tries to face
some issues not resolved yet in other projects such
as: organisation, continous programming, content
sharing, community partecipation, european networking
(*we look for european partners*), transparent
funding, non-profit economical autonomy. For these
reasons it started a development website and write
down a manifesto.
The Manifesto of Urban Televisions reflects the
current Italian debate on media, hybridising it with
Dutch blends like Public Domain 2.0 and with some
tools from French-Italian postfordist criticism (I
like to describe Urban Tv as a postfordist media and
not only as a tactical one). I know (but I'm not
sure), all this tv hype is a deja-vu for a lot of
tactical nettimers. But I believe that the New Thing
*here* is the connection of the (big) Italian movement
with new media activism. Next stop Geneva 2003. Enjoy.
/m
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RE: Interview with De Geuzen
>I just gotta know -- did anyone else think this
interview, and the work it
reflects on, was as interesting as I did?
i really appreciate what deGeuzen do and have to say,
and am glad someone posted the interview (i saw it on
nettime a few days ago i think). i immediately thought
of them for the turbulence "show" when i was asked to
do that
http://www.turbulence.org/curators/griffis/index.html
i have a lot of sympathies with their practical (and
political) notion of facilitating, which has much in
common with Wilding and subRosa's tactics, but taking
it on in different ways. i'm very interested in these
subtle forms of contestational work, that, in some
ways, activates spaces that more obvious confrontation
doesn't.
take care,
ryan
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FWD: ABC No Rio Latest Announcement
ABC No Rio Announces
COMA
HC/Punk Matinee
ABC No Rio Reading Series
On-Line Gallery--Wayne Liu
psy-geo-conflux
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COMA -- $3
Sunday April 13 at 8:00pm
Brian Osborne...solo percussion
plus solos/duets/ensemble
Sunday April 20 at 8:00pm
Ty Cumbie -- elec. guitar
plus solos/duets/ensemble
stop by and join in.....
free music*free mind*free world
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HC/Punk Matinee
The Saturday HC/Punk Matinee will begin again on
Saturday April 19.
Schedule info will be provided soon.
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Sunday April 20 at 7:00pm
The ABC No Rio Reading Series
Featuring:
Jennifer Bartlett
Hilary Liberty
Joanna Robin
$3
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On-Line Gallery
Wayne Liu
Wayne Liu was born in Taiwan, and educated in both
Taiwan and the
United
States. He is a volunteer at ABC No Rio's darkroom.
Wayne was one of three photographers recently
commissioned by the
Museum of
the Chinese in the Americas to document the Chinese
community in
Flushing,
Queens in New York.
We've placed some of his work on-line at:
http://www.abcnorio.org/galleries/visual_art.html
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PSY-GEO-CONFLUX
May 8-11
(exhibition runs through May 29)
Opening reception at ABC No Rio
Thursday May 8 at 6:00pm
Closing party / music and video evening at SUBTONIC
Sunday May 11 at 8:00pm
PSY-GEO-CONFLUX 2003 marks the inauguration of an
annual event
dedicated to
current artistic and social investigations in
PSYCHOGEOGRAPHY ("the
study
of the effects of the geographic environment on the
emotions and
behavior
of individuals"). Part festival and part conference,
it brings
together
visual and sound artists, writers, and urban
adventurers to explore the
physical and psychological landscape of the city.
PSY-GEO-CONFLUX will feature no fewer than eight
experimental walks and
a
mobile-phone-guided drift through the streets of New
York; a life-sized
chess game using humans as pieces; several talks and
presentations; a
noise
parade; an art exhibition; and a night of
psychogeography-inspired live
music, DJs, and video. All events are FREE and open
to the public.
The exhibition, talks, and presentations will take
place at ABC No Rio.
The
closing party / evening of music and video will be
held at the SUBTONIC
LOUNGE (107 Norfolk Street--bet. Delancey and
Rivington). Walks and
other
outdoor activities will start at various places around
the city.
A complete schedule, event details (including location
information for
walks), links to participants, contact information,
and much more can
be
found at:
http://glowlab.com/pgc
You can subscribe to a (low-volume) mailing list for
schedule updates
and
other news about PSY-GEO-CONFLUX at
http://lists.interactivist.net/mailman/listinfo/psygeoconflux
PSY-GEO-CONFLUX is produced by ABC No Rio, Glowlab,
and the Brooklyn
Psychogeographical Association. Sponsored in part by
Artists Space
Independent Project Grant. Exhibition funded in part
by the New York
State
Council on the Arts.
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(212) 254-3697
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FWD: San Jose Art & Resistance Summit
californians, people visiting there, or just
archivists of such events might be interested... ryan
San Jose, California
San Jose Art & Resistance Summit
April 21-28, 2003
A brazen exploration of the divine unity between art
and justice,
the San Jose Art & Resistance Summit promises seven
glorious days
and nights of dissention, poetry slams, film
screenings,
experimental theater, subversion, multimedia
performances, outdoor
concerts, guerrilla workshops, self-determination,
speaker panels,
visual exhibitions, hip hop shows, and conspiracy!
Formerly known as the Floricanto Festival and
Conference, the new
and improved San Jose Art & Resistance Summit features
over 75
artists. Its goal: to arm attendees with the practical
and
philosophical tools needed to think of and use art as
a tool
(weapon) of resistance.
To this end MACLA, and several invited presenters,
have assembled a
unique and stimulating schedule of guerrilla workshops
and a keynote
panel in conjunction with an art exhibition and
performances and by
local and visiting artists in the areas of film,
theater, spoken
word and music.
For tickets and information on all events call (408)
938-3594.
Monday, April 21
Opening Reception w/Art Exhibition sponsored by DeBug
Exhibition sponsored and curetted by DeBug.
6:00 p.m. MACLA - 510 S. First Street, San Jose
FREE
Find out more about the week's events and
performances, register
for
workshops, and enjoy complementary hors d'oeuvres.
Also, check out
a special exhibition centered around the theme of art
and resistance
featuring the work of emerging Bay Area artists.
South Bay Teen Slam League