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: BAAAH! (a steal-this-idea conceptual instruction)
great ideas... but i don't get what makes them "tactical"... these seem
like your average art-spectacle to me.
maybe if there was actually a human-sheep offspring from the copulation
that could sew sweaters for "the homeless" from its own wool, that
would, of course, grow at 100x the average rate.
ryan
FWD: The Art and Democracy National Gathering
The Art and Democracy National Gathering
From Wednesday, September 8, through Sunday, September 12, Appalshop
is hosting a "Real-Time Re-Creation of Robert F. Kennedy's 1968 Tour of
Eastern Kentucky" AND "Art & Democracy," a national gathering of
artists and
activists.
You may have heard rumors that Robert F. Kennedy is returning to the
eastern Kentucky mountains in September. If you have, or even if you
are
hearing this for the first time, you probably want to know more.
You are invited to abandon the sidelines and to be a participant in
both
events. The tour begins in Lexington, Kentucky. The motorcade will
carry yo=
u
into the mountains
NewGenics
The Wild Genetic Goose Chase: An Interview With Tony Holtzman
http://www.gene-watch.org/genewatch/articles/17-4Holtzman.html
A renowned researcher, scholar, and activist, Tony Holtzman has studied
for decades the medical use of genetic technologies. He has largely
focused on the policy implications of the technologies, genetic
screening, and the use of genetic tests to determine susceptibility to
common diseases or the possibility of altered reactions to drug
treatments.
Map of US Biodefense Program
image of map
http://www.sunshine-project.org/biodefense/blsmapside1.jpg
key
http://www.sunshine-project.org/biodefense/blsmapside2.jpg
NIAID Biodefense Program Funds in Violation of Federal Biosafety Rules
http://www.sunshine-project.org/publications/pr/pr020804.html
The biodefense program of the National Institutes of Health (NIH) is
not following the Institutes' own biosafety guidelines
in grants made to research biological weapons agents.
Consumers become more cautious about modified foods
http://www.thecampaign.org/News/aug04c.php#become
At Trust Mart, a large supermarket in Guangzhou (China), shoppers are
sauntering in front of the cooking oil shelves carefully checking out
products that feature mainly soy bean oil, corn oil and peanut oil.
Judge orders Hawaiian locations of biopharm crops revealed
http://www.thecampaign.org/News/aug04b.php#judge
Chief Judge David Ezra agreed with the plaintiff Center for Food
Safety, represented by the public interest law firm Earthjustice, that
the locations of the so-called biopharm crops is not confidential
proprietary business information.
Craig Venter's Epic Voyage to Redefine the Origin of the Species
http://www.wired.com/wired/archive/12.08/venter.html
Leaving colleagues and rivals to comb through the finished human code
in search of individual genes, he has decided to sequence the genome of
Mother Earth.
US Dept of Homeland Security to Begin Biometric Exit Pilot
http://www.dhs.gov/dhspublic/display?content875
As a part of the border management system introduced at airports and
seaports earlier this year, the U.S. Department of Homeland Security
(DHS) today announced that it will pilot and evaluate US-VISIT
automated biometric exit procedures for foreign visitors.
US PUSHING FOR BIOMETRIC PASSPORTS BUT...
http://newpaper.asia1.com.sg/top/story/0,4136,70470,00.html?
Experts are saying that the electronic identification chips that will
be imbedded in US passports to allow computer matching of facial
characteristics is prone to a high rate of error.
French protesters trash biotech corn field
http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&cid39&ncid39&e=6&u=/
afp/20040815/sc_afp/ france_biotech_food_040815001949
Several hundred protesters trashed a field of genetically engineered
corn, despite the presence of about 100 pro-biotech militants and
almost as many police.
RNA could form building blocks for nanomachines
http://www.medicalnewstoday.com/medicalnews.php?newsid075
Microscopic scaffolding to house the tiny components of nanotech
devices could be built from RNA, the same substance that shuttles
messages around a cell's nucleus, reports a Purdue University research
group.
YOUgenics: art interrogating genetic technologies
http://www.yougenics.net
FWD: Gigantic Art Space hosting Indy Media InfoShop
Independent Media InfoShop Opening Night
& Silent Auction Fundraiser
WHEN:
August 19th, 2004 8-12 p.m.
LOCATION:
Gigantic ArtSpace, NYC
59 Franklin Street, between Lafayette and Broadway
OVERVIEW:
From August 19 to September 6 Gigantic ArtSpace, in downtown New York,
will serve as an Independent Media Infoshop for a public hungry for
truth.
During the Republican National Convention, the GOP spin machine will
make every effort to airbrush the hundreds of thousands of expected
protesters out of the happy GOP Convention picture, or worse, paint
them as dangerous 'Un-American