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

Re: miles davis and new media


Yes - Eduardo - very necessary point regarding the perceived color of
"New Media." hopefully more people were thinking this, if not writing
in...
and yes, the comparison with Miles is, well, not really a comparison...
but it got me thinking about records i haven't listened to in a while...
anyone ever listen to Rahsaan Roland Kirk?
http://www.alfanet.hu/kirk/index2.html
freakin' amazing.
ryan

DISCUSSION

Re: Miles Davis Continued


But when theorists make a bad turn, it usually doesn't involve fusion
covers of Michael Jackson that you have to hear on the "light Jazz"
station at work.
Sometimes the light needs to be obscured before it becomes an out of
control pyrotechnic display that catches someone's hair on fire.
It all depends on who's lighting the flame and what they want to set on
fire with it.
Cliches for a new millennium.

On Aug 5, 2004, at 10:19 PM, Eric Dymond wrote:

> Perhaps, we have wrapped ourselves in the theories of new media
> instead of the visons of Miles Davis, Kenneth Koch, et al, the artists
> and Poets who have a vision of the future. These visions never call
> for disciples.
> Forget the theorits, they always abound at the beginning of a new
> beginning.
> Like Moths to a flame they obscure any light.

DISCUSSION

Orlo Video Slam 2004 update


Hello Friends of Orlo,

You won't want to miss the next installment of Video Slam 2004. This
saturday, August 7, we'll be screening brand new short films on the
theme of
PLASTIC CULTURE. Screenings begin around 7:30 pm at the Orlo Exhibition
Space, 2516 NW 29th Bldg. 9. See www.orlo.org for more information on
the
slam, submission guides and directions. Hope to see you there.

MORE DETAILS BELOW. PLEASE FORWARD.

News Release
For immediate release
July 27, 2004
For further information:
Peter Shaver
503-242-1047
bear@orlo.org

Orlo Announces First Set of Finalists from Video Slam 2004

Addressing the theme of "Mad Cow (s)," the Video Slam 2004 series was
launched this past Saturday, July 24, at the Know Theater in Northeast
Portland. Orlo is pleased to present the first set of finalists from the
heat:

Ben Ruggierro and Colin McCrudden
for "Sizzle"

Michael Chappell
for "Creature's on the Loose"

Two additional heats will be held on August 7 (theme: Plastic Culture)
and
August 14 (theme: The Campaign Trail) at the Orlo Exhibition Space in
Northwest Portland at 2516 NW 29th, Building 9, starting at 7:30 pm.
Finalists from all three heats will compete for cash awards at the Grand
Slam on August 19 at the Laurelhurst Theater (28th and E. Burnside). The
heats are free and open to the public. Filmmakers from the Portland
area and
beyond are encouraged to produce new short-format films for entry in
this
film-on-the-fly series.

For past news releases on the Video Slam Series, contact information and
submission guides, please visit www.orlo.org.

Video Slam 2004 is being sponsored in part by Orlo, Willamette Week,
Comcast
and Mactarnahan's Brewing.

Orlo is a nonprofit organization using the creative arts to explore
environmental issues.

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Orlo
The Orlo Exhibition Space
The Bear Deluxe Magazine
Mailing address: P.O. Box 10342
Street address: 2516 NW 29th
(see www.orlo.org for directions)
Portland, Oregon 97296
Phone: 503-242-1047
Fx: 503-243-2645 (call first)
email: bear@orlo.org
url: www.orlo.org


DISCUSSION

Re: Re: Blog vs Board (re: Blogging Survey)


> When you're on your deathbed, most of the things you will remember
> about your life will be things that happened off-line. If you're on
> the internet too much, you're missing out on a whole world of
> physical, face-to-face experiences. Choosing a mailing list over a
> blog isn't going to help that one bit.

Thanks for the pick-me-up Francis... ;)
ryan