ryan griffis
Since 2002
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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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Bound By Law


Just came across this on Joi Ito's blog:
'Will a spiky-haired, camera-toting super-heroine... restore decency
and common sense to the world of creative endeavor?

DISCUSSION

Fwd: LACE Summer Internship Opportunity -- applications due 19 April


Begin forwarded message:
>
> LACE (LOS ANGELES CONTEMPORARY EXHIBITIONS)
> 6522 Hollywood Boulevard LA CA 90028
> http://www.artleak.org
>
> LACE announces a summer internship opportunity for undergraduates.
> Please note that the deadline to apply is 19 April 2006. Please read
> on for more information -- and feel free to share this posting with
> others who might be interested.
> _______________________________________________________________________
> ___
>
> Multicultural Undergraduate Summer Internship 2006
>
> Curatorial Internship: 10-weeks, June-Aug 06, full-time, $3500 gross
> salary
> This summer internship at LACE sponsored by the Getty Foundation's
> Multicultural Undergraduate Summer Internship program is an
> opportunity for an undergraduate to learn the conventions and protocol
> of mounting contemporary exhibitions from research to deinstallation,
> as well as outreach, marketing and publicity.
>
> WHO IS ELIGIBLE:
> In accordance with guidelines set by the Getty Foundation, candidates
> must be:
>
> - members of groups underrepresented in the visual arts professions,
> specifically, individuals of African American, Asian, Latino/Hispanic,
> Native American, and Pacific Islander descent;
>
> - currently enrolled as undergraduates, who will have completed at
> least one semester of college by June 2006, and will not graduate
> before December 2006; and
>
> - residents of or attending college in Los Angeles County.
>
> Students who have previously served as Getty Multicultural Summer
> Interns at LACE or have served at more than two other organization are
> not eligible for this internship.
>
> POSITION DESCRIPTION:
> The Curatorial Intern will
>
> - assist the Executive Director and Program Coordinator in the
> installation and presentation of LACE's summer exhibitions and the
> concurrent public programs (lectures, screenings and workshops);
>
> - assist with the promotion of all presentations, including via online
> and print materials and liaise between LACE and collaborating art and
> education institutions;
>
> - coordinate documentation of each presentation;
>
> - assist with pre-program planning and coordination of upcoming fall
> 2006 exhibitions;
>
> - contribute to the research and development of LACE's new podcasting
> initiative, including assisting the Executive Director to research and
> curate a series of pilot programs using historical source materials
> and digital media; and
>
> - provide important support for ongoing program-related activities,
> including processing artist submissions, research for upcoming
> projects and planning education and outreach programs
>
> HOW TO APPLY:
> To apply, forward a resume, references, and a cover letter explaining
> reason for interest and addressing how you meet the guidelines set by
> the Getty Foundation to:
> Bridget DuLong, Managing Director, LACE, 6522 Hollywood Blvd, Los
> Angeles CA 90028,
> or fax to 323.957.9025 or email to bridget@artleak.org. Call
> 323.957.1777, x12, if questions.
>
> Deadline for receipt: Wednesday 19 April 2006.
>
> ABOUT LACE:
> LACE is a nonprofit visual arts organization founded in 1978. Located
> in the heart of Hollywood, LACE contributes to the long-term
> enrichment of Los Angeles's urban landscape and champions art's
> ability to engage with the timely political, social and cultural
> issues that shape local and global life. LACE events -- exhibitions,
> performances, screenings, dialogs and other public forums -- strive to
> inspire the public imagination and to expand interactions between art
> and audience.
>
> For more information about LACE please visit http://www.artleak.org
>
> Support for LACE and its programs comes from the American Center
> Foundation, Andy Warhol Foundation for the Visual Arts, California
> Community Foundation, City of Los Angeles Department of Cultural
> Affairs, The Getty Foundation, Hollywood Chamber of Commerce Community
> Foundation, Jockey Hollow Foundation, LLWW Foundation, Los Angeles
> County Arts Commission, Morris Family Foundation, Pasadena Art
> Alliance and the members of LACE.
>
>

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Fwd: [Fwd: [stoptheminutemen] Student commits suicide after being threatened]


for people following the immigration legislation and the popular
demonstrations in the US...

Begin forwarded message:

Original article is at: http://www.indybay.org/news/2006/04/1813993.php

First Casualty of Student Walk Outs!
jesheekah - jesheekah@yahoo.com
Saturday, Apr. 08, 2006 at 12:26 PM

Eighth grader Anthony Soltero shot himself through the head on
Thursday, March 30, after the assistant principal at De Anza Middle
School told him that he was going to prison for three years because of
his involvement as an organizer of the April 28 school walk-outs to
protest the anti-immigrant legislation in Washington. The vice
principal also forbade Anthony from attending graduation activities and
threatened to fine his mother for Anthonys truancy and participation in
the student protests.

1st Walkout Death!
Body: FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
NEWS CONFERENCE
Sunday, April 9, 2006
12:00 p.m.
Our Lady of Guadalupe Church
710 S. Sultana Ave., Ontario, CA 91761

Louise Corales, whose 14 year-old son, Anthony Soltero, died on April
1 after committing suicide, will speak to the community and ask for a
prayer for her son this Sunday, following the 11:00 a.m. mass at Our
Lady of Guadalupe Church in Ontario, California.

Eighth grader Anthony Soltero shot himself through the head on
Thursday, March 30, after the assistant principal at De Anza Middle
School told him that he was going to prison for three years because of
his involvement as an organizer of the April 28 school walk-outs to
protest the anti-immigrant legislation in Washington. The vice
principal also forbade Anthony from attending graduation activities and
threatened to fine his mother for Anthonys truancy and participation in
the student protests.

Anthony was learning about the importance of civic duties and rights
in his eighth grade class. Ironically, he died because the vice
principal at his school threatened him for speaking out and exercising
those rights, Ms. Corales said today. I want to speak out to other
parents, whose children are attending the continuing protests this
week. We have to let the schools know that they cant punish our
children for exercising their rights.

Anthonys death is likely the first fatality arising from the protests
against the immigration legislation being considered in Washington,
D.C. Anthony, who was a very good student at De Anza Middle School in
the Ontario-Montclair School District, believed in justice and was
passionate about the immigration issue. He is survived by his mother,
Louise Corales, his father, a younger sister, and a baby brother.

Ms. Corales will speak to the community after mass on Sunday, April 9,
2006 at 12:00 p.m. at Our Lady of Guadalupe Church. She will ask for a
prayer for Anthony, whose funeral and burial are scheduled for Monday,
April 10 in Long Beach, where he was born.

CONTACT: R. SAMUEL PAZ
(310) 410-2981
(310) 989-6815

DISCUSSION

Fwd: Giant corporation, Bhopal survivors need cash now


Begin forwarded message:

April 11, 2006
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE

Contact: mailto:help@theyesmen.org
Help: http://www.theyesmen.org/contactus/#donate
http://www.bhopal.net/delhi-march.html#actions

GIANT CORPORATION, GIANT CORPORATION'S VICTIMS BOTH NEED CASH NOW

Here's an update on some recent Yes Men activities. But first, two
appeals:

* In a few weeks, the Yes Men will speak at a major conference
as one of the world's biggest, nastiest companies. We're planning
something every bit as bizarre as the WTO's meter-long golden phallus -
but we're a bit short on funds to pull it off. If you can help,
please visit http://www.theyesmen.org/contactus/#donate or write to us.

* On a whole other level, survivors of the Bhopal catastrophe have
just completed a march from Bhopal to Delhi to protest the Indian
government's refusal to help force Dow to the table; now they're
beginning a hunger strike. Please support them at
http://www.bhopal.net/delhi-march.html#actions or by donating to the
Bhopal Medical Appeal (http://www.bhopal.org/donations/).

Now for the updates.

DOW PROMOTES "POST-CAUTIONARY PRINCIPLE"

Last November at a San Francisco nanotechnology conference, a "Dow
representative" urged the scientists, engineers, and entrepreneurs in
the audience to hurry potentially dangerous nanotech products to
market before they could be tested. Citing Dow's record profits
despite a history of releasing dangerous and often lethal products,
the representative asserted that caution is best deferred until after
a product is released, and that testing ought to be performed not by
the corporation but by the population at large, to give them the
opportunity to participate in corporate progress. The audience, to
their credit, found these ideas disturbing, but many admitted that
they had no control over how the products they were developing would
be released. Meanwhile, in the exhibits hall, the Yes Men discovered
that nanotech products known to be dangerous are available for sale
to anyone with the money....

INDIAN HIJINKS

The pesticide Dursban was banned in the US in 2001; that very year,
Dow opened a Dursban plant in Chiplun, India, and now manufactures
and sells it in India. Last December, the Yes Men, posing as Dow
managers, dropped in on the factory for an inspection. They had been
told of the plant by Bhopal survivors, who are angry that Dow is able
to launch new, harmful ventures in India even as they continue to get
away with murder in Bhopal.

Also in December, the Yes Men visited the largest agricultural fair
in India and learned how companies like Monsanto sell their expensive
seeds to farmers, who are often ruined when the crop doesn't perform
as well as expected; thousands of farmers have lately committed
suicide by drinking the pesticide that comes with the seeds, and
millions more have ended up in big-city slums. After speaking to
Monsanto and other company representatives to learn their sales
tricks, the Yes Men successfully sold seeds armed against "amoebas
and houseflies" and demonstrated a pesticide that doesn't kill but
simply lobotomizes the drinker, making him or her happier with
whatever happens.

OIL SOLVES GLOBAL WARMING

One week ago in Norway, one of the world's very richest countries,
the Yes Men posed as investigative reporters at a journalism
conference and revealed their "discovery" that Norway, far from being
enviro-friendly as everyone believes, is probably the world's largest
agent of climate change per capita. This is because (a) Norway is the
world's third largest petroleum exporter, and (b) Norway invests the
billions it makes from petroleum in a wide range of oil, automobile,
airplane, shipping, and defense companies, via its massive "Petroleum
Fund." (While Norway's aid to Pakistan, investments in ecological
measures, and support of the Nobel Peace Prize are much better known,
they are much smaller than its aid to Shell, Chevron, Exxon,
Halliburton, etc. via the Fund.)

The journalists were dumbfounded at the April Fools' talk. When the
truth came out that the "investigators" were phony, many of the
journalists did express surprise that the hypocrisy of a supposedly
"green" country being so heavily invested in oil, pollution, and war
had not received more attention.

DISCUSSION

Re: Re: martin kippenberger has left the building


Regina...
are you OK?
if this is a performance meant to cause concern about a person i've
never met except through a list, it has worked.
are you singling me out for a particular reason? why have i been chosen
to receive your desperate thoughts?
am i more guilty than others?
do not play games with such fragile and serious things. please.
you must know i care.
the people running my country are proven criminals and murderers, but i
cannot say i care more about that than this.
even my dog has been neglected, since my thoughts have become so
overwhelmed with this concern.
i do not know how to be any more direct.

On Apr 7, 2006, at 11:57 AM, beate zurwehme wrote:

> Am 07.04.2006 um 18:22 schrieb Regina Pinto:
>
> Dear Beate and all,
>
> I visited your work and liked, specially the sound. But...
>
> Martin kippenberger is a polemic artist.
> Also your text: "ich kann beim besten willen kein hakenkreuz darin" =
> +- "I can recognize with the best sake no swastika therein" has
> bestirred me.
> Also the fact that you sent this email to my other email which is not
> the email I use in rhizome. I do not know you from another list.
> We have never talked before.
> Are you trying to tell me anything? I would like to understand why you
> sent me this work privately.
> My ancestors were JEWISH if you are interested about this. Please,
> tell me the truth!
> It is so absurd that one can imagine this that I am a nazzy that I am
> completely astonished!
> My works are not polemic, can you tell me which is the work I did
> which is polemic?
> Have you seen any suastic in one of them? Please, tell me! Be sincere!
> Perhaps the polemic is in your eyes or in the eyes of the one that is
> spreading this, do you know him /her? Tell me please from whom you
> received this information.
> It seems to me that you are accusing me, if you are you doing this,
> are you based on what? Could you explain me? I do not think that it is
> ethical, do you?
> The last evenements in Rizome made me stressed just because I did not
> know of what I have been acused.
> I have been sick, with hight blood pressure. Also I am not posting
> because I do not like to cause problems, mainly if people do not do
> direct accusations.
> Please, be direct just like I am being, okay?
> Let's decide this forever, please!
>
> I know who I am and I do not deserve this at all
>
> If I am imagining things, my sincere apologies!
>
> All best,
>
> Regina