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: new name for Net Art News?
ryan
On Dec 12, 2005, at 4:15 AM, aabrahams wrote:
> playing with abe's suggestion :
>
> sprOUTs
>
>
Waves CFP
> CALL FOR PAPERS:
>
> WAVES - electromagnetic waves as material and medium of art
> (Acoustic Space. Issue #6)
>
>
> We are seeking manuscripts for the upcoming Acoustic Space journal, to
> be
> published for the 8th international Art+Communication festival that
> will
> celebrate its 10th anniversary in Riga Latvia, from August 24-27, 2006.
> For the first time the festival will be conceived as a large scale
> exhibition event that focuses on the phenomenon of "electromagnetic
> waves".
>
> The print journal, Acoustic Space is a forum for net.radio, sound art
> and
> creative explorations in the networked electro-acoustic environments.
> Now
> in its 6th edition, Acoustic Space WAVES Issue will deal with
> properties of
> waves in imaginative ways, exploring, making visible or making us feel
> waves on a host of different bands of the spectrum.
>
> ((((((((((((((((((((((((((( w a v e s )))))))))))))))))))))))))))))))))
>
> The main thesis behind the WAVES idea is that when artists take waves
> seriously as the medium of their artwork, they start questioning the
> boundaries of what can be done with this medium. Electronic
> information is
> a tightly controlled sphere. Yet artists with their electronic DIY kits
> have found numerous ways of thinking outside the box, making their own
> waves, creating alternative networks and facilities or creatively
> abusing
> existing technology.
>
> The publication seeks to offer a space of exchange for artists,
> scientists,
> media theorists, radio activists and new media practitioners who are
> exploring ideas and notions in relation to electromagnetic waves,
> spectrum
> space, and also waves as a universal principle.
>
> (((((((((((((((((((((((((((((((((((((((((((((((((((((((((((((((((((((((
>
>
> * Themes and subthemes:
>
>> scientific/artistic: - radio astronomy - radio cryptography - spectrum
> mapping - radio oceanography - climate change research - visualisation
> and
> sonification - ...
>
>> alternative communication systems: - ad-hoc networking - wireless -
>> ...
>
>> wave philosophy: - wave-particle duality - wave sculpture -
> signal-to-noise ratio - determinism vs indeterminism - quantum
> spacetime
> bubbles - ...
>
>> social movements: - social cycles - Kondratiev - ...
>
>> psycho-esoteric-utopian: - ESP, Raudive, Jirgenson - psycho climate
> research - Tesla - Schauberger - ...
>
> ))))))))))))))))))))))))))))))))))))))))))))))))))))))))))))))))
>
>
> We encourage you to submit abstracts first. Proposals and inquiries
> regarding submissions should be made to Rasa Smite <rasa@rixc.lv>
>
> Deadline for submissions: February 1, 2006 (for abstracts)
>
> (+ for finished texts: April 15, 2006)
>
> ((((((((((((((((((((((((((( w a v e s ))))))))))))))))))))))))))
>
>
>
> * Conceptual background:
>
> By Armin Medosch
>
> Pantha Rei - everything flows
>
> Radio waves occur naturally. Society puts the biggest emphasis on the
> ability of waves to carry signals. Radio, television and mobile
> telephony
> are some of the most widely used applications. The worlds fixation on
> content and its socio-political implications makes us forget the waves
> themselves. The proposed exhibition takes a look at the physical
> properties
> of waves. Waves are considered to be 'immaterial' from the point of
> view of
> visual art. However, light is just a specific band in the spectrum of
> electromagnetic waves. Some of the properties of waves change
> according to
> their frequency and wavelength. It is worthwhile looking at those
> properties and exploring their implications for art. Wave-like
> phenomena
> play an important role in various aspects of reality, from the physical
> consistency of the world (audio-, air-, water-waves) to
> Kondratiev-cycles
> and the carbon-cycle (the storage and release of CO2 by oceans and
> forests).
>
> A materialistic analysis of waves reveals that there is a direct
> relation
> between the wavelength and the length of an antenna - the device
> necessary
> to receive and send waves. [lambda] = the wavelength of an
> electromagnetic
> wave is the result of the speed of light divided by the frequency. For
> instance, the frequency on which wireless lan operates, is 2.4
> Gigahertz.
> 300 000 / 2400 000 = 0.125 km or 12.5 cm. The length of the antenna
> needs
> to be [lambda]/2 = 6.25 cm or multiples of it. Through this formula
> expresses itself a link between immaterial wave and physical object.
> The
> antenna as an object combines sculptural and functional aspects.
>
> We cannot speak about waves without mentioning wave/particle duality.
> Light
> and electromagnetic radiation are actually not only waves but also
> exhibit
> properties of particles. Wave-particle duality also applies to matter.
> Thus, the 'building bricks' of matter need to be understood also as
> waves.
> The relationships between wavelength, mass, energy and speed offer
> exciting
> possibilities for an artistic exploration of the ontological status of
> affairs. Since 100 years we cannot take the physical status of the
> world
> for granted and must live with an understanding of spacetime which is
> counter-intuitive and hard to visualize. For art, this is an
> interesting
> opening, a chance to ask the big questions about fundamentals such as
> time,
> space, energy and substances.
>
> It is a basic property of waves to create connections. Through the
> antenna
> we get access to Hertzian space. Artists using electromagnetic waves as
> their medium are creating wave-sculptures, real-time connections in
> time
> and space, which allow us to enter another space. Those connections
> can go
> both ways from formlessness to form and structure and back -- the
> materialisation of the inconcrete and its opposite.
>
> Around planet earth a tight information sphere has been formed. Whereas
> some artists explore this thicket of global communication networks with
> various probing techniques, it becomes increasingly clear that it does
> not
> make much sense to add just another communication channel to this
> already
> babilonic mess. Increasingly artists focus on experimenting with their
> own
> signals and systems instead of relying on the commodified information
> infrastructures of the global media sphere. By creating mobile ad-hoc
> networks or by pointing antennas towards outer space or the depth of
> oceans
> artists literally open up the horizons towards the possibilities of a
> new
> way of seeing and interacting with the world.
>
>
> (((((((((((((((((((((((((((((((((((((((((((((((((((((((((((((((((((((((
>
>
> * Editorial team:
>
> Concept: Armin Medosch <armin@easynet.co.uk>
> Editors: Rasa Smite <rasa@rixc.lv>, Armin Medosch, Raitis Smits
>
> * Contact: rixc@rixc.lv
>
> Address:
> The RIXC, The Center for New Media Culture
> 11. Novembra Krastmala 35 - 201, Riga, LV 1050, Latvia.
> Tel. +371-7228478, +371-6546776 (mob.),
> Fax: +371-7228477
> URL: http://rixc.lv
>
> http://rixc.lv/waves
>
> ))))))))))))))))))))))))))))))))))))))))))))))))))))))))))))))))
Fwd: Glowlab: The Closing PaRTy
>
>
> The last days of the Glowlab: Open Lab psychogeography festival and
> exhibition are nigh - Don't miss out! If you come to one event, come
> to the closing party this SUNDAY from 6-8PM. You won't be
> disappointed.
>
> ______________________________________________________________
> SATURDAY, DEC. 10TH, 12PM - 5PM:
> DIY Wearable Challenge: LIMITED SPACE AVAILABLE
>
>
> WHAT: Internationally acclaimed artists Jonah Brucker-Cohen and
> Katherine Moriwaki lead a fabric workshop to make fashionable
> interactive outfits out of discarded clothes from Central Square.
> WHEN: Saturday, Dec. 10th, 12PM - 5PM
> WHERE: Art Interactive, 130 Bishop Allen Dr, Cambridge, MA
>
> Free, but reservations required as there is limited space available.
> Please call contact Catherine at 617-498-0100 or
> catherine@artinteractive.org to make a reservation for this event.
>
> ______________________________________________________________
> SUNDAY, DEC. 11TH, 6PM - 8PM:
> CLOSING PARTY WITH A TWIST
>
> WHAT: Join us for the closing party of Glowlab: Open Lab, undoubtedly
> the greatest psychogeography festival ever presented in Central Square
>
> Performances in the gallery will include a live video and audio
> stream by LoVid, an interactive audio piece for mobile phone handsets
> by RZ-1 Mobil Tek, plus experimental ambient live music by Eric Raz,
> Brad Bordine, and Weapons of Mass Destruction, additional sounds from
> Opsound's collaborative internet radio stream.
>
> Morgan Schwartz will stage public balloon launches, Toby Kim Lee will
> collect notebooks, Sal Randolph will spin tunes, Curator Christina Ray
> will lead algorithmic walks, Sharilyn Neidhardt will sing, and The
> Institute for Infinitely Small Things will ride the Soundbike.
>
> WHEN: Sunday, Dec. 11th, 6PM - 8PM
> WHERE: Art Interactive, 130 Bishop Allen Dr, Cambridge, MA
>
> Free and open to the public. FREE BEER provided by Tiger Beer.
>
> This event is presented in partnership with Non-Event.
>
> ______________________________________________________________
> THE CLOSING PARTY PERFORMERS:
>
>
> The Glowlab: Open Lab closing party is produced by Opsound's Open
> Sound Exchange. Opsound is a project of artist Sal Randolph.
> Performers include:
>
> LoVid
> LoVid is Tali Hinkis and Kyle Lapidus. Using homemade electronic
> devices and DIY sculptural instruments, LoVid overwhelms the senses
> with new media in their performances, videos, objects, and
> installations. LoVid has toured the US and Europe extensively
> performing among many others at Eyebeam, Harvestworks, Boley, Max
> Protetch, Eyedrum, NY Underground Film Festival, Look and Listen
> Festival, Kraak(3) Festival, Lokaal01, Lumen, and Futuresonic
> Festival. LoVid has exhibited among others at COCA Seattle, Sotheby's,
> SOUTHFIRST, Happy Lion, Institute of Contemporary Art London, and The
> New Museum of Contemporary Art. LoVid is currently artist in residence
> at Eyebeam, has been selected as artist in residence at Harvestworks
> and iEAR, has been nominated free103point9 transmission artist, and
> has recently received a grant from NYSCA. A DVD of LoVid recordings
> made during a residency at Experimental TV Center has recently been
> released on CollectivEye. further links: eyebeam exhibition &
> residency
> (http://www.eyebeam.org/engage/exhibitions.php?subid
Re: RHIZOME_RARE: new name for Net Art News?
ryan
On Dec 6, 2005, at 9:24 PM, Pall Thayer wrote:
> I don't know what you mean. Who _wouldn't_ want to be seen as glittery
> golden vinyl upholstery and fake leopard skin pillows? I also feel
> that Rhizome should move their headquarters into a bowling alley and
> organize monthly fund-raising bowl-a-thons called "Bowling for Bytes"
> and once a year use the proceeds to invite all the members to a
> weekend bash in Tijuana.
>
> Art Tomorrow
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>
Fwd: Streets of East Los Angeles Art Installation
>> Saturday, December 17, 2005 @ 7pm. - 10pm
>> Streets of East Los Angeles Exhibition
>> Opening Reception: Dec. 17, 2005 from 7 p.m. to 10 p.m.
>> The streets of East Los Angeles have inspired generations of artists,
>> writers and urbanists, who have celebrated its geography,
>> architecture and
>> street life in paintings, photography and narratives. No other
>> Southland
>> region has spurred such creative activity!
>> Located across the Los Angeles River from downtown, East Los Angeles
>> has
>> been a haven for new immigrants as early as the late 1800s. Hailing
>> from
>> diverse countries and regions, the public culture generated among
>> these
>> neighbors has given rise to some of the most animated streets in the
>> city.
>> In the early 1970s, ASCO used the streets of ELA as a canvas for their
>> political work. For over 30 years, East Los Streetscapers has created
>> public murals that reflect the history and energy of the area. Today
>> the
>> Eastside streets serve as plazas or public space for residents. From
>> mobile street vendors, people waiting for the bus, joggers around
>> Evergreen Cemetery to the creation of nativities in front yards the
>> public
>> life is very strong.
>> This multi-media exhibition will feature the works of Paul Botello,
>> Diego
>> Cardoso, Gronk, and Ramon Ramirez. These artists have either lived,
>> or
>> worked in the area. Concurrently in the project room street vendor
>> research of Los Angeles Trade Technical College and Roosevelt High
>> School
>> will be on display.
>> Location:Gallery 727
>> 727 S. Spring Street #12
>> LA, CA. 90014
>>
>