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]
YOUgenics updates
Nanotech Network Approved by National Science
Foundation
http://www.nsf.gov/od/lpa/news/03/pr03150.htm
Bush approves nanotech program
http://www.nano.gov/html/news/PresSignsNanoBill.htm
The Temporary Travel Office has a new site, updated
materials, and is working on new projects.
A portable audio tour is being produced for the
Chicago Technology Park (not commissioned by them, of
course). There will be MP3s and PDFs available for
download as well as hard copy CDs and printed guides.
Due out April. The Virtual Postcard maker will also be
updated to be Chicago-specific during the month of
April.
The Office will be moving (along with YOUgenics
curator ryan griffis) to the Los Angeles area this
June, where it will continue "operations."
http://www.yougenics.net/traveloffice
YOUgenics: art interrogating genetic technologies
http://www.yougenics.net
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RE: NY-TIMES : The Tyranny of Copyright?
actually supposed to be fairly limited according to
the DMCA, and any claim of liability is the
responsibility of the charging party. maybe someone
else knows more concretely how that works...
see: http://www.cyberspacelaw.org/dogan/dmcaisp.html
the intimidation of ISPs over content seems like
institutional blackmail by more powerful companies
over smaller ones. not something intended by the DMCA,
but just business as usual. granted the DMCA is meant
to benefit larger entities, but is being abused by
powerful interests like most laws are.
anyway, here's an account of an interesting ruling on
the RIAA suits...
http://research.yale.edu/lawmeme/modules.php?name=News&file=article&sid92
ryan
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Google food not bombs
Sutton robbed banks - that's where the payoff is."
http://www.nytimes.com/2004/01/22/technology/circuits/22goog.html?th
yeah, the huge payoff of directing a search engine
when people type in phrases like "food Nazis." real
information terrorists, these "bombers." i mean, when
you type in "miserable failure" you expect to find
some unemployed alchoholic's web site, not a joke. i
hope the DOD is on this now, before it gets out of
hand.
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FWD: Ctheory update: PACTAC
PACIFIC CENTRE FOR TECHNOLOGY AND CULTURE (PACTAC)
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We are pleased to announce the opening of the Pacific
Centre for
Technology and Culture.
Located at the University of Victoria, British
Columbia, Canada, the
Pacific Centre for Technology and Culture (PACTAC) is
conceived as a
unique interdisciplinary institute for researching
and teaching
issues related to the impact of technological change
on culture,
politics and society. Simultaneously a centre of
global intellectual
exchange and an innovative and collaborative site for
exploring the
digital future, PACTAC approaches the question of
technology from
perspectives which are interdisciplinary in scope,
critical in
sensibility, and creative, experimental and immersive
in method.
CTHEORY is an integral part of the intellectual
project of the
Pacific Centre for Technology and Culture.
"Electronic Theory:
Science, Terror and Nihilism," PACTAC's inaugural
lecture series
(listed below) will be streamed and archived on
CTHEORY's web site
<www.ctheory.net>.
The Pacific Centre for Technology and Culture has
been created
within the context of Dr. Arthur Kroker's Canada
Research Chair in
Technology, Culture and Theory, Department of
Political Science,
University of Victoria and is supported with
infrastructure funding
from the Canada Foundation for Innovation, British
Columbia
Knowledge Developmment Fund as well as the generous
support of the
University of Victoria.
kind regards,
Arthur and Marilouise Kroker
Editors, CTHEORY
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PACIFIC CENTRE FOR TECHNOLOGY AND CULTURE
(PACTAC)
Lecture Series: Winter 2004
Electronic Theory: Science, Terror &
Nihilism
University of Victoria
British Columbia, Canada
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Thursday January 29. 4:00pm
Sound Unbound / Rhythm Science
Paul D. Miller a.k.a. Dj Spooky
New York based multimedia artist, theorist and remix
sound Dj.
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Thursday February 12. 2:30pm
The Cultural Politics of Bio-genetics
Dr. William Leiss, F.R.S.C.
NSERC/SSHRC/Industry Research Chair in Risk
Communication and Public
Policy, University of Calgary.
Past President: The Royal Society of Canada.
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Monday February 16. 2:30pm
Re-Reading the War on Terrrorr: Technology, Culture
and Security
Bradley Bryan, Benjamin Muller, Sara Pash, Geoff
Whitehall.
Symposium moderated by Dr. James Tully.
Department of Political Science, University of
Victoria.
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Wednesday March 10. 4:00pm
The Will to Technology and the Culture of Nihilism
Dr. Arthur Kroker: Multimedia Book Launch & Lecture
Canada Research Chair in Technologyy, Culture and
Theory
Department of Political Science, University of
Victoria
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Sponsors:
Dr. Arthur Kroker, CRC in Technology, Culture and
Theory
University of Victoria.
CTHEORY. www.ctheory.net >> live stream on
ctheory.net
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PACTAC Location:
Technology Enterprise Facility (TEF), Room 170. 2300
MacKenzie.
Limited Seating for all Events: Reservations Required
Contact: ctheory@uvic.ca (250) 472-5285
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* CTHEORY is an international journal of theory,
technology and
* culture. Articles, interviews, and key book
reviews in
* contemporary discourse are published weekly as
well as
* theorisations of major "event-scenes" in the
mediascape.
*
* Editors: Arthur and Marilouise Kroker
*
* Editorial Board: Jean Baudrillard (Paris), Paul
Virilio (Paris),
* Bruce Sterling (Austin), R.U. Sirius (San
Francisco), Siegfried
* Zielinski (Koeln), Stelarc (Melbourne), Richard
Kadrey (San
* Francisco), DJ Spooky [Paul D. Miller] (NYC),
Timothy Murray
* (Ithaca/Cornell), Lynn Hershman Leeson (San
Francisco), Stephen
* Pfohl (Boston), Andrew Ross (NYC), David Cook
(Toronto), Ralph
* Melcher (Sante Fe), Shannon Bell (Toronto), Gad
Horowitz
* (Toronto), Andrew Wernick (Peterborough).
*
* In Memory: Kathy Acker
*
* Editorial Correspondents: Ken Hollings (UK),
* Maurice Charland (Canada) Steve Gibson
(Canada/Sweden).
*
* Editorial Assistant: Ted Hiebert
* WWW Design & Technical Advisor: Spencer Saunders
(CTHEORY.NET)
* WWW Engineer Emeritus: Carl Steadman
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To view CTHEORY online please visit:
http://www.ctheory.net/
To view CTHEORY MULTIMEDIA online please
visit:
http://ctheorymultimedia.cornell.edu/
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Re: Creative Class War
> > industries that used to be the United States' province and a
> crucial
> > source of our prosperity have begun to move overseas."
>
> What a charming display of jingoistic cultural imperialism. "If we
> stay
> perhaps they will do some more - folk dancing..."
or as Bush might say... "If an Uhmurican can't have those jobs, at least they'll be filled by someone who can sound like one! Uh... we still OWN the companies right?"
http://www.humancapitalsoftwaresolutions.com/
ryan