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: question - net.art works about evolution?


hi,
sorry to pass on just more links to links, but this is a good page of links to things relating to post-, trans-human and evolution-based stuff.
hope it's helpful, and not too redundant with what you already have.
http://www.aleph.se/Trans/Cultural/Art/
best,
ryan

DISCUSSION

Re: Corporate [Art]Rule[s]


it seems like "political" has become a narrowly defined term here - by accepting the way it was used in the original call (i would assume it was meant to discourage references to US electoral politics/partisanship), though eryk offered alternatives to the binary logic that are no less "political," i.e. seeking to engage in some kind relationship involving persuasion. i don't mean this to sound corrective - i'm sure everyone's aware of the semantic use of "politics." but the insidious demotion of the word (in the US) to the vulgar and dishonest has given far too much power to oppressive ideologies that rely on anti-intellectualism and populist rhetoric, while discouraging civic involvement. i mean, when saying that a political debate is "just about politics" is used as a negative - what the hell does that mean? or "get the government out of our lives" - shouldn't it be "get our lives into the government?"
now i'm just ranting about linguistics (sorry) - but it does matter.
defining the context of what is "political" or "pornographic" would be of interest - as many corporations thrive on images of "radicality" that many might consider to be both of those terms. there's always regulating structures (and counter structures) for culture, but determining the power afforded to some is worth considering, maybe. joseph's idea of subversion has a history of practice (from muralists like Ben Shaun and Rivera), but eryk's got a point, subversion (reaction) is easily just appropriated by the media machine it tries to oppose. positive proposals are too, as PR "greenwashing" illustrates. both seem necessary to me.

DISCUSSION

FOM coalition statement on FCC decision


FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
June 2, 2003
MEDIA CONTACT:
Michael Bracy: 202.429.8855
Jenny Toomey: 202.518.4117
Statement of the Future of Music Coalition
on the FCC

DISCUSSION

Economist/Shell Ask "Do We Need Nature?"


The Economist and Shell International Limited (the
Organisers) invite entries for the 'Do we need
nature?' writing competition. The ideal length of all
entries should be 1,500 words, to a maximum of 2,000
words which must include a synopsis of up to 300
words. Essays must be written in English and
accompanied by a properly completed entry form.
All entries must be received by midnight (GMT) on
Friday 22nd August 2003 via this website.
http://www.shelleconomistprize.com/index2.html

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DISCUSSION

Re: open call to make mediocre stuff


put your allotted backyard on your business card. this is the mediocre stuff of physical material. cinder blocks. ask "is that he/she" 2D. animated, non-linear, reactive, autogenerative, networked. or 3D. offline, static, linear, interactive. you are invited to point and press coverage. the release of cheese is necessary, in bits.