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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The Future Awaits...


http://www.jrmooneyham.com/s2017ref.html
The Signposts Timeline of Future Technology and Social Change
2009 AD-2017 AD
2013 milestone: Significant migration of human homes and businesses to
sea-based and undersea locales is encouraged by new technologies and
scientific discoveries...
...especially increasingly cost-effective apparatus for breathing
underwater near indefinitely without need of resupply or critical
maintenance. A combination of artificial gill technology and air
recycling makes this possible. Complementary technologies include
actual breathing of special oxygenated fluids for deeper undersea
workers. Another crucial advance is in underwater communications:
divers now can easily and coherently converse either vocally or
subvocally (with computerized assistance), depending on their breathing
apparatus and other undersea-related technologies. Diver awareness
undersea has also been greatly expanded with computer-aided
dolphin-like sonar capacities, helping illuminate what previously were
often murky and mysterious depths to human perceptions (people find it
much more comforting to be able to 'see' as far underwater as they are
accustomed to on land). This newly increased vision capacity underwater
also adds much to worker productivity in the environment.

DISCUSSION

Fwd: [announcements] Version>05 deadline and Urban Gardening and Exterior Decoration call for work


Begin forwarded message:

> Hey all.
> We are in the midst of planning the next version festival and would
> like to
> put out one more warning about our deadline for project proposals.
> http:://www.versionfest.org
>
> There is a specific exhibition project that might be of interest to
> some of
> your friends called Urban Gardening and Exterior Decoration so please
> pass
> the info on as far and wide as possible.
> http://www.lumpen.com/garden/urbangardening.html
>
> Thanks..
> Edmar
>
> THE DETAILS::
>
>
> Version>05>Invincible Desire
> April 22- May 1
> Chicago
>
> Version is an international festival about art, media, technology and
> politics. Our fourth annual convergence, Version>05>invincible Desire,
> will
> examine the activities of local configurations and external networks
> that
> use visual art, innovative social practices, artist initiatives,
> creative
> uses of new technologies, organizing strategies and public
> interventions in
> order to engage in cultural reclamation.
>
> Through a diverse program featuring an experimental art expo, artistic
> disturbances, networked urban events, screenings, interactive
> applications,
> performances, workshops, art rendez-vous, parties, and action,
> Version>05
> will investigate the urgency for interventions in everyday life, the
> organization of our shared interests, and the distribution of our
> ideas.
>
> We will convene in Chicago for a ten day open laboratory to explore a
> diversity of tactics and strategies to activate our communities and
> amplify
> our ideas. The city of Chicago will be used as a map to examine
> microactions. Blueprints will be unveiled to strengthen emerging
> alliances
> and counter institutions. Alternative spaces will be open for staging
> actions. Public spaces and corporate places will be terrains of
> intervention.
>
> We seek to explore methods to enjoin the public in a dialogue about
> pressing
> issues and ideas of our age. We want to share your actions as well as
> projects and activities that can help us to transform personal and
> shared
> environments. It is our hope that the issue will offer ways to engage
> in
> meme warfare, practice social engagement and produce instruments of
> transformation during these dark ages.
>
> CALL FOR PROPOSALS AND WORK.
> Please visit: www.versionfest.org
>
> You may mail your proposals to:
> Version>05
> 960 W 31st St
> Chicago Il 60608
>
> Use the online submission form to submit proposals.
> http://www.adoptanamerican.com/version/
>
> Or contact ed@lumpen.com for help.
>
> ////////
>
> Version Festival

DISCUSSION

[CAE_Defense] Exhibition / Fundraiser / Lecture for CAE


> Exhibition / Fundraiser / Lecture for CAE
>
> Huntington Beach Art Center
> 538 Main Street Huntington Beach, CA 92647
> (714) 374-1650; FAX (714) 374-5304
> Curator: Darlene DeAngelo ddeangelo@surfcity-hb.org
>
> "Detours", March 12-April 10: a multimedia exhibition that defines
> various collective practices and explores their motivations,
> methodologies, and audiences as viable models of interaction and
> production; including Center for Tactical Magic, Finishing School
> (FS), SRL, and others.
>
> HELP CAE is a project included in "Detours" presented by Finishing
> School that addresses the unjust criminal case against Dr. Steven
> Kurtz, a member of the artist collective Critical Art Ensemble (CAE).
> FS has maintained a personal relationship with Kurtz for many
> years; he has been a teacher, mentor, and friend. Both Kurtz and CAE
> have profoundly influenced FS individually and as a collective
> practice. The purpose of this project is to re-present vital
> information about the case found on caedefensefund.org to increase
> local awareness and action, raise funds for Kurtz's legal defense, and
> highlight CAE's collective practice.
>
> Beatriz da Costa, a collaborator with CAE and Assistant Professor at
> the University of California Irvine, will be delivering a lecture at
> the Huntington Beach Art Center concerning the CAE case on Thursday,
> March 17, 2005 at 7:30p.m.
>
>
> =====
> e d g i a r d i n a
> finishing-school.net
> giardina.info
> cell: 714-745-7759
> studio:714-965-0523

DISCUSSION

Fwd: AUDC event: lecture at architectural league, 3 march, new york city


Begin forwarded message:
> AUDC [http://www.audc.org] announces a lecture on two recent works,
> Ether and Quartzsite, Arizona at 6.30pm, 3 March, at The Urban Center,
> 457 Madison Avenue, between 50th and 51st Streets, in New York City.
>
> Entitled "Smart Maps and Intelligent Locations,"
> [http://www.archleague.org/lectures.php?article=smartMaps] the evening
> is part of the Architectural League's Spring 2005 Sitegeist series and
> will pair AUDC co-founder Kazys Varnelis's presentation of the above
> two projects with a presentation by architect Laura Kurgan on the
> interface between building, electronic media, and information
> technology in both her art and her architecture. Landscape architect
> Kate Orff will serve as the interlocutor during the discussion
> session.
>
> Ether [http://www.audc.org/ether] investigates a building purported to
> be both the world's most connected location and the most expensive
> space in North America, telecom hotel One Wilshire, located in
> downtown Los Angeles.
>
> Quartzsite, Arizona [http://www.audc.org/quartzsite] is a town of
> 5,000 in the summer that swells into an instant city every winter with
> the influx of more than a million RV dwellers.
>
> Both One Wilshire and Quartzsite are extreme conditions through which
> AUDC explores the role of contemporary individuals and communities and
> their relationship to objects, buildings, cities, and networks.
>
> AUDC's goal is to speculatively investigate the contemporary city
> using the tools of the architect, the historian, and the designer.
> AUDC blurs traditional divisions between media by working
> simultaneously in print, web, video, photography, drawings, models,
> dioramas, and installations while addressing the particularities of
> each medium. Likewise, AUDC breaks down the boundaries between theory
> and practice by uniting both scholarship and design research.

DISCUSSION

FWD: The Future of Food screening in NYC


For those of you in NYC and interested in biotech, or just food, this
is a great video to see.

Begin forwarded message:

> The Future of Food" Screening
> New York City, Feb. 15, 2005
>
> You're cordially invited to see the new documentary THE FUTURE OF FOOD
> which will be screened this Tuesday, February 15th at 7pm at Sixth
> Street
> Community Center, 638 East 6th Street (between Avenues B & C) in
> Manhattan. The documentary runs about 80 minutes (description below).
>
> Howard Brandstein
> Sixth Street Community Center/SOS Food
>
> http://]www.thefutureoffood.com