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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FWD: blast furnace: ftaa streaming radio


For anyone not keeping up with the anti-FTAA demos and
IMC projects occuring in miami that might be
interested... here's a streaming radio broadcast

blast furnace radio back on line re-broadcasting
fraa/ftaa stream

as of tonite tuesday nov.18th, the blast furnace radio
stream is back
up
please post where useful, for dial up exiles we are
pumping it out at
24k.

streaming url# http://notowar.com/audio/bfr.m3u

leaving for miami thursday at 6am

thank you for yr patience

vincent
blast furnace radio
http://notowar.com

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Temporary Travel Office postcard response


As part of the Temporary Travel Office installed in
YOUgenics 2.0, gallery visitors were given the
opportunity to fill out postcards addressed to various
institutional leaders in the "life sciences" industry,
mostly in the Missouri region. The cards also
solicited a response from the recipients, directing
them to the YOUgenics web site and email address.
There are low expectations for responses, but the
first one just came in from Dave Moskowitz MD, of
GenoMed, Inc in St. Louis, MO. Not very eventful, but
here it is. Feel free to look up the GenoMed website
and find what it is that makes Dr. Moskowitz's "views
are unlike those of any other biotech or pharma CEO I
know of." And, please let me know when you figure that
out.

Dear Yougenics,

I received one of your postcards, addressed to the
first company I founded, DzGenes, LLC. I have since
founded a public company, GenoMed, Inc., and have
an even stronger reason to share my views about
medical genomics with the public. As a practicing
physician, my views are unlike those of any other
biotech or pharma CEO I know of.

Sincerely yours,

Dave Moskowitz MD
****************************************
David W. Moskowitz, MD, MA (Oxon.), FACP
Chairman, CEO and Chief Medical Officer
GenoMed, Inc.

website: www.genomedics.com
ticker symbol: GMED (on OTC Pinksheets)

Address:
909 S. Taylor Ave.
St. Louis, MO 63110
tel. 314-977-0110
FAX 314-754-9772
cell phone 314-378-7864
email: dwmoskowitz@genomedics.com

YOUgenics 2.0 http://www.yougenics.net

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Re: Gupta's Blessedbandwidth, Guardian Angel, etc.


> Where, in fact, is the primary value of such works?

This reply is not necessarily one of disagreement... but what is the value of calling this work a "one-liner" ? the question begs its own answer - where SHOULD the value be - or rather where are you looking for the value. this doesn't provide any thoughtful criticism about the particular work, except to say that maybe you're bored by it. which is fine, but i think that criticism should live up to it's critique, and at least engage its opinions.
If it's a one-liner, what is the one line? If one can "see through the BS" of an essay to the real merits/faults of a work, please elaborate.
the point about labor exceeding any cultural significance is a good starting point, and has relevance to the culture of overproduction and excess, but if not taken further it just sounds like one's repeating a disapproving opinion and attempting to validate it by saying the output didn't qualify the input. would it have been OK if it only took an hour to make?
i guess i'm asking for a more specific critique. most people who take the time to respond to anything do so because they see some kind of importance in it, so i think making that importance specific is, well, important.
at any rate, the "one-liner" objection is hardly exclusive to net.art - ask curt about conceptual art in general ;)
best,
ryan

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New Essay and Interview on Furthercritic


New essay on recent works by Ricardo Miranda Zuniga
and short interview on Furtherfield.org
http://www.furtherfield.org
Information in the Expanded Field: a Case Study by
Ryan Griffis
http://www.furtherfield.org/furthercriticreview.php?review_id
Short conversation on online/offline work with Ricardo
Miranda Zuniga
http://www.furtherfield.org/furthercriticreview.php?review_id

Ricardo Miranda Zuniga grew up between Nicaragua, the
country that both his parents are from where he spent
his childhood summers, and San Francisco, the city to
which his parents immigrated. Although his formal
education has been within the borders of the United
States, his personal perspectives and ideology have
been molded by a bicultural reality, a reality
consisting of such polar elements as Disneyland and
the Nicaraguan Leftist Revolutionary movement, led by
the Sanidinistas. This bicultural upbringing tied to a
multidisciplinary education has led to a practice that
attempts to cultivate interaction with the viewer
beyond passive contemplation. The principle behind the
work is communication as a creative process.
Over the last four years Ricardo has explored a number
of themes such as urbanization, immigration, and the
location of culture. Each theme is investigated
through the lens of economics - in order to present a
critical perspective of how economic realities
formulate not only the world we live in, but more
importantly the lives we lead.
http://www.ambriente.com/

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Portland::Vito Acconci event today


VITO ACCONCI SPEAKS
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PICA Presents: VITO ACCONCI

NOVEMBER 12, 2003

This legendary, visionary, ever-changing artist
discusses his career-long commitment to animating
space, with words on the page, performances that
unsettle or seduce the audience, comic furniture,
interactive installations, and fantastical
architecture.

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TICKETS ON SALE NOW!

Wednesday, November 12, 7 pm

First Congregational Church
1127 SW Park

Call PICA for tickets 503.242.1419
$10 General Admission
$8 PICA Member
Groups of 10 or more : $8 each

www.acconci.com
.
Acconci's work has made a significant contribution to
the history of conceptual art. Known for his emotional
performance pieces of the 1960s and 70s, he has most
recently focused on architecture, urban planning and
design. His Acconci Studio, is a team of designers and
planners who develop public art proposals for
international projects. Their recent projects include
"Garbage City" in Tel-Aviv; an interior re-envisioning
for the Design Shop of the Museum of Applied Art in
Vienna; "Island on the Mur II; and "Stadium
Landscape," a proposal for the Washington State
Stadium in Seattle.

This PICA Lecture was sponsored in part by PNCA

email: pica@pica.org
voice: 503.242.1419
web: http://www.pica.org

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