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: CLUI news


On View at the CLUI Los Angeles:

WEST COAST POINTS:
Selections of Coastal Sites from the CLUI Land Use
Database
and Photographic Archive

As part of its current focus on the West Coast of the
United States,
the CLUI presents a photographic and text portrait of
numerous unusual
and exemplary coastal land use sites, recently
documented and added
to the Center's Land Use Database and photographic
archive.

And, back by popular demand, and on display for a few
more weeks:

BETWEEN OREGON AND MEXICO:
Ken and Gabrielle Adelman's CALIFORNIA COASTAL
RECORDS PROJECT

The California Coastal Records Project is a sequential
photographic
portrait of the coast of California, composed of over
11,000 aerial
photographs. Shown as a digital projection at the
CLUI, with each
image displayed for three seconds, the portrait takes
9 hours, 51 minutes and fifteen seconds to complete.
The low altitude,
high resolution, oblique images were recorded
digitally in 2002 and
2003 by Ken Adelman, from a helicopter flown by his
wife, Gabrielle.

Also on Display, A celebration, documentation and
installation:

THE BEST DEAD MALL IN AMERICA
A photographic investigation of the Dixie Square Mall
in
Harvey, Illinois, perhaps the most dramatic and
emblematic Dead Mall
in the United States. Located 20 miles south of
downtown Chicago,
this 800,000 square-foot mall that has been abandoned
for over
23 years and transformed by time and the elements. A
version of the
exhibit from a design competetion called Dead Malls
originally hosted
by the Los Angeles Forum for Architecture and Urban
Design, is now on
display inside the mall. While not officially open to
the public,
the exhibit will, like the mall itself, be on display
indefinitely.

The CLUI Los Angeles Exhibit Hall is open noon to five
PM, Fridays,
Saturdays, and Sundays, or by appointment.

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got any bathtub art?


Bathtub Art Show

August 28th - September 22nd 2003

The Know, 2026 NE Alberta Ave

Bathtub Postcards

Send hand-made postcards with a bathtub subject to:
The Bathtub Art Museum. P.O. Box 6662, Portland,
Oregon 97228. USA. 'Go to www.bathtubmuseum.org for
more info. Postcards will be on view at the Know 8-28
through 9-22 and be a part of a new online museum.

Bathtub Film

Not what you discover in your tub, but the kind you
find on the big screen.

Wanted:

Bathtub movies (shorts), documentaries, animation,
clips, etc

to show and The Know, NE 20th & Alberta

Deadline: August 18th, 2003

Find a bathtub, make a movie, and show it at the
Bathtub Art Show!! These are the kind of movies you
make over the weekend, just for fun! The topic is the
bathtub, and the rest is up to you! The deadline is
near so don't put it off.

Acceptable Formats: DVD, VHS, 8, Digital8, and miniDV

Watch for more details at www.bathtubmuseum.org, or
call Carye Bye at 503-735-4796 with any questions.

Two Programs:

Last Thursday Opening Reception

August 28, 2003 6-9 pm

Bathtub Art Fair

September 13, 2003 12 - 5 pm

(family-friendly films)

Two Programs:

Last Thursday Opening Reception

August 28, 2003 6-9 pm

Bathtub Art Fair

September 13, 2003 12 - 5 pm (family-friendly films)

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FWD: CLUI update


The latest issue of The Lay of the Land, CLUI's
newsletter is now
available online:
http://www.clui.org/clui_4_1/lotl/

For current subscribers, a printed copy will arrive
soon.

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CLUI exhibits on display at the Sonoma County Museum:

Formations of Erasure: Earthworks & Entropy
AND
Over Sonoma: Aerial Views of Unusual and Exemplary
Land Uses

JUNE 21, 2003 - October 19, 2003
Opening Reception: Saturday, June 21, 2003, 4 - 6pm

More Information: http://www.sonomacountymuseum.com/

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Also, a re-designed CLUI Bookstore with new items will
be online soon.

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FWD: Tidal Wave Cancun


sorry to steal from ntime, but for thoe not reading
that list, + in the interest of reaching more
people...

Date: Sun, 22 Jun 2003 07:13:20 -0400
From: rdom@thing.net
Subject: <nettime> Tidal Wave Cancun

Convergence of Alternative Media into Cancun
Tidal Wave Cancun

Our partners of Indymedia Chiapas
<http://chiapas.indymedia.org> (who
participated in the forum Nuestros Medios ("Our
media") in
Barranquilla,
Colombia have a proposal of creating a Convergence of
Alternative Media
into Cancun, after contacting with representatives of
groups such as
AMARC
<http://www.amarc.org/>, Global Indymedia
J<http://indymedia.org>,Greenpeace
<http://greenpeace.org/>, Paper
Tiger
<http://papertiger.org/>, Deep
Dish<http://deepdish.igc.org/>,
Prometheus
Radio <http://prometheusradio.org/>, people of the
campaigns CRIS
<http://lac.derechos.apc.org/wsis/cris.shtml> and WSIS
<http://lac.derechos.apc.org/wsis/> .

The proposal begins as this:

1) Create a convergence of alternative media during
the ministerial
conference of the WTO in Cancun, 10-14 September 2003,
which would
include
2 steps:

a) Interchange of technology, ideas, experiences,
knowledge between
those
people involved (for example, pirate radio teaching
the using of waves,
how to build them, etc)

b) Capacity Building Networking for the people of the
civil society who
are interested in learning, initializing or grow up
their communication
strategies for their own movements and activities.
The firsts days of
the
network would chase the target of sharing our
habilities and knowledge
into the people who has not have the opportunity if
entering directly
in
the media topic, but have realized the necesity of
this for their
organizations and popular groups of developing
communication
initiatives.

- - The first step after the networks would be,
becoming the knowledge
shared for making the coverage on the next days of
movilizations and
forums by their own perspectives, now knowing how and
where they can
publish and archive their informations and
productions.

c) The preparatives for the spacing of the alternative
media would be
similar to the networks, in which hte coverage would
be done on the
next
days.

2) As part of the convergence of alternative media, it
has been started
to
discuss the relevance and importance of the
ministerial agreements that
they will do about the "audiovisual" and the
communications of the
"society of the information" que days after the
happenings on the WTO
in
Cancun will be the topic in the PrepCom3
<http://www.iisd.ca/linkages/2002/pc3/>. It is also
proposed to call
people to Reclaim the Airwaves by the alternative
radios. The proposal
is
to begin with joining and discussing the ideas by the
media, interested
in
creating the convergence, with those who will go into
Cancun and/or
those
who will stay in their cities to cover the
simultaneous mobilizations
to
Cancun <http://espora.org/cancun03/

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FWD: Orlo (portland, OR) Video Slam 2003


June 10, 2003

News Release
For immediate release
Attn: Film and Arts Editors
For further information
Peter Bauer
Video Slam 2003 Chair
bear@orlo.org
503-242-1047

Countdown to Video Slam 2003
July 12 marks the first heat in Portland