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

FWD: CAE defense continues...


Dear Friends and Supporters of CAE and freedom of knowledge and
research: I
am sending you this appeal for donations to the CAE Defense Fund
because it is
almost depleted and we are facing large bills in the coming months. The
August
bill for legal research and preparation of motions was over $10,000. The
court has now set a hearing on defense motions for January 11, 2005.
The outcome
of this hearing will determine whether or not there is a trial,
however, there
is only a very small chance that there will not be a trial. There seems
to be
a strong determination on the part of the prosecution to pursue this
case. It
is in all our interest that a strong defense is mounted and that we show
solidarity at this moment. So I appeal to you to think of this as your
Christmas
contribution. I'm hoping we can each give at least $10.

Please make checks in any amount out to: "CAE Defense Fund"
mail to: CAE Defense Fund, c/o Hallwalls
341 Delaware Ave.
Buffalo, NY, 14202

And please feel free to pass this appeal on to your friends and
friendsters
and your email lists.
In solidarity and hope of justice, faith wilding

DISCUSSION

Re: Sound in exhibitions


The Beall Center at UC Irvine has used (clear) plastic inverted domes
(suspended from the ceiling), fitted with speakers, for limiting the
range of sound for installations that need to be controlled or are
visually/conceptually tied to a specific space in the gallery.
ryan

On Nov 18, 2004, at 5:20 AM, Seth Thompson wrote:

> Hi,
>
> The use of sound is sometimes very controversial within a museum
> exhibition--especially when multiple works have a sound element. I
> was wondering if you could describe some of the innovative ways that
> museums and galleries have handled sound within a museum/gallery
> environment without compromising the works. Please let me know at
> your earliest convenience. Thanks in advance.

DISCUSSION

Re: Fwd: Cockroach-controlled Mobile Robot this Friday.


i think the deployment of a cockroach says a lot.
Just imagine the possibilities... a society that controls an army of
techno-retrofitted cockroaches could never lose. Until the
cyborg-roaches realize their own power...
ryan

On Nov 17, 2004, at 7:30 AM, Matthew Mascotte wrote:

>
> Is it me or is this project the epitome of what critics
> of New Media art would deem as being overly focused on the
> underlying technology...similar to how one might read early
> works in Jasiah Reichardt's Cybernetic Serendipity show
> in 1968 where a fascination with what we can make the machines
> do becomes more of a spectale than anyting else.
>
> matthew

DISCUSSION

YOUgenics at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago


December 8, 2004 - February 25, 2005
YOUgenics
Opening reception: Wednesday, December 8, 5:00 - 7:00 p.m.
Curator's talk: December 8, 6:30 p.m.

Exhibiting artists include Natalie Bookchin, Heath Bunting, Thomas
Cobb, Mark Cooley, Critical Art Ensemble, Beatriz da Costa, Deborah
Koons Garcia, Ryan Griffis/Temporary Travel Office, Beth Hall, Dinh Q.
Le, Inigo Manglano-Ovalle,

DISCUSSION

Cockroach-controlled Mobile Robot this Friday.


> Please join us this Friday for a talk and demo by Garnet Hertz.
>
> Garnet Hertz - Control and Communication in the Animal and the Machine:
> Cockroach-controlled Mobile Robot
> Friday, Nov 19th, 2004 8-10pm. Artist Talk at 8pm.
>
> Garnet Hertz will be showing his most recent prototype: a
> cockroach-controlled mobile robot system. The system uses a living
> Madagascan hissing cockroach atop a modified trackball to control a
> three-wheeled robot. Infrared sensors also provide navigation feedback
> to create a semi-intelligent system, with the cockroach as the CPU.
> This work will be framed within the contexts of intelligence,
> embodiment, artificial life, the history robotics, and Michael
> Jackson.
>
> more information > http://www.machineproject.com/garnethertz/index.php
>
>
> Machine Project
> 1200 D North Alvarado Street
> Los Angeles, CA 90026
> 213-483-8761