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 ...
SWITCH: Issue 22
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 ...
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.
[-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.state of the planet infographics
a small collection of beautiful information graphics documenting the current state of the planet.
see also gapminder & 3d data globe.
[seedmagazine.com]
Call for audit of election results - computers may have been hacked
filing a FOIA calling for an independent audit of the elections,
following evidence that the central computers were hacked on election
night.
Please see this site: http://www.blackboxvoting.org/
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Voting without auditing. (Are we insane?)
SEATTLE, WASHINGTON Nov 3 2004 -- Did the voting machines trump exit
polls?
There
Fwd: Kerry Won. . .
> http://www.tompaine.com/articles/kerry\_won\_.php
>
> Kerry Won. . .
>
> by Greg Palast
>
> November 04, 2004
>
> Bush won Ohio by 136,483 votes. Typically in the United States, about 3
> percent of votes cast are voided
more post 11/2 events
you are:
http://indymedia.us/en/index.shtml
there's also some interesting real time news coming in from demos in
various places.
and of course the league of pissed off voters is working on what
happened, especially with the under 30 vote.
http://www.indyvoter.org/
there were a couple of rallies in hollywood tonight, that i couldn't
make. it's interesting that many people perceive the entertainment
industry, especially actors, as liberal, yet using Fundrace
http://www.fundrace.org i found that many celebs and artists in my area
(Kelsey Grammar for instance) were HUGE donors to the RNC, and Bush in
particular.
http://www.fundrace.org/neighbors.php?
type=loc&addr
An Industry in India Cheers Bush's Victory
Nilekani, chief executive of Infosys Technologies, a software services
company. The trend toward outsourcing will now become even more
inexorable, Mr. Nilekani said.
http://www.nytimes.com/2004/11/04/business/worldbusiness/
04outsource.html?
ex57224400&en?f9262c9ee222c8&eiP90&partner=rssuserland
post 11/2 events in Chicago
Protest International Bankers Conference as they discuss the Occupation
of Iraq & PATRIOT Act
November 4th 5:00pm
Intercontinental Hotel
505 N Michigan Ave.
On November 4th, at the Intercontinental Hotel, hundreds of the
world's top bankers will meet with major CEOs and heads of government
agencies to discuss international finance. They're conference is sub-
titled "The Pace Quickens." Among the focuses of the first of their
two day agenda are the USA PATRIOT Act and how it effects the privacy
of bank customers, and the "War of Terror" and how it effects ports.
At 3:45pm, the delegates will begin the agenda item entitled "Trade
Bank of Iraq & Coalition Provisional Authority Update." Several of
the major Western banks that are members of BAFT joined together to
form and profit off of the creation of the Trade Bank of Iraq.
In solidarity with the Election Week of Resistance, including the
election day events, other BAFT actions, and Peace Pledge anti-war
protest, we call for all Chicagoans to hit the streets in front of
the Intercontinental Hotel by 5:00pm for a rally against the
financiers of Empire. On November 2nd, we will have the chance to
choose between two pro-war candidates, but on November 4th our city
will receive a city from the real policy-makers and profiteers.
Banks finance and direct austerity measures enforced by international
monetary institutions like the IMF and World Bank, and it is private
banks that finance and direct death squads and state militaries in
the massacres and repression of civilians from Iraq to Afghanistan,
from Palestine to Haiti, from the Philippines to Colombia. Join us to
oppose the corporations that run our country and the greed that is
destorying the world.
To endorse or find out more information, e-mail us at
nobaft@riseup.net
Endorsers: Chicagoland Anarchist Network, Chicago Coalition Against
War & Racism, Education Not Empire Student Network, Pilsen & DePaul
Food Not Bombs, Students for Social Justice, DePaul Students Against
the War, Midwest Unrest, La Voz de Los de Abajo, Nicaragua Solidarity
Committee
See also:
http://www.chicagonewyork.net/dontjustvote
http://www.beyondvoting.org
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OUR WORLD IS NOT FOR SALE!
November 5th, 6am to 2pm
Outside the Intercontinental Hotel
505 N Michigan
On November 5th, the annual Bankers Association for Finance & Trade
conference "The Pace Quickens" will enter its second day, and their
agenda focuses on international free trade issues, and how banks and
other corporations can invade countries to assert their economic
domination. However, it is clear to us that their so-called "free
trade" is a code-word for a war on democracy, people, and the planet.
Meanwhile, outside we will reclaim common space in "Our World is Not
for Sale," a festival of free food, free music, free literature, free
clothes, free skills, and freedom. This will be a community that
values both cultural and ecological diversity, in which all are truly
free to give, receive, and create on their own terms, in which people
can fulfill their needs by working together, in the midst Chicago's
most concentrated area of consumerism known as the Magnificant Mile!
This is a call to all of you who support our movements and
mobilizations from the bottom-up and the inside-out: Food Not Bombs,
medics and care-givers, legal teams, independent media, living
collectives, direct-democracy organizers, alternative energy and
transportation visionaries, and affinity groups, families,
individuals and organizations who are working towards solidarity and
community-based alternatives.
Our World is Not for Sale will only be as great as you make it. We
will provide the framework; you supply the material. Skill-shares,
free-schools and planned discussions are great ways to get involved.
Instead of just perusing goods, we can spend the day together eating
free food, making patches, repairing bikes, learning how to silk-
screen, discussing theory, learning languages, sewing clothes,
painting banners, cutting hair, smashing pinatas, and dreaming up
even more things to throw together! The only stipulation is that
there is no buying, selling, or promoting involved