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]
1 condensation of "Data Diaries" discussion 2.18.03
> DATA DIARIES is 11 hours of video footage which was
> generated by
> tricking Quicktime into thinking the RAM of a home
> computer is video.
> This was done once for each day in January 2003.
> Watch as Cory's emails,
> letters, webpages, DSL data, songs, and anything
> else he worked on that
> day float by >
..but of course that's not what we see at all. There's
no way the viewer can know that what is on the screen
has some connection to Cory's this and that except by
way of the artist statement.
Take the 'concept' away and the poverty of the thing
immediately becomes apparent - if the artist simply
constructed the images we see we might say, OK that's
vaguely interesting and attractive in a kind of
wallpaper way for about 2 seconds but 11 hours
...please!
By far the most interesting thing about the piece is
the neat lo fi handwritten bubbles and the general
presentation of the piece, but then maybe that took a
little bit of craft.
michael <szpako@yahoo.com>
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http://www.somedancersandmusicians.com/
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first that argument never wins. there's nothing wrong
with having to know a few things to appreciate an
artwork. you've been trained from birth to look at
media in different ways and there is no reason why you
shouldn't learn something that takes 15 seconds to
read to appreciate another level of this work.
the work itself is very interesting to look at without
knowing anything about it. what's interesting is it's
organic yet machine-like animation. it's full of
surprises if you watch it for a little while.
>
Re: Implication of online voting in the future
while more chaotic politics generally means more democratic, the illusion of direct access offered by networked politics could just as easily lead to more authoritarianism (even through voting). not to mention those that could be excluded from the network in the first place.
of course, i'm in missouri and have no idea what i'm talking about... we voted in Jim Talent.
ABC No Rio computer giveaway
DIGITAL SCAVENGER GIVEAWAY
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The Computer Center at ABC No Rio has a limited number
of older Apple
computers, scanners and printers available to groups
and individuals
working on community and activist projects.
These computers would be useful for word processing,
creating mailing
lists
and other databases, e-mail and internet access, and
some simple
graphics
and/or desktop publishing applications.
This project is aimed at providing computers to groups
and individuals
who
do not at present possess a computer. These computers
would not be
appropriate for those looking to upgrade their present
system.
Unfortunately, ABC No Rio is unable to provide
training or technical
assistance, and we cannot ship equipment. Interested
groups and
individuals
must make arrangements to pick-up the equipment.
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FWD: Open call for participation...prints, politics and Boston
Date: Tue, 04 Feb 2003 10:17:59 -0500
From: William Fisher <wwfisher@alltel.net>
Subject: Open call for participation...prints,
politics and Boston
Dear Folks,
All are invited to participate in an international
collaborative
project taking place during the 2003 SGC conference in
Boston, April
2-5
(<http://www.sgcprintconference2003.org/>http://www.sgcprintconference2003.org/).
You would be able to contribute from your office,
home, or at the
conference. Details are included here pasted below as
well. Some of
you have been contacted previously and will be
receiving an update
soon, along with those of you who respond to William
Fisher
<wwfisher@alltel.net>. Please reply as soon as
possible if
interested, and you will be included on the list of
participants.
All the best,
Bill Fisher
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February 1, 2003
Dear Artist,
We are writing to invite your participation in an
event held in
conjunction with the Boston 2003 Southern Graphics
Council
Conference. Our accepted Proposal to the Conference
Hosts (posted
below) outlines an international e-collaboration to
take place over a
24-hour period, 5:00 PM EST Tursday April 3 through
5:00 PM Friday
April 4, 2003. All that is needed to participate is
access to the
internet, email, and/or a fax machine for a few
hours. If other
modes of electronic replication and communication (a
scanner, digital
camera e.g.) are available, they are welcome. The
proposal involves
the use of remote hubs around the world with
individuals transferring
information among this hub network using the available
technology. We
will staff a 24-hour hub in Boston using incoming text
and imagery in
a conglomorate fashion to make silkscreen prints,
transfers, etc.
which will then be scanned or digitally photographed
and sent back
out through the network. We hope to raise thoughts
on the
decentrilization of information, democracy,
entitlement, empowerment
through communication, and the distribution of
authorship. If you
have ideas on hub participants (hubbers? hubbies?
huboteurs?) in
your homeland/hometown/home or far from home, please
let us know.
Students, staff, administrators, friends, family and
strangers are
all invited, and if you would like to participate as a
solo hub
member by faxing/emailing information during the
conference dates,
that would be very welcome as well.
Please see the proposed themes*** mentioned in the
Call for
Proposals below. These would be the suggested themes
for our
hub-station participants around the world, and may be
interpreted
loosely. In most cases, the word "print" may be
omitted from these
proposed themes to expand on their meanings and to
encourage your
participation. I know your input would add greatly
to this project,
and whether it be a few minutes to send an email or
several longer
periods throughout the 24 hours, any participation at
all is more
than welcome. Please feel free to publicly post this
information,
and contact Bill Fisher with any questions at
wwfisher@alltel.net.
Anyone interested will receive specific details on the
project and
periodic updates.
Thank you for your time, all the best to you,
The Arts Faculty of Georgia College & State University
Department of Art
Georgia College & State University
CBX 094
Milledgeville, GA 31061
Phone: (478) 445-4572
Fax: (478) 445-6088
email: wfisher@gcsu.edu
email: wwfisher@alltel.net
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Call for Proposals from the conference hosts (Boston
University)
To All SGC Members:
CALL FOR PROPOSALS
Southern Graphics Council Annual Conference
MAKING HISTORIES: REVOLUTION & REPRESENTATION
BOSTON, APRIL 2--5, 2003
Next year's conference theme is inspired by Boston's
history. Boston
is known worldwide as the seat of the American
Revolution and the
struggle for freedom and representation in the
American States. The
theme of revolution suggests new models for the future
and
sociopolitical change. Representation involves
communication,
empowerment, and the transfer of information. The
scope of these
concepts now extends beyond the US to the
international community. We
invite you to present proposals treating the themes of
Revolution and
Representation broadly. Some considerations:
***Proposed Themes
>* the ongoing involvement of the print in
issues of social
justice worldwide
>* contemporary use of the print as political
expression
>* revolution in the print idiom caused by new
technologies
>* the representation of remote constituencies
>* how electronic representation conditions
the making or
communication of images
>* sociological or structural changes in the
print community
resulting from electronic representation
>* ways in which new or expanded histories are
created, and the
alteration of historical perception
>* questions of geopolitical division and
production in the
laser-print era
>* the new history of multi-media and
installation ...the
changing
functions of space and image issues of
representation in education
We welcome proposals for panels, presentations,
exchange portfolios,
interactive studio collaborations including cross-
media and
exhibitions that address or present an aspect of
revolution or
representation. Proposals should be at least one page
in length.
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