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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Re: Sociology of the Fading Signal--Can You Hear Me Now?


The FCC revamp of phone number regulations regarding wireless usage is interesting in light of these concerns...
the loss of signal is being considered in terms of changing numbers - "sorry this number is no longer in service" becomes a 404 error...
convenience is a harsh master.

"There's both the economic cost of a new phone number

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Re: Sociology of the Fading Signal--Can You Hear Me Now?


yeah - very interesting direction of thought...
the loss of signal depends on having it in the first place, so access is definitely implicated in some interesting ways. i can't help thinking of Virilio's analyses of technologically created disasters and dependency.
is there something being disrupted, or is the loss of signal a return to some prior inactivity/other activity?
anyway, if anyone takes this further, i'd be interested to see what they come up with.
best,
ryan

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FWD: NYC Cabinet magazine sponsored events


Paper, Paper, Scissors
Thursday, November 13, 2003, 6 pm
Housing Works Bookstore, 126 Crosby Street, (just
south of Houston Street), New York
FREE

On November 13, 2003, Cabinet and SculptureCenter will
present a reading at Housing Works Bookstore in
conjunction with The Paper Sculpture Show. Readers
will include novelist and performer Jonathan Ames,
novelist and literary critic Shelley Jackson, and poet
and Cabinet editor Frances Richard.

Jonathan Ames will offer televisual evidence of his
lack of manual dexterity, thus explaining why his
kindergarten report card, which Jonathan's mom has
kindly sent to the Cabinet offices, shows him failing
"Scissors"; Shelley Jackson will display some of the
paper sculptures from her forthcoming interactive
book; and Frances Richard will reflect on the
relationship between the history of papermaking and
how writers have approached this lowliest of materials
in their daily work.

Thanks to Housing Works for hosting this event.

Up: An Evening of Films and Videos on Flying
Saturday, November 15, 2003, 7 pm
White Box, 525 West 26th St., New York
There will be slightly overpriced snacks and beverages
available for this event.
FREE

In conjunction with its issue on "Flight," Cabinet has
invited artist Luca Buvoli to curate an evening of
films around the theme of flying. Drawing on artist
films, scientific footage, and other sources, the
evening will address some of the uses (and abuses) to
which this paradigmatic technology of the 20th century
has been put.

Come see levitating tomatoes, NASA ink flow tests, and
as a special bonus, the artist video which "inspired"
the flying bag scene in the film American Beauty.

Films and videos by the following artists will be
included (not full list): Doug Aitken, Gino de
Dominicis, Carlo Ferraris, Ted Fisher, Gerard
Holthuis, Manon Labrecque, Beom Kim, Igor & Svetlana
Kopystiansky, Matt Marello, Jonathan Podwil, Jordan
Wolfson, Karen Yasinsky, and more...

Thanks to White Box for hosting this event

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DISCUSSION

Re: The GNU/Linux Art Farm


was this an award for business?
http://www.nettime.org/Lists-Archives/nettime-l-9909/msg00038.html

> Here's an easy question: Who won the first prize Golden Nica award, in
> the
> Prix Ars Electronica's .net category? The penguin is a BIG hint! If
> you
> answered Linus Torvalds, GNU/Linux, and its 1000+ creators, pat
> yourself on
> the back... you are art and technology-aware. Was this an award for
> art?
> Yes? Uh, oh... wrong answer!
> http://arttech.about.com/library/weekly/aa083099.htm
>
>
>

DISCUSSION

action figures!


i wonder if you can get the post hydrogen-cell
conversion Hummer for arnold's action figure...

"There is no mistaking his identity, of course, with
the spiky, combed-back hair, the battle-scarred high
forehead, the knitted brows, the molten-steel stare
and the rock of a jaw atop a body of bulging brawn,
leather and mayhem-in-waiting. "

http://www.nytimes.com/2003/11/06/technology/circuits/06toys.html?th

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