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: LACE Presents: Open Architecture 24 March - 31 March


Begin forwarded message:

LACE (LOS ANGELES CONTEMPORARY EXHIBITIONS)
6522 Hollywood Boulevard LA CA 90028
http://www.artleak.org

DISCUSSION

Fwd: Friday March24 Lumpen/Version action at Heaven


Begin forwarded message:

A VERSION>06 FUNDRAISER
"It's all about the Benjamins"

An art sale fundraiser for Version>06 Festival and release party for
Lumpen issue #99

versionfest.org/version06/fundraiser/

Friday, March 24, 2006
8pm
Heaven Gallery
1550 N Milwaukee Ave
2nd floor
Admission $10

Be the first to get a copy of Issue #99 of Lumpen Magazine. Admission
gets you a raffle ticket to win a piece of art and complementary
beverages and tasty treats. Dozens of Chicago's finest and celebrated
artists have generously contributed a piece of work to Version festival
to help us raise some coin to pay for 17 days of mayhem and exceptional
art action. Each individual work will be sold for ONLY $100 on a first
come first served basis. This is an excellent opportunity to buy a
piece of work at a ridiculously low price and support Chicago's most
complicated festival.

You can buy additional raffle tickets at the show.

Featuring work by: Juan Chavez, Bridgette Buckley, Nick Black, Brian
Ulrich, Cody Hudson, Chris Uphues, Justin Schaefer, John Duda, Mike
Slattery, Steven Eichorn, Ryan Davies, Logan Bay, Elisa Harkins, Sighn,
Greg Stimac, Johanna Wawro, Paul Nudd, Doug Ruschhaupt, Al Pocius,
Linda Duk Ju Kim, Jackie Kilmer, Patrick Willi, Michael Merck, Jason
Lazerus, and many others.

Also please enjoy: Performances by Brotman and Short, Bird In Hand,
Shirrelle C. Limes and the Lemons, and DJ Logan Bay, as well as a
Special Sneak Preview Screening of Shorts featured at Version>06 will
play on the roof behind Heaven Gallery.

//
Our online fundraiser action is now open too!
Check it out..

versionfest.org/version06/fundraiser/

//

What is Version?

Version>06: Parallel Cities April 20- May 7, 2006 Chicago U$A
Version is a festival focused on emerging discourses and practices
evolving between art, technology, social critique and activism. Version
examines local systems and external networks that use visual and
conceptual art strategies, innovative social practices, creative uses
of new technologies, effective organizing structures, emerging
activist/artist initiatives, campaigns, public interventions and DIY
projects. www.versionfest.org

Subscribe to version06 list.
www.lumpen.com/lists/?p=subscribe&id=2

DISCUSSION

Re: David Medalla At The Barbican Art Gallery In London During The "Tropicalia" Exhibition


Lygia Clark is especially under discussed in the "new media" scene (as
is Oiticica)... i saw the Tropicalia show in Chicago at the MCA and it
was great to see some of Clark's works (or facsimiles) in person. The
"relational object" and "clothing-body-clothing" works seem so
prescient and relevant that it seems so ridiculous that they aren't
mentioned more.
anyway, glad someone mentioned this here...
is your dissertation on line anywhere Regina?
thanks,
ryan

On Mar 22, 2006, at 5:50 AM, Regina Pinto wrote:

> Hello,
>
> I received this information from the international poet and performer
> Clemente Padin
> and as it is about Brazilian culture and the movement Tropicalia, I
> think it is very
> important to send to you. In fact

DISCUSSION

Preserving America's Cultural Heritage


Preserving America's Cultural Heritage is a project by Jeffrey
Vallance in collaboration with the MA Curatorial Practice class of 2006
at California College of the Arts. It proposes a solution to the lack
of an effective cultural policy on the federal level through a 1% tax
on the sale of all art in the United States to fund a program to
benefit individual artists."
http://www.americasculturalheritage.us/

DISCUSSION

Fwd: [CAE_Defense] Digest Number 138


Begin forwarded message:

> Dear supporters,
>
> Thanks to your continued support of Steve Kurtz and
> Robert Ferrell's case, Critical Art Ensemble's new
> film, MARCHING PLAGUE, will premiere at the Newcastle
> Film Festival and Whitney Biennial in March, and the
> companion book (Marching Plague: Germ Warfare and
> Global Public Health) is also due out from Autonomedia
> in March:
>
> http://www.artscatalyst.org/projects/biotech/caeplague.html
> http://www.critical-art.net/biotech/marching/index.html
> http://www.whitney.org/www/exhibition/biennial_release.jsp
>
> As you may know, this is the project the FBI tried to
> censor by seizing - and vowing never to return - all
> the relevant files, notes, books, computers, art
> materials, and book manuscript during their raid on
> Steve's home (even though their own tests showed that
> there was nothing dangerous there). So the research
> had to be entirely reconstructed.
>
> The film is therefore premiering a year later than it
> would have, but it joins with many other voices as
> proof that people won't be intimidated by this
> proto-fascist administration and will continue to
> resist its policies.
>
> However, without the worldwide outcry of people like
> you who have expressed outrage, sent encouragement,
> raised funds to cover the legal bills, and created the
> media surrounding the case, Steve would probably be in
> jail awaiting trial instead of out in the world
> continuing to work with CAE.
>
> Steve and Bob still face a possible sentence of 20
> years in prison, but your continued support will make
> it possible for us to win the case and help others in
> similar situations.
>
> Thank you again.
>
> In solidarity,
>
> Lucia Sommer