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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reverse engineers


http://weirdshadow.com/reverse.html
REVERSE ENGINEERS

FEBRUARY 19 - MARCH 19, 2005
CARNEGIE ART CENTER www.carnegieartcenter.org
CURATED BY JULIA DZWONKOSKI AND KYE POTTER

TONY CONRAD
ERNEST GUSELLA
CHRISTIAN JANKOWSKI
NATALIE JEREMIJENKO
BARBARA LATTANZI
JOHN OLSON
PAPER RAD
WILLIAM POPE.L
DYLAN REIFF AND JOE KORSMO
AIDA RUILOVA
BRIAN SPRINGER
HAIM STEINBACH

To dismantle the whole in order to understand its parts; to use
existing objects and technologies in a manner unforeseen or unintended
by their manufacturers; to invent new forms by breaking down the codes
that underlie old forms; to provoke systems into revealing what they

DISCUSSION

Fwd: This week on NOW


> NOW
> Friday, February 25, 2005 on PBS
> (Check local listings at http://www.pbs.org/now/sched.html)
>
> ==================================================================
> This week on NOW:
>
> * Bridging the digital divide. Should the telecom giants be able to
> decide if poor neighborhoods get access to high-speed Internet? Find
> out in THE PHILADELPHIA EXPERIMENT.
>
> * Reading, writing and techno-literacy. Former Governor of Maine Angus
> King, who led an initiative to provide laptop computers to every middle
> school student in his state, on preparing America for the jobs of the
> future. A David Brancaccio interview.
>
> ===================================================================
> THE PHILADELPHIA EXPERIMENT
>
> The information revolution is making high-speed Internet access an
> essential element of success in America, but there's a growing divide
> between the techno-haves and have-nots that's keeping some poorer
> neighborhoods, schools, and businesses in the digital dark. NOW goes
> inside the battle for high-speed Internet in two communities where
> local
> governments want to build their own systems to provide affordable
> access
> to underserved neighborhoods, but are being challenged by the telecom
> giants that want to maintain their dominance in local markets.
>
> ===================================================================
> ANGUS KING
>
> NOW regular contributor and former Governor of Maine Angus King saw the
> future of jobs in America and figured out how to prepare his state's
> middle school students by getting them laptop computers. But what will
> the jobs of the future be and should the government play a part in
> preparing the workforce? "If we don't know what the new jobs are going
> to be, there is, it seems to me, two things we can say for sure," King
> says. "Whatever they are, it's going to require more education and
> more
> technology." David Brancaccio gets King's perspective on the role
> government in providing the technology and training to succeed in the
> job market of the future.
>
> ===================================================================
> NOW continues online at PBS.org (www.pbs.org/now). Log on to read
> about
> the debate over community ownership of Internet access; get information
> on Maine's innovative laptop program and other efforts to combat the
> digital divide; find technology education resources for both children
> and adults with an interactive map; and more.
>
> ===================================================================
> Hosted by David Brancaccio, NOW has been called "...one of the last
> bastions of serious journalism on TV" by the Austin-American Statesmen
> and "...public television at its best" by the Philadelphia Inquirer.
> Each week, the series sheds light on a wide range of issues confronting
> the nation and explores American democracy and culture through
> investigative reporting and interviews with major authors, leading
> thinkers, and artists.
>

DISCUSSION

The Temporary Travel Office: Parking Public


The Temporary Travel Office, in conjunction with a recent tour of
private openspace around Hollywood Blvd, is conducting a survey that
asks "What is your idea of a utopian destination?"
The survey can be completed by phone or via a web form, and is open to
everyone, everywhere.
To participate see:
http://temporarytraveloffice.net/hollywood/parking.html
*NOTE: web posts will not instantly appear in the archive, and may take
up to 24 hours to become accessible*

Visit the Temporary Travel Office online
http://www.temporarytraveloffice.net

DISCUSSION

FWD: Futurefarmers Seeking Contributions for ZKM exhibition


http://www.futurefarmers.com/zkm/

COMMUNICULTURE

'Jacob Moreno (1889-1974) developed many different techniques for
exploring the unseen connections that exist between people. In
exploring these connections we can

OPPORTUNITY

CALL FOR BOOK CHAPTERS


Deadline:
Tue Feb 22, 2005 20:29

this was posted to another list, and i'm cross posting here as i
thought someone may be looking for a publishing opp... sounds like well
covered terrain to me, but it all depends on the contributors...

> CALL FOR BOOK CHAPTERS
>
> http://www.soi.city.ac.uk/~zaphiri/Announcements/web-book.html
>
> Submission Deadline: March 31, 2005
>
> Human Computer Interaction Research in Web Design and Evaluation
>
> A book edited by:
> Dr. Panayiotis Zaphiris, Centre for HCI Design,
> City University, London, UK
>
> Dr. Sri Kurniawan, School of Informatics,
> University of Manchester, Manchester, UK
>
> Overall Objectives of the Book
> ------------------------------
> The objective of this book is to look at the topic of Web design in a
> new direction. The majority of existing books on this topic have been
> focusing primarily on the technical dimensions (programming languages,
> hardware and software needs) of Web design. Few books touch on the user
> aspect of Web design and interaction. In addition, this book will try
> to provide an academic/research direction to Web usability.
>
> Because humans are an important participant in Web interaction and a
> significant factor contributing to successful Web design is user
> involvement throughout the design and evaluation processes, there is a
> need for a unified view of the user-related topics that surround Web
> design.
>
> This book will point out that beyond the technical aspects of Web
> design, we need to systematically take into account human interaction
> and activity, and the completely renewed social and cultural
> environments that Web environments and interfaces are calling for and
> technologies are now capable of delivering. The general goal is to
> discuss the basis of a broad framework for the development and
> management of Web environments, enriched with contributions from
> domains
> as diverse as Web design, information systems, psychology, sociology,
> artificial intelligence, e-learning and many others.
>
> The Target Audience
> -------------------
> University educators and educators in general; university
> administrators; researchers; lecturers of HCI and user-centred design;
> Web system managers; instructional designers; general audience with an
> interest in HCI and Web design. This book will be structured in such a
> way so that it can act as a core textbook in HCI and Web development
> courses.
>
> Recommended Topics
> ------------------
> Recommended topics include but are not limited to the following:
>
> * Introduction: Introduction to HCI and User-Centred Design and their
> application to Web design
>
> * Humans as Web Users: human abilities and limitations (cognitive,
> perceptual, motor) and their effect on efficient use of the Web;
> cognitive psychology and its application to Web design
>
> * Analysis: Query-based techniques (interviews, focus groups, surveys)
> and Web design; Task Analysis, users, context and requirements and
> their
> application to Web design; Personas
>
> * Design: Conceptual and detailed Web design; Prototyping
> (paper/electronic) as used in Web design; Screen design; Information
> architecture; Design of user-friendly Web navigation schemes and
> features; Web Accessibility and Web design for people with special
> needs; Participatory design and other innovative design approaches in
> Web design; Dialogue design
>
> * Evaluation: Usability evaluation; Expert (heuristic) evaluation; Web
> accessibility evaluation
>
> * Special Topics: Interaction styles and their applicability to the
> Web;
> Information visualization on the Web; Computer mediated communication
> and the Web; The future of HCI and the Web
>
>
> SUBMISSION PROCEDURE
> --------------------
> Researchers and practitioners are invited to submit on or before March
> 31, 2005, up to 2 page proposal clearly explaining the mission and
> concerns of the proposed chapter. Authors of accepted proposals will
> be
> notified by April 30, 2005 and be sent chapter organizational
> guidelines. Full chapters are expected to be submitted by July 31,
> 2005. All submitted chapters will be reviewed through a blind
> reviewing
> process. The book is scheduled to be published by Idea Group Inc.,
> www.idea-group.com, publisher of the Idea Group Publishing, Information
> Science Publishing, IRM Press, CyberTech Publishing, and Idea Group
> Reference Imprints.
>
>
> Dr. Panayiotis Zaphiris
> Centre for HCI Design, City University
> London, EC1V 0HB
> UK
> e-mail: zaphiri@soi.city.ac.uk
> Fax: +44 (0)20 7040 8859
>
> or
>
> Dr. Sri Kurniawan
> University of Manchester
> Manchester,
> UK
> e-mail: s.kurniawan@manchester.ac.uk
> Fax: +44 (0)161 306 3324
>
>
>
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