ryan griffis
Since 2002
Works in United States of America

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BIO
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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DISCUSSION

Fwd: Outings: Investigating male/male use of public space in L.A.++++ Reception Saturday the 29th


Begin forwarded message:
>
> For Immediate release
>
> Outings: Investigating male/male use of public space in L.A.
>
> G727
> 727 South Spring Street
> Los Angeles, CA
> 90014
>
> contact: Adrian Rivas
>
> 213 627 9563
>
> gallery727losangeles.com
> gallery727losangeles@yahoo.com
>
>
> Recent Works by
>
> Dino Dinco
> Rigo Maldonado
> Michael Gregg Michaud
> prvtdncr
>
> Special Contributor: John Rechy
>
> Co-curators: Adrian Rivas and Pilar Tompkins
>
> April 22nd - May 27th, 2006
> Reception for the artists: April 29th, 2006 7-10pm
>
>
>
> Gallery 727 is pleased to present Outings, a group exhibition
> exploring public spaces in Los Angeles that have traditionally been
> appropriated by gay men for male/male encounters. These urban spaces
> tend to be unassuming areas within the city's everyday landscape

DISCUSSION

Re: Metadata


On Apr 25, 2006, at 2:39 PM, Richard Rinehart wrote:

> 1) Do Rhizome's vocabularies need to be compatible with other metadata
> standards? If so, which, and how much?

i would think a multi-tiered system would address a lot of Rob and
other's (myself included) preference for folksonomic methods. having
worked in situations where a more cohesive standard was needed, i also
understand the function of a hierarchal meta-data system. this gets at
the question of audiences as well. for many uses, a folksonomy system
works great, but for others it's not the ideal. translations of those
systems into multiple languages, for example can be very problematic in
the most standardized of systems.
in terms of the artbase, i would think that a folksonomic system works
well for "keywords" (just like the tagging process already described)
while the classification of "type" "genre" - i would add some other
standards for "technology" and some contextual options for "geography"
or something - could be something linked up to larger needs, whether
it's the Getty or whatever.
the hierarchal system however, seems like it would need to be managed
based on a coherent and consistent, yet easily applied, set of rules,
so that artists aren't subscribing a "type" (for example) that's only
based on some idiosyncratic interpretation of "net.art" or "web art"
thus foiling the purpose of standardization. i guess i'm saying that
those properties of artbase works could/should be managed by some
collective, responsible party (someone at Rhizome or a set of
volunteers) rather than by the artists. let the artists/"localized"
community deal with the folksonomy and tagging. the community tagging
process (letting others attach keywords of relevance i.e. del.icio.us)
could also be very useful here.
i guess as an artist and someone who's had to go through lots of
archives, i'm more invested as an artist in the keywords (the
"intellectual access points") than the definitions of "type" or "genre"
- i'm sure that for conservators however, notions of type, technology,
etc are pretty crucial.
just my $0.02, but thanks for including us all in the discussion.

DISCUSSION

Re: Hey you kids - get off my lawn.


On Apr 24, 2006, at 5:19 PM, Jim Andrews wrote:

> Programming is to digital art what English is to international
> communications.

That doesn't sound so "radically programmable" Jim...
i was thinking Spanglish/creole/etc would be a more interesting
location of innovation...
but then again, i'm monolingual for the most part, and not much of a
programmer. So i guess i'm not very innovative in either case.
ryan

DISCUSSION

Fwd: CALL FOR ARTISTS/Video


Begin forwarded message:

> From: glitch.la <glitch.la@gmail.com>
> Date: April 22, 2006 7:36:14 PM CDT
> Subject: CALL FOR ARTISTS/Video
>
> CALL FOR ARTISTS!
> GLITCH
>
>
> Noise
> Stillness
> Colors
> Currents
> Pixelation
> Repetition
> Frequencies
> Camera accidents
> Chroma bug
> Subliminality
> Voltages
> Electronic hiccups
> Hitches
> Aspect ratios
> Stutters of circuitry
> Waves
> Other accidents....
>
>
>
> GLITCH is a video screening that will take place this summer at LACMA
> (Los Angeles County Museum of Art). We are looking for videos that
> draw attention to glitches

DISCUSSION

Fwd: Former Top CIA Analyst: Government May Be Manufacturing Fake Terrorism


Begin forwarded message:

TERROR ALERTS MANUFACTURED?
Thursday, October 20, 2005 - FreeMarketNews.com
http://www.freemarketnews.com/WorldNews.asp?nid13

Those repeated terror alerts from the Bush
administration might all be part of a calculated
manipulation from our own government. At least that is
the speculation of Ray McGovern. A former CIA analyst
under both Reagan and Bush Sr., he was interviewed on
an Internet radio program Monday, presenting
indications that this could all be 'manufactured fake
terrorism,