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: anti-art-incorporating-dead-animals-&-be ds


> providing needles for your balloons

http://www.balloonhq.com/highlights/koons/rabbit.html

> http://www.stuckism.com/remod.html
"At this appropriate time, The Stuckists, the first
Remodernist Art Group, announce the birth of
Remodernism."

http://www.hawaii.edu/lruby/art302/INNOCEN.GIF

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FWD: ABC No Rio Announces...


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ABC No Rio Announces
psy-geo-conflux
ABC No Rio Record Fair
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PSY-GEO-CONFLUX
Thursday May 8 thru Sunday May 11
(exhibition runs through May 29)

Opening reception at ABC NO RIO, May 8, 6:00-9:00pm
Closing party / music and video evening at SUBTONIC,
May 11, 8:00pm

Please join us this weekend for Psy-Geo-Conflux, a
four-day event
dedicated
to current artistic and social investigations in
PSYCHOGEOGRAPHY ("the
study of the effects of the geographic environment on
the emotions and
behavior of individuals"). Part festival and part
conference, it
brings
together visual and sound artists, writers, and urban
adventurers to
explore the physical and psychological landscape of
the city.

Events will include a life-sized chess match using
humans as chess
pieces,
a telephone message-guided walk, a walk using playing
cards for
navigation,
a tour of famous landmark buildings as seen from their
service
entrances, a
street art tour, a noise parade, an exhibition and
other walks, talks
and
gatherings.

Check the Psy-Geo-Con website for the latest news and
the full
schedule:
http://glowlab.com/psygeocon/pgc_index.html

The Conflux opening reception is Thursday, May 8 at
6:00pm at ABC No
Rio.
The exhibition at ABC No Rio includes interactive map
projects (Jeff
Stark,
Christina Ray) a video documentary (Jake Barton),
photographs (David
Mandl), and additional projects related to mapping and
alternative uses
of
urban space. There will also be a printed schedule,
maps and
information
about the weekend's events.

The closing party on Sunday May 11 at SubTonic will
feature two
performances (Geoff Dugan/Sean Meehan and Jodi
Shapiro), video work by
Sal
Randolph, and several psychogeography-inspired dj sets
(Krou, DJ Sal,
Fabio
Roberti). SUBTONIC LOUNGE, 107 Norfolk St. (bet.
Delancey and
Rivington).

We hope to see you this weekend!

SPECIAL NOTICE: Please sign up if you'd like to
participate in these
two
events:

URBAN CHESS
http://www.glowlab.com/psygeocon/pgc_events/pgc_evnt_nei.html

Volunteer to be a human chess piece on Sunday, May 11,
12:00 p.m.-2:00
p.m.
The pieces will be moving from block to block on a
grid in the Lower
East
Side. Moves will be transmitted to them via mobile
phone from ABC No
Rio,
where two chess experts go head to head. If you have a
mobile phone and
want to play, sign up!
Contact Sharilyn Neidhardt: dbasr@yahoo.com

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THE LOWER EAST SIDE SHUFFLE: a collaborative detective
story
http://www.glowlab.com/psygeocon/pgc_events/pgc_evnt_ray.html

This project features a deck of cards, each depicting
a different
location
on the Lower East Side. Participants are invited to
act as detectives
in
finding and investigating these places over the course
of the Conflux
weekend. When all locations have been found and
documented with notes
and
evidence, detective stories will be generated by
shuffling and drawing
the
cards to compose scenes. An interactive map in the ABC
No Rio gallery
will
chart the project's progress as participants add
information, evidence,
text and photos.

50 decks are being produced for Psy-Geo-Conflux.
Contact Glowlab at shuffle@glowlab.com to reserve a
Shuffle deck, and
pick
it up at the reception on May 8th at ABC No Rio.
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ABC No Rio Record Fair
SATURDAY MAY 31 from 11:00am to 6:000pm
2 measly bucks gets you in!

JADED SCENESTERS! ENTHUSIASTIC YOUNGSTERS! RECORD
COLLECTING WINGNUTS!
MUSICAL OUTCASTS! LOVERS OF THE VINYL! PURVEYORS OF
THE MUSICALLY
UNDER-APPRECIATED!

You KNOW you don't want to miss the 4th Ever ABC No
Rio RECORD FAIR!
(yes...it's on!)

Featuring the best & cheapest in new, used, rare,
obscure and
forgotten...

hardcore/punk - ska/reggae - jazz/blues -
industrial/noise - new
wave/garage - miscellaneous underground nonsense of
the musical sort!
(really ANYTHING godamnit!! what are we, some sorta
frickin' genre
cops!?)

vinyl - CDs - cassettes - videos - fanzines - etc.
("etc." may =
memorabilia, used instruments, whatever's in yer
closet, etc.)

live DJs (this means YOU) will spin for the collective
consuming
pleasure!!

VENDORS: full tables are $30, half tables $15, smaller
and larger sizes
available.

For more info or to book space, contact Dave at (718)
238-3928 or
dp@panix.com.
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ABC No Rio
156 Rivington Street
New York, NY 10002
(212) 254-3697

ABC No Rio: http://www.abcnorio.org
InterActivist Network: http://www.interactivist.net
InterActivist INFO EXCHANGE:
http://slash.interactivist.net
SUPPORT ABC No Rio: http://www.abcnorio.org/support/support.html

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DISCUSSION

SmartPark surveillance


Surveillance cameras, infrared sensors and other
high-tech gadgets help monitor facilities.

By Tina Daunt, Times Staff Writer

To civic planners in Glendale, Palmer Park has
everything a recreation area needs

DISCUSSION

get Rhizome in a can


just begging for bad jokes...

Microsoft Plans Toilets With Web Access

By The Associated Press

SEATTLE - Now on the way: "Surfing on the loo" with
Internet access at portable toilets.

The iLoo being developed by the MSN division of
Microsoft Corp. in Britain is a standard portable
toilet

DISCUSSION

WTO in Sacramento and Ag Expo


Sacramento is an important destination on the World
Trade Organization's (WTO) pre-Cancun itinerary. The
United States Dept. of Agriculture (USDA), USAID, and
the US State Department are hosting a summit to which
the Ministers of Trade, Agriculture, and Environment
from 180 nations Have been invited. It will take place
in downtown Sacramento from June 23-25, 2003.

An "Expo On Agricultural Science and Technology" will
run concurrently to showcase transnational
agribusiness and biotechnology corporations and
promote an
industrialized, hunger inducing, agricultural model.
These events are intended to build up to the WTOs
September 2003 meetings in Cancun, Mexico. Agriculture
is the most contentious issue inside the WTO. Neither
the meeting nor the Expo are open to the general
public. "This is not a public event", say EXPO
organizers. A broad coalition of community
organizations from Sacramento and Northern California
are organizing a response to these events.

www.biodev.org/sacramento/

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