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 ...
SWITCH: Issue 22
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 ...
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.
[-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.state of the planet infographics
a small collection of beautiful information graphics documenting the current state of the planet.
see also gapminder & 3d data globe.
[seedmagazine.com]
anti-racism site
some art connections too. (the "my race is..." tags
are actually by a friend from portland)
decent articles and links...
http://whiteprivilege.com/
best,
ryan
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genetically modified culture: call for works
'Innovations don
CLUI: California Coastal Records Project
Los Angeles
From Oregon to Mexico: Ken and Gabrielle Adelman's
California Coastal Records Project
The California Coastal Records Project is a sequential
photographic portrait of the coast of California,
composed of over 11,000 high resolution, low
altitude, oblique, aerial photographs, recorded
digitally in 2002 and 2003 by Ken Adelman, from a
helicopter flown by his wife, Gabrielle. Through
this endeavor, digital photography, internet
technology, and landscape converge with remarkable
synchronicity.
Shown as a digital projection at the CLUI, with each
image displayed for three seconds, the portrait takes
9 hours, 51 minutes and fifteen seconds to complete.
The exhibit runs continuously, and is visible during
normal public hours of noon to five PM, Fridays,
Saturdays, and Sundays, until May 18. Special
showings of the complete portrait are scheduled by
appointment.
Additional information on the California Coastal
Records Project is also on display. You can visit the
California Coastal Records Project on the
world wide web at www.californiacoastline.org.
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celebrate DNA + intellectual property rights day!
and
Intellectual Property Rights Day is tomorrow, April
26.
With the "completion" of the human genome project,
this year is one for the history books.
Celebrate the festive occassion with those that care,
by sending them a postcard.
http://www.thefutureiscoming.org
Best wishes and Happy DNA + Intellectual Property
Rights Day!
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HEMISPHERIC FORUM AGAINST MILITARIZATION
CHIAPAS (MEXICO), MAY 6-9, 2003
www.desmilitarizacion.org
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1st Hemispheric Forum Against Militarization: "Para
Callar las Armas,
Hablemos los Pueblos" / "The People Speak to Silence
the Weapons"
May 6-9, 2003, San Cristobal de las Casas, Chiapas,
Mexico
In the midst of an international economic crisis, the
United States
government launched a fierce military campaign
throughout the world,
promoting wars and the weapons industry. Throughout
the Americas, the
phenomenon of militarization continues to invade every
facet of
society.
Corporate-led globalization is inextricably linked to
the increase in
militarism on our continent and is manifested in the
Plan
Puebla-Panama,
Plan Colombia and the Free Trade Area of the Americas.
We the people must not remain silent in the face of
the arrogance and
abuse of power of those who impose a future of death,
domination and
economic injustice.
A number of continental networks in Latin America (the
Continental
Campaign against the FTAA, Grito de los Excluidos,
COMPA, and Jubilee
South/Americas) together with local and national
organizations
throughout
the hemisphere believe that it is imperative to unmask
the way
militarization promotes war, repression and neoliberal
economic
policies.
It is time for the people to speak out and take action
to silence the
violence.
WE ISSUE AN INVITATION: to Civil Society in Central,
South & North
America
and the Caribbean to come to the First Hemispheric
Forum Against
Militarization.
OBJECTIVES: To share information and analysis about
the militarization
of
the American Continents in all of its levels and
spheres.
To share experiences about the significance of
militarism and its
causes,
effects and consequences on rural and urban social,
political, economic
and cultural life.
To unite forces, hearts and wills in order to create
alternatives and
coordinate actions for peace facing this continental
militarization.
To create a permanent, long-term process of analysis,
reflection,
experience sharing and search for alternatives through
the Continental
Campaign to Counter Militarization.
Together building peace with justice and countering
militarism,
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WOULD YOU LIKE TO ATTEND, and/or FOR MORE INFORMATION:
www.desmilitarizacion.org.
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