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]
hmm...electronic elections
thought some here might be interested. i remember
Dyske posting a piece on the possibility of networked
voting systems. this is the dark side...
http://news.independent.co.uk/world/americas/story.jsp?storyE2972
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consolidation of media database
http://www.openairwaves.org/telecom/analysis/default.aspx
just found this from bill moyers' recent NOW show:
http://www.pbs.org/now/politics/localmedia.html
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terminating politics
someone needs to make a parody game.
Ronny Zibinski, a 19-year-old Berlin technician, said
he liked the idea of a Schwarzenegger-type chancellor
for Germany. "We need someone like that to clean up
the mess and blow away the lousy politicians," he
said.
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Re: ms REALLY sucks
>
> I don't understand your hypothetical scenario above, Ryan, of UC
> hypothetically licensing their research via a 'non commercial'
> license. What
> sort of crucial terms in the 'non commercial' license were you
> thinking of?
honestly, i'm not all that sure. but, say the technology in dispute had been licensed under the Creative Commons non-commercial license http://creativecommons.org/learn/licenses/ that stipulates that the technology can be used, changed, shared, etc as long as it is not done for commercial gain. The technology would then be considered essentially public domain, and could be used by anyone, including commercial browser creators (that are "given" away). but, in the MS case, it's being argued that somehow, they aquired an uncompetetive advantage. This, it is said is how the eolas case was determined:
"Microsoft's browser came out in 1995. The jury found that Microsoft began using the technology after the patent was filed and continued to use it after the patent was issued. The damage award is based on the sale of the Windows operating system as Microsoft has long bundled its browser with its operating system. More than 300 million copies of Internet Explorer, mostly as part of Windows, have been sold."
http://www.forbes.com/execpicks/2003/08/12/cx_da_0812topnews.html
(this makes me think that they probably won't be going after Mozilla)
but to get to the point, how would one "punish" MS in this case had the license been something like the "non-commercial" one? would it be criminal? it obviously wouldn't be civil reparations as the creator wasn't seeking money in the first place. anyway, i'm just curious as to how we will enforce alternatives to the current IP system if/when they become more widely practiced.
i don't know, but it seems silly to criticize eloas and UC for being greedy, making us recode pages (the horror!). what do we expect? MS was offered the chance to license this "technology" (whether it actually is technology, i don't know) prior to 1999, when the suit was filed. greed is the game it seems, and we're just pawns in it. i think i'll revisit ruth catlow's idea about pawns again...
like Jim, i'm more annoyed/scared by the gubernator at the moment than greedy tech corporations (which are hardly new developments).
best,
ryan
Re: ms REALLY sucks
> Patent law is strange and screwy. You can patent an algorithm. But
> what's
> the alternative? The nub of the matter is here. We are into an age in
> which
> many industrial machines are virtual.
no doubt... and this makes for interesting legal philosophy considering the Creative Commons concept. how will the "non-commercial" license hold up? What if, for example, UC's research had been licensed in such a manner and MS utilized it for profitable gain in such a way that snuffed out competition?
but for some reason, i'm less concerned about MS being sued by a small company and a university than large companies using the "legal" system to dominate the Web (based on the wording of the complaint, it seems the lawsuit had more to do with MS's bundling of the browser and operating system to monopolize (sounds familiar...), than the actual use of the <embed> technology)
http://www.pcworld.com/news/article/0,aid,108903,00.asp
best,
ryan