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]
Fwd: Call for proposal
> A new adventure is about to start following in the footsteps of
> Plug'n'Pray: Scan your Skin. This research project aims at exploring a
> simple but thorny subject: our skin. We would like to put together a
> group of people who can contribute to the project with high-quality
> creative input.
>
> Eager to learn more? Read below a short description of this
> initiative. If you find your passions, beliefs and goals expressed
> here, I'd be glad if you could join us. Please let me know if you'd
> like to participate in this adventure with your work and
> interpretation of the project theme - your contribution is valuable.
>
> Feel free to distribute this message to other people whom you think
> may find it interesting and relevant.
> Thank you for your time and attention.
>
> Best wishes,
> Lionello Borean
>
>
>
>
> SyS > Scan your Skin
> Book, web site and offline project
> Call for ideas and proposals
>
> Our skin is our vulnerable shell. It protects us and characterizes
> each one of us as an individual. Besides its physical attributes, our
> skin conveys differences between people; it takes on ancestral,
> historical, cultural and political implications. As time flows on, it
> carves more signs and meanings on our skin.
>
> SyS wants to explore this territory from different points of view.
> Creative personalities will suggest artistic interpretations of the
> project message, thus offering their own reading of the human skin.
> Photography, graphic arts, the written word; a bold, abstract approach
> or a sober and realistic one - each contribution will be a key
> component of this multifaceted jigsaw puzzle. The goal is to build a
> well-structured picture of human skin as a concept/research object.
> The final work will be published in a book and distributed to selected
> retailers.
>
> Artists, writers, designers and cultural producers: we are calling
> you! Send us your work! (Format: 1 to max. 8 pages; approx. size:
> 17x24 cm./6.70x9.45 in.) It can be anything from a photo or photo
> series/sequence, to graphic work, to a story, an article or a poem.
>
> We plan to organize a number of offline happenings and events to
> support and promote the book, and to link it to an ad-hoc web site:
> the "Scan your Skin" online project is under construction right now
> (check it out on www.scan-skin.org, coming soon.)
>
>
The ultimate in reality entertainment...
'Cause cops need to watch more TV. Bet the Surveillance Camera Players
could have a successful franchise here with all the aspiring 'talent.'
http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&cid 26&ncid 26&e=1&u=/
latimests/20041028/ts_latimes/camerastokeepwatchinhollywood
Cameras to Keep Watch in Hollywood
By Jessica Garrison Times Staff Writer
In a new step for crime fighting in Los Angeles, the Police Department
plans to start installing surveillance cameras on city streets,
beginning with Hollywood Boulevard.
the Los Angeles Times
Five video cameras will train their electronic eyes on one of the
world's most famous
Fwd: Electronics Workshops at Machine
taken on some of the basics? or an expert that just wants to goof
around?
Begin forwarded message:
> Dear Pals,
>
> I'm going to be offering a class in basic electronics at the gallery
> starting Nov 7th. It will be four Sunday afternoon workshops. Each
> workshop covers a different aspect of analog electronics (DC, AC,
> electromagnetism, transistors, integrated circuits, soldering, reading
> schematics and constructing circuits, etc) and consists of a lecture
> and hands on lab. The cost for this is $100+$50 for materials.
>
> I've taught this a number of times in the past - it's always fun, and
> although things occasionally explode, nobody ever gets hurt.
>
> There are a limited number of spots, so please register early to avoid
> disappointment.
>
> Registration information can be found here >
> http://www.machineproject.com/classes/efa_registration.php
>
> Syllabus can be found here >
> http://www.markallen.com/teaching/machine/efa1/index.php
>
> Please pass this along to anyone who might be interested.
>
> -Mark
Fwd: Discordia celebrates ...
> From: Discordia Collective <discordia@discordia.us>
> Date: October 28, 2004 9:36:32 AM PDT
> To: Undisclosed recipients: ;
> Subject: Discordia celebrates ...
>
> Samhain/Halloween/Dias de los Muertos/Allerheiligen ...
>
> Take your pick and come by from October 29 to November 3 to leave an
> epitaph, parting wishes, wise thoughts and witty words as Discordia
> prepares to depart for the netherworld, the other side, perpetual
> archivization and/or possible future reincarnations.
>
> http://discordia.us
>
> Discordificiously,
> -Discordia Collective
>
Fwd: 16Beaver/MIT Event: The Kurtz Case and Beyond
>> Friday 10.29.04 -- MIT Teach In -- Bio-art,