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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DISCUSSION

Fwd: October Surprise Events October 8-11


> OCTOBER SURPRISE:
> Creative Interventions and Underground Politics in Northeast Los
> Angeles
> October 8-11, 2004
>
> ****October Surprise releases creative anarchy throughout Highland
> Park!
> Find out more here: http://www.theoctobersurprise.org , or call
> 323-449-9019
>
> ****Navigation-Communication Stations:
> More than 45 projects and interventions in Northeast Los Angeles.
> Pick up an map/exhibition guide/catalogue at these hub spaces:
> -- Flor y Canto Centro Comunitario (3706 North Figueroa)
> -- Arroyo Arts Collective Gallery (135 North Avenue 50)
> -- Mudpuppy Cafe (4219 North Figueroa St).
>
> ****Locomotion:
> Take Metro GOLD LINE to the Highland park station Ave 57
> http://www.metro.net/riding_metro/metro_rail/gold_line.htm
> Ride a bike! Bring your own or use bikes built by the Whirly Girls.
>
> ****Friday Oct. 8****
> 7pm -- October Surprise Opening Party
> AAC Gallery, 135 N. Avenue 50
> Opening, in collaboration with Avenue 50 Studio's "Altaring Course."
> Performances and interactivity with Linda Hoag and Deborah Thomas,
> Edith
> Abeyta, Rachel Allen, Nicholas Fedak II, and Jill D'Agnenica.
>
>
> ****Saturday Oct. 9****
> 1pm -- Flor y Canto, 3706 N. Figueroa -- "The Interventionists": Talk
> by
> Nato Thompson (MassMoca, DSLR Chicago)
>
> 5pm -- AAC Gallery, 135 N. Avenue 50 -- Dialogue: October Surprise
> participants are invited to share their practices with one another.
>
> 9pm-2am - Live Music Benefit Bash
> Mr. T's Bowl, 5621 1/2 Figueroa, $5.00, 21 and over.
> Party featuring My Barbarian, the Mormons, D'Argento, Lil' Kickers,
> The
> Cinnamon Roll Gang and DJ Doma Beer Market.
>
>
> ****Sunday Oct. 10****
> 1-6pm -- Electric Surprise: YouthQuake in the Arroyo
> Tierra De La Culebra Park, 240 S. Avenue 57
> Live music featuring The Old Souls, Opaque, The Four Glow Sticks, Black
> Powdered Bisquits and S.O.L. (Sounds of Life).
> Skateboard ramp building workshop. Paper fashion workshop with Dianne
> Gamboa.
>
> ****Scheduled projects by...
> Edith Abeyta, Rachel Allen, Avenue 50 Studio, Jeff Chapman, Center for
> Tactical Magic, Wendy Cheng, Marsha Cifarelli, Jill D'Agnenica, Brian
> Decker, Economic Development Committee of the HHPNC, Ken Ehrlich,
> Nicholas
> Fedak II, Kianga Ford, Alison Heimstead, Marc Herbst, Jen Hofer,
> Shannon
> Hoff, Candice Johnson, Rebecca Kandel, Las Memorias/The Wall, Jill
> Newman
> and Tom McKenzie, Northeast Democratic Club and Northeast Neighbors for
> Peace & Justice, OrangesSardines Window Gallery, Albert Ortega, Trevor
> Paglen, Aldo Panzieri, Jaime S. Perry, Pocho Research Society, POOR
> THING,
> Red76, Arturo E. Romo, Sara Ross, Tyler Rowland, Carey Ann Schaefer,
> Ryan
> M. Schoelerman, Molly Sides, Temporary Travel Office, Deborah Thomas
> and
> Linda Anne Hoag, Thuesday, Zandra Van Batenburg, Leora Wien, Whirly
> Girls
>
> ****The October Surprise has been generously supported by :
> Arroyo Arts Collective
> Arroyo Seco Neighborhood Council
> Historic Highland Park Neighborhood Council
>

DISCUSSION

a review of the gardenLAb experiment


Experiments in the Garden of Good and Evil: a review of the gardenLAb
experiment

"The ambitious time traveler doesn't need to know anything about
Lorentz transformations or black holes - a good road map of Los Angeles
County will suffice."
Mike Davis, _The Ecology of Fear_ , 1998

"I like the spaces in between."
Neil Hopper, quoted in Lelyveld Nita, "He Has His Walking Points," LA
Times, 9.16.04
( http://www.walkinginla.com/ )



DISCUSSION

hooray for art


apparently wall real estate is looking really good right now...
"The list of sellers this season reads like a who's who of
Impressionist, modern and contemporary collectors. The Hollywood
executive David Geffen has entrusted Sotheby's to sell over $16 million
worth of works by Johns and de Kooning that he has owned for years. Lew
Manilow, a Chicago real estate developer, lawyer and philanthropist, is
offering "Three Sisters," a 1965 painting by Gerhard Richter with an
estimate of $4 million to $5 million, at Sotheby's. The Manhattan real
estate developer Richard Lane and his wife, Barbara, an interior
designer, hope to get about $15 million at Christie's for their Warhol
"Birmingham Race Riot," a silkscreen on paper inspired by a 1963
newspaper photo.
Baroness Marion Lambert, wife of Baron Philippe Lambert, a member of a
Belgian banking family, is parting with her entire collection of
contemporary photographs at a smaller auction house, Phillips de Pury &
Company, in collaboration with Philippe Segalot, a Manhattan dealer."
http://www.nytimes.com/2004/10/03/arts/03auct.html?
th=&oref=login&pagewanted=print&position=

DISCUSSION

OnRamp arts closing


An innovative LA-based arts and educational project, OnRamp Arts, is
ending it's 7+ year run. Reposted here is an edited interview with On
Ramp Arts cofounder Jessica Irish, originally published on
furtherfield.org.
http://www.onramparts.org

Since 1997, OnRamp has worked with artists, educational institutions,
historians, community members and youth to create digital art projects
that investigate the different identities