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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JoAaP: Issue #4 website on-line; taking orders for print!


Issue #4 web-issue released!
Make an advanced orders for the print issue!
www.journalofaestheticsandprotest.org

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contents

1. Web release
2 Excerpt from issue

DISCUSSION

Fwd: My Daily Constitution Los Angeles Schedule, 25 October-6 November '05


See www.mydailyconstitution.org.

From 25 October - 6 November, a series of public discussions about the
U.S.
Constitution led by lawyers, academics, activists, and others will be
held
as part of the project "My Daily Constitution". Discussions take place
at
various locations (cafe, theatre, library, cultural center, lounge) in
and
around Los Angeles. Free copies of the U.S. Constitution, printed for
the
series in a special edition, will be available at discussion locations.

Among the issues that will be covered are the war clause, immigration,
voting, national security, the USA Patriot Act, civil liberties,
freedom of
expression, racial profiling, the U.S. prison system, and political
dissent.
Discussion leaders during week one are NIELS FRENZEN, LAURIE L.
LEVENSON,
ALLEN IDES, SIMON LEVY, ANDREW GUMBEL, JOE DOMANICK, RICARDO GARCIA,
DAVID
ARIAN, and PETER GRAVETT. Discussion leaders during week two are SALAM
AL-MARAYATI, PETER ELIASBERG, KATHAY FENG, JIM LAFFERTY, DEVON CARBADO,
ARLENE INOUYE, and MARY BETH TINKER.

*

DISCUSSION

Fwd: You are invited to My Daily Constitution in Los Angeles


> CONTACT:
> Linda Pollack
> Phone: (310) 804-4887
> www.mydailyconstitution.org
> e-mail: linda@mydailyconstitution.org
>
> "My Daily Constitution" in Los Angeles October 25 - November 6 2005
>
> 12 Discussions in and around Los Angeles about the U.S. Constitution
> and
> Constitutional Democracy.
>
> * discussions are free and open to the public *
> * free copies of U.S. Constitution *
>
> From 25 October - 6 November, Linda Pollack holds "My Daily
> Constitution" a
> series of public discussions about the U.S. Constitution led by
> lawyers,
> academics, activists, and others. Discussions take place at various
> locations (cafe, theatre, library, cultural center, lounge) in and
> around
> Los Angeles. Free copies of the U.S. Constitution, printed for the
> series in
> a special edition, will be available at discussion locations. Copies
> will
> also be available at the National Center for the Preservation of
> Democracy
> in downtown Los Angeles, and Beyond Baroque in Venice. The National
> Center
> for the Preservation of Democracy is holding its public open house on
> Saturday, October 29th (more info at www.ncdemocracy.org). On the
> evening of
> October 29th, Beyond Baroque hosts "Beyond Text: The Constitution"
> (more
> info at www.beyondbaroque.com).
>
> My Daily Constitution originated in Los Angeles as part of the exhibit
> "Democracy When?" at Los Angeles Contemporary Exhibitions in
> Hollywood. The
> series has been held in Cincinnati (2003), New York City (2003, 2004)
> and
> Seattle (2003), with plans for several Midwest destinations in 2006.
>
> "The idea," says Pollack, "is to break away from the dynamics of the
> large
> lecture hall and create a space where individuals and communities can
> become
> active participants in a dialogue about our democracy. Our
> Constitution, our
> democracy, is about interpretation - and interpretation means a
> collective,
> active dialogue, not just passive consumers and lawmaking producers.
> The
> U.S. Constitution is a living document, part of our quotidian life,
> influencing us in both large and small ways daily."
>
> Among the issues that will be covered are immigration, voting, national
> security, civil liberties, and freedom of expression. On Thursday,
> October
> 27th, a discussion about war and the U.S. Constitution follows the
> production of "What I Heard About Iraq" at the Fountain Theatre in East
> Hollywood. In this discussion, Prof. Allen Ides of Loyola Law School,
> together with Director Simon Levy will address questions arising from
> the
> play as well as broader questions about our current war and our
> constitutional democracy. A limited number of discounted tickets are
> available through My Daily Constitution (details below). Other
> discussion
> leaders during week one are Niels Frenzen, Laurie Levenson, Andrew
> Gumbel,
> Joe Domanick, David Arian, and Peter Gravett. Complete schedule
> follows.
>
> *

DISCUSSION

Fwd: TEKS and PNEK might have to close down!


Begin forwarded message:
>
> TEKS and PNEK might have to close down!
>
> TEKS, Trondheim Electronic Arts Centre, and PNEK, the Norwegian
> Production Network for Electronic Arts, have reached the 3 year limit
> for financial support from Arts Council Norway. We have
> therefore

DISCUSSION

Fwd: [festival] Early warning SMF4


Begin forwarded message:
>
> Hello all. Here is an early warning about the best thing to happen
> since
> version>05.
> ;)
>
> Select Media Festival 4 (SMF4)
>
> We present the annual Select Media Festival in an attempt to highlight
> a few
> of the threads that makes our city a fantastic cultural diaspora for
> emerging art and counter-cultural activity. In an ongoing exploration
> of
> emerging art movements and independent networks in contemporary art and
> media, this year we find ourselves in the Community of the Future,
> formally
> known as Bridgeport. We