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]
Bike_Writer_Pedals_for_Protests
Instead of ferrying legal papers between lawyers, he uses a homemade,
wireless, bicycle-mounted dot-matrix printer to spray protest messages
in the street.
Kinberg will be taking his road-spraying bicycle to the Republican
National Convention in New York this fall, where he'll ride around
spraying slogans submitted over the Web and beamed wirelessly to the
bike."
http://www.wired.com/news/culture/0,1284,64419,00.html
NewGenics
Australia's Gene Technology Regulator issues licence
The application requested approval to undertake a limited and
controlled release of genetically modified (GM) virus-resistant white
clover on one site in Victoria over four planting seasons (2004-2007),
comprising a maximum area of 494 square metres per planting season.
http://www.seedquest.com/News/releases/2004/august/9472.htm
Advance gene therapy might prevent heart attack damage
The findings, based on work in rats, are reported in this week's issue
of Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences.
http://www.usatoday.com/news/health/2004-08-02-gene-therapy_x.htm
Hopes Now Outpace Stem Cell Science
But for all the promise, and for all the fervent hopes of patients and
their families that cures from stem cells will come soon, researchers
say many questions in basic science remain to be answered.
http://www.nytimes.com/2004/07/29/science/29stem.html?
ex49185600&enYfb7b353f6829e5&eiP90&partner=rssuserland
By Accident, Utah Is Proving an Ideal Genetic Laboratory
Utah DNA is being used for an international study that seeks to
identify chromosomes linked to diseases like asthma and diabetes.
http://www.nytimes.com/2004/07/31/science/31gene.html?
ex49185600&eng3530fb222cde6a&eiP90&partner=rssuserland
GE papaya scandal in Thailand
Independent laboratory tests carried out in Hong Kong showed that
packages of papaya seeds being sold by the Department of Agriculture's
research station in the province of Khon Kaen contained GE seeds.
http://www.greenpeace.org/international_en/news/details?item_idT7563
YOUgenics: art interrogating genetic technologies
http://www.yougenics.net
FWD: F_theVote upDate
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
Website FTheVote.com Suggests Trading Votes for Sex: Releases New
Version
Pittsburgh, PA August 02, 2004 -
On Monday FtheVote.com (www.fthevote.com) will officially release
version 2
of its extremely popular site, which urges internet users to exchange
sex
for votes against George Bush in the upcoming 2004 election. Visitors
to
FtheVote.com are urged to seek out Republican voters and offer sexual
favors
in exchange for a pledge to vote for anyone other than Bush. FtheVote
is
hoping to generate activity in what they call "swinger states," the
so-called purple states whose Electoral College votes may be up for
grabs in
November. Those who surf to the site may become "models," whose
pictures
and personality profiles are visible to other visitors. Also, the site
hosts message boards and chat rooms advising users to set up meetings in
order to facilitate "getting pledges," and they have a bus tour planned
for
August, which ends up at the Republican National Convention where
members
will embark on a tour of conservative bars.
The premise behind FtheVote is that liberals are generally better
looking
and better in bed than conservatives, and liberals will therefore be
able to
use sex as a political tool to swing the November election. Votes are
secured through a pledge system, which requires the conservative
willing to
give up his or her vote to sign a pledge sheet, register online, or
phone in
the pledge (preferably mid-coitus). Pledges are tallied on the web
site's
US map, showing which states will be most effectively targeted by the
campaign. Use of the website is entirely free - the creators see it as
their patriotic duty to use any means necessary to un-elect Bush in
2004.
FtheVote is also planning events in the non-cyberspace world: In
August, the
FTV Bus Tour will visit several college campuses in five states as well
as
the Republican National Convention in New York. FtheVote will have day
events which will include BBQs and finding publicity opportunities, and
night events, which will include storming conservative nightspots and
bars
to find susceptible voters. FtheVote encourages interested visitors to
participate in these events. Resources on FtheVote.com include:
Re: what is Optical Camouflage
http://www.mugshots.org/criminals/unabomber.html
On Jul 29, 2004, at 7:24 PM, mark cooley wrote:
> Optical Camouflage
> what is optical camouflage
>
> http://www.ananova.com/news/story/sm_747591.html
>
> http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/technology/3791795.stm
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> http://projects.star.t.u-tokyo.ac.jp/projects/MEDIA/xv/oc.html
Partisan Project
history
fast approaching, we present PARTISAN PROJECT - a group of designers
and artists using their time and talent to help bring about change.
http://partisanproject.org/