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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Fwd: STATUS STOLEN a mobile billboard by PERRY BARD


Begin forwarded message:
>
>
> STATUS: STOLEN
> A mobile truckside billboard by PERRY BARD
> In transit from 30th

DISCUSSION

NYPD raid on NYC's Kim's Video


i'm forwarding a thread from another list that i thought some might be
interested in here.

Begin forwarded message:

> ------------------------------
>
> Date: Fri, 10 Jun 2005 10:31:46 -0400
> Subject: New York, Police Raid on Kim's Video
>
> This week Kim's Video in the East Village was raided by the NYPD and
> many staff were arrested. Kim's is a very unique, independent video
> source for the city. The police were able to identify some pirated
> material in the collection. Are there any similar stories of a
> library or archive being raided by the cops looking for pirated
> material? Do any archives have a procedure on what to do, if the feds
> show up looking for particular titles?
>
> http://www.nytimes.com/2005/06/10/nyregion/10kim.html
> http://www.gawker.com/news/culture/crime/kims-video-invaded-by-the-50
> -107222.php
>
> http://www.mtv.com/news/articles/1503863/20050609/50\_cent.jhtml?
> headlines=true
>
> David Rice
> Archivist
> Democracy Now!
>
>
> Date: Fri, 10 Jun 2005 11:22:45 EDT
> Subject: Re: New York, Police Raid on Kim's Video
>
> To be fair, as much as I love Kim's, they are probably very guilty of
> copying
> and distributing these titles -- after all, everybody goes to them for
> titles
> they can't get through normal channels and it's their claim to fame,
> something they actively advertize, and why they do such great
> business. A good
> argument can be made that there's actually not much difference
> ethically from selling
> 100 dupes of Star Wars on the street corner than one dupe of a rare
> Fassbinder title. (Though the question of taste arises.) However, I
> think arresting the
> staff is way overboard.
>
> Libraries and archives are in a different situation, though there were
> raids
> of collectors and at least one university (mine) back in the 1960s
> through the
> 1980s including Roddy McDowell! Studios have stopped this because they
> found
> it better to work with everybody than prosecuting.
>
> Dennis Doros
> Milestone Film & Video
>

> Date: Fri, 10 Jun 2005 11:32:32 -0400
> Subject: Re: New York, Police Raid on Kim's Video
>
>> ...there were raids of collectors and at least one university (mine)
>> back in the 1960s through the 1980s including Roddy McDowell!
>
> Detailed info on this at The Smoking Gun:
>
> "In 1974, the FBI raided the Hollywood home of Roddy McDowall and
> seized the actor's large collection of pirated films. The search,
> conducted as part of a copyright infringement probe, turned up films
> agents valued at more than $5 million. McDowall, who was not charged,
> cooperated with the FBI, giving agents the names of those with whom he
> bought and sold pirated films, according to these FBI records obtained
> by The Smoking Gun. In a lengthy written statement, the "Planet of the
> Apes" star even fingered other entertainers who collected such
> films--actor Rock Hudson, singer Mel Torme, and comedian Dick Martin
> (of Rowan & Martin)."
>
> http://www.thesmokinggun.com/archive/roddy1.html
>
> --
> ;;;::;;;::;;;::;;;::;;;::;;;::;;;::;;;::;;;::;;;::;;;::;;;::;;;::;;;
> Jeff Economy
> Independent Filmmaker
>

> Date: Fri, 10 Jun 2005 09:00:21 -0700
> Subject: Kim's Video
>
> I pass by Kim

DISCUSSION

Fwd: Experience the Experience of Being Buried Alive


> Monochrom and Machine Project present...
> Experience the Experience of Being Buried Alive
> Tuesday June 14th 8pm - Midnight
> Machine Project, Los Angeles, CA 90026
> 213-483-8761
> Free
>
> The people present will have an opportunity to be buried alive in a
> coffin for fifteen minutes. As a framework program there will be
> lectures about the history of the science of determining death and the
> medical cultural history of "buried alive". People buried alive not
> only populate the horror stories of past centuries, but also countless
> reports in specialized medical literature. The theme of unintentional
> resurrection by grave robbers also runs through forensic protocols.
> Even in the 19th century it was said that every tenth person was
> buried alive. No wonder that the fear of this fate was immense and led
> - especially in the German-speaking region - to all kinds of
> precautions to avoid it. Various death test methods were developed,
> for instance. "Security coffins" with bell pulls and air hoses were
> patented; mortuaries were built, in which corpses were left for days
> to natural decay.
>
> Please note we will actually be buring people alive.
> http://www.machineproject.com/monochrom/buriedalive.php
>
> Experience The Experience Of Being Buried Alive is the first of four
> performances by Monochrom in Los Angeles. For more information see the
> following links.
>
> http://www.monochrom.at/experiences/
> http://www.machineproject.com/monochrom/

DISCUSSION

Re: Steal This Concept: The Breakaway Mobius Strip Palindrome


> Have fun with it. But don't use it unless you have some history with
> this kind of stuff. Fool 'em once, shame on you. Fool 'em as a
> career conceptual artist, and they're much more likely to bend over
> and take it yet again.

funny as usual, curt. but something nags at me when i read this... who
is supposed to be "fooled" exactly?
i'm guessing that it's someone who isn't supposed to like sex, but is
easily tricked into it. maybe they really just like it, even though
they're told they shouldn't.
or is there force involved? have they been drugged? if so, someone
should really do something. that's not really a joking matter.
but if not, maybe everyone is a willing and consenting party. maybe
they're into "that kind of thing." maybe it's not about deception.
maybe that's all part of the act. you know, role play.
so what if they want to document it?
isn't there a v-chip or something that can be used to filter out this
kind of thing for people who aren't into "that kind of thing"? i guess
it could be troubling just knowing that "it's" going on somewhere, even
if you can't actually see "it."
you have to watch out for those "agendas.

DISCUSSION

Re: snoop


blast from the not-so-distant past:
http://www.reamweaver.com/