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]
article on CAE and Grand Jury Testimonies
Saying No to the Prosecutor
Why Steve Kurtz's Colleagues Refused to Testify to the Grand Jury
Bruce Jackson
A death and a taste of blood
Steve Kurtz's wife Hope died of a heart attack May 11. Steve, an
associate professor of art at University at Buffalo, called 911. The
police who came saw some of the materials for an art exhibit on genetic
modification and called the FBI. The FBI came in, cordoned off half the
block, confiscated Hope's s body, Steve's computer, his notebooks, his
art supplies and their cat. They took him into custody. Two days later
they let him and the cat go and whoever had the wife's body released
for burial. There was no supposition of foul play in the death. Kurtz
is a member of the highly-regarded Critical Arts Ensemble, a group that
does confrontation art works designed to make people think about the
role corporations play in modern life.
FWD: CLASS: C presents Halfpipe at Laguna Art Museum
Matt Driggs and Joel Heflin
halfpipe
CLASS: C at Laguna Art Museum presents Matt Driggs and Joel Heflin
Orlo News + call
1. NEW WEBSITE!
2. NEW SHOW!
3. NEW CALL TO ARTISTS!
1. After many months of discussions about how to improve and update
our website, Orlo is very pleased to announce that we have completed
the first phase of our new site. We will now have better capability to
bring you all the amazing programming at Orlo through the window of the
World "Wild&Free" Web! Please join us at www.orlo.org and let us know
what you think. In the coming months we are looking forward to moving
into the archival stage of developing this exciting resource.
2. Orlo has an amazing new show at the Orlo Exhibition Space. We
welcome Keith Yurdana and his stunning work. We are currently holding
open hours on Saturdays from 2-6pm or by appt. Be sure to call the
office before you come, as our volunteer hosts are, well, volunteers.
3. We are spreading the word far and wide about our next show
featuring proposals for what Portland should do with Ross Island once
it is aqcuired back by the city. Please read below the call to artists
and let us know if you are interested in participating in this exciting
show.
Call to Artists and Designers
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ORLO invites artists and creative designers to offer proposals for
imaginative engagement with Ross Island as it is restored and brought
back
into the city's natural and cultural life.
The restoration of Ross Island offers a unique opportunity to explore
how
natural and cultural values can be powerfully linked together through
the
integration of art, ecology, and design.
Re: Politics That Makes Peace With the Beauty of Objects
> boxing ring for the better part of a century, ever since Marcel
> Duchamp, the Muhammad Ali of Western modernism, came floating and
> stinging onto the scene and messed with the protocols and the
> expectations of the game. And whether the resulting standoff is billed
> as politics versus pleasure, or ideas versus objects, it is almost
> always seen as a bout between Progressive and Conservative.
>
only calling Duchamp the "muhammad ali" of western modernism overlooks
the contradictions of its own metaphor - it skips over Cassius Clay.
When was Duchamp ever a second class citizen dependent on getting beat
up to make it?
At the least they could have used Arthur Craven - though who knows
Craven (who died for what Duchamp had a comfortable life for - not to
romanticize)?
http://citypaper.net/articles/101499/ae.books.surreal.shtml
reproducing the false dichotomy of politics and pleasure serves who its
meant to - the audience of pomo and modern art hasn't exactly changed,
has it?
ryan
The Corporation now playing
A film by Mark Achbar, Jennifer Abbott and Joel Bakan
NOW PLAYING IN US THEATERS
Hot on the heels of this weekend's US launch of THE CORPORATION
to packed houses and standing ovations at San Francisco's Castro
Theatre, we are pleased to present the launch of i- Corp
http://www.thecorporation.tv/icorp/- our interactive site
Don't miss the first webisode of http://www.docback.org/
Check out our Biotalk trailer
http://movies06.archive.org/1/movies/biotalk2/Biotalk-iCorp-
trailer2.mov
Find out more about the issues in the film.
Talk. Learn. Act.
NOW at http://www.thecorporation.com/
Join Us http://69.20.36.228/thecorporation/volunteer.cfm to spread the
word as the film launches across the US and soon Internationally.
To find out where the film is playing click here:
http://www.thecorporation.tv/usa/
Let us know what you think! Campaigns@TheCorporation.com
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