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]
Orlo Video Slam
For press inquiries, contact Peter V. Shaver at 503) 295-2787
PRESS RELEASE
For Immediate Release
Orlo is excited to announce its third annual VIDEO SLAM. The Video
Slam is a contest modeled after poetry slams: a judged contest
featuring wildly creative and thought-provoking short videos of up to
four minutes in length on environmental themes. This year's themes
include: "The Campaign Trail," "Plastic Culture," and "Mad Cow(s)."
The Slam format encourages fresh, spontaneously generated films from
all segments of Portland's filmmaking community and three cash prizes
will be offered, including a $500.00 first Prize for the overall best
film, as chosen at the Grand Slam. 2nd Prize is $200.00 and 3rd Prize
is $100.00. No experience is necessary and entry is free.
There will be three preliminary battles (July 31, Aug. 7, Aug. 14)
with each night a special event featuring a party and other
attractions. Winners of each night's theme will be entered into the
Grand Slam on Thursday, August 19, 2004 at the Laurelhurst Theater at
2735 East Burnside Street. The number of finalists will be determined
by the percentage of entries from each heat.
THEMES: This year's three themes and event locations are as follows:
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FWD: The Yes Men need a bus!
You've signed up on our list, so you know this already, but we (the Yes
Men) are best known for having impersonated the WTO on TV and at
business
conferences around the world (see http://www.theyesmen.org/).
Now, we want to use what we've learned in order to help the Bush
campaign
show its true colors. We know exactly how we want to do this, but we're
missing one thing: a tour bus. (A major RV or other official-looking big
vehicle could work too.)
Do you or a North American friend have such a thing?
We don't want to spill the beans on our plans--suffice it to say we'll
be
making Bush honest. Also, we'll register lots of Democrat voters along
the
way (Music for America is coming along). We'll upload video stuff to the
internet for a month--September--and after that we'll turn the result
into
a movie or shorter piece for TV. Along the way we hope also to generate
news stories about our antics and, therefore, the issues.
We'll take care of disguising the vehicle appropriately, and restoring
it
to its original state when we're done. You (and your parents, if the bus
or RV is theirs) will get tons of credit. And of course you (and/or
they)
can come along for the ride, if you like!
If you (or a North American friend) have an unused tour bus, or a big RV
used only in winter, and want to help us do what we can to make sure the
monster in the White House doesn't steal another election, let us know!
And if you know of any benefactors interested in investing in our tour,
that's great too!
Barrelling as best we can towards a better future,
The Yes Men
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Wednesday, July 14, 2004
Re: Re: ANTIGRAFFITIHIPHOP exhibition documentation
-from the 'anti-graffiti manifesto"
i'm no advocate for graffiti (though i have seen some pretty amazing
work in LA) but i would hardly say the graffiti is the tragedy that
needs community efforts to end. graffiti is a response to a set of
conditions - and sometimes a creative one. trying to eradicate graffiti
(esp. when one wants to associate with gang and drug activity) without
even looking at the complex of space and mobility issues that make up
sub/urban areas is kind of ridiculous.
graffiti is no more oppressive/presumptuous than the walls and
billboards built around people by others who don't even inhabit the
same space.
for another perspective:
http://www.rodeofilmco.com/graffiti_removal/script.html
or
http://www.counterproductiveindustries.com/gbgc/index.html
best,
ryan
>> The ANTIGRAFFITIHIPHOP show was an event including a dance performance
>> by Cross Level, a hiphop girlsband, and an installation with two fake
>> wooden walls containing one (fake) graffiti painting and an
>> overpainted graffiti which was replaced by two posters (the
>> Antigraffiti manifesto in the documentation).
>> The documentation of the show is now online, feel free to have a look
>> at it!
>>
>>
>> A web documentation to view at:
>> http://www.paetau.com/downloads/Antigraffitihiphop/Antigraffiti.html
>>
>>
>> A PDF documentation (1,2 MB) to download at:
>> http://www.paetau.com/downloads/Antigraffitihiphop/Antigraffiti.pdf
>>
>>
>>
>>
>> Best wishes, Kristofer Paetau
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Re: Track "Postpone/Cancel" Election Legislature through Congress
http://thomas.loc.gov/
?
i get timed out every time...
hopefully this means high usage.
r
On Jul 14, 2004, at 2:06 AM, Rob Myers wrote:
> On 14 Jul 2004, at 07:17, Lee Wells wrote:
>
>> May whatever form of divinity each of us holds dear give us guidance,
>> wisdom
>> and strength as we consider this.
>
> And this is why Bush will win.
>
> - Rob.
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