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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DISCUSSION

Re: Re: Re: Re: Re: R2D2: Conceptual Art


On Aug 9, 2005, at 9:50 PM, Eric Dymond wrote:

> which brings me back to the article by Kuspitt. It is as if the
> history of art has been imposed upon a network of thinking/conjecture
> that yields only art historical narratives. He is very, very wrong
> here assumimg that we care about his narrative. We don't. I don't care
> about Duchamp( and Robert Smithson would agree, were he alive) that
> Duchamp was interested in alchemy, not machines and the filters they
> apply.
> We did not end up here because the weight of art history was upon us,
> we found ourselves here, accidents happen.

not in disagreement really... but it's interesting that you distance
yourself from Art History via Duchamp, yet look for (speculative)
support from Smithson - hardly a personality outside of Art History
(esp at the moment).
i also think it's a bit counter productive to argue against Kuspit's
interest here... his career has been as a critic of contemporary art
with an emphasis on psychoanalysis and object relations, so i don't see
the point in attacking his decision to consider developing ideas and
practices through his own lens. if you're not participating in the Art
World proper (as many of us aren't), you can probably safely ignore him
as he will you. or you can also read him as a critic and historian of a
more mainstream practice. if you want to argue _with_ him, then you
enter into that dialogue knowingly and willingly. in that vein,
challenges to his, or anyone's, timeline is welcome to me.
personally, i found his take on the work of "institutional critique"
and authoritative consciousness in the 80s pretty interesting.

DISCUSSION

online video and the future of television


Begin forwarded message:

> Archival TV and Intelligent Television present:
> Getting Ready for Prime Time: Online Video and the Future of Television
>
> Friday, September 30, 2005
> 9.30 a.m. - 4.30 p.m.
> The Hillside Club
> 2286 Cedar Street
> Berkeley, CA 94709
>
> More than 30 million hours of unique television programming are
> broadcast every year worldwide, and a growing fraction of it is
> digital, along with a flood of video from individuals, new production
> companies, and archives. The availability of large-scale public and
> private archives of television, video, and film offers enormous promise
> for educators, entrepreneurs, producers, broadcasters, and investors.
>
> Nearly every aspect of television and video today is in transition.
> Storage is moving from tape to disk, distribution is moving from
> broadcast networks to the Internet, schedules are giving way to
> unscheduled or on-demand access, and viewing now happens via PCs,
> mobile phones, and home theaters.
>
> This one-day conference brings together archivists, educators,
> technologists, entrepreneurs, producers, legal experts, and investors
> to explore the enormous promise offered by the availability of online
> video and television content. Demonstrations and interactive panel
> discussions will highlight new video technologies, services, legal
> issues, and economic models. Participants from diverse -- and until
> now, largely disconnected -- specialties will be especially encouraged
> to interact.
>
> Speakers include:
>
> Alexander Cohen, (founder, Undergroundfilm.org)
> Brewster Kahle (digital librarian, Internet Archive)
> Jeff Ubois (producer, Archival.tv)
> JD Lasica (author, Darknet)
> Josh Goldman (CEO, Akimbo)
> Kim Spencer (president, Link TV)
> Marc Canter (co-founder, Ourmedia.org)
> Marc Davis (founding director of Yahoo! Research Labs - Berkeley
> (YRL-B))
> Mary Hodder (CEO, Bloqx)
> Peter Hirshberg (board member, ICTV)
> Peter B. Kaufman (founder, Intelligent Television)
> Rick Prelinger (founder, the Prelinger Archive)
> Ryan Shaw, (SIMS; YRL-B; unmediated.org)
> Scott Kirsner (contributing editor, Release 1.0)
>
> Registration and Sponsorship
>
> Thanks to the generosity of the William and Flora Hewlett Foundation,
> the Association of Moving Image Archivists' Television Interest Group,
> and others, financial contributions by individual participants to
> support the conference are voluntary. We ask that all participants
> register in advance via e-mail, as below.
>
> The conference is the first in a series of meetings Archival TV and
> Intelligent Television are organizing on this theme in 2005-2006. This
> first meeting is taking place at The Hillside Club, one of Berkeley's
> oldest cultural institutions. The Hillside Club is wi-fi enabled and
> convenient to public transportation.
>
> Directions:
>
> By car: From Oakland or the Bay Bridge, take Hwy 80 and exit at
> University, make a quick RIGHT under the freeway and onto the frontage
> road, and turn RIGHT at the 4RENT sign onto Cedar St. Continue straight
> two miles past Shattuck and park. From the Richmond Bridge, take Hwy 80
> and exit LEFT at Gilman, turn RIGHT on San Pablo for a few blocks, and
> LEFT on Cedar St. 1.5 miles past Shattuck, and park.
>
> By foot/bicycle: From downtown Berkeley BART, go north on Shattuck, and
> east on Cedar St. This is an easy and safe 15-minute walk.
>
> To register or for information about speaking or sponsorship, please
> contact:
> Jeff Ubois
> +1 415 850 5431
> conference@archival.tv
> http://www.archival.tv/wikiwiki.php?page'0

DISCUSSION

New Media Matters blog on digital audiovisual archiving


Begin forwarded message:

> This week Media Matters launched DAVA, the Digital Audiovisual
> Archiving
> blog. Updated weekly, this blog will feature news and announcements on
> topics related to the digital transformation and preservation of
> audiovisual materials. The blog will also list upcoming conferences
> and workshops pertinent to archives and digital libraries, as well as
> links to metadata resource sites and other digital archiving resources.
> The blog will be maintained by Media Matters, and is intended to help
> librarians, archivists, technologists, and anyone else who needs to
> stay
> on top of information relating to the intersection of digital media and
> audiovisual archives. With technology changing so rapidly, and the
> general shift to migrating analog media assets to digital files, this
> blog is a timely and useful resource for anyone involved with media
> collection management.
>
>
>
> DAVA can be found at:
> http://av-archive.blogspot.com.
>
>
>
> For questions or comments about DAVA, please contact Gilad Rosner at
> gilad@media-matters.net.


DISCUSSION

September Project


Begin forwarded message:

> We are trying to distribute our message to all librarians in all
> countries.
> Please consider forwarding this email below to any and all librarians
> you know -- librarians at your local public library, librarians who
> work at your community college, college, or university, librarians you
> know who live overseas, etc. And if you blog, please consider blogging
> this. Thank you,
>
> david silver
>
> ***
>
> [ PLEASE forward this message to a LIBRARIAN near you ]
>
> The September Project ( http://www.theseptemberproject.org ) is a
> grassroots
> effort to encourage public events on freedom, democracy, and
> citizenship in
> libraries on or around September 11. September Project events are
> activities
> of reflection, discussion, and dialogue about the meaning of freedom,
> the role
> of information in promoting active citizenship, and the importance of
> literacy
> in making sense of the world around us. Events take place on September
> 11, on
> the weekend of September 11, or throughout the month of September. In
> other
> words, whenever it works best for your library and community.
>
> Libraries around the world are collaborating with organizations to
> host public
> and campus events, such as: displays about human rights and historical
> documents; talks and performances about freedom and cultural
> difference; and
> film screenings about issues that matter. Over 100 examples of events
> can be
> found at: http://www.theseptemberproject.org/pastevents.htm For events
> tailored to a more academic audience, please visit:
> http://www.lib.washington.edu/about/events/theseptemberproject
>
> Currently, over 160 public, academic, school, and institute libraries
> in 13
> countries are participating. Participating countries include:
> Bangladesh,
> Greece, India, Israel, Italy, Nepal, Serbia and Montenegro, Singapore,
> South
> Africa, Spain, Sri Lanka, the US, and Venezuela. You can view a map of
> all
> participating venues here:
> http://www.drizzle.com/%7Eklockner/cgi-bin/tsp/2005/map.cgi
>
> If you plan to offer programs that explore these ideas, please sign
> up. Signing
> up takes a moment and places your library on the map of participants.
> Please
> visit: http://www.drizzle.com/~klockner/cgi-bin/tsp/2005/venue.cgi
>
> I hope you and your colleagues will consider participating in this
> project, and
> please let me know if you have any questions and suggestions.
> Respectfully,
>
> david silver
> www.theseptemberproject.org
>
> English: http://www.theseptemberproject.org/tsp.pdf
> Espanol: http://www.theseptemberproject.org/tspespanol.pdf
>
> [ if you blog, please consider blogging this ]
> [ if you belong to other lists, please forward ]
>
> ***
>
> Que esta haciendo tu biblioteca el 11 de Septiembre 2005?
>
> El dia 11 de Septiembre, o cerca de esta fecha, gente en muchos paises
> alrededor del mundo se reunieran en espacios publicos como las
> bibliotecas para
> compartir y discutir asuntos que son de vital importancia en el mundo
> que hoy
> vivimos. Vecinos de distintas areas participaran en foros publicos,
> representaciones artisticas, y otras expresiones creativas de temas
> como
> democracia, ciudadania, y libertad. Las bibliotecas proveen el
> perfecto espacio
> para unir y atraer gente: Son espacios libres, publicos, y existen en
> muchas
> partes del mundo. Su participación es gratis. Por favor visite:
>
> http://www.septemberproject.org
>
> Consulta la lista de bibliotecas participantes; Comparte ideas para
> eventos;
> Inscribe a tu biblioteca.
>
> Esta cerrada en Domingo? No hay ninguna actividad planeada?
> Muchas bibliotecas estan planeando eventos para el fin de semana del
> 11 de
> septiembre y durante todo el mes de septiembre. Algunas bibliotecas en
> universidades y escuelas estan incluso organizando eventos y
> presentando
> exhibiciones que continuan hasta el siguiente periodo academico.
>
> El Proyecto Septiembre 11 es una iniciativa de base que tiene como
> proposito
> fomentar eventos publicos en todas las comunidades el dia 11 de
> Septiembre.
>
> Para mayor informacion por favor contacte a:
> info@theseptemberproject.org
>
> Espanol: http://www.theseptemberproject.org/tspespanol.pdf
> English: http://www.theseptemberproject.org/tsp.pdf
>
>
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