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]
Fwd: [biodev0506] announcing activista (radical search engine)
> == Announcing Activista ==
>
> In cooperation with resist.ca and protest.net, riseup.net is proud to
> announce the launch of Activista, a search engine focused on activist
> resources and vegetarian/vegan recipes. Comprised exclusively of social
> change websites, Activista helps people quickly find the activist
> information they search for. As a added bonus, vegetarian recipe sites
> are included. Why? Because recipes are yummy!
>
> What can I do with Activista?
>
> Well, just type in the words or topics you want to find information
> about and then page through the results. No ads, no sponsored links,
> just radical goodness! Try it out at http://activista.org. But wait,
> there's more. A few of the many easy to use features include:
>
> - Advanced search page makes it easy to create targeted searches
> - Use our plugin to search directly from your browser
> (http://activista.org/plugin/)
> - A multi-language search interface.
> - Add an Activista search box to your website (you can also use this to
> search only your website).
>
> Why an activist search service?
>
> We believe there is a pressing need for a search engine with a focus on
> liberatory social change. For example, if you search for
> "biotechnology" in a typical search engine, you get hundreds of entries
> for biotech corporations. With Activista, the same search returns pages
> of people working to expose the dangers of biotechnology.
>
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Fwd: Fair Use and Copyright Research Project
> The College Art Association is working with the Free
> Expression Policy Project (FEPP) on a research study
> to learn how well the "Fair Use" doctrine is
> functioning under U.S. copyright law.
>
> As many of you know, Fair Use allows artists,
> scholars, and others to use copyright-protected
> works, or portions of them, without permission in
> certain circumstances and for purposes such as
> parody, commentary, and scholarship.
>
> It is important that artists and art scholars be a
> part of this study-both those who create works
> (texts, artworks) and hold copyrights and those who
> use copyrighted material in your research or within
> new artworks. Please participate in the study by
> going to the FEPP website and filling out the Fair
> Use Survey.
>
> There's a brief introduction at
> http://www.fepproject.org/fepp/fairuseintro.html.
> The survey is at
> http://www.fepproject.org/fepp/fairusequest.html.
>
> FEPP is part of the Brennan Center for Justice at
> New York University. If you have any questions about
> the survey, please contact Marjorie Heins at the
> Brennan Center at marjorie.heins@nyu.edu.
>
> Thank you for your participation. This is an
> important issue, as you know: Copyright and Fair Use
> affect us all. We hope that this research will
> assist us in developing CAA policies.
>
> Eve Sinaiko
> Director of Publications
> College Art Association
>
> Marjorie Heins
> Brennan Center for Justice
> Free Expression Policy Project
Fwd: MAKE News No. 11
>
> MAKE NEWS
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>
> MAKE News No. 11 -- MAKE subscriptions now available!
> https://www.pubservice.com/MK/Subnew.aspx?PC=MK&PK=M5ZMNSA
>
> April 29, 2005
> =================
>
> Hello Makers! We scour the world for Makers making things and each week
> there appears to be a notable increase in people bending technology how
> they see fit. Why is this? Have we reached a saturation of new gadgets
> and
> now take the time to mix and mash them up to do what we want them to
> do?
> Or is it that we're simply not afraid to take things apart, knowing
> that
> our devices have become practically disposable. As Earth Day just
> passed,
> we also asked ourselves if reusing old technology to make new things is
> good for the environment? Or would it just be better to recycle them
> and
> buy new equipment?
>
> The WEEE Man ((Waste Electronic and Electrical Equipment) says some of
> us
> may dispose of 3.3 tons of gear over our lifetime:
> http://www.weeeman.org/. How much do you save? How much do you sell or
> buy
> on eBay? Give away? Hack?
>
> We're pondering these questions just like everyone else, and we're
> excited
> about documenting the struggles, the successes, and the growing
> community
> of hackers, modders, and Makers out there. What have you hacked for the
> planet lately?
>
>
> MAKE: Extras
> ==========
> New features on the MAKE site! Want some extras that aren't in the
> magazine? Click on over and check these out.
>
> =
friends in low places
intensified earlier this week as Intel, Genentech and the Business
Software Alliance filed court briefs in support of Apple Computer.
http://news.com.com/Apple+gets+tech+support+in+court/2100-7348_3
-5689203.html?tag=alert
Fwd: The Last c-level Events Message
> ## c-level events ##
>
> This is the last c-level events mailing.
>
> The members of c-level originally came together to form a cooperative
> lab, and we created an array of projects under the 'c-level