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: Creative Capital webcast "virtual town meeting"
One major event this fall surrounds the publication of photographer
Paul Shambroom's monograph "Meetings" by Chris Boot Publishing
(London). On October 20, the SoHoApple Store in New York City will
celebrate this book launch by hosting an unprecedented "Virtual Town
Meeting" in which political bloggers and photobloggers are asked to
share their photographs and postings of democracy at work. The
entire event will be webcast on the internet, and will be accompanied
by panel discussions in New York and Minneapolis. The webcast will
appear online at http://channel.creative-capital.org/shambroom.
<snip>
FWD: Autonomedia/Ocularis film event
the Ocularis film night at Galapagos, an art-bar in Williamsburg,
Brooklyn. Nato Thompson and Greg Sholette are both scheduled to speak
(along with Keith Sanborn and one of the Insitute for Applied
Autonomy people), and films shown will include a late-70s Manuel
DeLanda documentary piece on his graffiti practice from that period!
I'm attaching our press release below, so please feel free to pass
this information around to friends or colleagues in NYC who would
come out to support this. Also, I emailed some of this info to
<<organize@caedefensefund.org>>, but didn't hear back or see any
changes on the site calendar, so if there's a way to update that
information, please let me know.
bests,
Ben Meyers
Autonomedia
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE:
FILM SCREENING, TALK & BENEFIT FOR THE CRITICAL ART ENSEMBLE:
organized by Autonomedia and Marianne Shaneen
Sunday October 3, 2004 at 7pm
Price: $6
Ocularis at: Galapagos Art & Performance Space
70 North 6th Street (between Wythe and Kent)
Williamsburg Brooklyn, NY 11211
nearest subway: Bedford Ave L Train
venue tel/fax: 718-388-8713
http://www.ocularis.org/
Press contact: Ben Meyers, ben@autonomedia.org, tel 646-496-2353
* * * * *
FILMS BY: Manual DeLanda, the Critical Art Ensemble, Keith Sanborn,
Peggy Ahwesh, Eli Elliott, Dara Greenwald, Eric Henry, Rachel Mayeri,
and the United States Dept of Defense
WITH COMMENTARY BY: Nato Thompson, Greg Sholette, Keith Sanborn, and
John Henry
* * * * *
For nearly 20 years, the Critical Art Ensemble has produced art,
performance, and texts critically examining the relationships between
science, politics, social life and the State. Since May 2004, some of
this work has triggered a Federal investigation and criminal lawsuit,
with a founding member facing numerous indictments, possible prison
time and excessive fines (details below). In the face of huge legal
defense bills in this case, many fundraising events are being
organized internationally and online.
On October 3rd, 2004, Ocularis will present an evening of film and
video work with a focus on science and political critique, with
commentary by some primary figures in the Critical Art Ensemble's
case. Filmworks range from animations about bioengineered
"Frankencorn" and documentary work around the Human Genome Project to
a video "cut-up" of a Department of Defense training video and an
archival DoD propaganda film on how to deal with biological warfare.
Speakers include the curator of the MASS MoCA show on interventionist
art where subpoenas were delivered to the CAE, and a member of the
Institute for Applied Autonomy, developers of the "TXTMOB"
phone-messaging technology widely used during the Republican
Convention protests. Books by the Critical Art Ensemble will be
available, and all proceeds will go to the Steve Kurtz Defense Fund.
* * * * * FILMS INCLUDE * * * * *
Critical Art Ensemble: Four short films
From 1986-1993 Critical Art Ensemble made numerous low-tech films and
videos. In 1993, the launch of the visual digital revolution through
the use of graphic user interfaces and the WWW signaled an end, for
CAE, of the cause for legitimating low-tech production in mass media,
and CAE abandoned video production at this time to explore on-line
and digital graphic possibilities.
Manuel DeLanda: Ism-Ism.
This rarely-seen film documents Manuel DeLanda's graffiti activities
between 1977 and 1979. Instead of tags and other more familiar forms
of art interventions on the street, DeLanda attacked commercial
billboards, morphing the faces of people in ads into bizarre looking
monsters.
Keith Sanborn: "Operation Double Trouble", a detourned US government
propaganda film.
Peggy Ahwesh: She-Puppet
Re-editing footage collected from months of playing Tomb Raider,
Ahwesh transforms the video game into a reflection on identity and
mortality, acknowledging the intimate relationship between Lara Croft
and her player. Moving beyond her implicit feminist critique of the
problematic female identity, she enlarges the dilemma of Croft's
entrapment to that of the individual in an increasingly artificial
world.
Eli Elliott:"ASSCroft"
A hilarious 4 min. PixelVision piece touching on the Patriot Act.
Dara Greenwald: "Strategic Cyber Defense"
4 mins. of jaw-dropping paranoid pathology from the Dept of Defense,
a warped 'in-house' training video chopped up into the perfect mix of
shredded clueless hysteria.
Eric Henry: Bear Witness III and Pirates & Emperors (or, Size Does
Matter)
Bear Witness III, a music video for Dan the Automator, is a four-part
study in hubris. Each section explores a different ego trip-military,
cosmetic, scientific, and engineering/industrial-and takes it to its
logical conclusion. Pirates & Emperors (or, Size Does Matter) is a
wry political cartoon about bullies big and small. It is set to
original music and animated in a style reminiscent of the popular
"Schoolhouse Rock" educational video series. It illustrates the
notion that if you are a successful enough bully, you can pretty much
write your own ticket and go by the name "emperor" or "president"
instead.
Rachel Mayeri: Stories from the Genome
Part cloning experiment, part documentary, Stories from the Genome
follows an unnamed CEO-geneticist whose company sequenced the Human
Genome in 2003-a genome that secretly was his own. Not satisfied with
this feat, the scientist self-replicates, producing a colony of
clone-scientists to save himself from Alzheimer's. Mayeri's video
comments on the dangers of short-sighted, self-interest in
contemporary biotechnology and its appropriation for profit of human
genetic information.
The US Federal Civil Defense Administration: What You Should Know
About Biological Warfare (1952)
How can we protect ourselves against the threats of germs and toxins?
This Cold War-era government film teaches viewers how to fend off
threats from unconventional bioweapons.
Speakers for this event will include:
-Nato Thompson, MASS MoCA curator of May 2004 show "The
Interventionists: Art in the Social Sphere - a brief survey of
interventionist political art practices of the 90s" which was to
include work by the CAE, but instead saw the issuing of subpoenas to
those CAE members present at the opening.
-Greg Sholette, artist, writer and activist. He was a founding member
of the REPOhistory artist's collective and of Political Art
Documentation and Distribution, and has collaborated with the
Critical Art Ensemble.
-Keith Sanborn, artist, theorist and curator, has been working in
film, photography, digital media and video since the late 1970s. He
has also translated several of the films of Guy Debord into English.
-John Henry of the Institute for Applied Autonomy, an art and
engineering collective that develops technologies for political
dissent. Projects include the development of robots that can leaflet
or draw graffiti, and the text messaging "TXTmob" tool used by
protestors at the Republican National Convention.
Background on the case:
Since May 2004, Steve Kurtz, founding member of the acclaimed
Critical Art Ensemble and professor in the Art Department at SUNY
Buffalo, has been under Federal investigation on Grand Jury charges
relating to bio-terrorism under the PATRIOT Act. The investigation
stems from Steve's possession of biological equipment and bacteria
seized by the FBI from Kurtz's home, materials which can be found in
any high school science lab, but was used to create art critical of
the unrestrained use of biotechnology and the history of US
involvement in germ warfare experiments (including the Bush
administration's earmarking of hundreds of millions of dollars to
erect high-security laboratories around the country). In July, Steve
and his collaborator, Robert Ferrell, Professor of Genetics at the
University of Pittsburgh, were formally charged with four counts of
mail and wire fraud, each carrying a maximum sentence of 20 years in
prison and a $250,000 fine. The Federal charges have been met with a
huge outcry from artists, scientists, researchers, and professors.
Clearly the absurd and disturbing charges are an attempt to use the
Patriot Act to target and intimidate artists and researchers who are
critical or controversial, and to curtail artistic and intellectual
freedom.
For more info on Steve's case, please visit www.caedefensefund.org
and www.critical-art.net
Parallax View: The Political Economy of Images
Parallax View: The Political Economy of Images
Cinematexas, Austin TX, September 24, 25, 26, 2004
All events are free
Sundays Schedule now includes a marine recently returned from fighting
in Iraq who is a member of Iraq Veterans Against the War
Venue: The Warehouse at American Youthworks, 216 E. 4th St (between
Brazos St. and San Jacinto Blvd.).
Friday 24th
Up Shit Creek
6:30-7:00 Obstacle (excerpt).
Directed by Nida Sinnokrot.
English and Arabic. 30 minutes
Obstacle journeys along the Israeli wall currently being built inside
the West Bank in Palestine. The wall has been carefully designed to
annex much of the West Banks water and most of its good land.
7:00-8:30pm Bi Dam (With Blood)
English and Arabic. 50 minutes
Directed by Juliana Fredman & Dan O'Reilly-Rowe. Bi Dam reveals the
extent to which the Israeli occupation is sundering Palestinian health
services. Densely populated areas are routinely
Re: Smokey the Log promotes the Bush/Cheney agenda
http://www.CheneyBush.com/smokey/atiyeh/
look familiar?
http://www.theyesmen.org/hijinks/bush/blog.shtml#mostrecent
On Sep 15, 2004, at 6:33 PM, Joy Garnett wrote:
> I want these people out of my inbox though -- no?