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

data mining/surveillance in the US


Numerous federal government agencies are collecting and sifting
through massive amounts of personal information, including credit
reports, credit-card purchases and other financial data, posing new
privacy concerns, according to the General Accounting Office (GAO).
The GAO surveyed 128 federal departments and agencies and found that 52
are using, or planning to implement, 199 data-mining programs, with 131
already operational."
http://www.washtimes.com/national/20040528-122605-9267r.htm

DISCUSSION

Protest the indictment of CAE in Buffalo June 15


This is more advance notice than anything, as i don't have any details,
but...
If anyone is in or can make it to Buffalo, there will be a demo against
the indictment that has been set for June 15.
watch http://www.rtmark.com/CAEdefense/ for details

DISCUSSION

FWD: Quimby's Chicago events


Richard Metzger, the co-founder of Disinformation, on June 5th. And of
course there's tons of new books, including the new, all-comics issue
of McSweeney's #13, with a Chris Ware cover. Also, here's some
excitement: we are doing another issue of the miniMagalog! Yeah, yeah,
we know we said in the last one that we weren't going to do another,
but we changed our mind! Here's the catch though: if you're in Chicago,
you'll have to come into the store to get one even if you're on our
snail-mail list because the postage is one heck of a bundle for us. If
your address is in Chicago and you can't come into the store to get a
miniMagalog and you want one, just let us know, and we'll send you one.
It should be out sometime in June. Have we confused you yet?

If you want to skip the events and just look at the new stuff, scroll
down to the bottom.

An Evening with Lady Churchill

DISCUSSION

iRAQ posters


i have no real comment on this version of detourned
ads, just wanted to pass on the images...
http://www.gizmodo.com/archives/images/iRAQsubway.jpg

DISCUSSION

microcosm publishing news


For those interested in zines... Microcosm is a publisher out of
portland, OR.

NEWS:
Our new website is online. It's catalog searchable by author, title,
subject, or keywords in the descriptions. We have just over a thousand
items in the catalog right now and the database makes them all a lot
more manageable. Check it out at
<http://www.microcosmpublishing.com/>www.microcosmpublishing.com and
keep in mind that Feedback and bug reports are still VERY welcome. We
can take credit cards over the phone or our new webpage! This means you
can call and place orders over the phone or by fax with a credit card!
503-286-1038. Just make a list of what you want to order and give us a
call!

Car Needed for October Tour - We are planning a tour for October to
share our Portland zine love with lots of little pockets of people. The
tour is a month long and we are hitting one major hitch - we have no
transportation. We are mostly bicycle commuters and while a few of us
have driver's licenses we don't have a car to use between the three of
us. If anyone has an idea or a car to offer or would be potentially
interested in accompanying us on tour with their automobile please get
in touch and we can talk about it. The tour lineup is Dave Roche (On
Subbing Book), Joe Biel ($100 & A T-Shirt Video), and Nicole Georges
(Invincible Summer zine).

Things Are Meaning Less (2nd Edition) - The new edition of this Al
Burian book is back from the printer. It's got a new cover, thicker
paper, and a funny biography. $7.00

Maximum Rock n Roll Interview - There's an interview with Joe about
Microcosm in the April issue of Maximum Rock and Roll (#251). This was
a pretty exciting prospect because my friends and I used to read MRR in
high school and I located new zines that way

On Subbing: The First Four Years Book - On June 25 we'll be releasing
the first book by On Subbing's Dave Roche. It's his tales of woe from
working as an substitute education assistant in Portland's school
system. He helps kids who can't function in normal classrooms focus on
their work and keeps kids from fighting while they tease him or
adorably flirt with him. It's a real heartwarming ticket to putting a
smile on your face or developing a good feeling to turn your day
around. Contains illustrations from Clutch McBastard, Nicole Georges,
Keith Rosson, Nate Beaty, Shawn Granton, and Aaron Renier. It's a
rewritten "best of" collection from issues #1-4 (The stuff Dave isn't
too embarrassed about) plus his most recent year of Subbing. It'll be
128 pages and $4. It's at the printer right now.

In July we'll be releasing the long awaited Journalsong #6. Steve
Gevurtz has been publishing this Portland based zine for years about
his personal turmoil. The new 96 page issue shares more of his self
reflective stories like ups and down in relationships, tours with
bands, doctor visits, and other writing that captures life in Portland,
making you laugh, think, and feel. Steve's storytelling just keeps
getting better and better and is accompanied by beautiful and cute
drawings by Nicole Georges of Invincible Summer zine. We've respected
his writing, aesthetics, and ethics for quite some time and felt that
it was our time to work together.

A T-Shirt & $100: A video documentary about zines in the Northwest US -
A cultural analysis of what causes zine makers to tick; what the hell
zines are, why people make zines, the origin of zines, the resources
and community available for zine makers, and the future of zines.
Interviews with about 70 zine makers, ex-zine makers, and readers from
the northwest. Featuring footage of the Portland Zine Symposium, other
zine related events, and activities bringing zine culture to life. An
original documentary with over 64 hours of footage for people with a
new interest in zines as well as pros and novices. The video sparks
untapped creativity and new interest into zine making and reading.
Artwork by Cristy Road and music by J Church! Collaborators include
Rev. Phil Sano, Jon Van Oast, and Joe Biel. We are finished with
filming and now have a quicktime trailer you can download on our
website!. The project is scheduled to be finished for September and a
tour in October. There will be screenings in Portland at the Zine
Symposium and at The Know.

The 2nd Edition of STOLEN SHARPIE REVOLUTION is available as a
paperback book! It's 128 pages, rewritten, and re-edited with updated
information about zines and zine culture including new information on
libraries, going on tour, distributors, zine making processes, dealing
with stores, artistic tips, and ways to promote your zine as well as
the usual advice on block printing, paper making, bookbinding, screen
printing, and layouts that you've come to expect. It has 90\% of the old
version in tact plus tons of updated resource listings and information.
Still be available for $3 from us.

All of our published titles will be available at all Tower Records
locations any day now. This was a very difficult choice for us all. We
feel that it's very important to support independent projects and
distributors but also don't want to perpetuate an insular scene. In the
end it seemed positive to put our politics in a place where new people
could discover them