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]
We Are All Boat People action kits
"What's YOUR idea for changing the paranoid nationalism that makes the
current border regime so popular? If it's powerful, (and possible!- we
aim to work in the realm of the practical) we will try to help it to
happen, either by publicising it here, sending it out to our networks,
or brainstorming it with you.
FWD: FtheVote Tour update
FtheVote.com, the site that promotes trading sex for votes against
George
Bush, has been featured on over 100 radio stations and major media
outlets
featuring MSNBC Countdown, Sean Hannity, Michael Medved, Rolling Stone
magazine, and the San Francisco Chronicle. Now featuring a call in
voicebox
system, updateable pledge counter, and dynamic model creation and
management, the site is receiving over 1 million hits per day.
Now is your chance to see some of the over 300 models in person at one
of
the FTV tour stops. The blue FTV van, equipped with deployable bed,
will be
showing up in Pittsburgh, State College, and NYC over the coming days to
promote the site and go on bar tours. During the day, the van will be
parked
in high traffic areas such as downtown Oakland in Pittsburgh, College
Ave in
State College, and midtown Manhattan in NYC. Members will be handing out
flyers and talking to passersby about the planned evening activities.
In the
evenings, beginning at 8pm, the crew will hit the bars, spending about
an
hour in each of a few bars hoping to target conservative swing voters.
FTV
will be available for interviews while on the tour.
FTV Bus Tour Part 1
Thursday August 26
Pittsburgh, PA
Oakland
9 - 10 pm at Hemmingway's 3911 Forbes Ave
10 - 11 pm at Panther Hollow Inn 4611 Forbes Ave
11 - 12 am at Cumpies (new name?) 223 Atwood St
12 - 2 am at Upstage 80s Night 3609 Forbes Ave
Friday August 27
State College, PA
College Ave
8 - 9 pm at All American Rathskellar 108 S Pugh St
9 - 10 pm at Tony's Big Easy 129 S Pugh St
10 - 11 pm at Cafe 210 W. 210 W College Ave
11 - 2 am at Player's Sports Bar 112 W College Ave
Saturday August 28
New York, NY
Midtown Manhattan
8 - 9 pm at Hudson's Sports Bar and Grill 811 Seventh Ave
9 - 10 pm at Blue Fin 1567 Broadway @ 47th St
10 - 11 pm at Atrium Lounge 1535 Broadway
11 - 12 am at Show Nightclub 135 West 41st Street
12 - 4 am at Opaline 85 Ave A
FWD: Chicago area events via Lumpen
Help us end the bush regime by helping us go to ohio to register voters.
http://www.lumpen.com/events/swing.html
And come out to the inner city light fundraiser::
Make it to both parties and be a hero!
DETAILS::
Inner City Light Fundraiser
August 25th at Rodan
1530 N. Milwaukee
9:00 to 1:30
DJs Madrid and Ben Fasman
Student work on the Projector
No Cover but donations are really helpful.
www.innercitylight.org
Inner City Light is a project of Friends of the Arts.
We provide cameras to kids living in community housing
such as Cabrini Green and encourage them to document
their world. We then organize shows for their work.
This year alone students shot over 35 rolls of film.
Over the course of time we hope this project can have
two significant results. First we look to help develop
a better interaction and awareness between differing
cultural and ethnic communities. Second, we look to
give the students access to fundamental technologies
such as the internet, digital cameras, digital video,
and image manipulation techniques.
Part of our effort toward this end is to is to create
at least one and hopefully two studios in public
housing communities such as Cabrini Green. These
studios would provide creative and experimental
working environments and would be utilized as
galleries and working spaces. As time goes on we want
to find additional avenues for artists to work with
the students.
To help do this we're holding a series of fundraisers.
Our main goal with the first fundraiser is to increase
awareness and support for our project among Chicago
artists and activists. We hope to draw a diverse and
energetic crowd. Any help toward that end would be
greatly appreciated.
Donations by check should be made to Friends Of The
Arts.
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Join us wed Aug 25th 9pm to help get rid of George Bush.
Sonotheque
1444 w chicago ave.
You registered to vote in Illinois. You are going to the RNC to
protest the
Evil Ones. But you realise there are many humans in other places that
are
foolish enough to vote Bush.
that's where we come in...
The Swing State Voter Project
Lumpen is getting together with our friends at the Service Employees
International Union (SEIU) and America Comes Together to help defeat the
vulgar, disgusting and insidious Bush Administration. Our mission is to
visit the swing state of Ohio and help register some disaffected lumpen
youth and get them to Vote against THEM.
If you are looking for creative ways to make your money work to unseat
Bush, then please join us.
Come to our party and help us raise funds to rent the super party bus
or a
caravan of vans. If you come to the show you can sign up to be one of
40-50
adventurers that will go to Cincinnati in late September/ early October,
where we plan to party and canvas the kids on campus Chicago style.
All american VJ team will be in the house. DJ Surra the hun, DJ
LeDeuce and
Ken the Explorer will provide the audio ambience. There will be drink
specials and hot young men and women looking for a ride.
$10 donation is cool. no one will be turned away.
The trip to Ohio will be free! So come by and sign up to get on the
bus>
Keep on keepin' On!
Here are some other projects that you can get involved with to unseat
bush:
http://www.moveonpac.org
http://www.swingstateproject.com/
Big Sky Documentary Film Festival
Festival!
Early postmark deadline - September 1, 2004
Final postmark deadline - November 15, 2004
VHS (NTSC/PAL) or DVD (Region 1 only) accepted for preview.
Official call for entries is on-line in jpeg and pdf formats at
.
If you would like an entry form emailed to you in pdf format, please
request one from .
Festival Information at http://www.bigskyfilmfest.org.
The Big Sky Documentary Film Festival is the premier venue for
non-fiction film in the American West.