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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The Flip Book Show


http://www.kunsthalle-duesseldorf.de/e/ausstellung/presse/index.html

DAUMENKINO
The Flip Book Show

A flip book is a book that becomes a cinema for a short space of time;
it is a sequence of images that reveals its narrative as you look at
it, an object that you have to touch in order to get it to tell its
story.

In the world's first comprehensive exhibition on the subject, the
thematic and contextual convergence of art, animation and film in the
20th Century is charted, placing the flip book

DISCUSSION

Volume


http://www.archis.org/plain/theme.php?themeE (no flash)
http://www.archis.org/interface.php (flash)

VOLUME

This website aspires to be an independent environment with its own
editorial dynamics, beyond a mere extension of the magazine Volume or
the organization Stichting Archis. Start a tour through the site's
unique dynamic archive - more than a decade of Archis content, and of
course the past issues of Volume, has been reorganized in an
associative and narrative structure. Encounter coincidences and
unexpected search results that will widen your scope and refuel your
curiosity for the adventure of ideas in architecture, city and visual
culture. The comprehensive search engine also enables you to search the
Volume / Archis database by content, author or object title and by
theme and issue.

Every two months the website changes its current theme. Check out this
site regularly for the latest developments in our quest for
architecture as a cultural medium.

Participate in regular Volume events, live or on-line. Volume
frequently engages with critical spatial situations worldwide, offering
actions, interaction and suggesting interventions. The Events Space
also offers a forum for discussion and will feature regular debates.

editor in chief: Ole Bouman
managing editor: Arjen Oosterman
project founders: Ole Bouman, Rem Koolhaas, Mark Wigley

Volume is a project by Archis + AMO + C-lab + ...

Archis with Lilet Breddels, Jill Winder, Joris Stork
AMO with Brendan McGetrick, Todd Reisz, Alexander Reichert, Mendel
Robbers
C-lab with Jeffrey Inaba

Volume is materialized by 2x4/Michael Rock and Israel Kandarian for
packaging, Maureen Mooren and Daniel van der Velden for graphic design,
Mattmo for web design

The VOLUME project continues ARCHIS, magazine for Architecture, City
and Visual Culture and its predecessors since 1929. Archis magazine and
Archis RSVP events form an experimental think tank devoted to the
process of real-time spacial and cultural reflexivity
www.archis.org

Other protagonists in this project:

AMO, a research and design studio that applies architectural thinking
to disciplines beyond the borders of architecture and urbanism. AMO
operates in tandem with its companion company the Office for
Metropolitan Architecture, Rotterdam, The Netherlands
www.oma.nl

The Columbia Laboratory for Architectural Broadcasting, an experimental
research unit devoted to the development of new forms of communication
in architecture, set up as a semi-autonomous think and action tank at
the Graduate School of architecture, Planning and Preservation of
Columbia University.
www.arch.columbia.edu

VOLUME is produced by Archis Foundation, The Netherlands.

DISCUSSION

touchless screens


We make money not art has this post about touchless screens
http://www.we-make-money-not-art.com/archives/006428.php
i was just at the Walker and saw a screen based interactive database
that was touchless. it featured some "floating" slides (like 35mm
transparencies) that you could "grab" to see an expanded view and more
info. it responded to the position of your hand as well as the state of
your figures coming together to "grab" the image.
anyone else seen this?

DISCUSSION

Temporary Travel Office/El Centro Chamber of Commerce Ensemble


Hello from the Temporary Travel Office,
As part of the grand opening of the El Centro Chamber of Commerce
Ensemble, the Temporary Travel Office will be operating its Parking
Public tour series out of a store front within the 727 Gallery in
downtown Los Angeles.
From Thursday July 14 - Saturday July 16, Gallery 727 will be servicing
utopian ideals for downtown tourists and residents. The Travel Office
will be providing walking tours of outdoor parking and the seemingly
conflicting desires of mobility and stasis during its tenure, while
mural artist Gomez Bueno will be investigating the public imaginary of
utopia.
The Travel Office welcomes walk-in tours (scheduled in regular
intervals) and online participation (see the website below). We also
welcome volunteer tour guides (training provided).
New store fronts following each week, so stay tuned.

Happy Trails!

Links:
http://temporarytraveloffice.net/hollywood/parking.html
http://www.santander.ws/
http://www.gallery727losangeles.com

Gallery 727 Info:
727 South Spring Street
Los Angeles, CA 90014
213.627.9563
gallery727losangeles@yahoo.com

on the border of the Fashion District and Historic Core

Gallery Hours: Thursday - Saturday 12-6pm or by appointment

Visit the Temporary Travel Office online
http://www.temporarytraveloffice.net

DISCUSSION

Fwd: Invitation / Day-to-Day Data Project Launch


Begin forwarded message:
>
> You are warmly invited to the launch of the Day-to-Day Data project on
> Wednesday 20 July from 6