___________________________________ artnetweb & INTELLIGENT AGENT A Monthly Newsletter July 6, 1998 vol 3.07 ___________________________________
Greetings: THE 4TH OF JULY
weekend was
peaceful since
all the noisy
people in New York
seemed to be out
of town. We stuck our heads out the window when we heard the BOOM of the Macy's fireworks on the river, said a few "oohs and ahhhs" with the neighbors then called it a holiday. In fact, the summer so far has been pleasant except for a few absolutely terrifying thunder storms in the middle of the night when we rushed to unplug the computers before they got zapped, stubbed our toes in the dark causing us to scream in agony, waking the talking bird next door who didn't shut up until morning. Well, other than that life has been good. More museums are taking our advice (finally) and finding uses for the Internet so we've started a special section called THE VIRTUAL MUSEUM. The next issue of INTELLIGENT AGENT is about to go to press so it should be in the bookstores and mailboxes in a few weeks. And someone has created a "DIGITAL LANDFILL" for all those bad bytes we have cluttering up the office. Details, below. Best regards, Remo Campopiano president, artnetweb http://artnetweb.com remo@artnetweb.com Christiane Paul editor, INTELLIGENT AGENT http://intelligentagent.com hyperact@interport.net Robbin Murphy editor, newsletter murph@artnetweb.com ============================================================ ============================================================ 1. artnetweb NEWS 2. INTELLIGENT AGENT NEWS 3. REVIEWS (WEB) 4. ANNOUNCEMENTS & CALLS FOR PARTICIPATION 5. BOOKMARKS ============================================================ ============================================================
1. artnetweb NEWS ============================================================ artnetweb is a collaborative network of people, projects and things dedicated to access and exploration of new technologies for artists. http://artnetweb.com ============================================================ THE VIRTUAL MUSEUM THE BERKELEY ART MUSEUM / PACIFIC FILM ARCHIVE has launched "Museums and the Online Archive of California Project (MOAC)", a prototype "virtual museum archive" that integrates standardized "finding aids" for museum and library special collections into a single source. URL: http://www.bampfa.berkeley.edu/moac/ THE GUGGENHEIM MUSEUM in association with Society for Old and New Media, De Waag, Amsterdam has launched its first artist's project commissioned for the Web: "BRANDON: A One-Year Narrative Project in Installments" conceived and directed by filmmaker and media artist Shu Lea Cheang. URL: http://brandon.guggenheim.org THE DIA CENTER has opened its new and much improved on-line bookstore. Members get 10% off of on all Dia publications. URL: http://www.diacenter.org/books/ --------------------------------- EBON FISHER has found a place to live in Iowa City, is back on-line and sends this press release for his new program hoping to lure everyone to join him in America's heartland: This Fall The University of Iowa launches a new program in "Digital Worlds" headed by New York-based media artist, Ebon Fisher. It is the heartfelt determination of Mr. Fisher that the program will act as "an experimental and fiercely independent breeding ground" for virtual worlds, computer games, and other immersive spaces. Set in the School of Art and Art History, the program will invite both undergraduate and graduate students to approach the computer as a medium whose greatest potential lies in the synthesis of all the arts into living worlds -- worlds which bravely integrate popular aesthetics and discourses with the visions of the creators. "If we take it there," Fisher maintains, "digital worlds can evolve into a major cultural paradigm of the 21st Century much as film was for the 20th and literature for the 19th." All input and questions are welcome. CONTACT: E-mail: alula@interport.net URL: http://www.interport.net/~alula --------------------------------- CLASSES at the ED-CENTER 426 Broome Street New York, NY, US 10013 http://ed-center.com ONLINE Class: Microsoft FrontPage 98 STOREFRONT Classes: 1) HTML: Web Page Design 2) Introduction to 3d Studio Max For more information visit the ED-CENTER site, or email remo@artnetweb.com
2. INTELLIGENT AGENT NEWS ============================================================ Intelligent Agent is a quarterly print magazine on interactive media in arts and education. The current issue (vol. 2 no. 2) is available in bookstores throughout the US. Selections from the articles featured in the magazine are available at the Intelligent Agent website: http://www.intelligentagent.com If you're interested in subscribing to the Intelligent Agent print magazine, please check out the information at the end of this newsletter. ============================================================ The next issue of Intelligent Agent will focus on the art/science connection, immersive environments and virtual museums, as well as speculative/alternative browsers and interfaces. Forthcoming in Vo. 2 No. 3: "Is it spam? Noooo... Is it a commercial? Noooo... It's net art!" Josephine Bosma follows the winding road taken by the history of net.art (with the dot). INTERVIEW "Browser Wars" Tilman Baumgärtel talks to Matthew Fuller, a member of the art group I/O/D, about their alternative web browser WebStalker, a piece of "speculative software." WEB REVIEWS "A Burglar in the Treasure House" Robbin Murphy reviews Plumb Design's "Visual Thesaurus" http://www.plumbdesign.com/thesaurus "Net Symphonies" A review of Res Rocket's Live Musicians' Network http://www.resrocket.com and the interactive compositions of Karlheinz Essl http://www.essl.com "Petite Forays -- Taste-testing the Art/Science Confection" Nik Williams takes a look at the roots of the collaborative tension between Art and Science. INTERVIEW "The Prophet's Prothesis" Christiane Paul talks to artist Krzystof Wodiczko about his communication tools for immigrants and "strangers" and the possibilities of an interdisciplinary approach to "art" projects. CD-ROM REVIEWS "Living Science -- An Odyssey of Discovery" Pierian Spring Software "The Nazi-Loop" CD-ROM by Hans Breder, University of Iowa "Nobody's Character" A profile of the 3-D character animation group at the Academy of Media Arts in Cologne http://www.khm.de/~actor/team/team.html Immersive Environments -- the "Gesamtkunstwerk" of the 21st Century? Hans Ulrich Reck ponders the digitization of the museum and archive. AND Robbin Murphy reviews the "Virtual Museums on the Internet" Symposium sponsored by the ARCH Foundation in Salzburg. 3. REVIEWS (WEB) ============================================================ INTELLIGENT AGENT web reviews by Jeremy Turner. "Clubmedia" http://www.clubmedia.de Thomas Busch's e-zine "Clubmedia" has had a facelift recently. The stark black and white stills gracing the homepage give "Clubmedia" a certain "Teutonic" flavor but despite the surface stereotypes "Clubmedia" does an excellent job at captivating the viewer. Pop-up menus, cluster images, and hyperlinked color-bar borders seem to make the epic downloads worthwhile. Of course, any site is worth the wait if you are looking for coverage on the latest contemporary art Biennials (Venice '97 & Istanbul '98). The 'zine features projects and links and gives each of the participating organizations their due credit -- even the links page displays a full-color banner for each site. "CollageMachine" http://www.cat.nyu.edu/ecology/collageMachine/index.html Andruid Kerne (U.S./Ghana) has recently contributed a meta-engine sitework to Creating Media's "Interface Ecology Gallery." In "Free Collage," Kerne personally encourages viewers to organize their favorite gifs, jpegs, and hyperlinks from other websites and to juxtapose them within the collage format. All the appropriated hyperlinks are still very much (inter)active. Each viewer has the opportunity to modify older sample collages and/or follow the source data back to its host site. Surfers also have the option to search a keyword in Wired's "HotBot" search engine and have the matches randomly assorted into a dense collage template. This pre-searched collage can be manually customized until the desired result is achieved. At first glance, Kerne's (con)textual explanations and sample pages may come across as overtly pacifying or intimidating to the viewer. However, by the time you get around to practicing with the system, the act of hyperfiltering becomes a self-reflexive labor of love. Not for the armchair surfer. "TUG: The Undercover Girl" http://www.powertech.no/tug/ Taking touchy issues such as Technology and Feminism for granted, TUG (based in Oslo, Norway) encourages us to become a self-proclaimed undercover agent and shed light on the theme "new stimuli." This enlightened state tweaks our instinctual capacity for self-empowerment -- we can all be aesthetically independent conceptual artists. Rather than being "outside" and eavesdropping on the developments and updates of a website, the viewer feels part of the TUG team whose goal it is to create new opportunities for developing and distributing art. This website, magazine, and exhibition gives us an opportunity to research our own creative reconnaissance in so-called "labs of recognition." Users may observe the various artistic stakeouts carried forth by their fellow spies. In this age of increasing paranoia, be thankful that some sites are on our side. 4. ANNOUNCEMENTS & CALLS FOR PARTICIPATION ============================================================ [Listings] PopTARTS has assembled an extensive list of events, festivals, and symposia of interest on Telepolis. By Kathy Rae Huffman and Margarete Jahrmann URL: http://www.heise.de/tp/english/pop/event_2/4111/1.html [Call for Entries] ART ON THE NET 1998 Machida City Museum of Graphic Arts Tokyo, Japan September 1, 1998 to March 31, 1999 We will explore the artistic possibilities of Streaming Media. MCMOGATK would like to encourage artists to make use of this exciting tool, as we see its unprecedented potential as a medium of artistic of expression. The theme this year is "Beyond Language Barriers". Board of jurors representing various countries will select Grand Prize, Silver Prize, and Bronze Prize. Those who have been selected will receive 300,000 yen, 200,000 yen and 100,000 yen respectively. DEADLINE: August 15, 1998. CONTACT: URL: http://art.by.arena.ne.jp/ [Call for Participation] CAMP AT THE BORDER Camp and antiracist action at the German-Polish-Czech border July 24 to August 2, 1998. An alliance of media-activists, artists, antiracist and antifascist groups will organize a one week action-camp this summer near the town of Goerlitz. The camp is one highlight of the campaign "Kein Mensch ist illegal" (No one is illegal) this year. The campaign was started during Hybrid Workspace at documenta X in 1997, connecting the work of more than one hundred groups. The camp will be prepared by groups from all over Germany and the camp site area. People from all over Europe, from Poland, Czekia, Russia, Denmark, Norway, France, Italy and Netherlands will attend and prepare own activities. We invite you to take part in this event, to come to Goerlitz this summer and spend some really extra-ordinary holidays there. We invite you to join the various actions, to think of further ideas, spontaneous operations or contribute remotely. CONTACT: Email: grenze@ibu.de URL: http://www.contrast.org/borders/camp HOTLINE: ++49/172/8910825 [Call for Participation] GLOBALISATION AND RESISTANCE The Social and Environmental Effects of "Free" Trade Geneva, Switzerland August 16 to 31, 1998 A seminar about the 800 million people who go hungry everyday, about the women whose health is destroyed working in the textile industry for miserable wages, about the indigenous peoples massacred by multinationals for defending their lands, about the freedom of exploitation caused by "free" trade. CONTACT: Email: playfair@asta.rwth-aachen.de [Call for Papers] TOWARDS CULTURALLY SITUATED AGENTS PRICAI98 WORKSHOP Issues in Cross Cultural Communication Singapore November 22, 1998 The goal of this workshop is to discuss cultural influences as they (may) inform interactions among human and software agents. This workshop is intended to attract participants from those communities concerned with such a perspective of communication. DEADLINE: July 18, 1998 CONTACT: URL: http://www.nttmsc.com.my/kido/pricai98cfp.html Email: msc-kido@po1.infosphere.or.jp [Call for Contributions] SHRINKING WORLDS Islands and Global Climate Change: An Internet Arts Project Based in New Zealand We are calling for contributions from artists and writers who live on islands around the world: works which say something about issues of climate change -- and the changing forms of interconnectivity in today's world -- and what this might mean to island people. The work will be displayed on the Shrinking Worlds website. DEADLINE: August 31, 1998 CONTACT: Email: physicsroom@physicsroom.org.nz URL: http://www.physicsroom.org.nz/ 5. BOOKMARKS ============================================================ http://artnetweb.com/iola Kidnap http://www.newmediacentre.com/kidnap/ Two volunteers will be kidnapped for 24 hours by Blast Theory on 7/15/98. The Politics of Jacques Derrida http://www.nybooks.com/nyrev/WWWfeatdisplay.cgi?1998062536F The history of post-war French philosophy by Mark Lilla in the New York Review of Books. Web Hunter http://www.webhunter.com/ The on-line adventures of Web Hunter and Donna Matrix. The Life of King Edward the Confessor http://www.lib.cam.ac.uk/MSS/Ee.3.59/ 13th Century manuscript from Oxford University. Metajournals http://www.metajournals.com/ Created to serve as the ultimate source of information for online journal writers, readers, researchers and the media. The Language Construction Kit http://xochi.tezcat.com/~markrose/kit.html A site for anyone who wants to create artificial languages. Digital Landfill http://www.potatoland.org/landfill/ A place to dispose of unwanted digital debris from Mark Napier and potatoland.org. Global Fire Monitoring http://modarch.gsfc.nasa.gov/fire_atlas/fires.html Explains and illustrates current and future global fire monitoring capabilities using satellite technology. BELA 0.2 http://www.kiss.uni-lj.si/~k4ff0047/bela2/okvir.htm Project by Jaka Zeleznikar. The World Right Now http://www.cam-orl.co.uk/world.html Index of live outdoor cameras on the Web from the Olivetti & Oracle Research Laboratory, Cambridge, England. Info-Noise http://shirt.opennet.org/info-noise/ This text line is composed of headlines out of all Belgrade daily newspapers, creating specific info-noise that people are surrounded by. English and Serbian. Postmodernism Generator http://www.cs.monash.edu.au/cgi-bin/postmodern Meaningless essay produced by Andrew C. Bulhak, using the Dada Engine, a system for generating random text from recursive grammars. Unamerican Activities http://www.unamerican.com/ Radical stickers and t-shirts. The easily offended may want to skip this site. 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