1. artnetweb NEWS
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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/
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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
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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
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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.
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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)
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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
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[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
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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.
If you have suggestions or contributions send them to:
murph@artnetweb.com
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