1. artnetweb NEWS
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RHIZOME has three new SPLASH pages welcoming you to
their site with revolving work from Fork, Robbin Murphy
and Olia Lialina:
http://www.rhizome.org
Info on these artists, plus the archive of previous
SPLASH pages can be found on the INFO page:
http://www.rhizome.org/info
"THE SHOCK OF THE VIEW:
Artists, Audiences, and Museums in the Digital Age,"
An on-line collaboration between the Walker Art Center,
Davis Museum and Cultural Center, Wellesley College,
San Jose Museum of Art, and the Wexner Center for the Arts
that runs through March 1999. Those willing to deal
with an overflowing e-mail box will find some of the most
stimulating and important discussions about changing art
and art institutions on or off the net.
To join the listserv e-mail:
shock-subscribe@rhizome.walkerart.org
Visit the exhibition Web site:
http://www.walkerart.org/salons/shockoftheview
G.H. HOVAGIMYAN
G.H. is netcasting once again on The Thing with COLLIDER,
live every Thursday, 5:00 pm EST. Future guests will include
Paul Garrin, Miltos Manetas, Marisa Bowe, Rob Glaser and
Rayberry.
Login The Thing (it's free) and look under VIDEO
http://bbs.thing.net
"INFORMATION SYSTEMS FOR THE VISUAL ARTS"
A class for visual arts administration students taught
by Robbin Murphy at New York University. Weekly CLASS NOTES
are posted to the class Web site:
http://www.nyu.edu/education/art/visartsadmin/infosystems/
JOHN CHRIS JONES
THE INTERNET AND EVERYONE: thoughts about
the internet, its precedents, such as the phone, and
its possibilities for despecialisation and 'creative
democracy'. Some of it is fictional and some of it
is in Welsh. To be published by ellipsis, London,
early in 1999 with a co-publisher in the USA.
Parts of it are visible at
http://www.ellipsis.com/i+e
For details on this and other books by John Chris Jones
e-mail:
jcj@softopia.ellipsis.co.uk
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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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An excerpt from:
The Prophet's Prosthesis
an interview with Krzysztof Wodiczko
Krzysztof Wodiczko has designed portable communication
devices for those who don't have a voice of their own
in "public" or have been silenced: anyone who has been
marginalized, displaced, and misfortunate. Among his
equipment for the displaced are devices such as
vehicles for the homeless and the Xenology series
which comprises Alien Staff -- a walking stick that
resembles a biblical shepherd's staff and is equipped
with a monitor and a small loud-speaker -- Porte-parole,
and the AEgis.
IA: Devices such as the "Alien Staff" or "Porte-parole"
give "strangers" a voice by making it possible to
pre-record a speech which can then be activated. On the
one hand, these devices bridge psychological gaps and
offer new possibilities of communication; on the other
hand, the communication is ready-made which creates a
form of double alienation. The alien has a possibility
to speak out but probably can't communicate what he/she
wants to say in a specific situation because the speech
is pre-recorded.
KW: My experiences in New York helped me to design
the "Alien Staff" device, which will become more
performance-oriented in the future. I abandoned the
idea of heavy-duty equipment--such as the vehicle
which combines all of the tools necessary for
communication, organization, education and maintenance
--in favor of something very simple that can be operated
and used by a single person and that facilitates the
development of virtuosity, performance, and storytelling.
At that point, the process of alienation becomes
interesting because whatever is pre-recorded in the
"Alien Staff" can be questioned in direct communication.
I'm not necessarily defending this instrument as good
for every immigrant or stranger. I'm working on
a new project now which might be directed more
towards other groups, because there is no single
category of "stranger" or "homeless person." There
are so many different kinds of people with diverse
beliefs, abilities, psychological conditions, and
histories of external conditions that contribute
to their way of living; so no single piece of
equipment can respond to this. On the contrary,
there should be many different devices. The walking
stick was designed for people who are somewhere in
between speechlessness and virtuosity of communication.
They would like to speak and have certain abilities
to speak. They know languages and gestures--they are
what Julia Kristeva called "baroque." But they need
an artifice to fully realize their abilities because
they are afraid to do so otherwise. They have important
things to say but they never really try to say them
because they can't find words. So the process of
de-alienation, the process that is needed here, has
something to do with all the preparations that have
to be made before the equipment can be used in public
--the gathering of all the memories, the recalling
of events that sometimes have been repressed or
maybe even expelled or replaced by some half-truth
and intermediate stories. Users of the "Alien Staff"
have to examine all of these aspects in the process
of recording in front of the video camera. ...
The materials that have been collected this way can
later be edited with the participation of the speaker
\which constitutes another construction process.
Statements, speeches, and expressions can be
finalized and words might reach the level of Dada
truth. They can be squeezed or liberated, as in
futurism or in concrete poetry, but in a new,
cross-cultural way, where all of the divisions
between languages start with questions, such
as what one was, who one is and who one becomes.
These boundaries are not stable but fluctuating
and ideas overlap.
Krzysztof Wodiczko just received the Hiroshima
Art Prize, an international award given to artists
whose work contributes to world peace. A book on
his work titled Critical Vehicles: Writings, Projects,
Interviews will be published by MIT Press in the fall.
3. REVIEWS (WEB)
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INTELLIGENT AGENT web reviews by Jeremy Turner.
E-MAIL: JTurn711@aol.com
"Lapses & Erasures"
http://www.thing.net/~sawad/erase/
Inspired by Robert Rauschenberg's "Erased De Kooning"
drawing, Sawad Brooks has transported the concept of
erasure from the analog to the digital domain. Erasure
always leaves its own traces, and Brooks raises the
question of how we can decipher digital erasure.
"Lapses & Erasures" consists of four sections --
"shuttle shutter," "focus," "annotator," and "register"
-- which exemplify the temporary deviations, discontinuances
and possibilities of modification that characterize the
language of digital media. "Annotator," for example,
allows viewers to annotate a variety of images by typing
text on the jpegs' surface. They can select the text's
color and font size and even create some hypnotic cycling
effects. In fact, different users are allowed to add text
to the same image and have the option of saving and archiving
their annotations for future viewing and tracing of the traces.
"Turnstile"
http://www.stadiumweb.com/turnstile
Maciej Wisniewski's 2-part project "Turnstile" exposes
the indexical skeleton behind the phenomenon known as
the "twitch." As Ron Wakkary points out in his commentary
on "Turnstile," the twitch is of crucial importance in
computer games such as Doom and Marathon, where the tap
or twitch of the player's finger on a key or mouse triggers
the weaponry of the avatar that the player is moving through
the game space. The twitch is what makes a good video-game
a real-time adventure. The activity of crossing a turnstile
may be considered a twitch within our daily activities, and
Wisniewski's "Turnstile" translates this twitch into the network.
"Turnstile Part I" displayed a real-time data stream between
two physical turnstiles, one in New York City's Times Square
subway station and the other in the Daniel Silverstein Gallery.
Each time a commuter passed through the turnstile in the station,
the movement was mirrored by the turnstile in the Silverstein
gallery. Written in XML (Extensible Markup Language), Part II
of "Turnstile" monitors the access and data flow of chat
rooms, html pages, faxes and e-mail at the Stadium site. The
trigger-happy twitch keeps virtual turnstiles turning in a
constant state of synchronous flux. A highly recommended site,
"Turnstile" should appeal to those looking for a URL emanating
a kind of nervous energy.
4. ANNOUNCEMENTS & CALLS FOR PARTICIPATION
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[Symposium]
FRONTIER COMMUNICATION: HUMAN BEINGS, APES, WHALES,
ELECTRONIC NETWORKS
3rd International Symposium of Science, Technics
and Aesthetics
Lucerne, Switzerland
January 23 - 24, 1999
Specialists in system- and chaos theory,
cybernetics, physics, cognitive science, AI,
computer research, philosophy, aesthetics and
art, will discuss theoretical models, present
their ideas and talk about them in an
interdisciplinary way. Lectures and panel
discussions are included in the program. The
two days of lectures of internationally
recognized personalities in the realm of art
and science, let us get a closer look at the
"state of art" of the current technological
challenges and the new scientific frontiers.
REGISTRATION: Price per day SFR 60.- (appox. USD 40)
CONTACT:
E-MAIL: neugalu@centralnet.ch
URL: http://www.parterre.ch/neugalu
[Conference]
NEXT 5 MINUTES 3
Festival for Tactical Media
Amsterdam & Rotterdam
March 12-14, 1999
N5M3 will move beyond the mere assertion of this
new medium and question what the wider social,
cultural and political impact is of the fact that
virtually all media are now turning digital, and of
the new political and economic constellations that
evolve around the new (global) information and
communication structures.
N5M3 will be a working conference, which will consist
of a focused public program surrounded by many smaller
scale working sessions, seminars and workshops. The
focus of the event will be on exchange of ideas,
experience, working methods, and the construction of
long-term partnerships and network structures.
CONTACT:
E-MAIL: n5m3@waag.org
URL: http://www.dds.nl/~n5m
[Call for Entries]
TRANSMEDIALE 99
International Media Art Festival Berlin
Berlin, Germany
February 12-21, 1999
DEADLINE FOR SUBMISSIONS: Video, computer
animations, multimedia, TV: November 6, 1998
CONTACT:
URL: http://www.transmediale.de
[Call for Papers]
CADE 99
Computers in Art and Design Education 1999
Digital Creativity Conference
University of Teesside, UK
April 7-9 1999
Themes:
* Education Futures
* Communicating Imaginings
* Spaces and Objects
* Time and Motion
Conference events will include:
* Keynote speakers
* Tutorials, workshops and demonstrations
* IT Teaching and learning resources
* Participatory forums
* Current research activities and postgraduate
research forum
* Papers and outline papers
* Work in progress
* 'GAMUT' - an exhibition of computer related art
and design work
* Virtual Reality
* World wide web projects
* New technologies
* Cybercafe
DEADLINE FOR SUBMISSIONS: December 1, 1999.
CONTACT:
E-MAIL: r.clay@tees.ac.uk
URL: http://www.tees.ac.uk/cade99/
[Call for Papers]
EXPLORING CYBER SOCIETY
Social, Political, Economic and Cultural Issues
University of Northumbria at Newcastle, UK.
July 5-7, 1999
This interdisciplinary conference will assemble
theorists and practitioners from the social
sciences, the humanities and the arts, to explore
the emergence of Cyber Society. Both the rhetoric
and reality of Cyber Society will be addressed at
a regional, national and international level. The
conference will provide a forum for the critical
evaluation of the impact of Information and
Communication Technologies on individuals,
communities, the state, economy, and culture.
DEADLINE FOR SUBMISSIONS: January 31, 1999.
CONTACT:
E-MAIL: lorna.kennedy@unn.ac.uk
URL: http://www.unn.ac.uk/corporate/cybersociety
[Call for Entries]
INTERNATIONAL HYPERTEXT COMPETITION
Alt-X and trAce
Alt-X and trAce are pleased to announce their
first International Hypertext Competition.
We offer a single prize of One Thousand English
Pounds for the best hypertext site on the web.
DEADLINE FOR SUBMISSIONS: December 31, 1998
CONTACT:
URL: http://trace.ntu.ac.uk/comp.html
5. BOOKMARKS
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http://artnetweb.com/iola
Over There
http://www.overthere.com.au/
Diane Caney's creative, professional and academic
identity.
BowieNet
http://www.DavidBowie.com/
David Bowie, Internet Service Provider.
site
http://www.sirius.com/~schizo/index.htm
Architectural researcher.
ArtLex
http://www.artlex.com/
Dictionary of visual art.
Art Station
http://www.artstation.co.uk
An art site by Iris & Ami Ben David that
provokes questions about the influence of
the Internet on art and art exhibition.
Transnacionala
http://www.kud-fp.si/trans/
Eastern European artists discover America
-- sort of.
CraNma
http://CraNma.thing.net/
A communication module which filters and
reorganizes information for masses.
Spike
http://www.hedweb.com/spike/welcome.htm
Picking the brains of popular culture.
Scars
http://pleine-peau.com/scars/scars/index.html
Stories and photography from Pleine Peau
Crash Media
http://www.yourserver.co.uk/crashmedia/
Looks at independent media around the world.
JavaScript Source Library
http://www.javascriptsource.com/
Hundreds of scripts which can be copied
and used free of charge, from Mecklermedia.
k.i.s.s. of the panopticon
http://carmen.artsci.washington.edu/panop/home.htm
Cultural theory and new media literacy.
If you have suggestions or contributions send them to:
murph@artnetweb.com
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