Mason Dixon on Sun, 11 Jan 2009 08:27:29 +0100 (CET) |
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<nettime-ann> Fwd: Intelligent Agent 9.1 Call for Papers/reviews |
. > > > Intelligent Agent Magazine Issue 9.1: > Art in Virtual Worlds & The Age of “All at Once” > Since the turn of the millennium, an increasing amount of effort has > been > placed in the exploration of art in virtual worlds from first-person > shooters to Massively Multiuplayer Online Roleplaying Games like > World of > Warcraft and worlds such as Opensim and Second Life. Even in the > last year, > Artists like Cao Fei and Stephanie Rothenberg have exhibited Second > Life > works in the Venice Bienniale and Sundance New Horizons, to name a > few. Why > are virtual worlds a “hot” medium for contemporary art? What issues > are > being evoked by the coming of these online agoras, and are they > redefining > the cultural functions of art? > > The art world, as mentioned by painter Jay Van Buren, is > “everywhere, all at > once”. In addition, the coming of the global economic downturn has > caused > groups like NYC-based ArtistsMeeting.com to ask the community what > will > become of the foundering art world in the post-boom landscape. Are > we just > now sets of web 2.0-baed “surf clubs” as Olson et al have suggested, > and are > groups like Paperrad, the Cute Show, and NastyNetsemblematic of the > time? > Has culture become a truly flat, rhzomatic playing field with no > central > dialogues, has it become cellular, or is the culture of non-direction > created an era of indistinctness, where the cultural impact of a > Youtube > video may rival that of a Murakami? Are Lolcats and Weezer's “Pork and > Beans” as indicative of contemporary culture as a Murakami panel? > > Scholarly texts, essays, artist's works and missives are welcomed. > > Deadline for proposals: Feb. 15 > > Deadline: April 2 > > About Intelligent Agent: > Intelligent Agent is a service organization and information provider > dedicated to interpreting and promoting art that uses digital > technologies > for production and presentation. Through its online magazine and > programs, > Intelligent Agent provides a platform of critical discourse for > discussing > issues relevant to digital media, their social and cultural impact, > and the > parameter shifts they have brought about for the arts. > > > --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google > Groups "Chicago new media" group. > To post to this group, send email to Chicago-new- > media@googlegroups.com > To unsubscribe from this group, send email to Chicago-new-media+unsubscribe@googlegroups.com > For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/Chicago-new-media?hl=en > -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~--- > _______________________________________________ nettime-ann mailing list nettime-ann@nettime.org http://www.nettime.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/nettime-ann