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Table of Contents:

   [TOKYO GROUND]PROJECT     
     hidenori watanave <derin@lovelink.co.jp>    
   Operation Flare - send a flare to the Australian Govt   
     "rcam" <rcollins@netlink.com.au>
   VIRILIO LIVE PUBLISHED    
     John Armitage <john.armitage@unn.ac.uk>     
   7s01    
     NOT BORED! <notbored@panix.com> 
   Station Rose newsletter   
     Station Rose <gunafa@well.com>  
   V2_: DPsNtN by Christin Lahr    
     Boudewijn Ridder <ridder@v2.nl> 
   ASU2 /\/\/\/\/\/\ time | date | event 
     Zeljko Blace <zblace@alu.hr>    
   7.9. - lothringer13/halle 
     lothringer13/halle <halle@lothringer13.de>  
   Reminder: Digital Salon Selected Works panel discussion in NYC 6pm Sept 6
     victor acevedo <acevedo4@earthlink.net>     
   tesla researcher keith sonnier in location one    
     "geert lovink" <geert@xs4all.nl>
   Babel opening 
     Simon Biggs <simon@littlepig.org.uk>  

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Date: Sun, 02 Sep 2001 00:09:40 +0900
From: hidenori watanave <derin@lovelink.co.jp>
Subject: [TOKYO GROUND]PROJECT

Hello nettimers,
I want to introduce a very interesting project here.

http://tenplusone.inax.co.jp/tokyoground/index.html

It is the project [Tokyo ground] which Shunichi Nomura of the Meiji
University doctoral course is leading.(I advised on the interface design.)

I regard this project on the theme of [the horizontal side on consciousness]
as very significant.I think that this project also has the very Japanese
side or style.

Nomura's lead sentence is shown below for details.

- ------------------

"Tokyo ground"

Tokyo is located in the largest gently-sloping Kanto plain in Japan, and,
generally is called superficial metropolis. however, if you are actually
living in Tokyo, don't think at all that this is a gently-sloping place, but
foresee the complicated whole rather -- doesn't it sense that it is the
environment which is not? Why has gap arisen by reality and feelings in this
way?

Let's observe Tokyo not through a plane but through a section. There, it is
various underground space besides a terrestrial structure. And the earth
surface in Tokyo exists so that underground may be separated from the
ground. This earth surface is defined socially and in culture, and will be
caught also from the position of the ground or underground.
However, is hardly a citizen conscious about this defined earth surface, and
defined ground and underground? Because, it moves, and if it notices, its
present locations are the ground and underground between when. And differing
from defined them often even has above all the grasp of the ground and
underground carried out based on sense. After looking at Tokyo from the
section, we came to be conscious about the gap of reality and feelings all
the more.

The "Tokyo ground" carries out the visualization of the earth surface caught
in the image different from defined earth surface. That is, "imaginal /
cognitive geography". In manufacturing this cognitive map, We investigated
first the "Ground-underground" which is underground which can be grasped as
the ground, and the "Underground-ground" which is the ground which can be
grasped as underground. Next, another earth surface in Tokyo was knit by
connecting the new ground level re-extracted from each.

The fieldwork in Tokyo suffers troubles. When it says repeatedly, It is
because it is hard to grasp a whole image. However, nevertheless, it is also
clear to be respectively caught as feelings from two or more viewpoints.
The viewpoint of a total 55 was mapped in the "Tokyo ground." Please
remember that literary-man Italo Calvino of Italy described many 55 views of
city with rich imaginative power once by his work "le citta invisibili".
That is, we became the traveler who observes the mysterious realm of Tokyo
in detail. 

* 
We have noticed soon that Tokyo is not flat at all through the "Tokyo
ground." That is, Tokyo located in the largest gently-sloping Kanto plain in
Japan was a ground level in Japan with the ups and downs most intense as a
matter of fact.

Shun'ichi NOMURA 


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Date: Mon, 3 Sep 2001 13:04:16 +1000
From: "rcam" <rcollins@netlink.com.au>
Subject: Operation Flare - send a flare to the Australian Govt

Operation Flare http://www.popup.dk/

Forward a flare to the Australian Embassy. A wordless
protest on behalf of the 438 refugees who are held in
an international custody in the Norwegian container
ship "Tampa". Write your name, e-mail address and
forward the flare.

On behalf of the ginger group: Anker Jørgensen Lars
Normann Jørgensen Villo Sigurdsson Klaus Slavensky http://www.popup.dk/


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Date: Mon, 3 Sep 2001 10:27:38 +0100
From: John Armitage <john.armitage@unn.ac.uk>
Subject: VIRILIO LIVE PUBLISHED


Hi folks
Just to let everyone know that my edited book:

VIRILIO LIVE: SELECTED INTERVIEWS has just been published in the UK.

It is published by Sage Publications in association with _Theory Culture &
Society.

The ISBN for the book in paperback is: 0 7619 6860 1.

The Sage web site has all the details.

Go here for the UK Sage website and punch in Virilio on the search page.

http://www.sagepub.co.uk/

Best wishes

John


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Date: Tue, 4 Sep 2001 14:50:13 -0500
From: NOT BORED! <notbored@panix.com>
Subject: 7s01

check out new info etc at

http://www.notbored.org/7s01.html


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Date: Sun, 2 Sep 2001 14:05:02 +0200
From: Station Rose <gunafa@well.com>
Subject: Station Rose newsletter

  dear Gunafa Netizen,

here is the news :

Station Rose Jingle 2001

at Kunstradio, ORF/Ö1, Sun. 9. 9. 2001, 11-12 p.m. CET
http://kunstradio.at/2001B/09_09_01.html

"19 acoustic aphorisms; vocal statements, soundz, Bruitagen and music form
an acoustic microcosm. Music/melody acts as break/interruption. The
"Antistoerung" meets "10 Years Online". 10YO means daily interaction in and
with the net, as well as exchange between -
<the natural  real world and the natural virtual world>.
Means also balancing 2 equally strong meta-powers.
The soundsamples used in the piece are found objects and synthesized
artefacts. "

duration: 31´14"

This jingle was composed especially for Kunstradio.
It can be heard on the radio & will be streamed.


stay with us & don´t go away!

      "Cyberspace is Our Land!"
;-)

             station rose   09-2001


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Date: Tue, 04 Sep 2001 14:48:24 +0200
From: Boudewijn Ridder <ridder@v2.nl>
Subject: V2_: DPsNtN by Christin Lahr

[DPsNtN] = DISPLACED_PERSONS say NOTHING to NOBODY
by Christin Lahr (D)

Opening: Friday 21st September 2001, 17.30 hours
Open: Friday 21st September 2001 till Sunday 14th October 2001, Tue-Sat 
12.00 - 18.00 hours, Sun 12.00 - 17.00 hours, closed Monday
Location: Werkstad Las Palmas, Wilhelminakade, Rotterdam and realtime 
on-line participation www.v2.nl/lahr

DISPLACED_PERSONS is a computer-controlled interactive environment in 
Werkstad Las Palmas, and is linked to the Internet. The installation 
focuses on human communication and the tensions and overlap between 
physical and virtual spaces, physical non-action versus virtual action, and 
the interplay between watching and being watched.

Inside a room 8 loudspeakers emit a computer-generated multi-vocal 
conversation. The moment someone enters the room, sensors register movement 
and cause the voices to abruptly break off. This sudden entry is viewed as 
an intrusion on the conversation, and the latter will only resume when 
either everyone has left the room or remains completely motionless as a group.

Web users can control 6 surveillance cameras and switch between different 
angles in order to follow the behaviour of the visitors. These video "cuts" 
are immediately projected on a screen outside of the room, and figure as 
direct testimonies of the clicking behaviour of the users. In addition, the 
exhibition visitors can be addressed via the loudspeakers through a chatbox 
with speechsynthesis on: www.v2.nl/lahr

Producers: V2_Organisatie (part of Las Palmas), Eendrachtsstraat 10, 3012 
XL Rotterdam and Goethe-Institut Inter Nationes Rotterdam, Westersingel 9, 
3014 GM Rotterdam.

With the kind support of: Las Palmas, International Centre for Visual 
Culture & Media Technology, Rotterdam 2001, Cultural Capital of Europe, 
Rotterdam 2001, Werkstad in Las Palmas, SkyberNet, Luna.nl, Martin 
Behaim-Haus Foundation.

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Date: Sat, 1 Sep 2001 21:48:00 +0200 (MET DST)
From: Zeljko Blace <zblace@alu.hr>
Subject: ASU2 /\/\/\/\/\/\ time | date | event


  a rt/alt/act
  s ervers/streamers/spaces
  u n l i m i t e d
  2


September 8th - 14th, 2001
Cultural Center "Lamparna,"
Rudarska 1,
52220 Labin, CROATIA

contact :
Zeljko Blace - zblace@alu.hr &
Joanne Richardson - subsol2001@yahoo.com

web: www.labinary.org  browse.mi.cz/asu
______________________________________________________________________

P  R  O  G  R  A  M  of ASU2


SATURDAY, Sept 8

[ 20:00- 21:30 ] Hello and Food
[ 21:30- 22:30 ] ASU2: Meet the organizers, Meet the .plan
[ 22:30- 23:30 ] ASU1 organizers
[ 23:30 -  >   ] Video Screening + Ljudmila program (DJ/VJs)



SUNDAY, Sept 9

+ INSTITUTIONS, AUTONOMY, ALTERNATIVE(S) +
[ 09:30 - 10:15 ] Overview presentation of funding
institutions and alternatives

[ 10:15 - 14:30 ] Scales: Big institutions > > > newly established spaces
Is big bad, and small beautiful?  An "institution," true to its
etymological significance, is an act of founding, which can also be
an act of self-founding. Are institutions necessarily bureaucratic bodies?
When does an institution become a bureaucracy-does it have to do with
the size of its organization, the duration of its existence?

[ 17:00 - 21:00 ] Models: "Occupation," sponsorship, self-sustainability
What are the relations between autonomous institutions and funding
sources, sponsorship, governmental interests?
Competing models: squats, government sponsorship, external foundations,
and self-sustainable alternatives-membership, entrance fees & going
commercial?

[ 23:00 -  >    ] Video Screening + radio.active program (egoboobits.net)


MONDAY, Sept 10

+ COMMUNITIES, SOCIAL SPACE, TERRITORY +

[ 09:30 - 14:30 ] Service > Content > Community
What service do servers provide--does the service create a content,
does content automatically create a community? What is the content
of listservs--the act of communication itself?  How do alternative
broadcasting systems create new public spheres? How "global" are virtual
communities? Are they self-sufficient without the periodic
organization of meetspaces?

[ 17:00 - 21:00 ] Regional Boundaries, Minority Programs, Mobile Projects
The re-emergence of boundaries. Do regional networks transcend isolation
or reaffirm it in a regional context? Independent spaces founded as/with
specific programs for minorities... How do recent mobile projects in which
communities travel across territories differ from the so-called
disappearing boundaries of net.space?

[ 23:00 - >      ] Tetsuo Kogawa web cast



TUESDAY, Sept 11

+ ITC BUZZWORDS +

[ 09:30 - 14:00 ] Server Workshops
- -DYI (do it yourself) web server
- -Overview of Linux system, installing and running a webserver

[ 17:00 - 21:00 ] Net Economies
- -Production-
Does net space represent a transformation of commodity logic and its
inherent separation between production, distribution, and consumption?
How does the influence of sponsorship affect the mode of production of
digital media? What is the value of collaboration and the possible
convergences between art, activism, education, technology?
- -Distribution-
Is net distribution a way of bypassing intermediaries?
How do venues and spaces influence the content and presentation of net
projects? Is the internet a communication medium rather than a venue?
- -Consumption-
In what ways has the net transformed the relations of ownership and
copyright. Copyleft and open source as new paradigms of gift economy?

[ 23:30 -  >   ] Performance: Ricardo Dominguez + Pararadio program





WEDNESDAY, Sept 12

+ CODE 2 CONTENT +

[ 09:30 - 14:00 ] Server Workshops
- -Dynamic backends overview
- -Services: groupware, chats, mailing lists … finally, virtual desktop!
- -Directories, knowledge databases (DMOZ org/Everything2.com)

[ 17:00 - 21:00 ] Database Ontology, Web Aesthetics

- -Form/Function/Technology-
How do classical relations between form and function apply to digital
media? If digital technology moves in one direction--"more"--is there an
imperative toward developing a "minimalist" media? Ethical dimension of form,
responsibility to audiences, forms of scalability and accessibility
- -Database-
Has the dominance of the database model produced a new ontology, a
paradigm shift replacing the old narrative perceptual apparatus that
was a legacy of film? Convergences of film and database, models of
digital archives, database driven servers.
- -Pixel Publishing-
How do web magazines reproduce or transcend the form and
uni-directionality of print media?
What web publishing models can be developed that are specific to the
(so-called) open, decentralized nature of net.space?
Hybrid models, text engines, extracting content from newslogs and
listservs.

[ 23:00 - >     ] Video Screening + net.radio program




THURSDAY, Sept 13

+ UNINTERUPTED STREAMING +

[ 09:30 - 14:00 ] Streaming Workshops
- -Getting to know the technologies (theory, protocols, clients, servers)
- -Netcasting, broadcasting, distributing streams

[ 17:00 - 21:00 ] Streaming Workshops
- -Scheduling + designing interfaces
- -News logs & content management systems
- -Archiving
- -Open Source Streaming Software

[ 23:00 - >     ] Ljudmila HARDWARE LAB
+ pd/GEM-D.Kovatsits & Gameboy-C.Kumerrer



FRIDAY, Sept 14

+ PAST FORWARD  || >> +

[ 09:30 - 14:00 ] Networks, Solutions, Development ...
Open workshop to propose ideas for future collaborative projects and
funding, the formation of new lists and networks, the founding of
other art servers, joint software development & know-how exchange.

[ 17:00 - 21:00] Demo Presentations
- -Open Source Multimedia Authoring (sound and flash)
- -Wireless LAN demo

[ 17:00 - >      ] Concrete Stream (parallel net cast)
[ 23:00 - >      ]  pro.ba program


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Date: Tue, 4 Sep 2001 19:12:22 +0200
From: lothringer13/halle <halle@lothringer13.de>
Subject: 7.9. - lothringer13/halle

+++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ dt.//engl.
Eroffnung:		+++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
7. 9.2001, 19 - 23 Uhr +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
+++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
Locomotion - Bewegungsdarstellung in Zeit und Raum

Drei interaktive Installationen und Fotografie

Mit Andreas Siefert, Stabile Seitenlage, Christian Ziegler
und Eadward Muybridge

8. September bis 7. Oktober 2001
Offnungszeiten:	Di - So  13 -19 Uhr

Bewegung, Koerper, Zeit und Raum - das sind die Koordinaten dieser
Ausstellung.  Der Titel "Locomotion" (engl. = "Bewegung von einem Ort zum
anderen") stellt bewu?t die Referenz zu dem Pionier der
Bewegungsdarstellung her, dem in England geborenen, kalifornischen
Fotografen Eadward Muybridge (1830-1904). Seine Momentaufnahmen zeigen
Menschen und Tiere in verschiedenen Bewegungsphasen, aufgeschluesselt
innerhalb verschiedener Zeitintervalle. Fuer die Ausstellung wurden Abzuege
aus dem Album "Animals in Motion" (1887), "Animal Locomotion" (1887) und
"The Human Figure in Motion" (1887) ausgewaehlt. Das neue Medium Fotografie
mit den geradezu wissenschaftlich angelegten Studien ermoeglichte es
erstmals, aus einer linearen oder zyklischen Bewegung eine exakt
festgelegte zeitliche Sequenz zu erhalten. Die in der Ausstellung
vertretenen zeitgenossischen Positionen hingegen nahern sich dem Thema mit
aktuellsten technischen Moglichkeiten und begreifen unsere Wahrnehmung als
dehn- und veranderbare Matrix.

Andreas Siefert (Karlsruhe, geb. 1976) thematisiert mit seiner interaktiven
Installation "dropshadow" die Dimension des Schattens. Beim Betreten eines
abgetrennten Raumes wird der Schatten, den eine Person an die Wand wirft,
eingefroren und verharrt als Bild an der Wand.  Die echte Silhouette bewegt
sich mit den Bewegungen der Person mit, die festgehaltene jedoch bleibt
stehen. Nach kurzer Zeit veraendert sich diese in nicht vorhersehbarer Art
und wird von den Schatten anderer Besucher uberlagert. Das Speichern der
Umrisse von Menschen, die sich als digitale Spuren materialisieren, kann
auch als Mittel der Ueberwachungstechnologie angesehen werden. Der Schatten
eines Menschen ist Teil seiner Person, obwohl er nicht Teil des Korpers
ist.  Er ist jedoch nicht greifbar, nicht materiell, besitzt keine
Oberflaeche, keine Farbe, kein Volumen.  Trotzdem ist er unweigerlich an
den Menschen gebunden. Andreas Siefert loest mit "dropshadow" den Schatten
von der Person und verschiebt ihn in einen Bereich jenseits der Realiaet.
Die Videoinstallation "teil" der Kunstlergruppe Stabile Seitenlage (Achim
John, geb. 1973; Baste Schmidt, geb. 1973; Heiko Stueckle, geb. 1974; Jan
Rinkens, geb. 1974, Multimedia-Studenten der FH Augsburg in Kooperation mit
Yasmine Bechmann und Jens Pfau) ist ein interaktives
Wahrnehmungsexperiment, das in zwei separaten, in die Ausstellung
eingebauten Raeumen stattfindet.  Der zur Aktion aufgeforderte Besucher in
dem einen Raum erzeugt eine Pro  jektion, die in die unbewegte Silhouette
einer Person in dem anderen Raum hineinprojiziert wird. Die Zusammenfuhrung
der kontraeren Zustande von Statik und Dynamik in einer Projektion
ermoeglicht dem Besucher gleichzeitig eine Beobachtung der eigenen Person
sowie die visuelle Kommunikation mit den projizierten Personen im anderen
Raum.

Die Aufloesung der klassischen Interface-Struktur schafft hierbei eine 
Situation, die den Beobachter in die simulierte, mediale und gleichzeitig 
physisch erlebbare Welt eintauchen lae?t.

Im Spannungsfeld von Tanz und Technologie und als Teil eines Zyklus von
Arbeiten ist die Installation "scanned IV" von Christian Ziegler
(Karlsruhe/Muenchen, geb. 1963) entstanden. Wahrend seiner Arbeit an der
CD-ROM "William Forsythe: Improvisation Technologies" inspirierte ihn
besonders das Thema der Organisation von Raum und Zeit. Der Besucher kann
in der Ausstellung vor der Kamera seine eigene Koerperintelligenz testen:
Eine horizontale und eine vertikale Scan-Linie tastet staendig den Raum vor
der Kamera ab. Diese kontinuierlich sich veraendernden Scans werden in
Echtzeit projiziert. Durch die Ueberlagerung von realer Zeit und
komprimierter Zeit entsteht ein n-dimensionaler Raum, in dem sich ein
visueller Dialog zwischen der Bewegung der Besucher und dem Life-Sampling
entspinnt. In die Projektion der zuruckliegenden Bewegungsbilder wird eine
neue Bewegung eingeschrieben und wiederum gescannt.  Die Verbindung der
Live-Bewegungen erfolgt visuell in zeitlicher Schichtung. Daraus entsteht
eine Art technischer Spiegel von Bewegung, gleichzeitig ist die Bewegung
Rohstoff des bildnerischen Prozesses (produziert am ZKM | Karlsruhe,
Programmierung: Christian Ziegler und Todd Ingalls).


Zusaetzliche Oeffnungszeiten zur Open Art:
Freitag, 14. September bis 21 Uhr, Samstag, 15. September und Sonntag,
16. September ab 11 Uhr.

Fuehrungen am 16. und 30. September jeweils um 17 Uhr sowie nach 
Vereinbarung.

- ------------------------------------------------------------------------  
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+++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
Opening:		+++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
7. 9.2001, 7.00 p.m.  +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
+++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++

Locomotion - movement performance in time and space

Interactive installations and photography
with Andreas Siefert, Stabile Seitenlage, Christian Ziegler
and Eadward Muybridge

8. September to 7. October 2001

Opening hours :	Tuesday to Sunday  1.00 p.m. to 7.00 p.m.


Movement, bodies, time and space are the co-ordinates of this exhibition.
The title "locomotion" is a deliberate reference to the pioneer of
representation of movement, the english born, californian photographer
Eadward Muybridge (1830-1904). His photographic images show human beings
and animals in a kind of diagram of movement, using for the first time
photo  graphy as new media to illustrate a time interval. In the exhibition
will be shown re-prints from the Albums "Animals in Motion" (1887), "Animal
Locomotion" (1887) and "The Human Figure in Motion" (1887). However, the
contemporary positions that have been selected for the exhibition approach
the topic using the latest technical possibilities and comprehend our
perception as a matrix that can be stretched and changed.

In his interactive installation "dropshadow" Andreas Siefert (Karlsruhe,
born 1976) takes as a theme the dimension of the shadow. Entering a room, a
person's shadow is being frozen and remains as an image on the wall. The
real silouette is moving with the person, the captured silouette however
remains fixed. After a short while the latter starts to change in
unpredictable ways and is being superimposed by the shadows of other
visitors.  Storing the outlines of a human being, materialised as digital
traces, can be considered a means of surveillance technology. The shadow is
part of a person, however it is not part of a person's body. It is neither
tangible nor material, and does not have a surface, colour or volume.
Nevertheless it is inevitably bound to the human being. With "dropshadow" a
shadow is being detached from the person and shifted into a realm beyond
reality.

The artist's group Stabile Seitenlage (Achim John, Barcelona, born 1973;
Baste Schmidt, Berlin, born 1973; Heiko Stueckle, Augsburg, born 1974; Jan
Rinkens, Berlin, born 1974, students of multimedia studies at the FH
Augsburg in co-operation with Yasmine Bechmann and Jens Pfau) is presenting
their video installation "teil", an interactive experiment on perception
taking place in two separate rooms within the exhibition space. In the
first room the visitor will be asked to perform a movement that is
projected in real time and superimposed with the motionless silouette of
another visitor in the second room. Merging the opposite states of statics
and dynamics within one projection enables the observation of one's own
person as well as the visual communication with a projected person in
another room.  This disintegration of the classic interface structure
creates a situation in which the observer gets immersed in a world that is
simulated and characterised by media, but at the same time can be
experienced physically.

The installation "scanned IV" is part of a cycle of works by Christian
Ziegler (Karlsruhe/Munchen, born 1963) that originate from his work with
dance companies. During his work on the CD-ROM "William Forsythe:
Improvisation Technologies" he felt inspired particularly by the topic of
organisation of time and space. In the exhibition the v isitor can test
his/her own body intelligence in front of a camera. A horizontal and a
vertical scan-line search the space in front of that camera. These
continually changing scan images are then being projected in real time. By
superimposing real time and compressed time an n-dimensional space is
generated, creating a visual dialogue between the movement of the visitor
and the life-sampling.  A new movement will be inscribed into the
projection of the previous images which will then be scanned again.  The
live images are connected visually and chronologically. A technical mirror
of movements has been generated, with the movement also being the raw
material for the creative process.


Additional opening hours for Open Art:
Friday, 14. September until 9.00 p.m., Saturday, 15. September and Sunday, 
16. September from 11.00 a.m.


Guided tours on 16./ 30. September at 5.00 p.m. or on request


lothringer13/halle
Lothringer Str. 13
D - 81667 Munchen
phone +49-89-4486961
fax +49-89-6886244
http://www.lothringer13.de/halle


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Date: Wed, 05 Sep 2001 14:15:25 -0400
From: victor acevedo <acevedo4@earthlink.net>
Subject: Reminder: Digital Salon Selected Works panel discussion in NYC 6pm  September 6 2001

New York Digital Salon: Selected Work
Closing Reception &  Lecture / Panel: Thursday, September 6, 2001 at 6pm

The Corning Gallery at Steuben
667 Madison Avenue @ 61st Street  NYC
Gallery hours: Monday to Friday, 10am-7pm;  Saturday, 10am-6pm
The last day of the exhibit is Saturday, September 8,  2001


The Visual Arts Foundation and The Corning Gallery Host
the NEW YORK DIGITAL SALON: Selected Works

Lecture by Bruce Wands and selected artists:
Victor Acevedo, Maureen Nappi, Barbara Nessim and Xavier Roca

Thursday, September 6, 2001 at 6 p.m., reception to follow

Bruce Wands, curator of the New York Digital Salon: Selected Works exhibition,
will be joined by four digital artists, Victor Acevedo, Maureen Nappi, Barbara
Nessim and Xavier Roca, to discuss a brief history and survey of the New York
Digital Salon. These artists, whose works are featured in the show, will also
discuss the concepts involved with the intent and creation of their work.

Started in 1993, the New York Digital Salon is one of the oldest digital art
exhibitions and has helped lead the way to computer art's coming of age. In
celebration of this achievement, The New York Digital Salon: Selected Works
features the best works of computer art selected by the juries of the last
eight New York Digital Salons. Curated by Bruce Wands, director, New York
Digital Salon and chair, MFA Computer Art, School of Visual Arts, the
exhibition is presented in collaboration with the Visual Art Foundation at The
Corning Gallery.

"The purpose of the New York Digital Salon," explained Wands, "is to provide
an annual venue for the best international computer art. The exhibit
represents art in all forms and includes the work of established artists,
emerging artists and student work." This "best of the best" New York Digital
Salon displays the work of artists from around the world whose work has
appeared in at least one of the previous eight salons. The types of artwork
include interactive installation, digitally animated films, CD-ROMs, websites,
interactive sculptures, and digital prints.

Bruce Wands, moderator of the lecture, is a digital artist/musician and chair
of the MFA Computer Art Department and the director of Computer Education at
the School of Visual Arts in New York. Time Out New York named Bruce as one of
the "99 People to Watch in 1999." He is the author of Digital Creativity
published by John Wiley & Sons, www.wiley.com/wands. He has lectured and
exhibited his creative work internationally, including Europe, Japan, Hong
Kong and Beijing, China. His computer art, photography, music and writing
explore the invention of new forms of narrative and the relationship between
visual art and music. Bruce was the first musician to perform live over ISDN
lines on the Internet in 1992. As an independent producer, educational and
corporate consultant, his clients have included AT&T, General Motors, Colgate
Palmolive, Citibank, and the New York State Department of Education. He has a
BA with honors from Lafayette College and an MS from Syracuse University,
where he studied computer art and mass communication.

Victor Acevedo is a digital artist working primarily in print and video. He
has shown his work in over 80 exhibitions worldwide including: Silent Motion
at the Colville Place gallery, London, 2001; Podgallery NYC 2000 and 1999;
SIGGRAPH 98; Homage to M.C. Escher at the Escher Centennial Congress in Rome,
1998; NY Digital Salon 1996 & 1994; ISEA, Rotterdam 1993; Prix Ars
Electronica, Linz 1991. Acevedo currently resides in New York City where he
lectures on digital art at the School of Visual Arts.

Maureen Nappi is an artist and theorist committed to a thoughtful integration
of the theory and practice of the creative use of computers and advanced
technology.  Internationally awarded and recognized as a computer artist,
Nappi exhibits and lectures extensively on both. She is currently a Ph.D.
candidate working on her dissertation concerning the Aesthetics of Computer
Arts at New York University.

Barbara Nessim is an internationally known artist, illustrator, and educator.
Her work has appeared in many publications, such as GQ, Esquire, Fast Company,
NY Magazine and Newsweek, and on the covers of Time, Rolling Stone and the New
York Times Magazine section.  Her work is in the permanent collection of The
Smithsonian Institute and was exhibited in the Kunst Museum in Dusseldorf and
the Louvre in Paris. She is also he Chairperson of Illustration at Parsons
School of Design. You can see her work at her two websites barbaranessim.com
and nessim.com.

For the past decade, Xavier Roca has involved in electronic photography,
human/machine interaction, and digital art. His work has been in numerous
exhibitions including: the Third New York Digital Salon in 1995, SIGGRAPH99
and the Eighth New York Digital Salon, which opened in Malaga, Spain in July
2001. Xavier Roca is a visual artist from Spain, where studied fine arts at
the Facultad de Bellas Artes in Madrid. He currently lives in New York City.

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Date: Thu, 6 Sep 2001 08:28:31 +1000
From: "geert lovink" <geert@xs4all.nl>
Subject: tesla researcher keith sonnier in location one

FRACTURED OXYGEN = OZONE
KEITH SONNIER

September 20 - November 28, 2001
Opening Reception: September 20th, 6-8 PM

Location One 
26 Greene Street NYC 10013, Between Grand and Canal
Subway: Canal Street (N, R, 6, A, C, E, J, M, Z)
Gallery Hours: Tuesday - Saturday, 12 - 6 PM
(212) 334-3347 
www.location1.org

Location One is happy to announce an exhibition of selected work created
by the internationally celebrated artist Keith Sonnier. The exhibition
comprises six pieces that result from Sonnier's investigations into the
work of Nikola Tesla during the period 1990-1997. The Tesla series
"captures" raw electricity in its most spectacular form by stringing
copper wires and causing the current to flow and spark between them. 
 
Keith Sonnier, born in Mamou, Louisiana, gained international
recognition 30 years ago with his sculptures and installations using
neon and argon lights. His most spectacular work in Europe is the
one-kilometer long "Lichtweg," which runs the entire length of the
Munich airport. Although neon and fluorescent light have been an
important part of his artistic vocabulary, Sonnier's work distinguishes
itself above all by the variety of materials used, and by its formal as
well as thematic complexity. 
 
Beginning with his earliest explorations with light, sound, video, and
live and taped broadcasts, Sonnier has engaged in a constant
investigation into the process of exchange which constitutes
communication. As early as 1975, he created a 2-way open channel
performance event connecting New York and Los Angeles via NASA CTS
satellite. He explores sometimes by redefining the functions of the
transmitter/receiver, sometimes by indicating and reconfiguring elements
of the process, but always with an awareness of the energy fields in
which we live and maneuver. Selections of early video work will be
presented as part of the exhibition, both on the Location One website
and in the gallery.

Keith Sonnier was among the first artists to incorporate technology into
his work. By making the communication process an integral part of the
art context, he forever changed the environment of contemporary art.
Sonnier is a seminal figure at Location One, as our central purpose is
to encourage artists from different media and different cultures to
experiment with advanced technological tools and delivery systems. He
continues to explore technology with the careful tenacity of a research
scientist and the vision of a poet.

"These are the perfect images of 'the medium as the message.'" Flash
Light, 6/01/97

Location One (www.location1.org) is a new not-for profit art center,
which fosters the convergence of all types of creative expression. We
maintain a gallery space suitable for every form of performance and
exhibition, and within this space, multimedia net-broadcasting
facilities that allow us to webcast a 24-hour stream of both live and
archived events. Our International Residency Program invites artists
from other countries to experiment with emerging technologies. Location
One is an exploration space for continual creative discovery.


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Date: Thu, 6 Sep 2001 09:44:10 +0100
From: Simon Biggs <simon@littlepig.org.uk>
Subject: Babel opening

Babel
by Simon Biggs

An interactive immersive multi-user multi-projection online data navigator
installation opens

20:00 Central European Time September 7 2001 at Kibela Gallery, Maribor,
Slovenia

www.babel.uk.net

www.littlepig.org.uk

www.kibla.org



Simon Biggs

simon@littlepig.org.uk
http://www.littlepig.org.uk/
The Great Wall of China @ http://www.greatwall.org.uk/
Babel @ http://www.babel.uk.net/

Research Professor
Art and Design Research Centre
School of Cultural Studies
Sheffield Hallam University
Sheffield, UK
http://www.shu.ac.uk/


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