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Table of Contents: Annette Weintraub, Mirage Annette Weintraub <weintraub@ccny.cuny.edu> : :>>:.;::>....;>:.view...:::::::::::source;:>>>:..;;.<::>:> "::bea:" <bea@nungu.com> CFP: Information Aesthetics [Toronto; 15/12] carolyn guertin <cguertin@gpu.srv.ualberta.ca> revisionhistory.org deKam <deKam@node.net> Observatory on the state of democracy in Italy lop1912@iperbole.bologna.it 20010505 cipher@o-o.lt Geert Lovink Web Archive "Reinhold Grether" <Reinhold.Grether@uni-konstanz.de> christmas special --- buy one get one free sale@distributedhuman.net new work 'Mailstory' / nouveau travail 'Mailstory' "Garrett Lynch" <garrett_44@hotmail.com> ------------------------------ Date: Sun, 25 Nov 2001 22:02:43 -0500 From: Annette Weintraub <weintraub@ccny.cuny.edu> Subject: Annette Weintraub, Mirage Mirage Mirage is a Web-based narrative project that examines the dissonance between the romantic expectations of travel and the realities of place. Based on a journey to Morocco, Mirage embeds ostensibly neutral 'tourist' photos with contradictory narratives exposing a complex of economic, social, historical and psychological realities. Mirage addresses the complex relationship of experience and expectation, examining elements of voyerism, escapism, cultural confusion and mythification. It presents alternative interpretations of the signature visuals of an "exotic" place, and the resultant tensions between expectation and actuality. Mirage is at: http://cepa.buffnet.net/exhibits/EXHIBIT.2001/Paradise2/p10.html. This project was commissioned for the exhibition, "Paradise in Search of a Future, Part II" at CEPA in Buffalo. ************************* And: Launching in December: The Mirror That Changes, a project on water and sustainability commissioned by the Ruschlikon Centre for Global Dialogue. Crossroads was presented at the Graz Biennial of Media and Architecture, Nov. 7-11 in Graz, Austria. http://www.artimage.at, and will be presented at IMAGINE2001 in Gavle, Sweden at the University of Gavle in December. ************************* Apologies for any cross-posting ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 29 Nov 2001 17:12:45 -0800 From: "::bea:" <bea@nungu.com> Subject: : :>>:.;::>....;>:.view...:::::::::::source;:>>>:..;;.<::>:> - ---------- From: ::bea: <bea@nungu.com> Date: Thu, 29 Nov 2001 11:07:16 -0800 To: <reader-list@sarai.net> Subject: :>>:.;::>....;>:.view...:::::::::::source;:>>>:..;;.<::>:> www.nungu.com www.nungu.com www.nungu.com www.nungu.com www.nungu.com www.nungu.com www.nungu.com www.nungu.com www.nungu.com www.nungu.com viewsouce is nungu's resume, embedded in its html code. nungu is a digital entity - a human / a cyborg / a piece of codework / a mutating virus - - with its own peculiar characteristics, whims, contradicitons, ambitions. its resume is a first person piece of code[text]work and details nungu's characteristics alongside those of its creators. nungu is the interface, the [authors] remain in the background, they are the source code. [SURFACE] nungu's entry/index pages are chosen at random from an ever expanding selection, by a script. They alert the user to the multiple identities of nungu. clicking through the intial pages the user comes to the directory page in which all works are listed plus the prompt ':>>:.;::>....;>:.view...:::::::::::source;:>>>:..;;.<::>:>' [SUBLIMINAL] as object orientated programming creates its object and defines its properties, when nungu's source code changes its interface mutates: different avatars, plays with identity, disguises - the real identity is underneath the inter[sur]face, at the source, the code. even this identity though, is not static, static in appearance unlike the interface, but not static in its definition, it is an evolving manifesto, a mutating virus as authors, identifying ourselves with the source code signals the desire to be sovereign, autonomous, underground and undetectable. as code we are free from visual surveillance at the level of data and yet directly participate in it. the code does not partake in the spectacle but functions invisibly, performs subversively and avoids the transparent. ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 30 Nov 2001 10:07:36 -0700 From: carolyn guertin <cguertin@gpu.srv.ualberta.ca> Subject: CFP: Information Aesthetics [Toronto; 15/12] Apologies for Cross-Posting Information Aesthetics: Paranoia or Paradigm? Thomas Pynchon defined paranoia as "the realization that _everything is connected_, everything in the Creation..." For celebrants of chaos theory, massive quantities of data pose the joyous possibility of achieving a state of 'maximum information' or reveal the potentialities of 'pattern recognition' as an organizational structure. The new media arts, hypertext and the World Wide Web often toy with information overload and the exuberant wealth of database systems to unite information with an aesthetic dimension. Is there an aesthetics of information? If so, what forms does it take and how does it function? What are the implications for the artforms of the new media? Does it produce paranoia, nested networks, new modes of organization, or...? Your investigation might consider: spatial and/or temporal navigation hyperlinking search engines, databases and/or archives sequence, randomness, repetition, lists, series narrative, anti-narrative, games transparency, interactivity and/or control speed, delay, friction shape, colour, sound and/or noise spacetime, depth, surface, interface waves and particles fractals, quantum computation, geometry memory and/or forgetting architecture, photography, cartography Submissions of a 500 word abstract and a short bio or weblink by e-mail by December 15th to: Carolyn Guertin cguertin@ualberta.ca Carolyn Guertin Dept of English University of Alberta 3-5 Humanities Centre Edmonton AB T6G 2E5 Inter/Disciplinary Models, Disciplinary Boundaries: Humanities Computing and Emerging Mind Technologies Consortium for Computers in the Humanities / Consortium pour Ordinateurs en Sciences Humaines (COCH/COSH) 2002 Meeting at the Congress of the Social Sciences and Humanities May 26-8, 2002 U Toronto / Ryerson Polytechnic U http://web.mala.bc.ca/siemensr/C-C/2002/ ___________________________________________________ Carolyn Guertin, Department of English, University of Alberta E-Mail: cguertin@ualberta.ca; Tel/FAX: 780-438-3125 Website: http://www.ualberta.ca/~cguertin/ Assemblage, the Online Women's New Media Gallery, at trAce: http://trace.ntu.ac.uk/traced/guertin/assemblage.htm ------------------------------ Date: Sat, 01 Dec 2001 15:08:03 -0500 From: deKam <deKam@node.net> Subject: revisionhistory.org update: generative collage software for re-mixing the American Memories Collections at the Library of Congress (revising history once again) Revision History v.3 - download for Macintosh (1 MB) http://www.revisionhistory.org/data/Revision_History_3.hqx results of the experiment: http://www.revisionhistory.org/ j.deKam http://node.net/ ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 05 Dec 2001 09:33:33 +0100 From: lop1912@iperbole.bologna.it Subject: Observatory on the state of democracy in Italy The previous communication contained a wrong web address. The observatory can be found at the following address www.osdem.it/eng/ Dear Friend On 27th November, Osdem (Observatory on the state of democracy in Italy) will publish its first monthly newsletter at www.osdem.it/eng/ OSDEM is just a memorandum on the authoritarianism and mafia-like corruption currently sweeping Italy, this newsletter will not contains scoops, sensationalism or hidden secrets. It will, rather, provide information which is all too obvious, easily distilled from an attentive reading of newspapers or active participation in Italian social issues. The aim of the newsletter is to provide a monthly summary of the events that are steadily destroying Italian democracy and civil liberties and to remind those who, like yourself, have many other matters on which to focus attention, that Italy risks sinking to unprecedented depth of incivility. While that which is happening is a very Italy-specific phenomenon, we nevertheless feel there is a risk that this malaise will spread to other European nations. It has already happened, albeit many decades ago. Let us make sure, then, that history does not repeat itself. Thank you for your kind attention. www.osdem.it/en/ Observatory on the state of democracy in Italy Since the coming to power of the right-wing coalition Italy has witnessed a serious undermining of legality, civil rights, freedom and political awareness. Silvio Berlusconi, the current Prime Minister of Italy, won his seat as head of government by channelling enormous sums of money into electoral advertising. And since, over the last 30 years, he has succeeded in building up a financial empire with the support of both the mafia and secret associations such as the P2 freemasons' lodge (of which he was a member), funds have certainly not been lacking. Furthermore, given the magnitude of the Berlusconi-owned media empire, he has also been able to enjoy a massive communications advantage that is, in a Western democracy, without precedent. This enormous dominance of the media constitutes a danger for Italian democracy. Yet no less dangerous than Berlusconi and his party-cum-business enterprise are the other parties that bolster it. One is a direct derivative of the fascist regime, while another is openly racist, has been advocating the secession of northern Italy for years, and supports the expulsion of foreigners. Yet historically, fascism and mafia have never been allies. While both may be seen as symptoms of peculiarly Italian illnesses, they have, in the past, always been anathema to each other. The mafia is a family-oriented organisation that aims to replace the state and pursues its interests through blackmail, violence and corruption. Fascism, instead, is an aggressive assertion of state authority and is systematically violent towards society. Now, for the first time, these two forms have come together. Genoa highlighted the totalitarian nature of this government all too clearly. During those two days the Deputy Prime Minister, Gianfranco Fini, spent two days at Genoa's police headquarters from where he piloted acts of violence, repression and torture, the homicide of a young demonstrator and aggression against citizens wishing to protest against the G8 summit. The xenophobe instincts of this government also came to the fore when legislation on how to integrate foreign workers was passed. The government lost no time in promising prison sentences for those entering Italy without authorisation, as if just entering the country were in itself a terrible crime, and quickly established that visas for foreign citizens should only last as long as their work contracts. On other occasions legislation has been brutally railroaded to meet the interests of the regime's mafia. Legislation aimed at shielding the Prime Minister and his direct accomplices from the investigations of magistrates - - who have been examining allegedly illicit business transactions for years - - has been rushed through Parliament in record time. Silvio Berlusconi, Gianfranco Fini and Umberto Bossi represent not only a threat to Italian democracy, but European stability too. There us, in fact, something about this (for the moment) specifically Italian shameless, grotesque authoritarianism that risks being exported, infecting the societies of other European countries. This is why we believe that it is nothing less than essential to provide a systematic news service that highlights the actions, legislation, repression of dissent and the freedom-restricting policies approved by this all-too mafia-like government and which exposes the antidemocratic nature of the words of its politicians. That service is one that OSDEM.it aims to provide in full. franco berardi bifo ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 5 Dec 2001 18:41:48 -0800 From: cipher@o-o.lt Subject: 20010505 20010505 13 track ep Available at cipher, o-o institutio media http://www.o-o.lt/cipher "When we listen to electronic music we can sometimes identify the software that was used to create it - we 'hear' the original programmer's code" - HACKING SOUND IN CONTEXT, Alex McLean 20010505, 13 track electroacoustic ep from the group Slub, comprised of two digital artists Alex McLean and Adrian Ward. Alex McLean is well-known for his artworks produced by placing computers under high load. Ade Ward is famous for his Auto-Illustrator software -- a satiric remake of the commercial vector-graphic program Adobe Illustrator -- which was awarded the artistic software award at the 2001 Transmediale Festival in Berlin. 20010505. 13 track ep made up entirely of material generated using hand-crafted Macintosh and Unix applications. The tracks are compilations of artificial harmony fully composed by man himself from wetware to hardware. A hymn of praise to electronics, fulfilled with machine-generated and muddled sounds, with different sonic threads reminding one of the noise of factories and the live electric tingle of ambient. There is no chance to relax. Despite this, one can slide into the beauty of transcendence or the beauty of melancholy. The sounds sometime are very similar to the rhythmic aspirations of the organ -- slow transitions from one measure or tone to another making the music over-real. Is it a challenge to music or is it simply the electronic music of this time? Probably both, because it is impossible for ones soul to reject what one may hear. The result is a rich, multilayered sound; fully controlled, but unpredictable to the point that every performance is different. 13 track electroacoustic ep. http://www.slub.org Available at cipher, o-o institutio media http://www.o-o.lt/cipher ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 26 Nov 2001 13:27:34 +0100 From: "Reinhold Grether" <Reinhold.Grether@uni-konstanz.de> Subject: Geert Lovink Web Archive Even nettimers may be aware of Geert Lovink, a - in his own words - "founder of numerous Internet initiatives". <http://www.laudanum.net/geert/biography.shtml> Lovink just launched one of this initiatives, an up-to-date web archive with a wealth of his own writings. <http://www.laudanum.net/geert/ > Introducing his site Lovink comments: "The archive contains material as of early 1998 until the present, where the www.thing.desk.nl/bilwet site, at that time maintained by Walter van der Cruijsen and me, stopped. I will be updating this archive regularly, and I will be publishing all my recent works here, including items not found elsewhere." <http://laudanum.net/cgi-bin/isengine.pl?o=geert&action=front> There is also a small audio <http://www.laudanum.net/geert/audio.shtml> and foto section <http://www.laudanum.net/geert/images.shtml> Enjoy a multitude of texts on a distinguished interface communicating the intention of a web-based text archive. <http://www.laudanum.net/geert/ > ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 27 Nov 2001 21:00:42 -0500 From: sale@distributedhuman.net Subject: christmas special --- buy one get one free seasons greetings, for a limited time for the celebration of the birth of our lord, now it is the perfect time to shop for apiece, and you get one for free! quality guaranteed http://sale.distributedhuman.net the sale department of distributedhuman.net ------------------------------ Date: Sun, 25 Nov 2001 20:25:15 +0100 From: "Garrett Lynch" <garrett_44@hotmail.com> Subject: new work 'Mailstory' / nouveau travail 'Mailstory' +-----------------------------------------------------------+ Hello everyone Some new(ish) work online (actually old work redone for the internet). A sound piece entitled "Mailstory" which is featured in the newly relaunched http://www.slackerbonding.com/ the review and link to the work, can be found by going to x-posed > gallery > mailstory or directly ... http://www.slackerbonding.com/x_posed.php?i=06&a=gallery/MailStoryby and the work can be found at ... http://www.asquare.org/mailstory/bottom.html +-----------------------------------------------------------+ +-----------------------------------------------------------+ Salut tous Nouveau travail (en fete travail re-fait pour l'internet) en son avec le nom "Mailstory" qui est choisi pour le galerie, a le tout nouveau http://www.slackerbonding.com/ le revue et lien a le travail, peut ete trouve a x-posed > gallery > mailstory ou directement ... http://www.slackerbonding.com/x_posed.php?i=06&a=gallery/MailStoryby et le travail peut ete trouve a ... http://www.asquare.org/mailstory/bottom.html +-----------------------------------------------------------+ a+ Garrett Lynch +-----------------------------------------------------------+ Garrett@asquare.org http://www.asquare.org/ http://www.intimacyandloneliness.f2s.com/ http://www.playpause.f2s.com/ +-----------------------------------------------------------+ _________________________________________________________________ Get your FREE download of MSN Explorer at http://explorer.msn.com/intl.asp ------------------------------ # distributed via <nettime>: no commercial use without permission # <nettime> is a moderated mailing list for net criticism, # collaborative text filtering and cultural politics of the nets # more info: majordomo@bbs.thing.net and "info nettime-l" in the msg body # archive: http://www.nettime.org contact: nettime@bbs.thing.net