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Table of Contents: conference 'cultural citizenship and globalisation' call for papers fran ilich <ilich@de-lete.tv> [Psrf] Photostatic Retrograde Archive, no. 45 Lloyd Dunn <ll@detritus.net> Urban Drift is online Urban Drift <info@urbandrift.org> DIAN Announcement for June DIAN <info@dian-network.com> RENCONTRE + SESSION EN LIGNE / MEETING + ONLINE SESSION onlineonsite <onlineonsite@altern.org> Evolving Traditions: Artists Working in New Media Seth Thompson <seththompson@wigged.net> interarchive publication (kunstraum lueneburg) "geert lovink" <geert@xs4all.nl> CITY STATE : flow/capture/control/rupture s|a|m <sam@myspinach.org> Il linguaggio dei nuovi media "Tommaso Tozzi" <t.tozzi@ecn.org> HF Critical Mass software Barbara Lattanzi <threads@pce.net> Wigged.net: Fresh Ideas Seth Thompson <seththompson@wigged.net> Year Zero One presents: the Splash Page Project Michelle Kasprzak <splash@year01.com> ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 31 May 2002 08:13:42 -0500 From: fran ilich <ilich@de-lete.tv> Subject: conference 'cultural citizenship and globalisation' call for papers The Deakin University Research Priority Area in Citizenship and Globalisation calls for papers addressing the broad theme of cultural citizenship. http://arts.deakin.edu.au/RPAconf2002/ Conference sub-themes are: Theorising Cultural Citizenship Globalisation, cultural identity and cultural heritage Citizenship and cultural difference Post-national modes of cultural belonging Is multiculturalism dead? Is cultural citizenship a more useful concept? Ethnic minorities and ethno-nationalism Cultural maintenance in diasporic communities Human rights and cultural rights Role of civil society and NGOs Cultural citizenship of business Cultural citizenship and democracy Cultural and social rights of refugees Implications for policy-makers Please send proposals for 20-25 minute papers, with a 200-word abstract by 12 July 2002 to: Michael Leach, RPA Research Fellow mpleach@deakin.edu.au ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 31 May 2002 13:54:34 +0200 From: Lloyd Dunn <ll@detritus.net> Subject: [Psrf] Photostatic Retrograde Archive, no. 45 # If you no longer wish to recieve e-mail announcements from the # Photostatic Retrograde Archive, simply let us know and we will remove # your name from the mailing list. # - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - now available for download, retrograde release no. 5, june 2002: Retrofuturism 16 description: http://psrf.detritus.net/r/16/index.html direct download: http://psrf.detritus.net/pdf/r16.pdf Description. "One World One Virus." Not unusually, media critiques form the core of this dispatch. Negativland files a report detailing their views on the Island Records vs. SST/Negativland case over the provocatively named recording U2. The Immediast Underground's contributions include plans for liberating us from the 'ecology of coercion' by turning the force of the media spectacle back on itself. It is fair to say that plagiarism is on everyone's mind, judging from the contributions of Steve Perkins (in a guest editorial entitled 'Plagiarism: The Bastard Child') and Mark Palmer (an essay entitled 'Plagiarism: The Truth in Doubling'). The Copyright Violation Squad also makes an appearance in support of Negativland, offering to make copies their suppressed 'U2' recording to all who send in a blank tape. And the League of Disdainists weigh in with a satirical 'Cultural Survey' on Mail art. Contributors include. Stephen Perkins, Potlach, Immediast Underground, League of Disdainists, Negativland, Copyright Violation Squad, Enrico Aresu, Mark Palmer, Benjamin Allen, Thomas Wiloch, Lloyd Dunn, Fintan Friel, Clint Simonson, Ross Martin, Florian Cramer, U.A. Sanabria, Jean-François Robic Project Overview: The Photostatic Retrograde Archive serves as a repository for a complete collection of Photostatic Magazine, Retrofuturism, and Psrf, (as well as related titles) in electronic form. We are posting issues in PDF format, at more or less regular intervals, in reverse chronological order to form a mirror image in time of the original series. When the first issue, dating from 1983, is finally posted in several year's time, then this electronic archive will be complete. issue directory: http://psrf.detritus.net/issues.html project URL: http://psrf.detritus.net/ - -- # Photostatic Magazine Retrograde Archive : http://psrf.detritus.net/ # - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - # E-mail | psrf@detritus.net ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 31 May 2002 18:55:28 +0200 From: Urban Drift <info@urbandrift.org> Subject: Urban Drift is online URBAN DRIFT IS NOW ONLINE! http://www.urbandrift.org +++Urban Drift Event ++ Berlin: October 09 12 2002 +++ +++From Formalism To Flux Management + Symposium + Mobile Cultures - New Urban Strategies + Nightspace + Urban Interfaces + Open Workspaces + Call for contributions + DEADLINE 15 06 02 +++ URBAN DRIFT is an independent label and network based in Berlin, which promotes a trans-cultural urban strategy employing all forms of media and using the cityscape as both a medium and a sphere of action. Members of Urban Drift act as tacticians for a contemporary urban praxis, developing the discourse within Berlin as one of the primary cities of flux. Our aim is to communicate architecture and urban design to a wider audience, to extend the boundaries of the architectural discourse, and to maximize the potential of interdisciplinary practice. URBAN DRIFT is ....// a hybrid urban praxis, opening up and communicating architecture to a wider audience // urban survival strategies // time-based architecture, temporary and ephemeral // urban transformation and the reanimation of lost, forgotten, hidden city spaces // drift-inspired by random movement // neon-inspired // trans-cultural collaboration // the city as a medium // scavenging, remapping and resampling the city in light, sound and text // urban nomadism // 24 hours nightwalking // the reinvention of spaces // intervention // urban curating // 'cities need planners for the next century, planners who are autonomous, able to grasp multiple aspects of reality and refashion them as narratives, to link an increasingly heterogeneous population in decision making processes' // working with the city's second skin // fluid identities which are never fixed, communicating a mobile, fluid urbanity / Enjoy the drift.... URBAN DRIFT Initiator / Curator: Francesca Ferguson Urban Drift project space @ Datenflug, Zehdenickerstr 21, 10119 Berlin info@urbandrift.org www.urbandrift.org ____________________________________________ ------------------------------ Date: Sat, 01 Jun 2002 17:17:03 +0200 From: DIAN <info@dian-network.com> Subject: DIAN Announcement for June DIAN - Digital Interactive Artists' Network [Image] http://dian-network.com June: DIAN - Digital Interactive Artists' Network - Our focus for the month of June is MOTOMICHI NAKAMURA. We proudly present his work: "QRIME" http://dian-network.com/navigation.html In this occasion "Qrime" deals with questions, as manifested in primitive legends and myths, of natural human curiosity towards violent themes, discriminatory acts inflicted towards those whose differences arise some sort of irrational fear in their fellow people and our preconceived fear of divine punishment and its violent consequences. ------------------------------------------------------------------------ DIAN - Digital Interactive Artists´ Network - is a network for artists who are seriously involved in using Internet technology in the domain of contemporary art. We are deeply interested in artists working in this field. Artists working with the web, the net and related domains, please submit your work here: http://dian-network.com/information.html Visit DIAN and explore what can be done on the Internet. address: http://dian-network.com e-mail: info@dian-network.com to unsubscribe from this list send an email to unsubscribe@dian-network.com ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 04 Jun 2002 00:43:01 +0200 From: onlineonsite <onlineonsite@altern.org> Subject: RENCONTRE + SESSION EN LIGNE / MEETING + ONLINE SESSION MERCREDI 5 JUIN 2002 - à partir de 14h/start at 2pm Ecole Nationale Supérieure des Beaux-Arts, Salle du CID 14, rue Bonaparte - 75006 Paris - Métro St Germain-des-Prés RENCONTRE + SESSION EN LIGNE / MEETING + ONLINE SESSION - ---- http://www.asco-o.com 14h/2pm : introduction, anne laforet 14h30/2:30pm : cha-at - d2b + mi_ga rendez-vous online http://www.o-o.lt/asco-o/cha-at - ---- http://www.xxero.net 15h30/3:30pm : introduction, florence ormezzano 16h/4pm : XXERO - xxero moo-performances rendez-vous online http://xxero.servus.at:7000 - telnet host:xxero.servus.at, port:7777 tutorial : english, http://www.xxero.net/help/index.html + fr, http://campus.ensba.fr/onlineonsite - ---- 17h30/5:30pm : l'art et le code/art and the code, nathalie magnan + 'Connexion Art Média Réseaux'-annick bureau, nathalie magnan - ----> http://www.asco-o.com : ascii-art-mailing-list-web-archive asco-o est une liste de discussion et un site web consacré à l'ascii art, au spam art, aux détournements textuels en tous genre. Le site envoie automatiquement à une liste de diffusion des messages générés via des formulaires et des spam-machines, ou provoqués par le simple passage des visiteurs sur le site. Le site est une des sources d'alimentation de la liste parmi d'autres : asco-o est un organisme qui se nourrit du réseau, en relation avec d'autres spam-machines, sur les sites pleine-peau.com, one38.org, toegristle.com, trashconnection.com, x-arn.org. asco-o est la rencontre de deux artistes programmeurs, mi_ga et d2b. Le site possède une archive des messages générés affichés aléatoirement. Réseau, automatisation, anonymat, code sont au coeur d'asco-o, explorés de manière ludique, poétique, jouissive... liste de discussion asco-o : http://www.o-o.lt/asco-o/su-ub/ asco-o is a mailing-list, and a web site dedicated to ascii-art, spam-art, textual misappropriation/diversion/playing of all kinds. The web site automatically sends to the mailing-list messages generated by forms and spam-machines or by the only presence of visitors on the web-site. The website is one of the sources of the mailing list, among others : asco-o is an organism that feeds itself on the network, with spam machines on other servers (pleine-peau.com, one38.org, toegristle.com, trashconnection.com, x-arn.org). asco-o is the meeting of two artists-programmer :mi_ga and d2b. The website has an archive of all the messages generated randomly. At the heart of asco-o, network, code, automation, anonymity are explored in a playful, poetic way. mailing-list asco-o : http://www.o-o.lt/asco-o/su-ub/ <---- http://www.xxero.net XXERO est à la fois un environnement collaboratif de type MOO, et une plate-forme pour des rencontres et des événements live. Elaboré par un réseau international de femmes associées à la liste de discussion Faces-http://www.faces-l.net, ce projet initialement pensé comme un outil de présentation et de communication pour participer à Ars Electronika, continue maintenant un développement en parallèle de Faces. Les contenus de XXERO sont axés sur les nouvelles technologies, le cyber-féminisme, le langage puisqu'il s'agit d'un environnement utilisant du texte. Les membres de Faces ont, dans le choix d'un nom pour le MOO XXERO - "la chose flottante" dans l'attente d'un nom - fait appel à une multitude d'images auxquelles une identification était possible, des formes organiques aux références digitales à la science fiction. Cette discussion a reflété, et activé la question de ce que pourrait être le féminisme aujourd'hui et l'identité en général, une question explorée pendant la dernière décennie en conjonction avec les théories queer et souvent dans un rejet des catégories dichotomiques masculin/féminin. Les différents aspects de XXERO permettent le log in log out, à cet espace, dans l'élaboration d'un discours et sa remise en question, celui d'un projet, d'un contexte, d'une sphère sociale. Le MOO et les événements live sont parties intégrantes d'un tout. Xxero est un espace où s'élaborent des palaces de contenu, se rêvent des mondes et se construisent en collaboration un village fait de textes, en une dimension, qui s'ouvre sur un monde virtuel très concret. Les événements live donnent lieu à des lectures, des workshops, une table au café, pendant lesquels l'information est partagée et discutée, en privé et en public. Complémentaires l'un de l'autre, le contenu et le media sont inextricablement tissés ensembles, partagés et échangés sur la place du marché là où nous vivons. XXERO is both a collaborative, moo-based environment and a platform for real life meetings and events. Built up by an international network of women associated with Faces-http://www.faces-l.net, the project was conceived in a real life Faces meeting as a tool for participating in Ars Electronica, and continue now a developpement parallel to Faces. XXERO contents are about new-technologies, cyber-feminism, and langage as the environment is a tex-based one. Faces members, has, in the choice of a name for the MOO XXERO - the floatting thing waiting for a name - thought to a multitude of images from organic forms to digital references. What kinds of images can women identify with today? The complexity of this question corresponds to the complexity of the larger question of "female identity" in general, a question that has exploded over the last decade in conjunction with queer theory and, in many cases, a rejection of the dichotomous categories of "female/male" altogether. The different facets of xxero allow for the participants to log in and out of a vital discourse that they are creating as much as criticizing, one that is a project, a context, and a social sphere. The MOO and the real life events are integral parts of the whole - the MOO provides one realm where participants build up content palaces, dream worlds that imagine the best and worst of what technology has to offer. The real life events are lectures, workshops, a table in the cafe, where information is shared and discussed, in private and in public. Each half complements the other, the content and the medium are intricately woven together as they are shared and exchanged in a marketplace of our own. - ----> 17h30 : l'art et le code/art and the code, nathalie magnan + Présentation du livre 'Connexion Art Média Réseaux'-annick bureau, nathalie magnan Net art, création en réseau, art de l'écran, art du code, création collective, position de l'auteur, copyleft, cyberespace, identité en ligne, culture du net, quels sont les concepts, les idéologies, les désirs et les fantasmes, les plaisirs, les enjeux esthétiques, politiques et culturels ? Quelles sont les pratiques ? Dans quelle histoire s'enracinent-elles ? Des éléments de réponse et d'autres questions à partir d'une approche historique : Quelles sont les pratiques de l'art de la communication de la fin des années 70 et des années 80 ?. D'une problématique actuelle : les rares pratiques de l'art du code émergeantes en France font écho à une activité bouillonnantes à l'extérieur. Qui sont ces nouveaux acteurs de la scène artistique, quel déplacement y opèrent ils ? Ce livre est un recueil de textes sur les pratiques artistiques qui sont catégorisées sous les termes de "Net art" et "d'art de la communication" c'est-à-dire qui prennent, ou ont pris, les moyens et les technologies de communication (les médias) comme matériaux et lieux de la création et comme enjeux esthétiques, artistiques et politiques. Il réunit des textes historiques et actuels, des textes de référence et des fragments d'obscurs mails, des manifestes, etc., qui proposent des descriptions, des analyses et des prises de position sur les pratiques artistiques mais aussi des décodages culturels et techniques, des repérages de rapports de forces. - ---- ++ onlineonsite@altern.org - http://campus.ensba.fr/onlineonsite - ----> sorry for multiple post ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 4 Jun 2002 11:46:49 +0800 From: Seth Thompson <seththompson@wigged.net> Subject: Evolving Traditions: Artists Working in New Media Contact: Seth Thompson 330.375.0927 seththompson@wigged.net For Immediate Release NEW DOCUMENTARY PROFILES FOUR ARTISTS WHO USE COMPUTER TECHNOLOGY TO CREATE INNOVATIVE ARTWORK Akron, Ohio-June 4, 2002- Media artist Seth Thompson recently completed the documentary Evolving Traditions: Artists Working in New Media. The hour-long documentary focuses on four internationally recognized artists and how their work has evolved from traditional disciplines into the form now coined "New Media." Featured in the documentary are artists Mark Amerika, Tennessee Rice Dixon, Toni Dove and Troika Ranch. Ranging in such diverse artistic backgrounds as painting, dance, music, bookmaking and writing, these artists have incorporated current computer technology into their work to enhance their artistic visions. "The documentary serves two purposes," said Thompson. "One, to show people how artists are incorporating computer technology into their work with new and innovative ideas. Two, to serve as an historical document, so that in the future people can look back to the beginning of the 21st century and see what some of the leaders in this movement were thinking at the earliest stages of this developing new art form." Don Freeman, director of programming at PBS Channels 45/49, said, "The evolving interaction between artists and computer/video technology is an area that hasn't been explored often in traditional television terms. Thompson's documentary will significantly contribute to a wider understanding of this field." Evolving Traditions: Artists Working New Media was supported in part by generous grants and contributions from the Ohio Arts Council, the Wexner Center Media Arts Program at The Ohio State University, Media 100 Inc., and The University of Akron (Myer's Faculty Grant). The documentary is currently distributed by Wigged Productions and is available for $29.95 (includes S/H) at http://www.wigged.net/evolvingtraditions/ . - -more- - -Evolving Traditions Documentary Continued- Mark Amerika Mark Amerika, a "Time Magazine Top 100 Innovator," is the author of two novels, The Kafka Chronicles and Sexual Blood. His most acclaimed project Grammatron (www.grammatron.com), a groundbreaking work of Internet art, was one of the first Web sites to be included in the prestigious Whitney Biennial. Amerika is also the publisher of Alt-X (www.altx.com), dubbed "the literary publishing model of the future" by Publisher's Weekly. Tennessee Rice Dixon Tennessee Rice Dixon creates interactive texts and animated works for CD and performance art. Her first interactive digital work, Scrutiny in the Great Round, is an award-winning CD-Rom that is dreamlike in effect and sensibility. Scrutiny is based on her limited edition artist book of the same name. Her recent work is focused on moving pictures with verse and behaviors responsive to sound and other environmental data. Dixon currently teaches at the School of Visual Arts, New York. Toni Dove Toni Dove is an artist/independent producer who works primarily with electronic media, including virtual reality and interactive video installations, performance and DVD-ROMs that engage viewers in responsive and immersive narrative environments. Dove has received numerous grants for her work, including support from the National Endowment for the Arts, The Rockefeller Foundation and the Langlois Foundation. Troika Ranch Since forming the dance theater company Troika Ranch in 1993, Artistic Directors Mark Coniglio and Dawn Stoppiello have been creating dynamic live performances that combine dance, music, theater and interactive digital media. Through fierce choreography, dense musical scores and an evocative use of media and theater, they explore how we can maintain our most human attributes in a time of accelerating change and growing physical disconnection Seth Thompson Seth Thompson is a media artist and educator whose work has been exhibited internationally. Thompson began his career at Harvestworks Digital Media Arts where he was Business Manager and Education Director. In addition, Thompson was a Contractual Artist/Lecturer with the Metropolitan Museum of Art. Thompson holds a BFA in Studio Arts from the University of Colorado, MA in Visual Arts Administration from New York University and an MFA in Visual Art from Vermont College. ### - -- Seth Thompson Wigged.net seththompson@wigged.net http://www.wigged.net ************************************************************* Evolving Traditions: Artists Working in New Media Video Documentary. 2002. (Color, 56:35) Directed and produced by Seth Thompson. Profiles four internationally recognized artists who have incorporated current computer technology into their work to enhance their artistic visions. Artists addressed are: Mark Amerika, Tennessee Rice Dixon, Toni Dove, and Troika Ranch. http://www.wigged.net/evolvingtraditions/ ************************************************************* ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 31 May 2002 10:17:09 +1000 From: "geert lovink" <geert@xs4all.nl> Subject: interarchive publication (kunstraum lueneburg) interarchive publicationFrom: kunstraum@uni-lueneburg.de=20 The Kunstraum der Universit=E4t L=FCneburg is happy to announce: INTERARCHIVE Archival Practices and Sites in the Contemporary Art Field Available from June 6th, 2002 in Kassel at the documenta 11 in the = container of the Buchhandlung Walther K=F6nig, Friedrichsplatz. Beatrice von Bismarck, Hans-Peter Feldmann, Hans-Ulrich Obrist, Diethelm = Stoller, Ulf Wuggenig (ed.). Art concept: Hans-Peter Feldmann. Curator: = Hans Ulrich Obrist. Verlag der Buchhandlung Walther K=F6nig, = L=FCneburg/K=F6ln 2002. 19,7 x 26,5 cm; 640 pp. with 545 illustrations, = 402 coloured. Hardcover. Texts in German and English language. ISBN 3-88375-540-0 Euro 40,- In collaboration with the D=FCsseldorfer artist Hans-Peter Feldmann and = based on the archive of the curator Hans Ulrich Obrist the "Kunstraum = der Universit=E4t L=FCneburg" developed an extensive exhibition project = on the significance of archives in the field of contemporary art. The = publication "Interarchive" presents an extension of the project in form = of a book: a documentation of the different discussions related to this = theme is given. The book focusses on the current discourse on practices = of archives. The functions and chances of collections, museums or = cultural archives under circumstances of globalisation and virtual media = are discussed as well as the constitutions, modes of work and the = potentials of memory. The subdivision of the book in the three segments "Approches", = "Perspectives" and "Interlinking" substantially, structurally and = formally mirrors current important attempts of this discourse. The first = segment refers to the exhibition, the second part aimes at opening up = the practices of archives argueing with numerous text contributions by = artists and scientists of various disciplines. The third part of the = book offers an unique survey on art and culture archives of the last 25 = years. WITH: Franz Ackermann, Elisabeth Arkhipoff, Julie Ault, Bart De Baere, = Vittore Baroni, bildwechsel e.v., Beatrice von Bismarck, Waling Boers, = Jan B=F6ttcher, Lionel Bovier, Beatrix Brandes, Christophe Cherix, = Thorsten Clauszen, Beatriz Colomina, Neil Cummings, C=E3lin Dan, Iris = D=E4rmann, Chris Dercon, Michael Diers, dokumenta Archiv, Sabine Dreher, = Arnold Dreyblatt, C=E9line Duval, Sonja Eichele, Volker Eichelmann, = Maria Eichhorn, Annika Eriksson, Wolfgang Ernst, Jonathan Faiers, = Arlette Farge, Hans-Peter Feldmann, Robert Fleck, Andrea Fraser, Anne = Fr=E9my, Gy=F6rgy Gal=E1ntai, Fabrizio Gallanti, Paul-Armand Gette, = Gilbert & George, RoseLee Goldberg, Kirby Gookin, Ren=E9e Green, Joseph = Grigely, Eiko Grimberg, Johan Grimonprez, Marina Grzinic, B=E4rbel = Hartje, Jens Hartwig, Jean-No=EBl Herlin, Anika Heusermann, Patricia = Holder, Tom Holert, Tina Kaiser, Michael Katchen, Christoph Keller, = Peter Kerschgens, Josif Kiraly, J=FAlia Klaniczay, Jan Knikker, Andrea = Knobloch, Inga Koehler, Kasper K=F6nig, Koo Jeong-a, Ulrike Kremeier, = Jan Lackner, John Latham, Anton Lederer, Marysia Lewandowska, Thorsten = Liesegang, Armin Linke, Ken Lum, Margarethe Macovec, Gesine M=E4rkel, = Pierangelo Maset, Kobe Matthys, Shaheen Merali, Charles Merewether, = Ariede Migliavacca, Nina M=F6ntmann, Maurizio Nannucci, Olaf Nicolai, = Carsten Nicolai, Jean Pierre Nouet, Hans Ulrich Obrist, Georges Perec, = Peter Piller, Lisl Ponger, Karin Pr=E4torius, Catherine Qu=E9loz, Walid = Ra=B4ad, Lioba Reddeker, Jos=E9 Roca, Irit Rogoff, Roland Rust, Bart = Rutten, Hilmar Sch=E4fer, Ulrich Sch=F6tker, Nicol Schwaderer, Sarah = Shneiderman, Judy Freya Sibayan, Sean Snyder, Erik Steinbrecher, Barbara = Steveni, Diethelm Stoller, Harald Szeemann, Detlef Thiel, Tjebbe van = Tijen, Mark Tribe, Mark Turin, Anthony Vidler, Anton Vidokle, Cornelia = Vismann, Madelon Vriesendorp, Martin Warnke, Carmen Wedemeyer, Wanda = Wieczorek, Jan Kristian Wiemann, Paul Willemsen, Martha Wilson, Ulf = Wuggenig, Lydia Zimmer, Heike Zollondz =20 Kunstraum der Universit=E4t L=FCneburg K=FCnstlerisch-wissenschaftliche Projektleitung: Beatrice von Bismarck, Diethelm Stoller, Ulf Wuggenig Postanschrift: Kunstraum der Universit=E4t L=FCneburg Projektb=FCro D-21332 L=FCneburg Phon: +49.4131.78-1210 Phax: +49.4131.78-1246 Web: http://kunstraum.uni-lueneburg.de ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 03 Jun 2002 10:54:14 +0900 (CST) From: s|a|m <sam@myspinach.org> Subject: CITY STATE : flow/capture/control/rupture PLEASE DISTRIBUTE call for contributors : call for contributors : call for contributors : The CITY : STATE Network and Surveillance Unit of the UTS Community Law & Legal Research Centre are compiling a reader of critical materials on/around surveillance to coincide with the upcoming conference: CITY STATE : flow / capture / control / rupture - - a critical forum on surveillance and social control - July 20 2002 : Horti Hall, Melbourne The CITY STATE reader is an attempt to go beyond the continual silence of governments, industry and conservative privacy organisations by mapping the different ways surveillance is reconfiguring social space, power and the ways that we live, and tracing critical paths of understanding and response. The only real restriction on contributions at this stage is that they be: * brief (500 - 2000w) * sent to us by 10th June 2002 * critical - i.e., providing new (beyond privacy) insights into how surveillance works/is used in informatic environments. Academic/Artistic/Activistic creations and reflections that are surveillance related are all welcome. For more info about the CITY STATE : flow/capture/control/rupture conference and reader - or to send contributions - write to: * gavin@law.uts.edu.au or * louiseb@law.uts.edu.au or check http://citystate.culture2.org [to be updated]. ------------------------------ Date: Sat, 1 Jun 2002 10:55:55 +0200 From: "Tommaso Tozzi" <t.tozzi@ecn.org> Subject: Il linguaggio dei nuovi media HelpPresentazione del libro: Luca Toschi (a cura di), "Il linguaggio dei nuovi media", Milano - Apogeo - 2001. Pagine LXIII + 349 - Contiene CD-ROM - Euro 25,31. Incontro con gli autori: Luca Toschi, Tommaso Tozzi, Alessandra Anichini, Giorgio Cognini, Cristian Contini, Lelio Camilleri, Pierangelo Bonazzoli, Barbara Gualtieri. Conduzione Raffaele Palumbo di Controradio. domenica 2 giugno ore 21:00 Al Parterre, in Piazza della Liberta' (Firenze) Verrà presentata una ricerca di una equipe di studiosi diretta da Luca Toschi sulla natura del linguaggio della comunicazione multimediale (CRAIAT-Università di Firenze). Nell'attuale retorica neoidealistica sui contenuti, una domanda: Come elaborare efficacemente i contenuti se non si ha una conoscenza approfondita del linguaggio multimediale? " Realizzare contenuti per i nuovi media (dai CD e DVD al Web) più che all'attività tradizionale dello scrivere assomiglia alla progettazione e realizzazione di uno spettacolo, con la possibile presenza contemporanea di testi, immagini, animazioni, suoni, programmi che consentono l'interattività. Non si ha più quindi l'autore singolo, ma una squadra di operatori, ognuno con professionalità diverse, i quali, sotto la guida di un supervisore, collaborano alla realizzazione di un progetto in equilibrio fra autonomia creativa e obiettivo comune. In modo analogo, il libro esplora le regole e le strategie di questo nuovo linguaggio composito con il contributo di autori diversi, che concorrono con le proprie conoscenze ad approfondire i molteplici aspetti della produzione multimediale. all'interno di "DIGITAL ZONES", rassegna di eventi culturali a cura del gruppo di lavoro sulla comunicazione sTRANONETWORk [http://www.strano.net] al PARTERRE 2002 estate d'iniziative a cura de Le Nozze di Figaro, Controradio, Comune di Firenze, Tommaso Tozzi Docente di Teoria e Metodo dei Mass Media, Accademia di Belle Arti di Carrara Docente di Teoria e Metodo di Sceneggiatura Multimediale, Master in Multimedialita', RAI e Universita' di Firenze Via XXIV Maggio 14, 50129, Firenze, Italia Tel. 055-485996 ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 03 Jun 2002 18:53:40 -0400 From: Barbara Lattanzi <threads@pce.net> Subject: HF Critical Mass software =_ =_ =_ =_ =_ =_ =_= _ _ _ _ _H_F _ _ _ _ _ _C_R_I_T_I_C_A_L_ _ _ _ M_A _S _S _ _ v1.0 SOFTWARE HF CRITICAL MASS is freely available software, which is based on a 1971 film by Hollis Frampton titled "Critical Mass". HF CRITICAL MASS adopts the structure of the earlier film as an interface for improvising playback of digital video (quicktime movies). Mac and Windows versions for download at: http://www.wildernesspuppets.net/hfcm/ =_ =_ =_ =_ =_ =_ =_= The films of the late Hollis Frampton spanned the late 1960s through the early 1980s. His work, Critical Mass, is one of a series of films collectively titled "Hapax Legomena" that investigate "the specific conditions of cinematic representation and the limitations and paradoxes of visual description and narrative." (description by Steve Polta - San Francisco Cinemateque, 2002) . =_ =_ =_ =_ =_ =_ =_= Barbara Lattanzi http://www.wildernesspuppets.net ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 3 Jun 2002 11:00:48 +0800 From: Seth Thompson <seththompson@wigged.net> Subject: Wigged.net: Fresh Ideas WIGGED.NET JUNE 2002 E-NEWSLETTER--VOL. 2 ISSUE 11 Wigged.net (http://www.wigged.net) is an evolving Webzine focused on bringing innovative short videos, animations and interactive works over the Internet. Our mission is to be a showcase, distribution and promotion center for experimental artists via the World Wide Web. Wigged.net is for audiences seeking innovative alternatives to traditional forms of entertainment. ****************************************** NOW SHOWING Check out featured artists in the new issue of Wigged.net: Humberto Ramirez's HATE. Ramirez writes, "This is a video in which the cultural dynamics of hatred are explored through a series of talking heads and monologues. The video seeks to denaturalize a condition in which the potential solidarity amongst different people is subverted by notions of nationalism, race, gender, class etc. By problematizing what seems to remain hidden or at least unspoken this work seeks to provoke a conversation." United States. 2002. Agricola de Cologne's Never Wake Up. Based on the artist's poem of the same name. The poem/movie uses some fundamental images: The "soldier" is metaphor for the human individual. "War" is a metaphor for life, respectively the fights of everyday day life; and the "veteran of war" is the human being who cannot rid himself of the shadows of the past. Never Wake Up addresses the loss of identity where the soldiers become distorted and veterans have difficulty with reintegration into post-war society. Germany. 2001. Jimpunk's www.nowar.nogame.org. Jimpunk ironically states that in his piece www.nowar.nogame.org, "everything is under control." However get ready for a nerve-racking event. At first you may think that your computer has been infected with a virus. But don't worry, it's not. Fasten your seatbelt as you embark on a mind-blowing journey that is a masterful mixture of image and sound. Kudos to jimpunk! France. 2001. Daniel Young's NewZoid. NewZoid is a work of generative art. It plays with the most common information form of our time - the headline. NewZoid continuously collects the daily news, tears it apart, chops it up and endlessly reassembles the pieces into absurd, funny, shocking and thought-provoking headlines. The Site has been operating on its own since April 8, 2001. United States. 2001. Dinorah de Jes=FAs Rodriguez & Gustavo Matamoros's L'Anatomie du D=E9sir. This assemblage of erotic images, found and damaged footage, and handcrafted 16mm film was originally projected onto the torso of Butoh artist Helena Thevenot as part of the one-hour collaborative piece "The Anatomy of Desire." A tribute to biophysical impulses, the video version synchronizes the film to its original score by Gustavo Matamoros. United States. 2002. Thomas Swiss and Seth Thompson's In the Woods. In the Woods, a collaborative effort between Thom Swiss and Seth Thompson examines the ideas of memory, aging and loss. The result of the collaboration suggests the way language (in this case a poem by Swiss) can be re-represented and changed by images (a film by Thompson). United States. 2002. To view these works visit the "Now Showing" page at http://www.wigged.net ****************************************** WIGGED NEWS Read Peter Schmideg's web essay, CORY ARCANGEL: 8-BIT VIRTUOSO. The above article can only be found on the "Wigged News" page at http://www.wigged.net ****************************************** STORE (STUFF YOU NEED) Evolving Traditions: Artists Working in New Media Video Documentary. 2002. (Color, 56:35) Directed and produced by Seth Thompson. Profiles four internationally recognized artists who have incorporated current computer technology into their work to enhance their artistic visions. Artists addressed are: Mark Amerika, Tennessee Rice Dixon, Toni Dove, and Troika Ranch. The documentary is currently distributed by Wigged Productions and is available for $29.95 (includes S/H) at http://www.wigged.net/evolvingtraditions/ . ****************************************** CALL FOR WORKS Seeking innovative and experimental video, animation and net art. Please visit http://www.wigged.net and go to the "submit media" page to fill out our on-line registration form and send requested materials. DEADLINE: July 15, 2002 for Wigged's September-December, 2002 issue. ****************************************** PUBLICITY OPPORTUNITY We are looking to promote your upcoming exhibitions and new releases. If you would like for us to promote your work either through our newsletter or Wigged.net webzine, please send your press releases to: Seth Thompson Wigged Productions 418 Woodland Ave. Akron, OH 44302 or you may e-mail press releases to seththompson@wigged.net. No file attachments will be accepted. If you have images that you would like to include, please send them via snail mail to the above address. Please Note: To remove your e-mail address from my list simply reply to this message and type the word "unsubscribe" in the Subject field at the top of your reply. If you have more than one e-mail address through which you might be receiving this, please be sure to list them all. temp list - -- Seth Thompson Wigged.net seththompson@wigged.net http://www.wigged.net ------------------------------ Date: Sat, 1 Jun 2002 01:05:04 -0400 From: Michelle Kasprzak <splash@year01.com> Subject: Year Zero One presents: the Splash Page Project June 1 - August 1 : M.River and T.Whid Art Associates + + + Year Zero One presents: the Splash Page Project June 1 - August 1 2002 : M.River and T.Whid Art Associates Year Zero One has offered its splash page as an exhibition space for artists that will operate on a bimonthly basis. A selection of Canadian and international net.artists have been invited to show their work in this forum. We are pleased to present the artists featured for June 1 - August 1 : M.River and T.Whid Art Associates (MTAA). MTAA's work is entitled "website unseen #1: Random Access Mortality" and was commissioned by computerfinearts.com. Please visit http://www.year01.com to view the work. Flash 6 Player is required. To see more of MTAA's work, please visit their website at http://www.mteww.com/ The Splash Page Project launched on Feb. 1, 2002 with a piece by net.artist Mouchette. The Project is curated by Michelle Kasprzak. If you have a proposal for this space, please e-mail: splash@year01.com Please note that we are booked for 2002 and are accepting applications for 2003 only. Year Zero One is an on-line artist run centre which operates as a network for the dissemination of digital culture and new media through web based exhibitions, an extensive media arts directory/bulletin, and the Year01 Forum - an electronic art journal. http://www.year01.com + + + -- ------------------------------ # 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