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   [Psrf] Photostatic Retrograde Archive, no. 36                                   
     Lloyd Dunn <ll@detritus.net>                                                    

   NerdBoxLinks2003                                                                
     Michael Mandiberg <Michael@Mandiberg.com>                                       

   netzspannung.org: netzkollektor digest #2                                       
     "netzspannung.org" <redaktion@netzspannung.org>                                 

   book: cyberactivism                                                             
     "geert lovink" <geert@xs4all.nl>                                                

   the >wartime< project online launch                                             
     (atty) atty@no-such.com                                                         

   Oliver Grau: VIRTUAL ART, new at MIT Press                                      
     Oliver Grau <Oliver.Grau@culture.hu-berlin.de> (by way of Andreas Broeckmann)   

   Item of the month                                                               
     RP <reasonpolice@yahoo.com>                                                     

   Squall update | for announcements ?                                             
     "Shaun Rolph" <shaun@palefire.fsnet.co.uk>                                      

   on medical science and its loyalties                                            
     Karl-Erik Tallmo <tallmo@nisus.se>                                              

   A Virtual Memorial in January 2003                                              
     "A Virtual Memorial" <agricola-w@netcologne.de>                                 



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Date: Mon, 30 Dec 2002 23:14:42 -0600
From: Lloyd Dunn <ll@detritus.net>
Subject: [Psrf] Photostatic Retrograde Archive, no. 36

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now available for download, retrograde release no. 14, january 2003:

PhotoStatic 36

description: http://psrf.detritus.net/vi/p36/index.html

direct download: http://psrf.detritus.net/pdf/p36.pdf (3.7 Mb)

Description. "Expand the Network." This heavily graphic issue is,
typically, built around multiple parallel series of visual works, an array
of conceptual threads woven together. Further, the issue has several
featured series, one being a sequence of xerographic collages with text
entitled "Things" by Stephen-Paul Martin; another, a one-per-page list of
Jenny Holzer-inspired slogans by Luke McGuff running under the issue,
appearing in each and every footer. Other remarkable graphic works are
supplied by John Stickney, whose work has been coming into its own in
recent issues (retrospectively speaking), and painter John Rininger,
always able, it seems, of offering something of note; and David Tiffen's
pair of images, seeming vaguely Situationist-inspired to today's eyes.
Pandora's Mailbox also supplies a series of works, a small booklet run in
unabridged sequence and offered up among the other works on these pages.
Italian artist Serse Luigetti continues offering his rectilinear "stamp
collection"-like pages of themed graphics, and mailartist Dazar also
delivers a pithy series of small graphics, seen here for the first time in
their original colors.

Contributors include. Scott Dohring, Ll. Dunn, Luke McGuff, Tom Hibbard,
Pandora's Mailbox, John Stickney, Geof Huth, Mark Pawson, Pascal Uni,
Serse Luigetti, David Tiffen, Thomas Wiloch, John Kelly, Eric Belgum,
Joseph A. Uphoff, Jr., Gareth Branwyn, Christopher Erin, Stephen-Paul
Martin, Crag Hill, Dazar, Miekal And, Mark Rose, Brad Goins, Paul Weinman,
Tim Coats, Bob Grumman, John Rininger, Arturo Giuseppe Fallico, Eric
Heilmann, Thom Metzger, The Tape-beatles

Project Overview: The Photostatic Retrograde Archive serves as an
electronic repository for a complete collection of PhotoStatic Magazine,
PhonoStatic Cassettes, Retrofuturism, and Psrf, (as well as related
titles). Issues are posted as PDF files, at more or less regular
intervals, in reverse chronological order to form a chronological mirror
image 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.

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Date: Mon, 6 Jan 2003 01:31:16 -0800
From: Michael Mandiberg <Michael@Mandiberg.com>
Subject: NerdBoxLinks2003

Some thoughts for 2003... a list of Nerd_Box_Art links.

Mostly 2001 and 2002.  Research for several essays I will probably 
never find time to write.  Things I think people should check out.

It is storming here in L.A.  Lights keep flickering (I love laptop 
battery power.)  No rain (never rain) just wind to knock down trees 
on power lines.  And blow away the smog for the morning.

Michael





http://theredproject.com/nerdboxlinks


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   LAX
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2000-2002
Cathy Davies and Heather Cassils
MicrosoftMe  (performance at VeryCyberFeminist)

C-Level (Eddo Stern, Mark Allen, Christina Ulke, Marc and Robbie 
Herbst, et all)
2001
http://www.c-level.cc/tekken/
2001
http://www.c-level.cc/cockfight.html
2002
http://www.c-level.cc/lamoo.html
2002
http://www.c-level.cc/memefest/index.html
2002
http://www.journalofaestheticsandprotest.org/index.html

2001
Smartist
http://www.dollarhack.com/

2001?
Mark Daggett
http://www.deskswap.com/

2001-2002
Jen Liu
World Domination Project in RGB
http://www.integr8.net/wdp

2001-2002
Brody Condon
http://www.tmpspace.com/
especially good is his chinatown piece
http://www.tmpspace.com/chinatown_1

2002
A-Clip LA
http://www.journalofaestheticsandprotest.org/1/aclip/index.html

2002
jody hughes and giovanni garcia-fenech (sp?)
nerve.com intervention w/ group of artists making personal ads
http://arefriendselectric.com (seems to be down)

2002
Clover Leary
http://gaygamete.com/

2002-2003
Kevin McCarty
Screen Shot/Gay Porn/Chatroom Graphic Novel
example at
http://theredproject.com/files/vencie5.jpg

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   Nouveau Form/Ascii Art
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2002
Banner Art Collective
http://www.bannerart.org/

2002
Christophe Bruno
http://www.iterature.com/adwords/

2002
eryk salvaggio
http://www.salsabomb.com/imf/
http://www.salsabomb.com/exclusive/
http://www.salsabomb.com/gallery/
http://cybrport.com/E/ryk/2/
http://www.salvaggio-museum.org/


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   E-Commerce
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1999
Akshun
http://www.calarts.edu/~nudell/archive/ebay.html

2000
Patrick Lichty
http://www.voyd.com/ebay/index.htm

2000
RTMARK
http://amsterdam.nettime.org/Lists-Archives/nettime-l-0003/msg00074.html

vote auction 2000
he is anon now -- has an rtmark agent name
http://www.voteauction.biz/


2001
John Freyer
http://allmylifeforsale.com/

2001
Shop Mandiberg
http://www.mandiberg.com/shop/
http://www.mandiberg.com/time/

2001
All Consuming
http://all-consuming.com/

2001
Keith Obadike's "Blackness for Sale"
http://obadike.tripod.com/ebay.html
and (but not e-commerce)
2002
http://artport.whitney.org/gatepages/august02.shtml

2002
John Freyer
http://www.adaptivereuse.org/



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   Networks; Being in two places at once, or one after each other
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2001-2002 (though sketches of it were presented at ars in 99?)
Jesse Gilbert (with Carole Kim et al)
http://www.turbulence.org/Works/interaxis/

2002
Bunting
http://www.tate.org.uk/netart/borderxingguide.htm
http://irational.org/cgi-bin/border/clients/deny.pl

2002
Mandiberg, et al
http://turbulence.org/Works/guide/
http://exchangeprogram.org/

2002
tennantspin/superflex
http://www.superchannel.org/Home/Profile/Channels/SPIN/

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   Email is still the killer-app
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2001
the 01.org fake project made by florian cramer.  it was a rhizome splash
page.  everyone (mark included) bought it for real, then they came out and
said they had been impersonating...  to be honest, i can't figure out 
which is the real one, and which is the fake, b/c of all the zeros 
and ones...
http://www.0100101110110101.org/
http://amsterdam.nettime.org/Lists-Archives/nettime-l-0105/msg00055.html
http://www.aec.at/takeover/update/showtopiclong.asp?ID=95

Mouchette
When s/he talked about a real(?) appearance of the artist/girl
RHIZOME_RAW, 4/9/01, 4/10/01, 6/30/01

Anonymous Bri+ney_$pears RHIZOME_RAW intervention
November 2001, on RHIZOME_RAW
(can't find RAW archive on the new rhizome site...)

2002
Rüdiger Heinze and Kristofer Paetau
PICTUREPEOPLE
(though the pictures all seem to be broken...)
http://www.listserv.dfn.de/archives/picturepeople-l.html

2002
Yucef Merhi
http://www.cibernetic.com/art/maxsec4.jpg
(he hacked the President of Venezuela's email acct)

2002
marc garrett's Sleazy Art Meetings
http://www.furtherfield.org/mgarrett/mgw/docs/playful_art_text.htm

2002
Rob Wittig
(okay this one is a chatroom, and its fake)
http://www.tank20.com/fbm/index.html

July 4th 2002
Public Space Initiative
http://publicspace.info/
http://rhizome.org/cgi/netArtNews2Friend.cgi?action=web&timestamp=20020910

2002
August Highland
http://www.muse-apprentice-guild.com/

I can't remember the guy's name, but there was a British man who did a
month? long project sending people SMS msgs.  i did a fair amount of 
googling (my eyes are really blurry and i'm kind of dizzy from it) 
but i couldn't find it.



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  New York School of Data Visualization

  or

  Is it Net Art or is it Painting

  or

  What is the relationship of this work to New York as home of the
  Financial Services industry, and their java programmers
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Martin Wattenberg

Date?
http://smartmoney.com/marketmap/  (On the payroll of a bank)

2001 I think...
http://www.whitney.org/artport/commissions/idealine.shtml (On the
payroll of a museum)

2001
http://turbulence.org/Works/song/

Napier
http://www.potatoland.com/

Klima
http://www.cityarts.com/earth/

2001-2002
Galloway, Davis, et all
http://rhizome.org/carnivore

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   Database work where the data is preserved
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1999-2002
Lisa Jevbratt
http://www.c5corp.com/1to1

2001 or 2002
FutureFarmers
http://www.theyrule.net/

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   Math.random()
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http://mccoyspace.com/

2002
http://www.mteww.com/RAM/

2002
http://www.wildernesspuppets.net/yarns/hfcriticalmass/indexframeset.html

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   Some others I couldn't B.S. into a category
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2000-2002
Cory Arcangel/Beige/8-Bit
http://www.beigerecords.com/cory/index.php3

John Haddock
http://whitelead.com/jrh/

2001-2002
Get Your War ON
http://www.mnftiu.cc/mnftiu.cc/war.html

2002
Kenneth Tin-Kin Hung
http://www.111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111.com/mao.html


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Date: Tue, 07 Jan 2003 19:17:01 +0100
From: "netzspannung.org" <redaktion@netzspannung.org>
Subject: netzspannung.org: netzkollektor digest #2

netzkollektor digest #2

netzspannung.org's "netzkollektor" is the public channel
for media art and design, media science and media technology.
It allows artists, scientists, developers and  curators to
present their current projects and developments.

The netzkollektor digest presents only a small selection -
in the netzkollektor showcase you can find further exciting
contributions:
http://netzspannung.org/netzkollektor
http://netzspannung.org/netzkollektor/en

The netzkollektor is bilingual and contributions can be submitted
either in German or in English or in both languages.

We have recently extended the input and output interfaces.
Now it is possible to submit extended content and technical
descriptions to the netzkollektor.

Enjoy the netzkollektor digest and please use the netzkollektor
to present your own work.

Gabriele Blome
(editorial office of netzspannung.org)


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Exchange/Cooperation/Communication:
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computerfinearts collection
netart collection - java anabled and supports
English:
http://netzspannung.org/netzkollektor/digest/02/computerfindearts

Virtual Performance Research Area
A commented link list about mixed performance
Reinhold Grether
English:
http://netzspannung.org/netzkollektor/digest/02/performance-research

Sonic Architecture
Spatial electronic music in 2nd order Ambisonics
German:
http://netzspannung.org/netzkollektor/digest/02/raumklang
English:
http://netzspannung.org/netzkollektor/digest/02/sonic-architecture

Theater und Theatralität im Internet
Eine Untersuchung der synchronen Kommunikation im Netz aus
theaterwissenschaftlicher Perspektive
German:
http://netzspannung.org/netzkollektor/digest/02/internet-theatre

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Calls:
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Bad Emser Medienkunsttage (BEM)
Media Arts Conference, Bad Ems
Virtual Utopias following Possibilities without Frontiers.
The Relevance of New Technologies in Art and Society.
German:
http://netzspannung.org/netzkollektor/digest/02/BEM
English:
http://netzspannung.org/netzkollektor/digest/02/Media-Arts

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Artistic Works
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BIOS
Bidirectional Input/Output System
English:
http://netzspannung.org/netzkollektor/digest/02/bios

ap0202.01
release of glorious ap0202.01 beta . networked
virtual machine application for self-enacting code
[artificial paradise project ap01-02-03]
English:
http://netzspannung.org/netzkollektor/digest/02/ap02

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Projects
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Designing Intuitive Interfaces for Virtual Environments
Research Masters (MRes) Thesis in Computer Vision, Image
Processing, Graphics and Simulation
German:
http://netzspannung.org/netzkollektor/digest/02/intuitive-interfaces
English:
http://netzspannung.org/netzkollektor/digest/02/intuitive_interfaces

medusa*
accessing collective knowledge (kulturtechnisches
werkzeug für den zugang zu kollektivem wissen)
English:
http://netzspannung.org/netzkollektor/digest/02/medusa

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Events
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DEAF03 Data Knitting
Dutch Electronic Art Festival 2003
English:
http://netzspannung.org/netzkollektor/digest/02/DEAF03

TIDSE 03 - 1st International Conference on Technologies
for Interactive Digital Storytelling and Entertainment
The conference addresses the theory, design, development,
and evaluation of ideas, tools, and techniques of Interactive
Digital Storytelling and Interactive Entertainment.
English:
http://netzspannung.org/netzkollektor/digest/02/TIDSE03

Under Construction
Series of concerts of electronic music at the
Theater am Turm in Frankfurt
English:
http://netzspannung.org/netzkollektor/digest/02/under-construction

Multisensory Spaces
The Four Senses performances with a symphony orchestra were
a translation of sound into light, colour, and smell.
By Raewyn Turner and Tony Brooks
English:
http://netzspannung.org/netzkollektor/digest/02/multisensory_spaces

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Research Projects
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DFG-SFB/FK 427 A7.
Elektronische Musiktransformationen seit 1950
A7.1 Graphische Transkriptionen Elektronischer
Musik A7.3 Transkriptive Interaktion
German:
http://netzspannung.org/netzkollektor/digest/02/music-transformations



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Date: Sun, 12 Jan 2003 07:57:17 +1100
From: "geert lovink" <geert@xs4all.nl>
Subject: book: cyberactivism

From: Mike Ayers <michael.ayers@manhattan.edu>

Cyberactivism
Online Activism in Theory and Practice
Routledge Press, New York, NY

Edited by Martha McCaughey and Michael D. Ayers

Cyberactivism is a timely collection of ssays examining the growing
importance of online activism. The contributors show how online activists
have not only incorporated recent technology as a tool for change, but also
how they have changed the meaning of activism, what community means, and how
they conceive of collective identity and democratic change. Topics addressed
range from the Zapatista movement's use of the web to promote their cause
globally to the establishment of alternative media sources like
indymedia.org to the direct action of "hacktivists" who disrupt commercial
computer networks. Cyberactivism is essential reading for anyone interested
in understanding the impact of the Internet on politics today.

6 x 9 : 336 pp
Hb: 0-415-91232-6: US: $85.00 US SALE: $68.00 [Can. $128.00 Can. SALE:
$102.00]
Pb: 0-415-91233-4: US: $19.95 US SALE: $15.95 [Can. $29.95 Can. SALE:
$23.95]

Table of Contents

Introduction Martha McCaughey and Michael D. Ayers

I. Cyber-Social Movements Emerging Online

1. Internet Protests, from Text to Web Laura J. Gurak and John Logie

2. Indymedia.org: A New Communication Commons Dorothy Kidd

3. Classifying Forms of Online Activism: The Case of Cyberprotests
Against the World Bank Sandor Vegh

4. The Radicalization of Zeke Speir: How the Internet Contributes to
Civic Engagement and New Forms of Social
Capital Theorizing Online Activism Larry Elin

II. Theorizing Online Activism

5. Democracy, New Social Movements, and the Internet: A Habermasian Analysis
Lee Salter

6. Comparing Collective Identity in Onlien and Offline Feminist
Acivists Michael D. Ayers

7. Mapping Networks of Support for Zapatista Movement: Applying Social
Networks Analysis to Study Cotemporary Social Movements
Maria Garrido and Alexander Halavais

8. Identifying with Information: Citizen Empowerment, the Internet,
and the Environmental Anti-Toxins Movement
Wyatt Galusky

III. Cautionary Readings of Community, Empowerment, and Capitalism Online

9. Wiring Human-Rights Activism: Amnesty International and the
Challenges of Information and Communication Technologies Joanne Lebert

10. Ethic Online Communities: Between Profit and Purpose Steven McLaine

11. Gay Media, Inc.: Media Structures, The New Gay conglomerates, and
Collective Sexual Identities
Joshua Gamson

Epilogue: Current Directions and Future Questions David Silver

Routledge 29 West 35th St New York, NY 10001

Mike Ayers
Department of Sociology
Miguel Hall
Manhattan College
Riverdale, New York 10471
michael.ayers@manhattan.edu
O:(718) 862-7406 F:(718)862-8044




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Date: Sun, 12 Jan 2003 12:29:12 -0500
From: (atty) atty@no-such.com
Subject: the >wartime< project online launch

hi nettime-l people

as the American administration, in the space of 24 hours, 
committs a further 62,000 military to an attack on Iraq, the 
online edition of the >wartime< project is now open at 
http://offline.area3.net/wartime

in the >wartime< project over fifty digital and network artists, 
individuals or groups across this planet, organizing through 
the internet, have contributed pieces reflecting on and 
reacting against wars, past, present and future. A further fifty 
or so artists are currently registered to contribute to the 
project in the future.

the project is also designed to be capable of being shown 
LIVE in public and a calendar of these events is on the site.

we hope that the reach and diversity of approach, materials, 
sentiments and location in the component parts of our project 
demonstrates that we will not be dragged into war without 
reaction, without questioning, and that we have the will and 
capacity to defy the borders and barriers erected between 
people by war makers.

current UK and US forces already surrounding or heading for 
Iraq now number over 160,000. Probably the concentration in 
quantity and expense of the weaponry and its destructive 
potential which has been assembled facing Iraq has never 
been matched before. Heavy casualties for civilian and military 
are very possible if the cities of Iraq are to be entered and 
attacked. This and the possibility of war wider in the Middle 
East and further can threaten our environment and lives 
nearly everywhere on this planet. 

If we are responsible to ourselves and to others we should 
consider making what contribution we can to halting this 
descent into destruction, working in our own areas and with 
our own particular skills, as we are attempting to do with the 
>wartime< project, and with initiatives such as 
http://artcontext.org/antiWar/index.php, and by joining wider 
activities such as the US wide anti-war day on January 18th 
and the planned anti-war marchs across Europe on Febuary 
15th.

yours
atty

the >wartime< project URL is http://offline.area3.net/wartime
more participants are welcome at 
http://offline.area3.net/wartime/join.php

the >wartime< project is a joint intitiative of the international 
digital artists group OFFLINE http://offline.area3.net and 
South London based ditial arts events association open_digi 
http://club.net-art.ws/





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Date: Sat, 4 Jan 2003 15:03:39 +0100
From: Oliver Grau <Oliver.Grau@culture.hu-berlin.de> (by way of Andreas Broeckmann)
Subject: Oliver Grau: VIRTUAL ART, new at MIT Press

VIRTUAL ART
 From Illusion to Immersion
by Oliver Grau
A Leonardo Book published by MIT Press

(January 2003, ISBN 0-262-07241-6, 7 x 9, 360 pp., 89 illus)


"Equally at home in art history, media history, and new media art, Grau
situates immersive image spaces of new media within a rich historical
landscape. A must-read for anyone interested in new media, visual culture,
art history, cinema, and all other fields that use virtual images."

(Lev Manovich, author of The Language of New Media)

"The highly ambitious task of locating the latest image technologies within
a wider art-historical context has now been accomplished."

(Friedrich Kittler, author of Gramophone, Film, Typewriter)



Content: Going beyond technical and ahistorical views of media art, Oliver
Grau analyzes what is really new in media art by focusing on recent work
against the backdrop of historic developments. Although many people view
virtual and mixed realities - images of art and science - as a totally new
phenomenon, it has its foundations in an unrecognized history of immersive
images. The search for illusionary visual space can be traced back to
antiquity. Oliver Grau shows how virtual art fits into the art history of
illusion and immersion and shows how each epoch used the technical means
available to produce maximum illusion from Pompeiis Villa dei Misteri via
baroque frescoes, panoramas, immersive cinema to the CAVE. He describes the
metamorphosis of the concepts of art and the image and relates those
concepts to interactive art, interface design, telepresence, biogenetic art
and image evolution. Grau retells art history as media history, helping us
to understand the phenomenon of immersion beyond the hype.

Grau also examines those characteristics of virtual art that distinguish it
from earlier forms of illusionary art and thus shows us what is really new
in media art. His analysis draws on the work of contemporary artists and
groups like ART+COM, Maurice Benayoun, Charlotte Davies, Monika
Fleischmann, Ken Goldberg, Agnes Hegedues, Eduardo Kac, Knowbotic Research,
Laurent Mignonneau, Michael Naimark, Simon Penny, Daniela Plewe, Paul
Sermon, Jeffrey Shaw, Karl Sims, Christa Sommerer, and Wolfgang Strauss.
Grau offers not just a history of illusionary space but also a theoretical
framework for analyzing its phenomenologies, functions, and strategies
throughout history and into the future.


Quotes from the field:

"Grau's Virtual Art opens the door onto a significant new approach to media
analysis by focusing in depth on a particular kind of digital art--the
attempt to create immersive environments. The combination of media
archeology and careful analysis of both the possibilities and limitations
of the impulse to put the viewer inside the artwork will make this book a
valuable resource to both practitioners and theoreticians."

(Stephen Wilson, Professor of Conceptual and Information Arts, San
Francisco State University, and author of Information Arts)

"Oliver Grau expands notions of immersion with a comprehensive overview of
artistic meditations on illusion, presence and space. Using historical and
innovative media-art project examples, he offers multiple perspectives on
the evolution of our world-view. No doubt this volume will be a useful
resource for any serious practitioner and/or theorist engaging the merging
of art, science and technology."

(Victoria Vesna, Chair, Design and Media Arts, University of California,
Los Angeles)


Quotes from the Press

"A key book -- Oliver Grau's art historical study taps into the new virtual
image spaces." (Frankfurter Allgemeine)

"The scope ranges far beyond analogue and digital image techniques; this is
more than a piece of media archaeology." (MEDIENwissenschaft)

"Grau's analysis enriches the current debate on media art and virtual
worlds by providing an historical perspective." (Der Tagesspiegel)

"The parallels revealed are astounding." (Sueddeutsche Zeitung)


Oliver Grau is a new-media art historian and lectures at the Department of
Art History, Humboldt University in Berlin. He is a visiting professor at
the Kunstuniversity Linz and is head of the German Science Foundation
project on Immersive Art in Berlin, also he is developing the first
international data base resource for virtual art. He published widely on
VR-art and lectured in Europe, Japan, Brasil and the US. Oliver Grau is an
elected member of the Young Academy of the Berlin-Brandenburg Academy of
Sciences (BBAW) and the Leopoldina. His research focuses on the history of
illusion and immersion in media and art, the history of the idea and
culture of telepresence and telecommunication, genetic art, and artificial
intelligence.

(please visit:
http://mitpress.mit.edu/catalog/item/default.asp?sid=26570CB6-AB47-414B-A780
- -1ECA08AAB2D3&ttype=2&tid=9214)


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Date: Tue, 7 Jan 2003 21:49:15 -0800 (PST)
From: RP <reasonpolice@yahoo.com>
Subject: Item of the month

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Date: Mon, 6 Jan 2003 17:13:36 -0000
From: "Shaun Rolph" <shaun@palefire.fsnet.co.uk>
Subject: Squall update | for announcements ?

I thought this might be suitable for 'announcements'. They often have some
interesting and (unusually, for an activist-type site) well-researched
investigative pieces.

Cheers, SER.
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A revolutionary new year to all SQUALL readers....
There's been plenty new material on the SQUALL site of late......including
the first of three extracts from the new book by alt comedy original, Tony
Allen, and another SQUALL exclusive from inside the turmoil in
Venezuela.....plus more investigative material on big business shennanigans
in the UK.......
There's also an unfolding photographic exploration of graffiti in Bristol in
South West England. If ever there was any doubt of the aesthetic social
contribution of good graffiti...this should dispel it. There's heaps of pics
up already and a new one will appear every day of Jan......
Also it would be good to hear from some of yer a bit more often......what
d'you reckon on it all......the letters page is yours to populate...
respects,
The SQUALL Eds
THE OCCUPATION OF JENIN - Day 14 - 7 Nov 2002
Solidarity activist, Ewa Jasiewicz, sent this report to SQUALL from Jenin on
the Palestinian West Bank, two weeks into the latest Israeli occupation of
the camp.
http://www.squall.co.uk/squall.cfm?sq=2002110701&ct=9



PEDALING PEACE - Halloween Ride Against War - 31 Oct 2002
An anonymous cyclist sent in this dispatch after the Burning Planet Awards
ceremony and Halloween demonstration against war....
http://www.squall.co.uk/squall.cfm?sq=2002103101&ct=9



BIG BUSINESS JETS IN (Investigation into massive executive airport
development at Farnborough)
Keith Parkins investigates the collusion of MoD officials, Arab billionaires
and Tory councillors determined to bulldoze their way through the planning
process to create Europe's largest business airport at Farnborough.
http://www.squall.co.uk/squall.cfm?sq=2002111801&ct=2



ALL ABOARD A NUCLEAR SUBMARINE - 15 Nov 02
Petter Joelson describes how easy it was for he and his fellow activist,
Elisa Sivennoinen, to climb aboard one Britain's nuclear warhead-carrying
submarines one night in November..
http://www.squall.co.uk/squall.cfm?sq=2002111901&ct=9



NUCLEAR NONCHALANCE
Activists take casual stroll aboard nuclear warhead-carrying submarine
http://www.squall.co.uk/squall.cfm?sq=2002111902&ct=1



SHOUTING, SWEARING AND POLITICS (Tony Allen recalls the birth of the modern
UK alt comedy scene)
In the first of a three part serialisation of his new book, comic raconteur
Tony Allen recalls the days when he and Alexei Sayle founded the seminal
seventies comedy club which provoked a new genre of alternative comedy.
http://www.squall.co.uk/squall.cfm?sq=2002121301&ct=2



SWP and anti-capitalism movement
Jeremy Gilbert
http://www.squall.co.uk/squall.cfm?sq=2002121601&ct=7



RITUAL HEIST (who owns father christmas?)
A 1,600 year political tug of war is still trying to decide who owns the
final version of Santa Claus.  The pagans? The christians? The corporations?
Jim Carey goes undercover to investigate.
http://www.squall.co.uk/squall.cfm?sq=2002122101&ct=2



VENCERAMOS VENEZUELA (global big business attempting coup in Venezuela)
David Raby reports from Caracas on the turmoil inside Venezuela, and how
another attempt by big business and the US to get rid of Venezuela's
radically socialist president looks likely to fail.
http://www.squall.co.uk/squall.cfm?sq=2003010601&ct=2




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Date: Fri, 10 Jan 2003 06:58:35 +0100
From: Karl-Erik Tallmo <tallmo@nisus.se>
Subject: on medical science and its loyalties

Hi all,

After two and a half years of work a new issue of my web magazine The 
Art Bin is up online at last. Many people surmised it had been 
discontinued.

But the delay is due to my illness, fibromyalgia, with chronic 
fatigue and muscle pain, probably caused by mercury poisoning from 
dental amalgam.

I got the idea to devote an issue of my web magazine to this topic, 
the so-called new diagnoses, such health problems that are not 
considered quite appropriate, health problems that sometimes are not 
recognized by doctors and subject to dispute among scientists. The 
epistemological and political matter, how one should relate to 
possible but yet not proven hazards, is a cardinal problem here.

My own two articles grew out to be almost book size, so I decided to 
make PDF files of them as well, a total of 131 pages:

** "A life redirected"
This is my own story, of nine years of illness.

** "Consensus and canaries: About medical science and its loyalties"
This long article scrutinizes medical practice as well as scientific 
research. It describes how many doctors regard illnesses they can't 
understand as psychosomatic, illnesses such as amalgam poisoning or 
chronic fatigue syndrome. Scientific research regarding the hazards 
of, for instance, tobacco, toxic chemicals, dental amalgams or mobile 
phones has been and is being manipulated, attacked or concealed, 
often with the help of scientists who secretly work as consultants 
for the very industry branch that has a direct interest in a certain 
result of their research. An essential question is also whether 
newspapers should report new research findings about possible health 
risks, even if the so-called scientific community has not yet reached 
consensus about it, something that often may take decades.

The article contains revealing facts about Nordic scientists' secret 
collaborations since the 60's with American tobacco company Philip 
Morris. Some of this has hardly been known before, but some of it has 
been fuel for a scandal going on for over a year at the university in 
Geneva, Switzerland, the so-called Rylander affair.

Both articles in one PDF at http://www.art-bin.com/art/pdf_download.html

You will get an overview of these and all other articles in this 
issue at http://art-bin.com/aaehome.html

Best regards,

Karl-Erik Tallmo
editor, The Art Bin


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   KARL-ERIK TALLMO, Swedish writer, lecturer and publisher of the
   internationally acclaimed cultural web magazine The Art Bin
   (http://art-bin.com). Tallmo has written three books, including
   Sweden's first hypertext novel (1992). He has participated as an
   expert in governmental investigations on new media, and also been
   a member of advisory boards, e.g. at the Royal Library and at the
   Swedish Research Council. See also http://www.nisus.se/archive
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Date: Mon, 6 Jan 2003 10:39:32 +0100
From: "A Virtual Memorial" <agricola-w@netcologne.de>
Subject: A Virtual Memorial in January 2003

Press Release January 2003
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A Virtual Memorial -
Memorial Project against the Forgetting and for Humanity
www.a-virtual-memorial.org
New Media art project by Agricola de Cologne
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>>wishes all its friends and visitors a Happy New Year!!
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New month - new subject
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Table of Contents:
*News
*Features of the Month January 2003
 **Project of the Month:
Who are the pioneers? results of a poll -
contributions by Darko Fritz, Sergio Maltagliati,
Peter Rubin, Eva Lewarne and many others.
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*News:
1.
On 1 January 2003, award winning A Virtual Memorial was three years old.
A Virtual Memorial went online on 1 January 2000
and became meanwhile a very successful project
which had been presented in numerous exhibition and festival events.
During the years, a lot of art initiatives started from A Virtual Memorial.
Violence Online Festival www.newmediafest.org/violence
initiated in 2002, is now co-organized by A Virtual Memorial.
In Spring 2003, A Virtual Memorial will get a festival of
itsown.

2.
Since a few days, "Family Portrait"
created and produced by Agricola de Cologne
for A Virtual Memorial can be found also on
Rhizome Art Base http://rhizome.org/object.rhiz?10784
"Family Portrait" is
a collaborative ongoing New Media art project
with the female members of Partnoy Family, eg
Raquel Partnoy, Alicia Partnoy , Ruth Irupe Sanabria,
who escaped from the so-called "Argentine Holocaust".

3.
Interview with Agricola de Cologne on Wigged.net
A Virtual Memorial featured on Wigged.net
http://www.wigged.net/html/news/cologne/cologne.html

4.
The exhibition "Mirror at the Bottom - artists portraiting themselves"
organized earlier this year on A Virtual Memorial
is featured project in the online show
"Focus:x? - {self}_representation" on
Le Musee di-visioniste www.le-musee-divisioniste.org

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***Features of the Month

The Subject of the Month
"Voices of a new age?!

Selected Memorial Days in January

2003 International Year of Fresh Water

18 January 2003 - Tu b'Shvat (New year of the trees)
20 January 2003 - Martin Luther King Memorial Day
22 January 1905 - First Russian Revolution
27 January 2003 - Liberation of Auschwitz Memorial Day

*The Features of the Month are monthly changing
collections of multimedia works and links which form in the
totality of the composition an artwork of theirown
to be created on a webpage of theirown
within the Memorial project.*
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Features of the Month

Subject: Voices of a new Age?!
Featured project: Who are the pioneers?
Featured artists: Michael von Karkowski
VoiceObject 1: Martin Luther King
VoiceObject 2: Harry Truman
VoiceObject 3: Adolf Hitler
Animal: Snow leopard (Irbis)
People: Sami
Witnesses of Eternity: Worms/Germany


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