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° ° ° ° ° - - - - - - - | 9 9 . 3 7 | - - - - - - - | <nettime> announcer | a << | - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - b | - - - - Richard Rogers <rogers@chem.uva.nl> : Internet Knowledge Symposium | 0 1 | - - - - Pierre Robert <probert@videotron.ca> : ARCHÉE SEPTEMBRE 1999 | 0 2 | - - - - alondra nelson <arn8047@is.nyu.edu> : AfroFuturism Forum | 0 3 | - - - - Steve Goodman <steve@tmg.co.uk> : bomb ibiza | 0 4 | - - - - Gate Foundation <gate@xs4all.nl> : On(e)Line | 0 5 | - - - - Grugnog <grugnog@tao.ca> : hacktivism e-mail list | 0 6 | - - - - Giaco Schiesser <giaco.schiesser@hgkz.ch> : Dozentur | 0 7 | - - - - Art & Science Collaborations, Inc. <asci@asci.org> : Digital99 | 0 8 | - - - - Peter Lunenfeld <peterl@artcenter.edu> : Chris Marker's Immemory | 0 9 | - - - - Maren Schmohl <maren.schmohl@merz-akademie.de> : Open Positions | 1 0 | - - - - Jean-Philippe Halgand <jean-philippe.halgand@cec.fr> : varnishing | 1 1 | - - - - | - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - | delivered each weekend into your inbox | | mailto: nettime-l@bbs.thing.net | | - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - | 0 1 | - - - - Internet Knowledge Symposium - Amsterdam Preferred Placement: The Hit Economy, Hyperlink Diplomacy and Web Epistemology. Theatrum Anatomicum, de Waag, Society for Old and New Media, Nieuwmarkt, Amsterdam Saturday, 16 October 10.30-18.00 Preferred placement is a term employed by search engine companies for boosting sites in query returns. Organisations pay engine companies to have their sites placed higher in search engine returns, in order to receive more hits. When they add up, hits count. In the hit economy, organisations hope to gain banner advertising revenue and demonstrable net presence. Hit counts show presence. They indicate measures of site popularity and reliability. Or do they? A different measure of reliability and reputability may be found in hyperlinks. Quantities of 'links in' single out the authoritative voices on the web, according to the latest engine logics. Hyperlinking is telling in other ways, too. It shows which organisations acknowledge the presence and relevance of others. It also may indicate trust between organisations. When larger sets of organisational interlinkings are mapped, networks of power and knowledge, and landscapes of discourse and debate may be found. Exploring new engine logics and information visualisation techniques, the symposium will focus on how knowledge is being gained these days from 'reading between the links'. We refer to these new forms of knowing as web epistemology. The symposium includes presentations on the following: Web epistemology: Tracking and authoring reliability Banners, clicks and rings: In defense of the hit economy The Web as political economy Cybergeographies: The new Mappae Mundi Footprints in the snow: Subjective and contextual social navigation Hyperlink diplomacy: Inside the emerging link economy Playing with search engines and mapping geographies of power & knowledge govcom.org: Experimenting with the persistent pluralist potential The debate engine: Dynamic systems for public dialogue 10 years of social theory of the net Virtual Society? A visual language for hyperlink theory Speakers and discussants include: Prof. Steve Woolgar, Brunel University; Martin Dodge, University College, London; Dr Matthew Chalmers, University of Glasgow; Nick Durrant, MetaDesign, London; Korinna Patelis, Goldsmiths College, London; Dr Richard Rogers, University of Amsterdam/Royal College of Art; Michael Murtaugh, Jam! Media for Public Dialog, Amsterdam; Prof. Gillian Crampton-Smith, Computer Related Design, Royal College of Art, London; Dr Gerald Wagner, Frankfurter Algemeine Zeitung, Berlin; Michael Kay, Electronic Publishing Programme, Open Society Institute, Budapest Pre-registration recommended. Information and registration: http://www.govcom.org Further information: Richard Rogers, 31.43.350.3576, rogers@chem.uva.nl Programme Description ---------------------- The symposium takes up one of the everlasting challenges of the Web. In 1994, before the advent of search engines, portals, Netscape Navigator and Internet Explorer, the Millenium Whole Earth Catalog posed the classic problem as follows. "The least discussed, but most important aspect of what's ahead is quality assurance. The democratic nature of the Net, where eminent scientists and isolated crackpots can publish side by side, leads to wide variations in the self-policing. . . . Authenticating that a resource is the definitive, unedited version is next to impossible." Various strides have been made towards not only authenticating the 'real source', but also determining and then boosting the more reliable sites over the less reliable. The symposium opens by taking stock of these efforts to distinguish between the eminent and the crackpot, and to establish levels of reliability and reputability. In the introduction dr. Richard Rogers, design & media fellow at the Jan van Eyck Academy, sets up some of the problems to be tackled during the symposium. From virtual mastheads and red star reliability graphics to collaborative filtering and network mapping, he will describe the various attempts made thus far to create voices of authority on the web, and to move the net beyond the rumour mill. He also will introduce the day's speakers. If the Web comes closer than most media to date in creating a condition of perfect information, perhaps the market is able to separate the wheat from the chaff. In defense of the hit economy, Nick Durrant, information designer and corporate web consultant at MetaDesign, London, explains what we can learn from interpreting hit counts. He also will take us through the emerging cache economies. Infomediaries, as they are called, are one of the forces that configure what we come to know from the web. Combined browser and portal providers, such as America On-Line, perform on-line power by putting up signs and directions on their opening pages. Speaking about the phenomenon of signposting, Korinna Patelis, lecturer in the political economy of the Internet at Goldsmiths College, London, will relate how these cultural environments construct information and knowledge much like langugage constructs perception. Perhaps the most palpable method for understanding new spaces is mapping. Cybergeographers, as Martin Dodge of University College London will show and tell, employ techniques of yesteryear in charting the latest mappae mundi, as medieval world maps were called. New data mining technologies also are driving the development of contemporary visualisation techniques. Novel ways to read data traffic and information trafficking are at hand; they also give an indication of what we do not know about the Web. Situating knowledge involves situating the author. In the ongoing information authorship debate, ushered in decades ago by hypertext theorists, two distincts positions have emerged, represented at the symposium. The early afternoon will be devoted to fleshing out the value of tracing the path of the surfer, and reading and sharing the stories authored. Dr. Matthew Chalmers, lecturer in information visualisation at the University of Glasgow, will explain how the single and the collective journey may be utilised. He will present Recer, a social navigation tool based on subjectivity and context. Are journeys and stories also being authored by webmasters? Another approach to the navigation debate looks for the discourses and stories made through strategic hyperlinking by webmasters. Noortje Marres, theorist-in-residence at the Jan van Eyck Academy, will delve into the methods by which a network may be rubbed, before stories through it are traced. Introducing govcom.org, the fellowship's conceptual URL, Richard Rogers joins her in explaining the kinds of transdiscursive stories they are seeking. In close collaboration with the Fellowship theorists, the designers at the Academy have been developing a visual link language. The design project shows how authority and reliabiliy on the web may be authored. Stephanie Hankey, designer-in-residence, Ian Morris, programmer-in-residence, and Alex Bruce Wilkie will present how one may locate the authoritative voices in specific discourses, in a glance. They'll also introduce the working design outcomes of not hypertext, but hyperlink theory. In one model of social innovation, dialogue is being sought between .gov's, .com's and .org's; in another it must be driven by public participation. Michael Murtaugh, formerly of newMetropolis and now of Jam! New Media for Public Dialog in Amsterdam, will show how dynamic narrative structures place authors and audience in a continual dialog. He also will demonstrate the public debate engine, first developed at the Amsterdam science & technology center as an input device for public policy-making. In the final portion of the day, meta-perspectives are put forward. Dr. Gerald Wagner, Feuilleton journalist for the new Berlin pages of the Frankfurter Algemeine Zeitung, will comment critically on the last ten years of social theory of the Net. Steve Woolgar, professor of sociology at Brunel University and head of the major U.K. ESRC Virtual Society? programme, will provide the most counter-intuitive results of the 22 research projects on virtuality. Finally, Gillian Crampton-Smith, Professor in Computer Related Design at the Royal College of Art, will open a discussion with the symposium about what electronic publishers, designers and theorists may learn from new notions of web epistemology. Upon conclusion the directorship of the Jan van Eyck Academy will receive the symposium. The Symposium is held in association with Computer Related Design Research at the Royal College of Art. The Fellowship is supported by the City of Maastricht, the Province of Limburg, the Ministry of Foreign Affairs and the Ministry of Education, Culture and Science. Day Design by Peter Bilak. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ If ARPANET's first 'ping' is taken as its birth, the Net is 30 years old on the 20th of October, 1999. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Limited seating is available, so please register for the Symposium before 1 October. Registration is fl. 35,- All registration, symposium and fellowship information are available at http://www.govcom.org. For immediate registration jump to http://www.govcom.org/machine/registration.htm. Server runs on Linux. For more detailed information on the Fellowship research work, contact Richard Rogers, rogers@chem.uva.nl, tel. 31 43 350 3756. The symposium papers will be compiled in an edited volume. Publication information will appear on the govcom.org web site in November. Registrants will receive that information by email. - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - | 0 2 | - - - - ARCHÉE SEPTEMBRE 1999 - SOMMAIRE ¤¤¤¤¤¤¤ Les Prix Ars Electronica 1999: le choix des oeuvres et la méthode Par Richard Barbeau Le Festival Ars Electronica 1999 divulguait en juin dernier ses prix de distinction dont les Nicas d'or et les mentions honorables accordées aux participants du festival qui se tient à Linz, en Autriche, du 4 septembre au 9 septembre 1999. Nous nous penchons ici sur la catégorie «.net» (intégrée en 1995) et, surtout, à la polémique soulevée par les choix du jury. Une sélection qui pose effectivement certains problèmes en ce qui a trait aux critères, à la vision esthétique et au processus de sélection. http://archee.qc.ca/ ¤¤¤¤¤¤¤ «Bodymaps: artifacts of touch» de Thecla Shiphorst Un article conjoint d'Isabelle Hayeur et Éric Raymond Bodymaps: artifacts of touch appartient au registre encore très restreint d'oeuvres interactives significatives où l'expérience du spectateur est tributaire d'une immersion concrète dans un environnement à très forte charge poétique. Compte rendu d'une exposition interactive. http://archee.qc.ca/ ¤¤¤¤¤¤¤ Le NET: site et non-site Un entretien de Chantal Pontbriand avec Jean-Claude Guédon Jean-Claude Guédon est professeur titulaire en littérature comparée à l’ Université de Montréal. Membre du collège scientifique du REFER (réseau électronique francophone pour l’enseignement et la recherche), il a publié La Planète cyber. Internet et cyberespace chez Découvertes-Gallimard. Chantal Pontbriand, directrice de la revue d'art contemporain Parachute, l’a rencontré pour discuter des retombées artistiques et sociales de la "révolution cyber". http://archee.qc.ca/ ¤¤¤¤¤¤¤ Les rhizomes du ciel étoilé Par Pierre Robert Présentation de l'organisme Rhizome et discussion autour de leur nouvelle interface à l'image d'une carte du ciel. La présence de l'internaute dans la configuration de l'interface perturbe-t-elle la perception de la banque de données? http://archee.qc.ca/ ¤¤¤¤¤¤¤ L'équipe de la revue Archée vous souhaite la bienvenue à l'occasion de cette première publication de la saison 1999-2000. Les lecteurs et les lectrices assidus remarqueront notre nouvelle interface. Nous avons tout mis en oeuvre pour créer une interface simple, dynamique et conviviale. En effet, lire à l'écran demeure un des défis de la publication en ligne. Nous tentons d'année en année de parfaire la consultation de notre site. Nous vous invitons à nous suivre dans cette démarche en utilisant les navigateurs de génération 4, si ce n'est déjà fait. Archée utilise maintenant une base de données grâce à l'apport exceptionnel de Richard Barbeau sur le plan de la programmation. Concrètement, nous avons réduit les points d'accès au contenu d'Archée. La barre de menu se compose uniquement de cinq éléments clés. Au haut de la page, on retrouve les rubriques: «Cyberart», «Théorie» et «Cyberculture», elles contiennent tous les articles publiés par Archée depuis 1997. «Cyberart» regroupe les commentaires relatifs aux oeuvres dédiées à l'interréseau (net.art, webart, artweb, art des nouveaux médias, art médiatique, art interactif, vidéo numérique et autres appellations), «Théorie» fait état de l'évolution des idées entourant l'art, la virtualité et l'interréseau alors que «Cyberculture» rend compte des productions culturelles supportant l'activité cyberartistique. Le quatrième élément est l'habituel sommaire mensuel. Dernier mains non le moindre, «Recherche et index des articles» vous permet de construire des requêtes en diagonale à l'aide de mots clés ou de consulter les résumés des articles. Au bas de chacune des pages, la zone «Contacts» vous permet de commenter, recevoir le sommaire mensuel par courriel, soumettre un article, demander des informations ou, encore, faire de votre entreprise le commanditaire privilégié de l'organisme Archée. On vous invite à interagir allègrement à notre nouvelle interface, vos commentaires seront toujours accueillis avec intérêt. Permettez-nous de saluer les personnes inscrites à notre liste d'envoi et de les remercier pour leur encouragement. Nous vous souhaitons une année des plus stimulantes. L'équipe Pierre Robert / rédacteur en chef Richard Barbeau / rédacteur adjoint Kathleen Goggin / administration Archée, revue d'art <en ligne> http://archee.qc.ca/ +1 (514) 522-1700 - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - | 0 3 | - - - - AfroFuturism | Forum A critical dialogue on the future of black cultural production. September 18, 1999 New York University King Juan Carlos I of Spain Center 53 Washington Square South 11AM - 5PM Suggested donation: $5 AfroFuturism | Forum gathers an international group of cultural critics, artists and curators to consider futurist themes, sci-fi imagery and technological innovation in black technoculture. 11:15 - 12:45 Future Visions.. Erika Dayla Muhammad Reggie Cortez Woolery Leah Gilliam Raina Lampkins-Fielder 1:00 - 2:30 Future Sounds. Tricia Rose Kodwo Eshun Simon Reynolds 2:45 - 4:15 Future Images. Kobena Mercer Beth Coleman Franklin Sirmans Alondra Nelson 4:30 "Edge/Eje" A presentation by multimedia performance artist Tracie Morris. This program is made possible by a grant from the Peter Norton Family Foundation and by the generous support of the American Studies and Africana Studies Programs at New York University. - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - | 0 4 | - - - - death garage katajungle 2step darkcore KATASONIX RECORDS AUDIO FOR THE YEAR 00 http://www.katasonix.demon.co.uk data@katasonix.demon.co.uk dj solaris - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - | 0 5 | - - - - On(e)Line Virtual presentations and Live webcasts from Four continents http://oneline.dds.nl or http://surf.to/on(e)line Opening 16 September 1999 from 4.30pm to 7pm (local time) On(e)Line will take place at the Gate Foundation, during the 17th World Wide Video Festival in Amsterdam. For this special event the Gate Foundation will be open during the weekend of Saturday 18 September from 2pm – 8pm and Sunday 19 September from 4pm – 7pm (local time) The presentation of this internet project can be visited from 15 September until 29 September 1999. The opening hours of the Gate Foundation are from Monday to Friday from 10am to 5pm. On(e)Line: On One Line In recent years attempts are made within the art world to seriously open up towards other cultures; to not focus on a centre whether historically or geographically grown or just put forward by groups in power. One of the reasons for this sudden interest could be the rise of a ‘global village’, in which ideological contradictions weaken and communication techniques as the Internet are the new tools for the exchanges of knowledge and thoughts and images. This global and international development is remarkable and will play an important role also in the next millennium. But despite all profiling of the new media and of the flexnetwork of a global culture, many in and around the world of art seem to focus on the already existing in stead of looking for the new. This is the the idea of the ‘home’ and the return to the region and the local. The arts as a place to safeguard authenticity and the local, the arts as a way of expression of concrete and local experiences. The global and the international are not opposed to the local or the regional, there is no confrontation. It is just that the one cannot exist without the other. It is better to measure these terms with their own values. This will make way for development and will result in a higher level in the end. Both in Europe and in North America their is a lack of knowledge of the history of art from different countries of Latin America, Africa and Asia. On the other hand in these continents their is a lack of up to date information on contemporary western art. Exchange of knowledge is essential. Some works of art from non-western countries get their meanings from a deliberate local setting or from a definite regional situation. This is not contradictory to globalising or regionalising in art. Even the most pure local representation is a part of internationalism. In On(e)Line the Gate Foundation wants to give artists from different parts of the world the opportunity to speak about their search for a place in their connection to the region within the contemporary global structure. The participating institutes and artists will give information about their experiences with multimedia works of art. Exchange of information is important and the distribution of this information is essential for a broad cultural forum. Support for this exchange, for the dialogue and the making of networks via the Internet is of vital importance. The project On(e)Line wants to make a start with different institutions and artists, to bring them in contact with each other, so that in this way a more balanced form can be developed in which contemporary art from different areas can be assessed adequately and professionally in its proper context. On(e)Line is an internet project that will stimulate visibility, dialogue and discussions among six artcentres from Zimbabwe, South Africa, Indonesia, Costa Rica, the United Kingdom and The Netherlands. The participating centres are independent art institutes or artists initiatives, that are closely involved in the region and add considerable contributions to the discussions and developments in international contemporary visual art. Participants to On(e)Line: Gate Foundation, Amsterdam, The Netherlands: Margret Wibmer, Ademir Arapovic, Debra Solomon Delta Gallery, Harare, Zimbabwe: David Brazier, Berry Bickle, Chas Maviyane, Luis Basto Cemeti Art Foundation, Yogyakarta, Indonesia: Heri Dono, Bintang Hanggono, Pius Sigit Kuncoro Public Eye, Cape Town, South Africa: Minette Vari Robin Rhoda, Zayd Minty Museo de Arte y Diseño Contemporáneo, San José, Costa Rica: Manuel Zumbado, Karla Solano, Priscilla Monge, Cecilia Paredes InIVA, London, the United Kingdom On(e)Line is structured in three layers: Virtual Presentation from 15 till 29 September On(e)Line is a virtual presentation of digitised images on the Net, to be seen and visited at the Gate Foundation on internet and projected on the walls of the exhibition space. Website address: http://surf.to/on(e)line Works of the selected artists by the participating institutions will be shown at the Gate Foundation via the Internet. Each institute has made an installation with stills of video works and computer works of the artists. Visitors can see the different images, brows or zap from one slideshow to the other. Cultural exchange and dialogues from 15 till 18 September 15 September 3pm –5pm (GMT): Gate Foundation – InIVA 16 September 3pm – 5pm (GMT): Public Eye – Delta Gallery 17 September 12pm – 2pm (GMT): Cemeti Art Foundation 18 September 4pm – 6pm (GMT): Museo de Arte y Diseño Contemporáneo Web castings will take place in which one of the international centres will occupy a central position. Video Conference 19 September from 2pm to 5pm (GMT) The Conference will take place from 2pm to 5pm (GMT) with each of the centres in this project. During the Conference guests will be invited to take part via a chat-application to give their reactions. The participating institutes from Zimbabwe, South Africa, Indonesia, Costa Rica and the United Kingdom are connected via real audio with the Amsterdam location. They are virtually present via the Net and participate in the Conference with text, sound and image. Please contact the Gate Foundation for more information: Ilse Chin tel 020- 6208057 / fax 020-6390762 - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - | 0 6 | - - - - -::::- A new e-mail list has been formed to discuss and debate what has been termed 'hacktivism'. Refacing corporate and government web-pages, organising community based web servers or micropower radio stations, using mobile comms to create communication channels for poor, remote or oppressed people: the fusion of activism and hacking has begun to create some very creative projects - not to mention some interesting practical, tactical and even ethical questions. -::::- The e-mail list is a space to allow activists and hackers of all persuasions to discuss what the word 'hacktivism' actually means and the issues surrounding it. It can also be used as a forward channel for any interesting hacktivism news or opinion. Please forward this announcement to interested people. -::::- To join this e-mail list simply send a message to: hacktivism-request@lists.tao.ca with subscribe in the (plain text) message body. Remove the subject line and your sig. -::::- Alternatively go to http://lists.tao.ca/ and subscribe there. - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - | 0 7 | - - - - Der Studienbereich Neue Medien (www.hgkz.ch/neue-medien) der Hochschule fuer Gestaltung und Kunst Zuerich lehrt und forscht in dem Bereich elektronische Informations- und Interaktionsfelder mit dem Focus auf den gestalterischen und kuenstlerischen Umgang mit visuellen, auditiven und installativen Gestaltungselementen. Innerhalb des Studienbereichs ist per Wintersemester 1999/2000 eine Dozentur fuer Interactive Visual Computing zu besetzen. Der Aufgabenbereich umfasst: bestehenden computerspezifischen Ausdrucksqualitaeten herangefuehrt sowie fuer das noch zu erweiternde aesthetische Artikulationssrepertoire elektronischer Medien sensibilisiert werden - die Konzeption und die Leitung von wissenschaftlichen Projekten im Bereich von Grundlagen- und angewandter Forschung bezueglich digitaler Aesthetik in elektronischen Informations- und Wissensfelder/- raeumen. Die Konzentration liegt dabei auf der Neuentwicklung von echtzeitorientierten Visualisierungs- und Formalisierungsansaetzen, von audio-visuelle und installativen Gestaltungsprinzipien, von generativen Datenvisualisierungsloesungen, funktionellen Software - Interaktionsprinzipien im weiten Feld elektronischer "Public Spaces" und computerunterstuetzter Kooperations- und Kollaborationsanwendungen im besonderen - die engagierte, konzeptionelle Mitarbeit am Auf- und Ausbau des Studiengangs Neue Medien Wir erwarten: - eine Ausbildung als InformatikerIn, der/die an der Architektur der Inhalte ebenso interessiert ist, wie an der Architektur ihrer Programme - fundierte Kenntnisse in der Computergraphik/ -animation, v.a. in dem Bereich der Echtzeitvisualisierung - grundlegende Kenntnisse in den industriellen, wissenschaftlichen und experimentellen Entwicklungen in den Bereichen elektronischer Visualisierung mit zusaetzlicher Beruecksichtigung von innovativen Hard- und Softwaresystemen, Virtual Environments, Hypermedia und auch Interactive Distributed Media Bewerbungen mit den ueblichen Unterlagen sind spaetestens bis zum 15. September 99 zu richten an: Hochschule fuer Gestaltung und Kunst Zuerich, Studienbereich Neue Medien, Herrn Giaco Schiesser, Postfach, CH-8031 Zuerich oder per email An Giaco.schiesser@hgkz.ch - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - | 0 8 | - - - - Art & Science Collaborations, Inc.(ASCI) presents... The 2nd Annual Digital Art Exhibition September 12 - October 10, 1999 in the Computer Gallery of the New York Hall of Science (NYHOS) Flushing Meadows, Corona Park, Queens, NY In late October, the show will move to the Brooks Gallery at The Cooper Union 8th Street at Astor place, Manhattan http://www.asci.org/Digital99 >From the cool, sophisticated design sensibilities of Abigail Doan's - Hypatia II - to the hot, 3-D intensity of Marjan Moghaddam's - Adoration of PacMan - and Jun-Ho Lee's introspective twist on Cartier Bresson's camera seizing just the correct moment in time (in this case "memory") - Digital99 is a brief tour de force of digital hardware and software as expressive tools in the hands of imagination. ASCI creates this Open Competition and Exhibition as a way to find new talent and give their work visibility both in reality and online. Probably 20,000 children and families will see the work of this year's eight winners in the Computer Gallery at the New York Hall of Science and then in the Brook Gallery at The Cooper Union, which provides a Manhattan venue closer to the SoHo art scene. Seventy-five artists from around the world entered this Competition and eight winners in two categories (Digital Print and Web-Art) were selected. Last year's judge, Tim Druckrey, brought his vast experience in new media to the selection process. That exhibition can still be viewed at - http://www.asci.org/Digital98. This year, Therese Mulligan, Curator of Photography at the George Eastman House (http://www.geh.org) in Rochester, New York, was our juror. Although her experience with art websites was admittedly limited, the George Eastman House was the first museum in this country to collect a digital print for their collection. Therese said she surprised herself at how much she enjoyed the interactivity of reviewing the web-art entries and you can read more about her thoughts on the selection process in her Juror's Statement. We invite you to see the exhibition online at http://www.asci.org/Digital99 (includes image, Artist Statement, bio and contact information) ASCI is an 11-yr.old national non-profit organization based in New York City. Its mission is to raise public awareness about artists and scientists using science and technology to explore new forms of creative expression, and to increase communication and collaborations between practicioners in these fields. Programs include a monthly publication, the ASCI BULLETIN, emailed to members; public symposia and panels on timely topics; exhibitions, online and hard copy Membership Directory for curators; monthly ASCI members meetings in SoHo; and public art-sci projects. Our director, Cynthia Pannucci, also lectures, curates, consults, and develops public projects & symposia. For more informantion call 718-816-9796 or visit.... asci@asci.org - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - | 0 9 | - - - - Chris Marker's Immemory West Coast Premiere of the Artist's CD-ROM Introduced by Christine van Assche, Centre Georges Pompidou Los Angeles Times Media Center Friday, October 1, 1999 | 7:30-9:30 PM Art Center College of Design 1700 Lida Street | Pasadena, CA 90013 626.396.2200 | www.artcenter.edu mediawork: The Southern California New Media Working Group and the Santa Monica Museum of Art invite you to the West Coast premiere of Chris Marker's CD-ROM, Immemory. Marker is the visionary French filmmaker, photographer, novelist and artist whose best known works include the films La Jetee and Sans Soliel, and the video/digital installation Zapping Zone. The tour will be lead by Christine van Assche, the CD-ROM's producer and a Chief Curator, Media Art at the Centre Georges Pompidou in Paris. Joining van Assche in a roundtable discussion of Immemory after the demonstration will be Carole Ann Klonarides (SMMoA), Steve Mamber (Film and Television, UCLA), and Peter Lunenfeld (Communication & New Media Design, Art Center). "The purpose of this project is to offer a guided tour of one person's private treasure trove, to offer, using a computer, each user the chance to create his/her own geography book, either making his/her own selections or being led haphazardly by the programs. Welcome to Memory, land of contrasts, or, as I prefer to call it, Immemory." Chris Marker - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - | 1 0 | - - - - University of Portsmouth Merz Akademie Stuttgart Hogeschool voor de Kunsten Utrecht European Professor of Interactive Environments in partnership with the Merz Akademie, Stuttgart European Professor of Design for Digital Cultures in partnership with the Hogeschool voor den Kunsten, Utrecht The School of Art, Design and Media of the University of Portsmouth, in conjunction with key partners in Europe wishes to make two Professor Appointments to lead their joint research and postgraduate programme in digital cultures. Each successful candidate will be a leading authority with an established research portfolio and programmatic interests in the field of digital cultures. Expertise relating to design and operation of multi-user interactive environments, whether for enquiry, exploration, exchange, critical discourse or creative work, would be particularly valuable. The salary of each Professorship will reflect the experience of the successful candidate and the responsibilities of a leading European role, but will not be less than £36k. http://www.merz-akademie.de/sitemap/stellen.html Please send your complete application until September 23rd, 1999 to: Mr. J. Boam Head of Personnel Services University of Portsmouth Personnel Office University House Winston Churchill Avenue Portsmouth Hants PO1 2UP England - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - | 1 1 | - - - - Dear fellow-member, dear colleague, I sincerely hope to have the honor to count to you among my guests during the inauguration of the exposure of re-entry of the Locality Art Foundation. This exposure, whose assembly was entrusted to me by my colleague and administrator Clement Thomas, will be devoted to Messrs Halgand, one of the media artists most outstanding of this end of millenium. Messrs Halgand Of September 16 at October 20, 1999 URL: http://lieudit.org/artfoundation Varnishing will proceed on line on the Internet in International Relay Chat (IRC) in the presence of the artist, of Clement Thomas, administrator of the foundation, of Ronald Green, critical of art and myself. Messrs Halgand will be interviewed by Ronald Green. Date and hour from varnishing: September 16, 1999 with 17h and 20h30 (GMT+1) Server IRC: irc.webmaster.com Port: 6667 Channel: # fraclr " By circumventing face the question of the truth, Messrs Halgand deliberately reactivated the mechanics of Invrai. In the fortuitous use as much as chronicle of dialectical of chaos communicated to media arts, they open as of the end of XXe century the way with the " whole art, cross-country, and us " . If the seduction of the " enfreint of the command awaited of the things done everything " the conduit to reconsider the critical attitude of Marcel Duchamp, and to adhere as of spring 1999 to the movement Popular Arts Been worth Upgrade, they do not remain less refractory about it with the programme of " rhizomic nationalization of informed arts " . **time-out** their project of rebuilding of a " command poetic supreme " of which the variation of diaphragm leave a field largely open with fork interpretatoire, their have be worth in 1998 a " New BB Art Award " , and the rise, the year following, with row of " Rider of Art of Elite " . The locality art foundation devotes its exposure of rentree has this artist who knew, during dernieres decennies, to trace the first furrows and degager a luminous path in the fertile field of arts mediatic. Ronald Green is critical to defer to the ESR the Locality Art Foundation is dedicated to informative arts and is managed by Clement Thomas, founder member of the PAVU (Popular Arts Been worth Upgrade). For any request for additional information, apply to: Clement Thomas (ctgr@free.fr) or me-meme(alban.saporos@theobvious.zzn.com). Your, Alban Saporos Alban Saporos criticizes art and police chief of exposure. - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - > > > > # 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