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Table of Contents: for announcer "geert lovink" <geert@xs4all.nl> review: Hertzian Tales brian carroll <human@architexturez.com> DYSTOPIA + IDENTITY PANEL DISCUSSION: >>SATURDAY, JAN. 6 (6-8PM>> cristine wang <cristinewang@yahoo.com> a logo for the counter-summit OECD - Naples, Mach 2001 Officina 99 <ska@ecn.org> [ot] [!nt] \n2+0\ NATO.0+55 \\ UORLD UIDE SKIN integer@www.god-emil.dk Jordan Crandall at The Kitchen Gena Gbenga <gbenga@blast.org> india2001: Listing of a wide-range of Indian sites Frederick Noronha <fred@bytesforall.org> Call For Presentations - EFCE 2001 - 22-23 June "R. A. Hettinga" <rah@shipwright.com> [no subject] Officina 99 <ska@ecn.org> UPDATE: The 12hr ISBN-JPEG Project { brad brace } <bbrace@eskimo.com> ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 2 Jan 2001 18:30:59 +1100 From: "geert lovink" <geert@xs4all.nl> Subject: for announcer From: "Pamela Jennings" <mindfield@earthlink.net> Sent: Tuesday, January 02, 2001 5:30 PM Subject: New Media Arts | New Funding Models Rockefeller report Hello, I'm pleased to announce the availability of my report New Media Arts | New Funding Models prepared for the Rockefeller Foundation Creativity & Culture Division. The New Media Arts | New Funding Models report investigates the current state of funding for new media artists. The emphasis is on the support structures for innovative creative work that uses advance technologies as the main medium for artistic practice. Twenty-three individual artists/innovators, organizers, directors, and foundation program officers involved in the international new media arts community were interviewed. Participants were asked a number of questions regarding how they frame new media art, concerns from the field, funding histories, and concepts for funding models. Several participants are involved in new initiatives that bridge the for-profit and non-profit funding sectors including artists' research centers, innovative business models, new approaches for traditional funding sources, incubators, venture funding, and leveraging community assets. Survey Participants include Peter Anders, Mindspace.net; Roy Ascott, CAiiA-STAR; Marc Beam, Creative Disturbance; Kevin Cunningham, 3-legged Dog Media and Theater Group; Elizabeth M. Daley, School of Cinema-Television, University of Southern California; Sara Diamond, Banff Centre for the Arts; Andrea DiCastro, Centro Multimedia; Steve Dietz, Walker Arts Center; Kevin Duggan, Arts Consultant; Jean Gagnon, Daniel Langlois Foundation; Cynthia Gehrig, Jerome Foundation; Carl Goodman, Museum of the Moving Image; Lisa Haskel, Tech_nicks; Ruby Lerner, Creative Capital Foundation; Geert Lovink, Media Interventionist; Alyce Myatt, formerly of the MacArthur Foundation; Laurant Mignonneau, Artist; Marcos Novak, Trans-Architect; Jeannine Parker, Business Consultant; Jonathan Peizer, Soros Foundation; Debby Silverfine, New York State Council on the Arts; Christa Sommerer, Artist; Mark Tribe,Rhizome.org. The report can be downloaded at: http:digital-Bauhaus.com (Follow the "New Media Arts | New Funding Models" link on the top of this page) regards, Pamela Jennings ________________________________________________________________ Pamela Jennings | Interaction Designer Center for Technology in Learning, SRI International, USA Research Fellow | CAiiA-STAR ..-* | http://CaiiA-STAR.net Center for Advance Inquiry in Interactive Arts, University of Wales, U.K. Science Technology and Arts Research, University of Plymouth, U.K. mindfield@earthlink.net | http://digital-Bauhaus.com ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 01 Jan 2001 22:00:19 +0000 From: brian carroll <human@architexturez.com> Subject: review: Hertzian Tales H E R T Z I A N T A L E S : Electronic Products, Aesthetic Experience and Critical Design Anthony Dunne a.dunne@rca.ac.uk http://www.crd.rca.ac.uk/dunne-raby/ Computer Related Design's Critical Design Unit, Royal College of Art, c.1999 ISBN: 1 874175 27 6 It is my great pleasure to be able to share my views on a substantial piece of work in the cultural investigation of electromagnetic phenomena, natural, artificial, and virtual. What is so refreshing is that this book does not merely repackage old ideas and ideologies about technological enthusiasm, but instead questions them, through thinking, writing, and design. If works in the past have been groundbreaking, this is a literal penetration of the design field by Hertzian radio waves. Anthony Dunne, with written and visual clarity, gives dozens of examples of previous attempts by industrial designers, artists, and architects to grapple with the more philosophical aspects of designing electronic products. This research in itself makes the book an invaluable resource. But interestingly this is where the book begins in its critical approach, leveraging serious and relevant criticism of much work to date. This is because traditional notions of design have been mapped onto the new electronic object, in effect unquestioningly repackaging them for a totally different paradigm of electronic reality these new technologies help create and could themselves help reveal, through a new design awareness. Mr. Dunne refers to architecture and fine art as inspirations for industrial designers whom are looking for meaning beyond the commercial marketplace alone. A place where investigating design ideas, as non-commercial ideas, can be encouraged as a way of exploring and furthering the aesthetic development of electronic products, and thus peoples awareness of them in their more poetic dimensions. From a paradoxical perspective, one of the most basic and interesting aspects of Dunne's work is also somewhat difficult to accept, in total. It is that the electronic object can be designed as a `post-optimal' object, meaning an object that exists beyond its optimization through its design. It is this proposition which launches one into a new world of electronic awareness, and its active interrogation through design thinking. The difficulty comes with the assumption that is the basis for the post-optimized object, which is that which is most often at odds with critical thinking. From one perspective, the optimal may still be a critical and unresolved issue, well beyond aesthetics and into the economic, social, and political aspects of the electronic object. For example, a computer may be aesthetically optimized, such as the iMac by Apple, but it may still use the inefficient, polluting, and wasteful systems of obsolescence as most all of the other electronic products on the market. Thus, in this respect, the critical aspects of the industrial design of electronic objects must remember the infrastructure which makes and distributes and disposes of these very objects. Doing so reminds one that things are far from optimized in terms of their design. But this fact does not limit the importance of the ideas that are expressed based on the design of electronics past that of their optimization. For Mr. Dunne it is about awareness. Not just of the object, but the object as a type of portal into a new way of perceiving the electromagnetic space of Hertzian waves, outside the confines of traditional media, such as radio and television. Instead of answering what this new design should be like, Mr. Dunne makes it clear that this is instead a question to be explored by many people through critical design. Mr. Dunne's writing is both smooth and densely packed with ideas, so much so that it is very difficult to try to re-rationalize the text with its own complex reasoning. But this is not to say that the thinking is just another private language and perspective. It is most definitely not, and his public conscience is revealed in every chapter, reminding the reader why design investigations of electronic objects need to be made, and these are for their social and their cultural impacts, and our need to understand them better so that we can design the electromagnetic world we want to exist within. That this commitment is not simply about equating aesthetics with beauty is actively demonstrated in the acknowledgement of the dark side of electromagnetism, in the author's own works based upon this thinking. Using radio scanners Mr. Dunne maps the spaces emitted by 'objects that dream', that is, electronic objects such as baby intercoms, electronic bugs, and cordless phones which invisibly leak their information out past traditional boundaries of buildings, and into Dunne's moving car, scanning neighborhoods from the streets. Likewise, the `gauss meter' becomes a design tool in the hands of Mr. Dunne, and electromagnetic fields (EMFs) are measured and mapped for their dreaminess, and become research for critical design thinking. If there is an analogy to this type of designing, it might be that of gravity. That, like planets, while we may find electronic products attractive, they too are attracting us without our knowing of this force or of its impact upon our daily lives. In summary, Anthony Dunne's Hertzian Tales is about designing ways of knowing the electromagnetic environment we exist within, and establishing a poetic interaction with it through purposeful and critical designs which help establish a cultural awareness of electromagnetism. brian thomas carroll architectural researcher human@architexturez.com http://www.architexturez.com/ae/ ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 2 Jan 2001 00:00:49 -0800 (PST) From: cristine wang <cristinewang@yahoo.com> Subject: DYSTOPIA + IDENTITY PANEL DISCUSSION: >>SATURDAY, JAN. 6 (6-8PM>> *For Immediate Release* You are invited to attend an OPEN FORUM in conjunction with the exhibition currently on view at Tribes Gallery through January 13: "Dystopia + Identity in the Age of Global Communications" curated by Cristine Wang http://www.tribes.org/dystopia **DYSTOPIA + IDENTITY PANEL DISCUSSION: “ON THE PRESENTATION OF ONLINE ART IN PHYSICAL SPACE”** **SATURDAY, JANUARY 6, 2001 (6-8PM)** TRIBES GALLERY 285 EAST THIRD STREET 2FL NEW YORK CITY (btw Avenue C and D) F train to 2nd Avenue (East Village) A small panel of 9 presenters (artists, critics, curators) will discuss the problematics of the presentation of online work in physical space. Panelists: ANDY DECK, RICARDO DOMINGUEZ, JON IPPOLITO, JENNY MARKETOU, SAUL OSTROW, CHRISTIANE PAUL, HELEN THORINGTON, MARK TRIBE, AND MACIEJ WISNIEWSKI. Panelists will each give a 10 minute verbal presentation. A question + answer period will follow. All presentations will be to a live audience and will be videotaped and archived for web streaming at a later date. ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ ABOUT THE PANELISTS: ANDY DECK: makes public art for the Internet that resists generic categorization: collaborative drawing spaces, game-like search engines, problematic interfaces, informative art. Deck has made art software since 1990, initially using it to produce short films. Since 1994, he has worked with the Web using the sites artcontext.com and andyland.net. An avid critic of corporate culture and militarism, Deck's hybrid news-art projects have addressed a variety of issues that are regularly misrepresented in the mass media. In the interest of preserving this available alternative media, and sensing the drift of the Internet toward a marketing and entertainment medium, he has allied himself with open source software developers, optimizing his work for use with the Linux operating system, and publishing source code for much of his software. His works have been exhibited at: Art on the Net (Machida City Museum, Tokyo), Net_Condition (ZKM, Karlsruhe, Germany), War Bulletin Board (Postmaster's Gallery, NYC), Graffic Jam (Thing.net, NYC) 1998 Prix Ars Electronica (Linz, Austria), Mac Classics (Postmaster's Gallery, NYC). Andy studied for a Post-diplôme, at the Ecole Nationale Supérieure des Arts Décoratifs, Paris; and received his MFA in Computer Art at School of Visual Arts, NYC. He has taught at the Universidad Internacional Menéndez Pelayo, Sarah Lawrence College, and New York University. Currently he teaches at the School of Visual Arts. For more info: http://www.artcontext.com RICARDO DOMINGUEZ: is a co-founder of The Electronic Disturbance Theater (EDT), a group who developed Virtual-Sit In technologies in 1998 in solidarity with the Zapatista communities in Chiapas, Mexico. He is Senior Editor of The Thing (bbs.thing.net). A former member of Critical Art Ensemble (1987 to 1994 - developers of the theory of Electronic Civil Disobedience in the late 80's). Currently a Fake_Fakeshop Worker (www.fakeshop.com), a hybrid performance group, presented at the Whitney Biennial 2000. Ricardo has collaborated on a number of international net_art projects: with Francesca da Rimini on Dollspace (www.thing.net/~dollyoko), the Aphanisis Project with Diane Ludin. Artificial_Geographic with Fakeshop at Next5Minutes, and distributedhuman.net a recombinant project with net.artist Zhang Ga. He also presented EDT's SWARM action at Ars Electronica's InfoWar Festival in 1998 (Linz, Austria). His first digital zapatismo project was in 1996 - 97, a three month RealVideo/Audio network project: The Zapatista/Port Action at (MIT). His essays have appeared at Ctheory (www.ctheory.org) and recently an article in "Corpus Delecti: Performance Art of the Americas," (Routledge, 2000), edited by Coco Fusco. He Edited EDT's forthcoming book Hacktivism: network_art_activism, (Autonomedia Press, 2001). For more info: www.thing.net/~rdom JON IPPOLITO: is part of the artistic team of Blais/Frank/Ippolito (formerly Cohen/Frank/Ippolito), and is Assistant Curator of Media Arts at the Guggenheim Museum, New York. While most other collaborative teams present their work as a "unified front," Joline Blais, Keith Frank, and Jon Ippolito create installations, books, and Web projects that emphasize physical, verbal, or mental struggles among the three participants. They have exhibited their work at galleries such as Sandra Gering and Storefront for Art + Architecture in New York as well as in a variety of online contexts such as the Walker Art Center in Minneapolis. In 1996 they received a DNP Achievement Award for their work Agree to Disagree Online, developed with the assistance of Joline Blais. 1997 they received a Louis Comfort Tiffany Prize for their body of work. In 1993 Jon curated Virtual Reality: An Emerging Medium. Since then, as Assistant Curator of Media Arts at the Guggenheim, Ippolito has curated and coordinated exhibitions that explore the intersection of contemporary art and new media. He is the ongoing curator of the CyberAtlas project on the Guggenheim Web site, a compendium of maps of cyberspace developed with outside curators. His writing on the cultural and aesthetic implications of new media has appeared in the Art Journal, art/text, Flash Art, and ArtByte, for which he writes a regular column entitled "Cross Talk." Their latest web-based work “Fair-e-Tales” can be viewed on the Alternative Museum’s Featured Web-based Projects <http://alternativemuseum.org>. For more info: www.three.org JENNY MARKETOU: is a varied media artist who works with telepresent environments and networking technologies, translocal performance and video and computer installations. Since the mid 90's, she has explored new media and Internet technologies as a new medium of artistic expression. Her works focus on the interstitial space of surveillance, the virtual, networking and speed. Jenny’s works have appeared in exhibitions worldwide, including: “Tenacity”, Swiss Institute, NY; “Net_Condition”, ZKM, Karlsruhe, Germany; Banff Center for the Arts, Banff, Canada; 24th Sao Paulo Biennale, Brazil; “Manifesta 1”, Rotterdam; The Newhouse Centre for Contemporary Art, Snug Harbour, NY; The Alternative Museum, NY; “Modern Odysseys: Greek American Artists of the 20th Century”, The Queens Museum of Art, and Carnegie Center For the Arts. Jenny has lectured at “medi@terra 2000”, Fournos, Greece; Invenção “Thinking the Next Millennium (São Paulo, Brazil); <net.net.net>, CalArts, and teaches as an Adjunct Professor, The Cooper Union School of Art, New York and The New School for Social Research in New York. She was also an artist in residence at Art Omi International Arts Center, NY. For more info: http://smellbytes.banff.org SAUL OSTROW: Critic and Curator, Director, Center for Visual Art and Culture, and Associate Professor of Art, University of Connecticut, Storrs & Stamford, former Editor of the book series Critical Voices in Art, Theory and Culture, G+B Arts International, Art Editor,Bomb Magazine, Member of the Editorial Board of the Art Journal, Published by the College Art Association, Member of the International Association of Art Critics (AICA), Contributing editor NYArts Magazine. He writes regularly for Flashart and the International Review of Art. He teaches Critical Theory at NY University and School of Visual Arts. Mr. Ostrow has also been a guest lecturer at: Cranbrook Academy, Mich., St. Marys College, Balt. Maryland, Hunter College, NYC and Seminars in Theoretical Studies, White Columns, NYC. He has organized panel discussions on the education of the artist with Jeremy Gilbert Rolfe, John Torreano, Silvia Kobalski, Gloria Kury (School of Visual Arts) and on painting with Chuck Close, David Diao, Catherine Howe, Anna Bialabroda and Fabian Maccassio (for Triangle Foundation). Saul conducted an interview with the influential American art critic Clement Greenberg, as part of The Greenberg Symposia, a hypertext experiment to create an environment for a multidisciplinary approach to art history, criticism and theory. CHRISTIANE PAUL: is the Adjunct Curator of New Media Arts at the Whitney Museum and the publisher and editor-in-chief of Intelligent Agent, a print and online magazine on the use of interactive media in arts and education. Since the early 90s, she has been working and lecturing in the field of new media. She is the author of the hypertext Unreal City: A Hypertextual Guide to T.S. Eliot's The Waste Land (published by Eastgate Systems, Watertown, MA, 1995) and has written extensively on new media, net art, hypermedia, and hyperfiction. Her articles have been published in magazines such as Intelligent Agent, Sculpture, and Leonardo, and she edited, among other volumes, the book in vitro landscape (published by Walther König, Cologne, 1999) and the proceedings of the 1998 conference "Virtual Museums on the Internet" (organized by the Arch Foundation, Austria, in collaboration with the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum). She has been working with Margot Lovejoy and Victoria Vesna on a book titled context providers -- context and meaning in digital art, which will be published by the MIT Press. Ms. Paul has participated in numerous panels on new media and presented at conferences worldwide. Her speaking engagements included the annual College Art Association conference (New York), the Dept. of Design | Media at UCLA, Invenção thinking the next millennium (São Paulo, Brazil), consciousness reframed 2 (organized by CAiiA, Centre for Advanced Inquiry in the Interactive Arts at the University of Wales, Newport, UK) and the Governor's Conference on the Arts (San Francisco). She has taught at New York University and Fordham University and is currently teaching in the MFA Computer Graphics Dept. at the School of Visual Arts, NY. She received her MA and Ph.D. from the University of Düsseldorf, Germany. HELEN THORINGTON: Helen Thorington is a writer, sound composer, and media artist. Her web projects include narrative works, North Country, Part 1(1996) and North Country, Part 2 (1997) and Solitaire (1998) with Marianne Petit and John Neilson(1998); she is the originator of the Adrift project, an ongoing networked performance collaboration with Marek Walzcak and Jesse Gilbert. Thorington has also taken part as a composer in a number of national and transatlantic webcasts. She is the Executive Director of the independent media organization, New Radio and Performing Arts, Inc. (aka Ether-Ore), the founder and producer of the national weekly radio series, New American Radio (1985-98), and founder and producer of the turbulence and somewhere websites. Turbulence (http://turbulence.org) commissions artists to create work that explores the web medium. MARK TRIBE: is an artist, entrepreneur, curator and arts administrator whose interests lie at the intersection of emerging technologies and contemporary art. In 1996, he founded Rhizome.org, a nonprofit organization focused on new media art. He then founded StockObjects, a startup company that sold animations and other “digital objects” online. Mark speaks widely on new media art and nonprofit management. He plays an active role as an advocate for net artists on grant panels and in the press. And he serves on the advisory boards of nonprofit arts organizations and new media companies. His most recent artwork, a net art project called StarryNight, is an interface for browsing Rhizome’s text library that represents each article as a star in a night sky. StarryNight can be found online at www.rhizome.org/starrynight. Prior to Rhizome.org and StockObjects, Mark worked as an artist in Berlin, and developed commercial web sites at Pixelpark GmbH, a leading German new media agency. He received a Masters of Fine Arts in Visual Art from the University of California, San Diego in 1994 and a BA in Visual Art from Brown University in 1990. For more info: http://www.rhizome.org MACIEJ WISNIEWSKI: is an artist and programmer whose work focuses on the underlying social implications of technology and the network. His web-based work "netomat" is a meta-browser that engages a different Internet - an Internet that is an intelligent application and not simply a large database of static files. netomat(TM) dialogues with the net to retrieve information as unmediated and independent in form. Our current point-and-click navigation, rigid information distribution, and passive browsing of "authored" information in today's interactivity will be of little use when using netomat(TM). Netomat and his earlier projects ("m e t a V i e w ", "T u r n s t i l e 2", "S c a n l i n k", "J a c k p o t", and "T e l e - T o u c h") have been featured in online and offline exhibitions at Postmasters Gallery, New York; ZKM, Karslruhe Germany; ICA, London; Walker Art Center, Minneapolis; Guggenheim, SoHo; Johannesburg Biennial; and Benjamin Weil's ada'web. Wisniewski studied toward a Ph.D. program at the Institute for General Linguistics and Computational Linguistics, University of Stockholm, Stockholm, Sweden. For more info: http://www.netomat.net ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ Please join us for the afterparty **DYSTOPIA + IDENTITY PANEL DISCUSSION AFTERPARTY** **Saturday, January 6 (8-10 pm)** NO MALICE PALACE 197 E 3rd Street (btw Avenue A and B) ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ FOR MORE INFO CONTACT: CRISTINE WANG TEL: 917-318-0081 EMAIL: cristinewang@yahoo.com Tribes Gallery 285 East Third Street, New York (F train to 2nd Avenue) (btw Avenue C and D) hours 2-6pm daily __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Yahoo! Photos - Share your holiday photos online! http://photos.yahoo.com/ ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 02 Jan 2001 13:02:35 +0100 From: Officina 99 <ska@ecn.org> Subject: a logo for the counter-summit OECD - Naples, Mach 2001 To mad writers the whole world over, to demonically possessed artists, telematic painters, and all men and women of good will: In March 2001 the mighty of the world, on occasion of the OECD Global Forum, will be here in Naples to discuss the reform of public administration and a phantomatic "electronic government" (e-governance). We - social action centers, associations, struggle movements in Naples and the Campania Region - are organizing a welcome for these august personages. There is a lot of preparation to be done, so we appeal specifically to you because we believe that your abilities and creativity can be a further weapon at the disposal of the movements in the struggle against economic neo-liberalism. The first thing to do, in this perspective, is to come up with a logo for the counter-summit. Locally we have collected some ideas, a few sketches, but we thought it would be useful and interesting to get as many people as possible involved in this task, even internationally. So, do we offer any guidlines for a logo? None, except the subject (against the Global Forum), the date of the meeting (15/17 March 2001), the place (Naples, Italy), and the theme (e-governance). Our thanks to all those who get involved. We greet you. Our meeting places are Davos, Naples, or wherever the Seattle winds may blow. Social Center OFFICINA 99 ++39 81 5522399 ska@ecn.org http://www.ecn.org/ska ___________________________________________________________________________ centro sociale occupato autogestito OFFICINA 99 - Via Gianturco 101 Laboratorio occupato S.K.A. - Calata Trinità Maggiore 15/6 (p.za del Gesù) tel/fax ++39-81-5522399 cell. 0335-6215304 0368-3913247 e-mail: ska@ecn.org http://www.ecn.org/ska ___________________________________________________________________________ ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 2 Jan 2001 19:50:14 +0100 From: integer@www.god-emil.dk Subject: [ot] [!nt] \n2+0\ NATO.0+55 \\ UORLD UIDE SKIN From: douglas repetto <douglas@music.columbia.edu> Subject: january 2001 dorkbotnyc meeting this month's meeting will take place tomorrow, wednesday, january 3rd, 2001 at the columbia university computer music center. 7pm sharp. see the link below for info/directions. this month we're focusing on video artists and software. we'll have four presenters: kurt ralske will demo his use of nato.0+55 for real-time interactive control of video (including audio-to-video and video-to-audio mapping) sheldon drake will show a short reel of his latest after effects video creations. jeremy bernstein will show some recent video work he's been developing using MAX and NATO.0+55. he's attempting to fit narrative/discursive content into the context of live image performance. r. luke dubois will present some of his current work with live video processing. hope to see you there! - - nato'z kreaz!on - nn = uaz redef!n!ng !t. - - http://132.208.98.112/emaitrise/laroche/ - - Netochka Nezvanova - cheerful! perversz - she dez!dz uat 2 do nekst. \ del!z!ouz \ f3.MASCHIN3NKUNST @www.eusocial.com 17.hzV.tRL.478 e | | +---------- | | < \\----------------+ | n2t | > e ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 02 Jan 2001 15:11:51 -0500 From: Gena Gbenga <gbenga@blast.org> Subject: Jordan Crandall at The Kitchen Jordan Crandall Drive (Tracks 3 & 4) January 5 - 26, 2001 Opening reception: Friday, January 5, 6-8pm The Kitchen 512 West 19th Street (between 10th & 11th Aves), New York (212) 255-5793 Free Admission New York-based media artist Jordan Crandall will present two excerpts from Drive - a seven-part series of large-scale video installations commissioned by Peter Weibel for the Neue Galerie am Landesmuseum Joanneum in Graz, Austria. The excerpts that will be presented are Track 3 ("compulsion/registration") and Track 4 ("matrix: father/child/witness"). Drive uses both cinematic technologies and military surveillance techniques to investigate the pervasive, controlling systems that "drive" the act of seeing. In addition to this technics of control, Drive looks at the new kinds of sensate worlds that begin to arise. These involve new couplings of humans and machines; new senses of intimacy and invasive pleasures that usurp private space; and new forms of simultaneously seeing and being seen -- which are helping to change the contours of the body, its desires, and is sense of orientation in the world. After their debut at the Neue Galerie am Landesmuseum Joanneum in Graz one year ago, these works have been presented at numerous institutions in Europe and Japan, including the ZKM in Karlshrue; ARTLAB-Spiral Gallery in Tokyo; the Museo de Arte Carillo Gil in Mexico City; the Neuer Berliner Kunstverein in Berlin; and the Centre d'Art Contemporain de Basse-Normandie. In January, they will also be presented at the TENT Center for Contemporary Art in Rotterdam, in conjunction with V2 Organization and the Rotterdam International Film Festival. TV DINNER No. 10: Jordan Crandall Saturday, January 20, 6pm $20 (includes dinner) Reservation required Moderated by Lawrence Rinder, Curator of Contemporary Art at the Whitney Museum of American Art For its tenth episode, The Kitchen's popular TV Dinner series features Jordan Crandall, renowned artist and theorist on the politics of power in new technology systems. Crandall talks about Drive (1998-2000) and Heatseeking (1999-2000) -- two media installations in which traditional 16mm film technology is combined with technologies of combat to point at the power dynamics around contemporary moving images: sites where body and sensorium are adjusted, oriented, "armed," and contoured within complex new formats of movement. TV Dinner series @ The Kitchen Launched in the fall of 1998, TV Dinner series invites groundbreaking video and new media artists to show their work and share their thoughts in the informal atmosphere of The Kitchen's second floor theatre. The audience meets the artists over screenings of work and a vegetarian dinner provided by a neighborhood restaurant. Artists featured in past TV Dinners include Joan Logue, Lynn Hershman, Gary Hill, Takahiko Iimura, Liz Phillips, Paul Kaiser & Shelley Eshkar, Charles Atlas, Johann Grimonprez and Fatimah Tuggar. The Kitchen is located at 512 West 19th Street (between 10th & 11th Avenues). For tickets, call 212-255-5793. For more information, contact: Isabelle Deconinck The Kitchen 212-255-5793, ext.14 isabelle@thekitchen.org ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 3 Jan 2001 02:44:05 +0530 From: Frederick Noronha <fred@bytesforall.org> Subject: india2001: Listing of a wide-range of Indian sites Greetings at the start of the year 2001. These wishes come from www.bytesforall.org, a voluntary venture that is trying to focus on how IT and the Internet can be -- and is being -- made relevant to the commonman (and woman) in South Asia. Towards this end, we have compiled a list of 2001 Indian (and a few from the wider South Asian region) web sites. If you'd like a free copy of this, just send an email to fred@bytesforall.org with i2001LISTREQUEST as the subjectline. Also mention your name and address in the body of the message. This listing is in HTML format and is approx 300KB in size. It lists sites from the field of academia (including asian studies - careers - colleges - colleges - education - research - social service - universities); agriculture; alternative-india; art & culture; automobiles; banks; books; business (including industry, stocks, infrastructure, trade, exports); communications (including in regional languages); consulates of India abroad; cooking and food; e-commerce; entertainment; expatriate indians; government (specific links to various departments); health (advice, aids, ayurveda, blood banks online, cancer, child development, corporates in health, disabilities, doctors, elderly, facilities, health care, homeopathy, hospitals, journals, leprosy, libraries online, medicine, pharmaceuticals, public health, resources, tibetan medicine, yoga...); infrastructure; IT-India's infotech industry; job-sites; law-related links; matrimonials; media; music; neighbours of India; news-sites; newspapers; portals (on a range of themes); regional sites; religion-based sites; sports; tourism & travel; women and youth sites. Coincidentally, this listing has 2001 sites included. We plan to also build a list of other sites from other South Asia countries, and seek partners for this venture. If you would like us to include sites which you feel should be in such a listing, please send us details of the same. Regards and best wishes, Frederick fred@bytesforall.org 0o0o0o0o0o0o0o0o0o0o0o0o0o0o0o0o0o0o0o0o0o0o0o0o0o0o0o0o0o0o0o0o0 bYtES For aLL is a voluntary, unfunded venture. bYtES For aLL volunteers team includes: Partha in Dhaka, Frederick in Goa, Zunaira in Karachi, Arun-Kumar in Darmstatd, Zubair in Islamabad, Archana in Goa, Shivkumar in Mumbai, Sangeeta in Nepal, Daryl in Chicago and Gihan in Sri Lanka. To contact them mail bytes-admin@goacom.com TO UN / SUBSCRIBE simply send a message to fred@bytesforall.org with UNSUBSCRIBE BfA or SUBSCRIBE BfA as the subject line. *********************************************************** frederick noronha, freelance journalist, fred@bytesforall.org near convent, saligao 403511 goa india 0091.832.409490/ 409783 *********************************************************** 0o0o0o0o0o0o0o0o0o0o0o0o0o0o0o0o0o0o0o0o0o0o0o0o0o0o0o0o0o0o0o0o0 ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 1 Jan 2001 18:48:46 -0500 From: "R. A. Hettinga" <rah@shipwright.com> Subject: Call For Presentations - EFCE 2001 - 22-23 June - --- begin forwarded text Date: Mon, 1 Jan 2001 12:52:18 -0400 (AST) From: Ian Grigg <iang@systemics.com> To: coderpunks@toad.com, dbs@philodox.com Subject: Call For Presentations - EFCE 2001 - 22-23 June Reply-To: iang@systemics.com Sender: <dbs@philodox.com> List-Subscribe: <mailto:dbs-on@philodox.com> The Second Edinburgh Financial Cryptography Engineering Conference 22-23 June, 2001 The Signet Library Parliament Square Edinburgh, Scotland C A L L F O R P R E S E N T A T I O N S Edinburgh is again host to the international *engineering* conference on Financial Cryptography. Individuals and companies active in the field are invited to present and especially to demonstrate Running Code that pushes forward the "state of the art". STATEMENT OF INTENT "The study of money, above all other fields in economics, is one in which complexity is used to disguise truth or to evade truth, not to reveal it." -- John Kenneth Galbraith, Money: Whence it came, where it went - 1975, p15 This is a technical, practical meet. Presentations of demonstrable technology in the field of Financial Cryptography are invited. As this is a practical conference, we are hoping to accept every demonstrator. THE VENUE Our Venue is the Upper Library, within the Signet Library, which is a listed building housing the Society of Writers to Her Majesty's Signet. This exclusive conference venue is located in the centre of Edinburgh, within the Royal Mile. ADMINISTRATION Included in the conference admission will be breakfast, lunch and tea & coffee breaks. Also included will be the conference dinner in a local Edinburgh establishment. The conference administration will block-book a convenient hotel in the centre of town. Details to be advised. NEXT STEPS FOR PRESENTERS 1. Save the dates 22/23 June, Friday and Saturday on your calendar. It is good to plan on a few extra days, and especially, leaving on the day after, Sunday, will help to get the best fares. 2. Prepare your presentation. Check the <a href="http://www.efce.net/programme.html">evolving programme</a>. Propose your presentation by mailing the Programme Chair, <a href="mailto:programme@efce.net"> Ian Grigg </a>. 3. Book passage to Edinburgh. Don't forget to stay a few days on either side to see the sights. Check the site for Locatives and Logistics. 4. Work on your presentation. Remember, the main rule is that you demo working code. 5. Get your budget approved / allocated / applied for. Whilst a commercial conference, accepted presenters will pay a deeply discounted fee, to be announced in a forthcoming release. For planning purposes, 200 GBP (approximately 300 dollars or 320 euros) should cover presenter's admission; the hotel should be about 100 GBP ($150 or E160) per night. Also include travel and incidentals in your budget. 6. The call for delegates -- attendees who do not present -- will by published at a later date. If there is someone in your organisation who needs to survey the state of the financially cryptographic art, they can attend as a delegate. For planning purposes, 500 GBP ($750 or E800) should cover the delegate's admission. 7. If you think the conference can benefit your organisation, consider sponsoring. Contact the Sponsorship Chair <a href="mailto:sponsor@efce.net"> Rachel Willmer </a> for more details. 8. Keep an eye on the <a href="http://www.efce.net/"> conference web site </a> for evolving details. EFCE2000 COMMITTEE Fearghas McKay General Chair <general@efce.net> Ian Grigg Programme Chair <programme@efce.net> Rachel Willmer Press and Sponsorship Chair <sponsor@efce.net> SPONSORSHIP EFCE is supported by these companies active in Financial Cryptography: * Intertrader Ltd, an Edinburgh-based e-payments middleware and applications company. http://www.intertrader.com/ * Systemics Inc, a builder of financial cryptography applications. http://www.systemics.com/ - --- end forwarded text - -- - ----------------- R. A. Hettinga <mailto: rah@ibuc.com> The Internet Bearer Underwriting Corporation <http://www.ibuc.com/> 44 Farquhar Street, Boston, MA 02131 USA "... however it may deserve respect for its usefulness and antiquity, [predicting the end of the world] has not been found agreeable to experience." -- Edward Gibbon, 'Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire' ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 02 Jan 2001 13:01:36 +0100 From: Officina 99 <ska@ecn.org> ___________________________________________________________________________ centro sociale occupato autogestito OFFICINA 99 - Via Gianturco 101 Laboratorio occupato S.K.A. - Calata Trinità Maggiore 15/6 (p.za del Gesù) tel/fax ++39-81-5522399 cell. 0335-6215304 0368-3913247 e-mail: ska@ecn.org http://www.ecn.org/ska ___________________________________________________________________________ ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 2 Jan 2001 06:18:37 -0800 (PST) From: { brad brace } <bbrace@eskimo.com> Subject: UPDATE: The 12hr ISBN-JPEG Project _______ _ __ ___ _ |__ __| | /_ |__ \| | | | | |__ ___ | | ) | |__ _ __ | | | '_ \ / _ \ | | / /| '_ \| '__| | | | | | | __/ | |/ /_| | | | | |_| |_| |_|\___| |_|____|_| |_|_| _____ _____ ____ _ _ _ _____ ______ _____ |_ _|/ ____| _ \| \ | | | | __ \| ____/ ____| | | | (___ | |_) | \| |______ | | |__) | |__ | | __ | | \___ \| _ <| . ` |______| | | ___/| __|| | |_ | _| |_ ____) | |_) | |\ | | |__| | | | |___| |__| | |_____|_____/|____/|_| \_| \____/|_| |______\_____| | __ \ (_) | | | |__) | __ ___ _ ___ ___| |_ | ___/ '__/ _ \| |/ _ \/ __| __| | | | | | (_) | | __/ (__| |_ |_| |_| \___/| |\___|\___|\__| _/ | |__/ > > > > Synopsis: The 12hr-ISBN-JPEG Project began December 30, 1994. A `round-the-clock posting of sequenced hypermodern imagery from Brad Brace. The hypermodern minimizes the familiar, the known, the recognizable; it suspends identity, relations and history. This discourse, far from determining the locus in which it speaks, is avoiding the ground on which it could find support. It is trying to operate a decentering that leaves no privilege to any center. The 12-hour ISBN JPEG Project ----------------------------- began December 30, 1994 Pointless Hypermodern Imagery... posted/mailed every 12 hours... a spectral, trajective alignment for the 00`s! A continuum of minimalist masks in the face of catastrophe; conjuring up transformative metaphors for the everyday... A poetic reversibility of exclusive events... A post-rhetorical, continuous, apparently random sequence of imagery... genuine gritty, greyscale... corruptable, compact, collectable and compelling convergence. The voluptuousness of the grey imminence: the art of making the other disappear. Continual visual impact; an optical drumming, sculpted in duration, on the endless present of the Net. An extension of the printed ISBN-Book (0-9690745) series... critically unassimilable... imagery is gradually acquired, selected and re-sequenced over time... ineluctable, vertiginous connections. The 12hr dialtone... [ see ftp.idiom.com/users/bbrace/netcom/books.txt ] KEYWORDS: >> Disconnected, disjunctive, distended, de-centered, de-composed, ambiguous, augmented, ambilavent, homogeneous, reckless... >> Multi-faceted, oblique, obsessive, obscure, obdurate... >> Promulgated, personal, permeable, prolonged, polymorphous, provocative, poetic, plural, perverse, potent, prophetic, pathological, pointless... >> Emergent, evolving, eccentric, eclectic, egregious, exciting, entertaining, evasive, entropic, erotic, entrancing, enduring, expansive... Every 12 hours, another!... view them, re-post `em, save `em, trade `em, print `em, even publish them... Here`s how: ~ Set www-links to -> http://www.teleport.com/~bbrace/12hr.html -> http://bbrace.laughingsquid.net/12hr.html Look for the 12-hr-icon. Heavy traffic may require you to specify files more than once! Anarchie, Fetch, CuteFTP, TurboGopher... ~ Download from -> ftp.pacifier.com /pub/users/bbrace Download from -> ftp.idiom.com /users/bbrace Download from -> ftp.teleport.com /users/bbrace Download from -> ftp.rdrop.com /pub/users/bbrace Download from -> ftp.eskimo.com /u/b/bbrace * Remember to set tenex or binary. Get 12hr.jpeg ~ E-mail -> If you only have access to email, then you can use FTPmail to do essentially the same thing. Send a message with a body of 'help' to the server address nearest you: * ftpmail@ccc.uba.ar ftpmail@cs.uow.edu.au ftpmail@ftp.uni-stuttgart.de ftpmail@ftp.Dartmouth.edu ftpmail@ieunet.ie ftpmail@src.doc.ic.ac.uk ftpmail@archie.inesc.pt ftpmail@ftp.sun.ac.za ftpmail@ftp.sunet.se ftpmail@ftp.luth.se ftpmail@NCTUCCCA.edu.tw ftpmail@oak.oakland.edu ftpmail@sunsite.unc.edu ftpmail@decwrl.dec.com ftpmail@census.gov bitftp@plearn.bitnet bitftp@dearn.bitnet bitftp@vm.gmd.de bitftp@plearn.edu.pl bitftp@pucc.princeton.edu bitftp@pucc.bitnet * * ~ Mirror-sites requested! Archives too! The latest new jpeg will always be named, 12hr.jpeg Average size of images is only 45K. * Perl program to mirror ftp-sites/sub-directories: src.doc.ic.ac.uk:/packages/mirror * ~ Postings to usenet newsgroups: alt.12hr alt.binaries.pictures.12hr alt.binaries.pictures.misc alt.binaries.pictures.fine-art.misc * * Ask your system's news-administrator to carry these groups! (There are also usenet image browsers: TIFNY, PluckIt, Picture Agent, PictureView, Extractor97, NewsRover, Binary News Assistant, EasyNews) ~ This interminable, relentless sequence of imagery began in earnest on December 30, 1994. The basic structure of the project has been over twenty-four years in the making. While the specific sequence of photographs has been presently orchestrated for more than 12 years` worth of 12-hour postings, I will undoubtedly be tempted to tweak the ongoing publication with additional new interjected imagery. Each 12-hour posting is like the turning of a page; providing ample time for reflection, interruption, and assimilation. ~ The sites listed above also contain information on other cultural projects and sources. ~ A very low-volume, moderated mailing list for announcements and occasional commentary related to this project has been established at topica.com /subscribe 12hr-isbn-jpeg - -- This project has not received government art-subsidies. Some opportunities still exist for financially assisting the publication of editions of large (33x46") prints; perhaps (Iris giclees) inkjet extended-black quadtones on newsprint! Other supporters receive rare copies of the first three web-offset printed ISBN-Books. - -- ISBN is International Standard Book Number. JPEG and GIF are types of image files. Get the text-file, 'pictures-faq' to learn how to view or translate these images. [ftp ftp.idiom.com/users/bbrace/netcom/] - -- (c) Credit appreciated. No copyright 1994,1995,1996,1997,1998,1999,2000 <bbrace@eskimo.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