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Table of Contents:
automadness update (8/26)
brian carroll <human@electronetwork.org>
Kac's Genesis and The Eighth Day
JFA <info@juliafriedman.com>
ars electronica 2001 - FEMALE TAKEOVER - ff
Cornelia Sollfrank <cornelia@snafu.de>
http://meta.am/ refresh
m e t a <meta@meta.am>
anti-surveillance in San Francisco
NOT BORED! <notbored@panix.com>
restitution point in austria established
Martin Pichlmair <e9626313@student.tuwien.ac.at>
Dj Spooky at Burning Man
"Paul D. Miller" <anansi1@mail.earthlink.net>
[ot] [!nt] \n2+0\ Friends don't let Friends drink + email -
integer@www.god-emil.dk
New Media(tors): The Social Life of Digital Art
Richard Rinehart <rinehart@uclink.berkeley.edu>
book announcement--Compaine
Jud Wolfskill <wolfskil@MIT.EDU>
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Date: Sun, 26 Aug 2001 04:28:49 -0800
From: brian carroll <human@electronetwork.org>
Subject: automadness update (8/26)
[for announcer please. thanks. bc]
A U T O B I O G R A P H Y O F M A D N E S S :
Terrors of Electromagnetic Research
a work, in progress. version 8.26.2001 (updated)
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montréal, will you adopt me? (8/26)
visit Montréal, Québec, Canada, the human city.
no opportunities. the future disappears.
state of international insecurity.
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death, sentenced.(8/26)
return to the society of control.
plea for public help from the free press.
some thoughts on things going on...
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walking into my grave (8/26)
returning against my will into the past.
moving from the California energy crisis
back into Minnesota, e-shock territory.
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goals for today (8/26)
public support necessary for public ideas.
cultural research of electromagnetism.
the freedom to dream.
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http://www.electronetwork.org/works/automadness/
public story. public facts. public individual. public domain.
no copyright. 2001. no permissions necessary.
please redistribute for fellow humans far and wide.
brian thomas carroll. electromagnetic researcher.
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Date: Mon, 27 Aug 2001 09:17:40 -0600
From: JFA <info@juliafriedman.com>
Subject: Kac's Genesis and The Eighth Day
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE, August 27, 2001
For further information contact: Julia Friedman, (312) 455 0755 or
info@juliafriedman.com
TRANSGENIC ART TRAVELS TO THREE CONTINENTS
EDUARDO KAC EXHIBITS "GENESIS" AT THE YOKOHAMA TRIENNALE
AND OFFERS A PREVIEW OF HIS NEW WORK, "THE EIGHTH DAY"
GENESIS
Eduardo Kac's landmark artwork, "Genesis," will travel to three
prominent venues during September: The Yokohama Triennale, Japan,
September 2 - November 11, 2001; El final del eclipse at Fundación
Telefónica, Madrid, Spain, September 12 - November 18, 2001; and
Paradise Now at the Tang Museum, Saratoga Springs, New York,
September 15, 2001 - January 6, 2002.
Kac's "Genesis" is a transgenic artwork that explores a synthetic
gene created by translating a sentence from the biblical book of
Genesis into DNA base pairs. The sentence reads: "Let man have
dominion over the fish of the sea, and over the fowl of the air, and
over every living thing that moves upon the earth." On the Internet,
participants can mutate bacteria that contain the gene, thus changing
the meaning of the biblical sentence.
For more on Genesis, please see:
http://www.ekac.org/geninfo.html
http://www.juliafriedman.com/work_kac.html
After September 2, 2001, when Genesis goes online at Yokohama, the
public is encouraged to intervene in this biotechnological work:
http://genesis.xdsl.ne.jp.
THE EIGHTH DAY (PREVIEW)
http://www.ekac.org/8thday.html
Kac's most recent transgenic artwork, "The Eighth Day," is presented
by Institute for Studies in the Arts, Tempe, from October 25 -
December 14, 2001.
"The Eighth Day" provides the public with the unique opportunity to
experience a spectacular ecology of green glowing creatures and thus
to critically reflect on the social and cultural implications of
biotechnology. "The Eighth Day" brings together a biological robot
(biobot) linked to the Internet, GFP fish, GFP mice, GFP amoeba and
GFP plants, and video footage and sound of the ebb and flow of moving
water.
In order to approach the transgenic ecology, the viewer "walks on
water." Gentle, recurring sounds of waves emanate from four corners
of the room. In the center of this tranquil environment, a
fluorescent ecology of living creatures emerges. The living
creatures and the biobot are enclosed in an environment under a
ventilated, clear, plexiglas dome, thus rendering dramatically
visible what it would be like if these creatures would in fact
coexist in the world at large. As a self-contained artificial
ecological system it resonates with the words in the title, which add
one day to the period of creation of the world as narrated in the
Judeo-Christian Scriptures. All transgenic creatures in "The Eighth
Day" express the gene that produces green fluorescent protein (GFP).
By enabling local and online participants to experience the
environment inside the dome from the point of view of the biobot,
"The Eighth Day" creates a context in which participants can reflect
on the meaning of a transgenic ecology from a first-person
perspective.
"The Eighth Day" was developed through a two-year residency at the
Institute for Studies in the Arts, Arizona State University, Tempe.
Eduardo Kac is represented by Julia Friedman Gallery, Chicago.
___________________________________________
Julia Friedman
Julia Friedman Gallery
118 N Peoria
Chicago, IL 60607
Phone: (312) 455 0755
Fax: (312) 455 0765
E-mail: info@juliafriedman.com
http://www.juliafriedman.com
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Date: Mon, 27 Aug 2001 20:47:48 +0100
From: Cornelia Sollfrank <cornelia@snafu.de>
Subject: ars electronica 2001 - FEMALE TAKEOVER - ff
Kunst Raum is pleased to announce its participating project (in
co-operation with FAKULTAET) of ARS ELECTRONICA 2001 "TAKEOVER. Who is
doing the art of tomorrow" 1st-6th September (further infos:
www.aec.at/takeover)
>>>>>> "F e m a l e T a k e o v e r - f f " <<<<<<<
>Is the artistic practice of women challenged by the current hegemony?
>The "Female Takeover - ff" will question this topic in theory and
>practice with a snapshot exhibtion, artists presentations and a panel
>discussion. Techniques of feminist practice in net-art, like the
>decisive works of pioneers in the WWW, will be compared with strategies
>of young artists who are evolving a more general, quite open and often
>ironic way of discussing and dealing with supposed feminist questions.
>
>Participating Artist:
>Nine Budde/D, Cornelia Sollfrank/D; Snergurutschka/A,
>Faith Wilding/USA, Cue P. Doll/USA
>
>
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>Panel I
>Wednesday / Mittwoch, 5 September
>15:30 - 17:30 T.O.C. / Kunst-Uni
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>Women will present actual examples of their artistic work to discuss
>their "feminist" strategies, methods and artistic experience.
>
>With: Nine Budde/D, Flora&Fauna/D/UK, Cornelia Sollfrank/D;
>Snergurutschka/A,
>Faith Wilding/USA,
>
>
>
>
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>Panel II
>Wednesday / Mittwoch, 5 September
>18:30 - 20:30 T.O.C. / Kunst-Uni
>+ + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + +
>
>>>> How are visions and artistic strategies seen in the context of
>feminisitic discourse and feminist practice? Are the methods of young
>artists from generation f comparable with those from the 70ies, 80ies
>and 90ies?
>
>>>> Networks by and for women become the object of an artistic strategy
>because of the focus of those who are the driving forces behind them.
>
>>>> So-called patchwork biographies are part of the strategies in the
>artistic field: adaptation of production methods and approaches to work
>>from the worlds of business and social services as well as the
>mechanisms of a Fun Culture make for a smooth transition from
>production, services and the representation of social interconnections.
>Mixed realities and mixed media visualize themselves in everyday life
>just as they do in art, and vice versa.
>
>Which bold visions are considered or planned the moment?
>The present hegemony will be challenged! New strategies/concepts exist!
>
>Panelists: Nine Budde/D, Leigh Haas/DE/UK, Cornelia Sollfrank/D;
>Snergurutschka/A, Faith Wilding/USA,
>Moderator: Kathy Rae Hufman/UK/USA
>
>Contact:
>Kunst Raum /Susanne Blaimschein und Maren Richter, Goethestrasse 22 4020
>Linz
>+43. 732.651346-16, kunstraum@servus.at
>
>
>
>
>
>
>*** : *** : *** : *** : *** : *** : *** : *** : *** : *** : *** : *** :
>
>FURTHER ANNOUNCEMENT OF A PARTICIPATING PROJECT OF ARS ELECTRONICA 2001
>
>*** : *** : *** : *** : *** : *** : *** : *** : *** : *** : *** : *** :
>
>XXERO faces@ars
>
>xxero / www.xxero.net is both a collaborative, MOO-based environment and
>a platform for real life meetings and events. Built up by an
>international network of women associated with the faces mailing list,
>the different facets of xxero allow for the particpants to log in to a
>virtual text-based architecture while emphasizing the value of face2face
>meetings in real life. xxero will be launched during Ars Electronica
>Festival 2001. For five days xxero will bring its text-based environment
>to life with visual and acoustic extensions at T R A N S P U B L I C
>where it will play host to brunches, informal lectures, MOO & audio
>workshops, presentations and a social space. The public is welcome to
>join in.
>
>Participants: Rachel Baker (UK); Aileen Derieg, (USA/A); Kathy Rae
>Huffman, (USA/UK); Diana McCarty, (USA/DE); Marlena Corcoran(USA/DE);
>NOVA (D); Florence Ormezzano, (F); Ushi Reiter,(A); Kerstin
>Weiberg,(DE); Anja Westerfroelke, (A); Elfi Sonnberger, (A); Doris
>Weichselbaumer, (A); u.a...
>
>
>xxero extensions /
>real life visual realization by flora-fauna.de (D/UK)
>
>T.O.C. / Kunst-Uni
>translation procexx by ushi reiter (A)
>voice installation
>
>
>+ + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + +
>xxero MOO workshop
>Saturday / Samstag, 1 September
>13:00-16:00 T.O.C. / Kunst-uni (Just off of the Hauptplatz)
>+ + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + +
>
>Kerstin Weiberg gives an introduction to the basics of MOO and using a
>text-based virtual reality as collaborative working space. Details for
>participation: http://www.xxero.net/ars01/moo_workshop.php
>
>Florence Ormezzano is going further on moo skills during the open time
>at
>T R A N S P U B L I C .
>
>
>+ + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + +
>xxero streaming audio workshop
>Tuesday / Dienstag, 4 September
>11:00 - 13:00 T R A N S P U B L I C
>+ + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + +
>
>Rachel Baker shows us how to make your own radio with an introduction to
>the basics of streaming and real audio.
>
>+ + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + +
>xxero / open mic / insert faces
>Tuesday / Dienstag, 4 September
>15:30-18:00 T R A N S P U B L I C
>+ + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + +
>
>moderation: Aileen Derieg A slam session of 3-5 minute presentations by
>women in media art that includes: projects; work;
>institutions;performances; events. Women from the public are welcome to
>join in the slam. The general public is welcome to attend. Details for
>participation: http://www.xxero.net/ars01/open_mic.php
>
>
>+ + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + +
>xxero leisure
>Tuesday / Dienstag, 4 September
>21:30 pm T R A N S P U B L I C
>+ + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + +
>
>After open mic we swap into xxero leisure when xxero lights up the night
>and where amina/vienna, gnu/vienna and ushi/linz will take care of nice
>groove. Drinks, bytes & bits.
>
>========================================
>T R A N S P U B L I C
>2 - 6. September
>8:30 - 11:00, 18:00 - 20:00 h -> exept xxero leisure
>Hahnengasse 3 / Alter Markt / Hauptplatz
>========================================
>
>xxero received support from the Linz Office of Women's Affairs and is
>hosted and supported by www.servus.at, many thanks to Oliver Frommel!
>
>www.xxero.net
>www.kunstraum.at
>www.faces.vis-med.ac.at
>www.aec.at/festival2001/
>www.servus.at
>www.transpublic.at
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Date: Mon, 27 Aug 2001 22:35:59 -0700
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Subject: http://meta.am/ refresh
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Date: Tue, 28 Aug 2001 11:17:22 -0500
From: NOT BORED! <notbored@panix.com>
Subject: anti-surveillance in San Francisco
Following hot on the heels of yesterday's announcement concerning the
non-existence of a San Francisco/Bay Area Surveillance Camera Players, the
San Francisco Independent Media Center put up a high-profile spot on
privacy, anti-surveillance groups, Jeff Webb's anti-drug webcam, the SCP,
the 7s01 international day of action against video surveillance, and
several other related issues.
click http://sf.indymedia.org/ and see upper left
SF is the very first IMC web site in the world to focus on privacy and
anti-surveillance. Let's hope (some of) the others follow suit!
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Date: Wed, 29 Aug 2001 00:38:33 +0200 (METDST)
From: Martin Pichlmair <e9626313@student.tuwien.ac.at>
Subject: restitution point in austria established
hi!
we have recently established a restitution point for symbolic restitution
of goods stolen from jews by nazis in salzburg // austria
the project aims at making the public aware of the fact that not
everything has been returned [ especially here in salzburg the situation
is rather the other way round ]
the city of salzburg is now blocking our attempts to mark buildings, were
jewish inhabitants had been driven out and forced to flee the country
rigth after the "connection" of austria with the 3rd reich
for detailed information visit
http://www.t0.or.at/rueckgabe
it seems like some areas of the history of the mozart city must not be
touched even 60 years later
martin pi
: martin pi
contact :
e9626313@student.tuwien.ac.at : 0699 10443742
johann strauss gasse 32 / 7 : 1040 vienna
: http://stud3.tuwien.ac.at/~e9626313
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Date: Mon, 27 Aug 2001 08:26:05 -0400
From: "Paul D. Miller" <anansi1@mail.earthlink.net>
Subject: Dj Spooky at Burning Man
Hello All - I'm going to be playing Burning Man this year at two
sites. One is a larger version of the "After Robot" situation that is
the culmination of the festival, and the other is a Buckminster
Fuller themed installation that me and several friends are putting
together. My address, if anyone is going to be around is this:
http://www.burningman.com/themecamps_installations/installations/bm01_theme.ht
So we are at 9:30 through 9:45, between Oblivion (the outermost road)
and Pantaloon.
>the party that I'll be dj'ing is XARA, Black Rock City, Burning Man
Festival, 2001 - Friday nite after the main event - Burning the
Robot. If there's any questions... I'm not really going to be
checking my e-mail too much, but hey..... I have a nifty hand made
bicycle and will be moving around alot... just stop me and ask what's
up...
okay,
peace as always,
Paul D. Miller a.k.a. Dj Spooky that Subliminal Kid
============================================================================
Port:status>OPEN
wildstyle access: www.djspooky.com
Paul D. Miller a.k.a. Dj Spooky that Subliminal Kid
Subliminal Kid Inc.
Office Mailing Address:
Music and Art Management
245 w14th st #2RC NY NY
10011
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Date: Mon, 27 Aug 2001 22:23:48 -0700
From: Richard Rinehart <rinehart@uclink.berkeley.edu>
Subject: New Media(tors): The Social Life of Digital Art
You are all invited to participate: remotely if you are remote in relation
to Berkeley, California, and in person if you are nearby.
Richard Rinehart
-----------------------------------------------
New Media(tors): The Social Life of Digital Art
Co-organized by the Berkeley Art Museum / Pacific Film Archive and
GenArtSF, a discussion among new media artists and audiences about their
role in society and the new economy and the effects of network culture on
the creation, interpretation, collection, and preservation of contemporary
visual art. New Media(tors): The Social Life of Digital Art includes three
interactive components, an email discussion list, a panel event, and a
video conversations kiosk.
Panel Date: Sun, Sept 23, 2001
Panel: 12:30-2pm: Pacific Film Archive Theater, 2575 Bancroft @ Bowditch
Reception: 2:00-3:00pm: Berkeley Art Museum, 2626 Bancroft Admission: free
Space: Limited seating. First come, first seated
URL: http://www.bampfa.berkeley.edu/events/mediators/
Organizers: Marisa Olsen, GenArtSF; Richard Rinehart, BAM/PFA
Participants: Shawn Brixey, artist & professor digital media, art
department, UC Berkeley; Alex Galloway, artist & editor/ director of
technology @ Rhizome.org; Lynn Hershman, artist & professor/director, media
arts program, UC Davis; Jason Lewis, artist & founder, Arts Alliance
Laboratory; Moderated by Richard Rinehart, artist, director of digital
media, Berkeley Art Museum, & faculty, art department, UC Berkeley.
The explosion of digital art has created a new social and economic
environment within the arts community and culture at large. Increasing
numbers of artists as well as presenters, collectors, media and tech
industry partners, and audiences are the active agents finding their way
through this new digital sub-culture. This event will track the new modes
of operation being used to adapt in this new environment. How are digital
artists surviving in a medium that is difficult to sell? Are presenters
changing their own economic models? How are the larger artistic and
curatorial professions measuring achievement? How are collectors responding
to intangible and ephemeral art works? How does the unique relationship to
the technology industry affect digital art? Are the audiences for digital
art the same or different from traditional art audiences?
At this event, artists, collectors, and presenters will demonstrate their
own ways of adapting to the shifting social and economic implications of
digital art - the audience will be the final panelist, representing itself
in the discussion. The conversation will start online, where attendees are
encouraged to fill out a short audience survey on the website. The results
of this snapshot of digital art audiences will be shared at the event.
Panelists will kick off discussion topics on the email list before the
event to get wider geographic input and focus ideas for the event. This
event is free of charge in order to encourage broad attendance, and will be
followed by a reception.
New Media(tors): The Social Life of Digital Art includes three interactive
components:
1. An open email discussion list which takes place for a few weeks in
September 2001 and leads into the panel/event. This discussion list will
include all of the event panelists/artists and organizers as well as anyone
on the internet who would like to join this discussion, ask questions, or
share their experiences. The discussion list will provide a public forum
which expands the geographic reach of the event, and invites people to
investigate the social life surrounding digital art, including these
questions...
How are new media artists interacting with art institutions or each other
in ways which are different/same from traditional media artists? How is the
education of artists adapting, if at all? How are artists making a living
working in media which are hard to sell? How does valuation happens with
perfectly reproducible works, and what is the impact on collecting as a
social and economic function? How is such work being preserved (which has
direct implications for collecting, buying, and selling)? How are new media
artists engaged or part of an external industry in a way that filmmakers
might be, but painters are not?
How to subscribe to the Mediators email discussion list.
Send an email addressed to:
majordomo@listlink.berkeley.edu
that contains this single line in the body of the mail message:
subscribe mediators
Notice that this does not include your actual e-mail address. Majordomo
will determine that information based on your email so long as you are
mailing to majordomo@listlink from your own account.
2. A public panel presentation and community discussion event
Described above.
3. A public reception following the panel at which attendees are invited to
interact with each other, and to contribute their thoughts and reactions to
the issues on the museum's video conversations kiosk.
There is a multimedia kiosk in the lobby where the reception will be held .
Here you can record a short digital video clip of yourself speaking about
your thoughts after the event, your experiences, and your own answers to
any of the questions above or anything you want to ponder on the issues.
Some of these video comments, along with video clips from the panel, will
be posted on the Mediators web page as the third part of the conversation,
completing the triangular communication flow between
artist-institution-audience. These will also comprise the lasting record of
New Media(tors): The Social Life of Digital Art.
GenArtSF <www.genartsf.org>
GenArts mission is to strengthen and empower the community of young
artists, to cultivate a new generation of arts audiences, and to connect
the arts community to the community at larage. GenArt pursues these goals
through a wide range of programs with innovative approaches to education,
community outreach, and exhibitions. GenArtSF is a project of the San
Francisco Foundation Community Initiatives Fund.
Berkeley Art Museum / Pacific Film Archive <www.bampfa.berkeley.edu>
The University of California Berkeley Art Museum and Pacific Film Archive
serves the University by making aesthetic experiences a vital part of the
life of its community. BAM/PFA inspires, educates, and brings together the
various audiences of the Berkeley campus and Bay Area and engages national
and international audiences through access to its collections and
educational resources, and through the presentation of adventurous,
scholarly, and culturally diverse exhibitions of art and cinema.
-------------------------------------
Richard Rinehart
---------------
Digital Media Director, Berkeley Art Museum/Pacific Film Archive
www.bampfa.berkeley.edu
---------------
Instructor, Department of Art Practice
art.berkeley.edu
---------------
University of California, Berkeley
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Date: Mon, 27 Aug 2001 16:08:06 -0400
From: Jud Wolfskill <wolfskil@MIT.EDU>
Subject: book announcement--Compaine
I thought readers of NETTIME-LL might be interested in this book. For more
information please visit http://mitpress.mit.edu/0262531933
The Digital Divide
Facing a Crisis or Creating a Myth?
edited by Benjamin M. Compaine
The Digital Divide refers to the perceived gap between those who have
access to the latest information technologies and those who do not. If we
are indeed in an Information Age, then not having access to this
information is an economic and social handicap. Some people consider the
Digital Divide to be a national crisis, while others consider it an
over-hyped nonissue. This book presents data supporting the existence of
such a divide in the 1990s along racial, economic, ethnic, and education
lines. But it also presents evidence that by 2000 the gaps are rapidly
closing without substantive public policy initiatives and spending.
Together, the contributions serve as a sourcebook on this controversial issue.
Benjamin M. Compaine is a Research Affiliate at the Internet and
Telecommunications Convergence Consortium at the Massachusetts Institute of
Technology. He is coeditor of The Internet Upheaval (MIT Press, 2000) and
The Information Resources Policy Handbook (MIT Press, 1999).
6 x 9, 340 pp.
30 illus.
cloth ISBN 0-262-53193-3
The MIT Press Sourcebooks
Jud Wolfskill
Associate Publicist
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