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NETTIME'S WEEKLY ANNOUNCER - every friday into your inbox calls-symposia-websites-campaigns-books-lectures-meetings send your PR to sandra.fauconnier@rug.ac.be in time! 0.......1........2........3........4........5........6 1...Kevin Murray..........Goodbye Kind World 2...DOCALERT..............ANtI-nUKe protest plan 3...Steven Clift..........Nonprofit IT Research Request 4...Laura McGough.........MASSAGE v2.0 5...Olon Nijmegen.........Amarc congres Milaan 23-29 augustus 6...dd 7...name.space.info.......The Top 50 new gTLDs 8...Josephine Berry.......Mute announcement 9...Andy Forbes...........correction of 'ISEA net.art competition' (announcer 041) 10..rkafens...............Language Works 11..Phil Agre.............papers by Andrew Odlyzko 12..R.U. Sirius...........R.U. Sirius Starts THE REVOLUTION ........1.............................................. From: "Kevin Murray" <kmurray@mira.net> Subject: Goodbye Kind World Date: Mon, 6 Jul 1998 00:54:37 +1000 Dear Nettimers, Time is running out. There is only eighteen months of the 20th century left. Soon it will all be gone--just a cosy memory of nation states and personal service. As we all jump into the next millennium, we leave behind a paternal wonderland, where there was always someone to talk to. Institutions, boards and councils deliberated in solid red brick buildings about the welfare of 'society'. Someone pretended to care. What to do with material edifice of this nation state? The only choice is a collective consumption, a 20th century sparagmos. So far, already: *The dismemberment of the Berlin Wall* *Russian artists consume the body of Lenin baked as a cake.* *In Australia, the sale of Telstra in a massive float of public shares* *Use of Elvis Presley DNA in personal jewellery* What is next on the menu? Any suggestions would be most welcome. Goodbye Kind World is an exhibition beginning at http://www.kitezh.com/gkw. .................2..................................... From: DOCALERT@cedbom.ilbom.ernet.in Date: Mon, 6 Jul 1998 04:31:50 IST Subject: ANtI-nUKe protest plan The following message from Anand Patwardhan calls for a symbolic action on Hiroshima Day. friends one sub-continental (could be worldwide depending on our reach) common minimum action plan that is gathering momentum is that on august 6 we will all make and wear a white ribbon on our hearts (make a bow or a loop from a strip of any white cloth ) in memory of hiroshima and in protest against nukes. the alert team at CED ..........................3............................ From: "Steven Clift" <clift@publicus.net> Date: Sun, 5 Jul 1998 21:29:58 -0500 Subject: Nonprofit IT Research Request - Due to the question diversity, this message has been cross-posted - - widely. Please forward to those you know would be interested. - Non-profit Sector Information Technology Assessment Research ------------------------------------------------------------ V1.0 - 6 JUL 1998 Minnesota Council of Nonprofits requests your assistance in identifying important information technology planning and development efforts involving non-profit sector (NGOs, community and voluntary organizations) from around the world. Please fill out the contact form and reply via e-mail to any or all of the questions. Please take a few minutes right now to send a quick response. Or respond in more detail by Thursday, July 17, 1998 at the latest. If you have reports or guides in paper or CD form that you would like to contribute, please mail them to: MN Nonprofit IT Assessment, c/o Steven Clift, 3454 Fremont Ave S, Minneapolis, MN 55408, USA ***** E-mail your reply to: np-it@publicus.net ***** Contact Form ------------ Name: E-mail: Telephone: Organization: Web Address: City/State: Country: Other Notes: Questions --------- Please provide your input on any or all 11 questions. 1. Seeking Experts - Who are some of the experts in your field or community that you would recommend we contact or inform about our research efforts? (Name, e-mail and other details if you have them, please.) 2. Research Efforts - Are you aware of research efforts in other states or countries exploring non-profit IT planning and development issues? 3. Funding for Planning - What government (at any level) or foundation funding programs are available that include options for planning? Information about their funding levels and identification of specific legislation or rules for government programs would be helpful. 4. Shared Support - Are there examples of efforts where non-profit organizations have developed or provide mutual or shared support mechanisms for their IT planning or development needs? 5. Planning Information - What information resources (reports, books, websites, etc.) do you recommend for use in non-profit IT planning? This includes information that helps non-profits understand their communications options, determine appropriate technologies, and acquire and maximize use of IT among other things. 6. Private Sector Expertise - What model programs have extended private sector IT planning expertise to non-profit organizations in a given community or non-profit sub-sector? 7. Peer-to-Peer Communication - What examples of organized peer-to-peer, cross-organizational online communication within the non-profit sector have proven successful? Of particular interest is interaction among those in a specific geographic area. 8. Data Sharing and Standards - What non-profit "data sharing" and standardization efforts exist? What are some of the lessons learned? 9. Internet Connections - Are there initiatives that help non-profits with discounted rate direct Internet connections (ISDN, DSL, T1, etc.), bring multiple non-profits into "wired" buildings where they share connection costs, or help establish purchasing cooperatives that bring down ongoing IT costs? 10. Internet Presence and Content - What sustainable initiatives have provided cost effective, full service Internet presence for multiple non-profits? (Web site, e-mail address(es), e-mail list services, online conferencing, database integration, etc.. ) What model community information projects aggregate community information for broader access by using the Internet as a distributed input tool? 11. Non-Profit Involvement with Government Efforts - Which governments encourage the participation of relevant non-profit organizations in public sector IT efforts which impact the activities of non-profit organizations? Are you aware of government leaders who advocate the participation of non-profits in public sector IT initiatives? ***** E-mail your reply to: np-it@publicus.net ***** Results ------- This research will be used for the Minnesota Nonprofit Sector Information Technology Initiative to more fully understand the technological capacity of non-profits to fulfill their missions and communicate about programs. It will give non-profits an opportunity to understand what works with technology and how to narrow the technological gap between nonprofits and government or for-profit entities. When results are released an announcement will be widely distributed on appropriate e-mail distribution lists. You may also visit the Minnesota Council of Non-Profits web sites for more information: http://www.mncn.org ...................................4................... Date: Tue, 7 Jul 1998 16:02:23 -0400 From: nomads@nomadnet.org (Laura McGough) Subject: MASSAGE v2.0 MASSAGE v2.0 http://www.nomadnet.org/massage2 You are once again invited to drop-by MASSAGE for a stimulating rubdown on contemporary art, media and technology. In MASSAGE v2.0, NOMADS catch-up with musician, filmmaker & video artist Tony Conrad. Conrad, who along with La Monte Young, John Cale, Angus MacLise and Marian Zazeela performed as The Dream Syndicate in the early 1960s, recently released a four-disc box set entitled Early Minimalism, Volume One, which sets-out to re-chart some of the group's musical experiments. In the MASSAGE interview, the always articulate and animated Conrad discusses music, technology and new audiences. Elsewhere in v2.0, Lisa Haskel surveys independent media practices in the UK and Nancy Paterson considers the relationship between technology and art. The Project Room features QuickTime movies by artist Shannon Kennedy. MASSAGE v2.0 requires Netscape 4.0 or Internet Explorer 4.0. Thanks to P22, Tony Conrad, Gary Thomas at The Arts Council of England and Keith Roberson. Laura McGough Co-Director nomads@nomadnet.org ............................................5.......... Van: Olon Nijmegen [SMTP:buro@OLON.NL] Verzonden: woensdag 8 juli 1998 9:46 Onderwerp: ALL: Amarc congres Milaan 23-29 augustus >>>>>> Press notice (apologies for any cross-posting) AMARC 7 - Communication and Human Rights - Seventh World Conference of Community Radio Broadcasters - Milan, 23-29 August 1998 AMARC, the World Association of Community Radio Broadcasters is hosting its Seventh World Conference in Milan from 23 to 29 August 1998. Conference information and complete booking details for the event are now available on-line at http://www.amarc.org/amarc7 Under the theme of Communication and Human Rights, AMARC 7 will bring together over 400 communications activists from 80 countries to commemorate the 50th anniversary of the Unversal Declaration of Human Rights. The conference will address the Right to Co mmunicate, the role of the media in promoting tolerance and cultural diversity, and the impact of new information technologies on democratic communications. Related activities will include an on-site radio station, Radio Planete Terre broadcasting globally by satellite and internet, and a virtual pre-conference also accessible through the AMARC 7 Web site. Bookmark it now! For further information contact: amarc@gn.apc.org or amarcho@amarc.org ......................................................6 From: dd <addfield@ath.forthnet.gr> Subject: Announcement Date: Wed, 8 Jul 1998 12:26:32 +0300 A new net artwork by Dimos Dimitriou. "OPEN" URL http://users.forthnet.gr/ath/addfield/open.htm An artwork related to the user's actions. There are no direct relations to the machine's components, but to the user's interactivity behaviors. User's behavior actions are presented as the mediums for the execution of the scripts. Human actions are distanced from the executed scripts. dd 7...................................................... Date: Wed, 8 Jul 1998 09:56:08 -0400 From: info@pgmedia.net (name.space.info) Subject: The Top 50 new gTLDs The vote for new generic toplevel domains is now on. <... 8 July results snipped: announcer appears on 10 July -T ...> To View the entire list of new gTLDs go to http://Vote.Global-Namespace.Net To view some of the names registered and their related sites, please go to http://name.space.xs2.net/links and http://blackhole.autono.net/switchboard ........8.............................................. Date: Thu, 9 Jul 1998 10:36:52 +0000 From: Josephine Berry <josie@metamute.com> Subject: announcement for announcer **************************************************************************** AN N O U N C E M E NT **************************************************************************** PLEASE SEND ANY INFORMATION FOR MUTE MAGAZINE'S NEXT ((-)) ART NEWS SECTION ((-)) IN ISSUE 11 NB: Your text should be pre-edited no longer than 60 words happen after our August 25th release date and reach us no later than 31st July please send to <josie@metamute.com> -$ thanks. **************************************************************************** ................9...................................... From: "Andy Forbes" <andy@j15.co.uk> Subject: Fw: A. TO: Fw: <nettime> ISEA net.art competition Date: Thu, 9 Jul 1998 18:00:32 +0100 -----Original Message-----From: JOHN.HYATT@MCR1.poptel.org.uk <JOHN.HYATT@MCR1.poptel.org.uk>To: <mailto:andy@j15.co.uk> andy@j15.co.uk <andy@j15.co.uk>Date: Thursday, July 09, 1998 2:55 PMSubject: A. TO: Fw: <nettime> ISEA net.art competition, call for sponsors!Dear all,Due to human error, a draft letter seeking sponsorship of the net-art98 competition appeared in <nettime> announcer 041. This should have been the 'call for nominations', below. In addition the 'sponsorship' text was unapproved and its assertion that Ellipisis are hosting net-art98 was erroneous. Ellipsis host the official ISEA98 site <http://www.isea98.org> and not net-art98, which is a separate approved project. The human who erred so terribly is being reprogrammed by leeches.John Hyatt (Chair: ISEA98TERROR, 5-7 September, Manchester)ISEA98TERROR/net-art98Call for nominations'web specific art' - online competitionnet-art98 is ISEA98TERROR's online web-specific art competition, its result will be decided by online registered voters.net-art98 is now online at http://www.net-art.org and open for nominations from all online. Nominations must fulfil the definition of being 'web-specific art'.net-art98 voting online will launch on September 5th 1998 from the ninth International Symposium on Electronic Art, being held in Manchester UK.net-art98 is being run in cooperation with Department of Fine Arts, Manchester Metropolitan University, organizers of ISEA98TERROR.Once voters are registered with the net-art98 database, they will be able to return on subsequent visits, choose to see only competing sites they haven't previously visited, amend their previous vote (voting only for sites the voter has visited) etc. up until the close of voting in December 1998.The results, with prizes, will be announced at the end of 1998.net-art98 includes commentary by the nominations panel, linked and threaded discussion of the competing sites, a mystery Judge 'on auto' and reference section for web art practitioners and audience.net-art98 is produced on an expenses only basis by Junction 15 ( http://www.j15.co.uk ) and warp-interactive ( http://www.warp-i.com )Further information in the first instance can be obtained from +44 (0)171978 9868 or <mailto:andy@j15.co.uk> andy@j15.co.ukhtml of this nomination message athttp://www.net-art.org/nominations_email.html ..........................10........................... From: rkafens@net56.net Subject: Language Works Date: Thu, 9 Jul 98 14:09:23 CDT For immediate release Contact: Aldo Castillo Gallery ATTN. Julia Friedman Phone: 312-337-2536 EDUARDO KAC OPENS SOLO SHOW AT ALDO CASTILLO GALLERY, CHICAGO Exhibition: Entitled "Language Works", the exhibition is comprised of 12 media works exploring visual texts in changeable environments When: The show opens on July 17 and closes on August 29, 1998 Where: Aldo Castillo Gallery, 233 West Huron, Chicago, Illinois 60610 Web: The show can be seen at http://www.ekac.org/languageworks.html Curatorial Essay: "The Language Labyrinth" by Julia Friedman (http://www.ekac.org/labyrinth.html) The exhibition: This month, Aldo Castillo Gallery presents "Language Works", an exhibition by Chicago artist Eduardo Kac curated by Julia Friedman. For 15 years Kac has been exploring the poetics of electronic and photonic media, investigating new writerly and readerly strategies. Of the twelve works on display, six are digital and therefore can only be experienced directly on a computer. These six digital works include runtime animations, a hypertext, and a vrml (Virtual Reality Markup Language) piece. Kac is also showing three Iris prints from his "Erratum" series, one hologram from his "Holopoetry" series, one single-channel video, and a video installation. Some of the pieces in the show are interactive and invite the viewer to navigate a textual space and discover new meanings along the way. The Iris prints and hologram undermine the fixity of the verbal sign on the two-dimensional surface, extending their semantic ambiguity to the unstable organization of the verbal material. Other works, notably the videos and animations, explore verbal rhythms that can only be created once language is removed from stable surfaces and is immersed in a malleable electronic space. Kac states that "language plays a fundamental role in the constitution of our experiential world. To question the structure of language is to investigate how realities are constructed". For the artist, "language (particularly written language) is nothing but a transitional moment in a much more complex semiological continuum. The show explores this notion in multiple ways." Biographical note: Eduardo Kac is an artist and writer who works with electronic and photonic media, including telepresence, robotics, and the Internet. His work has been exhibited widely in the United States, Europe, and South America. Kac's works belong to the permanent collections of the Museum of Modern Art in New York, the Museum of Holography in Chicago, and the Museum of Modern Art in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, among others. He is a member of the editorial board of the journal Leonardo, published by MIT Press. His anthology "New Media Poetry: Poetic Innovation and New Technologies" was published in 1996 as a special issue of the journal Visible Language, of which he was a guest editor. Writings by Kac on electronic art as well as articles about his work have appeared in several books, newspapers, magazines, and journals in many countries, including Argentina, Australia, Austria, Bolivia, Brazil, Finland, France, Germany, Holland, Hungary, Mexico, Paraguay, Portugal, Spain, Russia, Uruguay, United Kingdom, and United States. He is an Assistant Professor of Art and Technology at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago and a Ph.D. candidate in the Center for Advanced Inquiry in the Interactive Arts (CAiiA), at University of Wales College, Newport, United Kingdom.. Kac has received numerous grants and awards for his work. Recent awards: The Shearwater Foundation recently announced the award of $10,000 to Chicago-based artist and writer Eduardo Kac to support his work and research. The Florida-based Foundation does not accept applications and recognizes individual creative excellence within its stated areas of interest with annual awards. CEC International Partners, New York, also announced that Eduardo Kac was the recipient of an ArtsLink Award in the amount of $3,500, and noted that "the review panel was very impressed with the quality of Kac's creative work". Earlier this year Eduardo Kac received the 1998 Leonardo Award for Excellence, which is awarded annually to a Leonardo author for an article describing work judged to be excellent in the field of art/science and technology. Previous Leonardo award winners have included Rudolf Arnheim and Otto Piene. Additional information: For more information see Kac's web site at http://www.ekac.org Aldo Castillo Gallery Tel 312-337-2536 Fax 312-337-3627 http://members.aol.com/artaldo Eduardo Kac can be contacted via email at: ekac@artic.edu ..................................11................... Date: Thu, 9 Jul 1998 16:45:08 -0700 (PDT) From: Phil Agre <pagre@weber.ucsd.edu> To: rre@weber.ucsd.edu Subject: papers by Andrew Odlyzko [Andrew Odlyzko at AT&T is one of those people who gets labeled a contrarian, which simply means that his views are contrary to the views of the people who do the labeling. The irritating thing is that his arguments are generally backed up with facts and make obvious- now-that-you-think-about-it connections that refuse to go away. See, for example, his argument that the simplicity of the Internet is much over-hyped -- if, that is, you include all of the complex effort that is invested daily by zillions of site maintainers, effort that is not required by phone-system "sites". The point is not to defend the phone system -- I don't think even AT&T does that -- but to move back from a gadget focus to a system focus, which is always a good idea.] =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-= This message was forwarded through the Red Rock Eater News Service (RRE). Send any replies to the original author, listed in the From: field below. You are welcome to send the message along to others but please do not use the "redirect" command. For information on RRE, including instructions for (un)subscribing, send an empty message to rre-help@weber.ucsd.edu =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-= Date: Wed, 8 Jul 1998 18:29:03 -0400 (EDT) From: Andrew Odlyzko <amo@research.att.com> Subject: request for comments on papers about networks Five papers on data networks have just been posted on the Web at <http://www.research.att.com/~amo/doc/networks.html>. Hopefully they will be of interest to you. They are: 1. The economics of the Internet: Utility, utilization, pricing, and Quality of Service 2. Smart and stupid networks; Why the Internet is like Microsoft 3. Data networks are lightly utilized, and will stay that way 4. The size and growth rate of the Internet (with Kerry Coffman) 5. Dynamic behavior of differential pricing and Quality of Service options for the Internet (with Peter Fishburn) All are available in PostScript (.ps) and Adobe Acrobat (.pdf) formats. Comments and especially corrections would be greatly appreciated. ************************************************************************ Andrew Odlyzko amo@research.att.com AT&T Labs - Research voice: 973-360-8410 http://www.research.att.com/~amo fax: 973-360-8178 ************************************************************************ Text abstracts: The economics of the Internet: Utility, utilization, pricing, and Quality of Service Andrew Odlyzko Abstract Can high quality be provided economically for all transmissions on the Internet? Current work assumes that it cannot, and concentrates on providing differentiated service levels. However, an examination of patterns of use and economics of data networks suggests that providing enough bandwidth for uniformly high quality transmission may be practical. If this turns out not to be possible, only the simplest schemes that require minimal involvement by end users and network administrators are likely to be accepted. On the other hand, there are substantial inefficiencies in the current data networks, inefficiencies that can be alleviated even without complicated pricing or network engineering systems. ----------------------------------------------------------------------------- Smart and stupid networks: Why the Internet is like Microsoft Andrew Odlyzko Abstract Is the Internet growing primarily because it is a dumb network, one that simply delivers packets from one point to another? If that were so, we surely would not need huge and rapidly growing ranks of network professionals. A more detailed look suggests that the Internet is succeeding largely for the same reasons that led the PC to dominate the mainframe, and are responsible for the success of Microsoft. The Internet offers an irresistible bargain to a crucial constituency, namely developers, while managing to conceal the burden it places on users. ----------------------------------------------------------------------------- Data networks are lightly utilized, and will stay that way Andrew Odlyzko Abstract The popular press often extolls packet networks as much more efficient than switched voice networks in utilizing transmission lines. This impression is reinforced by the delays experienced on the Internet and the famous graphs for traffic patterns through the major exchange points on the Internet, which suggest that networks are running at full capacity. This paper shows the popular impression is incorrect; data networks are very lightly utilized compared to the telephone network. Even the backbones of the Internet are run at lower fractions (10% to 15%) of their capacity than the switched voice network (which operates at over 30% of capacity on average). Private line networks are utilized far less intensively (at 3% to 5%). Further, this situation is likely to persisi. The low utilization of data networks compared to voice phone networks is not a symptom of waste. It comes from different patterns of use, lumpy capacity of transmission facilities, and the high growth rate of the industry. ----------------------------------------------------------------------------- The size and growth rate of the Internet K. G. Coffman and A. M. Odlyzko Abstract The public Internet is still far smaller, in both capacity and traffic, than the switched voice network. The private line networks are considerably larger in aggregate capacity than the Internet. They are about as large as the voice network in the U.S., but carry less traffic. On the other hand, the growth rate of traffic on the public Internet, while lower than is often cited, is still about 100% per year, much higher than for other types of traffic. Hence, if present growth trends continue, data traffic in the U.S. will overtake voice traffic around the year 2002 and will be dominated by the Internet. ----------------------------------------------------------------------------- Dynamic behavior of differential pricing and Quality of Service options for the Internet Peter C. Fishburn and Andrew M. Odlyzko Abstract The simple model on which the Internet has operated, with all packets treated equally, and charges only for access links to the network, has contributed to its explosive growth. However, dissatisfaction with the delays and losses in transmission, and the requirements of new services such as IP telephony, have stimulated the development of methods for providing Quality of Service (QoS), and this will make the Internet more complicated. Differential quality will also force differential pricing, and this will further increase the complexity of the system. The solution of simply putting in more capacity is widely regarded as impractical. However, it appears that we are about to enter a period of rapidly declining transmission costs. The implications of such an environment are explored by considering models with two types of demands for data transport, differing in sensitivity to congestion. Three network configurations are considered: (1) with separate networks for the two types of traffic, (2) with a single network that provides uniformly high QoS, and (3) with a single physical network that provides differential QoS. The best solution depends on the assumptions made about demand and technological progress. However, we show that the provision of uniformly high QoS to all traffic is often best in the long run. Even when it is not the least expensive, the additional costs it imposes are usually not large, and in a dynamic environment of rapid growth in traffic and decreasing prices may well be worth paying to attain the simplicity of a single network that treats all packets equally and has a simple charging mechanism. ...........................................12.......... Date: Thu, 9 Jul 1998 16:19:03 -0700 (PDT) From: "R.U. Sirius" <rusirius@well.com> Subject: R.U. Sirius Starts THE REVOLUTION http://www.disinfo.com/prop/diss/prop_diss_revolution1.html spread the word - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - Date: Fri, 10 Jul 1998 02:08:30 +0200 (MDT) From: Pit Schultz <pit@wallace.khm.de> Subject: ru sirius locates revolution Date: Tue, 7 Jul 1998 13:56:56 -0700 (PDT) From: "R.U. Sirius" <rusirius@well.com> The EXACT Address for THE REVOLUTION It just doesn't pay to be elegant. On July 4, I sent out email under the title R.U. Sirius Starts THE REVOLUTION!. The message was simple www.disinfo.com Spread the word Simple. Short. Sweet. Elegant. The idea was that people would go to the site, see that the lead article was Start The Revolution (With Or) Without Me by R.U. Sirius. And then they would respond to that. But nobody got it. So, let me just say that I did NOT start a new site called DisInformation. DisInformation has been a huge site for many years. I have however started THE REVOLUTION, which has close to 100 members and volunteers already. The EXACT address for THE REVOLUTION is http://www.disinfo.com/prop/diss/prop_diss_revolution1.html and when I say, "Spread the Word" that 's not just three random separate words in a life full of utter fragmentation. It's an invitation to participate. If you like. luv Sirius --- # distributed via nettime-l : no commercial use without permission # <nettime> is a closed moderated mailinglist for net criticism, # collaborative text filtering and cultural politics of the nets # more info: majordomo@desk.nl and "info nettime-l" in the msg body # URL: http://www.desk.nl/~nettime/ contact: nettime-owner@desk.nl