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01 . Zvonimir Bakotin . VRML99 - CALL FOR PARTICIPATION
02 . Francis . CYBERCULTURE AGAINST GENOCIDE Webstock
in Albania 6 March 1999
03 . Alex Adriaansens . new book publication S. Zielinski
04 . Tuncay Takmaz . 2.nd CONTEMPORARY ART EXHIBITION -
GEK]RDEK ART GROUP
05 . hans fjellestad . zu casa subs
06 . Gerhard Preyer . Protosociology: New Vol.
07 . Sophie Lewis . Weightless by Thomson & Craighead
for Channel
08 . l'audible@laudanum.net
09 . Absurd Propaganda . WHEN WINDOWS ATTACK, PART II
10 . [ear] . proposal for partnership
11 . Steve Dietz . The Unreliable Archivist
12 . MEET Factory . "Conversations with Angels" Book + CDrom
13 . Decadent Action . Phone in sick - April 6th
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Date: Fri, 29 Jan 1999 20:16:04 +0100 (GMT+0100)
From: Zvonimir Bakotin <zone@basis.Desk.nl>
CALL FOR PARTICIPATION
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VRML99
the Fourth International Conference on the
Virtual Reality Modeling Language and
Web 3D Technologies
23 - 26 February 1999, Paderborn, Germany
http://www.c-lab.de/vrml99
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The annual VRML Symposium is the worldwide most important event
for the VRML and Web 3D community. Its purpose is to bring together
researchers, developers, product vendors, content creators and
other contributors interested in using or enhancing VRML and
Web 3D technology. The VRML Symposium features courses, workshops,
peer-reviewed papers and panels. It will address current
burning issues in the VRML and the Web 3D community.
The symposium will be further enriched by the famous
Web3D Round-Up and an exhibition which will present
leading edge technology and applications.
Papers
MetaStream (by V. Abadjev, M. del Rosario, A. Lebedev, A. Migdal
and V. Paskhaver, Metacreations, California)
This talk presents a framework for generating and storing
multi-resolution mesh representations which supports levels of
detail, progressive transmission, compression, selective refinement
and rapid and efficient playback, in particular streaming of 3D data
on the internet. MetaStream was developed at the Real Time Graphics
Lab of MetaCreations.
An Open Virtual Environment for Autonomous Agents Using VRML and Java
(by B. Jung and J.-T. Milde, University of Bielefeld, Germany)
In a course at the University of Bielefeld a virtual environment was
developed which is populated with heterogeneous articulated agents.
Autonomous and instructable agents compete for collecting certain
objects while avoiding obstacles and other agents.
Avatars in LivingSpace
(by M. Wray and V. Belrose, HP Labs, Bristol, UK)
LivingSpace is the name of an implementation of the LivingWorlds
standard for multi-user distributed VRML worlds. LivingSpace was
developed at Hewlett-Packard Labs. In this paper solutions to the
problem of creating behaviors of avatars and coordinating these
behaviors in a distributed environment are presented. In particular
an extension of dead-reckoning is introduced which is based on
velocity, curvature and angular velocity.
A VRML Integration Methodology for Manufacturing Applications
(by S. Ressler and A. Godil, NIST, Maryland)
This talk describes several methods developed at the National
Institute of Standards and Technology for using VRML as the
visualization integration technology for manufacturing simulations.
The resulting type of integrated worlds allows engineering systems
to be visualized and communicated via the Web.
There will be 17 further presentations of papers on topics
like multi-user systems, extensions to VRML, streaming, compression
and applications including arts and museums, tourism, cartography
and CAD (see Program at http://www.c-lab.de/vrml99).
Courses, Workshops and Panels
At VRML99 renown experts will teach courses on multi-user systems,
VRML97 and Java3D. Educational applications of VRML, the Universal
Media Element Library and VRML in Germany are the topics of
workshops held during the conference. We are especially looking
forward to the VRML NG workshop which will discuss proposals
for the future VRML standard. Finally experts will discuss
controversial issues in panels addressing the relation of VRML
and other Web 3D and present competing technologies
and visions for shared virtual worlds.
For further information see: http://www.c-lab.de/vrml99/
The VRML event series is sponsored by ACM SIGGRAPH and ACM SIGCOMM,
and is in cooperation with the Web3D Consortium and the Gesellschaft
fr Informatik. Platinum Technology is a Principal Donor to VRML99
Chair: Christian Bauer, Bauer & Freunde; Stuhlfelden, Austria
Program Chair: Stephan Diehl, University of Saarland; Saarbruecken,
Germany
Program Co-Chair: Jean-Francis Balaguer, Artemedia; Lausanne,
Switzerland
Program Committee
Don Brutzman, Naval Postgraduate School; Monterey, USA
Paolo Carraro, Bell Laboratories; Holmdel, New Jersey, USA
Steve Carson, GSC Associates; Las Cruces, USA
Bruce Damer, Digital Space Corp.; USA
Jens Dauner, Fraunhofer IAO; Stuttgart, Germany
Gitta Domik, University of Paderborn; Paderborn, Germany
Ludger Froebel, German Aerospace Estab.; Cologne, Germany
Christian Geiger, C-LAB; Paderborn, Germany
Yasuaki Honda, Sony Corp.; Tokyo, Japan
Joerg Kloss, VRASP Europe; Trier, Germany
Juergen Landauer, GFT Informationssysteme; Boeblingen, Germany
Richard Puk, Intelligraphics Incorporated; Carlsbad, USA
Sandy Ressler, NIST, USA
Theresa Marie Rhyne, Lockheed Martin, USA
Maureen Stone, Xerox PARC; Palo Alto, USA
Kornel Szabo, University of Zurich; Zurich, Switzerland
Val Watson, NASA Ames Research Center; Mountain View, USA
................................................................... 02
Date: Fri, 29 Jan 1999 22:29:01
From: Francis <laporte@imaginet.fr>
CYBERCULTURE AGAINST GENOCIDE
Webstock in Albania 6 March 1999
http://www.lesouvriers.com/webstock
Initially planned
on 18-20th september 98, on the beach in Durres, and to be broadcast live
during the first "Techno Parade" in Paris, Webstock was postponed due to
the attempt of a coup in Albania around the 14th of september.
This free on-line peace concert, Webstock in Albania, will therefore take
place in Tirana, at the "Pyramids", with the participation of European and
American Djs and artists, and the support of the Albanian Minister of
Culture,
Mr Edi Rama.
The concert will be broadcast on Albanian radio and television, as
well as on the internet site of Webstock.
Webstock is meant to testify of our generation's determination to
non-violence, and to express trhough music and the arts our condemnation
Serbian attacks on the Albanian people from Kosovo, as well as all the
genocides one can witness in this last year of the millenium. This is an
independant initiative of the youth, beyond governmental or diplomatic
actions,. Music and the Internet are the two weapons that the planetary
generation will use against fascism to demonstrate that culture and
technology can be combined to eradicate the current wave of genocide,
human
abuse and obscurantism.
The truce between the Serbs and the KLA was hardly respected. Today war
rages again in the backyard of Euroland.
- We invite the conscious cyber - community to be part of
this pioneer event, this cyber and roots revolution,
-as DJs, musicians,and/or a visual artists .
-in promoting for, or organizing Webstock parties in your town or radio
station (Dj +webcam),
-In helping with the logistics of the event in any way you can think ot
or in signing the below declaration & mailing it back.
-An on -line forum on the theme " Can cyberculture be an
alternative to the natinalisms resulting from world-liberalism"? will be
held on this occasion, Major Interventions expected on the panel. Two
Webstock parties will be held in new York and san Francisco too, and
cybercast.
-
A
caravan travelling through Europe for free, on the train, is to be
constituted, and can happen all the more easily as the Albanian
governement
is ready to let people coming for the Webstock party in the territory,
even
if not holding a passeport.
-
Concert and Interactive theater
The musicians participating in Webstock represent all the trends of
electronic music, from Hip-Hop to Techno. Albanian artists will also be
participating.
-Kanibal$ is a revolutionary project that makes use of the new
technologies to renew the sources of the greek tragedy.
It is in fact the system of the "society of spectacle" as after the Gulf
war.
-The actors are: humankind.
-The location of action:the world.
It is about becoming aware that history is one and that,for our new
generation, it revolves around the meaning of humanity. It brings forth
the
major problems encountered by this generation. We invite you to
participate
in real-time though connecting to the site
http://www.lesouvriers.com/kanibals and posting your answers to the
characters' questions (already presented on the site) on 6 march. They
will
be broadcast live on the screen animated during the performance in
Albania.
Kanibal$ is to be performed in French and English during Webstock.
Planet Generation Global Move
Support: I want to testify, through my signature, of my determination to
have a global and multiple culture prevail, beyond the nationalims,
extremisms and genocides we can witness today.
NB :
We have prepared a banner of WEBSTOCK if you want to have it on your site
4
support write us EMAIL.
Contact:
tel: (33) 01 47 34 21 84.
Email : kosovokr@worlnet.fr
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Date: Fri, 29 Jan 1999 15:22:32 +0200
From: Alex Adriaansens <alex@v2.nl>
To: syndicate@aec.at
Subject: Syndicate: new book publication S. Zielinski
Audiovisions
Cinema and Television as Entr'actes in History
By Siegfried Zielinski
november 1998, isbn 90 5356 303 2, 16 x 24 cm, hardback, illustrated, ca
275
pages, Fl. 69,95 / 1395 bfr
november 1998, isbn 90 5356 313 x, 16 x 24 cm, paperback, illustrated, ca
275
pages, Fl. 39,50 / 790 bfr
Amsterdam University Press - Prinsengracht 747 -751 - 1017 JX
Amsterdam. Tel: +31-10-4200050 fax: 4203214. email: aup@aup.uva.nl
check: http://www.uva.nl/aup/aup.html
The production, distribution, and perception of moving images are
undergoing a radical transformation. Ever-faster computers, digital
technology, and microelectronic are joining forces to produce advanced
audiovision -the media vanishing point of the 20th century. Very little
will remain unchanged.
The classic institutions for the mediation of film - cinema and
television
- are revealed to be no more than interludes in the broader history of the
audiovisual media. This book interprets these changes not simply as a
cultural loss but also as a challenge: the new audiovisions have to be
confronted squarely to make strategic intervention possible.
Audiovisions provides a historical underpinning for this active approach.
Spanning 100 years, from the end of the 19th to the end of the 20th
century, it reconstructs the complex genesis of cinema and television as
historically relative - and thus finite - cultural forms, focussing on the
dynamics and tension in the interaction between the apparatus and its
uses.
The book is also a plea for "staying power" in studies of cultural
technology and technological culture of film.
Essayistic in style, it dispenses with complicated cross references and,
instead, is structured around distinct historical phases. Montages of
images and text provide supplemental information, contrast, and comment.
Siegfried Zielinski is founding director of the Academy of Media Arts in
Cologne, Germany and Professor of Media and Communication Studies. He is a
member of European Film Academy (EFA), the British Film Institute and the
Magic Lantern Society of Grat Britain.
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Date: Fri, 29 Jan 1999 22:11:35 +0200
From: Tuncay Takmaz <Cekirdek@aidata.net.tr>
EKRDEK ART GROUP
2.nd CONTEMPORARY ART EXHIBITION
Between 2nd 15th of August an exhibition entitled COMMUNICATION will be
organized at Naval Museum Art Gallery
A-PARTICIPATION RULES
1.. Every artist can enter into the exhibition up to 3 works of art
2.. There is no age-limit
3.. The works will be choosen with an election inorder to keep the
orderlines and quality
4.. Every artist can enter into the exhibition with any style of
plastic arts. Canvas size musnt be less than 80 cm.s and more than 200 cms
B- HOW TO APPLY AND ADMITT
1- Artists who want to enter into the exhibition must send ( by hand or by
mail) their projects or at least 2 photo or slides and cw to the adress
below on 25th 30th of May between 11:00 20: 00 hrs
2- The works chosen to be exhibited will be announced to the artists and
artists shall bring their works to Naval Museum Art Gallery on 31st of
July at 10:00 am, and works will be entrenchend in the gallery with the
exhibition commitee.
3- At the end of the exhibition (15th of August) all artists shall take
their works back , if not taken , ekirdek Art Group and Naval Museum Art
Gallery will not accept any legal responsibility.
4-2.000.000 TL will be taken from all the artists entering into the
exhibition inorder to be used in exhibition costs. Ones who enter outside
stanbul can deposit cash to Yap Kredi Bank (042-2) Parmakkap office
,account number ( 0108512-5), and send the bank deduction with other
documents to the adress below.
5-For the artists entering from other countries; they shall send 10$
(inorder to be used in exhibition costs) with other documents to the
adress below. At the exhibition their works will be send back to their
adress by cargo
6-On the same dates exhibition will be on ekirdek Art Groups web site :
www. cekirdek sanat . com.
7-Exhibitions advirtisement will be made at monthly art magazines, daily
news papers and TV channels by ekirdek Art Group.
ADRESS: Acbadem cad. Dilek Apt. N:96 D:12 Acbadem ,stanbul Turkey
INFORMATION: +90 216 325 67 15
+90 216 428 69 50
mobile phone : + 90 542 344 09 22
(Please contact with Selin In)
Thanks and good luck to the artists entering into the exhibition. With
many regards
in the name of ekirdek Art Group
Tuncay Takmaz
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Date: Sat, 30 Jan 1999 15:51:25 -0800
From: hans fjellestad <hans@zucasa.com>
To: Multiple recipients of <announcer@simsim.rug.ac.be>
Subject: ann! ... zu casa subs
http://www.zucasa.com
Zu Casa is a laboratory for online exhibition and performance of
improvised
and experimental music, artist film and video, and netart >> curated by
The
Donkey
The Donkey intends to build a community of experimenters; bolster the
artist, exploit the consumer, and corner the avant-garde market.
The Donkey is accepting submissions >>
http://www.zucasa.com/submissions/
-------------------
Radio Free Zu Casa >
new and improvised music, installations, live webcasts
Zu Casa Television >
experimental video and film
Donkey Net >
internet-based, interactive artwork
-------------------
to receive announcements of Zu Casa news and events send email to
thedonkey@zucasa.com
Viva el burro de la experimentacin!
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Date: Sat, 30 Jan 1999 20:54:28 +0100
From: Gerhard Preyer <preyer@em.uni-frankfurt.de>
Subject: Protosociology: New Vol.
Dear colleagues,
I would like to inform you that we will publish our
vol. 12: After the Received View Developments in the Theory of Science
Gerhard Preyer, Georg Peter, Alexander Ulfig (Eds.) - Special Vol.
in memoriam
Wolfgang Stegm|ller
Description
The collection focuses on developments in the philosophy of science
following
the so called Received View i.e. the syntactic account - logical
empiricism,
Wiener Circle - in the theory of science. Syntactic accounts of the theory
and
philosophy of science in the twentieth century is paradigmatic for
answering
questions on meaning, significance and validation of theoretical
statements and
of scientific knowledge. Since the 1960's the Received View is challenged
by
the naturalistic (realistic), the sociological, the structuralistic and
the
constructive empiricist (representational) accounts of the "correct view"
on
our scientific knowledge.
The overall tendency is to substitute syntactical by semantical accounts
of
what science is all about. In this collection the emphasis is on semantics
and
measurement, the structure of scientific theories, decision theory,
inductive
inferences, the interpretation of probability, properties and science, the
problem of underdetermination and scientific realism, rationality,
metaphors
and values in science. The internationally well reputated contributors
examine
the operationalistic, structuralistic, sociological, constructive
empiristic
(representational) and naturalistic (realistic) mainstreams in the
philosophy
of science competing for the "correct view" on sciences in the late
twentieth
century.
TABLE OF CONTENT
Introduction
Developments in the Theory of Science
Gerhard Preyer, Georg Peter, Alexander Ulfig
LOGICAL OPERATIONALISM - SIGNIFICANCE AND MEANING
Truth and Knowledge. Some Considerations concerning the Task of Philosophy
of
Science
WILHELM K. ESSLER
The Received View, Incommensurability and Comparision of
Theories - Beliefs as the Basis of Theorizing
GERHARD PREYER
Reflections on Projection
ROBERT SCHWARTZ
The Logical and Sociological Structure of Science
JEFFREY E. FOSS
STRUCTURALISM - MEANINGFUL MEASUREMENT - THE CONCEPT OF PHYSICAL LAW
Structuralism vs. Operationalism
C. ULISES MOULINES
Meaningless Numbers
NICHOLAS RESCHER
Laws of Nature, Laws of Physics, and the Representational
Account of Theories
R.I.G. HUGHES
Einstein's Principle Theory
JAMES R. BROWN
INDUCTIVE INFERENCES - INTERPRETATION OF PROBABILITY - GAME THEORY
Transcendental Deductions and Universal Architectures for
Inductive Inferences
KEVIN T. KELLY, CORY JUHL
R.A. Fisher and the Interpretation of Probability
HOWARD H. HARRIOTT
Evolution of an Anomaly
BRIAN SKYRMS
PROPERTIES - UNDERDETERMINATION - SCIENTIFIC REALISM
Degrees of Characterizations
GEORGE N. SCHLESINGER
Observational Adequacy as distinct from the Truth about
Observables
CARL A. MATHESON
Scientific Realism and the Problem of Underdetermination
THOMAS R. GRIMES
On Paul Churchland's Treatment of the Argument from
Introspection and Scientific Realism
PAUL C.L. TANG
RATIONALITY - METAPHORS - VALUES IN SCIENCE
Scientific Rationality and Epistemic Goals
DAVID RESNIK
Rationality in Economics: A General Framework
ALDO MONTESANO
Science Real and Ideal: Popper and the Dogmatic Scientist
JOSEPH AGASSI
Models and Metaphors in Science
MICHAEL BRADIE
Values and the Philosophy of Science
DAVID GRUENDER
Introduction: see our homepage.
Protosociology
An International Journal of Interdisciplinary Research
and Project: Protosociology
J.W. Goethe-Universitdt, Frankfurt am Main, Germany
Homepage im World Wide Web
http://www.rz.uni-frankfurt.de/protosociology
Be free to load down a free copy of our electronic versions from our
homepage:
Vol. 11: Cognitive Semantics II: Externalism in Debates
Unit: Special Service
Keyword: Parsons
Electronic publications of Protosocialogy available:
Vol. 8/9 Rationality II/III
Vol. 10 Cognitive Semantics I - Conceptions of Meaning
Vol. 11 Cognitive Semantics II - Externalism in Debates
Vol. 12 After the Received View. Developments in the Theory of Science
In preparation:
On a Sociology of Borderlines
Social Change in Time of Globalization
hrsg. von G. Preyer, M. Boes
See: Homepage, Unit: Projects.
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Date: Mon, 1 Feb 1999 11:53:22 +0100
From: Sophie Lewis <sophie@artec.org.uk>
To: Multiple recipients of <announcer@simsim.rug.ac.be>
Subject: ann! ... Weightless by Thomson & Craighead for Channel
***********************
Weightless
by
Thomson & Craighead
http://www.channel.org.uk/weightless
Channel is delighted to announce the launch of Weightless by Jon Thomson &
Alison Craighead.
In Weightless, Thomson & Craighead use gif animations, midi files and text
fragments taken from chat lines as the main components of a fluid on-line
environment which comments on the social conventions and behaviours that
have evolved over the last few years on the world wide web.
Almost all the materials can be seen as 'found objects', taken
predominantly from web users' homepages or chat spaces and reappropriated
within the Weightless environment. As such, each animation, music file and
text fragment begins to function as an autonomous unit. They retain
elements of the (web) culture that has spawned them but also generate
their
own narrative sense as almost cinematic or televisual components:
animations as the screen image, midi files as the sound track and chat
line
texts as subtitles. In this way, the units combine to become a series of
spurious 'mini movies' with their own 'plot'.
At one level, 'Weightless' is an idiosyncratic document of these on-line
social spaces. Yet it also functions as a sculptural manipulation of the
wealth of existing on-line data... a compendium of readymades in
electronic
space.
A public projection of Weightless will be held in London later in
February.
Details will be posted to you nearer the time. For further information
about Weightless please contact David Sinden at Artec on +44 (0)171 477
2775 or email david@artec.org.uk.
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Date: Mon, 01 Feb 1999 23:00:47 +1100
From: l'audible@laudanum.net
To: Multiple recipients of <announcer@simsim.rug.ac.be>
Subject: ann! ... (No subject)
http://laudanum.net/laudible
- - - __--- _ ---------
- - - - _
up and coming sigma event/live broadcast 26.2.1999
http://laudanum.net/sigma/
frigid..re_lay broadband..13.2.1999
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- - - - _-__
_ __ __ _ _ _ _
Five new tracks on l'audible or
lost in repetition only to find ones self
at the top of a hill looking into a huge valley.
New tracks appear on the site like out of the blue
...sound open for international access.
Added to a growing list these
tracks shift their state;
existing on CD (in these cases),
collected from Australia and New Zealand,
finding themselves as code embedded deep in
Germany (Radio Internationale Stadt).
Rosy Parlane's tracks loop endlessly around,
we could talk about the needle being stuck or
skipping cd's but I think that ones getting a bit tired.
Instead maybe we should talk of
minimalism speed up to break-neck
velocity, looping and
twisting not over days but over
minutes. Clicks and rings become the
rhythm section forming an
abstract beat repeating with no point,
no focus, beginning or end...just all over in five.
Pimmon's track entitled "Zwischen die sprunge"
whistles like the wind, clicking softly over and over...
electronic bleeps bounces against walls.
Then chimes appear to float past and off.
Meanwhile the piece clicks softly on,
whistling and crackling as it goes.
ah, but it all ends off track..
Nigel Bunn's Index gives us no sort of index,
no clue as to what is to come in
later tracks...
Five notes ring out from a piano,
repeating looping while a drone wavers underneath.
Over the top stumbles a trumpet,
slurring and missing notes before turning
into something else (not sure what) half way through.
>From new minimalist l'audible turns to the
dance rhythms of
PitchBlack (Mike Hodgson and Paddy Free)
who take us on a dub trip entitled "Speech"
...a long path crossing a vast
landscape of peaks and deep trenches.
The tracks starts with a ambient dubscape.
Cruising with
big bass drums smackin the earth
...sirens warn of impending dubasters...
the beat picks up pounding under a
heavily effected McLuhan...then back to a melody,
a hook...this track has many.
(the joy of figurative music)
rosy parlane, track 3 and 5, from :#1-4, (Sigma Edition 001).
Nigel Bunn, "Index", from Index, (Emperor Jones).
pitch black, "speech", from Futureproof, (Kog Transmissions).
Pimmon, "Zwischen die sprunge", from DAS Pimmon (self released)
------------______-
_ _________----_------:
perform browser redirect to:
l'audible @
http://laudanum.net/laudible
- real player enabled -
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- - - - _
/.. new tracks this week@l'audible
kind.regars.mr.snow
isola d'oro, fiore di levante
http://www.laudanum.net
kind.regars.mr.snow
isola d'oro, fiore di levante
http://www.laudanum.net
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Date: Mon, 01 Feb 1999 21:12:13 PST
From: Absurd Propaganda <propaganda@absurd.org>
To: Multiple recipients of <announcer@simsim.rug.ac.be>
Subject: ann! ... WHEN WINDOWS ATTACK, PART II
WHEN WINDOWS ATTACK, PART II
URL: http://www.absurd.org/a-periodic/wwa2/
Capturing the real terror of the windowing experience,
WHEN WINDOWS ATTACK, PART II displays Graphical User Interface in all its
inexorable gore.
WHEN WINDOWS ATTACK, PART II delivers a combination of real and
never-before-seen demonstrations received from anonymous sources from
around
the world. Riveting dramas unfold as unsuspecting users catch
full-throttle
action of an array of horrifying windowing activity, including panicking
mouse moves, sudden clicks on the reset button and nerve-wrecking pulling
of the power cord.
In addition, each episode contains hair-raising description of the real
user experiences.
Material might be non-suitable for people with limited technical
background.
Viewer discretion is advised.
_____________________________________________________________________________
Absurd Org.
http://www.absurd.org/
................................................................... 10
From: "[ear]" <ear@bar.bg>
Subject: [ear] proposal for partnership
Date: Mon, 1 Feb 1999 21:59:16 +0200
WHAT IS THIS
this is a proposal for partnership for an european art register [ear]
project
PROJECT TITLE
european art register [ear]
SHORT DESCRIPTION OF THE PROJECT
european art register [ear] will be a web based database for european
media
artists, artworks and organisations
the database will contain text information, images, real audio and video
and
will be able to generate reports as a response to set of search
criterias.
[ear] will make as well its own researches of the european media art.
the aim is to be created one stop web resource containing comprehensive
information about the european media art.
it will be designed to be used by the art professionals and the general
public, who search for information in the field of the european media art.
the concentrate data, hidden behind common design, common navigational
model
and common search methods, will turn into a powerful source of information
for both art professionals and general public.
TIMETABLE
the preparation of the project has started at the end of 1998.
the first partnership will be formed officially in the middle of february
1999 and will consist of all organisations indicated their willingness to
join before that time. the reason for this deadline is are deadlines for
the
kaleidoscope and raphael projects.
in order to start working as soon as possible, [ear] will start to accept
information and generate reports using the database facilities of the
bulgarian art register, which will be shortly after an initial partnership
is formed - as soon as an agreement on the basic database fields and
reports
is reached. later an own url will be registered .
METHODOLOGY
the structure of the database will be developed in a cooperation with
the partners and organisations/individuals interested in using and/or
helping its development. for this purpose a web site has been created at
www.bar.bg/ear where the general concept and the first content/structure
proposals have been published. there is an open bulletin board for
proposals
and an e-mail address ear@bar.bg
the database will be multilingual. all the information will be both in
english and in the national language of the author/artwork. it will be on
a
later stage when the whole database will be mirrored on another european
language(s).
there will be european central, and national centers represented by
partner
organisations in each country.
the european central will do the main coordination of the project, the
ongoing web database management, the international promotion of the
database, the joint fundraising and the editorial of the english part of
the
database.
the national centers will promote the database in their country and
establish contacts with artists and institutions, and provide editorial on
their national language.
there can be more than one partner center in a country.
the content will be entered through on-line forms by the authors
themselves
or by the partners.
content will be provided also through [ear]'s own research projects
through
the network of partners. in the general case the researches will be done
with the register's own resources and the result will be open to the
public.
researches can be as well commissioned to the [ear].
[ear] can also accept in its structures information and researches done by
other organisations up to the moment, serving as a library, making the
information accessible and searchable, stating clearly who is the
copyright
holder.
the use of the database will be free of charge.
WHAT THE PARTNERS WILL RECEIVE
participation in a large scale information network.
participation in the joint funding.
the partners who express willingness for partnership before the 10th of
february 1999 will take part in the application to kaleidoscope
(deadline the 2nd of march 1999) and raphael (deadline the 26th of march
1999).
WHO CAN BE A PARTNER
every person or organisation in the field of the media art who agrees with
the general concept and is ready to provide critical thinking and active
partnership in its area of activity.
HOW TO APPLY FOR PARTNERSHIP
you can contact with the [ear] coordinator javor r. raitchev at ear@bar.bg
and express your willingness to apply.
there are no requirements different than those described in the text.
the "procedure" of acceptance consists of finding the points where the
interest of the organisation/individual and the [ear] meet. this will
shape the concrete "partnership agreement".
all "partnership agreements" will be published on the [ear] web site in
draft
form to provide help for the self tuning of all partners in the network.
DEADLINES
the project will be open for new partners all the time.
however for the kaleidoscope and the raphael applications the deadline
willingness for partnership to be expressed is the 10th of february 1999.
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Date: Mon, 1 Feb 1999 17:18:57 -0500
From: Steve Dietz <stevedietz@yproductions.com>
Subject: The Unreliable Archivist
Gallery9/Walker Art Center announces "The Unreliable Archivist," a project
by Janet Cohen, Keith Frank, and Jon Ippolito.
Commissioned on the occasion of the official archiving at the Walker of
the
influential art site ada'web, "The Unreliable Archivist" allows the user
to
recombine aspects of ada'web according to a somewhat questionable--but not
wholly unreasonable--set of categories, from "plain" to "preposterous." As
unreliable archivists, Cohen, Frank, and Ippolito question what it means
to
archive or "fix" such a dynamic medium. There is also an implicit warning
about the possibility that our mad rush to database all known facts may be
as likely to engender lunacy as illumination.
In an interview published in conjunction with the project, I asked the
artistic trio how this "authorized hack" of ada'web reflects their
interest
in the adversarial aspects of collaboration:
JC: In our nondigital work the adversarial aspect of our collaboration
often entails fighting with each other. In our online work and in the few
group shows we've been in, you could say that we take on other artists as
our adversaries.
KF: So it takes a strong group with confidence in themselves and their
work
to deal with us successfully....da'web had the advantage of being one of
>the first structured art Web sites, and it featured many works that were
inextricably tied to the medium.
JI: The Unreliable Archivist proposes a particularly irreverent approach
to
re-presenting da'web: an archivist who has preserved the pieces but has
mixed up which pages they belong to. In a curious way, this scrambling may
be more faithful to the dynamic of the Web than preserving the integrity
of
each page....raising the question of whether da'web is more or less than
the sum of its parts.
The project itself (and the rest of the interview) can be found at
http://www.walkerart.org/gallery9/three/.
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Date: Tue, 02 Feb 1999 10:30:43 +0200
From: MEET Factory <meat@meetfactory.com>
Subject: ANNOUNCE: "Conversations with Angels" Book + CDrom
"CONVERSATIONS WITH ANGELS", THE WORLD'S FIRST INTERACTIVE NARRATIVE SET
WITHIN A 3D MULTIUSER VIRTUAL WORLD ON THE INTERNET IS NOW RELEASED AS A
PICTURE BOOK AND CD ROM!
Flirt with Princess Anne, the sensual lesbian who grows plants! Dare you
dive into Fat Bob's pool? Can you get out of Carl's room alive? What
about the kids, for ever having a party, dude! Yes, MEET Factory's
"Conversations with Angels" is something totally new on the Net - a
fully interactive multiuser narrative - provocative, funny, cutting edge
media! Get online with these wild and wicked characters. If you don't
laugh they'll make you cry! As Anne would say: "I love the culture of
victimhood"
Modelled in VRML, the Web standard for 3D graphics, and with specially
created textures and audio, "Conversations with Angels" is visually and
technically superb. MEET Factory's avatar and character design is second
to none, with a string of international awards already under their belt.
Now at last their worlds are available to the digitally challenged in
picture book form - pocket sized, perfect for beach or boardroom.
Don't waste time - experience "Conversations with Angels" for yourself
at
http://meetfactory.com
For more information or to order a review copy of the book please
contact info@meetfactory.com
"With Conversations with Angels we see the birth of a new art form for
this and the next century"
- Bruce Damer, author "Avatars, Exploring and building virtual worlds on
the Internet"
"Conversations with Angels is an important contribution to the
rethinking of representation and aesthetic possibilities in the virtual
realm."
- Steve Kurtz, Critical Art Ensemble
"I beg your pardon..?!"
- Super Activo, Saviour of the Universe
"Conversations with Angels" is created and produced by MEET Factory
(Media artists Andy Best & Merja Puustinen) in collaboration with the
Banff Centre for the Arts (http://www.banff.org) and Kiasma
(http://www.kiasma.fng.fi)
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Date: Tue, 02 Feb 1999 12:13:33 +0000
From: Decadent Action <decadent@underbelly.demon.co.uk>
Subject: Phone in sick - April 6th
*Psst... pass it on*
World Phone in Sick Day is April 6th and that is coming up fast.
In order for the event to be an even bigger success than previous years
we intend to invade the intranets and email in boxes of large
corporations and workplaces the world over. This is where we need your
help. Please pass this on to work colleagues and friends and encourage
them to do the same.
Were not really fans of chain letters or unsolicited email - but this
is in the name of revolution and a day off.
PLEASE CIRCULATE THIS MESSAGE
The 3rd World Phone in Sick Day takes place on 6 April 1999 and you are
invited to take part. All you have to do is not turn up for work. You
can think up something original or just have the flu. Just PHONE IN
SICK. If you have a great excuse then why not email and tell us.
decadent@underbelly.demon.co.uk
http://www.underbelly.demon.co.uk/decadent/docs/sickcont.htm
We would also like pledges of illness - tell us your job and your
company, you dont have to give your real name and we wont tell your
boss.
If you are a celebrity then why not pledge your support to us or to the
media. email us or see details at
http://www.underbelly.demon.co.uk/decadent/docs/sickstar.htm
Decadent Action are the organisers of World Phone in Sick Day - the
annual holiday for idlers, slackers, anarchists and workers of the
world.
You can find out all about us at
http://www.underbelly.demon.co.uk/decadent/
You can sign up for more of our messages (about one a month) by sending
an email to decadent@underbelly.demon.co.uk with the subject header
subscribe
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