Subject : newsletter
From : Alex Galloway
Date : 2001/06/21
Link : http://rhizome.org/archive/digest/msg00027.rhiz
RHIZOME DIGEST: June 21, 2001
Content:
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1. Alex Galloway: Splash & OpenMouse
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2. Julia Friedman: "Baby Play" by Shu Lea Cheang
3. Yael Kanarek: LOVE LETTERS IN YOUR E-MAILBOX
4. Steve Dietz: Ochen K "community" @ Walker Art Center
5. Nat Muller: Become a Scientist! Build your own acoustic jungle!
6. slub: slub 256
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7. Web Lab | Crossover: Call for Application
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1.
Date: 6.21.01
From: Alex Galloway (alex@%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%)
Subject: Splash & OpenMouse
I am pleased to announce three additions to the Rhizome splash page
collection:
Annie Abrahams
http://rhizome.org/splash/bram/
Gregory Chatonsky
http://rhizome.org/splash/chatonsky/
jimpunk
http://rhizome.org/splash/jimpunk/
Also, Rhizomers in or near New York will want to check out the next
Rhizome OpenMouse on Thursday, June 28th. Rhizome OpenMouse takes place
at FUN, located at 130 Madison Street between Pike & Market in New York
City, directly under the Manhattan Bridge. Please note that we will be
starting and ending an hour later than previous OpenMice from now on. We
start at 8pm and go to midnight. As usual, there's no cover!
Rhizome OpenMouse(tm) is a treatment for nighttime boredom designed by
Cultural Alchemy (www.soundlab.org) and Rhizome.org. Artists sign up for
hour-long slots to show their work on FUN's giant projection screens,
creating an immersive space for the cross-breeding of digital art and
sound projects. See http://rhizome.org/events for more info.
http://rhizome.org/splash/bram/
http://rhizome.org/splash/chatonsky/
http://rhizome.org/splash/jimpunk/
http://www.soundlab.org
http://rhizome.org/events
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JUST RELEASED - Sandbox Magazine #9: GENDER PLAY
Featuring Cupcake, JT LeRoy, Bob Flanagan, Sheree Rose, Dred King, The
Backdoor Boys, Black Lily, Pet(e) Silvia, Matthew Shepard/Angel Action
interviews + articles + media art reviews
http://www.sandboxarts.org
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2.
Date: 6.19.2001
From: Julia Friedman (info@%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%)
Subject: "Baby Play" by Shu Lea Cheang
Keywords: narrative, memory, language, gene
"Baby Play" premiers at NTT/InterCommunication Center [ICC], Tokyo A new
Net installation by Shu Lea Cheang
June 22-July 29, 2001
For more information about "Baby Play," please visit:
http://www.ntticc.or.jp
To participate in "Baby Play," please visit:
http://babyplay.ntticc.or.jp
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"Baby Play" interlinks a large-scale foosball field ("Baby Play" is
derived from the French name for foosball, "baby foot") with the Net as
a ME-motion (memory-emotion) playing field. "Baby Play" is installation
1.0 of Cheang's "Locker Baby" project (2001-2002), which features three
Net installations based on a fictional scenario set in the year 2030.
Produced by the Dolly Polly Transgency (DPT) with genes extracted from
deep sea pearls, the clone generation of Locker Babies are born out of
Tokyo coin lockers and entrusted to retrieve our collective deposits of
ME-motion data on the Net.
"Baby Play" is comprised of an immense foosball playing field (15m x
7.5m), 22 inflatable designer locker babies (140cm in height), 8 playing
rods (5m in length), a large-scale projection and a "Baby Play" website.
As local gallery participants engage in a game of foosball, the image
of the ball bouncing in the actual playing field is sent to the
ME-motion virtual field on the Net. The movement of the ball in the
actual playing field is tracked by 36 touch sensors and sent to the
"Baby Play" website where the virtual moving ball retrieves sound and
text files as ME-motion data. The public is invited to utilize the 36
virtual lockers for data deposit and to play ball on the Net.
Cheang, whose work netlinks physical and online spaces, has exhibited at
Walker Art Center (Bowling Alley 1995), ICC Biennal (Buy One Get One,
1997) and created the Guggenheim Museum's first web based art project,
entitled "Brandon." (1998-1999). Baby Play marks her return to
large-scale net installations after the release of her Japanese
cyberporn feature film, "I.K.U." (2000).
A set of 36 essential sound data based on Ryu Murakami's 1980's novel
"Coin Locker Babies" is contributed by Atau Tanaka.
http://www.ntticc.or.jp
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The Electronic Literature Directory is a valuable resource for readers &
writers of e-literature. The ELO's directory provides an extensive
database of electronic texts, their authors, & their publishers. Entries
include poetry, fiction, drama, & nonfiction written for new-media
environments. Read the web: http://directory.eliterature.org/!
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3.
Date: 6.20.2001
From: Yael Kanarek (yael@%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%)
Subject: LOVE LETTERS IN YOUR E-MAILBOX
Keywords: narrative, memory, love, email
LOVE LETTERS IN YOUR E-MAILBOX
http://www.worldofawe.net
New York, NY, June 19, 2001 -- Treasure/Crumbs is pleased to announce
the launch of the Love Letters Delivery Service. Not a virus, this
feature of World of Awe (WOA) will enable subscribers to receive love
letters via email approximately once a month through 2003.
WOA is an ongoing cross-media project since 1995. Conceived by artist
Yael Kanarek, it is based on an original non-linear narrative that uses
the ancient genre of the traveler's tale to explore the connections
between storytelling, memory & technology.
To subscribe: http://www.worldofawe.net
About the Letters In the Sunset/Sunrise, a desert terrain locked into
the mindframe between night and day, a traveler searches for a lost
treasure. According to the website, the traveler's journal and the
letters were found on a laptop. An examination of the letters
demonstrates that they are all addressed to an absent lover, though,
both the traveler and the lover remain obscure in their identities.
The letters are reminiscent of 19th century romanticism infused with
magical realism. Whether it is the lament over the absence of the lover
or a comical declaration of loyalty to the floppy disk, the collection
of letters portray a wide range of themes joined by the unusual
signature: "Yours forever, your sunset/sunrise forever yours, yours
forever yours."
The Network The Love Letters Delivery Service expresses the capacity of
the Internet to reappropriate and recontextualize artistic content. Such
metabolism of content is also built into the underlying mechanism of WOA
as a cross- media project. While the web requires a person to visit, an
email reaches out, thus enhancing the sense of personal intimacy to the
threshold of eerieness.
"The Love Letters Delivery Service furthers the manifestation of WOA on
the Internet and regulates an activity that was practiced spontaneously
as early as 1996," says Ms. Kanarek. "Viewing a web page and reading an
email are two different network events and this service as an extension
to the website responds to these differences."
About World of Awe A treasure hunt takes place in a desert terrain
called the Sunset/Sunrise, where the determination to find the lost
treasure meets nostalgia for speculated technology and longing for a
loved one left behind. Treasure crumbs found in excavation sites, oddly,
resemble candy sprinkles. Written in the literary style of magical
realism, WOA contains a collection of love letters that open from
digital landscapes and journal entries that describe events occurring
through the expedition. Also included are detailed technical
descriptions of three navigation tools: The map, the moodRingBaby and
the magnifying glass.
About the Artist Yael Kanarek is a media artist who has been developing
WOA for the past six years. The latest rendition of the website was
launched in July 2000. Previous versions have been archived in the
Rhizome Artbase. Ms. Kanarek is a recipient of The Alternative Museum
Digital Commission 2000 and NYFA fellowships award 2001 in the computer
arts category. Currently, an artist-in-residence at Harvestworks, she is
collaborating with composer Yoav Gal to create a music CD. WOA has been
included in festivals around the world. Yael Kanarek is represented by
Michele Thursz gallery.
The Love Letters Delivery Service is programmed and executed by software
artist & Rhizome editor Alex Galloway.
http://www.worldofawe.net
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LAWSUIT AGAINST LEONARDO DISMISSED IN FRENCH COURT!!
On Monday 28 May 2001 a three-judge panel in Nanterre, France, issued a
preliminary ruling dismissing all of the charges filed by Transasia
Corp. and Leonardo Finance against the international arts organization
Association Leonardo. For more information:
http://mitpress.mit.edu/e-journals/Leonardo/isast/lawsuit.html
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4.
Date: 6.18.2001
From: Steve Dietz (stevedietz@yproductions.com)
Subject: Ochen K "community" @ Walker Art Center
Keywords: social space, identity, community
Ochen K will present his commissioned work, "Community," at 7 pm
Thursday, June 21 as part of Free Thursday next week at the Walker Art
Center, Minneapolis, USA.
http://community.walkerart.org
http://www.walkerart.org/gallery9/community/
"Community" is about, in general, community, and our individual roles
within that community. Specifically, this piece is presented within
three particular ideas.
First, the idea our society perpetuates that any bond outside of the
construct of either the first family we are born into, or the second
family that we create through marriage and childbirth must, and will,
always supersede those bonds of friendship and community. The
segregation of the 'nuclear family' from the extended kin and community
forced women to become more dependent on the individual man, and
children to become more dependent on the individual woman. This
dependency created the much used opportunity for the abuse of that
power.
The second idea is the contemporary agreement by the 'social
capitalists' like Putnam and de Souza Briggs, that the notion of
'community,' and its relevance to daily life has been waning over the
last half century. It is generally noted, but often downplayed, that
while the traditional models of community such as the church,
recreational clubs, the PTA, political parties, etc. have shown a
steadily declining membership count, new models of community, such as
self-help groups, social movements, and especially the Net, have
flourished in membership ratios as well as group counts.
The third idea, is that of a deeper understanding of the difference
between loneliness and solitude. It is a distinction we all know to
exist, but find difficulty in seeing it practiced in our own lives.
Without that understanding, community is nothing but a home for
codependency.
Ochen K. is an artist, composer, choreographer, and performer living and
working in Minneapolis, Minnesota. His musical credits include complete
scores for Bondi Dance (Los Angeles, California) and The Gandini
Juggling Project (London, England), soundtracks for Peapot Productions
(Helsinki, Finland), new musical theater works for Nautilus Music
Theater (St. Paul, Minnesota), and numerous soundscapes for various
theater and dance performances. He has served as the lead choreographer
for a number of shows in the U.S. and Europe, specializing in 'post
modern juggling,' mixing dance and theater with object manipulation.
Ochen has won a number of design awards for his commercial work, and has
recently received a grant from the Jerome Foundation for a commission by
the Walker Art Center.
http://community.walkerart.org
http://www.walkerart.org/gallery9/community/
http://www.ochenk.com/
http://telematic.walkerart.org/datasphere/
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**MUTE MAGAZINE - OUT NOW!** In the new issue: Bruce Sterling talks to
Ulrich Gutmair and Martin Conrads on what positive political inter-
vention might look like in the Brave New World of eco-catastrophe:
www.metamute.com/mutemagazine/current/ or listen to the audio-file in
Metamute's M-files archive www.metamute.com/mfiles
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5.
Date: 6.19.2001
From: Nat Muller (Nathalie.Muller@%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%)
Subject: Become a Scientist! Build your own acoustic jungle!
Keywords: interact, audio, waves
V2_Organisation and Goethe-Institut Inter Nationes present: 'Sensible
akustische Modules'. Under the banner 'Become a scientist! Build your
own acoustic jungle!' three young artists from Cologne; Felix Hahn, Miki
Yui and Ralf Schreiber design acoustic modules which subtle sounds are
triggered by light and audio signals. Hahn, Yui and Schreiber are all
three graduates from the Academy of Media Arts in Cologne. In three
programs (an exhibition, a performance, and a workshop) they focus on
the relationship between humans and their acoustic environment. Their
modules show that our surroundings are not entirely filled with 'noise'
and subtly re-open our ears for the interaction between sound and
environment.
Opening Monday 2nd July 2001, location: Goethe-Institut, Westersingel 9,
3014 GM Rotterdam, 20.00 till 22.00 hours. Opening speech by the
artists.
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Exhibition 'ask 02 & solar sound modules nervous networks' Tuesday 3rd
till Sunday 8th July 2001, location: Goethe-Institut, Tue Thu 10.00 till
19.00 hours, Fri 10.00 till 17.00 hours, Sat Sun 14.00 till 18.00 hours,
entrance free.
'ask 02' (acoustic survival kit)': Try on and experience acoustic
waistcoats consisting of embedded electronic components which generate
sound according to light intensity. 'solar sound modules nervous
networks': a group of electronic particles which move and produce sound
under the influence of light. Together they form an organic system, the
minimum construction for synthetic life: an acoustic jungle.
Performance: 'Schwachstromelektriker & Datenrauschen' Friday 6th July
2001, V2_Organisatie during dot.nu program, 20.00 hours, entrance fl.
7,50
'Schwachstromelektriker': With solar modules Miki Yui and Ralf
Schreiber, supported by Felix Hahn, create live exciting beats and
surprising rhythms. 'Datenrauschen': is a program for live mixing of
sound files, which can be loaded from the local hard drive or filtered
off the Internet. Datenrauschen filters audio and subsequently
integrates it into an ongoing sound collage. (concept/ design: Felix
Hahn, programming Holger Reckter)
Workshops Build your own solar bot and chaotic sound module Tuesday 3rd
July and Wednesday 4th July 2001, location: V2_Organisatie, 14.00 till
18.00 hours, entrance fl. 10,-
The artists Yui, Schreiber and Hahn teach the participants how they can
solder their own solar bot and solar sound module. Seats limited,
booking advised, contact Nat Muller via email nat@v2.nl or phone (010)
206 72 72.
http://www.v2.nl/wiretap
http://www.khm.de/ask
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Artbyte celebrates its third anniversary with a stunning May/June issue
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Varda measure the effects of the digital video revolution. Go to
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https://www.artbyte.com/
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6.
Date: 6.21.01
From: slub (slub@%%%%%%%%%%)
Subject: slub 256
20010621
slub 256
http://slub.org/
all the 256 combinations of two 8-bit bytes
all the 65536 16-bit words
8:31.28
http://slub.org/microsites/256
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7.
Date: 6.21.01
From: Web Lab | Crossover (info@weblab.org)
Subject: Call for Application
Wanted: New Media, Film and Video Makers Ready to Crossover
If you stay awake at night wondering when the real media revolution will
begin--or planning how you're going to set it off--Crossover may be for
you.
Web Lab designed Crossover as a "media intervention" to create
groundbreaking new projects that expand the potential of digital media
to transform the "audience" from passive consumers into active
participants.
Online application are now being accepted from new media, film and
video makers for Studio A, a five-day retreat in February 2002 that sets
Crossover in motion.
Visit www.weblab.org/crossover now for complete information on Crossover
and details on how to apply. The application deadline is July 13, 2001.
http://www.weblab.org/crossover
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