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. The Announcer ................................................... . a weekly digest of calls . actions . websites . campaigns . etc . . send all announcements and notes to [email protected] . . please don't be late ! delivered every friday . into your inbox . ................................................................... 01 . CyberSalon Announce . BECTU meeting 02 . Oleg Kireev . mailradek in english 03 . Anne-Marie Schleiner . Game Patch Show 04 . Gate Foundation . GATE exhibition: The Archives 0001 05 . Olga Kisseleva . new artistic web-site 06 . Catherine McGovern . maid in cyberspace - encore ! press release 07 . Jon C. Ippolito . "The Space Between" this Monday at Guggenheim Museum SoHo 08 . [email protected] . DEAF98: Online Realities in 3D 09 . stickman . Its an ad. It's 4,470 dollars. It's art! 10 . Museo de Arte Contemporaneo Carrillo Gil . 1/ Press release TOUR. RBW21 in the MACG 11 . Eugene Thacker . W3LAB announcement 12 . Technologies To The People . Live Video Art /Full Screen/Real Revolution 13 . [email protected] . Swallow Is Ten. Calm Down. ................................................................... 01 Date: Sun, 1 Nov 1998 21:13:43 +0000 Subject: BECTU meeting From: CyberSalon Announce <[email protected]> From: Martin Spence <[email protected]> DO YOU WORK IN NEW MEDIA? MULTIMEDIA? CD-ROM APPLICATIONS? WEBSITE DESIGN? If so get yourself along to BECTU's open meeting at 7.00 p.m. on Monday 16th November in the Asquith Room, 111 Wardour Street, London, W1. On the agenda: contracts, pay rates, working conditions, hours of work. BECTU is the trade union for film, TV and media workers. ------------------------------------------------------------------- Dr. Richard Barbrook Hypermedia Research Centre School of Communications, Design & Media University of Westminster Watford Road Northwick Park HARROW HA1 3TP http://www.hrc.wmin.ac.uk/ +44 (0)171-911-5000 x 4590 ................................................................... 02 Date: Mon, 2 Nov 1998 20:55:33 +0300 (WSU) From: Oleg Kireev <[email protected]> Moscow-based magazine "Radek", dedicated to theory, art and politics continues the project "mailradek in english". The information about the magazine is available on the Website: http://www.geocities.com/SoHo/Coffeehouse/1457. Everybody who doesn't receive it can send a "subscribe english mailradek" e-mail to [email protected], and we'll include him into the mailing list. Our address is: Russia 117333 Moscow, Vavilova 48-237, for O.Kireev. tel./fax:(095)137 71 31. Text no. 62 30.10.1998 Moscow Contemporary Art doesn't exist anymore. This art was seen to embody the most progressive centre of our new Westernership, to have worked out strategies of the opposition to the power in the 70s and 80s, to have represented Russia in the West in the course of Perestroika and claimed to have a new social project. The dearest thing of the Moscow artistic milieu - an international acknowledgement - came to an end (even Kulik-the-superstar is not assured of the near future), the other one, which it hated mostly and seriously hoped to beat - Tsereteli and the like - has grossly crawled all over the capital. The galleries opened in the late 80s or the early 90s have closed or become the local centers *for friends*, new issues of the *Moscow Art Magazine* are not expected eagerly anymore, the newspaper critics who attracted the most attention in the previous years, disappeared from their newspapers, and even the size of cultural columns in newspapers has been reduced or disappeared altogether. Thank God, we were among the first to leave this drowning boat... Quite simply - they have created their social project in a wrong way, developed their professional ideology in a wrong way, and built their plans for the limitless future. The names of Elena Selina, Fedor Romer or Yuri Leiderman are not telling much already, although these are the central actors in history of our Actual Art. This art was just totally blind towards surrounding it reality. The USSR epoch seemed to be gone completely, democracy - was final, and ahead of them were only foreign trips, philosophy and a high intellect. This philosophy didn't explain what the capitalism was, and why any social institution exists the limited time only and then historically changes. The main news of the week indeed sound anew in the context of such history: Brener returns! The main terrorist and provocateur of the Moscow art circle hasn't found success in the West also. But he was among the very first to believe in universality of contemporary art and to build his heroic strategies of resistance with reference to it. What will he achieve now? There's even no one to get afraid of his return.... Oleg Kireev project: Anatoly Osmolovsky and Oleg Kireev translation: Irina Aristarkhova and Oleg Kireev realization: mailradek ................................................................... 03 Date: Mon, 2 Nov 1998 18:11:19 -0800 (PST) From: Anne-Marie Schleiner <[email protected]> Subject: Game Patch Show Call for Artist's Proposals or Submissions: Proposal or Submission Deadline: December 10, 1998 Contact e-mail: [email protected] "Cracking the Maze" will be an on-line exhibit of game patches and plug-ins created by artists, game hackers and hybrid characters that will be hosted on Switch, an on-line journal of new media art and theory. Participating artists will be provided with optional game patching/hacking software, including software donated by Bungie. The exhibit will also include writings by theorists Erkki Huhtamo and Sandy Stone. "Cracking the Maze" will be curated by Anne-Marie Schleiner. Cracking the Maze Game Plug-ins and Patches as Hacker Art As any avid gamer quickly discovers, the Internet is not only a free source of computer game cheats and puzzle keys, but the home of numerous game plug-ins and patches available for download. These patches range from a simple repair of a programming bug to intricate new game scenarios, replacing the characters, sounds, architecture and/or game challenges in the original games. The increasing popularity of these once unsanctioned game hacks has led some gaming companies, like the producers of Quake and Marathon, to capitalize on the trend and subsume this once renegade practice into their marketing strategy, bundling patch-making software with their official games. Certainly the Internet fame of the "Nuderaider" patch for Tomb Raider, a patch which strips the protagonist Lara Crofts already scanty attire to reveal sharp nude polygons, is good PR for Tomb Raider. Web rumor has it that Eidos Interactive faked and distributed the Nude Raider screenshots as a publicity stunt. Another common application of game patches is in the corporate Silicon Valley workspace, where workers relieve tension by playing networked tunnel shooter games over their local ethernet network, pasting photographs of themselves onto the games avatars and customizing the architecture to mimic their own corporate habitat. Other game patches position themselves in a more critical and/or subversive relation to their "hosts", the official game engines. Rather than constructing themselves as hyperbole to the host game or as a customized simulation, the more subversive patches offer alternatives to the often rigidly defined genres of gameplay and sometimes create new genres that are assimilated into the game marketplace. Although the category of "feminist game patches" is not entirely accurate, game patches with female protagonists prefigure the first appearance of female characters in official games like Tomb Raider, Resident Evil, and Final Fantasy VII. The Marathon Infinity patch "Tina Shapes and Tina Sounds" replaced the protagonist,"Infinity Bob" with a female Tina. A Japanese Doom patch entitled "Otakon Doom" replaced the protagonist with a Japanese animation girlfighter named "Priss". Still another Doom patch replaced all the characters with the cast from the movie "Aliens", including substituting Sigourney Weaver for the male protagonist. Another variety of game patches humorously undermines the extremely macho codes of interaction in shoot-em-up computer games by substituting the standard adult male characters with androgynous animals and goofy childrens fantasy characters. Take for instance the Marathon patch that replaced all the characters with different colored gumby dolls and the Doom patch entitled "Barney and his Minions". Although some artists have successfully created games as art, producing a game patch as art offers certain advantages over building a game from scratch. On a technical level, of course, the artist(s) avoids having to put in the extensive time required for programming an interactive game engine. But the parasitic game patch is also a means to infiltrate gaming culture and to contribute to the formation of new configurations of game characters, game space and gameplay. Like the sampling rap MC, game hacker artists operate as culture hackers who manipulate existing techno-semiotic structures towards different ends or, as described by artist Brett Stalbaum, "who endeavor to get inside cultural systems and make them do things they were never intended to do." "Cracking the Maze" will exhibit both game patches created by artists and game patch artifacts from the web produced by the original game hackers, in an attempt to generate an open discourse on art, games, game hacking and gaming culture on the Internet. Many artists, art critics, new media critics and theoreticians have expressed a disdain for games and game style interactivity, in fact, to describe an interactive computer art piece as "too game-like" is a common pejorative. But considering the increasing popularity of computer games with younger generations, even at the expense of television, it seems perilous to ignore the spread of gaming culture. What sorts of spaces computer games construct, what sorts of gender-subject configurations operate in computer games, and what sorts of politics of 'the other' computer games employ, what modes of interactivity and addiction computer games invite, how networked on-line games construct alternate worlds, how gaming culture manifests itself on the Internet--these are all areas ripe for investigation by cultural critics and manipulation by game hacker artists. "Cracking the Maze" will attempt to bring together discourse and activity in these and other areas in relation to the game patch as hacker art. ................................................................... 04 Date: Tue, 3 Nov 1998 12:48:40 +0100 From: "Gate Foundation" <[email protected]> To: Multiple recipients of <[email protected]> Subject: GATE exhibition: The Archives 0001 Amsterdam, November 2 1998 THE ARCHIVES 0001 On the Index The presentation is open to the public from November 9 until December 24 1998 The openinghours of the Gate Foundation are from Monday to Friday from 10 AM to 5 PM The Archives 0001 is the first public presentation of the artist-archives that are documented by the Gate Foundation. Information about 750 artists is filed in these archives. The Archives compile documentation of Dutch artists from different cultural backgrounds and artists from Africa, Asia and Latin America. During the presentation of The Archives, works by different artists from the archives, will be shown, in the exhibitionspace of the Gate Foundation, in an ongoing and changing set up. These artists challenge the Dutch art topography, the nature and perception of the artworld and the discussions on art and culture. The exhibition will present the Gate Foundation as an institute where research can be done on international art consisting of paintings, sculptures, objects and installations, photo, video and performance, drawing and graphics. This first presentation of the Archives is arranged around questions about the Index and indexical forms: how does the Index relate to other Indexical forms such as exhibitions and catalogues? What is the nature of national and international Index forms? How do indexes relate to contemporary views on national, continental and international transactions in the world of art? Visit our homepage at http://www.base.nl/gate for information on the artists currently exhibited. History The Archives have grown into the most comprehensive and larger account of Dutch artists from different cultural backgrounds as well as from international artists from Asia, Africa and Latin America. It started as a result of the researches on foreign artists in The Netherlands developed by the Gate Foundation in relation to particular projects such as the 1991 exhibition Het Klimaat and the prolonguated researches on refugee artists in The Netherlands in cooperation with the Dutch organization for refugees VluchtelingenWerk Nederland which eventually resulted in Het Toeval van de Plaats . This project consisted of a series of silk-screens, made by 15 refugee artists, living in the Netherlands. Also a lengthy report was written as a result of the 1994/1996 research on refugee-artists in the Netherlands. The Gate Foundation provides advice, information and help to develop projects starting from the Archives. Recent exhibitions and activities such as Power Up in the Museum of Modern Art in Arnhem and Soaps in the Museum of Ethnology in Rotterdam were curated based on the Archives of the Gate Foundation. Among others the University of Leiden has done research based on the Archives and organized student workshops in addition. This way the Archives serve as a major source for a broad area of study and activities within the international visual arts. The Gate Foundation is a non-profit organization supported by the Ministry of Education, Culture and Science and by the Municipality of Amsterdam. Please contact the Gate Foundation for more relevant information. ................................................................... 05 From: "Olga Kisseleva" <[email protected]> Subject: new artistic web-site Date: Tue, 3 Nov 1998 23:22:37 +0100 Hi, � "How are you" , a new artistic web-site by Olga Kisseleva is now on-line at http://www.fraclr.org � "In "How are You?" the artist asked this question of people in different countries. She entered the received answers into a computer and created hyperlinks between them. The answers came to form a single text. A collective answer, which assumes a collective subject. But this collective subject is created by the artist. She attempted, in other words, to create a whole, a utopian unity out of fragments, the fragments of individual minds, individual beings, pieces of TV news, memories, languages, customs, pop culture, and so on. The resulting communication utopia has a distinctly late twentieth form of hypertext. Maybe this is the only kind of unity possible today, or at least the kind of unity which is true to the mosaic nature of fragments it brings together?" (Lev Manovich) � "How are you" is the interactive project, changed by users day after day. � best regards � Olga Kisseleva artist associated professor at Art department of Jean Monnet University ................................................................... 06 Date: Wed, 4 Nov 1998 13:24:10 -0500 From: Catherine McGovern <[email protected]> Subject: maid in cyberspace - encore ! press release Maid in Cyberspace - Encore ! NOV 6 -28TH, 1998 BELGO 410 372, Ste-Catherine W, no410 Montreal Maid in Cyberspace Encore! is Studio XX�s 2nd annual international festival of web art by women. Maid in Cyberspace Encore! will be held November 6th to 28th, 1998, at Belgo 410, 372 Ste-Catherine West, #410, Montr�al. Eleven women artistsfrom Canada (Montr�al, Toronto, Calgary), New York, Australia, England, Scotland, and Estonia will present web art projects in the festival. Web art treats the Internet as a specific medium for creation and expression a medium which is a relatively new one for art. Explore its boundaries: at the festival During the festival, visitors are invited to view the various web art projects at their leisure on a fast Internet connection. Documentation about the projects and the artists will be available. at home All projects will be viewable on the web from the !! opening date of the festival at: www.studioxx.org/maid-encore/ Events: Vernissage : November 6th, 6 - 9pm. Snack, sip Napoleonic battle cocktails, surf the projects. Aural fixations provided thru a Hot Streaming Radio performance by <CCS>, an experimental sound collective that grooves on netcasting projects. The show will be a collaborative live stream from NYC and Banff, to Montreal. <CCS> is Yvanne Faught & Susan Kennard. www.irational.org/radio/ccs November 14th 1 - 3pm.: Curly, Larry & PoMo (situating cyberfeminism within contemporary culture) and 4 - 6pm: the $9.95 Project (or how to build interactive media art for $9.95). With invited speaker Nancy Paterson; electronic media artist, (of the Internet based Stock Market Skirt installation), teacher, and Associate Artist at the Bell Centre for Creative Communications in Toronto. November 21st, 2pm. Up and coming web toys and tricks for artists, etc� along with presentations by local artists and the Maid jury. November 28th, 12:30 pm. Russian Forum North/North: East West (8:30pm Moscow Time). Returning from the First Cyberfeminism Symposium in Russia, Katherine Liberovskaya will unite women involved in web art from Montreal, St-Petersburg, and possibly Siberia artists, as well as curators, organisers and theorists - in a on-line LIVE forum. The forum will address "East" & "West" women's perspectives and visions on the possibilities, advantages and disadvantages of the Internet for creative expression. Concurrently, a special curated selection of Russian women's web art will be presented. Maid artists: A Grammar of Signs - JR Carpenter High Rise - Isabel Chang Cards and Holes - Alicia Felberbaum Encounter - Beverly Hood Words - Tiia Johannson Shifting - Tina LaPorta Soundwalks - Andra McCartney Please Stay on the Line - Juliet Ann Martin Diagnostic Tools for the New Millenium - Josephine Starrs Synchronicite - Pascale Trudel Positive - Sheila Urbanoski For Information: Catherine McGovern Studio XX (514) 845-7934 [email protected] www.studioxx.org --- If you would like to volunteer in the context of Maid in Cyberspace - Encore ! please don't hesitate to be so nice. Call us. 845-7934. xx-xx-xx-xx Studio XX - art | techno | femmes 24, Mont-Royal ouest, #605 Montr�al (Qu�bec) h2t 2s2 (514) 845-7934 [email protected] www.studioxx.org ................................................................... 07 Date: Wed, 04 Nov 1998 15:30:47 -0500 From: "Jon C. Ippolito" <[email protected]> Subject: "The Space Between" this Monday at Guggenheim Museum SoHo What does cyberspace--the space between our globally connected desktops, = laptops, and cell phones--look like? "The Space Between," the third = symposium in the Guggenheim's Speaking Digital series, gathers artists, = architects, and curators to present interactive maps of this "new = frontier" and discuss their political and philosophical implications.=20 *Susan Hapgood, curator, will present "Extension," a dynamic display of = art-oriented Web sites she and other former ada'web members, Benjamin Weil = and Ainatte Inbal, created for the Guggenheim's CyberAtlas project. *Simon Pope, artist and software designer, will present the I/O/D "Web = Stalker," a program that maps the Web as it browses. *Hani Rashid, professor at Columbia University and partner with Lise Anne = Couture in Asymptote Architecture, will present various datascape = visualizations developed for both theoretical and practical contexts. *Laura Trippi, curator and Web/New Media Services Manager for Carnegie = Hall, will present "Intelligent Life," a thematic map of web sites created = for CyberAtlas based on the model of a neural net. *Maciej Wisniewski, artist, will present "Turnstile 2" and "ScanLink," two = java-based applications that scan the Internet for hidden relationships. The discussion is organized and moderated by Jon Ippolito, Assistant = Curator of Media Arts at the Guggenheim Museum. The symposium is held in = conjunction with the museum's CyberAtlas project. Monday, November 9, 7 p.m. Guggenheim Museum SoHo 575 Broadway (at Prince Street) $10 ($5 for members, seniors, and students with valid ID). Tickets are = available at the admission desk during Museum hours, or call the box = office at (212) 423-3587. Doors open at 6:30 p.m. Speaking Digital is a series of public dialogues--at the Guggenheim Museum = SoHo and on the Web--which brings together artists, innovators in = technology, critics, writers, and others actively involved in working and = thinking about the creative possibilities of digital technology. This = symposium is generously sponsored by Samsung as part of its ongoing = support of the Guggenheim Museum. For more information, please visit http://www.guggenheim.org/speakingdigital http://cyberatlas.guggenheim.org ................................................................... 08 Date: Thu, 5 Nov 1998 13:10:32 +0200 (MET) from: [email protected] subject: DEAF98: Online Realities in 3D Dutch Electronic Art Festival - DEAF98 Thursday 19 November 1998, 14.00-18.00 Bonheur, Eendrachtsstraat 79, Rotterdam NLG 7,50 Online Realities in 3D The programme 'Online Realities in 3D' is held in the framework of the DEAF98 Digital Dive. It presents artists' projects which use three-dimensionality as a metaphor for designing and articulating the social and technical processes that take place in the 'data scape'. They use '3D' not as a simple mirror of reality, but explore its potential meaning in online world. This afternoon of presentations offers an overview over recent developments of 3D-online design. It will not provide definitive answers, but is meant as a starting point for prolific discussions about the usefulness of 3D as a metaphor in online environments. 14.15-14.30 Introduction by Katja Martin (D) (moderator) 14.30-15.45 Presentations of: - Staging Strategies by Programm5 (Nicole Martin and Lilian Juechtern (D)) The project 'Staging Strategies' focusses on designing a genuine formal language for the media of virtual reality. The basic element of a virtual world is dynamic information. Events, data. Everything is floating and moving. How do you visualize this in three-dimensional space? Which sensual experiences are elementary to a Virtual Reality? Dataworlds lack gravity: there is no Up and Down, no ground, no horizon. One move and everything is changing. How can I find my way in a Virtual Reality? Staging Strategies researches the basic parameters constituting the 'gestalt' of a virtual reality. - The Negative River by Karoly Toth (H/NL) A co-operation of artists, writers and scientists who create a navigable organic environment, using the river as metaphor. The participants contribute documents and digital traces from their living environment which are used to build up an information database. From this database, a reconstruction of a new spatio-temporal structure, a Terra A-Topia, is made in virtuual space. The project is less concerned with the latest technical developments in hard- and software, than with the technologies of thought, imagination, intuition and perception. If information is accepted as one of the physical conditions of matter, then cognition has to be viewed as a fundamental basis and the memetic engine of our understanding and 'mapping' of the world. The virtual model of 'The Negative River' incorporates a series of mutually influential data events that create a morphing, continuously transforming and interactive structure of thoughts and cognitive relations. - Demedusator by Zoltan Szegedy-Maszak and Marton Fernezelyi (H) Demedusator is a shared virtual world developed by its visitors. Any creative participant can "publish" his/her creatures - let it be a complete virtual world or sound, movie, picture - by placing them in a 3D world explorable by any (Web)surfer. People can reflect to the existing content by uploading something near to them, or they can create "a village of their own" by uploading the parts of it as contents placed in the same 3D area. The infinite container-space of DEMEDUSATOR is ready to be inhabited: any pioneer can find an unsettled space-segment for his/her new virtual home. - Happy Doomsday! by Calin Dan (RO/NL) Happy Doomsday! is about the instability and virtual manipulability of territories. The project combines elements of computer games with the history of Europe. It is an idiosyncratic physical human-machine interface. The user starts the program by sitting down on a fitness machine. He/she then chooses an avatar country and war target. To reach the target the user has to perform a workout on the fitness machine. This machine is linked to other participants who can intervene in the progress of the user's war efforts. Wars have constantly changed the political and territorial situation. The participant has to adjust to the war scenario from the period in which he/she has chosen to play the program. These historical facts influence the war simulation of this project. (HD! is presented in the DEAF98 exhibition.) - VRMLsite by Kas Oosterhuis (NL) and Ilona Lenard (NL) The VRMLsite is an open online discussion environment in VRML featuring a live-debate between architects, designers and theorists.The discussion is open to the public who can log on as an audience-avatar into the VRML environment. 'vrmlSITE' contains free-floating, characteristic elements of projects by the participants. Each participant is represented by an avatar which is not a person but a small 3D world in itself, so that participants and audience experience parallel 3D worlds talking to each other. The participants can trigger events - by clicking on words in the vrmlSITE - during the discussion. 16.15-17.00 Discussion 17.00-18.00 Online discussion VRMLsite Bookmarks Staging Strategies - http://www.digitalworks.org/rd/p5 The Negative River - http://users.bart.nl/~terra/fresh.htm Demedusator - http://demedusator.c3.hu Happy Doomsday! - http://www.v2.nl/~aadjan/hd/ VRMLsite - http://www.oosterhuis.nl, http://www.lenard.nl DEAF98, Dutch Electronic Art Festival 17 - 29 november 1998 Eendrachtsstraat 10 3012 XL Rotterdam Netherlands tel: ++31.10.2067272 fax: ++31.10.2067271 email: [email protected] www.v2.nl/DEAF ................................................................... 09 From: "stickman" <[email protected]> Subject: Its an ad. It's 4,470 dollars. It's art! Date: Wed, 4 Nov 1998 23:24:03 +0100 News release: from the crossroads of culture, business and media. The artist David Maas will be turning the December issue of ARTFORUM international into a giant (no not mudpit) but a placeless, brand-name gallery. At the same time, a humble internet gallery will offer a stroll down the Guggenheim to admire his work in sunny environs. About the aesthetics of cash the role of the artist and the politics of the potlatch... I welcome you to find out more at www.stickman.de (this is a loss-of-profit undertaking) ................................................................... 10 Date: Thu, 5 Nov 1998 22:31:12 +0200 From: Museo de Arte Contemporaneo Carrillo Gil <[email protected]> Subject: 1/ Press release TOUR. RBW21 in the MACG MUSEO DE ARTE CARRILLO GIL "TOWER" RBW21 =3D Gue Schmidt and Fritz Fro "SOUND THRESHOLD" PRESS RELEASE *** for a sound-work in the course of the festival "SOUND THRESHOLD". *** "TOWER" is a sound-installation of the well-known Austrian artist's group RBW21 (Gue Schmidt and Fritz Fro). The MUSEO de ARTE CARRILLO GIL is presenting (10. November - 6. December 1998) the sound-installation "TOWER", of the Austrian artists Gue Schmidt and Fritz Fro (RBW21 - RELATIVE BIOLOGICAL EFFECT 21). The sound-work can be heard through loudspeakers mounted at the facade of the museum, thereby transforming the everyday sound environment into an artistic space. TOWER is a sound installation where two CDs are played in loop-mode on two CD-players. The second player starts about 15 to 20 seconds after the start of the first player. The sound mingle, becoming one and forming a static and hermetic body. The group RBW21 (Relative Biological Effect 21) is working in the fields of music, radio and visual-acoustic media, since the middle of the eighties. They realized performances (cut-out) at the Gallery REM/ Vienna/ AUSTRIA, the Kuenstlerhaus Dortmund/ GERMANY, at the festival L=B4Arte dell Ascolto/ Rimini/ ITALY and at the Studio 303/ Montreal/ CANADA. RADIOWORKS/ BROADCASTING-STATIONS: Radio (Emisora) Cultural de la Universidad de Antioquia/Medell=EDn/Colombia, Radio Universidad Nacional/Bogot=E1/Colombia, Radio Cultural de Caracas (RED23)/Venezuela and Radio Nacional de Venezuela. Various sound-works for Art-radio/Radio-art (Austrian Broadcasting - ORF / 1989-98). RBW comes from medical terminology and refers to the relative biological effect of the radiation of average X-rays. The RBW-values are specified according to the ionization density which results from absorption in water independently from the type of ionisized radiation. Since noises or sounds belong to the sphere of acoustic sensations, made up of different kinds of vibrations, they are not only audible, but also perceptible by the whole body, and consequently have an effect on animal and vegetable organisms, as well as on inanimate objects. In this sense, the word noise signifies sound, i.e. vibration, i.e. radiation. Our works are "pieces of music" which evoke fields of association, spaces and sculptures by overlapping and distorting sounds and noises. The manifoldness of the vibrations demands a manner of listening which should inspire the listener without provoking an evaluation of the noises and sounds involved. PRESS AND DISTRIBUTION. MACG Av. Revoluci=F3n No. 1608, Col. San Angel C. P. 01000 M=E9xico, D.F. Tels.: 550 12 54 / 550 39 83 Fax: 550 42 32 Correo Electr=F3nico: Pagina electr=F3nica en internet: mailto:[email protected] http://www.conet.com.mx/macg/ mailto:[email protected] ................................................................... 11 Date: Thu, 05 Nov 1998 19:29:25 -0500 From: Eugene Thacker <[email protected]> Subject: W3LAB announcement ************************************************** [techne]W3LAB: works-in-progress/works-in-process ************************************************** W3LAB announcement :: BETA-TEST http://gsa.rutgers.edu/maldoror/techne/w3lab-entry.html The [techne]W3LAB is an online installation of work devoted to the web (web-based projects, networking experiments, performance, software design, VRML, etc.), and will include a range of projects by an international group of digital artists, as well as a "hyper.theory" section of texts by contemporary theorists of electronic culture. This exhibit is being presented through an organization affiliated with the Program in Comparative Literature at Rutgers University called [techne]. Established in 1997, [techne] has held multimedia events, performances, and lectures (including Mark Amerika, The Poool, and Floating Point Unit) on the Rutgers University campus. The purpose of this online show is to foster awareness of the variety and complexity of selected works on the web. The show will run in two phases: Phase I (fall 1998) will be a beta-test preview, and will be communicated to the digital community via mailing lists and other information services. It will focus primarily on web-based works. Phase II (winter 1999) will be communicated to academic and art-based networks and institutions, and will coincide with the annual Program in Comparative Literature conference at Rutgers University, at which time the show will be "installed" during the conference, along with multimedia and networking performances. The conference, whose theme this year is "New World (dis)Orders: Globalization, Culture, Identity," will take place in late February, and will attract a multidisciplinary group of theorists from around the globe. This phase will place equal focus on web-based works and performance/performative works which make use of the Web. Both phases will include ongoing discussions and distributions of issues through the [techne] website [gsa.rutgers.edu/maldoror/techne/techne.html], as well as other online nodes such as Rhizome [www.rhizome.org], Alt-X [www.altx.com], and the show "The Shock of the View" [http://www.walkerart.org/salons/shockoftheview/sv_front.html], presented by the Walker Arts Center. W3LAB participants include :: net.art :: Mark Amerika & Jay Dillemuth, Diane Bertolo, Sawad Brooks & Beth Stryker, Heath Bunting, Contempt Productions (to be confirmed), Vuk Cosic, Critical Art Ensemble, DhalgrenMOO, Disinformation, Ricardo Dominquez & Zhanga, Fakeshop, Floating Point Unit, i/o 360, I/O/D, Oz Lubling, --meta--, Robbin Murphy, Nikolas, Thomas Noller, plumb design, Post-Tool, Erwin Redl, James Roven, Alexi Shulgin, Yoshi Sodeoka, Eugene Thacker, Helen Thorington & Marianne Petit & John Neilson, Annette Weintraub, Arianne Wortzel. hyper.theory :: Mark Amerika, Sawad Brooks, Steve Dietz, Kathy Rae Huffman, I/O/D, Douglas Kellner, Arthur & Marilouise Kroker, Geert Lovink, Lev Manovich, David Porush, Mark Poster, Rhizome, Steve Shaviro, VNS Matrix. For more info see the [techne] website at http://gsa.rutgers.edu/maldoror/techne/techne.html or contact Eugene Thacker at [email protected] For info on the "Globalization" conference http://complit.rutgers.edu/conferences/new_world_disorders ************************************************** [techne]W3LAB: works-in-progress/works-in-process ************************************************** ................................................................... 12 Date: Mon, 2 Nov 1998 13:53:15 +0100 From: Technologies To The People <[email protected]> Subject: Live Video Art /Full Screen/Real Revolution SATELLITE VIDEO AND SPEED INTERNET� INTRODUCING Technologies To The People� Video Collection the use of video and television as a media of artistic expression At this precise moment, with the pointed introduction of still more new media which will have an event greater impact on society, it would seem necessary and useful to disclose, and make an inventory of, that part of media art which, from the point of view of art history, has crystallised. NOW SERVED UP ON ONE DISH Imagine ours satellites deep in the space broadcasting all the greatest video art pieces, at blistering speeds up to 900 Kbps. Now imagine getting all of this content right in your home computer. That's because Technologies To The People� brings you the fastest Internet access available worldwide. You can see and hear every art piece when you want, not just when it happens to be broadcast or screening in any museum. Technologies To The People Video Collection http://www.irational.org/video/ The collections of Technologies To The People Technologies To The People Video Collection _____________________________________________ 1. Against Video (1974)-Douglas Davis-6:30 min. Col. Video 2. And Now This (1983)-Jorge Lozano/Christa Schadt-8 min. Col. Video 3. Animation (1975)-Stuart Marshall-4 min. Col. Video 4. Art and Technology (1975)-Chris Burden-15 min. Col. Video 5. Barricades (1992)-Istvan Kantor-11 min. Col. Video 6. Behold the Promised Land (1991)-Ardele Lister-23 min. Col. Video 7. Berlin/nilreB: Tourist journal (1988)-Ken Kobland-19 min. Col. Video 8. Bits (1977)-Gary Hill-4:25 min. Col. Video 9. Blind Grace (1993)-Adam Cohen-20 min. Col. Video 10. Blue Monday (1984)-Duvet Brothers-4 min. Col. Video 11. Body Music (1974)-Charlemagne Palestine-12 min. Col. Video 12. Bon Voyage (1986)-Peter Callas-4:35 min. Col. Video 13. Border Brujo (1990)- Guillermo Gomez Pe�a-52 min. Col. Video 14. Bouncing in the Corner, N� 1 (1969)- Bruce Nauman-60 min. Col. Video 15. C'est La Video (1982)-Hank Bull-11 min. Col. Video 16. Calling the Shots (1984)-Mark Wilcox-13 min. Col. Video 17. Changing Parts (1984)-Mona Hatoum-24 min. Col. Video 18. Chott el-Djerid (A Portrait in Light and Heat) (1979)-Bill Viola-28 min. Col. Video 19. City of Angels(1983)-Marina & Ulay Abramovic-20 min. Col. Video 20. Clockshower (1973)- Gordon Matta-Clark-13:50 min. Col. Video 21. comings and goings (1977-79)-Peter D'Agostino-33:30 min. Col. Video 22. Conspiracy of silence (1991)-Lynn Hershman-20 min. Col. Video 23. Counterpart-Hong Kong Song (1990)-Hartmunt Jahn-13 min. Col. Video 24. Cross-Cultural Television (1987)-Muntadas/Hank Bull-35 min. Col. Video 25. Dans La Vision Peripherique Du Temoin (1986)-Marcel Odenbach-13 min. Col. Video 26. Das Duracellband (1980)-Klaus vom Bruch-10 min. Col. Video 27. Dead Valley Days (1984-85)-Gorilla Tapes-20 min. Col. Video 28. Der Riese (1983)-Michael Klier-84 min. Col. Video 29. Dial H-I-S-T-O-R-Y(1995-7)-Johan Grimonprez-68 min. Col. Video 30. Dialog (1987)-Nobert Meissner/Mike Krebs-4:40 min. Col. Video 31. Ear to the Ground (1982)-Kit Fitzgerald/John Sanborn-4:30 min. Col. Video 32. Excerpts and Euphoria (1983)-Edward Mowbray-11 min. Col. Video 33. Female Sensibility (1974)- Lynda Benglis-14 min. Col. Video 34. Franklin Furnace (1979)-Martha Wilson-29 min. Col. Video 35. Glances (1984)-Caterina Borelli-13 min. Col. Video 36. His master's voice (1983)-Marie-jo Lafontaine-10 min. Col. Video 37. Homage to Brezhnev (1988)-J�zef Robakowski-9:30 min. Col. Video 38. Home is Where The Heart Is (1982)-Sian Evans-27:30 min. Col. Video 39. Home Movies (1973)-Vito Acconci-32:30 min. Col. Video 40. Hong Kong Song (1989)-Robert Cahen-21 min. Col. Video 41. I Am Making Art (1971)- John Baldessari-18:40 min. Col. Video 42. If is too bad to be true, it could be Disinformation (1985)-Martha Rosler-16:26 min. Col. Video 43. Intellectual Properties (1985)-John Adams-60 min. Col. Video 44. Introduction to the End of an Argument (Intifada): Speaking for oneself... Speaking for others... (1989-90)-Jayce Salloum/Elia Suleiman-45 min. Col. Video 45. Involuntary Conversion (1991)-Jeanne Finley-9:20 min. Col. Video 46. Joan Does Dinasty (1986)-Joan Braderman-31 min. Col. Video 47. Kioko's situation (1989)-Mako Idemitsu-25 min. Col. Video 48. LA Nickel (1983)-Branda Miller-10 min. Col. Video 49. Leftside Rightside (1974)-Joan Jonas-7:30 min. Col. Video 50. Luftgeister/Air Spirits (1981)-Kauls Vom Bruch-8 min. Col. Video 51. Lying in State (1989)-Norman Cowie-30 min. Col. Video 52. Mayhem (1987)-Abigail Child-20 min. Col. Video 53. Moscow X (1993)-Ken Kobland-57:30 min. Col. Video 54. My TV Dictionary (1986)-Hans Breder-19 min. Col. Video 55. New Reel (1976)-Hermine Freed-12 min. Col. Video 56. Passeggiate romane (1985)-Caterina Borelli-16 min. Col. Video 57. Pilot (1977)-General Idea-28 min. Col. Video 58. Plowmans Lunch (1982)-Lawrence Weiner-28:30 min. Col. Video 59. Production Notes: Fast Food for Thought (1986-87)-Jason Simon-28 min. Col. Video 60. Psyche (1974)-Gina Pane -29 min. Col. Video 61. Rainy Season (1987)-George Kuchar-28:37 min. Col. Video 62. Raum Sehen, Raum Horen (1974)-Valie Export-9 min. Col. Video 63. Relativ Romantisch (1983)-Klaus vom Bruch-21:46 min. Col. Video 64. Salto Mortale (1979)-Ulrike Rosenbach-29:30 min. Col. Video 65. Scenario du Film Passion (1982)-Jean-Luc Godard-54 min. Col. Video 66. Search-Wendy Kirkup (1993)-Pat Nandi-8 min. Col. Video 67. Seduction of a cyborg (1974)- Lynn Hershman-7 min. Col. Video 68. Semiotics of the kitchen (1975)-Martha Rosler-6 min. Col. Video 69. Sensible Shoes (1983)-John Adams-11:10 min. Col. Video 70. Sex Projection/2. Audience, Performer Mirror (1977)-Dan Graham-30 min. Col. Video 71. Shoot (1971)-Chris Burden-1:50 min. Col. Video 72. Shooting (1974)-Vito Acconci-11 min. Col. Video 73. Shut The Fuck Up (1985)-General Idea-11 min. Col. Video 74. Soundings (1979)-Gary Hill-7 min. Col. Video 75. Suicide Sutra (1974)-Les Levine-30 min. Col. Video 76. Technology/Transformation: Wonder Woman (1978)-Dara Birbaum-7 min. Col. Video 77. Test Tube (1979)-General Idea-28 min. Col. Video 78. The Abandoned shabono (1978)-Juan Downey-27 min. Col. Video 79. The Citadel (1992)-Cornelina Swann-14 min. Col. Video 80. The Diamond Lane (1981)-Barbara Bloom-5 min. Col. Video 81. The Double (1984)-Ken Feingold-29 min. Col. Video 82. The Eternal Frame (1975-76)-T.R. Uthco & Ant Farm-23:50 min. BW & Col. Video 83. The Italian Tape (Exclamations) (1974)-John Baldessari-12 min. Col. Video 84. The Long Take (1988)-Gary Kibbins-7 min. Col. Video 85. The Revealing Myself Tapes (1977)-Judith Barry-22 min. Col. Video 86. The Revolution Will Not Be Televised (1988)-Stuart Baker-3:47 min. Col. Video 87. The Shoemakers Assistent (1976)-Alison Knowles-19 min. Col. Video 88. Then (1974)-Allan Kaprow-23:30 min. Col. Video 89. They are lost to vision altogether (1988-89)-Ton Kalin-13 min. Col. Video 90. Three Transitions LBC (1974)-Peter Campus-6 min. Col. Video 91. Tough Limo (1983)-Frances Torres-16 min. Col. Video 92. Transgresions (1992)-Dara Birbaum-1 min. Col. Video 93. Trois Strophes Sur le Nom de Sacher (1989)-Chantal Akerman-12 min. Col. Video 94. Tur'n (1987)-Ra�l Rodr'guez-24 min. Col. Video 95. Untitled I (1981)-Han Bierman-9 min. Col. Video 96. Vol (1981)-Teresa Wennberg-4:40 min. Col. Video 97. Warnings (1988)-Muntadas-5:50 min. Col. Video 98. Watching Out (1986)-Nan Hoover-13 min. Col. Video 99. Yes Frank No Smoke (1984)-George Baker-7 min. Col. Video 100. You Should never Forget The Jungle (1975)-Charlemagne Palestine-8 min. Col. Video Special thanks: Eugeni Bonet, IUA Universitat Pompeu Fabra current presentation: metronom/barcelona/spain october21/november27 1998 �Technologies To The People ................................................................... 13 From: [email protected] Date: Mon, 02 Nov 1998 06:44:30 +0000 Subject: Swallow Is Ten. Calm Down. !gulp� S W #10 - bloody hell - double figures. bloody hell. A how did that happen. there's a few good things this L time, like Ernest Slyman, Vita Amory, Elisha Porat L and mez, but the rest is a load of complete toss. 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