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RHIZOME DIGEST: 9.05.03

RHIZOME DIGEST: September 5, 2003 Content: +announcement+ 1. D. Jean Hester: A Large Scale Study of the Evolution of Web Pages +opportunity+ 2. Caterina Davinio: call for gates (3) 3. Joy Garnett: FACT Vacancy (fwd) 4. Simon Biggs: PixelRaiders 2 +work+ 5. Lisa Mark: Jason Salavon online art project 6. Joseph Rabie: Interactive Photography 7. Christiane Paul: artport gatepage September 03: Peter Horvath +feature+ 8. Michael Szpakowski: Short Essays on Art & Related Matters + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + 1. Date: 8.29.03 From: D. Jean Hester (jenajunk@hotmail.com) Subject: A Large Scale Study of the Evolution of Web Pages (<a rel="nofollow" href="http://www.research.microsoft.com/aboutmsr/labs/siliconvalley/pubs/">http://www.research.microsoft.com/aboutmsr/labs/siliconvalley/pubs/</a> p97-fetterly/p97-fetterly.pdf) "Microsoft and Hewlett-Packard researchers collaborated to write this paper for the Twelfth International World Wide Web Conference in May 2003. The paper looks at the Web as a dynamic entity, constantly changing, and considers how this behavior affects its usability. In particular, search engines are noted as being especially susceptible since they cannot possibly have records of the most current version of every Web page. To measure the rate and amount of change, the researchers "collected 151 million web pages eleven times over, retaining salient information including a feature vector of each page." Their results show which Web page parameters are strong indicators of future change. " – D. Jean Hester www.divestudio.org Interviewer: "Must an artist be a programmer to make truly original online art?" John Simon: "Truly original? You Modernist! Whether you make art or not, understanding programming is an amazing understanding." from "Code as Creative Writing: An Interview with John Simon" + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + 2. Date: 9.01.03 From: Caterina Davinio (clprezi@tin.it) Subject: call for gates (3) GATES / Beyond Net-Art Real Things across the Cyberspace July 4 - September 30 2003 by Caterina Davinio How to join: <a rel="nofollow" href="http://members.xoom.virgilio.it/davinio/GATES/gatesindex.htm">http://members.xoom.virgilio.it/davinio/GATES/gatesindex.htm</a> (For Internet Explorer 6) Address your submissions to Karenina.it: clprezi@tin.it New Comtributions: United Kingdom - Somerset Marian Carroll, Tim Jones, Frank Sierowki. Brazil - Sao Paulo SENAC Communication and Art Center Lucia Leao Germany - Cologne Stadtgarten-Entrance Siglinde Kallnbach Other countries and artists: Wandering Gate in Belgium, Morocco, NL, Hongrie with: FACTOR 44 Harry Heirmans, Chris Straetling Lieve Lambrecht, Ria Pacquée, Mulugeta Tafesse, Djuna Michielsen, Marc Hioco, Marc Rossignol, Patrice Verhofstadt, Carlos Montalvo, Toni Geirlandt, Herman Delahaye, Guy Rombouts, Chris Gillis, Jörgen Voordeckers, Djos Janssens, Eric Stenmans, Emilio Lopez-Menchero, Shay Zilberman, Leo Reynders, Andrew Webb, Daniel Weinberger, Guche Vercammen, Sven Bruyneel, Iréne Vervliet, Daisy & Mirabelle Wouters, Arjen Nelis, Anne Boxelaere, Greece - Tessaloniki Research Center For The Definition Of Happyness c/o ALLI POLI Artists and Groups: 3A, Danae Hondrou, Hector Mavridis Dimosioipalliliko Retire (Thanasis Chondros, Alexandra Katsiani, Danis Tragopoulos) New projects from Venezuela, Lebanon, USA, Greece, and Italy coming soon. Gates is a total new collaborative art experiment, it is a non-conventional exhibition; one can participate not by sending video or digital work on the topic, but creating a network, circulation of action-communication, between real and cyberspace, between visual and word, related to the symbolic icon of the Gate, with its metaphoric, symbolic, of computer science, and telematic, implications, gates as ways of transit, as dimension of open, of confrontation, of passages in every direction, at every level. We are creating a new form of art that uses as matter communication, relationship among persons, art debate, our real/virtual body, voice, gesture (Karenina.it is all this); experimentals! artists, poets, critics, theoreticians! e-post-Fluxus casseurs, e-post-post-duchamp-ists (?), welcome!, Karenina.it is an open gate for what you think, and for what you do. Beyond Net.Art Gates is dedicated to Pierre Restany GATES is a project: Davinio Art Electronics Karenina.it Experimental <a rel="nofollow" href="http://members.xoom.virgilio.it/kareninazoom/kareninarivista.html">http://members.xoom.virgilio.it/kareninazoom/kareninarivista.html</a> + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + 3. Date: 9.03.03 From: Joy Garnett (joyeria@walrus.com) Subject: FACT Vacancy (fwd) ———- Forwarded message ———- Date: Wed, 03 Sep 2003 12:16:37 +0100 From: Zoe Chapman (chapman@fact.co.uk) To: Zoe Chapman (chapman@fact.co.uk) Subject: FACT Vacancy FACT is one of Europe's leading arts organisations specialising in the presentation, support and development of artist's film, video and new media purpose-built cultural project for over sixty years, opened to public and critical acclaim in February 2003 and houses two state-of-the-art galleries, the Media Lounge fro online projects and three cinemas dedicated to independent film. Senior Curator £24000 - £28000 Full Time (37.5 hours per week) The role of Senior Curator represents an outstanding opportunity for an individual with a passion for and knowledge of artist's film, video and new media work to direct, devise and develop an international exhibition and events programme in one of Britain's newest and most innovative cultural buildings. Deadline for applications is Tuesday 7th October. Interview date will be 4th November. For an information pack please contact: Kathryn Dempsey, FACT, 88 Wood Street, Liverpool, L1 4DQ. For further information about FACT please visit www.fact.co.uk ————————————————————- Zoë Chapman Operations Co-ordinator FACT, the Foundation for Art & Creative Technology 88 Wood Street Liverpool, L1 4DQ t: + 44 (0)151 707 4444 t: + 44 (0)151 707 4411 (Direct Dial) f: + 44 (0)151 707 4445 <a rel="nofollow" href="http://www.fact.co.uk">http://www.fact.co.uk</a> ROBOT FILMS, the first UK solo exhibition by Brooklyn-based artists Jennifer and Kevin McCoy. Exploring the intersection between television, film, narrative and computers, the exhibition includes SOFT RAINS a new commission using miniature movie sets and surveillance cameras. Galleries 1 & 2 and the Media Lounge, 5 September - 19 October FACT is proud to be in LIVERPOOL, EUROPEAN CAPITAL OF CULTURE 2008 + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + 4. Date: 9.04.03 From: Simon Biggs (simon@littlepig.org.uk) Subject: PixelRaiders 2 ************************** Apologies for cross-posting ************************** SECOND CALL FOR PAPERS Deadline for Abstracts: 10th Sept '03 PixelRaiders 2 6 8 April 2004 Venue: Sheffield Hallam University, UK www.pixelraiders.org Applied, visual, performance artists and designers are using digital technologies for new processes, virtual materials, exhibition, performance and creative strategies. A culture of cross-disciplinary material and digital process is evolving through a range of departments in creative education. This challenges commentary and understanding about hybrid practices that integrate physical, virtual and screen based making. PixelRaiders 2 explores the issues, discourse and reflective practice at the heart of digital making. This international refereed conference follows up the highly successful one day Pixel Raiders symposium held in March 2002 at London¹s Victoria and Albert Museum. The conference seeks to promote new discourses and perspectives around some critical questions, including: - How does the artist and the commentator communicate hybrid practices? - In what ways do new technologies enhance the collaborative nature of practice, presentation and performance? - How does the digital workspace impact on practice? - Should technology and technique become invisible? PixelRaiders 2 is a conference to explore how digital practices are being integrated into and are evolving from making processes. We welcome contributions from a practical, theoretical, educational, historical, technological, curatorial perspective. The core theme of the conference is the integration of digital practices within the applied, visual, performance arts, design, and media production. Key elements being material, process, digital integration and transition. We are particularly keen that practitioners and research students in these fields participate in the conference. Refereed Journal: As well as a publication that will be produced for the conference, a special edition of The Design Journal will be produced subsequent to the event and will include selected papers submitted to the PixelRaider2 conference 2004. Topics: We aim to encourage as many different perspectives and research interests as we can around this central theme. However, the following topics are of primary significance: - Analysis of the changing role of the maker and her/his creative identity. - The nature and concerns of the discourse that surrounds such practices - The impact of the digital workspace on the experience and nature of making - The social dimensions of digital creativity in the arts / or the social dimensions of digital creativity - Evolving interfaces between disciplines such as applied, visual, performance art, design and media production - Educational implications of digital making - The value and sustainability of material skills education - The cultural role and significance of the handmade object in the digital age International Conference Committee and Board of Referees: Simon Biggs Sheffield Hallam University, UK Sarah Braddock Falmouth College of Art, UK Stephen Boyd Davies - Middlesex University, UK Katie Bunnell - Falmouth College of Art, UK Augustus Casely Hayford British Museum, UK Lina Dzuverovic-Russell Institute of Contemporary Art, London, UK. Charlie Gere Birkbeck College, University of London, UK Carol Gray Grays School of Art, Aberdeen, UK Jane Harris Central Saint Martins, UK Tanya Harrod Royal College of Art, UK Janis Jefferies Goldsmiths College, University of London, UK Mirja Kalviainen Kuopio Academy of Design, Finland Malcolm McCullough - Taubman College of Architecture and Planning and School of Art and Design, University of Michigan, USA Franziska Nori Digital Craft Museum, Frankfurt, Germany Mike Press Sheffield Hallam University, UK Jane Prophet University of Westminster, London, UK Casey Reas Ivrea, Italy and MIT, Cambridge, Massachusetts, USA Paul Sermon Salford University, UK Helen Sloan - Director, SCAN, UK Marjan Unger - The Sandberg Institute, Amsterdam, Netherlands Pauline Van Mourik Broekman Mute Magazine, UK Presentation categories: Submissions may be made for either oral presentation of a full paper or a poster presentation. Schedule: Deadline for abstracts: 10th September 2003 Submission to pixelraiders@shu.ac.uk Use the abstract form available from www.pixelraiders.org Notification of accepted abstracts: 1st October 2003 Deadline for full papers: 21st November 2003 Notification of accepted papers: 16th January 2004 Deadline for revised papers: 20th February 2004 Conference convenors: The joint convenors of the conference are: Jane Harris, Central St Martins College of Art and Design: Mike Press, Sheffield Hallam University Contact: Conference website: www.pixelraiders.org This will provide full details on the conference as it develops. Email: pixelraiders@shu.ac.uk best Simon Simon Biggs simon@littlepig.org.uk <a rel="nofollow" href="http://www.littlepig.org.uk/">http://www.littlepig.org.uk/</a> <a rel="nofollow" href="http://www.greatwall.org.uk/">http://www.greatwall.org.uk/</a> <a rel="nofollow" href="http://www.babel.uk.net/">http://www.babel.uk.net/</a> Research Professor Art and Design Research Centre Sheffield Hallam University, UK s.biggs@shu.ac.uk <a rel="nofollow" href="http://www.shu.ac.uk/schools/cs/cri/adrc/research2/">http://www.shu.ac.uk/schools/cs/cri/adrc/research2/</a> + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + 5. Date: 8.29.03 From: Lisa Mark (lmark@moca.org) Subject: Jason Salavon online art project The Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles (MOCA) presents Bootstrap the Blank Slate by Chicago-based artist Jason Salavon on moca.org. The work is commissioned by MOCA and is part of an ongoing series of artists¹ projects. Salavon has long been interested in diverse fields ranging from evolutionary biology to information technology to the physical act of mark-making. Part toy, part tool, part taxonomy, Bootstrap the Blank Slate develops visually from a singular null state then records, converts, and stores the collective actions of the participant into an ever-growing population of image-pairs. The project can be thought of as an investigation of the flow-forward phenomenon of propagation and inheritance wrapped in the cozy, user-friendly confines of design, artistic expression, and online gizmology; a collaborative mechanism for the saturation of a style-space; or a methodology for exploring classic issues of color and form. However interpreted, the project is an interactive system for generating, reproducing, and tracking two particular types of visual objects. Salavon¹s previous works have taken the form of photographic prints and video installations, but Bootstrap the Blank Slate is his first web-based work. His work has been shown in museums and galleries throughout the United States and Europe and is included in a number of prominent public and private collections, including the Whitney Museum of American Art and the Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago. The project can be seen on www.moca.org/museum/digital_gallery.php. This project has been made possible by the generous support of The James Irvine Foundation. + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + 6. Date: 9.02.03 From: Joseph Rabie (joe@magelis.com) Subject: Interactive Photography I have been working for a while now on what I call interactive photographs. Interactive photographs are not only sensitive to light, they are also sensitive to the beholder's scrutiny. There are two series: Landscopes, a general exploration of the sense of place, and Collido_scope, an installation that I made for the 1er Contact digital art festival at the Cube in Issy-les-Molineaux, outside Paris, last year: <a rel="nofollow" href="http://www.magelis.com/joezone/courant.php?lien=landscopes">http://www.magelis.com/joezone/courant.php?lien=landscopes</a> <a rel="nofollow" href="http://www.magelis.com/joezone/courant.php?lien=collidoscope">http://www.magelis.com/joezone/courant.php?lien=collidoscope</a> These pages lead to presentations of the pictures, which are generally too heavy for download. I have included three of the smaller ones, after a drastic JPEG diet. They can be reached via explanations via the links above, or if you are in a hurry and want a shortcut: <a rel="nofollow" href="http://www.magelis.com/joezone/landscopes/swf/ayguesvives.htm">http://www.magelis.com/joezone/landscopes/swf/ayguesvives.htm</a> <a rel="nofollow" href="http://www.magelis.com/joezone/landscopes/swf/jerusalem_aqsa.htm">http://www.magelis.com/joezone/landscopes/swf/jerusalem_aqsa.htm</a> <a rel="nofollow" href="http://www.magelis.com/joezone/collidoscope/swf/">http://www.magelis.com/joezone/collidoscope/swf/</a> collido_scope_parapluie.htm For other info and other projects, go to: <a rel="nofollow" href="http://www.magelis.com/joezone/">http://www.magelis.com/joezone/</a> + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + 7. Date: 9.02.03 From: Christiane Paul (Christiane_Paul@WHITNEY.ORG) Subject: artport gatepage September 03: Peter Horvath "The Presence of Absence" by Peter Horvath artport gatepage September 03 <a rel="nofollow" href="http://artport.whitney.org">http://artport.whitney.org</a> Peter Horvath's "The Presence of Absence" creates an associative, audiovisual narrative playing with the intangible layers of communication that are left to interpretation and create presences in their own right. Using an abstracted human face as a main interface, viewers uncover a non-linear trail of associations. ++++++++++++++++++++++++++ In Peter Horvath's films for the web, a multi-screened, quasi-narrative unfolds with the participation of the viewer. Many of his pieces examine family histories, the city as organism, matters of the heart and the complexities of connection with or disconnection from others. His audiovisual reveries share some of the open-ended qualities of the films of Chris Marker, Jonas Mekas, and Tarkovsky's "The Mirror." With "The Presence Of Absence," the iconic face, etched with opaque information, is the key to navigating the site, just as we often read into the face of others for signs of recognition. - Clint Roenisch ++++++++++++++++++++++++++ + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + 8. Date: 8.31.03 From: Michael Szpakowski (szpako@yahoo.com) Subject: Michael Szpakowski: Short Essays on Art & Related Matters Five short essays on art and related matters by Curt Cloninger Carletta Joy Walker, Arnold Sachar and Robert Roth Martha L Deed Millie Niss Dyske Suematsu at <a rel="nofollow" href="http://www.somedancersandmusicians.com/essays/essays.html">http://www.somedancersandmusicians.com/essays/essays.html</a> Further contributions welcome. Guidelines at <a rel="nofollow" href="http://www.somedancersandmusicians.com/essays/contribute.html">http://www.somedancersandmusicians.com/essays/contribute.html</a> best michael ===== **DISCLAIMER: Roth and Walker the joy of the anthem of Carletta to the edible one. East of Wind. Phillips, Gordon. A painting. Song of the Chorrito of Lewis Lacook. It is a strange song. Woodland of Teratology. Does Bruce Conkle study the legend of Sasquatch? Finally the young Salvaggio d'Eryk - a surrealista world where George Washington, a fox and a hen, a MUSE, fight in imaginary loneliness - a game. District Postmaster: <a rel="nofollow" href="http://www.somedancersandmusicians.com/5operas.html">http://www.somedancersandmusicians.com/5operas.html</a> ** + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + Rhizome.org is a 501©(3) nonprofit organization. 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