RHIZOME DIGEST: 12.13.02

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RHIZOME DIGEST: 12.13.02

RHIZOME DIGEST: December 13, 2002 Content: +editor's note+ 1. rachel greene: this week +opportunity+ 2. Lev Manovich: PhD | MFA | new media | Visual Arts Department UCSD +announcement+ 3. Valentina Tanni: netizens_webprize 2003 4. Mark Tribe: Rhizome Starter Plan +work+ 5. Mouchette: 2*Rhizome, I want to see you again 6. Gregory Chatonsky: My Voice (read by microphone) +review+ 7. Ryan Griffis: CLUI/Kazys Varnelis: Telco Hotel Central +feature+ 8. PROPAGANDA@0100101110101101.ORG: The World in One's Pocket? + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + 1. Date: 12.13.02 From: rachel (rachel@rhizome.org) Subject: this week A compilation of posts about Rhizome membership fees is now available at <a rel="nofollow" href="http://rhizome.org/object.rhiz?12994">http://rhizome.org/object.rhiz?12994</a>. And I'd like to call attention to a more economical Rhizome web hosting package, designed based on member feedback: please see Mark Tribe's announcement below. Thanks to all those who have been responding to the important organizational issues and initiatives with which Rhizome is currently reckoning – we very much appreciate all feedback, input and suggestions (and support – sign up for Rhizome web hosting!!) – Rachel p.s. There will be a Digest next week, but not December 27th, as I will be away on holiday. + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + 2. Date: 12.13.02 From: Lev Manovich (manovich@jupiter.ucsd.edu) Subject: PhD | MFA | new media | Visual Arts Department UCSD / * —————– promo copy START —————— Visual Arts Department, University of California, San Diego <a rel="nofollow" href="http://visarts.ucsd.edu">http://visarts.ucsd.edu</a> In addition to offering MFA with a focus on new media art, we are now also offering a PhD in art history and criticism visual culture media theory new media theory PhD and MFA applications deadline for Fall 2003 admission: February 1, 2003. Generous financial support is available for both PhD and MFA candidates. We have 5 permanent new media faculty and currently searching for 2 more. Past MFA graduates include Mark Tribe, the founder of rhizome.org; Mark Daggett, first prize at README 2002 (a festival of software art, Moscow); Chris Csikszentmihályi, a head of the MIT Media Lab's Computing Culture group. —————– promo copy END —————— * / / * —————— LINKS START—————— Southern California "New Media Map" which lists people and programs at UCSD and other schools in this region: www.manovich.net/new_media_map_02.htm Visual Arts Department + information on PhD and MFA programs: visarts.ucsd.edu University of California, San Diego www.ucsd.edu —————— LINKS END —————— * / + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + 3. Date: 12.10.02 From: Valentina Tanni (v.tanni@exibart.com) Subject: netizens_webprize 2003 netizens_webprize 2003 international net_art competition COMPETITION deadline_4 march 2003 WINNER ANNOUNCEMENT_april 2003 INFO_ www.netizensonline.it - bando@netizensonline.it The exhibition NETIZENS - cittadini della rete opened on 4th december at Sala 1, an art gallery located in the very centre of Rome. The show investigates the influence of the Internet on contemporary artistic research through the work of five artists. The same day of the opening an international net art competition has been launched. The competition is open to artists of all countries that use the Web as a creative tool. Netizens_webprize has been organized by Sala 1 with the collaboration of MACRO (Contemporary Art Museum of Rome) Medialab and Stefania Fabri, multimedia expert. The aim of this initiative is to discover new talents and support net based artworks. The competition remains open for three months (4 december 2002 - 4 march 2003) and the giury will announce the winner in april 2003. The author of the best project will have a solo show in Sala 1 next year. CALL FOR PARTICIPATION netizens_webprize 2003 ART 1. Aim The aim of the initiative is to discover new talents and support net based artworks. ART 2. Conditions for participating The competition is open to all artists that use the Web as an artistic tool. Participants can be of any nationality and must be at least eighteen years of age. ART 3. Project submission Participants are invited to submit before 4 march 2003 a finished project made using Internet as a creative medium. Other types of works won't be accepted. The project must be sent by e-mail (as URL address) or by conventional mail (on cd-rom) and include a brief description text and the author's biography. ART 4. Giury, winner and award The winning project will be chosen among the ones -responding to this characteristics- arrived before the deadline day. The works will be examinated by a giury consisting of: Silvia Bordini, Stefania Fabri, Ida Gerosa, Kathleen Goncharov, Gino Roncaglia, Gianni Romano, Domenico Scudero, Mary Angela Schroth, Chiara Somajni. The best work will be awarded during a ceremony at MACRO (Contemporary Art Museum of Rome) in april 2003. The winner will have a solo show at Sala 1 Gallery in the period 2003/2004. Ten projects will be also selected and included in Netizens website for an on-line exhibition starting in april 2003. addresses Galleria Sala 1 Piazza di Porta San Giovanni 10 00185 Roma, Italy E-MAIL bando@netizensonline.it + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + +ad+ *zingmagazine 17* Subscribe online, mention *RHIZOME* 2 YEARS 4 ISSUES 4 $20 (<a rel="nofollow" href="http://www.zingmagazine.com/_">http://www.zingmagazine.com/_</a> Curated Projects: Dr. Ben Satterfield Music By General Assembly, Todd Hido/Melanie Flood, Serge Onnen, Sam Hecht/Mary Barone, Mike Lohr, Giasco Bertoli, Luis Macias, Lee Stoetzel, Brian Alfred,Angus Hood,Omar Lopez-Chahoud,Ester Partegas,Steven Severence + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + 4. Date: 12.11.02 From: Mark Tribe (mark@rhizome.org) Subject: Rhizome Starter Plan On October 25, Jess Loseby (jess@rssgallery.com) wrote: Firstly the web hosting packages. Although this is a good package and the hosting company seem fine, I'm wondering if it could be targeted better to the meet the needs of the 'starving artists'… Perhaps, what the users of rhizome really need is… a 'bottom-rung' package… No frills no service (outside basic tech support and forwarding email accounts) but ideal for web based artworks as the fee is small and you can be set upand be online in 24hrs. + + It was a great suggestion, and I'm happy to say that we've worked out a low-cost web hosting plan for Rhizome members. The Rhizome Starter Plan is just $65 per year and allows Rhizome members to take advantage of Datex.net's robust and reliable hosting platform at a very good price. The starter plan includes: · Hosting on a Linux server · 20MB disk storage space · 750MB data transfer per month · Catch-all email forwarding (to your own email address) · Daily web traffic stats · 1 FTP account · Capability to host your own domain name or use <a rel="nofollow" href="http://rhizome.net/your_account_name">http://rhizome.net/your_account_name</a> To sign up for a Rhizome Starter Plan account, please follow one of the links below: Secure Page: <a rel="nofollow" href="https://secure.mediaserve.net/datex/rhizome_starter.html">https://secure.mediaserve.net/datex/rhizome_starter.html</a> Non-secure Page (for older browsers): <a rel="nofollow" href="http://datex.net/rhizome_starter.html">http://datex.net/rhizome_starter.html</a> + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + 5. Date: 12.09.02 From: Mouchette (mouchette@mouchette.org) Subject: 2*Rhizome, I want to see you again Dear Rhizome, Last time we met in private, on a page that I made for you alone. We shared that brief moment just once in our lives, never again will you see that page. But now I made a new private page for you only: <a rel="nofollow" href="http://mouchette.org/to/you?Rhizome,dda198cc70241c1e0dce7003ed0b6371">http://mouchette.org/to/you?Rhizome,dda198cc70241c1e0dce7003ed0b6371</a> Look everywhere, the page has some secrets inside: <a rel="nofollow" href="http://mouchette.org/to/you?Rhizome,dda198cc70241c1e0dce7003ed0b6371">http://mouchette.org/to/you?Rhizome,dda198cc70241c1e0dce7003ed0b6371</a> I can't wait to have you click on me again, *bisou* Mouchette + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + +ad+ Mute, issue 25, is out this week. Conceptually and volumetrically expanded, (involves more cartographic & artists' projects & has doubled the pages), this new bi-annual volume is phat. Articles on: WarChalking, the Artists' Placement Group and Ambient Culture and more. <a rel="nofollow" href="http://www.metamute.com">http://www.metamute.com</a> + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + 6. Date: 12.09.02 From: Gregory Chatonsky (gregory@incident.net) Subject: My Voice (read by microphone) My Voice a new interactive work by Gregory Chatonsky is exhibited during the PAL festival in Paris. <a rel="nofollow" href="http://incident.net/works/myvoice/">http://incident.net/works/myvoice/</a> <a rel="nofollow" href="http://www.pal-project.net/">http://www.pal-project.net/</a> + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + +ad+ 10-10-10! It's the 10th Anniversary New York Digital Salon issue of LEONARDO. 10 curators pick 10 works each for a top 100 survey of digital art. Order your copy of LEONARDO Volume 35 Number 5 @ <a rel="nofollow" href="http://mitpress2.mit.edu/e-journals/Leonardo/">http://mitpress2.mit.edu/e-journals/Leonardo/</a> + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + 7. Date: 12.09.02 From: Ryan Griffis (grifray@yahoo.com) Subject: CLUI/Kazys Varnelis: Telco Hotel Central <a rel="nofollow" href="http://www.clui.org/clui_4_1/lotl/">http://www.clui.org/clui_4_1/lotl/</a> Telco Hotel Central Exhibit at CLUI Los Angeles On the outside, One Wilshire is an ordinary-looking 30-story 1960?s office tower in Los Angeles, located at a prestigious address: the point where Wilshire Boulevard, the city?s grand west-heading avenue, meets downtown. On the inside is quite a different story: One Wilshire is a telco hotel, said to be the ?most interconnected building in the west.? The interior is packed full of telecommunications equipment, connected to the world through dozens of major fiber optic conduits that spill into the building?s below-grade parking garage, from conduits running under the streets outside, and rise through the tower like an infestation of electronic vines. The busting of the telco boom has put the owners of the building (the notorious, privately-held investment comapny The Carlysle Group) in the position of eager real estate agents, seeking tenants to plug into their new fiber terminal rooms, which offer more bandwidth interconnectivity, especially for direct Asian links, than nearly anywhere else in America. This new posture of publicity enabled the Center to have an unprecedented look inside this remarkable building, and to glimpse some dramatic physical and architectural manifestations of the often invisible, expanding global infosphere. Equipped with digital cameras and video recorders, the CLUI, led by urban historian Kazys Varnelis, toured the facility with the building?s manager, Chris Pachall. While a few floors have lawyers offices, most of the building is sectioned into rooms with corridors of server and telecommunication switching racks, often protected by cages, and strung together with coaxial and fiber optic cable, bulging from ceiling-mounted raceways. The resulting exhibit was mounted at the CLUI?s Los Angeles exhibit space within a few weeks, and Kazys Varnelis, who teaches at the Southern California Institute of Architecture, delivered a talk, Towers of Concentration, Lines of Growth, on Friday August 29, 2002. A transcript from this lecture is available. <a rel="nofollow" href="http://www.varnelis.net/projects/onewilshire/index.html">http://www.varnelis.net/projects/onewilshire/index.html</a> + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + 8. Date: 12.13.02 From: (PROPAGANDA@0100101110101101.ORG) Subject: The World in One's Pocket? >From "Springerin", Oct 2002 > <a rel="nofollow" href="http://www.springerin.at">http://www.springerin.at</a> The World in One's Pocket? The Net project "VOPOS" by 0100101110101101.ORG by Vera Tollmann In December of last year, the European Union and the European Space Organisation agreed to set up a European venture as competition for the American Global Positioning System (GPS) by 2005. The non-military system "Galileo" is to consist of 30 satellites and cover the entire globe. [1] The EU argues that this decision is aimed at making it independent of the GPS - which is still used for military purposes - by giving it its own surveillance complex. The end users of this geographical location system are to include customs and the judiciary, transport and communications authorities, and tourism organisations. On May 1 the White House in Washington announced that "SA" (Selective Availability), which caused civilian equipment to give more imprecise results, would no longer operate. These two decisions show what a central role satellite systems will play, or already play, in everyday life, alongside the telecommunications systems of telephone and internet. These developments, leading towards an ever more perfect universal surveillance method, have not gone without comment from activists [2] and artists. Whereas at the end of the nineties there were mainly reactions to the - in some cases - extremely extensive installation of video cameras in public places, [3] a new technological paradigm of media art is now starting to emerge. Besides Web-based works about the surveillance of data transfers, [4] the first artists have already begun working with the GPS, such as the documenta participants tsunamii.net. This involves a Web-related approach: tsunamii.net looked for correspondences on the Web to the real places they passed on their travels. The focus is on an alternative mapping of the internet. The current project by 0100101110101101.org, which has the awkward name "VOPOS" - a reference to former East German police as representatives of a historical surveillance state that shows little more than a "radical chic aesthetic" -, also functions partly via GPS. Tanio Copechi and Renato Pasiopani, as the operators of 0100101110101101.org call themselves, carry a GPS transmitter around with them. It sends the data it receives to a server via mobile phone, and this data is then visualised on the web site by means of software. With the aid of a digital street map of Barcelona, which is where the two Italian artists claim to be, users can see which street they are in - whether just one or both of them is an open question. The clock can also be turned back - this means it is possible to vaguely reconstruct the route taken through the city by the "surveillees". But "VOPOS" has nothing to do with a sociological interest in the erratic wanderings of everyday life, as the situationist approach would suggest; it is a criticism of the potential of the GPS: who uses the coordinates it provides, and what does the electronic profile that can be deduced from them reveal? The two artists do not just illustrate the way the GPS functions within a larger communications complex; their artist strategy is also expressed in their refusal to give their identity and provide a level of narrative that could explain why they visit the places they do (unless someone knows the city very well and thus has options for interpretation). It is equally impossible to verify whether they really were at the positions marked or not. "VOPOS" therefore also remains a game involving reality and fiction, information and disinformation. For a knowledge of the way the system could potentially function suffices to enable one to critically take up the surveillant's perspective. As the second part of the long-term project "Glasnost", "VOPOS" continues the planned collection of comprehensive, person-specific data. The first phase - which still exists on the web site - consisted in the project "life_sharing". [5] 0100101110101101.org put the local hard disk of their computer onto the Web, thus making their private e-mails, project sketches and software publicly available. What is the artistic added value of this project? To what extent is it only a preparation for something that can be commercially exploited later? After the experiences with the "Big Brother" series, a similar scenario using GPS technology would also be imaginable: one group - the surveillants - has to hinder another group - the "surveillees" - in carrying out the game task allotted to them. "VOPOS" operates precisely at the ambivalent point between affirmative slogans like that of one mobile phone manufacturer - "Put the world in your pocket" -, and the non-commercial production of transparency. Translation: Tim Jones Notes: <a rel="nofollow" href="http://0100101110101101.ORG">http://0100101110101101.ORG</a> 1 <a rel="nofollow" href="http://europa.eu.int/comm/energy_transport/de/gal_de.html">http://europa.eu.int/comm/energy_transport/de/gal_de.html</a> (Galileo homepage) <a rel="nofollow" href="http://www.heise.de/newsticker/data/dz-01.12.01-003">http://www.heise.de/newsticker/data/dz-01.12.01-003</a> (Report on the decision in favour of Galileo, 1 December 2001) 2 <a rel="nofollow" href="http://www.bigbrotherawards.at">http://www.bigbrotherawards.at</a> 3 See the Surveillance Camera Players: <a rel="nofollow" href="http://www.notbored.org/the-scp.html">http://www.notbored.org/the-scp.html</a> 4 See the Software Carnivore: <a rel="nofollow" href="http://rhizome.org/carnivore">http://rhizome.org/carnivore</a> 5 See Marina Grzinic: "Das Leben zurückgewinnen". In: springerin 1/01, p. 10 ### Anything has been said about this renegade cyber-entity, accused of being "simple thief", dubbed as "media dandy" and "cultural terrorists" or, simply, "shit". 0100101110101101.ORG prdouced some of the most perfect media exploits of the last years, such as the creation and diffusion, at the opening of the 49th Venice Biennial, of the computer virus "biennale.py" or the memorable spoof of the Vatican website: almost identical with that of the Holy See, but with slight deviations. HTTP://0100101110101101.ORG + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + Rhizome.org is a 501©(3) nonprofit organization. If you value this free publication, please consider making a contribution within your means at <a rel="nofollow" href="http://rhizome.org/support">http://rhizome.org/support</a>. Checks and money orders may be sent to Rhizome.org, 115 Mercer Street, New York, NY 10012. 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