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RHIZOME DIGEST: 4.15.05

RHIZOME DIGEST: April 15, 2005 Content: +announcement+ 1. Pau Waelder: Contagious Media Showdown @ Eyebeam 2. Francis Hwang: +opportunity+ 3. B: Multimedia/Digital Video/Computer-based Design Assistant Professor Position 4. Emma Posey: CONVERGENCE RESIDENCY, Cardigan, West Wales, UK 5. Rachel Greene: Fwd: Web/Systems Manager Position 6. Melanie Crean: Eyebeam call for Production Fellowships +work+ 7. Rhizome.org: Just added to the Rhizome ArtBase: Shmoogle by Tsila Hassine 8. Plasma Studii: http in tha house +commissioned for Rhizome.org+ 9. ryan griffis: + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + Rhizome.org 2005 Net Art Commissions The Rhizome Commissioning Program makes financial support available to artists for the creation of innovative new media art work via panel-awarded commissions. For the 2005 Rhizome Commissions, seven artists were selected to create artworks relating to the theme of Games: <a rel="nofollow" href="http://rhizome.org/commissions/2005.rhiz">http://rhizome.org/commissions/2005.rhiz</a> The Rhizome Commissioning Program is made possible by generous support from the Greenwall Foundation, the Jerome Foundation, the Andy Warhol Foundation for the Visual Arts, and the National Endowment for the Arts. + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + 1. Date: 4.14.05 From: Pau Waelder <pau@sicplacitum.com> Subject: Contagious Media Showdown @ Eyebeam Announcing the world's first Contagious Media Showdown. Do you have what it takes to corral enough traffic to win the cash prizes? Can you make the next Dancing Baby, All Your Base, or Star Wars Kid and ride into the sunset with the bounty? This is your chance to prove you are the best in the West. April 28-June 4th the New Museum of Contemporary Art will feature "Contagious Media", an art exhibition presented in conjunction with the Showdown. <a rel="nofollow" href="http://showdown.contagiousmedia.org/index.php">http://showdown.contagiousmedia.org/index.php</a> + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + Rhizome is now offering organizational subscriptions, memberships purchased at the institutional level. These subscriptions allow participants of an institution to access Rhizome's services without having to purchase individual memberships. (Rhizome is also offering subsidized memberships to qualifying institutions in poor or excluded communities.) Please visit <a rel="nofollow" href="http://rhizome.org/info/org.php">http://rhizome.org/info/org.php</a> for more information or contact Kevin McGarry at Kevin@Rhizome.org or Rachel Greene at Rachel@Rhizome.org. + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + 2. Date: 4.14.05 From: Francis Hwang <francis@rhizome.org> Subject: Commission voting: 6 days left Hi all, Just wanted to remind y'all that there are only six days left in the commissions voting process for the 2005-2006 Net Art Commissions. This isn't some inconsequential poll; the winner of this voting stage will be one of the Commissions for this cycle. So vote early, and vote often! <a rel="nofollow" href="http://rhizome.org/commissions/voting/">http://rhizome.org/commissions/voting/</a> As always, if you have any questions about this whole process, feel free to contact me personally or on the list. Francis Hwang Director of Technology Rhizome.org phone: 212-219-1288x202 AIM: francisrhizome + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + Rhizome Member-curated Exhibits <a rel="nofollow" href="http://rhizome.org/art/member-curated/">http://rhizome.org/art/member-curated/</a> View online exhibits Rhizome members have curated from works in the ArtBase, or learn how to create your own exhibit. + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + 3. Date: 4.11.05 From: B <albeeb@aol.com> Subject: Multimedia/Digital Video/Computer-based Design Assistant Professor Position Assistant Professor, tenure-track Starting September 1, 2005, pending budgetary approval. Interactive Multimedia/Digital Video/Computer-based Design Department of Art, The City College of New York. Qualifications: M.F.A (or equivalent) and full-time college teaching experience required. Seeking a visual artist working in multimedia and digital video to teach undergraduate courses in interactive multimedia, digital video and BFA thesis. Primary responsibility for teaching courses in Director. Must be highly proficient in Lingo and be competent to teach courses involving scripting and programming, as well as having the ability to supervise design, web and interactivity-oriented Thesis projects. National and international exhibition record required. Must have demonstrated excellent administrative, communication and technical skills. Shared responsibility for program administration as well as department committee work and significant student advisement. Include letter of application, statement of teaching philosophy; CV; digital portfolio on CD or DVD [Portfolio may also include URLs], at least 15 examples of student work, SASE; names, addresses & phone numbers of three references. Application deadline May 24, 2005. Affirmative Action; Equal Opportunity Employer; Women and Minorities encouraged to apply. Applications to: Professor Ellen Handy, Chair, Art Department. City College of New York. Convent Avenue at 138th Street, NY, NY 10031. 212 650-7421. An AAEO/ADA/IRCA Employer. + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + 4. Date: 4.11.05 From: Emma Posey <emma@bloc.org.uk> Subject: CONVERGENCE RESIDENCY, Cardigan, West Wales, UK ONE OF THREE ARTIST-IN-RESIDENCY OPPORTUNITIES IN WALES, UK OPEN TO ALL ARTISTS WORLDWIDE The residencies are part of the programme for MAY YOU LIVE IN INTERESTING TIMES, Cardiff festival of creative technology, 28th to 30th October 2005. The artist/s will address the convergence of traditional, new media and emerging technologies. Focusing on the combination of data and communication, the project will employ one or all of the following technologies: transmission, networking, and/or surveillance. The residency host is Creative Mwldan, Cardigan, where the artist will have access to a range of technical equipment and expertise. Creative Mwldan is a centre in West Wales, UK, working with digital creativity. For further information on the host visit www.mwldan.co.uk. Fee: There is a fee of Â£4,800 (40 days), materials budget of Â£2,000, and outreach travel of Â£250. Deadline: Posted applications should be received by FRIDAY 29th APRIL 2005. Shortlisted artists will be notified on 6th May, interviews will be held in Cardigan, West Wales. Selection Panel: Hannah Firth (Curator, Chapter/ Festival Director), Steve Knight (Director, Creative Mwldan), Walt Warrilow (Project Manager, Cywaith Cymru/Artworks Wales), and Emma Posey (Director, Bloc/Festival Director). MAY YOU LIVE IN INTERESTING TIMES is Cardiff's inaugural festival of creative technology - a three-day programme of events being held across the capital. The festival is being developed between bloc and Chapter. The residency programme for the festival is supported and managed by Cywaith Cymru/Artworks Wales), the national organisation for public art in Wales. The festival residencies are supported through the National Lottery celebration of Cardiff 2005. Festival Theme: Artists are increasingly engaged with or inspired by digital technology - exploring consumer and communication technologies such as the worldwide web, mobile networks, file sharing, and computer gaming. Because digital technology is a participatory medium with global reach, artists tend to explore digital technology in the context of public and shared spheres. Often digital art is situated somewhere between public art - albeit in a dematerialised form - and street culture where the technology itself is used as a 'site' for the production and presentation of art works. Although digital technology is often claimed to go beyond physical limitations, engagement with technology is always embedded in, or grounded in, real spaces and places whether this is explored from a user or network perspective. The residency form part of the festival's core programme where artists are being invited to investigate the 'places' where digital technologies become grounded in a geographical and social context. It is anticipated that the work from the residencies will have a strong presence in Cardiff during the festival period - 28th to 30th October 2005. All commissioned works shown at the festival will negotiate with the specifics of the location at various 'sites' in order to bring about activity and exchange beyond the gallery. The residency is open to an artist or group of artists and cover a period spent with the residency host between June and November this year (the timing of the residencies is negotiable although the work must be made evident during the festival period). If you have any questions or would like to have an informal discussion about the residency please email Walt Warrilow: walt@cywaithcymru.org. Applicants should post their CV, a proposal of no more than 1 side of A4 stating ref: Convergence, and supporting visual material in slide or CD format to: Convergence Cywaith Cymru . Artworks Wales Crichton House 11-12 Mount Stuart Square Cardiff CF10 5EE UK T: +44 (0)29 2048 9543 F: +44 (0)29 2046 5458 www.cywaithcymru.org e: walt@cywaithcymru.org + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + 5. Date: 4.13.05 From: Rachel Greene <rachel@rhizome.org> Subject: Fwd: Web/Systems Manager Position Begin forwarded message: > From: "Debra Singer" <Debra@thekitchen.org> > Date: April 13, 2005 4:24:44 PM EDT > To: "Debra Singer" <debra@thekitchen.org> > Subject: Web/Systems Manager Position > > Hi All, > If you know of anyone who might be interested in this half-time position, > please pass this along this job description and tell them to email me their > resume. Thanks for spreading the word! > Best, > Deb >   >   > > Position Opening: > > >   > > Part-Time Systems/Web Manager > > for The Kitchen > >   > > Acclaimed experimental arts organization in West Chelsea serving performing > and media artists seeks an experienced network administrator and webmaster for > a twelve person office. Responsibilities include: administering a > Windows-based data network; overseeing the organization¹s database system; and > administering the organization¹s website, including design and text updates, > page creation, and programming. The job also entails managing the operations > of the office computers including, implementation of hardware and software, > anti-virus protection, maintenance, and repairs as well as providing technical > support to staff and artists. > >   > > Good working knowledge of Windows Server and Exchange, TCP/IP networking, > HTML, and Photoshop are required. > >   > > Salary commensurate with experience. EOE.  + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + 6. Date: 4.14.05 From: Melanie Crean <melanie@eyebeam.org> Subject: Eyebeam call for Production Fellowships Eyebeam's Production Fellowship offers possibilities for artistic investigation, professional development and critical study to young artists of exceptional ability. Fellows are provided with a salary, health benefits and unlimited access to Eyebeam's production facilities at its newly renovated 540 W. 21st Street space throughout their 11 month term. They spend about 1/3 of their time developing their own self-directed projects, and the remaining time interacting with senior artists on larger projects, creating work for the commission, residency and co-op programs. During their stay, they benefit from critiques, lectures, gallery visits and interaction with other artists working at Eyebeam. Fellows' work is presented publicly at the end of the program year. The Fellowship is granted to three artists per year, who generally concentrate in one of several areas, depending on upcoming projects: technical direction (rigging/dynamics), 2D compositing/motion graphics, 3D modeling/texturing/lighting, animation, sound and interactive programming. The program is 11 months long, running from October to August. Fellows are selected from an open call, international applicants are welcome to apply. Applications go on line April 13th at <a rel="nofollow" href="http://eyebeam.org/production/onlineapp/">http://eyebeam.org/production/onlineapp/</a>, and are due on June 5th. For more information, please see www.eyebeam.org/production/production.php?page=midfellows + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + 7. Date: 4.11.05 From: Rhizome.org <artbase@rhizome.org> Subject: Just added to the Rhizome ArtBase: Shmoogle by Tsila Hassine Just added to the Rhizome ArtBase … <a rel="nofollow" href="http://rhizome.org/object.rhiz?32161">http://rhizome.org/object.rhiz?32161</a> + Shmoogle + + Tsila Hassine + What is Shmoogle? Shmoogle is a Google randomiser. When you type your query into Shmoogle, you get Google's results but…. in random order! This tool touches upon several crucial issues on the web such as Search Engine Optimization. Shmoogle instantly neutralizes Page rank and the whole SEO industry induced by it. Yet it addresses other fundamental issues such as retrievability vs. visibility. While all pages on the net are equally retrievable, they are certainly not equally visible. Every page is accessible by directly typing its URL, independent of Google, but how visible is it? how often does this page appear among Google's first results? Shmoogle breaks this strict hierarchy, and by doing this it promotes the diversity of the web. Since every result has the same chance of being on Shmoogle's first page, results of a more common nature have a bigger chance of appearing first. This is actually polling the web for its view on the query. Shmoogle sacrifices Google's accuracy for a web democracy, and gives common web authors an equal chance of exposure. You might want to try it out with some examples, let' take "art" for example. Google's first page consists of the Metropolitan museum, The National Gallery, MoMA, and some art portals on the web (not much of a surprise). On shmoogle, a (possible) first page features sites entitled " we make money not art", "Olga's gallery", and "Art Passions", among others - did you know these sites exist? This diversity and the uncertainty factor (it is in fact the first non-deterministic search engine) add a feeling of freedom, excitement, and playfulness. Enjoy! + + + Biography Tsila Hassine grew up in Tel Aviv, Israel, where she completed B.Sc's in Mathematics and Computer Science. She spent 2003 at the New Media department of the HGK Zuerich, and in 2004 she joined the Piet Zwart Institute in Rotterdam, where she is pursuing an MA in Media Design. + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + 8. Date: 4.13.05 From: Plasma Studii <office@plasmastudii.org> Subject: http in tha house thought y'all may dig this. HTTP in tha House <a rel="nofollow" href="http://plasmastudii.org/arch/rap/rap.html">http://plasmastudii.org/arch/rap/rap.html</a> enter a URL and it comes up with a rap. – ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ PLASMA STUDII art non-profit stages * galleries * the web PO Box 1086 Cathedral Station New York, USA (on-line press kit) <a rel="nofollow" href="http://plasmastudii.org">http://plasmastudii.org</a> + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + Spring Hosting Special from BroadSpire <a rel="nofollow" href="https://www.broadspire.com/order/rhizome/bundlepack.html">https://www.broadspire.com/order/rhizome/bundlepack.html</a> Want to consolidate multiple domains? Rhizome members can sign up for a Bundle hosting package that allows for up to five separate domains under one Broadspire hosting contract – through May 9. Purchasing hosting from BroadSpire contributes directly to Rhizome's fiscal well-being, so think about about the new Bundle pack, or any other plan, today! + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + 9. Date: 4.15.05 From: ryan griffis <griffay@yahoo.com> Subject: Tragic Travelogue, a Consideration Around Christina McPhee¹s Carrizo-Parkfield Diaries Tragic Travelogue, a Consideration Around Christina McPhee¹s Carrizo-Parkfield Diaries ³What are we to make of the popularity of such tourist targets as celebrity murder sites, concentration camps, places where thousands have been shot down, inundated with lava, herded off to slavery, crushed by earthquakes, starved to death… or otherwise suffered the excesses the rest of us hope we will never experience?² Lucy Lippard, _On the Beaten Track_, The New Press, 1999. "I wasn't thinking of it before as helping tourism for Sri Lanka as such. I was looking at it as a holiday," she says. "Now I feel I'm going out there to help get tourism back on its feet." <a rel="nofollow" href="http://www.cnn.com/2005/TRAVEL/01/06/tsunami.travel/">http://www.cnn.com/2005/TRAVEL/01/06/tsunami.travel/</a> The ³tragic tourism² that Lucy Lippard is questioning above certainly took on a new meaning for the thousands of tourists who found themselves in the path of the earthquake-generated tsunami in the Indian Ocean this past December. There was a kind of cruel inverted logic to the televised spectacle of the catastrophic events. Armchair tourists, voyeuristically watching reports of separated families, lost loved ones and miraculous survivors, able to say, ³I¹m glad I wasn¹t there.² As people rushed to generously help those living in the effected regions rebuild homes and infrastructure, the tourism industry made it clear - as it did after the September 11 attacks on the economic and military headquarters of the US - that it would not only continue, but would be part of the movement forward. It would not be a surprise if more than one memorial to the event were created and designed as a tourist destination, as the small town of Hilo on the big island of Hawaii has done to commemorate their run in with a killer wave. (see: Mike Davis, ³Tsunami Memories,² _Dead Cities_ The New Press, 2002) One of the more prominent emotions expressed in US media accounts of the tsunami was disbelief. How could such a thing happen with no notice? Aren¹t there satellites, buoys, and globally positioned networks that should warn us of something like this way before it happens? Back home in Los Angeles, the thought of earthquakes doesn¹t usually produce images of giant waves, but rather collapsed freeways, imploded parking decks, and expensive hillside homes riding down with landslides. For those that have lived around earthquakes in California for a while - a group to which I don¹t belong - the regular shifting of the earth is part of the social memory in a mundane, as well as terrifying, way. The interaction between a larger social imaginary (that includes movies like the 1970s classic Earthquake), subjective experience and the body of data and method known as geology makes up part of the subject matter (and methodology) of a recent body of work by California-based artist Christina McPhee in collaboration with Terry Hargrave (video), Jeremy Hight and Sindee Nakatani (texts and programming) called the ³Carrizo-Parkfield Diaries.² ³Carrizo-Parkfield Diaries² manifests itself as an artwork in three complimentary, yet distinct ways: a series of large scale digital prints, a video and a web-based piece that is accessible anytime, anywhere - given an internet connection and proper plug ins. The prints, on display at Transport Gallery in downtown LA, are vertical columns, above average human height, and are composed of layered photographic pictures, unidentifiable charts and graphs, and elusive architectonic drawings existing within a dense and spacious black background. Placed close together, the combined verticals - taking up much of the space between the ceiling and the floor - visually combine to create a larger, horizontal presence - not unlike a view through the large windows of a sky-rise office building. But rather than the usual pastoral impression of a landscape, a partially submerged, or subterranean, view is created by the striations of pictures, drawings and textures. This layering (surface vs depth) and vertical stacking of imagery suggests that we are looking through, rather than over, the surface. The use of scientific-looking data, along with the transparency of the layers of images, adds to this effect, recalling the technological displays of sci-fi films like Minority Report. Functioning in a similar manner, the web work layers audio, animated images and texts in a manner that suggests both a spatial and conceptual depth. Rather than using input from visitors to generate its dynamic mix of media, data from other external sources is used to produce the changing composition of a Flash movie. This data, live information from seismic monitors near the San Andreas Fault and archives from a significant 2004 Parkfield quake, ³collides² to produces a series of number strings - visible between ³chapters² in the movie - that determines the combination of media experienced. What occur, in various arrangements, are distorted images of the Carrizo Plain, hauntingly minimal audio tracks, and elusive fragments of a narrative recounting memories of death and the trauma of being in an earthquake. Don't let the earthquakes scare you away from visiting this beautiful town, not a single person has ever been injured from a Parkfield quake.  As the sign at the Parkfield Cafe reads, "Eat Here When It Happens," the same goes for the Parkfield Inn, "Sleep Here When It Happens." -Parkfield.com website "IT" Finally Happened! Parkfield experienced a magnitude 6.0 Earthquake on September 28, 2004. -Parkfield.com website The title of McPhee¹s work references the town of Parkfield, California, and the Carrizo Plain - a National Monument often called ³California¹s Serengeti² - two places in which the San Andreas Fault is a visible geographic force (The Carrizo Plain is also known as the ³Cadillac of the San Andreas Fault system²). As Parkfield¹s official website suggests, earthquakes are a crucial part of its image. Since the 1970s, the US Geological Survey (USGS) and the State of California had been attempting to ³trap² one of the region¹s oddly regular magnitude 6+ earthquakes (occurring roughly every 22 years since 1857). The quake that was to be trapped sometime between 1988 and 1992 was over a decade late when it struck on September 28, 2004, simultaneously fulfilling and upsetting Parkfield¹s destiny. <a rel="nofollow" href="http://quake.wr.usgs.gov/research/parkfield/history/2004.php">http://quake.wr.usgs.gov/research/parkfield/history/2004.php</a> McPhee¹s Diaries seem to play on the tension between these formulated expectations and the more chaotic experience of both time and space (the late arriving Parkfield quake supplied the archived data for the web project) . Even without Parkfield¹s backstory, the seemingly desolate landscape of the Carrizo Plain is not where most of us imagine the dramatic effects of earthquakes - while shifted roads and cracked earth may be spectacular, a demolished city often hits closer to home. Parkfield as a site for both symbolic and scientific study is one that is neither here nor there - situated between Los Angeles and San Francisco, it¹s off the radar for most California residents. It is a site of inquiry, the geographic equivalent of an ³indicator species,² where earthquake patterns can be studied (hopefully) before they effect a major city. In the exhibited video, McPhee can be seen exploring the rugged terrain of the Carrizo Plain¹s Soda Lake - recalling Smithson walking around his Spiral Jetty. Remembrances of the interventions of ³earth artists² like Smithson inevitably attach to other memories associated with deserts and other ³uninhabited spaces² - places where the avant garde, whether the Manhattan Project or artists from Manhattan, see nothing but a blank canvas to be shaped by bulldozers and atomic blasts. The violence enacted in and upon the US West, including its indigenous inhabitants, surely leaves behind what Lippard referred to as ³invisible² monuments, where ³something awful happened but its traces have disappeared leaving only the voids to speak.² For McPhee, the remoteness and openness of the Carrizo Plain seems to suggest the spatial equivalent of the subconscious, a place where trauma may reside undetected, except for sudden and unpredictable eruptions. In her Diaries of these ³invisible monuments,² we can find a relationship between social memory and natural history, mirroring the way that human activity has irreversibly become part of the geologic record. ( <a rel="nofollow" href="http://paglen.com/pages/projects/remnants/anthro_geo.htm">http://paglen.com/pages/projects/remnants/anthro_geo.htm</a> ) I have the feeling that we are being taken on our own tragic tour of some fault line that extends from the Carrizo Plain into the social imaginary, looking for clues to past eruptions and hoping we¹re not there to experience future ones. Ryan Griffis The Carrizo-Parkfield Diaries Project can be found online at: <a rel="nofollow" href="http://www.carrizoparkfielddiaries.net">http://www.carrizoparkfielddiaries.net</a> and was exhibited at Transport Gallery, Los Angeles March 5 - April 16, 2005 + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + Rhizome ArtBase Exhibitions <a rel="nofollow" href="http://rhizome.org/art/exhibition/">http://rhizome.org/art/exhibition/</a> Visit the third ArtBase Exhibition "Raiders of the Lost ArtBase," curated by Michael Connor of FACT and designed by scroll guru Dragan Espenschied. <a rel="nofollow" href="http://rhizome.org/art/exhibition/raiders/">http://rhizome.org/art/exhibition/raiders/</a> + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + Rhizome.org is a 501©(3) nonprofit organization and an affiliate of the New Museum of Contemporary Art. 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