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RHIZOME DIGEST: 1.18.02

RHIZOME DIGEST: January 18, 2002 Content: +work+ 1. NOMADS: NOMADS–Mobile Media v.2.0 2. Jeffrey Jullich: generative psychogeography 3. alex galloway: new games from jodi +announcement+ 4. BLASTHAUS: STELARC 5. Eric Paulos: EIU–Update / Events 6. Vidlounge@AOL.COM: online media theory classes + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + 1. Date: 1.16.02 From: NOMADS (nomads@nomadnet.org) Subject: NOMADS–Mobile Media v.2.0 Mobile Media an on-going series of videos created for the palm os <a rel="nofollow" href="http://www.nomadnet.org">http://www.nomadnet.org</a> Mobile Media v.2.0 features new videos by NOMADS. Videos can be downloaded and installed on any pda utilizing the palm os. Mobile Media videos require the tealmovie multimedia viewer: <a rel="nofollow" href="http://www.tealpoint.com/softmovi.htm">http://www.tealpoint.com/softmovi.htm</a> <a rel="nofollow" href="http://www.nomadnet.org">http://www.nomadnet.org</a> <a rel="nofollow" href="http://www.tealpoint.com/softmovi.htm">http://www.tealpoint.com/softmovi.htm</a> + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + +ad+ **METAMUTE ECHELON COMPETITION WINNERS: Metamute announces the winners of the Echelon competition. 1st prize: The Avatar Group - Isis, followed by runners up: Tessa Laird - Pink Noise and Edward Lear - The Owl and the Pussycat Assassinate the EuroFeds. Read all the entries: <a rel="nofollow" href="http://www.metamute.com/mfiles/index.htm">http://www.metamute.com/mfiles/index.htm</a> + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + 2. 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Find out what events you'll participate in via the web. Pick up a copy of LEONARDO's Digital Salon, Volume 34 Number 5 and visit:@: <a rel="nofollow" href="http://mitpress2.mit.edu/e-journals/Leonardo">http://mitpress2.mit.edu/e-journals/Leonardo</a> + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + 3. Date: 1.14.02 From: alex galloway (alex@rhizome.org) Subject: new games from jodi my fave: O-O <a rel="nofollow" href="http://www.untitled-game.org">http://www.untitled-game.org</a> + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + +ad+ Read Peter Anders article "Anthropic Cyberspace" in the latest LEONARDO Digital Salon Volume 34 Number 5. Learn first hand about defining electronic space and give yourself space to think. Visit our web site @ <a rel="nofollow" href="http://mitpress2.mit.edu/e-journals/Leonardo">http://mitpress2.mit.edu/e-journals/Leonardo</a> + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + 4. Date: 1.17.02 From: BLASTHAUS (list@blasthaus.com) Subject: STELARC FRIDAY FEBRUARY 1, 8pm sharp: STELARC presents a lecture / demonstration with performance by People Hater at SOMARTS 934 Brannan Street (near 8th) in San Francisco ZOMBIES AND CYBORGS: OBSOLETE, INVOLUNTARY AND AUTOMATED BODIES The multi-media presentation is a lecture illustrated with videotapes, slides, overhead transparencies and CD-Rom projection. Stelarc discusses issues related to the body and technology. The premise being that the body is an evolutionary architecture that operates and becomes aware in the world. To alter it's architecture is to adjust it's awareness. The body has always been a prosthetic body, one augmented by its instruments and machines. There has always been a danger of the body behaving involuntarily and conditioned automatically. There has always been a fear of the involuntary and the automated. Of the Zombie and the Cyborg. But we fear what we have always been and what we have already become. Through a discussion of his major performances such as the Body Suspensions, Third Hand events, Internal Body Probes, and the Exoskeleton walking robot, the Internet remote choreography of the Body and the Extra Ear proposal Stelarc deconstructs notions of self, identity, free-agency and what it means to be human. The absent, obsolete, invaded and involuntary body now performs for avatars on the Internet. BIOGRAPHICAL NOTES Stelarc is an Australian artist who has performed extensively in Japan, Europe and the USA- including new music, dance festivals and experimental theatre. He has used medical instruments, prosthetics, robotics, Virtual Reality systems and the Internet to explore alternate, intimate and involuntary interfaces with the body. He has performed with a THIRD HAND, a VIRTUAL ARM, a VIRTUAL BODY and a STOMACH SCULPTURE. He has acoustically and visually probed the body- having amplified brainwaves, blood-flow and muscle signals and filmed the inside of his lungs, stomach and colon, approximately two metres of internal space. He has done twenty-five body SUSPENSIONS with insertions into the skin, in different positions and varying situations in remote locations. For FRACTAL FLESH, as part of Telepolis, he developed a touch-screen interfaced Muscle Stimulation System, enabling remote access, actuation and choreography of the body. Performances such as PING BODY and PARASITE probe notions of telematic scaling and the engineering of external, extended and virtual nervous systems for the body using the Internet. Recently for Kampnagel, he completed EXOSKELETON- a pneumatically powered 6- legged walking machine actuated by arm gestures. Current projects include the EXTRA EAR- a surgically constructed ear as an additional facial feature that coupled with a modem and a wearable computer will act as an internet antenna, able to hear RealAudio sounds. And MOVATAR is an intelligent avatar that will be able to perform in the real world by possessing a physical body. It will have a sound feedback loop from the body giving the virtual entity an ear in the world. He has also completed an EXTENDED ARM- a manipulator with eleven degrees-of-freedom that extends his arm to primate proportions and a MOTION PROSTHESIS- an intelligent, compliant servo- mechanism that enables the performance of precise, repetitive and accelerated prompting or programming of the arms in real-time. In 1995 Stelarc received a three year Fellowship from The Visual Arts/ Craft Board, The Australia Council. In 1997 he was appointed Honorary Professor of Art and Robotics at Carnegie Mellon University. He was Artist-In-Residence for Hamburg City in 1998. In 2000 he was awarded an honorary Degree of Law by Monash University. He is now Principal Research Fellow in the Performance Arts Digital Research Unit at The Nottingham Trent University, UK. His art is represented by the Sherman Galleries in Sydney. <a rel="nofollow" href="http://www.stelarc.va.com.au">http://www.stelarc.va.com.au</a> + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + 5. Date: 1.19.02 From: Eric Paulos (paulos@cs.berkeley.edu) Subject: EIU–Update / Events The Experimental Interaction Unit <a rel="nofollow" href="http://www.eiu.org">http://www.eiu.org</a> The Experimental Interaction Unit will be active in several upcoming events listed below: The Amy Show 19 Jan 2002 San Francisco <a rel="nofollow" href="http://www.breakingthings.com/">http://www.breakingthings.com/</a> This is a benefit for Amy Miller, a long time SRL member who fell from the roof of a building after the 15 Dec 2001 SRL show and broke her hip in three places. All proceeds from this event go to Amy. EIU is participating and contributing to the raffle that will be held. + + + Tentacle Sessions with David Pescovitz and Brad Wieners An evening of POST FUTURISM In Review 20 Jan 2002 <a rel="nofollow" href="http://sessions.laughingsquid.org/">http://sessions.laughingsquid.org/</a> If there's one thing David Pescovitz and Brad Wieners heard over and over when they came out with their 1996 timeline of the future, Reality Check (Wired Books), it's that their predictions for pop culture tech– robots! jet packs! orgasmatrons!–were far too bullish. Five years later, however, it looks this pair of accidental futurists wasn't bold enough: Everything they predicted–based on expert sources they're happy to blame–is happening sooner–much sooner–than expected! On Jan 20, join them as they tour the recent future and examine why certain inventions took off, while others were built (but nobody came). You will see video and live demonstrations of dissident robots, check out the first commercial smart shirt, ogle a virtual sex slave….and much more! Brad and David will be joined by guests Erik Davis, (Techgnosis) expert on smart drugs and dial-a-mood; Eric Paulos, experimental robotocist, space browsing blimp-pilot; and others. + + + Threat of Irrelevance 24 Feb 2002 Rhizome LA <a rel="nofollow" href="http://www.eiu.org/discussion/rhizome/">http://www.eiu.org/discussion/rhizome/</a> As developers of the first privately owned electromagnetic weapon and anonymous biological pathogen dispersion system, the Experimental Interaction Unit reaffirms its dedication to researching the most vital elements of future human interaction systems. While the atrocities of 9.11 dictate a new agenda for EIU, our actions will not be inured by these events. Our expertise, knowledge, and rapid adaptation skills have been deployed in an effort to design new systems and tools to combat and intimately connect with the future. Challenging times bring new urgency to these parlous projects which will be discussed. Rhizome LA is a new media art event series produced in Los Angeles by Rhizome and Beverly Tang. <a rel="nofollow" href="http://www.eiu.org">http://www.eiu.org</a> <a rel="nofollow" href="http://www.breakingthings.com/">http://www.breakingthings.com/</a> <a rel="nofollow" href="http://sessions.laughingsquid.org/">http://sessions.laughingsquid.org/</a> <a rel="nofollow" href="http://www.eiu.org/discussion/rhizome/">http://www.eiu.org/discussion/rhizome/</a> + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + 6. Date: 1.16.02 From: Vidlounge@AOL.COM Subject: online media theory classes two media theory classes taught online by artist and media curator Laurie Halsey Brown a. Why New Media Isn't new: A History ONLINE 9 weeks march 18 thru May 17 $410 The history of net.art, multimedia works and digital installations will be discussed in relation to the progression of technology and how these art forms have been affected by and in turn, affected our society. Concepts of interactivity, hybridity and voyeurism/surveillance are discussed. Students research/discuss websites and are encouraged to intergrate the class with their own sites. b. Media Interactions: Film, Video and Digital ONLINE 9 weeks feb 4 thru April 5 $410 The past, present and future; the relationship of video to film and digital media is analyzed in the context of contemporary society and the movement toward interdisciplinary forms and processes in all kinds of technologies. for more info: <a rel="nofollow" href="http://www.dialnsa.edu">http://www.dialnsa.edu</a> 212.229.5630 to register: 212.229.5690 + + + BIO Laurie Halsey Brown is an artist, independent media curator and on faculty at the New School University. She creates site-responsive projections and installations which include the viewer, revealing architectural and psychological aspects of interior/exterior space. These projects are interdisciplinary and can include video, photography, web, audio, drawings and architectural objects. Her work has been shown extensively; in the US at places such as The New Museum of Contemporary Art in NYC in 1994 and 2001 and abroad in Belfast, N. Ireland; Dublin, Ireland and London, UK. She also makes single-channel videos which have been screened nationally and at international film festivals. Her web projects focus on art as dialogue: <a rel="nofollow" href="http://www.movinginplace.net">http://www.movinginplace.net</a>. She has curated numerous media based projects nationally and internationally; most recently at the New Museum of Contemporary Art, NYC and the Pittsburgh Center for the Arts, PA. vidlounge@aol.com <a rel="nofollow" href="http://www.dialnsa.edu">http://www.dialnsa.edu</a> <a rel="nofollow" href="http://www.movinginplace.net">http://www.movinginplace.net</a> + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + Rhizome.org is a 501©(3) nonprofit organization. If you value this free publication, please consider making a contribution within your means. We accept online credit card contributions at <a rel="nofollow" href="http://rhizome.org/support">http://rhizome.org/support</a>. 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