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RHIZOME DIGEST: September 17, 2004 Content: +announcement+ 1. Eugene Thacker: CREATIVE BIOTECHNOLOGY: A USER'S MANUAL 2. Ryan Griffis: RHZ Radio: Amateur radio in LA 3. Reynald Drouhin: data/reference/art no-org.net 4. Paula Poole: from paintersflat 5. Kevin McGarry: WPS1 - special on bio-art-terror / CAE +opportunity+ 6. Rafael Lozano-Hemmer: cfp Life 7.0 awards 7. Brian Goldfarb: Faculty positions at UCSD Communication Dept +work+ 8. Jess Loseby: jellynet (new work) 9. Jo-Anne Green: Turbulence Spotlight: "ASCII BUSH" by Yoshi Sodeoka 10. Rhizome.org: ust added to the Rhizome ArtBase: The Web is a Living Organism by Mushon Zer-Aviv + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + 1. Date: 9.11.04 From: Eugene Thacker <eugene.thacker@lcc.gatech.edu> Subject: CREATIVE BIOTECHNOLOGY: A USER'S MANUAL Locus+ invite you to celebrate the launch of CREATIVE BIOTECHNOLOGY: A USERâ??S MANUAL An on-line publication by Biotech Hobbyists NATALIE JEREMIJENKO & EUGENE THACKER NEW YORK Sept. 15, 6-8pm Artists Space 38 Greene Street, New York, NY 10013 Refreshments will be served. NEWCASTLE Sept. 23, 6-8pm Henry Wellcome Building for Neuroecology University of Newcastle upon Tyne, Framlington Place, NE2 4HH Refreshments will be served. ONLINE September 2004 www.locusplus.org.uk/biotech_hobbyist A limited edition Locus+ publication will be available at these launches. For further info contact Jon Bewley, Jonty Tarbuck, or Matt Hearn at locusplus@newart.demon.co.uk + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + 2. Date: 9.12.04 From: ryan griffis <grifray@yahoo.com> Subject: RHZ Radio: Amateur radio in LA The RHZ Amateur Radio Network is a participatory experiment aiming to create the possibility of a legal, publicly owned and operated radio that grows successively with each new participant. Based on the FCC allowance for individuals to operate a 100 milliwatt micro-radio station, RHZ uses the internet to share content between micro-stations so they can broadcast the same content at the same time. Anyone can have their own radio station, starting with a hobby kit as low as $30! RHZ is designed to follow the parameters of FCC regulation, abide by copyright law, and use only free open source software to distribute information, while simultaneously allowing the broadcast network to grow to the size of the social network that creates it. Blending amateur technological experimentation and social activism, RHZ was designed as project for REBEL REBEL project series for Leefahsalung at New China Town Barber Shop. <a rel="nofollow" href="http://rhzradio.net/">http://rhzradio.net/</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 Rachel Greene at Rachel@Rhizome.org. + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + 3. Date: 9.16.04 From: Reynald Drouhin <reynald@incident.net> Subject: data/reference/art no-org.net <a rel="nofollow" href="http://no-org.net/data/reference/art/">http://no-org.net/data/reference/art/</a> Databases, encyclopedias, indexes, dictionaries, and directories are not merely devices of data organizing, but also mediums for building hierarchical systems. Not only they convey topic specific information but also propagate political and aesthetic ideologies, reflecting background and interests of their producers. "The correct", "the necessary", "the important" or "the secondary" for a user to know, to study, to invest - all those messages embedded into systems of knowledge and sorted according to hierarchy established by their editors. Methods of distribution, managing of contents, the structure, lay a distinct track to control and design of common knowledge, shaping thinking patterns. The global network, providing a new space for distribution of traditional data-collections, also grants a possibility of their deconstruction, challenging their authority by making use of inherent practices of the Net: decentralization and release of information, castingdoubtupon hierarchies through the new form of data-organization, popularizing of canonical and non-canonical materials, formalizing, aestheticizing and so on. Current exhibition compiled of nine art projects, each presenting an original approach to the theme, placing in doubt, rethinking the signification, the function and the objectives of data collections on the Net. + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + 4. Date: 9.16.04 From: Paula Poole <paularpoole@yahoo.com> Subject: from paintersflat To those of you who are in or near the San Francisco Bay Area: Paula Poole and Brett Stalbaum Will be exhibiting work in ?Faces of II? A grand opening exhibit Studio II Gallery 570 Soscol Ave. Napa, CA 94558 (707)257-0900 Gallery hours: Thurs ? Mon. 11:00am to 5:00pm or by appointment Reception September 18, 8:00 ? 10:00pm Artists? Talk: October 10, 1:00pm Project Description: In "Five Views of the Gray Knoll from Primary and other Bergblicks", (2003) Paula and Brett started with the UTM coordinates of a piece of land called "Bergblick" in Iron County, Utah. Using software authored by Brett as part of his collaboration with C5 (www.c5corp.com), they identified a group of other locations in the Escalante Valley with similar topographical characteristics to Bergblick, and visited the locations to evaluate their qualities as potential sites (or views) from which to implement landscape paintings. Surprisingly, all of the locations with topographic characteristics most similar to the input "Bergblick" site converged around a small hill called the Gray Knoll. Paula painted the Gray Knoll from the perspective of the original input (or "Bergblick") site, as well as from four of the "Other Bergblick" sites that were chosen by the software. In this project, it was data processing that chose the Gray Knoll as a subject for painting, as well as choosing the perspectives from which it was painted. In the "Primary Bergblick" painting (Z: 12 E: 251 N: 4192), the Gray Knoll was painted from the perspective of the Bergblick campsite. The Gray Knoll is distant and barely visible from this location. However, the sites of topographical similarity to the Primary Bergblick all converged near the Gray Knoll, falling in a cluster between 8 and 13 kilometers to the south, in a fairly tight configuration surrounding the Gray Knoll. This is in spite of the fact that the entire, large Escalante Valley was searched. We are not sure what the meaning of this is, but the unexpected outcome became the conceptual basis for painting the Gray Knoll. The data seemed to demand it. For more information about the project, please see: <a rel="nofollow" href="http://www.paintersflat.net/bergblick.html">http://www.paintersflat.net/bergblick.html</a> + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + 5. Date: 9.17.04 From: Kevin McGarry <Kevin@rhizome.org> Subject: WPS1 - special on bio-art-terror / CAE —— Forwarded Message From: Suzanne Anker <s.anker@verizon.net> Date: Thu, 16 Sep 2004 11:00:09 -0400 Subject: WPS1 The Bio-Blurb Show <a rel="nofollow" href="http://www.wps1.org/include/shows/bio_blurb.html">http://www.wps1.org/include/shows/bio_blurb.html</a> The subject of the Bio-Blurb Show centers around aspects of the growing trend between art and science, and most particularly the biological and genetic sciences. Hosted by Suzanne Anker, the show features a roundtable discussion of the social issues that are affected by genetic engineering, forensics, new reproductive technologies, the patenting of life forms and related "Art-Sci" subjects. The following shows are archived on <a rel="nofollow" href="http://www.wps1.org/include/shows/bio_blurb.html:">http://www.wps1.org/include/shows/bio_blurb.html:</a> Edition #3 - "Bio-Art or Bio-Terror?" In this most important program, host Suzanne Anker <<a rel="nofollow" href="http://www.geneculture.org/cmp/biography.shtml">http://www.geneculture.org/cmp/biography.shtml</a>> asks her guests, former Whitney Museum director David Ross, <<a rel="nofollow" href="http://www.artistpensiontrust.org">http://www.artistpensiontrust.org</a>> art journalist <<a rel="nofollow" href="http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/0520212436/qid=1088131622/sr=">http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/0520212436/qid=1088131622/sr=</a> 8-1/ref=sr_8_xs_ap_i1_xgl14/103-2185091-6862249?v=glance&amp;s=books&amp;n=5 07846> Steven Henry Madoff <<a rel="nofollow" href="http://www.5ivegroup.net">http://www.5ivegroup.net</a>> (onetime editor of ARTNews), and filmmaker Virgil Wong <<a rel="nofollow" href="http://www.rythospital.com">http://www.rythospital.com</a>> about the federal government's against the activist artist Steve Kurtz <<a rel="nofollow" href="http://www.caedefensefund.org/">http://www.caedefensefund.org/</a>> and the Critical Art Ensemble. <<a rel="nofollow" href="http://www.critical-art.net/">http://www.critical-art.net/</a>> How much of this is fact, how much fiction? Why have no politicians come forward with a response? This many years after the Culture Wars, has the government succeeded in criminalizing artists? Should artists be making work with life-forms? The answers are just as provocative as the questions! Edition #1 - In the first of this stimulating new series considering a new definition of "nature," Suzanne Anker <<a rel="nofollow" href="http://www.geneculture.org/cmp/biography.shtml">http://www.geneculture.org/cmp/biography.shtml</a>> , author of The Molecular Gaze: Art in the Genetic Age, hosts a discussion of the quickly falling boundaries between art and science, especially in regard to genetics – think the Matthews (Barney and Richie) and Andy Goldsworthy – with forceful contributions from artist Steve Miller <<a rel="nofollow" href="http://www.stevemiller.com">http://www.stevemiller.com</a>> and writers Thyrza Nichols Goodeve <<a rel="nofollow" href="http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/0947564845/qid=1086627064/sr=">http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/0947564845/qid=1086627064/sr=</a> 1-1/ref=sr_1_1/104-7805605-1983911?v=glance&amp;s=books> and Mark Dery <<a rel="nofollow" href="http://www.levity.com/markdery/author.html">http://www.levity.com/markdery/author.html</a>> . —— End of Forwarded Message + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + 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 Rachel Greene at Rachel@Rhizome.org. + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + 6. Date: 9.13.04 From: Rafael Lozano-Hemmer <errafael@mac.com> Subject: cfp Life 7.0 awards LIFE 7.0 International Competition - Call for Participation Announcing the sixth edition of the competition on "art and artificial life" sponsored by the Telefonica Foundation in Madrid. We are looking for outstanding electronic art projects employing techniques such as digital genetics, autonomous robotics, recursive chaotic algorithms, knowbots, computer viruses, wetware, embodied artificial intelligence, avatars, evolving behaviours and virtual ecosystems. An international jury – Chris Csikszentmihalyi (US), Daniel Garcia Andujar (Spain), Rafael Lozano-Hemmer (Mexico/Canada), Jose-Carlos Mariategui (Peru), Fiona Raby (UK) and Nell Tenhaaf (Canada)– will grant four cash awards totaling 20,000 Euros. The competition's website at <a rel="nofollow" href="http://www.vidalife.org">http://www.vidalife.org</a> has the guidelines, application form, and information on the previous award-winners, including texts, videos, images and links. Deadline: Wednesday, November 3, 2004. For further information, please visit <a rel="nofollow" href="http://www.vidalife.org">http://www.vidalife.org</a> For questions concerning eligibility of entries: Nell Tenhaaf, Artistic Director <tenhaaf@yorku.ca> + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + 7. Date: 9.14.04 From: Brian Goldfarb <bgoldfarb@ucsd.edu> Subject: Faculty positions at UCSD Communication Dept The Department of Communication at the University California, San Diego (www.communication.ucsd.edu) seeks to fill four positions to begin July 1, 2005. Two positions are in the area of communication technologies; two positions are in media studies and studies of expressive culture/performance. Rank of each position within the areas will be determined by skills and qualifications. 1. Digital Media Production and Theory. The Department seeks a professor, strongly preferred at the assistant or early associate level, who is a creative producer/scholar in digital media arts with a strong background in critical studies and who can work with a faculty that spans the social sciences, humanities, and the arts. Specialization areas may include but are not limited to: net art, net radio, electronic performance, interactive installation, electronic curating, computer music, digital sound, robotics, architectural design; conceptual or public media art, and transitions between old and new media forms. We seek applicants who are engaged with digital media scholarship and who are qualified to teach at the graduate level and in areas of the curriculum beyond production. Candidates should hold a PhD, MFA or equivalent qualifications and have a strong exhibition record and demonstrated potential for teaching excellence. (Additional sites that may be of interest: <a rel="nofollow" href="http://crca.ucsd.edu">http://crca.ucsd.edu</a>; <a rel="nofollow" href="http://www.calit2.net/">http://www.calit2.net/</a>, <a rel="nofollow" href="http://www.activistsandiego.org/">http://www.activistsandiego.org/</a>, <a rel="nofollow" href="http://www.mediaartscenter.org/">http://www.mediaartscenter.org/</a>). 2. Critical Studies of Communication Technologies. The Department seeks a professor, strongly preferred at the associate or full level, with a national and international reputation in research and demonstrated graduate and undergraduate teaching strengths. Research and teaching areas may include but are not limited to the study of human-technology interfaces; technologies of information, communication, cognition, body, and language; and technologically supported networks in institutions, workplaces, environments, or social movements. We seek applicants whose work considers one or more of the following: gender, race, cultural identity, ability, globalization, and development. The appointee may be affiliated with UCSD's graduate Science Studies Program (www.sciencestudies.ucsd.edu). (Additional site that may be of interest: <a rel="nofollow" href="http://www.calit2.net/">http://www.calit2.net/</a>). 3. Media Studies. The Department seeks a professor, strongly preferred at the assistant or early associate level, in media studies. Research and teaching areas may include the analysis of media culture, history, industries and production processes and/or audiences, especially but not necessarily limited to a focus on television and film. 4. Expressive Culture and Performance. The Department seeks a professor, strongly preferred at the assistant or early associate level, who works on various forms of expressive culture and/or performance. Particular foci might include discourse, language and social interaction; everyday forms of communal expression and citizenship; drama in a dramatized society; rituals, festivals, and commemorations; cultural tourism and transnational networks; performances of identities/identifications; and resistance/domination through ritual/art/performance. Send vita, statement of research and teaching interests, one work sample (a single publication or media work), home page URL, and contact information for three references by October 30, 2004 (late applications will be accepted). For positions 1 and 2, send to Professor Lisa Cartwright. For positions 3 and 4, send to Professor Dan Hallin. Department of Communication (0503) University of California at San Diego 9500 Gilman Drive La Jolla CA 92093-0503 Salaries are in accordance with UC pay scales. UCSD is an equal opportunity/affirmative action employer committed to excellence through diversity. 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Details at: <a rel="nofollow" href="http://rhizome.org/services/1.php">http://rhizome.org/services/1.php</a> + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + 8. Date: 9.14.04 From: Jess Loseby <jess@rssgallery.com> Subject: jellynet (new work) found myself with some time to add a new one to the 'without permission' series <a rel="nofollow" href="http://www.rssgallery.com/jellynet.htm">http://www.rssgallery.com/jellynet.htm</a> cheers, jess. animation by 'rubarb & custard' (brit joke) o /^\ rssgallery.com ][ + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + 9. Date: 9.16.04 From: Jo-Anne Green <jo@turbulence.org> Subject: Turbulence Spotlight: "ASCII BUSH" by Yoshi Sodeoka September 16, 2004 Turbulence Spotlight: "ASCII BUSH" by Yoshi Sodeoka <a rel="nofollow" href="http://turbulence.org/spotlight/ASCII_BUSH">http://turbulence.org/spotlight/ASCII_BUSH</a> ASCII BUSH is an ascii video rendition of two State of the Union addresses–one delivered by George W. Bush on January 12, 2003 (just before the Iraq war); the other by his father, George H.W. Bush, on March 6, 1991 (right after Operation Desert Storm). The goal of the project is to "find some artistic meaning in the dreadful and painfully long US presidents' speeches, and to investigate the idea of recycling and making art out of the debris of our culture." BIOGRAPHY Yoshi Sodeoka is a New York based artist and musician who has been producing both art and commercial projects for over a decade. His interactive digital artwork has been featured on numerous CD-ROMs and Web sites and in exhibitions at the San Francisco MoMA, Whitney Museum of American Art, Design Museum, Germany and Art & Design Museum Brazil. In addition, Sodeoka has lectured widely on the topic of digital art and design, and has juried design awards for Art Director's Club, New York and the One Club. He was a contributing writer for Artbyte magazine for which he wrote a bi-monthly column about underground digital culture. Prior to that, he was the founding art director of Word.com, one of the Web's oldest and most influential e-zines, which launched in 1995. For more information about Turbulence, please visit <a rel="nofollow" href="http://turbulence.org">http://turbulence.org</a> + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + 10. Date: 9.17.04 From: Rhizome.org <artbase@rhizome.org> Subject: Just added to the Rhizome ArtBase: The Web is a Living Organism by Mushon Zer-Aviv Just added to the Rhizome ArtBase … <a rel="nofollow" href="http://rhizome.org/object.rhiz?27784">http://rhizome.org/object.rhiz?27784</a> + The Web is a Living Organism + + Mushon Zer-Aviv + The www.is-a-living.org project is a net.art installation in both hyper and physical space. It is trying to examine the relationship between internet users, information and the internet itself in the same way we look at the relationship between blood cells, Oxygen and the body itself. By this equation comes a great opportunity of discovering a new model for politics- based on the idea of Symbiotic Relationships. The interactive composition is an examination of microscopic activity inside an internet tissue. The participants/users are invited to take part in the installation's game system. [1] Each participant/user types in a search string he would like to discuss. [2] When stepping into the interactive stage, he is joined by a microbe. The microbe is a digitally-crafted animated avatar based on the aesthetics of microbiology. Each microbe projects a unique sound and has a unique style of movement. The microbe is powered by a search engine (at this stage we have integrated Google, Altavista and Lycos). [3] In physical space, the interactive stage serves as a screen for a projector that beams from its top. The Microbe is projected upon the user and follows his movements. The search string is projected on the floor right after being submitted. [4] Stepping on text on the floor with the microbe sends the text to the microbe's search engine and returns the title of the first search result. The new text replaces the old ones and become new triggers for a search. The composition creates a conversation between users using search engines combined with a live interactive music score. [5] The work will be available online (controlled by the users mouse&keyboard) constantly like any other net art work but will reach it's full potential in the form of realspace installation that interacts both online users, activating their microbes through the use of the mouse, and physical participants, moving their microbes by the movement of their bodies. [see online interactive demo for a better grasp of the composition] The project deals with issues within the discourse of net-ethics, but tries to use the artistic method to create an experience which is theoretically challenging on one hand and pure fun on the other. It is using a physical computed tracking system conjunct with live internet search-engine activity, interactive visuals and sounds and a game system to deliver the concept. + + + Biography My name is Mushon Zer-Aviv, I was born in Israel in 1976. Moving from collecting stamps to bird-watching then to comics followed by educating, then to graphic design and from there finally to the new media. I founded Shual together with Guy in order to house all these diversities. In the past you could have found me in: Penguin's Perversions magazine - writing & comicsing Bezalel Academy - studying, Ars Electronca, Offf and other venues - doing my thing Today you can find me at: Shenkar college - where I teach Concept Magazine - curating the BD4D events, Maarav Magazine - writing, Pixelsurgeon Magazine - contributing, and (too rarely) at home - with Galia and Shnushnin. more info: shual.com / mushon.com + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + Rhizome.org is a 501©(3) nonprofit organization and an affiliate of the New Museum of Contemporary Art. 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