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RHIZOME DIGEST: 6.11.04

RHIZOME DIGEST: June 11, 2004 Content: +announcement+ 1. carol es: Distance Ã· 3 2. ryan griffis: FWD: Autonomedia CAE fund raiser event +opportunity+ 3. Rachel Greene: Cory Arcangel Summer Show Invite 4. david f: bit banger\\\'s ball w32 one night festival nyc/us/august 5. Ido: The Kitchen Calls for Artists 6. Marisa S. Olson: Employment Opp (SF) +scene report+ 7. Matthias Weiß: ?Public Library? - An exhibition project by Inke Arns and Florian Cramer (Wizards of OS 3) + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + 1. Date: 6.07.04 From: carol es <carol@artcutter.com> Subject: Distance Ã· 3 I-5 Gallery at the Brewery Presents: Distance Ã· 3 Carol Es Elizabeth Hoffman Midge Lynn July 3 - July 25, 2004, I-5 Gallery at The Brewery 2100 North Main Street #A9 Los Angeles, Ca. 90031 (323) 342-0717 OPENING RECEPTION: SATURDAY, JULY 3, 2004, 6:00-9:00 PM Closing Party/Anniversary Benefit for Gallery 825: Thursday, July 22, 6:00-8:00 PM This exhibit operates on both personal and universal levels, addressing issues of intimacy, commitment and the individual strength that results from collective experience. Distance Ã· 3 evokes a layering of the sweet memories and the sense of loss and sadness that occur when friends are separated. Artists, Carol Es, Elizabeth Hoffman, and Midge Lynn, have shared a close bond for many years, supporting each other as fellow artists and friends. Last year Elizabeth Hoffman moved to Pennsylvania, leaving the trio to struggle to sustain the closeness they previously shared. The process of producing this exhibit, which includes both collaborative and singular work, has been an inspiring experience for these three, embracing the sharing of ideas via email, conference calls and shared materials mailed over 3000 miles. + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + 2. Date: 6.07.04 From: ryan griffis <grifray@yahoo.com> Subject: FWD: Autonomedia CAE fund raiser event for those not on the other list: ++++++++++++++++++++++ Gary Indiana contacted Autonomedia over the weekend to suggest a fundraiser for the defense fund, which he is willing to organize as part of his Cabaret RAF series at the Passerby Gallery in NYC; we confirmed it with him this morning. The event will be on June 22, mostly consisting of video work and MC'd by Gary, who'll also talk about the case and give a big money pitch. Autonomedia will have a book display in the gallery with CAEs work available, with all sales going to the defense fund. The videos will include: Laura Cottingham and Leslie Singer: The Anita Pallenberg Story, 2000 Alex Bag: Demo Reel/Coven Services, 2004 Gary Indiana: Soap, 2004 Michel Auder: My Last Bag of Heroin (For Real), 1986 These were all previously-selected titles. Hopefully we'll be showing some CAE video work as well. If there are any other events planned in a similar vein, please post info here, and perhaps an "events" link could be added to the defense fund web site. bests, Ben Meyers Autonomedia + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + 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.) 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Date: 6.07.04 From: Rachel Greene <rachel@rhizome.org> Subject: Cory Arcangel Summer Show Invite From: cory arcangel Date: June 5, 2004 11:11:09 PM EDT To: Rachel Greene Subject: Re: <no subject> Here is my summer show invite: <a rel="nofollow" href="http://www.post-data.org/fill_pattern/">http://www.post-data.org/fill_pattern/</a> :) feel free to pass it along! cory + SIGNATURE—> MY HOMEPAGE: www.beigerecords.com/cory/ BEIGE PROGRAMMING ENSEMBLE HOMEPAGE: www.post-data.org/beige/ BEIGE RECORDS HOMEPAGE: www.beigerecords.com/ + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + For $65 annually, Rhizome members can put their sites on a Linux server, with a whopping 350MB disk storage space, 1GB data transfer per month, catch-all email forwarding, daily web traffic stats, 1 FTP account, and the 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>). 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Date: 6.08.04 From: david f <rhizome.org@frackman.org> Subject: bit banger\\\'s ball w32 one night festival nyc/us/august hey there - i'm trying to start a nyc programming festival - i'm calling it the "bit banger's ball" intro-demo-all-in-one 256K/XP86 compo-festival. it will be in august. the basic idea is you've got 4 minutes and 256k to make a narrative piece with programming, graphics and sound. if your entry is one of the 25 accepted, it will be shown as part of a 100 minute festival at a local nyc venue. there will be 5 voted festival prizes. please consider making an entry either alone or in a team. so far the entries are all solo, and thats great too. any x86 compiled stuff is great, as are flash, java and proce55ing programs. we will also try to accomodate any other runtimes that are freely available and easily installed on the festival host (X86/WinXP). for more information, take a look at: <a rel="nofollow" href="http://djrug.org/bbb_august_04.html">http://djrug.org/bbb_august_04.html</a> the page includes some more details about the groundrules, etc. also, feel free to forward this announcement and encourage other aesthetically aware programmers, students or mailing lists to submit entries! best & thanks, david + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + 5. Date: 6/08/04 From: Ido <idofluk2000@yahoo.com> Subject: The Kitchen Calls for Artists CALL FOR VISUAL ARTISTS & STREET PERFORMERS The Kitchen seeks artists to participate in its 6th Annual Neighborhood Street Fair on September 18, 2004 from 2-5pmâ?? hosted by Julie Atlas Muz with free performances, activities, art displays and local cuisine. We are looking for contemporary art activities for kids and families (along the lines of experimental carnival sideshows/booths, face painting, petting zoos, fortune telling, button making, etc.) to take place throughout the afternoon on the street. Electrical power is limited, sound elements must be minimal (if any). Small honoraria available. Please submit a proposal (activity description and past work sample) by Friday July 9th 2004 to: Ido Fluk / Street Fair Committee The Kitchen 512 West 19th Street NY NY 10011 ido@thekitchen.org 212.255.5793 Ext. 10 + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + 6. Date: 6.10.04 From: "Marisa S. Olson" <marisa@sfcamerawork.org> Subject: Employment Opp (SF) SF Camerawork is seeking a Gallery Manager to begin in the last week of July. The announcement is below. Please forward to appropriate candidates. (Do not reply to this address.) Gallery Manager for a nonprofit photography organization. Provide administrative assistance to the Executive Director, oversee facility needs; manage membership program, bookstore, visitor reception, book keeping and outside vendors; assist with fundraising; and oversee the activities of interns and volunteers. Must have Macintosh experience, knowledge of photography and good communication skills. Full time, 27.5 k+benefits. Send letter & resume to: San Francisco Camerawork/ Gallery Manager's Position/ 1246 Folsom St./ S.F., CA 94103 or email to: sfcamera@sfcamerawork.org (no attachments, please cut and paste resume into the body of the email) by June 26. No calls. _________________ Marisa S. Olson Associate Director SF Camerawork 1246 Folsom Street SF, CA 94103 + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + 7. Date: 6/13/04 From: Matthias Weiß <mkazz@t-online.de> Subject: ?Public Library? - An exhibition project by Inke Arns and Florian Cramer The Wizards of OS 3 ?Public Library? An exhibition project by Inke Arns and Florian Cramer "We tried to find artwork and projects which show as explicitly as possible the intention of an anti-copyright concept", Florian Cramer, co-curator of the exhibition "Public Library", explained, "and we tried to catch the nerds." It is the opening day of the third "Wizards of OS" conference in Berlin, Germany. The "The Future of the Digital Commons" is the subject of the next three days. Computer scientists, lawyers, sociologists as well as media artists meet in this event, which in general deals with the ideal of openness and freedom for society, based on the ideas of the free-software movement. And for the first time, artists were invited to take part in an exhibition for the three days of the conference. The small show is the result of a cooperation between the German philologist Cramer and the Berlin-based cultural researcher, Inke Arns. Main topic: Anti Copyright as a means and subject matter of media art. A panel with four of the eight contributing artists accompanied the exhibition. An illustrious mix: the well-known heroine of the Old Boys Network, Cornelia Sollfrank, as well as Prague-based artist Lloyd Dunn, and the recently incriminated Sebastian Lütgert, founder of textz.com, who seems to be the digital heir of Ad Reinhardt. It was Lütgert's statement "Art has to care about art, as artists have to" which brought to mind that he couldn't care less about copyrights at all. Besides this powerful statement, the discussion was a weak mixture of complaints and cries for help regarding lawsuits against the use of copyrighted material. The opening statements by Arns, Cramer and the artists were followed by public questions, though many topics remained untouched, because of the lack of consciousness for artistic sensibility, for digital or analogue materials. For instance, questioning of the identity or the performative part of the rejection of the copyright. Or to make clear which means are appropriate for a high level appropriation. The exhibition made a much more lucid point. Metal bookshelves, instead of white cube display cases, signaled a reincarnation of Joseph Beuys? masterpiece ?Wirtschaftswerte? (1980) in the digital age, but without the chicken wire preventing direct access to the contents of the shelves. Just like the exhibition title suggests, it was a public library containing files of printed out texts and publications, such as the Situationist International – it was a kingdom of public domain. All the digitalized materials were free for copying and free to burn on CD-ROM to take away. In total, 450 Megabytes of texts, pdf?s, sounds and videos. But what kind of art is it? a new genre? not really. However, in the context of the wizards talking and thinking about the issues of the free software movement, to present this collection of artwork at a conference with Evenly Moglen, Larry Lessig, and many heroes of the Creative Commons was to consider the tradition and historical trajectory and changes of copyright critical art since the 1960?s. Among the shelves there were several different appearances of the DeCSS code displayed in the ?Gallery of CSS descramblers? (since 2000) by David S. Touretzky e. a., which consists of a computer algorithm to decrypt DVD?s for GNU/Linux without a license. The documentary of the ?Freedom of Expression? trademark, owned by Kembrew MacLeod since 1998, shows his proceedings against AT & T for their misuse. Or the ?Injunction Generator? (2001) by ubermorgen.com, which generates mass injunctions completely automatically. As Sollfrank stated in her 45 minute video, "authorship is disrupted legally while artists always question it from the very beginning". New definitions of laws are now able to reach into anonymous pieces generated by software programs such as her net-art generator. Is it just a twisted intervention from the business world, protecting the author?s rights where there is no author? Summing up, Sollfrank stated that her misuse of Andy Warhol?s images still violates copyrights. ?It doesn?t matter?, she said, ?in the art world nobody cares?. "Really?", one might ask. Sollfrank sits in a library, reading her text like an anchorperson on television, but without that elegant rhetoric. She is interrupted only by displaying the main topics in big letters and by some strange sounds. Nearby you can study her signed digital prints. All her work circles around the question of identity. ?Sometimes it?s good to use your name as a brand.? This indication of slight indifference adds the tension that other pieces are lacking. There is, for instance, a link to the Internet in one of the terminals, but all the traffic is routed through a specific proxy server, written by Alvar Freude and Dragan Espenschied as their thesis at the Merz Academy in Stuttgart. In the strongest version it replaces many different words: George Bush for Osama Bin Ladin and vice versa. ?The ?insert coin? piece was first set up at their academy. Meanwhile it seems to be a classic piece of an activist critique on censorship in the Internet. But its not much more than a witty gag that gained so much attention. The artistic means are as weak as the purpose. It?s too superficial, or explicit, as Cramer would have said. On the other hand, there are the jewels of Lloyd Dunn?s many magazines, to which the ?Photostatic? archive on the net gives free access. The digitalized materials of the photocopy stuff show how art could be done by remixing, recombining and by professional ?plagiarism?. Founded in 1983, the magazine continued until 1998. ?In this culture of property where ideas can be owned, theft is all that is the case?, a nice comic strip shows the core problem of this movement. On the Friday evening panel, Lawrence Lessig showed the audience what the main goal of the business is: Apple?s and Pepsi?s ads, absolutely perverting the sense of a culture of remixing and limiting the creativity of youth by stating that buying the products legalizes free download of music; this is today?s state of things: being a coach potato, consuming few2many-prefab trash on TV and the Internet. But there?s a long tradition of changing the original or copying it. High culture from the Marcantonio Raimondi?s admiring woodcuts after Rafael leads indirectly to Berio?s Sinfonia from the late 60?s, which combined 15 different works by different composers and writers such as Gustav Mahler and Samuel Beckett. It?s one of culture?s main characteristics of artistic creativity. Besides, appropriation is not only an artistic tactic, but also the main road to learning. And it?s the core of the work by Dunn and the other artists in the exhibition, although the different levels of quality are marked. But it is a pleasure to observe the artistic boldness of Lütgerts ?textz.com", which resembles an electronic bookshop, but grants the opportunity to download many copyrighted texts free of charge. One particular Adorno triggered a lawsuit. This is the outer limit of having fun, beyond which the stupidity of ignorant, money-sucking editors and lawyers rears its real face. And this is a cautionary example – how sensibly the state of freedom is changing into a society of big brothers. - Matthias Weiss <a rel="nofollow" href="http://www.wizards-of-os.org">http://www.wizards-of-os.org</a> <a rel="nofollow" href="http://www.obn.org/">http://www.obn.org/</a> Old Boys Network (C. Sollfrank) <a rel="nofollow" href="http://nag.iap.de/">http://nag.iap.de/</a> Net art Generator (C. Sollfrank) <a rel="nofollow" href="http://textz.com">http://textz.com</a> Sebastian Luetgert (since 2001) <a rel="nofollow" href="http://odem.org/insert_coin/">http://odem.org/insert_coin/</a> Alvar Freude, Dragan Espenschied (2000/2001) <a rel="nofollow" href="http://psrf.detritus.net">http://psrf.detritus.net</a> Llyod Dunn (1983-2004) <a rel="nofollow" href="http://kembrew.com">http://kembrew.com</a> Kembrew MacLeod (1998) <a rel="nofollow" href="http://www.nothingness.org">http://www.nothingness.org</a> Situationist International Library (1958-1969) <a rel="nofollow" href="http://www-2.cs.cmu.edu/~dst/DecCSS/Gallery">http://www-2.cs.cmu.edu/~dst/DecCSS/Gallery</a> David S. Touretzky (since 2000) <a rel="nofollow" href="http://www.ubermorgen.com">http://www.ubermorgen.com</a> Injunction Generator (2001) Matthias Weiss Huygensstrasse 21 D-04159 Leipzig +49.341.9188661 mkazz@t-online.de + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + Rhizome.org is a 501©(3) nonprofit organization and an affiliate of the New Museum of Contemporary Art. Rhizome Digest is supported by grants from The Charles Engelhard Foundation, The Rockefeller Foundation, The Andy Warhol Foundation for the Visual Arts, and with public funds from the New York State Council on the Arts, a state agency. + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + Rhizome Digest is filtered by Kevin McGarry (kevin@rhizome.org). ISSN: 1525-9110. Volume 9, number 24. Article submissions to list@rhizome.org are encouraged. Submissions should relate to the theme of new media art and be less than 1500 words. 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