RHIZOME DIGEST: 5.12.02

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RHIZOME DIGEST: 5.12.02

RHIZOME DIGEST: May 12, 2002 Content: +editor's note+ 1. Mary West: World New Media Blender–Tuesday, May 14th +work+ 2. c Robbins: METAPET_LAUNCH–5.15.02 3. Chris Byrne: HOST–2 new projects by Luci Eyers and Dane 4. erational: BETACITY.DE contest 5. lorie novak: Collected Visions update +opportunity+ 6. Lev Manovich: 2nd International Bauhaus Award + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + 1. Date: 5.9.02 From: Mary West (mary@rhizome.org) Subject: World New Media Blender–Tuesday, May 14th Join Arts International and Rhizome.org for World New Media Blender featuring Rafael Lozano-Hemmer and I-Sound Date: Tuesday, May 14th, 2002 Time: 7:00 - 9:00 pm Location: Arts International @ 251 Park Ave South, 5th Floor (between 20th & 21st), New York City Cost: Free! Note: Due to limited seating, for reservations call 212-674-9744 ext. 201 or email blender@artsinternational.org Arts International and Rhizome.org are pleased to announce a "World New Media Blender" event featuring Rafael Lozano-Hemmer, a Mexican-Canadian electronic artist working in relational architecture, technological theatre and performance art; and winner of many awards including the Excellence Award, Media Arts Festival 2000, CG Arts, Tokyo, Japan. Live music will be performed by I-Sound. Rafael Lozano-Hemmer will screen video and lecture on his current "Relational Architecture" projects, including the piece Vectorial Elevation and other recent interactive installations in public spaces. VECTORIAL ELEVATION was an interactive art project which allowed thousands of people from 89 countries to control 18 robotic searchlights with 126,000 watts of power and link Cyberspace with Mexico's most emblematic urban landscape. Mexico City's historic center was transformed by immense light sculptures created by participants on the Internet using a virtual reality program. A personalized web page was made for every participant with comments, stats and virtual and real images of their design from three perspectives. See more of Rafael Lozano-Hemmer's work at www.lozano-hemmer.com Also featured is I-Sound, a New York based artist working in the fields of improvised, electronic music and DJ culture. He works as a solo performer but has worked with a wealth of musicians in various settings. He collaborates regularly with Swiss improv trio Koch/Schutz/Studer under the name Roots and Wires as well as German electronic group To Rococo Rot. While he does release material through various routes he also owns two labels, Transparent and Full Watts. With a style that balances uncompromising experimentalism with healthy doses of populism I- Sound attempts to bridge the gaps between high and low, academy and street, chaos and structure. Learn more about I Sound at www.isoundinfo.com. The World New Media Blender series is a part of Arts International and Rhizome.org's ongoing collaboration. <a rel="nofollow" href="http://www.lozano-hemmer.com">http://www.lozano-hemmer.com</a> <a rel="nofollow" href="http://www.isoundinfo.com">http://www.isoundinfo.com</a> + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + 2. Date: 5.11.02 From: c Robbins (cpr@mindspring.com) Subject: METAPET_LAUNCH–5.15.02 The Los Angeles public unveiling of Metapet, and launch party for the world's first transgenic virtual pet game, @ the Museum of Contemporary Art's PDC Gallery on Wednesday, May 15 from 6:00 PM until 9:00 PM. What/Who: Metapet is a project by Natalie Bookchin with Jin Lee, Cathy Davies and Mark Allen of Action Tank (www.action-tank.org) presented by Creative Time (www.creativetime.org) in association with Hamaca (www.hamaca.org). Metapet also features minigames by guest artists including: Plagiarist, a.k.a. Amy Alexander, Davis & Davis, Carmin Karasic, Jeff Knowlton, Anne- Marie Schleiner, Naomi Spellman, Karl Mihail and Tran, T. Kim-Trang of the Gene Genies, and Paul Vanouse. The LA Metapet Launch is organized by artist/professor Christiane Robbins, AIM Executive Producer, sponsored by AIM III: Luna Park, CalArts, located at MOCA, produced by Lisa Lee and Action Tank, with technical assistance by USC's Matrix Program for Digital Media. + + + The Game: <a rel="nofollow" href="http://metapet.net">http://metapet.net</a> Are you ready to manage the worker of the future? Biotech innovation meets corporate creativity and gives birth to a new class of virtual pet: the Metapet. - Your challenge: discover the right balance between a firm hand and a gentle coax without ever losing sight of the bottom line. But here's a word of advice: treat your Metapet with care. Heedless actions may come back to haunt you when you least expect it! Metapet, the world's first transgenic virtual pet game is a strategy game set in a biotechnology company sometime in the near future. The premise of the game is very simple: players choose the company they want to be executives of and have to choose a Metapet. These Matapets are a generation of humans that have been genetically modified along the lines of the Nexus 6 in Blade Runner. In this case, the genetic determinant consists of an obedience gene from a trained dog, which has been designed to create a new class of worker that is much more loyal and productive then its precursor. In Metapet, Action Tank playfully takes on three cultural behemoths: the biotechnology industry, the electronic gaming industry and corporate culture at large. Creative Time's launch of Metapet marks a new phase in the evolution of artist-made games and stakes out new territory for independent, creative practitioners. <a rel="nofollow" href="http://www.action-tank.org">http://www.action-tank.org</a> <a rel="nofollow" href="http://www.creativetime.org">http://www.creativetime.org</a> <a rel="nofollow" href="http://www.hamaca.org">http://www.hamaca.org</a> <a rel="nofollow" href="http://www.metapet.net">http://www.metapet.net</a> + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + +ad+ Leonardo Music Journal (LMJ) 11 includes a double audio CD, "Not Necessarily 'English Music,'" curated by musician, composer, writer and sound curator David Toop. The CDs feature pieces from pioneering U.K. composers and performers from the late 60s through the mid-70s. Visit the LMJ website at <a rel="nofollow" href="http://mitpress2.mit.edu/Leonardo/lmj/">http://mitpress2.mit.edu/Leonardo/lmj/</a> + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + 3. Date: 5.9.02 From: Chris Byrne (chris@CRYPTIC.DEMON.CO.UK) Subject: HOST–2 new projects by Luci Eyers and Dane New Media Scotland and Burning Bush present 2 new projects for HOST: Luci Eyers - cyberskiving Dane - PassingTime <a rel="nofollow" href="http://host.mediascot.org">http://host.mediascot.org</a> Luci Eyers - cyberskiving cyberskiving is a collection of favourite non-work related sites visited by employees during work hours. cyberskiving becomes more difficult as server software becomes increasingly effective at curbing slack-time surfing. cyberskiving is searchable either by topic or occupation. The project is an open, generative system which will develop as cyberskivers submit information on this covert activity. Dane - PassingTime There's never been a better time to have a Panic Attack! Just one of six ways to pass the time until you get to Point B. You can Fidget, generate things to do from our wish list database, try keeping your head off the ground, play a solitaire version of I Spy or see how long you can balance on one foot. <a rel="nofollow" href="http://host.mediascot.org">http://host.mediascot.org</a> + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + +ad+ **MUTE MAGAZINE NEW ISSUE** Coco Fusco/Ricardo Dominguez on activism and art; JJ King on the US military's response to asymmetry and Gregor Claude on the digital commons. Matthew Hyland on David Blunkett, Flint Michigan and Brandon Labelle on musique concrete and 'Very Cyberfeminist International'. <a rel="nofollow" href="http://www.metamute.com/mutemagazine/issue23/index.htm">http://www.metamute.com/mutemagazine/issue23/index.htm</a> + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + 4. Date: 5.9.02 From: erational (erational@0vs1.com) Subject: BETACITY.DE contest something in between sim city and the gameboy screen and one week after that BETACITY.DE relaunch we start BETACITY.DE with that contest. All user are invited to arrange their version of "BETA TOWN CENTER" erational exclusively developed for betacity.de this Flash play, which puts different urbane Tools to the user on the basis of a raster at the disposal. Thus the x-box/Game Cube/PlayStation places into the corner, goes on <a rel="nofollow" href="http://www.betacity.de/game/">http://www.betacity.de/game/</a> and develops your version of BETA TOWN CENTER. Do not forget the upload function, in order to secure the developed works under your name. Among all participants we draw a feeling property by lots weekend at the Lac de Constance. Much fun and los geht's. <a rel="nofollow" href="http://www.betacity.de/game/">http://www.betacity.de/game/</a> + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + 5. Date: 5.9.02 From: lorie novak (lorie.novak@nyu.edu) Subject: Collected Visions update COLLECTED VISIONS <a rel="nofollow" href="http://cvisions.cat.nyu.edu">http://cvisions.cat.nyu.edu</a> questioning how photographs shape our memories Link directly to the CV gallery @ <a rel="nofollow" href="http://cvisions.cat.nyu.edu/gallery">http://cvisions.cat.nyu.edu/gallery</a> where two exhibitions are on view: Exhibition 14 is a bilingual collection of stories from a workshop I led last summer at a conference in Mexico on Memory, Atrocity, and Resistance. Exhibition 15 contains 30 submissions submitted from throughout the world during 2001. The searchable archive now contains over 2,500 family photographs donated by hundreds of people. 200 + stories conveying the psychological, emotional, funny, and often disturbing nature of photographs are posted throughout the site. Tools are given to submit your photos and/or stories. If you haven't visited Collected Visions in awhile, many new images and stories have been posted. If you have never explored the site, I invite you to discover the many images that have already been contributed, and read the stories they inspire Please visit often, contribute, and let me know what you think. <a rel="nofollow" href="http://cvisions.cat.nyu.edu">http://cvisions.cat.nyu.edu</a> <a rel="nofollow" href="http://cvisions.cat.nyu.edu/gallery">http://cvisions.cat.nyu.edu/gallery</a> + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + 6. Date: 5.9.02 From: Lev Manovich (manovich@ucsd.edu) Subject: 2nd International Bauhaus Award CALL FOR ENTRIES 2ND INTERNATIONAL BAUHAUS AWARD TELE CITY The Bauhaus Dessau Foundation invites applications for the 2nd international Bauhaus Award. SUBJECT: Changes of urban space and public spheres through Information and Communication Technology. Design of interfaces between "real worlds" and "virtual worlds", between individuals or space and technology. CATEGORIES: 1. Architecture and Urban Design. 2. Art and Design. 3. Scientific and theoretical work. PROJEKTS: realisations, designs, plans, publications, performances, essays, researches, studies, concepts etc. PRIZES: 1st prize 3000.- EUR. 2nd prize 1500.- EUR. 3rd prize 500.- EUR. In addition, the Bauhaus Dessau Foundation invites the main prize winners for a 4-week period of residence. PARTICIPANTS: Designers and scholars born after Sept 1st, 1962 - younger than 40 years (Individuals and groups) NO REGISTRATION REQUIRED! 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