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Vol.5, no.17
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Wednesday, August 25, 2004
Dissension Convention at Postmasters

via networked_performance:
A Transatlantic Collaborative Multimedia Protest Jam
Dissension Convention will coincide with ...

Opening includes CAE letter writing campaign

PRESS RELEASE
Contact: thefreedomsalon@yahoo.com
The Freedom Salon
August 28

From: Beryl Graham <beryl.graham@SUNDERLAND.AC.UK>
Date: Tue, 24 Aug 2004 10:52:00 +0100
Subject: Job Opportunity, London

Forwarded from Nikki Gomez:
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Date: Wed, 25 Aug 2004 14:23:14 -0400
From: Marc Lepson <pauperprints@earthlink.net>
To: undisclosed-recipients: ;
Subject: Announcing Radio Free Erika

As part of the exhibition, Watch What We Say, Erika deVries will be
broadcasting live internet radio from 1-3 pm Eastern Standard Time at ...

hello… this is my first post to Rhizome!

I am currently preparing my portfolio and researching graduate programs to apply for my MFA in digital/new media art. It's been challenging b/c many of them have a career slant towards commericial art and design (which I don't want), and ...

I have noticed many artists find fascinating large collections of like
items. Digital artists often find this manifested in lists and web
directories of similar file types. I have been taking my similarly
interested digitally artistic tendencies and fueling them into politics
for the first time in my life, because ...

RNC NODE at postmasters

postmasters gallery will serve as a physical node of an ad-hoc public
broadcasting system of online, real time protest performances,
alternative news actions, a transatlantic, multimedia protest jam
during the Republican National Convention, from August 29 to
September 2

the gallery will coordinate and disseminate a ...

August 25, 2004

Vast Force Is Deployed for Security at Convention
By DAVID JOHNSTON and WILLIAM K. RASHBAUM

he New York Police Department and the largest armada of land, air and
maritime forces ever assembled to provide security at a national political
gathering are being deployed in New York for ...

function: ms

functionvariable and OE! are looking for artists who are using their cell phones to create art.

Works will be reviewed by curators Natalia Angel, Lourdes Ribas, Amos Pineros, Victoria Perez, Jose Antonio Delgado and Jose Barbosa.

If you have work that you would like to submit please send ...

Media Release
For Immediate Release: August 25, 2004

Secretary Packer to Address New York City
Announcing "10,000 Acts of Artistic Mediation"
At the Freedom of Expression National Monument

WASHINGTON, DC - Secretary Randall M. Packer of the US Department of
Art & Technology will address the citizens of New York ...

(H)earat Shulaym - Independent Art Journal
Call for Entries:

Encyclopaedic Dictionary of 21st Century - (P)Art I
Collective project by (H)earat Shulaym Art Journal

The deadline for submission is: 30.9.04

The aim of the call is to produce an encyclopaedic dictionary, which will define through a poetical ...

concept / dance / voice / choreography / a/v programming : Nancy Mauro-Flude

text: Kathy Acker - extracts from Novel 'Pussy King of the Pirates'.

Technical advice, artistic support:
Rose Akras, Kristina Anderson, Guy Cools, Linda Dement, Nan Hoover,
Margie Medlin, Fiona Tan & the artistic staff at DasArts.

At 20:30 on the 2nd ...

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Subject: OUT Game Interventions on Eve of RNC
From: "anne-marie" <opensorcery@opensorcery.net>
Date: Tue, August 24, 2004 1:36 pm
To: opensorcery@opensorcery.net
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–OUT Military Game Interventions on Eve of RNC–

Popular military simulation games move out of game space and into the ...

Hi Rhizomers,

MTAA and our collabs are releasing a video on the net on Monday, August
30th – with the help of Wolfgang from The Thing (thanks). We'll also
be screening it at Postmasters the same Monday at 8PM with live DJ
accompaniment (thanks Tamas & Magda).

Hope you can ...

The Third Place Gallery is a fresh new space where you - artist, designer, programmer and concept maker - can flash your ideas and work within a dynamic environment. The Third Place Gallery is open to all nationalities and medias.

Our judges will pick out art pieces for exhibitions in their personal ...