Hi everybody,

Rhizome is moving servers this week. This will go a long way towards
alleviating the slowness we've been experiencing for a while.

The move will probably take place today, and your access to the site
will be affected while we move data over to the new machines and ...

US Department of Art & Technology
http://www.usdat.us
press@usdat.us
Washington, DC

Press Secretary

For Immediate Release
Office of the Press Secretary
May 11, 2004

SECRETARY DELIVERS 'ARTISTIC CONVERGENCE' SPEECH

Secretary Packer Unveils Initiative for Securing the
Role of the Artist in the Corporate Sector
Remarks by ...

"Why Are Artists Poor? The Exceptional Economy of the Arts" by Hans Abbing, Amsterdam University Press is a well written book that addresses similar issues Dyske Suematsu brought up in the following thread from last month. If you were as intrigued as I was with what Dyske had to say ...

The second printed English edition of Neural is out.

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Remember those dark days
in which love lay coiled

along the coccyx, and your only
instrument was a sex not

nutritious, but pensive, padding
along the walls of your room

like the vampire desire becomes?
However diligent the drug,
the properties of thaw
remain unchanged, and you get

hot flashes ...

CALL FOR TEXTS AND ASSORTED WRITINGS

ACTIVE DUTY IS LOOKING FOR ARTIST WRITINGS ON CONTEMPORARY
SOCIO-POLITICS
AND ITS RELATION TO THE PRACTICE OF ART-MAKING.
ALL SUBMISSIONS WILL BE CONSIDERED.

DEADLINE ASAP

SUBMIT TO LEE@LEEWELLS.ORG
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Active Duty
Armed Artists of America (AAA)
Armed with ideas and the tools ...

Emergency State: First Responder and Law Enforcement Training
Architecture
A new exhibit depicting emergency and police training facilities in
Southern California

Opening reception Friday May 14, 6-9PM
On display in the Los Angeles exhibit space May 14 - July 18, 2004

More information online:
http://www.clui.org/clui_4_1/ondisplay/emergency ...

A CELEBRATION FOR BREAKING ROUTINES
May 20th, 2004, 7 pm

Electronic Arts Intermix
535 West 22nd Street, 5th Floor
New York, NY 10011

Electronic Arts Intermix (EAI) presents a special evening event featuring
new interactive media and video works that celebrate past, present and
future ideas and actions that break ...

Digital Avant-Garde:
Celebrating 25 Years of Ars Electronica


Exhibition, screenings and talks at Eyebeam, American Museum of the Moving Image and Austrian Cultural Forum


U.S. premiere exhibition of innovative digital media works of the past and present, sponsored by SAP, the world's leading supplier of business software.


New York ...

———- Forwarded message ———-
Date: Mon, 10 May 2004 11:48:13 -0700 (PDT)
From: joy garnett <info@firstpulseprojects.net>
Reply-To: joyeria@walrus.com
To: joyeria@walrus.com
Subject: Fwd: AMERICAN VOICES AGAINST BUSH


— The Cat's Dream <info@thecatsdream.com> wrote:
> Date: Sun, 9 May 2004 16:04 ...

As the pretend War against terrorism creates even more terrorism. As
War-fetish is displayed in the media for all the world to see. The link
between sex and violence becomes a more obvious, everyday humanistic
trait, unfurling into a less deniable factor. The activity of sadism via
alpha male and ...

Got to see Josh On present the working version of the update a couple
of weeks ago in Chicago and it's now online.
some nice new features:
http://www.theyrule.net

>> Nancy Reagan plea on stem cells
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/americas/3700015.stm
>> Greenpeace prevents soybean loading (Brazil)
http://www.cnn.com/2004/WORLD/americas/05/08/brazil.greenpeace.ap/
index.html
>> United Arab Emirates GM Food Labeling
http://www.khaleejtimes.com/DisplayArticle ...

'Diebold Election Systems marketing director Mark Radke begged to
differ with the curmudgeons and nay-sayers. His company's equipment is
flawless, he implied - so flawless that it makes no sense to test
whether or not it really is, because it has to be.
Asked to explain the basis for Diebold's claim ...

May 10, 2004
SWIPE Releases Findings Based on Use of Toolkit's "Decode Your Barcode" App
http://turbulence.org/Works/swipe/state_analysis.html

The SWIPE Toolkit now includes an interactive map that reveals what
information is encoded in 2D barcodes on US and Canadian drivers'
licenses. Through use of the Toolkit's ...

Didn't see this posted anywhere here so thought I'd send it in.

"MECAD/ESDI (Media Centre of Art and Design of the Superior Design School, Barcelona, Spain), is organizing a cycle of online seminars aimed at encouraging the exchange of knowledge and information in the arts and new technologies. These ...