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Posted Aug. 5 2001 21:00

(re)distributions--PDA art show opens at voyd.com

Personal information appliances, PDAs and nomadic technologies are
causing a redefinition of technological culture in the way that society
communicates, locates, and expresses itself. (re)distributions
addresses these shifts in considering the handheld and embedded digital
device as site of cultural inquiry and personal expression. Comprised
of nearly 25 artists ...

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Posted Aug. 4 2001 21:00

Multimedia: from Wagner to Virtual Reality--book review

"Multimedia: from Wagner to Virtual Reality"
Randall Packer & Ken Jordan, Editors
New York: Norton, 2001

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Now that the tech boom of the 1990s has settled down, we can finally
look at the concept of multimedia in a context other than it being
shiny, sexy, and new. In fact, now ...

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Posted July 31 2001 21:00

Interactive Screen

Interactive Screen -marginal report-

This is a marginal report of the current annual conference at the Banff
New Media Institute called "Interactive Screen" that has attempted to
address a wide range of topics such a production, distribution and
reception of both 'heavy' and 'light' interactive media (interactive
film, SMS messaging ...

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Posted July 27 2001 21:00

Palm Rants

Palm Rants is a series of performance/ rants I will create over the
course of the (re)distribution exhibition curated by Patrick Lichty.

The information will be delivered in 3 forms;

1. a short movie or audio file that may be downloaded onto a PDA and
viewed with TealMovie software ...

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Posted July 25 2001 21:00

Once-Upon-a-Forest--sounds now available

http://www.once-upon-a-forest.com
http://music.columbia.edu/~shape/

shapeshifter and myself have put his audio compositions online for
download in .mp3 format.

"auralation"

enjoy them, as much as he enjoys making them.

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I'll also be doing some stuff at ars electronica this September (mainly
a presentation of PrayStation the ...

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Posted July 22 2001 21:00

net.dialogue.4--On Being Retro In The Zeroes

Mark Amerika with Abe Golam

"And yet, and yet . . . [d]enying temporal succession, denying the self,
denying the astronomical universe, are apparent desperations and secret
consolations. Our destiny is not frightful by being unreal; it is
frightful because it is irreversible and iron-clad. Time is the
substance I am made ...

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Posted July 21 2001 21:00

The Language of New Media

"The Language of New Media"
by Lev Manovich
MIT Press, 2001

Lev Manovich is an admirer of the "Soviet Montage" filmmakers who were
active during the first decades of the Twentieth Century. One trademark
of these filmmakers is known as "the Kuleshov effect." In this editing
technique, one image ...

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Posted July 21 2001 21:00

Man, Woman, Want to Game

"Man, Woman, Want to Game." With these prophetic words, Nolan Bushnell,
father of Pong and Atari, launched a lively panel discussion on video
games last Thursday at the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art.

The event, titled "ArtCade," attracted a sold-out crowd of nearly 300
gamers and art ...

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Posted July 19 2001 21:00

Greg Sidal talks to app-art.org

In this dialogue Greg Sidal talks to app-art.org about his network and
digital artworks. Greg is author of Drive Scroll, a screen saver that
copies the contents of your hard drive to your monitor.

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Q: Could you explain a little the idea behind DriveScroll? What was it
about scrolling ...

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Posted July 15 2001 21:00

Surveillance Camera Players--An Interview With Bill Browne

Tilman Baumg

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Posted July 10 2001 21:00

invitation for network projects / medi@terra2001/ pilot operatingNet/

invitation for network projects to a virtual<-> real temporary network
between internet-remote people and the 5 real nodes organizers of the
"medi@terra/2001" moving festival: Lavrio(Athens), Sofia, Belgrade,
Maribor, Frankfurt

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invitation for network projects

Deadlines :

25 July: last day for projects draft propositions
1 July - 30 October ...

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Posted July 9 2001 21:00

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http://www.coun3fck.net/ - m!!!!!!!!!!!aaaaaau

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Posted July 8 2001 21:00

Turbulence presents--THE SHAPE OF SONG by Martin Wattenberg.

What does music look like? "The Shape of Song" is an attempt to answer
this seemingly paradoxical question. The custom software in this work
draws musical patterns in the form of translucent arches, allowing
viewers to see–literally–the shape of any composition available on the
Web. The resulting images reflect the ...

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Posted July 6 2001 21:00

Young New Media Artists FOCUS.01--The Culture Behind the Machine

About a month ago, Hoydigiteer.org launched the FOCUS.01 call for
proposals with the principal objective of promoting young and emerging
individuals or small artists groups working in new media. Certain
conditions also applied to participate in the project, particularly that
the proposals either fused traditional practices with new ...

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Posted July 5 2001 21:00

THADGAVIN -download

"THADGAVIN" Thaddaeus Frogley & Gavin Buttimore
http://www.491.org/teleferique/T/Thadgavin/Thadgavin.html

(MacOsX/Windows/Linux)

THADGAVIN is a collaborative work between Thaddaeus Frogley and Gavin
Buttimore. They were one of the winners of the 2001 I.O.C.C.C
(International Obfuscated C Code Contest - http://www ...

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Posted July 5 2001 21:00

Better than Fantasy--Reality Engineering and the Computer

This symposium provides a glimpse into the past and the future of the
computer-assisted construction of reality. It will consider different
aspects of the provocative and lively exchange between fantasy and
reality, concentrating particularly on the role of computers and
computer networks.

The symposium covers three days, each of which ...

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