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Posted Sept. 6 2000 21:00

Interview with mi_ga

[mi_ga stands for Mindaugas Gapsevicius. He is a Lithuanian net
artist, and one of the founders of the o-o domain. o-o was
initiated in 1998 and is one of net arts' independent outposts.
The group around it is quite young compared to a lot of other
artists and artgroups, and ...

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Posted Sept. 6 2000 21:00

Site_Traffic v.1.0 - Immediate Release

SITE_TRAFFIC v.1.0

Site_Traffic is a telepresence project that involves both a physical
installation and a web-based interface component. The project functions
as a fully programmable remote sequencer that allows for unique non-
verbal communication between users in the physical and online spaces.
Users login to the Site_Traffic server ...

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Posted Sept. 6 2000 21:00

Ars Electronica?

hiya

yep, I was at ARS. I left this morning and sit now in Ljubljana… much
happier than I was in Linz! Now, keeping in mind it was my first visit
to this festival, and keeping in mind that I went on a research grant
from the university to further ...

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Posted Sept. 4 2000 21:00

It looks like you're writing a letter--Microsoft Word [part three]

Part 3 of 3 <a href="/object.rhiz?1861">Previous</a>

There is an argument that as texts in word processing are divisible and
combinable their 'contents' are eroded. "Texts are provided with a
pointed structure. The argument is structured in advance and divided
into separate subjects, items and paragraphs ...

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Posted Sept. 4 2000 21:00

It looks like you're writing a letter--Microsoft Word [part two]

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The Templates, sample documents that the user can edit to make their
own, with their repertoire of 'elegant fax', 'contemporary fax' to
'formal letter' or 'memo', acknowledge that forgery is the basic form of
document produced in the modern ...

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Posted Sept. 4 2000 21:00

It looks like you're writing a letter--Microsoft Word [part one]

A recent film has one character blown to death at their keyboard.
Underneath the desk they sit at is a bomb controlled by a keystroke
counter. When the number of taps on the keyboard drops below a certain
number, off goes the explosive. A real innovation in the switching
system ...

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Posted Sept. 3 2000 21:00

Art on the Go--An Interview With Ben Benjamin of Superbad.Com

ES: Some people would call what you do, "shitty, ignorant and
irrelevant trash." What would you say to them?

BB: Usually, I say, "Geez, Mom. I'm doing the best I can."

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Art on the Go–An Interview With Ben Benjamin of Superbad.Com

Eryk Salvaggio: A lot of people ...

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Posted Aug. 6 2000 21:00

"The Robot in the Garden"

One of the common dissatisfactions with interactivity on the Web is that
telepresence is not, well, presence. Certainly some of the more
interesting new media projects have deconstructed our assumptions
concerning presence and the sense of "really" being there. But, when it
comes down to it, we are faced with ...

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Posted Aug. 5 2000 21:00

artists and the computer game industry--interview

[This is an email interview with Anne-Marie Schleiner by Jim McLellan of
the Guardian (January 1999). Schleiner organized the exhibition of game
patches and plugins called "Cracking the Maze"
(http://switch.sjsu.edu/web/CrackingtheMaze). She also works on the site
Opensorcery.net (http://www.opensorcery.net) which is a ...

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Posted Aug. 5 2000 21:00

Interview with Yael Kanarek

Yael Kanarek's World of Awe (http://www.worldofawe.net) is the
documentation of a fictional 'traveler' exploring a magical landscape in
search of a 'lost treasure'. We encounter the traveler through an
interface, which is both magical and mundane. It looks suspiciously
like a Mac or Windows desktop, there are ...

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Posted Aug. 1 2000 21:00

Interview with Igor Stromajer

[It can be quite nice to see the different approaches to art in computer
networks. Have you ever sung your html code? Igor stromajer has. He
lives in Lubljana, Slovenia, and he is a net artist. I met him in Moscow
last May, where he did a presentation of his ...

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Posted Aug. 1 2000 21:00

Report from SIGGRAPH 2000

What's the bigger spectacle? New Orleans, with its Bourbon Street titty
bars, voodoo rites and walk-through daiquiri counters–or SIGGRAPH 2000,
the 27th International Conference on Computer Graphics and Interactive
Techniques held this year in our sweaty, Southern city of sin? Last week
25,000 people descended on New Orleans to ...

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Posted July 31 2000 21:00

Interview with Adrienne Eisen

[Adrienne Eisen, the only hypertext winner of the prestigious
New Media Invision Award, has just launched her new set of
online hypertexts. The former Editor of artcommotion.com, Eisen
is a frequent speaker and panelist at events such as PEN West
and the Dartmouth Institute for Advanced Graduate Studies. Her ...

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Posted July 30 2000 21:00

Interview with Matthew Mirapaul

[After four years of covering new media art, Matthew Mirapaul's
New York Times column arts@large appeared last Thursday for the
last time. Read reactions at:
http://www.wired.com/news/culture/0,1284,37843,00.html]

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Simon Hadler: Your motto is told to be "a Thelonious Monk Tune a ...

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Posted July 28 2000 21:00

Entretien avec Fr

Bertrand Gauguet: Fr

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Posted July 28 2000 21:00

NET-ART00 BLASTS OFF FROM COSTA AZAHAR

The annual net-art arena at http://www.net-art.org opens for its third
season from Festival Benicassim on the Costa Azahar. Voting by visitors
to the site on the listed entries for net-art00 will start on August 4th
and run till the end of '00.

The net-art00 event is intended ...

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