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discussion

Posted Jan. 31 2000 20:00

interview with Mez

Mary-anne Breeze, better known as Mez, lives and works in Australia. She
first got into a larger net.art picture in 1997, via the net.art
mailinglist 7-11. Her work is highly 'textual', but expands also to
sound. Considering the relationship between concrete poetry and music or
sound this probably ...

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Posted Jan. 30 2000 20:00

rhizome; SOD

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Posted Jan. 27 2000 20:00

The Interface

In semiotic terms, the computer interface acts as a code which carries
cultural messages in a variety of media. When you use the Internet,
everything you access - texts, music, video, navigable spaces - passes
through the interface of the browser and then, in its turn, the
interface of the OS. In ...

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Posted Jan. 25 2000 20:00

Switch v5n3 - editorial notes

Switch - the new media art journal of the CADRE Institute, San Jose
State University.

http://switch.sjsu.edu

Featured Writers: Steve Cisler, Frank Dietrich, Steve Dietz, Alex
Galloway, Eugene Thacker, Joel Slayton, Geri Wittig, Sheila Malone, and
Don Tanner.

Interviews with: etoy, Lev Manovich, Mark Tribe, Rachel Baker, Eugene
Thacker ...

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Posted Jan. 24 2000 20:00

THE LAWSUIT AGAINST etoy IS DROPPED!

according to the etoy.LAWYERS, chris truax in san diego and peter e.
wild in zurich eToys Inc. gave up its naive fight against the famous
international art group etoy this tuesday after a long and exhausting
dispute about the terms and conditions of this settlement.

on monday, january 24 ...

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Posted Jan. 18 2000 20:00

rhizome.TOYWAR recruiting request! ACCEPTED!

Welcome Rhizome to the Toywar system!

Please go to :

http://www.toywar.com

login as
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Posted Jan. 18 2000 20:00

The End of Sex

[This article was originally published in "Metal and Flesh,"
www.chairetmetal.com. It was translated by Briant Sarris.]

"Today I think the alien is inside."–William Gibson

Reading the already vast literature that is currently accumulating on
the Internet and the technological revolution is like leafing through a
panic-stricken ...

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Posted Jan. 17 2000 20:00

interview with Steve Dietz

[Steve Dietz is director of new media initiatives at the Walker Art
Center in Minneapolis, Minnesota. 'The Walker', as it is often called in
short, apparently is unique for its depth of commitment to
multidisciplinary (not interdisciplinary) programming: visual arts,
film/video, performing arts (largest museum-based program in U.S ...

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Posted Jan. 16 2000 20:00

The Remedi Project Comes Alive in San Francisco

Several hundred young people gathered at a San Francisco loft last
Friday to celebrate Remedi.al, the winter 2000 installment of The Remedi
Project. They came from as far as Italy and New York for the event, the
first time the art collective has hosted an "off-line" opening in its ...

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Posted Jan. 16 2000 20:00

Beecher Center Review

Dedication Ceremony
Beecher Center for the Electronic Arts, Youngstown, Ohio
On display, Graham Nash, Selected Prints
Michael Hardesty, CandleBlower
Nam June Paik, Information Superhighway
Holography from the Johnathan Ross Collection
January 14, 2000

The Beecher Center for the Electronic Arts has been a long time coming,
and has finally opened ...

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Posted Jan. 14 2000 20:00

Lo-Fi Desktop Exhibition

The Desktop is the reflection of our real selves, whereas art reflects
what we consider our reality, the desktop, work area, reflects the
aspects of day to day life. To manufacture art out of routine is the
goal of this desktop exhibition.

Much has been made of our customizable, digital ...

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Posted Jan. 11 2000 20:00

Book review--Ars Electronica: Facing the Future

_Ars Electronica: Facing the Future_
Timothy Druckrey, Editor
(Cambridge: MIT Press, 1999)

Tim Druckrey has no profile. Turned to the side, he disappears. He flits
away, always dissolving into other texts, other personalities. A feature
for some, a liability for others. This intellectual persona may explain
the enigmatic attraction of ...

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Posted Jan. 11 2000 20:00

How Media Became New

On August 19, 1839, the Palace of the Institute in Paris was completely
full with curious Parisians who came to hear the formal description of
the new reproduction process invented by Louis Daguerre. Daguerre,
already well-known for his Diorama, called the new process
daguerreotype. According to a contemporary, "a few ...

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Posted Jan. 9 2000 20:00

Through the Looking Glass

Call for Virtual Entries and Critical Texts
"Through the Looking Glass"
Digital Creativity at the Turn of the Millennium
Beachwood Center for the Arts, Beachwood, Ohio
April 15-30, 2000
Patrick Lichty, Curator

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Advances in digital technology are calling into question a panoply of
issues, some of which include the ...

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Posted Dec. 31 1999 20:00

the user is the judge

dear etoy.SHAREHOLDER, FRIEND, TOYWAR-ACTIVIST,

after sending out the TOYWOAAR game invitation (on friday / last seconds of the old century) a neutral research
commission found out that more than 80 percent of all recruited TOY-AGENTS failed the registration process.

the etoy.RECRUITERS encourage all of you to try hard. it ...

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Posted Dec. 31 1999 20:00

Y2K events

artificial_product [a.k.a. fakeshop] sends the following URL:

http://web.t0.or.at/fakeshop/capsule_hotel/intro.html

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plagiarist sends their own holiday gift:

…our holiday gift to you… the gift that keeps on giving…

http://plagiarist.org/www.0100101110101101.ORG/

merry christmas from all of us here at plagiarist ...

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