This document servers as an introduction of the esc to begin website and
a call for participation to join our project.

Located at the ZKM Center for Art and Media Karlsruhe, http://www.zkm.de

esc to begin is an experimental research group developing applications
and hardware for interactive media ...

Please join us for Eyebeam Atelier's annual forum on technology and
culture which begins on Monday July 19th. This year's Online Critical
Forum is on digital game design and game culture and is called Re:PLAY
<http://www.eyebeam.org/replay>. This program is presented by Eyebeam
Atelier ...

a special exhibition to the
ABSOLUT LA INTERNATIONAL
Bienniel Art Invitational

window into HELL

a live/online exhibition

july 17 -august 21

location
robert berman gallery
2525 michigan avenue
d5

santa monica, california 90404, usa

portions of this feed will be mirrored
in our guestlounge

<http://HELL.COM/0 ...

Genius 2000- The Video
http://www.geocities.com/~genius-2000/
Review By Patrick Lichty (aka Voyd)

Max Herman is the new messiah, or at least he might think he might be.
At least he wants you to think so. I received the Genius 2000 video
from Oakland-based performance artist Nickolas Herman ...

10.) A french guy speaking broken english and simultaneously getting
translated into dutch, resulting in two people speaking three languages
at the same time for roughly 10 minutes.

9.) Some other guy doing shadow puppets getting beligerent about the
staff abandoning equipment in the middle of his performance and refusing ...

Aimee, Jemini, and Kaia had never heard of Bill Viola. So the Bay Area
teenagers, members of the "underground party scene," had no idea what to
expect at SFMOMA. Decked-out in colorful make-up, facial pierces and
flamboyant raver clothing, the glamorous threesome might have a hard
time getting through ...

A BURGLAR IN THE TREASURE HOUSE
Plumb Design's "Visual Thesaurus"
by Robbin Murphy

http://www.plumbdesign.com/thesaurus

Thesaurus means "treasure house" in Latin and so it seems apt that the
origins of this writer's tool lie some two hundred years ago in the
prison cell of an Englishman named ...

ALT-X ANNOUNCES NEW MUSIC LABEL WITH RELEASE OF ITS FIRST CD, FEATURING
NOVELIST AND DIGITAL ARTIST MARK AMERIKA ON VOCALS

BOULDER, July 8, 1999–The Alt-X Online Network, which has been
internationally recognized as "the best site on the web for cutting-edge
fiction, criticism and hypertext" (Details), "the literary publishing
model ...

Genius 2000 Fluxus Project
No. 001

Get a copy of the June 21 & 28 1999 edition of the New Yorker Magazine.
Obtain the file for the Dark Pixel image from the Genius 2000 Project,
and stick the image to the center of the magazine's cover. Obtain the
file for ...

Beyond Technology: Working in Brooklyn
Public Dialogue on Art and Technology.
Saturday, July 10, 3 p.m.

In conjunction with the contemporary exhibition Beyond Technology:
Working in Brooklyn, the Brooklyn Museum of Art presents a public
dialogue on the relation between the arts and technology.

Participants in the dialogue will ...

Celebrity Surfing
http://www.newmediacentre.com/projects/celesurf/

Celebrity Surfing sees Artec, the ICA New Media Department and the Lux
Gallery bring you three net talks throughout July. Each talk focuses on
a specific side of net culture - 'viruses', 'war' and 'self'. Among our
speakers you'll find some major league ...

Some of you may recall the plagiarist.org "Plagiarist Acquisitions"
page, an art piece which spoofed corporate takeovers by pretending that
plagiarist.org had taken over twenty-seven of the world's largest
corporations. Plagiarist.org is a web-based art project dealing in a
tongue-in-cheek manner with issues such as proprietorship,
appropriation ...

murph the surf wrote:

At one point during an informal presentation in the New York University
art department tonight artist/writer/historian Olu Oguibe read the
itinerary for June of his friend and fellow Nigerian Okwui Enwezor
(director of the next Documenta). The global scale was breathtaking for
someone like ...

Steve Dietz: How do you pronounce the name of your new project?

Mark Amerika: Usually I pronounce it phoneme, like the sound unit it is.
But there are other pronunciations, like phone - e - me with an emphasis
on that middle e.

SD: You refer to PHON:E:ME as the ...

after 6 years of etoy.RESEARCH & DEVELOPMENT (REALITY EMIGRATION, ONLINE
EXISTENCE, USER HIJACKING, VIRUS ENGINEERING), after 1000
etoy.BETA-TESTS and user behavior studies in vienna etoy is now ready to
prepare for the next level: ZERO GRAVITY / etoy.ETERNITY. the plan is to
be organized 100% by software.AGENTS ...

Art on the Net 1999
Festival of the "Internet Art"
Autumn,1999
http://art.by.arena.ne.jp/

Call for Entries

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The Machida City Art of Graphic Arts, Tokyo (MCMOGATK) is now welcoming
entries for its art project "Art on the Net 1999" under the theme "The
Work of Art ...