INSULAR technologies is an open access, low cost, autonomous,
decentralised, data and voice global radio network.

It is designed to promote and protect the communication between
independent cultural, media and social initiatives, non-governmental
organisations and individuals. These may be operating from remote areas
and/or environments with limited connectivity.

IT ...

ARTNETWEBARCHIVE
artnetweb, the early years: 1994/5

WARNING!
Links on the sites may not perform as originally intended.

WHERE WERE WE?
by Robbin Murphy
http://artnetweb.com/views/intro.html

WHY I LIKE THE WEB
by G.H. Hovagimyan
http://artnetweb.com/views/tokartok/java.html

CONCEPTUAL ART
by G ...

"National Heritage"
Mongrel
de Waag
Amsterdam

The Waag sits in the heart of Amsterdam, a beautiful castle with an
interesting past. There is a cafe that is nice, and computers that are
not so nice. A large square invites visitors from surrounding
neighborhoods including the red light district to the ...

The Mexican council for culture and the arts (CONACULTA) organizes
through its department of audiovisual media, the international festival
of video art, VIDARTE, which will have place from the 22 to the 26 of
September at the National Center for the Arts in Mexico City.

Within this festival, there will ...

X-99
19.20.21 march 99
lorient-france
http://www.x-arn.org/x99/

You are invited to the inauguration on line of the event X-99 on friday
19th March at 6 pm (french time). To meet us connect yourself on IRC on
the server: [irc.webmaster.com] rooms [#fraclr] and [#frap ...

The transcript of David Ross's lecture "Net.art in the Age of Digital
Reproduction," given March 2nd at San Jose State University and
sponsored by the CADRE Institute, is now online at
http://switch.sjsu.edu.

+seroware+

tired of responding too many e-mails ?
… fwd them to re-mail@writeme.com

they will be answered by the public at http://sero.org/re-mail

last night i asked geert lovink, co-organizer of the Next 5 Minutes 3
conference on tactical media, to talk about fakeshop's "Artificial
Geography" performance.

+ + +

geert: for me this is more of a social event. there are the video-jockey
people, and then there are the pirate radio stations–more like activist
people ...

User's Guide to "OSS"

The greatest struggle for net.art is to prove its autonomy. Marshall
McLuhan's useful insight, that the content of every new media is
generally the previous media, reminds us of the potentially
schizophrenic nature of art as it changes over time. For net.art,
autonomy means ...

Future People are small now. They watch television in the morning, and
they watch television in the afternoon, after a day at school (where
they often watch tv too, and use ancient computers they are very proud
of). Future People like technology. Nothing new here. You can't be
scared of ...

Simplicity, The art of the light
James Turrell
Barbara Gladstone Gallery, NYC

A dromology Exhibition review by Shirley Shor,
shirley@dromology.com
http://www.dromology.com

"The Wedgework piece 'Cross-Cut' has a very fragile floor. Do not under
any circumstances walk forward beyond the yellow light. There is an
alarm ...

RHIZOME COMMUNICATIONS kicks off a series of fundraisers at old school
avante-garde facility THE KITCHEN.

DIGITAL DESSERTS brings people together over gourmet desserts to talk
about art and technology.

Come meet and chat with:

+ Tamas Banovich of Postmasters
+ Bogyi Banovich
+ Natalie Jeremijenko of the Bureau of Inverse Technology
+ Ricardo Dominguez ...

It's practically a given that the pleasure of film resides in its
fictive trance. Moviegoers earn their willing suspension of disbelief in
an endless Pavlovian reward system of psychological closure in the face
of the most shameless illusion. If the grime of a seedy back alley can't
be conveyed by ...

The LIFE 2.0 site is now complete with images and text documentation of
all winning works in the competition, which was juried in Madrid January
29th to 31st. Please see:

http://www.telefonica.es/fat/vida.html

The jury awarded three money prizes and seven honorary mentions, plus a ...

After visiting the Hell.com event "surface," opened last weekend for a
special RHIZOME viewing, Mark River wrote:

Hell is a dull land. I do not mean this as an insult. I say "dull" with
a smile which comes from the realization that the inferno art site of
the ...

The Mouths of the Thames
an interview with Mongrel and some of the people working with them

Matthew Fuller: The Natural Selection project at
http://www.mongrel.org.uk is an internet search engine that works in
exactly the same way as any other one of these vast pieces of ...