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The Place where Symptoms become Real: Cosmonauts, Explosives, and Hand-Made
Sausages. Impressions from Ljubljana, Slovenia, 7-12 July 1998

Inke Arns <inke@berlin.snafu.de>

Body and the East

Arriving on the "sunny side of the Alps" (slogan of the Slovenian ...

There have been so many Internet and new media-related books delivered
to my door as of late that I've been able to cash-in on a few a week
thus enabling me to pay for my extra phone line, the one I use for
nonstop net-surfing. This is an advantage that ...

INTERNATIONAL HYPERTEXT COMPETITION

Alt-X and trAce are pleased to announce their first International
Hypertext Competition. We offer a single prize of One Thousand English
Pounds for the best hypertext site on the web.

Deadline for entries: December 31st 1998

What is hypertext?

Ted Nelson, who invented the term hypertext over ...

Madame Polly Game Patch
by Anne-Marie Schleiner
http://cadre.sjsu.edu/amschle/PollyGunn.html

This project takes as it's point of departure the recently emerged
computer game genre of "1st person shooter/adventure with female
heroine." The project makes use of subversive art tactics to infiltrate
the predominately male ...

Switch V4N1, Electronic Gender: Art at the Interstice
http://switch.sjsu.edu
Editorial Notes by Christine Laffer

This issue developed out of the Chik Tek '97 conference and exhibition
held here in San Jose, California, last November. In that forum,
participants discussed various aspects of women artists working in/with ...

Here is a little note to call attention to a funny situation in which a
village is destroyed, the destroyer is rewarded, the village is invited
to the destroyer's award ceremony, and the awarder (a festival called
"Infowar," whose subject should be self-explanatory) attempts to control
information about the ...

CELL PRESENTS TUNNELVISION:
5 - 19 SEPTEMBER 1998 MAASTUNNEL ROTTERDAM

CELL-Initiators of Incidents invites you to the opening of TunnelVision
on September the 5th 1998 at 20.00 hours at the Maxim aan de Maas caf

Alex Galloway: I know a little bit about your history, that you were/are
involved in the cyberfeminist group VNS Matrix. Can you tell me a little
bit about what you are making these days? When I saw you recently at the
Banff Center I noticed that you were experimenting ...

Welcome to http://www.isea.qc.ca/webcast98

For the second consecutive year the ISEA HQ will provide a full
multimedia coverage of the isea98 Symposium held in Liverpool and
Manchester (UK) September 2-7. Working in collaboration with the isea98
organization, various international networks such as RHIZOME and
Telepolis as ...

je ne suis plus photographe
http://pleine-peau.com/f/birth

blown++;

present,
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UNESCO Web Prize Competition

The website has been updated and now includes a list of all projects.
This can be found at:

A few weeks ago, I sat down with net.art pioneer and former adaweb
curator Benjamin Weil to chat about adaweb and his recent appointment as
the Director of the New Media Center at the London Institute of
Contemporary Art (ICA).

How adaweb produced art projects intrigued me. Their practice ...

IN (BETWEEN) THE IMAGES
Moving Images in Their External And Internal Expansion
Graz, 4. bis 6. Dezember 1998

ALEX ADRIAANSSEN, V_2, Rotterdam, STUDIO AZZURRO (I), PIERRE
BONGIOVANNI, Centre International de Cr

I'm working on a chapter of my book which will include performance and
video artist whose work is transhuman in scope. I have already included
Stelarc and am looking for a URL for Orlan.

Please send suggestions to me at natasha@extropic-art.com or
natasha@natasha.cc

Alex Galloway: Your project Brandon (http://brandon.guggenheim.org)
which recently openned at the Guggenheim museum has certainly captured
the interest of the new media art world. We're all very excited about it
over here at RHIZOME. What's your reaction? Are you satisfied with how
this project has crossed-over into ...

XXIV Bienal de Sao Paulo is now online:

http://www.uol.com.br/bienal/24bienal/

The XXIV Bienal website will feature images and texts regarding all
segments of the exhibition (including all those printed in the
publications) as well as two virtual exhibitions curated by Mark van der Walle and ...