In reply to Alex Galloway's "<a href="/cgi-local/query.cgi?action=grab_object&kt=kt1015">New Interfaces, New Softwares, New Networks</a>" [RHIZOME CONTENTBASE, 1.15.98], carmin wrote:
I've been writing code for decades. Elegant executable code is absolutely beautiful.
We are all digitized and we are learning to see the ...
In every field of human endeavor there are those dedicated to expanding, pioneering, penetrating and winning. Along the electronic frontier, this is especially true. To recognize this, the Mr Net Art Foundation established the Mr Net Art Awards ...
Making "Agatha Appears" at Budapest c3, I recalled Metaforum III (Budapest, October, 1996). At that time I spoke of the Internet as being open for artistic self-expression, that the time had come to create Net films, Net stories and so on, to develop a Net language instead of ...
In reply to Josephine Bosma's announcement of the "Mister Net.Art '98" competition [RHIZOME CONTENTBASE, 1.19.98], Natasha V. More wrote:
What a wonderful idea way to celebrate achievement. But tell me please, does the "Mr" mean that the criteria pertains only male "male" or XY candidates? What about ...
There hasn't been any snow in New York this winter yet. A flurry the other day didn't stick and turned to rain.
So I was surprised to walk down Fifth Avenue today and find piles of snow along the street curb from 8th Street down to Washington Square Park. Perfect ...
On Saturday November 8th Frank Moore came to town. This was my third time to see his production and with advance notice I arranged for some friends to join me. During the evening I suppose about 20 people came through the cave of Lila. During ...
Freedom for Toni NEGRI–To Have Done with the Year of Lead in Italy!
Ever since delivering himself over to Italian justice in July 1997, Toni Negri has been incarcerated in Rome, his only short-term hope that of working outside and returning every evening to prison (a very strict system in ...
An artist isn't just an artist any more. These days, with new technologies, it seems that an artist must also be a designer, and a programmer, and a business person, and a publicist.
Nowhere is that more true than on one particular fringe of net.art: the mini-genre of new ...
It has come to my attention that some person (or people) have taken a more than casual interest in my sex life. I've heard a few rumours and, while I apologize in advance to those who could care less, email allows me to rebut this slander much more efficiently than ...
I recently attended a lecture by Catherine David and Lynne Cooke at the Great Hall in New York City. It was interesting to hear some of David's comments about artistic practice, urban space, and her own interest in de-emphasizing the commodity-object within the art exhibition context. (Needless to say, her ...
When Bill Gates purchased Leondardo da Vinci's Codex Leicester in 1994, part of a broad buyout of images and content, he went to the Seattle Art Museum (SAM) to stage an exhibition. And today, SAM hosts what will prove to me the most highly attended show in its history, a ...
An on line forum where the Brasmitte (http://www.artecidade.org.br/brasmitte) project will be discussed through the construction of a collective web site.
Urbanists, critics, artists and new media creators are invited to take part in Brasmitte Metaforum. The idea is to ...