The Thing website (http://www.thing.net) received a letter from Mattel's lawyer (Mattel manufactures the Barbie Doll) demanding the removal of my work BKPC (http://www.thing.net/~gh/artdirect/bkpc1.html) from the website. Mattel is claiming trademark dilution. I mean really!
We would like to inform you about an event, LA RECEPTION, soon to come. LA RECEPTION has two axes: one educational and one aiming to show different media submitted to experimental practices, as movie, music, video, multimedia (CD-Rom and internet). There are three workshops for teenagers: electronic music (Simon Redfern ...
CALL FOR PAPERS: Leonardo Music Journal, Vol. 8 (1998) Theme: "Ghosts and Monsters"
In his infamous 1972 essay, "John Cage – Ghost or Monster," Cornelius Cardew took Cage to task on issues of political correctness. Inspired by Mao Tse-tung's "Talks at the Yunan Forum on Literature and Art" (1942 ...
Interact Multimedia Festival 1997 Experimenta - ALTERED STATES Curated by Helen Stuckey and Shiralee Saul 30 October - 2 November Melbourne Exhibition Centre
Out of Interact Asia Pacific Multimedia Festival this year comes Experimenta - Altered States, a multimedia arts exhibition designed to explore artistic expression in the age of the digital revolution ...
The trAce International Online Writing Community is pleased to announce the launch of its mailing list.
This is the chance for trAce members around the world to talk to each other. Everything is up for discussion, and this is the place to do it. Post to the list and introduce ...
BENJAMIN BECK (berlin) about $, paradoxes, lenin and luhmann; JOSEPHINE BERRY (london) about 'x', table conversations, mice and michael jackson; PAOLO BIANCHI (baden) about coolness, crossover ...
I am editing another anthology called Contagion, that will be published by the independent press, Kaya. It is the third in a series that Kaya publishes (the second one, Collapsing New Buildings, is out now). I'm looking for essays, short fiction, poetry, proposals for interviews, and artists' projects.
Conference Announcement and Call for Contributions
1. Conference Idea
We live in a world that depends increasingly on electronic communication technologies. The global diffusion of these technologies is creating what has been called the virtual planet. The ...
The often praised non-linearity of the web, its rhizomatic structure that makes it possible to literally move through texts, images, lists, references, etc. is the experience of a collaged world that invites you with every new hyperlink, button or address that you stumble over to explore another fragment of ...
Join legendary film star Taylor Mead as he battles a flock of fiendish felines who threaten his friend Quentin Crisp. (Xena ain't got nothin' on Taylor!)
Virtual Environments for Learning: A Special Issue of PRESENCE J. Michael Moshell and William Winn, Editors
One of the original driving forces behind the invention of virtual environments (and of simulation in general) was the vision of an ideal tool for learning. Freed from the limitations of specific lab equipment ...