Announcing the availability of the CD-ROM "Databank of the Everyday" by
Natalie Bookchin

*** Now available for viewing in the comfort of your home, your office,
your home office or your office which is really your home away from
home. ***

"Databank of the Everyday" takes as its subject the real everyday ...

[this text was forwarded to RHIZOME by brad brace.]

Thank you for your inquiry about AfterLife. We have had an overwhelming
amount of interest in the project, clearly indicating that we have
struck a chord that resonates for many people. Issues surrounding death
and dying are often neglected, and many ...

'Postcard from Tunis' by Sally Pryor opens at e~Media CDROM Gallery on
Thursday 16 October 6 - 8pm. Exhibition dates 17 October to 8 November.

The forth show at the innovative e~Media Gallery is a pioneering
joint-project between Experimenta Media Arts and Centre for Contemporary
Photography. e~Media is ...

Here is a quick list of some of the events and shows around the San
Francisco Bay Area.

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In San Francisco:

Yerba Buena Center for the Arts:
OUTLAWS AND OBSESSIONS
Tuesdays-Sundays, Sept 23-Nov 30
12 noon-5 pm Screening Room
Free with Gallery Admission

This film and video series celebrates the ...

We have the pleasure to announce you that Galeria Virtual has completely
remodelled its web.

Its is now full of up-to-date information, VR projects, VRML work and a
new structure.

It is in english and catalan and very soon in spanish.

Thank you for your attention. We hope you navigate ...

JAMBALAYA! THE DESIGN OF CULTURE MEETS THE CULTURE OF DESIGN
November 13-16, 1997 in New Orleans, Louisiana.

The American Institute of Graphic Arts' Seventh Biennial National Design
Conference takes place in New Orleans next month. As Program Director
for Jambalaya, I encourage you to register now for what promises to ...

Commenting on the state of art in the academic world, brad brace wrote:

If you should stumble-over dawdling faculty-artists, you'll still notice
a heated contempt for "applied-arts," "self-taught or naive" artists,
and actually, anything created outside the "purebred" realm of
art-academia. Unless of course, some "position in respect of" ...

The first international CAiiA (Centre for Advanced Inquiry in the
Interactive Arts) research conference, titled Consciousness Reframed:
art and consciousness in the post-biological era, lived up to the rather
large realm that it's rubric, as well as almost a hundred presentations,
set up. What constitutes interactive art and what it ...

1000 Points of Light Show
http://newmedia.slc.edu/~andy

This stream of images may become the largest collection of GIF files on
the World Wide Web that have exactly 1000 white pixels (this is the
"law" of production for this series). Inspired by George Bush's 1991
State of the ...

Shu Lea Cheang and Lawrence Chua present
BUY ONE GET ONE at the 2nd Johannesburg Biennale 1997
flesh presence with digibento suitcase
Johannesburg, 10/11-10/15, 1997

BUY ONE GET ONE
this offer will self destruct in 5 seconds
NTT/ICC Biennale (October 25 to December 7, 1997), Tokyo, Japan ...

The Bauhaus Dessau and the Cultural Information Centre, both of Dessau,
are proud to announce, in Commemoration of the Closing of this 7th Day
of German Unification, and after many months of intensive labour, the
BIRTH of our 3rd child:

OSTRANENIE 97 - THE INTERNATIONAL ELECTRONIC MEDIA FORUM
NOVEMBER 5 - 9 ...

check out: http://www.surface.de

Helvetica is one of the most popular typefaces of all time. It was
designed by Max Miedinger in 1957 for the Haas foundry of Switzerland
(the name is derived from Helvetia, the Swiss name for Switzerland). The
design is based on the grotesques of ...

I thought some may find this site interesting.

http://www.letusout.com/

It's called "60 Second Theater" – This site came to mind when the
RHIZOME list mentioned how new media adopted/adapted old media.

The URL is interesting in that it reminds me of the first time I heard ...

While we are coming to another dimension of the tired/wired worldview
concerning cultural productivity (creativity) and its relation to money
(yes, we love to hate it), take again the sector of dance music. And
take the fact that the US dance sector, in certain terms, just sucks.
Well just ...

- ADRIANNE WORTZEL is the October Featured Artist on the ASCI homepage.

MUSELEANOR a ficticious character by Wortzel "travels through
time…dropping in on artists and advising them on aesthetics, technical
proclivities, historical context and philosophical significance. This
contemporary muse… is particularly encouraging to fresco artists
poised precariously on their scaffoldings and ...

VRML – Lego Project

www.lancs.ac.uk/staff/nuttallt/lego/lego.htm

A new project by Taylor Nuttall
created for VisionFest 6 Sense,
Merseyside's Visual Art And Design Festival,
UK, October 1997.

www.merseyworld.com/visionfest