First International Conference on Virtual Worlds

International Institute of Multimedia, Paris, France, Jul 1st-3rd 1998

ICVW'98 hopes to extend the scientific community by encouraging
contributions from people involved in technology, philosophy and art
related to the design and applications of virtual worlds.

Contact: Jean-Claude Heudin
Institute International Multimedia
Pole Universitaire ...

NOISE

"The bit of noise, the small random element, transforms one system or
one order into another." - M. Serres

"Between the rationality for which the analysis speaks and the law that
history repeats there remains a gap, infinitesimal to be sure, but
fundamental" - M. De Certeau

call for submissions ...

here is a list (with very short reviews in french) of sites that i
really appreciate for their originality, beauty,…

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***indescribable, fun, homepage***

http://www.day-dream.com/
Sont-ils fous? shockwave, gif animes, blink,…

http://www.e13.com/
Design inexistant, graphisme fracture et pixelise, navigation
deroutante, dessins n&b,……totalement ...

The latest issue of SWITCH
the second in a two-part series on Art of the Web
http://switch.sjsu.edu/

The effort of MFA graduate students in the Computers in Art program at San
Jose State University, San Jose, California, SWITCH presents articles,
views and links to sites that engage ...

I am involved in the creation of a web site linking qualified minority
candidates to corporate recruiters. The publisher has brought me onboard
to develop original content and to help shepherd the project from
inception to reality. The site is currently under wraps with an
anticpated launch date slated for ...

Universal Companionship Organization is a growing forum of artists,
intellectuals and support-members, aimed at the creation of a unique and
fully independent "Virtual Universe" for the benefit of it's creators.

Anybody challenged by Eternal Life / Virtual Universe / Secondary
Consciousness - please refer to http://uco.org.il, the official UCO-
presentation ...

THE TRACE INTERNATIONAL ONLINE WRITING COMMUNITY

Is it a fact, or have I dreamt it that, by means of electricity, the
world of matter has become a great nerve, vibrating thousands of miles
in a breathless point of time? (Nathaniel Hawthorne 1804-1864)

SUCCESS!
We're delighted to announce that our bid ...

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#1, "N DAY,^^66"
* Day_66 -o pal pal.c
*/

#include
*<X.h:
* http://www.jodi.org/day66

int main(int argc, char **argv)
{
unsigned char buf[1024], *p1, *p2;
int mode=0, valid;
FILE *infd;

if (argc > 1) {
if ((infd = fopen(argv[1], "r")) == NULL) {
fprintf(stderr,
"
%s ...

UNEXPECTED OBSTACLES
The Work of Perry Hoberman

Gallery OTSO
19.9-26.10.1997

http://www.hoberman.com/perry/otso/

On September 18th, UNEXPECTED OBSTACLES, a major retrospective of the
work of New York-based artist PERRY HOBERMAN opens at the OTSO Gallery
in Tapiola, Finland. A full color catalog, with essays ...

Michael Atavar's book ~ TINY STARS (70s 80s 90s)

Michael Atavar is a gay multi-media artist.

TINY STARS contains the unexpurgated texts from his three solo shows -
Tiny Stars, Don

Competition for both commercial and art works; Multimedia Grand Prix -
deadline soon!

Japan's Multimedia Content Association (MMCA), as former MMA and
NICOGRAPH emerged last year, is organizing competition of multimedia and
computer graphics works.

Deadline is in mid-september, depends on the category. Package, network
project, game, theatre/installation (including
interactive ...

It was a little disquieting that in May of this year, a month before the
opening of Documenta X, curator Catherine David had yet to publicize a
list of the participating artists. In an interview with Robert Storr
published in the May issue of Artforum, she names five artists-out of ...

It is often said that we are currently undergoing the second major
technological revolution. The first brought us the acceleration of
traffic, the railway system, the automobile and, finally, aviation.

The current revolution is riding on electromagnetic waves and has led to
such an acceleration of communications that information is ...

Peter Fischli and David Weiss: In A Restless World
at the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art
(through sept 9th)

I recently went to the SFMoMa to catch the work of Swiss artists Peter
Fischli and David Weiss. The installation took up three large rooms on
the fourth floor. With ...

Commenting on the Blast Forum at documenta, Morgan wrote:

I'd estimate that the Documenta Blast forum signals a deep structural
shift, one whose parameters extend well beyond the precincts of art, as
it is normally understood. One's first impression is that of a social
and intellectual cacophony, with more talking ...

A 'meta-critique' of DX can be found in the 'Reviews' section of Why not
Sneeze?

URL: www.ccc.nl/sneeze/

or (if you don't want the rest of the frames) go straight to:
www.ccc.nl/sneeze/dx/dx.html