I'll have to admit, when I dialed up the X-Art Foundation
(http://interport.net/~xaf) to see the current online x-travaganza known
as blast5drama I sorta lost my head. The start up page is perfect:
elegant, good layout, sharp graphics, smart animation, great menu items.
I expected no less from ...

STALK[3]
Ella Gibbs of belt, Alexei Shulgin of the Moscow wwwArt Centre

Monday 27th January 1997
@ 7:30pm
@ Backspace, Winchester Wharf, Clink Street, London SE1

Menu:
BLOCKED REPRESENTATION: Immersion and Projection

"I do wish we could be more we.
A place to meet. New understanding.
Is our perception making ...

A Call for Papers on Art and Biology for the Journal Leonardo

As part of our 30th anniversary celebration, the editors of Leonardo
seek papers about art and biology. Possible topics include, but are not
limited to:

- histories of plant, animal, and human representation
- imagery of DNA, cells, chromosomes, and ...

Sulan Kolatan and William MacDonald on the blast5 vehicles

In her book entitled "On Longing" Susan Stewart notes that "the
metaphors of the book are metaphors of containment, of exteriority and
interiority, of surface and depth, of covering and exposure, of taking
apart and putting together."

The metaphors of ...

DIGITAL OBJECTS is a feature series organized by RHIZOME INTERNET that
looks at the place of new media art in the gallery. It consists of short
texts contributed by gallerists and curators about new media art.
DIGITAL OBJECTS is an attempt to collect and distribute critical
appraisals of new media ...

Benjamin Weil is the curator for ada 'web (http://www.adaweb.com.)

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RHIZOME: How would you define "new media art?"

Benjamin Weil: it is important to point out to the fact that its not so
much the medium that defines the production. it is more like the
adequacy of ...

DIGITAL OBJECTS contributor Cornelia Sollfrank is an artist from
Hamburg, currently living in New York City. Central to her conceptual
and performative works are the changing notions of art, the advent of a
new image of the artist in the information age, gender-specific handling
of technology, as well as new ...

Announcing the CONSCIOUSNESS-REFRAMED-L list (Consciousness Reframed
Mailing List)

To subscribe - don't write anything in the subject area

send it to: listserv@arts.ucsb.edu

in the body of the message, write: subscribe Consciousness-Reframed-L
[then your full name]

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Concerning the 1st International CAiiA Research Conference:
"CONSCIOUSNESS REFRAMED - art and consciousness in ...

Paris, the 15 january 1997

OLALA!!!!
video and new media art festivals on the Internet

We are preparing to launch a web site exclusively dedicated to video and
digital media festivals. It aims to become a real working tool for
persons interested in these areas: artists, researchers, students or
professionals ...

THE ISEA97 DEADLINE FOR CALLS FOR PROPOSALS FOR PAPERS AND EXHIBITIONS
HAS BEEN EXTENDED TO:

FEBRUARY 14, 1997

Please see the ISEA97 website: http://www.artic.edu/~isea97 for updated
information.

The glass walls subtly reflect the purple glow of police lights. Above,
rusty meathooks distinguish the perimeter of the space. The dark rooms
are packed with bodies – who crouch, stand, or sit at small round
tables, and listen intently.

"What *is* this music?" someone asks, as the soundscape ...

PRIVATE/PUBLIC: Exhibitions/ Exhibitionism

PRIVATE/PUBLIC, also published by Edita, is described as a "virtual
exhibition". This CD-Rom documents the exhibition of the same name held
at the The Museum of Contemporary Art in Helsinki in Spring 1995. It is
very passable. Not an inspiring piece of multi-media but, as ...

Ambitious Bitch: Post-Modern Critique for the Jilted Sex

To be a woman is something so strange, so confusing and so complex that
only a woman can manage to do it. -S

The PHOTOSTATIC RETROFUTURIST is seeking submissions. Issue no. 1 will
appear in 1997.

PhotoStatic Magazine began publishing in 1983 as a magazine of graphic
artwork produced on the xerox machine. Over a period of some years, its
originally narrow scope grew to embrace all machine-based art.
PhotoStatic gradually acquired a ...

Telepolis Online Journal: Call for contributions and upcoming special
issues, topics

launch date: 1.2.97. topic: "digital cinema"

description/questions: how do computers affect the narrative language of
cinema? are computers just another tool for better special effects? will
there ever be something as "interactive cinema"? how do digital ...

Screening Report: Carl Stone, 11/6/96

I never heard of the word "repurposing" before 1995. I first heard it
when a woman putting together a multi-media CD-ROM included a video she
had shot for a different project. It was being "repurposed".

During a lecture at the School of the ...