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Posted Oct. 24 1996 21:00

thinkin about The Thinker

Mary-Kay Lombino wrote:

I checked out The Thinker. Nice graphics, pretty useful for a San Fran.
visitor, but it's missing a contemporary element. I tried to search
Nayland Blake, an important S.F. living artist. Not listed. For 60,000
listings, why not him? I wonder what the criteria was ...

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Posted Oct. 24 1996 21:00

RHIZOME @ ROBOTS OCT25

"That's a fold, it's the part of the surface that doesn't stop…it's
always changing, it's smooth and continuous. In short it's a love
machine."

Twyla Rogers-1938

RHIZOME
Friday OCT.25

at Save The Robots
25 Ave B/2 st.
[NYC]
10-4

Ambassador Jr.
Wally
Soulslinger
Cassein
Rio
Delmar
Bedouin ...

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Posted Oct. 23 1996 21:00

London VR Group (LVRG) meeting

Minutes of LVRG September Meeting
Thursday 26th September
University College London

Sponsors: Superscape http://www.superscape.com/

1. Welcome + meeting overview by Simon

2. Jean Leston from Ovum presented a summary of their report "Virtual
Reality: Business Applications, Markets and Opportunities."

Among her conclusions were that industrial applications generate ...

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Posted Oct. 23 1996 21:00

Call for Papers and Multimedia Presentations

1st International CAiiA Research Conference

"CONSCIOUSNESS REFRAMED: art and consciousness in the post-biological
era"

5 & 6 July 1997

Organised by CAiiA - the Centre for Advanced Inquiry in the Interactive
Arts, University of Wales College, Newport, UK.

An international conference to look at new developments in art, science,
technology and ...

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Posted Oct. 23 1996 21:00

DIALogue starts tonite!

A Reminder:

DIALogue begins at 7pm tonite, at Cooper Union in the Peter Cooper Suite
[NYC]. I'll be hosting "Working Hard at Leisure: the architecture and
social anthropology of entertainment environments," featuring architect
David Rockwell, political theorist Benjamin R. Barber, and Susan Willis
and Karen Klugman of The Project ...

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Posted Oct. 23 1996 21:00

Corpus Delecti at the Institute of Contemporary Arts, London

ICA Live Arts announces two new seasons of work which may interest you.

On the first weekend of November the ICA is running a series of
workshops that are intended to explore the possibilities of going online
and chinese poetry entitled Chinese Online. It is part of a continuing
commitment ...

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Posted Oct. 22 1996 21:00

The Death of Computer Art

From: Lev Manovich
Subject: The Death of Computer Art
Format: ASCII
Average Reading Time: 4 min. 29 sec.
Signal to Noise Ratio: unknown
Rating: adult
Genre: provocation

After reading with great interest recent discussions about this year's
ISEA and Ars Electronica, I wanted to offer the following thoughts
(partly, as ...

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Posted Oct. 21 1996 21:00

Radikal Play Girls

We are the Radikal Play Girls
We offer excess for all
Sex Sex Sex is our religion
Every day a holy day in our cunt ry!

a new ecsthetic-radical-religious-theory web site

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Posted Oct. 21 1996 21:00

LIVE ONLINE PERFORMANCES at POSTMASTERS

LIVE ONLINE PERFORMANCES by PLAINTEXT PLAYERS

October 22 & 30 and November 5 & 8 (8pm)

at

POSTMASTERS GALLERY
80 Greene Street, NYC USA
via live projection

The Internet's premiere improvisational performance troupe presents: THE
CANDIDE CAMPAIGN

In this original series of one hour improvisations, the naive and
sentimental young ...

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Posted Oct. 20 1996 21:00

Cyberspace Opera Invitation

A Personal Invitation from honoria

"Come to Me: The Birth of a Clone"
From Act 1, Scene 2 of the Cyberopera

H O N O R I A I N C I B E R S P A Z I O

The First Opera in Cyberspace

Written by listservs Leri ...

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Posted Oct. 19 1996 21:00

Low Res Digital Film Festival: Main Program

Has anyone seen the "Low Res Digital Film Festival"? The New York City
installment closed Saturday after four sell-out nights at the Kitchen.

The festival (http://www.lowres.com) claims to "focus on how computers
and other digital tools affect the way people make low budget films and
videos." ...

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Posted Oct. 19 1996 21:00

Across Two Cultures

Across Two Cultures: Digital Dreams 4

15 - 17 November 1996
Newcastle-upon-Tyne

Across 2 Cultures: Digital Dreams 4 is a 3 - day event exploring
electronic arts in the context of a changing relationship between art
and science.

The event comprises a 3 day conference, specially commissioned
installations by British artists Simon ...

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Posted Oct. 19 1996 21:00

On Totalitarian Interactivity

ON TOTALITARIAN INTERACTIVITY (notes from the enemy of the people)

Alexei Shulgin is right in analyzing the phenomenon of interactive art and
media as a shift from representation to manipulation. [see Alexei Shulgin,
"<a href="/cgi/to.cgi?t=239">Art, Power, and Communication</a>" in RHIZOME CONTENTBASE, 10.11 ...

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Posted Oct. 19 1996 21:00

Gregory Green in Low Orbit at L+

GREGNIK (PROTO 1) by Gregory Green

Gregory Green's Gregnik (Proto 1) is an innovative new public art
project involving the construction of a fully functional prototype
communications satellite modelled on the former USSR's Sputnik. Green is
an American performance and installation artist who in 1996 has recently
received national media ...

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Posted Oct. 17 1996 21:00

HAKIM BEY FANCLUB

e/v/e/r/y/d/a/y a h/o/l/i/d/a/y

ii.The basic structure is a banquet or picnic. Each player must bring a
dish or bottle, etc., …………

read the rest at HAKIM BEY FANCLUB:

http://www.desk.nl/~suzan/picknick/index.html ...

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Posted Oct. 17 1996 21:00

The Low Res Music Program

Last night I went to "Feel Surreal," a night of music videos which is
part of the New York "Low Res Digital Film Festival"
(http://www.lowres.com). Friday and Saturday night will be the "Main
Program," a series of digital video shorts. The festival, which claims
to ...

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