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X-Factor Announces Online Conference for Experimental Media

http://thecity.sfsu.edu/users/XFactor

X-Factor, the national coalition for the advocacy of experimental media,
announces the X-Factor Online Conference for Experimental Media on the
Internet's World Wide Web, concerning the state of experimental film and
video. This interactive conference ...

"Yeah, somebody owned the hill the mine was in, but what we wanted to do
was cut into it, develop tubes under and near the surface which could
potentially yield useful ore, or even effects for each other and the
group at-large. "

-Pierre Salkas, Colorado miner

Beginning Friday Oct ...

new company, new vision

jackie lightfield & khyal braun announce ART SPARK INTERACTIVE. This is
the publishing label of blowtorch studios, "industrial strength design"
(www.blowtorch.com), and the only interactive arts studio on the east
coast!

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A Call to multimedia Artists
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we are seeking original works, (we ...

Self-Destruct Mechanism

The X-Factor Conference on experimental media is now on-line:

http://thecity.sfsu.edu/users/XFactor

For the conference, I've written a short piece on "virtual ontologies"
called "Self-Destruct Mechanism." Have a read:

http://thecity.sfsu.edu/users/XFactor/participants/rodriguez.html

I'm looking forward to your responses.

I've just released "Technophobia" and I'm currently researching for the
second CD. It doesn't matter how large or small the piece is only that
it is original, thought provoking work.

I'm looking forward to seeing what artists are making with new
technology, including those coming from other cultural sectors such ...

Eva Wohlgemuth and I are presenting our internet project SIBERIAN DEAL
in the Electronic Page section, which is curated by Irina Aktuganova who
is director of Gallery 21 - part of the Pushkin Square art complex.
Also here from Vienna are the group Das Frohliche Wohnzimmer, and Hilus.
We are all ...

Reading the contribution of Alexei Shulgin about the subject: "Art,
Power and Communication" I cannot remain silent, just thinking he is
right.

Especially his recommendation: "as an artist change your occupation just
before you became well-known in your sphere and before the movement you
are in starts to create its ...

A note in response to comments on commodities and communication.

Pit and Alexei have made great statements. Things that stand between
people as blockages are:

1. commodities (relationships posing as things)
2. institutions (things posing as relationships, e.g. art)

Things that are more fundamental than these, which are fundamentally ...

interno/inferno
[web art project]

author: Igor Stromajer
producer: INTIMA Virtual Base / Creative Intimate Lab
internet service provider: ARNES - Academic and Research Network of
Slovenia
copyright by: INTIMA Virtual Base / Creative Intimate Lab, 1996/97
URL: http://www2.arnes.si/guest/ljintima2/in/index.html

interno/inferno

is a web ...

Dortmund
InterVentionen - cityprojects

7 K

Tatsou Miyaijima
La Fondation Cartier pour l'art contemporain
261, blvd. Raspail
14e Paris

With regard to the cultural shaping of technology, sociologists and
anthropologists state that social and technological change come together
as a packet: if we want to understand either, we must understand both.
In this respect, Tatsou Miyaijima's ...

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Webwork by Jon Thomson & Alison Craighead,

http://www.ucl.ac.uk/slade/slide/

Thank you.

Alex Galloway wrote in a recent RHIZOME RAW post:

"I am trying to define a font as separate from a mark (ink, light, etc.)
and thus as sort of list of directions for visual representation."

I think first you need to figure out what writing is, like that's
simple ...

last friday mr. Bunting from London and elsewhere gave a lecture at
Wolliner Str. 12. Mitte organzed by luxus-cont & netlab_berlin, a
semi-private place with around 50 visitors.

later Heath was asked "what do you do against _commodification_?" he
answered with a description of one of his projects which ...

On 1 December, World AIDS Day 1996, ArtAIDS and WWW projects around the
world will be mailing their viewers and hosting special projects that
mark "a day without art" in cyberspace.

ArtAIDS has been operating since 1 Dec, 1994 as an ongoing Internet
project which commemorates and celebrates the fight ...

POSTMASTERS GALLERY
October 19 - November 9, 1996

PASSWORD: FERDYDURKE *

On Saturday, October 19, Postmasters Gallery will open "Password:
Ferdydurke," an exhibition of new multi-media works organized by Tamas
Banovich.

The show will include video, film and slide projections and
installations, digital projects, sound installations and other media.
The artworks ...