Interactive Technology suddenly begins to require governing bureaucracies to be accountable to more than special-interest lobbies. Other essential cultures will take longer to free themselves from similarily imposed sanctions; keeping the channels of disbelief open will only assist the maturation process. This is even apparent in the academe-art-world where it ...
One of the curious effects of National Lottery funding for major arts projects is that it precipitates crises which have been kept in balance (occasionally for decades) by the absence of cash. Such is the case with the Tate, the national collection of British, modern and contemporary art. For twenty ...
What Is Performance Art? A Digital Intermedia Project
Call for artists: The PAF is paying modest artist fees for any digital work related to performance art. Images, text, interactive pieces, digitized video, audio, anything that has been digitized and can be displayed on the World Wide Web. Any aspect of ...
Imagine your computer goes nuts. I'm not talking about the usual data blips and all out crashes - I'm talking genuine human psychosis. This seems to have been the premise behind a one-time only performance on August 8 '96 at the arena here in Berlin, part of an ongoing series entitled ...
We are pleased to announce the first in a series of Virtual Seminars by the accomplished artist, Kenneth R. Turner. A Virtual Seminar is a professional presentation using your favorite HTML Browser on your personal computer and accessing audio via your telephone. To synchronize multiple sites around the world the ...
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NEW COMPUTER ARTS FELLOWSHIP CATEGORY ANNOUNCED
The New York Foundation for the Arts announces the creation of a new "Computer Arts" category within its Artists' Fellowship Program. Awards of $7,000 will ...
G.H. Hovagimyan wrote: I've just put up some Quicktimes on my Faux Conceptual Art page. You need to have Netscape Navigator 3.0 with a quicktime plug-in to view the embedded movies. The files total 1274k and take about 7 minutes to load with a 28.8 modem. I'm ...
Recently Joseph Nechvatal posted an essay announcing his BBS, IMMERSIVE IDEALS / CRITICAL DISTANCES (http://www.thing.net/thingnyc/msgboard.html), to RHIZOME RAW. His essay can also be found in the <a href="http://www.rhizome.org/query" target="_top">RHIZOME CONTENTBASE</a> by searching on the keyword "immersion ...
Twelve children, six each from Mexico City and the San Diego area, will participate in a residency program with artist Sheldon Brown at the Children's Museum/Museo de los Ninos on August 13-15 to research and introduce a binational, state-of-the-art, virtual reality ...
"Inside Out" File Under Olympics Narrative / Marketing Scheme
"In a provocative interview in the current New Yorker, NBC Sports researcher Nicholas Schiavone reveals that the age old "nature vs. nurture" argument fuels the network's Olympics coverage."
"In more than 10,000 interviews over six years that helped NBC mold ...
DEAF96 Symposium - Digital Territories 19 September 1996, 10.00 - 18.00 hrs Rotterdam, Lantaren/Venster Theatre
The DEAF96 Symposium takes the thematic triangle of architecture, urban culture, and electronic networks indicated by the title, 'Digital Territories', and investigates their mutual relationships and the impact they have on each other. This ...
Virtual Worlds Within the 1996 Olympic Arts Festival
(Atlanta, July 31, 1996) The Olympic Arts Festival today announced the installation on the Internet of 'Worlds Within', the three-dimensional virtual world created by the Austrian and German artists of Van Gogh TeleVision. In 'Worlds Within', people from every country and culture ...
Tuesday we went to the opening performance of Tod Machover's 4 1/2 million dollar interactive music installation/performance at Lincoln Center. The work has three parts. In the first part you and a large crowd wander around a plastic dendrite & ganglion forest designed to be a cyber-amusement arcade ...