DEAF96 - Wiretap 2.9
Webbed Workspaces and Artist Programmers

Sunday, 22 September 1996, 14.00 - 17.00 hrs

The electronic networks are increasingly used as interactive, multi-user
and translocal workspaces which artists are discovering for their own
projects, as spaces for developing and elaborating projects as well as for
the ...

indexes.html
or Multiple Identity

Homepage is one's identity in the Net. The first impression of a
homepage often crucially affects our wish to go deeper into it.
A human being can't have different faces at a discretion, a book can't
have different covers simultaneously, a song or film can't ...

COMMISSION - CALL FOR ARTISTS PROPOSALS

Channel, the national Internet network of media arts organisations, is
calling for artists' proposals for internet projects that explore the theme
of the digital or imaginary city.

Artists Fee

Spooky on the Net

Listening to Sonic Net's "Cybercast" of the Soundlab Anchorage party from
earlier this month, I'm developing great sympathy for Astronauts. This
must be what it's like to listen to music aboard the space shuttle
Columbia.

I've gone to Soundlab's parties since Christmas, when they were thrown ...

HILUS end-of-the-month Info-Cocktails

"Wir drinken und blinken mit Dir im Hilus buero…"

At the end of each month, beginning July 31, 1996, HILUS intermediale
Projektforschung (research group), in Vienna, will open the door to their
information platform to host an evening cocktail and give guided Internet
tours on selected Info-Topics ...

Austria can be best described as a No-Scene-Zone. Many people trying
hard to get projects going (some of them are quite good), but overall not much
happens here, especially nothing that could be called a "scene." People
quarrel and generally give each other a hard time (the main issues ...

Last night I had a strange dream.

Representatives of the Berlin Cultural Institutions came together to put some
money in a pot and found a NETLAB. After Linz, Vienna, Karlsruhe, Frankfurt,
Cologne, Paris, London and New York already established their new media
institutions, it was time to decide that the ...

Intelligent Agents in the Societies of Control

In his article "Meshworks, Hierarchies and Interfaces", Manuel De Landa
depicts a bright future of autonomous software agents, which will lead to
an individualization of working places through their ability to adapt to the
individual users demands. Although in the last paragraph he ...

Jason Spingarn-Koff's
"Abducted /Interactive/"

In the early days of film, many small and rural cinemas had only one
projector. After a reel was finished, the crowd waited for whomever was up
in the booth to remove the take-up reel, put on the new one, and re-thread
the machine. So ...

Dear Mark,

Remember how you asked me to take a look at "www.jodi.org" and let
you know what I thought of it? Here it is:

You go in there and a black screen with dense lines of
indecipherable, red script comes up. The lines are rhythmically ...

Public Domain Inc.

Surfer heaven! *Phat* and all a dat, if "the intersection of art,
technology, theory, and community" wets your whistle. Pass this one on. I
need a napkin.

A note on the use of language

As artists and curators are coming to the web to create, programmers and
non-artists who are its native inhabitants are being labeled "folk" artists. I
find this disturbing. Frankly, what most programmers and non-art school web
practitioners create should not be confused with ...

Babel
As in the tower of…, is the ultimate in Retro-antiquity-Techno
presentation of new media art. This site slams liguistic hegemonies (as
does RHIZOME) and replaces them with notions of a chaotic language splendor.

The Stinky Artist Collective
Just what it says: totally unpretentious stinky stuff. Is this "geek art?"
Take your nose out of the air.

Paul Warren wrote:

(quoted from FuturelessFuture, Introductory Essay section) "In fact, the
web is now blossoming with computer culture artists who have created a new
type of folk art. And as with most folk-based artists, they can often
strike at the heart of meaning with a fierce integrity which is ...

The most significant development I can think of is something which hasn't
happened. The Croydon Clocktower gallery (located in suburban London, but
trying to make a name for themselves with some high profile exhibitions)
were going to mount a global retrospective of computer art this Autumn.
This was supposedly going ...