CIBER@RT'96: First International Conference on Virtual Reality
CALL FOR CONTRIBUTIONS
November 4-7, 1996 Valencia, Spain.
Ciber@RT '96 is an annual international conference that has risen from the need of creating a space open for discussion and reflexion about the non-stopping evolution of New Technologies and its relation to ...
"Living in Europe, I shouldn't need a T1 to access ZerO News, especially considering that it's located on a site justifiably priding itself on all it's done in the name of public access. But the large Public Netbase icons slow the whole navigation process to a crawl."
In his essay, "_Wired_ Unplugged", Mark Dery, author and culture jammer, quotes Jordan Crandall quoting a magazine advertisement:
"Miming disembodied hyperkinesis, _Wired_ simulates a simulation—the immersive virtuality promised by a recent NEC ad, which declared, 'Everything you know about multimedia is about to change. And fast. Call it "virtual reality" ...
The introductory essay by Donald Kuspit for the FuturelessFuture web art exhibition (http://www.flf.org/FLF) has been published on the web and is now available with source material hyperlinks at:
A discussion on the working conditions in the field of critical media art
There is a welcome slow-down in the current media discourse. The hype-driven tendency towards futurologist speculations about technological developments is replaced by inquiry and hesitation ...
Among other things, my recent attendance at 5Cyberconf in Madrid reminded me that the responsibility for interpretation lies not only with the critic and curator, but also with the artist.
Making art is, among other things, signifying. As artists, we must take responsibility for the significance of the messages we ...
_Mediascape_ at the Guggenheim Museum in Soho is a disappointment. It suffers from an overabundance of works that say very little. A word of caution: upon entering the Guggenheim, do not become ensnared in the misplaced logic of Nam June Paik's human trap, _Megatron_. This work affirms the fact that ...
This painintheneck is an appeal to writers to "learn the tools." Too many people, especially in Germany, seem to be talking and writing about new media without being actively involved. Even sadder, some people are working for the new media industry as mere suppliers of intellectual raw material. Because ...
Fondation Cartier pour l'art contemporain 261 boulevard Raspil 75014 Paris
In 'by night', the sleepy hours between sunset and dawn are explored through the art of 80 artists ranging from Lewis Carol , Victor Hugo, Brassi, Henri Michaux, Felician Ropes, Weegee up to Bill Viola, Larry Clark, Nan Goldin and Christian ...
1. Rivers and Bridges Even as a ready made image, the bridge is quite a broad metaphor, easily interpreted in a metaphor-hungry world. […] We try to discover new words, finding references to reveal the mechanisms of the medialized world - the global feedback, where past-less, reference-less yet very ...
When Edison made the first recording, the deaf man reciting Mary Had a Little Lamb for the child he could scarcely hear, he instantly doubled the quantity of sounds in the world.
Nowadays the sound environment is almost entirely non-natural.
The Guggenheim (Soho) re-opened yesterday as high-tech-outpost amidst an orgy of corporate happy talk from sponsors Deutsche Telekom and Ennell (Italian Electric). The point of the day seemed less about art than getting the ambitious project off the ground and the doors open. On that score, it probably should be ...
Opening June 13, 19:00 hours local time: Guests: Arthur and Marielouise Kroker (CAN) Music and Live-scanning: Scanner (UK) Virtual guests: Critical Art Ensemble (USA)
Picabia - 1922 @ Centre Georges Pompidou May 8 - June 30 Paris
Picabia : portraying subjectivity as mechanical process
What might be another unacknowledged artistic predecessor to pomo academics and the "science fictions" of Baudrillard, Haraway, Debord, Gibson, Ballard and Dick? Answer: Picabia's Spanish Portrait - Machine exhibition from the 1922. You can see ...
Eno and Anderson were featured at something called The Imagination Conference in San Francisco this past weekend (June 8), and since I'm thousands of miles away, I was glad HotWired announced a week ahead of time that they'd be carrying the event live.