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Posted July 31 1996 21:00

precious community

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 ...

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Posted July 30 1996 21:00

new media dream

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 ...

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Posted July 30 1996 21:00

Info-Cocktails

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 ...

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Posted July 30 1996 21:00

etextsss

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 ...

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Posted July 29 1996 21:00

the power structure itself may be rhizomatic

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 ...

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Posted July 26 1996 21:00

all the swiftness of a wind-up car

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 ...

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Posted July 26 1996 21:00

table-top video games gone awry

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 ...

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Posted July 25 1996 21:00

Who you callin "folk?!"

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 ...

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Posted July 25 1996 21:00

as in the tower of...

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.

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Posted July 25 1996 21:00

intersections

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.

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Posted July 25 1996 21:00

unpretentious art stuff

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

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Posted July 25 1996 21:00

The new folk art

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 ...

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Posted July 25 1996 21:00

media weather in the UK

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 ...

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Posted July 21 1996 21:00

Osmose...?

David Hudson wrote:

>From Wired's page on _Osmose_, accessible via:
>http://www.hotwired.com/wired_online/4.08/osmose/index.html:

>"a virtual reality installation that you can only
>find in an art gallery or electronic art ahow…

>"…an experience Mark Pesce calls 'virtual
>kundalini, an expression of philosophy
>without ...

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Posted July 19 1996 21:00

Le Abend

During the 50th Theater Festival of Avignon writer (is there a female
word for writer?) Zarza lives there and sends me two fax pages every
day. I scan and colorize them and publish them at 18.00 CET. The pages
are mostly german.

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Posted July 19 1996 21:00

Wake up call to information anarchists

Backspace, a Cyber Gallery, the latest in the upsurge of activity on
the Southbank, London, UK.

The concept and organization of Backspace is intrinsically linked to
the ebb and flow of the River Thames, a much abused and maligned
source of inspiration and energy.

Backspace provides a stimulating environment for ...

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