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Posted April 14 1996 21:00

virtual beasties on the internet

TECHNOSPHERE

The artists' description:

"TechnoSphere is a 3D virtual world that is accessed via the Internet.
It has a World Wide Web interface that allows people to construct
artificial life-forms from component descriptions and place them in
the world. The life-forms grow and evolve over time and regularly
send messages ...

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Posted April 13 1996 21:00

Bitch Mutant Manifesto

The atomic wind catches your wings and you are propelled backwards into the
future, an entity time travelling through the late C20th, a space case, an
alien angel maybe, looking down the deep throat of a million catastrophes.

screenflash of a millionmillion conscious machines

burns brilliant

users caught in the ...

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Posted April 10 1996 21:00

genetic art

Do you know how genetic algorithms work?

Entities are broken down into their constituent parts. The components and
the relationships between components are put into a list. The entities are
then put into competition with each other and those which compete most
succesfully are mated with each other and their ...

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Posted April 9 1996 21:00

excerpt of recent writing re. "Can you Digit?"

Aesthetic Foundations of the Arts

With Can You Digit? as the title of the gallery exhibition, the general
audience is actively addressed and presented with two bifurcating
questions. The first, queries the audience as potential users of digital
computers and through a kind of poetic license, transforms the adjective
digital ...

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Posted April 8 1996 21:00

intimate underground and brilliant

Shulea Cheang and Beth Stryker did an installation for the Mix
show at Anthology a couple of years a go… it was a mixture
of cyber art re:AIDS and was down the funky stairs lit by a single
neon (thanks Dan Flavin) strand which circled the room and made ...

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Posted April 7 1996 21:00

the interactive image in architecture

I've not seen "Can you Digit?", but my impression is that it is
largely a screen based exhibition. Whilst I recognise that screen based work is
a relatively standardised and cheap option for a gallery or curator it is also
the case that it has severe limitations. If as ...

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Posted April 7 1996 21:00

a garden-variety, non-digital, fertile chicken egg

NETBAND: The Egg of the Internet

We are giving the Internet community a gift: an egg; a garden-variety, non-digital, fertile chicken egg.
In addition, we are creating a machine which makes it possible for the Internet user to visit the egg,
observe it, and after 21 days to care for ...

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Posted April 7 1996 21:00

Miroslav Rogala's homepage

Look up Miroslav Rogala's homepage: Mirek has been taking home prizes from
ZKM and elsewhere; currently preparing large-scale outdoor interactive site in
Chicago; excellent homepage with some proprietorial software well worth a visit

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Posted April 7 1996 21:00

Rex Bruce's website

Rex Bruce, a site on teleology and toxicity, basically hypertext but with
impressive graphics and a cunning sexuality:

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Posted April 7 1996 21:00

Visual pleasure and the little screen

Perhaps works in public like these need to pay attention to the nature of public
space - to interact with that space in some way. Video didn't work that well in
galleries either.

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Date: 4.8.96
From: Perry Hoberman (hoberman@bway.net)
Subject: neither sculpture nor installation

I don't disagree ...

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Posted April 7 1996 21:00

Simon Biggs' web site

I have yet to visit Simon Biggs' site – an Australian artist working in Europe,
author of recent The Book of Shadows CD-ROM and several excellent largescale
intercative public artworks. Like Rogala, Biggs is in a space where old and new
media interface – dance, gardening… –; both seem to ...

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Posted April 5 1996 20:00

Expanded Media in Context

One thing that is important to consider when discussing any medium is not just
its physical nature, which obviously conditions how it is read, but also the
social and praxis context within which it exists. Example - the cinema is more
than film, light, dark space and big pictures. It exists ...

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Posted April 4 1996 20:00

Multiple Personalities

Every presence in the network was created by a person at some point. Even
"bots" and "agents" were put in motion by human hands. Some people even
purposefully inhabit numerous personas when they're on-line.

Because of these factors, it's been said that there are far more presences
on-line than there ...

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Posted April 3 1996 20:00

new media show at Postmasters

"Can You Digit?" was an exhibition of digitally-based art
held at Postmasters Gallery from March 16 to April 13, 1996.

The show featured approximately 40 works, many by West Coast
artists and designers with close ties to Silicon Valley.
According to the show's organizers - Tamas Banovich and Ken
Coupland ...

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Posted March 25 1996 20:00

Digital Chaos: thank fuck it's the future

Slacker cyber conference - four days of digital delirium,
beer, shouting, art, writing, bombastic_argument

WHEN: May 30th - June 2nd 1996
WHERE: Hub Interc@fi, Walcott Street, Bath, England.
TEL: 44 1225 427 441
EMAIL: johanna nicholls

We have the tricknology to incite fuelled discussion during
DIGITAL CHAOS - a gathering of active ...

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Posted March 20 1996 20:00

pop~TARTS

Just checked out pop~TARTS (http://www.ix.de/TP/issue196/fpoptarts.htm), a
section of the new Telepolis Web site, by Kathy Rae Huffman and Margarete
Jahrmann. Looks really good. It's vitally important that we take up issues
around gender and new media, and I think Kathy and Margarete's ...

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