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.netculture "today, we are all closed in concentration camps we call nations." William Burroughs announcement and our manifest The change Internet has changed us. No matter what they tell you, Internet is man's latest achievement that affected everything. It put an end to the world as we new it. People who entered and experienced it, began developing new ways of thinking, moved the boundaries of the impossible a little bit further and still have no idea where those borders can retre...

The long awaited 396 DX's CD - "386 dx. the best of" is finally out now! Released by Staalplaat, it contains 15 songs in CD audio plus the copy of original 386 DX hard drive so every owner of the CD will be able to reconstruct 386 DX on his/her PC in accordance with open source ideology. 386 DX is the world's leading cyberpunk rock band which consists of one computer (386 DX / 4Mb RAM / EGA / 40 Mb HD). Both vocals and musical instruments are generated by software. 386 DX has played about 50 ...

I'm pleased to announce that one of the first American television documentaries about Net art is now online. Watch the RealVideo stream at: http://journalism.berkeley.edu/netart "Net Art" is a short news documentary that presents the emerging medium of Internet art to the general public. The story shows a diverse array of artworks - from interactive drawing programs to political pranksterism - and illustrates some of the unique qualities of the medium. The story also covers th...

there is a valley at http://www.8081.com the valley is the first environment of Island.8081 see you there 80/81Website: http://www.8081.com

Gene Spill, a group exhibition involving the artists: Stephen Birch Bronia Iwanczak Isobel Johnston Michelle Nikou Suzanne Treister Philipa Veitch which took place at Imperial Slacks Gallery, Sydney, from 16 November - 2 December 2000, is now viewable online. Gene Spill is about our movement towards an age redefined by biotechnology: it is an investigation into the reconfigured realities created by genetically modified lifeforms and their interplay within the complex nexus of our e...

Art Teleportacia è la prima galleria "storica" on-line di net.art. L'ha creata Olia Lialina di Mosca. Ha aperto una mostra che possiamo considerare la prima vera mostra di net.art, nel senso che finalmente sfrutta lo specifico di questa forma d'arte e abbandona l'impianto tradizionale (cioè considerare le opere di net.art come se fossero dei dipinti...). Website: http://art.teleportacia.org

josef clean and robot138.com are proud to announce the release of a new net.art project by chris bassett, the lostlove project. the work was released to a limited test audience on 5 april 2001, and is now being released for public viewing and use. the lostlove project is accessible at http://lostlove.robot138.com. microsoft internet explorer 5.0 is recommended, but any modern browser will work. no plugins are necessary. about the work: losing at love is an experience everyone has gone thr...

hers amis, le compost sur internet fonctionne depuis 3 mois. Je serais heureux d'avoir de nouvelles contributions textuelles. Et d'améliorer ainsi le terreau planétaire :)! Merci d'envoyer votre texte Vous pouvez le faire de votre boite aux lettres ce_que_vous_voulez@com-post.org ou sur le site http://www.com-post.org envoyez un texte, et il sera décomposé. Vous le recevrez toutes les semaines pendant 3 mois de plus en plus décomposé. Le site général de Stéphan Barron: http:...

SMART Project Space invites you to visit the new net art theme in the SMART Net.Art Link Collection: DESK TOPPING - A Collection of 'Disasters' on the Desktop Work by among others: Anna Best, Giselle Beiguelman, Jodi Curated by: Iris Hoppe In these works the possibilities and impossibilities of the desktop are explored. Graphical elements of the operating system are used as vehicles to play with the expected and unexpected. Patterns, frames and lines are created within the gray depths...

Artist - Roman Minaev Status - This is a linked project Original URL - http://www.trashconnection.com Date Created - 7.10.2000 Date Archived - 7.10.2000 Technology Used - RealPlayer, JavaScript, HTML, Email, DHTML Biography Roman Minaev Soerensenstr. 26 24143 Kiel Germany 27th October 1970 born in St.Petersburg/Russia 1994-2000 Muthesius Academy of Architecture, Design and Fine Arts, department of printmaking, Kiel/Germany 1996-1998 Christian-Albrechts University, department of sin...

Amy Alexander titolo/URL: theBot (one infesting the horse) specifiche tecniche: shockwave 8 scheda del suono e casse descrizione: theBot (one infesting the horse) è un'opera a tempo che usa un web bot (robot), simile a quelli utilizzati dai motori di ricerca, per seguire i link tra le pagine web, esaminando in questo modo la narrazione della Rete - o almeno il flusso di coscienza di un web robot. Analizza inoltre la relazione parassitica degli onnipresenti web robots nei confronti d...

An on-going series of videos created for the Palm Os NOMADS announces the launch of Mobile Media, an on-going series of videos created for the palm os. Mobile Media v.1.0 features videos by Steve Bradley and Laura McGough. Videos can be downloaded and installed on any pda utilizing the palm os. Mobile Media videos require the tealmovie multimedia viewer: http://www.tealpoint.com/softmovi.htmWebsite: http://www.nomadnet.orgEmail: nomads@nomadnet.org

Reflective Performance System: The act of behaving in a purposefully reduced and itemized manner. Conceptual performance frames the behavior of Artist as Research Engine. Performing the acts of programming technology (Internet software) bots, spiders and other automatic search functions - I can gather and assemble evidence that collects the social drama being staged between science, computer technology and economy with its premiere project - the human genome. project description, inter...

GETTING CLOSER IS WHAT WE'RE ALL ABOUT! FIND YOUR PROXY MATE! INTERACT WITH *YOUR* FRIEND, THE PROXIMATE WEB SITE! COME CHOKE ON MORE EXCLAMATION POINTS AND OTHER CHEAP ATTEMPTS AT ENGAGEMENT! BECOME INTIMATE AND INTERACT WITH NOTHING! INTERFACE WITH ME, YOUR FAVORITE WEB SITE! Listen to what users *like you* have to say about proximate.org: "I never knew web sites could get so personal before." "It's like I found a long-lost friend!" "proximate.org has the hottest chicken parts...

DK City is an online urban community created by artist Lindsay Perth. The work was created during the artist's residency in Glasgow, a collaboration between New Media Scotland and Street Level. The design, events and people that inhabit DK City developed from collaborative discussion and workshops between the artist and 4 young people from a truancy unit based within the Douglas Inch Centre, Glasgow. Online virtual reality and 3D environments have come to be associated with their potential...

'AE Generator' creates abstract expressionist pictures by randomly drawing lines. It is a play on the systematic nature of abstract expressionism, especially Pollock's drip paintings. I created this program in 1992. I recently found it on an old diskette and decided to post it as a possible early example of artistic software. Website: http://www.geocities.com/gregsidal/aegen/

Holidays are here. We go swimming, have excited times, visit interesting corners of the world. For this period let us leave a (post) box at the gallery and make a pledge to deliver the things we come across or create and consider interesting for others personally, or by friends, by traditional, or electronic mail. Let us be conscious that the thing we want to put into the artistic box, into which the Piwnice BWA (BWA Cellars) will turn for the time being, is going to travel, cross any borders; i...

A videographic topography of the global sex trade in the age of geographic information systems Ursula Biemann © 2001, 53 min. digital video, English Remote Sensing traces the routes and reasons of women who travel across the globe for work in the sex industry. Voluntarily or not, women are displaced in great numbers from Manila to Nigeria, from Burma to Thailand, from Bulgaria to Europe: female bodies in the flow of global capitalism. Spiralling down from an orbital view captured by image ...

Now available. http://www.once-upon-a-forest.com http://music.columbia.edu/~shape/ shapeshifter and myself have put his audio compositions online for download in .mp3 format. "auralation" enjoy them, as much as he enjoys making them. I'll also be doing some stuff at ars electronica this September (mainly a presentation of PrayStation the lab and Once-Upon-a-Forest the playground) would love to meet up with any rhizome members in Linz. Website: http://www.once-upon-a-forest.com

an extended performance for web & Palm OS by G.H. Hovagimyan Palm Rants is a series of performance/ rants I will create over the course of the (re)distribution exhibition curated by Patrick Lichty. The information will be delivered in 3 forms; 1. a short movie or audio file that may be downloaded onto a PDA and viewed with TealMovie software. 2. a clickable image animation downloadable via an AvantGo custom channel 3. a text of the rant downloadable via an AvantGo custom channel...

Telepolis presents Shopping Windows Part II The second part of the Internet art exhibition "Shopping Windows" has been launched. The ongoing exhibition with the full title "Shopping Windows - net art after the age of e- commerce" shows new works commissioned by Telepolis: "i.d.k.a.t." by lia "Untitled-Game version of 'My boyfriend came back from the war'" by JODI "Expand, an interface" by Shu Lea Cheang Lia's work "i.d.k.a.t." is the latest in a series of works that "attempt to...

A threefold internet art piece by Wolf Kahlen in Tibetan, Chinese and Japanese language is online since today. The visitor may hear a piece of world literature of these countries, the first page at least. If he is patient enough to find out on a blank page, with the mouse in motion, the sound of the words hidden in the background like on a book page. This automatically turns out to be a game, since any move of the mouse touches another word. Until the underlying structure has been found out, ...

CALL FOR VIDEO Jasmine Moorhead and Rebekah Rutkoff, in collaboration with The Culture Project, are pleased to announce the initiation of Jaraf: Video @ 45 Below, a monthly program of video art. The series will begin in September and be held in the newly renovated space below the 45 Bleecker Theater at the corner of Bleecker and Lafayette Streets in downtown Manhattan. Jaraf will emphasize the specific potential of the medium of video, presenting the work of artists who are exploring the b...

Personal > Expression > Cultural > Multi-Cultural < Communication < Cross-Cultural New Media > Cross-Media > Variable Media < Emergent Media < Maturity < Mastery Archie Degamo | Eldar Karhalev | Sunit S. Sehgal | Sarawut Chutiwongpeti Manila, Philippines | St. Petersburg, Russia | Mumbai, India | Bangkok, Thailand Other Featured Artists: Hung Keung >> Hong Kong Kristian Thomas >> Australia || Mihaila Constantina >> Romania Strengths: Degam...

The Banff New Media Institute is looking for Artists/Writers/Theorists to participate in a discursively rich and provocative Think Tank this coming September entitled Smart, Sexy, Healthy (see description below). Cultural producers who engage with the technological revamping of the physical by visioning other spaces, places, and experiences are asked to contribute and be a part of the six year legacy of high wire networking and sublime nature that comprises the Banff New Media Institute. Smar...

Artengine is pleased to announce the release of Video4jmax 0.2.2, a set of objects for manipulating images and video in real-time for jMax. jMax is a visual programming environment for real-time music and multi-media from IRCAM, France. video4jmax runs on the Linux OS and can be downloaded from: http://www.artengine.ca/jmax/video4jmax/download/ The documentation is available under: http://www.artengine.ca/jmax/video4jmax/latest/doc/ And the source code can be consulted at: http://www.ar...

introducing a.Rss, the artist resource sharing system (open.source for art data) - what is the a.Rss? a.Rss is based on the idea of a free appropriation system for artists, musicians, and designers working in the digital realm. the mass availability of production related software and information on the internet is overwhelmingly disproportionate to the mass of source data files for individuals to use in their own work. the internet is constantly being hailed as a haven for interaction betw...