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Share Your Love The Love Letter Collection (http://collectiveexperience.org) is currently seeking more love. Visit and read the current collection (you might find a letter written to you). Contribute to the collection using our anonymous form. your letter can be a letter you've sent or received, or a letter you'd like to send but can't. The love can be a fantasy love, desperate love, bitter love, unrequited love, true love, impossible love, naive love, despairing love or lost love. ...

Contact: Seth Thompson 330.375.0927 seththompson@wigged.net New Documentary Profiles Four Artists Who Use Computer Technology To Create Innovative Artwork Akron, Ohio-June 4, 2002- Media artist Seth Thompson recently completed the documentary Evolving Traditions: Artists Working in New Media. The hour-long documentary focuses on four internationally recognized artists and how their work has evolved from traditional disciplines into the form now coined "New Media." Featu...

Skyscraper is a neverending, permanent growing web based project celebrates its first birthday. With 191 floor it is the biggest virtual building in the world. It lets your dreams become reality to proper your own space in a skyscraper. There is no requirement to submit the real identification or a real url. The new created floor with the registered name and date of the creation is sent to the asco-o mailing list.Website: http://skyscraper.trashconnection.com

Artengine is very pleased to announce "A Similar Place", a new net art work by Matthijs de Bruijne. This project is Artengine first guest curated project featuring a European artist. Last December 2001, Matthijs de Bruijne traveled for the second time to Buenos Aires, Argentina. This time he brought with him 14 photographs of images from Amsterdam. The purpose was to look for similar sites in Buenos Aires of generic places - such as restaurants, trains, roads, fences, houses - tha...

Interarchive Publication (Kunstraum Lueneburg) interarchive publicationFrom: kunstraum@uni-lueneburg.de The Kunstraum der Universität Lüneburg is happy to announce: Interarchive Archival Practices and Sites in the Contemporary Art Field Available from June 6th, 2002 in Kassel at the documenta 11 in the container of the Buchhandlung Walther Konig, Friedrichsplatz. Beatrice von Bismarck, Hans-Peter Feldmann, Hans-Ulrich Obrist, Diethelm Stoller, Ulf ...

this is an invitation to... http://www.lewislacook.com/instrument3.html Instrument 3 by Lewis LaCook an interactive music and poetry environment Flash 5 plug-in speakers on http://www.lewislacook.com/selections.html Personal Site, e-books and web art http://www.geocities.com/llacook/index.htmlWebsite: http://www.lewislacook.com/instrument3.html

v1.0 Software HF Critical Mass is freely available software, which is based on a 1971 film by Hollis Frampton titled "Critical Mass". HF CRITICAL MASS adopts the structure of the earlier film as an interface for improvising playback of digital video (quicktime movies). Mac and Windows versions for download at: http://www.wildernesspuppets.net/hfcm/ The films of the late Hollis Frampton spanned the late 1960s through the early 1980s. His work, Critical Mass, is one of a...

haikuGen is a basic bot that remixes haikus available on Five7Five mailing-list archives: http://www.erational.org/netart/haikugen/ get our own haiku for free ! You could sleep out there. The night is perfectly safe, to the following addresses. Now that the door's never the thing to deliver your message 64.4.49.135 Midday is vision coloured with fatigue. The air is the same or worse Get personalized email addresses from Yahoo! Mail Hi. All the steps forgotten does n...

Call For Submissions Idiolect 6 is seeking poetry, visual art, hypermedia, interactive machines, and sounds for its incarnation this fall. If interested, please e-mail as an attachment or as inline text to llacook@yahoo.com Please: No huge image files. And please keep MP3s under 1 MB... (Would also like to see some essays, some theory... but it would also be okay if I didn't, no?) http://www.lewislacook.com/selections.html Personal Site, e-books and web art http://www.geocities....

A Single-Page, Six Rule Compliant Work of Net.Art by Eryk Salvaggio http://www.salsabomb.com/edie/edie.html As a note, I'd like to say that this piece develops slowly, and does more than you might expect at first glance. I've grown very fond of it aesthetically but sat on it for a while because it seems derivitive- JODI's code, Warhol's Photo - but I've grown to like it more for that exact reason. I just think it's a remarkably pretty piece, once it really gets going. Feedback Apprec...

At http://www.artornot.org you can submit all data imaginable. You can either submit an existing URL or picture files from your hard drive. There is no single person, no fixed jury or institution that rates whether the submitted works are art or not. The users visiting the artornot website vote themselves on a scale from 10-0 (art-or-not). Each month, there are two winners who win cash. On the one hand the artist of the best rated work, on the other one of the users who rated for this wo...

DIAN - Digital Interactive Artists' Network http://dian-network.com June: DIAN - Digital Interactive Artists' Network Our focus for the month of June is MOTOMICHI NAKAMURA. We proudly present his work: "QRIME" http://dian-network.com/navigation.html In this occasion "Qrime" deals with questions, as manifested in primitive legends and myths, of natural human curiosity towards violent themes, discriminatory acts inflicted towards those whose differences arise s...

Open Content List (http://www.opencontentlist.com) is a site and mailing list for news, articles, announcements, and discussion of Open Content, maintained by Tim McCormick (http://www.tjm.org) in New York. The focus is on collaborative content projects following Open Content models (see definition below) and related theory; and related topics of collaborative content-creation and publishing, alternative systems of intellectual property & compensation, and emerging online editorial practices...

e d i t o r i a l s t a t e m e n t http://www.arras.net/batties.htm Arras: new media poetry and poetics is devoted to exploring how digital technology has impacted the field of experimental poetics. This includes the uses of digital technology to expand the techniques that poets use - whether this be in multimedia, interactivity, algorithmic processes, and digital typefaces - as well as how the web can serve as an alternative distribution source for texts both of poetry and criticism...

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Initiatorin/Künstlerische Leitung: Francesca Ferguson, Urban Drift project space @ datenflug, Zehdenickerstr 21, 10119 Berlin Tel. ++49-30-44350440 info@urbandrift.org Produktion: flora&fauna media GBR Heike Blümner/Lizzy Fichtl Wollinerstr 18/19, 10435 Berlin info@flora-fauna.de URBAN DRIFT 2002 is now online! http://www.urbandrift.org enjoy the drift Urban Drift is an independent label and network based in Berlin, which promotes a trans...

"the chant" - work for browser. "the chant" is a 15 sec looped movie that portrays a clairvoyant chanting woman at full screen presentation. "click", to stop a frame. (405 frames compose the work). "double click" to resume play. info: dv, quicktime streaming duration: 15 sec. loop data: 1.37mb rate: 85 kbs fps: 27 required: Quicktime 5+, Explorer 5.1 for Mac, Explorer 6 for PC, monitor at 1024x768 the chant:Website: http://www.comp...

- english the jargon file is a glossary of terms used by the AI Labs and the MIT since the 80's this project powered by the le college invisible presents a audio version of the main entries of the french jargon file http://www.college-invisible.org/jargon/ jargon file audio http://www.linux-france.org/prj/jargonf/ french jargon by par Roland Trique http://www.tuxedo.org/esr/jargon/ jargon file by Eric S. Raymond - french le jargon est le dictionnaire des termes informat...

Call for Contributors Are you a fledgling visionary? Mindjack is looking for contributors our online magazine and weblog. We're looking for people who are touch with the underbelly of digital culture and can anticipate what others will be writing about next week, next month or next year. We're not concerned simply with the latest gadgets or internet applications, but with the broader implications of these and other technologies on society and culture. Mindjack is run by the seat of our pan...

A new videotape by Jayce Salloum, everything and nothing 40:40, France/Canada, 2001 English and French subtitled versions available. An intimate dialogue that weaves back and forth between representations of a figure (of resistance) and subject, with Soha Bechara ex-Lebanese National Resistance fighter in her Paris dorm room after release from captivity in El-Khiam torture and interrogation centre (S. Lebanon) where she had been detained for 10 years, 6 years in isolation. For dist...

Go public with netzspannung.org/netzkollektor! The netzkollektor is the new public channel for media art, media science and media technology. It offers you the opportunity to present media art projects, tell others about technological developments, calls for proposals and events, and publish reports. netzspannung.org will announce current contributions in a netzkollektor-digest regularly. http://netzspannung.org/netzkollektor netzspannung.org is also launching a database of experts wit...

Call for Entries Salvaggio Museum of Modern Living http://www.salvaggio-museum.org/night/ The Salvaggio Museum of Modern Living is looking for artists and non artists alike to participate in its new exhibition, "Pictures of the Night Time Sky." We hope that you will send us a photograph documenting the evening sky in your home town, along with your name and location. Following the mandate of the Salvaggio Mandate, we wish to stress that this is not neccesarily a photography exhi...

In May, fineArt forum launches their new screen website @ http://www.fineartforum.org/screen. Curated by editor-in-chief nisar keshvani, to celebrate fAf's 15th anniversary, the travelling screen program: 'fineArt in Motion' showcases 14 young and emerging artists from across the globe. The program will be screened in Singapore's 'The Substation' on 20 June, as part of its Moving Images program (watch this space for details). The website's webmistress is Tan Yiru and content editor is Noel Tan. ...

mindfulinthestorm.org: A chance to wash your eyes. ST(mindful)ORM is a quarterly web gallery the presents web-based projects that seeks to remind those of us unable to unteather ourselves from urban-grind and the hyper-modern world. In keeping with the content, the entire navigation utilizes usual DHTML techniques that encourages the viewer to explore and discover. The goal is to provide an online oasis to relax the mind and encoura...

new project that requires you to fill in forms http://www.tosic.com/action new project that requires you to fill in forms you > form > database > rosebud magazine action is a project for Rosebud Magazine (http://www.rosebudmagazine.com) for more info email:Website: http://www.tosic.com/actionEmail: nikola@tosic.com

Open Call - Stream Audio Tournament 003 www.nomusic.org OPEN CALL TO AUDIO STREAM PLAYERS - Audio live only via Network - No archiv - Free pass - 24h Continuous Trans Audio (& Video) Distant Travel - Connection only on http://www.nomusic.org - Stream Audio Live MP3 / Real Video / Ogg Vorbis Stream start : 10th September 2002 (19h00 / 07:00pm) Stream end : 11th September 2002 (19h00 / 07:00pm) {GMT+01:00 - CET - French Time} [ADSL,ISDN,Cable mi...

Call for Works Independent Exposure - A Monthly Microcinema Screening Program of International Short Films, Videos and Digital Works The Independent Exposure microcinema-screening program began in 1996 in Seattle and was held every month until October of 2001. During that time, Independent Exposure presented the short film, video and digital works of over 700 artists from all over the world. The program also has been presented hundreds of times throughout the International Microcinema Ne...