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First call for collaboration in the The Hot Summer of Generative Psychogeography 2002 After some initial experiments with navigating through the city on a generative algorithm we found the results encouraging enough to call for a 'Hot Summer of Generative Psychogeography'. We hope that under this banner countless people from all over the world will swarm through the streets of their neighbourhood in search for some amazement & share the findings with us. Generative Psychogeography is ...

Featured artists - Edition 04 now online on le Musee di-visioniste Le Musee di-visioniste www.le-musee-divisioniste.org is happy to continue the series of 'Features Artists' online with the 4th edition. One meaning of these features is to show a variety of contemporary art working, of different approaches to art, and of using different actual media within an online environment, which changes with each new presentation. The featured artists are 1.Shirin Kouladjie, Teheran born medi...

R G B @ DigitalPocketGallery http://www.ikatun.com/digitalpocketgallery/ the digital pocket gallery select mauro ceolin next time @ RGB new project landscapesWebsite: http://www.ikatun.com/digitalpocketgallery/

This is to update you with new info about http://Whyproject.org - The New-York Historical Society, in collaboration with City Lore: The New York Center for Urban Folk Culture, is showing artwork from Whyproject.org in the exhibit "History Responds series: MISSING: STREETSCAPE OF A CITY IN MOURNING." Select work from Whyproject.org artwork and other sources is printed out and displayed in folios for visitors to browse. The show runs from March 12 - June 9, 2002. - Now online, the ...

Photostatic Retrograde Archive, no. 48 now available for download, retrograde release no. 3, april 2002: Retrofuturism 17 description: http://psrf.detritus.net/r/17/index.html direct download: http://psrf.detritus.net/pdf/r17.pdf Description: 'Media/Countermedia' Coming as it does at the end of the Retrofuturism series in the (for us) uncertain year of 1993, there is ample evidence that our enthusiastic energy for this project was beginning to peter out. Nonetheless, the curre...

Call for Work SPARK VIDEO INTERNATIONAL: Last Friday of every month, Deadline: Ongoing (sooner the better). Spark Contemporary Art Space is a collectively-run gallery in Syracuse, New York. We are currently accepting submissions of short (under 15 min.) art video for our next programming year (Sept. 2002 - April 2003). All types of independent/non-commercial work is accepted: experimental, documentary, narrative, non-narrative, controversial, political, personal, etc. Commercial productions a...

I'm Hidenori Watanave, media artist and chief director of Photon, Inc. You already know, We opened the official site of a "communication tool beyond the space- time" [Rhythm Engine]. http://www.photon01.co.jp/reg/ Through the "RhythmEngine," we suggest, "the session which is inherited from the past to the future using place as an agent" and "music and image communication which has rich emotion" to the Web-world. We are going to perform &quot...

visual gnutella filesharing software http://www.schoenerwissen.com http://www.minitasking.com Minitasking v0.9.9 Preview Edition a visual filesharing software based on the peer-to-peer standard gnutella is now available for download About MT is an application that will allow PC users to visually become part of the gnutella network by connecting to the Internet, perform queries, or exchange files between other Gnutella enabled computers. Through a making-visible of the stru...

Creation Books ISBN 1840680601 Book Description - Breaking with all existing writing traditions, Kenji Siratori-a young Japanese writer-unleashes his first major publication Blood Electric. Firmly rooted in the 21st century digital-age, Siratori's cyber-punk writing is more concerned with vivid images, pace and developing a new writing and reading experience (which echoes the Surealists, Burroughs and French avant-garde Pierre Guyotat), than linear narrative and character development. ...

VILANOVA a web art project created with the collective of photographers Fovea www.Agence TOPO.qc.ca/vilanova VILANOVA is a multimedia creation following the photographic event Villeneuve Tour, by the collective of artists/photographers Fovea, presented during Le Mois de la Photo in Montreal, in September 2001. Villeneuve Tour proposed a series of thirteen artistic interventions in several small shops and outdoor spaces of the Villeneuve neighbourhood, situated at the confluence of the Plateau ...

new from naxsmash.net Piranesia New 3d drag and drop interactive from Christina McPhee and Shane Carroll http://www.naxsmash.net Drag and drop image and sound files from your desktop into Piranesia. Moving transparent screens morph at mouse touch into doors, walls, passages, and streets. Once inside, your movements create an ecstatic prison of sound recursions: a neural topography... "I ponder what would happen to this etching if it were brought to a state of ecstasy...

themes: radio noise, static, minimal electronics, gaps, silences, drones, machines, data, dust... see http://www.anonradio.net/4/ether1.html requirements: sound/movies must be in the swf format (shockwave, javascript, VB and other formats are also acceptable as long as they can be embedded within a swf file). movies must loop indefinitely, preferably with generative, random or permutative structures, rather than simple loops. screen size = 600 x 400 (if you already have work whi...

Contents volume 2, number 1 (february 2002) editorial Vorsprung durch Technik? Chris Land and Steffen Bohm articles Life Between Faces René ten Bos and Ruud Kaulingfreks Information and Communication Technology and the Excess(es) of Information: An Introduction to Georges Bataille's General Economy Alexander Styhre notes Pretty Ugly: Notes On the Moral Economy of Method Alf Rehn Leadership in the Shadow of "9/11" Gary Gemmill How to d...

http://acoustic.space.re-lab.net/lab Acoustic.Space.Lab is a networked, communications-art project exploring radio waves, satellite transmissions and the exploration of the atmosphere and of outer space. The core of the project is a large archive of audio, video, and radioastronomy data gathered at a Soviet-era 32m dish antenna in Latvia in the Fall of 2001. Various artists have been invited to work with, reinterpret, and remix this archive to create new projects which expand the network and ...

Mauro Ceolin "My Poetry is my Hard Dish" @ "To turn the computer on, to connect to the net, to surf and download images, to accumulate data, to copy and paste, to save on hard-disk. Like a crazy gengine that suddenly is emptied of all contents, I superimpose words, logos and images: bright star(t-up)s or corpses of the human audience that upon each waking up wonders: what's new?" How to Locate Visit on the Web (http://www.rgbproject.com/flashmovies/InfiniteBrand....

The Daniel Langlois Foundation and _Poxy Communications Announce the Production of Anarchive 2 - Michael Snow http://www.fondation-langlois.org/e/collection/snow/index.html The Daniel Langlois Foundation for Art, Science, and Technology and _Poxy Communications are proud to announce they are teaming up for the DVD-ROM "anarchive 2 - Michael Snow", which will be launched this fall. This co-production has been made possible thanks to financial support from Telefilm Canada and assi...

"ReferPrint" a new Internet artwork from Mark Daggett launched today. About "ReferPrint": "ReferPrint" is a work that makes art from the images found on pages that link to it. For example, if Rhizome.org links to "ReferPrint," then when the piece starts it reads in all images from the Rhizome page where the link appears. As the composition develops the user can click the "save print" button at anytime and a snapshot of that composition w...

delter is a Java applet which takes an MPEG stream and renders only the motion data. In the resulting stream, objects in the movie are effaced, leaving only the traces of movement. This is the second beta release. Changes are: - smoother sliding of menus - display fixes in menus - bugfix: delter no longer freezes when attempting to access a menu while playback is paused - screenshots! added to-verview pageWebsite: http://www.n-gon.com/delter/Email: victor@n-gon.com

Comunico che e' disponibile il nuovo programma: (Internet Versione per flash 5) 'Automated Visual Music 3.01' Questo programma permette di creare visual/music in molti stili e puo' generare elaborazioni audio/visuali sempre diverse: - 'Goldberg Variations' - 'netSurfing 3.0' - 'Sound Life 3' realizzati da brani originali di computer-music di Pietro Grossi http://web.tiscali.it/visualmusic/visualmusic.htm con... - netOper@ primo lavoro collaborativo in Italia, (on...

Follow novelist Kate Pullinger through the web as she learns to read and write all over again. "What I really want to do is start to create a hyperfiction. I've got the idea bubbling away in my head, but html is in the way. I've got to learn html in order to get my web studio up and running at trAce. So, really, it's like I have to learn a whole new set of rules in order to be able to write once again. When, really, I just want to write the damn thing. But I can't, because I don't know h...

an international journal of speculative research edited by Roy Ascott University of Wales College Newport and University of Plymouth www.caiia-star.net Editorial Advisory Board Annick Bureaud Observatoire Leonardo des arts et des technosciences, Paris www.olats.org Oron Catts University of Western Australia www.symbiotica.uwa.edu.au Mohammed Aziz Chafchaouni Foundation Al Andalus, Rabat www.fiam.org/summit2001/en/bios.html Monika Fleischmann, Fraunhofer Institut Medi...

An announcement of new art work in progress "Tracking Virtual Identity" & "Pop, Goes the Weasel!" some of my thoughts on the project(s) http://www.finearts.ubc.ca/faculty/artworks/nisbet/ as commented on by wired news www.wired.com/news/culture/0,1284,50769,00.html question: is there anyone who is interested in this project who may like to work with me on some of the technical aspects? Nancy Nisbet nnisbet@interchange.ubc.caWebsite: http://www.finearts.u...

Takuji Tokiwa and Yukihiko YOSHIDA started the project,"Xanadu Artists Society". Xanadu Artisits Society released webpage. The url is in the following: http://www.sfc.keio.ac.jp/~yukihiko/XaS/ Our page have related link as Xanadu Related Project from Xanadu Australia (http://www.xanadu.com.au/). Here is brief profile from our webpage: (Please check out our webpage.) XaS was born in June/2001 XaS have started as little but long project with mission. (As you know, GNU...

We are looking for artists who realize an installation (or action, performance, or reading) in a real place (not in the web) with 150 e-mails; every e-mail contains a poem arrived to Karenina.it redaction for the Global Poetry Day. The place where realize the installation or the performance could be a gallery or a cultural space, but also a pub, a cafè, a disco, an artist's studio, or also streets, Installation and action is documented in a web site and in printed matter. For mor...

Call for Submissions M3 Projects, a new not-for-profit organization created by the founders of Mastel + Mastel Gallery, will be hosting Music as an Art Form. This ongoing bi-monthly event series will take place at Mastel + Mastel Gallery, and will be a showcase for talented makers of music in all genres. Currently, M3 Projects is taking submissions for Music as an Art Form. Musical artists interested in participating may send submission packages to: Music as an Artform M3 Projects @...

March 2002 MIX Announces "Subterfuge" for Spring. MIX chose the theme of "Subterfuge" for its spring issue as way to approach the subject of art and politics. Planned in advance of 09/11, in light of those events the theme takes on new significance. Subterfuge characterized the WTC and Pentagon attacks, and subterfuge is one means by which art can embody the political. Articles in the issue take differing approaches to the topic. In "Art/Politics/Subterfuge,&qu...

Turbulence is pleased to announce the launch of "Poetic Dialogues 1.0" by Yusef Merhi, and two short works, "Dervish Flowers" and "Moon Tribe" by Nicolas Clauss with Jean-Jacques Berge, music. "Poetic Dialogues 1.0" is a work comprised of 18 different flash movies made with a high-tech wristwatch camera. Each movie contains images of three people reciting lines of verse by Merhi. The interaction between these "characters" generates new poems. ...