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http://www.jaka.org/2003/retypescape/ It's not only what is written. It's also where it's written and who wrote it. How do we construct meanings and relevance of the written text? Only from its content? How does the context influence our evaluation of written information? Are 'public' web pages truly public or is it that writing for those pages is a privilege of only few people? How would a message look like if it were written on the web page by your choice by you? Check. Retypescape ('...

Martin Sjardijn proudly presents: "Games for Astronauts" 1985/2003 An interactive 3D MultiUser Internet Game for long distance travelers. The game gives access to astronauts in a mezzanine virtual world to communicate, while traveling long distance space missions. The world functions as a real Public Virtual Space. The MultiUser world can be entered with an avatar. Voice-chat is implemented. To run the world it is necessary to download a vrml plugin. Best choice is the ...

BEK - Bergen Centre for Electronic Arts might be forced to close down early next year due to lack of governmental support. For this reason we call for your support. If you believe that BEK should continue to exist, please express your support at our web page: http://www.bek.no or by sending a mail to demo@bek.no. HISTORY BEK - Bergen Centre of Electronic Arts, was found while Bergen, Norway, was one of 9 cultural cities of Europe 2000. The founding of BEK was part of a national strat...

Nike starts legal action against the European art group 0100101110101101.ORG and cultural Internet platform Public Netbase. In mid September this group started a surreal art project called Nike Ground (http://www.nikeground.com), a performance built around a fake guerrilla marketing campaign: Nike was supposedly buying streets and squares in major world capitals, in order to rename them and insert giant monuments of their famous logo. A hi-tech container was installed in Vienna, supposedly th...

CALL FOR PAPERS tripleC: E-Journal for Cognition, Communication, Co-operation (http://triplec.uti.at) Papers dealing with topics in the fields of information and knowledge research, information society, communication studies, cultural studies, media studies, cybernetics and systems thinking, semiotics, philosophy of science, cognitive science, inter- and transdisciplinary studies, philosophy and sociology of knowledge, philosophy and sociology of technology, are welcome and can be submitted ...

Now available for download, Retrograde Release nos. 23, 23.5 and 24, October 2003: PhotoStatic 30 Description: http://psrf.detritus.net/volume/5/p30.html Direct download: http://psrf.detritus.net/pdf/p30.pdf (4.7 Mb) Description. "Unfinished Symphonies." This is the third issue to continue the layout experiment begun some months earlier, and it remains faithful to that impulse. It consolidates the series' tendency to treat submissions as material for graphic improvisation by ...

"In Guns We Trust" KONTORA MIR PROJECT a KONTORA MIR contribution from HELENA BIERMAN BOGOTÃ

Graham Thompson, new media artist, explores the meaning of the Four Directions as taught by the Algonkian people of North America in his new piece NORTH-SOUTH-EAST-WEST. VISIT ADDRESS: http://www.graham.gs/nsew/ FEATURING: Stereo Sound Effects, Actionscript Programming, Macromedia Flash Animation, Video Samples, Computer Generated Voices, Digital Photography, Digitally Processed Drawings, Computer Music, Raster and Vector Artwork. ALSO SHOWING AT: The Contemporary Art Forum - Kitchen...

Guerrilla marketing or collective hallucination? Picture this: a hi-tech container right in the middle of Karlsplatz, one of Vienna's historic squares. It's the Nike Infobox: a slick, demountable, walk-in container, two semi-transparent floors, dynamic shapes and a red plastic cover. On the outer windows a curious sign attracts the attention of passersby: "This square will soon be called Nikeplatz. Come inside to find out more". Over the last month, the plan to change the square's...

Vol. 3 No. 2 The second wave of articles from Vol. 3 No. 2 is now available at http://www.intelligentagent.com intelligent agent is published as a quarterly online magazine in a modular format: *3 thematic threads Threads of Vol. 3 No. 2: - mobility - gaming - VR/3D *reviews on DVDs, Web, books, projects All content is available in html and as pdf files with layout, which allow readers to assemble customized issues. The content of each quarterly issue becomes available over a p...

Can the choice of a subject in painting be compared to a debug?Website: www.rgbproject.com

Welcome to Moving South, the new website for film fanatics, filmmakers and digital artists in South London Moving South Address www.movingsouth.com Contacts Register with the site to enter your details in the directory so that others can locate services, screening venues and fellow filmmakers in this lively and creative area of London. Forum The forum gives more opportunities to find out what is happening Southside and to promote screenings or workshops, advertise equipment or j...

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In search of artists of all ilks (visual, sound, video, dance, performance, word-based, psychogeographical) for a collaborative project based on the Wandering Rocks episode of James Joyce's Ulysses. Project to be implanted throughout the streets of Dublin, Ireland as part of the ReJoyce events in June of 2004. Intent is to gather artists from as many different urban locations as possible. In particular, looking for artists (natives or transplants) living in cities outside the US and Ireland. ...

Dear Friends, I recently developed a site to provide an online forum for art documentary makers.  It can be found at (http://www.artdocumentary.org)  The Art Documentary Association's mission is to provide a forum to find out how art documentary makers can create enticing art documentaries that are intelligent, exciting and accessible. The success of this association depends on the activity of the community.  I am hoping that art documentary makers will ...

Jody Zellen: "Crowds and Power" october02 artport gate page http://artport.whitney.org Jody Zellen's "Crowds and Power" uses mediated images to explore the relationship between space, memory, and territory. windows containing image fragments emphasize the displacement of individuals and the transformation of urban space where large gatherings, demonstrations, and struggles are represented. By juxtaposing charged images with theoretical and philosphical texts about the n...

"Physically and emotionally speaking, intimate space is no longer strictly intimate. On the one hand, intimate space is monitored, obtaining those informational, bureaucratic attributes that function under the sign of surveillance. In other words, all space is at once concrete and abstract, as it is codified and assumes legislative character, becoming the stuff of coordinates. Any city is a potential target, for example, the sense of which only heightens bureaucracy's mesh with corporeality...

Friday, 18th October 2002, 7 pm Johan Grimonprez presents his new website 'zapomatik' Johan Grimonprez (B) presents his new "zapomatik" website (www.zapomatik.com) and video lounge on the subject of "zapping". With historic material as well as a digital work off the Internet, Grimonprez takes up the ad industry's influence on media productions and consumer behavior. Channel-zapping has changed our (tele)visual habits: This project confronts the fact that commercial interr...

Thanks to assistance from this.is (http://www.this.is) and the Icelandic Academy of the Arts (http://www.lhi.is), Icelandic artist Pall Thayer has opened a new internet based art project titled "Looking for the new universal harmony" and can be found at http://www.this.is/pallit/harmony. Although the project was announced in beta form recently, it has undergone several changes and upgrades. Pall Thayers current work deals with experiments in visual abstraction by utilizing the inher...

a site with downloadable short films that helps to promote filmmakers & cg animation artists... You Can Go to: http://www.filmwatcher.com/ Or read: Independent films or "Indie" films are steadily gaining popularity these days and distributing mainly over the Internet which is relatively inexpensive, very quick, offers circulation and is limited only by bandwidth.. The main reason for the popularity is the falling prices of digital equipment and the increased power of ...

MTAA's new work is being launched at Eyebeam (http://www.eyebeam.org/artists/air02.html) and we invite everyone to join the "Endnode" list-serv and take part in the work. short description (from Eyebeam's site): The arts collaborative MTAA has created a life-sized sculpture of a tree with a networked print server in its trunk and printers on each branch that print and release a rain of email-leaves that cascade to the ground. The public is encouraged to email the tree through the E...

The NewMediaArtProjectNetwork proudly announces: *Violence Online Festival* www.newmediafest.org/violence NewMedia art project created and curated by Agricola de Cologne received on 19 October the *Special Prize of the Organisation Commettee* on Computer Space Festival 2002 Sofia (BG) * Version 1.0 of Violence Online Festival had been presented as online part of Violens Festival Tábor (Czech Republic) 17 - 31 August 2002 * Version 1.1 was Featured Project during the ...

Call for papers and texts for 2002 - 2003. We are seeking writers and texts on the aesthetics of interactive media, computer - mediated communication and sound etc... This material will be published here and may be used in our planned book. Alternatively, if you have any other information you would like to contribute or help in any way, then mail us. Soundtoys journal has set out to address the following themes: 1. a history of interactivity, towards convergence 2. generative arts...th...

The Banner Art Collective (http://bannerart.org) has implemented a new design created by Garrett Lynch. The new design brings a vast number of improvements to the site, which collects and distributes net.art and poetry created according to the limitations of WWW advertising. The collection is now database driven and easily searchable. Each work is presented on a separate page, and more artist information is featured next to each work. Viewers have always been able to access cut-and-paste h...

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JavaMuseum - Forum for Internet Technologies in Contemporary Art (Java=Joint Advanced Virtual Affairs) www.javamuseum.org Concern: 1. Announcement of the finalists of : Perpectives'03 competition and show case in co-operation with Computer Space Festival 2003 Sofia/Bulgaria and Goethe-Institut - Internationes Sofia/Bulgaria 16-18 October 2003 2. Announcement of the participants of: Feature: Netart from German speaking countries presented in co-operation with Goethe-Institut - In...

Quatre saisons de poesie sur le mont Takao, Japon 2003 Automne: http://www.transcri.be/autumn.html hivers: http://www.transcri.be/winter.html printemps: http://www.transcri.be/spring.html ete: http://www.transcri.be/summer.html Eric Van Hove artist - tempter www.transcri.beWebsite: www.transcri.be