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Table of Contents: Call for workshop participants to RAM 2: A Joker in the Global Bunker RAM 2 Office <ram2office@anart.no> COMPUTER ARTIST position | University of California, San Diego Lev Manovich <lev@manovich.net> new project. eduardo@navasse.net www.ggg.cc - games/gender/girls "Melinda Rackham" <melinda@subtle.net> [Psrf] Photostatic Retrograde Archive, no. 37 Lloyd Dunn <ll@detritus.net> Emergent Art Paul St George <lists_stgeorge@lgu.ac.uk> [academic vacancies] Oxford Internet Institute "Lachlan Brown" <lachlan@london.com> COMPUTER ARTIST position | University of California, San Diego Lev Manovich <lev@manovich.net> new work of Peter Hagdahl "geert lovink" <geert@xs4all.nl> Unmovie Philip.Pocock@t-online.de (philip pocock) CriticalDiscourse.net -- =?iso-8859-1?Q?=22Total_=DCberzogen=22?= -- Edith Russ Michael Mandiberg <Michael@Mandiberg.com> ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 14 Nov 2002 17:18:54 +0100 From: RAM 2 Office <ram2office@anart.no> Subject: Call for workshop participants to RAM 2: A Joker in the Global Bunker Call for workshop participants to RAM 2: A JOKER IN THE GLOBAL BUNKER* Atelier Nord, Oslo, Norway, February 5th to 9th 2003 _ "While the hacker may be the Mole in the ranks of technocrats, and the politician the Loudspeaker, the artist in this context is the Joker. Subversive in such ways that both the notion of criminality, insanity and political resistance are avoided, and any disciplinary reactions from the authorities are obvious oppression. Skirmishing the borders, acting as both the decoy and the trespasser. And, still smiling, carefully moving the limitations of everyday life, opening the ways for practices far more powerful." - - biomatic.org, 1999 _ RAM PROJECT RAM is a series of 6 international and interdisciplinary workshops. RAM is a nordic/baltic collaboration between the new media art organisations CRAC (Stockholm), Olento (Helsinki), E-media center (Tallinn), Vilma (Vilnius), RIXC (Riga) and Atelier Nord (Oslo). RAM 2 focuses on artistic strategies for the networks. The aim of RAM 2 is to stimulate interdisciplinary collaborations and to propose projects and structures from which a series of continued network activities can branch off. RAM 2 Participants profile: artists, programmers, activists, cultural networkers, independent/critical journalists, designers, media scientists, researchers. _ RAM 2 PROGRAM Day 1: dinner and get together Day 2: seminar analyzing network strategies for corporations, independent and critical media, free software developers, designers, media scientists and artists. Lecturers to be announced. Day 3: workshops on alternative strategies + tools and infrastructure to support these strategies. Day 4: workshops and summary Day 5: getting home again _ RAM 2 APPLICATION FORMALITIES 10 participants from Europe + 2 participants each from Sweden, Finland, Lituania, Estonia, Latvia + 5 participants from Norway. Participants travel and accomodation expenses covered Application deadline December 10th 2002 Applications to ram2office@anart.no only - there are no application forms Applications should contain: - - name, CV and contact information - - a least one brief description of (past, present or future) project - - motivation for joining the workshop URL anart.no/ram _ RAM 2 funded by EU Culture 2000, Daniel Langlois Foundation, PNEK and Atelier Nord _ biomatic.org note on Global Bunker: The term Global Bunker points at the situation where ownership is no longer held by local capitalists but by networks of omnipresent speculants, where the revolution in transport have made the sites of production more or less independent from local resources and local markets, when the collective sites of work are disintegrated and replaced with individual, home based workstations through the use of global virtual reality networks, and when all sites are carefully defined in terms of their socio-economic use. ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 25 Nov 2002 14:55:35 +0100 From: Lev Manovich <lev@manovich.net> Subject: COMPUTER ARTIST position | University of California, San Diego COMPUTER ARTIST UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA, SAN DIEGO - Visual Arts Department visarts.ucsd.edu www.ucsd.edu Assistant Professor, tenure-track, beginning July 1, 2003. Salary commensurate with qualifications and experience and based upon UC pay scales. We seek an artist with a proven exhibition record whose work exhibits an in-depth understanding of computing and its relationship to contemporary art and its discourses. UCSD is a research university that actively promotes and supports creative work and advanced research in computing within a broadly interdisciplinary arts department that includes studio, media, and art history, theory and criticism. Opportunities for developing research include grants, state-of-the-art facilities including CRCA (Center for Research in Computing and the Arts), the Supercomputer Center, and the new California Institute for Telecommunications and Information Technology, and cross-campus collaborations. Teaching will include both graduate seminars and undergraduate courses, including courses in an Interdisciplinary Computing and the Arts Major with the department of Music. Candidates must demonstrate in their work and teaching a substantial engagement with the computing arts and their relationship to broader discourses of contemporary art and culture. Candidate will actively participate in the ongoing development of curriculum and facilities. Teaching will draw upon knowledge of networked cross-platform (Linux, Macintosh, NT/Windows PC) environments. Areas of expertise might include any of the following: net.art; digital imaging; multimedia authoring and publishing; graphics or sound programming; virtual environments; computer based installation; electronics and robotics; history and theory of new media. MFA or equivalency and teaching experience required. Send letter of application, curriculum vitae, names and addresses of three references (do not send letters of recommendation and/or placement files) and evidence of work in the field. This evidence may be in the form of slides, tapes, discs, publications and/or public lectures and should be accompanied by return mailer and postage. Susan Smith, Chair (Position #AC03-S) University of California San Diego Visual Arts Department (0327) 9500 Gilman Drive La Jolla, CA 92093-0327 All applications received by January 10, 2003, or thereafter until position is filled, will receive thorough consideration. Please reference position #AC03-S on all correspondence. ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 27 Nov 2002 03:29:15 -0600 From: eduardo@navasse.net Subject: new project. Hello nettimers, just a quick note on a project I recently developed: http://www.navasse.net/plastico02 Please do send feedback if you get a chance. It was developed with our current state of globalization in mind. Best, Eduardo Navas http://www.navasse.net ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 29 Nov 2002 17:54:47 +1100 From: "Melinda Rackham" <melinda@subtle.net> Subject: www.ggg.cc - games/gender/girls Join -empyre- in December (http://www.subtle.net/empyre) for our final 02 session featuring cyber chicks Julianne Pierce and Mary Flanagan, both of whom have investigated the game genres in relation to issues of media, gender and power. Currently through their individual artistic, textual, production and critical interventions, Flanagan and Pierce are players in the construction of theory and culture of our shared online networks. - --->Julianne Pierce, artist, new media producer and co-founder of pioneering Australian cyberfeminist group VNS Matrix and current Director of the Australian Network for Art and Technology (ANAT), will discuss shifts in the cyberfeminist movement since its inception in the early 1990's. Has cyberfeminism emerged as an empowering 'tool' for engagement with technology, or has it become a factionalised theoretical movement with little practical outcome? She will also look at new media art within this context and more generally take a look at the current concerns and issues of new media artists. ANAT http://www.anat.org.au VNS Matrix http://www.aec.at/www-ars/matrix.html - --> Media practitioner and theorist Mary Flanagan investigates the intersection of art, technology, and gender study through critical writing, artwork, and activism. She is also the creator of "The Adventures of Josie True," the first web-based adventure game for girls. Mary has recently show in All Star Data Mappers at Artspace, Sydney and in the Whitney Biennial,and edited, with Austin Booth, "_reload: rethinking women + cyberculture" which views cyberculture as a social experiment with an as-yet-unfulfilled potential to create new identities, relationships, and cultures. Mary Flanagan http://www.maryflanagan.com/ reload: rethinking women + cyberculture > >>http://www.maryflanagan.com/reload.htm ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 29 Nov 2002 15:22:15 +0100 From: Lloyd Dunn <ll@detritus.net> Subject: [Psrf] Photostatic Retrograde Archive, no. 37 - --============_-1173542559==_ma============ Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" ; format="flowed" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable # If you no longer wish to recieve e-mail announcements from the # Photostatic Retrograde Archive, simply let us know and we will remove # your name from the mailing list. # - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - now available for download, retrograde release no. 13, december 2002: PhotoStatic 37 description: http://psrf.detritus.net/vii/p37/index.html direct download: http://psrf.detritus.net/pdf/p37.pdf (2.7 Mb) Description. "Production, Not Reproduction." Inspired by a quote by 20th-century design and photography master L=E1szl=F3 Moholy-Nagy, the stated theme of this issue is a continuation of the set of ideas that can even be seen, if dimly, in the first few issues: that of turning a process intended for reproduction into a device for originating expressive content. Implicit in this stance, we felt, was a critique of the commonplace mental sets normally found in the businesses and institutions where xerox machines and multilith presses found their homes. We were saying that those who could afford to equip themselves with such devices lacked the vision to use them well. We felt it was up to us to apply imagination to the task of using these powerful communication tools, and finding in them a certain virtuosity. This quasi-political (or at least socio-critical) attitude is reflected in the choice of many of the works that appear in this, and preceeding, issues of the series. Contributors include. Patrick T, John Eberly, Mike Miskowski, A1 Waste Paper Co., Dr. "Blaster" Al Ackerman, Pier Lfbr, Thomas Wiloch, Pandora's Mailbox, Jos=E9 Vanden Broucke, Miekal And, Dadata, Eric Belgum, Neil K Henderson, Jay Neimann, Ge[of Huth], Guy R Beining, Bob Grumman, Brad Goins, Pascal Uni, Stewart Home, Jim Passin, Joel Lipman, anon., R Keith Courtney, The Tape-beatles, Thomas Hibbard, John Kennedy, Serse Luigetti Project Overview: The Photostatic Retrograde Archive serves as an electronic repository for a complete collection of PhotoStatic Magazine, PhonoStatic Cassettes, Retrofuturism, and Psrf, (as well as related titles). Issues are posted as PDF files, at more or less regular intervals, in reverse chronological order to form a chronological mirror image of the original series. When the first issue, dating from 1983, is finally posted in several year's time, then this electronic archive will be complete. issue directory: http://psrf.detritus.net/issues.html project URL: http://psrf.detritus.net/ - -- # Photostatic Magazine Retrograde Archive : http://psrf.detritus.net/ # - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - # E-mail | psrf@detritus.net - --============_-1173542559==_ma============ ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 19 Nov 2002 11:10:33 +0000 From: Paul St George <lists_stgeorge@lgu.ac.uk> Subject: Emergent Art Under the right conditions, complex patterns and sequences emerge from the interaction of simple events. Please see my new work called Emergent Art at http://www.paulstgeorge.com/emergence/ On the left you will see patterns emerge from the interaction of cells as they obey the rules of Conway's Game of Life. On the right you will see a different representation of the same emerging patterns. The square cells are replaced by vertical lines and the position and colour of the lines are determined according to the sequences of coloured cells. I welcome comments, criticism and also any information about other forms of emergent art. Thank you. - -- Paul St George http://www.paulstgeorge.com/ ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 25 Nov 2002 03:11:09 +0000 From: "Lachlan Brown" <lachlan@london.com> Subject: [academic vacancies] Oxford Internet Institute - ----- Original Message ----- From: "Lachlan Brown" <lachlan@london.com> Date: Mon, 25 Nov 2002 03:00:49 +0000 To: lachlan@london.com Subject: OII jobs > As we are currently seeking to recruit Visiting Research Fellows at the > Oxford Internet Institute, please can you post the following, > many thanks > Vicki Nash > > > OXFORD INTERNET INSTITUTE > > Visiting Fellows > > RESEARCH STAFF GRADE IA: £18,265 to £27,339 (with a discretionary range > up to £33,679) > > Applications for up to six Visiting Research Fellowships for the > academic years 2003/04 and 2004/05, or part thereof, are invited by the > Oxford Internet Institute (OII), a new department in the University's > Social Science Division which aims to become the world's leading > multi-disciplinary academic centre focused on the societal implications > of the Internet and related information and communication technologies > (ICTs). > > Established by the University in 2001 with initial funding of £15m, the > OII's social research on the Internet and related ICTs seeks to help > inform and influence the related debate that is shaping research, > policy, and practice around the world. This is accomplished through > high-quality research, collaboration, teaching, and use of the Internet > as a strategic resource. > > These Fellowships offer persons of outstanding distinction or promise an > opportunity to pursue research related to the OII. Applications may be > in any area related to the work of the OII, but should preferably > address one of the Institute's five current research focal points. These > concern the role of the Internet and ICT in: governance; learning and > education; scientific and social research; everyday life and work; and > policy issues that cut across all these social settings. > > Fellows will normally be expected to reside in or near Oxford for the > majority of their visit. They will be entitled to office space at the > OII, in the heart of Oxford, and to participate fully in the > intellectual life of the OII and the wider University. They will be > expected to cooperate with the work plans of the OII under the guidance > of the Director. Salary will be in the Research Staff Grade IA range > identified above (or pro rata for shorter appointments). > > Further information, including details of how to apply, may be obtained > from the Personnel Assistant, Oxford Internet Institute, 1 St Giles, > Oxford OX1 3JS (tel: +44 (0) 1865 287210; e-mail: recruit@oii.ox.ac.uk) > or from our website: http://www.oii.ox.ac.uk. Applications must reach > the Institute by 12:00 noon (GMT) on Monday 16th December 2002. > > > -- > Dr Victoria Nash > Public Policy Co-ordinator > Oxford Internet Institute > 1 St Giles, Oxford OX1 3JS > > 01865 287231 > > > > Lachlan Brown > T(416) 826 6937 > VM (416) 822 1123 > > > > -- > __________________________________________________________ > Sign-up for your own FREE Personalized E-mail at Mail.com > http://www.mail.com/?sr=signup > > One click access to the Top Search Engines > http://www.exactsearchbar.com/mailcom > > Lachlan Brown T(416) 826 6937 VM (416) 822 1123 - -- __________________________________________________________ Sign-up for your own FREE Personalized E-mail at Mail.com http://www.mail.com/?sr=signup One click access to the Top Search Engines http://www.exactsearchbar.com/mailcom ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 27 Nov 2002 14:04:42 +0100 From: Lev Manovich <manovich@jupiter.ucsd.edu> Subject: COMPUTER ARTIST/ EDUCATOR position | University of California, San Diego =================================================== Please note that we are searching for 2 separate positions in computer arts this year. I have posted the ad for the first position a few days ago. This is the ad for the second position which is similar to the 1st but focuses more on teaching. Both ads can be also found on our website at http://visarts.ucsd.edu/department/recruit.htm Lev =================================================== UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA, SAN DIEGO - Visual Arts Department visarts.ucsd.edu www.ucsd.edu COMPUTER ARTIST/ EDUCATOR UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA, SAN DIEGO - Visual Arts Department Lecturer with Potential Security of Employment, beginning July 1, 2003. This position closely parallels a professorial tenure-track position. Salary commensurate with qualifications and experience and based on UC pay scales. We seek an artist/educator with expertise in computing and the arts (visual arts and/or music) and demonstrated commitment to undergraduate education. Primary responsibilities will be teaching, advising, and administrative coordination of the innovative Interdisciplinary Computing and the Arts Major (ICAM) offered jointly by the Departments of Visual Arts and Music. Other responsibilities include curriculum development in conjunction with ICAM faculty. UCSD is a research university with facilities that include the Center for Research in Computing and the Arts (CRCA), the San Diego Supercomputer Center (SDSC), the California Institute for Telecommunications and Information Technology (CAL-IT2), and opportunities for cross-campus collaborations. Teaching will draw upon knowledge of contemporary computing arts and will take place in networked cross-platform (Linux, Macintosh, NT/Windows PC) labs. Areas of expertise might include any of the following: net.art; digital imaging; multimedia authoring and publishing; graphics or sound programming; virtual environments; computer-based installation; electronics and robotics; history and theory of new media; audio and image synthesis and processing. MFA, DMA, PhD or equivalency required and two or more years University teaching experience preferred. Proven experience in curriculum development desirable. Send letter of application, curriculum vitae, names of three references (do not send letters of recommendation or placement files) and evidence of work in the field including statement of teaching philosophy and achievements as an educator in computing and the arts, teaching evaluations, syllabi, curricular plans, and past students work (if available). For return of materials, please include return mailer and postage. Susan Smith, Chair (Position #LSOE-03-S) University of California, San Diego Visual Arts Department (0327) 9500 Gilman Drive La Jolla, California 92093-0327 All applications received by January 10, 2003 or thereafter until position is filled, will receive thorough consideration. Please reference Position #LSOE-03-S. ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 29 Nov 2002 06:39:45 +1100 From: "geert lovink" <geert@xs4all.nl> Subject: new work of Peter Hagdahl From: "Peter Hagdahl" <hagdahl@algonet.se> Dear friends, Take a look at my new piece at the Swedish distributed art channel Beoff. It will be up until December 11th http://www.splintermind.com/beeoff/main_tables2.html I have placed hidden cameras in different places in Stockholm that registers motions in traffic and people walking. These motions influences and changes the animation you see on the screen. My very best regards, Peter Hagdahl - --- About "Simualated social model no 2(sensoric transformation)" In several of his pieces Peter Hagdahl has been working with questions on how individuals influences and are influenced by the society. His pieces investigate the relation between the virtual digital world and the physical "real" world. In pieces like Under Influence/Trabsformation and Transformation model 7 the audience was influencing a virtual world, whether he or she wanted it or not. I digital film was affected by the appearance of the viewer. The physical motion then had a virtual consequence that could be seen in a projection on a wall where the piece was shown. In his new piece, Simulated social model no2 (sensoric transformation), on Beeoff Hagdahl takes the discussion further. A camera is placed somewhere in Stockholm where it registers motions in traffic and people walking. The registration of the camera is converted to impulses that are sent via Internet to the Beeoff studio just outside Stockholm. In the studio the impulses influences a 3D-animation. That means that the individuals passing by the camera are influencing a digital milieu placed far away. The result, the digital influenced animation, is then shown at several places in Scandinavia and on a web site. Hagdahl's piece becomes an interesting social sculpture and pictures complex relations in society. Who is influencing who? How does the technology influence the individual and society and vice versa? The camera, wherever it is placed, will not gain any attention. The people passing by will not know, and will not ever know, that they with their motions influence a digital animation. Still audiences all around the world will see their interaction with the technology. It is easy to draw parallels to how IT-technology can be used or misused. Our daily life is registered in many ways and we almost never think of it. Our lives are transformed to data in different digital worlds, data that creates basis for changes. When Hagdahl uses Internet the discussion is widen. The distance between the physical reality and the digital reality is larger. More and more the digital world becomes a Freudian dream developed by impulses from an unconscious physical reality. Bjorn Norberg, curator at Beeoff. ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 29 Nov 2002 15:08:34 +0100 From: Philip.Pocock@t-online.de (philip pocock) Subject: Unmovie Unmovie http://www.unmovie.net 2002 Axel Heide, onesandzeros, Philip Pocock, Gregor Stehle Software Mix: twisted python, flash/actionscript, xml, mbrola, megahal, sorenson, linux, mysql, php. All code open source!, linked to portal. before entering possible discussion concerning the time/code-factors of keeping net-art current, should nettime readers have any interest at all in ai hypercinema, and are not cordonned off by a firewall, check Unmovie launched 15.11.2002. this project has been developed over a 2 year intensive period. we would appreciate any crossplatform bug reporting, input, criticism, info-sharing? ty ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 29 Nov 2002 18:06:50 -0800 From: Michael Mandiberg <Michael@Mandiberg.com> Subject: CriticalDiscourse.net -- =?iso-8859-1?Q?=22Total_=DCberzogen=22?= -- Edith Russ Site just a short note to announce that i just launched a site called "Critical Discourse" (http://CriticalDiscourse.net) as part of the "Total Überzogen" group exhibition at the Edith Russ Site for Media Art in Oldenburg Germany. in response the exhibitions' theme, the site i have created is a hypothetical literary agency that promotes the work of art critics and writers. there are seventeen other artists/collectives in the show as well. i've included the official release below. hope you enjoy. michael Total Überzogen (Completely Covered/Totally Overdone) Opening Reception: Friday, 29. November 2002, 8 pm 30. November 2002 - 9. February 2003 Adbusters (CAN), Banner Art Collective (USA), Urs Breitenstein (CH), Candice Breitz (ZA), Deporatation Class (D), Johan Grimonprez (B), Lise Harlev (DK), Swetlana Heger (CZ), Jenny Holzer (USA), Inventory (GB), Adria Julia (E), Dagmar Keller/Martin Wittwer (D/CH), Michael Mandiberg (USA), Julian Opie (GB), Peter Roehr (D), Daniel Pflumm (D), Johannes Wohnseifer (D), Florian Zeyfang (D) For this exhibition, the outside of the Edith Russ Site for Media Art's building is covered with designs by artists as well as the funders' logos: in the form of banners, window transparen-cies and illuminated lettering. Inside, the exhibition hall also features works that employ a variety of the forms of advertising as it is used by the media such as Internet banners, video, magazines, posters and flyers, and audio jingles: The media art space will be completely covered inside and out: "total überzogen". The goal is to create a thought-provoking visual platform on the subject of representation in the cultural sphere - between artists, activists, patrons and the cultural institution itself. A one-sided critique of current concepts for cultural funding is not the intention. Rather, the Edith Russ Site for Media Art will create a strong visual impression in order to start a vital discussion. Conveying the message - equally the goal of good advertising - has also taken top priority in cultural institutions. Sponsors and public funders increasing demands for representation has been the source of much discussion in past years and has had a great influence on the arts. This development is a double edged sword: it ties art to particular image campaigns, consequently encouraging art that can be easily consumed by mass culture. At the same time, a "creative class" of indi-viduals in business who lend strategies from the artworld has become a large economic force. In turn, many artists have been inspired to integrate advertising aesthetics and strate-gies into their own artistic practices, creating very fruitful works: from the artistic appropriation of radio jingles in the 60s to anti-globalization activists turning entire ad campaigns inside-out. A series of events will take place during the exhibition in order to create a space in which the public can watch and participate. Further information will follow. The exhibition will be presented in the format of a newspaper publication (January release, 5 Euro). For the duration of 11 weeks, the building will be covered in colorful banners and dominate its environment. The Edith Russ Site for Media Art will also chase away the cold and uphold the German Christmas atmosphere with outdoor tours that offer a traditional spiced wine. This exhibition is funded by our own budget (City of Oldenburg), the Beauftrage der Bundes-regierung für Kultur und Medien (National Funds) and the State of Niedersachsen. We thank the company Kleinhempel as well as the Foundation of Lower Saxony for their support. Admission: 2,50 / 1,50 Euro Press images (also hi-resolution for print) can be found at: www.edith-russ-haus.de/presse/total # distributed via <nettime>: no commercial use without permission # <nettime> is a moderated mailing list for net criticism, # collaborative text filtering and cultural politics of the nets # more info: majordomo@bbs.thing.net and "info nettime-l" in the msg body # archive: http://www.nettime.org contact: nettime@bbs.thing.net