intelligent agent - Vol. 3 No. 2 -- Wave 2

Oct. 8, 2003

Type: discussion

intelligent agent - Vol. 3 No. 2

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 period of 3 months.

NEW:

//editorial//
+Patrick Lichty, Life imitates R™ark (per se) or Commodifying the
Antagonistic
Lichty takes a look at two seemingly unrelated 'news items' – John
Poindexter's terror betting pool PAM and the attempts to export the Burning
Man 'experience' into the mainstream culture – as indications of a certain
trend: to establish market structures for anything ranging from the
unearthing of anti-democratic threats to the spreading of the
anti-consumerist message.

//mobility//
+ Fee Plumley, The Wireless Confusion, A Call to Arms
Plumley – production manager of the-phone-book Limited, a Manchester-based
company that educates people in being creative with new technology and
circulates content for wireless devices – discusses mobile phone data space
as an under-used and under-valued distribution outlet.

//gaming//
+ Andrew Kurtz, Rerouting History: On Delta Force, Black Hawk Down
Kurtz ponders the ways in which dominant media and government navigate the
tension between chaos and order to create an acceptable version of modern
warfare. Landscape and language in Novalogic's game Delta Force: Black Hawk
Down provide an overall context that situates game play within a
straightforward ideological dynamic of "us versus them" and creates a
representational space articulating racist ideologies.

//VR/3D//
+ Christiane Paul, About Avatara: An Interview with Jeremy Turner (on the
Avatara DVD, see reviews)
A conversation with Jeremy Turner, one of the creators of AVATARA – a
Machinima-style 'docudrama' set in the voice-chat environment OnLive!
Traveler – about the inspiration behind and the making of the DVD.

//Reviews//
+ Christiane Paul, My avatar doesn't need to breathe… – Review of the
AVATARA DVD by 536
'AVATARA' is a feature-length documentary consisting of interviews with the
(mostly American) inhabitants of the voice-chat environment OnLive!
Traveler, which has been in existence since ca. 1993 and is now accessible
as DigitalSpace Traveler. The documentary was recorded entirely 'in-world,'
that is within the Traveler environment, displaying its content from within
a virtual world.

+ Dena Elisabeth Eber, The SIGGRAPH 2003 Art Gallery: Balancing the
Technological Ethos

For a full Table of Contents, visit http://www.intelligentagent.com

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Editor-in-Chief: Patrick Lichty
Director: Christiane Paul

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