intelligent agent - Vol. 4 No. 1

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- Rob.


On 11 Feb 2004, at 21:19, [email protected] wrote:

> intelligent agent - Vol. 4 No. 1
>
> The first installment of articles from Vol. 4 No. 1 is now available at
> http://www.intelligentagent.com
>
> intelligent agent is published in a modular format:
> *3 thematic threads
> Threads of Vol. 4 No. 1:
> //the DEMO scene//
> //generativity//
> //vj/dj//
> *reviews of DVDs, games, Web, books, projects
>
> All content is available in html and as pdf files with layout.
>
> NEW:
>
> //editorial//
> +Patrick Lichty, On the Essential Nature of Conciseness
> Patrick Lichty discusses the challenges that the genre of new media
> and its
> practitioners have to face in communicating to an audience outside of
> the
> cultural niche of technological art.
> .
>
> //the DEMO scene //
> + Shirley Shor & Aviv Eyal, DEMOing: An Emergent Art Form or Just
> Another
> Digital Craft?
> Shirley Shor & Aviv Eyal give a historical survey of 20 years of DEMO
> scene
> – from the Old School 'hacker art form' to today's 'New Scene'…
>
>
> //generativity//
> + James Faure Walker, Algorithmic Art
> In 1997, James Faure Walker pondered algorithmic / generative art and
> its
> historical connections and place in the art word at large. Seven years
> later, his essay begs the question how much has changed when it comes
> to the
> acceptance of this art form.
>
>
> //vj/dj//
> + Kim Cascone, Grain, Sequence, System [three levels of reception in
> the
> performance of laptop music]
> Kim Cascone discusses the reception of laptop music performance and the
> challenges it needs to overcome. Not surprisingly, many of his
> observations
> also apply to the reception of 'new media art' in general.
>
>
> //free radical//
> G.H. Hovagimyan, GH's Automated Home Reading List
> G.H. shares the research for a project he is currently working on –
> focused
> on the Smart House – in the form of an annotated reading list. His
> selections connect the concept of the digitally enhanced, smart home to
> early Utopian ideals and the ideological construction of the 'home'
> throughout history.
>
> //reviews//
> game:
> + Patrick Lichty, Tron 2.0
> On the 20th anniversary of the cult movie Tron, Buena Vista
> Interactive has
> released Tron 2.0. – a first-person 'shooter' that almost doubles as
> interactive machinima with
>
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