SWITCH: Issue 23

June 11, 2007

Type: discussion

SWITCH : The online New Media Art Journal of the CADRE Laboratory for
New Media at San Jose State University

http://switch.sjsu.edu
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SWITCH, The online New Media Art Journal of the CADRE Laboratory for
New Media at San Jose State University is pleased to announce the
launch of Issue 23: FUNCTION // BORDER // DYSFUNCTION.

After a brief hiatus, the new issue of Switch has emerged. After 2
solid years of work leading up to ISEA2006 and the ZeroOne Festival,
CADRE and SWITCH have been considering new agendas, strategies and
opportunities. Over the last several months, the CADRE Laboratory has
engaged in a diverse set of activities. We have explored issues such
as failure (its lessons and its utility), borders (real/virtual, body/
technology, open/closed), and in what direction "new" media may be
going. Issue 23 highlights the diversity of these activities, which
we have grouped under the rubric of "Function / Border /
Dysfunction". Among other things, we have interviews with Michael
Joaquin Grey, Saskia Sassen and Lu Jie. Cultural theorist/art
historian Dore Bowen explores "The Function of Dysfunction" in her
article on Fluxus event scores. The CADRE Lab introduces its Speaker
Salon Series, it's new artist residency with the Montalvo Arts Center
and it's collaboration with Ars Virtua in sponsoring the Borders
conference in Second Life.

About SWITCH

SWITCH is the new media art journal of the CADRE Laboratory for New
Media of the School of Art and Design at San Jose State University.
It has been published on the Web since 1995. SWITCH is interested in
fostering a critical viewpoint on issues and developments in the
multiple crossovers between art and technology. Its main focus in on
questioning and analyzing, as well as reporting and discussing these
new art forms as they develop, in hopes of encouraging dialogue and
possible collaboration with others who are working and considering
similar issues. SWITCH aims to critically evaluate developments in
art and technology in order to contribute to the formation of
alternative viewpoints with the intention of expanding the arena in
which new art and technology emerge. SWITCH is overseen by CADRE
faculty Joel Slayton and Rachel Beth Egenhoefer.

Thanks,
Carlos Castellanos
SWITCH
Managing Editor