New Articles and Projects on Stretcher.org

Dear Rhizome Reader,

We want to tell you about the new articles and artist's projects we've posted on Stretcher.

A number of special pieces cover the International Society for the Electronic Arts (ISEA)/Zero One Festival, a major event in new media art hosted by the city of San Jose this past August. Stretcher provides overview and analysis of the event, comprising the first six of the links below. In addition, this issue includes a profile of Ryan McGinness, an essay on painting, a book review of "Connected, or What It Means to Live In the Network Society", and reviews of "Particulate Matter," "Paintings by David Ivan Clark," and of "David Ireland".

The Stretcher co-publishers chose favorite artworks from the ISEA/Zero One festival to bring to your attention, in FOCUS: ISEA/Zero One.
http://www.stretcher.org/archives/ep1_a/2006_10_11_ep1_archive.php

A web piece, "Palabras" by Sharon Daniel, is showcased as representative of the geographically and culturally far-reaching initiatives of the festival, as well as its collaborative spirit:
http://www.stretcher.org/archives/ap1_a/2006_10_12_ap1_archive.php

Ed Osborn provides a succinct overview of the first large- scale media arts festival presented by the city of San Jose, in ISEA/Zero One.
http://www.stretcher.org/archives/r1_a/2006_09_09_r1_archive.php

"Sure, play can be fun. But just because it‚s fun doesn't mean it‚s play. And, just because you track something on GPS, that doesn‚t make it play or fun for that matter." Christiane Robbins quotes Daniel Perlin on the IDC list in her incisive critique of the festival, Assessing ISEA 2006.
http://www.stretcher.org/archives/f1_a/2006_10_06_f1_archive.php

Reflecting on the Pacific Rim Summit meeting that preceded the Festival, Stephanie Ellis and Meredith Tromble identify key contradictions in the way "virtual reality" is construed.
http://www.stretcher.org/archives/e1_a/2006_09_22_e1_archive.php

The Exploratorium's "Invisible Dynamics" project, presented at ISEA, used new mapping technologies as reported by Meredith Tromble in Invisible Dynamics.
http://www.stretcher.org/archives/r2_a/2006_10_05_r2_archive.php

Meredith Tromble talks with Ryan McGinness, who says his work, "allows the human spirit to have the final say in the ordering of the universe", in Profile: Ryan McGinness.
http://www.stretcher.org/archives/e2_a/2006_10_19_e2_archive.php

Gloria Tanchelev considers politics, abstraction, and painting as an anomaoly, in On Painting.
http://www.stretcher.org/archives/r4_a/2006_10_08_r4_archive.php

Tromble also reviews Steven Shaviro‚s book, "Connected, or What it Means to Live in the Network Society", in BOOKS: Connected, making note of Shaviro‚s use of the structure of the web search and his references of intriguing novels & film that support his underlying thesis.
http://www.stretcher.org/archives/r5_a/2006_10_06_r5_archive.php

Greg Borman closely observes and quietly records the detail from which we can assess the work presented in Particulate Matter, at Mills College Art Museum.
http://www.stretcher.org/archives/r3_a/2006_10_01_r3_archive.php

Thomas Cuniff talks about aspects of romanticism and the landscape bordering on abstraction in David Ivan Clark, Paintings.
http://www.stretcher.org/archives/r7_a/2006_10_17_r7_archive.php

Borman also takes a perceptive and penetrating look at Ireland‚s history and the current show in David Ireland, a review of the current Gallery Paule Anglim show, ending November 4.
http://www.stretcher.org/archives/r6_a/2006_10_27_r6_archive.php

We look forward to reading your posts in response to these pieces, and to hearing from you with any suggestions or contributions to Stretcher.

Sincerely,

The Stretcher co-publishers,

Amy Berk
David Lawrence
Cheryl Meeker
Ed Osborn
Meredith Tromble