Hermenetka is a project of Net Art that generates fortuitous cartographies from search engines in data bases. The starting point of the Hermenetka project is the Mediterranean view as spiritual scenery of thoughts, as method and search of knowledge.
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Teknokultura, on-line journal of the University of Puerto Rico's Social
Sciences Faculty (Río Piedras Campus), announces its opening for contributions to evaluate articles and electronic art relevant to the
integration of technology to daily lives and labor. Book and website
reviews, literary work, and cartoons associated to these themes will
also be evaluated. For this issue will be given special consideration to works related to wireless technology.
Originally posted on Rhizome.org Raw by Eduardo Navas
Interested in showing your work at AV? We are currently seeking sound and visual artists to fill our 2005-2006 season. We are particulary interested in integrated sound/visual installation, but welcome proposals for work in any media. The deadline for submissions of proposals for shows January-June 2006 is October 1, 2005.
Originally posted on Rhizome.org Raw by Marc-Charles McNulty
Indiana University’s Department of Telecommunications seeks two new tenure-track Assistant Professors. Applicants should hold the Ph.D., M.F.A, L.L.M. or other appropriate terminal degree and present a promising program of either
(1) scholarly research using social scientific, legal, or historical methods related to electronic media / communications or
(2) creative activity in interactive new media. Promising candidates must also be able to teach effectively in one or more of the department’s undergraduate areas of concentration: Media and Society, Design and Production or Industry and Management.
Graduate teaching is also possible.
Originally posted on Rhizome.org Raw by andrew bucksbarg
Grand Arts is pleased to present the latest project from the Bay Area-based Center for Tactical Magic, the Tactical Ice Cream Unit. Combining a number of successful activist strategies (Food-Not-Bombs, Copwatch, Indymedia, infoshops, etc.) into one mega-mobile, the TICU is the Voltron-like alter ego of the cops’ mobile command center. Incorporating an alternative strategy of utopian potlatch, the Tactical Ice Cream Unit is envisioned primarily as a mobile distribution center for free ice cream and information produced by local community groups.
Although the TICU appears to be a mild-mannered vending vehicle, it harbors a host of high-tech surveillance devices, including a 12-camera video surveillance system, GPS with satellite internet, and a media center capable of disseminating live audio/video. More than creating an undercover Mission: Impossible aesthetic, the TICU’s full surveillance suite provides grassroots access to mobile communications technologies. Whether used to produce independent community news or to monitor corporate dumping or police activity, the TICU will investigate the limits of “neutral technologies
Originally posted on networked_performance by jo
Eyebeam is now accepting applications for Teaching Artists to lead classes in the Spring 2005 After-School Atelier (ASA) Program and the Girls-Eye View Program. Selected teaching artists will direct 9-week long courses (ASA), October 10 - December 15, 2005, or 3-week long courses (Girls-Eye View), present the student work at the program wrap-up events and present his/her work and process alongside student work in Eyebeam's exhibition space.
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Co-organized by curators Sasha Cronin-Harris and Max Carlson, theSimnuke exhibition serves as the gallery component to the SimnukeProject, a self-described "reaction to 60 years of the Atomic Age."The project kicked off on July 16th (the 60th anniversary of"Trinity," the first atomic detonation) with a nuclear simulation.
Originally posted on Rhizome.org Raw by joy garnett
We are interested in media- and film works for children, either. The exhibition of the media installations and the contributions in the field of new media take place in cooperation with the Württembergische Kunstverein.
Originally posted on Rhizome.org Raw by Benjamin Fischer
An anonymous reader writes "The Bush administration is objecting to the creation of a .xxx domain, saying it has concerns about a virtual red-light district reserved exclusively for Internet pornography. This is despite the the .xxx domain being approved in June and New.net selling domain names using the .xxx suffix for many months before the approval." From the ZDNet article: " The sudden high-level interest in what has historically been an obscure process has placed the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN) in an uncomfortable position. ICANN approved the concept of an .xxx domain in June and approval of ICM Registry's contract to run the suffix was expected this week Other governments also have been applying pressure to ICANN in a last-minute bid to head off .xxx. A letter from ICANN's government advisory group sent Friday asks for a halt to 'allow time for additional governmental and public policy concerns to be expressed before reaching a final decision.'"
Originally posted on Slashdot by Zonk
E-mail Erosion automatically creates sculptures, using spam and e-mail as data to trigger the sculpting process.
The work, viewable via four webcams, consists of a powder-coat steel frame. Each of its sides has a "bot" which can move to any point on the side’s face, working much like a flat-bed plotter. The bots can also squirt water into the frame, causing a section of a large block of the starch-based styrofoam to dissolve.
Each of the bots is associated with an e-mail address. When e-mail is received by a bot, it either moves or squirts water, according to an algorithm that uses the e-mail’s content as input data. The bots email a response to every email received, but limit their move/squirt actions to once a day for each address from which they receive email.
People visiting the website will be invited to email the bots. E-mail will also be generated by putting the bots’ addresses on mailing lists and in places likely to be picked up by spammers.
At the end of the show (up and running in February 2006), the remaining foam, if any, is a finished sculpture.
Commissioned by Rhizome to Annie Brissenden, Tony Muilenburg and Ethan Ham.
Originally posted on we make money not art by Regine
Edwin VanGorder