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>Date: Fri, 21 Jun 2002 02:14:38 -0400
>To: nina@immaterial.net
>From: Nina Katchadourian <nina@immaterial.net>
>Subject: Natural Car Alarms
>
>"Natural Car Alarms"
>A public project by Nina Katchadourian for SculptureCenter
>Premieres June 29, 2002 across from the new MoMA QNS (33rd St and Queens
>Blvd),
>coinciding with the public opening of MoMA QNS from10 am-10pm.
>For directions to MoMA QNS, please visit www.moma.org/momaqns/directions.html
>
>
> * * * *
>
>SculptureCenter announces "Natural Car Alarms," a migrating public art
>project by Nina Katchadourian, on view throughout Long Island City on
>intermittent dates from June 29 through November 30, 2002.
>
>Last summer, Katchadourian was on a residency at CCA7 in Trinidad. While
>hiking in a remote part of the island, she heard a bird that she thought
>she recognized. Eventually she realized that the birdcall was familiar
>because it was strikingly similar to a particular segment of a multi-tone
>car alarm heard regularly on the streets of New York. Pleased by this
>misunderstanding, she decided to create "Natural Car Alarms."
>
>"Natural Car Alarms" consists of a fleet of three cars, each outfitted
>with a unique alarm made of bird calls that mimics the typical six-tone
>siren sound it replaces. To create the alarms, Katchadourian worked with
>researchers at the Macauley Library of Natural Sounds at the Cornell Lab
>of Ornithology to find birds whose calls closely matched the car sirens.
>The birds used are a mixture of local and exotic, common and extinct.
>
>"Natural Car Alarms" will debut on Saturday, June 29th from 10 am to 10 pm
>at Queens Boulevard and 33rd Street, across from MoMA QNS, coinciding with
>the public opening of the new museum. The next day, the project will move
>to Jackson and 46th Aves, next to PS1, from 12-6.
>
>The project will several to various New York sites through November 2002.
>Confirmed dates are listed below; check the SculptureCenter website at
>www.sculpture-center.org for additional dates and locations.
>
>The project will be shown for the last time when the flock alights at the
>opening of SculptureCenter's new home on Purves Street in November.
>
>
> * * * *
>
>"Natural Car Alarms" can be seen and heard in the following places:
>
>June 29, 10am-10pm at 33rd Street and Queens Blvd. near MoMA QNS
>June 30, 12pm-6pm at Jackson and 46th Aves near PS1; also
>July 20, 12 pm-6pm at Jackson and 46th Aves near PS1
>September 22, 12 pm-6pm at Broadway and Vernon Boulevard near Socrates
>Sculpture Park.
>
>Additional dates and locations to be announced. Check the SculptureCenter
>website at www.sculpture-center.org for additional dates and locations.
>
> * * * *
>
>Special thanks to James Powderly, technical consultant, programmer, and
>engineer, and Carol Bloomgarden at the Macauley Library of Natural
>Sounds/Cornell Lab of Ornithology for archival research and assistance.

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>Date: Wed, 19 Jun 2002 01:03:59 +0900
>To: sica@dasein-design.com
>From: yukiko shikata <sica@dasein-design.com>
>Subject: "art.bit collection" at ICC
>
>*here i bcc the info. to some friends and media related people.
>
>dear all,
>
>
>hope all are fine...!
>
>here i send you the information of "art.bit collection" exhibitoin
>at ICC from June 21 till August 11(lead by Masaki Fujihata, and
>Kouichirou Eto) where i support curating aspects.
>
>it is the first exhibition at ICC to show the condition and relation
>of software and art.
>
>there will be symposiums, workshops and performance during the
>period, and i will organise one symposium on July 13 titled
>"art_bit_culture(tentative)"with JODI,, exonemo, doubleNegatives,
>LAN, Florian Cramer and Eto.
>
>all the best ,yukiko
>
>========================================================
>
>"art.bit collection"
>
>
>Date: June 21 (Fri) - August 11 (Sun), 2002 10:00am-6:00pm
> closed: Mondays, August 4 (Sun)
>Venue: NTT InterCommunication Center [ICC] Gallery A, B
>Address: Tokyo Opera City Tower 4F,
> 3-20-2 Nishi-Shinjuku, Shinjuku-ku, Tokyo, 163-1404 Japan
>
>
>URL for this exhibition: http://www.art-bit.jp/
>
>
>Organizer: NTT InterCommunication Center [ICC]
> http://www.ntticc.or.jp
>
>Curator: FUJIHATA Masaki (Media Artist / Professor, Tokyo National
> University of Fine Arts and Music) and ETO Kouichirou (Media Artist /
> Researcher, International Media Research Foundation)
>
>Curatorial Support: SHIKATA Yukiko (Curator / Professor-in-special-
> contract, Tokyo Zokei University)
>
>Cooperation: International Media Research Foundation / Department of
> Inter Media Art, Tokyo National University of Fine Arts and Music
>
>---
>
>
>on "Art.Bit Collection"
>
>In the art world, a work of art is called an "art piece." The word "
>piece" designates a thing that actually exists, but since software
>creations exist only as binary data, calling them an "art piece" doesn't
>suit well. Substituting "bit" for "piece," we have decided to call such
>a work an "art bit."
>
>In the case of software, which is used as a medium, material, tool,
>and environment for art, it is necessary to know the conditions of the
>"art bit"; under the present circumstances, however, when the market is
>glutted with high-performance application software, it is becoming
>increasingly difficult to stretch the individual's imaginative powers.
>Some people have even become convinced that no new software is needed
>beyond what already exists. Software ought not to be simply a tool that
>allows us to imitate actual operations and rationalize routine work. We
>must delve down and discover new possibilities that are latent in
>software and experiment with them through trial and error as "art bits."
>
>The "Art.Bit Collection" exhibit brings together and displays works that
>explore software possibilities in this sense -- programming language
>(especially visual programming language and language environment
>software for computer music), network community (software available on
>the Internet for creating and exhibiting artwork), software for visualization
>for the World Wide Web, new application software, and interactive works.
>Although we cannot perhaps say that these art bits have as yet evolved
>into major works in this sense, we can say that each of them contains a
>"bit of art" that shows extraordinary creativity.
>
>---
>
>
><7 categories with 39 works>
>
>*Visual Programming Environment (8 works)
> How can we create open ended Programming Environment for the end-user?
>
>*Media Programming Environment (5 works)
>
>*CommunityWare (1 work)
>
>*Virtual Environment (3 works)
> You can feel strange reality by virtual environment in computer.
>
>*Web Browser historical view and alternatives (7 works)
> You can see history and the future of Web Browser.
>
>*Behind the Network (5 works)
> Visualize the streams of network and data on network.
> You can realize there are many background behind the network.
>
>*NoiseWare - deconstructing desktop and application (10 works)
> Input noise into desktop and application.
> They reconstruct your common sense about computer.
>
>
>--
>
>NTT InterCommunication Center [ICC]
>Tel: +81-3-5353-0800 (International)
>E-mail : query@ntticc.or.jp
>URL: http://www.ntticc.or.jp/
>URL for this exhibition: http://www.art-bit.jp/

>Subject: thundergulch dialogues: race in digital space
>Date: Thu, 13 Jun 2002 18:20:58 -0400
>From: "Erin Donnelly" <EDonnelly@LMCC.NET>
>
>Thundergulch Dialogues:
>Race in Digital Space
>
>Thursday, June 20th, 6:00 PM, 2002 --- FREE
>56th Street between Madison and Fifth Avenues
>
>Directions: The Sony Wonder Technology Lab is located on 56th Street
>between Madison and Fifth Avenues. Take the 4/5/6 trains to
>59th/Lexington Avenue, the E/V trains to Fifth Avenue/53rd Street, or
>the N/R trains to Fifth Avenue/60th Street. Bus: M1, M2, M3, M4, M5, and
>M57.
>
>Featuring:
>
>LEAH GILLIAM, Assistant Professor of Film & Electronic Arts, Division of
>the Arts, Bard College
>
>TANA HARGEST, Curator of New Media Initiatives, The Bronx Museum of the
>Arts
>
>PAMELA JENNINGS, Assistant Professor, School of Art and the Human
>Computer Interaction Institute, Carnegie Mellon University
>
>ERIKA DALYA MUHAMMAD, Writer and curator
>
>THUNDERGULCH, the new media initiative of the Lower Manhattan Cultural
>Council, is pleased to present conversations with artists from the
>Studio Museum in Harlem's acclaimed exhibit "Race in Digital Space."
>Organized by guest curator, Erika Dalya Muhammad, "Race in Digital
>Space" featured the work of over 50 artists using film, video, audio,
>and digital media to explore how technology influences and changes
>social ideas of race and ethnicity.
>
>The evening features: Leah Gilliam's "Split: Whiteness, Retrofuturism,
>Omega Man," a CD-ROM that examines narratives of race and gender in the
>science fiction genre through manipulated texts and images; Tana
>Hargest's "Bitter Nigger, Inc.," a humorous, albeit biting web
>work/installation exploring racism through the mediation of the
>pharmaceutical, entertainment, and consumer cultures; and Pamela
>Jennings's CD-ROM "Solitaire: dream journal," a three-dimensional
>computer game used to navigate through graphically luscious and
>sonically rich dream journals.
>_______________
>S P E A K E R S:
>
>LEAH GILLIAM is Assistant Professor of Film & Electronic Arts, Division
>of the Arts, Bard College. Her media projects have been exhibited
>widely in such venues as Thread Waxing Space; the Museum of Contemporary
>Art (Chicago); the Institute of Contemporary Art, Boston; the Whitney
>Museum of American Art; and the San Francisco International Film
>Festival.
>
>TANA HARGEST is a multimedia artist and Curator of New Media Initiatives
>at The Bronx Museum of the Arts. Her work has been exhibited at the
>Walker Art Center as part of the screening and exhibition Women in the
>Director's Chair, at The Studio Museum in Harlem as part of the
>traveling exhibition Freestyle, and at GAle GAtes et al. as part of the
>group show Mimic.
>
>PAMELA JENNINGS is Assistant Professor at Carnegie Mellon University
>with a joint appointment in the School of Art in the College of Fine
>Arts and Human Computer Interaction Institute in the School of Computer
>Science. Jennings is the author New Media Arts | New Funding Models, a
>report commissioned by the Rockefeller Foundation and papers and reviews
>of her work have appeared in numerous books and journals. She has
>received New York State Council on the Arts grants and is a MacDowell
>Artist Colony Fellow and CAiiA-STAR research consortium member.
>http://digital-bauhaus.com/
>
>ERIKA DALYA MUHAMMAD is a curator and writer. Muhammad explores how
>digital encounters and cut-and-mix culture work to transform issues of
>race, ethnicity, and nationhood. In addition to curating the "Race in
>Digital Space" exhibition (with travels to the Spelman College Museum of
>Fine Arts this Fall), Muhammad has held curatorial positions at both the
>Whitney Museum of American Art and the American Museum of the Moving
>Image.
>
>-----------------------------------------------------------
>Reservations are not required but for further information please contact
>Wayne Ashley, Guest Curator, Thundergulch at (212)219-9401 x106,
>washley007@yahoo.com, or Erin Donnelly, Visual and Media Arts Program
>Associate, Lower Manhattan Cultural Council at (212)219-9401 x107 or
>edonnelly@lmcc.net
>
>Support for Thundergulch audience development is provided by American
>Express Company. Funding for Thundergulch is generously provided by
>Cowles Charitable Trust, Experimental Television Center, the Greenwall
>Foundation, the Rockefeller Foundation and the May and Samuel Rudin
>Family Foundation. This project is made possible, in part, with public
>funds from the Electronic Media and Film Program and the Media Arts
>Technical Assistance Fund of the New York State Council on the Arts, a
>State Agency. This program is supported, in part, by public funds from
>the New York City Department of Cultural Affairs.
>
>http://www.lmcc.net
>http://www.thundergulch.org
>http://www.sonywondertechlab.com/
>
>
>Thundergulch, the new media initiative of the Lower Manhattan Cultural
>Council
>
>Lower Manhattan Cultural Council
>145 Hudson Street, Suite 801, New York, NY 10013
>212-219-9401
>212-219-2058 fax
>info@lmcc.net
>
>Liz Thompson, Executive Director
>Moukhtar Kocache, Director of Visual & Media Arts
>Erin Donnelly, Visual & Media Arts Program Associate
>Wayne Ashley, Guest Curator, Thundergulch

SUPERFLEX / TENANTSPIN IN NEW YORK at the New Museum of Contemporary
Art, New York , JUNE 13-16, 2002

As part of Open_Source_Art_Hack at the New Museum, a four -day community
project with Superflex ,Tenantspin channel and community organizations
in New York.

The event is taking place at the mezzanine of the New Museum of
Contemporary Art where Superflex/Tenantspin have build up a small
internet TV studio that will broadcast live.

The Tenantspin group will meet, discuss and exchange ideas with
different elderly groups from New York and will train groups of local seniors to build their own interactive internet TV channel.

The workshops at the Museum will run from 12 noon to 6 pm, and will be
very informal and relaxed.

Thursday, June 13th - Lincoln Square Neighborhood
Friday, June 14th - Henry Street Settlement
Saturday, June 15th - American Bible Society
Sunday, 16th - Beans on Toast / DJ

If you want to follow the events online go to the Tenantspin channel on
www.superchannel.org and watch out for the "SPIN ON TOUR" shows. We will
be broadcasting live on the following days - everything will be available
in the archive after.
http://www.superchannel.org/Home/Profile/Channels/SPIN/

Superflex is a group of three Danish artists (Rasmus Nielsen, Jakob
Fenger and Bjornstjerne Christiansen) & tenantspin (featuring tenant
producers, Alan Dunn from FACT (the Foundation for Art & Creative
Technology), and representatives from the Liverpool Housing Action
Trust).

In 1999, with programmer Sean Treadway, Superflex developed the first
Superchannel project in Copenhagen, training local communities to
produce interactive, non-commercial, television programs on the internet. There are now more than twenty Superchannels worldwide, covering serious
debates more lighthearted and humorous topics such as food, leisure and
pop stars.

Since 2000, the tenantspin channel has been produced by a group of
housing tenants in Liverpool (UK) -- the majority of whom are elderly
and in high rise accommodation -- Tenantspin is a live interactive web casting studio managed by and for tenants of Liverpool's Housing Action Trust in collaboration with the foundation for Art & Creative Technology.Tenantspin aims to promote resident participation in regeneration and social housing issues through constructive debate, the sharing of experiences and the encouragement of responsible free speech. Tenantspin participants are responsible for research, camerawork, computer operation, publicity, presentation, training and studio management. Each week tenantspin broadcast two one-hour shows that stimulate debate on issues as diverse as smart homes, landlords, Elvis, the year 2040, sport, and E-Democracy.

For more information:

http://www.newmuseum.org
http://www.netartcommons.net
http://www.superflex.dk/index.shtml
http://www.superflex.dk/tools/superchannel and
http://www.superchannel.org
http://www.tenantspin.org