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Subject: RHIZOME DIGEST: 1.18.02
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1. NOMADS: NOMADS--Mobile Media v.2.0
2. Jeffrey Jullich: generative psychogeography
3. alex galloway: new games from jodi

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4. BLASTHAUS: STELARC
5. Eric Paulos: EIU--Update / Events
6. Vidlounge AT AOL.COM: online media theory classes

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Date: 1.16.02
From: NOMADS (nomads AT nomadnet.org)
Subject: NOMADS--Mobile Media v.2.0

Mobile Media
an on-going series of videos created for the palm os
http://www.nomadnet.org

Mobile Media v.2.0 features new videos by NOMADS.

Videos can be downloaded and installed on any pda utilizing the palm os.
Mobile Media videos require the tealmovie multimedia viewer:
http://www.tealpoint.com/softmovi.htm

http://www.nomadnet.org
http://www.tealpoint.com/softmovi.htm

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**METAMUTE ECHELON COMPETITION WINNERS: Metamute announces the winners
of the Echelon competition. 1st prize: The Avatar Group - Isis, followed
by runners up: Tessa Laird - Pink Noise and Edward Lear - The Owl and
the Pussycat Assassinate the EuroFeds. Read all the entries:
http://www.metamute.com/mfiles/index.htm

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2.

Date: 1.15.02
From: Jeffrey Jullich (jeffreyjullich AT yahoo.com)
Subject: generative psychogeography

Cybercafe
250 W 49th St
New York, NY
(212) 333-4109

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Cybercafe
273 Lafayette St
New York, NY
(212) 334-5140

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Internet Cafe
82 E 3rd St
New York, NY
(212) 614-0747

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Internet Cyber Cafe
32 3rd Ave
New York, NY
(212) 777-5544

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"Artistic Environments of Telepresence on the World Wide Web" by Luisa
Paraguai Donati and Gilbertto Prado addresses the use of live images in
artistic spaces. Find out what events you'll participate in via the web.
Pick up a copy of LEONARDO's Digital Salon, Volume 34 Number 5 and
visit: AT : http://mitpress2.mit.edu/e-journals/Leonardo

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3.

Date: 1.14.02
From: alex galloway (alex AT rhizome.org)
Subject: new games from jodi

my fave: O-O

http://www.untitled-game.org

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Read Peter Anders article "Anthropic Cyberspace"
in the latest LEONARDO Digital Salon Volume 34 Number 5.
Learn first hand about defining electronic space
and give yourself space to think.
Visit our web site AT http://mitpress2.mit.edu/e-journals/Leonardo

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4.

Date: 1.17.02
From: BLASTHAUS (list AT blasthaus.com)
Subject: STELARC

FRIDAY FEBRUARY 1, 8pm sharp:
STELARC presents a lecture / demonstration
with performance by People Hater

at SOMARTS
934 Brannan Street (near 8th)
in San Francisco

ZOMBIES AND CYBORGS:
OBSOLETE, INVOLUNTARY AND AUTOMATED BODIES

The multi-media presentation is a lecture illustrated with videotapes,
slides, overhead transparencies and CD-Rom projection. Stelarc discusses
issues related to the body and technology. The premise being that the
body is an evolutionary architecture that operates and becomes aware in
the world. To alter it's architecture is to adjust it's awareness. The
body has always been a prosthetic body, one augmented by its instruments
and machines. There has always been a danger of the body behaving
involuntarily and conditioned automatically. There has always been a
fear of the involuntary and the automated. Of the Zombie and the Cyborg.
But we fear what we have always been and what we have already become.

Through a discussion of his major performances such as the Body
Suspensions, Third Hand events, Internal Body Probes, and the
Exoskeleton walking robot, the Internet remote choreography of the Body
and the Extra Ear proposal Stelarc deconstructs notions of self,
identity, free-agency and what it means to be human. The absent,
obsolete, invaded and involuntary body now performs for avatars on the
Internet.

BIOGRAPHICAL NOTES

Stelarc is an Australian artist who has performed extensively in Japan,
Europe and the USA- including new music, dance festivals and
experimental theatre. He has used medical instruments, prosthetics,
robotics, Virtual Reality systems and the Internet to explore alternate,
intimate and involuntary interfaces with the body. He has performed with
a THIRD HAND, a VIRTUAL ARM, a VIRTUAL BODY and a STOMACH SCULPTURE. He
has acoustically and visually probed the body- having amplified
brainwaves, blood-flow and muscle signals and filmed the inside of his
lungs, stomach and colon, approximately two metres of internal space. He
has done twenty-five body SUSPENSIONS with insertions into the skin, in
different positions and varying situations in remote locations. For
FRACTAL FLESH, as part of Telepolis, he developed a touch-screen
interfaced Muscle Stimulation System, enabling remote access, actuation
and choreography of the body. Performances such as PING BODY and
PARASITE probe notions of telematic scaling and the engineering of
external, extended and virtual nervous systems for the body using the
Internet. Recently for Kampnagel, he completed EXOSKELETON- a
pneumatically powered 6- legged walking machine actuated by arm
gestures. Current projects include the EXTRA EAR- a surgically
constructed ear as an additional facial feature that coupled with a
modem and a wearable computer will act as an internet antenna, able to
hear RealAudio sounds. And MOVATAR is an intelligent avatar that will be
able to perform in the real world by possessing a physical body. It will
have a sound feedback loop from the body giving the virtual entity an
ear in the world. He has also completed an EXTENDED ARM- a manipulator
with eleven degrees-of-freedom that extends his arm to primate
proportions and a MOTION PROSTHESIS- an intelligent, compliant servo-
mechanism that enables the performance of precise, repetitive and
accelerated prompting or programming of the arms in real-time. In 1995
Stelarc received a three year Fellowship from The Visual Arts/ Craft
Board, The Australia Council. In 1997 he was appointed Honorary
Professor of Art and Robotics at Carnegie Mellon University. He was
Artist-In-Residence for Hamburg City in 1998. In 2000 he was awarded an
honorary Degree of Law by Monash University. He is now Principal
Research Fellow in the Performance Arts Digital Research Unit at The
Nottingham Trent University, UK. His art is represented by the Sherman
Galleries in Sydney.

http://www.stelarc.va.com.au

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5.

Date: 1.19.02
From: Eric Paulos (paulos AT cs.berkeley.edu)
Subject: EIU--Update / Events

The Experimental Interaction Unit
http://www.eiu.org

The Experimental Interaction Unit will be active in several upcoming
events listed below:

The Amy Show
19 Jan 2002
San Francisco
http://www.breakingthings.com/

This is a benefit for Amy Miller, a long time SRL member who fell from
the roof of a building after the 15 Dec 2001 SRL show and broke her hip
in three places. All proceeds from this event go to Amy. EIU is
participating and contributing to the raffle that will be held.

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Tentacle Sessions with David Pescovitz and Brad Wieners
An evening of POST FUTURISM In Review
20 Jan 2002
http://sessions.laughingsquid.org/

If there's one thing David Pescovitz and Brad Wieners heard over and
over when they came out with their 1996 timeline of the future, Reality
Check (Wired Books), it's that their predictions for pop culture tech--
robots! jet packs! orgasmatrons!--were far too bullish. Five years
later, however, it looks this pair of accidental futurists wasn't bold
enough: Everything they predicted--based on expert sources they're happy
to blame--is happening sooner--much sooner--than expected! On Jan 20,
join them as they tour the recent future and examine why certain
inventions took off, while others were built (but nobody came). You will
see video and live demonstrations of dissident robots, check out the
first commercial smart shirt, ogle a virtual sex slave....and much more!
Brad and David will be joined by guests Erik Davis, (Techgnosis) expert
on smart drugs and dial-a-mood; Eric Paulos, experimental robotocist,
space browsing blimp-pilot; and others.

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Threat of Irrelevance
24 Feb 2002
Rhizome LA
http://www.eiu.org/discussion/rhizome/

As developers of the first privately owned electromagnetic weapon and
anonymous biological pathogen dispersion system, the Experimental
Interaction Unit reaffirms its dedication to researching the most vital
elements of future human interaction systems. While the atrocities of
9.11 dictate a new agenda for EIU, our actions will not be inured by
these events. Our expertise, knowledge, and rapid adaptation skills have
been deployed in an effort to design new systems and tools to combat and
intimately connect with the future. Challenging times bring new urgency
to these parlous projects which will be discussed.

Rhizome LA is a new media art event series produced in Los Angeles by
Rhizome and Beverly Tang.

http://www.eiu.org
http://www.breakingthings.com/
http://sessions.laughingsquid.org/
http://www.eiu.org/discussion/rhizome/

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6.

Date: 1.16.02
From: Vidlounge AT AOL.COM
Subject: online media theory classes

two media theory classes taught online
by artist and media curator Laurie Halsey Brown

a. Why New Media Isn't new: A History
ONLINE 9 weeks march 18 thru May 17 $410

The history of net.art, multimedia works and digital installations will
be discussed in relation to the progression of technology and how these
art forms have been affected by and in turn, affected our society.
Concepts of interactivity, hybridity and voyeurism/surveillance are
discussed. Students research/discuss websites and are encouraged to
intergrate the class with their own sites.

b. Media Interactions: Film, Video and Digital
ONLINE 9 weeks feb 4 thru April 5 $410

The past, present and future; the relationship of video to film and
digital media is analyzed in the context of contemporary society and the
movement toward interdisciplinary forms and processes in all kinds of
technologies.

for more info: http://www.dialnsa.edu
212.229.5630
to register: 212.229.5690

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BIO

Laurie Halsey Brown is an artist, independent media curator and on
faculty at the New School University. She creates site-responsive
projections and installations which include the viewer, revealing
architectural and psychological aspects of interior/exterior space.
These projects are interdisciplinary and can include video, photography,
web, audio, drawings and architectural objects. Her work has been shown
extensively; in the US at places such as The New Museum of Contemporary
Art in NYC in 1994 and 2001 and abroad in Belfast, N. Ireland; Dublin,
Ireland and London, UK. She also makes single-channel videos which have
been screened nationally and at international film festivals. Her web
projects focus on art as dialogue: http://www.movinginplace.net. She has
curated numerous media based projects nationally and internationally;
most recently at the New Museum of Contemporary Art, NYC and the
Pittsburgh Center for the Arts, PA. vidlounge AT aol.com

http://www.dialnsa.edu
http://www.movinginplace.net

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