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editor's note
1. alex galloway: Commissioning Program & Rhizome.LA

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2. Helen Thorington: "The Secret Life of Numbers"

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3. Honor Harger: Surveillance & Control

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4. Ars Electronica Center: Ars Electronica 2002--1st Announcement
5. Andy Clarke: COSIGN 2002 cfp
6. nick.kilroy: OPEN_SOURCE EVENT--submissions welcome

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7. RSG: Trigger Words #2 (a Carnivore Client)

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Date: 2.10.02
From: alex galloway (alex AT rhizome.org)
Subject: Commissioning Program (deadline approaching!) & Rhizome.LA

This is a final call for the Rhizome Net Art Commissioning Program. The
deadline for proposals is February 15, 2002. Read more information and
submit your proposal at http://rhizome.org/commissions. We look forward
to your proposals!

Also, west coast Rhizomers should check out our latest event in Southern
California. Rhizome.LA and ZeroOne present "The Art of Extreme Robotics"
on February 24, 2002, from 5pm to 8pm, at Whose Café, in Hollywood and
in early March, in Silicon Valley. More info at http://rhizome.org/LA/

http://rhizome.org/commissions/
http://rhizome.org/LA/

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**MUTE MAGAZINE ART ISSUE** Peter Fend 10 page special, Andrew Gellatly
on selling art online, Benedict Seymour on the closure of London's Lux
Centre, Michael Corris on Conceptual art, Hari Kunzru in Las Vegas.
Reviews: Don't blow IT conference, Wizards of OS, Wolfgang Shaehle's
2001 Show http://www.metamute.com/mutemagazine/current/index.htm

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Date: 2.8.02
From: Helen Thorington (newradio AT si.rr.com)
Subject: "The Secret Life of Numbers"

Turbulence is pleased to announce the launch of "The Secret Life of
Numbers" by Golan Levin with assistance from Martin Wattenberg, Jonathan
Feinberg, David Becker, David Elashoff and Shelley Wynecoop.

"The Secret Life of Numbers" is about the popularity of numbers. With
the aid of custom software, public search engines and powerful
statistical techniques the artists conducted an exhaustive empirical
study to determine the relative popularity of every integer between one
and one million. The resulting popularity profile exhibits an
extraordinary variety of patterns and singularities which reflect and
refract our culture, our minds and our bodies. The analyses are
returned to the public in the form of an interactive visualization, the
aim of which is to provoke awareness of one's own numeric
manifestations.

Golan Levin, who is responsible for the concept, design and interface
programming of "The Secret Life of Numbers" creates artifacts and
experiences which explore supple new modes of audiovisual expression.
Between 1998 and 2000, he studied with John Maeda in the Aesthetics and
Computation Group at the MIT Media Laboratory; prior to this, he worked
as a research scientist and interaction designer at Interval Research
Corporation. Levin has exhibited interactive artworks and performances
at several venues, including t SIGGRAPH 1996 and 2000, ISEA 1997, Ars
Electronica 1997 and 2000, the San Jose Technology Museum of Innovation,
and the American Museum of the Moving Image.

http://turbulence.org

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STATE OF THE ARTS SYMPOSIUM * UCLA APRIL 4-6, 2002 * RHIZOME DISCOUNT *
<http://www.eliterature.org/state> ELO invites Rhizome subscribers to
join leading web artists, writers, critics, theorists for the seminal
e-lit event of 2002. Rhizome subscribers who register before FEB 15 2002
may register at ELO member rates ($25 discount).

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3.

Date: 2.5.02
From: Honor Harger (honor.harger AT tate.org.uk)
Subject: Surveillance & Control

ANNOUNCING AN EVENT ON SURVEILLANCE + CONTROL AT TATE MODERN

Surveillance and Control
A half-day conference in March
Saturday 9 March

http://www.tate.org.uk/modern/programmes/webcasting/surveillance.htm

As part of Tate Modern's Interpretation and Education programme, a half
day conference on surveillance technologies and new media art will be
take place. SURVEILLANCE AND CONTROL considers widespread uses of
electronic surveillance, analysing recent social and political
developments, and asking how various surveillance technologies have
impacted on new media art practice.

We are living in a medialised society. Surveillance devices are used
increasingly to monitor physical space, while the operation of global
interception systems show the vulnerability of electronic space. The
increasing ubiquity of surveillance has radically transformed the
relation between public and private spheres, as well as the very nature
of political and technological control.

This half day conference will probe recent developments in surveillance
debates. Investigative journalist, Duncan Campbell and media theorist,
Eric Kluitenberg look at issues such as the use of the English/American
automated interception and relay system, Echelon, and the controversial
Regulation of Investigatory Powers Act (RIPa), which updates UK law on
the interception of communications. Presentations by artists, Marko
Peljhan, Kate Rich and Julia Scher will ask how artists are responding
to, or subverting the surveillance strategies employed by the commercial
and governmental sectors.

http://www.tate.org.uk/modern/programmes/webcasting/surveillance.htm

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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: 2.5.2002
From: Ars Electronica Center (announce AT aec.at)
Subject: Ars Electronica 2002--1st Announcement
Keywords: fund, competition, art world

Ars Electronica 2002
September 7 - 12, 2002
Linz, Austria

1.1 Prix Ars Electronica 2002
http://prixars.orf.at
Entry Deadline: March 31, 2002

The Prix Ars Electronica 2002 marks the 16th edition of the competition
for cyberarts, which is organized by the Austrian Broadcasting
Corporation (ORF), Upper Austrian Regional Studio, in conjunction with
the Ars Electronica Festival.

The Prix Ars Electronica 2002 is announced internationally for the
categories Computer Animation / Visual Effects, Digital Musics,
Interactive Art and Net Vision / Net Excellence. In addition, there is
also a competition category for young people under the age of 19 in
Austria: Cybergeneration - u19 freestyle computing.

The total prize money for the Prix Ars Electronica 2002 amounts to Euro
100.000 / USD 88,466. The international juries will award 6 x 3 money
prizes and up to 52 Honorary Mentions. Selected works of all categories
will be presented to the public in the exhibition Cyberarts 2002 at the
O.K Center for Contemporary Art during the Ars Electronica Festival.

You will find detailed information on each category, the names of the
Jury members, the competition regulations and all information you need
to register online under: http://prixars.orf.at

Deadline for entries is March 31, 2002 (postmarked)!

http://prixars.orf.at

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5.

Date: 2.6.02
From: Andy Clarke (andy AT kinonet.com)
Subject: COSIGN 2002 cfp

First Call For Papers

COSIGN 2002
The 2nd International Conference on
COMPUTATIONAL SEMIOTICS FOR GAMES AND NEW MEDIA
Augsburg (Germany)
2nd September - 4th September, 2002
http://www.kinonet.com/conferences/cosign2002/

This cross-disciplinary conference explores the ways in which semiotics
(and related theories such as structuralism and post-structuralism) can
be applied to creating and analysing computer systems. It is intended
for anyone with an interest in areas of overlap (or potential overlap)
between semiotics and computers. This would include, but is not limited
to, the following: computer scientists; HCI and AI practitioners;
creators of expert systems; digital artists; designers; critics;
semioticians; narratologists; etc.

COSIGN 2002 invites submissions in the following categories:

1. Academic Papers
2. Artworks
3. Posters
4. Technical Demonstrations

Information about the conference is available at the following web
address:

http://www.kinonet.com/conferences/cosign2002/

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6.

Date: 2.9.02
From: <<<nick.kilroy>>>>>......... (kilroy AT gabba.net)
Subject: OPEN_SOURCE EVENT--submissions welcome

<PLUG_AND_PLAY>

open_source event - request for submissions AT http://www.gabba.net/pnp

One of the aims of this night is discover how to mediate/curate net.art
and music; find the space between 'the gallery', 'the monitor', 'the
cinema' and my headphones. Encourage any bedroom genuises to come down
and play-out. ENTRY IS FREE

PLUG AND PLAY allows people to PLUG in their laptops and PLAY music they
have made or interests them ... and project a visual output. Music
policy is eclectronic [sic] .... anything electronic really, however
obscure........ or mainstream.

Or upload music/data. We'd welcome any hard-drive detritus: music,
programs, films, generative software/programs or new projects.
http://www.gabba.net/pnp for uploads more info, FTP details etc

Better still, if you're around London, come down and PLAY! Vinyl, MP3,
MDs, CDs, or ... laptop! It doesn't have to be your own music either,
just music you wish to...... present

The event takes place in PUBLICLIFE in Shoreditch (opposite
Spitalfields) and it runs on the last Sunday of each month in the late
afternoon/evening, (nxt on the 24thFeb). The club is fully on-line
capable of downloading an entire set, with sockets along the walls so
people can bring their laptops down and surf, download ..

You might also wish to pass this information onto anyone you think may
be interested in having their work amplified in a space, albeit in
another country.

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http://www.gabba.net/pnp

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7.

Date: 2.5.2002
From: RSG (rsg AT rhizome.org)
Subject: Trigger Words #2 (a Carnivore Client)
Keywords: surveillance, security, media activism, language, internet

During the weekend of February 1st 2002, delegates from the World
Economic Forum arrived in the Midtown area of New York City. To greet
them were thousands of protestors, themselves greeted by what the New
York Times called a "stern police response." The police and the
protesters generally kept the peace, with only 200 arrests and little
violence.

Meanwhile, in a different corner of the city, a small group of hackers,
artists, and activists--or "hacktivists"--met to catch their breath,
organize political materials, and of course check their email. They
chose a venue unknown to the police, the Eyebeam center for media art on
West 21st Street. They also chose their own security system, one that
would protect the integrity of their sensitive computer communications.

They chose Carnivore.

Carnivore is an efficient data collection and analysis system used to
monitor all forms of Internet communication. It is a premium service of
Radical Software Group (RSG), the all-star collective of computer
artists hand selected from cities around the world. Like the FBI
software on which it's based, Carnivore is a non-invasive spying tool
that collects email and web traffic from its local environment. Because
Carnivore was installed last weekend in the same building where the
hacktivists were checking their email, RSG was granted a unique
perspective on the use of digital communications inside the protest
zone.

During the weekend of demonstrations the following organizations used
the Eyebeam facilities: Las Agencias (http://www.lasagencias.net/), The
"bike writer" group from MIT
(http://architecture.mit.edu/~atmarcus/bikewriter/writer.html), Bureau
of Inverse Technology (http://bureauit.org), Institute for Applied
Autonomy (http://www.appliedautonomy.com/), RTMark (http://rtmark.com),
and The Yes Men (http://theyesmen.org/). It is not known how long each
group used the facilities. Some simply visited, others used it often.
However, once inside the Eyebeam surveillance zone, one hundred percent
of the hacktivists's Internet communications were monitored by
Carnivore.

Data collection itself is worth nothing without appropriate analysis.
Thus, Carnivore offers superior diagnostics created by the world's
leading software artists. For example Mark Napier, a New York artist,
has released an analysis tool for Carnivore called "Black and White"
(http://www.potatoland.org/blackwhite/). He used this tool to calculate
the overall truth or falsity of the hacktivists's data. After several
days of monitoring, their data was found to be %37 true and %63 false.

Another diagnostic is called "Trigger Words." This tool records the
frequency of sensitive words--words such as "nuclear" or "White House."
After several days of monitoring, the hacktivists maintained a fairly
mainstream communications vocabulary. For example, while the word
"anarchy" was used 3 times, the word "freedom" was used 64 times. "Hate"
scored a high 75, however it was outranked by "hope" with 138 instances.
Several rare or unusual terms were also employed by the hacktivists at
at least once during their weekend of web use. These include: kiwi,
Fukuyama, and ninja (used 29 times!). Complete statistics appear at the
end of this message.

If you are in search of an effective data collection and analysis
solution, please try Carnivore. From schools to cybercafes to corporate
offices, Carnivore brings meaning to information. Analysis tools are now
available from Cory Arcangel/BEIGE, Mark Daggett, Josh Davis,
Entropy8Zuper! and others. For more information, visit
http://rhizome.org/carnivore

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DIAGNOSTIC TOOL
Trigger Words #2 (a Carnivore Client)

LOCATION
Eyebeam Atelier, 540 W. 21st Street, New York City

DURATION
Start time: 13:57:28 Jan 30, 2002
End time: 23:11:23 Feb 2, 2002

ANALYSIS SUBJECTS
Las Agencias (http://www.lasagencias.net/)
The "bike writer" group from MIT
(http://architecture.mit.edu/~atmarcus/bikewriter/writer.html)
Bureau of Inverse Technology (http://bureauit.org)
Institute for Applied Autonomy (http://www.appliedautonomy.com/)
RTMark (http://rtmark.com)
The Yes Men (http://theyesmen.org/)

TRIGGER WORD USAGE
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Meta 2226
Sport 1151
Cards 975
Chan 826
York 611
Keywords 547
Global 446
Rsta 397
Privacy 369
Erco 326
Tools 282
Virtual 275
Ssor 258
Electron 240
Market 239
Import 232
Package 198
Secure 198
Rail 173
D-11 165
SHAPE 164
Society 161
Mexico 157
Bank 143
Rita 143
Hope 138
Vale 138
Solo 114
SORT 112
Passwd 106
Force 104
Guest 103
Chelsea 98
Jack 97
Mole 96
Angela 89
Contacts 87
Zone 87
Unix 86
Blocks 85
Osco 82
Edition 77
Hate 75
Government 73
Tiger 73
NTIS 72
Football 67
Dictionary 65
Consul 64
Freedom 64
Garbage 64
Qrss 59
Tokyo 58
Virus 56
JAVA 52
Austin 50
Quarter 50
Taiwan 50
Evil 48
Fish 47
Mega 46
Fake 45
Archives 44
Alex 43
Chosen 41
Mania 40
President 40
Resta 40
Smith 40
Cocaine 38
Police 38
South Africa 38
RENS 37
Golf 36
Centro 35
Dead 33
Executive 33
Jasmine 32
Texas 32
White House 32
Credit card 31
Honor 31
Harvard 30
Replay 30
Face 29
Ninja 29
Reno 28
Bronze 27
SERT 27
Nike 26
Bach 23
Beef 23
Buzzer 23
CIDA 23
Gorilla 23
Starr 23
Codes 22
Floss 22
Atlas 21
MSNBC 21
Gatt 20
Panama 20
Military 19
Basement 18
Schloss 18
Asset 16
Illuminati 16
Morgan 16
NASA 16
Threat 16
Aladdin 15
Soros 15
Trump 15
Spook 14
Anonymous 13
Dolch 13
Flame 13
Jackson 13
Rubin 13
Siemens 13
Advise 12
Debugging 12
Kiwi 12
ISEC 11
MISSI 11
NAIA 11
Porno 11
ISSO 10
Mace 10
Toad 10
AT&T 9
Cowboy 9
EADA 9
Stanley 9
DERA 8
ISPE 8
ISTA 8
Rhost 8
Submiss 8
CUSI 7
Fraud 7
JICA 7
Marx 7
Moore 7
Sweep 7
USSS 7
ASIS 6
CISE 6
Clone 6
Embassy 6
Lynch 6
Nuclear 6
Pixar 6
Platform 6
Stephanie 6
Unclassified 6
Baldwin 5
Captain 5
Goldman 5
Iris 5
Morse 5
Nash 5
Smuggle 5
Active X 4
ASIO 4
Bess 4
Cable & Wireless 4
Explicit 4
Gamma 4
LATA 4
Monica 4
Nitrate 4
Roswell 4
SAFE 4
SARA 4
Shelter 4
SLIP 4
Anarchy 3
Badger 3
CCSS 3
Daisy 3
Delta 3
Investigation 3
Larson 3
LITE 3
Maple 3
NIMA 3
Nowhere 3
NSES 3
PCMT 3
Playboy 3
Recon 3
SAAM 3
Tajik 3
Vanuatu 3
Advisors 2
Agfa 2
BECCA 2
Bluebird 2
CBOT 2
Csim 2
DDIS 2
Elvis 2
Embassy 2
IDEA 2
JICC 2
JOTS 2
Montenegro 2
Nuclear 2
Pirg 2
RAID 2
Razor 2
SORO 2
Spoke 2
Sweeping 2
Talent 2
USCODE 2
Varon 2
Yakima 2
Analyzer 1
Armani 1
ASTS 1
BIOL 1
Blackjack 1
Bootleg 1
Burns 1
Canine 1
CCSC 1
Chatter 1
Competitor 1
Dort 1
Encryption 1
Fetish 1
Forschung 1
Freeh 1
Fritz 1
Fukuyama 1
Goodwin 1
GOTS 1
Grom 1
Gulf 1
Hackers 1
HALO 1
Indigo 1
ISAF 1
IWIS 1
Kosovo 1
Lacrosse 1
Lander 1
LLNL 1
Loch 1
Locks 1
Mantis 1
Merlin 1
MOSAIC 1
NCSA 1
NLSP 1
NSAS 1
Ortega 1
OTAN 1
OTAT 1
Peapod 1
Press-release 1
Reflection 1
S511 1
Salsa 1
SARD 1
SART 1
Schengen 1
SFPD 1
Sneakers 1
SSCI 1
STEP 1
T2S2 1
Telex 1
TSCM 1
Veggie 1
VFCT 1
WWSV 1
Yukon 1
ZNI1 1

http://rhizome.org/carnivore
http://www.potatoland.org/blackwhite/
http://www.lasagencias.net/
http://architecture.mit.edu/~atmarcus/bikewriter/writer.html
http://bureauit.org
http://www.appliedautonomy.com/
http://rtmark.com
http://theyesmen.org/

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