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Subject: RHIZOME DIGEST: 5.12.02
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RHIZOME DIGEST: May 12, 2002

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1. Mary West: World New Media Blender--Tuesday, May 14th

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2. c Robbins: METAPET_LAUNCH--5.15.02
3. Chris Byrne: HOST--2 new projects by Luci Eyers and Dane
4. erational: BETACITY.DE contest
5. lorie novak: Collected Visions update

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6. Lev Manovich: 2nd International Bauhaus Award

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Date: 5.9.02
From: Mary West (mary AT rhizome.org)
Subject: World New Media Blender--Tuesday, May 14th

Join Arts International and Rhizome.org for World New Media Blender
featuring Rafael Lozano-Hemmer and I-Sound

Date: Tuesday, May 14th, 2002

Time: 7:00 - 9:00 pm

Location: Arts International AT 251 Park Ave South, 5th Floor (between
20th & 21st), New York City

Cost: Free!

Note: Due to limited seating, for reservations call 212-674-9744 ext.
201 or email blender AT artsinternational.org

Arts International and Rhizome.org are pleased to announce a "World New
Media Blender" event featuring Rafael Lozano-Hemmer, a Mexican-Canadian
electronic artist working in relational architecture, technological
theatre and performance art; and winner of many awards including the
Excellence Award, Media Arts Festival 2000, CG Arts, Tokyo, Japan. Live
music will be performed by I-Sound.

Rafael Lozano-Hemmer will screen video and lecture on his current
"Relational Architecture" projects, including the piece Vectorial
Elevation and other recent interactive installations in public spaces.
VECTORIAL ELEVATION was an interactive art project which allowed
thousands of people from 89 countries to control 18 robotic searchlights
with 126,000 watts of power and link Cyberspace with Mexico's most
emblematic urban landscape. Mexico City's historic center was
transformed by immense light sculptures created by participants on the
Internet using a virtual reality program. A personalized web page was
made for every participant with comments, stats and virtual and real
images of their design from three perspectives.

See more of Rafael Lozano-Hemmer's work at www.lozano-hemmer.com

Also featured is I-Sound, a New York based artist working in the fields
of improvised, electronic music and DJ culture. He works as a solo
performer but has worked with a wealth of musicians in various settings.
He collaborates regularly with Swiss improv trio Koch/Schutz/Studer
under the name Roots and Wires as well as German electronic group To
Rococo Rot. While he does release material through various routes he
also owns two labels, Transparent and Full Watts. With a style that
balances uncompromising experimentalism with healthy doses of populism I-
Sound attempts to bridge the gaps between high and low, academy and
street, chaos and structure. Learn more about I Sound at
www.isoundinfo.com.

The World New Media Blender series is a part of Arts International and
Rhizome.org's ongoing collaboration.

http://www.lozano-hemmer.com
http://www.isoundinfo.com

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2.

Date: 5.11.02
From: c Robbins (cpr AT mindspring.com)
Subject: METAPET_LAUNCH--5.15.02

The Los Angeles public unveiling of Metapet, and launch party for the
world's first transgenic virtual pet game, AT the Museum of Contemporary
Art's PDC Gallery on Wednesday, May 15 from 6:00 PM until 9:00 PM.

What/Who: Metapet is a project by Natalie Bookchin with Jin Lee, Cathy
Davies and Mark Allen of Action Tank (www.action-tank.org) presented by
Creative Time (www.creativetime.org) in association with Hamaca
(www.hamaca.org).

Metapet also features minigames by guest artists including: Plagiarist,
a.k.a. Amy Alexander, Davis & Davis, Carmin Karasic, Jeff Knowlton, Anne-
Marie Schleiner, Naomi Spellman, Karl Mihail and Tran, T. Kim-Trang of
the Gene Genies, and Paul Vanouse.

The LA Metapet Launch is organized by artist/professor Christiane
Robbins, AIM Executive Producer, sponsored by AIM III: Luna Park,
CalArts, located at MOCA, produced by Lisa Lee and Action Tank, with
technical assistance by USC's Matrix Program for Digital Media.

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The Game: http://metapet.net

Are you ready to manage the worker of the future? Biotech innovation
meets corporate creativity and gives birth to a new class of virtual
pet: the Metapet. - Your challenge: discover the right balance between a
firm hand and a gentle coax without ever losing sight of the bottom
line. But here's a word of advice: treat your Metapet with care.
Heedless actions may come back to haunt you when you least expect it!

Metapet, the world's first transgenic virtual pet game is a strategy
game set in a biotechnology company sometime in the near future. The
premise of the game is very simple: players choose the company they want
to be executives of and have to choose a Metapet. These Matapets are a
generation of humans that have been genetically modified along the lines
of the Nexus 6 in Blade Runner. In this case, the genetic determinant
consists of an obedience gene from a trained dog, which has been
designed to create a new class of worker that is much more loyal and
productive then its precursor.

In Metapet, Action Tank playfully takes on three cultural behemoths: the
biotechnology industry, the electronic gaming industry and corporate
culture at large. Creative Time's launch of Metapet marks a new phase in
the evolution of artist-made games and stakes out new territory for
independent, creative practitioners.

http://www.action-tank.org
http://www.creativetime.org
http://www.hamaca.org
http://www.metapet.net

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Leonardo Music Journal (LMJ) 11 includes a double audio CD, "Not
Necessarily 'English Music,'" curated by musician, composer, writer and
sound curator David Toop. The CDs feature pieces from pioneering U.K.
composers and performers from the late 60s through the mid-70s. Visit
the LMJ website at http://mitpress2.mit.edu/Leonardo/lmj/

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3.

Date: 5.9.02
From: Chris Byrne (chris AT CRYPTIC.DEMON.CO.UK)
Subject: HOST--2 new projects by Luci Eyers and Dane

New Media Scotland and Burning Bush present 2 new projects for HOST:
Luci Eyers - cyberskiving
Dane - PassingTime
http://host.mediascot.org

Luci Eyers - cyberskiving

cyberskiving is a collection of favourite non-work related sites visited
by employees during work hours. cyberskiving becomes more difficult as
server software becomes increasingly effective at curbing slack-time
surfing. cyberskiving is searchable either by topic or occupation. The
project is an open, generative system which will develop as cyberskivers
submit information on this covert activity.

Dane - PassingTime

There's never been a better time to have a Panic Attack! Just one of six
ways to pass the time until you get to Point B. You can Fidget, generate
things to do from our wish list database, try keeping your head off the
ground, play a solitaire version of I Spy or see how long you can
balance on one foot.

http://host.mediascot.org

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**MUTE MAGAZINE NEW ISSUE** Coco Fusco/Ricardo Dominguez on activism and
art; JJ King on the US military's response to asymmetry and Gregor
Claude on the digital commons. Matthew Hyland on David Blunkett, Flint
Michigan and Brandon Labelle on musique concrete and 'Very Cyberfeminist
International'. http://www.metamute.com/mutemagazine/issue23/index.htm

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4.

Date: 5.9.02
From: erational (erational AT 0vs1.com)
Subject: BETACITY.DE contest

something in between sim city and the gameboy screen and one week after
that BETACITY.DE relaunch we start BETACITY.DE with that contest.

All user are invited to arrange their version of "BETA TOWN CENTER"

erational exclusively developed for betacity.de this Flash play, which
puts different urbane Tools to the user on the basis of a raster at the
disposal.

Thus the x-box/Game Cube/PlayStation places into the corner, goes on
http://www.betacity.de/game/ and develops your version of BETA TOWN
CENTER.

Do not forget the upload function, in order to secure the developed
works under your name.

Among all participants we draw a feeling property by lots weekend at the
Lac de Constance.

Much fun and los geht's.

http://www.betacity.de/game/

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5.

Date: 5.9.02
From: lorie novak (lorie.novak AT nyu.edu)
Subject: Collected Visions update

COLLECTED VISIONS
http://cvisions.cat.nyu.edu
questioning how photographs shape our memories

Link directly to the CV gallery AT http://cvisions.cat.nyu.edu/gallery
where two exhibitions are on view: Exhibition 14 is a bilingual
collection of stories from a workshop I led last summer at a conference
in Mexico on Memory, Atrocity, and Resistance. Exhibition 15 contains
30 submissions submitted from throughout the world during 2001.

The searchable archive now contains over 2,500 family photographs
donated by hundreds of people. 200 + stories conveying the
psychological, emotional, funny, and often disturbing nature of
photographs are posted throughout the site. Tools are given to submit
your photos and/or stories.

If you haven't visited Collected Visions in awhile, many new images and
stories have been posted. If you have never explored the site, I invite
you to discover the many images that have already been contributed, and
read the stories they inspire

Please visit often, contribute, and let me know what you think.

http://cvisions.cat.nyu.edu
http://cvisions.cat.nyu.edu/gallery

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6.

Date: 5.9.02
From: Lev Manovich (manovich AT ucsd.edu)
Subject: 2nd International Bauhaus Award

CALL FOR ENTRIES

2ND INTERNATIONAL BAUHAUS AWARD

TELE CITY

The Bauhaus Dessau Foundation invites applications for the 2nd
international Bauhaus Award.

SUBJECT: Changes of urban space and public spheres through Information
and Communication Technology. Design of interfaces between "real worlds"
and "virtual worlds", between individuals or space and technology.

CATEGORIES: 1. Architecture and Urban Design. 2. Art and Design. 3.
Scientific and theoretical work.

PROJEKTS: realisations, designs, plans, publications, performances,
essays, researches, studies, concepts etc.

PRIZES: 1st prize 3000.- EUR. 2nd prize 1500.- EUR. 3rd prize 500.- EUR.
In addition, the Bauhaus Dessau Foundation invites the main prize
winners for a 4-week period of residence.

PARTICIPANTS: Designers and scholars born after Sept 1st, 1962 - younger
than 40 years (Individuals and groups)

NO REGISTRATION REQUIRED!

CLOSING DATE: September 2nd, 2002

AWARD CEREMONY: October 26th, 2002

http://www.bauhaus-dessau.de/en/projects.asp?p=award
http://www.bauhaus-dessau.de/

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