:: Friday, September 19, 2003 ::

For those who did not know, the net art open exhibitions were... fake! Below is the explanation from the organizers. Press release:

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ANNOUNCEMENT


Irish Museum of Modern Art website a fake

In 2002 and 2003 the Irish Museum of Modern Art held the Net Art Open exhibitions which many net artists participated in. Well it probably comes as no surprise to find out that irishmuseumofmodernart.com was a fake.

The site was an intervention by Irish artists Arthur X Doyle and Conor McGarrigle conceived as an intervention to protest against IMMA's lack of engagement with net art.

The Net Art Open exhibitions, however, were a real attempt to look at new ways of curating net art in an institutional setting. In order for them to succeed we obviousely couldn't come out and say that it was a fake outright
so we included many, many clues as to the real intent so that artists submitting would know the score. While we had no qualms about conning museum curators this was not an attempt to fool artists. From general feedback we received the fact that it was a fake probably increased participation.

The site is now retired but has been fully archived at Stunned stunned.org/imma which includes the full background to the site, press coverage and site referrer logs.

all the best

Conor

Stunned
http://www.stunned.org
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Atlantic Center for the Arts is not directly related to New Media, but their residency program is such a great opportunity for artists at large that I find it worthwhile to mention their upcoming artist in residence schedule. Visit their info page to find out who will be part of their program this year.
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Are net artists avantgarde? If you compare Ola Pehrson's latest artwork, NASDAQ vocal index 2003, with Igor Stromajer's net art piece Oppera Teorettikka Internettikka from 1999 you are tempted to say yes. Both works show a lot of similarities as the use of choirs to sing code and the presentation in a performance like setting. The only difference is that where Stromeijer's piece is about singing html code, Peherson's is about singing stock market prices. As net artists are more familiar with code (most of them code their work themselves) it is easy to assume that this kind of works will be made sooner by net artists, hence avant garde. This said I still would rather go for the idea that some things are just in the air (zeitgeist). Anyway what you see in both works is the tendency to translate abstract code into a more understandable language. Something we probably will see more in the near future.

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Evolution 2003 a three day international media arts festival taking place from the 9th to the 11th of october in Leeds, England "will look at how artists interfere with, influence and punctuate mass communication systems and media technologies. An international mix of artists will deliver in-depth presentations of their work in the form of film and video screenings, lecture demonstrations and live performances".

Presentations from Cory Arcangel, Matthieu Laurette, Radioqualia and live events from the Surveillance Camera Players and Vector promises to make the event an interesting and varied one. For further information, price details and bookings please see the website.

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Whalelane issue No.8 is out with some really great stuff -- including material from none other than Garrett Lynch (one of Net Art Review's contributing writers). Experience mail story his 2.5 hours audio file piece presenting e-mail correspondence between a man and a woman in different places in the world. The audio file is read by three robotic-like monotone voices representing the man, the woman, and a narrator (who reads the official headers of each e-mail).

An Eerie feeling came over me as I experienced the intimacy that is sensed inbetween the lines of text when these are read out-loud by the voices; such sensibility takes on an unexpected intensity due to the dry monotone quality of the sound signifying a lack of emotion, while the text implies otherwise.

There are eight writers contributing to this issue. The official press release is below:
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Whalelane No. 8 Published

September 16, 2003

The editors of Whalelane are pleased to announce that issue number 8 has been published and is currently available at http://www.whalelane.com

Issue 8 contains writing by Christopher Barnes, R.T. Castleberry, Melanie Faith, Alan Girling, Brandon Shiimoda, and John Sweet.

This issue also includes new media works by Esselia Ferron, Dorothee Lang and Garrett Lynch, as well as books by sculptor Janet Goldner and the landscape paintings of Nina Kuriloff.

Whalelane is a journal of writing, the visual arts, and experimental formats which merge narrative and image. With an eye towards fable, myth, the subliminal and surreal.

For submission guidelines or general information regarding Whalelane, please see "Info" at
whalelane.com
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contexting art's latest installment has been launched. Press release:
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Genetically Modified Culture

artofficial-online.com

Contact: artofficial2@yahoo.com

“The foundation of profitability is superior genetics”Monsanto PR statement 2000

This installment of ACM's Contextin' Art focuses on the relationships between genetic science, information technolog (IT) and culture. As the difference between theoretical science and its commercial application becomes increasingly blurred, the direction of research itself becomes a site of contention. Acknowledging this, the interests of capital continue to develop a culture of consent in all domains. There have been a number of art exhibitions designed to “discuss” the philosophical implications of genetic and information technologies over the past few years. Many of these activities aim the discourse at a metaphysical future that is simultaneously a posthuman utopia and an irreversible destruction of Nature, while deflecting the material and ideological conditions converging in the present. The struggle over genetically modified foods is but one aspect of the current situation that represents capital’s further expansion of power over all aspects of life. The works included here are not rejections of biotechnology or the science of genetics, but are instead offerings of critical engagement with these technologies and the ideologies powering them.

IN THIS ISSUE: Ctheory; Clover Leary; Sonya Rapoport; subRosa; Eugene Thacker; YOUgenics.

Contextin’ Art :: since 2003
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Visit the actual website at http://www.artofficial-online.com


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Artcortigans is currently featuring interviews, online publications as well as net exhibitions. Some of these include:
Interview with Y. BREULEUXPurblue (in PDF) of Y. BREULEUX : .
E. Rogue, "Purblue ou le bleu dé-voilé" to view all the resources of this month visit artcortigans.com. I strongly recommend subscribing to their newsletter.

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A report on Ars Electronica is now available on scene.org
source: Rhizome Raw* (posted by Alex Galloway)

*original post may not be available due to membership requirements.
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This week Turbulence.org releases its spotlight on "Life Support" by Annette Weintraub. Press release:

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Hall for dreamers or impersonal machine? "Life Support" explores the subjective experience of space. It looks at the way in which medical environments affect behavior, perception and healing. [...]

Annette Weintraub is a media artist whose projects embed layered narratives within an variety of architectural constructs. Her work is an investigation of architecture as visual language and the symbolism of space. [...]
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To learn more about this project, please visit Turbulence.org


:: Eduardo Navas [+] ::
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How are your theory chops these days? Well, better get in shape because new action figures of Michel Foucault and Anthony Giddens are fully armed and ready to go into rhetorical battle. Even though the webpage initially may not seem relevant to net art, it is as close as it gets; this page is a conceptual spoof on the theoreticians. I admit I would quickly buy the figures if these were actually available. The page is part of Theory.org.uk, a resource specializing in contemporary theory. And while you are at it, make sure to check out the theory trading cards section.
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Art for Real is making a call for submissions of reviews on current exhibitions anywhere in the world. Art for Real are "an open format platform for the critical review of art, through plain language dialogue" in real / physical spaces. For further information please see the website.

:: Garrett Lynch [+] ::
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Mailinglist nettime-l splits it's list. From now on you can subscribe yourself to nettime-l (the discussion list) and nettime-ann. The last is a list for announcers of things like netart works, events, festivals, etc. The announcers that from this moment on will go to nettime-ann came up till now always in a digested form to the nettime-l subscribers. Just lets not hope that this is just another strategy by the moderators to get rid of all those "unwanted" announcers, for me the most important reason to keep subscribed to nettime. Don't let us forget that nettime, which once started as a list for artists and activists, did this split trick already one time before. This was when they split nettime in a moderated and unmoderated version. The last started after complaints that interesting mail did not make it to the list. Unfortunately a short while after it's introduction the unmoderated version developed into a sort of email ghetto. It was killed not so long ago by the nettime team because of too much spam.


:: Peter Luining [+] ::
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Here are the additions to the New Media Fix:

Mediachannel.org, an excellent resource for media news at large.

dmoma.org, a new resource that was actually launched in June of 2003.

The recommended fix of the week is inmerso at Museo Tamayo
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