:: Saturday, November 01, 2003 ::

14th and 15th of November 2003, between 11AM and 6PM each day, the DMZ MEDIA ARTS FESTIVAL will take place at Limehouse Town Hall, Limehouse, London, England "in celebration of media arts practice in London's DMZ (demilitarized zone) - the public spaces, markets, parks and dives characterised by gift economies, open sources and free networks advocating self-provision of information and infrastructure".

Participants include Thomson and Craighead, the Bureau of Inverse Technlogy, Amy Cunningham, Furtherfield, Simon Faithful, Hi8us, Mute Magazine, onedotzero, Pirate TV, SPC, Talkaoke, and many more. For further information please see the website.

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Following on from the announcement posted on the 27/09/03 about seminars at the Tate in London, England on the topic of "When New Media Was New" - you can now find archived webcasts of talks given by Jasia Reichardt, Christiane Paul and Peter Weibel at this url.

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Variablemedia releases its latest feature:
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variablemedia Press Release 09
For Immediate Release 30th October 2003

"Every Environment is Text-Rich #4" by Brooke A. Knight
From 2nd November 2003 at variablemedia
Further information at variablemedia.info

Variablemedia is pleased to announce it's forthcoming project "Every Environment is Text-Rich #4" by the artist Brooke A. Knight. Starting on the 2nd of November at www.variablemedia.org this project will expand and develop over a three month period. Filtering live webcam images and texts through database programming "Every Environment is Text-Rich #4" will elaborate on Brooke's investigations through digital media ofvisual and textual interpretations of landscape.

This project will use live webcam images selected from personal 'cams submitted by viewers and other sources. Those submitting their webcam's feed will be asked to point their 'cam "out the window" capturing the environment which forms the backdrop to where they live or work. Submissions should also include a short text, describing this captured landscape.

:: Eduardo Navas [+] ::
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Computer Fine Arts presents its latest addition:
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'Memex' by Mark Lafia

memex/ internet pioneer/ ibiblio.org
'Vannevar Bush was never directly involved with the creation or development of the Internet. He died before the creation of the World Wide Web. Yet many consider Bush to be the Godfather of our wired age often making reference to his 1945 essay, "As We May Think." In his article, Bush described a theoretical machine he called a "memex," which was to enhance human memory by allowing the user to store and retrieve documents linked by associations. This associative linking was very similar to what is known today as hypertext. Indeed, Ted Nelson who later did pioneering work with hypertext credited Bush as his main influence (Zachary, 399). Others, such as J.C.R. Licklider and Douglas Englebart have also paid homage to Bush.'

Mark Lafia - Memex

Lafia related site:
ambientmachines.com

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Yet another promising resource makes its way through the esoteric network:

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www.mad03.net

"We would like to offer you a platform of digital art magazines, where we can present an ample catalogue of all the web sites in which creative people look for new ways and means of artistic experimentation, production and distribution.

We use the term "net magazine" in an very wide sense here; all sorts of attempts to create a new support, medium, new formats for disseminating digital artistic creation in Internet fit in."


SELECTED WORKS:

> Amsterdam Editions
> Saved by the belles
> Appendix
> Karenina.it
> New Media Art Project Network
> Iamstatic
> Museu do Essencial e Do Além Disso (Museum of the Essential and Beyond That)
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How fake is fake? Ask 0101, or is it 01010? or, well... Below is the official announcement (and while you are at it reconsider the idea of the 'fake' as entertained at nettime):

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FOR SALE: 0100101110110101.ORG


As of today, 0100101110110101.ORG gives up control over its own Internet domain name and associated website and E-Mail addresses. http://www.0100101110110101.org now points to an advertisement page of a Internet domain reseller from where it can be purchased for an estimated price of EUR 10,000.

0100101110110101.org as it had previously operated from this URL will cease to exist as soon as the domain will have been sold, and will stop its public interventions over artistic politics. The E-Mail addresses of 0100101110110101.org will be open to any use of their future owners. People contacting us personally will receive a copy of this text.

With its interventions, 0100101110110101.org aimed to make institutions less solid and tenable, and demoralize people who would otherwise fail to have their beliefs called into question. On all these counts, 0100101110110101.org considers its past work a success. On the other hand, there has been a momentum, internal and external, to
assimilate 0100101110110101.org into the production logic of the art system. By ultimately selling out, 0100101110110101.org will both affirm and end this status quo.

WE WANT BUSINESS WITH YOU. RECUPERATE US.
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This is a call for submissions for an exhibition entitled "Sequences" to be shown from the 27 November 2004 to 23 January 2005 (yep a whole year away!) initially in Peterborough, England and then nationally, possible internationally.

"The exhibition will aim to answer two questions. Can we gain insights into the use of sequential images in contemporary digital art by re-examining chronophotography and pre-cinema? Do we gain a better understanding of chronophotography and pre-cinema by re-assessing their histories from a current perspective? The exhibition will show work that uses sequences of images to explore ideas of time, movement, duration and space."

The deadline is the end of November 2003, for more information see the website or contact Paul St George.

:: Garrett Lynch [+] ::
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No additions to the new media fix this week.

The recommended fix of the week is the red project, an amazing resource for new media and art related exhibitions and conferences, brought to you by Michael Mandiberg.
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