:: Saturday, March 13, 2004 ::

The artist Joy Garnett may have a lawsuit against her for using a photo-journalist's image in her painting titled Molotov. What has followed after Garnett made her situation public is a deluge of appropriations and commentaries by net art communities (although Garnett is not revealing the names of the plaintiff or her lawyer -- we know the plaintiff is a woman). Joy Garnett recently updated her "webring" on the Rhizome Raw list; her original post can be found on Rhizome.org's thread: http://rhizome.org/thread.rhiz?
thread=12379&text=23895#23895 Because there currently is no website hosting all of this information. Net Art Review is supplying all the links, as updated by Joy Garnett, listed below:

Molotov Web ring

Info / blogs / + image/s
http://samizdat.manilasites.com/l
http://italy.indymedia.org/news/
2004/03/495780.php
http://feed.etoy.com/p301.html
http://www.neural.it/nnews/
joywar.htm
http://www.lukemelia.com/
http://www.guerrigliamarketing.it/
http://www.guerrigliamarketing.it/
news/news.htm
http://www.murmurs.com/drupal/
?q=import/feed/3
http://www.yo-yoll.net/
http://www.eyebeam.org/
reblog/archives/
000420.html
http://rhizome.org/netartnews/story
.rhiz?timestamp=20040308
http://nathanielstern.com/oldblogs
/2004_03_07_oldblogs
.html#1078765847004533
http://groups.msn.com/
CyberspaceMegaBrains
http://www.ostili.splinder.it
http://www.yougenics.net/griffis/
http://www.culturekitchen.com/
archives/000555.html
http://www.dronecolony.com
http://www.somedancersand
musicians.com/solidarity.html

Info / linking blogs / bbs
http://www.blogigo.de/
wiredtexts/entry/6862
http://www.anti-chambre.net/
blog//archive.php?id=75
http://void.nothingness.org/
archives/situationist/display/
12857?PHPSESSID=b71f5c5
381634e5515cc69a67fec36f6
http://x-arn.org/bim/
http://www.indiesite.com/
http://www.choiresicha.com/
http://www.rekombinant.org/
http://dongresin.katgyrl.com/
http://www.thing-net.de/
cms/wap-d.php
http://radiofreeblogistan.com/
http://www.vojir.com/other/
exf-rynyvayzy.html
http://bbs.thing.net/

Still Images: collage / agitprop
http://www.mirror-site.tk/
http://www.yougenics.net/griffis/
images/JOY_billboard.jpg
http://www.wallcloud.com/
molotovpow.html
http://www.antiexperience.com/
edtang/works/molotov.html
http://www.1-900-870-6235.com/
Images/PeaceInOurHands.jpg
http://www.voyd.com/
joywar/joywar.jpg
http://art-design.smsu.edu
/cooley/molotov/
http://navasse.net/joywar/
http://www.anatomyofhope.net/joy/
http://www.electrichands.com/
shanghai-pepsi.jpg
http://www.voyd.com/
joywar/Index.htm
http://www.rssgallery.com/book.htm
http://www.voyd.com/
joywar/ascii.htm
http://www.robertspahr.com/joy/
http://tinjail.com/joy/

Moving Images / interactive
http://www.furtherfield.org/
cwebb/screenmoments/
molotov.html
http://www.naxsmash.net/
bloodellipse/text/
disastersofwar
(molotov).html
http://www.anti-cham
bre.net/joywar/
http://www.sicplacitum.com
/arte/molotov.htm
http://art-design.smsu.edu
/cooley/molotov/
http://544x378.free.fr/
(WebTV)/html/molotov.html
http://www.gloriousninth.com
/piratesofpenzance.html
http://www.somedancers
andmusicians.com/
Some_QuickTime_Movies/art.mov

Mirror Images
http://www.wallcloud.com/
molotov.html
http://www.twhid.com/
misc/joy/molotov/
http://linkoln.net/molotov.gif
http://www.leewells.org/
joy/Molotov.html


:: Eduardo Navas [+] ::
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Patrick Lichty recently released online his essay "Confessions of a Whitney Biennale Curator," a critical reflection on his role as curator of the Whitneybiennal.com; an online exhibition orginally conceived by Miltos Manetas to critique the Whitney Biennial.

The essay, which is available on his website as a PDF file, explains his personal position as a curator trying to balance the pros and cons of critiquing one of the few museums that consistently features new media projects in important shows.


:: Eduardo Navas [+] ::
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e-maxico is an online exhibition, organized by Arcangel Constatini, featuring online projects by artists of Mexican nationality or whom are living in Mexico. The exhibit focuses on practioners who develop work largely independent of institutional support. Interestingly enough, though, they are now being exhibited by the Museum Rufino Tamayo, which may mean that they could be in transition to being accepted by a wider audience.

The show presents projects by Nuzita.net, Zonadefault.com, dextrafalkat.org, Redcaiman.org, unosunosyunosceros.com, espaciosinaire.com, freegar.org, humanos v01, p-u-a.org, porlotanto.com, and fllanos.com.
:: Eduardo Navas [+] ::
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Golan Levin's The Secret Lives of Numbers was one of the four distinctions in the Net Vision category of the Prix Ars Electronica 2003 yet has been little mentioned since, considering we are a society so obsessed with numbers / data / databases / archiving / searching / retrieving / collating and visualising.

The work is essentially a collection of data retrieved from searching the internet at intervals since 1987 "on the popularity of numbers: by performing a massive automated Internet search on each of the integers from 0 to 1,000,000 and counting the number of pages which contained each, we have obtained a picture of the Internet community's numeric interests and inclinations." Through this "interactive visualization" the resulting "data can be explored point by point, or viewed in larger sets, and may lend some insight into the cognitive structure of numeracy, culture, and memory".

In visualising data such as this patterns become visible, the length of zip codes, the amount of toll free numbers, the correlation between numbers and meaning, such as 90210 the television show or base-2 as used in computing. Whether just for the appreciation of data as abstraction or a comment on societies trends, The Secret Lives of Numbers is a net work well worth seeing.

:: Garrett Lynch [+] ::
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