:: Friday, March 11, 2005 ::

Selected News

That sweet bluetooth keeps going... get your cameras ready: Sony Ericsson’s new Bluetooth controlled camera, ROB-1, can move around freely, steered wirelessly by the joystick or keypad on a compatible mobile phone or the touch screen on Sony Ericsson P900/P910 smartphones.

A brand spanking new version of Linux: In addition, the Xen "hypervisor" virtualization tool is part of the latest release, marking the first time in an official SUSE Linux release a virtualization product will also be included. Xen recently received development backing from IBM.

That bluetooth can leave you blue, after all. Viruses at large, it appears, from Russia, apparently: The threat of mobile phone viruses increased yesterday with the revelation of a mobile phone virus called Commwarrior, which has the potential to spread globally through MMS (Multimedia Messaging Service).

netsurfers in Spain rises by 9.3% in January: El número de usuarios activos en España con acceso a Internet desde el hogar se ha incrementado en un 9,3% interanual, al pasar de 8,21 millones de personas en el enero de 2004 a un total de 8,9 millones en el mismo mes de este año, según revela un estudio de Nielsen/NetRatings.

Cell phones in jerusalem are censored from the net, to keep orthodox Jews from the temptation of accessing indicent sites: Una compañía telefónica israelí lanzó el primer móvil para ultraortodoxos con el que sus usuarios no podrán navegar en Internet, enviar o recibir mensajes instantáneos y tendrán bloqueados los accesos a números "indecentes", como líneas eróticas o servicios de juego y apuestas. Según Times (Vía Canal PDA), el operador MIRS Communications contará con un modelo Motorola que se ajusta a las condiciones impuestas por los rabinos.

In France, an experiment with mobile television is taking place. 200 people are participating, prospects for a massive launch is scheduled for 2007: Limitée à la région parisienne et à environ 200 clients, cette expérimentation de six mois se fera au moyen d'un téléphone mobile Sagem (une version dérivée du My X-8) et permettra de tester la chaîne technique (Diffusion MPEG-4 H.264, contrôle d'accès Viaccess) mais surtout les usages (créneaux horaires, durée, type de programme, interactivité, etc..) en attendant le lancement d'un service commercial à l'horizon 2007.

Internet in Africa (conquering the continent[?]): Internet parte alla conquista del continente africano. Il mezzo scelto dagli operatori di telefonia mobile africani è la tecnologia di terza generazione (3G), grazie alla quale milioni di persone potranno accedere a Internet tramite i propri cellulari. I nuovi servizi, dicono i gestori, consentiranno di usufruire della Rete anche dagli angoli più remoti del continente.
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"Project Features"
http://features.nmartproject.net
is happy to present during March 2005
its third feature:
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Mary Flanagan (USA)
and her interactive netart piece, entitled:
"[six.circles]" (2004).
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[six.circles] is a networked one or two player turn based game which
explores the consequences of cooperation and competition through the
construction of simple geometry objects. Players interact with the game
by construct groups of shapes which eventually are built up into
complete circles, but they do so amidst attacks by virus objects which
invade the community.

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Tamara Lai (Blegium), one of the artist in Arte Nuevo InteractivA'05, has launched this new proyect.

Tamara Lai (Belgica), una de las artista en Arte Nuevo InteractivA'05, ha realizado un nuevo proyecto.

sacrifier le / Sacrifice / sacrificing*

1. don de l'Autre / gift of the Other :: Mots-clés / Key words > catharsys ; purification ; exorcism(e) ; abandon(ment); reno(u)ncement ; separation...
topics :: sacrifices rituels / sacrifices d'enfants : prostitution, pedophilie / travail / avortement / esclavagisme... / ritual sacrifices / sacrifices of children: prostitution / work / abortion / slave system...

2.  don de Soi / gift of Oneself ::Mots-clés / Key words > offrande / offering; oblation ; dévouement / devotion ; volontariat / voluntariate ; amour / love...
topics :: art : art charnel, body art / sacrifice parental / travail / religion : sacerdoce, saints, martyrs / politique : patriotisme, militantisme, attentats-suicide, femmes voilées ... / art: carnal art, body art / parental sacrifice / work / religion : priesthood, saints, martyrs / politic : patriotism, militancy, attack-suicide, buckled women...


sacrifice

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intelligent agent =96 Vol. 4 No. 3: architecture / sound=20
Final installment of articles now available at=20
intelligentagent.com

intelligent agent is published in a modular format:
+Thematic threads=20
Threads of Vol. 4 No. 3:=20
//architecture/
/sound//
+reviews of games, exhibitions, Web projects, books

All content is available in html and as pdf files with layout.
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Museum of the Essential and Beyond, Press Release

1- Launching a new work: STUCK IN MIDDLETOWN

Is is another Summer and Winter Festival piece: "Stuck in Middletown" is a poem, a photo-album and a cartoon. It is a collaborative work between two women: Martha Deed (USA) and me (BR).

2-Launching the museum newsletter's collaborative reviews new series / 2005:

"ELECTRIC GREEN SHEEPS"

The title is a reference to the work of our first analyzed artist - the French artist Isabel Saiji and to Internet with its electric green. This series will show some wonderful women that come standing by their active participation in our virtual world. While examining their works at museum's galleries, we will be knowing their ideas, dreams and actions. Also we will be ratifying that the world of the technology is woman's world today. For now, three women from three different continents will be subject of our review.
And what about the men?... Well...they can not complain because in 2004 we analysed three men works and only one work by a woman! ;-)

So that let's prepare ourselves for talking with Isabel Saiji next April. I am using the word "talking" because I want that the review becomes more opened, that means that anybody can participate. One do not need to cite authors or to be an academic to take part in it, at the same time, it is not forbidden to cite authors or to be an academic for participate. Let's browser
where is Saiji's work at the Museum of the Essential and Beyond That. It will be our review starting point . Also it will be good to browser Saiji's site at www.saij-netart.de/.
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3- A new call:

"FALL AND SPRINGS' SHEEPS PARADE"

We are launching a funny call: the "Fall and Spring's Sheeps
Parade". Send your sheep image, drawing, painting, photo, animation - any kind of sheep: Dolly ( coming back to clonning...), white, fashion, shock pink, electric green, what sheep you imagine, even the famous black sheep will be welcome!

The sheeps deadline will be May 15 th 2005. Send how many sheeps you want, I want to see the Museum of the Essential and Beyond That invaded by a sheeps' herd !!!!! ;-)

Send your sheep to arteonline@arteonline.arq.br , email subject: "sheep"

Project's origin:

http://www.townhall.com/columnists/
maggiegallagher/mg20010822.shtml
http://www.bravoonline.com.br/
impressa.php?edit=ap&numEd=89

Enjoy,

Regina Célia Pinto

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Following Ana Boa's posting on women artists, I recommend Belén Gache, an Argentinian writer who develops hypertext fiction and criticism. In particular I recommend Vampire Women Invade Colonia de Sacramento, and the Language of Birds.
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Celebrating Women this week - one woman a day

Thecla Schiphorst
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Celebrating Women:


Victoria Vesna
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Celebrating women on the week of International Women's Day:


Char Davies
Thecla Schiphorst
Victoria Vesna
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Celebrating women on the week of International Women's Day:


Char Davies
Thecla Schiphorst
Victoria Vesna
:: ana boa-ventura [+] ::
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Celebrating women on the week of International Women's Day:


Char Davies
Thecla Schiphorst
Victoria Vesna
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March 8 - International Women's Day

This week, I am posting short notes about women - their books, thoughts, websites -that I find inspiring.

And, because you can never say it enough... below, some of the issues the U.N. and International Women's Day focus on:

- About 25,000 brides are burned to death by the groom's family each year in India because of insufficient dowries.

- In a number of countries, women who have been raped are sometimes killed by their own families to preserve the family's honor.

- Rape as a weapon of war has been used in Chiapas, Mexico; Rwanda, Kuwait, Haiti, Colombia, Yugoslavia, and elsewhere.
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