[spectre] Conference about the art of (online) collaboration
Trebor Scholz
treborscholz at earthlink.net
Fri Apr 16 05:17:39 CEST 2004
-for immediate release-
Geert Lovink & Trebor Scholz
invite you to:
>networks, art, & collaboration<
a two-day Brechtian play
April 24 - 25, 2004
http://freecooperation.org
In a high-energy context this conference will bring together artists,
designers, musicians, activists, art historians and engineers in formats
such as workshops, parties, performances, interviews, and brain
storming sessions ‹ all aiming at ongoing collaborations, genuine dialogue,
and the exchange of knowledge. The aim of the conference is to get a deeper
understanding of the dynamics of collaboration, models of critical web-based
art, and the role media technologies play in the making of social networks.
Laugh, learn, argue, dance, discuss, eat, celebrate dissent, make new
friends, and meet future collaborators.
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--held at the Department of Media Study
The State University of New York at Buffalo
>Prologue: Ignite the Flames of Collaboration<
THURSDAY April 22
8pm
Hallwalls Contemporary Art Center
2495 Main Street, Suite 425 Buffalo
event with Jenny Perlin (Sarah Lawrence College),
Laura McGough (Washington, DC),
Trebor Scholz, and Christoph Spehr (Bremen)
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>FRIDAY APRIL 23<
7pm
LOCATION: DMS 286 and CFA balcony
House Warming with
Launch of FreeCooperation Publication
This will be an opportunity to introduce yourself.
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>SATURDAY APRIL 24<
<Warning: Sessions could end later, or earlier, than announced in the
program depending on the debate.>
10- 10:15 am
LOCATION: NSC 205
>HELLO WORLD<
Geert Lovink & Trebor Scholz
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Try1
10:20 am - 11:30am
LOCATION: NSC 205
>The role of the network in the collaboration of women media practitioners.<
Collaborating as a heterogeneous without goal?
The exclusivity of the women only approach.
FACES (Vali Djordjevic; Berlin, Germany)
Genderchangers (Kristina Clair; Philadelphia, Amsterdam)
GuerillaGirlsBroadband
J3 (Jane Crayton, Jessica Leber, Jennifer Peterson
University of Colorado at Bolder)
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Try 2
10:20- 11:30am
LOCATION: NSC 216
>Open Content Initiatives, Reusability, Archives, & Shared Authority<
By making our creative works available for reuse, we open our works to
improvement, elaboration, and re-articulation by others. What role does
attribution play in the creation of such reusable projects?
Benjamin Mako Hill (Free/Open Source Software developer, Seattle)
Blips Team (blips.tk)
blips.tk is a collaborative online open history project that seeks to
archive and reflect critically on "creative dark matter."
(blips is Brian Holmes, Tom Leonardt, Trebor Scholz, Gregory Sholette, Orkan
Telhan)
Alan Moore (art historian, creator of ³collectivities² site, NYC)
working on the history of art collectives in NYC since the 1970s
Laura McGough (Washington, DC)
Collaborative archives: state of archives in the Us based on her work as a
program specialist at the National Endowment Arts Council, examination and
re-examination of structuring and distributing data
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Try 3
10:20am - 11:30am
LOCATION: NSC 218
>Tactical Media from the Masses<
Can tactical media be used as an instrument of education?
How can a means of media empowerment for minorities (or silent majorities),
for those who cannot express their own voice, become a form of practical and
critical pedagogy?
Ricardo Rosas (Brazilian Tactical Media Lab)
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Break 11:30 - 11:45am
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Try 4
11:45am - 1:30pm
Location: Art 144
>Self-Organized Educational Attempts, Free Universities, "Anti-Universities"<
Moderator: Trebor Scholz
Dr. Alan O¹Connor, Free Anarchist University Toronto
Stefan Roemer (New Media Department, Akademie der Bildenden Künste, Munich)
Katherine Carl, Srdjan Normal (School of Missing Studies, NYC)
The knowledge that slips through traditional and singular disciplines seems
to flow freely in an unbound space and networks, however it takes a
collaborative and experimental practice to excavate it, sort of scout for
it, rather than wait for it.
Saul Albert (janitorial duties, University of Openess:
³No tuition fees! No objectivity! No success!²)
Martin Lucas (Hunter College, Manhattan Neighborhood Network,
Paper Tiger TV)
Ricardo Rosas (Brazilian Tactical Media Lab)
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Try 5
11:45am - 1:30pm
LOCATION: NSC 222
>Streaming Game<
Play the conference-wide, conference-long Streaming Game in the gaps
between sessions; seek out the Streaming Game and make it your weekend
obsession; then gather to hear the outcome of collaborative artistic play
in this culminating discussion group.
McKenzie Wark (The New School)
Susan Laxton (Columbia University)
Rachel Stevens (Brown University)
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Try 6
1:00pm - 5pm
LOCATION: DMS 238
>THE ART OF COOPERATION<
How do collaborations survive? How can collaborations manage the
egos of their constituent parts? What models of group interaction did you
find most successful? Are we moving towards a social model that is more
collective/distributed or merely nodal? Would you consider the Borg from
Star Trek, a collective or a hive mind? What sort of art would they create?
How is this analogous to exquisite corpse groups online such as Sito.org?
>a 4 hour Talkathron<
between Patrick Lichty (Intelligent Agent, Rtmark, YesMen)
& Nathan Martin (Carnegie Mellon University, Carbon Defense League):
1 Room, 2 speakers, 8 spectators at a time
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Try 7
11:45am - 1:30pm
LOCATION: NSC 218
>Geert Lovink in dialogue with Christoph Spehr<
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Try 8
11:45am - 1:30pm (continues during break)
LOCATION: DMS 232
>Rachel Stevens Workshop<
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Lunch Break
1:30- 2:30pm
LOCATION: DMS 286
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Try 9
2:30pm - 3:30pm
LOCATION: NSC 205
>GROOVE LISTENING <
A monologue by Kurt Weibers (www.globalpointstrategies.com)
Nicolas Bourriaud¹s ³relational aesthetics² filtered through Kurt Weiber's
career as an organizational behaviorist, brand designer and motivational
speaker.
Weibers interviewed hundreds of workers, at corporations around the world,
and finding, in the gaps of what they are saying, a collaborative identity,
a pattern of
transmission, a temporal formalism, a relational aesthetic.
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Try 10
2:30pm - 5:00pm
LOCATION: DMS 232
>Models for collaboration<
How can trans-local student collaborations serve as wider model?
Jon Rubin (SUNY Purchase) http://rachel.ns.purchase.edu/~jrubin/
Stephanie Rothenberg (SUNY Buffalo)
Andrea Polli (Hunter College)
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Try 11
2:30pm - 3:30pm
LOCATION: NSC 218
>The Bonnie Parker Junior Show<
Host: Stephanie Rothenberg as Bonnie Parker Junior
Guests:
Brian Holmes as utopian
Christoph Spehr as the sci-fi filmmaker
Critical Art Ensemble as scientists
Tony Conrad as Paul Schaefer on the phonarmonica
Call-ins from: Sara Diamond (The Banff Centre) - unconfirmed
Los Cybrids
Page Sarlin (School of the Art Institute of Chicago)
Trevor Paglen (UC Berkley)
Lucia Sommer (University of Rochester)
Also starring: Jörg Windszus aka Windy (Bremen)
Uche Nduka (poet and activist, Nigeria/ Germany)
Suse Lang (DASH, co-organizer NEURO conference, Munich)
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Break 3:30pm - 3:40 pm
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Try 12
3:40pm - 5:30pm
LOCATION: NSC 216
>Groups and Spaces<
Access Community Space Buffalo (Loren Sonnenberg)
16BeaverGroup (Ayreen, Rene Gabri; NYC)
FACES
Gregory Sholette (PAD/D, REPOhistory)
Wolfgang Staehle (The Thing, NYC)
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Try 13
3:40pm - 5:30pm
LOCATION: DMS 235
>Social Network Architectures<
What kinds of tools can we design or use to facilitate collaboration?
How does the creative process mirror the network? How can tools generate
knowledge? What is missing in these tools? How we design these tools go
beyond shatter?
Eric Goldhagen (Open Flows, Interactivist, ABC NoRio)
Amanda Hickman (www.lincproject.org)
Box of Tools for online Collaboration: from mailing lists, web servers,
blogs, voice over ip, SILC, wikis
J3
Jane Crayton, Jessica Leber, Jennifer Peterson (University of Colorado at
Bolder)
John Duda (Johns Hopkins University)
syndicating content across the indymedia network, a look at using RSS to
automate collaborative content sharing for activist media
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Try 14
3:40pm - 5:30pm
DMS 244
>Distributed Cocktail Focus Group<
by Sarah Lewison (UCSD)
The down side of collaborating: subjectivities and psychology,
institutional memory, disappearance,provenance. Is there an afterlife?
What happens to acknowledgement when bad art becomes good social
practice?
This experimentally structured session on economic support systems for
collaborations, including plans for a network of aging artists retirement
homes will be discussed while enjoying gin rickeys.
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Try 15
LOCATION: DMS 232
Film Screening
8:00pm 11:00pm
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>DANCE<
-->2 PICKUP TIMES
7:15pm and 8:15pm
Yellow School Bus to SOUNDLAB: in front of College of Arts
7.15pm to Soundlab
8.15pm to Soundlab
>TURNTABILIST COLLABORATION @ SOUNDLAB<
>Tim Jaeger & Jorge Nava<
(University of California San Diego)
7:45pm
This piece, as database cinema focuses on digital ethnography of San Diego
to border regions around the world. Using custom patches max msp jitter this
performance revolves around narratives of politically charged footage
with sound introduced into the dance floor environment of Soundlab.
>Los Nukiis<
9:00pm - 11:30pm
New York-based electronica duo Los Nukiis will explore
the sonic trans-border landscape with their own blend
of downtempo electro-cumbia.
-->RETURN: to hotel
11:00pm
last pickup-- 12:00pm
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<Disclaimer: conference activities may include,
but are not limited to nudity>
>SUNDAY APRIL 25th<
Swimming, Sauna, Steam Room
(bring swim suit and cape)
9:00am 10:30am
Alumni Arena
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Probe 1
11:00am 1:30pm
LOCATION: NSC 205
>Collaborative Authorship, Collective Writing, E.Poetics<
Digital writing is wide-open in just about any way you want. Writing
transforms digital media, and is transformed by them. Everything¹s up
for grabs, including reader, writer, code, text, reception, author,
and authority. Anyone can play.
Sandy Baldwin (West Virginia University)
Simon Biggs (Sheffield Hallam University/ University of Cambridge, UK)
Maria Damon (University of Minnesota)
Loss Pequeño Glazier (SUNY at Buffalo)
Alan Sondheim (Brooklyn)
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Probe 2
11:00am 1:30pm
LOCATION: NSC 216
>Open Source / Free Software Sampling for Situations of Learning<
Demo session of open source software for PC and MAC for situations of
learning moderatored by Paul Vanouse. The goal of this session is to demo
open source/ free software and create an open access archive of ready to use
software (Cygwin, GNU software for Windows, Blender, Gimp, Open office, bit
torrent)
with Patrick Lichty, Shawn Rider, Nathan Martin, Chris Coleman, Tom
Leonhardt, Saul Albert, Benjamin Macko Hill, Mike Bouquard, Don Jacobs
(CATE), Sher Doruff, Arjen Keesmaat (DeWaag, Amsterdam), Alan Sondheim
(Brooklyn)
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Probe 3
11:00am - 1:30pm
LOCATION: NSC 218
>Critical collaborative artistic practices in the networks<
Horit Herman Peled (Oranim College; Tel Aviv, Israel)
collaboration - a problematic concept
(The Checkpoint Watch case)
Anna Harding (Chair, Creative curating program at Goldsmiths College;
London, UK)
Marie-Christiane Mathieu (Montreal)
web stream: Jon Ippolito (Associate Curator of Media Arts at the Guggenheim
Museum / Joline Blais (Professor of New Media at the University of Maine)
demo:
Pool
A project of the University of Maine's Still Water program, The Pool is a
collaborative online environment for creating art, code, and texts. In place
of the single-artist, single-artwork paradigm favored by the overwhelming
majority of documentation systems, The Pool stimulates and documents
collaboration in a variety of forms, including multi-author, asynchronous,
and cross-medium projects. We are training revolutionaries--not by
indoctrinating them with dogma but by exposing them to a process in which
sharing is the norm rather than hoarding.
Barbara Lattanzi (www.wildernesspuppets.net)
The interrupting annotator: Demo of New Genre Software work-in-progress
Streaming video online
Michael Frisch (SUNY at Buffalo)
Activating the database: "Telling Lives"
public self-activated oral history recording
Sher Doruff, Arjen Keesmaat (DeWaag, Amsterdam)
global network streaming practices at DeWaag
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Probe 4:
11:00am - 12:00pm
Art 144
>PDPal Walkabouts<
PdPAL encourage collaborative storytelling. We provide a tool and set of
inspirations that groups of map maker/storytellers deploy. Each group member
is assigned to lead a task for the group - guide, observer, recorder. The
collaboration of guiding, seeing, and recording challenge in the most basic
way our assumptions about how we navigate, perceive, and name the world
around us. The goal of this workshop is to develop graphic as well as
technical strategies for creating effective maps for the next iteration of
PDPal which will utilize cell phones.
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Probe 5
11:00am - 2:30pm
LOCATION: DMS 235
>Experiments in Radio Topographies<
by Neurotransmitter & Ricardo Miranda Zuniga
In 1932, Bertolt Brecht claimed that the "radio is one-sided when it should
be two-. It is purely an apparatus for distribution, for mere sharing out.
So here is a positive suggestion: Change the apparatus over from
distribution to communication. The radio would be the finest possible
communication apparatus in public life, a vast network of pipes."
Unfortunately, over the seventy-four years since Brecht's treatise little
has changed in radio usage, quite the opposite, the radio waves have been
hijacked by corporate entities, largely with the aid of the Federal
Communications Council (FCC), a governmental group once intended to protect
independent radio programming.
However, the history of radio is global, diverse and contentious. Radio
presents a history of corporate power, civil intervention, revolutionary
resistance, community advocacy. It is these various histories that will be
addressed by the participants of "Experiments in Radio Topographies," in
which participants will be asked to investigate and then discuss these
histories in a dispersed format, rather than a centralized panel and
audience discussion. The panel action will be transmitted live on the
free103point9 net radio station:
http://www.screwmusicforever.com/free103/freemenu.html
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Break 12:00pm - 12:10pm
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Probe 6
12:10pm - 1:30pm
LOCATION: Art 144
>Dreaming in the Hammock of Resistance. The Imaginaries of Free Cooperation<
Dialogue: a collaborative Presentation by Brian Holmes and Trebor Scholz
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Probe 7
12:10pm - 1:30pm
LOCATION: Art 136
>Technical Run Through: Data-Programming for Community<
with Holly Johnson & Paul Visco
Do you know how to write html but now want learn how to use open source
tools for databases (php, mysql) for your collaborative projects? Holly
Johnson will address the creation of data models in the use of data-base
driven tools for collaboration. How do you streamline data for
collaboration?
Paul Visco will demonstrate the use of these tools in his online local
community initiative elmwoodstrip.com
This introduction will be followed by a basic two-hour workshop:
creating forms that speak to databases. Holly and Paul will answer
particularly technical questions about structuring databases in this
context.
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Probe 8
12:10pm 1:00pm
LOCATION: NSC 222
>VENDETTA THE ACADEMIC SUPERMODEL PART II<
Performance by Katrien Jacobs (Emerson College), Eugene Tan (Emerson
College) and Maurice Methot (Emerson College)
Vendetta will collect audio clips and reflect upon your live conference
presentations.
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Probe 9
12:10pm - 1:30pm
LOCATION: DMS 244
>Expression of Women Through Pixels<
J3 Jane Crayton, Jessica Leber, Jennifer Peterson (University of Colorado at
Bolder)
*Keyworkx Jam
Keyworkx jam as a virtual collaborative web-based art presentation.
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Probe 10
12:10pm 1:30pm
Location: DMS 232
>The Elastic Test Project (workshop)<
Rozalinda Borcila (Cluj-Napoca, Romania)
The Elastic Test Project is an on-going series of performances developed
collaboratively as interventions into the normative cultural definitions of
"citizen" and "foreigner", by critically re-interpreting immigration and
naturalization in various locations.
This workshop outlines, and set into practice, some of the methods employed,
considering the process of developing the intervention, as well as the ways
in which each individual participant negotiated their roles in the game
structure.
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Lunch Break
1:30pm - 2:30pm
LOCATION: DMS 286
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Probe 11
2:30pm - 3:50pm
LOCATION: NSC 205
>Collaborations between Artists and Scientists<
Interdisciplinarity and Collaboration
What does it mean to successfully collaborate in an
art/sci context (ie. experimental bio-info-edu-tainment)?
Critical Art Ensemble
Paul Vanouse (SUNY At Buffalo)
Claire Pentecoste (School of the Art Institute of Chicago, unconfirmed)
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Probe 12
2:30pm - 3:50pm
LOCATION: DMS 235
>Who says artists can't organize?<
Simon Sheikh (Nordic Institute For Contemporary Art; Helsinki, Finland)
ARTIST UNIONS. Who is afraid of artists?
Georg Schoelhammer (editor, Springerin Magazine for Contemporary Art,
Vienna (Austria)/ magnet magazine network)
Janis Demkiw (Fuse Magazine, Toronto)
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Probe 13
2:30pm - 3:50pm
LOCATION: NSC 216
>DreamYourCooperation<
The ABC's of Collaboration. Collaborate or Die?
Robinson Crusoe, the Lonely Island, the beauty of consensus,
new emergent identities, mutual benefit, peer pleasure, variable durations,
scale. What about individual gain?
Setting: a room full of people are given questions-
What are flexible if/else statements or flow charts of collaboration?
What are key points of collaboration? Focus versus specificity in the
creation of collaboration, how to involve people, scale in
collaboration, working conditions, division of labor, credit economy
Within two hours a 15 minute video piece is created by all participants in
the workshop. Alternatively groups could create drawings, flow charts or
puppet plays. These results are given to the conference organizers for
addition to DVD or archive.
Mike Steventon (Mike Steventon (former chairman of the board; Interaccess,
Toronto/ and DespiteTV (London, UK), SENSBUS collaborative installation
using micro processors, coordinator/ co-creator of Art Interface Device
(AID), an open source collaborative tool for artists.
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Probe 14
2:30pm - 3:50pm
LOCATION: DMS 232
>Collaborative Story-Telling Workshop<
by Jessica Hammer (game developer, NYC) and Elizabeth Knipe:
Creation and reflection about the writing of a story guided by several
different sets of rules of distribution of authority.
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Probe 15
2:30pm - 3:50pm
LOCATION: DMS 244
>Collaborative project under construction<
Carbon Defense League (Pittsburgh)
END THE BOREDOM! DEVIANCE IN ART.
MapHub
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Break 3:50pm - 4:00pm
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4:15pm 5:00pm
>Forum<
moderated: Geert Lovink / Trebor Scholz
All participants attend, sessions report, summary
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>SQUEAKY WHEEL<
7pm
175 Elmwood Avenue
Buffalo, NY
(716) 884-7172
Screening followed by discussion of works by Termite TV at Squeaky Wheel
collective working philosophy, self- and group promotion, sustainability,
consensus and aesthetic integrity
The five members/directors Termite TV Collective (www.termite.org) was
founded in 1991. How is the working styles and evolving collaborative
philosophy reflected in the changing aesthetic of the collective's video
work?
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>MONDAY APRIL 26<
7pm
EPILOGUE-- Post-conference Event
>THE THING<
601 West 26th Street
New York, New York 10001
Tel: 212-937 0443
Email: info at thing.net
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>CONFERENCE REGISTRATION<
Friday night, and all day Saturday and Sunday: $40 (for food - paid by
participants in cash)
Tee Shirts et more at central office desk of the provisional organizing
committee
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>Performance Caroline Koebel<
Baby Hours: LOCATION: DMS 248
Saturday 1:30pm 2:30pm, 5-6pm Sunday
10am - 11am, 1:30pm 2:30pm
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>Josephine Anstey/ Dave Pape Lab<
LOCATION: DMS 266
>VR, Networking and Collaboration<
Saturday and Sunday Info and sign up:
http://www.ccr.buffalo.edu/anstey/VSTUDIO/nac
April 24 & 25 11:00 - 12:00
Experiments in VR Whose Streets - Chris Outlaw, Richard Wetzel (UB) The
Trail The Trail - Josephine Anstey, Dave Pape, Stuart Shapiro, Vikranth Rao,
Orkan Telhan, Trupti Devdas Nayak, Paul Visco (UB)
1:00 - 3:30
MetaSpace - Chris Galbraith, Ivan Itchkawich, Adrian Levesque(UB) Aural Map
- Dan Neveu (UB)
4:00 - 5:30
Networked VR (VR networked between Buffalo,
Indiana and Chicago) PAAPAB - Josephine Anstey, Dave Pape, Dan Neveu (UB)
Beat Box - Margaret Dolinsky, Edward J. Dambik, Mitja Hmeljak, Nicolas
Bradley (Indiana University)
Looking for Water - Dan Sandin, Laurie
Spiegel (EVL) Rutopia - Daria Tsoupikova, Alex Hill, Julieta Aguilera,
Helen-Nicole Kostis, Tina Shah (EVL) Julieta Aguilera, Seung Kang,
Helen-Nicole Kostis, Tina Shah, Geoffrey Allan Baum, Damin Keenan, Alex Hill
(EVL)
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>CEED<
Location: DMS lounge area
Exhibition exploring the process of exchange between designers and
community.
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>Screening: ³Studio on The Street²<
by Tony Conrad
Location: DMS 239a
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>This research initiative was made possible by the support of:<
Center for Applied Technologies in Education,
The Office Of The Vice President For Research (UB),
Springerin (Hefte für Gegenwartskunst), c magazine, Edward H. Butler Chair
in the Department of English and Neural Magazine (Italy), The Department of
Media Study, the College of Fine Arts and Sciences.
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image report and FC_logs will follow
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>contact:<
geert at xs4all.nl
treborscholz at earthlink.net
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>Description of Groups / Biographies of Participants<
(incomplete)
16 Beaver Group
www.16beavergroup.org
16 Beaver Group is located in downtown Manhattan
and has established itself as a place for artists, activists, curators,
critics and others who are interested in initiating and maintaining an
ongoing space and time for the practice and discussion of contemporary
art, theory, and politics. The topics discussed come directly out of
the interests or projects of the participants.
Josephine Anstey
jranstey at buffalo.edu
Josephine Anstey is a Virtual Reality artist, with a background in video
art and prose fiction. Her main research focus is creating interactive VR
drama. Her VR work includes PAAPAB, The Thing Growing, and The Multi Mega
Book in the CAVE. These works have shown at festivals and museums in the US,
Europe and Japan. She is an assistant professor at the Department of Media
Study, University at Buffalo.
Sandy Baldwin
charles.baldwin at mail.wvu.edu
Sandy Baldwin directs the Center for Literary Computing at West Virginia
University. Some topics of his recent publications includes: digital
literature, code poetics, the nemotechnics of user interfaces,
nanotechnology, crash test dummies, Paul Virilio, Arakawa and Gins. He
creates and performs his own work, and with the improvisational
collaborative Purkinge (aka 9 Way Mind) and the Atlanta Poets Group.
Joline Blais
jblais at maine.edu
Fiction writer Joline Blais is Asst. Prof. of New Media at UMaine and
co-founder of Still Water for network art and culture. She previously
directed Digital Media Studies at NY Polytechnic University and launched
media studies in SCPS at NYU. Blais' research and creative work explores new
narrative forms, and includes forthcoming _The Edge of Art_, and _Sorties_,
a recently completed novel.
Blips.tk
info at blips.tk
Blips are temporary departures from familiar experience. Based on the
concept that the majority of cultural activity in our post-industrial
society remains invisible to the institutions and discourses -critics, art
historians, collectors, dealers, museums, curators and arts administrators-
who manage and interpret contemporary culture, blips.tk is a collaborative
online project that seeks to archive and reflect critically on this
"creative dark matter." This open history project contains a database of
multimedia submissions, selected essays that reflect on issues raised by
this content, as well as a web log for critical debate. We encourage
individuals and organizations to submit artwork, ideas, documents, and
information of a wide variety that belongs to this shadow realm of
creativity. The domain is registered on the island of Tokelau, 480 km north
of Western Samoa. (blips is Brian Holmes, Tom Leonhardt, Trebor Scholz,
Gregory Sholette, Orkan Telhan)
Tony Conrad
conrad at buffalo.edu
Tony Conrad teaches video at UB. He was associated with the founding of both
"minimal" music and "underground" cinema. His film "The Flicker" is a key
"structural" film. He performs his music, primarily for amplified violin, in
the US and internationally. His video work has been shown internationally.
In the early 1990s he worked with several collectives in Buffalo producing
work for public access cable television.
Wendy Hui Kyong Chun
Wendy_Hui_Kyong_Chun at brown.edu
Wendy Chun teaches digital media theory at Brown University. She is
currently completing _Control and Freedom_ (forthcoming MIT 2005),
co-editing _New Media, Old Media_ (forthcoming Routledge 2004), and starting
a new project on the history of code. She has been a fellow at the
Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study and currently holds a Wriston
Fellowship from Brown.
Critical Art Ensemble
CriticalArt at cs.com
Critical Art Ensemble (CAE) is a collective of four tactical media
practitioners of various specializations including computer graphics and web
design, wetware, film/video, photography, text art, book art, and
performance. Formed in 1987, CAE¹s focus has been on the exploration of the
intersections between art, critical theory, technology, and political
activism.
Valie Djordjevic
valid at faces-l.net
Valie Djordjevic lives in Berlin where she is active on the fringes of art
and media. She is a member of mikro e.V. <www.mikro.org>, a Berlin based
association examining the facets of media culture and list coordinator for
the FACES mailing list <faces-l.net>. She works in different contexts Å0É2
writing, lectures, organizing events - on the topics of gender, networking,
information and art.
Michael Frisch
mfrisch at buffalo.edu
Professor, History & American Studies, UB; Principal, Randforce
Associates--developing digital indexing for audio/video oral history
documentation, and related applications; Author: A Shared Authority, Essays
on the Craft and Meaning of Oral and Public History; and Portraits in Steel
(with photographer Milton Rogovin)--hoto portraits/oral histories of Buffalo
steelworkers, before and after deindustrialization(Oral History Association
Book Prize, 1993-95) ; President, American Studies Association (2000-2001).
Sher Doruff
sher at waag.org
Sher Doruff is currently creative director of the Sensing Presence
department of the Waag Society/for old and new media in Amsterdam, and a
core member of the development team of KeyWorx. She is also a digital artist
and doctoral student with the London Institute/CSM researching collaborative
performance methods. She also heads the Augmented Performance Practice
module of the Dance Unlimited MA program in the Netherlands.
John Duda
john at manifestor.org
Besides his current position as a PhD candidate in the Humanities Center at
Johns Hopkins University (where he is researching the historical and
epistemological issues posed by the problematic intersections of the
scientific and the political), John Duda has collaborated actively on the
electronic underpinnings of the global social revolution. During a three
year stint in Amsterdam, he was a part of the ASCII(http://scii.nl) computer
collective and helped run its squatted free-internet/free-software cafe. He
has been a contributor to various indymedia technical efforts since 2000,
most recently helping to develop the open source Mir software
(mir.indymedia.org) and implementing the FTAA IMC web site(ftaaimc.org).
He is the maintainer of the techcoop.info project, which offers a database
of
noncapitalist technology initiatives.
Rene Gabri
renegabri at 16beavergroup.org
Rene Gabri, Iranian-Armenian, born in Tehran, moved to Athens, then Los
Angeles, now based in New York. His solo projects, are largely based around
the mediums of film, video, audio and text. He has been exploring a broad
range of topics including cities, memory, confession, popular culture,
television, music and issues related to in-between-ness and drifting in
general. In addition, to his solo projects, he has been involved with and
initiated a broad range of collaborative situations and frameworks.
At the conclusion of the Whitney MuseumÅ0Ç8s Independent Study Program in
1999, Rene co-initiated 16Beaver (16beavergroup.org). Since that time he
has been active in maintaining an ongoing platform and space for independent
critical, cultural, political inquiry and friendship. His projects with
Ayreen Anastas have evolved a great deal through their work at 16Beaver.
Their Radioactive Discussion series was a physical counterpart to their
fictional Homeland Security Cultural Bureau (hscb.org) project. Together
with Erin McGonigle and Heimo Lattner, he also works with the name e-Xplo
(e-Xplo.org). Creating projects which often involve mapping, exploring, and
developing a vocabulary for particular sites.
Most recently he has taught at University of Architecture in Venice and the
City University of New York in Staten Island.
Gender Changer Academy (GCA)
teachers at genderchangers.org
GCA is a free ICT platform for and by women worldwide. We organize
non-profit courses, workshops and carnivals in DIY computer hardware and
free software, and cooperate with organizations like ASCII, ChicasLinux,
MAMA, Zene na Delu, SARAI,and N5M. Further GCA productions are t-shirts,
bags, jewelry, stickers, posters, blankets and other haptic perceptions of
female computing environments.
URL: http://genderchangers.org/
Eric Goldhagen
eric at openflows.org
Eric Goldhagen is a technology worker with a background in journalism and
print production. He is a Senior Partner at Openflows Networks Ltd.; founder
of the InterActivist Network project of ABC No Rio; member of the
Autonomedia publishing collective; coordinator of a free public access
computer center at ABC No Rio and occasionally does production work for the
radical comic World War 3 Illustrated.
Anna Harding
anna at modrex.com
Harding is a curator and writer living in London, Programme Director of the
MA Creative Curating at Goldsmiths College 1995-2003, and edited the book
Curating: The Contemporary Art Museum and Beyond (1997). Recent projects
include Interference:Public Sound (http://www.interference.org.uk) in 2003
and Potential: Angoing Archive 2002. I am currently working on a book about
collaborations between artists and young people.
Jon Ippolito
jippolito at maine.edu
One of many footsoldiers in the battle between network and hierarchic
culture, Jon Ippolito is an artist, Guggenheim curator, and co-founder of
the Still Water program for network art and culture at the University of
Maine. His current projects--including the Variable Media Network, the Open
Art Network, and a forthcoming book entitled _The Edge of Art_--aim to
expand the art world beyond its traditional preoccupations.
Katrien Jacobs
Katrien_Jacobs at emerson.edu
Katrien Jacobs is assistant professor in new media at Emerson College. She
wrote a Ph.D. dissertation on dismemberment mythologies in 60s/70s body art
and theory. She has published several articles on sexuality, pornography and
new media art in journals such as Wide Angle and Cultural Studies. She has
lectured widely on pornography in Europe, Australia, Asia and the USA. An
Emerson College Faculty Advancement Grant and residency at arts center KC
nOna (Belgium) have enabled her in recent years to develop work as web-based
entity Œlibidot.¹ (http://www.libidot.org). Libidot and dr.Jacobs will soon
become the main characters in her fortcoming book 'Banned From Apple
Paradise.'
Timothy Jaeger
timjaeger at thing.net
Timothy Jaeger produces live media events, video installations, and social
networks. His work has been shown in venues such as the Electronic Orphanage
(L.A.), The Thing (NYC), Open Air Radio (Barcelona), Galerie Hubert Winter
(Vienna), and WKCR (NYC). Currently he is an MFA candidate / Graduate
Researcher at CRCA / UCSD, where he studies and works with Jordan Crandall,
Lev Manovich, and Barbara Kruger.
Holly Johnson
haj2 at buffalo.edu
Holly Johnson is a graduate student and adjunct instructor at UB, as well as
an online journalist and web designer. She was active with the Philadelphia
Independent Media Center during the Republican National Convention and
beyond. She conducts research on the portrayal of Afghan women by Western
media.
Caroline Koebel
cgkoebel at acsu.buffalo.edu
Caroline Koebel's interdisciplinary practice often confronts the
problematics of female being-in-the-world and the expression of
subjectivities at odds with commercial culture. She has a serious
commitment to DIY ethos, a fruit in part of her teenage days as a punk in
Columbus, Ohio. Her works have been shown across the USA, as well as in
Brazil, Ireland, Cuba, Thailand, and elsewhere. Her writings on art and
contemporary culture have appeared in Art Papers, Brooklyn Rail, Dialogue,
and Wide Angle. She teaches in the Department of Media Study at the
University at Buffalo.
Barbara Lattanzi
threads at wildernesspuppets.net
Barbara Lattanzi produces screen-based media including software for video
improvisation. Lattanzi knows Buffalo (locale of Free Cooperation events) to
have a complex history as site of lively and admirably contentious cultures
of cooperation, through her involvement (1980s and 90s) with Buffalo art
organizations and activist media groups. Now teaching at Smith College,
Massachusetts, Lattanzi's URL is www.wildernesspuppets.net
<http://www.wildernesspuppets.net/> .
Martin Lucas
mlucas at igc.org
Martin Lucas is a media activist and videomaker with a 20-year background in
documentary and media art. An early member of the Paper Tiger Television
Collective, Martin has worked and taught in many alternative media contexts.
Martin currently teaches in the Film and Media Studies Dept. at Hunter
College, CUNY, and is Director of Technology at Manhattan Neighborhood
Network.
Susan Laxton
sjl16 at columbia.edu
Susan Laxton is a doctoral candidate in Columbia University's Department of
Art History and Archaeology, happy to be defending her dissertation - Paris
as Gameboard: Ludic Strategies in Surrealism - in two weeks. Most recently
she has published in the journals _Postmodern Culture_ and _Papers of
Surrealism_, and has curated an exhibition on Man Ray's Atget collection at
the Wallach Gallery in New York.
Sarah Lewison
socialsculpture at yahoo.com
Sarah Lewison: Since the 70s heyday of food coops, IÅ0Ç8ve been interested
in sharing as form. How hokey. Research areas: Property as privacy.
Sustainability pedagogy: as material life, time, invention, economics,
politics. Vernacular technologies and distributive research. Amateur
sociology, new agey and media therapies. The respective scales of socially
exchanged substances: land, water, bacteria, neurosis, towels, money,
viruses and food.
Patrick Lichty
voyd at voyd.com
Patrick Lichty is an artist, editor, curator and activist of over 15 years.
He is Editor-In-Chief of Intelligent Agent Magazine, and part of the Yes
Men.
Geert Lovink
geert at xs4all.nl
Geert Lovink is a media theorist and Internet critic, based in Amsterdam.
He is the founder of numerous Internet projects such as the Nettime
and Fibreculture mailing lists. He is the co-organizer of conferences like
Next Five Minutes and TulipomaniaDotcom (Amsterdam), Dark Markets (Vienna)
and Crisis Media (Delhi). The MIT Press recently published his writing on
critical Internet culture 'Dark Fiber' and 'Uncanny Networks,' a collection
of his interviews. In October 2003 V2_Publishing brought out his latest
study on Internet culture My First Recession. laudanum.net/geert
Nathan Martin
nathan at hactivist.com
Nathan Martin is a new media artist, collective experimenter,
technologist, designer, writer, and programmer currently living in
Pittsburgh, PA as a Research Fellow at Carnegie Mellon University’s
STUDIO for Creative Inquiry. Nathan is a founding member of the media
arts collective Carbon Defense League (CDL). Nathan is currently
working on the CDL project MapHub and writing a book called Parasites,
Splinters, and Thieves as part of a residency he was awarded for the year
2004 at the STUDIO for Creative Inquiry.
Marie-Christiane Mathieu
creature at videotron.ca
Marie-Christiane Mathieu, new medias artist, has completed a PhD on a
network collaborative project entitle "Monument du vide" for which she has
developed a creative process based on theatrical approaches. Mathieu has
analyzed, during this project, multiple communication layers from which she
is now proposing the concept of the "aître." She is currently working on the
development of virtual alcoves.
Maurice Methot
maurice_methot at emerson.edu
Assistant Professor in Visual and Media Arts at Emerson College.
Sound artist.
Jorge Nava
genava at ucsd.edu
Born in the midst of the cultural crossroads that is the Mexican-U.S.
border, Jorge Nava uses digital media to explore and participate in the
linguistic, aesthetic, social, and other collisions of art and culture in
the shifting context of the New World. He is an MFA candidate at UCSD where
he works with Ruben Ortiz-Torres, Natalie Jeremijenko, and Barbara Kruger.
Alan O'Connor
asloconnor at sympatico.ca
Alan O'Connor was one of the founders of the Toronto Infoshop Whos Emma in
the 1990s and also one of the founding members of the Toronto Free School.
In 2003 he was involved in setting up the very successful Anarchist Free
University in Toronto. The Free University offers ten-week academic
courses on subjects from Radical Theories of Sexuality, Collaborative Art,
the Situationist International, and the history of 1968. The Anarchist
University believes that "We are all students, we are all teachers".
All courses are free. For more details see:
http://www.AnarchistU.org
Dave Pape
dave.pape at acm.org
Dave Pape is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Media Study of the
University at Buffalo, working in digital media - computer graphics and
virtual reality. He received a PhD in Computer Science from the University
of Illinois at Chicago, at the Electronic Visualization Laboratory.
Scott Paterson (PdPal)
somebody at sgp-7.net
Scott Paterson is an architect, artist and interaction designer in New York
City. He studied architecture at the University of Minnesota CALA and
Columbia University GSAP. He is on the faculty of Parsons School of Design
where he teaches Interface Design, Multimedia and Thesis Studios in the MFA
in Design and Technology Program.
PdPal
somebody at sgp-7.net
PDPal, a public art project currently for PDA's and the web, is a
storytelling mapping application that transforms your everyday activities
and urban experiences into a dynamic city that you write. PDPal Walkabout is
a workshop to develop psychogeographic-inspired mapping missions, conduct a
walkabout, record it using a pictogrammic shorthand and ultimately to help
us determine best methods for making our upcoming PDA to cell phone
transition.
Horit Herman Peled
horithp at yahoo.com
http://www.horit.com/machsomwatch.htm is a collaborative personal
piece, between a human/political engagement and an artistic pursuit.
This project, like other projects in my work, seeks to interrogate the
meaning of art production, distribution and consumption. Through a
concrete, local intervention it endeavors to undermine the artistic
domain of producing exclusive exchange value and venture into the
domain of inclusive use value art production.
Loss Pequeño Glazier
glazier at buffalo.edu
Loss Pequeño Glazier is a digital poet, professor of Media Study, a Poetics
Program Core Faculty member, and director of the Electronic Poetry Center
(http://epc.buffalo.edu) at SUNY Buffalo. His books include Anatman, Pumpkin
Seed, Algorithm (Salt Publishing, 2003) and Digital Poetics: The Making of
E-Poetries (Univ. of Alabama Press, 2002). He director of the E-Poetry
digital poetry festivals and his work has been shown at the Kulturforum,
Berlin, the Guggenheim, New York, and elsewhere. His work is available at
his EPC author page (http://epc.buffalo.edu/authors/glazier).
Thomas Owen
towen at tomowenmusic.com
Thomas Owen is currently finishing graduate work at Brown University in the
Computer Music and Multimedia Department. He holds a Bachelor's Degree in
Music Synthesis from Berklee College of Music. His installation/performance
work using interactive music and video has been shown in conferences at
Brown, Dartmouth, Princeton, Berkley and the New School. (Here at SUNY
Buffalo he'll present an installation in collaboration with Rachel Stevens)
Jenny Perlin
nilrep at access4less.net
Jenny Perlin studied film and cultural studies at Brown University,
completed her MFA in Film at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago, and
postgraduate studies at the Whitney Independent Study Program, New York
City. Perlin's films and drawings work with and against the documentary
tradition,
incorporating innovative stylistic techniques to emphasize issues of truth,
misunderstanding, and personal history. She has recently completed View from
Elsewhere, a look at conditions of political asylum seekers in Switzerland,
and Perseverance & How to Develop It, a film about the cultural and social
histories of self-help in the United States. Her films have won awards at
numerous festivals, and have been exhibited in galleries and museums both in
the US and abroad.
Andrea Polli
apolli at hunter.cuny.edu
Andrea Polli is a digital media artist living in New York City. She is
currently an Associate Professor of Film and Media at Hunter College.
Polli's work addresses issues related to science and technology in
contemporary society. Her projects often bring together artists and
scientists from various disciplines. She has exhibited, performed, and
lectured nationally and internationally.
Shawn Rider
shawnr at wdog.com
Shawn Rider is a writer and media artist with specialties in interactive
literature, cyberculture, net.art, and videogames. He is currently pursuing
an MFA in the Department of Media Study, SUNY at Buffalo. He most often
works collaboratively with photographer and critic, Sarah Wichlacz. His
website can be found at http://www.wdog.com/rider
Stefan Römer
stefanroe at web.de
Living in Cologne and Munich he is working as an artist and author in
the fields of Conceptual Art, Critique of the Public Sphere, Image- and
Textrelations, New Media and Interculturaltheory; publications in
newspapers, magazines and books. Received the Price for Art Critics from
the Arbeitskreis deutscher Kunstvereine in 2000.
Assistant at the Academy for Arts and New Media in Cologne (1999-2002);
now Professor for New Media at the Academy of Arts in Munich (since 2003).
Stephanie Rothenberg
info at pan-o-matic.com
Stephanie Rothenberg uses performance, installation and digital media to
create solicitous interactions that question the boundaries and social
constructs of manufactured desires. Her work has been exhibited in media
festivals and galleries in the US and abroad including the New York Digital
Salon, StudioXX in Montreal, Thealit in Bremen and the Knitting Factory in
NYC. She is Assistant Professor of Art at SUNY Buffalo.
Jon Rubin
floater at rcn.com
Jon Rubin is an Associate Professor of Film and New Media at SUNY/Purchase,
where for the past two years he has taught the Cross-Cultural Video Project
- collaboratively linking his American students with students in Minsk,
Belarus. He is also the Director of The Floating Cinema, a choreographic
waterfront projection work, which is tentatively scheduled to appear in
Holland, Berlin and NYC in 2004.
Georg Schöllhammer
office at springerin.at
Georg Schöllhammer is editor in chief of springerin Hefte für
Gegenwartskunst and currently works on a publication program for documenta
12.
Trebor Scholz
treborscholz at earthlink.net
Trebor Scholz is an East Berlin-born media artist and critic who divides his
time between Buffalo and Brooklyn. He links his political investments and
artistic sensitivities with his commitment to emerging networked media.
Occasionally he focuses on an event-oriented practice. Scholz exhibits and
lectures widely nationally and internationally. He is assistant professor in
the Department of Media Study, SUNY at Buffalo.
http://molodiez.org/bio.php
School of Missing Studies (SMS)
kat at igc.org
School of Missing Studies (SMS) provides a flexible educational platform and
a network for international study and exchange on cultural issues related to
the urban environment in cities marked by or currently undergoing political,
social, and cultural transition. SMS will provide productive research and
project opportunities for young professionals in architecture and art who
are dealing with what is "missing" in their studies with regard to processes
of local urban change. Participants in SMS will explore the smooth area
among established disciplines such as architecture, art, sociology and
cultural studies to bring to light the missing phenomena of urban transition
in Belgrade, Munich, Rotterdam and Zurich.
Eva Sjuve
eva at moomonkey.com
Eva Sjuve, media artist, has been exhibiting in Europe, Asia, USA, South
America and Australia. She started out building a local radio network in the
early 80's and then moved on to Cable TV in 1985 to make interactive shows.
She is now curating exhibits and developing work for public space
integrating wifi, mobile phone, Internet.
Gregory Sholette
gsholette at artic.edu
Gregory Sholette is a NYC based artist, writer, activist and founding member
of Political Art Documentation and Distribution and REPOhistory. He is
currently editing the book Collectivism After Modernism with UC Davis art
historian Blake Stimson for University of Minnesota Press.
Alan Sondheim
sondheim at panix.com
I was ripped out of the world. Inverse: I made a mess with the 'results.'
http://www.asondheim.org/. I can't add to the texts there. What does anguish
'mean' in the face of Empire? I will not be a collaborator. Sometimes the we
works in unison. I kept an image of Bikini Atoll in the midst of an
explosion. I bear witness to nothing.
Rachel Stevens
Rachel_Stevens at brown.edu
Rachel Stevens is an interdisciplinary artist based in New York City.
Her projects explore the intersection of art, technology, media and
materiality. Currently she is Visiting Assistant Professor in the
Department of Modern Culture and Media at Brown University and has also
taught at RISD and the New School. In 2001-2002 she was Associate
Curator at Creative Time in NYC.
Termite TV Collective
info at termite.org
Dorothea Braemer, Meg Knowles, Mike Kuetemeyer, Carl Lee, Anula Shetty.
Founded in 1992, Termite TV is a not-for-profit video collective with
members based in Philadelphia, PA and Buffalo, NY. Termite TV produces
alternative programming for television, the web and screening, performance
and installation venues. The mission of Termite TV is to create
multi-faceted and multi-voiced works which address issues of cultural,
political, and aesthetic concern." A peculiar fact about
termite-tapeworm-fungus-moss art is that it moves always forward, eating its
own boundaries, and likely as not, leaves nothing in its path but evidence
of eager, industrious, unkempt activities" manny farber
http://www.termite.org
Paul Visco
paul at elmwoodstrip.com
Paul Visco is a UB MFA student, data artist, and adjunct instructor at
Canisius College. Paul's most recent work, elmwoodstrip.com, focuses on
the de-globalization of the web and is an initiative using open source
languages and databases to enhance local community by allowing local people
with little or no computer background to express themselves using a
click-publish format.
Ricardo Miranda Zuñiga
ricardo at ambriente.com
Ricardo Miranda Zuñiga grew up between Nicaragua and San Francisco. Tied to
a multi-disciplinary education, his bicultural background has led to work
based on a twofold principle: approach communication as a creative process;
and investigate how economic realities formulate not only the world we live
in, but more importantly, the lives we lead. Ricardo¹s portfolio is
available at: http://www.ambriente.com/
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