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HEADLINE <CYBERSPACE OFFERS A NEW FRONTIER FOR ACTIVISTS
TRYING TO MAKE THEIR POINT, AND MANY HAVE FLOCKED TO THE WORLD WIDE
WEB>
KEYWORDS = ACTIVISM ON THE
NET, ELECTRONIC CIVIL DISOBEDIENCE, PUBLIC AWARENESS,
GENETICALLY-ALTERED, CORPORATIONS, E-COMMERCE, SAMPLING, DIGITAL
MANIPULATION, PARODY, APPROPRIATION, TECHNOLOGY
TAM MONITOR is Alternative
Museum's online arts journal, standing for media or news information
technology open resource. It is a vital, living organism which will
continue to grow, expand & transform as new information is
processed & redistributed to our viewers. TAM MONITOR
complements the activities of the Alternative Museum as an
Institution, by providing vital & living works, projects, events
& news. We will soon be hosting a monthly series of webcast
interviews, highlighting individuals & organizations who further
our mission to initiate, support, present & preserve
interdisciplinary arts & criticism. We invite viewers to
participate in an open dialogue & become part of our global
online arts community.
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Events
 <type=radio~border=0>Net/radio-festival hosted by
Studio B11, Department of Experimental Radio at
Bauhaus University, Weimar (Germany) http://radiostudio.org/
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"Cultural Production in the Media
Matrix"
Thursday, August 17 (8pm - 9pm
EST)
Live webcast: http://netart-init.org/
((Tune in or stop
by))
55 W.13 St (9fl) Between 5th and 6th Ave.
(Center
for New Design @ Parsons School of Design / the New School
University)
For more info see the openings/exhibits
page.
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by Tamas Szakal
digital sound artist from Budapest,
Hungary living in Leipzig (Germany) exposes the
physical and virtual space of the Internet
+ opens this hybrid space
for sounds and noises by using simple telecommunication
instruments like telephones and answering machines.
http://dial.tone.hu/ |
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Interviews
 "NOISEGATE TALKS": Granular Synthesis in Interview with
Mark Dery (Editor, Artbyte), presented by Altoids, Creative
Time & Rhizome.org. Listen to the Austrian artistic
duo of Kurt Hentschläger and Ulf Langheinrich, collectively
known as Granular Synthesis, as they speak about their site
specific installation: NOISEGATE, a large-scale immersive
multimedia experience comprised of projections of disembodied
heads onto massive video screens set in the darkness of the
Brooklyn Anchorage. This
documentary video was shot for TAM Monitor by filmmaker, Lee
Songe, whose earlier film "Echo Off" was presented at The New
Filmmaker Series in Anthology Film
Archive. |
 "ART DIRT" Interview w/ "RICARDO
DOMINGUEZ"by G.H. Hovagimyan,
Robbin Neal Murphy, Adrianne Wortzel. Listen to Ricardo Dominguez as he talks about
growing up in Las Vegas, the body, flesh, digital culture,
Chiapas, the Zapatistas, the Taco Bell War, Electronic Civil
Disobedience, resistance, virtual dialogue, censorship, and
new forms of positive social resistance.
Ricardo Dominguez is cofounder of The Electronic
Disturbance Theater, a group who developed the Virtual Sit-in,
a former member of Critical Art Ensemble, a group who
developed the notion of Electronic Civil Disobedience, and is
part of the digital art collaborative Fakeshop, combining
performance art, videoconferencing, biotechnology, online
marketing & surveillance tactics.
G.H. Hovagimyan is a
varied media artist working with digital sound environments +
technology, his most recent project, "SoaPOPera for Laptops"
w/ Peter Sinclair is part of a major exhibition at the Musee
D'art Contemporain in Lyon, France, & has also appeared at
Arts Electronica, Linz Austria. GH's work has also been
published in the Art Press (France) special edition #19 titled
"Techno anatomie des cultures
Electronique." |
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Reviews
 •"MAXIMAL MINIMAL" at Feigan
Contemporary.
"There may be
nothing so much as minimal or maximal about the "Maximal
Minimal" painting exhibition this summer at Feigen
Contemporary. Rather the title is a verbal
spectrum..." Reviewed
by Lee
Klein. |
 •"REFLECTIONS OF DREAMS": Susan L. Yung at Tribes
Gallery
"Susan Yung has stood out of the glare of
publicity too long, so that her show at Tribes Gallery
covering over 20 years of her work (videos, photos, paintings,
and constructions... " Reviewed by Jim Feast |
 • "THREE DEGREES OF
SEPARATION": Cohen-Frank-Ippolito at Sandra
Gering.
"Is online art a
revolution or a flash in the pan?
In Three Degrees of Separation, Janet Cohen, Keith Frank, and
Jon Ippolito take sides on this issue in an argument that
unfolds visually as well as verbally. The "separation"
of the title refers both to the fierce disagreement between
the three protagonists as well as to the means by which that
disagreement is recorded..."
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Audio
 •MARK AMERIKA: "PHON:E:ME"(an
MP3 concept album w/ hyperliner notes)
"Creating a
work of art will depend more and more on the ability of the
artist to surf sample and manipulate the
bits of raw data we have at our disposal. We all know
originality is dead and that our contaminated virtual
realities are always already readymade and ready for
consumption!" (-Mark Amerika). Mark
Amerika is Founder of the Alt-XOnline
Publishing Network hailed "the literary publishing model of
the future", and was a Lecturer on Network Publishing and
Hypertext at Brown University where he developed the
"GRAMMATRON" project, a hypermedia narrative recently featured
in The Whitney Biennial 2000. |
 MEIKO
AND RYU: "ARTLAND"
Listen to
Meiko and Ryu, a fictive art collaborative dwelling in the virtual world of the LISTSERV
who have exposed the transparency of many arguments dealing
with censorship, freedom of speech,
artists rights, making commentary on the state of the digital
art community, consumer culture, marketing
tactics. |
 RASTER-NOTON, 20 TO 2000 (Courtesy
Contour.net) Ilpo Vaisanen, Ryoji Ikeda, coH, Beytone,
Senking, Thomas Brinkmann, Scanner, Noto, Mika Vainio,
Wolfgang Voigt, and Elph perform live in Berlin as part of 20
minutes to 2000, representing a statement for the last 20
minutes of the millennium. Each of the 12
artists produced a 20 minute CD and the entire series was
issued as a sort of magazine volume. The series explores the interaction between
experimental forms of music, art & science, and was
awarded the "Golden Nica" at Ars Electronica, Linz Austria
this year. |
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Performative Work
 The Electronic
Disturbance Theater developed the Zapatista Floodnet to support the
Zapatista rebels in Chiapas, fighting against the Mexican
government. EDT is a small group of cyber
activists and artists engaged in developing the theory and
practice of Electronic Civil Disobedience, working at the
intersections of radical politics, recombinant and performance
art, and computer software design. EDT is
comprised of Ricardo Dominguez, Carmin Karasic, Paco Nathan,
Brett Stalbaum & Stefan Wray. "Swarm" was performed
at Ars Electronica's Infowar. |
 IRATIONAL.ORG:
"How
to be a radio pirate"
Technical
information & equipment reviews on how to become a radio
pirate, how to hack into any broadcast radio station, or
become your very own mobile broadcast unit, and by promoting
DIY media, meaning tactical media in action (because free
media is a threat to control) so exercise
your human right to free speech, now!
Irational.org is an international group of anarchist artists,
who created the Cultural Terrorist Agency, and
formulated "Superweed", utilizing genetic hacker technology to
protest and subvert the biological arms race in corporate
culture. Irational.org consists of Rachel Baker, Heath
Bunting, Daniel Andujar, Minerva Cuevas, and Marcus
Valentine. |
 CARY PEPPERMINT: "INFO FOR THE OTHER SIDES OF
HERE"
"Use Ebay.com
only for physical as well as psychic admission to a
participatory exposure #0001: 'Information for the Other Sides
of Here'. Bid for 1 of 12 Passwords..." Cary Peppermint's performative work finds its
way onto listservs, Ebay.com & MP3.com, where he mirrors
and comments upon the state of American pop consumerist
society, by a subtle infiltration into its own carrier.
Cary Peppermint is a performance
artist working with digital media technology. He created one
of the first real time performances streaming live on the
Internet, "Mashed Potato Supper". His "CN_9: Exercises from
Symbolic America" was recently performed at Postmasters
Gallery, NYC. |
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 • RTMARK: "BRINGING IT TO
YOU!"
RTMark is an
anonymous group of artists / activists who appropriate the
tactical actions of large corporations in order to reveal /
undermine the market driven society in which we are living.
Past culture jamming campaigns have included the Barbie
Liberation Organization (which attacked the gender
stereotyping of children's toys), mirror
sites such as Gatt.org reveal the transparency of the WTO's
assertion that a free market economy will benefit us all,
including the environment. RTMark most recently,
in collaboration with numerous anonymous activists, was able
to end the etoy.com vs eToys.com
dispute via TOYWAR. RTMark
channels mutual funds towards
the sabotage of corporate products for an ultimate gain in
cultural capital. Become a worker, or invest in a mutual
fund today! mailto:invest@rtmark.com. |
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Web-Based
 • DANIEL GARCIA ANDUJAR:
"TECHNOLOGIES TO THE
PEOPLE"
Access To Technology is a Human
Right™! Who decides who gains
access to the new technologies? Or who gains entry into
information society? Is there a new form of
discrimination occurring: creating thus a "digital
divide"? Towards what ends are the new technologies
being utilized? For closer surveilling or delving into
our private worlds? Who owns the new technologies?
Who owns the airwaves? Is language and information free
and publicly accessible? Or is it owned by corporations
via trademarks and copyrights? Shouldn't more people be networked?
Think different. Daniel García Andújar (Spain) is an artist whose
works have involved video and installation in the public
sphere concerning racism, xenophobia, and the misuse of
technology in surveillance
systems. |
 •JOY GARNETT: "THE BOMB PROJECT"
seeks to
re-utilize and distribute declassified
images of atomic tests made during the Cold War and to
raise public awareness surrounding the issues of nuclear technology, and the
global context in which it dwells. The broader goal is
to raise public awareness through the arts
and through digital media.
Joy Garnett is an
artist exploring the relationship of art, technology and
science. She has shown the Bomb Project as a series of
paintings entitled "Buster Jangle" at Debs & Co.
NYC. She is a co-founder of First Pulse Projects, Inc.,
which produces collaborative projects between artists and
scientists. |
 •TINA LAPORTA: "SHIFTING"
explores the relationship of technology to the
human body. What are the potentials for interaction on a
human level to these newly developing modes of communication
on a global basis? What are the breakdowns in communication,
or changes of our identities
in this newly mediated form of
interaction ? Is their a newly formed sense of self, or
a recombinant being that emerges? Tina LaPorta is a varied media artist working
within the fields of sound, video and networked
environments. Her sound piece <Distance: an Eye to the Ear Remix> is
currently in The Candy Factory, Yokohama Japan
site. |
 •DIANE LUDIN / RICARDO
DOMINGUEZ: "VIROIDS"
investigates the relationship of the human body
to advances in artificial intelligence, biotechnology, genetic
engineering, data systems, surveillance techniques, and fluid
architectures and building systems. What are the
possibilities of existing and new typologies of body, mind,
data systems, both real and imaginary? Diane Ludin is an varied media artist whose past
projects include: "Identity Runners: re_flesh the body",
"Genetic Response System: version 3.0", "Ephemera:
Material Manifestations" and "rDNA
Imagined". |
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Web-Interface
 JODI: "MAP"
``As artists who have chosen the web as their
primary medium, jodi.org reveal the potential dysfunctionality of the machine, and thus
commenting on the relationship we maintain with them, they
offer the viewer an opportunity to think about how the advent
of micro-mechanics has profoundly
transformed the nature of this relationship.'' - Benjamin
Weil, adaweb
Jodi is comprised
of Joan Heemskerk / Dirk Paesmans
(Barcelona). |
 MARK NAPIER: "SHREDDER"
"The web browser is an organ of perception
through which we 'see' the web. Shredder appropriates
the data of the web, transforming it into a parallel web. It
is about the human life that inhabits it, creates it,
re-creates it, and consumes it." -Mark Napier is a painter turned digital artist,
who works with the medium of the web as the beginning and
ending point, his other projects include Digital Landfill, the
Distorted Barbie, and Potatoland.org. |
 MARK TRIBE / ALEX
GALLOWAY: "STARRY NIGHT"
STARRYNIGHT is a new interface for viewing and
browsing the RHIZOME CONTENTBASE. Each star
represents a grouping of ideas, based upon threads of ideas
submitted by various listserv members, and the brightness of
the stars corresponds to the frequency of visitors accessing
the database represented by those particular idea(s). It
is like a global mirror of human activity, and maps not only
information and their correlary thoughts, but also mapping
usage, human thought or decision making processes.
Mark Tribe is a digital artist who
has lectured on new media art at Ars Electronics, Isea,
Siggraph, and Founder of Rhizome.org, a non-profit
organization that furthers the intersection between
contemporary art and digital art by creating a community based
around its listserv and net.art database. Alex Galloway is a computer programmer and
theorist, having lectured on art and culture at ZKM, Next 5
Minutes, Kunstlerhaus Bethanien, and is Technical Director and
Editor of Rhizome. |
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Announcements
 • "NEWSGRIST"where spin is art, a
biweekly digest of important news, horoscopes, and classified
ads for the art community at large, served up fresh by digital
artist Joy
Garnett. |
 Decepticons:"MONSANTO"
Learn about
what this corporation is doing to the food we are eating! Get
tools to join in the fight! Decepticons is an artist group
concerned with genetically engineered foods and the effects of
these processes. |
 • "HYBRID WORKSPACE
INTERVIEWS (DOCUMENTA X, KASSEL)" by Geert Lovink (courtesy Rolux.org) Geert
Lovink is a pioneer of net activism, media theorist &
founder of ADILKNO--the Foundation for the Advancement of
Illegal Knowledge, he is cofounder of Nettime, &
contributor to CTheory:
MARC CHEMILLIER / SANS PAPIERS:
"INTERNET AND XENOPHOBIA / AFRICANS WITHOUT
PAPERS" | | |
