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Subject: "Alternative Networks: Maciej Wisniewski +
John Klima, Friday Nov 10 7pm EST
*For Immediate Release*
NetArt Initiatives presents:
"Alternative Networks: Netomat + glasbead"
(two works which challenge and explore the current
paradigm of how people interact with the Internet)
Maciej Wisniewski and John Klima: live presentation
organised by Zhang Ga & Cristine Wang
Friday, November 10, 2000
presentation at 7 PM
Parsons Center for New Design
55 West 13th Street, 9th Fl.
live online at:
http://netart-init.org
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Maciej Wisniewski:
"n e t o m at": http://www.netomat.net
is a meta-browser that engages a different Internet -
an Internet that is an intelligent application and not
simply a large database of static files.
netomat(TM)dialogues with the net to retrieve
information as unmediated and independent in form. Our
current point-and-click navigation, rigid information
distribution, and passive browsing of "authored"
information in today's interactivity will be of little
use when using netomat(TM).
Maciej Wisniewski is an artist and programmer whose
work focuses on the underlying social implications of
technology and the network. Netomat and his earlier
projects ("m e t a V i e w ", "T u r n s t i l e 2",
"S c a n l i n k", "J a c k p o t", and "T e l e - T o
u c h") have been featured in online and offline
exhibitions at Postmasters Gallery, New York; ZKM,
Karslruhe Germany; ICA, London; Walker Art Center,
Minneapolis; Guggenheim, SoHo; Johannesburg Biennial;
and Benjamin Weil's ada'web. Wisniewski studied
toward a Ph.D. program at the Institute for General
Linguistics and Computational Linguistics, University
of Stockholm, Stockholm, Sweden.
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John Klima:
"glasbead": http://www.glasbead.com
is a an ongoing exploration into sound/music
interfaces implementing multi-user gaming technology.
By manipulating an entirely graphical 3d interface,
the collaborative sound interface allows players to
upload and trade sample sounds without restriction as
to content. Current bandwidth allows 20 online
participants to manoever through glasbead
simultaneously.
John Klima is an artist and programmer who recently
received the "Golden Lasso" award for Web3d RoundUp at
the Siggraph computer graphics convention in New
Orleans this summer. glasbead and other vrml works and
installations have been exhibited at the ICC, Tokyo in
New Media New Faces; Postmasters Gallery, NY; Viper
Int'l Festival, Lucerne, Switzerland; European Media
Art Festival, Osnabruck, Germany;
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The NETART INITIATIVE is a loosely knit, open source
based, hub styled, forum oriented, action enabled
consortium, where people meet, virtually and bodily,
to communicate, exchange, and discourse for advancing
the understanding of a virtual art, a networked art
and an art that is pervasive and ubiquitous in the
years to come.
jihui (the meeting point, a project of NetArt
Initiative), a self-regulated digital salon, invites
all interested people to send ideas for
discussion/performance/etc, jihui puts you right under
the spotlight. For more info, visit
http://netart-init.org check under toBeIsToDo.
jihui is sponsored by Center for New Design @ Parsons
School of Design
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Cristine Wang
Director New Media Initiatives
The Alternative Museum
594 Broadway NYC 10012
http://alternativemuseum.org
http://alternativemuseum.org/tam_monitor
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