Net Condition : Art and Global Media

by Peter Weibel and Timothy Druckrey (Eds.)

• ISBN13: 9780262731386
• ISBN10: 026273138X
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2001-02-01
• Publisher: Mit Pr

Summary

The global reach of contemporary media has greatly influenced social, political, and physical space. Indeed, we are becoming inhabitants of information space. net_conditioninvestigates the consequences of this phenomenon that is radically altering the public sphere, the private sphere, and the possibilities of creativity in the networked sphere. In studying the movement from photography to film, video, and now online art, art historians and theorists have held that each new medium introduces characteristics and conditions that are in some respects superior to those of previous media. The net is changing not only other media, but society itself, transforming social communication, art, and politics. The contributors view the net as a universal tool that is altering the local structures--from ethics to economics--of the historical world into nonlocal structures. In a world of distributed virtual realities, shared cyberspace, multilocal net-games, and online multiuser environments, millions of users interact in virtual info-spheres. In this global information world, net.art has become a means of expressing, as well as testing, social and political utopian ideas. net_conditionis published in conjunction with an international exhibition that took place simultaneously in Germany, Austria, Spain, and Japan. It includes the work of such critical writers as Pierre Bourdieu, Manuel Castells, Claudia Gianetti, Edward S. Hermann, Armand Mattelart, and Siegfried Zielinski. Copublished with ZKM/Center for Art and Media and with steirischer herbst.

Table of Contents

Initial Conditions
Peter Weibel The Project	8	(12)
Timothy Druckrey [...] J8-g#|\;Net.Art{-∧s1 [...	20	(10)
Social Conditions
Manuel Castells The Net and the Self. Working Notes for a Critical Theory of the Informational Society	30	(18)
Jurgen Habermas From a Culture-Debating to a Culture Consuming Public	48	(4)
Daniel Garcia Andujar Technologies To The People ®	52	(2)
Niek van de Steeg A Correction Structure	54	(2)
Jochen Gerz The Berkeley Oracle	56	(2)
Syndicate net.shop#2	58	(2)
Media Conditions
Pierre Bourdieu On Television	60	(2)
Timothy Druckrey Event/Transformation/Information: Enacting the Image	62	(4)
Florian Rotzer Attention in the Media Age	66	(4)
Marina Grzinic and Aina Smid net.art.archive	70	(2)
Markus Huemer The Rules are no Game (MAOD)	72	(4)
Mark Napier The Shredder/Digital Landfill	76	(2)
Wolfgang Staehle Empire 24/7	78	(2)
Maciej Wisniewski Netomat™	80	(2)
Community Conditions
Dave Bruckmayr/Gaylord Aulke The Artreporter	82	(2)
Backspace	84	(2)
Natalie Bookchin The Intruder	86	(2)
Andy Deck/Mark Napier Graphic Jam	88	(2)
esc to begin	90	(2)
Masaki Fujihata Nuzzle Afar	92	(2)
Lynn Hershman The Difference Engine #3	94	(2)
Timothee Ingen-Housz a-aktion.com	96	(2)
Konsum Art.Server (Margarete Jahrmann/Max Moswitzer)	98	(4)
Jenny Marketou Smell.Bytes™	102	(2)
Alexandru Patatics Step to...word	104	(2)
Rhizome Starrynight	106	(2)
Paul Sermon The Tables Turned	108	(2)
Jeffrey Shaw The Distributed Legible City	110	(2)
Alexej Shulgin FuckU-FuckMe	112	(2)
Ideological Conditions
Marina Grzinic The Spectralization of Europe	114	(12)
Diana Johnstone Globalization, Media, and the War against Yugoslavia	126	(8)
Mongrel Colour Separation	134	(2)
Critical Conditions
Peter Weibel Map and Land, Media and Reality	136	(2)
Siegfried Zielinski From Territories to Intervals - Some Preliminary Thoughts on the Economy of Time/the Time	138	(8)
Joachim Blank & Karl-Heinz Jeron re-mail	146	(2)
Ricardo Iglesias References	148	(2)
Institute for Applied Autonomy Contestational Robots	150	(2)
Artistic Conditions
Tilman Baumgartel Net Art. On the History of Artistic Work with Telecommunications Media	152	(10)
Claudia Giannetti Ars Telematica: The Aesthetics of Intercommunication	162	(6)
Gerhard Johann Lischka Everyone a Mediator	168	(4)
Jeffrey Shaw Radical Software	172	(4)
Antoni Abad Z	176	(4)
Giselle Beiguelman The Book after the Book	180	(2)
David Blair Waxweb	182	(2)
Alexej Shulgin/Natalie Bookchin/Blank & Jeron Introduction to net.art (1994-1999)	184	(4)
Janet Cohen, Keith Frank, and Jon Ippolito Adversaria Collaborations	188	(2)
Vuk Cosic ASCII History of Art for the Blind	190	(2)
Douglas Davis The World's First Collaborative Sentence	192	(2)
Ken Feingold Seance Box	194	(2)
Masaki Fujihata Impressing Velocity	196	(2)
Ken Goldberg/Bob Farzin Dislocation of Intimacy	198	(2)
Markus Huemer Distinctio Realis; Essay on Ontological Solitude No. 1	200	(2)
h|u|m|b|o|t <http://www.humbot.org>	202	(4)
Darij Kreuh Barcode - III. Immersion	206	(2)
Marc Lafia Vanndemar Memex or Laura Croft Stripped Bare by her Assassins, Even	208	(4)
Olia Lialina File Transfer Protocol	212	(2)
Lev Manovich The Freud-Lissitzky Navigator	214	(2)
Chihiro Minato The Book of Metamorphoses	216	(2)
Motohiko Odani Engulf	218	(2)
Randall Packer Telematic Manifesto	220	(2)
Jeffrey Shaw/Benjamin Weil Net.Art Browser	222	(4)
Christa Sommerer & Laurent Mignonneau Verbarium	226	(2)
Sei Makoto Watanabe Fiber Wave III	228	(2)
Sound Conditions
Golo Follmer Musical Systems and the Constitution of Places on the Internet	230	(6)
Heidi Grundmann Radio as Medium and Metaphor	236	(8)
42 Changing Positions or: Welcome to Transbabel!	244	(2)
Nicolas Collins Truth In Clouds	246	(2)
Johannes Goebel, Torsten Belschner, Bernhard Sturm Musikschrank Rheingold	248	(2)
mikro e.V. net.radio.days	250	(2)
Mark Trayle capital magnetic	252	(2)
Xchange	254	(2)
Cinematic Conditions
Christa Blumlinger Small Archaeological Experiments in the Media Age: Ivens, Marker, Farocki	256	(10)
Broadcast Conditions
Armand Mattelart The New Totality	266	(6)
Surveillance Conditions
Roberto Aguirrezabala What:you:get	272	(2)
Jordan Crandall Drive, Track 3	274	(2)
I/O/D Web Stalker	276	(2)
The Designers Republic	278	(1)
DeeDee Halleck/David Thorne	279	(1)
Subversive Conditions
agent.NASDAQ aka Reinhold Grether How the etoy Campaign was Won. An Agent's Report	280	(6)
etoy	286	(2)
ASCII Art Ensemble	288	(2)
Shane Cooper Remote Control	290	(2)
Steven Greenwood Woven Presents	292	(4)
JODI Ctrl-Space	296	(2)
®™ark	298	(2)
Gender Conditions
Old Boys Network	300	(2)
Victoria Vesna Bodies INCorporated	302	(2)
Urban Conditions
Martine Aballea	304	(2)
Knowbotic Research IO_dencies	306	(4)
Luther Blissett & Aleph Group The net.Institute as Urban Interface	310	(2)
Peter Weibel Islands of Non-Locality	312	(4)
Jody Zellen Ghost City	316	(2)
Tomato	318	(2)
Economic Conditions
Immanuel Wallerstein Considering the World Economy	320	(4)
Rishab Aiyer Ghosh Cooking-pot Markets: an Economic Model for 'Free' Resources on the Internet	324	(4)
Vincent Mosco Militant Particularism: Beta Testing a New Society	328	(8)
Dan Schiller Transnational Telecommunications and the Global Reorganization of Production	336	(10)
Michael Rock & Susan Sellers 2x4	346	(1)
Jonathan Barnbrook	347	(1)
Redundant Technology Initiative	348	(2)
Power Conditions
Edward S. Herman The Global Erosion of the Public Sphere	350	(6)
Robert W. McChesney Global Media and Democracy	356	(8)
Critical Art Ensemble Cult of the New Eve	364	(2)
Working Conditions
Walter van der Crujisen Working Conditions	366	(6)
Tom Furstner net_condition the Website	372	(2)
Partners	374	(12)
Biographies	386	(10)
Credits	396	(3)
Colophon, Acknowledgements	399