[Nettime-bold] re: Switch Announces New ISSUE: V7N1

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Spring/Summer 2001
http://switch.sjsu.edu

Switch is proud to announce a new Spring/Summer 2001 issue, Social Networks 
II, v7n1(http://switch.sjsu.edu). Taking inspiration from our previous issue, 
Social Networks, v6n2, Switch continues the investigation of what social, 
networks, and social networks means in relationship to contemporary art 
practice, new media, technology, and science.

In "Bacterial Cybernetics and PDAs" (or, why PDA shouldn't stand for Personal 
Digital Animalculi) Benjamin Eakins proposes that the communication and 
control structures of bacteria may serve as a useful model for the 
interactions of wireless personal devices. Cindy Ahuna's  "Online Game 
Communities Are Social in Nature" looks at social environments evolving from 
online games. In  "Substantial Disturbance: An Interview with Faith Wilding" 
conducted in May of 2001, Brett Stalbaum asks Faith Wilding about artworlds, 
collaboration, interventionist art, and the models that lie behind activism 
and activist art today. From another perspective on activism, James Morgan's 
"Virtual Political and Cultural Activism" looks at the nature of electronic 
civil disobedience as both an art practice and a political tool.
     
To the chagrin of the academic elite who even bother to notice, Thomas Kinkade
has built a multimedia empire based on a lifestyle brand of Rockwellian
simplicity and small town family values.  Matt Mays' "Thomas Kinkade and the 
La-Z-Boy Aesthetic" explores the Kinkade phenomena, its shaky financial
underpinnings and the implications for the growing rift between middle 
America. In contrast, Glen Sparer's  "Art As Creative Virus and Host in the 
work of Mel Chin" illuminates Mel Chin's unique ideology on art as 
insertionary idea within a social realm. 

Rob Riddle's "Dubwise: Sonic Networks and Experiments in Studied Chance" 
explores relationships of sounds and rhythms; stories, thoughts, emotions and 
ideas that steep in the songs of a culture, giving the full concoction a 
unique voice and flavor. Wendy Angel's  "DiFi: Digital and Fiber" is a text 
which explores a network of interrelationships between two superficially 
disparate media. Digital and fiber are entwined technologically, 
linguistically and socially.

Inna Razumova's "Interview with Victoria Vesna" focuses on Vesna's recent 
collaborative project Datamining Bodies. In addition, Mark Gonzales' 
"Databodies, Genitals, and Living Forever......An Interview with Victoria 
Vesna"  addresses such topics as developing an information persona through 
autonomous agents, social networks and databodies. Sheila Malone's  "The Man 
Behind The Bunny: An informal interview with Eduardo Kac" reveals answers to 
popular ethical questions about science and art commingling in a test tube. 
Eduardo Kac traces his career and objectives as an artist in pursuit of a 
dialogic perspective.
        
Nora Raggio's  "Dancing on the Web, Dancing over the Ocean: An Interview with 
Amy Critchett" discusses DANCING ON THE WEB, DANCING OVER THE OCEAN, a 
multicultural performance that will take place between youth groups in CA, 
USA and SENEGAL this summer and will culminate in a live performance in San 
Jose on Labor Day weekend, 2001. Nora also interviews Lisa Jevbratt, curator 
of the show "LifeLike," an interdisciplinary survey of all things 
LifeLike--on the web, in the gallery, and in the theater. ( 
www.newlangtonarts.org/network/infome) involving artists Elliot Anderson, 
Marc Bohlen, Natalie Bookchin, Steve Dietz, Alex Galloway, Arijana Kaifes, 
Diane Ludens,  Eddo Stern, Lev Manovich, Ken and Jennifer McCoy, Mark Tribe 
and Geri Wittig. 

In a unique feature Joel Slayton and Glen Sparer review and interview 
featured artists at SIGGRAPH 2001 
(http://switch.sjsu.edu/v7n1/siggraph01.html) Also featured in our current 
issue are projects from Cadre students, Dawn Ahlquist, Susie McKinnon, and 
Rob Spain. Dawn Ahlquist's and Susie McKinnon's project, 
Nephelococcygia(http://dma.sjsu.edu/~dahlquis/public_space/clouds) digitally 
explores nonsensical cloud watching. Rob Spain's The Referential Database 
(http://cadre.sjsu.edu/~rspain/the/egomachine/statement.html) is a 
combination of Scripting and Mark up languages designed to analyze, process 
and store data. 

Social Networks II is a robust issue of exclusive interviews and unique 
social explorations of cultural and technological concerns. We hope you enjoy 
our latest endeavor.

Sincerely,
Sheila A. Malone
smalone@cadre.sjsu.edu
Managing Editor, Switch:Cadre's On-line Journal


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