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The 5th International Symposium on Electronic Art Catalogue ISEA'94 The 5th International Symposium on Electronic Art Catalogue
Publication series of the University of Art and Design Helsinki UIAH B 40
Edited by Minna Tarkka Graphic design Eija Hakala
ISBN 951-9384-72-3 ISSN 0782-1832
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©the authors and UIAH 1994 ixontents
INTRODUCTION welcome / Olli-Pekka Heinonen, Minister of Culture; Yrjo Sotamaa, Rector, the University of Art and Design Helsinki UIAH; Minna Tarkka, ISEA'94 Programme Director project / Troy Innocent, IDEA>ON!
9 THE NEXT GENERATION essays / Pierre Levy, Toward Superlanguage; Volker Grassmuck, into ttie Muddy Waters of the Turing Galaxy Death and Metaphoric Rebirth of the World in Media and of Media in the Universal Medium abstracts by / Mary-Anne Williams, Derrick de Kerckhove, Simon Penny John Manning, Ken Rinaldo, Henry See projects / Ken Feingold, where i can see my house from so here we are; Digital Therapy Institute, Virtual Haze; Toshio Iwai, Retrospective; Game Arcade, The Cute Game Museum
38 > interactivity abstracts by / Maria Stukoff, Nicholas Gebhardt, Ryszard W. Kluszczynski, Soke Dinkia, Wolfgang Ziemer, Heidi Tikka, Beryl Graham, Mika Tuomola projects / Kimmo Koskela, Rea Pihiasviita, Talking Picture; Paul Sermon, Telematic Vision; Jon Rose, V/oZ/n Music in the Age of Shopping/ Chaotic Violin; Mari Kimura, 20th Century Virtuosic Electronic and Computer Music for the Violin/ U / The Cormorant
46 > multimedia abstracts & projects / Brad Miller, A Digital Rhizome; Marita Liulia, Maire; Karen Davis, One Play; Klaus Oesch, Media Museum; Jill Scott, Paradise Tossed - New Stage Frontiers of Utopia; Jorgen Callesen, Stine Schou, Lailah - an Interactive Expressionist Fiction; Jean-Louis Boissier, Flora Petrinsularis; Berry Benoit, R-O-M (Read Only My Memory)
56 > visualization abstracts by / Richard Wright, Machiko Kusahara, Chris Dodge, George Legrady Delle Maxwell, Peter Beyls, Roman Verostko, Ken Musgrave, Stephen Bell, Brian Evans projects / Roman Verostko, The Diamond Lake Apocalypse; Joseph Nechvatal, The Computer Virus Project; Yoshiyuke Abe, Prologue IV, Legend
64 > composition abstracts by / Agostino di Scipio, Carsten Bredanger, Eduardo Reck Miranda, David Clark Little, Erkki Kurenniemi, Gerhard Eckel, Barbara Becker projects by / Cort Lippe & Zack Settel, Akemi Ishijima, David C. Little, Patrick Kosk, Jukka Tiensuu, Michael Rosas Cobian, Andrea Libretti, Eric Zoran, Srdjan Hoffman, Charles Dodge, Francis Dhomont
73^ SPACESCAPES essays / Frances Dyson, Philosophonics of Space: Sound, Futurity and the End of the World; Margaret Morse, Enthralling Spaces. The Esthetics of Virtual Environments abstracts by / Peter D'Agostino, David Tafler, Victoria Vesna projects / Philippe Boissonet, The Awareness of Limits (Galileo); Christa Sommerer, Laurent Mignonneau, Anthroposcope; Knowbotic Research, Dialogue With the Knowbotic South; Nina Pope, Herbaceous Protection / Unconscious Bloom / Keepsake; Annette Weintraub, Night Light the Remanufactured Environment
98 > arch-design abstracts by / Roy Ascott, Mathias Fuchs, Tom Klinkowstein, Vito Orazem, Marko Peljhan, Frederick John Truck, Jeffrey Shaw, Ola Odegard, Yuxweluptun, Carl Loeffler projects / Sylvia Eckermann, Mathias Fuchs, Link; Christian Moller, The Audio Pendulums
106 > body abstracts by / Monica Fleischmann, Wolfgang Strauss, Christian Bohn, Jane Goodall, Eric Kluitenberg, Arthur Elsenaar, Timothy Druckrey Kari Hintikka, Stahl Stenslie, Karen Davis, Kathy Rogers, Rob la Frenais projects / Catherine Richards, The Virtual Body; Stelarc, Stomach Sculpture / HollowBody HostSpace; KirkWolford, Stahl Stenslie, Cyber SM///,'Benoit Maubrey; The Audio Ballerinas > soundscapes abstracts by / Douglas Kahn,Virginia Madsen, Tony McGregor, Nicholas Gebhardt, Sam Inkinen, Nigel Helyer projects / Joseph Hyde, Songlines; Ambient City Radio; Rinneradio
> cave abstract / Margaret Morse project / Jeffrey Shaw, EVE HIGH&LOW essays/ Erkki Huhtamo, From Caleidoscomaniac to Cybernerd. Towards an Archaeology of Media; Geert Lovink, Sovereign Media and the Data-Dandy - Two Aspects of ADILKNO's Media Theory abstracts by/ Lev Manovich, Ross Harley Richard Wright, Graham Harwood, Matthew Fuller, Sadie Plant, Steve Binnion, Mike Steventon, Gomma X projects / Rebecca Cummins, To Fall Standing; Paul DeMarinis, The Edison Effect; Michael Naimark, SEE BANFF!; Peter Broadwell, Rebecca Fuson, Rob Myers, Plasm: A Country Walk; George Legrady An Anecdoted Archive from the Cold War
> east/west abstracts by / Marina Baskakova, Mihail Kuznezov, Alexander Sekatsky, Alia Mitrofanova, Gia Rigvava, Viktor Mazin & Olessia Turkina, Marat Guelman projects / Marat Guelman, AES Group, Nikita Gashunin, Savadov & Senchenko, Gia Rigvava, Conversion; Igor Kaminnik, Vadim Fishkin, Andrei Sumatokhin, Marquee
> gender/blender abstracts by / Zoe Soufoulis, Virginia Barratt, Roger Johnson, Joan Truckenbrod, Greg Garvey Carol Gigliotti, Brenda Laurel, Rob Tow projects / VNS Matrix, ALL NEW OENI Pathogenic Vectors; Heidi Tikka, A Dialogue with Hunger; Christine Tamblyn, She Loves it. She Loves it Not: Women and Technology
> global/local abstracts by / Lily Diaz, Sadhna Jain,Kathleen Cmielewski, Rejane Spitz, Paul Brown, Acha Debela, Maria Fernandez, Chitra Shiram projects / MS STUBNITZ / The Baltic Sea Tour; Udo Wid, What do ELFes Sing?; WOMAD@helsinki; I/O ISEA/ONLINE; Artemis Moroni, Electronic Carnival
> artists in cybercuiture abstracts by / Jeffrey Schultz, Jeremy Welsh, Stephen s'Soreff, Greg Gan/ey James Walker, Cynthia Beth Rubin, Jeff Taylor, Axel Wirths, Derrick de Kerckhove, Tapio Makela projects / Takahiko limura, AlUEO NN ELECTRONIC EDUCATION essays / Roy Ascott, The Planetary Collegium. Electronic Art and Education in the Post-biological Era; Gregory L. Ulmer, The X Tables. Dialogues with the Prosthetic Unconscious abstracts by / Richard Kriesche, Joseph de Lappe, Paul Brown, Cynthia Beth Rubin, Annette Weintraub, Simon Penny Paul Brown, Tessa Elliot, Horit-Herman Peled projects / Philip Dean, UIAH Media Lab; Marikki Hakola, HELSINKI MEDIASCAPE; Juha Samola, AVEK
DIGITAL NARRATIVE abstracts & essays by / David Tafler, Robert A. Fishcer, Graheme Weinbren, Erkki Huhtamo, Perttu Rastas projects by / Maurice Benayoun, Beriou, Peter Callas, Sean Fitzgerald, Ghislaine Gohard, Troy Innocent, Elena Popa, Sang Mah, Delle Maxwell, Milla Moilanen, Tapio Takala, Leslie Wilson, Judith Goddard, Julie Kuzminska, Julie Myers, Dmitri Prigov
BIOGRAPHICAL NOTES / INDEX
iiaAZO E SOFOULIS. VIRGINIA BARRATT Women Remapping Technospace
Although it is frequently assumed that succesful engagement with new elec• tronic media requires an unambiva- lent, uncritical and enthusiastic atti• tude towards the equipment, inter• views with Australian women elec• tronic artists and studies of their work reveal a diversity of attitudes and styles of relating to technology. Many women artists express critical concern for the contents and contexts of elec• tronic artworks and aim at 'putting some guts into the machine' - using new media to explore embodiment, rather than abandoning the body for a virtual world. Cyberspace, and the real-world institutional spaces in which it is embedded and accessed are contested zones: they do not guaran• tee places for women, and those aber• rant females who enter do so not as colonisers imposing a pre-set plan for 'the' future, but as viral guerillas in a libratory struggle to subvert the politi• cal and aesthetic logics governing the field.
ROGER JOHNSON Music Tehnology and Gender
Gender is a powerful lens with which to analyze the meanings of music in our time, examining not just sexual content but a complex range of codes
156 VNS MATRIX/JULIANNE PIERCE, JOSEPHINE STARRS, VIRGINIA BARRATT. FRANCESCA DA RIMINI PathogenicVectors
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©join sociopathic cyberslut VNS MATRIX and sow the seeds of the new world VNS Matrix is a self-governing system(2), All New Gen disorder in the databanks of Big Daddy replicating in dangerous and unexpected Mainframe... ways, coming soon to a terminal near The VNS Matrix (Josephine Starrs, Julianne you... Pierce, Francesca da Rimini and Virginia The VNS Matrix are continuing their Barratt) emerged from the cyberswamp interrogation of the codes of popular ' Richard Grayson, 'All New Gen' catalogue essay, during a Southern Australian Summer technologies is their textual project Adelaide 1993 ^ Prof. Sadie Plant, Birmingham University, makes a circa 1991, on a mission to hijack the toys 'CorpusfantasticaMOO' which sites itself within the mainframe of the Internet, the correllation between the increasingly unmanageable from technocowboys and remap cybercui• and unpredictable proliferation of 'intelligent virii' in worldwide electronic communication ture with a feminist bent. VNS Matrix computer systems, and the rise and rise of create hybrid electronic artworks which network or the 'information superhighway' cyberfeminism. See her paper 'Women, Drugs and ironically integrate theory with popular as the merchants of hype would have it. Intelligent Machines', presented at the Adelaide culture. Festival's 1994 Artists Week. She will be publishing a The VNS Matrix have exhibited in Adelaide, book on cyberfeminism entitled 'Cybernetic Hookers' in Britain later this year VNS Matrix have come to electronic art Minneapolis and Chicago and will tour to through photography, film, video, music, Helsinki, London, Toronto, Sydney, Mel• performance, writing, feminism and bourne over the next year. cultural theory. The inpetus of the group is to investigate and decipher the narra• tives of domination and control which surround high technological culture, and explore the construction of social space, identity and sexuality in cyberspace.
The project which they pursue is one of debunking the masculinist myths which might alienate women from technological devices and their cultural products.
They believe that women who hijack the tools of domination and control introduce a rupture into a highly systematised culture by infecting the machines with radical thought, diverting them from their inherent purpose of linear topdown mastery.
Their first action was the dissemination of the 'Cyberfeminist Manifesto for the 21st Century', which was placed in public sites, published in various academic, art and poular journals, and broadcast on commu• nity television and radio. The 6m x 3m billboard of the 'Manifesto...' has been widely exhibited.
Their current project is the on-going development of All New Gen, an interac• tive computer artwork, and installation piece which takes the language of the computer game as it's discursive context. The component parts of All New Gen are lightbox mounted large scale transparen• cies, audio works, video and sculptural structures. All New Gen's mission, as anarcho cyber-terrorist is to undermine the "chromo-phallic patriarchal code" (1) HIGH&LOWgender/blender 159 Symposium in Sydney Drift). He is Coordinator of the Florida Research Her research interests lie in Aesthetics in Art and > She Loves It, She Loves It Not... Ensemble (a group developing a new approach to the Science, Artificial Intelligence, Belief Revision, Jeffrey Taylor practice of consulting) and an officer in the Florida Creativity Explanation, Knowledge Representation, > The Net Effect Media Arts Center, involved with the project for and Logic and Design. Jukka Tiensuu (1948-) is one of the internationally Creating an Electronic Community His work-in- > Aesthetics and Artificial Intelligence best known Finnish instrumentalists; as a harpsi• progress is the design of a series of electronic Leslie Wilson chordist, pianist, conductor and composer, he is often monuments; also the production of a handbook for > A Lithuanian Lullabye associated with the musical avant-garde. Yet his people who would like to take up theory as a hobby Axel Wirths (235 Media), born 1960, is founder and repertoire is exceptionally broad - he has also steeped Ulmer's courses at the University of Florida are director of 235 MEDIA in Cologne, international himself in the study of authentic performance of early designed as experimental tests of the theory of media art distributor He has organized several works. Tiensuu has concerted in the U.S., Asia, and in electronic rhetoric proposed in HEURETICS. exhibitions, festivals and TV-senes, held numerous most European countries. He has lead courses on both > The X Tables. Dialogues... lectures, written articles and got scholarships. 1991 Barocque and contemporary music. Tiensuu's own Roman Verostko, FISEA 93 Program Director; Adolf Grimme award for TV series" Donnerstag". composing output extends from solo works for the Professor, Minneapolis College of Art & Design. As a Founder of the first Mobile Electronic Cafe. Since kantele (zither-like Finnish folk instrument) to choral Bush Fellow he researched the "changing roFe of 1993 works as a curator for Media Arts at the Kunst- and orchestral compositions, from pieces for artists" at the Center for Advanced Visual Studies und Ausstellungshalle of ERG in Bonn. accordion ensemble to electronic and computer (MIT 1970). His seminal paper "Epigenetic Painting: > Artistic Electronic Networking music. Software as Genotype (1988) identified biological Kirk Wolford American artist, born 1967. Master of > Sound of Life analogues to autonomous form generating Science, Master of Fine Arts: Photography Institute of Heidi Tikka is a film and installation artist. She procedures. His "epigenetic art" includes a limited Design, Chicago, Illinois, 1992. Has been teaching received her MFA at the School of the Art Institute of edition of George Boole's "Derivation of the laws..." digital photography computer graphics and hyper Chicago. She is now working on her postgraduate Awards: Golden Plotter First Prize (1994); Ars media at School of the Art institute of Chicago and thesis at the University of Art and Design in Helsinki Electronica Honorary Mention (1993). Exhibitions Illinois Institute of Technology. Presently works as a and teaching computer graphics there at the include: "Genetische Kunst - Kunstliches Leben" (Linz guest instructor at Kunsthochschule fur Medien in Department of General Studies. 1993); "TISEA" (Sidney, 1992); "SIGGRAPH 1991, Cologne, Germany Has exhibited digital photography > Vision and Dominance... 1992" (Chicago, Dallas, Computer Museum, Boston); and interactive electronis art work since 1988. > A Dialogue with Hunger "Data Data" (Baltimore, 1991) > CyberSM Rob Tow At Interval research Rob Tow is engaged in > Algorithms and the Artist Richard Wright was born in 1963 in Barnet, active research into gendered constructions of space >The Diamond Lake Apocalypse England. He is a electronic media artist, writer and and interface. As a working scientist with two granted Victoria Vesna is a video, performance and lecturer Since 1991 he has been a lecturer in and three pending patents in applied visual installation artist. Her work has been shown at the Computer Graphics at London Guildhall University psychophysics, he has a wide background in Venice Biennale (1986), RS.l Museum (1989), Art in > It Looks Just Like Art.... psychophysics and perception - and has worked at General (1993) and Long Beach Museum where she > Art and Science in Chaos... Xerox PARC and Schlumberger Palo Alto Research serves as chair of the media council. She is currently Yuxweluptun (white man's alias: Lawrence Paul) is with 18 years of experience in image processing, an assistant Professor at UC Santa Barbara where she Cowichan-Okanagan, born 1957 in Kamloops, British graphics, and applied vision. He also has studied the has initiated a collaborative effort between the Art Columbia, Canada. Lives in Fort St. James, British history of art (including a deep descend into Department and the College of Engineering. Columbia. Studied at the Emily Carr College of Art Renaissance perspective). He is a white male who > Cyberspace: Configurations of... and Design, Vancouver, British Columbia. Painter: also wrote half the code in the Placeholder virtual reality VNS Matrix / Julianne Pierce, Josephine Starrs, works with advanced technologies, in particular virtual project that Brenda Laurel created. Virginia Barratt, Francesca da Rimini. VNS Matrix is an reality Has exhibited mainly in western Canada and > Pedagogy of the Oppressed... Australian artists' collaboration who create hybrid the western United States, and recently in Lost Fred Truck has been working in electronic media electronic artworks which ironically integrate theory Illusions: Recent Landscape Art, Vancouver Art Gallery, since 1980. In 1984, he published an innovative text with popular culture. As feminists, we explore 1991, and Indigena, Canadian Museum of that could only have been done electronically— language, sexuality and power from subversive and Civilization, Hull, Quebec, 1992. George Maciunas, Fluxus and the Face of Time. This ambiguous positions. As cyberfeminists, our mission is > The Invisible Planet... work is in the library of the Modern Art, and many to hijack technology and remap cyberspace. Michaela Zabranska (Computer Graphics Research other museums here and abroad. In 1986, he co- > Pathogenic Vectors lab./Simon Fraser University Canada): Director founded the Art Com Electronic Network with Carl > ALL NEW GEN Michaela Zabranska studied fine arts in the Public Loeffler; it has been on-line continuously since then. James Walker, born in London 1948, painter, College of Art in Prague, Czechoslovakia and His most recent work is The Labyrinth, a virtual reality exhibitions: Hayward Annual 1979, Whitworth computer craphics in the Czech Technical University art work which featured Leonardo da Vinci's Flying Manchester (one-man) 1985, SISEA Groningen 1989, (CVUT), Faculty of Technical Cybernetics, Prague. Machine. The Labyrinth was shown in the Machine FISEA Minneapolis 1983, Computerkunst Gladbeck >"First Political Speech" Culture art show at SIGGRAPH '93. 1994. Tutor in Computing at RCA 1989 - 1993. Editor Wolfgang Ziemer born 1949 in Epe, Germany 1980 > The Invisible Planet... Artscribe Magazine 1976 - 1983, articles on established the private OFFENE GALERIE. 1983 Joan Truckenbrod exhibits her artwork computers in art in Modern Painters (92, 94). established the non-profit association OFFENE internationally She recently was invited to give a > Computers, Painting and Ambition GALERIE e.V. 1986 organized the first international presentation at the Institute of Contemporary Art in Annette Weintraub is a visuafartist working with symposium in Germany on art and communication. London at a conference on Cyberspace and the Arts. digital image processing whose work examines the 1988 established the non-profit association ARTCOM She has received a grant to work collaboratively with architectural environment. Her work will be seen this IN DEUTSCHLAND. Participation in LEUROPE DE the faculty at the Department of Media and fall in "Metamorphoses: Photography in the Electronic CREATEURS and ARTTRANSITION M.l.T, Mass. USA. Information Science, Aarhus University in Denmark, Age", curated by Aperture Magazine at the Fashion > European Interactive TV on an interactive multimedia project. Ms. Truckenbrod Institute of Technology Her work is represented in Eric Zoran (Belgrade, 1950) is one of the most is on the faculty at The School of the Art Institute of many public collections. She received grants from the significant Serbian composers of the middle Chicago, and is Chair of the Time Arts Department. New York Foundation for Art (1991), The CUNY generation. He studied Composition with Stanojio > Gender Issues in the Electronic Arts... Research Foundation (1990,1993), and resident grants Rajicic at the Belgrade Academy of Music, where he Mika Tuomola, born 1971, student at the Media Lab at Yaddo (1979, 1989). Annette Weintraub is graduated and acquired a MM. degree. He spent a of the University of Art and Design Helsinki UIAH. Professor of Art at The City College of New York, short time at the Orff Institute in Salzburg and in the Organizer of the Shakespeare in Hypermedia project, where she directs the Robinson Center for Graphic CCFIJM at Groznian, where he took part in summer collaborator in the Hyper-Hamlet CD ROM. Arts and Communication Design. courses and the master class for Composition led by >Toward New Structures > Night Light the Remanufactured... W. Lutoslawski. Since 1980 Zoran Eric is an eminent Gregory Ulmer is a professor of English and Media > Running to Stay in Place... full-time professor at the Belgrade Faculty of Music Studies at the Universityof Florida. He is the author of Jeremy Welsh 1990-94 head Intermedia, (Department of Composition and Orchestration). His APPLIED GRAMMATOLOGY (1985); TELETHEORY Kunstakademiet Trondheim. 1988-90 Director, Film works have been performed in almost all European (1989)and HEURETICS: THE LOGIC OF INVENTION and Video Umbrella. 1982-1987 Program Director, countries, in the USA, China, and have achieved (1994). Ulmer has co-authored atextbook (TEXT London Video Arts Exhibited and published considerable succes at festivals and concerts in BOOK), served as academic adviser and on-camera internationally since 1980 - Media art. London, Paris, Athens, Prague, Berlin, Amsterdam and critic for a telecourse on literature (LITERARY > A Hybertalk Beijing. VISIONS), made video tapes with Paper Tiger Mary-Anne Williams is a Lecturer in Information >The Great Red Spot of Jupiter Television and the Critical Art Ensemble (distributed by Systems, at the University of Newcastle in Australia.
221 Art and technology in the age of networks? The catalogue of ISEA'94, the 5th International Symposium on Electronic Art contains essays, state• ments and projects by over 200 artists and researchers from all over the world. The multidisciplinary perspec• tives of the catalogue range from the electronic environmentto cyberotics, from soundscapes to military conver• sion - the result is a panorama of today's electronic culture.
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