Syndicate: [techne]W3LAB

[Eugene Thacker <maldoror@eden.rutgers.edu>]

Hello - I wanted to inform you & Syndicate of an online show presented by
[techne], a digital arts group in the New York area. This show is part
of an upcoming conference at Rutgers University on "Globalizations" and
includes net.art, hacktivism, programming, design, and performance.

All the best,
Eugene Thacker


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W3LAB announcement :: BETA-TEST

http://gsa.rutgers.edu/maldoror/techne/w3lab-entry.html

The [techne]W3LAB is an online installation of work devoted to the web
(web-based projects, networking experiments, performance, software
design, VRML, etc.), and will include a range of projects by an
international group of digital artists, as well as a "hyper.theory"
section of texts by contemporary theorists of electronic culture.

This exhibit is being presented through an organization affiliated with
the Program in Comparative Literature at Rutgers University called
[techne]. Established in 1997, [techne] has held multimedia events,
performances, and lectures (including Mark Amerika, The Poool, and
Floating Point Unit) on the Rutgers University campus. The purpose of
this online show is to foster awareness of the variety and complexity of
selected works on the web.

The show will run in two phases:

Phase I (fall 1998) will be a beta-test preview, and will be
communicated to the digital community via mailing lists and other
information services. It will focus primarily on web-based works.

Phase II (winter 1999) will be communicated to academic and art-based
networks and institutions, and will coincide with the annual Program in
Comparative Literature conference at Rutgers University, at which time
the show will be "installed" during the conference, along with
multimedia and networking performances. The conference, whose theme this
year is "New World (dis)Orders: Globalization, Culture, Identity," will
take place in late February, and will attract a multidisciplinary group
of theorists from around the globe. This phase will place equal focus on
web-based works and performance/performative works which make use of the
Web.

Both phases will include ongoing discussions and distributions of issues
through the [techne] website
[gsa.rutgers.edu/maldoror/techne/techne.html], as well as other online
nodes such as Rhizome [www.rhizome.org], Alt-X [www.altx.com], and the
show "The Shock of the View"
[http://www.walkerart.org/salons/shockoftheview/sv_front.html],
presented by the Walker Arts Center.

W3LAB participants include ::

net.art :: Mark Amerika & Jay Dillemuth, Diane Bertolo, Sawad Brooks &
Beth Stryker, Heath Bunting, Contempt Productions (to be confirmed), Vuk
Cosic, Critical Art Ensemble, DhalgrenMOO, Disinformation, Ricardo
Dominquez & Zhanga, Fakeshop, Floating Point Unit, i/o 360, I/O/D, Oz
Lubling, --meta--, Robbin Murphy, Nikolas, Thomas Noller, plumb design,
Post-Tool, Erwin Redl, James Roven, Alexi Shulgin, Yoshi Sodeoka, Eugene
Thacker, Helen Thorington & Marianne Petit & John Neilson, Annette
Weintraub, Arianne Wortzel.

hyper.theory :: Mark Amerika, Sawad Brooks, Steve Dietz, Kathy Rae
Huffman, I/O/D, Douglas Kellner, Arthur & Marilouise Kroker, Geert
Lovink, Lev Manovich, David Porush, Mark Poster, Rhizome, Steve Shaviro,
VNS Matrix.

For more info see the [techne] website at
http://gsa.rutgers.edu/maldoror/techne/techne.html
or contact Eugene Thacker at maldoror@eden.rutgers.edu

For info on the "Globalization" conference
http://complit.rutgers.edu/conferences/new_world_disorders

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