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Review

“Now lets talk about what I like in a web art piece. I enjoy the sites that have a noticeable narrative going on in them, they seem to have better direction and focus than a lot of the new sites I see out there. Many are too wide open, no focus, which leaves the viewer without direction, lost and aggravated. I don’t mean so much direction and focus to the point the piece becomes too predictable and boring, I just mean it is nice to be taken on a journey and seeing inside the artist mind, not just left wondering around not knowing which way to turn, and in the net art space that is easy to do. Interactivity is nice, but too much irritates me, I want to be lured, driven through a piece. Imagery is also a must, words only reminds me I am reading a book. I want to be in a space I am unfamiliar with, but familiar with at the same time. Arguably creating something that hasn’t been done before is impossible, but experiencing something I am somewhat familiar with is nice, as long as it is presented in a new or different way.”

I think of this site – Psybernet and how it has that focus – it is personal to me and about the psyche in cs. A good combo. Experiential… there is no objective view of the psyche in cs, and so as I am here writing I explore psyberspace, create it with annotations.

I have not quite figgured out who wrote this review. matthewturlington?

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The Austin Chronicle Screens: Information Wants to Be Worthless

“Net types like to catfight about whether blogging is the Way Forward or utter self-indulgence. Since it is almost certainly both at once, blogging is quite the hot topic. So there will be some bloggery debate, with scowling, and finger-wagging, and pepper-gassing. Yes, blogging has its limitations. There isn’t much in the way of original content, for instance. Weblogging consists mostly of logging one’s websurfing activities, then making sardonic comments about whatever you see. An activity one’s admirers find hilarious. Yet admirers rarely pay for this. Except in their admiration.”

Little reflexive note here from Bruce Stirling whose article here is quite fun but what’s his point? That its hard to make money out there when information wants to be free? How is that for a sardonic remark.

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Dr. Hugo Heyrman – Psyber-L

Bio / Doctor Hugo

“Since 1995, Doctor Hugo became one of the pioneers in Net.art. He participated in 1988 at the ‘First International Symposium on Electronic Art’ (FISEA) in Utrecht. He took part in various Net.art projects, including the ALT-X-site ‘Being in Cyberspace’ and ‘Revelation’ ISEA 2000, Paris. In the series ‘Fuzzy Dreamz’ (1998) he transforms his new media experiences into painting and vice versa. His works have been presented in major international exhibitions ranging from Antwerp, Brussels, Basel, Amsterdam, Paris, Barcelona and Chicago to the Biennale of Venice.”

Dr. Hugo Heyrman
Dr. Hugo Heyrman playing at the Florian, San Marco, Venice 1997

His name popped up in Psyber-L discussion so I made this link… a “blog annotation” of the discussion. This is the sort of thing I imagine Esther Dyson is talking about happening in f2f conferences with wired people… doing it here makes a bit more sense for now.

Saturday, 09 October 2021

Repaired this post. and will add a chunck from the link in case if goes.

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Hugo Heyrman, known by his artist name Dr. Hugo Heyrman, is a leading Belgian painter, filmmaker, internetpioneer, synesthesia- and new media researcher. Born in Antwerpen, where he lives and works. From his earliest work, Dr. Hugo Heyrman developed a transformative vision, questioning the nature of perception, memory and images — “Most of my work has to do with contemporary fragility. The works are ‘ways of seeing’, forms of visual thinking, they make the virtual and mental space of an image real”. His art practice includes painting, drawing, sculpture, photography, video, film and digital media. In his online art project (((motions of the mind))) he continues his research, theory and experiments on the telematic future of art, the senses and synesthesia.

Originally, Dr. Hugo Heyrman opted for a musical education, but transferred to the visual arts. He graduated from the Royal Academy and became a laureate of the National Higher Institute for Fine Arts (HISK) in Antwerp. Heyrman was later a professor at both institutions. In addition, he studied nuclear physics during one year at the State Higher Institute for Nuclear Energy in Mol. He received a doctoral degree, Ph.D. in art sciences, magna cum laude, from the Universidad de La Laguna, Spain, with a thesis on ‘Art & Computers: an exploratory investigation on the digital transformation of art’. In 1995 he coined the terms ‘Tele-synaesthesia’ and ‘Post-ego’. Since 1993 he is a working member of the ‘Royal Flemish Academy of Belgium for Science and the Arts’, Brussels. Founder of the ‘Art & Synesthesia’ online portal (1995).

During the sixties, Dr. Hugo Heyrman profiled himself as an avant-garde artist with Happenings, Pop art and film experiments. He published together with Panamarenko the magazine ‘Happening News & Milky Ways’ (6 issues). Founder of Artworker Foundation. He publishes the ‘Artworker Star’ (3 issues). In 1970-73 he made a ‘Continental Video & Film Tour’ with his ‘Mobile Museum of Modern Media’ through Belgium, Germany, France and the Netherlands.

With this rebellious attitude, he focuses his attention (from 1974) back to his first love, painting. For his ‘Street-Life’ paintings, he was elected laureate of the ‘Prix Jeune Peinture Belge’ (1974) at the Palais des Beaux-arts, Brussels. In monumental series on ‘Water’, ‘Light’, ‘Time’, ‘A Vision is Finer than a View’ and ‘New Models of Reality’, Heyrman paints an existential tension between between imagination, reality and images; an appeal to several senses at once — “I bring the visual and the conceptual, synesthetically closer together”. For Dr. Hugo Heyrman ideas are tools; his personal approach to colour, form, and atmosphere contributes to the possibilities of painting, and the adventure of the visual arts.

His works have been presented in major international exhibitions ranging from Antwerp, Brussels, Basel, Amsterdam, Paris, Rome, Barcelona and Chicago to the Biennale of Venice.

External links
Artist page Galerie De Zwarte Panter, Antwerpen
BAM databank Instituut voor beeldende, audiovisuele en mediakunst, Gent
M HKA ensembles-collection Museum van Hedendaagse Kunst, Antwerpen
Hedendaagse kunst in het Vlaams Parlement Brussel
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theSpleen – The Whitney & Net Art

“…sitting just a few chairs over from Fry was Josh On, who was silent through most of the discussion, making occasional amusing remarks. Like Valence, On’s They Rule engages in illustrating information, however They Rule takes on a proactive, political agenda by mapping the insular world of the wealthy elite. As On states: “They Rule is a political cartoon, a satire that turns data into information… Data should reveal things about people to people.” They Rule allows viewers/users to create “representations of data that are important and pertinent.” The site also invites the user to gather greater information on the distribution of capital from linked web sources.”

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Internet Groupware for Scientific Collaboration

Internet Groupware for Scientific Collaboration Internet Groupware for Scientific Collaboration

by Jon Udell, http://udell.roninhouse.com/

An excellent article of what is *wrong* with emaiI – see the great example of idealised threading in the Zope group. Idealised. Yet that is what it could be like and IS like in newsgroups read in Agent – but who does that? I even switch on html occasionally these days. I buy food in plastic bags. I don’t always bike everywhere.

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Instant Outlining, Instant Gratification

O’Reilly Network: Jon Udell: Instant Outlining, Instant Gratification [Apr. 01, 2002]

“When I turned in the first draft of my book, my editor, Tim O’Reilly, said: “This is great, but you ask too much from people.” And he was right. I was advocating not just a communication tool, but a way of using it to optimize collaboration. That meant asking people to narrate their work, but also to think carefully about the attention demands they placed on their coworkers, and to label, structure, and layer their communications accordingly. Most people didn’t want to do these things, and most people still don’t.

“What does all this portend for instant outlining? There’s reason to hope. It’s been clear to me for a long while that the only thing that might displace email would be some kind of persistent IM. That’s exactly what instant outlining is. If it catches on, and it’s buzz-worthy enough to do that, we’ll have a framework within which to innovate in ways that email never allowed.”

Interesting article – but I think that it still won’t catch on… persistent internet messageing, nice idea but email remains king IMO. ANY method of collab requires either dumbing the tools right down and working ad hoc OR education in a series of rules and protocols OR human facilitation and email groups + the GroupSense approach to their design and facilitation is a real world solution combining what people know already and do now with gentle nudges to a saner world. Well managed email groups have benefits over the Outlined approach in Radio. Threaded email IS outlined. It is persistent (locally and/or on the web). It is instant when needed, asynch when needed, groups can be defined and structured as needed and you can filter out certain users if you need to!

Why can’t these guys use email + mailinglists?

I am cross posting here – originally sent to Dan’s Online Group Weblog.

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The conversation continues… THE WI-FI PEANUT GALLERY

“… All this happened last month in Scottsdale, Ariz., and will be happening again and again as more conference venues get “wired” with wireless.”

“… What’s going on here?

“As always, the phenomenon is happening first in a reflexive way — as you may expect, at conferences where the subject is computers. But such phenomena have a way of spreading.”

Esther Dyson is reporting on the PC forum – I think it is the first time i have read a report on the mooted shift happening – a room full of people f2f and online at the same time. The future is not being old & bloated & fed intraveinously while we are yourthful online. We will be fully physically alive, solitary or social and mixing the virtual into our actual with ease.

And yes – it happens reflexively at techno events but will soon be ubiquitous.

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O’Reilly Network: iBooks Love Linux [Mar. 29, 2002] iBooks Love Linux
by Edd Dumbill

03/29/2002

“It feels a bit like a homecoming. After years wandering in the cranky wilderness of mix-and-match PCs I’m working again on a computer that feels like it has a soul. The reason I feel like this? The other week I switched from an Intel-based laptop to an iBook.”

I have a Dell laptop running Mandrake – and while there is sometheing extra soulful about Debian on the iBook – I have a machine that has plenty of soul! 15″ 1600×1200 playing K.D. Lang DVD while I work must be up there… or down pretty deep into soulful. The thing is that hardware aside, to be out of MS is bliss. I feels like being in a good restaurant after hanging out at Mc Donald’s for years.

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