you have stumbled upon a slowly evolving mediated space which is the next online evolution of the original neoscenes archive and network presence. it has subsumed the entire neoscenes travelog which began back in 1995. it rolled over to a frames-based site in 1999, and then to a php-based site in 2004, and now onto WordPress as of 2009. it is now extending the time span with images, audio, and video from the long-standing off-line neoscenes archive. what’s this 1961-1962 “50 years on” material? it is one dimension of the use of the (b)log as the accompaniment of the text of my Ph.D. thesis which touches on many of the topics surfaced here combined with my creative media practice. there is an evolving about page which contains more background on the whole project. contact: neo at neoscenes dot net.
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NEW FROM THE ARCHIVE
slowly starting to upload documents of performances like Open Air Radio Barcelona and DEAF03 – Interfacing / Radiotopia / Keyworx. also in the process of figuring out how to add the thousands of scanned black&white negatives that cover a period of time from 1976 through 2000 when I quit wet darkroom work. (a few (84, 85, 86, 87, 88, 89, 90, 91, 92, 93, 94, 95) of the 4000+ portraits that are slowly migrating to these pages). will be including many fragments like that over the next months to enrich the overall blog experience, so stay-tuned here for new announcements. of course, there are always new field recordings for the aporee maps project.

I had been wanting a spot just for displaying single black-and-white photographic images on the site, so I added the “image of the day” [no longer active] link on the home and index pages where I will post one of the thousands of images from the archive on a rotating basis (irregular, to be sure!).

My proposal, eight dialogues, for the PORT at MIT project was accepted, so now I have to make some plan for executing and documenting it.

Finally got some of my portrait work back online. Basically only a revival of the old web site, but made a bit more consistent. Gotta do something new next. This is too straight-forward a way of working.

My nephew, Jason, is letting me use some extra space he has on his server (getnet.com) to store a number of modules of revived material from my old website as well as some newer material… Good deal — thanks Jase!

The Sandra Gering Gallery in SoHo is the site of the blast5drama event at which I am doing a dinner performance series. I also have added a brief essay concerning my relationship to water…

Kristen up at The Net Net put up my “Manifestations of Networking” essay on her netzine Web Schmeb — follow the links.

Still in Helsinki, working on a variety of projects, and slowly getting parts of my old web site online. Very Slowly… I also added an article I wrote for the Finnish Journal of Photography ValoKuva entitled Manifestations of Networking.

Well. Reeling from the un-expected demise of my server access in Iceland.

OLDEST: http://rvik.ismennt.is/~hopkins
OLDER: http://members.iex.net/~hopkins
NEW: http://neoscenes.net
newer: http://tech-no-mad.net/blog

PLEASE UPDATE YOUR links!

My entire site was whiffed out of existence into digital heaven without warning the day after I arrived in Helsinki. (Thanks for the warning ISMENNT!) With great luck, I had just the evening before downloaded the entire site over the fast connection at MUU Media Base. Otherwise I would have lost the entire thing… Anyways, here it is, and it will slowly grow. I hope to use the opportunity to improve both the structure and the form…

I have started working on the web site for the Media and Ethics Conference (server now defunct) while I am here in Helsinki — actually that’s the main reason that I am here, although I will also teach an HTML workshop to a group of artists at MUU Media Base, make a few lectures at the Tampere College of Art and Communication, and the Academy of Fine Art.

Adrianne Wortzel, my EDITOR at BLAST, invited me to contribute to the blast5drama vehicle project — you can find solstice to solstice and breaking bread and naming at the blast5drama site.

Many weeks pass, and I have had little time to do more than add fragmentary entries into the Travelog, which is now called the illustrated travelog and has moved to a new (and faster?) server in the US. I developed about 20 rolls of film which I have been slowly scanning in selected images from to be added to the travelog as I get the time. Why am I doing this?

I have been doing some restructuring of the site, trying to add sensible navigation buttons here and there, and thinking about the overall structure of the site. Conceptually, a site needs to have some kind of flow to it, else folks leap outward and onward in their surfing. I haven’t the time to really put thought in to it — as it would require a complete restructuring and re-writing of the site, as well as learning a new HTML software, which I don’t feel like doing, but the way I am typing code now is problematic… No time. NYC in two weeks.

Re-did the travelog section with better navigation and access.

From MUU Media ry in Helsinki, I was able to upload a new work in progress, the sacrifice, on the (sometimes rather slow) Netbase server down in Vienna… Thanks to Konrad Becker for the space..!

Well, here in Vienna, I have been adding to the travelog regularly, and have had some access to do web research in between some serious bouts with SUNSHINE, as spring has finally really re-arrived. It is about time. I updated the postcard page, adding a few newer ones and cleaning things up…

Finally back online! Total Cold Turkey there for a time in the UK where I didn’t have any access at all. HELP! Where’s my email? Very traumatic indeed. Even though tormented by serious pangs of digital withdrawal, I have managed to have a good time anyways. I am making a start on a travelog about my movements these days, despite the infrequent opportunities to sit and work on it. It starts in the UK in the middle of March after I arrived in London from NYC via Reykjavík. I hope to develop it further with images and so on as I continue this journey to Köln, Vienna, Budapest, Copenhagen, Stockholm, Helsinki, and various points in between. We’ll see, eh?

Robbin Murphy of ArtNetWeb invited me in as guest artist on the Pseudo Online Network program “ARtdIRT” this past Friday, the 8th of March, in the luxurious Manhattan studios of P.O.N. This regularly scheduled program is hosted by G.H. Hovagimyan and co-hosted by Adrianne Wortzel and Robbin. It was a good time, and I was excited by the possibilities represented in the developing dialogue. You can soon hear a RealAudio archive recording of the broadcast at the ArtDirt site above (but only if you have Netscape 2.0 and the newest version of RealAudio player, which, for Macs, is only for the Power PC models, so I can’t even access it myself!). Later, I had the opportunity to visit Adrianne’s richly woven web work, “The Electronic Chronicles” via the fancy T-1 set-up she has at her apartment in Manhattan. I also had the pleasure of meeting a number of people involved in BLAST (including Adrianne).

I’ve just finished a 24-hour internet collaboration project/performance (website removed from server) while I was a visiting artist at College of the Holy Cross in Worcester, Massachusetts.

I just got a Web site on line on the USA.NET server. Right now there is only a portfolio of personal work that I am using for job applications. There is also a set of works by former students of mine in Ice Land.

I’ve just been adding more navigation buttons and re-did noun, unfortunately, I am doing this work piecemeal because of the lousy (and expensive) connection I have from Arizona to the server in Iceland. And that server can decide at any minute to bag my project as I am not living up there at the moment… Would like to have the opportunity to do work on a local server, but no such luck right now…

I have added some buttons here and there, this one takes you HOME! Home And I am continually cleaning things up like the Welcome page and so on. Still hoping to add a major new work, but where is the time?

A new page of recent portraits done in the last year of travel in the US and Europe. And I cleaned up the links page, adding a number of sites here and there. I also have posted a small unofficial site for the Icelandic College of Art and Crafts until the Official Site is unveiled sometime in 1996(?).

A new basic list of links to personal Web sites that I know of…

While I have been in Iceland during the past two months, I helped arrange a InterNet Project with colleagues Jim Johnson (CU-Boulder), Steve Bradley (UMBC), and Paul Rutkovsky (FSU). We involved students that we were teaching at the three schools and also from the College of Art here in a week long project.

You will also notice the “DAY WITHOUT ART” image staring you in the face on the Welcome page. This is a linking project for AIDS awareness and remembrance of those who have been taken by this disease. Check it out. December 1st 1995 will be the seventh annual Day Without Art.

I removed the body of work “Partners” from the site and finally got the film developed and scanned in with the shot of Jon and Ed (of OTiS/SiTO fame) in Montreal at the ISEA 95 gig. We were on our way to lunch and got there too early to be served. So we sat in the bar for an hour before realizing they were letting folks in through the back door to eat without us knowing… Then it poured rain on the way back to hotel. Needless to say, the next lecture was STEAMY!

I also added a page of links about Iceland, for your information.

To augment your experience at the Center of the Universe, I have prepared the first of a series of short excursions into the Place (and its resonating counter-Places) starting with oracle of bones, a subset of the center.

I just got back from a stimulating few days in Helsinki at the Nordic-Baltic Conference on Art and Information Technology which took place at the Nordic Center for Contemporary Arts on the old island-fortress of Suomenlinna, a twenty-minute ferry ride from downtown Helsinki. There were a lot of interesting contacts and dialogues which began. Some of the basic ideas of networking that were discussed have been brought into action through many new additions to the links page and through a comprehensive database established during the conference by MUU organizer Tapio Mäkela.

I cleaned up and added thumbnails to the Apotek Portraits page, and the Portraits from Iceland page and the Light on Water page. I think this makes it easier to choose images to look at closely… I will be doing similar work in the next weeks as well as extending the range of those and other pages both in terms of images and text for your surfing pleasure…

ISEA 96 will be held in Rotterdam and promises to be an interesting get-together, returning to the Dutch roots as it were.

Lots of new things after ISEA 95 in Montréal!

Bonnie Mitchell ran the ChainReaction project out of the CyberPort of the symposium…

It was good seeing Ed Stasny and Jon Van Oast of OTiS fame. We had some meals together, caught some of the exhibitions surrounding the symposium, and habituated the CyberPort. It was great finding out more about the inside of OTiS and all the work the our beloved Ed does (OTiSians all know this anyway), and some interesting stuff about Jon’s Web work. I admire these guys immensely. They hacked away all week at the newest OTiS project MONGOCOSM… Check it out! And they are implementing an enormous globe-encompassing plan to totally revamp OTiS via EGADS (Electronic Global Art Databasing System). WOW! Can’t wait to see that dOOds! Yeah, it was a good opportunity to ask all kinds of questions about the higher levels of coding/hacking work that both of them are adept at — I learned a lot. Soon I will develop and post a picture of the two of them at the site of a major crack in the earth’s surface right there in the middle of Montreal…

A couple media articles, one on ISEA 94, and the other about developing an Electronic Media program at the Icelandic Academy of Art. Also, an essay for an exhibition TOTEM: ný verk that I had in Reykjavík in 1991 at Galleri Einn Einn. I have made links back to the Welcome page at the bottom of each page for your browsing convenience as well as correcting and extending some texts. I also experimented with a single audio file from an archive of sound bites of my son Loki.

I had wanted to add some kind of documentary section to my Web Space detailing my current three-month travel in the US, but access to the Internet has been spotty, and right now I have just gotten dial-up access through Internet Express, a small service that has around 5000 clients and serves Colorado, New Mexico and Arizona.

I added a few new postcards on the postcard page.

I made a page that lists some current networking projects (no longer extant).

Dinner conversations, digital fragments from an ongoing audio project of dinner recordings will be featured here as soon as I have the chance to get some converted from analog cassette tapes to digital files…

this particular (versioning) log has become a reality for better or worse.

the neoscenes web space gathers its first hits — don’t remember exactly when I first uploaded some pages — and no archive of that time either — pity, didn’t have enough memory then! ;-0 ooooooooo