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. later in 2011-2, it will also extend greatly that 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 will soon contain more background on the whole project.
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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 (88, 91, 92, 93, 94, 95) of the 4000+ portraits that will eventually migrate to these pages). and hope to include many documents like this 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.

Platoniq* invites neoscenes dreaming to take to the distant airwaves — courtesy of the CU Real Audio Helix server direct from the living room T2 command center in Boulder — with a two hour drift through the archive, testing the imagination behind the mixer to the extreme. thank gawd for 16-tracks! rumor in Barcelona is that it was a “great show indeed.”

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*(una Sistema Cultural Co-Operativo — Platoniq es una organización internacional de productores culturales y desarrolladores de software, pionera en la producción y distribución de cultura copyleft. Desde el año 2001, llevan a cabo acciones y proyectos en los que los usos sociales de las Tecnologías de la Información y la Comunicación (TICs) y el trabajo en red son aplicados al fomento de la comunicación, la autoformación y la organización ciudadana. El resultado de su trabajo genera innovadoras aplicaciones informáticas y metodologías, además de un amplio archivo audiovisual bajo licencias libres en Internet.)

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