Comments on: ISEA 06 Rocks, Mostly http://grandtextauto.org/2006/08/11/isea-06-rocks-mostly/ A group blog about computer narrative, games, poetry, and art. Wed, 13 Jan 2010 15:44:40 -0800 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.5 hourly 1 By: r-echos » Blog Archive » Data bodies http://grandtextauto.org/2006/08/11/isea-06-rocks-mostly/comment-page-1/#comment-103513 r-echos » Blog Archive » Data bodies Sat, 23 Dec 2006 07:25:12 +0000 http://grandtextauto.org/?p=1262#comment-103513 [...] on design Bookmark on del.icio.us Data bodies The Super Vision performance (via Grand Text Auto), by the Builders Association and dbox, was presented last week [...] [...] on design Bookmark on del.icio.us Data bodies The Super Vision performance (via Grand Text Auto), by the Builders Association and dbox, was presented last week [...]

]]> By: noah http://grandtextauto.org/2006/08/11/isea-06-rocks-mostly/comment-page-1/#comment-92037 noah Sat, 12 Aug 2006 20:26:49 +0000 http://grandtextauto.org/?p=1262#comment-92037 I should also have mentioned the <a href="http://www.socialtext.net/isea2006/index.cgi" rel="nofollow">ISEA2006Rapporteur,</a> coordinated by Edward Shanken. Among other things, it's a good place to get a sense of some of the debate around the symposium. For example, an <a href="http://www.socialtext.net/isea2006/index.cgi?action=revision_view;page_name=keynote_presentation_and_conversation_with_sociologist_and_globalization_expert_professor_saskia_sassen_us;revision_id=20060810223546" rel="nofollow">early version of the page on the second keynote</a> observed: "A sociologist and globalization expert? What a great choice for a conference on electronic art!" On the other hand, the main <a href="http://www.socialtext.net/isea2006/index.cgi?keynote_presentation_and_conversation_with_artist_writer_and_curator_lu_jie_cn" rel="nofollow">page for the first keynote</a> contains a comment that articulates a rather different attitude: <blockquote>New Media doesn't have to be about the media - it's also about networks, and the relationship between geographical space and social space that our tools construct and depend on. The Long March project is an incredible and inspired way to begin these proceedings. There's a huge challenge here to those who benefit from bounteous access to technology but are blind to the social and political relations these technologies construct.</blockquote> Personally, I'm among those who would have liked the keynotes to at least mention the topics of the conference. I should also have mentioned the ISEA2006Rapporteur, coordinated by Edward Shanken. Among other things, it’s a good place to get a sense of some of the debate around the symposium. For example, an early version of the page on the second keynote observed: “A sociologist and globalization expert? What a great choice for a conference on electronic art!”

On the other hand, the main page for the first keynote contains a comment that articulates a rather different attitude:

New Media doesn’t have to be about the media – it’s also about networks, and the relationship between geographical space and social space that our tools construct and depend on. The Long March project is an incredible and inspired way to begin these proceedings. There’s a huge challenge here to those who benefit from bounteous access to technology but are blind to the social and political relations these technologies construct.

Personally, I’m among those who would have liked the keynotes to at least mention the topics of the conference.

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