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	I'm Not Stalking You; I'm Socializing: Status Grabber by Liz Filardi with funds from the Jerome Foundation A record of telephone interactions is gathered under the pretense of a social networking service called Status Grabber, in which a representative makes personal phone calls to request very short "status updates" from strangers. Call recipients are told that someone they know has anonymously requested a "status update" about them, and that they should provide the representative with an open statement about their career, family, social life, or literal whereabouts. The service mimics the social activity of users on Facebook and Twitter, where users stay connected without directly interacting. In creating an analog version of those services, Status Grabber places analogous pressure on individuals to relinquish privacy in order to participate in this new model of socialization. Status Grabber is part of a project called I'm Not Stalking You; I'm Socializing, in which the artist explores how social networking changes the ways in which we relate to one another and enrich our lives. Visitors to the website can directly request status updates through the satirical service, listen to phone records, and view rolling, one-line status updates.
	FUJI spaces and other places by Nurit Bar-Shai with funds from the Jerome Foundation Appropriating, processing, and interweaving several existing webcam feeds of Mount Fuji, FUJI is a durational piece for four seasons. FUJI examines the authenticity of networked, spatiotemporal experiences of distant nature, sacred sites, and sacred icons. The overwhelming immediacy and delirious variety of live broadcasts available via the Internet, as well as the current incitement to communicate with distant but real subjects alter our experience of space which is invariably mediated through images. In FUJI, the gap between the real place and its representation no longer exists. FUJI is a voyage across deep time, experienced minute by minute, day by day — a longing for a place that could never be, yet, evidently, always is.
	Networked: a (networked_book) about (networked_art) with funds from the National Endowment for the Arts We are pleased to announce the launch of Networked: a (networked_book) about (networked_art) which is now open for revision, commentary, and translation. After and international competition, four chapters were commissioned: Lifetracing: The Traces of a Networked Life by Anne Helmond; Data Undermining: The Work of Networked Art in an Age of Imperceptibility by Anna Munster; Art in the Age of DataFlow: Narrative, Authorship, and Indeterminacy by Patrick Lichty; and The Immediated Now: Network Culture and the Poetics of Reality by Kazys Varnelis. Three additonal chapters have been added: Storage in Collaborative Networked Art by Jason Freeman; No End In Sight: Networked Art as a Participatory Form of Storytelling by Marco Deseriis; and The Learning Screen by Greg Ulmer.
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Artists' Studios

	Alan Bigelow Alan Bigelow writes digital stories for the web. Created in Flash, they are multimedia environments (text, image, audio, video, and other elements) in which his narratives can unfold, and in which users can interact and sometimes participate. His updated Turbulence Artist's Studio page includes eight new works, dating back to 2007. Two of these — Science For Idiots and Deep Philosophical Questions — are part of the "brainstrips" series, which use comic strip forms to create fresh and engaging perspectives on science and philosophy. Other works — My Summer Vacation, What They Said, When I Was President, and Lord's Prayer — provide complex commentaries on politics, family, and religion. Lastly, Bigelow returns to user-generated database entries through works like I-Pledge.org, which offers visitors an opportunity to rewrite the Pledge of Allegiance, and Love Is..., a tentative definition of love. [Needs Flash Player]
	Data_Sea by Michael Takeo Magruder with Drew Baker and David Steele The televised broadcast of the Berlin Olympics in 1936 was humanity’s first media transmission powerful enough to pass through Earth’s ionosphere and travel into deep space. From that point in time our signals have radiated into the universe, creating an ever-expanding globe referred to as Earth’s Radiosphere. In the 73 years since that defining moment, our communications have reached nearly two thousand other known star systems. Data_Sea is a real-time virtual environment based upon this relationship between broadcast media and astronomy. The core geometry of the artwork is derived from the actual positions of all catalogued star systems residing within the Radiosphere. Live media from the BBC world news service is streamed into the environment. The virtual elements are textured with images from today’s events, while layers of live audiocasts are blended into a persistent soundscape. These mediated reflections of the present are in constant flux, forever shifting as they drift into an endless sea of virtual space. [Needs Windows 2000/XP/Vista computer system with Internet Explorer or Firefox, the Cortona3D Viewer 6, Adobe Flash 10 and Windows Media Player 11 plugins, and 5.1 or stereo audio]
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	One Text, Many Stories by Annette Weintraub One Text, Many Stories is an exploration of reading, and of how the visual context and process of reading influences interpretation. An original text composed of nine short passages describes an urban space reconstituted in memory, and is interspersed with short extracts from Michael de Certeau's The Practice of Everyday Life and The Production of Space by Henri Lefebre. Taken together, the passages are a construction of 'the city' as a fluid mental map of elements that are shuffled and rearranged. Inspired by the css Zen Garden use of CSS to separate structure and appearance, each page redisplays and reconfigures the primary text. Through this alteration, the text undergoes shifts in meaning and narrative arc. [Needs: Reset the zoom on your browser to 100% and turn off text zoom. Optimum browsers for this project are Firefox 3.xx, Safari 4, Google Chrome 3 and Internet Explorer 8. ]
	MAICgregator by Nicholas Knouf MAICgregator is a Firefox extension that aggregates information about colleges and universities embedded in the military-academic-industrial complex (MAIC). It searches government funding databases, private news sources, private press releases, and public information about trustees to try and produce a radical cartography of the modern university via the replacement or overlay of this information on academic websites. This is a necessary activity in light of the contemporary financial “crisis”. [Needs Firefox browser and extention download]
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Upgrade! Boston is a monthly gathering of new media artists and curators that fosters dialogue and creates opportunities for collaboration within the media art community. At each meeting one or two artists/curators present work in progress and participate in a discussion. Upgrade! Boston is hosted by the Center for Advanced Visual Studies at MIT and is a node in the Upgrade! International network.

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