From: bladex@wixer.cactus.org (David Smith)
Subject: It's a cyberlicious weekend if I ever saw one.....
Originator: riddle@aahsa.tic.com
X-Submissions: eff-austin@tic.com
Organization: Real/Time Communications
Date: Thu, 24 Sep 1992 02:52:23 GMT

[Apologies from the moderator: because of mail problems at tic.com,
this didn't reach me until too late.  It may still be of interest if
you want to know what you missed. :-(  Sorry.  -- Prentiss Riddle,
riddle@tic.com]


Whip out your DayTimer's, I'm holding a 2-for-1 Special for Cyber-Events
this weekend:

         Textures in Cyberspace : a verbal jam session on cyber-art

                                   - and -

                      EFF-Austin Public Forum : The Net

Don't choose between one or another; you can have it all.  Attend both.

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                           TEXTURES IN CYBERSPACE
                            a verbal jam session

                          SUNDAY, SEPTEMBER 27  7PM

                       HIGH TIME TEA BAR AND BRAIN GYM
                             314 CONGRESS AVENUE

CYBERSPACE is 'virtual,' i.e. space 'in effect.' William Gibson called
cyberspace a 'consensual hallucination.' As the virtual world grows more
accessible, its population is no longer restricted to programmers,
engineers, and scientists. Artists, designers, writers, editors, and poets
are discovering the cultural potential of a reality so malleable and
seemingly infinite.

CYBERART is a nascent renaissance movement. The experience of virtuality
will alter aesthetic experience: in virtual reality, you can integrate
artist, audience, and environment, and you can surf the edges of communal
art forms (e.g. coevolved works linked through network nodes.)

In this "jam session," we will explore five unique perceptions of art and
design in virtual space, and the synthesis of new directions in the
evolution of virtual cultures.

Featuring...

Bob Anderson:  Artist, Lecturer, UT Department of Art and Art History,
drawing/painting/printmaking, Sysop, Pair O Dice BBS, Austin

Anna Couey:  Telecommunications artist, currently Network Coordinator for
Arts Wire, a computer networking project to encourage the exchange of news,
information, and discussion in the arts.

Marcos Novak:  Director, Advanced Design Research, School of Architecture,
The University of Texas at Austin

Vernon Reed:  Cybernetic jeweler and artist at the forefront of the
application of advanced technologies to what is normally thought of as a
craft field.  Has exhibited, lectured and published in both craft and
computer art circles.

Allucquere Roseanne Stone:  Currently at the department of Radio/TV/Film at
University of Texas at Austin, where she is director of the Interactive
Multimedia Laboratory.  She is founder and director of the Group for the
Study of Virtual Systems at the Center for Cultural Studies, UC Santa Cruz,
and was program chair and organizer for the 1991 Second International
Conference on Cyberspace.   She is currently editing "The Challenge of
Virtual Systems: Adventures in the Boundaries of Technology, Nature, and
Society", an anthology forthcoming in 1993.  Her first science fiction
novel, "Ktahmet", is forthcoming from DAW Books/New American Library.  Her
current research interests are the structure of desire and power in social
systems constituted through communication technologies.

For more info, contact jonl@5285 (wwivnet) or jonl@well.sf.ca.us (internet).

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        Meeting notice           EFF-Austin      Please redistribute
                                Public Forum

                         Monday, 28 September, 6-9PM
                Location: MCC (NW corner of Mopac and Braker)

                                   The Net
             What is it, Where is it, Who uses it, and for What
                        UUCP, FidoNet, BITNET, USENET
            NSFNET, ANSNet, CO+RE; PSINet, Alternet, CERFNET, CIX
                            NREN and the Internet
                                 the Matrix
        John Quarterman and Smoot Carl-Mitchell, TIC and MIDS, Austin
                  Anna Couey, art networker, San Francisco

    Do you need FTP to do USENET?  If you can send mail, are you on the
Internet?  How many users are there, on which nets and where?  What can they
do with their networks (mail, lists, and news; remote login, file transfer,
and databases; archie, WAIS, and gopher; technical collaboration, social and
political activism, and art)?  How can non-institutional or non-technical
users get access?  Where do the WELL, TMN, IGC, CompuServe, and Prodigy fit
in?

    Bring your own questions; we will try to answer them.  We will show
network maps.  We will demonstrate some Internet services online, thanks to
MCC.

    All are welcome. Here is an opportunity for all the different types and
levels of computer users to meet, mingle, and learn.  Non-members are
encouraged to attend.  EFF-Austin officers and others will speak briefly at
the beginning.

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-- 

"If you  . . . if you squander your precious beautiful days on
meaningless labor whose" -- he coughed up blood -- "whose ultimate
purpose is to further enrich the ruling elite or solidify the hegemony



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