From: jdemmers@pd.org (Jim Demmers)
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Subject: FYI: Working Papers 5
Date: 8 Jan 93 19:43:24 GMT
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WORKING PAPERS 5

This marks the fifth year that PUBLIC DOMAIN has provided an informal 
forum for the presentation and discussion of ideas and arts for what has 
been called the crises in representation (art), legitimation (politics), 
and communication.  PUBLIC DOMAIN as an organization is devoted in both 
theory and practice to examinations of the relationships between art and 
ideas, and more specifically, the role that technology plays in constituting 
modern life and thought.  To facilitate these explorations we conduct a 
series of presentations called WORKING PAPERS several times a year, publish 
a limited edition of the journal PERFORATIONS, and provide on-line computer 
network services for PUBLIC DOMAIN members.

This Winter's series of WORKING PAPERS will be held at the Homage Coffee 
House at 255 Trinity Ave. (near the Trinity gallery) in downtown Atlanta.
(Their phone number is 525-7546).  Please note that the January 25th 
presentation on the Net, will take place on the Georgia Tech campus at the 
Manufacturing Research Center auditorium, Ferst Drive at Hemphill Ave.  
Each session will begin at 7:30 p.m. and last approximately one hour.  
There will be an opportunity for discussion following each presentation.  
Admission is free and open to the public.  We are however, a small, non-
profit organization with limited funding, so we do accept and appreciate 
any and all contributions that you might care to make.....

Further information concerning WORKING PAPERS and PUBLIC DOMAIN may be had
by contacting:

	MAIL:		 PUBLIC DOMAIN
			 P.O. box 8899
			 Atlanta, GA  30306-0899

	VOICE MAIL:	 (404) 612-7529

	ELECTRONIC MAIL: zeug@pd.org (Robert Cheatham)
			 jdemmers@pd.org (Jim Demmers)
			 cprince@pd.org (Chea Prince)

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January 25 / Glenn Barry, Jim Demmers, Chea Prince

			THE NET

	What is Internet? How does it work?  What can you do on it, with 
	it?  During this presentation we will explore a brief history of 
	international computer networks, the basic utilities they offer 
	the user, and how to find and use available information resources
	and tools.  We will also discuss PUBLIC DOMAIN'S network server at 
	Emory University, and give a brief overview of future plans and
	projects for the PD computer, including the use of networks as 
	an art medium.

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February 8 / Michael Greer

			WHERE POETRY HAS BEEN:
		     THE SPACE OF LANGUAGE WRITING

	Language poetry is artistic noise: it resists the dreams of pure 
	communication, placing before us the heterogenous, ruptured, 
	anti-subjective writing of the American tradition which extend 
	forward from the poetics of Gertrude Stein. This tangent within
	contemporary North American poetry bridges gaps between theory
	(postmodern, poststructuralist, feminist), performance art (Cage,
	Mac Low, Antin), and the technological metadiscourses (Foucault,
	Baudrillard, Haraway) which fill the air.  It is aggressively and
	humorously political: is sets the ear on edge.  I will present a 
	montage of textual exemplars, and offer a provisional account of
	this new writing's place in the postmodern scene.

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February 22 / E. K. Huckaby

			DEPARTMENT OF DYSIATRICS
			   CURRENT PROJECTS:
			   EVIDENTIARY BOLUS

	Fresh colour slides, spoken well of, vagary.
	An update on false studies, 
	a Revel of Breakage, and a history of working in bed.
	Non-drowsy.

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March 8 / Patrick Dillon

			THE FUTURE OF STORIES

	We live in an age that possesses an insatiable appetite for the 
	next generation of everything: of cars, of cmputers, of scientific
	discovery.  We have even come to the point where we have 
	institutionalized this appetite in the form of what supercomputer
	theorists call grand challenges: predicting global climate change,
	decoding the human genome, retrofitting diffusion models to the 
	Big Bang.  A recent, and worthy entrant to the pantheon of grand
	challenges is that of the machine generation of stories - or, if 
	you will, the construction of a Storytelling Engine.  The terms 
	now swirling about this nascent enterprise include the now familiar 
	ones of interactive multimedia and virtual reality.  In summarizing 
	his research into the intellectual overlap between the seemingly
	disparate disciplines of software engineering and narratology, 
	Dr. Dillon explores the prospects and problems associated with 
	our pursuit of the next generation of storytelling.

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March 29 / John Johnston

		Deleuze/Guattari		Discursive Multiplicity

				Machinic Language

	Language as Virus

					Language of Revelation vs. ?
					(Heidegger? Foucault?)

			 	

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