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Nick Montfort

December 8, 2005; 7:00 pm;
Eyebeam - 540 W21st Street, New York
Book and Volume

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December 2005

The final gathering for the year was a book release party for Nick’s interactive fiction Book and Volume.

The evening opened with Winston Wolf, who showed how he uses interactive fiction as an education tool in children’s creative writing courses.

During the rest of the evening Nick Montfort discussed the approach that his collaborators and him have taken in working together on projects Read On »

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The Sala-manca Group

September 23, 2005; 7:30 pm;
Eyebeam - 540 W21st Street, New York

Elephants in the Nights of Metula

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September 2005

A team of multidisciplinary artists based in Jerusalem.

The Sala-manca Group is Lea Mauas and Diego Rotman, Argentine-Israeli artists who have been creating work in performance, video, installation and new media since 2000. Sala-manca’s works deal with the poetics of translation, the tensions between low tech and high tech aesthetics, as well as social and political issues. Read On »

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Ricardo Dominguez

March 29, 2001; 7:00 pm;
Eyebeam - 540 W21st Street, New York

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March 2001

Donning a ski mask in a darkened room lit by one bright interrogating lamp, Ricardo Dominguez appeared costumed in the tradition of the Zapatistas.

Ricardo Dominguez discussed the Electronic Disturbance Theater project in relation to Digital Zapatismo, network_art_activism, the rise of International Hacktivism, and the questions that it raises for our current/future state under the “For Sale” signs of globalization.

Throughout the evening Ricardo switched characters, reading from a scripted conversation between the three fictional characters of Almost Not Me, Almost Me, and Almost Another Me as well as the story of El Durito, a fictional Zappatista. The narratives described theories behind the influences of the internet on social activism, and served to provide a comprehensive perspective of such activism via historical and current examples of poetic intervention, semantics, micro and macro gestures, and the information wars of the mid to late 1990’s. Read On »