Vol. 3 No. 1, Winter/Spring '03

intelligent agent resumes its quarterly publication as an online magazine in a new modular format:
  • 3 thematic threads with contributing writers
  • reviews on festivals, exhibitions, net art, books, tech sector

    All content is available in html and as pdf files with layout, which allow readers to assemble customized issues.
    The content of each quarterly issue becomes available over a period of 3 months.



    Editorial
    Patrick Lichty, Dark Times for New Media? (pdf)



    THREADS

    the political sphere
    US Department of Art & Technology, Joint Resolution to Authorize the Use of Artistic Acts of Mediation (pdf)
    Sam Smith, Postmodernism is dead -- now what? Distributed Culture and the Rise of the Network Age (pdf)
    RSG, How We Made Our Own "Carnivore" (pdf)
    Nathan M. Martin (for the Carbon Defense League), Parasitic Media: Creating Invisible Slicing Parasites
    and Other Forms of Tactical Augmentation
    (pdf)
    NEW: G.H. Hovagimyan, Shooter (pdf)
    NEW: Mike Mosher, Unionizing Silicon Valley Part One: Problem, History and Opportunity (pdf)

    biotech / transgenics
    Eduardo Kac, The Eigth Day (pdf)
    Gregory Little, Towards an Aesthetics of Synnoetic Interactivity (pdf)
    NEW: Tiffany Holmes, The Mighty Mouse: Communication Addiction Research Through Computer Art (pdf)
    NEW: Ricardo Dominguez, Nano-fest Destiny 3.0: Fragments from the Post-Biotech Era (pdf)

    new media curation
    Anne-Marie Schleiner, Fluidities and Oppositions among Curators, Filter Feeders and Future Artists (pdf)
    Jennifer Crowe, An Interview with Steve Dietz (pdf)
    NEW: Patrick Lichty, Reconfiguring the Museum: Electronic Media and Emergent Curatorial Models (pdf)



    PROBE
    MTAA, MTAA’s Amazing Criswell Future Algorithm System (pdf)



    REVIEWS

    exhibition
    NEW: Hope Childers and Susan Ryan, Documenta11_Platform5: Exhibition as Research (pdf)

    net art
    Curt Cloninger, Yoshi Sodeoka: The Interface is the Massage (pdf)

    books
    Van Burnham’s Supercade, A Visual History of the Videogame Age 1971 - 1984 (pdf)
    a review by by Gregory Little

    tech sector
    The Parallax Toddler Robot Kit (pdf)
    a review by Patrick Lichty

    festivals
    Elnor Buhard, Instant Culture in the High Desert -- Burning Man 2002 (pdf)
    Stefan Dzeparoski, From the Edinburgh Theatre Festival 2002 (pdf)