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- Prologue ix Introduction xii Methodology xvi SECTION I: BREAKING WITH TRADITION Chapter 1: Setting the Stage
- SECTION II: DISTRIBUTED IDENTITY Chapter 4: Avatars on the Net
- Chapter 6: Bodies© INCorporated
- Chapter 8: Datamining Bodies
- Conclusion Illustrations
- Bibliography Summary
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NETWORKED PUBLIC SPACES: An Investigation into Virtual Embodiment PhD thesis by Victoria Vesna July 21, 2000 
DECLARATION: This work has not previously been accepted in any substance for any degree and is not concurrently submitted in candidature for any degree Signed: Victoria Vesna Date: _____________________________________________________________________ STATEMENT 1: This thesis is the result of my own investigations, except where otherwise stated. Other sources are acknowledged by footnotes giving explicit references. A bibliography is appended. Signed: Victoria Vesna Date: _____________________________________________________________________ STATEMENT 2: I hereby give consent for my thesis, if accepted, to be available for photocopying and for inter-library loan, and for the title and summary to be made available to outside organisations. Signed: Victoria Vesna Date: _____________________________________________________________________ NB: Candidates on whose behalf a bar on access has been approved by the University (see Appendix 2), should use the following version of Statement 2: I hereby give consent for my thesis, if accepted, to be available for photocopying and for inter-library loan, after expiry of a bar on access approved by the University of Wales on the special recommendation of the Constituent/Associated Institution. Signed: Victoria Vesna Date:
SECTION I: BREAKING WITH TRADITIONChapter 1: Setting the Stage 1 Concept and Happening 2 Fluxus Internationalism 4 E.A.T 6
Chapter 2: Emergence of Telematic Culture 9 Early Telematic Arts Experiments 11 Telematic Subculture 15
Physical Interfaces to the Web 23 Virtual Concrete 27 SECTION II: DISTRIBUTED IDENTITY Chapter 4: Avatars on the Net 34 From Cyborgs to Avatars 36 Breaking the Metaphor. 37 Descent of the Avatar 38 Descent of the Graphical Avatar 41 Earth to Avatar 42 Chapter 5: Database Aesthetics 46 Information Architecture and Knowledge Production 47 "Guinea Pig B" and the Chronofile 48 Libraries/Museums, Text/Image Databasing 51 Memex and the World Brain 53 Xanadu 55 Digital Library Projects — Ghost of Alexandria 56 Corbis Image Library 58 Archiving the Internet 60 Bodies as Databases — The Visible Human Project 61 Human Genome Projects 63 Database Art Practice 65 Chapter 6: Bodies© INCorporated 72 Body Construction 72 Architecture 74 Exhibition in Physical Spaces 77 SECTION III: VISUALISING THE INVISIBLE Chapter 7: Mapping and Information Architectures 83 Tensegrity and Fuller shapes 85 Discovery of the third carbon molecule: Buckminsterfullerene 89 Network Topologies 92 Topologies of networked social spaces 95
Site: Coal Mine 99 Remote Collaboration 101 Structure Physical Installation Online Version Chapter 9: Construction of the Information Personae Non-human agents Antonymous Agents Agents on the Net Multi-agent Systems Advisory Agents Military Agents e-commerce Agents Social Agents Beginnings of “Intelligent” Networks Art Agents: Towards an Information Personae
Figure 1. Drawing of the first connection 9 Figure 2. Installation view. Virtual Concrete. Huntington Beach Art Center, 1995. 27 Figure 3. Aerial view of the collapsed freeway interchange between I-5 and the Antelope Valley Freeway (State 14 28 Figure 4. Detail view of Virtual Concrete 29 Figure 5. Screen captures of remote audience via CU-See Me 30 Figure 6. Installation view: Audience member walking on
Figure 7.Logo of Bodies© INCorporated 73 Figure 8. Screen capture of “Auditory” 74 Figure 9. Screen capture of “Limbo” 75 Figure10. Screen capture of “Home” 76 Figure 11. Screen capture of “Necropolis” 77 Figure 12. Installation view, San Francisco Art Institute, 1997 78 Figure 13. Installation view, Art House storefront gallery, Dublin, 1998 79 Figure 14. Screen capture of ZKM Bodies 80 Figure 15. Screen capture of the chat window 81 Figure 16. Buckyball 89 Figure 17. Front view of the building at Zeche Zollern II/IV, site of the installation 100
Figure 19. Installation view, Zeche Zollern II/IV, April 13, 2000 Figure 20. Screen capture of level 1 Figure 21. Screen capture of “descend” from level 3 to 4 Figure 22. Screen capture of level 5 Figure 23. View of mining “control” table with trackball Appendix From Virtual Concrete to Bodies© INCorporated: selected requests for body deletion:
Text of Datamining Bodies Bibliography Summary Networked Public Spaces: An Investigation into Virtual Embodiment is an exploration of issues surrounding networked public spaces in relation to three artworks created by the author between 1995 to 2000: Virtual Concrete, (1995); Bodies© INCorporated (1996-2000); and Datamining Bodies (initiated in 2000). All three works have several key things in common: each exists on the Internet; each is conceptually connected to the idea of online identity and virtual embodiment, and each required extensive research to inform and inspire the creative practice. The projects are presented within three main sections, each of which attempts to link personal experience and history to a larger cultural context within which the works were produced. The first section, “Breaking with Tradition,” provides an overview of historical events that have influenced the changing relationship between artist and audience and argues that the foundations for networked art were laid largely by conceptual artists working during the 1960s and 1970s. The second section, “Distributed Identity,” examines the emergence of identity in online public spaces, focusing specifically on issues surrounding the appropriation and use of the term “avatar,” and the current cultural preoccupation with databasing and archiving. The third and final section, “Visualizing the Invisible,” explores the various efforts to map cyberspace, particularly paying attention to the implicit intersection of network data visualisations and biological systems, and the popular trend toward developing more “intelligent” networks through use of autonomous agents. Directory: publications publications -> Acm word Template for sig site publications -> Preparation of Papers for ieee transactions on medical imaging publications -> Adjih, C., Georgiadis, L., Jacquet, P., & Szpankowski, W. (2006). Multicast tree structure and the power law publications -> Swiss Federal Institute of Technology (eth) Zurich Computer Engineering and Networks Laboratory publications -> Quantitative skills publications -> Multi-core cpu and gpu implementation of Discrete Periodic Radon Transform and Its Inverse publications -> List of Publications Department of Mechanical Engineering ucek, jntu kakinada publications -> 1. 2 Authority 1 3 Planning Area 1 publications -> Sa michelson, 2011: Impact of Sea-Spray on the Atmospheric Surface Layer. Bound. Layer Meteor., 140 ( 3 ), 361-381, doi: 10. 1007/s10546-011-9617-1, issn: Jun-14, ids: 807TW, sep 2011 Bao, jw, cw fairall, sa michelson Download 0.56 Mb. Share with your friends:
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