Contents




Karl Gerbel
Preface

Peter Weibel
The Noise of the Observer

Technodiscourse

Paul Virilio
Strategies of Disappointment

Florian Rötzer
Mysteries of information

Ecke Bonk
in<->formation

Thomas Dreher
The arts and artists of networking

Melita Zajc
Keep Him on the Phone - The Human body in the realm of technology

Symposium Mythos of Information

Friedrich Kittler
Myth of information (Abstract)

Lev Levidow
The paranoid rationality of the gulf massacre

Pierre Levy
Welcome to Virtuality

Frank Ogden
The new mythos

Lucien Sfez
From theWorld of Communication to the Utopia of the Body1

McKenzie Wark
On the information myth

Slavoj Zizek
On virtual sex and related matters

Symposium Wired World

John Perry Barlow
Is There a There in Cyberspace?

Amy Bruckman
Cyberspace is not Disneyland

Critical Art Ensemble
Slacker Luddites

Timothy Druckrey
The Fate of Reason in the Global Network: Teleology, Telegraphy, Telephony, Television, Telesthetics

Fred Forest
Against an official contemporary art – for an actual art

Eduardo Kac
Interactive art on the Internet

Geert Lovink
Digital City

Saskia Sassen
Power and Marginality in Cyberspace

Richard M. Satava
Telesurgery, Virtual Reality and the New World Order of Medicine

Nick West
Welcome to YORB! - An Electronic Neighborhood

Netprojects

Roland Alton-Scheidl
Public Voice

Steffen Wernery
Villa

Sam Auinger/Bruce Odland
Max Res O+A 95

Michael Bielicky
Exodus

David Blair
Waxweb 2.0

Ingrid Burgbacher-Krupka
transImagine - The Media Pump

Gerd Döben-Henisch
The Blind's World I

Eva Grubinger
C@C – computer aided curating

Agnes Hegedüs
Between the Words

Markus Huemer
Latest News

Internationale Stadt
The ideal city in the Internet

Stichting Rainstick
TAI-TENDO

Orhan Kipcak
ARSDOOM – art adventure

Knowbotic Research
mobil_machung>co-realities<

Kunstlabor
The electronic gallery

Nur Schrec
Medienguerilla - urban squad
(Only available in the German version.)

Antonio Muntadas
The File Room

Österreichischer Kultur-Service
LogIN:speed

Public Netbase t0
Art in the Age of Biocybernetic Self-Reproduction

Reuters
Reuters Television

Norbert Nowotsch / Mark Olson / Lisa Schmitz
World Artistic Porperty Organization WAPO

Stacey Spiegel
Crossings

Luc Steels
The Origins of Intelligence in Artificial Systems

The Thing
The Thing International

Akke Wagenaar
The Hiroshima Project

Events

Stadtwerkstatt TV
Checkpoint 95

Lev Manovich
To lie and to act: Potemkin'sche villages, cinema and Telepresence – Notes around Checkpoint '95 project

Horizontal Radio

Performances

Wolfgang Dorninger
Aural Screenshots

Peter Weibel
Wagner's Delusion or the Holy Land of Capital

Ulf Langheinrich / Kurt Hentschläger
Granular Synthesis

Laurie Anderson
The Nerve Bible

Saburo Teshigawara
Here to Here

Konrad Becker / Jimmi Hennrich / Martin Retschitzeegger / Leo Schatzl
Tronic Artcore Event

Biographies