electrolobby Kitchen

2003

Communication Grill Chang-Tei
An electric grill that stays hot only as long as users are surfing and chatting in the Internet. Cooking and communication—two activities emblematic of the electrolobby Kitchen.

Kou Sueda, Koji Ishii (J)

Roy Ascott: Telematic Embrace
Roy Ascott presents his latest book entitled Telematic Embrace, a collection of illustrative essays written since the ‘60s that synthesize a wide range of cultural and artistic theories.

Roy Ascott: Telematic Embrace. Visionary Theories of Art, Technologies, and Consciousness, Edited and with an Essay by Edward A. Shranken, The University of California Press 2003.

CodePlay @ UMe
http://newmedia.umaine.edu/codeplay/
These software projects by students and faculty at the University of Maine approach code as tool, content, meme and structure. They include “Alice,” “The Pool,” “Breakdown” and “Internet2@UMe” - works that invite active participation by visitors to Ars Electronica.

Directed by Joline Blais, John Ippolito, Mike Scott (USA)

bitforms gallery (USA)
Steve Sacks presents the software art archive of the bitforms gallery.
www.bitforms.com

Creative Commons (USA)
Joshua Davis (USA) presents the Creative Commons Moving Image Contest. Creative Commons is an Internet platform that is a gateway to the free availability of creative material—music, websites, literature and film—and, at the same time, is dedicated to copyright protection.

MagNet
MagNet links up independent print periodicals and e-zines covering the field of electronic culture. Its mission is to set up infrastructure and networks connecting publications being published in traditional fashion and Internet magazines. The objective is to define electronic culture and to elaborate on its current state.

With: Slavo Krekovic (SK, 3.4 Review), Alessandro Ludovico (I, Neural), Georg Schöllhammer (A, springerin) und Simon Worthington & Pauline van Mourik Broekman (UK, mute)

DIVE
The “Kingdom of Piracy” project was a guest at Ars Electronica 2002; this year, the publication documenting that project is being presented as an introduction into the world of free software, free networks, collaborative online activities, and piracy on the Web.

DIVE was created by Kingdom of Piracy and edited by Armin Medosch, commissioned by the VirtualCentre-Media.net, supported by Culture2000, and co-produced by FACT.