Max Payne Cheats Only: Demo and Q&A
Wednesday, May 10, 2006
6:30 pm
Electronic Arts Intermix (EAI)
535 West 22nd Street, 5th Floor
New York, NY 10011

EAI and Rhizome present renowned digital artists jodi.org in a rare public demonstration of their latest video game modifications, Max Payne Cheats Only. The work is a series of "cheats": alterations to the behavior of a video game that are often built in by the original programmers to help players who have reached an impasse. jodi.org has compiled cheats from the ultra-violent New York vigilante game, Max Payne. Their live demonstration will be followed by an in-depth discussion and question and answer session hosted by media art curator Caitlin Jones.
http://maxpaynecheatsonly.jodi.org/

I've been involved with this for a couple of years. It started out as a a film festival but I've been pushing to turn it into a new media festival. For the film festival you have to send in your video with a 25 dollar fee. There's also a call for new media proposals which is free. The cool events will be at the Roebling Bridge for sound art and Bethel Woods Art Center (the old woodstock hippie site). we're calling this Podstock.

Sound Art is everywhere these days. Peter Sinclair and his experimental soundlab Locus Sonus have a video up on the web called Audio Geo.
http://nujus.net:8000/locus/perfLS0406.mp4 I'm trying to get Locus Sonus over here for the Digit Festival in August.
http://www.artsalliancesite.org/ The grant forms are in and we are keeping our fingers crossed.

MTAA has a podcast blog called To Be Listened To...

There's so much happening that I decided to send out a small newsletter to keep you informed. This will be infrequent. At the most once a week. Of course if you don't want to receive this just let me know.

Here we go;-)

rantapod is being featured on the afflatus project site http://www.afflatusproject.com/exhibition/ This is a site that presents projects for handheld and mobile devices. They come out of England. rantapod has also been accepted by iTunes. You can download m4v files direct to your video iPod here http://phobos.apple.com/WebObjects/MZStore.woa/wa/viewPodcast?id=1491865...

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NO TO THE VIOLENCE IN TEXCOCO, MEXICO and YES TO THE ZAPATISTA CAMPAIGN
FOR DEMOCRACY IN MEXICO! ALL OF CINCO DE MAYO! TOMMORROW.

the virtual sit-in
FLOODNET action

manifestación en línea
FLOODNET

CLICK TO JOIN THE ACION*CLIQUEN AQUI TOMMORROW MAY THE 5th

HERE: http://bang.calit2.net/CincodeMayo

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No a la violencia en TEXCOCO, México y si al la Campaña Zapatista por

LMCC SITELINES 2006 KICKS OFF IN NEW YORK
When is a fire escape a stage? When is the marble adorned lobby of a corporate headquarters an intimate playhouse? When is a ballerina's tutu a sound studio? Only during Lower Manhattan Cultural Council's annual Sitelines series. Beginning this Monday! Free dance downtown in unusual places all summer long.
Full list of performances

The4thScreen: a global fest of art & innovation for mobile phones focuses on the emerging cultural, technological and social phenomenon of mobile phones.

http://www.thefourthscreen.com/

"We are at the moment when everybody, from the media moguls to Vietnamese peasants - artists, hackers, activists, businesses and governments are trying to grasp the impact, the power, of this new phenomenon.... trying to claim a part of it. There is still a lot of space for great ideas, to fulfill dreams and real needs. I hope the Festival will serve as a catalyst and influence this process... "

Net Community Hacks Cultural Funding System

Vienna, 2 May 2006

“Our much-discussed, game-theory-oriented approach to cultural funding represents a clear rejection of all the Austrian cultural industry’s hegemonic tendencies,” states MANA coordinator Stefan Lutschinger: “This hack of the outmoded jury and committee system opposes every rationalistic funding cut with pure difference, contingency coping and the fruitful development of paradox.”

http://www.hyfntrak.com/neilyoung2/AFF23252/

European Cultural Policies 2015: A Report with Scenarios on the Future of Public Funding for Contemporary Art in Europe

A collaboration between Iaspis, eipcp and åbäke

http://www.eipcp.net/

From the introduction:

In 2015 art is almost completely instrumentalised in the economic sense, regardless of whether financing is private or public. Art then services either national or European interests that wish to construct a certain identity: it is a desirable marketable commercial good for private ownership and it contributes to regional development and provides society with new creative employment opportunities.