a simultaneous seminar took place during the 36 hours confinement in
the former blackwells building in manchester, england. links to
submitted and found papers and items were put up every three hours
or so for discussion on cuseeme, irc and in mediamoo.
there are eight one-on-one irc dialogues from john hopkins
here as examples of the medium
back to these same links without description
people get ready is an internationally evolved declaration of cyberspace rights | word bombs is one of around ten deliberately argumentative pieces on the word bombs site | displaced? first appeared in the context of the inter-society of electronic arts' multi list intended to tackle diversity issues to and through the 1997 (chicago) and 1998 (manchester-liverpool) international seminars | paternalism? was a firm response from the displaced data collective
6x6 is taylor nuttall's isolated/connected reaction to the 36mc project - 1296 images generated relentlessly through the period | artaids24h is another duration web work from manchester artist nick crowe, tracking the sun and lovers' meetings across the globe on world aids day 1996 | entropical is a seriously loaded and multi-award-winning art and mind field | pepper represents the senses from the confines of oregon's big sky | 12hourJPeg is the renowned brad brace uplift project
posttranssexual manifesto is first of three sandy stone items and in a very real sense a net classic | sandy's home is, well, sandy's home page with lots of forward journies | transgender theory is another net classic
some sites with a push against confinement : amnesty the international resource pages with campaign notes and briefings | inside-outside a netherlands based group encouraging penpals for american death-row prisoners | free tibet! building campaigns against colonial action including the kidnap and imprisonment of the dalai lama's child successor | oye africa! the first web site from middle africa - positive futures
divided cities is the first of paul treanor's idiosyncratic analyses of world politics in which he suggests that divided cities ought to be celebrated rather than dismantled | more from treanor, and leading to a rich seam of first principle analyses, including of manchester and telecities | prohibition is an australian perspective on internet as a confining factor in expression which chimes in well | while claustrophobia presents a letter from america on unaccountable auto-espionage
laurel lobster is an interview with brenda laurel, titled from the jaron lanier idea of virtual lobster embodiment | net women is a rich collection of mini-biogs and links for women researching the internet | while kafka moo is a gateway to the athe moo, now in hawaii, which generally has up-to-date moo software downloads, and an ongoing metamorphoses project | pure bliss is manchester 's gonnie rietveld's response to club-bound house culture
as the internet and digital culture in general privileges the visual, despite the rich multimedia possibilities on offer, we include this blind resource which offers links to software resources such as talker, and experiments in surfing the net with eyes confined | forum-theatre reflects on theatre with prisoners and is part of a varied resource library | while metrocene juxtaposes the fantasy of johnny mnemonic with the reality of sensory implants, just ten years after
neonudism frames a net project to use cuseeme technology and agent provocation to bring creative nudity to the net | surplus identity delves deep into anonymous electronic territories for work, rest and play | while electropolis widens the net again through the city metaphor
from the invaluable rhizome contentbase immersion suggests parallels with a prehistory life underground which reminds us of neil stephenson's undersea bubble of the diamond age | comment is a critical rejoinder published near-instantaeneously via the rhizome internet list | while comment 2 is a more compementary/complimentary response
imeediately before the 36mc confinement began there were stories of locked-in-syndrome author and of recovery from five years of "persistent vegetative state" and medical ethics seems a timely examination of this context | postmortem media is another contribution from sean cubitt (see also displaced above) | while the beginnings of aura is yet another rhizome offering
lambda moo's virtual community took a good look at itself following rape in cyberspace | iteration is an extensive exploration of hypertext with a useful crib for those lost in links | geopolitics is the "organic state", and "living room" revisited
visitors were able to join in in real time - before 12.00 gmt (13.00 bst) on 30 march 1997 - we leave the connections open though we can't promise more than a host bot if and when you drop in to visit
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