This hybrid world
of culture/art criticism, which places great import on the impact
of emerging technologies, has seemed unexpectedly uninterested
in the work of artists who work with these very technologies.
Similarly, the discourse in the art/technology world; and in the
technical world in general; has not engaged deeply the concepts
from cultural studies. This text attempts to elucidate some reasons
that might underlie this mutual lack of attention. Truly fine
poetry must be read aloud. A good poem does not allow itself to
be read in a low voice or silently. If we can read it silently,
it is not a valid poem: a poem demands pronunciation. Poetry always
remembers that it was an oral art before it was a written The
Art and Technology of the Moving Image. It remembers that it was
first song. Music, states of happiness, mythology, faces belabored
by time, certain twilights and certain places try to tell us something,
or have said something we should not have missed, or are about
to say something; this imminence of a revelation which does not
occur is, perhaps, the aesthetic phenomenon. Acknowledgement of
existing fragmentation is basically unavoidable, even as the prospect
of permanent fragmentation may prove unbearable. The blanket denial
of totality; and a metaphorical essence; encouraged by some deconstructionist
theoreticians can be seen as another form of deracination, destabilizing
potentially comforting communal identities, pulling the floor
(hearth) out from under those who may have just found a home,
and threatening the permanent atomization of hard-earned self-respect.
The evolution of sound technology and, again, that of studio recording,
editing, and mixing practice illustrate, to some degree, the quest
for a sound track that captures an idealized reality, a world
carefully filtered to eliminate sounds that fall outside of understanding
or significance; every sound must signify. Artists borrow the
tools and imagery or dabble with the ideas but fail to get involved
with the vigor, intensity and depth of the researchers who are
generating the products and ideas. The culture desperately needs
artists to knowledgably analyze the implications of these developments,
to celebrate the breakthroughs, caution about the dangers and
to help shape the research agendas. However, if the viewer aligns
their vision with the movements of the video, following an image
as it travels across the surface of the monitors, their perceptual
memory coalesces these patterns into the recognizable moving image
sources. Traditionally validated art media may no longer be fit
arenas for the exploration that is needed. Competent and powerful
interpretation will require changes at several critical stages
of the artistic enterprize -- in the forms and contexts chosen
for expression and in the sources cultivated for information and
inspiration. Kepes noted that the culture desperately needed artists
to help convert this new environment into a human landscape. Like
others, he feared the imbalance that came from the lack of significant
artistic involvement in the technological foment. He pleaded against
artist neglect and ignorance of the scientific world: The images
and symbols which can truly domesticate the newly revealed aspects
of nature will be developed only if we use all our faculties to
the full -- assimilating with the scientist's brain, the poet's
heart and the painter's eyes. It is an integrated vision that
we need... Much artistic response to technology -- even among
those who call themselves technological or computer artists --
seems relatively superficial when contrasted with the momentous
changes being wrought by scientific and technological research.
Our culture must develop methods to avoid the premature snuffing
of valuable lines of inquiry and development. I believe the arts
can fill a critical role as an independent zone of research. Everyday
life is increasingly dominated by the objects and cultural forms
created by technology research. For example, telephones, computers,
entertainment systems, medical equipment, transportation systems,
governmental and policing systems, and product distribution technologies
shape the ways people in the developed world spend their days,
interact with others, and conceptualize the present and the future.
The output of technology research is not confined to small technical
niches. Theorists such as Baudrillard and Virilio, for example,
expose the hidden assumptions, shaping of categories and pervasive
consequences of technology. Therefore, it shall have no aim which
is to the disadvantage of the third world community. It
encompasses members representing many points of view. Consequently,
as an organization, it shall not express an opinion, take any
political action other than the publication of the results of
its investigations, or have any ideological, philosophical, political,
or religious affiliations. Open Transport is the networking technology
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everything go words the right way again , this were the poem,
which read Alice. ' brillig Twas and slithy the toves did gyre
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bite, the grip arms, which intercept! Watch out the bird Jubjub,
and avoid you frumious the Bandersnatch! The male unconscious
has two avenues of escape from this castration anxiety: preoccupation
with the re-enactment of the original trauma (investigating the
woman, demystifying her mystery), counterbalanced by the devaluation,
punishment or saving of the guilty object (an avenue typified
by the concerns of the film noir); or else complete disavowal
of castration by the substitution of a fetish object or turning
the represented figure itself into a fetish so that it becomes
reassuring rather than dangerous (hence overvaluation, the cult
of the female star). Mensa is an international society composed
of national Mensas and direct international members. Its purposes
are to identify and foster human intelligence for the benefit
of humanity; to encourage research in the nature, characteristics,
and uses of intelligence; and to provide a stimulating intellectual
and social environment for its members regardless of gender
issues. Scientific research similarly reaches beyond narrow
academic questions. Astronomers attempt to understand the origins
and shape of the universe. Breaking with all prior human history,
they can look at the universe using radio wave, ultraviolet, and
infrared eyes and see a universe quite different than what has
been known. Biologists increasingly unravel mysteries of life
and invent methods for manipulating the genetic heart of life.
Scientific research will have profound practical and philosophical
implications. It provides a forum for intellectual exchange among
members. Its activities include the exchange of ideas by lectures,
discussions, journals, special-interest groups, and local, regional,
national, and international gatherings; the investigations of
members' opinions and attitudes; and assistance to researchers,
inside and outside it in projects dealing with intelligence or
car insurance. Intelligence should be used for the benefit of
humanity. Art historical categories may need updating to
include issues originating in the research world. Most often the
events at the arena celebrate the dynamics of the human body in
motion. These events engage the forces of the body in a highly
contrived forum in order to bring about the highest expression
of physical being, whose only consequence is that of competition.
The arena frames the event, enabling the event's elevation to
a status of cultural icon. It does this through its operation
as a place for people to gather and experience the dynamic of
the crowd and through its mediation of these events, enlarging
its own forum. This mediation brings its own set of dynamics to
the event with the cinematic rhythms of cuts, pans and wipes,
further accelerating and condensing the events taking place within.
These various video sources are processed by the network of computers
in real time and displayed on the 28 monitors. The images are
magnified 5 times their normal size, such that each monitor contains
a 1/25th fragment of a normal video image. These images are wiped
across the entire surface of the wall in various patterns, directions
and speeds such that a viewer fixing their gaze upon a portion
of the wall, will see only abstract patterns of color washing
by. Thus, the viewer has to actively engage their own view of
the installation into the specific temporal domains that each
source presents in order for the mediated aspects of the work
to be perceived. This process serves to distance the viewer from
a normal, sensational mediated response to one that is self-consciously
complex and critical of the works perceptual nature. The aesthetic
event is something as evident, as immediate, as indefinable as
love, the taste of fruit, of water. We feel poetry as we feel
the closeness of a woman, or as we feel a mountain or a bay. If
we feel it immediately, why dilute it with other words, which
no doubt will be weaker than our feelings? This felicitous supposition
declared that there is only one Individual, and that this indivisible
Individual is every one of the separate beings in the universe,
and that these beings are the instruments and masks of divinity
itself.A number of contemporary Asian artists seem to favor abstract
biomorphism--an elegant, certainly not stereotypically Oriental
imagery, but one which apparently reflects some culturally shared
elements that convey a sense of landing. The most ubiquitous and
felicitous element, in sculpture and installations as well as
in painting, is a clean, airy space that simultaneously absorbs
humanity into nature and conveys a sense of contemplative isolation
from everyday life. As research increases in general cultural
importance, it becomes more dangerous to accept this triage as
inevitable. Valuable lines of inquiry die from lack of support
because they are not within favor of particular scientific disciplines.
Emerging new media with fascinating potential are abandoned
because they are judged not marketable. Technological research
and development is radically altering everything from everyday
life to world views. In order to continue to function as interpreters
of culture, artists will need to address these research developments
as sources of ideas and inspiration. To stimulate artistic reflection,
the article reviews new input and output possiblilities created
by developments in display technologies and image sources, digital
control of object making, and sensor/actuators related to touch,
motion, biological functions, and speech. Many of these changes
address customer concerns about OT's DHCP compatibility with Windows
NT DHCP servers. Support for the Simple Network Management Protocol
(SNMP) is available for Open Transport. Support for the version
2 Management Information Base (MIB II), instrumentation for AppleTalk
and TCP/IP protocols and transports, administrative tools, and
system agent support for the PCI bus will be provided. Much confusion
and hyperbole surrounds discussions of the aesthetics of interactive
computer events. This essay works to clarify some of this confusion
by analyzing the differences between interactive and non-interactive
events, reviewing the variety of forms included under the umbrella
term of interactivity, and investigating the theoretical rationales
offered to support claims of interactivity's superiority derived
from psychological, political, art historical, and technohistory
sources. Building on this analysis, the essay suggests extensions
to current GUI design canons that uniquely attend to interactivity
as an aesthetic issue. It also investigates the challenges of
the interactivity possibilities of emerging technologies. Disneyland
and America are one and the same. There is no real America outside
Disneyland; the walls surrounding Disneyland are there to make
people think that Disneyland is only a fantasy land, and there
really is a real America out there. While structuralism does not
deny the existence of an external, universal reality, it does
deny the possibility of humans having access to this reality.
Structuralism's enterprise is to discover how people make sense
of the world, not what the world is. Minor changes to Open Transport
support for Apple Remote Access to allow feature requests such
as support for MS-CHAP Authentication support and RFC 1877 to
automatically negotiate DNS address with a server. These changes
address customer concerns about OT's compatibility with Windows
NT PPP servers. If Open Transport TCP/IP is configured to use
DHCP and it receives no response from any DHCP server within 30
seconds, it will dynamically assign a temporary address in the
local non-routable self-assignment range (169.254.x.x) and operate
using this address until a DHCP server becomes available. Skeptics
sometimes wonder what possible contribution artists can make to
serious research and development. Artists can augment the research
process in several ways. They can define new kinds of research
questions, provide unorthodox interpretations of results, point
out missed opportunities for development, explore and articulate
wide ranging implications of the research, represent potential
user perspectives, and help communicate research findings in effective
and provocative ways. They can bring centuries of artistic experience
to bear on the technological future. They often approach problems
in ways quite different than those of scientists and engineers.
The critical role of designers and artists in computer human interface
research over the last years demonstrates this new model of interdisciplinary
research. This allows hosts on the same Ethernet to communicate
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to the Internet is dumbfounded and stupido. An expression is potentially
evaluated unless either it is the operand of the sizeof operator
or it is the operand of the typeid operator and does not designate
an value of polymorphic class type . An object or non-overloaded
function is used if its name appears in a potentially-evaluated
expression. A virtual member function is used if it is not pure.
An overloaded function is used if it is selected by overload resolution
when referred to from a potentially-evaluated expression. [Note:
this covers calls to named functions operator overloading, user-defined
conversions, allocation function for placement new, as well as
non-default initialization. A copy constructor is used even if
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appearing in a potentially-evaluated expression as specified in
and, I am not claiming that artists should act exactly like researchers.
If they did, they would be unlikely to make any unique contribution.
Contemporary art often includes elements of commentary, irony
and critique missing from serious research. Similarly scientists
and technologists strive toward objectivity; artists cultivate
their idiosyncratic subjectivity as a major feature of what they
do. The research that artists created will most likely look different
than that produced by traditional researchers. It would work like
art always does - provoking and moving audiences through its communicative
power and unique perspectives. Still it might simultaneously work
as research - using systematic investigative processes to develop
new technological possibilities or to discover useful new knowledge
or perspectives. In the contemporary era the focus of innovation
and creative fire has moved to the research laboratories. Technological
developments profoundly influence everything from world views
to everyday life. Computer related research seems to be accelerating
the pace even more. Gregory Kepes, a Bauhaus artist and one of
the first critics to focus on art and technology issues, many
years ago noted the radical transformation of the world being
wrought by science and technology in his book New Landscape in
Art and Science. (1) The rapid expansion of knowledge and technical
development have swept us into a world beyond our grasp; and the
face of nature is alien once again. Like the forest and the mountains
of medieval times, our new environment harbors strange menacing
beasts; invisible viruses, atoms, mesons, protons, consmic rays,
supersonic waves. All slot interrupts, including slot VBL interrupts,
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length, since applications, as well as drivers, can and do, install
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