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Josh Carroll recently put together this image of Screen:

Happy New Year! I haven’t been posting here much — mostly over at Grand Text Auto — leaving this a space for personal announcements. I might formalize that, change it, or continue to ignore it in 2004.

Today, however, I have a personal announcement — which is that my NMR co-editor Nick Montfort and I will be guests this month on empyre. Here’s the announcement:

January on -empyre- :

Nova Media Storia: Histories and Characters

With Jill Scott, Nick Montfort and Noah Wardrip-Fruin

Is new media a field? Does it have a history? What history? And, how does it matter?

The new year brings us the pleasure of hosting three lively minds from the interdisciplinary worlds of new media science, art and humanities. Noah Wardrip-Fruin (US) and Nick Montfort (US) will explore the genesis and critical issues that have lead to the publication of “The New Media Reader” (MIT Press 2003), a compendium of intertextually annotated readings from the last century. To the double helix of art and computation in new media, Nick and Noah hope to interweave empyrean comments in the coming month. With Noah and Nick, we are honored to share time and thoughts with a distinguished new media artist, Jill Scott, whose new book, “Coded Characters” (Hatje Cantz Verlag, 2003), explores the mediation and role of the audience, as well as the mythical representation of the human body on both stage and screen, are constantly questioned. Jill’s nomadic hegira, from the Bay Area to Australia and to Europe, bears witness to a consistent development of new media art as a series of cyberphysical metaphors–analog figures, digital beings, and mediated nomads.

Please join Jill, Nick and Noah this coming month on -empyre- soft-skinned space.

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I’ve been having a little trouble with subtle.net today, but an alternate subscription address is:
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Next month’s empyre guests are Trebor Scholz and Geert Lovink (and past guests include Jill, who I was happy to see last month in Providence).