queenbee: and now on to.. queenbee: Tim Murray queenbee: thank you Murray "Jeanne": clap clap queenbee: for your input queenbee: have a wonderful ballet virtualmike: thanks for showing...must leave myself... "Murray Turoff": see you all again sometime! Andersen: Tim Murray: Andersen: I am Tim Murray. Andersen: Present a little different perspective. queenbee: Tim Murray, Director Society for the Humanities, Cornell and his perspective on Virtual realit Andersen: I come to you having spent the laast year as director of society of humanities. Andersen: Common theme of virtual old and new. Andersen: Common characteristics of discourse of virtuality prevalent in cyberzones. Andersen: Tends to stress how virtual world orders, new world orders Andersen: Tends to be exceptional hopeful and utopic and discourse. queenbee: you should be able to hear Tim's audio Andersen: Frees itself from cultural discourse Andersen: Try to exemplify a couple of excamples. Rapidly developing artwork queenbee: ok tim has all these web links in the lower right queenbee: these are his lecture notes Andersen: Travellling international exhibition. Will be travelling throughout the year. Entire queenbee: contactzones.cit.cornell.edu Andersen: catalog on conference site. http://contactzones.cit.cornell.edu queenbee: is the main site Andersen: The artists in this show tend to be interested in develop dig tech not only for the activation but how virtual queenbee: feel free to clck on the weblinks Andersen: reality can put Andersen: This relationship to history that I want to talk to you Andersen: open zones of contact with history Andersen: my way of doing is less through avatars than through Andersen: the recycling of historical Andersen: show a few websites , a couple Andersen: and a couple by others. Andersen: Weblinks: For those of you have avatars, they are in the way. I want to show the virtual world Andersen: Arlene Stamp, Modern Woman, from canada Andersen: adrian wortzel, from ny Andersen: keith pipe, relocating the remains Andersen: to show you that jodi is doing is presenting you with avatars from different times Andersen: fantasy, fantasms, electronic pulses, Andersen: indistinct, pull in by working in the differences Andersen: central in center of webpage Andersen: inside of virtualroom what you might imagine is a Andersen: virtual room protected in the city when you get there if you get there Andersen: when you get there in the room in the left hand corner of your monitor *** Andersen: you see an avatar, power, language, ruins, beauty, in the cave you seea Andersen: blank screen of our memeory in a situation in flight and transition. Andersen: if you go to the other sites, then you see you think you see a tech explaining *** Andersen: the work , hyperrlinks what you get is a return to avatar city. Andersen: different concept or inbetween analogical place in the new Andersen: world order Andersen: pipers relocating the remains, website of project which opened Andersen: in l997 in royal college Andersen: cd rom same name. When you enter the virtual palm of virtual hand Andersen: when it comes up, three expeditions or notes on a theme, the show Andersen: provides you with not necessarily with a projection into the future, Andersen: the exhumation of a body, unrecorded history, unclassificied presence. Andersen: college of hyperspace Andersen: another interspacial which is interesting in relation to Andersen: what we've had today, virtual architecturlal zones, israeli artist which is here gaza checkpoint . Andersen: In the wake of the israeli elections, pull away, quick changeaway. When we go to checkpoint from a woman's point of view, interesting queenbee: how about doing a gaza checkpoint world.. Andersen: evidence, the gender perspective, between sharing and grabbing, feminist point of view what we receive Andersen: is a digital pair and stripped identity. Narrative of palestinaian checkpoint, Andersen: manual daily work at the checkpoint to become real workers. The Andersen: is imperaled political hope Andersen: Must walk through 400 meter corridor Andersen: already daylight, at that point buses are waiting for transporation to Andersen: various checkpoints, come back at night after work Andersen: imperaled virtual reality order of differentiation and difference queenbee: wow, folks, how about experiencing a gaza checkpoint in-world? Andersen: when you go back to possessions Andersen: they can carry any discarded item in isreal Andersen: bring them back to our own spaces, terror and conquest, to supplement Andersen: the average pay for a day's work, whatever garbage and discarded Andersen: materials they can find, not so they can have comfrt, so that they can discard in a Andersen: discarded virtual economuy, Andersen: stripped is a condition of tear, tear is commonly conceived of as a political Andersen: act, carried out by groups who operate illegally with power and engage violent acts against innocent Andersen: civilians, storng over weak. Andersen: Terror is also a receiprical activity that is perpetrated by Andersen: powers. Digital for her state terror as an instrument of survellience, construction Andersen: and deconstruction as a condition of identify. For and against bearer of digital identiy Andersen: interest itself, temporary virtual facility pass through every evening hoping to get Andersen: through to the other side, put up and taken down as transient virtual location. These virtual checkpoints are overseen by Andersen: a different kind of avatar like survellience by israeli checking the flow through checkpoint Andersen: conclude by clicking on the text of virtual terror, terror is commonly conceived as an act by groups which operate illegally Andersen: economic and political powers, digital and threat of terror shapes people's conscience and unconscience Andersen: this raises numerous question, digital terror and art what is the relationship the production of art by means of digital Andersen: terror by the same and do keepers of virtual world Andersen: digital media with its perturbing qualities as a means Andersen: do artists who experience terror actually react differently queenbee: a question vlearn25: Bruce, are there worlds that have emerged from troubled worlds? vlearn25: from confereence on identities in cyberspace. a man wanted to create a wordl coming from jails in Brazil vlearn25: Bruce and friends buitl one based on Amnesty Intl Museum in geneva vlearn25: world with images of prisoners that collapsed in overtime. People were very uncomfortable in it Andersen: concept of troubled world shouldn't isolate itself geographical from virtual world Andersen: same technology of vr to bomb unmercifully an entire population in yugoslavia. The hope that I see educationally Andersen: particularly for college age students, if we teach them about the promise Andersen: teach at same time the history of technology Andersen: it is grounded in the military and invasive use Andersen: have to continue to reflect and encourage students to resist Andersen: avatar virtual world, catholic and protestic students together virtually Andersen: for security reasons interesting project. vlearn25: another example world in ireland to bring toggether catholic and protestant children in neutral historic space queenbee: questions from the world? digigardener: clap ***