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	School of Perpetual Training by Stephanie Rothenberg with funds from New York City Department of Cultural Affairs School of Perpetual Training, an ironic edutainment website, exposes the underbelly and not so glamorous side of the computer video game industry. An animated personal trainer leads eager job seekers through a series of webcam-enabled training exercises for outsourced jobs in digital game manufacturing and global distribution. Classic arcade games such as Dig Dug and Space Invaders are redesigned to train job seekers for positions in mineral mining and printed circuit board assembly. Pushing joystick and mouse aside, the webcam interface utilizes motion detection requiring full range of body motion to play. Through the relationship of physical labor for virtual gain, the reality of the actual physical, labor critical to running virtual worlds is made visible. [Needs webcam and speakers]
	Hard Data by R. Luke DuBois with funds from New York City Department of Cultural Affairs Hard Data is a data-mining, sonification, and visualization project that uses statistics from the American military actions in Afghanistan and Iraq as source material for an interactive audiovisual composition based around an open-source "score" of events. Using Xenakis' understanding of formalized music as a starting point, DuBois draws upon a variety of statistical data ranging from the visceral (civilian deaths, geospatial renderings of military actions) to the mundane (fiscal year budgets for the war) to generate a dataset that can be used for any number of audiovisual compositions. The intention of the project is to recontextualize the formal stochastic music in the context of real-world statistics, and to provide a compositional and metaphoric framework for creating an electroacoustic music relevant and significant to our time. [Needs Flash plugin and speakers; wait for data to load]
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Artists' Studios

	Alan Bigelow Alan Bigelow writes digital stories for the web. Created in Flash, they are multimedia environments (text, image, audio, video, and other elements) in which his narratives can unfold, and in which users can interact and sometimes participate. His updated Turbulence Artist's Studio page includes eight new works, dating back to 2007. Two of these — Science For Idiots and Deep Philosophical Questions — are part of the "brainstrips" series, which use comic strip forms to create fresh and engaging perspectives on science and philosophy. Other works — My Summer Vacation, What They Said, When I Was President, and Lord's Prayer — provide complex commentaries on politics, family, and religion. Lastly, Bigelow returns to user-generated database entries through works like I-Pledge.org, which offers visitors an opportunity to rewrite the Pledge of Allegiance, and Love Is..., a tentative definition of love. [Needs Flash Player]
	Data_Sea by Michael Takeo Magruder with Drew Baker and David Steele The televised broadcast of the Berlin Olympics in 1936 was humanity’s first media transmission powerful enough to pass through Earth’s ionosphere and travel into deep space. From that point in time our signals have radiated into the universe, creating an ever-expanding globe referred to as Earth’s Radiosphere. In the 73 years since that defining moment, our communications have reached nearly two thousand other known star systems. Data_Sea is a real-time virtual environment based upon this relationship between broadcast media and astronomy. The core geometry of the artwork is derived from the actual positions of all catalogued star systems residing within the Radiosphere. Live media from the BBC world news service is streamed into the environment. The virtual elements are textured with images from today’s events, while layers of live audiocasts are blended into a persistent soundscape. These mediated reflections of the present are in constant flux, forever shifting as they drift into an endless sea of virtual space. [Needs Windows 2000/XP/Vista computer system with Internet Explorer or Firefox, the Cortona3D Viewer 6, Adobe Flash 10 and Windows Media Player 11 plugins, and 5.1 or stereo audio] Data_Sea is installed at Thinktank: Birmingham Science Museum in both the Planetarium and Futures Gallery until June 30, 2009.
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Spotlight

	MAICgregator by Nicholas Knouf MAICgregator is a Firefox extension that aggregates information about colleges and universities embedded in the military-academic-industrial complex (MAIC). It searches government funding databases, private news sources, private press releases, and public information about trustees to try and produce a radical cartography of the modern university via the replacement or overlay of this information on academic websites. This is a necessary activity in light of the contemporary financial “crisis”. [Needs Firefox browser and extention download]
	(sans femme et sans aviateur) by Jorn Ebner (sans femme et sans aviateur) is a browser-based work that was inspired by Eric Rohmer’s film The Aviator’s Wife. It depicts contemporary Paris, happened upon following the main locations of the movie. The photographic imagery and the audio material were recorded during walks, and bus and metro rides, in a manner similar to the Nouvelle Vague film maker -- although without any pre-arrangements for settings and observations; and with repeated visits to the locations. “My intention was to honour Rohmer’s powers to get me interested in Paris, and at the same time make a work that discovers the city, even if only for myself … The work was also made with (the) intention to use the browser as a presentation tool that is independent of user interaction.” – Jorn Ebner [Allow Pop-ups; Firefox users read instructions] Read a review >>
	Sensitive Rose by Martha Gabriel Sensitive Rose is an interactive, navigable compass formed by mobile tags (QRcodes). To interact with Sensitive Rose one has to access the work via a mobile device. Once there, the user must choose what he/she wants from life. On the web Sensitive Rose maps the desire next to the tag related to it, and generates a new QRcode for that user. The desire -- for instance, "Joe wants Love" – is added to the compass rose which evolves with each new contribution. Users can decipher one another’s desires by decoding the poetry hidden within these tags. [Needs mobile device with camera and QRcode reader]
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Upgrade! Boston is a monthly gathering of new media artists and curators that fosters dialogue and creates opportunities for collaboration within the media art community. At each meeting one or two artists/curators present work in progress and participate in a discussion. Upgrade! Boston is hosted by the Studio for Interrelated Media at Massachusetts College of Art and Design and is a node in the Upgrade! International network.

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