Intelligent Agent Wave 2 Launch

[Patrick Lichty]

intelligent agent - Vol. 3 No. 2

 

Vol. 3 No. 2

The second wave of articles from Vol. 3 No. 2 is now available at

http://www.intelligentagent.com

 

intelligent agent is published as a quarterly online magazine in a modular format:
*3 thematic threads 

Threads of Vol. 3 No. 2: 

//mobility//

//gaming//

//VR/3D//

*reviews on DVDs, Web, books, projects

All content is available in html and as pdf files with layout, which allow readers to assemble customized issues. The content of each quarterly issue becomes available over a period of 3 months.



NEW:

 

//editorial//

+Patrick Lichty, Life imitates RTark (per se) or Commodifying the Antagonistic

Lichty takes a look at two seemingly unrelated 'news items' -- John Poindexter's terror betting pool

PAM and the attempts to export the Burning Man 'experience' into the mainstream culture --

as indications of a certain trend: to establish market structures for anything ranging from the unearthing of anti-democratic threats to the spreading of the anti-consumerist message. 



//mobility//

+ Fee Plumley, The Wireless Confusion, A Call to Arms

Plumley -- production manager of the-phone-book Limited, a Manchester-based company that educates people in being creative with new technology and circulates content for wireless devices -- discusses mobile phone data space as an under-used and under-valued distribution outlet. 

 

//gaming//

+ Andrew Kurtz, Rerouting History: On Delta Force, Black Hawk Down

Kurtz ponders the ways in which dominant media and government navigate the tension between chaos and order to create an acceptable version of modern warfare. Landscape and language in Novalogic's game Delta Force: Black Hawk Down provide an overall context that situates game play within a straightforward ideological dynamic of "us versus them" and creates a representational space articulating racist ideologies. 

 

//VR/3D//

+ Christiane Paul, About Avatara: An Interview with Jeremy Turner (on the Avatara DVD, see reviews)

A conversation with Jeremy Turner, one of the creators of AVATARA -- a Machinima-style 'docudrama' set in the voice-chat environment OnLive! Traveler -- about the inspiration behind and the making of the DVD.



//Reviews//

+ Christiane Paul, My avatar doesn't need to breathe. -- Review of the AVATARA DVD by 536

'AVATARA' is a feature-length documentary consisting of interviews with the (mostly American) inhabitants of the voice-chat environment OnLive! Traveler, which has been in existence since ca. 1993 and is now accessible as DigitalSpace Traveler. The documentary was recorded entirely 'in-world,' that is within the Traveler environment, displaying its content from within a virtual world. 

 

+ Dena Elisabeth Eber, The SIGGRAPH 2003 Art Gallery: Balancing the Technological Ethos

 

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Editor-in-Chief: Patrick Lichty

Director: Christiane Paul

 

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