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Blogger as Producer by Eduardo Navas:
http://www.netartreview.net/monthly/0305.3.html
Today, blogs follow the  evolution of the newspaper writer, the
newspaper reader, and the rise of the collaborator. Blogs have pushed
the idea  of the collaborator (as Benjamin saw it) in unexpected ways.
For instance,  because blogs function on a network (the Web which runs
on the Internet),  these are able to perform as platforms for not only
feedback on printed  media that is newspapers and magazines (which now
also have online  version of their publications), but also as places
where to simply  exchange ideas with other writers. Communities of
bloggers (this is  the name given to those who write on weblogs)
flourished beginning  around 1997;2 and recently, blogs have become an
important part of  the World Wide Web’s infrastructure.

PROJECT.OVERVIEW:  PLAN Report: Reflections on the Pervasive & Locative
Arts Network  launch at the Institute of Contemporary Art in London,
February 1-2,  2005
BY: Naomi  Spellman
http://www.netartreview.net/monthly/0305.1.html
What is locative media? Judging from the PLAN gathering, locative media
is the implementation of any context sensitive mobile technology - GPS,
Bluetooth, wireless broadband, Sensors, RFID, etc. - to the end of
actively examining and shifting how we interact with our physical
environment and with each other. Projects span a wide range including
social networking projects, walking projects employing digital mapping
tools, and location aware games. 

INTERVIEW: with Raul Ferrera-Balanquet, Organizer and Director of
InteractivA 
BY: Ignacio Nieto
http://www.netartreview.net/monthly/0305.2.html
InteractivA (Yucatan, Mexico) is a curatorial project and
interdisciplinary laboratory that was born as a conceptual art
proposal, according to organizer and director Raul Ferrera-Balanquet.
The project will take place between 16th and 26th of June of this year.
Ignacio Nieto presents an interview made with Raul Ferrera-Balanquet
about his project, what will comprise the next version of the festival,
and the risks that these types of projects have.

Ignacio Nieto (IN): I'm not clear what you mean when you said that
InteractivA was conceived like an artistic project. Because you
consider it as such, could you go a little bit deeper into that
assertion. And could you define in your terms: "What is an exposition?"


Raul Ferrera-Balanquet (RF): The idea about conceptual art arises as an
answer to various artistic practices, where the artists became curators
using works of art taken from the collections of the museums, working
with pieces of different periods and cultures, to make an alternative
dialogue. I did something like that with the first version of
InteractivA, because when I was in Australia I realized that many
artists were marginalized from the actual history of arts.

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