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<!doctype html public "-//w3c//dtd html 4.0 transitional//en"> <html> <head> <meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=iso-8859-1"> <meta name="GENERATOR" content="Mozilla/4.7 (Macintosh; I; PPC) [Netscape]"> <title>MEDIA RITUALS - Ebon Fisher</title> </head> <body text="#28635D" bgcolor="#FFFFFF" link="#00ABAE" vlink="#00B8AC" alink="#00E500"> <blockquote> <br> <center> <p><img src="=web-jam.gif" width="250" height="261"> <font color="#FFFFFF">...</font> <p><img src="WebJamKey2.jpg" width="350" height="108"><br> <br><font color="#00827E"><font size=+1></font></font> <p><font color="#1F92B2"><font size=+2>Web Jam</font></font> <br><font color="#00827E"><font size=+1>__________________</font></font> <br> <p><font color="#00827E"><font size=+1>Place your hand in a bowl of warm jello and think: "I am 75% water." Wiffle your fingers through the mush and think: "Even my thoughts are 75% water." Invite a friend into the jello with you. Touch your friend's belly and think: "Woo, 75% water!" Now, stick a microphone into the jello and suck up some sound from the bottom of the bowl. Play it back into your friend's watery ear. Add reverb. Add oxygen, food, beer, weird things that get your blood moving like chicken wire, vast corporate injustices, and Motown bass riffs. Now think: "Poom! This is one muddy megillah!"</font></font> <p><font color="#00827E"><font size=+1>Here in the bio-electronic moment, somewhere between these words and your eyes, we are drawn into a miraculous conflux: a continuum of chemicals, linkages, feedback loops, rumors, waveforms, bricks, smirks, and terror. Yet we are not an All. We are not God. We are not a cozy One. We are a storm of undefinable presences suckling into one another, congealing, folding into a mutual murk. We cyclically strain against and surrender to some wild, howling node that lures us into its vortex.</font></font> <p><font color="#00827E"><font size=+1>And the question emerges: how do we extract pleasure from this timeless suction? Can our tender beings integrate with the swirls of microbes, convection currents, iron ore, cash flows, local and international media, metaphorical inversions, the very biosphere in which we breath, and still delight in the mix? Can we jam in such a dense foam of thought, blood, and wire? Can we open our dumb, simian circle out towards an infinite latice of pulsations?</font></font> <p><font color="#00827E"><font size=+1>Let us jam in the web, fellow animals! Let us be symbiotic, and connected. Let us induce high-density confluences of creatures, machines, and symbols. Let us pull every kingdom, phylum, class, order, family, genus, and species into the oil with us. Let us jam with our neighborhoods, satellites, refridgerators, insects, rickshaws, and meteor showers. Let us protrude into the common wilderness, the radical center of mutual survival. There let us lay web upon web, inject system into system, inducing vital rituals of mongrel possibility. Let us liquidate being and coil into the nervous suction of life.</font></font> <p><font color="#00827E"><font size=+1>_________________</font></font><font color="#2978A2"></font> <p><font color="#2978A2"><font size=+0>-RITES-</font></font><font color="#2978A2"></font> <p><font color="#2978A2"><font size=+0>--1--</font></font> <br><font color="#2978A2"><font size=+0>Call a meeting.</font></font> <br><font color="#2978A2"><font size=+0>--2--</font></font> <br><font color="#2978A2"><font size=+0>Secure a site in a culturally "neutral" area such as an abandoned warehouse.</font></font> <br><font color="#2978A2"><font size=+0>--3--</font></font> <br><font color="#2978A2"><font size=+0>Inhabit space for many weeks, building webs of many different materials and media, extending them, weedlike, into the entire area of the site. Roving musicians, networks of video cameras and monitors, robotic sculptural tangles, food-to-recycling systems, the local mice population, and the air itself, are all regarded as a web or system. Singular works of art or stationary performances are not appropriate.</font></font> <br><font color="#2978A2"><font size=+0>--4--</font></font> <br><font color="#2978A2"><font size=+0>Continue to hold regular meetings to encourage intricate webs of thought as well as substance. Encourage web overlaps, breakdowns, and recombinations. Encourage information tendrils to grow beyond the site -such as posters, electronic transmissions, and rumors.</font></font> <br><font color="#2978A2"><font size=+0>--5--</font></font> <br><font color="#2978A2"><font size=+0>Build to a peak of multi-web rhythm. Invite an audience in as the final biological web which completes the jam.</font></font> <br><font color="#2978A2"><font size=+0>--6--</font></font> <br><font color="#2978A2"><font size=+0>Jam until the entire universe folds into the mix.</font></font> <br> <p><img SRC="orgcircle.GIF" BORDER=2 height=187 width=270><font size=-2></font> <p><font color="#00827E"><font size=-1>Organizational Circle for "Organism"</font></font><font color="#00827E"><font size=+0></font></font> <p><font color="#00827E"><font size=+1>_________________</font></font><font color="#00827E"><font size=-2></font></font> <p><font color="#00827E"><font size=+2>Organism</font></font> <p><font color="#00827E">The First Web Jam</font> <br><font color="#00827E"><font size=-1>Williamsburg, Brooklyn, 1993</font></font> </center><blockquote> <center><font color="#00827E"><font size=+0>At an abandoned mustard factory on June 12, 1993, 120 media artists, sculptors, musicians, and architects -along with over 2,000 audience participants- congealed with numerous cultural and natural systems. This first web jam, a hive of electronic, ecological, and subjective phenomena, quivered from 6 at night till 9 the next morning. Overlapping webs of culture was the operating principle, an emergent strategy of cultural production distinctly different from a DJ-centered rave or a festival made up of discreet performances. According to Domus Magazine:</font></font></center> <blockquote> <center><font color="#1D84A9"><font size=+0>Organism became a kind of symbolic climax to the renegade activity that had been stirring within the community since the late eighties. It exploited the notion of architecture as living event, breathing and transforming for fifteen hours in an abandoned mustard factory. Unlike a traditional gallery exhibit where each object only engages the cube of space that it occupies, the collaborators in a "web jam" create work that engages the entire space, the body and mind of the audience and through this process ultimately integrates with the community at large. A layering of system upon system whose intersections spawn unique accidental places.</font></font></center> </blockquote> <center><font color="#00827E"><font size=+0>In order to create Organism, the Old Dutch Mustard factory was rented for a year. After the conclusion of Organism, the site became a collective performance space for Williamsburg artists under the name Mustard --until a fire in the Spring of 1994. Organism attempted to push systems culture and the spirit of collaboration to the limit, but it could not have succeeded without a well-heeled community sharing memories of other Williamsburg events such as the Sex Salon, the Cats Head, the Flytrap and home-brew exhibition spaces such as Epoche, The Bog, Minor Injury and the Green Room. One of the principle coordinators of Organism, Robert Elmes, opened up Galapagos Artspace in Williamsburg, where an interdisciplinary spirit still thrives.</font></font></center> </blockquote> <center> <p><br><img SRC="OrganismPlan.GIF" BORDER=0 height=286 width=289> <p><img SRC="orgplankey.GIF" BORDER=0 height=65 width=98> </center><blockquote> <blockquote> <center><font color="#00827E"><font size=-1>Systems included video, fax, radio, sound, performance, liquids, rye grass, slugs, weblike sculptures, computer projections, the local ecosystem, gossip, propaganda, the political economy of the site, the web jam's collaborators, and the audience.</font></font> <br><font color="#00827E"><font size=-1></font></font> <font color="#00827E"><font size=-1></font></font> <p><font color="#00827E"><font size=-1>COMMENTARIES</font></font> </center></blockquote> </blockquote> <center><font color="#6876E7"><font size=-1>"Call it the sequel to the rave... For 12 hours more than 2,000 people pushed into an abandoned mustard factory to see the work of 120 artists, featuring everything from exploding watermelons to performers rapelling down silos."</font></font> <p><font color="#00827E"><font size=-1>--Melissa Rossi, Newsweek, 1993</font></font> <p><font color="#6876E7"><font size=-1>"These live events are all about collaboration and convergence: they are an attempt to compress people, technology, art, and ideas into a cultural reaction chamber. One of the most memorable of these was the Organism Web Jam, which for twelve hours transformed Brooklyn's Old Dutch Mustard Factory into a thumping, pulsing incubator of interaction."</font></font> <p><font color="#00827E"><font size=-1>--Peter Boerboom, Mute Magazine, 1997</font></font> <p><font size=-1><font color="#6876E7">"Organism ...was a sensory overcharge."</font><font color="#00827E"> --Jonathan Fineberg, Art Since 1940: Strategies of Being</font></font> <p><font color="#6876E7"><font size=-1>"Must I Org? Yes, I Orged! I Orged! I was devastated! ...Really the most thoroughgoing environmental event in 'burg history. It was integrated, witty, cool, and I fell asleep in a tangle of lovely bodies in 'The Womb.' "</font></font> <p><font color="#00827E"><font size=-1>--Media de Vyse, Waterfront Week, 1993</font></font><font color="#00827E"><font size=+2></font></font> <p><font color="#00827E"><font size=+0>"Organism Diaries" on Artnetweb: <a href="http://www.artnetweb.com/organism" target="outerframe">http://www.artnetweb.com/organism</a></font></font> </center></blockquote> <blockquote><font color="#007F7B"></font> <br><font color="#007F7B">______________________</font> <br><font color="#00827E"><font size=-1>SYSTEMS COORDINATORS</font></font> <br><font color="#00827E"><font size=-1>(In Alphabetical Order)</font></font> <p><font color="#00827E"><font size=-1>Video Systems * David Brody (Video installations)</font></font> <br><font color="#00827E"><font size=-1>Electrical Systems * Colin Crain (Visual Cortex)</font></font> <br><font color="#00827E"><font size=-1>Sound Design * Richard Duckworth (Smile Master)</font></font> <br><font color="#00827E"><font size=-1>Electrical Systems * Robert Elmes (Antenna to the Stars from Secret Source)</font></font> <br><font color="#00827E"><font size=-1>Concept Junkie * Ebon Fisher (Bionic Codes)</font></font> <br><font color="#00827E"><font size=-1>Site Scout/Electrical * Jeff Gompertz (Thermo-Electric Dance System)</font></font> <br><font color="#00827E"><font size=-1>Moolah Systems * Yvette Helin (Swing Painting Machine)</font></font> <br><font color="#00827E"><font size=-1>Lights/Liquid/Logistics * Anna Hurwitz (Anti-Virus System)</font></font> <br><font color="#00827E"><font size=-1>Installation Systems * Jessica Nissen (Squishy Hands & Oranges for the Masses)</font></font> <br><font color="#00827E"><font size=-1>Installation Systems * Kevin Pyle (Organ Theft Narrative)</font></font> <br><font color="#00827E"><font size=-1>Performance Systems * Megan Raddant (Elvin Napping Systems)</font></font> <br><font color="#00827E"><font size=-1>Security Systems * Fred Valentine (The Water System)</font></font> <br><font color="#007F7B">_____________________</font> <br><font color="#00827E"><font size=-1>OTHER COLLABORATORS</font></font> <p><font color="#00827E"><font size=-1>Dan McKereghan, The Amazing Gustav, Gary Waingart, David Owen, Andrew Hampsas, Denman Maroney, David Simons (Colloidal Suspension)</font></font> <br><font color="#00827E"><font size=-1>Stuart Sachs, Melissa Stampley (Symbiotic)</font></font> <br><font color="#00827E"><font size=-1>Doug Benett (Roving Rapper)</font></font> <br><font color="#00827E"><font size=-1>John Snyder (Laser Images, Didjeridu, Waterphone, Theremin)</font></font> <br><font color="#00827E"><font size=-1>George Krassas, Stacey Greenwald (Pollination Station)</font></font> <br><font color="#00827E"><font size=-1>Gwynne Duncan, Jennifer Collins (The Tentacular Jelly Root)</font></font> <br><font color="#00827E"><font size=-1>Cliff Crepeau (Technical Assistance)</font></font> <br><font color="#00827E"><font size=-1>David H. Brown (Omni located, self-consuming Detrivors/Viruses)</font></font> <br><font color="#00827E"><font size=-1>David Dienes (Personal Sound Environment)</font></font> <br><font color="#00827E"><font size=-1>Marisa's Peaches (Dancing Your Private Butoh Dreams)</font></font> <br><font color="#00827E"><font size=-1>James Porter (The Womb)</font></font> <br><font color="#00827E"><font size=-1>Kelly Webb, Viva, Theresa Westerdahl, Julie O'Brien (The Boom Boom Womb)</font></font> <br><font color="#00827E"><font size=-1>John A. Cicali (Primal Heart Beat and Pulse)</font></font> <br><font color="#00827E"><font size=-1>Ozker (Passage)</font></font> <br><font color="#00827E"><font size=-1>Dragan Ilic (Liquid Laser System with Beans)</font></font> <br><font color="#00827E"><font size=-1>Marta Vi (PA-LARVA, a performance)</font></font> <br><font color="#00827E"><font size=-1>Amy Shapiro (Mad Scientist Laboratory System)</font></font> <br><font color="#00827E"><font size=-1>Stuart Sachs (The Garden of Earthly Delights)</font></font> <br><font color="#00827E"><font size=-1>Edip Agi and Milene Fernandez (Pods and Cocoons Undulating)</font></font> <br><font color="#00827E"><font size=-1>Andrew Innes and Jane Bowles (Tubes)</font></font> <br><font color="#00827E"><font size=-1>Esther Yun (Little Photo Portraits of Organism's Collaborators)</font></font> <br><font color="#00827E"><font size=-1>David Brody, Bozidar Kemperle,Daniel Brody, Carleton Bright (Video-Computer-Phrase Interface)</font></font> <br><font color="#00827E"><font size=-1>Daniel Berlfein (Improv: How do I get into the ORGANISM?)</font></font> <br><font color="#00827E"><font size=-1>Andrew Innes, Derek Bronston, Andy Mazo (Music)</font></font> <br><font color="#00827E"><font size=-1>Laurent Mellet (Water/Fire Radio Steel Cow -Fear System)</font></font> <br><font color="#00827E"><font size=-1>Karthik Swaminithan (Electro-Synaptic Pumps)</font></font> <br><font color="#00827E"><font size=-1>Stevie Allweis (Roving Woman)</font></font> <br><font color="#00827E"><font size=-1>Peter Kursel (Woo-Lip System)</font></font> <br><font color="#00827E"><font size=-1>Keith Godbout, Daniella & Students (Performance: If You're Not Afraid, You're Not Brave)</font></font> <br><font color="#00827E"><font size=-1>Dolores Zorrequieta (Rolling Self-Portrait)</font></font> <br><font color="#00827E"><font size=-1>The Unbearables (Matty, Jason, Adam Jankowski (Cathode Ray Tubing, Neoist News Agency)</font></font> <br><font color="#00827E"><font size=-1>Rob Hickman, Luisa Caldwell, Mark, Alias Jones, Stevie, Jan, Nadia (Zero Gravity Body Scans)</font></font> <br><font color="#00827E"><font size=-1>Pegi Vail (Before the Dodgers Left Brooklyn - Site-Specific Historical Installations)</font></font> <br><font color="#00827E"><font size=-1>Robin Dann (Elf/Floral Collage Posters)</font></font> <br><font color="#00827E"><font size=-1>Josh Cohen (Wandering Baby Projections)</font></font> <br><font color="#00827E"><font size=-1>Michael Henry (Chrome Stroll & Chanson D'Amour)</font></font> <br><font color="#00827E"><font size=-1>Melanie Hahn & Movers (Natural Lies)</font></font> <br><font color="#00827E"><font size=-1>Sarah Barker (Vein Things)</font></font> <br><font color="#00827E"><font size=-1>Ana Maria Rodriguez (Crude Optical Devices)</font></font> <br><font color="#00827E"><font size=-1>Danny Delgado, Eileen Schreiber (Food and Video)</font></font> <br><font color="#00827E"><font size=-1>Gene Pool, Tim Spelios, Caroline Cox, Sasha Sumner (Playtez Playpen)</font></font> <br><font color="#00827E"><font size=-1>Jon Rubin (The Big Mustard Movie)</font></font> <br><font color="#00827E"><font size=-1>Zloty:Fric (Doggie Limelight: The Sleep of Man)</font></font> <br><font color="#00827E"><font size=-1>Vernon Bigman (Barbeque Angel -High Density Audience Participant)</font></font> <br><font color="#00827E"><font size=-1>Eben Dodd (Elf)</font></font> <br><font color="#00827E"><font size=-1>Gig Wailgum (Visual Entrance System)</font></font> <br><font color="#00827E"><font size=-1>Brian Quinn, John Cicali, Veronica Agular, Diep Durstine (Primalpulsesystem)</font></font> <br><font color="#00827E"><font size=-1>Bradford Reed (Pencilina)</font></font> <br><font color="#00827E"><font size=-1>Sasha Noe, Bradford Reed (Bottle Breaking System)</font></font> <br><font color="#00827E"><font size=-1>Daniel Carello (Walk on Water)</font></font> <br><font color="#00827E"><font size=-1>Frank Shifreen (Numerous Biological Figures)</font></font> <br><font color="#00827E"><font size=-1>Ursula Clark (Birch Structures)</font></font> <br><font color="#00827E"><font size=-1>Judy Thomas (Viral Balls -Troubles)</font></font> <br><font color="#00827E"><font size=-1>Dan Green and IFAN (Blood & Immune Response Simulation)</font></font> <br><font color="#00827E"><font size=-1>Bruce Pearson, David Weinstein, Julie Nichols (Heterodyning Jones)</font></font> <br><font color="#00827E"><font size=-1>Genia Gould, Judy Murphy (First Aid System)</font></font> <br><font color="#00827E"><font size=-1>Andr* Kruysen (Mold)</font></font> <br><font color="#00827E"><font size=-1>Neil Hamilton (Geodesic Nerve Bath)</font></font> <br><font color="#00827E"><font size=-1>Tim Robert (Electric Guitar System)</font></font> <br><font color="#00827E"><font size=-1>Shelley Marlowe (Interactive Storytelling)</font></font> <br><font color="#00827E"><font size=-1>Borsi (Black and White)</font></font> <br><font color="#00827E"><font size=-1>Andrew Mazo, Drakula & Friends, Tim Otto, Ken Butler, John Snyder (Music Jammers)</font></font> <br><font color="#00827E"><font size=-1>David Dienes, Tim Robert, Christopher Strouse, Lex Grey (Music Jammers)</font></font> <br><font color="#00827E"><font size=-1>The 2,000 people who came (Human Flesh System)</font></font> <br><font color="#00827E"><font size=-1>WFMU (Low-tech Live Broadcast)</font></font> <br><font color="#00827E"><font size=-1>Slugs, mice, spiders, and microbes (Other Systems Beyond our Human Worldview)</font></font> <p><font color="#00827E"><font size=-1>SPECIAL THANKS TO: The community, John Shuttleworth, Matty Jankowski, Ernie Hurwitz, Set Recycling Hotline, Materials for the Arts, Miller Brewing Co., Carl Volmer, Paul Santich, The Outpost, Shlomo Mantz, Rick Culver, Bill Cuozzi, the liquid crew, the security crew, and Circle Arts.</font></font> <p><font color="#00827E"><font size=-1>Sponsored by Circle Arts and incubated in the webs of Brooklyn, 1993.</font></font> <br> <br> <br> <br> <center> <p><a href="ritindex.html" target="_parent"><img SRC="mini_WEB_JAM.gif" BORDER=6 height=103 width=119></a> <p><font size=-1><a href="ritindex.html" target="_parent">RETURN</a></font> </center></blockquote> </body> </html>