Notices by Ken Fields (ken), page 17

Communication Art Timeline

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• history

News and Entertainment by Telephone

While the telegraph was mainly limited to transmitting Morse code and printed messages, the invention of the telephone made distant audio communication possible. And although the telephone was mostly used for private conversations, there was also experimentation with providing home entertainment. In 1893 a particularly sophisticated system, the Telefon Hirmondó, began operation in Budapest, Hungary -- one of its off-shoots, the United States Telephone Herald Company and its affiliates, did not meet with the same financial success.

• earlyradio
• history

Network Music and Soundart Timeline

This timeline aims to provide an overview of the major artistic events and projects seen in the fields of music and sound performance network since the beginning of the twentieth century. To this end it covers several areas and types of events.

• history
• networkmusic

Walker Art: Gallery9

Gallery 9 is a site for project-driven exploration, through digitally-based media, of all things "cyber." This includes artist commissions, interface experiments, exhibitions, community discussion, a study collection, hyperessays, filtered links, lectures and other guerilla raids into real space, and collaborations with other entities (both internal and external).

• history
• important
• netart

Salmon Protocol

As updates and content flow in real time around the Web, conversations around the content are becoming increasingly fragmented into individual silos. Salmon aims to define a standard protocol for comments and annotations to swim upstream to original update sources -- and spawn more commentary in a virtuous cycle. It's open, decentralized, abuse resistant, and user centric

• federatedweb

Cinechamber

RECOMBINANT MEDIA LABS (RML) was founded in 1991 to research the qualities and artistic potential of spatial media: panoramic installations, surround cinema, multichannel a/v performances and interactive exploration. RML acts as producer and presenter of artworks and performances in its mobile immersive theater project called the CINECHAMBER.

• cine

Media Art Net

Media art—by definition multimedia, time-based or process-oriented—cannot be sufficiently mediated in book form. Mainstream art and cultural mediation, still being primarily print-based, do little justice to its specificity. On the other hand, Net-based media have not yet been able to establish platforms that reach more than the usual circle of insiders. Introducing the range of topics related to media and art, «Media Art Net» thus aims at establishing an Internet structure that offers highly qualified content by granting free access at the same time.

• mediaart

Wikipedia Network Music Book

Organized Articles from Wikipedia about network music.

• book
• wiki

Composing Electronic Music: A New Aesthetic, by Curtis Roads.

Companion site with audio examples. Composing Electronic Music outlines a new theory of composition based on the toolkit of electronic music techniques. The theory consists of a framework of concepts and a vocabulary of terms describing musical materials, their transformation, and their organization. Central to this discourse is the notion of narrative structure in composition–how sounds are born, interact, transform, and die. It presents a guidebook: a tour of facts, history, commentary, opinions, and pointers to interesting ideas and new possibilities to consider and explore.

Networkologies

Welcome to the online home of Christopher Vitale, Associate Professor of Media Studies at Pratt Institute in Brooklyn, New York, and founding member of The Graduate Program in Media Studies at Pratt Institute. The primary aim of this site is to act as a platform for the development of my primary endeavor, Networkologies, a project to articulate a new philosophy of networks for our hyperconnected age.

• networkphilosophy
• networktheory

Surfacing: The Undersea Network

By Nicole Starosielski, Erik Loyer, and Shane Brennan It is cable systems, not satellites, that transport most of the Internet around the world. In Surfacing, you are a signal traveling across the undersea network. You begin on the coast, carried ashore by undersea cable. From your landing point, you can traverse the Pacific Ocean by hopping between network nodes. You might surface at cable stations where signal traffic is monitored, on remote islands that were once network hubs, and aboard giant ships that lay submarine systems. In the process, narratives about the history of the cable network, the companies that construct it, and the ecologies that it runs through will orient you in your journey.

• networkinfrastructure
• physicalnetwork