Vol. 2 No. 4, Fall '02

intelligent agent will soon resume its quarterly publication as an online magazine in a new modular format:
  • 3 thematic threads with contributing writers
  • reviews on festivals, net art, books, tech sector

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



    COMING SOON (with more content TBA):


    THREADS

    the political sphere
    now available: US Department of Art & Technology, Joint Resolution to Authorize the Use of Artistic Acts of Mediation (download Resolution as pdf)
    Mike Mosher, Unionizing Silicon Valley Part One: Problem, History and Opportunity
    RSG, How We Made Our Own "Carnivore"
    Nathan M. Martin (for the Carbon Defense League), Parasitic Media: Creating Invisible Slicing Parasites
    and Other Forms of Tactical Augmentation
    Sam Smith, Postmodernism is dead -- now what? Distributed Culture and the Rise of the Network Age

    biotech / transgenics
    Eduardo Kac, The Eigth Day
    Ricardo Dominguez, Nano-fest Destiny 3.0: Fragments from the Post-Biotech Era
    Gregory Little, The Body without Organs

    new media curation
    Jennifer Crowe, An Interview with Steve Dietz
    more contributions by Anne-Marie Schleiner et al.


    PROBE
    MTAA, MTAA’s Amazing Criswell Future Algorithm System


    REVIEWS

    festivals
    Elnor Buhard, Instant Culture in the High Desert -- Burning Man 2002
    Stefan Dzeparoski, From the Edinburgh Theatre Festival 2002

    net art
    Curt Cloninger, Yoshi Sodeoka: The Interface is the Massage

    books
    Van Burnham’s Supercade, A Visual History of the Videogame Age 1971 - 1984 (MIT Press)
    a review by by Gregory Little

    tech sector
    The Parallax Toddler Robot Kit
    a review by Patrick Lichty