_SPEED_ provides a forum for the critical investigation of technology, media, and society. Our intention is to contribute toward a democratic discourse of technology and media, one that is always focused upon the material conditions of life that technologies and media constitute and demand, and yet does not lose sight of the power of ideas to change those conditions. We feel that as media of various kinds become more ubiquitous, what it means to live with and talk about a "medium" changes and expands, and so do the critical vocabularies of interpreting what those transformations indicate. Our primary goal in that effort is to foster a cross-fertilization of ideas between communities of people in the "academy" and "industry" too often separated, not by interest or common concern, but by artificially imposed disciplinary and organizational boundaries. We think that _SPEED_ is a promising step toward making these institutional boundaries more permeable, and a critical politics of "mediated sociality" more powerful.
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VERSION 1.3 "AIRPORTS AND MALLS" INCLUDES:
BENJAMIN BRATTON (U.C. SANTA BARBARA)
"SURUrbia: AN INTRODUCTION TO AIRPORTS AND MALLS"
JOHN THACKARA (NETHERLANDS DESIGN INSTITUTE)
"LOST IN SPACE - A TRAVELER'S TALE"
BOBBY RABYD (BROWN UNIVERSITY)
"AIRPORT NOVEL"
JUSTIN STINCHCOMBE (U.C. SANTA BARBARA)
"HERE"
JEFF GATES (EYE to I)
"IN OUR PATH: ESSAYS"
JASON BROWN (U.C. SANTA BARBARA) AND GABRIEL WATSON (ECHO IMAGES)
"PROSTHESIS"
MARK BURCH (UNIVERSITY OF HAWAII)
"PLATEAUS OF CONSUMPTION: THE BIOSEMIOTICS OF CONSUMER FASCISM"
CARINA YERVASI (UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN)
"PRE/SUB/URBAN SPRAWL: NINETEENTH-CENTURY PARISIAN PASSAGE AS URBAN MALL"
JENNIFER SMITH (McMASTER UNIVERSITY)
"THE MALL IN MOTION: A NARRATIVE STROLL THROUGH THE OBSTACLE COURSE"
"THE FLESH MADE IMAGE, LONG LIVE THE NEW IMAGE"
A CONVERSATION WITH JEFF HARRINGTON OF iDEAL oRDER/PSYCHIC TV
"BIOSPHERE 3: AUDIENCE WITH/OF THE MALL OF AMERICA"
A CONVERSATION WITH HERB SIMON OF SIMON AND ASSOCIATES
WITH ARTWORKS BY:
<JEFF GATES (EYE to I)-----------------------------------
"IN OUR PATH"
ROBERT NIDEFFER (U.C. SANTA BARBARA)
"TERMINAL CIRCLES"
MICHELLE WAKIN (U.C. SANTA BARBARA)
"FOR YOUR SAFETY"
EDITORIAL BOARD FOR _SPEED_1.2
Benjamin Bratton
Laura Grindstaff
Robert Nideffer
TECHNICAL IMPLEMENTATION
Interface Design:
Jason Brown
Robert Nideffer
Links and Links Text:
Benjamin Bratton
.GIF and .JPEG:
Jason Brown
Robert Nideffer
Adam Zaretsky
MIDI:
Ken Fields
.AIFF and .AU:
Ken Fields
Nathan Freitas
Robert Nideffer
JAVA and VRML Scripting:
Nathan Freitas
Terminal Modeling:
Rand Eppich
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HOW TO CONTACT _SPEED_
e-mail:
Please send all submissions, criticisms, praise, suggestions, or anything else you have on your mind to _SPEED_@arts.ucsb.edu. We want to hear from you!
snail-mail:
If for whatever reason you need to communicate with us via the U.S. Postal Service, please send your correspondence to:
_SPEED_
c/o Robert Nideffer
Department of Art Studio
University of California, Santa Barbara
Santa Barbara, CA. 93106
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SUBMISSION GUIDELINES
Submissions to the journal can be made by electronic mail (preferred), on disk (please indicate the program and operating system used), or by hard-copy (not preferred).
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ISSN 1078-196X