On Net Art Review there’s a feature on After Rhizome Vladimir Kovacevic’s protest site which celebrated it’s first birthday and has been updated with his assessment of the situation one year later.
I quit Rhizome a year ago and I haven’t missed it a bit. I think that I’m more in tune with new net art now because I’m free of the influence of the Rhizome filter a filter which saw the net art world as a very small place peopled by a small band of usual suspects.
On a positve note one site that has gone from strength to strength recently is Futherfield which should be added to your bookmarks.

Over the weekend I saw Bloom the new film based on Ulysses with Stephen Rea as Bloom, Angeline Ball as Molly and Hugh O’Connor as Stephen Dedalus. I’ve got to admit that I went to see it with some trepidation as I think trying to put Ulysses on film is extremely difficult if not impossible. A nervousness not helped much when the Director and most of the cast sat directly behind me!
And the film? Stephen Rea was quite brilliant as Bloom and Angeline Ball was a revelation as Molly but I thought Hugh O’Connor was miscast as Stephen. In general the film brought the humour to the fore, was true to the book without being over-reverent and did an excellent job on the Circe/nighttown episode. Curiously it didn’t give you any sense of Dublin at all and I found myself distracted at times trying to figure out where they had shot certain scenes.
It was very much a period drama and paid great attention to all the period detail – maybe that was why so much of Dublin was unrecognisable.
Personally I would love to see a modern day version of Ulysses – I think that if the director was freed from the constraints of the period piece and also from an over slavish adherence to the text there would be more scope for a creative interpretation of Ulysses – face it any attempt to be very true to the book will always be a compromise unless you’re going to make a very wordy ten hour film- which could at least attempt to invoke the spirit of the book in a way which adaptations can’t really.
Bloom goes on general release in June, go see it. I’m sure Joyce would have liked it , after all he was instrumental in opening the first permanent cinema in Dublin in 1909.

Finally they’ve made a Joey Ramone action figure, it’ll go nicely with your Michel Foucault figure.

The Government backs down a little on e voting but not enough to make it a trustworthy system.
Some resources on the extent of the problem:
Irish Citizens for responsible evoting
Rebecca Mercuri’s evoting research
Labour’s analysis of the problem

should I stop reading? Now that those good folk at Kuro5hin have exposed that chancer Joyce as a boring fraud the answer is undoubtedly yes!
Like being savaged by a dead sheep.

dys.koncept.ual_kontest has a call for entries for internet art NOT dealing with any of these topics
Ouch!

A Logarithmic map of the Universe, a a Lunar Atlas, maps of video game worlds and a history of the London Tube map.
mostly via the new-to-me Map Room

Thanks to boomBlog for this. The Creation Science fair my favourite projects were My Uncle Is A Man Named Steve (Not A Monkey) -imho Steve wasn’t the best choice for such a comparison – and Women Were Designed For Homemaking
This kind of thing has obviously been impressing the Atlanta state school superintendent who wants to remove the word evolution from Georgia’s science curriculum. Why not? I think it should be encouraged. An american military machine based on creation ‘science’ will be less scary then the present one based on the real thing.

Ah the Joycean battles hot up and it’s only February! Roddy Doyle starts the attack and
David Norris replies in real audio
While you’re at it try this recording of Joyce reading from Finnegans wake
(use the stunned login stunned@Burn-In-Hell.zzn.com p/w letmein )

Data event 16 is on this Thursday the 12th 7pm at the Stags Head Pub (Upstairs Room), Dame Lane, Dublin. Featuring Mark Tribe (Rhizome.org/ Columbia University), Mary Flanagan (Hunter College/Game Art), Kai-Peter Baeckman (Space Station Manager Game) + Gameboy musical performance by Ewan Hennelly (aka Herv)
as usual free and open to all!