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The Pacific Rim Media Salon

The Pacific Rim Media Salon is a gathering of all level of scholars, theorists, and artists who are interested in cultural issues of the Pacific Rim. Of primary importance are the participants of the event who will shape the type of discussion that ensues. Patrick Deegan and Jon Phillips will give short mini-talks about their research followed with drinks and discussion between all attendees, the primary focus of the salon.

太平洋缘媒体沙龙

太平洋缘媒体沙龙是一次对太平洋缘地区文化状况感兴趣的学者，理论家和艺术家的聚会. 主要目的是希望聚会的参与者会形成和延续对这一课题的讨论. Patrick Deegan 和 Jon Phillips 将简单介绍他们的研究项目，之后出席者将在饮品和轻松的气氛中进行讨论与交谈.

Patrick Deegan
Patrick W. Deegan is a candidate (PhC) in the Art History, Theory and Criticism program at the University of California, San Diego. His research focuses on new media art practice, sociology, and ethics, examining network communities and aesthetics as they intersect with, contribute to, subvert and parallel national and global technology trends. Presently he is in the field (Russia россия and China 中国) conducting initial research on the role and effect of information technologies in communities, academies, and corporations, as well as its impact on the numerous international art scenes. Patrick received his BA from the University of Iowa in Religion, and his MA from the University of California at Riverside in Art History. He is also an adjunct instructor at San Diego State University. Deegan has also served as a curatorial consultant at the California Museum of Photography and the Sweeney Art Gallery, and media curator for Groundworks. He is co-founder of Scale Journal.

Jon Phillips
Jon Phillips (www.rejon.org) is an open source developer, artist, writer, educator, lecturer, and curator with 12+ years of experience creating communities and working within computing culture. His involvements with mixing culture and software development have been shown internationally at the Desktop Developers Conference (2005), SFMoMA (2004), University of Tokyo (2004), Korea's KAIST (2004), UCLA Hammer Museum's Digital Storytelling Conference, UC-Berkeley's 040404 Conference (2004), USC Aim Festival IV (2003), and the ICA London (2002). He is a core Open Source developer advocate and developer on Inkscape (http://www.inkscape.org), a scalable vector graphics editor and on the Open Clip Art Library (http://openclipart.org), and is writing/producing a book, "CVS: Concurrency, Versioning and Systems." Currently, he is visiting faculty at the San Francisco Art Institute (www.sfai.edu) in the Design+Technology department and is an Open Source developer for the Creative Commons (www.creativecommons.org).

约翰 ‧ 菲利浦丝是开放源代码开发者，艺术家，作家，教师和策划人. 他有十二年建立与运作网络群体和计算机文化的经验，研究的范围包括合成文化和软件开发. 他被邀请出席的国际会议和展览有：桌面开发者论坛（2005），旧金山现代美术馆（2004），东京大学（2004），韩国高科技研究院（2004），加州洛杉矶大学汉莫美术馆的数字讲故事论坛，加州伯克莱大学的040404论坛（2004），南加州大学的第四届AIM节日（2003），和ICA伦敦（2002）. 他是INKSCAPE开放源的核心开发者（www.inkscape.org ）－－ INKSCAPE是一个矢量图形编辑软件；他设计了开放计算机图标图书馆（http://openclipart.org)；并正在编写他即将完成的书：《CVS: 共享，幻想和体制》. 现在他在旧金山艺术学院设计与科技系任教，同时也是“创作共用组织“（www.creativecommons.org) 的开放源开发者.

Deer Fang
Deer Fang is an International performance video artist from southern China. Most recently her work has been shown at RX Gallery in San Francisco, The Rencontres Internationales Paris/ Berlin, Contemporary Artist Center's Juried Exhibition in Massachusetts and the Fringe Short Film Festival in Gothenburg, Sweden. She completed her BFA at School of Visual Arts in New York in 2005, and will complete her MFA at the San Francisco Art Institute in 2007 studying with Tony Labat and George Kuchar.

方鹿是一位中国南方出生的当代艺术家. 她最近参加的展览包括三藩市RX画廊的RMX媒体试验之一，The Rencontres 2004 法国／柏林， 美国麻省当代艺术家中心的评审展览，和瑞典Gothenburg的Fringe短片电影节. 她2005年i毕业于美国纽约视觉艺术学院艺术获学士学位，并将于2007年在美国三藩市艺术学院完成艺术硕士学位. 她的现任导师是Tony Labat 和George Kuchar.

What 事情
The Pacific Rim Media Salon is a gathering of all level of scholars, theorists, and artists who are interested in cultural issues of the Pacific Rim. Of primary importance are the participants of the event who will shape the type of discussion that ensues. Patrick Deegan and Jon Phillips will give short mini-talks about their research followed with drinks and discussion between all attendees, the primary focus of the salon.

When 时间
Friday 星期五, January 13 1月13日, 2005, 晚上  7-9 PM

Where 地点
白糖罐工作站 Sugar Jar Bookstore, 798 Space, Dashanzi Art District, Beijing

Why 原因
To connect together scholars, social scientists, artists and students interested in art, music, media, information technology and culture involving issues of the Pacific Rim.

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Pacific Rim Media Salon

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The Pacific Rim Media Salon is a gathering of all level of scholars, theorists, and artists who are interested in cultural issues of the Pacific Rim.

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The Pacific Rim Media Salon is a gathering of all level of scholars, theorists, and artists who are interested in cultural issues of the Pacific Rim. Of primary importance are the participants of the event who will shape the type of discussion that ensues. Patrick Deegan and Jon Phillips will give short mini-talks about their research followed with drinks and discussion between all attendees, the primary focus of the salon.

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Pacific Rim Media Salon

KEYWORDS: media, arts, release, software, pacific rim, new media, information technology, research, scholarship

关键词：媒体，艺术，发布，软件，太平洋缘，新媒体，信息科技

www.mediaexperiment.org

ADDRESS GOES HERE

Friday, January 13, 2006, 7-9 PM

Text for the release goes here...

"???" by Deer Fang

 * medium: ???
 * website: http://www.deerfang.org
 * summary: ???

"Moscow Art-Market: a test case for China?" by Patrick Deegan

 * medium: 报告
 * website: http://www.pwdeegan.org
 * summary: are the current developments in Russia's art scene harbingers for China's own thriving art scene? Or has the avant-garde already succumbed to patron's "bienalle-art" tastes? Russia may provide certain clues to the development of art markets in transition economies.

"???" by Jon Phillips

 * medium: ???
 * website: http://www.rejon.org
 * summary: ???

Design (Look and Feel)

 * what does this all look like?

Ideas
Any need for ideas...

Documentation

 * video
 * photos
 * audio recording

Equipment Needs

 * Provided by Venue
 * projector?
 * Internet connection?
 * WIFI?

Budget
No need for a budget.


 * Drink money?

Press Contacts

 * http://www.thatsgz.com/

Patrick

 * write-up

Jon

 * Press Release / Information on poster
 * mailing list

Deer

 * Poster design

Questions
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