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Ebon Fisher has been tickling and weaving the nubile
ganglia of digital culture since the early 1980's. One of the first
instructors at MIT's Media Lab, he began experimenting with a series
of media rituals in Boston and later in Williamsburg, Brooklyn.
In 1993 he instigated the first "web jam," a decentralized rave
which integrated ecological, cultural, and technological webs into
a 12-hour "Organism." Sprawling throughout an abandoned mustard
factory and attended by over 2,000 people, the Brooklyn event was
dubbed "the sequel to the rave" by Newsweek and immediately launched
Fisher's term "web jam" into Wired's "jargon watch" column and other
dictionaries of the cyber realm. In the early 1990's Fisher began
to codify his media rituals in a series of iconic diagrams, leading
him to create the "Bionic Codes" -a soft ethics for cyberspace.
Fisher's work has been presented by the Guggenheim Museum's "Cyber
Atlas," broadcast on Fuji Television, appeared in Jonathan Fineberg's
book "Art Since 1940: Strategies of Being," and discussed by New
York Magazine, Flash Art, Die Zeit, Newsweek and Wired. He is currently
"breeding" a hyperorganic philosophy (Wigglism), an alternate ecosystem
(The OlulO Dimension), and a new department in Digital Worlds at
the University of Iowa. |
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