Alpha Revisionism  definition : Promoting or 'selling' an audience on a concept/product in nascent (possibly pr
emature) stages in order to create popular sentiment and hype about A given idea, product, or action. added by 
: Patrick Lichty on 05.02.04 Anthropotropic  definition : Used to describe devices, media, et al that are becom
ing more suited to human use/consumption. May be used generally to describe anything that moves toward human us
e. comment : Paul Levinson, from "The Story of the World's Most Mobile Medium and How It Changed EVERYTHING!", 
2003 added by : Patrick Lichty on 20.05.04 Bicameral (also: Ambihedral)  definition : Denotes an individual wit
h strong abilities in both creative and analytical functions (right and left brain) thebicameralmind.com/ added
 by : Patrick Lichty on 05.02.04 EOAE  definition : Acronym for enemy of an enemy, built on the idea that my en
emy's enemy would be my friend if my enemy could only be induced to release the appropriate information. commen
t : Antonym:FOAF friend of a friend. I feel sure that this a new form of software enabled community database ju
st waiting to be created. www.journalscape.com/pawns_unite/2004-01-04-23:.. added by : ruth catlow on 04.01.04 
Emulationism  definition : The practice of defining the intrinsic qualities of digital/electronic media in term
s of traditional ones. i.e., stating that DV should adopt 24 FPS, print should approxinmate photography, etc. c
omment : The the general concept was used in a 2003 issue of SMAC art magazine by the editor of DV (for one exa
mple) who define digital media in terms of becoming like traditonal media. added by : Patrick Lichty on 05.02.0
4 Intertwingle(d)  definition : Describes the existential state that all things are deeply interconnected, and 
that strict categorization of terms is frequently not possible. comment : A mix of Intertwine and mingle. Attri
buted to Ted Nelson. lib.fo.am/cgi-bin/view/Libarynth/InterTwingled added by : Patrick Lichty on 13.02.04 Knob 
twiddler  definition : Derogatory term in current use in UK music education for a student whose primary means o
f musical expression is the PC or sequencer rather than a 'conventional' instrument. added by : Michael Szpakow
ski on 14.01.04 Lololos  definition : Remote Avatari tribe found in extreme internet cultures. Simularity to LO
L: 'laughed out loud' is purely coincidental added by : Karla on 05.02.04 Miscourse  definition : A distorted o
r failed attempt at discussion, or a discussion that has gone woefully off topic or awry. comment : In use by g
raduate students in 2004 @ Louisiana State University. First Attributed to Jill Martinez added by : Patrick Lic
hty on 28.03.04 MoSoSo  definition : mobile social software crystaltips.typepad.com/wonderland/2004/04/dodg.. a
dded by : ryan on 14.04.04 Oxymoronica  definition : Of or pertaining to all things oxmoronic. In use the stres
s was on the 'moronic' comment : 3/4/04 - US National Public Radio, "All Things Considered" added by : Patrick 
Lichty on 06.03.04 Soft Group  definition : A small independent creative D.I.Y group of individuals, exploiting
 technology tactically. Non centralized, exploration via re-evaluated contextual experience that can shift its 
identity and purpose at any time. Adaptable and flexible, communicating beyond established remits. Practical se
lf regulated engineering on a micro community scale. Able to regroup when required due to flexible size and nat
ure, not a 'hard' group, not a building or an institution. comment : networked technology is currently facilita
ting the formation of 'Soft Groups' world wide. Although this action could be tactically incorporated into ever
yday life. www.quirksomelife.net/docs/soft_group.htm added by : marc garrett on 05.01.04 aeremonial  definition
 : floating through the intellectual air www.kanonmedia.com/portfolio/db.htm added by : alexandra reill on 12.0
1.04 anti-archive  definition : a collection of information that expands rather than constricts the uses and po
tential of information, by making extra-rational/logical connections. Uses categories against themselves, exhib
its their arbitrariness. www.thebombproject.org added by : ryan griffis on 12.01.04 beeper  definition : boyfri
end lover comment : from rehearsal logs of Avatar Body Collision. www.avatarbodycollision.org added by : karla 
ptacek on 01.02.04 collaborator  definition : term relating itself to the visiting artist featuring rather the 
conspirative aspect in the sense of giving one's senses to a collaboration in a principally positive and enhanc
ing way, thus being itself a con-spiration - as spirits in the sense of focus and energy transfer can be descri
bed as much as an active involvement in a project rather than (only) a using or visiting or watching one commen
t : just came to my mind; of course it's an old political term, so i am just quickly looking for a link ... the
 first one in the search engine was a really nice on >>> visit the link. www.ocremix.org added by : alexandra r
eill, 12.01.04 on 12.01.04 con-spiration  definition : con-spiration - as spirits in the sense of focus and ene
rgy transfer finding together and meeting, meant in an open sense comment : the search engine gives me purely r
eligious, mainly catholic links, so i decided for www.conspiration.org - it seems to be still available. www.co
nspiration.org added by : alexandra reill on 12.01.04 corporate performance artist  definition : a person who w
orks within a corporate context, yet understands and plays upon the role they are performing as opposed to conf
using it with their identity... ie. the difference between saying "I am a CEO" and "I am performing the role of
 a CEO" www.corporatepa.com added by : joseph and donna on 12.01.04 cyber babble ( also seen: cyber wibble)  de
finition : Extravagant or nonsensical (or both) use of language brought about by intoxication with the internet
. comment : Curators and critics are particularly vulnerable to this, though it has also been known to afflict 
artists. rhizome.org/ added by : michael szpakowski on 02.02.04 cyberformance  definition : live theatrical per
formance art that uses internet technologies to bring remote (geographically dispersed) performers together in 
real time comment : i made this up in 2000 to describe what i'm experimenting with, because other terms like "v
irtual theatre" or "online performance" were limiting or boring. www.cyberformance.org added by : helen varley 
jamieson on 03.01.04 defuge  definition : a sense of exhaustion and decathecting that occurs when a pornographi
c image no longer 'works' or when a half-read novel is picked up again - there's a sense of distaste, defeat. t
he word was coined from defuse, refuse, refuge, and represents a psychoanalytical state connected with anomie. 
comment : i use the word in referencing the phenomenology of vision and hermeneutics. www.asondheim.org/ added 
by : AlanSondheim on 05.01.04 digerati  definition : The digital intelligensia, by analogy with 'literati'. com
ment : As with 'literati', not an unequivocal term of approbation. www.somedancersandmusicians.com/essays/excha
nge.. added by : michael szpakowski on 02.02.04 dreamweaver dependent  definition : Self explanatory. comment :
 Occasionally seen in the creative and media ads of the UK Guardian andc. Usual formula "..no Dreamweaver depen
dents please" added by : Michael Szpakowski on 14.01.04 economic diversity  definition : official slang of the 
ruling class (Bushism). used to refer to the necessity of poverty in classical economics while sounding mulit-c
ulti. useful term for avoiding the connections between other forms of diversity and financial privilege. www.wh
itehouse.gov/news/releases/2003/01/200301.. added by : ryan on 30.01.04 forp  definition : disappear, vanish, q
uickly remove oneself from a situation. for example, "I saw the drug squad coming so I forped." comment : forp 
comes from a typo by Karla Ptacek during Avatar Body Collision rehearsals in UpStage, when she meant to type "d
rop and clear" - the strategy for removing an avatar that has become stuck onstage. It has become part of the l
ingo of the group. www.avatarbodycollision.org added by : helen varley jamieson on 04.05.04 fuzzy sabotage  def
inition : "The fuzzy saboteur situates he/rself in the in-betweenin the areas that have not yet been fully regu
lated. This situational strategy was very well developed by Brian Springer in his backhaul video work and in hi
s laser information conduit interventions. His idea was to take what was considered private property, but funct
ionally was public property. A backhaul (off-air live satellite video feeds) was considered the property of the
 media, but since it was in the public domain of the reception of airwaves and existed without copyright, it co
uld be copied, replicated, and even marketed (now backhauls are scrambled to stop this process). Springer was b
rilliant at finding these little cracks in the system and exploiting them. The fuzzy saboteur has to stand on t
hat ambiguous line between the legal and the illegal (both criminally and civilly)." www.critical-art.net/biote
ch/conbio/index.html added by : ryan griffis on 30.01.04 leibor  definition : the unpaid work that gets done in
 your leisure time. common to most artists and designers, as well as those working unpaid overtime and domestic
 duties. comment : haven't seen it used, but i have heard the concept discussed in multiple places. www.iration
al.org/tm/art_of_work/ added by : ryan griffis on 12.01.04 loiber  definition : part labour of love, part thank
less task involves kudos only: no remittance comment : Loiber arises from spelling errors that occur during fas
t typing in Palace rehearsals. These errors are picked up by other members, riffed off of, discarded or refashi
oned. Some remain part of group lexicon e.g. beeper (boyfriend/lover), some acquire personal meanings, e.g. loi
ber. added by : Karla Ptacek on 01.02.04 mpeg haiku  definition : does what it says on the tin. Coined by Eryk 
Salvaggio in Spring 2003(?) for his work at the URL below. comment : perhaps a little specific for general use 
but definitely captures the feel of a tiny genre of short, poetic, net resident videos. www.one38.org/mpeghaiku
/ added by : michael szpakowski on 04.01.04 net.architect  definition : a flippant, but relevant comment on my 
lack of art history, particularly around the 'heroic' period .. i make spaces added by : neil jenkins on 10.04.
04 new automatic writing  definition : has antecedents in the automatic writing of the surrealists and the cut 
ups of burroughs and gysin but is distinguished from these practices by the use of computer programmes to creat
e, disrupt or reorder texts producing new "emergent" meanings for the human mind behind the reading eye. Here t
he computer and the programme, function as a kind of external unconscious. comment : Hmm -I used it in a couple
 of posts to Rhizome and elsewhere. It hasn't caught on - but I think its a runner. added by : michael szpakows
ki on 04.01.04 parasitic media  definition : "The parasite is the mystical computer glitch. The parasite is the
 bandwidth thief. The parasite is the invisible usurper. The shift that takes place in the host, if any, is one
 so gradual the parasite will be able to feed and thrive without detection. The invisibility of the parasite is
 only through the eyes of its host organism." www.carbondefense.org/writing_7.html added by : ryan griffis on 3
0.01.04 slow art  definition : by analogy with the Italian 'slow food' (anti fast food) movement, an art which 
eschews the quick. the easy and the banal in favour of something that takes a little while to prepare and which
 you need to chew on a bit to savour properly; an art which certainly doesn't reject new techniques but neither
 adopts them blindly for the sake of fashion or the market. comment : Used nowhere yet, so far as I know, but i
t would be nice if it was. added by : michael szpakowski on 04.01.04 visiting artist  definition : person who p
articipates creatively in a Web-based artwork, or helps to produce an online artwork during a simple visit to a
 website comment : this is a familiar alternative for "interactant," "user," and "participant" that emphasizes 
active engagement and creativity, unlike terms such as "audience" and "spectator" that are often used with resp
ect to non-interactive art. artcontext.org/act/01/glyphiti/docs/about.html added by : andy deck on 12.01.04 wap
athy  definition : the frustrations that have mounted over the limitations of calling up the World Wide Web on