contact sponge	DIAC 2002 paper Sustainable Arenas for Weedy Sociality: Distributed Wilderness The globalization of markets is accelerating a rapid decrease of diversity in the social, biological and cultural habitats, due to the economic imperative of proprietary interests such as communication technology industries and transnational 'life industries'. Physical public spaces as arenas for a wide range of interaction and social change are losing even their symbolic importance as the global marketplace has shifted from commonly accessible public markets to dispersed and abstract omnipresent networks. You can download the article here in pdf format. or browse it here in html form. DIAC 2000 paper From Representation to Performance: Responsive Public Space this paper, first published in 2000 poses the questions: What is the public sphere in cyberspace? What should the public sphere in cyberspace be? What should we do with the public sphere in cyberspace? What can we do with the public sphere in cyberspace? We approach these questions by embedding them in two ways, historical and material. We ask: "What alternative ways of being together in public evolved over the centuries since the Greek agora?" and "What in fact is this stuff that cyberspace and public sphere are made of?" You can download the article here in pdf format. or browse it here in html form. unstable surfaces sponge was asked to contribute an interview to the annual French culture+technology publication ec/artS. The interview was conducted in December of 1999 by Fabienne Regnaut, a sponge sateliite member, with additional input and questions from Franck Bauchard. The article was published in September 2000 in ecarts #2, an issue focusing on the future of reading and performing under the influence of new information technologies.English You can download the article here in pdf format. or browse it here in html form.
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