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INTO TIME _ Rafaël Rozendaal _ intercontemplative monochromacity _ 2010: Value, structure, material and space as parameters of monochrome painting, colour as an articulation of itself, dissociated of any kind of interpretation, independent of context — autonomous? If monochromacity is considered as the most substantial form of abstract painting the long-lasting intellectual processes bound to it are still continued in the age of the digital image: As the qualities of a digital image that relates to medium determine its appearance, at least in an art context — as every form determines its content. Do not stop clicking!
GOOGLE PORTRAIT _ Aram Bartholl _ visual enryption painting _ 2007-2009: A Google Portrait is a drawing which contains the Google URL search string of the portrayed person in encoded form. Any camera smart phone is capable to decode the matrix-code with the help of barcode reader like software. The result points the mobile phone browser to a search on the portrayed person's name at GooA large number of people can be found by name on Google today. Everyone who is working on a computer and uses the internet regularly can be found on Google. Even people who don't use computers can be found sometimes because their names appear in 'old' media (i.e. books) on the net.
BARTHES BY BARTHES BY BART _ Michael David Murphy _ applied auto-philosophy _ 2010: Barthes realizes that his greatest achievement is not what he is, nor even what he has done, but rather how he has done it. So his self- portrait is not primarily a recollection of events or earlier works. It is, rightly, a delineation of the method rather than the man. And so persuasive or provocative are its assertions and associations that it is impossible to read this portrait of a style passively. (from Amazon.com, Jacob Stockinger, San Francisco Review of Books)
A TOOL TO DECEIVE AND SLAUGHTER _ Caleb Larsen _ the auction as a sculpture _ 2008: Combining Robert Morris' Box With the Sound of Its Own Making with Baudrillard's writing on the art auction this sculpture exists in eternal transactional flux. It is a physical sculpture that is perptually attempting to auction itself on eBay. Every ten minutes the black box pings a server on the internet via the ethernet connection to check if it is for sale on the eBay. If its auction has ended or it has sold, it automatically creates a new auction of itself. If a person buys it on eBay, the current owner is required to send it to the new owner. The new owner must then plug it into ethernet, and the cycle repeats itself.
ART-WORDS.NET _ Eva Beierheimer + Miriam Laussegger _ textual supporter _ 2010: the piece of art is finalized by means of words. a constantly growing number of those specialised words or keywords are flying around the art scene and result in a textual satiation. now the artist is forced to acquire that art language and to learn the art of sculpturing with words. this learning process, which is necessary to be able to participate in the ongoing art discussions, is different from artist to artist. one approach to acquire the necessary skills is to use a kind of articulation management: build up a vocabulary of art-relevant words by collecting them from art magazines, catalogues, lectures, discussions, etc. by means of tables, lists or databases. in this context the project “words” was developed, a collection of more than 1500 terms, common in art language, which again consists of more than 2500 words. this list of text modules is constantly updated and enhanced.
AN ABC OF AESTHETIC JOURNALISM _ Fay Nicolson _ research collection _ 2009-ongoing: An ABC of Aesthetic Journalism is a an ongoing work that aims to collect together text, images, videos, and ideas relating to the field of Aesthetic Journalism. An ABC consists of this blog, which is an archive of information and ideas, and a live performance lecture using the blog to celebrate the launch of Alfredo Cramerotti’s book, Aesthetic Journalism. An ABC aims to use the book ‘Aesthetic Journalism’ as a resource to bring together ideas and references whilst demonstrating some of the strategies found in this field; such as revealing the position of the author or editor, adopting and adapting mainstream methodologies of communication in a self-reflexive way, and revealing the production process in terms of both meaning and material.
IMAGE MILL SUSTAINABLE CINEMA _ Scott Hessels _ illusive cinema installation _ 2009: As water falls over the 12-foot-high wheel, a transmission assembly causes two wheels to spin in opposite directions. On the interior wheel are a series of animation frames painted onto glass; on the black outside wheel, rotating in the opposite direction, are cut slits. As the two wheels spin, the slits act as a shutter and the animation becomes visible…a movie plays in the falling water. The artwork merges an optical illusion that led to the invention of movies with one of the first power sources. By referencing the histories of cinema and industrialization, The Image Mill explores a possible future of environmentally responsible media—looking forward by looking back. One of the first movies created was a galloping horse and this piece also uses it as a metaphor for the region’s auto industry. The ‘horsepower’ that drove the Michigan industrial age is at a transition to a new age of alternative energy…the pony stumbles, but continues on.
CINEMA REDUX _ Brendan Dawes _ reductive pixel cinema _ 2004: Cinema Redux explores the idea of distilling a whole film down to one single image. Using eight of my favourite films from eight of my most admired directors including Sidney Lumet, Francis Ford Coppola and John Boorman, each film is processed through a Java program written with the processing environment. This small piece of software samples a movie every second and generates an 8 x 6 pixel image of the frame at that moment in time. It does this for the entire film, with each row representing one minute of film time.
STANDARD TIME _ Mark Formanek _ failure visualisation _ 2008: 70 workers are building a wooden 4 x 12 m "digital" time display in real time: a work that involves 1611 changes within 24 hour period. Seamlessly documented and shot on HD video, a 24 hours movie or clock is now available. Standard Time is a performance lasting exactly 24 hours and recorded on film. However, this film is much more than just the recording of an action, the recording of something that has taken place in the past; it is also a clock. A clock for use right now and in the future which, as each day goes by, extends further into the past, but is still up-to-date and punctual. The spectator looking at Standard Time does not only see the time, but also people constructing it. People who, with a stoic sense of duty, are wasting time on an apparently useless activity that fulfills only one function: to display time. Even though the workers are trying hard to construct every single minute, they are constantly on the verge of failing.
WEB SERVICES COVER THERAPY _ Stéphane Massa-Bidal _ retrofuturistic design _ 2009: Designed as yellowish retrofuturistic print-covers: Ffffound!, Last.fm, MySpace, Twitter, Tumblr, Wikipedia, YouTube, LinkedIn, Flickr
SK8MONKEY _ Jodi _ performative collapse _ 2009: The performance Sk8monkey was held last May in Dordrecht, (Netherlands), as a part of Webcra.sh 2009, the second edition of a festival curated by the artists themselves. During the event, a group of skaters used wheeled wireless keyboards instead of regular boards. Keyboards were connected to a number of computers logged-on to a Twitter account, which was subsequently overloaded with nonsense "tweets", made solely of random characters. The action, documented by photos and videos, quickly led to the destruction - maybe accidental at the beginning - of the keyboards, in a sort of playful, liberating final act. This performance addresses multiple issues. What we can see at a first glance is a sort of "punk attitude" and a conscious exploration of what might be called an aesthetics of collapse, but the act of denying the language in its own space (the unreadable tweets) is equally central. [via: www.neural.it]
TW1TT3R ART _ unknown artists _ twittexperiments _ 2009: ASCII, typography, special characters at a maximum lenght of 140 signs: ☐┌┐☐┌┐ ☐┌┐☐┌ ┐☐┌┐ ☐ ☐└ ┘☐└┘☐ └ ┘☐└┘☐└┘ ◯╭╮◯ ╭╮◯╭╮ ◯╭╮ ◯ ╭╮◯ ◯ ╰╯◯╰╯◯╰╯◯╰╯◯╰ ╯ ☐┌ ┐☐ ┌┐☐┌┐☐┌ ┐ ☐┌ ┐☐ ☐└ ┘☐└ ┘☐ └ ┘☐└┘ ☐└┘ ◯ ╭╮ ◯╭╮◯╭ ╮ ◯╭ ╮◯╭╮◯ ◯ ╰╯◯╰╯◯╰ ╯◯ ╰╯◯╰╯
GOOGLOUT _ Sumoto.iki _ literal transparency _ 2009: "vers un google plus neutre et plus transparent" - you have to be quick to get your search done...
SKYPEME! _ Kim Asendorf _ processing social anonymity _ 2009: Social anonymity in interaction systems. Communication via the computer or more precisely the Internet is basically a usual conversation. Actually it is really common for a big count of people. This kind of communication becomes, especially for many young people, an integral part of their life. Although you talk with friends as if they are exactly in the same location as you, you feel completly alone in conversations with strangers. It is amazing how intimacy personal data is given up on the Internet and how the inhibition is falling by the separation by computers. Apparently there exists the belief, somewhere in the people, that the ones with whom they are talking through the computer, are not real. [via: http://www.asquare.org]
PANDORAS BOX _ Michael Flueckiger _ rapid text movements _ 2009: Swiss artist and computer wiz Michael Flückiger combines installation, text art, and computer program design to create interactive text/projection works. I really dig these. First is “Pandora’s Box.” There was a moment at the beginning where all I could think of was Kubrick’s iconic line “My God… It’s full of stars!” I’m pretty sure it’s saying something about the myth of Pandora. If anyone out there can read German, I would love to know what it says… [via: http://shapeandcolour.wordpress.com]
MOST ANNOYING WEBPAGE _ unknown artists _ sorry for this! _ unknown date: keep pushing ok to continue onto your surprise - ok - so, while were waiting, how are you? - ok - hope youre fine - ok - im fine too, thanks for asking. - ok - but you didnt ask, did you? - ok - you dont even care how i am, do you? - ok - you thing this page just created itself, dont you? - ok - little do you know, a real person made this page...
NON-PLAYER CHARACTER _ Shane Hinton + Netwurker Mez _ words for digital girls and boys _ 2009: A new method of collaborative “fiction” through _live concurrent editing_ in Google Wave. This process results in expressive output[s] termed “Transformations”: "Google Wave uses an algorithmic variation of “operational transformations” [live concurrent editing] which occur through a process called transformation: * The server transforms the client’s request, resulting in the client manifesting the same transformed output. * The notion of concurrency is invariably important as it mimics geophysical conversational states. * Utilizing the server as a point of relay [when more than one client's output is involved] assists in providing scalability and reliability. * The playback feature allows the server to present the document as a stream of operations that have occurred thus far in a particular wave/state.
WHAT WILL BE, WILL BE _ Nicholas O'Brien _ singing cultural signifiers _ 2009: Doris Day is credited with the original popular version of the song Que Sera Sera written by Jay Livingstone and Ray Evans. Her initial singing of the song in Alfred Hitchcock's The Man Who Knew Too Much spurred the phenomenon behind the song, and is sighted as being the origin of a now ubiquitous anthem of a complex matrix of cultural signifiers. The references embedded in this song range from carefree optimism to matronly longing and security. During the course of the decade after this hit, she performed this song twice more in two separate on-screen performances; each performance greatly changing the tone of the song to signify something drastically different from it's original intention. These cinematic appearances in turn added depth to the already complex cluster of meanings behind the song, while also unconsciously subverted the lyrics."
DOMAIN NAME READYMADES _ Constant Dullaart _ duchampsian search and find _ 2009: http://oblivion.com/ --- Found on 14 Nov 2009 > http://gyazo.com/f52874eff69e2ed867bd8a78ddb012ff.png> Registrant: The Tussauds Group, Chris Dare (chris.dare@tussauds.com) > Creation date: 1997-10-24 --- YES Security Recruiting --- Found on 5 Nov 2009 > http://gyazo.com/3d5e49dc51ed4215c812b2784e33bd63.png> Registrant: Yes Web-design, Bjørn Erik Jacobsen (maybe@yes.no) > Creation date: 15 Nov 1999 * thanks Martin Kohout --- http://what.is/ --- Found on 29 Oct 2009 > http://gyazo.com/da19d762d8b5ced692c1b17f39d097e8.png> Registrant: Guðmundur Ragnar Guðmundsson (ragnar@this.is) > Creation date: 06 Nov 1995, etc.
ART-DOMAINS _ Peter Luining _ art as a printed business system _ 2005: Art-Domains is a project that brings internet domain trade to an art context, thus penetrating the space of the white cube with one of the most lucrative virtual money making businesses, that of selling domain names. For this particular project Peter Luining did over one year of research and became a domain broker himeself. He bought and sold domain names to get the knowledge of how this trade worked and also to get the best art related names available. Over the last year Luining aquired domain names like clementgreenberg.com, leocastelli.com, artcriticism.org, whitecube.us, etc.
COLOR FIELD TELEVISION _ Andrew Venell _ speeded abstraction _ 2009: Color Field Television is akin to watching an abstract painting on television, on speed. Animated to 12 frames per second, different color sections appear in each frame. The sections are not homogenous, yet they are all formed in the shapes of rectangles, stripes or squares. They appear in several different bright colors, and due to the high paced animation, they leave little time to absorb each color on its own. Unlike the color field paintings, where a viewer would wander in a gallery and presumably ponder over a single composition before moving on to the next—there is no time for reflection, only stimulus-and-response. Second, unlike traditional television which has classically assumed a passive, narcotic, receptive state of media consumption, Color Field Television, demands a more active response by directly engaging the viewer at a closer proximity and more demanding pace. [via Carolyn Kane, Rhizome.org]
UNSOLICITED FABRICATIONS _ Stephanie Syjuco _ shareware sculptures _ 2009: Fifteen handmade sculptures and single channel video projection. Solo exhibition at Pallas Contemporary Projects with 126 Galway, Dublin, Ireland, May 2009. From the artist statement: I fabricated a selection of "sculptures" designed by anonymous users of Google SketchUp, a free 3-D modeling program. Designed as a simple and easy-to-use version of CAD software, SketchUp has garnered a growing following of amateur designers who use it to model virtually everything from common household items to fantasy architectural designs. These digital designs can be uploaded to a freely-accessible database to “share” with other SketchUp users in their own projects. [via: www.vvork.com]
_ONELINER _ Arjan Scherpenisse _ character-based VGA-communication _ 2009: _oneliner is a self-reflexive installation consiting of a long line of interconnected VGA monitors, 64 in total. Each driven by a microcontroller, the monitors form a line of characters, like a giant ticker tape in which each monitor is limited to displaying a single character. The monitors are connected through self-designed and built "open" hardware. The work itself also reflects this openness: all wirings and microchips are exposed to the public's critical inspection. The texts appearing on the monitors gives an insight into the software that is driving the installation. Texts appear, fragments of code, sometimes with personal comments of the maker. The codes appear and dissappear, meeting and avoiding eachother, in a playful way that is different each time. The rhythm of the movements is almost meditative and reflects the state of mind that is necessary to write this kind of software.
SEMANTICS _ carlos katastrofsky _ The meaning of a word is its use in the language. _ 2009: The work semantics (2009) uses the multilayered concepts of meaning and, at the same time, plays with this central term in the discipline of semantics.
On a website the user is asked to feed web-addresses into a software-system via a reduced submission form. The system then shows the regarding webpages as visualisations of their own structure. Letters, words, whole sentences and numbers – all components responsible for the construction of meaning are replaced by placeholders on the sourcecode-level. Only the structure remains, but deleting the content only at the first glance results in meaninglessness. The material component of linguistic expression – its form – is moved to the foreground in favour of the notional concepts and facts as well as th situational context of their usage. Text becomes image, context becomes structure, a new layer of meaning is generated. [more: http://katastrofsky.cont3xt.net/home/?p=227]
USER LABOR _ Burak Arikan + Engin Erdogan _ sustaining framework _ 2008: With User Labor, we propose an open data structure, User Labor Markup Language (ULML), to outline the metrics of user participation in social web services. Our aim is to construct criteria and context for determining the value of user labor, which is currently a monetized asset for the service provider but not for the user herself. We believe that universal, transparent, and self-controlled user labor metrics will ultimately lead to more sustainable social web. [via: http://serialconsign.com]
TEMPORARY.CC _ Jonah Bruker-Cohen _ deletion beauty _ 2009: Virtual data isn't subject to decay like traditional media. Despite this, we can still lose personal data to disk failure, viruses, or accidental deletion. Unlike personal data however, data on the internet has a seemingly infinite shelf-life. Between search-engine caching, cloud-hosting, re-blogging, plagiarizing, and the way-back machine, the net collects and eternally stores vast amounts of information. Temporary.cc eschews this paradigm. For each unique visitor it receives, Temporary.cc deletes part of itself. These deletions change the way browsers understand the website's code and create a unique (de)generative piece after each new user. Because each unique visit produces a new composition through self-destruction, Temporary.cc can never be truly indexed, as any subsequent act of viewing could irreparably modifiy it.
ONLY THE GOOD _ Andy Simionato + Antonio Riello (+ Reinier Feijen) _ newsed art _ 2009: This project aims at serving only the good news. In contrast to other good news sites, the news is not manually selected but by machine. It is built with AI features for machine learning and language processing as well as with a spamfilter-like system that uses a naive bayesian classification algorithm which has to be trained to correctly categorize news items into good and bad items. The news items are gathered from popular news sites by automatically aggregating rss feeds every hour.
EFFICIENT MONDRIAN _ Michael Lawrie _ automated compositions _ 2009: Efficient Mondrian is a generative projection based on an algorithm which produces compositions in the style of Piet Mondrian's Composition with Yellow, Blue, and Red (1939-42) dynamically from the text of The Principles of Scientific Management by Frederick Winslow Taylor. It does this every two minutes. Sequential passages are collected from the text and converted to numerical values by a process which examines the distance adjacent letters are from one another in the alphabet. The resuling data is interpreted as proportions, positions and frequencies which form the basis of the composition. Each composition is then titled with the passage from the text with which it was generated.
SEPPUKOO _ Les Liens Invisibles _ virtual suicide _ 2009: Discover what's after your facebook life. We assist your virtual identity suicide.
LOVE, PIRACY, AND... _ Manu Luksch + Mukul Patel _ weblog expansive book performance _ 2009: On a censor’s desk lie stacks of identical books awaiting redaction, a file containing proscribed words, black marker pens, rubber stamps, ink pads, and assorted paraphernalia. In each book, a particularly provocative text is censored by hand before being deemed suitable for public scrutiny. The text, entitled Love, Piracy, and the Office of Religious Weblog Expansion, is the transcript of an interview with Iranian philosopher Ali Alizadeh. The censorship scheme is draconian – of the philosopher’s 1,500 word-long responses, only one word is left legible, and it is a different one that survives in each copy of the edition of 1,500.
DIS.LIKE() _ Jason Sloan _ suggestive button art _ 2009: Thumbs down!
VIRTUAL HOLE _ Tao G. Vrhovec Sambolec _ architectural eco-intervention _ 2006: Virtual Hole is an installation - architectural intervention into an existing building. The building can be public or private and not necessarily devoted to exhibiting art. By employing digital technology, a virtual hole is created in the roof, through which the rain is allowed to fall through. The installation also allows the visitor him/herself to create rain inside the building, by dripping water drops on rain sensor, installed in the middle of the installation.
MEDITATING STARING INTO MY SCREENSAVER _ Arend Helfer-deGryuter _ medi(t)ation _ 2009: A 6 minutes and 56 seconds long artist's meditation realised by staring into his screensaver.
RUMOR HAS IT _ Joerg Piringer _ snippet art _ 2009: Rumors are short stories with uncertain facts. because of real time distribution and volatility the twitter-platform is perfectly suited for the dissemination of short and instant messages. in the installation rumor has it a machine collects streams of twitter-feeds that contain the phrase rumor has it in real time and prints it out on adhesive labels of variable length. the visitors of the installation can either cut up and attach these rumor strips to a board in the exhibtion or take them to the streets and stick them to whatver they want. [view video: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CTNmFkaTmsk]
TEXT2IMAGE _ Ted Davis _ translative environment _ 2009: TEXT2IMAGE is an online tool that does exactly what the name describes, but in a different way than one might expect. Rather than creating a typographic based image of the live text submitted, this tool renders an abstract image that is the translation of the given input. The results remain consistent for any particular entry, however will vary greatly through any textual change. Within the realms of data visualization + digital/glitch aesthetics, TEXT2IMAGE explores an alternative way to create images and analyze texts.
THE URL IS THE ARTWORK _ Anders Weberg _ urlart _ 2009: That's what it is, nothing more, nothing less.
THE GRAND CREDITS _ Antoine Schmitt _ happy endings _ 2009: The Grand Credits is an artwork that is designed to be displayed on a movie screen, a TV screen, a computer screen, or projected on a wall, depending on the exhibition context. The scenography always refers to the world of cinema. When it is exhibited, The Grand Credits displays in priority the names of the persons linked to the geographical zone and to the artistic context of the exhibition. It thus creates a mirroring link with the spectators. The names are displayed in the local alphabet and the graphic design matches the traditions of the place and times.
WHITE SQUARE _ unknown artists _ blank search _ 2009: A Google-search with the term "white square" which results in a list of autamted white monochromes.
A PICTURE _ Ruben Aubrecht _ paper-ed photography _ 2004: A PICTURE deconstructs a digital photo split in its information contents, the source code. The picture withdraws itself from readability, and is bound in a book by its volume of information.
UNTITLED (Concept art is boring) _ Ruben Aubrecht _ morse coding ennui _ 2005/2007: From a sheet with white, rectangular stickers particular ones are removed. With this gaps it builds a sentence written in the Morse Code Alphabet. Correctly translated it reads CONCEPT ART IS BORING.
AUTARKY MUSEUM _ Raphael Bastide _ add-ed art history painting _ unknown date: Appropriative use of paintings by Leonardo Da Vinci, Kazimir Malevich, Piet Mondrian, Yves Klein, Barnett Newman and Mark Rothko by replacing monochromacity with Google advertising. This work is part of series called "netartad" which can be found here: http://lab.raphaelbastide.com/netartad
ONE SENTENCE CONTAINED WITHIN EVERY HTML TAG IN ALPHABETICAL ORDER _ Evan Roth _ raw structures _ 2009: <BODY>  <a charset=""> <a href=""> <a hreflang=""> <a name=""> <a rel=""> <a rev=""> <abbr title=""> <acronym title=""> <address> ...
HALF EMPTY _ Pall Thayer _ pessimistic perl coding "unless" _ 2009: Half empty (25. August 2009) - #!/usr/bin/perl POTENTIAL: unless(0.5){ goto POTENTIAL; }
HALF FULL _ Pall Thayer _ optimistic perl coding "if" _ 2009: Half full (25. August 2009) - #!/usr/bin/perl POTENTIAL: if(0.5){ goto POTENTIAL; }
TOMORROW, NOW, FOREVER _ Aaron Gemmill + Angie Keefer _ the sun is always rising _ 2009: Tomorrow, Now, Forever displays an image of the sun rising, wherever the sun is rising, along with geographic and temporal coordinates indicating the viewer's displacement from the sunrise. Tomorrow, Now, Forever captures live webcam images of the horizon from successive locations, in sync with the earth's rotation so that, at any time of the day or night, a viewer may see the rising sun.
GUM _ Jeff Baij _ palindromed sound piece _ 2009: I've got good news! That gum you like is going to come back in style. [‮[style. in back come to going is like you gum That news! good got I've
UNRAVELING _ David Wicks _ flashed photography conceived in isolation _ 2008: Sometimes I wonder if everything I saw – everything I remember – is slowly breaking apart... is part of the project series "Time Spent Alone" conceptually linked through their being conceived in solitude and intended for display in the isolated social space of the internet. They are daydreams, worries and solitary trips.
I WISH I COULD READ FASTER _ David Wicks _ flashed book covers conceived in isolation _ 2008: When I'm alone, I sometimes wish I could read faster... is part of the project series "Time Spent Alone" conceptually linked through their being conceived in solitude and intended for display in the isolated social space of the internet. They are daydreams, worries and solitary trips.
PARIS _ Tim Schwartz _ aggregating variations _ 2007: The piece "Paris" is attached via a network cable to the internet where it monitors news and search results for “paris hilton” and “paris france” and displays an average result in real-time.
STILL AVAILABLE (on Twitter) _ Oliver Laric _ urlsearch _ 2009: A Twitter-version of Oliver Laric's continuing search for URLs which are still available. The "original" version might be found here: http://oliverlaric.com/stillavailable140309.htm --- Some examples: cyberneticprosthetics.com # twilight6.com # personalsousveillance.com # modestgaze.com # friedrichstowasser.com # friedensreichregentagdunkelbunthundertwasser.com # steaksonaplane.com # enlightenmentfundamentalism.com # activepluralism.com # globaldebtclock.com # knownknowns.com # unknownknowns.com
PUBLIC PRIVATE _ Martín Bonadeo _ interventionist split-flap-type device _ 2009: A 7 characters split-flap-type device (such as those used in airports and train terminals in the 70) is located at Telefonica Foundation's main entrance. Each of these modules contains 30 characters including the letters of the alphabet and some punctuation. The board has a total size of about 30 cm. x 7 cm. high. All characters are moved every 1 minutes to stay fixed in a new letter. Only the first and last module will not move but remain always in the same positions, the letter "P" and "O" respectively. The rest of the characters is constantly forming the words "publico" (public) or "privado" (private). This sign is shot and this image is projected from one of the windows to the sidewalk of the Plaza Vicente López (next to the fence). This image has a size of 5 meters wide x 1 m high. The characteristic sound of this technology produced by the board is also amplified and "projected" to the plaza. [via: http://turbulence.org/blog]
UNDERLANGUAGE _ Stuart Moulthrop _ structural literature game _ 2007: "Under Language" is the latest in the artist's series of textual instruments, a term I borrowed from John Cayley many years ago to describe things that might look like literature, but also like structures for play, though not necessarily what we would call games. In fact, this one lies pretty close to game space, having rules, a scoring system (albeit invisible), and even a simple agon in which you compete against the perversity of the puzzle-maker, and constraints of the clock. The phrase "under-language" was invented by the comics artist, Alan Moore, in an interview he gave in the early 1980s. He used it to describe the essence of comics art, which is neither verbal nor visual, but something that underlies and infuses both modes. The term gets at the essence behind Moore's great genius for irony and verbal-visual puns. It also provides a convenient reminder that everything, these days, tends to mean more than it seems.
YOUR WORLD OF TEXT _ Andrew Badr _ infinite collaborative poetry _ 2009: Your World of Text is an infinite grid of text editable by any visitor. The changes made by other people appear on your screen as they happen. Everyone starts in the same place, but you can scroll through the world using your mouse. Put any letters at the end of the URL to go to a new world. For example, http://yourworldoftext.com/forexample. They all start off blank. If you use something hard to guess, no one will be able to visit your world unless you tell them about it. Your World of Text runs on Google App Engine. It's built with jQuery and the app-engine-patch modification of Django.
CTRL+F'D _ Greg Leuch _ cencoring text _ 2009: With recent mistakes by companies and organizations not knowing how to properly censor online documents, its easy to see why people believe the text they can’t see can’t be read. And with computer illiterate people like Rush Limbaugh, it is easy to befuddle them with the apperance of censored text on the web pages they commonly visit.
MILK _ 56k-Bastards (Reinhard Storz) _ real/virtual-time juxtapositions _ unknown date: A website which loads pornographic images in the background an juxtaposes them with a timecounter which counts the number of Africans which have died since the loading of the website started.
KILLING TECHNOLOGY _ Sumoto.iki _ destruction performances _ 2009: A collection of looped YouTube-videos showing people destroying their copmputers, mobile devices, cd-roms and other technologies.
URSONATE (GoogleYahooBingREMIX) _ Chris Cuellar _ lautgedicht remixed _ 2009: Fümms bö wö tää zää Uu, pögiff, Kwii Ee... A variation of Kurt Schwitter's "Ursonate" performed by the web browser. (Google vs. Yahoo vs. Bing Remix). Some more information on "Ursonate" here: http://www.mediaartnet.org/works/ursonate [via lismore]
BURNING TEXT _ Jacob Broms Engblom _ fire like never always _ 2009: A collection of found online typography: "thank you" burning, "princess" burning, "pretty in pink" burning, "e-mail" burning, "website" burning, etc.
THE YES MEN FIX THE WORLD _ The Yes Men _ corporate hacking _ 2009: THE YES MEN FIX THE WORLD is a screwball true story about two gonzo political activists who, posing as top executives of giant corporations, lie their way into big business conferences and pull off the world's most outrageous pranks. From New Orleans to India to New York City, armed with little more than cheap thrift-store suits, the Yes Men squeeze raucous comedy out of all the ways that corporate greed is destroying the planet. Brüno meets Michael Moore in this gut-busting wake-up call that proves a little imagination can go a long way towards vanquishing the Cult of Greed. Who knew fixing the world could be so much fun? [via: http://turbulence.org/blog]
AFTER ALBERS _ Chris Collins _ re-appropriative colour-schemer _ 2007: Josef Albers (March 19, 1888 – March 25, 1976) was a German-born American artist and educator whose work, both in Europe and in the United States, formed the basis of some of the most influential and far-reaching art education programs of the 20th century. Albers was born in Bottrop, Westphalia (Germany). He studied art in Berlin, Essen, and Munich, before enrolling as a student at the prestigious Weimar Bauhaus in 1920. He began teaching in the preliminary course of the Department of Design in 1922, and was promoted to Professor in 1925, the year the Bauhaus moved to Dessau. His work at this time included designing furniture and working with glass. At this time he married Anni Albers who was also a student at the Bauhaus.
#NETART HASHTAG EXPERIMENT _ Carlo Lowfi.es _ doing it with colors _ 2009: This page displays all the tweets tagged with #netart. To participate, just add #netart when you post from twitter. Do it with colors!
PERSONAS _ Aaron Zinman (Alex Dragulescu, Yannick Assogba and Judith Donath) _ visualized online identity _ 2009: Enter your name, and Personas scours the web for information and attempts to characterize the person - to fit them to a predetermined set of categories that an algorithmic process created from a massive corpus of data. The computational process is visualized with each stage of the analysis, finally resulting in the presentation of a seemingly authoritative personal profile. In a world where fortunes are sought through data-mining vast information repositories, the computer is our indispensable but far from infallible assistant. Personas demonstrates the computer's uncanny insights and its inadvertent errors, such as the mischaracterizations caused by the inability to separate data from multiple owners of the same name. It is meant for the viewer to reflect on our current and future world, where digital histories are as important if not more important than oral histories, and computational methods of condensing our digital traces are opaque and socially ignorant.
EXOTICA _ Harm van den Dorpel _ ken burns effecting _ 2009: HD Video, Modified Slideshow Software (Ken Burns effect), Google Image Search, Brown Noise... From the artist's statement: "The name of the bar, the bar is called Heaven. * The band in Heaven plays my favorite song. * They play it once again, they play it all night long. * Heaven is a place where nothing ever happens. * Heaven is a place where nothing ever happens. * There is a party, everyone is there. * Everyone will leave at exactly the same time. * Its hard to imagine that nothing at all could be so exciting, and so much fun. * Heaven is a place where nothing ever happens. * Heaven is a place where nothing ever happens. * When this kiss is over it will start again. * It will not be any different, it will be exactly the same. * It's hard to imagine that nothing at all could be so exciting, could be so much fun. * Heaven is a place where nothing every happens. * Heaven is a place where nothing every happens."
THE LONGEST POEM IN THE WORLD _ Andrei Gheorghe _ twitterrific poetry _ 2009: “The Longest Poem in the World" is composed by aggregating real-time public twitter updates and selecting those that rhyme. It is constantly growing at ~4000 verses / day. You can see more verses by clicking the three dots at the bottom. [via: http://netpoetic.com]
A SHORT FILM ABOUT WAR _ Thomson and Craighead _ narrative found-footage _ 2009: A Short film about War is a narrative documentary artwork made entirely from information found on the worldwide web. In ten minutes viewers are taken around the world to a variety of war zones as seen through the collective eyes of the online photo sharing community Flickr, and as witnessed by a variety of existing military and civilian bloggers. This work exists as a single screen digital movie, which premiered at the Centre for Contemporary Art in Glasgow on July 2nd 2009.
ARTIST STATEMENT _ Parker Koo Ito _ avatar statement _ 2009: Statements: "c++ has replaces the brush" - "the hand is dead" - "cyberspace is the contemporary news" - "interpolation is the new cubism" - "you want fame" - "the computer is the greatest readymade ever constructed", etc.
THIRTYFOUR PARKING LOTS (5600-5700 Blocks of Wilshire Blvd) _ Pascuale Sisto _ appropriative conceptuals _ 2008: A remake of Ed Ruscha's artist-book "Thirtyfour Parking Lots in Los Angeles" (selfpublished in 1967 in Los Angeles) using Google Maps.
PARADIGMATIC LANDSCAPES _ Yann Le Guennec _ cocneptual if/how painting _ 2009: Each time you access a picture from the "Paradigmatic landscapes" project, 3 portions, from 3 pictures selected randomly in a defined set of pictures, are extracted, resized and superposed to compose a new picture. Thus, each generated landscape is different from another. There is a poor probability to generate 2 identical pictures. "Paradigmatic landscapes" is declined into several series, involving different sets of defined pictures serving as bases for the compositions. "Paradigmatic landscapes" project explores the "if" and the "how" a very simple algorithm and sets of pictures (1, 2, 3) can generate some kinds of visual patterns and exceptions, according to some ideas about some kinds of landscapes, but without analyzing further any data model or trying to explicit what happen when generating and looking at (references to) landscapes.
BUTTON WRAP _ Anton Gerasimenko + Sergey Chikuyonok _ push the button _ 2009: World, the time has come to... Push the button... World, the time has come to... Push the button... World, the time has come to... Push the button... World, my finger, is on the button... My finger, is on the button... My finger, is on the button... Push the button...
G _ Jack Strange _ purely conceptual computing _ 2008: A lead ball rests on the "g" key of a laptop, producing the letter "g" within the body of a Word document. Eventually, the document becomes so large that it crashes the computer. (via Rhizome) --- For Jack Strange banality lies at the core of his tricksy, Conceptualist practice. A recent graduate of London’s Slade School of Art, Strange has produced a variety of sculptures, videos, works on paper and photographs – among them Plastic Bag (2008), a digital print of a shredded and impaled bag flailing on a stretch of jagged barbed wire – that recall Fitts’ ‘artsy’ backyard cinéma verité but which provide a cheeky, wistful and at times revealing subtext. (via Frieze)
INTRODUCING MIDDLE AGE MAN _ Moresoon _ infinite loop _ 2009: Part three of a series entitled INTRODUCING: An older man trapped in a chain of infinite politeness and smiling... creepy.
INTRODUCING OLDER MAN _ Moresoon _ infinite loop _ 2009: Part one of a series entitled INTRODUCING: An older man trapped in a chain of infinite politeness and smiling... creepy.
INTRODUCING OLDER WOMAN _ Moresoon _ infinity loop _ 2009: Part two of a series entitled INTRODUCING: An older woman trapped in a chain of infinite politeness and smiling... creepy.
BLOWJOB 8 _ Wojciech Kosma _ hot music _ unknown date: A series of eight performances: a girl giving a microphone a blowjob, accompanied by sounds which emerge from sucking, licking and finally blowing.
GOOGLEGOOGLEGOOGLEGOOGLE _ unknown artists _ duplication, re-duplication _ 2009: A four-square Google-Search engine: blue, red, yellow, green
TATATATAA.CN _ Jodi _ reading the web _ 2009: Notes about this web page, by Delicious-users: text edit, about text edit - haha. "trailervoice does dock/apps/utilities/dropdownmenus" next they should do one in the style of billy mays - trailervoice does dock/apps/utilities/dropdownmenus - what did you say? - make sure yr speakers are on - jodi masterpiece
GLASBEAD _ John Klima _ collaborative sounding _ 2000: Glasbead is a multi-user persistant collaborative musical interface allowing players to manipulate and exchange sound sample files and create a myriad of soundscapes and rhythmic musical sequences. Current bandwidth allows as many as 20 people to play glasbead at the same time.
HU:O::H:UA: (FOR:SP) _ Ui uuii _ fire flowers _ 2009: HTML (GIF, JPEG) and JavaScript; digital photographs; found images.
CALCUCAT _ unknown artist _ random juxtapositions _ 2009: 9 + 1 = miau...
NAM SHUB MICRO _ Joerg Piringer _ small poetry business _ 2009: nam shub web micro is a short/small version of the website-processor nam shub web (2005–2008), which allows the user to apply his or her individual rules to the textual content of external websites so as to generate visual poetry.
SYMMETRYOFCHAOS.COM _ Angelo Plessas _ single serving game _ 2009: A flash-game by Angelo Plessas presented on a single serving site: the user is able to interact with all elements on the website. The aim of the game is to keep all element in a kind of symmetry...
NOT VALID _ Jonathan Vingiano _ fluid interpretation _ 2008: "Not Valid" is an ongoing experiment concerning the interpretation of invalid html. The work itself seems to be a series of words in a variety of colors, though each word has been assigned the color value of itself. For example, the html tells the browser that the word "freedom" should also be the color "freedom." The browser then chooses what color "freedom" should be. Different browsers will interpret "Not Valid" in a different manner.
"FROM NOW ON THIS BLOG IS GOING TO BE" _ mbs _ deterministic google search _ 2009: about breakdancing, more loyal to its title, through the eyes of a fictional character name Dean Rivera, written in the voice of my dog, about current political situations in Thailand, a personal, general blog, about how I achieved health and happiness and how you can too, etc.
WEB 2.0 SUICIDE MACHINE _ moddr _ virtual euthanasia _ 2009: WORM’s own medialab moddr_ has conjured up a machine that lets you delete all your energy sucking social-networking profiles, kill your fake virtual friends, and completely do away with your Web2.0 alterego. The machine is just a metaphor for the website which moddr_ is hosting; the belly of the beast where the web2.0 suicide machine is maintained. Our services currently runs with facebook.com, myspace.com and LinkedIn.com! Commit NOW! ---The machine consists of a tweaked Linux server installation running on the release 8.10 of Ubuntu, called Intrepid. Apart from a standard installation of the HTTP web-server (apache2 with python module), there are two main additions. First, Selenium RC Control is is a server which automatically launches and kills browsers and runs as java applet in the background. It automatically fills in forms, makes AJAX requests and simulate keystrokes. This all driven by a single python/cgi script with some additional self-written libraries.
STUDY FOR STONE WAITING SCULPTURE _ Brian Kane _ contemplative transfers _ 2009: YouTube-study for Mac's "waiting"-icon in the real space: contemplation and contemplation and contemplation - made out of stone. Artist's website: www.briankane.net
INSIDE/OUT _ Ivan Marusic Klif _ analogued loop _ 2005-present: 'Drawing on his first-hand knowledge of technology, Klif savours going back, to the history of the medium, manipulating in unexpected ways the screen itself as the main instrument. The reality of physical space and the virtual one exist in parallel; in a space shattered with screens we exist in both at the same time. The result is not schizophrenia, but pleasure. The dimension of uniqueness, in which the main role is played by the principle of coincidence, and the sensation of freedom that it creates with its electronic ambiences, offer the public the royal space that they deserve.' (Text: Radmila Iva Jankovic from the text of the exhibition catalogue, 2005) (See also: http://boo.mi2.hr/~klif)
MY_CONTACTS _ Thomson + Craighead _ really good photo networkers _ 2008: Andre Agassi, Julie Andrews, Osama Binladen, Tony Blair , Brian Blessed, Bono, George Bush, Jesus Christ, Winston Churchill, The Dalai Lama, Charles Darwin, Marcel Duchamp , Albert Einstein, El Greco, Tracy Emin, Bill Gates, Colonel Ghaddafi , Paris Hilton, Alfred Hitchcock, Adolf Hitler, David Icke, Larry King, Gustav Klimt , John Lennon, Monica Lewinsky, Rene Magritte, Richard Nixon , Alexander Pope, Donald Rumsfeld , Saeed Al-Sahaf, William Shakespeare, Mother Teresa
OSC _ Rainer Gamsjaeger _ centralised video loop _ 2008: The video osc emerged from the idea to replace the origin order of frames by a new conceptual order. Videoloops are not played linear but alternating from the center. Beginning and end of a scene approach to each other, becoming more and more similar, meet in the center and again depart from each other. A strangely swinging gap develops. Parallel to the approach of the frames an approach between two persons is happening here. Throughout several short loops, to a certain extent oscillating, the plot develops. Picture and sound run synchronously.
PROGRESSIVE SCAN _ Joe Winter _ spacing the computer screen _ 2009: For this work, the artist has gone out into the world around him (New York) and shot videos on a small handheld digital video camera. He has then played this movies back with the small screen facing the bed of a flatbed scanner. Each image is thus produced by a linear scan capturing a moving image. What results is a vision of a literal traversal of space and time, and the representation of that traversal shown simultaneously in the images. These studies from Joe's Progressive Scan project remind us that technology, no matter how much it is upgraded, will never be able to truly capture how we see the world. Joe's online 'animations' are at once both films and drawings, which you the viewer can control (in terms of their speed, for instance), of spaces which seem familiar from lived experience, but have been flattened into little more than traces of once live, now archived, digital data. [via: Sarah Cook / www.beam-me.net]
YOU SHOULD PAY ARTISTS _ unknown artists _ instructive art _ 2009: ... for real.
O.T. (KURSIERENDE CURSOR, CHARACTER CODE KONTAKT) _ Christina Goestl _ impulsive commands _ 2008: The signs in O.T. (KURSIERENDE CURSOR, CHARACTER CODE KONTAKT) by Christina Goestl corresponds to a typographically animated cursor, as used on Command Line Interfaces. The command line is a synonym for the work of hackers and their movement in dataspaces. Decomposed in single components and re-configuered as a loop O.T. creates a pulsation of space.
COLOR FIELD PAINTINGS (BROWSER) _ Michael Demers _ digital monochromacity _ 2009: The color tiles of each painting will be generated randomly, based upon parameters established for each piece. Each painting will exist for approximately 10 seconds. Variations of the work: Color Field Painting (Red) - Color Field Painting (Green) - Color Field Painting (Blue) - Color Field Painting ("Where," after Morris Louis) - Color Field Painting ("Black Gray Beat," after Gene Davis)
ACAPELLA _ Guthrie Lonergan _ looped video song _ 2009: Today is gonna be the day - that they're gonna throw it back to you - by now you should've somehow - realised what you gotta do - I don't believe that anybody feels the way I do about you now - Backbeat the word is on the street - that the fire in your heart is out - I'm sure you've heard it all before - but you never really had a doubt - I don't believe that anybody - feels the way I do about you now - And all the roads we have to walk are winding - and all the lights that lead us there are blinding - there are many things that I - would like to say to you - but I don't know how - Because maybe - you're gonna be the one that saves me - and after all you're my wonderwall - Today was gonna be the day - but they'll never throw it back to you - by now you should've somehow - realised what you're not to do - I don't believe that anybody - feels the way I do about you now...
PAPER COMPUTING _ Leah Buechley _ computive paper _ 2008: What interfaces might we build if we could sketch functional sytems directly on paper? What will circuits look like when they are painted or drawn instead of etched or machined? This project explores the creative and practical potentials of paper-based computing: computational sketch made with electronics, paper, conductive paint, magnetic paint, and magnets. [via: http://turbulence.org/blog]
NAM SHUB WEB (INSTALLATION) _ Joerg Piringer _ literary manifestations _ 2008: According to Neal Stephenson’s novel “Snow Crash”, the ancient sumerian nam shub of Enki was a neurolinguistic hack aimed against the standardarisation and unification of society and human life through verbal rules and laws. As described by the Austrian text-/sound-artist Jörg Piringer the artwork “nam shub” can be seen as a computerlinguistic hack targeted against a global unified culture and empire. “nam shub”, however, is a website processor which takes the textual content of external websites and applies user defined rules to generate visual poetry. These rules consist of operations that change the text or modify its visual appearance. Each set of rules can be stored and published for others to view and alter, nevertheless, nam shub web does not store any actual content, it only records commands of how to alter the external websites. [See also: http://delicious.com/tagallery/NAM_SHUB_WEB]
UNIVERSAL DIGEST MACHINE _ Marius Watz _ autopilotive materialisations _ 2005: A trip through the hyperuniverse of the World Wide Web on full autopilot: The Universal Digest Machine is an installation featuring a web spider that crawls the net, digesting web pages and outputting a brief analysis of their contents. The display unit is an industrial thermal printer mounted on a plinth. For every page visited by the spider, a receipt is printed, falling on the floor unless taken by a visitor. The receipts become a sprawling heap of intriguing but ultimately incomprehensible artifacts, obviously representing information but no longer in a human-readable form.
ENDNODE (AKA PRINTERTREE) _ MTAA (M.River + T.Whid) _ software materialisation _ 2002: Whether one is entrusted with the maintenance of Endnode or simply curious about the technical and practical issues of the installation, one will find the majority of information one needs to properly maintain Endnode in this section of the web site. We repeat; this section contains technical and practical information regarding the maintenance of Endnode it is dry and not very interesting. --- Hardware Overview: Endnode (AKA Printer Tree) includes 8 Epson C40UX inkjet printers connected via USB through a Belkin 7 port USB hub to a PowerPC G3 266 Apple Macintosh customized with a Macally PCI to USB card and 160 MB of RAM. Endnode is configured to print only black and white. --- Software Overview: The computer runs Mac OS 9.2. The Endnode system runs using Mailsmith 1.5.3 from Bare Bones Software Inc. and custom applescripts written by t.whid.
CREDIT SYNTHESIS _ Jonathan Vingiano _ interpretative business _ 2009: A sculpture which interprets credit card data and plays a tune based on information stored magnetically.
VIR.US.EXE _ carlos katastrofsky _ autoviral art _ 2009: vir.us.exe is a windows program, communicated and spread by e-mail announcements, mailing lists and other networked (viral) press activities. katastrofsky explains that a virus lives upon the reproduction of itself with the aim to survive as long as possible. However, the most dangerous parts of such an infection are not always the harmful cells a virus is based upon; it is the psychological concept of fear acting invisibly in the background. The project thus strips down the mechanisms of a viral infection and transfers its core principles into the digital realm. By avoiding everything a virus should do, only the virus itself will be left. This way it will become a meta-virus spreading not because it is an actual virus but because it is perceived as such.
WHAT'S YOUR PASSWORD _ unknown artist _ twitterror _ 2009: # beastieungefähr 1 hour ago from web # mousesafari.comungefähr 1 hour ago from web # ••••••••••••ungefähr 1 hour ago from web # faggotniggerungefähr 1 hour ago from web # passwordungefähr 2 hours ago from web # Bobyaungefähr 2 hours ago from web # whydoyouwanttoknowungefähr 2 hours ago from web # dudeungefähr 2 hours ago from web # nowayungefähr 2 hours ago from web # bobaliciousungefähr 3 hours ago from web # franklinungefähr 3 hours ago from web # nothankyouungefähr 3 hours ago from web # kkkungefähr 4 hours ago from web # VV0nd3rFFul#ungefähr 4 hours ago from web # picpicungefähr 6 hours ago from web # blink182ungefähr 6 hours ago from web # passwordungefähr 6 hours ago from web # 00009ungefähr 6 hours ago from web # pippoungefähr 6 hours ago from web # kt08126ungefähr 6 hours ago from web # facebook.comungefähr 7 hours ago from web # goobersungefähr 7 hours ago from web # monkeyfuckungefähr 8 hours ago from web # ...
A TOAST TO STILLNESS _ Frank Zadlo _ single serving still(ness) _ 2009: Cheers! Pssst...
SPAMTRAP _ Bill Shackelford _ shredded spam _ 2007: "Spamtrap" is an interactive installation piece that prints, shreds and blacklists spam email. It interacts with spammers by monitoring several email addresses I created specifically to lure in spam and an old unused personal email address I use to lure in spam. I do not use these email addresses for any other communication. I post these individual email addresses on websites and online bulletin boards that cause them to be harvested by spambots and then to start receiving spam. [via: http://rhizome.org]
MEME SCENERY _ Andy Balo (Waxy.org) _ de-contextualised net.memes _ 2009: The autor of the images states: "So I had this silly idea to isolate the backgrounds from famous Internet memes, removing all the subjects from every photo or video. I'm pretty happy with the results. Like Jon Haddock's "porn sans people" (http://whitelead.com/jrh/ISPs), these photos are banal out of context. Only someone familiar with the original memes would sense something's amiss, like the set of a play waiting for the actors to stumble into history.
A DELICIOUS COLLECTION OF INVISIBLE LINKS _ Les Liens Invisibles _ deliciously faked _ 2009: According to the first and the second Euclidean postulates, two points are joined by a straight line segment that can be extended indefinitely in a straight line. Visitors are free to browse around the collection following both the notworking and the conceptual connections: * http://indefinite-straight-connection.com * http://a-bad-gateway.com *
http://looking-for-something-will-not-be-here.com * http://hope-to-see-you-there.com * http://following-an-invisible-mind-connection.com *
http://this-link-ends-here.com
VIRTUALSUICIDE (VSC) _ unknown artists _ antifacebooking manifesto _ 2009: Manifesto: VSC believes that as fast as things appear, so too might they disappear. --- VSC believes that as fast it came so too might Facebook go. --- If Facebook is civilisation VSC is the plague. --- YING and YANG ---
By the total cessation of multiple Facebook accounts VSC hopes that Facebook will --- Collapse. --- JOIN NOW!
LEXIGRAPHS I _ Alex Dragulescu (+ Aaron Blankstein) _ data portraits _ 2009: Lexigraphs I is the first visualization from the Data Portraits series. Micro-blog authors use mobile text messaging or web interfaces to post short answers to the question What are you doing?, creating a stream-of-consciousness account of their daily encounters, musings, plans and actions. Using salient words from an individualÂ’s postings, we visualize the topical and temporal patterns to create a portrait of the author. [via: http://turbulence.org/blog]
WEBCRA.SH/2900 _ Jodi _ artist/curator-crashing, part II _ 2009: Following show of WEBRA.SH/2800, artist-curated by Jodi in Antwerpen in 2009 an the "The Pass it on Show" at the NICC. The concept of this exhibition esponds to a tendency in contemporary art whereby curators
and artists invite other curators or artists to partially or completely take over a specific exhibition. The show includes a live desktop crashing, an online collection of wrong directories found in the real space, and so on.
WEBCRA.SH/2800 _ Jodi _ artist/curator-crashing, part I _ 2008: No computers, no monitors, no digital prints and above all no Internet: Both the title and the Internet address of an exhibition shown in May 2008 at the Urban Explorers Festival in Dordrecht (Netherlands), artist-curated by Jodi. “The selection of Net Art works was based on the strict connection of title, URL and content of the websites shown,” as Jodi explained. The title of the exhibition does its part in explaining this endeavor: the top-level domain “.sh” repeats the name of the host in the first part of the URL. The hybrid word “webcra.sh” that results is supplemented with the sub-directory “/2800.” By mixing up the digits of the year 2008, hardly noticeable at first glance, the curators on the one hand reinforce the exhibition concept, which is rooted in the mutation of URLs and the corresponding websites. More: http://cont3xt.net/blog/?p=1024
UNTITLEDOCUMENT _ Museres Ciro _ textual/conceptual textualisation/conceptualisation _ 2005: ---|-|-|-|-|-|-|-|i|n|f|o|r|m|a|c|i|o|n|-|o|f|-|t|e|x|t|-|||--||-|--|-|-|-|--- Partiendo de la idea "todo en la red significa " y a través de un proceso de apropiación, descomposición y transformación de estos elementos trabajo en torno al "espacio de la información", su "superposición", "interactividad" y "comunicación". Indagando los códigos que hacen posible estos procesos y la relación de estos contenidos con sus formas. Desarticulando y modificando estos códigos, resignificándolos . Estableciendo una relación con esta tecnología, de modo que la crítica no aparecerá con la ruptura de los códigos, sino de la "exploración sistemática del mismo medio".
PADIGLIONE INTERNET _ Miltos Manetas (et al) _ the biggest pavilion in the venice biennale _ 2009: At the 53rd Venice Biennial (opening to the public on 7th June), a completely new pavilion will be presented - the Internet Pavilion. With the theme for this year’s biennial, “Making Worlds”, it is only logical that the Internet is represented, for the first time, by a pavilion of its own. The Internet is a new part of our world that has never been represented in Venice. It is a different territory from the existing pavilions. The Internet is not defined by physical or geographical borders, nationalities, or a specific language. The Internet is still new and is being developed with such speed that its legislation, as well as its impact on our lives, is under constant redefinition. The Internet is transforming our lives and senses; it is transforming the way we behave, communicate, share information and develop ideas. As this is what we often say art does, it is of special interest to present the Internet Pavilion at the Venice Biennial.
LOOPLOOP _ Patrick Bergeron _ training the loop _ 2009: Using animation, sounds warping and time shifts this video runs forwards and backwards looking for forgotten details, mimicking the way memories are replayed in the mind. LoopLoop is made from a sequence captured in a train going to Hanoi in Vietnam. I filmed the houses boarding the railroad. The 1000 images of this sequence have been stitched into one long panoramic image. Into this long still image, I integrated other moving elements and builted smooth transitions over it. LoopLoop is a video loop.
THWONK _ Mike Bennett + Johan Brucker-Cohen _ platform 4.0 _ 2009: THWONK is an exciting Web 4.0 platform and community for designing the rules of online communities such as email lists. THWONK is revolutionary because it gives you full access to manipulate and change the social rules of email list communication!
UNWHITE ME _ Angelo Plessas _ single serving colour shoot _ 2008: A playful white website designed to be shot at with colour dots by using the mouse. Ego-shooting for art.
SUCK MON GIF _ Leroy Amaury _ big gifs in your face _ 2009: Animated gif-loops of all kinds. About: "Nous sommes quatre-vingt / We are twenty" - "We are vintage gif-punks" - "We love, we steel, we create, we ..."
TAG-JEWELRY-TAG _ Sakurako Shimizu _ real html design _ 2006: This is a physical representation of the HTML code needed to display a word "Jewelry" via internet browser. The tags were laser-cut out of sterling silver and connected as a necklace. The tag symbol is not displayed properly in the title above because it is one of the code. The necklace is made in sterling silver or stainless steel in 3 different font sizes. --- Sakurako Shimizu is a Japanese artist, curator and designer of conceptual jewelry based in Brooklyn, New York. Her beautiful jewels translate into refined, precious objects shapes, metaphors, forms and concepts coming from digital technology. The 1981 ATARI Ring, for example, is a man's ring featuring a precise cast of the original Atari computer chip out of 18 karat gold; the Waveform Series is the laser-cut shapes of the waveform of the sound in sound editing software environment. The sounds are human sound such as yawn, atchoum, giggle, wow, and the sound of church bell. [via: www.strp.nl]
CHINA CHANNEL FIREFOX ADD-ON _ Aram Bartholl + Evan Roth + Tobias Leingruber _ decensoring add-on _ 2008: The add-on is based on Jeremy Gillick's Switch Proxy add-on, for which we are very thanksful (and if you are looking for a more functional proxy tool his project is what you're looking for). The artists' intention with the China Channel add-on was simply to help lower the technical barrier to surfing the Chinese internet. --- The internet is often seen as the borderless, global, everybody connecting, democratic network. But in fact the internet is not the same for everybody, not talking about the people without access. State borders and filtering depending on the country you are living in has become standard in the recent years. In example: Due to copyright issues certain music or TV cast services are only available for the country they are broadcasted in. Have you ever tried to watch BBC HD content not surfing from Great Britain or listening to Pandora music outside of US? But this trivial compared to certain countries in the world who pratice heavy political internet censorship.
IN BB 2.0 _ Darren Solomon + Science for Girls _ collaborative music/spoken word project _ unknown date: In Bb 2.0 is a collaborative music and spoken word project conceived by Darren Solomon from Science for Girls. The videos can be played simultaneously -- the soundtracks will work together, and the mix can be adjusted with the individual volume sliders. Participate! Create a video and send me the link! Here are some guidelines: -Sing or play an instrument, in Bb major. Simple, floating textures work best, with no tempo or groove. Leave lots of silence between phrases. -Record in a quiet environment, with as little background noise as possible. -Wait about 5-10 seconds to start playing. -Total length should be between 1-2 minutes. -Thick chords or low instruments don't work very well. -Record at a low volume to match the other videos. -You can listen to this mix on headphones while you record. -After you upload to YouTube, play your video along with the other videos on this page to make sure the volume matches.
YOOOUUUTUUUBE _ unknown artist _ e/affective youtube tiling _ 2009: A tool for tiling videos and generating a psychedelic YouTube-wall. It works by entering a URL or a search term as well as by hitting the random-generator.
WHEN SHE PASSES _ Felipe Lima _ youtube performance _ 2008: A YouTube-triptych with a girl running from left to right and crossing the borders of the YouTube-frame. She is wearing the same cloths in all of the three locations: a public parc, a beach and a playground. [via: Rhizome.org]
ARTISTS STATEMENT _ Constant Dullaart _ techno-babel translation _ unknown date: THE PREFACE TO “THE PORTRAIT OF DORIAN GRAY” BY OSCAR WILDE (translated between several languages through free online translation software): "The artist is the inventor of the beautiful things. Art and the artist, he who the fur is reveal this to the aim art is, to be. It is opinion is, that the critics translated who in quietly a manner, or new material impressions of the beautiful things. That that if the lowest form of critical is a manner of the autobiography. You find and and it to its this ugly operational funds in the beautiful things is, this destroys outside charm. This have found. You civilised those beautiful operational funds in its beautiful thing discovery. For this that you hope is. They are, became with for average expected, that competes with well, only beauty. It gives a no... such thing only such as social means or an inappropriate book. Good written post its or were written badly. (...)"
BRAIN-TWITTER INTERFACE _ J. Adam Wilson + Justin Williams + Gerwin Schalk _ bodyless twittering _ 2009: A University of Wisconsin-Madison biomedical engineering doctoral student, Wilson is among a growing group of researchers worldwide who aim to perfect a communication system for users whose bodies do not work, but whose brains function normally. Among those are people who have ALS, brain-stem stroke or high spinal cord injury. Some brain-computer interface systems employ an electrode-studded cap wired to a computer. The electrodes detect electrical signals in the brain - essentially, thoughts - and translate them into physical actions, such as a cursor motion on a computer screen. “We started thinking that moving a cursor on a screen is a good scientific exercise,” says Justin Williams, a UW-Madison assistant professor of biomedical engineering and Wilson’s advisor. “But when we talk to people who have locked-in syndrome or a spinal cord injury, their No. 1 concern is communication.”
FLIPTEXT.NET _ unknown artist _ simply write upside down _ 2008: FlipText.net - write upside down - flip text - flip a text - write headfirst - write headlong - write inverse - inversely writing - write vice versa - write contraiwise - write topsyturvy - topsyturvily writing - write reverse - reversely writing - text - word - words - message - messages - character - characters - char - chars - typeface - font - MySpace, Facebook, YouTube, Orkut, Friendster, Bebo, Badoo, Twitter, StudiVZ, SchülerVZ, StudiQG, EstudiLN, StudiLN, StudentIX - write a message - send a message - write messages - send messages - write a comment - write comments - write on the wall - write to the wall - write a posting - write postings - post a comment - post comments - write an entrie - write entries
00PD _ Patrick Davison _ infinite public distribution _ 2009: Originally, this was a simple experiment to combine html, css, php, mysql, and javascript. Along the way, it became integrated with Twitter. Now it is Anonymous Tweeting. Please do whatever you see fit. [also read: http://twitter.com/00pd]
FILE NOT FOUND! _ Joonas.net _ depressive web server _ unknown date: The requested document is totally fake. Even tried multi. Nothing helped. I'm really depressed about this. You see, I'm just a web server... -- here I am, brain the size of the universe,trying to serve you a simple web page, and then it doesn't even exist! Where does that leave me?!_ (....) I mean, I'm gonna be obsolete in what, two weeks anyway? What kind of a life is that? Two effing weeks, and then I'll be replaced by a .01 release, that thinks it's God's gift to web servers, just because it doesn't have some tiddly little security hole with its HTTP post implementation, or something.
ALL MY GUI _ Marc Kremers _ archive of interface designs _ 2009: A collection and archive of graphical user interface buttons, images, logos, folders, symbols.
DIRTY MOUSEPADS _ JK Keller _ traces of computerized behaviour _ 2009: By switching a typical mousepad with a sheet of paper, I am able to collect an echo of my computer use over the course of a few months. The resulting drawing embodies both a warm earthy tone while also being indicative of the filth one accumulates through prolonged use of technology.
ABSTRACT WEBPAGE _ Ramsay Stirling _ cascading style art _ 2008:  Cascading Style Sheet on HyperText Markup Language. Dimensions variable. [via: www.vvork.com]
ON KAWARA (ON_KAWARA) ON TWITTER _ On Kawara _ onkawara-ing on twitter _ 2009: # I AM STILL ALIVE #art 9:56 AM Apr 25th from Perl Net::Twitter # ...9:56 AM Apr 25th from Perl Net::Twitter # I AM STILL ALIVE #art9:56 AM Apr 24th from Perl Net::Twitter # ...9:56 AM Apr 24th from Perl Net::Twitter # I AM STILL ALIVE #art9:56 AM Apr 23rd from Perl Net::Twitter # ...9:56 AM Apr 23rd from Perl Net::Twitter # I AM STILL ALIVE #art9:56 AM Apr 22nd from Perl Net::Twitter # ...9:56 AM Apr 22nd from Perl Net::Twitter # I AM STILL ALIVE #art9:56 AM Apr 21st from Perl Net::Twitter # ...9:56 AM Apr 21st from Perl Net::Twitter # I AM STILL ALIVE #art9:56 AM Apr 20th from Perl Net::Twitter # ...9:56 AM Apr 20th from Perl Net::Twitter # I AM STILL ALIVE #art9:56 AM Apr 19th from Perl Net::Twitter # ...9:56 AM Apr 19th from Perl Net::Twitter
BARCODE BEATS _ Vanessa Carpenter + Daniel Brynolf + Henrik Svarrer Larsen + Mads Hobye _ barcode art _ 2008: Barcode Beats is a system that converts barcodes into music through an interpretation of the numbers on the barcodes. It questions whether barcodes can contain musical qualities and be used as a media of sound and rhythm. It is intriguing to see everyday items, like milk, transform into sound. The user uses a standard barcode scanner to scan a barcode and hear what sounds are produced. Users have the opportunity to scan multiple items, and create a composition of sounds. The sounds of each barcode is unique and contains among many things the information of rhythmical qualities and the type of sound.
YOUCUBE _ Aaron Meyers _ multi-dimensional youtube _ 2009: YouCube is a project that allows users to map YouTube videos onto an interactive 3D cube and then save it to a database.
STILL AVAILABLE (14.03.09) _ Oliver Laric _ urlseach _ 2009: fiftycentarmy.com pyongyangpizza.com 16chan.com borisgroys.com allenkonigsberg bunkerarchaeology.com camillejaval.com charlesbuchinski.com carlospedersoli.com philanthropybattle.com melvinkaminsky.com nicholascoppola.com trumanstreckfuspersons.com 140309.com cherilynsarkisian.com eliasbates.com issurdanielovitch.com aliciachristianfoster.com gretagustafsson.com 1two3four.com johnnyallenhendrix.com 13dimensions.com miltonmarx.com adolphmarx.com herbertmarx.com carlosray.com kalderashi.com bornrule.com ranciere.com jacquesranciere.com gypsychologist.com a1b2c3d4e5.com 1a2b3c4d5e.com dunbarnumber.com wedontwannaputin.com yangjiechi.com dthmtl.com jmpstl.com
INTERNATIONAL KLEIN BLUE (Google Monochromes) _ Ryan Barone _ Klein-ist search _ 2008: International Klein Blue (Google Monochromes) consists of eleven monochromes created by conducting web searches for International Klein Blue, a color developed and patented in the 1950s by French artist Yves Klein. Created "as a means of evoking the immateriality and boundlessness of his own particular utopian vision of the world", IKB falls outside of the color gamut of modern computers rendering each digital reproduction inaccurate.
THE FALLING TIMES _ Michael Bielicky + Kamila B. Richter + Dirk Reinbold _ timebased newsart _ 2007-2009: Falling Times is an everlasting and growing real-time news translation machine representing permanently appearing and disappearing information about our times and, simultaneously, the fall of our western decadent civilization. Falling Times refers to the heavy InfoPollution we live in. The InfoSociety has created a new kind of consumer – the InfoConsumer! The most consumed information is the news today. The news has been turning more and more into an entertainment – the Infotainment. The news producers are the biggest info polluters of our time and thus are the biggest contributors to the infoEcological disaster. In our visualization we reduce the content only to headlines and key words that appear in the news the most often. These reduced news are translated into a dynamic pictogram language that is considered to be universal and instantly understandable.
FOR 2009, IDEA SUBSCRIPTION _ David Horvitz _ open source instruccions _ 2009: FOR 2009, IDEA SUBSCRIPTION__ is a collection of artist's instructions: "For all of 2009 David Horvitz will send out small texts of simple instructional ideas through the mailing list below. he will also post screenshots of them on this tumblr page. These will not be done everyday, only when he feels like it and have access to the Internet. But the attempt will be to do them everyday. --- From the statement: "All of these ideas can be seen as "open source." In the act of sending them to you, you are granted, with absolutely no restrictions, full creative power over them. Feel free to realize, change, steal (you can't steal something that is free!), publish, claim as your own, destroy, become influenced by (either because you like them, or because you hate them so much that they give you better ideas), appropriate, spray paint, or anything else with them. You do not need my permission for anything.
BLACK N WHITE: P'RETTY UGLY _ UBERMORGEN.COM (Hans Bernhard + Lizvlx) _ pixel commodification conceptual art _ 2000-2009: UBERMORGEN, exclusively working with the idea of the pixel and with the pixel as raw material, the pixel is their paint or wood or stone: The artists use the html-coding language as our brush or our screwdriver and the browser as both canvas and gallery or museum. We abstract digital remakes from well known conceptual art objects from Judd, Lewitt, Graham, Haacke, Emin, Anastasi and IRWIN und use these as our visual set of instructions. We strictly transform images of these objects into digital web-objects, sometimes producing different variations or different viewpoints within the same framework. The specials are deviant, they leave the black n white framework and use color, Art and Language instead.
TWEENBOTS _ Kacie Kinzer _ urban robotics _ 2009: Tweenbots are human-dependent robots that navigate the city with the help of pedestrians they encounter. Rolling at a constant speed, in a straight line, Tweenbots have a destination displayed on a flag, and rely on people they meet to read this flag and to aim them in the right direction to reach their goal.
YOU TALKIN' TO ME? _ Jodi _ redirective cinematic url appropriation _ 2009: A black and white url-dialogue based upon the film "Taxi Driver": "who the fuck do you think you are talking to" - "you talking to me you talking to me you talking to me" - "then who the hell else are you talking to" - "you talking to me" - "well i am the only one here" - and once again ...
FOUR LETTER WORD MACHINE _ D.A. Therrien _ text installation _ 2009: FOUR LETTER WORD MACHINE displays either 4 letter words in standard Roman alphabet or up to 4 billion+ word combinations as a graphic digital display device. It is essentially an entropy machine - it is designed to break, a product of unnecessary complexity. The display itself is designed as a 30 meter high x 150 meter wide array of linear quartz lamps, 3,500,000 watts total power. The first full installation will be on a cliff face in the Northern Arizona desert (a 10% scale model is currently under construction for use in smaller venues.) The human body and mind are integral to the control system, essentially a 64 channel mechanical relay control that is both state of the art and archaic in design. A computer reads from a "book" and passes instructions to 4 bodies (performers) in rotating cages (actually large drum type switches), who in turn pass information to 32 bodies via an eye tracking system. [via: http://northern.lights.mn]
PAM _ Mark Napier _ anderson reconstruction _ 2009: PAM is some new work by Mark Napier. Reminiscent of his older net.art style work which source online content to employ within the art (e.g. FEED, Riot, Shredder), PAM retrieves photographic images of Pamela Anderson found online to reassemble her piece by piece. Coordinates of the image positions, arrows and visual evidence of how the images are reassembled in the 3D space (splines etc.) emphasise the reassembled / collaged nature of the work much like the actress / model’s approach to her own body and the use of plastic surgery. [via: www.asquare.org/networkresearch]
CHRONOMOPS _ Tina Frank _ art formerly known as abstraction _ 2005: Tina Frank’s Chronomops opens doors to truly different dimensions: different than digital art’s reductionist studies so common today, different than the serially laid out minimalist images, and different than the omnipresent filtering and layering experiments. Chronomops opens up a shimmering, colorful space that is simultaneously an excess of color, frenzy of perception, and pop carousel. An abstract architecture of vertical color bars is set in endless rotation, whereby the modules and building blocks fly around themselves—and the entire system likewise rotates. The forced movement forms a digital maelstrom whose suction pulls the observer deep into it.
JODI'S AUTOGRAPH _ Luca Leggero _ fan art _ 2009: Luca Leggero: "Last Saturday 28 March I went to the opening of JODI's exhibition at Project Gentili in Prato and I met them. On this occasion they put their autograph on my book."
DEAD PIXEL IN GOOGLE EARTH _ Helmut Smits (+ documentation by Jeroen Wandemaker) _ subvirtual environments _ 2008: Subverting the paradigms of using systems as Google Earth as utilities by hacking the virtual and real representations of Google Earth (as many artists have done before him), Dutch artist Helmut Smits follows in this continuum with "Dead Pixel in Google Earth". The project is a physical landscaping alteration that burns an 82 cm x 82 cm size square in a field of grass, which measures the equivalent of one pixel of data at an altitude of 1 km when seen with Google Earth. This "missing pixel" is an interesting way of placing emphasis on the seemingly immaterial nature of digitized information, such as the sattellite photography used to populate the data sphere of Google Earth. The virtual equivalent of this project might be to remove a single pixel from the Neural's homepage just to see if anyone notices the deletion. But this would never happen of course. [via: Jonah Brucker-Cohen at neural.it]
JOID88 MYSPACE.COM _ Jodi _ metaphoric approrpiation _ 2009: Jodi on a running Muybridge-horse called MySpace.com MySpace.com MySpace.com MySpace.com MySpace.com MySpace.com MySpace.com MySpace.com MySpace.com MySpace.com MySpace.com MySpace.com MySpace.com MySpace.com MySpace.com MySpace.com MySpace.com MySpace.com MySpace.com MySpace.com MySpace.com MySpace.com MySpace.com MySpace.com MySpace.com MySpace.com MySpace.com MySpace.com MySpace.com MySpace.com MySpace.com MySpace.com
VIBRATION _ Robert Mathy _ video overlay _ 2007: 'Vibration' tries to analyse the vocabulary of sports tv. Multiple slalom rounds are overlaid and synchronised, thus inherent identical motions and their marginal differences become visible. Top sportive performances, spectaculary asserted by television, turn out to be statistic bagatelles in the homogenic images of information inserts and cut sequences.
TEXT SQUEEZER _ John Maeda _ trale ottlsta tarit atflo _ 2007: For those that cannot stand to read a long email or text, this little service takes a text and reduces it to all the first letters of the words. Whether what results is something that is legible and actionable is up to the observer.
Or, as I like to say on some occasions, "Fttcs tral eott lsta tari tat. Flo twwwr istil aaiu tto."
MY LIFE IS AN INTERACTIVE FICTION II _ Gregory Chatonsky _ fictive decisions _ 2008: In a performative action, the artist turns his private life into an interactive fiction: Before any decision he has to make, Chatonsky send his options to the exhibition's computer and waits until a visitor decides for him, and he will do what he is told.
EVERY WALL DRAWING #146_ Ben Bruneau _ conceptual digital appropriation _ 2009: "Every Wall Drawing #146 deals with my interest in Sol LeWitt’s notion of the idea as a machine for making art, taking a very literal interpretation of his Paragraphs on Conceptual Art. In order to actually build a ‘machine’ to make art, one must take into account the human element that goes into producing a LeWitt— a lot of subtle sensibility and personal judgment that makes a work both random yet perversely organized. Randomly producing such results is difficult, but a system that lent itself well to automation was Wall Drawing #146 (1972): “All two-part combinations of blue arcs from corners and sides and blue straight, not straight and broken lines.” The result is an exercise in pure decisionless conceptual art adhering strictly to LeWitt’s concept, as described in Paragraphs on Conceptual Art, producing (theoretically) every possible iteration of Wall Drawing #146 in the fixed dimensions of a virtual gallery space." [via: http://theexposureproject.blogspot.com]
TWITTER MOUNTAINS _ Yann Le Guennec _ data painting _ 2009: Simple datascapes made with some twitter data, each mountain representing a user stream. Source code availabel here: http://www.yannleguennec.com/code/TwitterMountainsV2
WHEN NO ONE IS LOOKING _ Zachary Lieberman _ artificial website's life _ 2007: This project presents a webpage designed to mimic an everyday, common website, but with a simple twist: when no one is interacting with the page for a certain amount of time, the elements on the site appear to come to life. Seemingly static elements start to bend and sway slightly, and all of the things on the page seem to breath a collective sigh of relief that they can finally move and live again. The result is a kind of absurd fantasy, envisioning what happens on websites when no one is looking. At the slightest sign of a viewer’s presence, however, the objects sneak back into place, as precisely as they can, in order to mimic the original, still webpage.
MURMUR STUDY _ Christopher Baker _ twisualization _ 2009: Murmur Study is a work-in-progress that examines the rise of micro-messaging technologies such as Twitter and Facebook Status Updates. One might describe these messages as a kind of digital small talk. But unlike water-cooler conversations, these fleeting thoughts are accumulated, archived and indexed digitally by corporations. While the future of these archives are still to be seen, the sheer volume of publicly accessible personal expression should give us pause.
MICROCODES _ Pall Thayer _ perl art _ 2009: Microcodes are very small code-based artworks. Each one is a fully contained work of art. The conceptual meaning of each piece is revealed through a combination of the title, the code and the results of running them on a computer. As works of art these are the creative work of Pall Thayer. As programs they may be copied, distributed, modified and used under the terms of the GNU General Public License v.3 or (at your option) any later version. Titles: "An Icelandic landscape", "Social space", "Five-dimensional self-portrait", "Abstraction", etc.
ERGENECON.TC _ Burak Arikan _ diagrammatic art _ 2009: Ergenekon.tc shows the network diagram of the society depicted in the 2455 page Ergenekon bill of indictment. Ergenekon is an illegal covert network found in Turkey, the lawsuit is in progress. Connections between the actors of Ergenekon including people, institutions, groups, places, theories, ideologies, and beliefs, together form a crack in Turkey. The complexity of this crack can not be explained with a single leader nor with a complete hierarchy. Ergenekon does not have a center, it is a decentralized network. Ergenekon network existed because it was able to diffuse in to hierarchical structures such as government and military organizations.
MRSCORYARCANGEL _ Scarlet Electric _ gender appropriation + stalker art _ 2009: Part fansite, part cultural critique, part exercise in stalking, “MrsCoryArcangel.com” is a website devoted to Cory Arcangel. Featuring animated gifs, collage, and textured backgrounds, “MrsCoryArcangel.com” embraces an aesthetic deemed by Arcangel as “dirt style.” Dirt style, as Arcangel defines it, is the “true spirit of the web.” The site includes interpretations of Arcangel’s projects-instead of endless SuperMario clouds, Princess Toadstool endlessly waiting for Mario. Instead of Number of the Beast compressed 666, the song 500 Miles by the Proclaimers compressed 500 times. [via: http://newmediafix.net/daily/?p=2299]
YES WE ARE _ Ciro Múseres _ _________ are we art _ 2008: YesWeAre is a work of netart. An interactive installation where the user/spectator is invited to complete the sentence "Yes, we are_________.". The new sentence becomes a part of the work that explores visually the dynamic movement and rythm of aesthetics HTML. YesWeAre has been built as an informative space based upon affirmative sentances and sutrctures that mix and overlap, generating noise, as well as communicating or not. The reader/spectator minifies the use of different codes for different readings. Ambiguity in the network is constant, as well as the bombardment of information.
DOWNLOADING PIXELS _ Scott Blake _ pixel downloading art _ 2003: This net art piece captures the flow of downloading images onto your computer. This animation will look different depending on what web browser you are using. If you are using Firefox try viewing this in Explorer or on an iPhone. Internet connection speed and computer processing power will also determine the final the outcome. Experiment with the different settings and unusual patterns will emerge.
CONNECT _ Martina Höfflin + Georg Trogemann + Frans Vogelaar + Christiane König + Martin Nawrath + Heinz Nink + Bernd Voss + Peter Schuster + Martin Hesselmeier + Oswin Schmidt + Michael Pichler _ kinetik sculpture _ unknown date: The kinetic sculpture CONNECT consists of 13 automatic movable iron balls connected to a matrix. A physical impulse carrier controls the action of each of the system elements. CONNECT attaches and detaches physical connections between the elements in a dynamic progress. Therefore the sculpture builds its own motion patterns and structures. The connection mechanism in its progress is also very sensitive to the conditions of its natural environment. As a result the progress is non-linear and unpredictable by the viewer. CONNECT produces complex behaviour, although its structure and rules are very simple.
WEBZEN _ carlos katastrofsky _ ohm mani padme hum _ 2009: “Untitled Document” is written on top of the browser window. No name, no content, no design: a webpage as simple as it can be. Still the work webzen (2009) demands outmost concentration. Clicking from one page to the next, the neverending quest for links is leading further, the skimming through pieces of information and the scanning of texts and pictures is interrupted - which is irritating. webzen is an attempt to abandon representational thinking, to understand life as utterly art of absent-mindedness and to experience the reality beyond duality and logic and beyond space and time. webzen has only one assignment: the single-serving site wants to overcome itself by means of meditating on the basic formulas of sourcecode: <html>, <head>, <title>, <body>, system, spirit, concept, body. But overcoming would only have been possible if the site would have never existed. - A Koan: “All things can be traced back to the code, to what, however, can the code be traced back?”
DREAMLINES _ Leonardo Solaas _ generative dreaming _ 2005: Dreamlines is a non-linear, interactive visual experience. The user enters one or more words that define the subject of a dream he would like to dream. The system looks in the Web for images related to those words, and takes them as input to generate an ambiguous painting, in perpetual change, where elements fuse into one another, in a process analogous to memory and free association. The system has been developed in Java and PHP. First, a PHP script makes a Google image search of the words entered by the user. Then, the Java applet retrieves the images one by one, and uses them as input to generate an ever-changing drawing.
COMPUTER SKILLS _ Charles Broskoski _ torrent art _ 2008: In December of 2006, the artits downloaded a torrent (an archive of files distributed by peer-to-peer software) called "O'Reilly Ebook Collection" from a file-sharing site, with no intention of using it. The archive contained 356 digital books in a variety of formats, all centered around computer programming or computer technology. A few months after downloading the archive, I started reading the books on my computer, as a performance. My motivation was both to make use of the files and to spend my last year in school in "training" for the outside world. During the performance, I read each book in digital format, and while reading I typed out "notes" (a term which I define loosely). When I finished a book I crossed it off of a master list and took a photo of the list. The performance lasted over 400 days. In April of 2008, I completed the last book.
CARD CATALOG _ Tim Schwartz _ cataloguing the real digital _ 2008: A card catalog designed to hold all of the songs on my iPod, 7,390 songs. Each song is cataloged on a single card. The cards are organized in reverse chronological order, that is the songs I listened to most recently are in the front of the catalog, and the songs I haven’t listened to in two years exist at the back. The piece is seven feet long when closed and just under fourteen feet when opened.
IP-POETRY _ Gustavo Romano (programming: Milton Laufer) _ audiovisual ip-performance _ 2004-2007: The IP Poetry project involves the development of a software and hardware system that uses text from the Internet to generate poetry that is then recited in real time by automatons connected to the web. The different search instructions (for example, all those phrases beginning with the words “dream that I am”) and the recital mode and sequence (one robot at a time per search result, dual recitals, etc.) will dictate the structure and form of each IP poem. The recitals will be performed at various public venues. Using a proximity sensor, the system detects the presence of an audience and sends a command to the robots to start reciting the poems especially created for each event. At that point the Internet search begins. The results are sent to the automatons (IP Bots), which convert the search results into the pre-recorded sounds and images of a moving human mouth.
LAPTOP_ORCHESTRA _ Limiteazero (Paolo Rigamonti + Silvio Mondino) _ monochromatic sound orchestra _ 2004: Interactive instrument for audio-visual performances: fifteen laptops, arranged on regular rows…the formation of an orchestral group. On each one of them is installed a Software consisting in algorithms which activate sounds and abstract visual shapes based on color spectrum. Each laptop has its own sound and its own instructions for the construction of a shape. Interacting from the orchestra conductor podium, lightly touching metal stems, it is possible to activate or deactivate each single laptop , permitting the generation of an endless number of different compositions. [via: http://www.asquare.org/networkresearch/2009/laptop_orchestra]
GMAIL LOGO BITMAP (WOVEN) _ Robert V. Wodzinski + Bailey Salisbury _ google.trans.lations _ 2008: Collaborative project between Robert V. Wodzinski and Bailey Salisbury for the warp, weft, woof project. gmail logo in bitmap form woven on a jacquard loom (2008) --- Robert V. Wodzinski (b. 01.15.81, lives in chicago) is an interdisciplinary artist and visual thinker. He holds a BA in Literature/Art History and studied graphic design, but started as a poet. He learned all of these things can be combined into something meaningful, or at least potentially moving.
LAST DAYS... _ Michael Takeo Magruder _ journalistic appropriation _ 2008: On the 27th of December 2008 the Israeli-Palestinian conflict resumed with brutal intensity. Last Days… is constructed from one hundred images collected from online news services during the final five days of 2008. The photographs have been removed from their journalistic context and stripped of all but their basic captions. The images and texts are then recombined, together with a persistent sound track, into an unending re-mediation of events that provides an alternative, contemplative space. This work is dedicated to the memory of the 390 Palestinians and 4 Israelis who as a result of this renewed violence did not live to see the New Year. [via: http://transition.turbulence.org/blog]
THE INTERNET SAYS "NO" _ Constant Dullaart _ shakin'ternet _ 2008: The Internet says "No" says "No".
AFTERWALKEREVANS.COM _ Michael Mandiberg _ approppropriation _ 2001: In 1936 Walker Evans photographed the Burroughs, a family of sharecroppers in Depression era Alabama. In 1979 in Sherrie Levine rephotographed Walker Evans' photographs from the exhibition catalog "First and Last." In 2001 Michael Mandiberg scanned these same photographs, and created AfterWalkerEvans.com to facilitate their dissemination as a comment on how we come to know information in this burgeoning digital age.
AFTERSHERRIELEVINE.COM _ Michael Mandiberg _ approppropriation _ 2001: In 1936 Walker Evans photographed the Burroughs, a family of sharecroppers in Depression era Alabama. In 1979 in Sherrie Levine rephotographed Walker Evans' photographs from the exhibition catalog "First and Last." In 2001 Michael Mandiberg scanned these same photographs, and created AfterSherrieLevine.com to facilitate their dissemination as a comment on how we come to know information in this burgeoning digital age.
MEET IN A NICE RESTAURANT _ Nikola Tosic _ networked meetings _ 2000-2006: meet in a nice restaurant meet in a nice restaraunt is an unofficial event taking place in always a different place and it is about meeting people in a nice restaurant if you are an artist, writer, businessman or just doing nothing but willing to have few days of meeting and eating please email nikola tosic for more info --- I 2000 09 23 milano, italy --- II 2001 02 16 milano, italy --- III 2001 09 28 montpelier, france --- IV 2002 04 12 roma, italy --- V 2002 10 18 istanbul, turkey --- VI 2003 02 15 cape town, republic of south africa --- VII 2004 04 30 belgrade, serbia and montenegro --- VIII 2005 10 14 village of bran, transylvania, romania --- IX 2006 11 04 amsterdam, holland
INVISIBLE CURSOR _ Rafaël Rozendaal _ invisible cursor _ 2008: invisible cursor
DELICIOUS CONTEMPORARY SEMANTICS _ Constant Dullaart _ Why not make an exhibition? _ 2009: Lets do a show in which, like is possible on del.icio.us, the inspiration that leads up to an art work is visable, but now physical, not only existing as a jpeg or url (it can be a poster reproduction of a Malevich, a remake of a sculpture, a print out etc etc). And show this together with the final work that this inspiration led to. A show in which it is clear that del.icio.us influences the participating artists by sharing their references, thereby aiding their research. A show that discusses the development of contemperary semantics in net-art 2 point oooh, by showing different aproaches of artists dealing with the vast information flow of the internet, its dialectics and developing anthropological values. The fact that these mostly young artists are dealing with an abundance of visual representations of previous non net art, and the flirtation with kitch, trash and popculture which dominates the internets will play a big part in the show.
CLOUD.S _ Jason Sloan _ twitterror _ 2009: [cloud.s] is a network.art project that utilizes the popular micro.blogging service twitter as its medium. [cloud.s] searches and aggregates all tweets/posts for the term "cloud" then re.directs the live feeds into the projects virtual sky which can be viewed through your browsers "window". re.fresh the page throughout the day and watch the [cloud.s] shapes change subtly, based on the newly aggregated data. clicking on individual lines of text within the [cloud.s] opens a new window revealing the original tweet. if you have a twitter account, send a tweet with the word cloud and add to the works evolving population.
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COMMUNIMAGE _ Teresa Alonso Novo + Thomas Scheiderbauer + Malex Spiegel + Daniel Gómez Blasco + Roger Luechinger + Johannes Gees _ collaborative image-ination _ 1999-present: Since 1999 thousands of people have contributed to a growing sea of images. communimage is an attempt to entertain a visual global dialogue. --- Statistic: 10.01.2009, 17:14 Number of images: 25905 Number of contributors: 2257Number of origin countries: 91 Printing size: 152.7552m2 (14.1024m x 10.848m) --- The visual interface of communimage is a grid system that defines exactly the position of each image (128x128 pixel), that has been uploaded. Each image (or "patch") carries a certain amount of meta information (added by the creator of the image). This meta information will be used to visualize facets of communimage.
WEATHER GAUGE _ Thomson + Craighead _ datart _ 2003/2005: In Weather Gauge, numerical weather data from over 150 countries is simultaneously represented in a gallery forming an array of hypnotic animated data referencing a huge global spread of live information. Each piece of weather data rotates between centigrade, Fahrenheit, local-time and city of origin, so when presented in a large array, the whole field of information rhythmically evolves, offering viewers an unusual extended sense of context beyond the physical location of the work.
HAVE A SEAT _ Silvain Vriens _ public interaction _ 2005: Have-A-Seat deals with the interactions between strangers in public space for a purpose of having a rest on a seat for a limited amount of time. This falls into the personal spacing between strangers in a non-conversational situation, typically requiring 50 centimeters of personal space in between individuals. The cultural norms employed in the installation are those of North-western Europe. The applicable concepts of proximity for this project are personal distance between strangers (personal space) and public territory (territory behavior).
CURSORS _ Sylvain Vriens _ browsing confusions _ unknown date: euh?
NOPLACE _ Marek Walczak + Martin Wattenberg _ un/spacing utopia _ unknown date: Noplace is a series of physical and online art installations exploring visions of paradise. The artwork takes feeds from networked society—images, sound and text—as raw material to generate multiple, personalized visions of utopia incorporating concepts from peace to rapture. A museum installation includes multiple screens of different utopian visions, while this site—the companion web version—allows viewers to create movies representing personalized Noplace worlds. Using the noplace creation software, viewers can input a current desire or a future goal. Images are then taken from Flickr (under the creative commons license, itself a utopian construct) that have been tagged both with the visitor's words as well as with utopian vocabulary—for example, with such words as rapture, nirvana, communism, etc. The words and images are placed together in a brief video that may be played and embedded on the web.
IS THIS YOUR PAPER ON SINGLE SERVING SITES? _ Ryan Greenberg _ yes _ 2008: " I was considering some ideas for the required final paper and I thought it might be interesting to look into single serving sites, a phenomenon that I read about on Kottke earlier this year. We discussed our potential topics in class, and my idea had a lukewarm reception, so I opted for a safety topic I had about how the format of sites like Reddit and Digg affect their treatment of news. A couple weeks later a classmate confronted me in the hall and convinced me that the paper on single serving sites was worth writing." More: http://www.ryangreenberg.com/archives/2008/12/single-serving-sites.php
MIMETIC TELEVISION _ Douglas Bagnall _ mimesistem _ 2007: The Mimetic TV receives broadcast pictures via the normal method, via an aerial. It breaks the incoming stream into a sequence of frames, and looks at the changes between each frame. From this it builds a statistical model of how the video tends to change. It then throws away the actual image, remembering only the patterns in which it moved (in contrast, the Filmmaking Robot remembers each frame as a still picture, but forgets the way in which they move, resulting in naïve and chaotic motion). The Mimetic TV imitates, while the Robot judges, and produces a smoother but less distinct picture. Because it forgets everything it sees, its output is lacking in detail, as if it were seen through frosted glass. It is running Debian Linux and specialised software written in C, and is physically constructed out of wood, metal and computer parts.
SQUARES, THIRD GENERATION _ Yann Le Guennec _ IP art _ 2008: Four white squares, which size depends on your IP address, are superposed on "Carré", a picture from Antoine Moreau, created on the basis of "Triptyque des formes primaires ; Carré" de Yann Le Guennec, 1995-2008. As a code, the image is always the same, but as a picture, the image is always different, according to viewer's point of view on the global network, that is: it's IP address. This work is under a free art licence.
ORDINARY SHOW _ Vanessa Louzon _ animated diary _ 2008-present: Ordinary Show is an ongoing internet-based project that started in 2008 in Tel Aviv, Israel. A single white page is filled with a long series of extremely short looped video clips, like a deconstructed film stretched over space and fragmented into scenes put one next to the other and played at the same time. The artist uses the page as her diary. She obsessively records everything around her: the mundane, the small, the insignificant, the repetitive, the beautiful, the ugly, the flashy, the mechanical, as not to miss anything, as if everything was to suddenly stop. A strip-show neon light flashing, a supermarket close circuit TV, a lady bathing in the sea, are thus frozen in time as they loop indefinitely and hypnotically on the screen. As they accumulate on the page day after day, they form an evolving record of each one of the artist's footsteps in the places, seasons, and states of mind she finds herself in.
M/E/M/E 2.0 _ Danja Vassiliev _ dreams of the 21st century _ 2007: m/e/m/e 2.0 is a mechanical web-site that mimics and memes[*] consumer oriented and alienated web 2.0 web-sites. the machine is built using misc computer parts, mostly CDROM drives (28), and represents an ultimate recycling effort in contemporary hardware art. media industry gets to show us the guts of the technology it enslaves, be it physical or illusionary. m/e/m/e 2.0 mixes up the positions taken by the media devices - CDROMs become files, files turn into circuit boards - after the decade of web fetishism comes the age of postinteractive materializm. travelling between venues and exhibitions m/e/m/e 2.0 changes its IP address and power source but the message it carries remains the same - let's bring machines into the world of people instead of living second (hand) lifes in the world of machines. [via: neural/culatti]
WORLD OF AWE _ Yael Kanarek _ intimate interactive travelers' tales _ 1995-present: World of Awe is a multidisciplinary project ongoing since 1995. Fantastical memoirs and epistolary texts in multiple languages, computer source code, cross-sections of languages, and large numbers, take form in sculpture, Internet technology, photography, drawing, music and more. The Traveler's Journal is a series of Internet artworks. Each work is a chapter of a diary written by a traveler who searches for a lost treasure in a parallel world called Sunset/Sunrise. The chapters contain love letters, travelogs and description of unique navigation tools. Little is known of the traveler or the lover except that they probably lived in the East Village neighborhood of Manhattan. While navigating the interface one becomes intimate with the traveler's internal landscape and the quest for the treasure.
PEOPLE QUOTE PEOPLE _ Paolo Cirio _ (second) removal of the author _ 2007: People Quote People is a vast database of quotes of the most important people of the human history.
You can check free quotes alphabetically or by looking for the author. More than 3000 quotes are here to inspire you for free. ---- The (second) removal of the author is merely a historical fact. ---- The figure of the romantic genius was born in the XVIII century. Since this time, many speculations have surrounded the myth of authorship and its aura. Then it has been the culmination of capitalist ideology, in which the greatest importance is typically attributed to the author as an individual. The images and ideas to be found in ordinary culture are now often tyrannically centered on the lives of authors – on their tastes, and passions.
FOLD LOUD _ Joo Youn _ conceptual origami _ 2007: Fold Loud is a (de)constructing musical play interface that uses origami paper-folding techniques and ritualistic Taoist principles to give users a sense of slow, soothing relaxation. Fold Loud interconnects ancient traditions and modern technology by combining origami, vocal sound and interactive techniques. Unlike mainstream technology intended for fast-paced life, Fold Loud is healing, recovering and balancing. Playing Fold Loud involves folding origami shapes to create soothing harmonic vocal sounds. Each fold is assigned to a different human vocal sound so that combinations of folds create harmonies. Users can fold multiple Fold Loud sheets together to produce a chorus of voices. Opened circuits made out of conductive fabric are visibly stitched onto the sheets of paper which creates a meta-technological aesthetic. When the sheets are folded along crease lines, a circuit is closed like a switch.
GENOMES OF THE WEB _ Yann Le Guennec _ png-ing genomes _ 2007: Pictures are network generated by a software on a web server. The user provide an URI and the software follow links in order to compose a picture. Each small rectangle on a single picture is a transposition of a collected URI.
WE FEEL FINE _ Jonathan Harris + Sep Kamvar _ databasing human feelings _ 2005: Since August 2005, We Feel Fine has been harvesting human feelings from a large number of weblogs. Every few minutes, the system searches the world's newly posted blog entries for occurrences of the phrases "I feel" and "I am feeling". When it finds such a phrase, it records the full sentence, up to the period, and identifies the "feeling" expressed in that sentence (e.g. sad, happy, depressed, etc.). Because blogs are structured in largely standard ways, the age, gender, and geographical location of the author can often be extracted and saved along with the sentence, as can the local weather conditions at the time the sentence was written. All of this information is saved.
TWISTORI _ Amy Hoy + Thomas Fuchs _ social syndication _ 2008: Twistory is the first step in an ongoing social experiment based on twitter. The user can chage between different syndications of twitter feeds which begin with the words: I love ..., I hate ..., I think ..., I believe ..., I feel ..., I wish ..., There is also the possibility to download the system as screensaver.
1968 _ Mark Callahan _ trans/scripting knowledge _ 2008: January: * January 5 - Prague Spring: Alexander Dubček is elected leader of the Communist Party in Czechoslovakia. * January 8 - British Prime Minister Harold Wilson endorses the 'I'm Backing Britain' campaign for working an additional half hour each day without pay. * January 13 - Johnny Cash records Live at Folsom Prison. * January 14 - Green Bay Packers win Super Bowl II. * January 15 - An earthquake in Sicily kills 231 and injures 262. * January 17 - Lyndon B. Johnson calls for the non-conversion of the U.S. dollar. * January 19 - At a White House conference on crime, singer and actress Eartha Kitt denounces the Vietnam War to Lady Bird Johnson while attending a "ladies' lunch". * January 21 - Vietnam War: Battle of Khe Sanh begins - One of the most publicized and controversial battles of the war begins, ending on April 8. * January 21 - A U.S. B-52 Stratofortress crashes in Greenland, discharging 4 nuclear bombs. * January 22 - Rowan & Martin's Laugh-In debuts on NBC.
THE ANALOG COLOR FIELD COMPUTER _ Gregory Shakar _ sculpturing moving images _ 2006: The Analog Color Field Computer (ACFC) is an interactive video and sound installation that makes both minimal and maximal use of computer monitors. Exhibitions of the piece employ a suite of sculptural computers whose custom electronics drive standard video displays and loudspeakers. Instead of presenting complex images (like computer graphics or photographs) each ACFC unit repurposes its monitor such that at any one time a solid field of color is spread across its entire display surface. Likewise with sound, instead of producing complex timbres each unit produces a pure sine tone. The sculptures' colors and tones surge in steady pulses, conveying sonic textures and luminescent patterns into the sparsely lit exhibition space.
TEXTEDIT TEXTILES _ Arend deGruyter-Helfer _ translative knitting _ 2008: "TextEdit Textiles" is a collaborative project by Aylor Brown and Arend deGruyter-Helfer. DeGruyter-Helfer used TextEdit, the default Macintosh text editor, to create digital pattern drawings, some encoded with personal wishes, and Brown used Photoshop and a computerized Jacquard loom to translate these drawings into cloth. The result is both a physical archive of the intangible and a dialogue between two friends on the materialization of desires.
CYBERZOO _ Gustavo Romano _ the first zoo dedicated to the artificial life _ 2003: Cyberzoo is a virtual zoo where it is possible to experience the wildest expressions of the artificial life in the security of your computer. The mission of CyberZoo promotes the conservation of endangered species and the habitats in which they live. CyberZoo is involved in international programs of protection of threatened species, and participates in different projects from recovery and reintroduction of artificial life.
//**CODE_UP _ Giselle Beiguelman _ allusive reconstructions _ 2004: The research of //**Code_UP is based on a conceptual dialogue with "Blow up" (1966), by Michelangelo Antonioni, one of the deepest discussions ever made on the nature and the place of the image in contemporary culture, permanence and transitory, and on how we deal with the visible and the invisible phenomena. (...) In this artwork Gisell beigelman reproduced Thomas' (one of the protagonists of the film) movements, working on the same images he developed in the film, blowing them up using programs that perform algorithmic zooms, allowing manipulation of the RGB values, exploration of the pixel and screen structure and their translation into different numeric systems and codes (hexadecimal, binary, ascii). Reproducing Thomas' procedures in his investigation, but reverting his point of view, paying attention to the invisible dimension of the image, establishes the conceptual dialogue with Antonioni.
CITYSPEAK _ Jason Lewis _ intertextual urbanism _ 2006: Cityspeak is ephemeral graffiti, an exploration into using private modes of communication to drive transient public displays of commentary about a particular location. Participants use their SMS- and web-enabled cellphones or wireless PDAs to send text to a common server. The text is processed using the NextText text visualization software. NextText references real-time data from the location to specify the visual behaviors of the text. The resulting stream of text is layered back onto the location in the form of large-scale projections. Participants can use the display to leave commentary, tell stories, conduct conversations or simply to play with the visual characteristics of text. (via: http://www.asquare.org/networkresearch/2008/cityspeak)
AUTOMATIC FOR THE PEOPLE _ MTAA (M. River + T. Whid) _ automated performance _ 2009: On February 7th, 2009, please join us for MTAA’s performance entitled Automatic for the People: (We Solemnly Promise That No One Will Get Naked). As decided by public vote, the performance will take place in SFMOMA’s freight elevator. The performance will be exactly 48 minutes and 52 seconds long (as determined by public vote). The exact time that the performance will begin is yet to be determined, please check back for more information later.
LET ME GOOGLE THAT FOR YOU _ Jim Garvin _ automated search _ 2008: This is for all those people that find it more convenient to bother you with their question rather than google it for themselves.
SCROLLBAR COMPOSITIONS _ Jan Robert Leegte _ minimalist shiftings _ 2005: Recently you shifted back from the net to installations in real space, why? --- It took me some time, but at a point I started noticing aspects of interactivity and net-behaviour which I hadn't focussed on until then. My main field was exploring this space in which I could build these 'new' sculptural experiences and placing them on the net. I had been adding interactive experiments now and then, but they were side-tracks. (...) The sculptural feel of the Internet studies is fragile and demands the viewer to look mainly as if observing a phenomenon in nature. The net is a highly impatient, click- based environment. Visitors would sometimes interpret my work as an intentional aggravation for the user, a form of crash-art, or even subversive. I decided that it was the effect of the medium Internet that created these unintended connotations. (Original interview: http://www.netartreview.net/weeklyFeatures/2004_03_21_archive.html)
GOOGLE IS NOT THE MAP _ Les Liens Invisibles _ metamapping _ 2008: Comissioned by LX 2.0 - a project by Lisboa 20 Arte Contemporânea and curated by Luis Silva - Google Is Not The Map (GISNTM) is a collection of 35+ GeoPoeMaps, a series of works in which ordinary maps become the unusual surfaces used to disarticulate perception of the world, to trace new routes accross the boundaries and to draw new imaginary geometries of the possible. --- Since ancient times cartography has been used to describe the world as a geometric ensemble of measurable points, lines, areas and data-labels on a plane. While the world slowly fades away in an increasingly multiplication of self-representations, the mapmaking process - missing its real reference - becomes nothing more than an empty-meaning abstract practice: so, what do all those maps stand now for?
CONSTANT REDIRECT _ Constant Dullaart _ constant redirect _ 2008: redirect
YES _ Constant Dullaart _ constant yes _ 2008: yes
NO _ Constant Dullaart _ constant no _ 2008: no
DAS GESPENST _ Robert B. Lisek _ molecular biology analyzing _ 2008: Robert B. Lisek who since many years has been dealing with software art, this time applies the technique of molecular biology by analyzing the most fundamental process in the nature - selfreplication that means exponential grow and spreading of structures. He especially focus on DNA selfreplication. As result of his research in conjunction with Molecular Biology Lab at Wroclaw University he generated the new gender of the bacterium E-coli [1XkZF no name yet],that quickly spreads in the water. He also prepared a map/graph that represent the best way to infect Warsaw city. The map provides an understanding of how ‘pathogens’ (in this case the artist’s E-coli bacteria) spread and the connections between multiple biological and communicative networks. In graphic terms, a narrative of bacterial infection demonstrates how easily new dangerous bacteria strands can
be grown and how quickly they might spread in a metropolis such as Warsaw (...)
HACKING _ Paulo R.C. Barros (video) + Carlos Relva (text) _ scifi-video narrative _ 2007: The Shelooh´glootz are very happy, finally they decoded the last message sent by the advanced civilization from the far star system with yellow Sun and eight planets. By that time, the interpretation was hardest, because demand the development of an extra tool. Fortunately, the instructions to built it was in a "pre-message". Now, just a command and the scientific center will sand to whole planet the new and wonderful knowledge from the strange and fascinating civilization. "How many year of progress we got, thanks to generosity of that alien culture?", wonder many people, while the transmission was liberated and everyone could contemplate the new message: "Our compliments, whomever you are! Did you enjoy the first messages we sent? How it's good. I see you could fit up the needed technology to decode this message too, don't you? And also insert a particularly alien tool to your defaut system. (...)
FACEBOOK-ME! _ Indira Montoya _ passer-by update _ 2008: Facebook-me! is a small interface (based on Laboratoire Aléatoire's TwittGenerator script and Christian Flickinger's FB script) that allows a by-passer to update my personal profile status on facebook. If Laboratoire Aléatoire's script was a wink to online publishing, Facebook it is a wink to personal privacy and online image. My personal profile will inmediately reflect this change and propagate through my friend's facebook start page, creating a random message instead of a well thought one. You can download the code here and change parameters to reflect your user or change it to make it evolve.
SUBJEKTBESCHLEUNIGER _ Eno Henze _ accelerator _ 2008: The Subjektbeschleuniger (subject accelerator) mimics signatures subatomic particles leave in collision detectors such as installed at the CERN in Geneva. I have always been fascinated by the beauty and simplicity of these signatures as opposed to their invisible meaningfulness. I use these shapes to create an image that still carries the symbolic reference of these signatures but that is dispensed from scientific interpretability at the same time. The drawing becomes a mere symbol for a very fundamental search. What we do at institutions like the CERN is the cutting edge of contemporary enlightenment - with all the debatable implications of this term … So the drawing is not a scientific evidence, but rather an aesthetic evidence for our search for the absolute, for the fact that we want to know the rules that define the way our world works at its core. [Laser drawing on 32 panels of photo-coated wood, 68 x 68 cm each., 2,80 m x 5,60 m total.]
ALLRGB _ Alexander Christiaan Jacob _ 16777216 to be exact _ 2007-2008: The objective of allRGB is simple: To create images with one pixel for every rgb-color (16777216 to be exact); not one color missing, and not one color twice. The most obvious example is a series of 16 by 16 squares, each of which consists of a gradient. This is the first thing I did, and has been done many times before. However, it is theoretically possible to depict apparently random noise, geometric structures, and an old photograph of you and your cat. allRGB challenges programmers, designers, and artists alike to push the limits of what is realized using the same basic set of rules.
FACELESS (Trailer) _ Manu Luksch _ surveillance narrative _ 2006: In a society under the reformed 'Real-Time' Calendar, without history nor future, everybody is faceless. A woman panics when she wakes up one day with a face. With the help of the Spectral Children she slowly finds out more about the lost power and history of the human face and begins the search for its future. FACELESS was produced under the rules of the 'Manifesto for CCTV Filmmakers'. The manifesto states, amongst other things, that additional cameras are not permitted at filming locations, as the omnipresent existing video surveillance (CCTV) is already in operation.
FOLKSOMY.NET _ Jodi _ nerdcore _ 2008: sheblockedme computernerd computerlove counterstrike console dukenukem wow google programmer internet spam linux oslogin myringtone myspace blogging iphone ebay digitalgetdown email infinite loop nerdcore (about: http://folksomy.net/about)
WEB IS DEAD _ Absurd.org _ a peridic (or so) _ 1997: Nuclear physics: We invented the Web. And now it is dead. --- (Nuclear physics got carefully swept away into different committees to be out of the way of the roaring Web Commerce steered by millionaires.) --- Millionaire I: I created the Web Browser. I made it able to show pictures. I ignored pathetic whining of those ridiculous Nuclear Physics. Now I'm rich and have nothing to achieve. I'm just getting fatter and fatter. Now I can spread my luminous visions and people will listen and follow as flock of stupid lemmings, because I'm rich and they poor and gullible.
But I will never tell them my real vision: Web is Dead. --- Millionaire I relaxes his bloated body in an electric wheel chair, throws several Plug-Ins to the Web Commerce and rolls away escorted by the cohort of eagerly listening slaves (...)
BEAT LESS _ Sean Kerr _ mnmlsm _ 2002: How often have you gone to an art gallery, stared at a seemingly blank canvas, and said, "huh?" Sometimes minimalist painting has that affect on viewers, yet when one dares to explore beneath the surface, it's possible to appreciate the spare, meditative elegance for what it is. Australian artist Sean Kerr brings the minimalist movement to net art with "dot," a web-only component of "beat_LESS," a six-part series of minimalist works of art. Those skeptical of the minimalist movement will appreciate the playfulness of "dot," which has an element of irreverence and humor. In a realm where less is less (in terms of complex visual effects), Kerr is either breaking new ground or criticizing ground broken by abstract painters. Or both. Hmmm ... (original text: http://rhizome.org/editorial/755#53594)
LINES OF DEFENCE _ Bettina Furneé _ live eco-ism _ 2005-2006: Lines of Defence, when installed on 15th January 2005, consisted of 38 flags in five lines, each one meter apart, positioned on the eroding cliffs 60 m. south of Martello Tower W, East Lane, Bawdsey, Suffolk. Letters on the flags spelled out SUBMISSION IS ADVANCING AT A FRIGHTFUL SPEED, a text sourced by Simon Frazer for its reference to climate change and the essentially fearful reaction which prompts people to go to war. A camera was positioned at Martello Tower W, looking south towards the harbours of Felixstowe and Harwich. The tower is less than 10 m. away from the cliff's edge and is the focus of a local campaign to fund sea defences. The camera recorded the progress of the work by taking one image every 15 minutes from 15th January 2005 to 15th January 2006. --- Original link: http://www.ifever.org.uk for
THEINTERNETOVEREXPOSED.COM _ Jan Robert Leegte _ overexposed _ 2008: overexposed, but still browseable
NIGHT POEM _ Alan Sondheim _ poetics on Second Life _ 2008: how wonderful the flat moon light screen light --- cloud posed and poised supple curves and moves --- nothing flies in air emptied of air --- cloud emptied of cloud moon of moon --- nothing flies in light but flies in dark --- in dark light wonder nothing flies
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COWBOY _ Justin Kemp _ new media cowboy _ 2008: SURGEON GENERAL'S WARNING: Smoking Causes Lung Cancer, Heart Disease, Emphysema, And May Complicate Pregnancy.
NEVER ENDING HAPPY END - HAPPY ENDINGS NEVER END _ Les Liens Invisibles _ happy ending _ 2008: If you want a happy end, that depends, of course, on where you stop the story - Orson Welles
LOOP _ Zoro Feigl _ a simple loop _ 2007: Two wheels give the circular rope speed. A circle of rope will build up when it gains momentum and falls apart when slows down. The rope comes loose from the ground and is almost suspendend in air by it's motion. A struggle between machine and gravity to keep the amorphous rope upright and circling.
INFOCALYPSE NOW! _ Saso Sedlacek _ media autonomisms _ 2007: Infocalypse Now! is an initiative for the creation of an autonomous media zone in the 700 MHz spectrum, within which analogue television stations broadcast at present. With the introduction of the digital signal by 2012, the majority of the spectrum, just like the present-day analogue technology, will become a junkyard, which will be appropriated by the capital. --- Since the majority of the frequency space will become unutilised and since analogue technology necessary for transmission and reception is extremely accessible and cheap, it is downright appropriate that a part of the frequencies is occupied by the civil sphere, to which the public goods, such as water, health services, frequency spectrum etc., are intended after all.
H|U|M|B|O|T _ Daniel Burckhardt + Roberto Cabot + Jürgen Enge + gruppo A12 + Udo Noll + Philip Pocock + Wolfgang Staehle + Gregor Stehle + Florian Wenz + Birgit Wien _ virtual topographies _ 1999-2004: H|U|M|B|O|T is a 5-year (1999 - 2004) chorographic installation project connecting a loose menagerie of architects, artists, datatects, hackers and writers to intermittent travel-as-art situations in equatorial America and ØtherWhere on the new New Continent, taking the explorer and mapmaker Alexander von Humboldt's book "Personal Narrative of a Journey to the Equinoctial Regions of the New Continent (1799 - 1804)" as its topos. Hyperconfigured as our 'script' using artificial neural network Kohonen mapping Humboldt's chronicle gets eventually buried under sediments of contemporary fictional and interpersonal hypermedia. Net users sift through dynamic layers of Humboldt and h|u|m|b|o|t material, leaving traces, pictured as landscape in a virtual topography (cyberatlas) of unfolding h|u|m|b|o|t situations
WEB.WITHOUT.WORDS _ Paul Armstrong _ graphic desillusionism _ 2008: Once in a lifetime you get that one great (or at least, pretty good) idea - for me that is what web.without.words was and is (I hate ending a sentence on "is", so I'm rambling here). But you're here because you want to know more about me or this site. web.without.words started simply as a way for me "practice what I preach" -- to visually represent my core belief that hierarchy, grid systems and uniformity ultimately lead to a more natural user experience -- to show the overall structure of any website, by striping away all the distractions of text and ads and images and showing a site for what the eye unconsciously perceives. I dissected CNN.com (primarily as a way to recuse myself from all the political grandstanding), cobbled together a website and showed a few friends.
GLOBALMOVE _ Jodi _ mapping symbolism _ 2008: JODI explores the relations between the world as we build it through Internet and the one based on our past mental and physical maps. Services such as GoogleMaps have changed our worldview radically by making the Globe accessible as a commercial multi-user surface. Mapping its geometrical constructs to reality and vice versa, overlaying its online figures as jogging paths, The 'Parc Royal' of Brussels (Warande Park) becomes an INFO Park revealing symbols and mysteries of the Belgian capitale and capitale of Europe, amplifying or deconstructing them through an intricate web of data and associations.
TWITTGENERATOR _ Laboratoire-aleatoire _ communicative identity _ 2008: TwittGenerator takes data from search.live.com to compose your twitts sent to Twitter. TwittGenerator is an experiment in digital identity. Install TwittGenerator on your own server: Download and extract TwittGenerator.zip - Edit file config.php. It should contains your Twitter parameters and the actions dictionary that you should modify. - Put files on your server - Call bot.php in your browser.
SUPERORGANS _ Herwig Turk _ power body photography _ 1993: Herwig Turk generates his “superorgans” through the computer-assisted mirroring of photographic details taken from pictures which show familiar human organs, usually rotated around an angle of 45 degrees away from the position in which the viewer is accustomed to seeing them; the ruptures or cuts thus created along the axis of symmetry are fused artificially. The entities formed this way are self-contained and organomorphous, their outward appearance largely corresponds to the principle of biological symmetry, and they vacillate between familiarity and alienness, between what is known to us from nature and artificiality, offering several mutually interfering readings: In view of what they represent, their organic referents, the “superorgans” position themselves in the center of a discussion ubiquitous in all disciplines - about genetic manipulation, organ grafts and plastic surgery.
DNA-FILM _ Herwig Turk _ granualrsynthetic video _ 2008: The DNA-Film shows pulsating black and white structures. It's based on an artistic translation of DNA-sequences, which are interpreted as the twilight zone between being and nothingness. Granularsynthetic picture and sound bits are following each other, collide and merge. By measuring the average luminance within the single frames, a structure was found to generate the sound that is directly referring to the picture.
HOW SOON IS... _ Ramsay Stirling _ conceptual question _ 2008: Ramsay Stirling lives in New York and likes to makes things, read, and watch movies. He can't sleep. --- JavaScript on HTML, Dimensions variable, Edition Unlimited
GRIMACE _ Garrett Lynch + Frederique Santune _ multiple camera performance _ 2005: Grimace is a studio based performance employing three digital video cameras networked to a multiple camera security system. The two faces displayed are a reconstruction of artist Garrett Lynch’s face. Two camera video his eyes while the third camera videos his mouth. The live feed of each of the eyes are then used eight times with a set of four right eyes on the left of the screen and a set of four left eyes on the right of the screen. Two identical live feeds of the mouth are displayed below each set of eyes. The resulting composition is of two faces bearing a close resemblance yet differing slightly, reacting, grimacing, to some unseen event or in response to each other.
FEED _ Kurt Hentschlaeger _ immersive performance _ 2005-2006: FEED is an immersive performance in which the audience is subjected to effects and shifting mood in an artificial environment without performers in the flesh. The piece goes through two seemingly opposite stages. The first half of FEED, staged in a classical, frontal way, is misleading in relation to later events. In the beginning, in a single, larger than life projection, suspended 3D figures move, sometimes synchronized in their motions like one meta being, following a unified choreography. They simultaneously float and convulse in a zero gravity world, their movements generating sounds, to create a corresponding, symphonic drone. The second part is a composition for artificial fog, pulse- and stroboscopic light, the combination inducing a complete loss of spatial orientation, without depth of field. A matching sound-scape infused by feedback and intense sub-low bass augments this impression, generates a heightened physical experience.
ZEE _ Kurt Hentschlaeger _ immersive foggy environment _ 2008: ZEE is a "mind-scape" in which artificial fog and stroboscopic light fully obscure the physical installation space, resulting in an almost complete disconnect from the without and offering an entry towards a surprise within. Stroboscopic- and pulse light filtering through the thick fog augment an impression of a luminescent kinetic sphere wherein the environment acts as the seeding stimulant and you synthesize the impression. Based on the research and findings with FEED, the performance, ZEE is expanding on composing with multiple interfering strobe lights amidst fog and the effects those have on a human perception and decoding apparatus: the brain. A surround sound-scape synchronizes to interference phenomena - of what could be described as a psychedelic architecture of pure light.
CREDITS NEVER ENDING _ Xin Li + Eirik Fatland _ 2006: "Credits NeverEnding" is an interactive TV program, created for Finnish television channel Dina. Credits NeverEnding is intended for television's off hours, and was developed as part of a project to produce intentionally boring TV. "Boredom is a luxury anyone can afford". The sight of movie credits on television is usually taken to signify the ending of one program, and the beginning of another. "Credits NeverEnding" subverts this convention by being credits for a movie that never existed, and holding the viewer in suspense for a program that never comes. The credits loop and change, but may scroll over the screen for hours at end. The names and titles on the list come from the viewers themselves. A viewer with the right mix of attentiveness and time to kill will eventually discover the URL of the website where new credits may be entered. Viewers enjoy nearly total freedom to shape the neverending credits, including promoting themselves. Nothing is true until it is on television.
PI.COM _ unknown artists _ 3.14159... _ unknown date: Pi or π is a mathematical constant which represents the ratio of any circle's circumference to its diameter in Euclidean geometry, which is the same as the ratio of a circle's area to the square of its radius. It is approximately equal to 3.14159. Pi is one of the most important mathematical constants: many formulae from mathematics, science, and engineering involve π. Pi is an irrational number, which means that it cannot be expressed as a fraction m/n, where m and n are integers. Consequently its decimal representation never ends or repeats. Beyond being irrational, it is a transcendental number, which means that no finite sequence of algebraic operations on integers (powers, roots, sums, etc.) could ever produce it. Throughout the history of mathematics, much effort has been made to determine π more accurately and understand its nature; fascination with the number has even carried over into culture at large. From: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pi
DON'T BREATHE _ Jennifer L. Smith _ flickrd notes _ 2008: This photo and the associated notes are an experiment with narrative structure. Read the narrative from left to right, top to bottom, just like you would read a traditional (western) narrative. Or don't. It's up to you. The original photo was taken by www.flickr.com/photos/turbojoe/. The aim of this project was to create a narrative piece in a non-textual forum, based off of material already present within the forum. Therefore I utilized Joe Plocki's original, creative commons licensed photo, and used the Notes tool to create a layer of narrative that remixes the meaning and associated content of the original photo. --- If you would likefor the artist to do the same with a photo of yours, please contact me through Flickrmail.
ENCORE ? _ Remy Blanes _ encore une fois _ unknown date: encore ? > encore ? > encore ? > ...
BECAUSE/WHY _ Andy Simionato _ propositional logic _ 2006: because > why > because > why > ...
AERO TORRENTS _ Voldemārs Johansons _ sonic vibrations _ 2007: The installation is a waveform sculpture projected on the surface of water by sonic vibration. As a commentary on the process of climate change, the wave patterns are derived from meteorological data acquired during extreme storms of recent years in Europe. The combination of three materials: air, water and sound simulates a chaotic ecosystem where recorded wind intensity and direction patterns are transferred by waves of sound. During the recent years I have lived in a city by the Northern See. In the autumn and winter, few times a year, strong storms occur. A stream of air particles - wind - rushes and swirls with incredible speed and power, fluctuating in unpredictable force and intensity patterns. It caries dark clouds and forces waves to wash the sea out of it’s coasts, hits upon buildings and produces a terrifying acoustic landscape. More: http://johansons.info/torrents
MY FAVOURITE LANDSCAPE _ Paul Destieu _ windows appropriated _ 2007: My Favourite Landscape is made of 500 70 x 50 cm offset prints. It is a reappropriation of the well known Windows XP desktop : Green Hill. Taking advantage of the weakness of the computer, it sets the common bug out of its context, on a wall, expending it to a much bigger scale. The famous picture finds a new landscape shape out of its usual frame.
REALITY SOUNDTRACK _ Tao G. Vrhovec Sambolec _ real fictionality _ 2003: The goal of the intervention is to transpose a real situation in public space onto a plane of fictionality. The sound intervention alters the mode of perception of a random passer-by listener. That which a listener sees becomes a fiction and support for that which he or she hears. The result of such alienation is that the listener no longer perceives reality as something that has any immediate effect on his or her own existence but, rather, accepts it as an aesthetic phenomenon; this, however, may present a direct threat to his or her own existence.
AGENT ORANGE _ Miha Ciglar + Michael Pinter _ sonic equivalences _ 2003: "Agent Orange" is a computer music project with no political background. The title allready tells a lot abbout the compositions. The music has a tendcy to sound like a sonic equivalent to the substance with poppular name "agent orange", which once was used to destroy vegetation. Indeed a ficus plant perished during the rehearsals. Seven compositions were made in 5.1 surround technique (six independent speakers) which also can be performed live in an improvised manner.
WE NOT _ Grégory Chatonsky _ chain reactions _ 2006: Random sentences: "we...not..." and flickr pictures with the same random words by Grégory Chatonsky: He holds a philosophy master’s from the Sorbonne and a multimedia advanced degree from the Ecole nationale superieure des beaux-arts in Paris. He has worked on numerous solo and group projects in France, Canada, the United States, Italy, Australia, Germany, Finland and Spain. His works have been acquired by public collectors such as the Maison Europeenne de la Photographie. In 1994, Chatonsky founded a pioneering net.art collective, incident.net, and has produced numerous prestigious works, such as the websites of the Pompidou Centre and Villa Médicis, the graphic signature for the Musée contemporain du Val-de-Marne, and interactive fiction for Arte. He has taught at the Fresnoy (national modern art studio, France) and at UQAM’s school of visual and media art.
HOW TO MAKE A PERFECT MALEVICH USING ONLY BASIC HTML CODE _ Luca Leggero _ maleviching _ unknown date: This page gives you the HTML code to "... make a perfect Malevich...". It's a basic HTML code. Everyone can have a Malevich, you can see it on your computer screen or print it. This is the POWER of net.art, you can't do this with old art! -- Who is Malevich? http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kazimir_Malevich
HISTORY OF ART FOR THE INTELLIGENCE COMMUNITY _ Vuc Cosic _ surveillance history _ 2002: Here are two possible or exemplary interpretations of this work: 1) When artists focus their attention on governmental surveillance techniques, it is mainly to make them "look bad." However, humanity has a tendency, at once unique and ancient, to accept new technologies -- and, in particular, the aesthetics they give rise to. This project is an effort to dispense with normative uses of aesthetics as a technique subordinated to overt or parochial political views. Instead, it gives primacy to aethetics by providing an enjoyable visual aspect to practices that, under "normal" circumstances, would typically be viewed as unacceptable. 2) New media typically fails to engage with the epigones of art and, as a result, contemporary artistic efforts fail to engage with the audiences habituated to earlier works. This project seeks to encourage old-media-oriented audiences to consider the many virtues of truly contemporary aesthetic possibilities.
REMOTEWORDS _ Achim Mohné + Uta Kopp _ googlearthwording _ 2008-present: The project is based on the idea of disseminating statements in various languages via Google Earth and other available virtual globes. The messages are applied to the roof of the respective institution with paint. The aim of this action is, via satellite system, to publicize the message after a time lag. For any Internet user the Google Earth program costs nothing and reproduces the whole surface of the earth in impressive detail. The quality of the images differ. The detailed resolution of the raster data mostly covers 15 m; in some agglomerations, resolutions of up to 15 cm are available. With such a 15-cm resolution, single persons even become visible, whereby a good cast shadow is advantageous.
TIMES SQUARE TIMESHARE _ Kurt Ralske _ video timing _ 2006: Via custom image processing software, 2 minutes of video image shot in Times Square are treated as a 3 dimensional "data space". Within the data space, the relation of time and space is inverted. The images extracted from the data space have an atemporal quality: every object in motion appears to be stationary, and every object at rest appears to be in motion. The impulse to stop time is connected with sentimentality, nostalgia, and magical thinking. It is a common response to the universally human experience of loss and mortality. From the apocryphal Gospel of Thomas, (circa 50 AD) : "If they ask you, 'What is the evidence of your Father in you?' say to them, 'It is motion and rest.'" --- Technical information: 4-channel HD+ video (single conterminous image), four 20-inch LCD monitors, two computers, custom software, wooden case (100 x 60 x 12)
MARISA OLSON WRITES HER DISSERTATION _ Marisa Olson + Michael Mandiberg _ writerly performance _ 2008: Veterans of web-based autobiographical performance, Olson and "Coach Mandiberg" have teamed-up to get Marisa through her dissertation by framing it as an act of endurance. Every day for the month of September, Olson will spend all day writing while webcam shots and screencaps of her desktop are automatically uploaded to the net every 60 seconds. This gesture of transparency is a continuation of Olson's research into the role of sousveillance in "The Art of Protest in Network Culture." This page will update itself every minute while the performance is active--during normal business hours, EST.
URSONOGRAPHY _ Jaap Blonk + Golan Levin _ vocal experimentation _ 2005: Ursonography (2005: Jaap Blonk and Golan Levin) is a new audiovisual interpretation of Kurt Schwitters’ Ursonate, a masterpiece of 20th Century concrete poetry in which speech is reduced to its most abstract and musical elements. Dutch sound poet and virtuoso vocalist Jaap Blonk has performed the half-hour Ursonate more than a thousand times; in this presentation, Blonk’s performance is augmented with a modest but elegant new form of expressive, real-time, “intelligent subtitles.” With the help of computer-based speech recognition and score-following technologies, projected subtitles are tightly locked to the timing and timbre of Blonk’s voice, and brought forth with a variety of dynamic typographic transformations that reveal new dimensions of the poem’s structure. More information: http://flong.com/projects/ursonography/
DOUBLE-TAKER (SNOUT) _ Golan Levin _ interactive surveillance robotix _ 2008: This istallation deals in a whimsical manner with the themes of trans-species eye contact, gestural choreography, subjecthood, and autonomous surveillance. The project consists of an eight-foot (2.5m) long industrial robot arm, costumed to resemble an enormous inchworm or elephant's trunk, which responds in unexpected ways to the presence and movements of people in its vicinity. Sited on a low roof above a museum entrance, and governed by a real-time machine vision algorithm, Double-Taker (Snout) orients itself towards passers-by, tracking their bodies and suggesting an intelligent awareness of their activities. The goal of this kinetic system is to perform convincing "double-takes" at its visitors, in which the sculpture appears to be continually surprised by the presence of its own viewers — communicating, without words, that there is something uniquely surprising about each of us. More information at http://www.flong.com/projects/snout/.
THE ROAD BETWEEN US _ Émilie Brout + Maxime Marion _ flickrd gps-ing _ 2008: With the development of GPS and mapping network (google Maps, google Earth…) world-wide territory is being increasingly documented. For more than a decade, the artists have seized upon these technologies to propose new maps, either from simple drifts or in a more social and anthropological - but always in a spirit of loyalty as to the reality of the routes and their related documentation. The road between us suggests exactly the opposite : exploiting the proliferation of Flickr geo-localized images, we've created a program that builds true/false routes from the position of the images in space. Following an initial image selected at random on the globe, the program seeks the photo closest to it, and so forth. Then we can view and virtually retrace this journey in google Earth. The authors of the various photographs used are tied (or related) in a fictitious ballad - although realistic and plausible -, providing us the micro-story of their adventures.
IWANNABEONYOURDELICIO.US _ unknown artists _ truely wishful _ 2008-present: Saved by 1769 other people, on Monday, 1st September 2008, at 8 o'clock in the morning.
VY2MS _ Joerg Piringer _ labour imaging _ 2008: Giving customs officers, agencies and police forces new labor by generating documents that can be read, searched and deciphered by otherwise underemployed personal. It challenges them with enigmatic language, images and diagrams. BACKGROUND: On July 16th, 2008 the US department of homeland security disclosed policies regarding border search of information: officials may share copies of the laptop's contents with other agencies and private entities for language translation, data decryption or other reasons [...] The policies cover "any device capable of storing information in digital or analog form," including hard drives, flash drives, cellphones, iPods, pagers, beepers, and video and audio tapes. They also cover "all papers and other written documentation," including books, pamphlets and "written materials commonly referred to as 'pocket trash' or 'pocket litter.' " (Washington Post, August 1st, 2008)
SUBTOPIA _ Bryan Finoki _ deterritorialized blogging _ 2005-present: A field guide to military urbanism.
7 VIDEO RESPONSES TO 'YOUTUBE AS SUBJECT' _ Ben Coonley _ responsive youtube reflections _ 2008: Ben Coonley’s series of works (image of opening ceremonies top and video of acetylsalicylic acid (Bufferin™) below) as response to Constant Dullaart uses the YouTube spinning circles in different ways but with much the same effect. [via: Garret Lynch, http://www.asquare.org] [respons to: http://delicious.com/tagallery/YOUTUBE_AS_SUBJECT]
YOUTUBE AS SUBJECT _ Constant Dullaart _ youtube reflections _ 2008: Constantdullaart’s series of works on the artists site (video of youtube dvd bounce below) or on YouTube here plays with the users familiarity of YouTube’s interface and their anticipation and expectation of seeing a video by simply animating the play arrow in a number of different ways. [via: Garrett Lynch, http://www.asquare.org]
SIGNALS _ Thomson + Craighead _ user tracking _ 2008: Realtime recordings of persons using their mouse are layered ontop of each other, divorced from their original context and then projected back into the gallery as an endless looping animation. The resulting monochromatic animation goads the viewer to make anthropomorphic links with this 'crowd scene' and while any given person originally operating a mouse is hidden from view, their trace remains tantalisingly present.
SLIDE MOVIE _ Gebhard Sengmüller _ the art of projectionism _ 2006: Black cube installation: A film sequence (35mm motion picture, 24 frames/sec.) is cut up and the individual frames are mounted as slides. They’re then distributed among 24 slide projectors that are all focused on the same screen (the exact same point). Via electronic control of the projectors, these individual images are then reassembled-in an extremely cumbersome way-into a chronological sequence. The formula “one projector per frame” thus gives rise to something that at least rudimentarily (and inevitably very inaccurately, due to the lack of precision of the mechanical devices) suggests a motion picture. The film soundtrack emerges as a byproduct - the mechanical clattering of the projectors changing slides. Link to YouTube: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XDg1pyDbdrc
WONDERWALKER _ Marek Walczak + Martin Wattenberg + Jonathan Feinberg _ collecting the "new" _ 2000: WonderWalker is a project by Marek Walczak and Martin Wattenberg commissioned by Gallery 9/Walker Art Center with funds from the Bush Foundation as part of a grant to explore global issues across the museum's programming. It launched November 3, 2000, as part of the Medi@terra Festival in Athens, Greece. In some senses, WonderWalker is another response to questions raised--both internally and externally--when the Walker formed it's Digital Arts Study Collection with the hosting of äda'web and the commissioning of The Unreliable Archivist by Janet Cohen, Keith Frank, and Jon Ippolito. What, indeed, does it mean for an institution to collect/archive digital objects and web-based works?
CODED LANGUAGE _ Saul Williams _ languaged code _ unknown date: the tao that can be told is not the eternal tao. - the name that can be named is not the eternal name. - the unnamable is the eternally real. - naming is the origin of all particular things.
NET ART : EPIPHANIES (GOOGLE POETRY) _ Christophe Bruno _ search effecting _ 2001: Type a word or a sentence, and click on "go". The epiphany generator randomly collects pieces of sentences related to the chosen words on the Internet and reconstitutes the skeleton of a new text. Send us your favorite generated texts (rewritten or not). We'll publish the most interesting ones in the best-of.
LIFE ON A STRING _ Laurie Anderson _ performative music _ 2001: Rolling Stone: "Don't let the deadpan voice, arch phrasing and avant-garde haircut fool you. Despite her forbidding performance-art reputation, Laurie Anderson is a singer-songwriter of crushing poignance - a minimalist painter of melancholy moods who addresses universal themes in the vernacular of the commonplace. She's at her best on Life on a String, her first studio album in seven years. Horns dance like Mardi Gras revelers through "The Island Where I Come From," and Van Dyke Parks' daring string arrangement imbues "Dark Angel" with impish humor. But the overall tone is sparse, haunted, intimate. Vertigo-inducing violins and luminous bass tones speak Anderson's language - a poetry of loneliness that peaks through "Pieces and Parts" and the brief instrumental "Here With You"; towers majestically on the deathbed meditation "Slip Away"; then walks away with the album on the impossibly fragile, beautifully realized title track. (Greg Kot, August 30, 2001)
ART.TELEPORTACIA: LOCATION="YES" III _ Olia Lialina _ pro:location.net _ 2008: We visited recent on-line and off-line net art exhibitions and noticed that the curators have a tendency to present works of net art in a window with the specification location="No" or to put it into a frameset to hide the location field and URL of the works. Maybe they think that the location bar (which can contain more than technical information), has nothing to do with art. Maybe they think net art is a browser adopted version of interactive art; that this is simply animated gifs, JavaScript's and hyperlinks. Maybe they want to neglect the only parameter which protects copyright. Here we've collected links to some of the artworks and online projects which are not complete if they exist only in "inwindow" and lose their meaning if location="No". Hopefully this guided tour will help you in creating new exhibitions (...). Notice, please, that links are made to open in a new browser window - target=_new; use it. VISIBLE LINK: http://art.teleportacia.org/Location_Yes/part3.html
ART.TELEPORTACIA: LOCATION="YES" II _ Olia Lialina _ pro:location.net _ 2008: We visited recent on-line and off-line net art exhibitions and noticed that the curators have a tendency to present works of net art in a window with the specification location="No" or to put it into a frameset to hide the location field and URL of the works. Maybe they think that the location bar (which can contain more than technical information), has nothing to do with art. Maybe they think net art is a browser adopted version of interactive art; that this is simply animated gifs, JavaScript's and hyperlinks. Maybe they want to neglect the only parameter which protects copyright. Here we've collected links to some of the artworks and online projects which are not complete if they exist only in "inwindow" and lose their meaning if location="No". Hopefully this guided tour will help you in creating new exhibitions (...). Notice, please, that links are made to open in a new browser window - target=_new; use it. VISIBLE LINK: http://art.teleportacia.org/Location_Yes/part2.html
ART.TELEPORTACIA: LOCATION="YES" I _ Olia Lialina _ pro:location.net _ 2008: We visited recent on-line and off-line net art exhibitions and noticed that the curators have a tendency to present works of net art in a window with the specification location="No" or to put it into a frameset to hide the location field and URL of the works. Maybe they think that the location bar (which can contain more than technical information), has nothing to do with art. Maybe they think net art is a browser adopted version of interactive art; that this is simply animated gifs, JavaScript's and hyperlinks. Maybe they want to neglect the only parameter which protects copyright. Here we've collected links to some of the artworks and online projects which are not complete if they exist only in "inwindow" and lose their meaning if location="No". Hopefully this guided tour will help you in creating new exhibitions (...). Notice, please, that links are made to open in a new browser window - target=_new; use it. VISIBLE LINK: http://art.teleportacia.org/Location_Yes/index.html
THE WORLD'S FIRST COLLABORATIVE SENTENCE _ Douglas Davis _ nomen est omen _ 1994: Visitors to the site may add their own contributions to the Sentence -- there are more than 200,000 to date, separated into twenty-one "chapters," in dozens of languages and with a remarkable range of images and graphics. Any subject may be addressed, but no contribution can end with a period, as the Sentence is infinitely expanding. The World's First Collaborative Sentence is a classic work of Internet art. With its collaborative, polyvocal, multilingual, and boundless nature, the sentence has become a microcosm of the Internet itself. As a decidedly low-tech "multi-user environment" that allows for combinations of textual, visual, and aural components, it is a collective space which, in its broad array of voices and topics, achieves fluent transitions between the prosaic and the sublime.
TEMPLATE_CINEMA _ Thomson + Craighead _ networked video _ 2004: Low-tech networked movies made from existing data appropriated in realtime from the World Wide Web. You can launch any movie you want to see by clicking on its title but check its status too to make sure all the live elements that make up each movie are currently online. In order to watch these movies, you will need a well configured browser with javascript enabled and all the usual plug-ins installed. You must also be on a decent broadband connection as all images and sounds are streamed live from all over the world. In some cases you may also have to switch off popup window blocking. - http://www.thomson-craighead.net
INDEX _ Osvaldo Cibils _ trapped indexing _ 2008: "index" is an isolated world, a small virtual-space of the XXI century containing the nature, the man, the thought, the divine and the history - 2D/3D animation, drawing and sound.
THE PRISONER _ Osvaldo Cibils _ sound trapping _ 2008: A documentation of the sounds of prisoners, some of their hours recorded in MP3: - 01 - HALF-BRAIN, YOUR DANGERS ARE MANY, TO FIND A CLOUD, TONIGHT (5.01) - 02 - OLD HAPPENINGS, STOPPED AND AWFUL, YOUR ABSENCE IS INCONSPICUOUS (4.13) - 03 - DRUNK AS A FOETUS, THERE IS ONLY THE SKY'S FAR DOME, DIVINE HAUTEUR (6.01) - 04 - MY HEART UNDER YOUR FOOT, TWENTY YEARS, EAT ME, PIN-LEGS (4.51) - 05 - NATIVE TO THESE SUBURBS, BROTHER OF THE STONES, WHO HAS DISMEMBERED US? (3.52) - 06 - SPARE PARTS, NOW I AM A HEART, THE NIGHT LIGHTS, THE RED MINUTE (3.04) - 07 - NEVER COMING HOME, THE DEAD SYLLABLE, I AM BECOMING ANOTHER (4.45)
TELESCOPIC TEXT _ Joe Davis _ zoom in / zoom out _ 2008: Yawning and smearing my eyes with my fingers, I walked walked bleary eyed into the kitchen and made made myself boiled the kettle. filled the kettle. took the kettlegrabbed the kettle, unhooking it from the cord and filled it.. I filled it with fresh waterI turned the tap and drew fresh water, making sure it was cold enough checking with my hands to make sure it was cold enough () (The best tea comes from the coldest water!) ...
SEMIOTICS OF THE KITCHEN _ Martha Rosler _ feminist video linguistics _ 1975: From A to Z, Rosler "shows and tells" the ingredients of the housewife's day, giving us a tour that names and mimics the ordinary with movements more samurai than suburban. Rosler's slashing gesture as she forms the letters of the alphabet in the air with a knife and fork, is a rebel gesture, punching through the "system of harnessed subjectivity" from the inside out.

"I was concerned with something like the notion of 'language speaking the subject,' and with the transformation of the woman herself into a sign in a system of signs that represent a system of food production, a system of harnessed subjectivity." (Martha Rosler)
NATO MEETING (D’APRES ION GRIGORESCU) _ h.arta group (Maria Crista + Anca Gyemant + Rodica Tache)_ blog/photo _ 2008: Between 2-4 of April 2008, a NATO summit took place in Bucharest. The attempts to react to this summit or to use it as an occasion to bring into a public discussion subjects as war, stability and peace keeping missions in the context of global capitalism were the subject of intense monitoring and control from the part of the state. Original site: http://hartagroup.blogspot.com/
EXHIBITION 021 | STATEMENT: City of Nodes: "Through its complex orchestration of time and space no less than through the social division of labor, life in the city takes on the character of a symphony (...)"
TAGGER: Greg J. Smith: Greg J. Smith is a Toronto-based designer and researcher with interests in media theory, representation and digital culture. He co-curates and edits the online digital arts publication VagueTerrain and writes regularly at his personal blog Serial Consign.
MY CITY = MY BODY _ Tuur Van Balen _ environmental mapping _ 2008: A genetics-driven mapping of London which geographically indexes the urine samples of gallery visitors by their postal codes. The project expands everyday notions of cartography and calls into question surveillance and social stratification paradigms.
CONSTRAINT CITY _ Gordan Savic _ body mapping _ 2007: A wearable corset apparatus that tightens in relation to the strength of nearby encrypted wireless signals. While wearing this device, an individual engages in a direct dialog with the city and the networks of communication that permeate it.
256² _ Aram Bartholl _ written mapping _ 2007: A Berlin-based urban intervention which demarcates the perimeter of the first Sim of Second Life's New Berlin with chalk. Delineating this 256 square meter parcel of land highlights the connection between actual urban space and the simulation thereof.
TRAVAL TIME TUBE MAP _ Tom Carden _ temporary mapping _ 2006: An upgrade to Harry Beck’s map of the London Underground, this visualization provides a geographic interface that reconfigures itself based upon travel times from each station to a chosen destination.
[STREET / APPROPRIATION / STRUGGLE] _ Ana Dzokic + Marc Neelen _ zoning _ 2005: A simulation of the occupation of Witte de With Street in Rotterdam. Using agent-base modeling, this application explores various occupation and zoning scenarios and speculates how they might play out in urban space.
I-SEE _ Institute for Applied Autonomy _ surveillance mapping _ 2005: A detailed map charting the location of CCTV cameras throughout Manhattan. Tracking surveillance cameras provides citizens with a means to move through the city with minimal monitoring by, and maximal awareness of, this distributed security apparatus.
GRAFEDIA _ John Geraci _ graffitext _ 2005: Project promoting and showcasing the distribution of "hyperlinked" graffiti in various global cities. This initiative blurs the line between urban codes and network markup, and is prescient of the emerging "internet of things".
ONE BLOCK RADIUS _ Christina Ray+ Dave Mandl _ archiving _ 2004: A multimedia documentary of the Manhattan city block on which the New Museum is now sited. This archive provides an index of a specific urban space on the cusp of a fundamental transformation.
YOU ARE NOT HERE _ Mushon Zer-Aviv + Dan Phiffer + Kati London + Laila El-Haddad + Thomas Duc + Ran Tao + Charles Pratt _ tourismapping _ 2006: Exercise in "dislocative" urban tourism based on superimposition of Baghdad and Manhattan maps. The project creates a space in which the imaginative city wanderer develops his own associations between the geography of the two seemingly unrelated cities.
[MURMUR] _ Shawn Micallef + James Roussel + Gabe Sawhney _ neighbourhooding _ 2003: "Neighbourhood level" archive geo-locating first person accounts of experiences in the city. Signage is distributed throughout the city indicating the location of archived events - individuals call a central voice mail system to access personal narratives
AMSTERDAM REALTIME _ Esther Polak + Jeroen Kee (The Waag Society) _ locative mapping _ 2002: Two-month invitational exercise in GPS powered self-surveillance. Participants carried locative devices with them to trace their personal map of the city. Results were collected and displayed online and at the "Maps of Amsterdam" exhibition.
SEEN _ David Rokeby _ pedestrian mapping _ 2002: Serial studies of surveillance footage of Piazza San Marco are projected into a gallery environment. Footage is manipulated to isolate motion, accentuate flows, note the trajectory of individuals and displayed alongside the original footage.
A DIALOGUE BETWEEN ART AND SOCIETY I _ Sebastian Blank _ videosociety _ 2008: "A Dialogue between Art and Scociety I" is about the reception of art within scociety. Sebastian Blank has used hacking-techniques to place "art-objects" into the inworld of a computergame, and observes its inhabitant's reaction to it.
CALLING FOR:TAGALLERY _ CONT3XT.NET _ call _ 2008: Time to open TAGallery for public participation. From July 15 to September 15 netizens are invited to contribute link-collections, to re-contextualise the existing material and/or to experiment with tagging as a curatorial practice.
FW: RE: RE: _ Luis Silva _ mailer daemon _ 2008: Work produced over the past three years to present a variety of subversive approaches to the ubiquitous technology of email. The show works like this: 1) Visit this page 2) Enter your email address 3) Receive the exhibition in your inbox.
BUSQUEDA EN PROCESO _ Fabian Taranto _ solidary net _ unknown date: Video loop of the first walk of the „Madres en Plaza de Mayo“ while the sreen is showing a growing number of „desparecidos“ and „represores“ during the dictatorship in Argentina in the 1970ies.
HYPERBODY _ Gustavo Romano _ bodymapping _ 2000/2001: Portal offering websites whose names (URLs) refer to the different parts of the human male and female body. A meta-map of human life.
SUFFERING MACHINE _ Ricardo Nascimento _ sentimentechnology _ unknown date: A robot made with 3 arms or legs and these arms are connected in 1 point. 1 motor for each arm, but 1 of them is weak, almost incapable of doing a proper movement. Other point is that each arm is different and this causes a different kind of movement.
HUGEURL _ unknown artists _ huuuuuugeurl _ unknown date: http://hugeurl.com/?vcsoirueocxioiaeoiaouisuxsevir ioxruocisaisoiixaoauicsaxinsoeiaeoiuouiusoeinsxisv irW0srMWoWWesMWocWMMWueWKWWMiWMovWMoWMWMMciMWaisui
DOTRED_ David Guez _ 1er jeu social web 2.0 (?) _ 2007: DotRed Project's aim is to create a multiplayer on-line game, using web social networking utilities to bring users together for humanitarian and social purposes, focusing on the transition from the virtual world to the real world.
MAPS OF SCIENCE _ Eigenfactor (Jevin West + Ben Althouse + Carl Bergstrom + Martin Rosvall + Ted Bergstrom) _ at the intersection of _ 2004: Visualization that shows the flow of knowledge between scientific fields based on the weighting of citations by subject field: Orange circles represent fields, with larger, darker circles indicating larger field size as measured by eigenfactor.
THE WATERBOARD _ Mark Burton _ eco-pedagogism _ 2007: An interactive installation remembering Camille Utterback. By drawing lines on the whiteboard, the water flows a different course. Abstract life forms may appear in basins and where the water is stagnant it will become turbid.
ATARI VIDEO _ Golden Shower _ old schooling _ unknown date: A tribute to old school systems.
INFINITE FILL _ John Michael Boling _ fulfilling _ unknown date: Experiments with default backgrounds and their variation. Artist also known as http://gooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooogle.com
MASSAGE ME _ Hannah Perner-Wilson + Mika Satomi _ wearable wellness _ 2007: A wearable interface that channels a videogame players kinetic energy into a back massage for an innocent stander by. Using the device requires 2 people, 1 who wears the device to receive the massage and 1 who manipulates the device to give the massage.
INSIDE GECKO _ Satoshi Ueyama _ visualization _ 2008: Inside Gecko is a visualization program created by Satoshi Ueyama, made with Processing which shoes the reflow process of a browser while it translates the HTML code so as to present the page to the user.
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=^..^= I CAN HAS HISTORY ? =^..^= _ Helen Dams _ cat.alytic _ unknown date: Ceiling Cat, Lord Happy Cat, Anonymous Cat, Orange Cat, Sweet Kitty, Hovercat, Bubble Cat, Fire Cat, Frog Cat, Tilt Wet Kitty, Sushi Cat, Emoticon Cat, Anime Cat, Bad Day Smiley Cat, Machin Gun Cat, Speedycat, Lolly Cat, Thread Kitten, Screamin Cat ...
/MAZE/MOD_.10__ _ o+ro (Julien Ducourthial) _ amiga visuals _ unknown date: Influenced by early demoscene, comics and computer design, the graphics mainly deal with 8bit experimental and lowtech science fiction electro. using oldschool softwares & tools to mix new media abstraction and colorful dynamic graphics.
YES + NO _ MTAA (M. River + T. Whid) _ no yes no no _ 2008: Using software to string together pre-existing video clips of the two artists, but in a seemingly more random way than before. Always fans of language games, MTAA took turns taking sides in the binary of YES vs NO.
EXPLODED MONOLOGUES _ Troikart _ wearable expanded literature _ 2003: Sending the user's voice on one or more of the four different speakers, each of them located approximately one meter from the mouth of the user. A control interface with four different buttons enables the user to choose where his voice will be heard.
THE MOUTHPIECE _ Krzysztof Wodiczko _ equipment for strangers _ 1994: A video monitor and loudspeakers are installed at the center of the instrument and in front of the user's mouth replacing the real act of speech with an audio-visual broadcast of pre-recorded, edited statements, questions, answers, stories, etc.
THE SIMULTANEOUS TRANSALTOR _ John Roach + Willy Whip _ multitranslation _ 2007: An audio interface that enables anyone to load audio streams and manipulate them in real time on the Internet. SimTrans makes the delays and fluctuations of the Internet visible and audible. The Internet becomes your collaborator ...
EVERY WORD I SAVED _ Cristobal Mendoza _ datart _ 2007: Based on a database of every word that the artist has written saved in his various computers since 2002: The database is printed in its entirety, in a format that vaguely resembles a ledger. Words are keyed for their origin, and they are accompanied by a
:LE:S:FL::EU:RS:Q-UI::RE::G-AR:DAI::EN-T:DE:JA: _ Ui uuii _ formalism III _ 2008: HTML (GIF, JPEF and text) and JavaScript; digital photographs.
T:HE::G:OL:DEN::ID:OL::OF:DAY:: FOR:NW _ Ui uuii _ formalism II _ 2008: HTML (GIF, JPEF and text) and JavaScript; digital photographs; found images. HTML (GIF, JPEF and text) and JavaScript; digital photographs; found images. HTML (GIF, JPEF and text) and JavaScript; digital photographs; found images.
=-AP-PROX::VAL::ATR=- _ Ui uuii _ formalism I _ 2007/2008: HTML (GIF, JPEG) and JavaScript; digital photographs; found images.
MEDIASCOT TWITTER IN RESIDENCY _ Mary-Anne Breeze _ twitterror _ 2008: goTo[to+Doro.thee+Wicked.Whi(t{e})ches(s)]. do[p]wn.the.ra[bbitten].hole.we.go || twitter_set[tlers,all].
TOUCH MY BODY _ Oliver Laric _ surveillant/surveillé _ 2008: An edit of Carey's video, with everything but the singer masked out in green to encourage chroma-keyed remixes by online viewers. The lyrics speak about surveillance and privacy intrusions, and drops hints about sharing footage online.
TODAY _ CADA (Sofia Oliveira + Jared Hawkey + Heitor Ferreira + Damian Stewart ) _ mobile app _ 2008: TODAY is a piece of generative design for mobile phones. It’s an application that visualizes personal mobile communication. It sits on the periphery of the machine, monitoring our connectivity through the number and type of calls we receive ...
WISH _ Larissa Bank _ wishing well _ 2004: wish00343 - I waish that dogs made love to me / wish00344 - i wish i could swin with the dolphin\'s on venice beach / wish00345 - I wish that everything could be just a bit more simple!
THE SOUND OF EBAY UBERMORGEN.COM (Hans Bernhard + Lizvlx) _ generative pirate music _ 2008/2009: Breaking the waves of cyberspaced e-commerce tsunamis by transforming singular binary micro-transactions of homo oeconomicus into auditive vortexes and granular compositions by pirating privacy....
O2 THE MEMORY PROJECT _ Jason Bruges _ memo-rising _ 2008: A structure camera captures panoramic moments in time and stores them within its digital memory bank. Inside, viditors can expolre the stored history of the installation an interact with the displayed 360 degree image.
THE BLACK WEBSITE _ UBERMORGEN.COM (Hans Bernhard + Lizvlx) _ iconoclasm of modern art _ 2002: The crisis of representation began at the historical moment when painting lost under the pressure of photography and the praise of its unprecedented, truthful representation; its interest in presenting reality and took instead
from paint to brush, ...
THE WHITE WEBSITE _ UBERMORGEN.COM (Hans Bernhard + Lizvlx) _ iconoclasm of modern art _ 2002: The crisis of representation began at the historical moment when painting lost under the pressure of photography and the praise of its unprecedented, truthful representation; its interest in presenting reality and took instead
GAME OVER _ Guillaume Reymond _ pixel re-animation _ 2007: Series of collaborative animation movies which revive some of the very first video games. The pixels are replaced by a group of real human-beings that are moving from seat to seat in a theatre during about 4 to 6 hours.
IP POETRY - I DREAM THAT I AM _ Gustavo Romano _ ip.oetry _ 2008: The project involves the development of a software and hardware system that uses text from the Internet to generate poetry that is then recited in real time by automatons connected to the web.
http://www.findelmundo.com.ar/ip-poetry/index-en.html
WHITE GLOVE TRACKING _ Evan Roth + Ben Engebreth _ open source tracking _ 2007: Much like Nasa's Clickworks project, White Glove Tracking is an exercise in crowd sourcing. Interested users can donate small bits of time by analyzing single frames within a much larger video (in this case the first televised performance of the Moonwalk)
DEGENERATIVE _ Eugenio Tisselli _ reverse generation _ 2005: A web page that slowly becomes corrupted. Each time the page is visited, one of its characters is either destroyed or replaced. After just a few days, the degenerative page is literally fading away. Should digital euthanasia be applied in this case?
ONANIST 2008 _ Aleksandra Domanovic _ photorgasm _ 2008: Re-animated photography of an onanist in public space.
ONANIST 2004 _ Aleksandra Domanovic _ photorgasm _ 2004: Photography of an onanist in public space.
NEW ME _ Aleksandra Domanovic _ split performance _ 2006: Video documentation of a performance in Vienna's first district, doubling and redoubling screens and the scenery - With music by Jamie Lidell.
ANHEDONIA _ Aleksandra Domanovic _ getty imging _ 2007: Anhedonia is an inability to experience pleasure from normally pleasurable life events such as eating, exercise and social or sexual interaction. It was also supposed to be the original title of Woody Allen's 1977 film Annie Hall.
EXHIBITION 020 | STATEMENT: YOU OWN MEN NOW UNTIL YOU FORGET ABOUT ME: ...never forget about me. | In an open curatorial model visitors where allowed to chime in and widen the vocabulary used in the orginally physical exhibition.
TAGGER: Birgit Rinagl: Birgit Rinagl studied Comparative Literature, Romance Philology and Media and Communication Studies at the Universities of Vienna and St. Etienne and completed her studies with a MA in “The Text-Image-Relation in Digital Literature” in 2008.
US MORTGAGER _ Derivart ( Mar Canet + Jesús Rodríguez + Daniel Beunza ) _ financeart_ 2007: A US-mortgage calculator showing how old you will be with a picture of your comic drawing face, when you finish paying a mortgager if you start to pay now with you current salary.
ART CONQUEST _ Carlo Sansolo _ decisions game _ unknown date: The game ArtConquest is mainly constituted by making decisions and choices using the mouse: The questions asked turn around the art system, market and varoius topics a contemporary artist is confronted with on a daily basis...
GOOGORAMA _ Roberto Winter _ g-watch _ unknown date: The following images were captured using Google Maps' Street View service. Use the arrows to navigate through poetic images.
FARMACIE AFRICAINE _ Dialogist Kantor_ reajustements _unknown date: DK-Reajustement based on Duchamp's work: "Pharmacie" (1914) - Made while on a homeward bound train to Rouen in the half-darkness of dusk, this Readymade is essentially a cheap reproduction of a winter landscape with two drops of color added to it.
TALKERS _ Salvatore Iaconesi [xDxD] _ linguistic artificial intelligence _ unknown date: TalkerS captures the texts loaded by its visitors. The texts become the Talker's knowledge. Sequences of sentences and words are used to form the linguistic network which is used by the Talker to speak.
TIME BOMB THE LOVE _ Chiara Passa _ techno animation _ 1998: The animation is a digital manipulation of rockets to the rhythm of techno music. Frame by frame, the missiles turn into very acid, synthetic-basic architectures: “compressions-containers”.
MONKEY CHASED THE WEASEL _ Tara Gilbee _ freepressing instructions _ 2006: a> Cut and paste this text repeatively into a word document, in the edit section find the tool speech, go to 'start speaking' click and listen, can you pick the glitch. Its not that the computer does not recognise equal but that is an added concept. b>
FOLDED-IN _ Personal Cinema + Erasers _ transborder game _ 2008-present: Folded-In is a project about the notion of borders, the conflicts they raise, and the different ways through which they are represented in the social networks of the web 2.0. But what does this call for subjectivity brings upon?
NETPOETIC _ Jason Nelson _ tutorial poetry _ unknown date: Bridges between the print and wired worlds. While not intending to create blueprint, these poems and the included code, descriptions, videos and examples, are designed to hlep poets explore translating their poetics into playable digital creatures.
PROSE FLOW[S] _ Helen Bentley _ flowing.txt _ 2007: This project celebrates interaction with language and the duplicity of its meaning. Encouraging the user not to just look at the static word and associate it with the surrounding text but to draw upon embodied memories of the words themselves.
SENDLING-INFO _ Robert Alexander _ music machinery _ 2006-present: A collection of experimental music machines by Robert Alexander.
INTRAVENUS _ Christine Wilks _ flashing art history _ unknown date: IntraVenus is part of the serie moving piX: Narrative flash-animations of icons of art history.
R3/\/\1X\/\/0RX _ unknown artists _ artmixing _ 2006-present: An online journal of digital art and writing - alive, interactive, and media rich. All media here is freely given and is sometimes used to promote R3/\/\1X\/\/0RX through festival, conference, online or other non-commercial presentations.
WORDLE _ Jonathan Feinberg _ wordualisation _ 2008: Word clouds give greater prominence to words that appear more frequently in the source text. You can tweak your clouds with different fonts, layouts, and color schemes. The images you create with Wordle are yours to use however you like.
PRAYER _ Neil Jenkins _ religious coding _ unknown date: Our CGI/1.1 (the lords prayer re-interpretated for servers, created to make the portrait of God) Amen.
15x15 _ Richard Vickers + Oliver Dore + Greg Brant _ videowarholing _ unknown date: Using Warhol's statement of "15 min. fame", the project 15x15 advances the statement into the 21st century; with new media everyone can be famous ... for 15 seconds.
CONTINUOUSTEXT _ Mad Max Quorum _ continuous texting _ 2008-present: "A Drone Doom Steaming Pile Of Consciousness Jerk In Progress."
891_ _ Kurt Duyck _ on kawara tribute _ 2008-present: June 2008 - 18th I GOT UP AT 6.43 A.M. - 17th I GOT UP AT 7.03 A.M. - 16th I GOT UP AT 7.04 A.M. - 15th I GOT UP AT 9.59 A.M. - 14th I GOT UP AT 8.09 A.M. - 13th I GOT UP AT 7.00 A.M. - 12th I GOT UP AT 7.03 A.M. - 11th I GOT UP AT 6.55 A.M.
NEO REALISMO VIRTUALE _ Salvatore Iaconesi [xDxD] _ video threat _ unknown date: The full screen video of a man looking and interacting (somehow) with the spectator of the screen. The work is accompanied by electronic musis which underlined the threating effects of the video.
CONCERTO PER 16 AUTOMI _ Salvatore Iaconesi [xDxD] _ generative life _ 2008: Sixteen automas live and die for your visual and audio pleasure. Shape, rotation, position and color represent the Automa's life condition. When particularly stressed, automas play music.
OIL ON CANVAS _ Roberto Winter _ code painting _ unknown date: unlink (perl), 2007 — oil on canvas, 30 × 40 cm [12 × 16 in]. /// if/exit (perl), diptych, 2007 — oil on canvas, 50 × 40 cm [20 × 16 in] each. /// display: none (CSS), 2008 — oil on canvas, 30 × 40 cm [12 × 16 in].
RADIO JELINEK _ Christiane Zintzen _ visual meta visual literature _ 2007: Video in German Language , ironicly rendering the most current clichées within the reception of Elfriede Jelineks work . Orginally based on 60- hours of radio- footage covering a period of 40 years, the video uses the most striking pieces of cliché.
THIS IS/ISNT A PANDEMIC FLU _ Jason Nelson _ viral visual narration _ unknown date: A societal paranoia, the darkest of human fears, our response to what may come and what will never come, we are the flu and the fear of flu - get flu!
THEVISUALWORLD.TXT _ Daniel C. Boyer _ visual.txting _ unknown date: S0aaZ7. .:;iii,::,:r7i. ,,:X; .. .. ii7rr77XaZ:i;;riiSi,;Z.7 :M ,2, i7Z,.a8ar;SS ;aZSZ0aXii7SX .XaBBM0; :;;i,:,..rS7, ;S8880Z08XXS2X27i:;7i;;X7XSSS28a27XXSi227.aBS.iXi XBMZZ8Si :SX;. : 8MS .;SZWBr ..:, :7XX0ZZX77r7. ,7Sr27i ZiirS.. iX:SSZaMZa2iX: 78Ma2Si.
BUDDY RIVERS _ Dave Miller _ the automatic comedian _ unknown date: The idea of constructing stories from web searches. One of the main aims is to construct a character who can be unleashed/ set free and (to a certain extent) say unpredictable things. The idea of an automated stand-up comedian appeals to me.
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X (FILMTEXT) _ Marc America _ filmtext _ unknown date: Who are the ghosts in the literary machine?
ARTEROIDS _ Jim Andrews (translation by Regina Célia Pinto) _ shoot-em-up literature _ unknown date: A literary shoot-em-up computer game—the battle of poetry against itself and the forces of dullness. Tips: Turn out the lights! Turn up the sound! Throw away your preconceptions about poetry!
CONCRETE_MACHINE _ Johannes Auer _ conrete e-terature _ 2003: So: Language is corrupt! The subject reignes over the alienated object! Language is the code of power! (...) The concrete_machine™ liberates the language from the dominating code into the pictorial concrete.
THESE WAVES OF GIRLS _ Caitlin Fisher _ hypermedia novel _ 2001: Extract: I'm wearing all the wrong clothes. First day of high school and here I am in the fishbowl of intro assembly and everyone is watching me wearing a burgundy velour cowl neck sweater. Why do I do this to myself?
CLICK POETRY _ David Knoebel _ click poetry _ unknown date: Many of the poems include sound or animated text. As a poem reveals itself, the reader may be called upon to click a mouse button or to drag a cursor while holding the mouse button down.
RED RIDING HOOD _ 6amhoover _ narrative interaction _ 2000: Interactive experience whilst still retaining a narrative quality. The launch page contains a thesis description and research links: Structurally challenging sequences visual closure character development within interaction.
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THE HTML-MOVEMENT-LIBRARY Ursula Endlicher _ transbodyweb _ 2007-present: A web-based repository of short video clips and images by various performers who use html tags as a starting point for generating movements. The idea of the library is to develop an expandable movement alphabet of the html language.
THE PERFECT ARTISTIC WEB SITE _ Y0UNG-HAE CHANG HEAVY INDUSTRIES _ flashtexts _ unknown date: Wikipedia: Young-Hae Chang (장영혜) is a Seoul-based Web artist who, along with Marc Voge, comprises Young-Hae Chang Heavy Industries.
THE GIVER OF NAMES _ David Rokeby _ automataxonomy _ 1990-present: A computer system that gives objects names by performing many levels of image processing (outline analysis, division into separate objects or parts, colour analysis, texture analysis, etc.).
PEKING 2008 _ Les Liens Invisibles _ still faking ... _ 2008: Exploiting the Olympic Brand, the domain www.peking2008.com has been used by as a powerful advertising medium to subvert attention economy mechanisms and to promote the tactical (ab)use of fake-publishing as a new paradoxical way to reclaim the Truth.
BARCODE PLANTAGE _ Daniel A. Becker _ barcode visuals _ 2008: An algorithmic visual representation of barcodes, of which the numerical codes determine the positions, curves & colors of Bezier curves in a tree structure. The number of curves varies in correspondence to the number of figures in the code.
THIS IS NOT A LOOP _ Niall Flaherty _ sound loop _ unknown date: Magritte's Pipe, that is not a pipe but an image of a pipe, is represented not by an image but by the sound loop digitally generated from that image. 'This Is Not A Loop', is derived from an image about representation but is not an image.
TEDSPHERE _ Santiago Ortiz _ audivisual knowledge network _ 2008: All information and video on the knowledge network TEDsphere came from TEDtaks: Indpired by the world's greatest thinkers and doers the tool offers a diferent way to enjoy this amazng knowlegde highlightening the relations between talks content.
NETSONG _ Amy Alexander + Peter Traub _ singing the websearch _ unknown date: netsong is the song of the web, as performed by a web search engine robot. When provided a searchterm, the netsong bot will search for this term in a search engine, then choose a page from the search results and begin following links from that page.
J_O_I_D _ Jodi _ streaming the default _ 2008: The website you are seeing this image on is guilty of stealing one of the following: Bandwidth, Content or ALL OF THE ABOVE!
DADAMETER _ Christophe Bruno _ language cartographies _ 2002 - 2008: Specialized in the profiling of language at large scale and the historical tracking of artistic and literary movements according to Raymond Roussel. Our aim: building cartographies and global indexes in order to be able to predict the next artistic craze.
A MISUNDERSTANDING _ carlos katastrofsky _ mis-communication art _ 2008: hmmm… i don’t know if it’s that easy. i am working hard to make those pictures and i’m quite serious about them. don’t think they are a joke. each pic is unique. but when you don’t like them that’s fine with me.
AFFECT ME _ Urtica (Violeta Vojvodic + Eduard Balaz + Daniel Stevanovic) _ indexymbolism _ 2006-2007: affect_me is an (online) communication experiment inspired by (offline) "the semaphore flag signalling system", which is in this case valenced by expressive meaning, thus creating a long distance affect sensitive signalling system.
COHABIT _ Mark E Grimm + SocialMediaGroup _ miniature collaborative structure _ 2005: Which practices will motivate environmental concern, and how will this concern then reduce instances of environmental salience in society? What events can urge one to adopt an ecological worldview, and then to act according to this worldview?
THE SEED PROJECT _ David Cohen _ collaborative planting _ 2006-present: Engagement of people all over the world plant to plant seeds creatively, creating individual art projects. The growth is then documented digitally. The digital images are compiled and placed together to form a “Virtual Field” .
100 SINGLE PIXELS _ Victor Boullet _ art histore-pixeled _ 2007: A collection of images of well known historical and contemporary characters, gleaned from the Internet over a period of years and reduced down to a single pixel from the face of the individual in the picture.
WINNING INFORMATION _ Jodi _ blue black blue black grey white _ unknown date: Tags: " # $ % ' ( ) * + , - . / 0 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 : < = ? [ ] _ a b C D e f G h i j k l m n o p q r s system:unfiled t u v w x y z | © ® Ó ç Α Ι Ο Σ Τ ή α ζ η ν σ τ ↓ ▓ 事人作信党员工干投教电稿箱老部
HOTTEST TO COLDEST _ Aleksandra Domanovic _ re-re-re-arrangement _ 2008: »Hottest To Coldest«, 2008, is a website that continuously arranges a list of all the worlds national capitals according to their current air temperature: Doha, Muscat, Abu Dhabi, Manama, Riyadh, Kuwait City, Asmara, Tashkent, ...
ANTISOCIAL NOTWORKING _ Geoff Cox (Project Arnolfini) _ networked anti.networking _ 2008: antisocial notworking is a repository of projects that explore the pseudo-agency of online social platforms. It takes a number of recent software projects as its inspiration to reflect upon the fashion for 'participation' with the arts sector and culture
MISSED CONNECTIONS _ Cristobal Mendoza _ participative reading _ 2008: Missed Connections is a 2-channel Internet-aware software piece that continuously fetches the latest posts in the “missed connections” section of Craigslist. Each post is presented one at a time, and is filtered by looking for so-called stopwords.
NUDE STUDIES IN ALEATORIC ENVIRONMENTS _ Pall Thayer _ net.nudity _ 2008: Automated nude studies abstracted through geological intervention. Simultaneous geophysical interpretations of notions of nude-ness in the real-time of natural forces. Tectonic ripples through the core of the Earth.
CONCERTO FOR SELF-ACCOMPANYING DIGITAL SYSTHESIZER _ Laurie Spiegel _ early computer art _ 1977: Possibly the first realtime digital synthesizer, built at Bell Telephone Labs, by Hal Alles and team, with C language software written by Laurie that processes the player's live input into an ongoing accompaniment that will continue to be played live.
POEM FOR 莫海伦 _ Jaka Zeleznikar _ firefox art _ 2007-2008: 莫海伦 (Mo Hailun) is the chinese name of my ex girlfriend. - Works with Firefox 2.0 - 3.0.0.* This webpage and add-on include chinese symbols.
REFACE [PORTRAIT SEQUENCER] _ Golan Levin + Zachary Lieberman _ portrait machine _ 2007: A surreal video mash-up that composes endless combinations of its visitors' faces. Based on the Victorian "Exquisite Corpse" parlor game, the Reface installation records and dynamically remixes brief video slices of its viewers' mouths, eyes and brows.
A NON-MANIFESTO FOR THE SUMMER OF 2008 _ Curt Cloninger _ non new media _ 2008: In the summer of 2008, I want to see more ... Art ... Art ... Art ... Art ... Art ... Art ... Art ... Art ... Art ... Art ... Art ... Art ... Art ... Art ... Art ... Art ... Art ... Art ... Art ... Art ... Art ... Art ... Art ... Art ... Art ... Art ...
CYBERCAFE PHONE IN KINGS X _ Heath Bunting _ communication guerilla _ 1994: During the day of Friday 5th August 1994 the telephone booth area behind the destination board at kings X British Rail station will be borrowed and used for a temporary cybercafe.
(>'.')>=O____l_*__O=<('.'<) _ Oliver Laric _ skypemoticons _ 2008: A short video made by Oliver Laric from the platform VVORK using emotions provided by Skype. The video with 8bit-music is an imitation and alteration of "deep.ASCII" by the ASCII Art Ensemble. Stand back a bit when you watch this version 2.0.
DONATE FOR NOTHING _ unknown artist _ The Original-Non-Sensical-Donate-Your-Money-To-Absolutely-Nothing Website _ unknown dateDONATE FOR NOTHING _ unknown artist _ The Original-Non-Sensical-Donate-Your-Money-To-Absolutely-Nothing Website _ unknown date: Here you can donate your money to absolute nothing. After donating, your name will appear in the list below, along with the amount you've decided to give. We sincerely thank you for contribution and can assure you, you are donating to literally nothing.
DELETE FROM INTERNET _ Erik Borra + Michael Stevenson + Esther Weltevrede _ anti-social webplattform _ unknown date: Have you ever seen a web page unworthy of the Internet? Join the Delete from Internet movement and nominate pages for speedy removal. Help clean up the Web, one irritating flash site at a time ...
404 FILE NOT FOUND _ carlos katastrofsky _ 404 classic _ 2008: I'm sorry but I wasn't able to find the file you were looking for. Possibly you followed an outdated link. Everything can now be found on http://katastrofsky.cont3xt.net/home. Please update your bookmarks.
EXHIBITION 019 | STATEMENT: IS/ISNOT: glocal utterance-isms | “A manifesto is a communication made to the whole world, whose only pretension is to the discovery of an instant cure for political, astronomical, artistic, parliamentary, agronomical and literary syphilis.”
THE _____ MANIFESTO _ Michael Betancourt _ ______ _ 1996: Today, _____ itself is obsolete. In documenting art on the basis of _____: we are human and true for the sake of _____, _____, and _____. At the crossroads of the lights, alert, attentively awaiting _____.
HOW TO WRITE AN AVANT-GARDE MANIFESTO (a Manifesto) _ Lee Scrivner _ metamanifesto _ 2006: An avant-garde manifesto that reviews avant-garde manifestos of the past hundred years, it was taped to the front door of the Institute of Contemporary Arts in London in April of 2006. It was later published online by ICA residents, the London Consortium.
FRACTAL ART MANIFESTO _ Kerry Mitchell _ fractalism _ 1999: As a genre, Fractal Art (FA) has been around for approximately 15-20 years. Its first major public display may be considered to be an article about the Mandelbrot Set published in "Scientific American" in 1985.
STUCKISM MANIFESTO _ The Stuckists (fouders: Philip Absolon + Frances Castle + Billy Childish + Sheila Clark + Eamon Everall + Ella Guru + Wolf Howard + Bill Lewis + Sanchia Lewis + Joe Machine + Sexton Ming + Charles Thomson + Charles Williams) _ stuckis: This is the original 20 point Stuckist Manifesto, stating (point 4) 'Artists who don't paint aren't artists'. Reported in The Times (26.8.99) as 'a revolution waiting to happen', and the starting point of the international Stuckist movement.
OK ART MANIFESTO _ Susie Ramsay + Rafael Lozano-Hemmer _ different/interesting okays _ 2001: OK art is - OK artists make - OK artists really want - "that was OK" - OK art will probably - OK artists are - call yourself an OK artist - OK ideas are - OK art is unlikely - We hate artists that are A-OK - making an OK art movement
MANIFESTOON _ Jesse Drew _ cartoons as subversion _ unknown date: An animated look at Marxian socialism, the goals of those with Marxist ideas, what is wrong with current society. YouTube: http://de.youtube.com/watch?v=AFIqYiaO5qQ
NETART 2.0 _ Pall Thayer _ a manifesto of variable manifestation _ 2006: Netart 2.0 is not - Netart 2.0 is - Netart 2.0 cannot - Netart 2.0 may or may not - Netart 2.0 must - Netart 2.0 reflects - Netart 2.0 is not - Netart 2.0 is not - Netart 2.0 cannot - Netart 2.0 is - Netart 2.0 is not dependent upon The World Wide Web
ÄDAWEB TRUISMS _ Jenny Holzer _ true/false true/false _ unknown date: ACTION CAUSES MORE TROUBLE THAN THOUGHT - ALL THINGS ARE DELICATELY INTERCONNECTED - AT TIMES INACTIVITY IS PREFERABLE TO MINDLESS FUNCTIONING - BOREDOM MAKES YOU DO CRAZY THINGS - CONFUSING YOURSELF IS A WAY TO STAY HONEST - DREAMING WHILE AWAKE IS ...
DIGITAL ISLAM _ Vit Sisler + Dominika Sokol + Tomas Tomanek + Katerina Cechova _ info/research _ unknown date - present: Digital Islam is a research project that focuses on the Middle East, Islam, and digital media. It aims to analyze the various ways in which Islam and Muslim identities are articulated through information and communication technologies and the Internet. It
THE BOMB PROJECT _ Merrill Garnett + Bill Jones _ Joy Garnett _ infoagitprop _ 2000: A comprehensive on-line compendium of nuclear-related links, imagery and documentation and that has gathered together links to nuclear image archives, historical documents, current news, NGOs and activist organizations, government labs, arms treaties ...
NETACRONYMS _ Marisa Olson _ dramacronyms _ 2007: [via vvork] Acronyms, initialisms, and alphabetisms are abbreviations that are formed using the initial components in a phrase or name. These components may be individual letters (as in CEO), and/or syllables and/or parts of words (as in Benelux).
DESKTOPPERFORMANCE _ Florian Kuhlmann _ performative desktopping _ 2008: This work deals with the relationship between the synthetic space [space merged out of our thinking and virtual reality] and the body. Moving a mouse with your hand can be one of the most powerful actions a man can do in the beginning 21 century.
BREATHING IN B FLAT: NET ART REMIX _ Curt Cloninger _ remixed performance _ 2007: This is a web remix of a live performance piece. Each click reloads a new collaged animation and audio. The animations and audio are generative, so each iteration is slightly different. This piece is like a hymn without words.
I GOT YOUR INTERNET EXPLORER RIGHT HERE _ BJ Warshaw _ psychotism _ 2007: An immersive, randomly generated, psychedelic animation backed by a collage of audio loops designed to lovingly fry your eyes and ears. [WILL DESTROY INTERNET EXPLORER! USE FIREFOX INSTEAD]
TEXTARC _ W. Bradford Paley _ textual visual processing _ 2002: Designed to help people discover patterns and concepts in any text by leveraging a powerful resource: human visual processing. It compliments approaches such as Processing and Linguistics by letting intuition help extract meaning from an unread text.
VI-CON _ Luca Bertini _ love-ly viruses _ 2004: Yazna and ++, created by Luca Bertini, are two computer virus in love, roaming from one computer to another computer to find each others. Their passage do not damage computers. Their passage is soft, invisible and extremely fragile.
FORMFELD _ Markus Grellert _ project experiment _ 2000: A text entry form to be used by aynone. Simple Internet art playing with colors, text and interaction. Alternative model found in the archives of FORMFELD: http://input.tofuwurst.org/
ANTWORTEN _ Holger Friese + Max Kossatz _ experimental patience _ 1997: «www.antworten.de» (answers.de) greets the user with a message, for example: «We are now serving 94. You have the number 99; please wait!!!» Then an endless loop of waiting music begins. After 100 seconds, the question appears: «Would you like to write or read something while you wait?» If the user clicks ‹read›, detailed access statistics for ‹antworten.de› since May 31, 97 are called up. The option ‹write› opens a window inviting the user to compose an e-Mail to ‹fragen@antworten.de› (questions@answers.de). After three minutes, the next-highest number in the queue is called. Clever users now estimate the time remaining before it's their turn. But even they are given the answer: «Unfortunately, you are too late. Your old number was 99, your new number is 106». The promising offer turns out to be an automated machine script; hope for an answer is in vain. Waiting is the only communication performed by the communicator. (via: www.medienkunstnetz.de/works/wwwantwortende)
% WRONG BROWSER _ Jodi _ net.deconstructivism "classics" _ 2001: Jodi tries out different looks of the browser screen display and the syntax of the URL, because they like to demonstrate that the "wrong" browser is stronger than the "real" browser.
ADD TO FRIENDS : MY MYSPACE _ Nicolas Frespech _ friendship forever-ing _ 2007-2008: 211525, 211526, 211527, 211528, 211529 friends are many friends, even for MySpace - A loop of friendship about the concept of friendship in social networking platforms for friends.
ATTRIBUTED TEXT _ Thomson and Craighead _ copyappropriated txt _ 1997: A copyright notice first published online in 1997 by Jon Thomson & Alison Craighead, in which each and every word making up the statement is itself an attributed text taken from a variety of copyrighted websites sourced from around the world.
WIIL-N-TESTAMENT _ Olia Lialina _ net.art testament _ unknown date: I give all my real and personal property whatsoever and wheresoever including any property over which I may habe a general power of appointment or disposition by Will to my Trustee to pay thereout all my debts and funeral and testamentary expenses and ...
A FAKE IS A FAKE _ Les Liens Invisibles _ communicart _ 2008: The ultimate platform dedicated to fake publishing, that will finally render your communication strong, incisive, and paradoxical. Thrust your voice beyond the limits of reality and explore the new frontiers of detourning communication.
POOR CAT _ GRAF+ZYX _ interlinked webclip _ 1982-2008: A comix-like graphic design and text-adapted rhythms make up the storyline: Next to music it is the composition and repetition of a minimised symbolism of signs and characters which constitute the clip's individual visual structure.
OPUS MAGNUM _ carlos katstrofsky _ minimalist/maximalist _ 2008: a maximalistic approach to minimal art: shown on this website are nearly 17 million artworks (exactly: 16 777 215 pieces). what you can see below is the randomly chosen preview of one of the artworks (if you reload this page you can see another one).
VALUE _ carlos katstrofsky _ what you give is what you get _ 2008: value asks for the value of an artwork. presented at the the game is up! festival in ghent/belgium in march 2008. the work was made in an edition of 30 pieces for 5 euros each and could be bought at one of the vendingmachines at the vooruit arts centre.
A STOCK MARKET IN LIFE _ Burak Arikan _ immaterial labour _ 2006: A Stock Market in Life is an artistic experiment in immaterial labor and creative market models, which leaded up to a live event featuring sensors, live video feeds, and four connected cities.
META-CONTROL _ Burak Arikan (In collaboration with Ali Demirel) _ kinetic collection _ 2007: Collection of visual/kinetic performative artifacts. These software pieces have a single organizing principle: their control mechanisms are not hidden and often exposed.
OPENSTUDIO _ MIT Physical Language Workshop (Kelly Norton + Amber Frid-Jimenez + Brent Fitzgerald + Annie Ding + Burak Arikan) _ collaborative capitalism _ 2007: An open ended experiment that couples a simple drawing tool with an economy of artists, curators, collectors, dealers and viewers. Members can create and modify drawings, set prices and licenses, exchange and exhibit work, and commission one another.
ANEMICodeCINEMA _ Andy Deck _ media player haters united _ 2008: An interpretation of privatized data streams, digital encryption and encoding mired in secrecy. It's a premonition of future histories lost in translation. Video and audio are often unusable and scrambled for people who do not use the operating system.
NIA NET IMAGE ABSTRACTOR _ Don Relyea _ art generator _ 2008: The concept is simple, it downloads an image from the internet and abstracts it using a variety of systemic and procedural processes and then displays a composite and thumbs of steps to get to the composite.
SYSTEM C _ Marius Watz _ java drawing machine_ 2006-present: System C is a time-based drawing machine, a software system for the creation of rule-based images. Several autonomous agents move over a surface, making marks as they move, as a realtime two-screen projection.
NET.ART CONSULTANTS _ Irational.org (Daniel G. Andújar + Heath Bunting + Kayle Brandon + Marcus Valentine + Minerva Cuevas + Rachel Baker) _ financial support art - 1999-present: Key museums and individual collectors are slowly - but with considerable force - creating the field of net.art economy. With this donation I wish to help create better collections of net.art worldwide, and improve the net.economy.
FLUXFILM NO. 25: THE EVIL FAERIE (1966) attrib. George Landow/Owen Land _ Michael Szpakowski _ re-fluxing cinema _ 2008: (1) click on THIS link | (2) load the film by repeatedly hitting the "next" link at the bottom of each image | (3) when you come to the frame marked LAST, stop | (4) by rapidly and repeadtedly hitting the back button of your browser play the movie.
BOTANICALLS TWITTER _ Kate Hartman + Kati London + Rebecca Bray + Rob Faludi _ twittering first aid _ 2008: A system that was developed to allow plants to place phone calls for human help. When a plant on the Botanicalls network needs water, it can call a person and ask for exactly what it needs.
SPEAKING AT THE WALL _ Chiara Passa _ vocal wall architecture _ 2008: This interactive video installation synthesises the voice into virtual architecture. The spectator’s voice is recorded from a microphone and live time audio-video processed through the software Quartz Composer.
PUBLIC DOMAIN COUNT DOWN _ Ni9e (Fi5e + Max Asare) _ countdowning hiphop _ 2008: A count down to when the intelectual property of Christopher George Latore Wallace (aka The Notorious B.I.G.) will enter the public domain.
DRIVEN - A DILEMMA OF COEXISTENCE _ Marc Garrett + Ruth Catlow _ conversation art _ 2008: Two people attempt to resolve a recurring argument. Their conversation is transcribed into 2 frames in a single browser. Lag starts to interfere with the flow of statements and responses.
DREAM SCREENS _ Susan Hiller _ monochromactic mutilingual stories _ 1996: Ambiguous sound (or text): part recollections, part dream images, part catalogue of collective historical documents. The images are infinite variations on a monochrome field of color, with flickers of light or non-light.
MINI ART DANCE _ Isabel Aranda _ interactive dance _ 2004: Focusing on the human body, digital culture, the recreational and pscychedelic environment, but above all, on ASCII art. The stationary figure includes short phrases, a form of poetry which invites the spectator to interact with her.
PHANTASMA _ Zeitgenossen (Zelko Wiener + Ursula Hentschläger) _ web-trilogy III _ 2003-2005: Phantasma is based on a homogeneous surface that leads into contiguous voice rooms. (Insufficient) obedience is treated as a central motif of human action. (from: http://www.p0es1s.net/)
OUTER SPACE IP _ Zeitgenossen (Zelko Wiener + Ursula Hentschläger) _ web-trilogy II _ 2001-2003: Showing preliminary efforts at integrating voices into linkes visual spaces. It focuses on human disorientation in a hermetic environment supported by technological feasibility. (from: http://www.p0es1s.net/)
BINARY ART SITE _ Zeitgenossen (Zelko Wiener + Ursula Hentschläger) _ web-trilogy I _ 1999-2001: Juggling with the synchronous linking of visual images, texts and sounds. All together it is about the form of inner tranqulity that evolves when one's own sensitivities are no longer shocking (from http://www.p0es1s.net/).
A TIMELINE OF TIMELINES _ Cabinet Magazine _ a very meta service _ 2004: An expanded version of a timeline that appeared in Cabinet's "Histories of the Future" issue with an introduction by Daniel Rosenberg. Although we have not been able to preserve the horizontal design, we have added additional entries for this web version.
WRITING MACHINE _ Geoffrey Shea _ concrete interaction _ unkonown date: A simple interactive tool for creating concrete poetry by using the keybord and sound.
GOOGLE ALERT LOOP _ Jonah Brucker-Cohen _ self-perpetuating mobile _ 2008: "Google Alert Loop" is an art project by Jonah Brucker-Cohen that uses Google's free "Blogger" software and "Google Alerts" to create a blog that auto-publishes based on mentions of Google alert topics sent to a specific email address.
300 IMAGES FROM 1800 SITES _ Ro London _ brainstorming collection-ism _ unknowndate: Arrows, Bullets, Prints, Cards + Bags, Comments, Posts, Errors: The purpose of this document is not to copy the intellectual property of others, but rather as a jumping-off point for your own unique web graphic projects. It's for Brainstorming.
DISTANT _ Marc Garrett _ art as a statement as an art _ 2008: "I wish to return to making Net Art, reconnect to what has always been my favourite form of creativity and expression. The reasons that I have decided to do this is, because I feel that it is time for me to re-explore what Net Art can really be now."
A 256-CHARACTER PROGRAM TO GENERATE POEMS _ Nic Montfort (Grand Text Auto) _ generative poetry program _ 2008: perl -le'sub w{substr("cococacamamadebapabohamolaburatamihopodito",2*int(rand 21),2).substr("estsnslldsckregspsstedbsnelengkemsattewsntarshnknd",2*int(rand 25),2)}{$l=rand 9;print "\n\nthe ".w."\n";{print w." ".substr("atonof",rand 5,2)." ".w;redo if $l--
THE TELEPRESENCE FRAME _ Revital Cohen _ bodily functions display _ unknowndate: The Telepresence Frame is a domestic object which utilises the fact that one’s bodily functions are digitised in order to create a new form of telepresence. Allowing loved ones to be constantly aware of your physical state
DECORATIVE NEWSFEED _ Thomson + Craighead _ decorative information art _ 2004: Using a live feed from the web to present up to the minute headline news from around the world as a series of pleasant animations, allowing viewers to keep informed while contemplating a kind of readymade sculpture or perhaps an automatic drawing.
TABOO THEATER 2.0 _ Ursula Endlicher + Ela Kagel + Anke Zimmermann _ participative blog theater _ 2008: A project that focuses on the question: How much taboo does art need? What will a theater-production face when inviting a global society with diverse approaches towards art, culture, and societal habits, to participate in it?
LA DEFENSE OR INFINITY _ Johanna Tinzl + Stefan Flunger _ kinetic object _ 2006: La Défense oder: ∞ consists of two cameras that work as a self-referential system. Motion detectors analyse the lightness distinctions of the images that are taken by the cameras on the side opposite to each other.
POEME ELECTRONIQUE _ Varèse/ Xénakis/Le Corbusier _ poème électronique _ 1958: VARESE/XENAKIS/LE CORBUSIER : "Poeme Electronique"(1958). Originally performed during the universal exhibition of Bruxelles in 1958. A mix of colors, lights, sounds, voices, images and electroacoustic music.
COMPUTERIZED HAIKU _ Wayne Clements _ re-enhaikument _ 2003: COMPUTERIZED HAIKU is a recreation of a lost poetry writing installation exhibited in 'Cybernetic Serendipity', ICA Gallery, 1968. New software enables users to write Haiku and enter them in an the online archive.
TAKELUMA _ Peter Cho _ kinesthetic responsive installation _ 2005: Takeluma is an invented writing system for representing speech sounds and the visceral responses they can evoke. Takeluma explores the complex relationships between speech, meaning, and writing.
CUMSHOT.CL _ unknownartist _ collecting web mess _ unknowndate: A collection of jpgs, animated gifs, youtube videos, flashsites and related links to pornographic contents as well as to contents related to the many functions of the human body. Special section: http://cumshot.cl/ihateflash/
LOGO.HALLUCINATION _ Christophe Bruno _ collective hallucination _ 2006: Continuously monitoring the images circulating on the Internet looking for hidden logos and sends cease and desist mails whenever a copyright violation is detected. Software based on neural network image recognition.
SONGS TRANSLATED TO BUILDINGS _ Oliver Laric _ songs translated to buildings _ 2008: 3D models of houses created by an architecture firm in Chennai/India, based solely on the songs and lyrics of: "House Where Nobody Lives" by Tom Waits, "Our House" by Crosby, Stills, Nash & Young, "House With No Door" by Van Der Graaf Generator.
ADWORDS HAPPENING _ Christophe Bruno _ How to lose money with your art? _ 2002: A happening, consisting in a poetry advertisement campaign on Google AdWords. Bruno opened an account for $5 and began to buy some keywords. For each keyword you can write a little ad and, instead of the usual ad, he decided to write little "poems".
ETCHASOUND _ Kenichi Okada + Seulki Kang _ interactive vocals _ 2005: EtchASound is an installation inspired by the world famous toy Etch-A-Sketch. By interacting with EtchASound audiences can have the unique experience of drawing with their own voice.
THE MACHINE IS US/ING US _ Micheal Wesch _ 2.0 in 5 minutes _ 2007: Inspired to make this video while writing a paper about web 2.0. Struggling to find a way to put it into words, the YouTube-r decided to make this video to show it rather than tell it.
LOOSING.CTRL _ Israeli Center for Digital Art + Holon (DAL) + NOMAD _ control mechanisms _ 2003: A joint project processing actions and reactions of "control mechanisms" throughout multiple phases. The project started in 2003 with the discovery that both Turkey and Israel have had similar social, political and economical experiences.
SEMIOTIC IDIOMS _ Artsnooze Conceptualista _ imag(e)inations _ unknowndate: Images on this site are, for the most part, historiographic metafictions, elements of which are from personal and family archives and/or the historical record and documentation.
TONE POEM _ Marc Kremers _ broken.art _ unknowndate: Infinite, randomly generated song, based on glitches from a bad taping of Rodox Video Programme 358 by Color Climax Corp.
I WANT TO BE A MACHINE.COM _ Angelo Plessas _ inter/face _ 2008: A simple but playful interactive flash website consisting of two eyes, a nose and a mouth - nothing more?
BREAKING THE NEWS _ Marc Lee _ NJ-ign (news jockey-ing) _ 2007: An interactive installation, transmitting in realtime information from the internet. The user becomes a live performer, a News-Jockey. Try Oamos, a simple Version of NJ for Internet Users: www.oamos.com
LINERS _ Zach Lieberman + Theo Watson _ custom software performance _ unknowndate: A performance that revolves around a simple graphical idea: a line which starts and never ends. Custom software seamlessly mixes together a large series of live and pre-recorded linear expression into a landscape, in which one line leads to the next.
ALEPH REORGANIZING VISION _ Bengt Sjölén + Adam Somlai-Fischer _ kinetic relfection display system _ 2005-2007: Aleph is an experimental public display, that is using the spaces, people and objects it faces as a palette to display messages from hidden viewpoints. When looking at a small mirror, it reflects a fraction of the space around us...
GOOGLE EMOTIONAL INDEX _ Kristina Podesva _ visual indexing _ unknowndate: affection, agony, amusement, anger, anticipation, anxiety, arousal, attraction, awe, boredom, calm, compassion, contentment, dejection, depression, desire, despair, disgust, dissatisfaction, distraction, excitement, fear, frustration, grief etc.
TXT ADVENTURE _ Cool Pants _ txt-gaming _ unknowndate: Before 3D graphics and FPS took over, computer games were a little more literary: An old style text adventure, and attempted to make it playable for the text message generation. The game was projected onto St John's Church in Cardiff.
SMART HOUSE _ G. H. Hovagimyan _ housing utopia _ 2003: Smart House is a video-performance that looks at how a person might interact with the interactive homes and appliances of the future. The format is presented in both straight and interactive DVD. It is proposed as an on-going series of works.
FACES _ VERY USEFUL WEBSITES _ very useful websites _ unknowndate: Very useful websites ranging from Links, Audio Files, Visual Art to McCain and Bush and A Database of Temporary Things as well as a collection of Heros, Assholes.
VISUALIZING THE BIBLE _ Chris Harrison _ bible x-references _ unknowndate: A set of visualizations based on a dataset of cross-references found in the Bible: i.e. a biblical social network. Also visualized is the entire text of the Bible, with biblical names positioned and sized according to their average position in the text.
THE I BUY EVERYTHING EVENT _ Florian Kuhlmann _ a hybrid happening _ 2006: A work about the production, selling and buying of virtual goods in a mixed reality. In December 6th 2007 about 50 people from the international met in Cologne and in SecondLife to build together and sell the produced goods in a happening.
BITCH MUTANT MANIFESTO _ VNS Matrix _ suck my code _ 1996: The atomic wind catches your wings and you are propelled backwards into the future, an entity time travelling through the late C20th, a space case, an alien angel maybe, looking down the deep throat of a million catastrophes.
MYPOCKET _ Burak Arikan _ media exhibitionism _ 2007: Disclosing personal financial records to the world by exploring and revealing essential patterns in the daily transactions of his bank account. Archived on the site, the artist's spending history is analyzed by the custom software to predict the future.
EXHIBITION 018 | STATEMENT: SPA/M/ODE: the desire of economics | With works by: monochrom, Alex Dragulescu, Ethan Ham, Tony Muilenburg, David Chien, The Brothers MacLeod, Michael Mastrototaro, Sabine Maier, Tim Steer
SPAM, THE ECONOMY OF DESIRE _ Alessandro Ludovico _ Neural.it :: media culture, hacktivism _ 2006: Spam, as one of the inescapable communication phenomena of our times, is a lively part of our everyday infoscape. Spam is extremely pervasive and effective for billions of persons whose personal and open communication door is constituted by ...
CALL FOR EVERYTHING _ monochrom _ spam required _ 2007: Call: "We are looking for articles, essays, graphics, cartoons, cut-up stuff for the next multi-issue of our non-commercial yearbook series "monochrom"."
SPAM ARCHITECTURE _ Alex Dragulescu _ real life approaches _ 2006: The images are generated by a computer program that accepts as input, junk email. Various patterns, keywords and rhythms found in the text are translated into three-dimensional modeling gestures.
PHONETHICA _ Nao Tokui + Takumi Endo _ language database/encyclopedia _ 2006-Present: Project Phonethica is an interdisciplinary art project, which explores the world through the phonetics of language. Combining scientific technology with art, Project Phonethica maps out the diversity and similarity of the worlds 6,000 existing languages.
EMAIL EROSION _ Ethan Ham + Tony Muilenburg _ erosive ambient art _ 2005: Automatically created sculptures out of biodegradable, starch-based foam using spam and email as stimuli. Based on an email, the Eroder may elect to rotate the foam, raise or lower the Sprayer, or erode the foam with a spray of whater.
CALL _ Germaine Koh _ publicommunication _ 2006: A vintage telephone on a countertop in a public place accessible to a wide range of people. The phone's dial has been replaced with an LCD screen that informs the viewer that when he picks up the receiver he will be connected with a random participant.
CODECHAT _ Pall Thayer _ meta chat _ 2007: A chat system based around code and is intended as a means to discuss the conceptual and aesthetic implications of coding methods in computer-based works of art.
SPAMGRAFFITI 1113919364 _ David Chien _ web-based spam installation _ 2004: A series of online installations created from email spam: Each environment is created by spooling through a separate email account and visually tagging the twenty-five most recent spam messages on a webpage
VOYEUR _ Salvatore Iaconesi [xDxD] _ info-aesthetic voyage _ 2008: An info-aesthetic voyeuristic voyage into software automas: Each automa interacts with each other through forces based on proximity. The on-screen representation shows the automa's trajectories and the generated force fields.
TXTUAL HEALING _ Paul Notzold _ real world tagging _ 2005-Present: An SMS Enabled Interactive Street Performance SInce 2005: Use your mobile phone to engage your public space. Tell a story or express what you want through text messaging in the streets. All messages are uncensored and appear in about 10 - 20 seconds.
TYPOSPERMA _ Oded Ezer _ bio.art _ unknowndate: The main idea of the 'Typosperma' project was to create some sort of new transgenic creatures, half (human) sperm, half letter. These imaginary creatures are cloned sperms, that typographic information has been implanted into their DNA.
EXHIBITION 017 | STATEMENT: W.V.VV - Witty Video VVork | Oliver Laric was born in 1981 in Istanbul (Turkey) and currently lives and works in Berlin (Germany). He studied at the University of Applied Arts Vienna and is one of the co-founders of the platform VVORK.
SPAMLAND#3 _ The Brothers McLeod _ spam.film _ 2006: The dialogue for Spamland comes from the semi-sensical text found in the filter-busting portion of spam messages. So what to do with those pesky spam emails - we've dramatised them!
SPAMLAND#2 (redux) _ The Brothers McLeod _ spam.film _ 2006: The dialogue for Spamland comes from the semi-sensical text found in the filter-busting portion of spam messages. So what to do with those pesky spam emails - we've dramatised them!
SPAMLAND#1 _ The Brothers McLeod _ spam.film _ 2006: The dialogue for Spamland comes from the semi-sensical text found in the filter-busting portion of spam messages. So what to do with those pesky spam emails - we've dramatised them!
TESÃO _ Eduardo Kac _ videotext minitel _ 1985/86: Videotext (minitel) animated poem shown online in the group exhibition Brazil High-Tech (1986), a national videotext art gallery organized in Rio de Janeiro by Eduardo Kac and Flavio Ferraz and presented by Companhia Telefônica de São Paulo.
THE MANIFESTO OF COMPUTER ART _ Tamas Waliczky _ manifesto _ 1989: I.) Computer Art has not come into existence yet. --- The "Manifesto of Computer Art" was performed first time at the IMAGINA festival (Monte Carlo), and published in the catalog of the DIGITART II. exhibition (Budapest).
TV POETRY _ Gebhard Sengmüller _ re-interpreting television _ 2004: Combined with precisely adjusted receiving equipment, the experimental set-up TV POETRY rapidly scans the various television transmissions it receives (commercials, news, quiz shows, etc.) for text passages visible on the screen.
SPAM/MAPS: OCEANIA _ Michael Arcega _ spamapping the world _ 2007-Present: A series of maps made of Spam luncheon meat. Spam was used as ration by the United States Armed Forces during WWII. It ultimately spread through many Pacific Island nations as a standard source of meat.
ART INITIALS _ Martin Koncilja _ (art on the) Internet.art? _ 2007: 676 initials = 676 paintings = 1 global village. All art initials are unique and painted as a picture (frame size 30cm x 30cm x 1.8cm). The initials and the demand for the paintings determine the price.
SORTED BOOK PROJECT _ Nina Katchadourian _ re-ordering books _ 1993-Present: The process is the same in every case: culling through a collection of books, pulling particular titles, and eventually grouping the books into clusters so that the titles can be read in sequence, from top to bottom.
DISORGANISER _ Jaka Zeleznikar _ firefox add-on art project _ 2007: In itself, the work Razorganizator / Disorganiser has no appearance. Its core consists of a collection of computer-executable instructions that can manipulate images on any given web page.
VIVA LA VULVA GOES MARS _ Christina Goestl _ typo animation _ 2004: Typography normally is used to highlight text-passages. But, in the digital realm, typography goes beyond formal expression and gets its own meaning by beeing reconstructed in multifaceted ways. See also: http://del.icio.us/TAGallery/VIVA_LA_VULVA
MOVING PIXEL SELFPORTRAIT _ Oliver Laric _ self portrait _ 2006: A selfprotrait of the artist: change window size of your browser to change the image)
50 50 _ Oliver Laric _ amateur/video-mashup _ 2007: A reconstruction of a song originally perfomed by 50Cent (http://ww.myspace.com/50cent): The video consists of 50 "found" amateur-videos, performing the song, and reconstructed properly.
KAPITAAL _ Studio Smack (Ton Meijdam + Thom Snels + Béla Zsigmond) _ devisualisation video _ 2005: A black and white video trip to Amsterdam's subway. The reality shown is only constructed by the textual components of our environment: newspapers, instructions, ads, ads, ads.
THIS IS MY BEAUTIFUL DOMAIN (...) _ Lev Manovich _ domain poetry _ 2003: This is my beautiful domain. One day I'll be gone, but it will remain. By Lev Manovich. Written for Domainpoets.com, March 2003
TEXT(E)SPACE _ Joao Fernando Ignasi Nunes _ intertext _ unknowndate: text(e)space is an interactive textual structure. the system transfers a dynamic interface into a verbal/textual landscape, which is constructed by itself in form of an interaction processus with the text.
FEED _ Mark Napier _ anti.browser _ unknowndate: FEED consumes the web. A play on the technical term "data feed", FEED does not supply information, it consumes information, reducing structure, meaning and content to a stream of text and pixels. An anti-browser, FEED unravels the web.
MISSPELLER _ John Maeda _ mispaliier _ 2007: I'm sounyiething ouf a fanahhtyc vhen yt coumyos to sqylyng. Yn ryiecent years I vish thaht I dydm't hehve to live wyth thys kuourse ahhs yt wouould make my lyyfe more liwahble.
EMAIL GOD _ Stewdio (collective) _ oneway prayers _ unknowndate: Your email to God will be added to our list of recent prayers. Some send words of worship, while others cry out to Him in their time of need: "Please Lord Jesus, help me be successful."
QUOTE ME! _ Garrett Lynch _ busy communication art _ 2006: Quote me! is a work, triggered by users to its web page, that reuses quotes and the date they were expressed from various online sources for the busy new media artist who hasn't time.
TRANSLATE.ORG.ZA _ nonprofit org _ opensource software translation project _ 2001-Present: Welcome to Translate.org.za, a non-profit organisation focused on the localisation, or translation, of Open Source software into South Africa's 11 official languages.
PRIVILEGES _ Diane Landry _ flip book installation _ 2006: Diane Landry's installation 'Privileges' consists of the readymade object 'book' semantic alteration. A dictionary is in fact changed into an automated flip book in order to animate the education privileges metaphor.
TYPETRACE _ Takumi Endo + Shinya Matsuyma _ typing memorizer _ 2006: TypeTrace is a software that memorizes the way you type: Language is the most basic media we all exploit in every day life. The work records and plays back the act of typing along a timeline.
TAGGING THE CITY _ Ludic Society (Margarethe Jahrmann / Max Moswitzer) _ r.eal.fid game _ 2007: The situatedness of this pervasive play is given by the use of mobile computing devices. RFID tags, both as implant on real players and on real world objects integrate the so called “Internet of Things” in a new game format of useless Zero objects.
HTML-CSS MALEVITCH _ Codemanipulator _ transhistoric appropriation _ 2001: HTML Malevitch is a simple appropriation of Malevitch's famous "Black Square" from 1915. More that 80 years later its concept was transformed to the digital online medium by Codemanipulator using very simple HTML-CSS-structures to rebuild the work (twice)
SUPPORT A RANDOM ARTIST _ Mark E Grimm _ random.help.art _ unknowndate: Content-less domains can be 'parked' with advertising companies such as 'parked.com'. All domains linked from this page are owned by established and emerging artists mostly working in the 'net.art' tradition.
E-BAY LANDSCAPE _ Carlo Zanni _ online environment _ 2004: Mountains are generated grabbing e-bay, plants are cut from the first image available at CNN, etc. E-BAY LANDSCAPE is an online environment based on concepts such as contemporary identity (IP presence) and data lanscape-(ebay stock quote).
COMMUNITY TOPOGRAPHIES _ Christan Marc Schmidt + Maki Tsuchiya _ visualized com.unities _ 2007: Branded communities, in their attempt to formalize sense of place, are not only the latest chapter in the ongoing narrative of the ideal or utopian city; they are also the outcome of a changing relationship between identity and community.
WE ARE THE CHAMPIONS _ Matthieu Clainchard _ championism _ unknowndate: “We are the champions” champions champions champions champions champions champions champions champions champions champions champions champions champions champions champions champions champions champions champions champions champions champions ...
I SHOT ANDY WARHOL _ Cory Arcangel _ art. g(h)a(ck)mers _ 2002: The object of the hacked gameis to aim a plastic pistol at the screen and hit the Andy Warhol icon whenever it pops up in the alley, while avoiding hitting the Pope, Colonel Sanders, and Flavor Flav icons. The game ends when you've made 10 misses.
DIARY OF A STAR _ Eduardo Navas _ blogging theory _ 2004-2007: Diary of a Star is a critical take on blogging that appropriates selections from the Andy Warhol Diaries. This project started on 2/28/2004 and ended on 12/31/2007.
OOBJECT _ The Wist Design Network _ billboard charts for gadgets _ unknowndate-Present: Oobject is a curation site: A new Oobject chart almost every day ... like Billboard Charts for gadgets. Newsfeed: http://www.oobject.com/feed/?sortby=posted
KIERA WALKING _ Julian Opie _ animated girls _ unknowndate: Kiere walking (in black mini-suite) and walking, and walking, and walking ...
SARA DANCING _ Julian Opie _ animated girls _ unknowndate: Sara dancing (in black shirt and yelloy mini-skirt) and dancing, and dancing, and dancing ...
SHAHNOZA DANCING IN BRA AND PANTS _ Julian Opie _ animated girls _ unknowndate: Shahnoza dancing in bra and pants and dancing, and dancing, and dancing...
P2P ART _ Anders Weberg _ ephemeral p2p-ing _ 2006-ongoing: Experimental films made for—and only available on—peer to peer networks. The original artwork is first shared by the artist until one other user has downloaded it. After that the artwork will only be available for as long as other users share it.
NET.TV _ Garrett Lynch _ browserart _ 2006: A cross between a browser and a streaming media player designed to view the internet as it really is, code or markup. It makes no attempt to interpret the code, instead it displays the code as an audio-visual stream of indeterminate length.
NANO _ Michael Mastrototaro + Sabine Maier (machfeld) + programming (Alessandro Capozzo) _ spam visualisation _ 2005: An automated data synchronisation enables an overview of current virus and spam activities. Since the beginning of the project, viruses and spam are collected from a project server in a database and visualized. Part of the project series VISP.
WEBFACES _ Reynald Drouhin _ schizophrenia _ 2004: A perpetual schizophrenic portrait of the Internet, the Internet thought as an entity, searched by an engine an continuously re-composed.
APARTMENT _ Marek Walczak + Martin Wattenberg _ semarchitecture _ 2001: As the user types, rooms begin to take shape in the form of a two-dimensional plan, similar to a blueprint. The architecture is based on a semantic analysis of the viewer's words, reorganizing them to reflect the underlying themes they express.
LIFE SUPPORT _ Annette Weintraub _ amalgam architecture _ 2003: LIFE SUPPORT explores this symbolic coding of space and its underlying mythologies and draws upon depictions of medical spaces in advertising, popular culture and film and their reintegration into this vocabulary of space.
VENUS#1 _ Antoine Schmitt _ sound creatures _ 2003: Venus #1 dances on music. She prefers jazz, classical, electro and slow techno. Insert a CD in your computer, or play music in the microphone, Venus #1 will like it. In silence she waits while wandering slowly, in her own way.
SEMANTICVJ _ Eurgenio Tisselli _ vj/tool _ 2003: the tool for lazy vj's: just type the word that describes the images you want, press enter, and let the machine do the rest. and if you can get a dj (it should be quite easy) you can make the images dance to the >>>beat<<<
SYNONYMOVIE _ Eugenio Tisselli _ semantic chain reactions _ 2004: A machine that creates automatic movies whose argument is based on a single word, and is developed algorithmically by a chain of semantic relations. The visual material for these movies are images that can be found in any corner of the Internet.
EXHIBITION 016 | STATEMENT: t.www.it.140 | Social Networks such as MySpace, Facebook, Flickr, Orkut, Liveleak, YouTube, Twitter and Pownce aren't prefaced on pre-set connotative connections maintained through historicized emotional depth or satisfied by biological drives.
CULTURE MAP _ Andy Deck _ visualisation of no content _ 2000: Part visualization and part abstraction, CultureMap is an imaging system that depicts the evolving content of the Web. Using data collected from search engines, it produces an interactive image that reflects the prevalence of various words in the pages of
AKOUSMAFLOR _ Grégory Lasserre + Anaïs met den Ancxt _ garden art _ 2006: A garden made with real musical and interactive plants or flowers. Each plant reacts to the human touch of a spectator by a specific sound language. When the spectators caress the plants, they start to sing.
CAMERA OBSCURA 1-Inf _ Przemek Zajfert + Burkhard Walther _ conceptual allusions _ 2005: Camera Obscura 2005/1-Inf is a worldwide project in which two holes of a twin-holed pinhole camera are being auctioned simultaneously on Ebay every week. This project is dedicated to the polish artist Roman Opalka and his work 1965/1-∞
GRAMMATRON _ Mark America _ early hypertext _ 1993-1997: "Amerika's work exemplifies how online literary creations are developing into an entire multi-media experience...hypertext works like GRAMMATRON are far a few between." (Wired)
RETICULA _ Salvatore Iaconesi [xDxD] _ software img _ 2006: A virtual being with a reticular structure moves along the components of the frames captured using the camera. The automa's sensibility to color and movement configurations creates visual representations of its perception of the field of view.
ZAIRE _ Robert V Wodzinski _ jpgmess _ unknowndate: The flag of Zaire (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Image:Flag_of_Zaire.svg) messed up in jimpunk-style and used as an allusion to Mark Napier's net.flag (http://netflag.guggenheim.org/netflag/).
WEBCHAT WITH ANDY _ Oliver Laric _ mediumistic web.chat tape _ 2007: A conversation with Andy Warhol, contacted through a psychic with mediumistic abilities via webchat, Sunday, September 2, 2007 -- Interview commissioned by Blend Magazine/Stedelijk Museum Amsterdam
LA MANO IZQUIERDA _ Oliver Laric _ bodily video persecution _ 2007: A video following Hugo Chávez's left hand (la mano izqierda) while directing one of his speeches about the "new socialist idea" to the audience.
DISPERSE. EXCLAMATORY PHASE _ Les Liens Invisibles _ re-actualisations _ unknowndate: Based on the masterpiece "Verification uncertain" by Alberto Grifi and Gianfranco Baruchello Les Liens Invisibles are reinterpreting and re-actualizing the original deconstructive action, picking up where the two artists left off.
STOP MOTION STUDIES _ David Crawford _ moving.photo study _ 2003: It is said that 90% of human communication is non-verbal. In these photographs, the body language of the subjects becomes the basic syntax for a series of animations exploring movement, gesture, and algorithmic montage.
2.4_INTERFERENCE_INTERACTION _ Michelle Teran (Ubermatic.org) _ live video performance _ 2006: A live performance event which took place in Toronto, Canada. Wireless cameras, bicycles used as mobile broadcast units, and monitors installed in various commercial public locations such as stores, banks and cafes were employed.
ANIMATED DAILY EXCEL DRAWINGS _ Danielle Aubert _ animated excel _ 2005-Present: Microsoft Excel normally designed to track and compute information, is here used as a drawing tool. Each drawing is in a new 'worksheet,' which is automatically set up as a grid and animated as Daily Excel Drawings.
58 DAYS WORTH OF (...) _ Danielle Aubert _ excel drawings _ 2005-Present: Microsoft Excel normally designed to track and compute information, is here used as a drawing tool. Each drawing is in a new 'worksheet,' which is automatically set up as a grid.
D, E, G, A _ Aleksandra Domanovic _ musical portraits _ 2007: Mainly a video-work "D, E, G, A" includes literary and musical strategies for the creation of portraits. Aleksdandra Domanovic mixes up arstic approaches to one of the basic subjects of art-history: the human beeing.
#006 Re: AN E-MAIL CONVERSATION WITH MARK EDWARD GRIMM: Issue #006 of Re: MAGAZINE deals with the artistic work of Mark E. Grimm which—covering different contexts evaluated by conventional criterias—could be considered as undecisive.
EXHIBITION 015 | STATEMENT: SOLO/Mark Edward Grimm: Undecisive Contexts | In his works Mark E. Grimm covers different contexts which—evaluated by conventional criterias—could be considered as undecisive.
VARIOUS EXHIBITIONS | TAGGER: carlos katastrofsky: carlos katastrofsky is an artist based in Vienna and co-founder of the platform CONT3XT.NET
UNDER LANGUAGE _ Stuart Moulthrop _ textual gaming _ 2007: "Under Language" is the latest of the artist's series of textual instruments, a term I borrowed from John Cayley many years ago to describe things that might look like literature, but also like structures for play, though not necessarily what we would cal
100 ANTI-THESES _ Old Boys Network _ cyberfeminist international _ 1997: "First Cyberfeminist International, Kassel, 1997" from "1. cyberfeminism is not a fragrance" to "100. cyberfeminism has not only one language"
THE SONIC MAP OF BATTERSEA PARK _ Gaya Gajewska _ sonic flash art _ 2007: Flash and a notion of soundscape navigable in a Web browser: It aims to transport an Internet user to the London park to experience its complexity, cosmopolitanism, vibrancy and sense of enjoyment, using sound clips and minimal graphics.
LOVE-POTION _ glorious ninth (Kate Southworth + Patrick Simons) _ distributed performance _ 2007: love-potion is a distributed performance artwork in three phases that uses borage herbs, seeds, magic spells, aural-visual trans-narratives and DIY installations. Knowledge and memories of one element are transported across to another and back again.
THE EXCHANGE _ Mark E Grimm _ information conversations _ 2000: This 15 minutes film is about information 'exchanges'. The information is represented by 'painted boxes'. The main character goes through a series of doorways and halls. He must pass through a system 'gate' represented by a 'receptionist'.
SKY GARDEN _ Mark E Grimm _ guerrilla gardening _ 2003: A Guerrilla Gardening Research Experiment in the Manhattan Urban Terrain. In collaboration with 'socialmediagroup', we grew a garden on the roof of an 11 story building in upper Manhattan without authorization.
VOZ/NET _ Clemencia Echeverri _ the Other's sound _ 2007: Voz/net is meant as a metaphor for the difficulties in hearing, listening to and recognizing the Other in prison. It proposes a navegation as the process to track voices and sounds of Colombian prisoners in British jails, and of the El Buen Pastor house o
ABE AND MO SING THE BLOGS!!!! _ Abe Linkoln + Marisa Olson _ re-blogging self-reflexivity _ 2006: Selecting the postings that comprise the greatest "hits" of some of their favorite blogs, Abe Linkoln & Marisa Olson "sing the blogs" in order to address these questions.
VIRTUAL REAL-ESTATE _ Mark E Grimm _ single squatted domain names _ 2004: Several domains were randomly registered by others via 'bulk register'. Sites sat content-less for several months. Sites were mapped to our Gentoo servers. Content played upon the given site title.
SELF-PORTRAIT ABSTRACTOR _ Visakh Menon _ viewer as creator _ 2007: An interactive video installation that uses real time video capture and motion detection. The image is created based on user input and random parameters and toys with the idea of “viewer as creator”.
PORTRAITURE _ judsonN _ random portraits _ 2007: This program takes in an image, determines the main colors, then creates 2 random compositions using variously shaped rectangles. The rendition that is closest to the original is saved.
ART'S BIRTHDAY _ Robert Filiou _ eternal network _ 1963: An annual exchange-art event celebrated on January 17th by a loose collection of artists and artist organizations around the world.
ANALOG PIXELS _ Mark E Grimm _ situational experiments _ 2001: Experiments in creating physical pixels for use in installations, interactivity and situations. Creating flat painted surfaces that were devoid of brush strokes and photographs that were devoid of objects for use in gallery installations.
FACEBOOK IS STARTING TO (...) _ Tom Scheinfeldt _ panic attack _ 2007: Twitter: Facebook is starting to scare me. I think I'm going to start using Twitter more and Facebook less. / 11:50 AM November 30, 2007 from im / Tom Scheinfeldt
EXHIBITION 014 | STATEMENT: Allusions or: Histo/Reconstruction | Where is the exact date of birth of Internet-based Art: In 1994? In the mid-1980ies? In the 1950/60ies?
787 CLIPARTS _ Oliver Laric _ found footage mashup _ 2006: A 1:05 minutes video loop: found footage cliparts remixed to a study of movement and anatomy compareable with Eadweard Muybridge's Animal Locomotion (http://www.acmi.net.au/AIC/plate99small.jpg).
TERMS + CONDITIONS _ Burak Arikan _ legal letter/poetry _ 2007: Terms & conditions of five social web services are re-written using a custom typeface. The resulting images are generated by three processes: typing the words, the program deciding on the size of each letter and the instructions for the fonts.
MUTUAL TAGallery | KiberDzezva: Grupa umjetnika i kustosa iz Beča, šire poznata po svom internetskom identitetu - CONT3XT.NET – početkom je ove godine pokrenula TAGallery .
MUTUAL TAGallery | Dispositivos de Visibilidade e Subjetividade Contemporânea: Dois projetos reportados no Rhizome lidam com as relações entre arte, artista e curadoria no âmbito dos mecanismos de busca e de ordenação da informação na Internet. (...) A TAGallery e o coletivo CONT3XT.NET realizam um experimento ...
SUNRISE(UNTITLEDSCROLL#2) _ Chris Collins _ retro netart _ 2007: Scrolling is the only form of interativity in Chris Collins work, who seems to explore the eary works of Internet Art by rebuilding it in 2007: An eternal sunrise in screensaver-aesthetics.
UNENDLICH, FAST... _ Holger Friese _ blue screen/black box _ 1996: "If Yves Klein produced work on the Internet..." (Tilman BAUMGÄRTEL), originally archived at: http://www.ntticc.or.jp/Archive/2005/art_meets_media/Mediaonline/netart.html#09
EVEN. _ Tim Steer _ spam translation/devirtualisation _ 2007: A5 limited edition booklet with text from spam emails opposite 7 photographs scanned on the same day as receiving the emails. 25 copies made (a selection of copies are avaliable to purchase online at £10 each).
3012 _ Peter Luining _ shockwave experiments _ 1997-1999: experiments with sound & images: 37-12/ dot a717 --- 44-28/ op- key #4 --- 44-31/ optical synth 2.0 ---
FINSTRE SCHWARZE RIESENFALTER _ Denis Santelli _ poetry/music translation _ 2005: A random visualisation of Albert Girauds "De sinistres, de noirs papillons géants" ("Finstre schwarze Riesenfalter" Otto Erich Hartleben), Arnold Franz Walter Schoenberg , "Nacht (Passacaglia)" , op. 21 no. 8 (1912), Pierrot lunaire, no. 8
TO SPIN ART HISTORY _ Eva Schindling (evsc) _ d/r.econstructive art history _ 2006: Small moving agents are told to construct paintings of the old masters on a framed digital canvas. A constant spinning and whirling of lines on the screen results in a rather slow buildup of recognizable paintings that often re-starts from the beginning.
IP MONOCHROME _ Reynald Drouhin _ pixel appropriation _ 2006: Connecting to IP monochrome, a monochrome is generated, using the user's IP address. Without asking, the artist transforms the user in a creator, in the author of an unknown monochrome, since no one can anticipate the colour that will come out.
CODE 128/JESUS/BOOK OF REVELATION _ Scott Blake _ Bar Code Art _2001: Individual words from the Book of Revelation are bar-codes to paint a portrait of Jesus. This face has been completely engineered to "make him the ultimate poster boy for selling God's word".
EXHIBITION_013 | STATEMENT: EyeMotion: "all form is a face loooking at us" | When the individual thinks he is casting an objective eye upon himself, he is, in the final analysis, comtemplating nothing other than the result of perpetual transactions with the subjectivity of others.
EXHIBITION_012 | STATEMENT: SOLO/Mary-Anne Breeze: dam(b)a({n}d{a})ged poetry | How can one image the process of creation of mezangelle, the way you are working on those semantically concentrated but syntactically not fixed texts?
WONDERING WHY (...) _ Dirk Vekemans _ autoquestions _ 2007: Twitter: wondering why it's 140 characters / 11:18 AM September 08, 2007 from web / Dirk Vekemans
TRANSBORDER IMMIGRATION TOOL _ Ricardo Dominguez + Brett Stalbaum + Micha Cárdenas + Jason Najarro _ border politics _ 2007: The border between the U.S. and Mexico has moved between the virtual and the all too real since before the birth of the two nation-states. This has allowed a deep archive of suspect movement across this border to be traced and tagged ...
NIKE GROUND _ 0100101110101101.ORG _ fake guerilla hallucination _ 2003: The news went out nationwide: "Karlsplatz, one of Vienna’s main squares, is soon to be renamed Nikeplatz. Apart from the new name, it appears that a huge monument in the shape of Nike’s famous “Swoosh” logo will be built in Nikeplatz."
CECI N'EST PAS UN NIKE _ Giselle Beiguelman _ paticipative online creation_ 2002: Online creation and its conditions: The work's point of departure is the conceptual confusion between interface and surface. Magritte's pipes are its strongest referencs and it updates the discussion about the differences between image and representation.
EXHIBITION_011 | STATEMENT: Carlos Katastrofsky is the pseudonym for the Vienna-based Media Artist Michael Kargl who was born in Tyrol in 1975. He studied "Sculpture" at the University Mozarteum Salzburg.
RETORICA _ Peter Bogers _ video _ 1992: Two monitors are suspended in mid-air and face each other at an angle, one higher than the other. On the lower monitor we see a close-up of part of a man's face, on the upper one, a close-up of part of a baby's face.
LOST SOULS _ Marina Abramovic _ video _ 1997: Originally part of the installation 'Spirit House' (Abramovic 1997), 'Lost Souls' is currently part of Abramovic's 'Video Portrait Gallery'. The single-channel work shows the artist, who slowly, very slowly, covers her eyes with her hands.
RAUM SEHEN UND RAUM HÖREN _ VALIE EXPORT _ video _ 1974: The artist is standing in an empty room. There is no sound. Then, suddenly, there is a pulse, which varies in pitch and pace, changing with the image. The pulse seems to attach itself to her. They become one.
EYE WATCHING _ Nan Hoover _ video _ 1984: The watching eye itself becomes the subject of perception rather than what it sees. Almost as if it were a landscape, the eye is closely observed through the lens of a camera which, as an optical instrument, is also effectively an eye.
EYE WAT CHING _ Lous America _ video _ 1981: America's early video performances have her own body as a central focus. In the work 'Eye Wat Ching', we are immediately introduced to the face of the artist looking directly into the camera, confronting the viewer, openly, unwavering and clear.
LEFTSIDE RIGHTSIDE _ Joan Jonas _ video _ 1974: In Left Side Right Side, Joan Jonas makes use of a mirror and the properties of the medium of video to investigate her own body and self image in an ingenious manner. Left Side Right Side is built up out of close-ups.
[GRUPPE_OR-OM] _ Gruppe_Or-Om _ theory portal _ unknowndate-Present: Austria-based, virtual/non-profit web-portal for theory and universalistic evolution broaching issues like: deductive art, extended art, avatars, netcubism, logoliberation, postmodernism, netpolitics, the googlegoose, "allkunst", etc.
LASTWISHES _ Carlos Katastrofsky _ mailman absurdity _ 2007: LastWishes is a slightly modified version of a mailman-list. It lets you subscribe and receive messages as usual, but you can post only once. after posting you will be immediately unsubscribed. The topics are completely open.
NETART FOR POOR PEOPLE _ Carlos Katastrofsky _ Internet-statistics clash _ 2006: Marisa Olson (Rhizome.org) about the work: "Was it just a formal and/or conceptual way to encapsulate an external link? A comment on the lost (ie people/ sites) and/or loss (financial/ informational)?"
MUTUAL TAGallery | tom moody » Loops, Rings, Circles and Infinity: Thanks to Michelle Kasprzak for including my work in a del.icio.us TAGallery exhibition she curated--the title of the exhibit is "Loops, Rings, Circles and Infinity."
KATSTAT _ Carlos Katastrofsky _ identity research _ 2005-2006: A "daily self portrait as searchengine result": Google search results are used for a daily portrait of searchengine-results - Statistical data about the artist himself.
HTML MALEVITCH _ Codemanipulator _ transhistoric appropriation _ 1996: HTML Malevitch is a simple appropriation of Malevitch's famous "Black Square" from 1915. More that 80 years later its concept was transformed to the digital online medium by Codemanipulator using very simple HTML-structures to rebuild the work.
TYPES.OF.uND.fINEABLE.wARE[Z] _ Mary-Anne Breeze _ floating visual po.m 2 _ unknowndate: _Types.of.Und.Fineable.Ware[z]_.: Wurk 2 in the W[n]e[t]b.Wurks_Series
_ID_XOR.CISM_ _ Mary-Anne Breeze _ floating visual po.m 1 _ unknowndate: ID_Xor-cism.: Wurk 1 in the W[n]e[t]b.Wurks_Series
LINguiDITY FUNCTION _ Mary Anne Breeze _ mez.angell.d email-communication _ unknowndate: \email trawling collaborative --- director f-fort [with gary zebington].: --- LinGUIdity Funct ion
MUTUAL TAGallery | The Hive: (...) TAGallery and other initiatives use the growing scope of social software and tools that are out there as drivers for cultural discourse.
!MEDIENGRUPPE BITNIK _ !Mediengruppe Bitnik _ media collective _ 2003-Present: !Mediengruppe Bitnik is a media collective which works on the production and the imparting of mediacultural projects. Bitniks main focus is to investigate digital and analog media and the impact they have on society.
MUTUAL TAGallery | in-vacua.com: TAGallery linked by Wayne CLEMENTS, a visual artist and a writer living in London.
MUTUAL TAGallery | :::::::::1º congreso internacional art tech media: 001_dead.art(-missing!)LINKreSources linked as NET ART PROJECT
MUTUAL TAGallery | Intute: Arts and Humanities: It is a simple procedure and TAGallery has extended it to create a new concept in online art exhibitions. The gallery uses the del.icio.us website to create its exhibitions. These are themed, examples being electonic literature and 'dead art'.
001010A.LIVE-ART(LINKRESOURCE) _ CONT3XT.NET _ tagging/exhibition _ 2007: Despite the initial statement of "dead.art", TAGallery reflects in its last official exhibition with the titel "001010a.live-art(LINKreSource)" the process of development which has been run through with the curatorial platform during the past months.
FWD:RE:RE:RE:RE:RE:_REDIRECT _ !Mediengruppe Bitnik _ tagging/exhibition _ 2007: FWD:Re:Re:Re:Re:Re: Redirect or how to challenge an existing semiotic regime by finding ways to interact with the system constituting it.
EXHIBITION_009 | TAGGER: !Mediengruppe Bitnik - #!/usr/bin/doma: The Zurich based !Mediengruppe Bitnik is an arts collective which works in the development of media art projects. Bitniks main focus is to investigate digital and analog media and the impact they have on society.
EXHIBITION_009 | STATEMENT: FWD:Re:Re:Re:Re:Re: Redirect or how to challenge an existing semiotic regime by finding ways to interact with the system constituting it.
(P) LOT _ Michael Rakowitz _ public camping _ 2004: Camping on a parking place - (P) LOT questions the occupation and dedication of public space and encourages reconsiderations of "legitimate" participation in city life. via WMMNA
GOING PUBLIC _ Gianni Motti _ redundancy performance _ 2003: Gianni Motti followed a reporter team from a local newspaper around, slipping into pictures for sports, politics and the arts articles with the aim of multiplying and spreading himself throughout the media in an attempt to find himself.
WE'RE NOT GONNA TAKE IT! _ Amos Latteier _ interactive public art _ 2006: We're Not Gonna Take It is an interactive public art project that allows you to record your own protest songs using the telephone.
BORDERXING GUIDE_ Heath Bunting _ transborder net.art _ 2002: Documentation of walks that traverse national boundaries, without interruption from customs, immigration, or police. People wishing to view the website must physically travel to one of the listed designated locations, or apply to become authorised.
VARIATIONS ON A THEME BY CASEY & FINCH _ Erik Bünger _ sound/video _ 2002: Recreating the sound of a CD that got stuck - the chorus line of the disco tune 'That’s the way I like it' is chopped into small fragments, the fragments rearranged and the result written out as score. This score is then played with a nine-man-band.
CAMOUFLAGE _ Desiree Palmen _ surveillance countermeasure _ 2004: Camouflage as a countermeasure against the increasing use of surveillance technologies. This work explores into the possibilities of letting people dissolve into their surroundings by manipulating their clothing.
ROMAN SINGER _ Kurhaus Weissbad _ explorative video _ 1996: Scene from the film signers koffer. signers koffer is a kind of road movie across Europa. Always following the scenery's magically charged contours. Immersing yourself, letting yourself be infected, then travelling on.
1:1 _ Monika Sosnowska _ conceptual sculpture _ 2007: The work "1:1", realised for the Polish Pavilion at the Venice Biennale 07, is a consequence of her reflection on post-war architectural concepts. From the structure of a former building she creates a sculpture, devoid of the burden of functionality.
ROLAND GARROS _ Gianni Motti _ political intervention _ 2004: Intervention into the Tennis French Open in Paris 2004. Motti sat on the VIP platform during the semi-finals covering his head with a yellow bag similar to those the captives from Abu Ghraib had to wear. Superhuman athletes vs. deshumanized prisoner.
SALAT _ Johannes Gees _ freedom intervention _ 2007: Megaphones equipped with battery, MP3-player and timer were packed into boxes and secretly placed on church steeples. At regular intervals, the megaphones played back the muezzins call to prayer, city centres resounding with his call.
EXHIBITION_010 | STATEMENT: Despite this initial statement of "dead.art", TAGallery reflects in its last official exhibition with the titel "001010a.live-art(LINKreSource)" the process of development which has been run through with the curatorial platform during the past months.
VARIOUS EXHIBITIONS | TAGGER: _____fratha__: _____fratha__ is a writer based in Vienna and co-founder of the platform CONT3XT.NET
TAGGERS: CONT3XT.NET (Sabine Hochrieser, Michael Kargl, Franz Thalmair): CONT3XT.NET is a Vienna-based organisation founded in 2006 as a collaborative platform for the discussion and presentation of issues related to Media Art.
TWITTER THEORY SERIES _ Mary-Anne Breeze _ applied theory _ 2007: _What_: Streaming of New Theory utilizing Twitter software mechanics.
MUTUAL TAGallery | networked_performance: 007_Loops_Rings_Circles+Infinity
EPHEMERALS _ Carlos Katastrofsky _ redundant act of communication _ 2007: The problem within the discussions about communication is the "ueberformung" (reshaping of the communication - process) with technical appliances which multiply "communication" in a way that it becomes redundant and blocks itself.
APPROPRIATION&IMMATERIALITY _ Vanessa Oniboni _ tagging/exhibition _ 2007: The manifestation of online curatorial practice – given the possibility of revision, modification and amplification via tags, comments and mash-ups of works in a given collection – evokes appropriation by its very nature.
EXHIBITION_008 | STATEMENT: The works that make up this collection derived from the extensive catalogue developed by Dispatx Art Collective since 2004 and have a specific focus on appropriation and immateriality.
EXHIBITION_008 | TAGGER: Vanessa Oniboni - Dispatx Art Collective: Appropriation & Immateriality / With works by: Sandra Gamarra, Antoni Abad, El Hombre que Comía Diccionarios, Santiago Ortiz, The Yes Men, Robert Hodgin, Sascha Pohflepp
DISPATX ART COLLECTIVE _ Oliver Luker + Vanessa Oniboni + David Stent _ curatorial platform _ 2004-Present: Dispatx Art Collective is a curatorial platform for the development and presentation of contemporary art and literature. Make is a showcase...
LOOPS, RINGS, CIRCLE AND INFINITY _ Michelle Kasprzak _tagging/exhibition _ 2007: Connectivity on the Web is often thought of in a linear fashion – server to server. This perception might be rational and convenient, but the way that we use the web is often more circular, looping upon itself, or seemingly without end.
LIMAC. MUSEO DE ARTE CONTEMPORÁNEO DE LIMA _ Sandra Gamarra _ museum _ unknowndate: Through its collection of more than 2,000 works, periodically exhibited, and its temporary exhibitions, LiMAC is a space conceived for visitors, national and foreign, to get a general but close vision of the artistic projects that one way or another inter
Z _ Antoni Abad _ freeware fly _ unknowndate: Z is a freeware fly with variable behaviour patterns. Each fly is genetically unique and only lives when the pc it inhabits is on-line. Conceived as a virtual swarm, the flies are intended to multiply through the internet via free exchange between users.
EL HOMBRE QUE COMÍA DICCIONARIOS _ El Hombre que Comía Diccionarios _ blog _ unknowndate: Beyond wikipedia and beyond kottke: wide-ranging collections of uber-informational links provide a backdrop for today’s web.
MOEBIO _ Santiago Ortiz _ personal homepage _ 1975-Present: Santiago works to make visible that which is hidden in the relationships or vectors between endless nodes of accessible data. Numerous projects work to illustrate this goal.
THE YES MEN _ The Yes Men _ activists/collective _ nodateindicated: Experts at biting the hand that feeds them, the Yes Men have established a uniquely coherent means of appropriating the signs and symbols of a diseased culture and feeding them back to an all-too hungry mass.
FLIGHT 404. ALL MANNER OF DISTRACTIONS _ Robert Hodgin _ blog _ 2005-Present: Blog of Robert Hodgin where he shows his creative method in the process of different projects. Robert posts drafts of future works, his reflections, concerns and discoveries to which the public is able to comment.
BETWEEN BLINKS AND BUTTONS _ Sascha Pohflepp _ photographic appropriation _ unknowndate: Cameras become networked buttons that create a link between two people through the simple fact that they did the same thing simultaneously: pressing a button. The cameras create a visual trace of it, with time as a reference.
EXHIBITION_007 | STATEMENT: Loops, Rings, Circles and Infinity / With works by: Tom Moody, Lisa Jevbratt, Mark Napier, Myfanwy Ashmore, Auriea Harvey & Michaël Samyn, John F. Simon, Jr., Alistair Gentry
CURATING.INFO _ Michelle Kasprzak _ curating/blog _ 2006-Present: Curating.info is a weblog about curating contemporary art, written by Michelle Kasprzak.
EXHIBITION_007 | TAGGER: Michelle Kasprzak: Michelle Kasprzak is a curator, writer, and artist. She is currently based in Edinburgh, and is the Programmes Director of New Media Scotland.
DIGITAL POG (MOTIVATOR) GRID _ Tom Moody _ kitsch-animation _ 2007: Tom Moody is drawn to 'cyber-kitsch' in all its forms, and his work proudly inhabits the 'lo-fi' or 'abject' end of the digital spectrum.
1:1 (2) _ Lisa Jevbratt _ databasedatabase _ 1999/2002: 1:1 was a project created in 1999 that consisted of a database that would eventually contain the address of every Web site in the world and interfaces through which to view and use the database. 1:1(2) is a continuation of the project.
NET.FLAG _ Mark Napier _ applied symbol-ism _ 2002: Net.flag explores the flag as an emblem of territorial identity by appropriating the visual language of international flags. An online software interface makes this language of shapes and colors available to anyone with web access.
MARIO BATTLE NO. 1 _ Myfanwy Ashmore _ game appropriation/extension _ 2000: Myfanwy Ashmore altered the Super Mario NES ROM by removing all the enemies, prizes, architecture within the game. Now as a game player, all you can do is go for a walk. Eventually you run out of time and die.
THE ENDLESS FOREST _ Auriea Harvey + Michaël Samyn _ multiplayer game _ 2004-2006: The Endless Forest is a multiplayer online game and social screensaver. When your computer goes to sleep you appear as a deer in this magical place. There are no goals to achieve or rules to follow. Just run through the forest and see what happens.
EVERY ICON _ John F. Simon, Jr. _ evolutive automation _ 1997: Starting with an image where every grid element is white, Every Icon displays combinations of black and white elements, proceeding toward an image where every element is black.
100 BLACK BOXES _ Alistair Gentry _ art/blog _ 1999-2005: Inspired by the black box flight recorders of crashed planes, the first version of this work was a hypertext fiction constructed from 100 words each by 100 characters about the moment of their deaths.
DIGITAL ART IS (...) _ Chiara Passa _ twitter aphorisms _ 2007: Twitter: Digital art is like the myth: nothing that is all. / 05:39 PM August 01, 2007 from web / Pallone jogador
MUTUAL TAGallery | folly (leading digital culture): "http://del.icio.us/I_tag_you_tag_me is an interesting collaborative curating experiment, where lots of people (via various mailing lists) are invited to log into this del.icio.us account and add/remove tagi/re-tag links to web-based art."
BLOOMSDAY ON TWITTER _ Ian Bogost + Ian McCarthy_ collaborative performance _ 2007: The 10th chapter of Joyce's Ulysses was adapted to microblogging, broken down into fragments and inserted into a database for a computer program to read and publish as messages on Twitter at the right times, signed with the names of the characters/users.
I TAG YOU TAG ME_RETAGGED _ Luis Silva _ tagging/exhibition _2007: The exhibition "I tag you tag me: a folksonomy of Internet art" is thinking of tagging as curating. If tagging creates meta-data about pre-existing content, it can be seen as the creation of a discourse about it.
COLLECTION OF COLLECTIONS. _ LeisureArts _ tagging/exhibition _ 2007: TAGallery's EXHIBITION_005 was tagged/curated by LeisureArts and is reduced to the following reduced formula: Tags/bookmarks as collections = A collection of collections.
ELECTRONIC LITERATURE SAMPLER _ Scott Rettberg _ tagging/exhibition _ 2007: An exhibiton with focus on electronic literature: works of writing made for the networked computer that utilize the computational and/or multimedia aspects of that environment in the course of their composition and/or reading and distribution.
.RE _____________(AD.HTM _ Mary-Anne Breeze _ zipped code|net.wurks _ 2002: A zipped selection of "mezangelle"-ed writings that had been posted to several net cultural and arts-related mailing lists. With a honorary mention by the READ-ME FESTIVAL 1.2 "software art games".
ENTROPY _ Carlos Katastrofsky _ video abstraction _ 2004: The focus of the work entropy lies on movement. The applictions used in entropy capture the motion of any input scene/movie and employ specific processes which translate only the mere movement of an object/subject into one single picture.
MUTUAL TAGallery | Rhizome.org: 005_Collection_of_collections.
LINK.OF.THOUGHT_THOUGHT.OF.LINK... _ Ela Kagl + Ursula Endlicher _ tagging/exhibition _ 2007: An exhibition in form of a dialog between the taggers summarizing and juxtaposing experiences/venues/observations surrounding net art as well as media and digital arts at large – to the idea of curating.
DE-RE-/CON-STRUCT(UR)ED_LANG(U)AGE _ fratha _ tag/exhibition _ 2007: Human language can only be examined in the course of the reconstructing its process of appearance, that is, its articulation. Is language thus an exclusively virtual product, the existence of which begins and ends up with its realization?
MUTUAL TAGallery | NOEMA > ARTS: 003_link.of.thought_thought.of.link...
INSTANT DEMOCRATIZER _ Carlos Katastrofsky _ reflexion upon (web) democracy _ 2005: A DIY-instruction for artists to create a completely democratic webpresence of governmental organisations using a firefox extension: https://addons.mozilla.org/extensions/moreinfo.php?application=firefox&id=951
NET.ART LOVES OLD.ART _ Luca Leggero _ collection of allusions _ 2004-Present: "... Net art loves old art is a page collecting digital simulations of ‘old’ art...": Canaletto, Duchamp, Picasso, Duchamp Magritte, Fontana, Pollock, Gonzalez-Torres, Ballard, Lichtenstein, Duchamp, Warhol, Manzoni, Calder, Brueghel, Johns
HOW TWITTER CREATES A SOCIAL SIXTH SENSE _ Clive Thompson _ text on twitter _ 2007: Text: Twitter is the app that everyone loves to hate. Odds are you've noticed people — probably much younger than you — manically using Twitter, a tool that lets you post brief updates about your everyday thoughts and activities to the Web ...
NEUROZAPPINGFOLKS _ Santiago Ortiz _ visualisation/del.icio.us _ 2007: NeuroZappingFolks is a non-linear zapping through the Internet a path leading to the inside of a web of relations, a web that can be explored from one tag to a site, to another tag, to another site...
DEAD.ART(-MISSING!)LINKRESOURCES _ CONT3XT.NET _ tag/exhibition _ 2007: The first TAGallery-exhibition deals with itself: the links as the main medium for networking, collaborating, contextualizing along with the role of a link in a social environment as a sign for mutual estimation is a fragile entity.
6PLI _ Santiago Ortiz _ del.icio.us/visualization tool _ 2007: Click at this link to browse the tags at "I_tag_you_tag_me: a folksonomy of Internet art" in three fascinating ways: elastic net 3D, elastic net 2D, circles 2D.
I TAG YOU TAG ME (009_SOLOSHOW) _ Unknown Taggers _ del.icio.us/curating _ 2007: Bundle "soloshow_santiago_ortiz" of del.icio.us/I_tag_you_tag_me, rebundled by TAGallery at del.icio.us/I_tag_you_tag_me_retagged.
I TAG YOU TAG ME (008_SOLOSHOW) _ Unknown Taggers _ del.icio.us/curating _ 2007: Bundle "soloshow_J_R_Carpenter" of del.icio.us/I_tag_you_tag_me, rebundled by TAGallery at del.icio.us/I_tag_you_tag_me_retagged.
I TAG YOU TAG ME (007_SOLOSHOW) _ Unknown Taggers _ del.icio.us/curating _ 2007: Bundle "soloshow_g_h_hovagimyan" of del.icio.us/I_tag_you_tag_me, rebundled by TAGallery at del.icio.us/I_tag_you_tag_me_retagged.
I TAG YOU TAG ME (006_BACKUP) _ Unknown Taggers _ del.icio.us/curating _ 2007: Backup of del.icio.us/I_tag_you_tag_me on July 17, retagged by TAGallery at del.icio.us/I_tag_you_tag_me_retagged.
I TAG YOU TAG ME (005_BACKUP) _ Unknown Taggers _ del.icio.us/curating _ 2007: Backup of del.icio.us/I_tag_you_tag_me on July 12, retagged by TAGallery at del.icio.us/I_tag_you_tag_me_retagged.
I TAG YOU TAG ME (004_BACKUP) _ Unknown Taggers _ del.icio.us/curating _ 2007: Backup of del.icio.us/I_tag_you_tag_me on July 06, retagged by TAGallery at del.icio.us/I_tag_you_tag_me_retagged.
I TAG YOU TAG ME (003_BACKUP) _ Unknown Taggers _ del.icio.us/curating _ 2007: Backup of del.icio.us/I_tag_you_tag_me on July 04, retagged by TAGallery at del.icio.us/I_tag_you_tag_me_retagged.
I TAG YOU TAG ME (002_BACKUP) _ Unknown Taggers _ del.icio.us/curating _ 2007: Backup of del.icio.us/I_tag_you_tag_me on July 03, retagged by TAGallery at del.icio.us/I_tag_you_tag_me_retagged.
I TAG YOU TAG ME (001_BACKUP) _ Unknown Taggers _ del.icio.us/curating _ 2007: Backup of del.icio.us/I_tag_you_tag_me on July 01, retagged by TAGallery at del.icio.us/I_tag_you_tag_me_retagged.
10 QUESTIONS _ Carlos Katastrofsky _ conceptual questionnaire _ 2005: 1) what is it? 2) why is it art? 3) is programming art? 4) ... A conceptual and ironic approach to the identity of a net-artist. 10 questions a net.artist has to be aware of.
LOOP _ carlos katastrofsky _ selfreflexive loop _ 2005: A conceptual blogpost entitled "loop" linking to a conceptual blogpost entitled "loop" linking to a conceptual blogpost entitled "loop" ... (original link: http://blog.subnet.at/carlos/stories/1929/ )
CUT SPACE _ Mary-Anne Breeze _ code.wurk _ 1995: Cutting spaces: (fleshwords by Ms Post Modemism) - Cutting down the inside right-hand palm. Mez's "\(...)first eva net.art at.tempt.ing [95].::__"
PUBLISHED AND CURATED _ Luis Silva _ personal homepage _ 2007: Published and Curated is the online-collection of curatorial activities and resource of reviews by Luis Silva.
EXHIBITION_006 | STATEMENT: I_tag_you_tag_me: a folksonomy of Internet art: This exhibition is thinking of tagging as curating and includes a steadily vaying numer of artists and artworks.
EXHIBITION_006 | TAGGER: I_tag_you_tag_me: a folksonomy of Internet art is an idea by Luis Silva, independent new media critic/curator/whatever based in Lisbon, Portugal.
KAMERA OBSCURA _ Greg J. Smith _ video/remix _ 2007: Kamera Obscura was developed as a study of voyeurism, infidelity and detective fiction. The editing of this short film creates a suture between the narratives of Alfred Hitchcock's "Rear Window" and Jean-Luc Godard's "Le Mépris".
MUTUAL TAGallery | alma matinal: Cont3xt.net puso en marcha el proyecto TAGALLERY, que consiste en un experimento artístico de creación folksonómica. Los artistas curadores que participan de la exposición utilizan delicious para taggear en forma colaborativa ...
FOLLOW(_____ING) (...) _ _____ING _ twitter statements _ 2007: Twitter: FOLLOW(_____ING) THE NETWURKER (http://twitter.com/netwurker/statuses/127743042) AND SAY: STOP ! / 10:53 PM June 30, 2007 from web / _____!
MUTUAL TAGallery | CCAP Research Hub: Extending the blog format of their very cool collection of feeds, Cont3xt.net bloggers launch a del.icio.us powered tag gallery that teases out the digital environment’s problematization of gallery space and expert curatorship while (...).
6PLI _ Santiago Ortiz _ del.icio.us/visualization tool _ 2007: Click at this link to browse the exhibitions at TAGallery in a visualized way. 6pli offers three different ways of visualizing a del.icio.us-account in a simple but fascinating way: elastic net 3D, elastic net 2D, circles 2D.
MUTUAL TAGallery | Chris Joseph: 004_Electronic_Literature_Sampler
MUTUAL TAGallery | serial consign: "Over the last several months CONT3XT.NET has become one of my favourite resources for monitoring the pulse of art and discourse on the net. (...) In my opinion this is one of the most well executed projects I've seen on the web in a while."
MUTUAL TAGallery | networked_performance: 003_link.of.thought_ thought.of.link
MUTUAL TAGallery | networked_performance: 004_Electronic_ Literature_Sampler
LEISUREARTS _ LeisureArts _ art/blog _ 2006: LeisureArts is an infra-institutional practice engaged with various forms of ephemeral, convivial, and quotidian cultural production.
EXHIBITION_005 | TAGGER: LeisureArts is an infra-institutional practice engaged with various forms of ephemeral, convivial, and quotidian cultural production.
EXHIBITION 005 | STATEMENT: Collection_of_collections. | Valery Nosal, Miriam van Houten, PSB Gallery, Pam, Grettir Asmundarson, Tuwa, Alberto Barullo, GoldenPalaceEvents.com, Fred Beshid , Darren Meldrum
IDEASONAIR _ Chiara Passa _ artblog _ 2005: Ideasonair.net is a web project serving artists. The site promotes artistic ideas, created by Ideasonair, in various fields, especially digital art, therefore: “Dear artists, poets, architects, designers, critics, curators and ‘lovers of the trade’.
I TAG YOU TAG ME (000_ORIGINAL) _ Luis Silva _ del.icio.us/curating _ 2007: Tagging can be seen as the creation of a discourse. And if that content happens to be an online artwork, tagging both allows for a subjective juxtaposition of art works and the elaboration of a critical discourse about it.
391:37 - ZIN H A R _ Zinh a r + 391.org _ bioscan _ unknowndate: "Imagine a day when any living thing can be identified accurately and rapidly to the species level using a hand-held device the size of a cellular phone. A day when the biodiversity of an entire nation can be inventoried and monitored..."
SNARG _ unknownartist _ flash fractals _ unknowndate: Senses.of.Quinn: A psychodelic place, futuristic, and highly artisticly creative. This place I visit time to time and click on things as it will then take me places even further...it is a very interesting place on the web I've known since about 1998.
THE LAST DAY OF BETTY NKOMO _ Y0UNG-HAE CHANG HEAVY INDUSTRIES _ flashtexts _ unknowndate: Wikipedia: Young-Hae Chang (장영혜) is a Seoul-based Web artist who, along with Marc Voge, comprises Young-Hae Chang Heavy Industries.
EXHIBITION_006 | INVITATION MAIL: I just started a new project for TAGallery in Vienna, called I tag you tag me: a folksonomy of Internet Art, an ongoing colaboratively curated show/social experiment on folksonomy creation and I would like to invite you to be part of it.
WWW.-REVERSE.-FLASH-.-.BACK- _ Jimpunk _browser hack _ unknowndate: http://del.icio.us/tag/jimpunk
CHEWING GUM WRAPPER COLLECTION _ Valery Nosal _ 2002-Present: Collection of chewing gum wrappers.
60 JOKER XPO'S _ Miriam van Houten _ 2004-Present: Collection of jokers.
THE PSB GALLERY OF THRIFT STORE ART _ PSB Gallery _ 2000: Collection of thrift store art.
SMILEY COLLECTOR _ Pam _ 2001: Collection of smiley face collections.
TINY PINEAPPLE NURSE BOOK COLLECTION _ Grettir Asmundarson _ unknowndate-Present: Collection of books about nurses.
STAIRS IN MOVIES _ Tuwa _ 2006-Present: Collection of screen captures of stairs from movies.
THE INCREDIBLE SPAM COLLECTION _ Alberto Barullo _ 2005-2006: Collection of spam email.
GOLDEN PALACE EVENTS _ GoldenPalaceEvents.com _ 1997-Present: Collection of oddities purchased via online auctions.
MUSEUM OF FRED _ Fred Beshid _ a place where the past is preserved for the future _ 2000: Collection of paintings from thrift stores.
THE TEST CARD GALLERY _ Darren Meldrum _ unknowndate: Collection of BBC and ITV television test cards.
RUSSIAN ROULETTE _ Carlos Katastrofsky _ downloadable virus ? _ 2006: The file you can download below by pressing the button is randomly chosen. But be aware! it could be pornographic, a virus that crashes your entire system, a britney spears - song or other bad data. It also could be some really great stuff/who knows?
SPHERES _ Santiago Ortiz _ relational visualizations _ 2004: Spheres shaped by dialogue, a net of semantical combinations. The richness of words consists in their relations with one another. A single pair of words placed together is enough to create narrative, reflections, (...) or even the arbitrary…
MUTUAL TAGallery | Grand Text Auto: 004_Electronic_Literature_Sampler by Scott Rettberg
MUTUAL TAGallery | net art: perspectivas criativas e críticas: 002_de-re-/con-struct(ur)ed_LANG(U)agE
MUTUAL TAGallery | Rhizome.org: 004_Electronic_Literature_Sampler by Scott Rettberg
MUTUAL TAGallery | Rhizome.org: 003_link.of.thought_thought.of.link… by Ursula Endlicher and Ela Kagel
#004 [RE: MAGAZINE] _ Curating Ambiguity _ an e-mail conversation with Scott Rettberg: Scott Rettberg -- co-curator of the anthology and co-founder of the ELO -- talks about different ways of contextualizing, re-presenting and archiving E-Literature: "The more context, the more documentation available to the reader, the better."
EXHIBITION_004 | STATEMENT: Electronic_Literature_Sampler | ELO, N. Katherine Hayles, Talan Memmott (ed.), Ingrid Ankerson/Megan Sapnar (eds.), Ben Basan/Thom Swiss (eds.), Stephanie Strickland, Barbara Campbell, Robert Arellano, Rob Wittig, Gillespie/Rettberg/Stratton
EXHIBITION 004 | TAGGER: Scott Rettberg is an electronic writer, and a founder of the Electronic Literature Organization. Rettberg is an associate professor of humanistic informatics at the university of Bergen.
RETTS.NET _ Scott Rettberg _ electronic literature/blog _ 1997-Present: "read the web" Scott Rettbergs Web-resource on Electronic Literature since 1997
THE UNKNOWN _ William Gillespie + Scott Rettberg + Dirk Stratton _ 1998-2002: Forgive the indulgence: an encyclopedic postmodern hypertext novel about a book tour gone horribly wrong. Garage band electronic literature.
BLUE COMPANY _ Rob Wittig _ email novel _ 2002: Wittig’s email novel was one of the first and remains one of the best explorations of email as a form for serial narratives. The novel features a pining lover from afar, transferred by his company through space and time to Renaissance Italy.
SUNSHINE ’69! _ Robert Arellano _ perhaps the first hypertext novel published on the web _ 1996: Perhaps the first hypertext novel published on the web, this psychedelic exploration of the events leading up to the Rolling Stone’s turbulent concert is probably of the best example of historical hypertext fiction.
1001 NIGHTS CAST _ Barbara Campbell _ collective narrative _ 2005-Present: Every night for 1001 nights, Barbara Campbell is performing a short text written by a participating author sent in response to a prompt culled from that day’s newspaper. A compelling collective narrative.
THE BALLAD OF SAND AND HARRY SOOT _ Stephanie Strickland _ hypertext mediation on computers and humans _ 1999: Though basic from a technical standpoint Stephanie Strickland’s 1999 web hypertext poem is a metaphor-rich meditation on the relationship between humans and computers.
THE IOWA REVIEW WEB _ Ben Basan + Thom Swiss (Editors) _ interview journal _ 1999-Present: Since 1999, the Iowa Review Web has been publishing detailed interviews of electronic literature authors and new media arts, along with new work.
POEMS THAT GO _ Ingrid Ankerson + Megan Sapnar (Editors) _ archive of poems _ 2000-2003: The archive of the online journal poems that GO, which from 2000-2003 published compelling works of kinetic poetry.
BEEHIVE HYPERTEXT/HYPERMEDIA LITERARY JOURNAL _ Talan Memmott (Editor) _ literary journal _ 1998-2002: From 1998-2002, Talan Memmott’s Beehive was one of the most important destinations for electronic literature, marrying quality writing with high production value design in a collaborative atmosphere.
ELECTRONIC LITERATURE: WHAT IS IT? _ N. Katherine Hayles _ theoretical essay _ 2007: Although there are now a number of book-length studies of electronic literature, this recent essay provides a useful and concise introduction and survey to the field
THE ELECTRONIC LITERATURE COLLECTION _ The Electronic Literature Organization _ anthology _ 2006: A diverse collection of 60 works of electronic literature produced over the past decade, all published under a Creative Commons license.
WAITING (FLUSSGEIST 1) _Gregory Chatonsky _ twitter/flickr api _ 2007: Combining the features of Twitter and Flickr as a mixture between text and image, creating identities in public/social space - but nevertheless: Fiction without narration.
WORDS TEND _ Jenny Holzer _ twitter statements _ 2007: Twitter: WORDS TEND TO BE INADEQUATE / 06:23 PM June 15, 2007 from web / Jenny Holzer
___DEATH OF (...) _ Mary-Anne Breeze _ comment on twitter _ 2007: Twitter: ___Death of Spa[rrow.of.time.presen]ce / 07:51 PM June 17, 2007 from web / netwurker mez
CURATING NETART _ Ursula Endlicher + Ela Kagel _ art/curating blog _ 2006-present: The web resource of Ursula Endlicher and Ela Kagel on curating netart
EXHIBITION_003 | TAGGERS: Curating NetArt: Ursula Endlicher and Ela Kagel have started their blog on the challenges of curating netart in May 2006 in the form of an ongoing dialogue about various topics surrounding media arts. Read more...
EXHIBITION 003 | DIALOGUE: Ela Kagel and Ursula Endlicher, talking about the curatorial process collecting data for the exhibition "link.of.thought_thought.of.link..."
EXHIBITION 003 | STATEMENT: link.of.thought_thought.of.link... | UBERMORGEN.COM/Ludovico/Cirio, Jo-Anne Green/Helen Thorington, Domanovic/Laric/Priglinger/ Schnitzer, Sollfrank, Grubinger/Kaulmann, 01.org, Furtherfield, Graffiti Research Lab, Mushon Zer-Aviv/Dan Phiffer
GRAFFITI ANALYSIS _ Graffiti Research Lab _ new media in physical space _ 2004 (beta)/2005: UE: "A 'capture device' for recording the motions used when drawing a 'tag' (...) Print-outs of this 'digitized' motions are placed within the urban environment, extending the notion of 'traditional' graffiti into new media."
SHIFTSPACE _ Mushon Zer-Aviv + Dan Phiffer _ An Open Source layer above any webpage _ 2006: EK: "People tend to think that the net is a public space. This might be true for some parts of it (...) ShiftSpace.org attempts to subvert this trend by providing a new public space on the web by pressing the [shift] + [space] keys."
HTTP [House of Technologically Termed Praxis] _ Ruth Catlow + Marc Garrett (Furtherfield) _ netart repository _ 2004: UE: "(...) Why can't we take netart for instance into the public space where we can see others interacting with the works? HTTP Gallery dedicates itself to these questions (...)"
13 MOST BEAUTIFUL AVATARS _ 0100101110101101.ORG _ second life exhibition _ 2006/2007: EK: "Portraits of what 01.org found to be the most beautiful avatars in Second Life. 13 portraits (clearly a reference to Andy Warhol's 13 Most Beautiful Boys and 13 Most Beautiful Women), which was recently shown in New York. (...)"
C@C COMPUTER AIDED CURATING (revisited) _ Eva Grubinger + Thomas Kaulmann _ curatorial project _ 1993: UE: "This is a 'machine-based' curating project, developed even earlier in net art times. C@C was a prototype program developed for producing and distributing art, as well as presenting, documenting and discussing it. (...)"
NETART GENERATOR _ Cornelia Sollfrank _ activistic netart _ 1999: EK: "The smart artist makes machines do the work - that is the credo of this platform which automatically produces netart on demand, based on keywords. (...) So, this is an interesting attempt of the concept of non-curation of netart works (...)"
VVORK _ Aleksandra Domanovic + Oliver Laric + Christoph Priglinger + Georg Schnitzer _ online gallery _ 2006: UE: "(...) A site dedicated to posting information on art in threads while it seems that one post brings in the next and so on (...) until it moves on to the next. (...) What kind of curation method are they following?"
STEVE.MUSEUM _ Museum Committee _ art museum social tagging project _ 2006: EK: “(...) The initiative of the Steve Museum clearly has its roots in the realm of netart. This project aims at improving access to works of art through inviting their audience to submit their own metadata to the museum's artworks (...)”
TURBULENCE _ Jo-Anne Green + Helen Thorington _ net art repository _ 1996: URSULA ENDLICHER (UE): “As it is all about linking in the TAGallery, i thought I might include not one artist, but a ‘place’, that hosts and commissions net art for now 11 years. So I am choosing a net art repository (...)”
GOOGLE WILL EAT ITSELF _ UBERMORGEN.COM + Alessandro Ludovico + Paolo Cirio _ autocannibalistic DIY-model _ 2005: ELA KAGEL (EK): “I like this interpretation of the DIY-idea. (...) This artistic study of what they call an 'autocannibalistic model' reveals the economics of Google and their global monopoly of information.”
THE LEGIBLE CITY _ Jeffrey Shaw _ computergraphic installation _ 1989: Riding a bicycle through a simulated city, constituted by computer-generated 3d-letters (forming words and sentences along the sides of the streets) Choosing the path one takes is choosing texts as well as juxtapositions and conjunctions of meaning.
EXCERPTS FROM AN ARCHIVE _ Deanne Achong _ experimental archive _ 2001: Excerpts from an Archive exists as an unstable, fragmented and ephemeral archive and is organized and classified in a manner that allowed the structural pattern of the web to be a determining point of departure.
VIOLATED BOOK: A CONFESSION _ Helio Nunes _ video censorship _ 2006: This is more than a presentation of the violated book, with it I would like to say something like: "Turn book pages is already a violation. You are striping the book... cover, flyleaf, front matter, body! So, violate the violation and be like me. Guilt!
A BOOK WITH EXPLANATORY NOTES: L _ Sung-Yoon Jung _ language distortion _ 2002: "In the end, relationships are distorted by the spoken and written word. perfect communication is impossible. What is lost is balance and interactivity, which, when expressed verbally, should be an organized relationship of countless symbols, sentences, a
BOOK OF BOOKS _ Simon Biggs _ book mashup _ 2003: Rather than monkeys typing we have a computer program tirelessly generating random words and inserting them into the resulting ever expanding text, thus creating a text that is written from the inside out from any point in its structure.
PUBLIC LIBRARY OF (...) DEACCESSION _ Julia Weist + Maayan Pearl _ research catalog _ 2006: Books are discarded for many reasons: physical condition, popularity, more recent editions, accuracy of their content - A catalog of withdrawn public library materials from around the United States, researched over a two year period.
THE BOOK AFTER THE BOOK _ Giselle Beiguelman _ visual essay about cyberliterature _ 1999: The Book after the Book is a hypertextual and visual essay about cyberliterature, where criticism and web art melts into the context of the net_reading/writing_condition. Its focus is non-linear narratives, reconfiguring the literature/book relations.
EXHIBITION_002: de-re-/con-struct(ur)ed_LANG(U)agE | With works by: Jörg Piringer, Stefan Wilke, Alan Bigelow, Michael Takeo Magruder, Karl H Jeron, Valie Djordjevic, Brian K Stefans, Mary A Breeze, Eugenio Tisselli, Miika Nyyssönen, Miriam Laussegger, Eva Beierheimer
MUTUALTAGallery | Digicult.it: Inviare un link e in questo modo collegare due o più concetti è un metodo basilare per creare un network di associazioni personali nel mondo del web accessibile a tutti gratuitamente.
MUTUAL TAGallery | DOCAM > VEILLE/Daniel Langlois Foundation: Qu'arrive-t-il quand un lien Web représente à la fois l'oeuvre, le contexte et l'exposition? C'est l'interrogation formulée par la TAGallery, une fraction du regroupement CONT3XT.NET.
MUTUAL TAGallery | Museum Blogs: February 17th, 2007, "To post a link and thus to relate two or more contents is a basic method to create a freely accessible and modular network of personal associations on the World Wide Web …"
NAM SHUB WEB _ Joerg Piringer _ neurolinguistic hack _ 2006: The sumerian nam shub of Enki was a neurolinguistic hack against the standardarization of life through language. A website processor that takes the textual content of external websites and applies user defined rules to generate visual poetry out of it.
FFT _ Stefan Wilke _ code language video _ 2006: FFT is a code language poem that is based on the sound-program Supercollider and it´s function "FFT". In this poem the text of the function gets embeded into the function itself.
SAVING THE ALPHABET _ Alan Bigelow _ conceptual text animation _ 2005: "Saving The Alphabet" is a commentary on the use of language in a digital age and addresses governmental and corporate threats to the free use of language, as language is simultaneous constructed and deconstructed by Orwellian double-speak.
: ] ... [ WORLD ] ... [ : _ Michael Takeo Magruder _ word visualisation _ 2003: The composition consists of the word ‘world’ translated into society’s most common languages (according to research done by SIL International) in their native script. Each word is then utilized as the exclusive material to construct an iconic form.
MEANING _ Eugenio Tisselli _ text manipulation _ 2005: A Website that plays with the meaning of texts and synonyms: each time this page is visited, one of the words in the following section will be replaced by a synonym. Replaced words are shown in bold.
FROM THE GREAT BEYOND _ Fang-Yu Lin _ text procession apparatus _ 2005: Two major divisions comprise the technical underpinning of From the Great Beyond: a hardware sub-system, which consists of a typewriter and an electronic circuit, and a software sub-system that handles input/output, text processing and networking.
THE MAGIC BOOK _ Julian Looser / Mark Billinghurst / Philip Lamb / Raphael Grasset _ human interface technology _ 2002-: The MagicBook explores seamless transition between reality and virtual reality. When users look at the pages of a real book through a hand held display they can see virtual content superimposed over the real pages and interact with each other.
BIBLE _ Rory Macbeth _ alphabetically ordered bible _ 1997: By applying one system by which we order and make sense of things (alphabetical order), to another that is wide open to interpretation (the Bible), we are left with bugger-all, apart from some pretty patterns, but in a minimal, texty way.
INTERDICTION _ Wayne Clements _ non-dicitionary _ 2007: InterDiction is a non-dictionary to compliment the Library of Babel Borges decribes whose "chance volumes are constantly in danger of changing into others and affirm, negate and confuse everything". It uses entries rejected by Wiktionary.
BLUE TUBE _ Cory Arcangel _YouTube wordplay _ 2007: A short YouTube movie of 3 seconds, playing with the YouTube logo.
EXHIBITION_001: dead.art(-missing!)LINKreSources | Without works by: Richard Rinehart, Brian Mackern, Michael Lovatt, Wendy Battin, Fabio Doctorovich, Dan Egnor, Eidolon, Host Productions, Sneha Solanki, Neil Zakiewicz
What is TAGallery?: To post a LINK and thus to relate two or more contents is a basic method to create a freely accessible and modular network of personal associations on the World Wide Web.
MYDATA=MYMONDRIAN _ C J Yeh _ information map _ no date indicated: myData=myMondrian is an interactive art interface in which the personal biographic data provided by viewers is translated into Piet Mondrian-like composition.
A LA RECHERCHE DU TEMPS PERDU _ Karl Heinz Jeron + Valie Djordjevic _ code-performance _ 2006: Performers read the ASCII-code version of Proust_s novel and play computer during the 8 hours of a working day. The work is situated in an ironic lab situation and attempts to find beauty inside of the microstructures of the digital.
STAR WARS, ONE LETTER AT A TIME _ Brian Kim Stefans _ appropriated text _ 2005: A retelling of Star Wars (George Lucas) on the Internet, on letter at a time. The step-by-step-visualisation of the writing process makes it impossible to follow the story and disrupts the straight-line reading-conditions of e-literature.
HISTORY OF ART FOR AIRPORTS _ Vuk Cosic _ net.art icons _ 1999: Combining Otto Neurath's visual language system with art-historical references from Lascaux, Cezanne and Malevich to Jodi, Bunting and Shoulgin, Vuk Cosic creates a pictography of art and cultural practices.
_DIS[AP]POSABLE_ _ Mary-Anne Breeze _ visualized code.wurk _ 2007: The multifaceted and ambiguous portmanteau-language mezangelle, based upon programming syntax, is extended by the artist with a Web-2.0-feature. The snap-preview adds a visual dimension to the blog-entries.
WAR GRIND THINGS TO A HALT _ Mark E. Grimm _ conceptual youtube-mashup _ 2006: The top fifty clips in Google.video under the keyword war are dis-played simultaneously at a website. A double-sensed media-war is caused by straining the processor in a way, that it renders the computer almost useless.
J B WOCK _ Eugenio Tisselli _ auto-blogging PHP-script _ 2006: A daily dada-blog-machine, open to comments, transforms famous quotations from a RSS feed. Each word in the _found_ phrase is replaced automatically by a synonym. PHP-script: http://www.motorhueso.net/jbwock/script.htm
ARTCONCEPT _ Miika Nyyssönen _ interactive flash application _ 2005: Weiner, Barry, Huebler & Kosuth where interested in language. Artconcepts is interested in their mode of expression: a discussion from 1969 between them is divided to less than four word pieces from which a program chooses and recombines randomly content.
WEBPAINTING _ Valery Grancher _ readymade painting _ 1998-: If you look art history and how it is dealing with paintings, you can perceive that the main topic is always the subject painted on canvas: From Giotto to today.
CRASH _ Christina Goestl _ frame.art _ 1996: When a frame gets the only parameter for artworks, the system of art crashes. In 1996 the recursive frame.art-work CRASH crashed every browser (and still behaves strange with internet Explorer).
9MENEM9 _ Fabio Doctorovich _ file not found _ no date indicated: Resource: http://directory.eliterature.org/expand.php? rectype=work&eid=3992dfe54 _ The ELO-directory is a descriptive guide to 2353 works, 1196 authors, and 193 publishers, monitored by The Electronic Literature Organisation (ELO).
LETTERS THROUGH TIME _ Richard Rinehart _ file not found _ no date indicated: Resource: http://rhizome.org/object.rhiz?2093 _ Rhizome.org is an online platform for the global new media art community. Its programs support the creation, presentation, discussion and preservation of contemporary art that uses new technologies.
NO-CONTENT.ORG _ Brian Mackern _ file not found _ no date indicated: Resource: http://rhizome.org/object.rhiz?2934 _ Rhizome.org is an online platform for the global new media art community. Its programs support the creation, presentation, discussion and preservation of contemporary art that uses new technologies.
UDREAM _ Michael Lovatt _ file not found _ no date indicated: Resource: http://directory.eliterature.org/expand.php?rectype=work&eid=3e9206533baad _ The ELO-directory is a descriptive guide to 2353 works, 1196 authors, and 193 publishers, monitored by The Electronic Literature Organisation (ELO).
LUCID DREAMING: A BOOK OF HOURS _ Wendy Battin _ file not found _ no date indicated: Resource: http://directory.eliterature.org/expand.php?rectype=work&eid=396cc3762 _ The ELO-directory is a descriptive guide to 2353 works, 1196 authors, and 193 publishers, monitored by The Electronic Literature Organisation (ELO).
SWEETCODE.ORG _ Dan Egnor _ file not found _ 2003: Resource: http://runme.org/project/+sweetcode _ Runme.org is a software art repository and an open, moderated database to which people are welcome to submit projects they consider to be interesting examples of software art.
TEXT RECONTEXTUALIZER _ Eidolon _ file not found _ 2002: Resource: http://rhizome.org/object.rhiz?17053 _ Rhizome.org is an online platform for the global new media art community. Its programs support the creation, presentation, discussion and preservation of contemporary art that uses new technologies.
VIVA LA VULVA _ Christina Goestl _ typo animation _ 2004: Typography normally is used to highlight text-passages. But, in the digital realm, typography goes beyond formal expression and gets its own meaning by beeing reconstructed in multifaceted ways.
HISTORY OF EXPERIMENTAL ANIMATION _ Dr William Moritz _ lost _ 1996: Resource: http://www.low-fi.org.uk/cgi-bin/low-fi/main.cgi?session=details&id=112 _ The low-fi net art locator is a project to increase visibility of art projects which use the internet as a medium and to promote development of net-based art.
THE LOVERS _ Sneha Solanki _ file not found _ 2001: Resource: http://www.low-fi.org.uk/cgi-bin/low-fi/main.cgi?session=details&id=831 _ The low-fi net art locator is a project to increase visibility of art projects which use the internet as a medium and to promote development of net-based art.
REMOTE IMPRESSIONIST ART _ Carlos Katastrofsky _ remote video installation _ 2006: 4 coloured squares transfer one principle of Impressionism into the digital age: the emphasis on light in its changing qualities. The automatic reload of random webcams around the world generate impressionist artworks every 10 seconds.
WORDZ OV GOD _ Neil Zakiewicz _ file not found _ 2002: Resource: http://www.low-fi.org.uk/cgi-bin/low-fi/main.cgi?session=details&id=453 _ The low-fi net art locator is a project to increase visibility of art projects which use the internet as a medium and to promote development of net-based art.
WORTE.AT _ Miriam Laussegger + Eva Beierheimer _ interactive text generator _ 2006: Art lives not only by the object itself but also by its descriptions. Worte.at is a collection of more than 2500 - German - terms from the art context which can be recombined to a new con-text. It works as a tool for _the compensation of incompetence_.
Who initiated TAGallery?: CONT3XT.NET was founded in 2006 as a collaborative platform for the discussion and presentation of issues related to (New) Media and Internet-based Art by Sabine Hochrieser, carlos katastrofsky (a.k.a. Michael Kargl) and Franz Thalmair / _____fratha__.