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Open archives :: no/copy/right
+ requiem +
Author: Michael Takeo Magruder
URL: http://www.takeo.org/nspace/ns005/
Description:
*subversion of copyrighted media information for the creation of artworks which reflect upon the dualistic nature of media as both information source and cultural stimulant.
+ requiem + reflects upon collective memory and emotions surrounding isolated tragic moments in recent history. 01/01/2000 was chosen as the arbitrary start date; the end date is yet to be decided – it is very much a work in progress. The interface map through which the artwork is accessed dynamically re-configures itself each time the spectator views the page. Seven events are randomly parsed from the archive and embedded into the interface, thus creating a series of gateways to the past. Each historical event is represented in identical fashion (in terms of compositional structure) and is created from an exact amount of source material (text & image) collected from the Internet databases of western news media. The intention is to convey a sense of equality between the events. (text by Jo-Anne Green, Turbulence.org - Press Release)
A New Movie
Author: Matt Roberts
URL: http://galatea.stetson.edu/~mroberts/conner/anew.html
Description:
This application uses mouse movements to create a new edit of Bruce Conner’s “A Movie”(1958). "A New Movie" maps each x/y position of the users screen and assigns each position of the screen to an edit point of "A Movie". The application watches and records the users mouse movement over a chosen period of time. When enough data has been collected the application will re-edit the original version of ”A Movie”. The user can then view the re-edited version, which keeps the original soundtrack in place but rearranges the visual track according to the users daily mouse movements.
adjusted daydreams
Author: stefanie vandendriessche
URL: http://www.atmsferik.com/atmsferikvirtools.htm
Description:
Adjusted daydreams are a real-time 3D environment where the player can navigate through the 3D world using different cameras and interactions and is able to change the world textures.
Every world has a different level of abstraction and atmosphere. From very abstract to psychedelic bizarre collages.
Because of the complex combining of angles of camera, texture effects and using weird perspectives, the 3D has a “on the first side” rather 2D impression. Nevertheless the fact that the player is navigating in real-time makes, that the moving paintings on the screen will never have the same composition.
AfterSherrieLevine.com
Author: Michael Mandiberg
URL: http://aftersherrielevine.com/
Description:
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 and AfterSherrieLevine.com to facilitate their dissemination as a comment on how we come to know information in this burgeoning digital age.
Here on AfterSherrieLevine.com you will find a browsable selection of these images. Links to the high-resolution exhibition-quality images to download and print out. Along with a certificate of authenticity for each image, which you print out and sign yourself, as well as directions on how to frame the image so that it will fulfill the requirements of the certificate.
By building the image's URL into the title - the image to the left is "Untitled (AfterSherrieLevine.com/2.jpg)" - the images are locatable and downloadable by anyone who sees or reads about the image. By distributing the images online with certificates of authenticity, the images are accessible by anyone. Unlike the work of the late Felix Gonzalez-Torres - known for his spills of candy and stacks of paper from which the viewer can take a piece of, though the sculpture stays complete because the owner possesses the certificate of authenticity, the right to reproduce ‹ the certificates here are used to insure that each satellite image be considered with equal authenticity, not the opposite. This is an explicit strategy to create a physical object with cultural value, but little or no economic value.
Anti Capitalist Operating System
Author: Together We Can Defeat Capitalism
Description:
A clone of the Windows OS. The work of the guerrilla art group Together We Can Defeat Capitalism.
Artist Statement Generator
Author: Nora Herting
URL: http://www.noraherting.net/statement.html
Description:
This interactive piece is designed as a satire on the convention of an artist statement. Participants are asked to submit their own words which when scrambled with art and cultural studies buzzwords result in gibberish artspeak
Beadgee
Author: Tamar Schori
URL: http://www.tamar-schori.net/beadgee/beadgee.html
Description:
Beadgee is based on the book "Three Young Rats and other rhymes", a collection of 19th century nursery rhymes + drawings by Calder.
Beadgee includes around 30 new original drawings that accompany a selection of rhymes. These drawings can be reassembled. Users are invited to explode the drawings (gizmos) and build new gizmos from chosen parts. In the process, words from an associated rhyme will be linked to the chosen parts and will construct a new sentence that will accompany the new gizmo. An on-line gallery shows these new creations.
no/copy/write relates to Beadgee through users participation, through appropriation and through the act of replacing parts of an original creation with my own creation.
The act of creation is dismantled and shared with users.
The project was commissioned by Impakt.nl and realized in Israel in 2003 as a part of the "art of narrative" competition.
Colours
Author: Enda O'Donoghue
URL: http://www.endaism.com/colours
Description:
Colours
by Enda O’Donoghue
www.endaism.com/colours
Each of the four frames presents a continuous slideshow of over one hundred images. These images were all acquired using Google's Image Search service. Each frame corresponds to the results from searches conducted using the terms "Red", “Blue", "Yellow" and “Green".
These are all other people’s images, found images. The purpose of bringing them together here is partly to present a glimpse, a colourful window and snapshot of the world of the web and also to bring to light questions of authorship and image ownership.
The incessant onslaught of images is designed to directly question how much we can take in. The timing is in such a way that the images become randomly juxtaposed against one another, thereby allowing for an ever-changing view. The colour distinctness of each frame can at times be obvious, at other times very subtle and sometimes poignant and sometimes just bizarre and curious; just as the Internet and the Web can be.
The project has been created using a Java applet called Tinyslideshow created by Chris Ricci, which can be found at www.javaboutique.internet.com/tinySlideShow/
For optimum viewing the screen resolution of 1024 X 768 pixels is recommenced and an updated version of Internet Explorer with Java enabled.
This work is licensed under a Creative Commons License.
co~dec
Author: Michael Takeo Magruder
URL: http://www.takeo.org/nspace/ns007/
Description:
*subversion of copyrighted media information for the creation of artworks which reflect upon the dualistic nature of media as both information source and cultural stimulant.
With "co~dec," M. Takeo Magruder continues his quest to create art/media hybrids for the net. It is a "translation" of a one hour CNN news broadcast that has been dissected, compressed—in time, space, and color—then decompressed to its original length. In ambiguous silence "co~dec" slows the net to a crawl (and probably your computer as well, since the piece is very processor intensive). Takeo's grids, calculations, and crafted methodologies morph into organic, meditative spaces. Stripped of "facts" the linear structure of the piece softens into blurred faces, billowing clouds, shifting sands, and remote explosions. While Takeo transforms television noise into tranquil reflection, his work by no means encourages passivity. Peering into our screens, we are compelled to search for those "facts": who’s face? which desert? what explosion? (text by Jo-Anne Green, Turbulence.org - Press Release)
crack is art
Author: florin tudor & mona vatamanu
URL: http://www.exapes.org/cracl.html
Description:
//////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////
our interest in tag///ascii////by crackers was constant from a while and after a period of just collecting these virtual items///artworks
we thought that to make an on-line show with that material could be interesting///why crack is art?//basically because
is not meant to be art///some of those artists who design tags are anonymous & want to remain like that other don't want
to be contacted ....////so we hope as curators of this show that at least some of them will visit this project and find theselves inside.
////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////
mona vatamanu & florin tudor
digitalrecycling
Author: Gaulon
URL: http://www.digitalrecycling.com/
Description:
Digitalrecycling : Upload & download free digital files from the trash can of computers...
" Nowadays we see more and more digital information, from TV, to internet, to mobile phones, to name quiet few. Digital information is today ephemeral, thousands of kilobytes serving once and at once trashed. But all that can be recycled. Yes, the trash bin of your computer can be recycled, and that is what the digitalrecycling company cares about. This junk will be recycled, stored and reused. Therefore we need you. thank you for making it possible, for sending your outdated digital files and for giving up your right on them for all to re use them. so now, you only need to make recycling into art..."
Article about DR :
http://www.neural.it/nnews/digitalrecycling.htm
FE, DIALECTICA Y CULPABILIDAD. Poesias Binarias por Gabito De Souza.
Author: Osvaldo Cibils
URL: http://www.geocities.com/gabitodesouza
Description:
INTERVIEW FRAGMENT 3
Yes, the lyrics are the most difficult part…sometimes I look for the word for months… I go to the library, I read many books… I am very fond of Artificial Intelligence and stuff like that… and then… It took me four years to finish the compact we are listening to now and...
Yes, there’s always a violin…No, in fact I don’t like violins, but in this case I thought it contributed to the climate…that this work needed.
Yes, the lyrics are about love and helplessness… they reflect certain specific moments of my life…
Yes, and then I add some "ambient" sounds with the programs on the machine that give a little bit the ambiance for each piece.
Ghost City
Author: Jody Zellen
URL: http://www.ghostcity.com/
Description:
Ghost City is an ever changing website that was begun in 1997 and is constantly updated. It is a virtual city that has become an archive of changing web technologies. Ghost city has no physical space or real time beyond the space and time of the viewer’s interaction with the screen. It explores the capacity of mediated images to trigger memory and reverie. Ghost City focuses on the representation of the city by the mass media. It uses the space of the web as a sculptural space, allowing viewers to interact with animated graphics to delve deeper and deeper into an imaginary city.
homo sacer
Author: horit herman peled
URL: http://web.macam.ac.il/~horit_a/hosacer.htm
Description:
homo sacer in the state of omition
an interactive activist net work depicting polvurized exsistence, in the context of the witness (machsom watch)
Internet Landscape
Author: Marco Cadioli
URL: http://www.internetlandscape.it
Description:
Can a landscape be protected by copy right?
I “copy” part of the images that appear on my screen, they are the extended landscape of the net. They are mine no more than the mountain I see, like the buildings I photograph in a big metropolis. I take shot of the net and I introduce the reportages in the project Internet Landscape. So I call these images, “photography” and the operation of “cut and paste” is the natural evolution of photography in the spaces made by data.
Is this a plagiarizing projects? I haven’t made any of the images you find in my project, but they all now are mine and tell a new story. Miltos Manetas is using my images to paint -oil on canvas- his InternetPaintings (http://www.manetas.com/internetpaintings/) so they live in one more, though different form.
And this can go on over and over.
Marco Cadioli
(More texts in the project.)
Le COLLAGISTE InTeRacTiF
Author: LeCollagiste
URL: http://www.lecollagiste.com/
Description:
L'art du collage de mano a mano, collage video, audio, photo, mixage video temps reel, diffusion de webfilm en streaming video.
Make Your Choice
Author: friend@know-our-enemy.net
URL: http://www.know-our-enemy.net/make-your-choice/
Description:
There is "no right" choice.
"Make Your Choice" is a political poster project, to protest the so-called "war on terror". Political rhetoric is juxtaposed with images showing the results of these words.
Slogans and images are randomly chosen from a pool of choices every time the page is loaded. There are 1,000+ combinations.
Nothing.No - Portal to Nothing
Author: Arne Rygg
URL: http://nothing.no/
Description:
Reality is not just confined to what is thought of as real. For Marx and Adorno there is a connection between nothing and change. For Kierkegaard and Sartre there is a connection between nothing and freedom.
Nothing.No (2001 - 2004) is a portal to the presence of nothing, focusing on the users and the uses of nothing within contemporary culture and politics, and examining the ways nothing - as something unknown, a limit or a present Other - is a part of our common political ground.
The portal consists of features, guides and a search engine. Most of the features comments on who is having the power to maintain “nothing” as nothing, - and how it is done. They present cases where events and persons are forgotten or hidden, and cases where seemingly absurd incidents or things are given great meaning and value.
The search center makes it possible to investigate nothing among more than ten online resources like international news, philosophical encyclopedias and religious scriptures. The guides are introductions to the nothings of art, science, philosophy, religion and more.
Please check the online project at http://nothing.no for further orientation and examples.
Nothing.No is published by the Association of Nothing. It is initiated, designed and edited by Arne Rygg.
O.Z. operating zystem
Author: Fabian Giles
URL: http://www.freegar.org/O.Z./HTML/index.html
Description:
Remembering the classical film "The Wizard of OZ" this project is based on a main history where through a trip by a code sweepings reference to the yellow brick road which is crossed in linear and nonlinear form to go at "home" crossing different obstacles and mistaken ways between hidden links, animated GIFs and MIDI sounds. The ideal way is to light on automatic pilot and be patient because if you wish it strongly you´ll reach it surely...
—" I haven't got a brain... only straw. "
—"How can you talk if you haven't got a brain? "
—" I don't know... But some people without brains do an awful lot of talking... don't they? " —"Yes, I guess you're right. "
Press <C> for Combat
Author: Jakob Riis
URL: http://www.sonicescape.net/combat/
Description:
An interactive flash-composition in a struggle with letters and words, where the 'listener' becomes the player.
Press <C> for Combat literally needs the listeners active participation. The battle is fought on a stage of increasing disorder. Using the codewords & special commands is the only possible way out. Consequences might be fatal!
properganda
Author: tal adler
URL: http://www.itemz.org/properganda
Description:
the website of "properganda", a postcard project for "operation all-Jewish Jerusalem", June-July 2003, Jerusalem.
SI-Libs
Author: nMn
URL: http://www.nmn.be/SI-Libs
Description:
SI-Libs is a project running in Ghent-Belgium that captures different sorts of audiences: through a life-platform, dorkbot-Ghent, as an experimental base in the city, and as a weblog that tracks every webvisitor, data that will be used in a weborganism.
STEALTH WALTZ
Author: Manu & Mukul
URL: http://www.ambientTV.NET/2002/2/
Description:
Stealth Waltz can be best described as an exploratory projection of the future of arts and music in its most cynical and well-regulated manner. It is based on a society where computerised systems rule the world, and big corporations control most of the goods and services with intellectual property rights. In this time, even traditional folkloric art and music will be targeted as an area that can be licensed and owned by a multinational simply based on the fact that, ‘the current inheritors of these forms do not have the means to adequately preserve or share them.’ Thus, giving the Corporation Inc. the right to ‘ with the support of a consortium of publishing companies,…safeguard this global heritage, develop efficient distribution mechanisms, and conduct an archaeology of the traditional wisdom encoded in folklore through the Heritage License Agreement (HLA).’ As the only instrumental electronic music in 2/2 time (binary beats) is exempt from the license, this genre can be distributed without reference to an agent of the HLA. Alternative companies wishing to circumvent this license must produce binary music tracks. Hence, the name of this project ‘Stealth Waltz’ is born. Ambient Information Systems plays the part of the underground protagonist who distributes traditional music ‘stealthily’ through use of sound encryption. The project is showcased through a website that allows the user to choose which company they would like to hear music from. Upon, entering AIS link, email will be sent out to the member and the instructions on how to encode will be found. There will be two steps, one to download the encoding software and the other to click the downloaded binary beat onto it. Hence, 1 + 1 = 3 since the two procedures will produce a third hidden waltz track.
super man
Author: doron golan
URL: http://www.the9th.com/99/superman/index1.html
Description:
must do something fast.
but what?
I got it ! The electric power line.
looks like a job for superman.
The Love Maze
Author: Larry Carlson
URL: http://www.larrycarlson.com/love_maze.htm
Description:
A HTML only web art maze. A web maze collage of sampled images and sampled text from the net, all mixed up into a blend of hypertext subconscious wonder. Click on a lot of links, who knows what strange dimension you will end up in...
the record machine
Author: talia israeli
URL: it will take me another day or two to send the prints - if it is possible
Description:
it is two silck screen prints - two different digitaly manipulated images ( feels like photocopy quality) of two types of recoding machines, that reffer to the different incornation of an image, regarding the possibility to of photography and prints methods
tooGle
Author: fabio franchino
URL: http://get.me.it/?get=2&me=toogle
Description:
TooGle is a parser over the net focused on the most famous search engine of the net. When it runs, it gets the latest news of the biggest aggregator of news (news.google.com) and it uses each word of the title to retrieve an images sequence from the largest container of images over the net (images.google.com). The result will be a short movie that use the words of the news, the images gotten and the log generated during the parsing.
The animated sequence is not time based; due random algorithm, the original frames will become remixed even more.
After a bit of time the result will become an unreadable sequence, an unreadable news... there will be news no more.
Tru ValU
Author: Nanette Wylde
URL: http://Tru-ValU.com/
Description:
Description:
Tru ValU is an investigation of beauty and the 216 web safe color palette. The site responds to visitor selection by displaying color relationships based on mathematical determinates.
I am thinking about containment and control... the systems and codification of beauty, and how these are sanctioned and internalized in larger social constructs.
I am thinking about centralities, the randomness of designations, and the reduction of our global palette to 216 'safe' elements.
I am thinking about the need/desire/propensity and willingness to count, and the values we place on numbers however arbitrary their assignments/connections to things meaningful in our lives.
I am thinking about the expansion of simple mathematical concepts into metaphors both hidden and inherent in information technologies and the implications thereof.
I am thinking about individuality, plurality and the singularity of the moment.
I am thinking about what is important, what is not, and how we determine what is meaningful, valuable and relevant in our lives.
Tru ValU is a net.art project which employs webpage counters via cgi scripts, and the web safe 216 color palette. The web safe 216 palette includes only those colors that are consistent between Macintosh and PC operating systems. The palette is based on six value increments each for Red, Green and Blue and has nothing to do with beauty. Web designers are encouraged to use the web safe 216 palette to insure their design consistency cross platform.
{matrix}
Author: Michael Takeo Magruder
URL: http://www.takeo.org/nspace/ns008/
Description:
*subversion of copyrighted media information for the creation of artworks which reflect upon the dualistic nature of media as both information source and cultural stimulant.
With {matrix} M. Takeo Magruder has created a series of audio/visual “information” sculptures by extracting and manipulating small data strings from news media. {matrix} reflects upon society’s technological dependence in this age of media saturation and information overload. Each work in the series was created from a single news item parsed from the BBC International web site on January 8, 2004. Three thousand bits of text, image, and sound were sampled to generate each sculptural form. Although the original audio/visual entities are unintelligible, it is possible to reverse engineer the works and extract the 3000 bit elements in a lossless manner. (text by Jo-Anne Green, Turbulence.org - Press Release)