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Island2, a squatted computer memory zone

Island2, Martin Howse, island_2_martin_howse.jpg

Conceptually, a computer's memory is not only the place where code and data are temporary hosted, but it is also the short term reference for everything that is rendered on the screen. In a way, it represents something like the computer's "awareness" at a given moment, more than its "short term" ... [ Continue ]

Posted at 11:28 AM - Mar 12/2010
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art . biotech . code . science

Tardigotchi, augmented virtuality

S.W.A.M.P., Tardigotchi, tardigotchi.jpg

Affection for living creatures has been widely exploited in video games. From the early abstract cellular automata, through to the seminal "Little Computer People" video game (1985), the mass popularity of Tamagotchi in the nineties, and the latest wave of the Nintendo DS "Pets" series, our protective instincts ... [ Continue ]

Posted at 07:16 PM - Oct 6/2009
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Pa++ern, esoteric language for embroidery

Pa++ern, Daito Manabe, Motoi Ishibashi, pa++ern.jpg

Pa++ern is an installation piece bringing about new interactions in social media by utilizing user-generated code strings via Twitter. It converts this data into a textile end-product using embroidering machinery. Media artists Daito Manabe ... [ Continue ]

Posted at 07:38 PM - Sep 14/2009
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art . code . literature . videogame

Memetic Simulation no. 2, memetic shoot 'em up

Joseph Hocking, memetic simulation no. 2, memetic_simulation_n_2.jpg

Shoot 'em up (or shmup for short) is a computer and video game genre where the player usually controls a vehicle or character and fights large numbers of enemies with shooting attacks, typically of a highly stylized nature. In Japan, where the genre is still a lively one, they are simply known as "shooting games" ... [ Continue ]

Posted at 09:21 PM - Apr 14/2008
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Dynamic Abstraction, the beauty of randomness by Joshua Davis

Joshua Davis, Dynamic Abstraction, dynamic_abstraction.jpg

Joshua Davis said in a Wired interview: "Pollock showed that there was beauty in randomness". But if Pollock argued that the process of abstraction, not the end result, is what is dynamic (in his case a static painting), Joshua Davis’ work is never static: the painting is never the same. The compositions ... [ Continue ]

Posted at 08:00 PM - Jul 31/2007
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Calltrace, live visualization of a running software

From a semiotic point of view, sequences of 0 and 1 stored in a piece of physical computer memory code not only digital text data (images, animation) but also the instructions used to transform these data in substance of expression (pixel on the screen, audio waves from the speaker) and the instructions to translate the substance into form of expression (visual composition, verbal texts, etc). ... [ Continue ]

Posted at 12:00 PM - May 22/2007
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[the] xxxxx [reader]

xxxxx/OpenMute - ISBN 0955066441
Well placed in the underground tradition of obscure and fascinating books, this anthology edited by the Berlin-based collective xxxxx take the challenge to conceptually intertwine two different sign domains: programming code and word. The book is defined by its authors as 'a radical, new space for artistic ... [ Continue ]

Posted at 12:20 PM - Apr 16/2007
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art . code . hacking . interactive . software

Time Based Text, the gesture in computer art

Time Based Text, Jaromil, Jodi, time_based_text.jpg

Thinking about gesture in art, people usually refer to choreography. If the topic is related to IT, instead, usability becomes the issue. But, what about gesture in computer art? Does it mean natural interaction or is it just a matter of performance? Certainly, a gesture is a way for emphasizing ... [ Continue ]

Posted at 12:26 PM - Apr 7/2007
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Tag Generator: tag clouds for textual analisys

Tag Generator, Chirag Metha, tag_generator.jpg

In the talk entitled 'Ontology Is Overrated' he gave at the O'Reilly Emerging Technology conference in March 2005, Clay Shirky claims that current categorization methods (taxonomies and schemes), are giving place to more organic ways of organizing information based on two units: the link and the ... [ Continue ]

Posted at 04:35 PM - Nov 27/2006
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Dna, exposing your inner code

The goal of DNA by Marco VIllani is a reflection on the concept of identity, meant as a synthesis of a relationship in which symbolic, biological and existential systems converge. His privacy idea equals to total transparency. Through the analysis of his own chromosome profile, the artist highlights the lack of a general definition of the ... [ Continue ]

Posted at 10:29 AM - Oct 31/2006
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Reject Me, State Scrounging as Means of Production

Cheating acts have a special (controversial) place in performing art history. They are acknowledged as challenging performance. Nevertheless the real troubles with the law involved put them in a critical limbo. Awarded at the latest ReadMe 100, ... [ Continue ]

Posted at 07:12 PM - Sep 20/2006
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(edited by) Olga Goriounova - Readme 100, Temporary Software Art Factory

Readme 100, Temporary Software Art Factory, Hartware MedienKunstVerein, ISBN 3833443693, readme_100_book.jpg

Books on Demand GmbH - ISBN 3833443693
The software culture investigation made in the last four years by Alexei Shulgin and Olga Goriounova has never stopped nor stalled going deep into new branches of research made publicly visible at every new Readme festival. The guests gathered at different editions has pointed their discourse on software ... [ Continue ]

Posted at 01:18 AM - Sep 8/2006
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activism . code . copyright . hacking . hacktivism

Hackmeeting 2006: Building a different net

The Italian Hackmeeting is a very special kind of event. It's very different from the other European or American hacker meetings because it's compeltely self organized and decided through a public mailing list. The 8th edition will take place in ... [ Continue ]

Posted at 12:09 AM - Sep 1/2006
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Naturalis Electronica, Interferenze festival report

Naturalis Electronica, Interferenze festival 2006,interferenze_2006_report.jpg

Digital and organic are never antonyms at Interferenze, the annual festival of new arts taking place in San Martino Valle Caudina (Italy). In the middle of a beautiful chestnut trees forest the 2006 edition lead the young local enthusiastic curator crew to ... [ Continue ]

Posted at 11:42 AM - Aug 29/2006
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The Familiar Stranger

Wireless, mobile, digital technologies are rapidly transforming our relationship to people and place in public urban settings. The Familiar Stranger Project developed by Eric Paulos and Elizabeth Goodman from Intel Berkeley Lab, explores these devices implications that provide a loose connection (but no ... [ Continue ]

Posted at 07:28 PM - Aug 22/2006
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Spam Plants + Spam Architecture, visualizing the spam rhythm

Spam Plants, Spam Architecture, Alex Dragulescu, spam_plants_architecture.jpg

Amongst the many attempts of extracting art *visualizing* spam, many have miserably failed establishing a loose connection between the email data feed and the generated graphic. It's not just a question of aesthetical values, but also of representing the obscure and overwhelming core nature of ... [ Continue ]

Posted at 07:27 PM - Aug 1/2006
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Dark Source, exposing democracy owners

One of the most senseless use of technology is electronic voting. With no advantages except from the speed (real time) county of votes, this 'innovation' is simply an enormous swindle. In fact the votes are stored as files, so infinitely more falsifiable than the one written on the traditional paper, and the ... [ Continue ]

Posted at 02:10 AM - Jul 26/2006
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Corrupt, software for rotting pictures

The glitches, intended as the visual or audio results of computer accident are an important part of our contemporary machinic culture. Actually the dark side of the digital existence lies in its hidden complexity that is already beyond any human reasonable level, an abyss of running code whose ... [ Continue ]

Posted at 01:26 AM - Jul 20/2006
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Day Planning, Single Step Guide To Success

Day Planning, Heath Bunting, day_planning.jpg

The non-structured and chaotically organized information on the net is slowly reflecting its properties to our own daily data environment. The information management of everyday tasks is a western world problem that has already been analyzed and handled in many different ways. This topic is a must ... [ Continue ]

Posted at 01:19 AM - Jul 11/2006
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The Invisible Hand Machine, free market harmony through Excel

The Invisible Hand Machine, Readme100, Excel, the_invisible_hand_machine.jpg

According to the Adam Smith free market theory, self-interests and economic processes find a harmonization, as if an invisibile hand guided them, beyond any specific intentions. Selfishness and competition are the motors of the individuals that, although they just pursue their profit, catch up the ... [ Continue ]

Posted at 04:16 PM - Jul 1/2006
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Mailia, email and AI

Mailia, Martin Kuenz, Karsten Asshauer, mailia.jpg

An intelligent network, able to make searches and compute information under a specific logic. This is the scenario that seem to appear to the on the horizon of the programming language research, prefigurated by net visionary as Tim Berners Lee, but dreamed and feared at the same time by every ... [ Continue ]

Posted at 11:02 AM - Jun 29/2006
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I Love You, computer virus exhibition in Novi Sad

I Love You, Museo d'Arte Contemporanea di Novi Sad, i_love_you_novi_sad.jpg

I Love You, the historical exhibition on computer viruses opened on June 22nd at the Museum of Contemporary Art in Novi Sad. This is the fifth edition (a sixth will open on July 11th in the Museum of Contemporary Art in Belgrade), and it represent the latest version, the so-called I love you ... [ Continue ]

Posted at 12:16 PM - Jun 23/2006
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code . music . software . sound

9Dots, sound communication grid

A timeline made by a series of grids of 3x3 points. This is the first sight of 9Dots, an experimental project presented at the web flash festival 2006. It's an audio/visual device implemented by Pierre Delmas Bouly that allows to edit a sequence of eight ... [ Continue ]

Posted at 11:24 AM - Jun 1/2006
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Abe & Mo Sing the Blogs

While Internet population has already started asking if Web 2.0 is getting boring because of all its services and plugins, net artists keep exploring all the alternatives offered by blogs as text generators. With Abe & Mo Sing the Blogs, ... [ Continue ]

Posted at 12:26 AM - May 11/2006
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Monolith, copyright hacking

Home taping has always been a common and private practice, almost ignored by copyright because of its domestic attitude. However, with the Internet, home taping has moved into the public realm, becoming victim of copyright defenders who has never stopped investigating since the Napster trial. ... [ Continue ]

Posted at 10:43 AM - Apr 14/2006
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WYHIWYG, what you hear is what you get

WYHIWYG what you hear is what you get. This seems to be the last link of a long chain of acronyms coined during the years and related to the evolution of the man-machine interaction. From the original 'What you see is what you get' many other acronyms has ... [ Continue ]

Posted at 09:43 PM - Apr 12/2006
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GLTerminal, a blast from the past

Amongst the thousands blogs that one can bump into while surfing the net, sometimes it happens that one attracts a vast public attention, that later is then able to define a specific trend. This is, for example, the case of ldopa.net that talks about the sudden trend of GLTerminal, or rather the attempt ... [ Continue ]

Posted at 07:36 PM - Mar 23/2006
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art . code . media . psychogeography

Crystalpunk Workshop for Soft Architecture

Every room has a story, every place has an emotional nature, that could be partially derived, but most of all explored and changed. This is the founding principle of the ... [ Continue ]

Posted at 04:29 PM - Mar 22/2006
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(edited by) Rishab Aiyer Ghosh - Code, collaborative ownership and the digital economy

book - The MIT Press - ISBN 0262072602
The 'Open Source' concept, even if often made ambiguous and cannibalized by the same industry whose exploiting principles is shattering, is one of the cornerstones around which the collective intelligence made possible by the Net is revolving. As is strongly stressed in this ... [ Continue ]

Posted at 03:49 PM - Nov 7/2005
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McKenzie Wark - A Hacker Manifesto

book - Harvard University Press - ISBN 0674015436
The perspective of hackers as a social class is undoubtely fascinating a fascinating one. Thinking to this group of people all over the world who have in common the pragmatism in manipulating the social and technological practices through often ingenious abstractions, with a radical libertarian utopia, makes all those who have ... [ Continue ]

Posted at 03:58 PM - Oct 5/2005
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Nine(9), a tool for narrative maps by Mongrel

Nine(9) is the name of the latest work by the artists collective Mongrel, from London, already well-known for investigating the paradoxes of identity and truth in the 'database culture'. Referring to a number which ... [ Continue ]

Posted at 03:49 PM - Mar 3/2003
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