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The Deleted City, social web archeology
The project of Richard Vijgen Deleted City is an interactive data visualization of the myriad of data hosted on the free web hosting Geocities, that was very popular at the dawn of the commercial web. The city was the successful metaphor that characterized this site: the users could easily create their own Web pages and click on the "city" in which they preferred to live based on the type of content
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Antidatamining BOT, financial kamikaze
Since 2006, the RYBN collective has been using the tools of data mining (automated extraction of knowledge from large amounts of data) to subvert its own goals, building unusual representations and analyses of financial and social mechanisms. The project Antidatamining includes works such as "Flashcrash sonification", a graphic and sound representation of the 20-minute stock market crash
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Mirko Tobias Schafer, Bastard Culture! How User Participation Transforms Cultural Production
249 pages, Amsterdam University Press, 2011, English, ISBN-13: 978-9089642561Internet has been since the beginning of its commercial diffusion a popular medium, but only recently has there been a rising interest in its own internal social dynamics, including its folklore and how it has radically reshaped the relationship ... [ Continue ] email this | + facebook | + twitter | TrackBacks (0) |
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Poser, invading digital photo frames
In a very short time since they appeared, digital photo frames have become so popular that they now regularly invite aesthetic experimentation. In his recent project Poser, Constant Dullaart has offered an ironic view of this media. Slipping inside the device, the artist has designed some chroma keys of
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Quantum Parallelograph, quantistic parallel lives
The ' Quantum Parallelograph ', designed by Patrick Stevenson-Keating, is a bizarre medical-looking white device made to translate our invisible inner workings into various languages interpreted by industry experts. The information produced by the machine is related to various
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Jussi Parikka - Insect Media: An Archaeology of Animals and Technology
Univ Of Minnesota Press, English, 320 pages, 2010, ISBN: 978-0816667406For networked societies, emergent intelligence and swarms have taken on important explanatory power in terms of highly distributed modes of behavior, ranging over contexts and discussions as wide as military theory, economics, the development of software algorithms, political organisation and user-led content generation. Indeed, as new media theorists Alexander Galloway and Eugene Thacker have ... [ Continue ] email this | + facebook | + twitter | TrackBacks (0) |
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TinyRiot, the sound of a thousand (tiny) riots
With most demonstra- tions and street protests it's hard to know exactly who hurled the first bottle. Amidst a sea of people engaged in a collaborative state of mind, the sense of anonymity generated can be very empowering. In the ever-congealing, international abyss of the iPhone (the networks, the users and the apparatus itself) anonymity in this perceived collective is curbed by a registered phone number
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Josephine Bosma - Nettitudes, Let's Talk Net Art
Institute of Network Cultures/NAi Publishers, ISBN: 978-9056628000, 272 pages, English, 2011Who needs another book on net art? After reading this book one is forced to answer: me! In fact, different from almost all the other books on this topic (some of which are reviewed here), this is the first one written by someone who has closely followed the net.art movement since the beginning. Josephine Bosma's privileged perspective is that of an insider journalist and ... [ Continue ] email this | + facebook | + twitter | TrackBacks (0) |
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Boskoi, wilderness addiction
Boskoi is an application for Android mobiles that allows people to create a checklist of geo-localized spontaneous food in urban areas. Created by Joey van der Bie, Maarten van der Mark and Vincent Vijn the application was developed with Ushahidi, an useful open source platform for collecting, displaying and mapping information on mobile devices. Recently it has been tried in Amsterdam where
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Douglas Rushkoff - Program or Be Programmed: Ten Commands for a Digital Age
OR Books, ISBN: 978-1935928157, 140 pages, 2010, EnglishIn the early days of digital networks there was a set of social conventions, called Netiquette, meant to facilitate interaction over networks (they were even codified in an official Internet Engineering Task Force document: RFC 1855). The time/space coordinates of the new medium (the network) were causing various embarrassing communication problems among online users, so the rules were ... [ Continue ] email this | + facebook | + twitter | TrackBacks (0) |
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Joss Hands - @ Is For Activism: Dissent, Resistance And Rebellion In A Digital Culture
Pluto Press, ISBN: 978-0745327006, 2011, English, 224 pagesAfter all the myths about the magical use of digital networks for political reasons, including the north African uprisings, and the consequent hype, it's healthy to read a book focusing on giving context and perspective to practices. Hands feels it a necessity to question what Slavoj Zizek calls "interpassivity", or the illusion of doing something (like the popular act of signing online petitions) which don't really affect ... [ Continue ] email this | + facebook | + twitter | TrackBacks (0) |
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FoodMatch, surfing the fridges
The single portions of food at the supermarket are a strange business entity. The skimpy, perfect packaging directly links with the little windows of the huge buildings of one-room flats that are filling up all the big cities. The quantity of food inside them is always slightly more than necessary, so
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Zizi Papacharissi A Networked Self: Identity, Community, and Culture on Social Network Sites [Paperback]
![Zizi Papacharissi, A Networked Self: Identity, Community, and Culture on Social Network Sites [Paperback], 336 pages, Routledge, English, ISBN: 978-0415801812, a_networked_self_Zizi_Papacharissi.jpg](http://www.neural.it/art/images6/a_networked_self_Zizi_Papacharissi.jpg)
336 pages, Routledge, English, ISBN: 978-0415801812Although hundreds of millions of people use social media platforms almost instinctively, the value, the meaning and the scale of what they are doing there is often missed, or, at best, only guessed at. In the context of a sort of global social experiment (which can't be disconnected from the rise of related industries), personal dynamics have to deal with a completely different dimension that does not ... [ Continue ] email this | + facebook | + twitter | TrackBacks (0) |
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edited by Nilo Casares, Brian Mackern - netart_latino database
MEIAC, ISBN: 978- 8461343942Supported by the work of the curator Nilo Casares, this book is unique. Not only because it's printed in a limited edition number of copies, but more because of its content. Produced in collaboration with the Museo Extremeño e Iberoamericano de Arte Contemporáno (MEIAC) in Spain, it focuses on Brian Mackern's "netart_latino database" - the primary work of this Uruguayan visual, net and sound ... [ Continue ] email this | + facebook | + twitter | TrackBacks (0) |
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Highscreen, hacking public spaces with media archaeology
Net.Art already belongs to media archaeology as Oslo 2003 “Written in Stone” exhibition clearly stated. Exhibiting net art has always been all about commitment, because it is simply not possible to avoid interpretation if you want to show this art in a way that engages the audience in an exhibition space beyond the click of a mouse. But what happens if the action of exhibiting net.art, becomes an artwork in itself and the display area is the public space?
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Adrian Mackenzie - Wirelessness, Radical Empiricism in Network Cultures
The MIT Press, 2010, 256 pp., ISBN-13: 978-0-262-01464-9After years talking about the revolution in space perception induced by the real time IT networks, the strong industrial trend to go wireless whenever possible has pervaded space and habits. We're slowly "getting rid of cables", pushed by the industry as if cables were parasites, but unconsciously changing our culture without being aware of what is really happening technologically. Mackenzie fruitfully ... [ Continue ] email this | + facebook | + twitter | TrackBacks (0) |
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Newstweek, mutant news
In a crowded restaurant a small plastic box attached to a power outlet goes unnoticed. It could be a transformer or a charger. The box conceals, in fact, a small computer capable of mapping the traffic of the wireless network environment. The mini-device accesses the intercepted network by creating an SSH tunnel. Using a simple "search and replace" process, the online content viewed by users
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VJing by 375 Wikipedians
Greyscale Press, ISBN 978-2-9700706-0-3, August 2010, Format: Paperback, 4.25" x 6.875", 122 pagesIn her introduction, Ana Carvalho describes the production process of this book as a "wiki-sprint." It is, in fact, the result of gathering together the various people who contributed to the extensive defining of "Vjing" during a week-long writing marathon at the Mapping Festival in Geneva in May 2010. Some of them were physically present, others were online, but people from a number of countries formed the ... [ Continue ] email this | + facebook | + twitter | TrackBacks (0) |
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edited by Clare Butcher, Angela Plohman - The Future of the Lab
Baltan Laboratories, ISBN 9789081583015, English, 2010After the establishment of the MIT Media Lab in 1985 the concept of a "Lab", meant as a space for research and experimentation with technologies and media in general, has evolved profoundly. If in the beginning the lab was a privileged space to use unaffordable tools, increasing access to technology has resulted in a shift towards the sharing of skills and visions as the primary focus. In its initial mission ... [ Continue ] email this | + facebook | + twitter | TrackBacks (0) |
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Dyndy, no money economy
The capital economy is going to cyclically collapse on itself: this now is a fact. The latest (disastrous) decade has spawned a variety of initiatives to create alternative systems for the exchange of "values", that are not necessarily monetary in nature. These economic systems are varied: they sometimes propose an exchange based on non-monetary resources (such as Time Banking, which allows
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edited by Dieter Daniels, Gunther Reisinger - Net Pioneers 1.0, Contextualizing Early Net-Based Art
Sternberg Press, ISBN: 978-1-933128-71-9, July 2010 / Hardcover / 5 1/2 x 8 1/2 inches / 244 pp / 15 b&wThere was a time when harsh debates took place about the "fundamental" difference between net.art and net art (with or without the dot). In the subtitle of this book is a small revolution that intrinsically coins a new, more comprehensive term: "net-based art". What we will call it in twenty years is hard to predict, but books like this will turn out to be necessary for future art historians. In this book ... [ Continue ] email this | + facebook | + twitter | TrackBacks (0) |
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Ronald J. Deibert, John G. Palfrey, Rafal Rohozinski, Jonathan Zittrain - Access Controlled: The Shaping of Power, Rights, and Rule in Cyberspace
The MIT Press, ISBN-13: 978-0262514354, 656 pages, April 30, 2010, EnglishTwo years after "Access Denied", the same team of editors have published a new thick book about internet censorship and filtering. It's another project by the OpenNet Initiative (ONI), a consortium of academics focused on free speech and government interactions with the Internet. This sequel is divided in two parts. The first includes "theory and analysis" with very informative essays that the editors also ... [ Continue ] email this | + facebook | + twitter | TrackBacks (0) |
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(edited by) Nicola Mullenger and Annette Wolfsberger - Cultural Bloggers Interviewed
LabforCulture,
English,
2010,
96 pages,
ISBN-13: 978-1906496500 The two editors of this book define blogging as a "cultural seismograph" - a fascinating definition, looking at the regular activity of cultural blogging not as a constant production of quality content, but as a pulsating generator of stimuli, able to trigger reactions and events just with the power of being published online (and there's an interesting similarity with what the international zine community ... [ Continue ] email this | + facebook | + twitter | TrackBacks (0) |
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Trail Blazers, web six degrees of separation
‘Trail blazing’ has a kind of Wild West ring to it. Expanding on the relaxed, nerdy couch potato attitude that Marisa Olson has labeled ‘Pro Surfer’, Trail Blazers takes this idea out into the world in a big way. Trail Blazers are sort of web surfers on steroids; Pro Surfer meets HTML wrestler. Participants actually leave the privacy of their homes or offices, and come together in big rooms. This is a project by
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Mechanical Games, online sports video for turkers
Mechanical Games is an online sports-themed video contest. The five competition categories (lifting weights, swimming, hockey, fencing, volleyball) can be realistically represented or interpreted freely (sometimes with surreal results) through 30-60-minute videos. The participants involved were recruited in different ways. The artist
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André Nusselder - Interface Fantasy: A Lacanian Cyborg Ontology
The MIT Press, English, ISBN-13: 978-0262513005, U.S.A., 2009Psychologists have been rarely very helpful in understanding the most deep and intimate relationships between men and machines. At the end of nineties one of the early scientific books investigating this field out: "The Psychology of the Internet" by Patricia Wallace. It tried to analyze emotional emergences rising on the net, which were mainly caused by the new mediated type of ... [ Continue ] email this | + facebook | + twitter | TrackBacks (0) |
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Buttons, shooting somewhere else
When you take a picture, a moment becomes a memory. The memory becomes matter. Publishing photos, through services like Flickr, has added a new dimension to the photographic process for many people. Publishing a picture on the web becomes an intentional part of the shooting process. By
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Bill Wasik - And Then There's This: How Stories Live and Die in Viral Culture
Viking Adult, ISBN 978-0670020843
, USA, 2009, EnglishBill Wasik makes internet experiments on viral culture. He organized the first (pointless) flash mob in New York, and went on with other effective strategies, exploiting online trust and community building techniques. It's the good old meme resurgence in the times of social networking, tested through a ... [ Continue ] email this | + facebook | + twitter | TrackBacks (0) |
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edited by Konrad Becker and Felix Stalder - Deep Search: The Politics of Search Beyond Google
Studienverlag & Transaction Publishers, ISBN 978-3706547956, Austria, 2009, EnglishThe centrality of search engines in everyday lives has recently been focused on by different institutions involved in the critical analysis of Internet culture. Among them are the Institute of Network Cultures in Amsterdam, and the World-Information Institute in Vienna that organized the Deep Search conference, ... [ Continue ] email this | + facebook | + twitter | TrackBacks (0) |
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Dragan Espenschied, Olia Lialina - Digital Folklore: To Computer Users, with Love and Respect
Merz Akademie, ISBN-13: 978-3937982250, Germany, 2009, EnglishOlga Lialina and Dragan Espenschied have invested a huge amount of time in investigating something that others have simplistically dismissed as "mundane". They have been among the very few to understand the importance of a historic moment (the first years of the world wide web) and the birth of its "pop culture" - a history they appropriately define as "digital folklore". Beyond the recurrent naivete ... [ Continue ] email this | + facebook | + twitter | TrackBacks (0) |
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Temporary.cc, interaction is destruction
Digital data has a paradoxical status. Immaterial by definition, it nonetheless has a need for a physical substance (hardware) to manifest itself. Eternal and not subject to decay, it is forced to bond its life to the hosting support, inheriting fragility and a tendency to degenerate. Furthermore, data legibility is
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Cornelia Sollfrank - Expanded Original
Hatje Cantz, ISBN 978-3775723909, Germany, 2009, English, GermanThe work of Cornelia Sollfrank is one of the most enlightening attempts to describe the consequences of immateriality in art. She consistently points to the obsolescence of concepts such as "original" and "copyrighted", developing a full spectrum of perspectives. Even if the core of her work comes out of the ... [ Continue ] email this | + facebook | + twitter | TrackBacks (0) |
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Web 2.0 suicide machine + Seppukoo, social network self-destruction
Parodies of social networking services started to appear since the Friendster boom in the early 2000s. Anti-social networking platforms as introvertster, snubster, enemybook or isolatr playfully subverted online community dynamics targeting their shallowness as much as
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Manuel Castells - Communication Power
Oxford University Press, ISBN 978-0199567041, U.S.A., 2009, English"Where does power lie in the network society?" This is the central question that Manuel Castells tries to answer in his first book in ten years. After the disillusionment of the internet utopia as a liberating medium per se, Castells describes society using hardware/software terminology, drawing a stimulating picture. He grounds his analysis of the network society through different mass media conflicts like the ... [ Continue ] email this | + facebook | + twitter | TrackBacks (0) |
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Sk8monkey, Twitter's wreckage by Jodi
Misusing technological tools and languages has been a trademark for Jodi.org (Joan Heemskerk and Dirk Paesmans) since the mid-nineties, when they emerged as the pioneers of a movement which later became internationally known as net.art. Starting by applying this creative strategy to browsers,
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