March 22- 28, 2003
Originally
published
on
03/18/03
Racial
discrimination
is
closely
rexamined
and
exposed
in
Wayne
Dunkley's
sharemyworld.net.
The
website
consists
of
a
series
of
"books"
inspired
by
Dunkley's
street
posting
of
his
own
defaced
image
around
the
downtown
cores
of
::
Eduardo
Navas
::
Originally
published
on
03/17/03
Version>03
is
an
annual
Digital
Arts
Convergence
festival
occuring
in
Chicago
and
currently
in
its
third
year.
"This year, Version>03 is examining two forceful trends, Globalization (the merging of economies) and Singularity (the adaptation of man to machine), as seen, created, and debated by programmers, artists, scientists, activists and critical thinkers. Subtitled Technotopia vs. Technopocalypse, the five-day festival brings together emerging and leading practitioners to respond to the latest advancements in virtual reality, robotics, bioengineering, and other such technology defining our time. The festival will also examine contemporary social and political developments relating to the War in Iraq, the War on Terror and the American surveillance society."
The
festival
takes
place
in
eight
main
locations
around
the
city
and
has
an
impressive
list
of
lectures/workshops
including
"Open-Source
Life
Project",
"We're
ready
For
Our
Close-up:
Strategies
for
Public
Protest
in
the
Age
of
Surveillance"
and
"SmartMeme:
Direct
Action
at
the
Point(s)
of
Assumption".
A
healthy
mix
of
free
and
pay
for
events.
So,
if
your
state-side,
make
sure
you
have
a
chance
to
go.
::
Garrett
Lynch
::
Originally
published
on
03/16/03Essentially this work is an image based search engine much like google's or altavista's with a front layer / interface made in shockwave. The user can type any search query into the text field provided and search for images classed under these words on the internet. Once a series of images is returned they are animated algorithmically in the interface.
The projects creators say the "project plays with the tension between on-line and cinematic approaches to images" and for this reason exists in two forms. The first is browser based and the second is an installation with three screens each showing a different word search / movie. As a piece of net.art this works very well. Using the network as a sort of tv channel where the broadcast can be initially seeded while reinterpreting media freely accessible suggests that it could only exist and work online. So viewed within this context is completely appropriate.
Reasons as to why the piece is also presented as an installation, either removing the little but important interaction if aspiring to a true "cinematic" approach, or keeping it and thus denying the latter seem to be more at odds with the work. Afterall movie's aren't interactive (in the classical sense) and certainly not presented with three screens!
:: Garrett Lynch ::
Originally
published
on
03/14/03Judith Villamayor develops websites based on structural strategies. Some of her pieces include Libro 2: Moma.org an eloquent appropriation of the MoMA museum website as it appeared on March 2002. She also appropriated Argentina's National Museum of Fine Arts' (mbna.org.ar) website as mnba.com.ar with careful adjustments throughout the webpages to create social commentary.
Villamayor has also pushed authorship issues by creating Bugs en el Systema. Here, avatars that she herself created helped her win a net art contest which can still be seen at arteuna.com.
:: Eduardo Navas ::