Originally
published
on
04/23/03
The
second
Net
Art
Open
Exhibition
at
the
Irish
Museum
of
Modern
Art
is
underway.
This
year,
one
hundred
net
artists
with
a
total
of
178
links
exhibit
their
work
on-line.
In
addition
to
submitting
a
personal
site,
the
artists
were
asked
to
recommend
a
not-so-well-known
website.
The
only
downside
of
the
exhibit
is
that
some
of
the
participating
artists
recommended
well
known
websites
--
or
at
least
websites
by
well
known
net
artists
such
as
Mark
Amerika,
Natalie
Bookchin,
and
Mark
Napier;
even
Matthew
Barney,
who
is
not
related
to
net
art
but
to
performance,
video
and
installation,
made
it
to
the
recommended
list.
It
is
hard
to
assess
the
reasons
why
some
of
the
participants
opted
to
suggest
'the
usual
suspects,'
when
the
Irish
Museum
is
offering
an
arena
for
true
diversity.
However,
this
is
not
the
case
for
most
participants
as
quite
a
few
great
--
but
not
so
well
known
--
web
projects
were
recommended.
::
Eduardo
Navas
::
Originally
published
on
4/23/03Commissioned by Queen's University, Belfast, Ireland for the Festival at Queen's in 2002, 'Invisible Cities' by Various Artists is an Installation "comprising: 8.54 x 2.44 m Inkjet Panels, 20 x CD Players, 20 x Headphones and 20 x 5 Minute Audio Loops." Curated and published by Fallt" an independent publishing house specializing in experimental music, fine art, design and criticism," the entire collection has been online--free to download in mp3--for a few months now but will only stay for a limited period. The audio collection is "an intimate series of portraits" of a selection of "the world's cities painted with sound." ÊReal gems include 'Recorded Delivery' (London) by Janek Schaefer, '11.09.02' (New York) by Taylor Deupree and 'Untitled (DC)' (Washington) by Richard Chartier.
:: Garrett Lynch ::
Originally
published
on
4/23/03"DESSINE MOI" (draw me) is a series of automats (non-interactive) created by Joachim Lapotre. It's a simple but effective visual study on short rule-based systems, the purpose being "to synthesize some graphic movements/styles/shapes and then combine it with random generators into logic based systems." This type of work has been created many times before (probably the most famous being those created by turux.org ) yet it remains as essential to understanding basic computers principles such as cut and paste, looping, conditional structures, and code execution order as life-drawing classes are to understanding form, texture, and light and shade. These are steps in a learning process and no doubt we will be seeing more from Joachim Lapotre in the not too distant future.
:: Garrett Lynch ::
Loops
have
been
a
driving
force
behind
moving
images
since
the
beginning
of
Cinema.
Today,
animated
graphics
on
the
web
are
completely
dependent
on
loops
to
work
efficiently.A website that has been offering excellent looped animations for some time now is Modern Living; here, one can find a range of Flash and Gif animations that expose existential angst. Make sure to click around as much as possible, as you will find a lonely character fighting and/or condoning interactivity with a drive that could only be possible through relentless repetition. In Modern Living, a simple algorithmic conditional becomes a way to get up in everyday life.
:: Eduardo Navas ::
Originally
published
on
04/16/03Paul Thayer is a net artist from Iceland whose core work evolves around sound, computers and the internet. His latest piece PANSE is an MP3 streaming audio program with a TCP server running at 130.208.220.190 port 6667 that allows for multi-user, real-time interaction. An example of this real-time interaction is the Flash movie on the front page that allows you to change the sound, but it should be noted that you should be streaming sound if you actually want to hear this. Access to the server is completely open so anyone who has a bit of knowledge of programming can create an interface, in Flash for instance, to control the audio program. But PANSE can do more. On this page, you can find a small collection of experiments with the PANSE server by Paul Thayer. Besides all this active input, you can, of course, also choose to listen to the MP3 stream.
:: Peter Luining ::