Random Magazine - New Media Art / E-Culture » browser http://www.random-magazine.net Random links about Art & Technology Wed, 08 Sep 2010 22:23:44 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.6 en hourly 1 Google Alarm http://www.random-magazine.net/2010/07/google-alarm/ http://www.random-magazine.net/2010/07/google-alarm/#comments Wed, 28 Jul 2010 20:54:08 +0000 vtanni http://www.random-magazine.net/?p=2976

“The Google Alarm Firefox addon visually & audibly alerts you when your personal information is being sent to Google servers.
Even outside Gmail and YouTube you are constantly sending information to Google through their vast network of tracking bugs: Google Analytics, Google AdSense, YouTube embeds, API calls.. all of this data be used to monitor & track your personal web browsing habits.
Google Alarm shows notifications, plays sound effects and keeps running stats about the % of websites you’ve visit with Google bugs present. Stay alert – install Google Alarm today.”

Google Alarm was developed by Jamie Wilkinson during FAT Lab’s “FUCK GOOGLE” week in Berlin, Germany during transmediale 2010.

http://jamiedubs.com/googlealarm

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The typical browsing experience is conducted through a single application window. This is indeed a useful, practical thing. Browser Pong instead exists between a collection of windows. During play the negative space between windows is transformed into a playing field—the abstracted tennis court of Pong. The idea of thinking inside or outside some “box” is of course a dead and beaten horse. Browser Pong attempts to think with the boxes. (Stewart Smith of Stewdio).

http://stewdio.org/pong

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Inspired by “Color Field Painting” movement, a style of abstract painting that emerged in New York City during the 1940s and 1950 (the definition is due to art critic Clement Greenberg), this net art project by Michael Demers treats the browser window as a canvas. Website visitor generates a series of windows, each with a randomly assigned color based upon parameters established for each piece. Creating an endless series of abstract digital paintings.

www.michaeldemers.com/colorFieldPaintings_Browser.htm

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HasCanvas, developed by Robert O’Rourke, is a tool for creating and sharing Processing sketches and runs on John Resig’s Processing.js. Visitors can experiment with the scripts already added or log in to compose their own scripts. All they have to do is browse to any url on the site to get a blank canvas and then, when ready, check a box to share it. The project is part of the Chrome Experiments initiative, which promote the new HTML5 standard and the Google Chrome webbrowser.

www.hascanvas.com
www.sanchothefat.com
www.chromeexperiments.com

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Artzilla.org is a web platform dedicated to the development of experimental browser software. The site collects and exhibit creative works, share code and tutorials (wiki.artzilla.org), and publish news from the scene.

http://www.artzilla.org

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Why reduce the internet to an audio-visual stream? Simply to provoke thought around our use and consumption of different media, linear push media such as television and non-linear interactive pull media such as websites, which have been converging for sometime now. Net.tv’s purpose is to highlight the way we as users continually construct self made narratives when we use the internet through choices based on an interact / react model. It does this by removing our ability to chose and act on those choices.

Net.tv is available to download for Mac OSX 10.2+, Mac OS 8/9 and Windows 98 / Millennium Edition / NT 4.0 / 2000, or XP from the artists website:

www.asquare.org/project/net-tv
www.asquare.org

Share/Save]]> http://www.random-magazine.net/2006/11/net-tv/feed/ 0 Il prezzo in barile http://www.random-magazine.net/2006/06/il-prezzo-in-barile/ http://www.random-magazine.net/2006/06/il-prezzo-in-barile/#comments Mon, 19 Jun 2006 15:58:01 +0000 vtanni http://www.random-magazine.net/?p=1152 L’oro non è più uno standard valido per la valutazione della ricchezza? Pensando ai possibili sostituti il primo che viene in mente è senz’altro il suo fratello “nero”. Parliamo del petrolio naturalmente, che in barba a tutte le possibili fonti alternative di energia, mantiene il suo ruolo dominante. Ironizza amaramente sul problema l’artista Michael Mandiberg, che ha messo a punto, su commissione di Turbulence, un browser a misura “di petrolio”. Oil Standard converte automaticamente tutti i prezzi in dollari che incontra nelle pagine web in barili di greggio.

http://turbulence.org/Works/oilstandard

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[ITALIAN BELOW]

Glitch Browser è un programma di navigazione on line capace di rielaborare, danneggiandone la superficie, le immagini presenti su una pagina web. Dopo storiche sperimentazioni di browser alternativi come Web Stalker o Riot ecco un nuovo progetto. Un browser che consente di navigare con immagini remixate dal software.

Glitch Browser è un progetto nato dalla collaborazione di Dimitre Lima (DMTR), Tony Scott (BEFLIX) e Iman Moradi (Organised) per la New Langton Arts Gallery di San Francisco. Digitando l’indirizzo web nell’apposito spazio è possibile visualizzare le pagine con gli stessi contenuti ma con immagini diverse, corrotte dal software: scolorate, scomposte, pixelate.

www.glitchbrowser.com

(licia mandrioli)

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Riallacciandosi ad una tradizione cara soprattutto alla net art degli esordi (si pensi ad OSS di Jodi) Luining ha scritto un file eseguibile leggerissimo -sono solo 7k- che, una volta lanciato, genera 100 piccole finestre pop-up vuote. Il progetto ha anche una colonna sonora: ad ogni apertura di finestra la vostra scheda madre genererá un bip tramite l’altoparlante interno, senza bisogno di scheda audio o casse. Per uscire dal turbinio di pop-up, basta premere ESC.

http://www.ctrlaltdel.org/about100windows.html

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