Random Magazine - New Media Art / E-Culture » collaborative http://www.random-magazine.net Random links about Art & Technology Sun, 23 Oct 2011 12:28:50 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.6 en hourly 1 White Glove Tracking http://www.random-magazine.net/2010/12/white-glove-tracking/ http://www.random-magazine.net/2010/12/white-glove-tracking/#comments Mon, 06 Dec 2010 10:18:45 +0000 vtanni http://www.random-magazine.net/?p=3513

White Glove Tracking, by Evan Roth:

“On May 4th, 2007, we asked internet users to help isolate Michael Jackson’s white glove in all 10,060 frames of his nationally televised landmark performance of Billy Jean. 72 hours later 125,000 gloves had been located. wgt_data_v1.txt is the culmination of data collected. It is released here for all to download and use as an input into any digital system. Just as the data was gathered collectively it is our hope that it will be visualized collectively. Please email links to your apps, video, source code, and/or screen shots to evan[at]eyebeam[dot]org. Work will be exhibited in an online gallery and depending on popularity and interest potentially in a forthcoming physical gallery exhibition as well. Huge thanks to everyone that contributed to the data collection.”

http://whiteglovetracking.com
 http://evan-roth.com

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The Victoria and Albert Museum has commissioned the artist Karsten Schmidt to design a truly malleable, digital identity for the Decode exhibition by providing it as open source code. Anyone can recode Karsten’s work and create his own original artwork. The identity application is fully interactive and can be controlled via mouse, keyboard and a graphical user interface. A number of the recoded works submitted will be chosen by the V&A and CBS to appear on London Underground digital screens to promote the exhibition.

http://code.google.com/p/decode
http://postspectacular.com
http://www.vam.ac.uk/decode

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Evan Roth is distribuiting free stickers to anyone interested in taking part in his project “Available online for free“. He writes: “Instructions are simple…. email your mailing address to stickers[at]evan-roth.com When the stickers arrive in the mail put them up in a location that you find appropriate, take a picture and email me back the photo to the same email address. All photos will be added to a loop on display in the gallery for the length of the exhibition.”
The show, called “One Every Day“, will be on view from November 5 through December 19, 2009 at The Elizabeth Foundation for the Arts, New York. The exhibition foregrounds the relationship of printed ephemera to cultural and artistic production, and marks the curatorial debut for Printeresting.org.

http://blog.ni9e.com
http://evan-roth.com
http://www.printeresting.org

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Bicycle Built For 2,000 is comprised of 2,088 voice recordings collected via Amazon’s Mechanical Turk web service. Workers were prompted to listen to a short sound clip, then record themselves imitating what they heard. All the voices are assemble to sing “Daisy Bell” (the song that HAL is singing at the end of 2001: A Space Odyssey).

http://www.bicyclebuiltfortwothousand.com

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Cybraphon is the latest project from Edinburgh-based artist collective FOUND (Ziggy Campbell, Simon Kirby and Tommy Perman). Inspired by early 19th century mechanical bands such as the nickelodeon, Cybraphon is an interactive version of a mechanical band in a box. Consisting of a series of robotic instruments housed in a large display case, Cybraphon behaves like a real band. Image conscious and emotional, the band’s performance is affected by online community opinion as it searches the web for reviews and comments about itself 24 hours a day.

http://cybraphon.com
http://foundtheband.com

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Public Avatar, by Martin Bricelj, is a project documenting the relationship between virtual reality and our perceptions of self and society. This installation will allow a global audience to explore real-world locations remotely, and to interact with objects and people in those locations through real-time control of a human test subject. As digital and physical worlds collide, the boundaries between self and other, reality and simulation are constantly challenged and redefined.
Public Avatar will be available online on special events during the year. The dates and times will be announced online. During these events, users will be able to login at www.public-avatar.com. Each logged in user will be placed in a queue and wait for his turn, when he/ she will be able to give simple instructions (such as ‘Turn’+’Left’, ‘SAY’+’hello’ etc) to the avatar for a limited timed period. Users will be able to see and hear what Public Avatar sees and hears via live video stream.

Upcoming performance: 12.- 13. September 2009 MuseumsQuartier, Vienna, Paraflows Festival- Saturday 8PM

http://www.public-avatar.com
http://www.martinbricelj.com

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In Overhere, a work by Lauren McCarthy, Twitter feeds of two characters are converted into whispered automated voices and play through speakers embedded in objects in the lobby. The feeds are experienced separately, intimately, requiring participants to get close, to move, to listen, to work together to overhear the dialogue.
With the collective action of two or more participants, a full conversation is reformed in physical space based on the virtual communication of two fictional characters.
At overheredarkhorse.com participants twitter the things they overhear in public bathrooms. They are added to an online map of NYC, creating a visualization of the interactions, ideas, and exchanges occurring in public bathrooms.

http://www.lauren-mccarthy.com/current/overhere.html
http://overheredarkhorse.com/
http://acanarytorsi.org/

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www.hiddenlives.com.au

Share/Save]]> http://www.random-magazine.net/2007/04/unveil-your-hidden-life/feed/ 0 Tobecontinued http://www.random-magazine.net/2007/02/tobecontinued/ http://www.random-magazine.net/2007/02/tobecontinued/#comments Tue, 27 Feb 2007 23:57:08 +0000 vtanni http://www.random-magazine.net/?p=762 Tobecontinued is a group exhibition in progress that starts with some students of the Fine Arts Academy of Rome. Using Myspace as an interactive platform, Tobecontinued is based on the concepts of open art-work, cause and/vs effect, and free association of ideas ” where the last art-work is always inspired to the previous one, in order to generate an open art-work in continuous evolution that never completes itself. The process is constituted by the single works as video, animations, photos, music, net projects, and shows details, nuances and ideas of the whole art-work’s project. Let’s continue, joining with us and sending your art-work (max. 3 mb per email) at   tobecontinued.tobecontinued@gmail.com.

http://www.myspace.com/tobecontinuedigitalart

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The aim of the Chromophilia project is to make people aware of colour forecasting mechanisms while developing a whole new approach to colour in fashion.
Chromophilia blog is a shared space where the chromo-community can post and comment views on colour senses. It consists in collecting a complete documentation on the topic exploring different areas (colour in literature, in visual art, in design, etc.) and different approaches (physical, psychological, economic, social), creating a dialogue with people who are interested in this subject. To add any comment visitors just need to register to the chomo-community and login. The project is developed by an international team including Joanna Bodzek, Valentina Culatti, Giovanna Paternò di Sessa.

www.chromophilia.eu

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To draw on the Drawball, one must first zoom in to the maximum depth, then select a color and pen size. There are six different pen sizes and a color selection tool. Drawball requires users to complete a simple Eulerian path puzzle before drawing, to help prevent use of macros. All new users begin with 15% ink, which slowly regenerates. Drawball identifies users by IP address to enforce its ink rationing system. If the site operator finds a particular drawing with good quality, the drawing is protected from vandalism, and the artist who drew it may be rewarded with unlimited ink.

www.drawball.com

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This is a traditional (linear) 14-page story built on top of a generative composition tool, that uses Internet search data as its input. The work can be described as a networked narrative, as a story partly created by networked data. Adding unexpected and uncontrolled elements to the story influences and changes the presentation, how it’s experienced and what we take away from it. This shapes the story, changing fact into fiction, sometimes disrupting the story. As the networked elements are dynamic and largely unpredictable, every version of the biography is unique. Your version of the story is packaged into booklet form, for you to print and keep.

http://dev2.manme.org.uk/~davem/bassey_story

About Dave Miller:
Dave Miller experiments with illustrated stories and networked media.
More of his work can be seen here:
http://dev1.manme.org.uk/~davem/davemiller_art_blog

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Participants can contribute to the piece using a standard mobile camera phone that can capture video, and can send video clips directly from their camera phone using MMS (Multimedia Message Service), via email or upload from your personal computer to the online database www.15×15.org org email me@15×15.org

The clips should be the standard video setting for a cameraphone, 176 x 144 and can be longer than 15 seconds but will be reduced to that length, participants can send as many clips as they wish. The clips can be portraits, experiential, vignettes, experimental, anything within reason, from the banal to the downright bizarre!
The viewable artwork is an interface consisting of 15 individual rectangular screens, each individual screen displays a random video clip stored within the database for a 15 second duration: 15×15.
In the 21st century art is being fundamentally realigned for anyone and everyone. 15×15 is a homage to Warhol, a realisation of the artistic utilisation of new media technology and the democratisation of art in the age of digital production.

Technical requirements:

Requires fast internet connection and fast computer (processor) and Flash 8 plugin. The piece can be viewed on a monitor but is best viewed as a projected piece.

Richard Vickers, Oliver Dore, Greg Brant
Hull School of Art & Design, University of Lincoln, United Kingdom
www.15×15.org

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FUTURESONIC 2006
Urban Festival of Electronic Music and Arts
Manchester, 20-23 July
www.futuresonic.com

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The emphasis in this edition will be bringing the exhibition to the audience, taking account of the changing way people access the net. With so much new work being produced all the time even with the best will in the world it’s difficult to keep up so the Net Art Open will be blogged one work at a time with RSS feeds for newsfeed readers and blog aggregators, each entry will be tagged for technorati and del.icio.us and a flickr pool will be created. In addition each entry will feature on the front page of Stunned.org.

The net art open was started in 2002 by Conor McGarrigle and Arthur X. Doyle as part of the Irish Museum of Modern Art.com intervention, subsequent editions were in 2003 and 2004-5.

www.stunned.org/netartopen
www.stunned.org

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give me what is good for you. in image. give me what is bad for you. in image. do it twice or more. repetition. i like what is good. in image. i like what is bad. in image. i’m twice or more. repetition

www.goodlikebad.com

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We hope that you will take a moment from your viewing time to add the RSS feed of a blog you find noteworthy. As more information sources are supplied to META[CC], the more intelligent the system becomes. As such, the META[CC] search engine is apolitical and influenced only by the news and information sources supplied by its viewers/users. We apologize, but at this time podcasts and vlogs are not supported.

Conglomco Media Network is pleased to announce the official beta release of the META[CC] video engine at http://meta-cc.net
http://conglomco.org

Share/Save]]> http://www.random-magazine.net/2006/06/metacc/feed/ 0 GAM3R 7H30RY http://www.random-magazine.net/2006/05/gam3r-7h30ry/ http://www.random-magazine.net/2006/05/gam3r-7h30ry/#comments Sat, 27 May 2006 19:41:25 +0000 vtanni http://www.random-magazine.net/?p=1207 GAM3R 7H30RY 1.1 is a networked book. The Institute for the Future of the Book, together with McKenzie Wark, created this project to investigate new approaches to writing in the networked environment, and to see what happens when authors and readers are brought into conversation over an evolving text. GAM3R 7H30RY 1.1  – the book and the web site – is a work in progress. We expect it to change over time.
How exactly it changes is up to you. The feedback you give, the conversations you join, the discussions you start elsewhere on the web and out in the world – all could have an impact on subsequent stages of this book, or at least help to shape its larger context. Our hunch is that a good conversation generated here will result in a better book.

McKenzie Wark:

“Together with the Institute for the Future of the Book, I created this website as a way to think to about games. Games, as in computer games, are the subject of my next book, GAM3R 7H30RY. I am interested in two questions.”

1. can we explore games as allegories for the world we live in?
2. can there be a critical theory of games?

“I thought it would be interesting to share the book in its draft state to see if these questions are something other people might have ideas on or might want to pursue”

Read more here: www.futureofthebook.org/gamertheory

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One of the system’s main characteristics is the feedback phenomenon that happens while one navigates the 3D environment: the words already present in the space influence other participants, who may interact with them and create new texts in response to them. Participant characteristics such as language, slang, or culture form completely different communities of words and, subsequently, the words that emerge within them.

BIOGRAPHIES

SILVIA LAURENTIZ: Professor in the department of Fine Arts at the School of Communication and Arts, University of SÑo Paulo, Laurentiz holds a PhD in Communication and Semiotics and a Masters Degree in Multimedia. She is also a graphics and multimedia designer an artist who works in virtual reality, multimedia and web art an art and new technologies researcher and a speaker at art and technology conferences.

MARTHA CARRER CRUZ GABRIEL: An engineer with postgraduate studies in Marketing and Graphic Design, Gabriel’s Masters Degree in Art & Technology is in progress at the University of SÑo Paulo. Web/MM artist, professor at the Business School and Digital Design Program of the Universidade Anhembi Morumbi, and director of technology at New Media Developers (NMD), Gabriel is the winner of 11 Internet Best Awards from 1998 to 2005 and a highly acclaimed speaker.

“Turbulence Spotlight: “Community of Words” by Silvia Laurentiz and Martha CC Gabriel”
http://turbulence.org/spotlight/cm/community-of-words.htm

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Using a data collection engine created by the artists for their recent collaboration, We Feel Fine (www.wefeelfine.org), Lovelines examines thousands of blogs every few minutes to find expressions of love and hate, posted by all manner of people. When it can, Lovelines identifies and saves the age, gender, and geographical location of the person who wrote the post, and then presents that information along with the post. The entries range from frivolous to profound, offering a glimpse into the hearts and minds of people blogging about their wants and needs.

www.love-lines.com

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