browser art
Spook
Spook... is a distributed web based artwork which explores issues of surveillance, tracking and covert activity on the web in an interactive website based on the conventions of computer games.
On June 1st 1999 an unusual pattern of hits was noticed on the Stunned ArtZine server. Stunned ArtZine a contemporary visual art site does not normally receive a large number of hits from military sites yet unusual activity from a military server known by the identifier "gate1.mcbbutler.usmc.mil" was logged.
In response to this activity a server trace was initiated using the Stunned Spook-Bot™. Spook-Bot™ over time tracked this military server's path through the net, mapping and logging it's activities. Spook-Bot's continuing activities are an important ongoing part of this project.
This project seeks to analysis this raw data and establish a purpose for this activity. As part of this we invite visitors to submit their theories on the purpose of this server activity in the feedback section.
A version 4 browser is required. There is some Flash and some Real Audio and video, these are not essential but they add to the experience. To get the free plugins follow the links to the left of the page
IMPORTANT - don't kill the pop-up window it's your navigation not an ad!
Playdamage
Launch project
"playdamage.org is an abstract multi-sensory journal exploring the parameters of visceral, pre-cognitive expression." (Rhizome)
Jimpunk
Launch project
The site is a collection of animated DHTML pages, stitched together, to reload and refresh randomly into each other. Fullscreen compositions melts into another; images swarm literally across your screen, stretching and narrowing. It is as if a pop up virus has taken over your computer completely, openening and closing windows seemingly at random. Browser poetry. Be aware!
Dreamlines
Launch project
"Dreamlines is a non-linear, interactive visual experience. The user enters one or more words that define the subject of a dream he would like to dream. The system looks in the Web for images related to those words, and takes them as input to generate an ambiguous painting, in perpetual change, where elements fuse into one another, in a process analogous to memory and free association.
Absurd
Windows pop out of nowhere and even go beyond the parameter of the browser application. This site is at its most startling when it appears to take over ones entire computer, almost suggesting to the user that it is reaching beyond the confines of the computer screen.
THE DADAMETER
Launch project
Imagine a world of transparency where all desires are negotiated on a global market and their risks are evaluated and optimized.
The Dadameter is a tool for the profiling of language at large scale and the historical tracking of artistic and literary movements. It brings about a new alliance between art, science and global finance.
Dadameter uses up-to-date 2.0 trend analysis and data visualization technologies, neural networks, graph theory or quantitative structural linguistics in order to be able to predict the next artistic craze.
UNOSUNOSYUNOSCEROS
Launch artwork
Arcangel Constantini explores a wide range of media and alternative resources to fuse his ideas and concepts, both in the context of concrete objects and digital processes which include the exploration of sound and noise performance, as well as the art of hacking. He is obsessed with all types of objects and their re-contextualization in temporal spaces, and reconsiders their aesthetics and connections to questions about our existence.
Riot
Launch project
Mark Napier’s Riot is an alternative, "cross-content" Web browser. Like its real-world namesake, Riot disrupts the accepted rules of property and exposes the fragility of territorial boundaries. Inspired by the clashing classes and ideologies of New York's Lower East Side, Napier created a software "melting pot," a blender that mixes Web pages from separate domains into one browser window. The basic functionality of Riot is still rooted in traditional browser conventions: you surf the Web by entering a URL into the location bar, or by selecting from bookmarks. Unlike conventional browsers, however, Riot builds its pages by combining text, images, and links from the pages any user has recently viewed.
Jodi
Jodi pioneered Web art in the mid-1990s. Jodi were among the first artists to investigate and subvert conventions of the Internet, computer programs and video and computer games. Radically disrupting the language of these systems, including interfaces, commands, errors and code, JODI stages extreme digital interventions that destabilize the relationship between computer technology and its users.
Jodi, or jodi.org, is a collective of two internet artists: Joan Heemskerk (Netherlands) and Dirk Paesmans (Belgium).
Aleph
Launch project
Aleph es un website dedicado a net.art, pensamiento y crítica de las nuevas prácticas en internet que se ha desarrollado entre 1997 y 2002, por iniciativa de la Asociación Cultural aleph.
La dirección editorial ha corrido a cargo de José Luis Brea y la artística se debe a La Société Anonyme.
