net-art
transmediale 2012: web video – the new net art?
transmediale 2012: web video – the new net art?
transmediale 2k12 | 31 January – 5 February 2012
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Haus der Kulturen der Welt, Berlin
transmediale 2012 |http://www.transmediale.de/content/webvideo-new-netart
Wednesday, 1 February 2012
15:00 – 17:00
25 years of transmediale | web video – the new net art? | panel with Robert Sakrowski, Constant Dullaart, Petra Cortright, Igor Štromajer
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If net art is cashing in on the utopian promise of video art, what dream does net art have left for itself? Has it come full circle? Is net.art now at its end? And is it true what the net art veteran Mark Amerika proclaims via Twitter, that “video is the new net art”? Read more »
SPAMM - Super Art Modern Museum
Launch SPAMM
Curated by Thomas Cheneseau + Systaime, Spamm (Super Art Modern Museum) is a new online art gallery featuring an impressive list of artists — JODI, Françoise Gamma, Angelo Plessas, Mr Doob, Rosa Menkman, Jeremy Bailey, Petra Cortright, among many others
SPAMM MANIFESTO
Visual arts have entered a new era. It’s a place where immediacy rules, where visual arts becomes virtual, a place that links the world together. A new era for artists who have invented new concepts, using digital medias, from video to graphism, static, animated or even computer-programmed. They have created a flamboyant design for a super-society created in the Web’s image. Read more »
Face to Facebook
Face to Facebook
A project by PAOLO CIRIO and ALESSANDRO LUDOVICO.
Stealing 1 million Facebook profiles, filtering them with face‐recognition software and then posting them on a custom‐made dating website, sorted by their facial expression characteristics. http://lovely‐faces.com
In an attempt to free personal data as Facebook’s exclusive property we spent a few months downloading public information from one million profiles (including pictures). Immersing ourselves in the resulting database was a hallucinatory experience as we dove into hundreds of thousands of profile pictures and found ourselves intoxicated by the endless smiles, gazes and often leering expressions. Read more »
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Net art online exhibition (Montreal's Biennal)
“Video is the new net art” writes Mark Amerika on Twitter! Given that video art is considered to be one of net art’s original sources, this statement may appear somewhat contradictory. Yet it mirrors the works brought together for this exhibition as well as some art forms emerging on the Internet. Standing at the crossroads of video, cinema and hypermedia, such mixed experiences are revamped via current technological tools such as Video Jockey and animation softwares, webcams, YouTube, Flickr, streaming, cell phone. More importantly, they are revitalized through chance, that great force of the imagination through which the computer’s media principles of predictability are diverted.
These projects are presented in the CIAC e-magazine and will be featured on the Biennale de Montréal space during the month of May.
The CIAC's e-Magazine special edition "Biennale de Montréal" is now online and...in space! Read more »
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Lauch distribution computer- and netbased art
February 1-6, Transmediale.11, Berlin
The Netherlands Media Art Institute and V2_Institute for the Unstable Media (Rotterdam) join forces to introduce their dissemination and distribution services for media art. NIMk Distribution and V2_Agency collaborated on the production of a shared catalogue of represented artworks. To celebrate the launch of both distribution initiatives, NIMk and V2_ curated a small showcase exhibition of artworks from their catalogue for Transmediale.11 in Berlin (February 1-6, 2011). They also organize a reception on Friday, February 4, 4-5PM at the Cafe Global Stage, Haus der Kulturen der Welt, Berlin.
Since 2010, NIMk extends its existing distribution services with a selection of computer-based and net-based works.
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WEPPOW
Launch WEPPOW
OUR MODELS ARE RUDE
BUT IN A VERY POLITE WAY
IT’S LIKE SHOOTING WEAPONS IN A CREATIVE WAY
WE CAME UP USING THEM WITH GARMENTS
I WAS LIKE... BOOOM!
THIS WAS SUCH A MOMENT..
LIKE IT’S A MAJOR BREAKTHROUGH IN FASHION
WE WANT TO USE THE BULLET FOR CHARITY
WE ARE SO INSPIRED BY THE VIOLENCE OF THIS WORLD,
WE GOT REALLY INTERESTED IN POLITICAL STATEMENTS
BEING POLITICAL IS SUCH A HUGE TREND
IT’S NOT MILITARY STYLE ANYMORE
IT’S POLITICAL STYLE
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/death/null
„It's a place to bury a hatchet.
Immortalise the ephemeral.
Make a meme memorial.
Mark a mortal thought.
An Obytuary.“
/death/null is a graveyard for digital files. each file you upload will be directly streamed to /dev/null on this system, the so called null device which is a kind of nirvana or black hole in a computer system. in the process, the system selects bytes from your file and calculates a digital fingerprint, creating an online gravestone. afterwards, you may wish to delete any copies remaining on your system. you can always return to visit the grave of your file on the graveyard.
but ...? Read more »
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The Possible Ties Between Illness and Success
link: The Possible Ties Between Illness and Success
AUTHOR: Carlo Zanni
CAST: Stefania Orsola Garello | Ignazio Oliva
WORDS*: John Haskell
MUSIC: Music composed and performed by Gabriel Yared
Director of Photography: Aldo Di Marcantonio
1st Camera Assistant: Marco Pasquini
2nd Camera Assistant: Melania Cacucci
Editing: Luca Mandrile
Sound Design: Bruno Ventura
Mix: Claudio Toselli
Makeup Artist: Esmé Sciaroni
Executive Producer: VOSTOK Film
Code: Agustin Garzon Mason
Voice off Eng: John Haskell
recorded by Latif Mix
Voice off Ita: Stefania Orsola Garello, recorded by Bruno
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Cease & Desist Art: yes, this is illegal!
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lists Simona Lodi
Italy - Torino
live at liveperformersmeeting.net
Cease & Desist Art: yes, this is illegal!
curated by Simona Lodi
For some years now, it has become common among digital artists to focus on illegal art practices. Countless Cease & Desist letters have been sent out by companies to pirates, plagiarists, hackers and disturbers, which are shown off as trophies in exhibitions, web communities and mailing lists. Action artists promote controversial forms of art, using guerilla tactics to protest against the fairness of copyright and intellectual property laws.
Receiving a Cease & Desist letter has become the latest badge in championing the freedom to create in the Corporation Age. Any artist interested in taking part in the movement chooses a good lawyer rather than a good gallery owner. What is happening to the future of art? What rights and freedoms are these artists championing? Does all this have something to do with the end of techno-utopias?
In what way has business co-opted the values of hackers, exploiting open source initiatives, web freedom and on-line equality and sparking the use of these practices?
List of Artists and works:
0100101110101101.ORG | Eva & Franco Mattes Read more »
Performmikka Internettikka (internet performance)
An evening with internet/teleperformances by Annie Abrahams, Christophe Bruno, Constant Dullaart, Robin Nicolas and Igor Stromajer & Brane Zorman, focused on the relations between contemporary performance practice and the internet.
With performances by:
Annie Abrahams, Huis Clos : No Exit - On Translation
Christophe Bruno, Human Browser
Constant Dullaart, Arranged online moments
Robin Nicolas, Removal, about an event that occurred (video-versie)
Igor Stromajer & Brane Zorman, Ballettikka Internettikka Insecttikka
Performmikka Internettikka focuses on recent new possibilities surrounding tele- or internet performance. With the increased speed of internet connections in recent years and the omnipresence of the net, it has not only provided these media artists with inspiration, but also with a platform and a medium. In their work the participating artists respond in various ways to the technical possibilities and limitations of the internet, and to the implications the medium has for content. How does a simultaneous and collective performance being carried out at different places around the world look? What does the delay and distance contribute to the chances and limitations? How does an audience deal with viewing a live 'event' with illegal recorded images that are being made at that moment somewhere else in the world? In addition, the artists respond with irony to the Internet as a source of entertainment, and as a capitalist instrument. In short, what does the internet contribute to contemporary performance art practice in terms of inspiration, mediation and as a platform? Read more »
