Sunday, February 20, 2005
Grafik Dynamo
by Kate Armstrong and Michael Tippet
http://turbulence.org/Works/dynamo/index.html
"Grafik Dynamo" is a net art work that loads live images from blogs and
news sources on the web into a live action comic strip. The work is
currently using a feed from LiveJournal. The images are accompanied by
narrative fragments that are dynamically loaded into speech and thought
bubbles and randomly displayed. Animating the comic strip using dynamic web content opens up the genre in a new way: together, the images and narrative serve to create a strange, dislocated notion of sense and expectation in the reader, as they are sometimes at odds with each other, sometimes perfectly in sync, and always moving and changing. The work takes an experimental approach to open ended narrative, positing a new hybrid between the flow of data animating the work and the formal parameter that comprises its structure.
http://turbulence.org/Works/dynamo/index.html
"Grafik Dynamo" is a net art work that loads live images from blogs and
news sources on the web into a live action comic strip. The work is
currently using a feed from LiveJournal. The images are accompanied by
narrative fragments that are dynamically loaded into speech and thought
bubbles and randomly displayed. Animating the comic strip using dynamic web content opens up the genre in a new way: together, the images and narrative serve to create a strange, dislocated notion of sense and expectation in the reader, as they are sometimes at odds with each other, sometimes perfectly in sync, and always moving and changing. The work takes an experimental approach to open ended narrative, positing a new hybrid between the flow of data animating the work and the formal parameter that comprises its structure.
Tuesday, February 15, 2005
Counter-Strike
de Katrin Korfmann
http://www.katrinkorfmann.com/works/counter_strike/counter_strike.html
"Counter-Strike" by Dutch artist Katrin Korfmann is a sound-free, six-channel video that features the faces of six young boys, each projected from wall-mounted monitors, who appear to look through the spectator while playing the Web-based game "Counter-Strike." Although the boys are playing against one another, all communication is channeled solely through the Internet. The viewer watches as the boys' faces intently contort in silence as they move closer either to winning or losing to the other players. Each video piece ends when the featured player loses. These "video portraits" explore the concept of human connection and the effect technology has on how we communicate with one another.
(http://www.thesavannahgallery.com/exhibitions.html)
http://www.katrinkorfmann.com/works/counter_strike/counter_strike.html
"Counter-Strike" by Dutch artist Katrin Korfmann is a sound-free, six-channel video that features the faces of six young boys, each projected from wall-mounted monitors, who appear to look through the spectator while playing the Web-based game "Counter-Strike." Although the boys are playing against one another, all communication is channeled solely through the Internet. The viewer watches as the boys' faces intently contort in silence as they move closer either to winning or losing to the other players. Each video piece ends when the featured player loses. These "video portraits" explore the concept of human connection and the effect technology has on how we communicate with one another.
(http://www.thesavannahgallery.com/exhibitions.html)
Sunday, February 06, 2005
::bugout::
http://mrl.nyu.edu/~dhowe/bugout/
" ::bugout:: is an interactive sound-environment based upon principles of reversible/energy-free computation. By adding & removing 'agents', each of which follow a simple rule set, users affect a wide range of parameters in the resulting composition. Sound, created via real-time synthesis, occurs on collisions between agents as they follow their algorithmic trajectories. While compositions begin in simplistic fashion, underlying the work is a complex model that, theoretically, enables energy-free computation. At its core, the work attempts to create a dynamic & expressive system in which notions of computation as sterile or lifeless are challenged & the creative potential of generative algorithms is foregrounded."
" ::bugout:: is an interactive sound-environment based upon principles of reversible/energy-free computation. By adding & removing 'agents', each of which follow a simple rule set, users affect a wide range of parameters in the resulting composition. Sound, created via real-time synthesis, occurs on collisions between agents as they follow their algorithmic trajectories. While compositions begin in simplistic fashion, underlying the work is a complex model that, theoretically, enables energy-free computation. At its core, the work attempts to create a dynamic & expressive system in which notions of computation as sterile or lifeless are challenged & the creative potential of generative algorithms is foregrounded."
