If not you not me
This essay accompanies If not you not me, an exhibition of networked performance art by Annie Abrahams. While social networking sites make us think of communication as clean and transparent, Abrahams creates an Internet of feeling - of agitation, collusion, ardour and apprehension.
collaboration, net art, networked, performance
 DATA SOLILOQUIES
Data Soliloquies is a book about the extraordinary cultural fluidity of scientific data. A wide array of graphs, charts, computer models and other forms of visual advocacy have become inescapable fixtures of public science presentations, though they are often treated as if they were neutral 'found objects' rather than elaborate narrative constructions containing high levels of statistical uncertainty.
behaviour, Code Art, collaboration, conceptual, database, environmental, knowledge, media art, media art ecologies, publication, resource, social
 Representing Labor: Ten Thousand Cents and Amazon's Mechanical Turk
Madeleine offers here a review of Ten Thousand Cents, a project by artists Aaron Koblin and Takashi Kawashima. Although she acknowledges the beauty of the project Madeleine points to its conceptual ambivalence.
aesthetic, digital, distributed creativity, game culture, interactive, Internet Art, media art, media art ecologies, multi-user, networked, participation
 WE THE USERS
DIGITAL FOLKLORE Reader. Edited by Olia Lialina & Dragan Espenschied. Designed by Manuel Buerger. Contains essays and projects investigating many different facets of Digital Folklore: online amateur culture, DIY electronics, dirtstyle, typo-nihilism, memes, teapots, penis enlargement...
activism, aesthetic, agency, ascii, books, browser art, Code Art, collaboration, community, critical, cyberculture, digital, Flash, hacking, hactivism, interactive, Internet Art, journalism, media art, narrative, net art, net film, net.art, networked, platform, Political, satire, social, software art, web art
 make art 2009
make art, one of the world's most important free and libre art events, happens far away from the European metropolis, in the small town of Poitiers.
Code Art, collaboration, creative commons, digital, event, festival, free code, free software, hactivism, media art, net art, open source
 Not-so-silly Millie. An Appreciation of Millie Niss (1973 - 2009)
Edward Picot discusses here the work of writer and new media artist Millie Niss: "She preferred work which didn't reach for the hi-tech solution when a lo-tech one would do - work, in other words, which didn't employ technology for its own sake, and where form was dictated by content rather than the other way round."
browser art, context, Internet Art, language, media art, narrative, net art, net.art, poetic, reflection, social, text, web art
 Older than youtube. Curator Laure Prouvost Explains Seven Years of tank.tv
Seven years ago, or about two years before the invention of youtube, the editors of Tank Magazine saw the possibility of an internet platform dedicated to video art. Their response was tank.tv, an Internet site that is part moving image archive, part online gallery, an part cutting edge video art exhibition.
audiovisual, cinema, curation, exhibition, Film, media art, net film, video
 We Feel Fine: An Almanac of Human Emotion
An almanac of human emotion extracted from more than twelve million blog posts by Jonathan Harris and Sep Kamvar over the last five years as part of their "We Feel Fine" affective data visualisation project.
activism, aesthetic, agency, behaviour, blog, books, Code Art, collaboration, cyberculture, database, documentary, environmental, Internet Art, journal, journalism, photography, publication
 Open_Sailing
An overview of Open_Sailing, a site for creative experimentation on more intelligent modes of inhabiting the planet. A truly open source exploration of how to live at sea based on the concept of Open Architecture.
activism, collective, community, DIY, environmental, infrastructure, Locative Media, media art ecologies, mobile technology, open source, Technical Resources, wireless
 Art Cinema Everywhere, All The Time. Wilfried Agricola de Cologne and CologneOFF V
Angela Ferraiolo offers here a review of the Cologne Online Film Festival, CologneOFF V. Speaking to its founder, Wilfried Agricola de Cologne, she discusses the role of the Internet in the transformation of filmmaking.
audiovisual, cinema, curation, festival, Film, intellectual property, net film