Free culture, free software, free society.
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Articles/Reviews by Rob
 .re_potemkin | |
 released 5/6/10 | .re_potemkin is a crowdsourced re-make of the film "Battleship Potemkin". It is a ".f.reeP_" project by .-_-., part of a series of projects that embrace the ideology and means of production of contemporary media and technoculture in order to make art.
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| activism, agency, cinema, Code Art, collaboration, collective, community, conceptual, copyleft, critical, cyberculture, DIY, free code, hactivism | |
| You Are Not A Gadget | |
 released 24/5/10 | Rob Myers reviews Jaron Lanier's book You Are Not A Gadget. A timely polemic, a cry of the soul in an increasingly soulless Web 2.0 world. "Necessary reading for anyone interested in how the Web and the software we use every day are reshaping culture and the marketplace." Michiko Kakutani, New York Times.
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| critical, cyberculture, publication | |
| Decode: Digital Design Sensations at V&A. | |
 released 27/3/10 | Rob Myers reviews the Victoria and Albert Museum's exhibition Decode: Digital Design Sensations. Framed as a digital design show, but it's a landmark survey of art computing in all but name.
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| aesthetic, archive, curation, exhibition, Galleries, generative art, institutions, Internet Art, networked, open source, resource, software art | |
| Digital Pioneers | |
 released 28/2/10 | At the V & A Museum, An overview of the first decades of the computer's history in art and design. including some of the earliest computer-generated works in the V&A's collections, many of which have never been exhibited in the UK before.
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| abstract, aesthetic, archive, Code Art, curation, digital, exhibition, institutions, media art, resource | |
| We Feel Fine: An Almanac of Human Emotion | |
 released 30/12/09 | 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.
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| activism, aesthetic, agency, behaviour, blog, books, Code Art, collaboration, cyberculture, database, documentary, environmental, Internet Art, journal, journalism, photography, publication | |
| Mapping CCTV around Whitehall | |
 released 18/11/09 | Two-part exercise to map CCTV cameras around Whitehall, London, within a zone covered by SOCPA (Serious and Organized Crime and Police Act 2005). A map of the hundreds of cameras in the zone was made over two days of observation. the second part involved mapping the range of one of these cameras...
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| activism, aesthetic, agency, Code Art, collaboration, collective, hactivism, Internet Art, interplay, intervention, poetic, social, street, Transgressive, urban, video, web art, wireless | |
| UBERMORGEN.COM - MEDIA HACKING VS. CONCEPTUAL ART | |
 released 30/9/09 | Review of new hardback publication spanning a decade of work by Ubermorgen.com. Comprehensive study of their conceptual and hacktivist art adventures, including images, essays and interviews by Inke Arns, Florian Cramer, Raffael Dorig, Hans Ulrich Obrist, Peter Weibel and others. Edited by Alessandro Ludovico of Neural.it, designed by Bernhard Faiss.
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| activism, aesthetic, agency, archive, books, collaboration, conceptual, critical, cyberculture, geopolitical, hactivism, media art, net art, performance, publication | |
| The Freesound Project | |
 released 29/8/09 | The Freesound Project is a web repository of audio samples available under the Creative Commons Sampling Plus licence. It concentrates on sound rather than music, and has a wide variety of samples accessible through an easily navigated interface.
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| An Artist's Guide for Editing Wikipedia | |
 released 26/5/09 | A no nonsense guide to help improve the representation of artists using Wikipedia (specifically media artists), more people who are involved in the field should learn about how Wikipedia works and get involved with editing it. This article is a brief introduction to doing so. |
| agency, article, distributed creativity, DIY, knowledge, media art, resource | |
| Art and Revolution | |
 released 22/4/09 | "Art and Revolution - Transversal Activism in the Long Twentieth Century" by Gerald Raunig is a book that presents and contextualises artists engagement with revolutionary moments over the last one hundred and fifty years.
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| activism, agency, books, critical, Political, publication, social, theory | |
| Microcodes | |
 released 15/3/09 | Pall Thayer's Microcodes are short code art pieces written in Perl and presented on a website for viewers to read, download, and execute. The projected falls in between code art and social media. Rob Myers argues that the project's major achievement is its capacity to make both modern operating systems and the contemporary experience of being human strange.
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| aesthetic, Code Art, conceptual, copyleft | |
1| (sans femme et sans aviateur) | |
 released 13/3/09 | Jorn Ebner's "(sans femme et sans aviateur)" is an atmospheric time-based multi-window web-browser image work that presents an evocative exploration of contemporary Paris...
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| browser art, cinema, Code Art, media art, net art, net.art, networked, urban, video, web art | |
| SwanQuake: House | |
 released 2/2/09 | Igloo's latest mixed reality installation combining hyper-realistic virtual environments and motion-captured dance has the atmosphere of a 3D survival horror computer game. And not just on the screen...
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| aesthetic, collaboration, cyberculture, exhibition, installation, software art | |
| Welcome To Mars | |
 released 27/11/08 | Ken Hollings' book about high and popular technological culture of the 1950s, from magnetic tape and CIA brainwashing experiments to LSD and Scientology, all under skies haunted by flying saucers and the Cold War threat of nuclear armageddon.
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| books | |
| Grow Your Own Media Lab (The Graphic Novel) | |
 released 20/10/08 | A collection of case studies presented in comic book format explain how and why to recreate Access Space's unusual and very successful way of running a community media lab.
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| activism, agency, collaboration, collective, community, copyleft, creative commons, distributed creativity, DIY, free software, independent, media art, media art ecologies, open source, publication, recycling, resource, social, software art | |
| Neurotic | |
 released 25/9/08 | Review of 'Neurotic', a performance by Fiddian Warman featuring three robots and a number of Punk bands over three nights at London's Institute of Contemporary Art. Warman and the bands performed for the robots, sharing the dance floor with the audience.
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| event, exhibition, installation, live, performance | |
| FLOSS Manuals | |
 released 18/9/08 | FLOSS Manuals won the communities award at the New Zealand Open Source Awards on Sept 24th in a ceremony in Wellington, New Zealand. Rob Myers reviews the Collaborative manuals for Free Software including the One Laptop Per Child project available online and as printed books.
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| agency, books, collaboration, copyleft, critical, free software, media art ecologies | |
| Big Buck Bunny | |
 released 18/6/08 | "Big Buck Bunny", the second short film from the Blender Foundation, features well animated cartoon animals trying to kill each other in order to advance free software and free culture.
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| aesthetic, animation, collaboration, creative commons, Film, free software | |
| Abstract Hacktivism | |
 released 18/6/08 | A book collecting two essays by Otto von Busch and Karl Palmas transforms the concept of "hacktivism" with well-argued historical analysis and a number of informative case studies.
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| activism, books, collaboration, critical, cyberculture, geopolitical, hacking, hactivism, marxism, social | |
| SwanQuake - the user manual | |
 released 25/3/08 | A new book presents a diverse collection of insightful essays inspired by igloo's new game-engine based art installation "SwanQuake".
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| aesthetic, body, digital, game culture, installation, live, media art, object, performance, real time, software art, video | |
| Addressable Memory | |
 released 4/2/08 | Michael Takeo Magruder's touring exhibition 'Addressable Memory'. Technology & aesthetics of mobile phones, Internet news feeds, video screens, computer image processing & virtual reality are all turned on themselves. At TheSpace4 in Peterborough, touring the UK throughout 2008.
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| abstract, aesthetic, behaviour, Code Art, cyberculture, digital, exhibition, Galleries, installation, Internet Art, media art, net art, net film, networked, software art | |
| Igloo - Summerbranch | |
 released 18/9/07 | Summerbranch is a hyperreal cross-media woodland environment created by Igloo during a residency at Artsway Gallery in the New Forest during 2005. Installed across the three rooms of TheSpace4 gallery in Peterborough from 14th July - 9th September 07.
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| aesthetic, body, digital, exhibition, live, media art, performance, software art | |
| Scanpath | |
 released 1/5/07 | The SCANPATH project explores the close relationship between drawing and looking "in particular the active way we interact with visual material". Drawing is a record of looking. Learning to draw is therefore learning to see. Having learnt to draw, artists look at the world differently to non-artists. They spend more time looking at what they are drawing...
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| exhibition | |
| The Sheep Market | |
 released 3/4/07 | The sheep market is a collection of 10,000 sheep created by workers on Amazon's Mechanical Turk. Each worker was paid $.02 (US) to "draw a sheep facing left"...Stylistically the sheep range from the indecipherable to the extremely detailed and cute. You can view the sheep on a web site, buy them on stickers...
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| digital, drawing, game culture, media art, media art ecologies | |
| The Destabilisation of perception | |
 released 18/12/06 | There are many different ways in which an artwork can be created; Andy Stringer is one of a growing number of artists who have chosen to express themselves and their artistic practice through the digital medium...Andy Stringer's show at TheSpace4 in Peterborough consists of a series of large-scale abstract paintings...
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| Elephants Dream | |
 released 8/9/06 | A short animated film by The Blender Foundation, using their Free 3D modelling software (Blender) and releasing it under a Creative Commons licence.
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| collaboration, collective, creative commons, digital, distributed creativity, free software, resource, Technical Resources, video | |
| Theatre of Restless Automata | |
 released 9/6/06 | 'Theatre of restless automata' is boredomresearch's largest solo touring exhibition to date, containing computational works inspired by research into artificial life and digital biology.
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| media art ecologies | |
| Look, See. | |
 released 6/4/06 | Every day since 2002 Chris Ashley has created an abstract coloured drawing in hand-coded HTML tables and posted it to his weblog...
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