HTML Color Codes
The Internet exhibition features a selection of internet based artwork that address the topic of digital color. The central question that the exhibition poses is whether or not artists working with the internet are in fact limited to a "ready-made" color palette, a premise that many artists working with film, photography, and mass produced, standardized paint sets have assumed.
abstract, aesthetic, archive, Code Art, curation, cyberculture, exhibition, Internet Art, media art
 Transmediale.10 - Futurity Now!
This year's edition of Transmediale explores the theme futurity now through connections between arts and technology. Marcello Lussana and Gaia Novati take us through some of the highlights of the exhibition, conference programme and satellite events.
article, conference, curation, cyberculture, digital, event, exhibition, festival, Locative Media, media art, networked, resource
 Digital Pioneers
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.
abstract, aesthetic, archive, Code Art, curation, digital, exhibition, institutions, media art, resource
 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
 Mark Napier's Venus 2.0
Venus 2.0 consists of software written by the artist that collects images of the body parts of Pamela Anderson, an erotic icon of our time, from the hundreds of pictures of her available on the Internet and recreates a mobile, three-dimensional figure out of these flat, fragmentary pictures.
aesthetic, browser art, Code Art, conceptual, cyberculture, database, generative art, installation, interactive, Internet Art, media art, net art, networked, software art
 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
 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
 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
 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
 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