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by Golan Levin et. al.
with funds from The Greenwall Foundation
and the National Endowment for the Arts
The authors conducted an exhaustive empirical study in order to determine the relative popularity of every integer between 0 and one million. The resulting information exhibits an extraordinary variety of patterns which reflect our culture, our minds, and our bodies. We surmise that our dataset is a numeric snaphot of the collective consciousness; herein we return our analyses to the public in the form of an interactive visualization, whose aim is to provoke awareness of one's own numeric manifestations.
Prix Ars Electronica, 2003
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by Yucef Merhi
with funds from the Jerome Foundation
and the National Endowment for the Artss
In Poetic Dialogues 1.0, a work comprised of 18 different flash movies made with a high-tech wristwatch camera, each movie contains images of people reciting a verse by Merhi. The interaction between these "characters" generates new poems. The number of possible different poems or combinations is 216.
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Michael Mandiberg
by Michael Mandiberg
with funds from the Jerome Foundation and
the National Endowment for the Arts
Part user's manual, part experimental self-portrait, The Guide is an on-line tutorial that teaches the user the details of performing Michael Mandiberg's persona. It is part of The Exchange Program, a series of exchanges in which Michael and nine others switch lives with one another for ten days. The guide-as-user-manual turns personality into procedures, situations, and props.
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by Prema Murthy
with funds from The Greenwall Foundation
"The boss tells me not to bring our "women's problems" with us to work if we want to be treated equal. I am only one person — and I bring my whole self to work with me. So what does he mean, don't bring my "women's problems" here?" — a circuit assembly worker. [Needs Quicktime plugin]
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by Friederike Paetzold
with funds from The Greenwall Foundation
and the National Endowment for the Arts
We are defined by what we desire, and how we get what we want and how happy we are with what we have. Grey Area is a self-portrait based on the artist's levels of wanting, getting and having...recorded over a sample period, with the collected data determining the outcome of the final image. Does rasterizing the psyche make the individual appear more discrete, or more generic?
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by Tal Halpern
with funds from The Greenwall Foundation
and the National Endowment for the Arts
"An important historic figure's writings and personal effects are confiscated by the State. Some seventy years later, they are unearthed in the National Archives. Now, through rapid advances in digital delivery and display technologies, the discarded objects and lost memories of the 20th century are transmitted into the 21st." [Needs Flash Player, Speakers/Headphones]
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by Eryk Salvaggio
with funds from the National Endowment for the Arts
It can be said that there is no greater symbol for American globalization than the logo plastered onto Coca Cola cans. Coca Cola is so linked to America that its factories share a distinction with American embassies and battleships as terrorist targets: Coca Cola plants have been bombed in Nepal and New Delhi.
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by xurban_collective
with funds from The Jerome Foundation
and the National Endowment for the Arts
Knit++ is a collective_process_project based on the concept of interlocking loops that form non-hierarchical distribution patterns of people and places. The generic ideas of sewing_knitting_ weaving become the artists' model for 'surveying territory' in opposition to colonization of domestic/public sphere. [Needs Explorer 5+ or Netscape 6+, and Flash and Quicktime Players]
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It is said that 90% of human communication is non-verbal. In these photographs, the body language of the subjects becomes the basic syntax for a series of Web-based animations exploring movement, gesture, and algorithmic montage.
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kanarinka is intimately concerned with collage, juxtaposition, and sampling; and the WAYS we can sample, or RULES we can make up about sampling raw data that will yield a dynamic and aesthetically coherent work of art. She's interested in code one can write and the interactive dynamics one can conceive to build up layer upon layer of "art modules" (individual artworks in themselves) that can yield a larger, more complex, emergent work of art...
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Loseby’s work has always been marked by the presence of the domestic and the inconsequential. Unashamedly lo-tech, her work builds comparisons of the network in its frustrations, attention to triviality and repetition as absurdly compatible to the female domestic routine.
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by David Crawford
Guest curator David Crawford introduces three artists and their work: John Cabral, Mouchette and Mumbleboy. With an essay and interviews with the artists.
by Jim Andrews
Guest curator Jim Andrews introduces three artists and their work: Stanza (England), Reiner Strasser (Germany) and Michiel Knaven (Holland). Profiles and interviews.
by David Jhave Johnston
Irreconcilable and Lipservice are works created by Montreal-based multimedia-poet, David Jhave Johnston (Read bio). The first is a work from Johnston's NomadLingo, a year long exploration of digitally-generated mobile-text works exhibited as monthly installments at www.year01.com Lipservice will launch as a digital billboard in Toronto in the near future. [Needs Flash Player 6; high bandwidth]
by David Crawford
A series of Web-based music videos for music composed by both Missing Persons and The Ramones (I Am Not an Animal) and by the legendary 80's post-punk band, Joy Division (Dance to the Radio). Each of the videos is dynamically generated out of 50 images that are randomly sequenced every time a composition is viewed. For each video, there are well over 100, 000, 000, 000, 000, 000, 000, 000, 000, 000, 000, 000, 000, 000, 000, 000, 000, possible sequences. [Needs Flash Player and Speakers/Headphones]
by Jim Andrews
Arteroids is an Internet 'movie' in Macromedia Director Shockwave, a computer game of 216 levels, and a re-write of the possibilities of digital poetry. In game mode, poetry does battle with the forces of dullness and its fate is up to you. You can drive your red id entity text around the screen using the keyboard, and execute texts via the id entity gun, or be blown up by green and blue marauding, vociferous texts. [Needs Shockwave Player]
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