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This is the multimedia, arty, entertainment side of the internet, not the informative - where Flash indeed can be a pain. Now if the Internet is a democracy there should at least be room for modern art.

I would love to see a real-time picture of my 'net connections as my desktop picture, allowing me to change my 'net habits based on what I see.

Try Carnivore. It's a simple sniffer that acts as a backend to any visualizer you can write (in a number of supported languages). There's a nice online library of those frontends on their site as well. The only downside is that currently there's no linux version :(.

there is a dumbed down version freely available that is pretty powerfull
it can be found here
Not sure just how different this one is from the one the fed's have, but it's still an interesting piece of software

yes, Carnivore was opensourced in 2001 by a group calling themselves RSG. it was covered on slashdot. of course tcpdump is still better if all you want is to packet sniff, but this other version is good for realtime data visualization.

But the Prize Budget for Boys published Pac-Mondrian on the web in 2002, although the game itself was finished in 2001. We didn't finish the physical cabinet til early 2004, but the old Galaga cabinet sat in my living room for at least a year and a half before we got around to putting a computer in it and painting it.

There's a press release in the rhizome.org archive dated 2002-12-03:

http://rhizome.org/thread.rhiz?thread=6124&text=12 716

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The Prize Budget For Boys
Nothing is True. Everything is Permuted.

PBFB just opened their Clubhouse at PrizeBudgetForBoys.com where you can find fun stuff like Pac-Mondrian, DIY Duchamp Rotoreliefs, the Clubhouse PooCam (requires registration), LadyKiller: A Fratricidal Romance, and A Supplement to The Illustrated Gude to Child Pornography Laws in North America. In an effort to collapse the distance between the art object and its critical reception, PBFB includes a comment page for every piece of art on the site. Come see the Clubhouse and become a PBFB Member today!

Percival Peabody
Standing Member
PrizeBudgetForBoys.com
Ideas. Energy. Execution.

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This person claims provenance over the idea too:

"This is what Mondriaan is all about. I once made a copy of one of Mondriaan's paintings with the pacman icons painted on the lines, but this Pac-Mondrian is the real thing, it moves and plays music."
Hetty Litjens
http://radio.weblogs.com/0116902/categories/art/20 04/07/18.html

Here is a story about the group Hezbollah using a game based on the open source genesis3d game engine. It is called special forces, link HERE

You might want to try Rhizome, which is a non-profit org for the net.art community. It's not just artists, but also curators, educators, etc. There's lots of good new media artwork on their site, beyond the usual links meantioned in the parent (most of which were created well before Slashdot even existed). Rhizome is basically what is happening today in the net.art community. And any of you budding net artists should also check out the many call for entries they post regularly. Many opportunities for funding for your project.

Shift -a delight.
Airport
Rhizome.org is worthwhile. Requires a membership fee but has free access on Fridays.
Hell
Ljudmila
mayhem
zkm
absurd
erational
Critical Arts Ensemble doesn't fit the traditional requirements of net.art but I believe it's equally valid.
sito
LFS

http://www.111111111111111111111111111111111111111 111111111111111111111.com/
http://www.yhchang.com/
http://entropy8zuper.org/
The classic http://www.superbad.com/
and, I guess: www.once-upon-a-forest.com

And, more like resources and such:
rhizome.org/
http://www.netartreview.net/
http://www.michaelmedia.org/michel/

Define it.

Digital Art?
Software Art?
What?

"Fine" art I think here is a misnomer.

Thanks for the FYI. I haven't purchased the r3 or the r2, mostly because I'm still a poor college student. The X10 FAQ site quotes the following as the transmission frequencies for its video "senders".

X10 cameras and Video Senders use the following frequencies:
Channel A: 2.411 GHz
Channel B: 2.434 GHz
Channel C: 2.453 GHz
Channel D: 2.473 GHz

Given that Channels A & B are at the outer most edge of the r3's receiving range, and Channels C & D are outside the receiving range of the r3, which is quoted by the r3's specs page. I could see why there would be the need for a pre-amp and external antenna. Oh well I guess the simplest and cheaper solutions are most often the best solutions, though sometimes slightly heavier.

JJ is a software agent which uses facial expressions to visualize the emotional content of network traffic. JJ is implemented as a Carnivore Client, an open-source format for network surveillance applications.

Good portfolio for a 21 year old you'll more likely get recognition at Rhizome than here. They only accept completely digital art though.

Court order?

What would they need that for?

They have a GPL!

Oops. Maybe they don't...

--Blair
"The net is not secure. The net is not secure. The net is not secure."

Court order?

What would they need that for?

They have a GPL!

Oops. Maybe they don't...

--Blair
"The net is not secure. The net is not secure. The net is not secure."

This stuff is more enjoyable to look at than most of what's on the walls at the Guggenheim!

Pretty cool pics to link off the first page.

Curating a multimedia show is difficult. It tends to "day" rather quickly. Even if the project is burned to a CD which can last for 30 years, the platform it is built on is unlikely to be around in five years. Because of this, all of NYU Interactive Telecommunication Program thesis' are recorded to VHS. Sure, you lose a hell of a lot putting a digital project on video, but its better than losing everything.

A lot of multimedia work falls through the cracks. It disinterests both engineers and traditional artists. It also tends to be installation work. This means that the museum piece is not wrapped up in a form useful in your PC.

As for suggestions...
The Whitney Museum of American Art is featuring a show called BitStreams and Data Dynamics. This is one of the largest showings of multimedia art.
Blue Man Group is probably the only long running theatrical show heavily based around multimedia. Beyond the eye candy, it makes lots of commentary about the art world and the digital world. Oh yeah, they do those Intel commercials as well, but I always figure that they just confuse the average home viewer. : )
Explore NYU'S Interactive Telecommunication Program site. MIT's Media Lab and NYU's ITP are the two top programs in their field. The Media Lab does things because they can. NYU does projects on a much more human level.
Rhizome tends to be a center of net based art.

And there's no way you can pass up the old standard - Understanding Media by Marshall McLuhan. While it was written well before "multimedia" its commentary on more traditional media is easily extrapolated to digital media.

Take the recent case of plagiarist.org... the artist responsible for the site did a piece called Plagiarist Acquisitions in which plagiarist.org pretended to have "acquired" 27 of the world's largest corporations, in a spoof of neverending corporate takeovers. DuPont, one of the "acquired" companies, didn't like it. But, rather than sending a letter to plagiarist.org outlining legal reasons for their complaint, they took the shortcut - their legal department made phone calls and sent faxes full of largely irrelevant and unrelated documents to the artists' employer, saying that plagiarist.org had associated DuPont and the other companies with threatening and violent content. They sent a page from an unrelated website in which some entirely unrelated person called "plagiarist" had made death threats against the public relations director of the Jewish Defense league. When the artist, forced to remove the piece by the employer (who evidently was serving as ISP) posted a commentary documenting the situation, DuPont sent another fax requesting that be removed too (though that appears to still be there.) A more detailed story of this is archived at rhizome.org.

This type of censorship has been going on for years... take a look at this 1996 Associated Press article about the PR Firm of Middleberg and Associates, who evidently take pride in helping corporations intimidate people commit acts of free speech. And Markwatch a big-brotheresque corporate trademark monitoring service, who takes pride in spying on every nook and cranny of the web and newsgroups for mentions of product trademarks.... have you checked your web server logs for their sniffers? They are in mine!

Basically, the Corporations have decided they are going to do to dissenting voices on the Internet what they did to Public Access TV, and it is going to take massive and continual Bad PR about them to turn the tide.