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literally prior _art_: http://on1.zkm.de/zkm/werke/TheInteractivePlantGrowing

The Tesla coil can do this too. It didn't work the same and It was just a lot more dangerous, but I say that the guys who said, "If you had asked me seven months ago if this was possible, I would have said, 'Are you dreaming?", didn't do their homework. Its very possible, not realistic, but possible!

You definitely missed the Linux Audio Conference in Karlsruhe/Germany. There is a lot of development going on at the moment. Even commercial companies like Lionstracs and Native Instruments are getting more and more interested in Linux.

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Rhizome.org is worthwhile. Requires a membership fee but has free access on Fridays.
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Critical Arts Ensemble doesn't fit the traditional requirements of net.art but I believe it's equally valid.
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How about Deep Ascii. It's the porn movie "Deep Throat" converted via computer into ascii. Its kind of neat to watch, even though the screen is completely filled with characters the detail can be pretty good at times.

Need slow-motion action or sometin?

Sorry, this link was obligatory.

now i get why they are always looking into the matrix

surprised?

Deep Throat in ASCII!!

Unlike the hand-drawn Star Wars one, it seems to have been made by some kind of automatic transformation of a ripped video stream.

http://www1.zkm.de/~wvdc/ascii/java/deep.throat IE: save target as. take the applet and crap up some HTML that reads the file from disk instead of over the net.

Of course, the argument is centuries out of date. The examples are decades old. Let's make it more relevant! Art and Technology has been around for a long, long time. Incidentally Art Technology Group (ATG), which among other things created Dynamo which is now a huge application server product, is from the MIT Media Lab.

For example,
1965: Sony introduces the first monochrome half-inch tape Video Rover portapak-used almost immediately by New York video artist Nam June Paik.

And the contemporary media art scene is not about using photoshop. Even if you just count using digital technology, this has been around for years and it is vibrant. One well-known artist (Ingo Gunther) has used satellite transponders in his work, and one project (Kanal X) involved setting up a pirate TV station in Leipzig the transmitter of which was a sculpture. Ars Electronica has been going on for 20 years. DEAF has been held since 1986. ZKM has been open since '97 though many of its exhibitors have been active for far longer. The Getty has a collection of art and technology works from 1966 to 1993. Japan has one of the best media art infrastructures (hurt by the economy to be sure) which draw artists from Japan and overseas to places like the ICC, the International Academy of Media Arts and Sciences (IAMAS), and other spaces. Often the artists are in fact visiting professors who teach technology students (especially programmers) in universities.

Not only have artists always sought to make use of the latest media, but media artists often have to develop the cutting edge themselves in order to get their message across. This is true now that we use supercomputers like the Silicon Graphics Reality Engine, as it was when bromides and daguerrotypes took advantage of advances in industrial chemistry. Art drives science and vice-versa. I don't think you can point to any time when art and technology were not closely related.

While I don't usually have so much trouble with Mr. Katz' work, this time I'd have to say that sweeping generalizations without any enlightening examples must be hurtful to slashdotters' potential enjoyment and participation in some of the most exciting art in the world. Where's the beef? Many cutting edge artists work with very talented programmers and need their help badly. In particular, people who have a flair for networking, opengl, and hardware setup/troubleshooting (oh don't forget circuitry and wireless!) are really needed. Linux is extremely relevant now that machines have gotten so powerful, and the preemptive kernel sounds great for art! Artists who are interested in technology might like to check out MAX which is a great MIDI music and device controller.

It would be useful to point this out with substantial explanation of what this means for this site's users. Art gives context and meaning to budding researchers. And talented artists often come up with the new concepts that drive innovation. A public artwork can drive personal study and honing of one's technological skills like nothing else.

I think the reason it seems new now is that we've got so darn many computers now but little funding for artists (in the U.S.). There are also some very talented young artists who are taking advantage of the latest technology. More about them on Slashdot might be fun! How about a new icon and a media art section? Here are some neat online exhibits at the NYC MOMA.

Benny Härlin of Greenpeace speaks about GMOs (Genetically Modified Organisms) and there patentability. A 1/2 hour 45kbit realvideo film archived at ova.zkm.de: play film

Deep Throat in ASCII

Don't say I never gave you anything :)


IRNI

How about Deep Throat - In ASCII Art!!.
Personally, I think that beats out an all-ASCII boy band, but that's just me. Unfortunately, it's pretty slow - at least for me.

Chris the MathFreak

I've seen a dot matrix "symphony" performance during the opening event of the net_condition exhibition at the Center for Art and Media in Karlsruhe, Germany (ZKM, www.zkm.de). It was very cool! People really liked it and wanted (and got) an encore. Of course it was all spiced up (multimedia wise) with little cameras mounted to the printer heads with images projected to large screens.