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"Tap" Palm Art at The Whitney's Artport
technogamy writes: "Art.geeks -- check out The Whitney Museum of American Art's Artport, a 'portal to net art and digital arts, and an online gallery space for commissioned net art projects.' Note specifically Jim Buckhouse's Tap--part of Creative Time's Beaming Network, Tap's collaborative, evolving, quirky app hops on to your Palm-based device through a sleek silver beaming cube. (I freaked out when I saw one of the cubes at a local Barnes and Noble ... especially when I realized that I knew the person who made them. ;]) Here's how Tap works. Get some culture, people!"
So it's just a game. What's the big deal?
Basicly just a game thats tied into a museum. "Beaming Stations" have been around for quite a while now and are quite popular where the pointy haired bosses gather in large numbers. Something about trading business cards and product info... personaly I like the paperware and the cool bags vendors give you.
Anyway, back on track. Has anyone built a "Beaming Station", and posted info on how?
symetrix. We are building a religion, a limited edition.
...at the Barnes & Noble at Union Square in Manhattan, yesterday. Each one has a Palm-OS device mounted inside, with the screen exposed, showing a simple animated loop. In this case, one showed the outline of a man dancing, the other showed a woman dancing.
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They had the rough, looped quality of an early kinematograph, or whatever those things are called (where you rotate the wheel and look through the slits to see the horse running). The softly glowing blue light in each cube was the port for beaming the artwork on to your own PDA. Cool stuff.
Of course, I saw something like this two years ago. I was working on a film set, and all the guys with Palms were beaming it to each other -- a short animation of a naked woman. Nothing like pr0n to define the bleeding edge of technology.
Does anyone know of anything else some what similar to this out there? Thanks.
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"... through a sleek silver beaming cube. (I freaked out when I saw one of the cubes at a local Barnes and Noble ..."
:-P
I dont get it either.. i find this cubething interesting.. but i cant find info on it.. whats the big deal here?
is it cause it is 3 in the morning here and i am trying to debug in MIT scheme,,,
ok here is the deal: Tap is a Palm-based wireless project offering male and female animated characters that "learn" tap dancing by taking lessons, practicing, giving recitals and learning from each other. While digital media allows for perfect replication of data, Tap emphasizes the process of repetition with a difference. It treats digital data not only as reproducible packets of information, but as seeds for new ideas that spread and evolve. As an artwork that relies on exchange, learning processes and community, it becomes a metaphor for networked communication itself.
back to scheme now...
The war with islam is a war on the beast
The war on terror is a war for peace
Why do I picture the writer saying that in this total queen voice while waving his limp-wristed hand around?
Here's my culture: beer, John Wayne movies, cars. Fuck tap dancing pda fags. Dorks, I tell you, dorks!
Break dancing on my PDA! Maybe "east-vs-west" competitions via IR between two PDAs.
My computing device could break and I wouldn't be mad.
:)
You might be able to get Palms to act in a Cluster, but you'd probably need iPaQs to actually run Beowulf. But you could probably adapt this thing to have a tap-dancing monster instead of a tapdancing man :-)
I forget their name, but the similarity just occurred to me. You have a little "being" on a digital device, that can be trained to perform tasks, and can interact with others.
They came out a few years ago in the US (maybe earlier in Japan). And they actually do more than this Tap program -- they can fight each other (certain models, anyway), grow if nurtured, and die if neglected.
Props to Tap's creator(s), but perhaps they are a little behind the curve.
The Whitney is running a biennial which is showcasing some of today's most notable artists. I was really excited to see a lot of internet installations. There are several computer terminals in the exhibition space pointed towards websites, and there are some more complicated ones with projection installations and other gizmos. I think the /. crowd would really appreciate seeing them treated as high art. I always believed it was (more in terms of literary theory though, but that's another story).
The rest of the exhibit is really nice. There is a comic book influence in several installations, and there's a whole gallery for Chris Ware of Acme Novelty Library Fame. There are some performance artists and I suggest scheduling your visit to catch them. When I went, Karin Campbell was performing "When I Close My Eyes" and it was a really surreal experience.
If you have never seen contemporary art before, this is one of the best examples of what's out there and I highly urge you to go. If you're not near Manhattan, I also suggest MOCA in Los Angeles and SFMOMA in San Francisco.
Just my two cents that came up wilst reading this...
There is an art that's actually quite nice which oyou could consider practicing - Tap Dance. I'm talking about REAL tapdance that actualy involves lifting your ass of that officechair and learning to move somewhat elegant. (Not THAT easy btw.)
These little gadgets are as much art in comparsino to - for an instance - tap dance as typing HTML is to real programming.
...I could go on but you get my point.
Like I said, just my two cents for this monday morning.
We suffer more in our imagination than in reality. - Seneca
i didn't see anything in the article about user contributions. i'd definitely get into it if i could add a rudeboy and teach him to skank.
i'm not a real fan of tap or the jazz community that usually supports it, but it'd be good to see other dancing styles represented and the interactivity would likely make it a lot more popular.
Saw it in the new movie "The Time Machine"
its a crappy movie (worst ever) but the kids in the tech library all were setting their equipment to autoreceive beams in the exhibits.
I dont know if they downloaded articles on tapdancing, hairdressing, or interior decorating though.
that art site that was linked to links to this very intresting site www.theyrule.net it shows the links between board members in large corporations. check out the hp microsoft connection
As for the geek side of art, I think artists are hackers in the same way as IT hackers. The strive to explore, research and often apply pedantic measures to get thing right. They expand their own minds and challenge the audience's mind. Sometimes they are hackers to, just watch the LED columns in the Bilbao Guggenheim. Fascinating, beautiful, cool.
And what about your home? When I was a kid, I had a poster for Tallgrass backup systems on my wall, because the leopard on it was cool. Now I'm and adult and want som art on the wall. It's not difficult. I have four artworks in a small apartment; One oil on canvas, one print, one litography and latex on clear plastic. Art is so much different things, something I'm trying to tell you here. In other terms, I have one horrendusly expensive original painting only one in existence, one framed dirt-cheap colour copy, one advanced numbered hand-crafted copy, and one anime cel. :) Art is so many things, most of them beautiful and often cool. Now go out there an nail a painting to yer wall! :)
Paper was orginally created for writing, but now it has a plethora of uses. Same would go for most other technologies. When rubber and latex were invented, few people thought an artist would use it as a medium, let alone play things of varying uses. Another manifestation of the maturation process is case modification and the new iMac. Computers started out as tools to make things like art, but now they are rapidly becoming art. The participation of computers in the process of art is changing and evolving.
there are a lot of net.artists which works are hard to find in galleries, and who themselves (more or less) call net.artists and that dot makes the difference...
:)
its work usually digs into political issues and specific issues of the media itself (net part of the net.art coin) rather then playing in the field of aesthetics and continuum of ugly and beautiful... media hacks are better thain paintings... just to start a little flamewar
links sometimes worths kilowords:
http://www.calarts.edu/~line/history.html
http://rtmark.com
http://www.irational.org
http://www.ljudmila.org/~vuk
and few others in tribute to net.art: interview with the hacker... work in progress...
You'd probably be interested in BeamPro Exhibition, for the PalmOS.
It would be interesting to see a really cheap PIC-based solution, however - That would be what would bring beaming stations down from the one-off, rare item to standard usage.
... they called it the Tamagotchi, and we all got over it quickly. Then someone came along with too much free time and a postmodern vocabulary and refigured the social lattice-work of the Tamagotchi construction, subtly shifting the deixis from cheap kids' fad to artsy fad. Ye Gods, where are the sarcastic lampoonists of suck.com when the world needs their bull-fighting superpowers? I can just see Terry Colon's desaturated cartoons depicting an art disciple in black beret fidgeting over his key-chain pocket monster trying to teach it new dance steps with which to "challenge" and "trade fours" with some ten-year-old's ubermonsterdancer.
Every 'beam station' I've ever seen is built with the unfortunate side effect of restricting Handspring PDA's from using it.
There really is a drawback to having yout IR port on the side.
An infinite number of monkeys at an infinite number of typewriters still wouldn't repost stories on
Am I the only old timer around here? This Tap program for the Palm reminds me a lot of the Dancing Demon program for TRS-80, written in Basic by Leo Christopherson.
Good (?) game concepts don't die. They just reappear in the weirdest places.
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