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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!"
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.
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.
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.
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! :)
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.