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Crazy/Nerdy Computer Art Installations
Gernot Ziegler writes "After having read a report on the fusion of Art and Technology, I somehow ended up on Perry Hoberman's page. I don't know this guy, but I've always been fascinated by techno art, and these ones are clearly intriguing.
There is the Workaholic, a pendulum with a bar code scanner over a carpet with bar codes and an attached projector that overlays images on the carpet, or the ZOMBIAC (Zone Of Monitor-Based Inter-Amnesiac Contact) that lures the visitors into thinking that the machines react to them directly. You might also want to have a look at this weird auction (that's where I got this link from) ! :)"
Users can attempt to steer the pendulum, but it will always remain somewhat unpredictable. At all times, the scanner/pendulum works as a TOOL that operates on the image below. Sometimes the pendulum acts like a kind of CHISEL or ROUTER, cutting grooves through images to expose other images hidden below. Repeated passes will widen these grooves until certain images become completely exposed and dislodged. At this point the pendulum becomes a kind of MAGNET, dragging bits of images along its path. At other times the pendulum acts as a kind of RADAR, updating the parts of the image that it swings over, or a VACUUM CLEANER, sucking up images; a distorting LENS; a BRUSH, a BROOM, and so on. These various functions are reinforced by the use of appropriate sound effects
.. even after looking at the pics, I can't decipher what the hell they're talking about.. let alone why the usual use of CAPS in the text..
The revolution will not be televised. It won't be on a friggin blog either
Check out this band - it consists of old 386DX computer having a SB... :-D
The music is quite fun, as it consists of classics rendered in the adlib-style sounds and top of that the SB speech synthesizer is singing the vocals.
As can be seen in the pages, they have done many "live concerts" which could be defined also quite nice computer art installations - just the computer sitting on street, playing out its music.
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I never really understood the pricing for a lot of art, I mean I can understand why a really nice picture might be worth a couple hundred dollars -- prints cost money, mounting them costs money and the artists needs to make some money on it. I could easily see paying a couple hundred or more for a picture I really like. Some of these though are ridiculous. Like this print, it says retail price $1200!!! Besides the fact that I can't imagine anybody actually wanting to own that picture I just don't understand where that value comes from. Anybody could make a picture of a Windows XP dialog box saying something like that... it's not even an original idea! Things like that are put up on the web all the time! This one's just as bad and it's $2000.
That's ridiculous.
Story here!
Another way technology plays into poetry is Aleatory Poetry. I experimented with this a bit in this dynamic poem, revelation to pi.
by Arthur Ganson
Interesting... I don't have a disdain for the arts (art itself that is) but arts classes at universities. AKA the "Bachelor of Attendance." I fail to see the relevance of most of the drivel that exists in those classes. But I think that my greatest complaint with an arts student happened in my first year. In the first fortnight to be precise. At this time I was doing 30+ hours a week at uni, and this bloke was complaining about all of the hours he was going to be spending in class. It transpired that he was an arts student, and had to do a whole 10 hours a week. He dropped a class because he just could not take the pressure of all that work. That is probably where my disdain for the arts comes from. That was really off topic
P.S. Leonardo DaVinci, one of the greatest artists ever to have existed in the world, and one of the most intelligent and insightful, was infact a millitary engineer by profession.
I am not stubborn. I am right!
..what someone will pay.
Nothing more, nothing less. If you like good art, there are better places to look - chances are if you ask around you can find someone who paints who would be flattered if you wanted one of their pictures.
..don't panic
The word "Techno" actually MEANS "Art"
Interesting. This site defines techno as "styles of dance music" derived from the prefix techno (as in technology)
If however you were talking about the prefix rather then the word, you are still incorrect.
Techne the greek word the prefix techno comes from, is generally accepted to mean the systematic treatment (ie industrialisation) of arts/crafts (including building, manufacturing, etc) or just skill.
The idea that it is literally just "art" is one propounded by undergraduate lecturers who haven't the slightest idea about greek culture.
By the way - Whilst we're on definitions - here is a definition for engineer:
2. One who operates an engine.
So any Arts student who rides to school is already an engineer.
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Sorry about the last post - hit submit before checking urls!
interaccess in Toronto is an amazing gallery.
The Seemen and SRL in San Francisco will blow your ass up.
xraylab in Seattle/Chicago/New York does some great interactive work.
Norm White has been kicking art/tech ass for since before you were born.
David Rokeby's work is totally amazing too.
Beige Programming Ensemble in Chicago/St. Louis/New York can make your Atari/C64 do backflips.
And for some amazing reading... Stephen Wilsons information arts book has no comparison.
rhizome.org is a pretty good site for all things art/tech (esp. web art)
And for validation by the mainstream art world check out the whitney's artport.
enjoy!Heil Sig! -Rob
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Neat idea.
- David Rokeby
- Christa Sommerer & Laurent Mignonneau
- Simon Penny
Who are yours?if you sail on over to lowtech.org you can see a group in the UK using redundant technology both in art and in society.
the group a2rt (www.a2rt.org) are also starting up something similar as well.
The reasoning behind using lowtech computers in art and social projects was given by James Walbank the founder of the lowtech project in this speech to an arts conference with the theme of revolution. James correctly pointed out that you can't have a revolution with a price tag of over £1000.
favourite pieces include redundant array, and the video wall that was reprised in even better fashion here at fort lux
Art is what you make it, found art is what you find and what you make it, lowtech art is finding art in skips.
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blog and junk
I remember, years ago, when I went along to the AIMIA awards with a friend, on the Gold Coast in Australia. The two of us wandered slowly around the space in white paint-protection suits (very high tech) with Powerbooks running PixelToy mounted to our chests. People could speak into the screens and see the psychedelic screen change. Fun, and hanging out in the green room with the other weirdos was a laugh.
Oh, and someone else gave me money to develop an early version of this thing identikit into what you can see today. All done with QuickTime VR object movies. Full experience from the main page at funwithstuff.com.
it's not about the karma, it's about the whuffie
Check out scene.org viewing tips.
How small a thought it takes to fill a whole life
Another approach to computer art, which recognizes its roots in computer culture as well as in "art" - is software art. Lots of cool stuff over at runme.org... and read_me, an entire festival devoted to software art, is coming up in a couple weeks in Helsinki..
interaccess in Toronto is an amazing gallery.
The Seemen and SRL in San Francisco will blow your ass up.
xraylab in Seattle/Chicago/New York does some great interactive work.
Norm White has been kicking art/tech ass for since before you were born.
David Rokeby's work is totally amazing too.
Beige Programming Ensemble in Chicago/St. Louis/New York can make your Atari/C64 do backflips.
and for some amazing reading... Stephen Wilsons information arts book has no comparison.
rhizome.org is a pretty good site for all things art/tech (esp. web art)
And for validation by the mainstream art world check out the whitney's artport.
Heil Sig! -Rob