The following are online and offline projects which have been circulating in various online communities. They are gathered here in no particular order.
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Isabel Aranda Yto
presenta en ARTIUM GalerÃa de Arte la muestra de pintura titulada
(image above from Yto’s latest paintings)
A series of works inspired by net art and emerging technologies. Summary and artist statement follows in Spanish only. http://www.yto.cl/
yto_lab: http://www.escaner.cl/yto/index2.html
DE LO DIGITAL A LO VISUAL ÃPTICO
ARTE LABORATORIO ˆ INVESTIGACIÓN VISUAL
De cómo lo visual – digital oscila entre distintos medios expresivos, tomando en consideración que la creación es un camino de investigación.
El arte ASCII hace un buen tiempo ha sido el punto de partida que nutre mi trabajo, sea esto en pintura, grabado, net.art, arte correo, telepresencia, arte acción. Es por atracción, me gusta su visualidad y sus posibilidades. Como herramienta visual generativa también de ideas conceptuales.
Estas disciplinas me han llevado a trabajar distintos aspectos del arte contemporáneo, como por ejemplo, lo individual y lo colectivo, el arte en red, intensas conexiones internacionales, el arte en Internet y finalmente el eterno retorno a la soledad de la pintura. Como monje que vuelve a la paz de su monasterio. Absolutamente necesario para la observación y reflexión de todo lo experimentado.
MI PINTURA ACTUAL ES LA SÃNTESIS VISUAL DE ESTE RECORRIDO
Se alimenta de la libertad del arte correo, con sus artiststamp y poesÃa visual. Del net.art y el elemento ASCII. De lo digital, el trabajo en capas y las transparencias. Y de algunas soluciones aplicadas en grabado. Busca el espacio, la aventura cromática y su soporte son las tramas.
En esta exposición intento plasmar con simple acrÃlico sobre tela la huella que esta experiencia ha dejado en mi espÃritu, centrándome en desarrollar principalmente una pintura abstracta. Sin dejar de lado la temática de la naturaleza y el tema ecológico.
La naturaleza me habla, como a cualquier ser humano. Yo necesito detenerme y escucharla. Una naturaleza cercada por la mano humana. Esto lo expreso de manera sutil, como por ejemplo, en las pinturas podemos ver los nombres de pajaritos en extinción desapareciendo en la maraña de la imagen de los nuevos tiempos, representada en este caso, por una visualidad que simula lo digital.
Una pintura hÃbrida, que continúa la idea de reciclaje de conceptos, imágenes y técnicas.
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Ars Virtua is proud to present the Second Life premier of We are the Strange on Friday June 29 at 6pm SLT. http://slurl.com/secondlife/
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M dot Strange takes us into the new realm of video game structured and inspired storytelling with his character’s harrowing quest for ice cream. The variety of animation styles, game and cultural references and distopian beauty of this work make it important to modern filmmaking. Add to this that m dot strange created this virtually single handedly and had it selected for Sundance based on his YouTube audience and you end up with a very powerful piece of contemporary media.
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Loop, by Zoro Feigl (2007)
http://www.zorofeigl.nl/loop.html
Two wheels give the circular rope speed. A circle of rope will build up when it gains momentum and falls apart when slows down. The rope comes loose from the ground and is almost suspendend in air by it’s motion. A struggle between machine and gravity to keep the amorphous rope upright and circling.
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Blogumenta, http://www.blogumenta.com/june16/
Initiated by Robert Labossiere, Blogumenta is a response to the confluence of super-sized art events taking place in Europe at the moment: the Venice Biennale, the Muenster Sculpture Project, Art Basel, and of course, Documenta.
I call it a response, but Blogumenta is more than that – it is a different kind of art event entirely. It has no physical gallery to visit, but there is an image repository on the website and in Facebook, one of the most popular social networking websites. It has no curator, but it was initiated by Robert and he is also the ?Admin? of the Facebook group. The work itself is not for sale, but in the ?Shopumenta? online store, you can purchase a Blogumenta ringer tee.
From the Facebook group page:
“Blogumenta may be Facebook?s first art gallery/art fair. Anyone can join and submit an artwork by uploading a photo or writing on the wall or any other way you can think of to contribute. Everything is subject to moderation by admin. Please be courteous.
Blogumenta has approximately 7 days to assemble an online exhibition comparable in scope to Documenta XII, arguably the most prestigious art fair in the world, held only every four years in Kassel, Germany. But enough about them! join, contribute, blog like you ment a.”
Today is the opening ceremony of Blogumenta, and Facebook users are asked to change their profile picture to acknowledge this. A selection of images have been made available to Facebook users (examples here: http://www.blogumenta.com/june16/), and slowly but surely, I?m witnessing the Blogumenta-fication of profile photos. If you?re on Facebook, join the fun – and if you?re not, visit Blogumenta.com to comment, submit images, or browse the Shopumenta store.
http://www.blogumenta.com/
http://www.facebook.com/group.php?gid=2380698481
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Processes, by ERIKA LINCOLN
http://lincolnlab.net/scale.html
Sidereal Projections 2007
A multi-element installation–Wood, mechanics, computer software, wireless camera, video projection, 6 channel audio, LEDs, rubber balls, wire, fabric, networked printer.
Sidereal–Pertaining to the stars.
Upon entering the gallery space viewers are presented with a curved fabric projection screen at one end of the gallery and a 16-20 foot hanging garden of LED lights and planets at the other. Directly underneath the LEDs is a 2 foot long motorized wooden rover outfitted with a wireless camera pointing upwards to the LEDs. Viewers can walk up to the LED array and watch the rover move under the lights or they can sit under the arced screen in a soft pillowed environment and watch the live images from the rover’s wireless camera. Under the screen viewers are surrounded by 6 channels of audio–four speakers play audio files from the Cassini space probe entering the atmosphere of Titan and two speakers play a live transcription of the rover’s video signal. Viewers are able to drive the rover forward and reverse using a joystick available under the screen. As the rover is driven under the LEDs a networked printer in an adjacent space continuously prints stills from the video signal.
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I-Pledge, by Alan Bigelow
http://www.i-pledge.org/
Description
I-Pledge.org is an interactive work for the web that provides visitors with an opportunity to rewrite the United States’ Pledge of Allegiance. Each revision of the Pledge is thematically linked to one of the following categories: Immigration, Politics, Nature, Sports, Family Life, or Other (no theme). Once the user has written their version of the Pledge, the text plays against a background of images related to the theme they have chosen. All the pledges are saved into a database to be viewed by anyone visiting the site.
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Kapital for Kids, by Finishing School
Share it with your kids and kids at heart!
http://www.kapitalforkids.net
Kapital For Kids
Finishing School with Jason Plapp and Joel Heflin
Kapital for Kids is an online game environment for children and their parents parodying the various relationships between children’s media entertainment, education, and capitalism.
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The New Ecology of Things:
http://newecologyofthings.net/
A Transmedia Publication
The New Ecology of Things website is one part of a publication that also includes a printed book, a poster, and cell phone content. The publication charts the MDP’s evolving contribution to an international conversation about ubiquitous and pervasive computing. It also includes the NET studio’s creative disruption of traditional pedagogical models along with an array of ambitious student projects that underscore the MDP’s commitment to dynamic articulations of the future.
