FEATURE: Selection of Recent Online and Offline Projects, January 09

The following are online and offline projects which have been circulating in various online communities. They are gathered here in no particular order.

Ruben and Lullaby by Erik Loyer
(Image above)
http://opertoon.com/

Ruben & Lullaby, a game in which you use touch and gesture controls to shape the outcome of a lovers’ quarrel, was just released on the App Store for iPhone and iPod touch.

The game is Erik Loyer’s first iPhone project, features illustrations by Ezra Claytan Daniels, and is the first of a planned series of works called “opertoons”—stories you can play like musical instruments.

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Deep Philosophical Questions, by Alan Bigelow
http://www.deepphilosophicalquestions.com/

“Deep Philosophical Questions” is a new digital story at webyarns.com. Comic strips and philosophy are combined in this story to answer six important questions that slip between the cracks of serious philosophy, into a place where logic and pedantry have no play.

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New work online – Between Saying and Doing, by Garrett Lynch
http://www.asquare.org/works/between-saying-and-doing

Between Saying and Doing, video and photo documentation of a Second Life Performance is now online and is also currently showing at the Devenir-écran (Becoming Screen) exhibition from the 13th December to the 27th December 2008, Le Vigan, France.

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SPORTIVE by Addictive TV
http://uk.youtube.com/watch?v=J-3CFfJPk_I

“SPORTIVE” video was created for the Adidas “Sport in Art” exhibition in China. After touring a number of Chinese cities this year, the exhibition was shown in Beijing for the Olympics, before it headed off to Hong Kong.

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A Misunderstanding (2008) by Carlos Katastrofsky
http://katastrofsky.cont3xt.net/home/?p=110

Text, emails, php-program to generate and send images

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EcoArtTech | New Works
http://www.ecoarttech.net

EcoArtTech works with digital, networked, and sustainable technologies and contemporary environments to create art that explores the environmentality of modern life.

Join EcoArtTech Facebook Group
http://www.new.facebook.com/group.php?gid=24344649717

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Alltop Widgets, by Guy Kawasaki
http://alltop.com/widget/

Recently created a widget that displays the five most popular stories from an Alltop topic in the sidebars of blogs and sites. This widget is simple and automated way to provide fresh news content for readers.