Category: Digital and Interactive Art

Jared Tarbell and colleagues at Levitated do some very cool Flash “toys”. One neat project that shows how Flash can be used to create multiuser spaces is Public Structure | a collaborative computational environment. Some of their work has been exhibited, including the I’Ching Poetry Generator, a Levitated exhibition. I find his/their work achingly beautiful.

stock.xchng is a site with free photos that can be searched. By and large they are fairly good “office” quality – suitable for illustrating points in PowerPoint. I just went through grabbing images to put together an essay for students on working in groups in the workplace. The semiotics of stock images is interesting – search for “office” and ask yourself about the images available. Can you tell the difference between different office cultures? Do offices really look like that? Why are there so many images of simple office supplies like pencils and so few of messy desks? This link came from Audrey.

News Reader is a downloadable text art toy that makes connections between text from news stories. It is a commissioned work on the Turbulence site which “commissions artists exploring the Internet…”. This came from Textologies, an interesting blog out of UBC.
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Hill Strategies Research Inc. – An arts research company has put online a study about the Artists in Canada that shows that Victoria and Vancouver have the highest concentration of artists. There seems to have been 29% growth in the area over the 1991-2001 decade compared to a 10% growth in the labour market. Could the arts be going up as computer science tanks? I found this on Straight.com: Arts Notes.

The FINN Movie by Gmunk is a video short with a Flash style. Interesting bits of text that aren’t meant to be read or clicked – just after effects of the mind. Gmunks other stuff is also worth looking at, though he pushes the pimp style in his current design beyond kinky into tacky.
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David Wolf’s Quicktime Flickr photo viewer is an interesting applet that will go to the Flickr photo sharing site searches for images tagged with your search word and then shows you the most recent ones. What is impressive is that this is apparently programmed into Quicktime (didn’t know you could do that sort of stuff) and uses RSS. David is going to post a technical note that explains how he did it.
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Live from the IRIS is two photoblogs that are powered by i-gizmo.com. The thumbnails are laid out in a calendar. The design is clear, and in both cases the pictures work for me. This is what I want in a photoblog.
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Carnivore is an art network surveillance tool that can be built on. They provide the CarnivorePE application that watches a network and passes the data stream to clients you make for art purposes. Check out the example projects.

Bare Code: Net Art and the Free Software Movement by Josephine Berry, is an essay on the NetArt Commons: Slash Site about net art projects and the free software movement. It is part of OPEN SOURCE ART HACK, which I think is a NetArt Commons topic (but I am still figuring out the site) and an exhibit at the New Museum of Contemporary Art in New York.
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GRAFICA Obscura; Collected Computer Graphics Hacks is a collection of notes on computer graphics by Paul Haeberli. For example Paper and Plotter: A 3D Surface is a graphing sculpture project from the 70s. Haeberli has sequences of pictures that show how he did these beautiful projects.