net.flag is an interactive work of net art which lets you manipulate a flag for the internet. You can see what other did to the flag and change components. The work gets you thinking about what sort of territory the net is.
Category: Digital and Interactive Art
General Idea
One of my favorite conceptual art groups, General Idea has a web site. General Idea was a Toronto based collaborative of three artists who put together installations, performances, boutiques, and manifestos. From ARTFORUM on FILE MEGAZINE:
the three began working under another signature rubric, “Miss General Idea.” A 1971 altered photograph, which they called their “artist’s conception,” figures her as a transvestite, rubber-outfitted version of Hugo Ball at Cabaret Voltaire. Miss General Idea functioned as the group’s muse, and General Idea hosted a series of Miss General Idea beauty pageants that set out in countercultural fashion “to (capture) glamour without falling into it.” (Art in America, March 2005)
Two of the three have since died, only AA Bronson is still alive and working.
Digital Art Museum
The “Digital Art Museum has an ambitious aim – to be the source for history on the digital arts. They have an interesting set of essay links and information about the early history of digital arts.
Digital Art Museum aims to become the world’s leading online resource for the history and practice of digital fine art.
It exhibits the work of leading Artists in this field since 1956. [DAM] is an on-line museum with a comprehensive exhibition of Digital Art supported by a wide range of background information including biographies, articles, a bibliography and interviews.
LeCielEtBleu: Flash puppets, music and toys
lecielestbleu.com has an amazing collection of Flash puppets, musical toys, and interactive art toys online. It includes a music piping toy, P?¢te ?† Son where you pipe a flow of baubles that make music when they hit devices. They also have an amazing Puppet Tool where you can animate a puppet of a horse, or other being.
Keven Steele: Photo.menu
Kevin Steele’s Photo Menu page has a large collection of small photo essays by Steele. He has a nice clean touch – small numbers of images arranged on a white background using repetitions of different elements.
Steele is a designer who cofounded Mackerel an innovative early Toronto multimedia company that Cory Doctorow says,
“Together, they built the first iteration of a project that would go on to virtually create the market for multimedia in Canada. They laughed. They smoked. They blew a bunch of doobs.”
Previously I blogged his new site for Smackerel where he and David Goff have some great essays on early multimedia – see Mackarel Smackarel.
The Pool: Float Your Ideas
The Pool is a networked collaboration environment that presents a visualization of proposed projects distributed by approval and recognition. The idea is that people can propose ideas, approaches to ideas, release implementations of the approaches and then reviews. I guess that as ideas mature they will migrate from the lower left to upper rights. It only works on selected browsers.
This online environment is an experiment in sharing art, text, and code–not just sharing digital files themselves, but sharing the process of making them. In place of the single-artist, single-artwork paradigm favored by the overwhelming majority of studio art programs and collection management systems, The Pool stimulates and documents collaboration in a variety of forms, including multi-author, asynchronous, and cross-medium projects. (From “learn more” -> “purpose”)
Prize Budget for Boys
Prize Budget for Boys is an arts collective “convened in Toronto in 2001” that has been creating interactive arts games. Pac-Mondrian
, for example, is a Pac-Man like game where you eat through a Mondrian work to the tune of boogie woogie jazz. (See the New York Times article, Arts > Art & Design > Chomp if You Like Art” href=”http://www.nytimes.com/2004/12/27/arts/design/27mond.html?ex=1261890000&en=bc65f21f79d37d0a&ei=5090&partner=rssuserland”>Chomp if You Like Art by Sarah Boxer (Dec. 27, 2004.)
Calderoids combines Asteroids with Calder like mobiles.
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Pixels + Pitches
This is the time of year when I see lots of great undergraduate projects in multimedia. One of the best ones that is online is pixels pitches by John Smith. It needs Flash and the sound on.
Bar Code Art by Scott Blake
Bar Code Art by Scott Blake is a site with art and interactive toys around the theme of barcodes. Lots of links to resources.
What is it about the barcode and other types of codes like the QR Code? Does it bother us to have these texts in view that are designed for other eyes? Is such art a way of responding to living with code?
Research/Creation: State of the Art
I am presenting on the 19th at the Ontario College of Art and Design on the SSHRC /Research/Creation Grants in Fine Arts with Craig McNaughton, the program officer. It should be an interesting discussion about the pragmatics of research/creation which is an emerging concept for the sort of hybrid research and art that many of us do.
In an earlier post on Research Creation I talked about what I think are the primary criteria. Also of interest are issues around Ethics and Art
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