Category: Digital and Interactive Art

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.

timeline+25 is a project of the Ars Electronica Festival starting tomorrow in Linz, Austria. Wired News has a story on the festival with intriguing pictures here.
Ars Electronica is now 25 years – probably the most important art and technology show in the world. The Linz centre has a “futurelab” (that can’t be visited), an archive, they put on the festival, and have a museum with activities. Their web site has an interesting approach where you identify what you want to do with them (learn, visit, contribute, cooperate …) and they show how to engage.

Wired News: Exhibit Features Viruses as Art is a story about an art exhibit about and with viruses that is being mounted at Brown. It was first presented in 2002 in Germany and has been updated. The Wired story (by Michelle Delio, Aug. 27, 2004) has images and screen dumps. Many of the works seems to play off the “I Love You” virus, called the “computer virus family’s first media stars” by curator Franziska Nori.

Visitors to the exhibit will get a close-up view of the trouble a malicious virus writer can cause. One section of the show, dubbed "The Zoo," will feature a dozen non-networked terminals that visitors can infect with an assortment of viruses in order to observe what malware does.

This is from Matt Patey.
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Feel Good Anyway, besides have a great name, develops some interesting interactive works, identity systems, and posters. They have a kids animation look that works well in Flash. I think the kids look has some connection to J.otto Seibold. (See jotto.com.)

I discovered one of their works at receiver. Vodaphone, that funds reciever magazine as an idea forum, commissions neat interactives for the cover screens like the one from J.otto and a neat one from HORT.
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