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31/05/07

Lauren Cornell @ Espacio Movistar, Barcelona. Net-art trend session.

by Josep M. Ganyet

Posted in Art, Interface, Programming | Tweet This Post

(Life Blogging from Espacio Movistar)
18:00: Introduction of rhizome.org Special del.ico.us page created by Lauren Cornell for the presentation. Media and art links.

10:05: Presentation of various Net-Art projects Alexei Sholguin Desktop Art

• Bust Down The Doors by Young Hae Chang.
• Pioners and most influential artists from the 90s Jodi. (I often show their works but often crash your computer)
• A project that shows what happens when you totally screw up with blogs.

18:10: Talks about her involvment in Rhizome.org in 2005 Database, lo-fi, dirt style, public art, online celeb, on and off line art. How online art translates into real life. Internet art takes a lot of different forms even offline.

• “Internet pop art” Paperrad.org
• Review of Rhizome’s ArtBase

18:15: How internet has gone offline and moved into galleries in the form of objects
Artist felt the pressure to make money with internet art. Need to make objects to make money (bits don’t sell, atoms do)

• Rhyzome supports this artists through grants, exhibits, shows, etc.
• Michael Bell-Smith electronic tapestries on FoxyProduction.com

Cory Arcangel & Paper Rad super Mario Movie
18:20: How artists with web 2.0 and social networks MyOwnSpace.fr

• Distributed Artwork. Artists on wireless and mobile devices. Huge thing happening now.
• Pigeons writing a pollution map of San Diego

18:25: Shiftspace

• Application you can download and use it to paint space in the internet. A kind of a second layer of the net and color your own spaces and see other people’s. Artists as contextual content producers online.
• Networked Nature
• The representation of nature from the perspective of network culture. You don’t need a connection to talk about how digital culture.
• The C5 Lansdscape Initiative: A community of nerds looks for sublime spots in California. Technology used to give a different perspective on nature.

18:30: Timeshares shows on Rhizome.org Fultilines:
Automatedbeacon.net: Monitoring what people search on Google
The Dumpster: A visualization of romantic breakups for 2005 taken from letters in MySpace, Friendster, etc.
18:35: What makes an artist? People posting to Flickr?

• Zidane’s headbutt festival. How fast temporary communities spred out about a common subject.
• 13 Most Beautiful Avatars on 2nd Life

Professional surfer. Web surfing considered art.
18:40: Nastynets.com. Ars Electronica Award winner for this year.

• Trevor Paglen works on uncovering confidential information and transforming it into art.

18:45: Artists produce tools. A trend in today’s art. Fundrace.org: A database about who gives money to each candidate in the US campaigns.

• whiteglovetracking.com: Video editor
• TheRealCosts.com: Firefox plugin to track your CO2 emissions while you travel

18:50: Rhizome.org an online comunity created 10 years ago. Now with presence online and in art galleries.

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