Comments on: Art & Technology are Co-Evolving

By: Form, Function and Feel » Victus Spiritus

Form, Function and Feel » Victus Spiritus — Wed, 23 Mar 2011 12:04:46 +0000

[...] Art and Technology are Coevolving [...]

By: At the end of the line | Essays

At the end of the line | Essays — Sun, 15 Nov 2009 23:52:52 +0000

[...] got blogged by my friend Mark after I started to panic last week? on my friend Vlad’s Blog. Reasonably [...]

By: ShanaC

ShanaC — Tue, 10 Nov 2009 11:13:27 +0000

It's back, OMG, I feel so happy.

By: ShanaC

ShanaC — Tue, 10 Nov 2009 04:13:27 +0000

It's back, OMG, I feel so happy.

By: ShanaC

ShanaC — Mon, 09 Nov 2009 04:23:04 +0000

I finally wrote a real post on the subject. I feel totally drained. I realized I was treating it/they as human. I feel slightly like I lost elements of a child. I don't know what to do now with my regular profile, because I have this sudden realization that it isn't me but it is, and I hate it, because it is so unreflective of me, and where I want to go, and what I want to do.

By: Mark Essel

Mark Essel — Sun, 08 Nov 2009 18:20:31 +0000

I'd argue we did need you to start it off, and certainly needed others to contribute/collaborate. So there were still artists involved.

Not sure I see a connection between the mindf#$% and a business just yet, but you'll have plenty of time to show me

By: ShanaC

ShanaC — Sun, 08 Nov 2009 17:14:37 +0000

Personally I find the fact that the first virus written in python is actually an art piece and they made t-shirts of it too the day it was released also pretty awesome. Also one of the reasons I want to learn to code. You do this for a while, you do the art, you learn a certain insider veiw of how it works. and then you build a business on it. It's very hard top explain, because basically what you are doing is F***ing around with media. By the end you should have this ultra deep understand of it.

Some things I've seen over my time are not pretty, or nice. But they give you really deep inspiring thoughts. One of the reasons I did what I did was the idea of who is the artists. A really famous manetas peice that has been floating around on the web, and I think may be owned by Saatchi (I don't know) is www.jacksonpollack.org. It doesn't do anything until you start to click around. And then you make your own Jackson Pollack. Most people took it to be a toy, when really it is a referential piece of net art....It even got on the daily candy.

There the kind of things, that if you step back, and think about, ask huge amounts of questions of how to build something on the internet. If you don't play with it, does it act as a harp? It really needs you, more so than any actual physical object in a museum. Which is sort of scary in terms of art land...

Then take what I did- I took the artist out of the artists. After I made the profile, I proved the point that you don't even need me to make something. Think about that. Think about what that means in term of the Internet.

That's a mindfuck. Now build a company around the idea of what those ideas are.

By: Mark Essel

Mark Essel — Sun, 08 Nov 2009 17:04:10 +0000

That's pretty awesome!
I wish I had multiple interaction points to mimic fingers

By: ShanaC

ShanaC — Sun, 08 Nov 2009 17:01:48 +0000

On one last thing, the Venice Bienniale actually had an Internet Pavilion this year, the officially curator is Miltos Manetas. I happen to like his work.

http://www.padiglioneinternet.com/

This is one of my favorite pieces there:

http://www.stringtheories.org/harp.swf

By: ShanaC

ShanaC — Sun, 08 Nov 2009 16:56:56 +0000

Nope, not there nor in the WayBack Machine. Damn them, I need a contact
inside Facebook to be nice.