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NEWS FROM ARTIFICIAL.DK #15,
Saturday December 31st, 2005
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OPEN – AS IN OPEN FOR EVERYONE?
The net.art movement of the 90's - The first attempts to make art on the internet guided by Vuk Cosic and the like – put many of the new issues raised by and with the internet into focus. The whole ‘people might not be who they seem', the new big interactivity, etc. Now, ten years later, we generally believe to be beyond that. Researcher Lev Manovich a long time ago declared that he doesn't even want to talk about interactivity in relation to the internet or computers anymore as he finds it to obviously integrated. Most of us agree and feel that we are pretty savvy with this internet thing.
However, a recent article in Wired makes you think that we are not fully coping with some of the issues on the internet. The article tells that the founder of Wikipedia, Jimmy Wales, is editing his own bio in Wikipedia. He is apparently known to have been erasing less flattering parts of his CV as well as the name of his previous partner in and co-founder of Wikipedia. Naturally, he is allowed to do that, but it does raise some questions about how we live and cope with things being editable by anyone. Information might want to be free, but what if the information is mine?
Read the full article here: http://www.wired.com/news/culture/0,1284,69880,00.html
On this last day of 2005, we bring you a continuation of our Art Games Special. We asked artist Mathias Fuchs to write his point of view. Thomas Petersen also talked to Alison Mealey about her art projects made in a computer game engine.
We also bring you an interesting article with scholar and artist Marc Downie. Emil Bach Sorensen and Tatiana Lyng met him at this year's Ars Electronica.
We have lots of interesting articles coming in 2006. So stay tuned. Happy New Year!
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ARTICLES:
HOW LONG DOES THE SUBJECT LINGER ON THE EDGE OF THE VOLUME ...'
Emil Bach Soerensen and Tatiana Lyng met with artist and researcher Marc Downie for a talk about the creative meeting between dance and live computing. http://www.artificial.dk/articles/downie.htm
SPECIAL: ART GAMES:
FROM AN ARTIST'S PERSPECTIVE
Artist Mathias Fuchs continues Artificial's series on Art Games. In his terminology Game Art is the right word to use. http://www.artificial.dk/articles/fromanartist.htm
GENERATING ART FROM A COMPUTER GAME
Many artists use various types of processes, events, social patterns etc. as controlling or contributing factors in the creation of artworks. Alison Mealey has chosen to base her art on the computer game Unreal Tournament. Thomas Petersen interviewed her.
http://www.artificial.dk/articles/alison.htm
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ATTENTION:
The new issue of Neural is out now. The English language in-print magazine edited by Alessandro Ludovico is a great read. Read more + subscribe here: http://www.neural.it/english
The long awaited Samorost 2 is now online. Go play! http://www.samorost2.com/
0100101110101101.org's latest project, United we Stand - where a fake Hollywood production poster has been put on walls in several big cities - will be featured in their so-called multimedia exhibition at Postmasters Gallery in New York from Dec 10 to Jan 21.
http://0100101110101101.org/ http://www.unitedwestandmovie.com/ http://www.postmastersart.com/
Check out one of our favorite daily reads: http://www.we-make-money-not-art.com/
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NET.WORKS:
http://www.artificial.dk/networks
This is our catalogue of computer based art that we can recommend. You'll find net art, software art, classics, and a continuously updated list of new pieces. This week we have one recommendations:
LE NU/THE NUDE
The naked body as artistic subject matter has been revisited and reinterpreted as nothing else. As a digital spectacle, the body has long since conquered the internet as porn permeated the digital sphere. The French site incident.net presents a series of artistic examinations of the body in a digital context. /TP
http://incident.net/hors/nu/
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EXTRA:
MAKE-A-FLAKE
A lot of people believe that Denmark is covered in snow all winter long. Sadly, that is not true. In fact, some winters go by with no snow at all. But this last few days everything have been white. For those of you not covered in snow, we bring you a nice, snow-related indoor activity: Make-a-flake. Try it – it will also serve as a nice easy online activity for January 1st. http://snowflakes.lookandfeel.com/
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