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Image of Sampling #1 from flickr user 7pc

Since 2006, the two artists have been collecting films from mobile phones in the public sphere. It is the mixture of amateurish documentation of your own life, of a direct, unhampered view on your own reality, of unmotivated, unguided camera movements as the expression of boredom but also of directed little scenarios that aroused our collector’s instincts. Paulitsch and Weyrich are accepting all films into their archive uncensored. This is increasingly developing into a fascinating document of our times, to a sort of evidence-gathering on and siting of the present. Above all, however, it resembles a bizarre album of weltering digital imagery.
For the exhibition YOU_ser 2.0 in the ZKM | Media Museum, the two artists make their mobile film archive accessible for visitors via mobile tagging. The mobile films are concealed behind the colourful QR codes, which visitors can decipher with their own [...]

Original post by Ceci Moss

Each code represents a visual enryption of a search on ‘Aram Bartholl’ in a specific language on Google.
A Google Portrait is a drawing which contains the Google URL search string of the portrayed person in encoded form. Any camera smart phone is capable to decode the matrix-code with the help of barcode reader like software. The result points the mobile phone browser to a search on the portrayed person’s name at Google.
A large number of people can be found by name on Google today. Everyone who is working on a computer and uses the internet regularly can be found on Google. Even people who don’t use computers can be found sometimes because their names appear in ‘old’ media (i.e. books) on the net.
‘Egosurfing’ is a popular way for a user to find out what websites and information Google returns on his/her name search.
How many hits does Google show on my [...]

Original post by Ceci Moss

Rhizome is pleased to announce Seven on Seven a new major initiative
that reflects our mission to connect art and new technology. Seven on Seven will pair seven artists with seven technologists in teams of two, and challenge them to develop something new –be it an application, social media, artwork, product, or whatever they imagine– over the course of a single day. The seven teams will present their ideas at a one-day event at the New Museum on April 17th.
Recalling the groundbreaking 1966 event 9 Evenings, in which dancers,
visual artists and musicians were paired with engineers and
scientists, Seven on Seven is aimed at enriching all involved, and
putting forth important, new projects that tie to Rhizome’s mission of
openness and innovation in art. Documentation of the event will be made available online following the event.

Seven on Seven Participants include, on the technology side, Ayah
Bdeir, Jeff Hammerbacher, David Karp, Andrew Kortina, Hilary Mason,
Matt Mullenweg, [...]

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Michele Pred Explains You Are What You Buy
I chose to create an embroidered version of a barcode to represent how technology has become interwoven, fused with our lives and our identity- to represent how we have become one and the same with technology.
Through new technology cell phones are now capable of scanning and decoding barcodes. However, these barcodes are a little different than the ones you see scanned at the grocery store: they are called 2D barcodes and are composed of black and white squares that encode the URLs to any website of creator’s choice. In other words, these Data Matrix format barcodes are a physical hyperlink. Through my research I have learned how to create and program 2D barcodes with embedded text messages. I have also discovered that these barcodes can be reproduced in a variety of materials and are still capable of being scanned/read with a mobile [...]

Original post by Ceci Moss

N Building from Alexander Reeder on Vimeo.
N Building is a commercial structure located near Tachikawa station amidst a shopping district. Being a commercial building signs or billboards are typically attached to its facade which we feel undermines the structures’ identity. As a solution we thought to use a QR Code as the facade itself. By reading the QR Code with your mobile device you will be taken to a site which includes up to date shop information. In this manner we envision a cityscape unhindered by ubiquitous signage and also an improvement to the quality and accuracy of the information itself.
— PRESS RELEASE FOR “N BUILDING”
Originally via Networked Research

Original post by Ceci Moss

THERE IS ANOTHER SUPER BOWL AND IT’S IN QUEENS IN AN OLD SYNAGOGUE
You can watch “More Than Super” live at http://www.livestream.com/mattandjudebowl at 6:00 pm, February 7 starting with pregame activities. Kick off will be around 6:25 pm EST.
On Sunday, February 7, the great American event that is the Super Bowl will be contested twice. Super Bowl XLIV will be played in Miami, Florida in front of a packed stadium and an international television audience of millions. Simultaneously an “improved” version of the game will be played in Ridgewood, Queens before a live audience of a few dozen enthusiasts and streamed online to perhaps hundreds more. Artists Matt Freedman and Jude Tallichet are producing “More Than Super”, a simultaneous, play-by-play restaging of the Super Bowl with a small army of collaborators who will substitute themselves for all the roles in the spectacle–players, referees, TV producers, half-time performers, advertisers, team owners, and [...]

Original post by John Michael Boling

As the second part of a series on art, labor, and politics, I spoke with Jeff Hnilicka of FEAST, a Brooklyn-based community dinner that funds the work of emerging artists. FEAST will be hosting their next meal tomorrow evening, February 6, from 5-8 p.m. at Church of the Messiah, 129 Russell St, Brooklyn NY. The event is open to the public. – Jenny Jaskey
What is FEAST and how did you begin?
Jeff Hnilicka: FEAST has been going on for a little over a year and runs out
of a church basement in Greenpoint. There are around twenty people
who help facilitate it. We come from the art world, food world, and
design world, and we are connected to ideas of collectivism and
immediacy – things like zines, living room dance parties, bike rides,
and dinners. Many of us are also involved with
Hit Factorie, [...]

Original post by Jenny Jaskey

Original post by Ceci Moss

Experimental Television Center is seeking applications for the 2010 cycle of their Finishing Funds program. Brief description below, for more information and to download the application, visit the grants section of their site. Deadline is March 15, 2010.
FINISHING FUNDS provides media and new media artists with grants up to $2,500 to help with the completion of diverse and innovative moving-image and sonic art projects, and works for the Web and new technologies. Eligible forms include film and video as single or multiple channel presentation, computer based moving-imagery and sound works, installations and performances, interactive works and works for new technologies, DVD, multimedia and the Web. We also support new media, and interactive performance. Work must be surprising, creative and approach the various media as art forms; all genres are eligible, including experimental, narrative and documentary art works. Individual artists can apply directly to the program and do not need a [...]

Original post by Ceci Moss

BBC Arts Editor Will Gompertz writes the following about
net-based art:
“It’s interesting that, as far as I am aware, no
contemporary artist has yet harnessed this extraordinary technology to
make a significant artwork. Of course, maybe I’m wrong and am missing
something great – do you know of any net-based art works that are
worth a look? Maybe you have made one (an artwork made specifically
for the medium, as opposed to a film such as the one above, which uses
the net only as a means of dissemination)? If you, like me, can’t find
any net-based art of note, why do you think that is? Why, when there’s
been such a boom in contemporary art around the world, has no artist
made the medium of the web his or her canvas? And if someone were to
use the net as a medium, as opposed to making an image, or a video, or
even an interactive Flash animation, what would [...]

Original post by Lauren Cornell

Original post by Ceci Moss

Double video projection, sound, loop /
Dimensions variable /
Installation view – Venice Biennale 2009

Original post by Ceci Moss

synchronized 3-6 single channel video sound installation. dimensions variable. duration: 12:00 minutes/endless loop
Tender Prey is a modular, synchronized 3 to 6 channel video and sound installation expansion of an earlier work “Organic
Urbanic” from 2002. Inspired by satellite images, urban plans, kaleidoscopic examinations and signal interceptions. It is a cortex
of an imagined city. Aerial videos are joined into science fiction panoramas, in-versed fields of digitalia and disquiet, scenarios of
urban out foldings forming metallic robotic ornamentations. Tel Aviv is the dirty digital city behind “Tender Prey”. It is featured in ultrasonic transparency, amplified, duplicated and warped.
— FROM THE ARTIST’S STATEMENT

Original post by Ceci Moss

Still of Airshaft (to Piranesi)
Ana Maria Tavares is known for installations employing materials such as steel, glass and mirrors. Resembling architectural structures, her installations call to mind the artificial, emotionally vacuous atmosphere of airports, office buildings, and other forms of urban architecture. Through her re-deployment of industrial architectural materials, such materials lose their function, and viewers are subtly thrown off balance in their physical experience and sense of time. Recently, Tavares has been creating films in which steel columns connect with stairways running in all directions. By introducing reflections she renders the space in the films all the more complex. Airshaft (to Piranesi) (2008) examines the realities of human circulation through anonymous urban spaces as found all over the world. The video depicts a modern architectural space in the manner of the complex, labyrinthine expanses depicted by the 18th century Italian artist Piranesi, but wavering fluidly like a mirage. The [...]

Original post by Ceci Moss

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Danny Snelson, Testimony
Google’s mission “to organize the world’s information and make it universally accessible and useful” centers around faith in the power of the keyword to unlock its bottomless treasure chest and put the right answer in one window. Years have passed since the company’s ranking algorithm outpaced the approach of human navigators filing information into channels — an approach that Yahoo has been trying to keep alive by farming the digital labor to users themselves. But even as search algorithms make dinosaurs of the Dewey decimal and other brain-powered systems, it might be worth considering the benefits of staying open to a plurality of variously scaled methods.
These issues converge in Danny Snelson’s work as a writer, editor, and archivist. His titles increasingly overlap in the internet’s library without walls–an environment that often embodies the Foucauldian idea that “one never archives without editorial frames and ‘writerly’ narratives (or designs),” [...]

Original post by Brian Droitcour

Original post by Ceci Moss

TXTual Healing was created in the early days of 2006 by Paul Notzold and has become a collection of interactive public projections and performance formats that encourage creation of dialog through text messaging from mobile phones. Whether interacting with custom digital signage, or live performers TXTual Healing builds community through public story telling via the mobile phone.
— FROM THE ARTIST’S STATEMENT

Original post by Jenny Jaskey

The Representative is a ‘portrait’ of a call centre worker that can be accessed by telephone.
Call centres are an increasingly ubiquitous and technocratic interface between large organisations and the public, and their spread has been described as endemic to a globalised world. With The Representative, visitors are invited to sit within an installation of domestic lounge-type furniture and use a single phone to connect direct to a call centre agent working at a remote location. The callers are offered the chance to ‘get to know’ the agent, and thus to experience a ‘portrait’ of the call centre agent accessible via a call centre interface. Young hired the agent and defined a ‘vignette’ of them by agreeing a generic script of topics for possible conversation to be offered to callers at the start of each call, based on interviews with the agent about their personal background and experiences [...]

Original post by Jenny Jaskey

Original Crate & Barrel ad with Horowitz’s Number

I was working as a photo assistant for Crate & Barrel. While on set one day, I wrote “dinner w/ marc 510-872-7326,” my name and cell phone, on a dry erase board featured in a desk product shot. A few months later, the catalog, containing my dinner invitation, was printed and sent to millions of people. I eventually received over 30,000 calls from people wanting to dine with me. As a result, I traveled the USA in a tiny RV for a year dining with strangers.
— FROM THE ARTIST’S WEBSITE

Original post by Jenny Jaskey

Rachel Perry Welty’s video shows a frontal head and shoulders view of the artist herself lip-synching to messages left in error on her telephone answering machine. Welty uses expert timing and facial gesturing and maintains a priceless deadpan expression during the intervals between messages. Karaoke Wrong Number reveals the simultaneous connections and disconnections of contemporary life, where technology both assists and impedes communication.
— FROM THE ENTRY FOR “KARAOKE WRONG NUMBER” ON THE ICA BOSTON SITE

Original post by Jenny Jaskey

Telephone and designated line, to receive telephone calls from the artist.

Original post by Jenny Jaskey

The man of the hour as he tries to stem the tide of phone calls this morning.
What a ride! It’s been a long journey that’s about to culminate in March. For myself I am counting today as the win. We made it to the big boys table with UP being nominated for Best Picture along with the other live action movies. We make movies, we tell stories. These days the fact that a movie is made completely with computers or whatever percentage is not a discussion anymore. It is just making movies.
My thanks to our stellar, award-winning crew but especially to our Story crew. They did a lot of heavy lifting that won’t have a category to celebrate at these award shows but they so rightly deserve every bit of goodwill this movie gets. They are the best story crew I’ve had the privilege of [...]

Original post by Ronnie

Andy Warhol hosted the television show “Fifteen Minutes” on MTV from 1986-1987, making only five episodes. Four of the five episodes are available below, the videos and text are sourced from The Jailbreak and the videos were originally discovered via Zamboni Soundtracks.
(Note: For those who want to view more art television shows, Rhizome dedicated a day to art-related public access TV shows in December. To view the posts from that day, visit the December 2009 archive and scroll down to December 8, 2009.)

EPISODE 1 (1986): Robin Leach, Jerry Hall, John Oates, Dweezel and Moon Zappa, Tama Jamowitz, Paulina Porizkova, Sally Kirkland, Tracy Johns, Katherine Hamnett including fashion show with models Maria Kay, Anna Jonsson and Eric Perron, The Parachute Club, and The Pyramid Club with Happy Face, Lady Bunny, Dean Johnson, John Kelley as Dagmar Onasis and Lypsinka.

EPISODE 2 (ca. January 1987): Grace Jones, Kenny Scharf, Marc Jacobs including [...]

Original post by Ceci Moss

From Braniff Airlines 1968 “When You Got It, Flaunt It” ad campaign. Salvador Dali was another celebrity featured in the campaign, to view that video, go here.

Original post by Ceci Moss