artport / Tate Online commission: "The Dumpster" by Golan Levin with Kamal Nigam and Jonathan Feinberg

"The Dumpster," 2006
Golan Levin with Kamal Nigam and Jonathan Feinberg
artport, the Whitney Museum's portal to Internet art
http://artport.whitney.org
http://artport.whitney.org/commissions/thedumpster/dumpster.shtml

"The Dumpster" is an interactive online visualization that attempts to depi=
ct a slice through the romantic lives of American teenagers. Using real pos=
tings extracted from millions of online blogs, visitors to the project can =
surf through tens of thousands of specific romantic relationships in which =
one person has "dumped" another. The project's graphical tools reveal the a=
stonishing similarities, unique differences, and underlying patterns of the=
se failed relationships, providing both peculiarly analytic and sympathetic=
ally intimate perspectives onto the diversity of global romantic pain.

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"The Dumpster" is the first in a series of three works co-commissioned in c=
ollaboration with Tate Online. See http://artport.whitney.org/commissions/n=
ew\_commissions.shtml

Critical texts and video interviews with the artists will accompany the wor=
ks at http://www.tate.org.uk/netart/
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Upcoming commissions:


Launch Date: March 1

The Battle of Algiers by Marc Lafia and Fang-Yu Lin
This work recomposes scenes from the 1965 film The Battle of Algiers by Ita=
lian director Gillo Pontecorvo. The original film is a reenactment of the A=
lgerian nationalist struggle leading to independence from France in 1962. T=
he success of the actual battle for independence has been attributed to the=
nationalists' organization: a pyramidal structure of self-organized cell=
s. For the Whitney's artport, Lafia and Lin recomposed the film along a cel=
l-based structure, in which French Authority and the Algerian Nationalist c=
ells are represented by stills from the film and move according to differen=
t rule sets. When cells of different camps intersect, they trigger video ce=
lls displaying each side's tactics (as depicted in the film) according to t=
he rules of the system.



Launch Date: March 22

Screening Circle by Andy Deck
This project adapts the cultural tradition of the quilting circle into an o=
nline format. Visitors to the site can enter the drawing area to compose lo=
ops of graphics and affect and edit each other's screens. The pieces can =
be made by one person or by several people and the arrangement of the segme=
nts can be haphazard or precise. In the screening area, the resulting motio=
n graphics will be on view instantaneously.