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