If you're a fan of the Web site "Interview Yourself," rejoice: it's baaack. The site's creators at Plagiarist.org merely took a short hiatus. Scroll through interrogations between the usual suspects in the Net art world and...themselves (or not?). The latest addition to the archive: Vuk Cosic, as interviewed by Vuk Cosic.
It's boring dragging a mouse across its pad all day. Can the device become more than a utilitarian object? "Playing an Orchestra with a Mouse" is an exploration of how humans interface with the little rodent-like tool we use to navigate while using our computers, namely when we're online. Designed by Brazilian programmer Jo
From October 18th to the 21nd the first Make-world Festival will take place in Munich, Germany, home to a fast-growing European media-art community. Media artists, activists, and theorists will tackle such varied topics as migration and art in networking environments -- to explore, presumably, how we construct our physical and online worlds in the 21st century. Belgium-based net artists Entropy8Zuper, creators of immersive Web sites, will talk about the future of entertainment and art.
Debuting today on the Whitney Museum of American Art's Web site devoted to net art, Artport: Martin Wattenberg's "Idea Line." The piece presents a fan-like chronology of net artworks, including "Agree to Disagree" by Three.org (pictured), arranged by technology and theme in different threads. Each thread corresponds to a particular kind of artwork or type of technology. The brightness of an individual thread reflects the popularity of a certain technology or theme over time.
Margaret Penney, creator of the three year old Web site "Dream 7," is updating her well-respected work of net art by incorporating over 3,000 emails sent by visitors to the site. Called "Dream Log," the upcoming work is a visualization of the emails, which all recount site visitors' dreams. The original "Dream 7" is an attempt, says Penney, to present a dream-like experience on the Internet, navigable by surreal "dream logic."
Ever wanted to take a peak at a stranger's computer desktop? Now you can download a program,"DeskSwap," from the Web that allows you to exchange your desktop for another user's -- well, at least in the form of a screensaver. This program-as-work-of-art takes a snapshot of another user's desktop and then uploads it to the DeskSwap server. Voyeurs will love the fact that all of the shots are candid.
