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marc garrett:

You are invited to attend the gallery opening of . . . Do It With Others (DIWO): E-Mail-Art from the NetBehaviour List.

HTTP Gallery, London : http://www.http.uk.net Thursday 1st March 7-9pm

Exhibition dates: 2nd March - 1st April Gallery opening hours: Friday - Sunday: 12noon - 5pm

Directions to HTTP Gallery: http://www.http.uk.net/docs/gettingto.shtml

For information about the DIWO co-curating event this Sunday (25th Feb) please see http://www.http.uk.net/DIWOcurating.shtml

The Do It With Others (DIWO) E-Mail-Art exhibition aims to highlight the already thriving imaginations of those who use social networks and digital networks on the Internet as a form of distribution. Just like Mail Art, E-Mail-Art bridges the divide between artists and non artists to share a freely accessible form of distribution.

The Mail Art projects of the 60s, 70s and 80s demonstrated Fluxus artists' common disregard for the distinctions of 'high' and 'low' art and a disdain for what they saw as the elitist gate-keeping of the 'high' art world. They often took the form of themed, 'open calls', in which all submissions were exhibited and catalogued. Mail Art has always been a useful way to bypass curatorial restrictions for those who wish to create active and imaginative exchange on their own terms; this form of activity usually flourishes outside of the gallery system.

This E-Mail-Art exhibition, intends to follow the spirit of past Mail Art endeavours by asking those submitting their works to open themselves to a shared dialogue as part of the process and medium on the NetBehaviour mail list, as a playful platform for experimentation together at the same time.

The theme of this E-Mail-Art project is Do It With Others (DIWO).

This project suggests that we extend the DIY ethos of some early net art and ...

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The Laser Tagging System is the lattest creation of the Graffiti Research Lab. Using a Green Laser, a camera, a projector, and custom-made software, the Laser Tagging System lets its users tag and write on surfaces from a great distance. The custom-made software is created using open source code, and can be downloaded for free together with a thorough description of the other components necessary, and information on how to set up the system.

Citizens of Rotterdam were able to experience the world premiere of the Laser Tagging System at the KPN Telecom Building in Rotterdam from February 7 to February 10.

Check out the video.

Via Interactive Architecture dot org.

Users can write on and tag buildings from a great distance.

The system consists of a Green Laser, a camera, a projector, and custom-made software.

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Best (2006).

Television Pour Internet (2003). Both projects by Claude Closky.

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Interview

"Victoria Vesna (1959, Washington D.C. ) is an artist, a lecturer, and the chair of the Department of Design | Media Arts at UCLA, School of the Arts and Architecture . Her work can be defined as experimental creative research that resides between disciplines and technologies. Since the 80s she has been exploring digital and virtual worlds and the relationship between art and science.

New realities are generated by the meeting among artistic, humanistic and technological disciplines. Victoria Vesna is also the Director of the brand new UCLA Art|Sci Center and of the UC Digital Arts Research Network . She realized 16 personal works, she exposed hundreds of collectives, she published more than 20 researches and she has been participating in various conventions for years. She has an extremely strong and dynamic but also rigorous and creative personality. Her research is mainly aimed at exploring the relationship between art and science in an innovative and appealing way.

[Click-through for interview.]

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So I’ve been doing some YouTube video remixes as sketches for this Turbulence project I have coming up. And I did this ‘Minsk 606′ piece this morning, as a response to Olia’s post over at NastyNets.

I used to run this list called Macrosound, and on the list the Evolution Control Committee once explained how their infamous track, and possibly the first ‘mashup’ ever was a perfect mix, how they took the Herb Alpert & The Tijuana Brass Band track and the Public Enemy acapella and laid one on top of the other without changing tempo or pitch or anything, and it worked like mashup-magic! I had that same kind of magical experience with the Minsk 606 piece today, the YouTube video and the Kid 606 track were exactly the same length and the dancing n beats are almost perfect tempos!

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Read closely, the announcement for the McDonough Museum of Art exhibition, Modeling the Photographic: The End(s) of Photography, is perhaps a bit morbid. The double entendre in the show's title may indeed refer to a looming expiry date for the medium of photography, but moreover, the organizers call the digital image 'photography's doppelganger,' implying that the former is but a ghost-like presence haunting photography, in its last throes of life. In reality, new technologies have always impacted visual representation--photographic or otherwise--and even more than death, embodiment, or ephemerality, this timely exhibition is about that ongoing entanglement. This is a photo show in which 'few, if any of the artists included actually make photographs in the traditional sense of camera and darkroom, [though] all use photography as their reference.' The aim is to suss out the ongoing influence that photography's tools, aesthetics, and models of spectatorship have on the new media that, in turn, impact photography. If this sounds like a tautology, then you're reading closely. Like the show's circuitous premise, the works themselves--by James Welling, Barbara Probst, Fabian Marcaccio, Joseph Nechvatal, Curtis Mitchell, Matthew Buckingham, and Penny Umbrico, and others--evade claims to 'truth' or other benchmarks of clarity, to dive headfirst into the murky phantasmagoria of contemporary practice. Curated by Saul Ostrow, the show will be open February 23-March 23, at this Youngstown State University (Ohio) museum. - Elizabeth Johnston

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MediaScope 2007: An Evening with Takuji Kogo.

Takuji Kogo founded Candy Factory, an alternative Yokohama gallery that operated from 1998 to 2000. He exploits the Internet to explore the meanings of globalization, especially through sites left deserted when the economy of multinational companies fails. Kogo playfully interlaces photography, animation, and sampled music, and he invites the participation of Web denizens. An Evening with Takuji Kogo is part of Out of the Internet, an international festival featuring cultural content emerging from the Asia Pacific regions. The project is realized through MAAP Multimedia Art Asia Pacific. Program approx. 90 min.

Monday, February 26, 8:00. Titus Theater 2.

For more info about Takuji Kogo, please visit Candy Factory.

MediaScope 2007 - Ongoing
Dedicated to experimentation with cinematic form and content, MediaScope presents emerging and recognized artists who discuss their work with the audience. The program explores filmmaking and videomaking, as well as Web-based, installation, and digital art practices. MediaScope is supported by Jennifer McSweeney.

The Museum of Modern Art
(212) 708-9400
11 West 53 Street, between Fifth and Sixth avenues
NY 10019-5497

Images: Candy Factory screenshot, January 26, 2003, and Set for Fox 9 News, February 6, 2003. Photo: Cameron Wittig.

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A small group of plants in a building in New York City is quietly exchanging information. They make phone calls.

Botanicalls allows thirsty plants to place phone calls for human help. When a plant on the botanicalls network needs a lot or a little water, it can call a human and ask for exactly what it needs.

Botanicalls opens a new channel of communication between plants and humans, in an effort to promote successful inter-species cohabitation and understanding. Well of course.

[via The Red Ferret]

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'114 kW' - On entering the installation, museum visitors and passers-by are exposed to the focussed radiant power from a total of 114 kW lighting energy. Illuminance of the installation is 150,000 lux. Illuminance of the sun on a sunny summer day is 100,000 lux. By Siegrun Appelt.

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