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Internet Delivers People (2008) - Ramsay Stirling

One is tempted to be snarky and claim that it is bit ironic that the internet delivered us to this content, but that would be dismissive of the work and its delightfully sincere, though deeply unimportant, message. There is a strategy at play here - ....

GRRF one of

In an article in PC World Magazine, GRRF (which was an undergraduate class project in Introduction to Computing in the Arts at UCSD in 2004) has been named one of "Ten Great (but Fake) Tech and Science videos" by the author in a feature article by th....

A new video on Simparch Clean Livin'

Paula and I were out at CLUI's Wendover Utah complex this summer working on the Silver Island Bunker Trail and had to chance to visit with Steve Badgett of Simparch (Matthew Lynch being the other Simparchian). There is of course a great deal of ar....

net art example

Every once in a while I run across a project that feels like 1990's net art - in that it is experimental and interested in exploring the network as a medium (in this case a social one) that might be made to express some novelty. (Or, like all good....

A New Art-Historical Period: Networkism

I've always been curious about the assumptive privileging of one abstraction layer over another... What about databasism (after all, the internet is itself - the IP part of TCP-IP = a distributed hierarchical database, as is fundamentally the http....