Olson has served as Editor & Curator at Rhizome, the inaugural curator at Zero1, and Associate Director at SF Camerawork. She's contributed to many major journals & books and this year Cocom Press published Arte Postinternet, a Spanish translation of her texts on Postinternet Art, a movement she framed in 2006. In 2015 LINK Editions will publish a retrospective anthology of over a decade of her writings on contemporary art which have helped establish a vocabulary for the criticism of new media. Meanwhile, she has also curated programs at the Guggenheim, New Museum, SFMOMA, White Columns, Artists Space, and Bitforms Gallery. She has served on Advisory Boards for Ars Electronica, Transmediale, ISEA, the International Academy of Digital Arts & Sciences, Creative Capital, the Getty Foundation, the Rockefeller Foundation, the Kennedy Center, and the Tribeca Film Festival.
Olson studied Fine Art at Goldsmiths, History of Consciousness at UC Santa Cruz, and Rhetoric & Film Studies at UC Berkeley. She has recently been a visiting artist at Yale, SAIC, Oberlin, and VCU; a Visiting Critic at Brown; and Visiting Faculty at Bard College's Milton Avery Graduate School of the Arts and Ox-Bow. She previously taught at NYU's Tisch School of the Arts' new media graduate program (ITP) and was Assistant Professor of New Media at SUNY-Purchase's School of Film & Media Studies. She was recently an Artist-in-Residence at Eyebeam & is currently Visiting Critic at RISD.
RFID video player
The RFID video player is a program that plays videos full screen, the playback is triggered by placing an object containing a tag on the reader.
The software detects the tag and plays the video associated with it.
It's written in perl and runs on mac os x by controlling the VLC video player and it's very easy to make it run with other configurations.
By Massimo Banzi.
Via del.icio.us/rfid
Displacing Identity and Privacy
An Analysis of Jenny Marketou's "Translocal: Camp in my Tent"
Displacing Identity and Privacy: An Analysis of Jenny Marketou's "Translocal: Camp in my Tent" by Amanda Beattie [PDF] [via Sousveillance]
surface to air
rick silva:
new work: surface to air
http://www.flickr.com/photos/surfacetoair/tags/
over 4 thousand surface pics from 4 continents taken over 4 years.
tags /
black / 15 pages / 288 photos /
http://www.flickr.com/photos/surfacetoair/tags/black/
blue / 15 pages / 296 photos /
http://www.flickr.com/photos/surfacetoair/tags/blue/
brown / 34 pages / 680 photos /
http://www.flickr.com/photos/surfacetoair/tags/brown/
gray / 45 pages / 887 photos /
http://www.flickr.com/photos/surfacetoair/tags/gray/
green / 28 pages / 544 photos /
http://www.flickr.com/photos/surfacetoair/tags/green/
orange / 13 pages / 255 photos /
http://www.flickr.com/photos/surfacetoair/tags/orange/
pink / 6 pages / 119 photos /
http://www.flickr.com/photos/surfacetoair/tags/pink/
purple / 4 pages / 66 photos /
http://www.flickr.com/photos/surfacetoair/tags/purple/
red / 17 pages / 321 photos /
http://www.flickr.com/photos/surfacetoair/tags/red/
white / 18 pages / 348 photos /
http://www.flickr.com/photos/surfacetoair/tags/red/
yellow / 16 pages / 301 photos /
http://www.flickr.com/photos/surfacetoair/tags/yellow/
werd,
rick
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Interface Culture (part 2)
Blow, by Taife Smetschka, is a breath-controlled video installation. There's a microphone and a projection of a clip from Billy Wilder’s film *The Seven Year Itch*, the scene in which Marilyn Monroe stands on the grate above the subway ventilation shaft. At first she is stationary, smiling at viewers from the screen. She doesn’t begin moving until she feels a cool breeze. In *blow!* the breeze has to be provided by the installation visitors who must blow as hard as they can into the microphone. Marilyn’s skirt flutters in the breeze as long as the visitor blows into the microphone.
Mika Satomi's Gutsie is a cyber android filled with “guts.
Interface Culture at Ars (part 1)
The Interface Culture at the Linz University of Art was founded last year by Christa Sommerer and Laurent Mignonneau. The programme deals with human-machine interaction to develop innovative interfaces. Went to see their works yesterday.
SoundToy, by Christina Heidecker, Harald Moser and Timm Oliver Wilks, is a 3D environment you navigate as if you were a racing car driver. During the ride you use the steering wheel to create and compose 3D sounds. You place in the space sound objects assigned to electronic beats. The speed, pitch and volume can be individually adjusted using the steering wheel and the accelerating pedal. The composition is generated by the movement and position of the sound objects with respect to one another but also by the route you select.
Recipe Table, by Istvan Lorincz, Hanna Perner-Wilson, Thomas Wagner and Andreas Zingerle, is an interactive workplace built into a kitchen countertop that enable users to intuitively search for recipes. You place the tins and bottle, vegetable and other ingredients and in return the system makes you recipe suggestions. These culinary suggestions are also depicted graphically as finished dishes on the workplace.
