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.
Network organism
The city of Trondheim (Norway) is building a school to house more than a thousand laptop wielding students. Lars Paalgaard and Even E. Westvang from the Bengler Collective have produced an art piece for their network.
Nomen Nominandum, an organism that can live and grow for several years, floats around on the school network. If you call for it by voice or mouse movement it may come to your machine. If you play with it in the right way it will stay until it gets bored. At night, it sleeps curled up on its secluded plasma screen. It has real-time moods, sleeps in on Mondays and may decide to go away for a month in January. Its growth is very slow and as with living things you may never see it grow, but rather remember that it looked completely different some years ago.
Quicktime 5Mb of the animal in action. Video presenting the work.
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Schizoid Arts
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OneWordMovie
Collective Unconscious
Beat Brogle and Philppe Zimmermans's One Word Movie is an online platform which organizes, based on user-supplied terms, the flood of images on the internet into an animated film. A word turns into images, images turn into a movie. This project plays with the tension between online and cinematic approaches to images. What images are associated with what words? One Word Movie reveals a glimpse into the collective psychology of online cultures by showing patterns of word image associations, as created by millions of people around the world.
Using a specially programmed search engine, users can call up images from the Internet which match their search term. The project's search engine is built on top of the most popular image search facilities available on the Internet (e.g. Google). Supplied with a search term, the engine produces first a «hit list». This list can be several thousand images long, depending on the term. The images on this «hit list» provide the «raw material» for the movie . Following the ranking on the «hit list», the images are animated into a film in real-time, following a fixed and predetermined score, which consists of a series of interwoven loops. Each film has an individual trailer, displaying the search term as the title and each film lasts until the «raw material» is used up.
Hexstatic - Deadly Media
Hexstatic - Deadly Media (Windows Media) [sputnik7]
Hexstatic - Deadly Media (QuickTime) [Cookiecrook]
Hexstatic - Deadly Media (Update) (QuickTime) [Hexstatic]
Third and last of three clips this week that visualize multiple tracks in music. Hexstatic are a UK audiovisual duo who have produced many fun videos for themselves and Coldcut among others. Their expertise is in visualizing songs based (often entirely) on samples, using separate video tracks to represent each sample and layer. Usually, the videos reveal the origin of each sample or a close substitute. For example, a buzzing noise is represented by a clip of a buzzsaw cutting through a tree, and each time that noise appears on the track, so does the clip. [more....]
OOG --- http://www.volkskrant.com/oog
Jody Zellen:
OOG --- http://www.volkskrant.com/oog
In the beginning of September the newspaper Volkskrant started Oog (Eye) an online platform where artists in sound and image are asked to respond to news and current affairs. The Volkskrant is one of Hollands most important national newspapers. Its on-line edition has more than 100.000 visitors a day andOog will be a separate page of the online edition. A small editorial team headed by Nanette Hoogslag for the online version of the Dutch national newspaper Ode Volkskrant to develop Oog (Eye) a new kind of online platform in which international artists in sound and image are asked to respond, on a regular basis, to news and current affairs.
Central to the concept is the fact that each contribution is the result of the individual perspective that each artist will bring to current affairs,as well as the use of online media and the interaction with the visitor/reader of the Volkskrant on-line. It is open to artists contributing to Oog in a variety of ways, ranging from individual images through to serialised sets of sound, moving and interactive pieces.
The artist that are selected are a diverse group of known applied and fine artists from the Netherlands and abroad. Oog will be announced on the front page of the on-line edition as well as in the print edition of the Volkskrant. Each contribution will be displayed prominently for a week and will remain accessible in the Oog-archive. Contributers include: Han Hoogerbrugge, 178 Aardige Ontwerpers Jody Zellen
