Christiane Paul:

The Battle of Algiers
by Marc Lafia and Fang-Yu Lin
launched March 1, 06
artport, the Whitney Museum's portal to Internet art
http://artport.whitney.org
http://artport.whitney.org/commissions/battleofalgiers/BattleofAlgiers.shtml

This work recomposes scenes from the 1965 film "The Battle of Algiers" by Italian director Gillo Pontecorvo. The original film is a reenactment of the Algerian nationalist struggle leading to independence from France in 1962. The success of the actual battle for independence has been attributed to the nationalists' organization: a pyramidal structure of self-organized cells. For their project, Lafia and Lin recomposed the film along a cell-based structure, in which French Authority and the Algerian Nationalist cells are represented by stills from the film and move according to different rulesets. When cells of different camps intersect, they trigger video cells displaying each side's tactics (as depicted in the film) according to the rules of the system.

Accompanied by an essay by Daniel Coffeen: "Film, Play, Power and the Computational, or Byting Celluloid: On Marc Lafia's and Fang-Yu Lin's 'The Battle of Algiers'"

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"The Battle of Algiers" is the second in a series of three works co-commissioned in collaboration with Tate Online. See http://artport.whitney.org/commissions/new_commissions.shtml

Critical texts and video interviews with the artists will accompany the works at http://www.tate.org.uk/netart/
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The projects presented at Afterimage use the "bleaching" phenomenon as an interaction process. Our retinas have photoreceptors that change when struck by light. Under normal light levels the pigments in the photoreceptors are not drastically affected and recover in a short time. However, prolonged exposure to a light source bleaches these pigments to a point where they are unable to respond to any other change of light for several seconds. In this short time we experience the image as if it was printed on our retinas. This optical illusion is known as an afterimage. During this time, wherever we cast our gaze, this image will appear.

In Mind Frame, the audience discovers and recreates images in empty picture frames.

"The visitor is invited to hang any of five frames on a wall. In each, they see an abstract moving image composed of white dots. After the array of dots stops moving, an afterimage of a familiar painting is revealed in the otherwise blank frame. The moving dots create a more complex afterimage,

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First M, now Metropolis, one of Fritz Lang's other masterpieces, is available for download on Internet Archive.

As Bibi says, other formats are available at the Public Domain Movies. Related: Metropolis poster fetches record.

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A Guantanamo Bay walkthrough from Zone Interdite an art project by Christoph Wachter and Mathias Jud which gives an interactive global survey of military restricted areas.
via WMMNA

Posted to Art

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zanni.org:

MAXXI Museum, Rome

http://www.maxximuseo.org

The fourth installment of NetWebArt / Net Archives: Art and Virtual Identities
curated by Eleonora De Filippis and Elena Giulia Rossi
opens on the 23rd of February.

Invited artists are:

-1.Juliet Davis, Pieces of Herself, 2004
http://www.julietdavis.com/studio/piecesofherself/

-2. Reinhald Drouhin, Des Fleur, 2003
http://www.incident.net/works/desfleurs/desfleurs.html

-3. Cristopher Joseph, Inanimate Alice, 2005
http://www.inanimatealice.com

-4.Glenn Ligon, Annotations, , a project commissioned by Dia Art
Foundation for its series of artists' web projects ,2003
http://www.diacenter.org/ligon/

-5. C.J.Yeh, My Data My Mondrian, 2004
http://www.cjny.com/mydata/

-6. Carlo Zanni, 4 Untitled Portraits, Net Art Commission of
Kunstznetnrw.de, 2003-2004
http://www.zanni.org/4untitled/

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