Garrett Lynch's Quote Me

Every good artist has at least one quote, aphorism or soundbite attributed to them, yet the new media artist barely has time to keep up with the rapid change of technology let alone spend time thinking of witty aphorisms.
Garrett Lynch's Quote Me is a work, triggered by users to its web page, that reuses quotes and the date they were expressed from various online sources for the busy new media artist who hasn't time. Quotes are relevant comments to current political and social events, both nationally and internationally, taken from the current headlines of a handful of global newspapers via their respective rss / xml feeds, yet placed without context or explanation.
more about the work here

Claude Closky Net Artist

Net art by Claude Closky, I liked Pedagogy, U and his free wallpapers aren't bad either. And he's blogging too.

Conor McGarrigle @ Reno Interdisciplinary Festival of New Media

I'm exhibiting in the 1st Reno Interdisciplinary Festival of New Media at the University of Nevada, Reno until December 15th. RIFNM 06 highlights an international selection of work by graduate and Phd students working with new digital technologies for the creation of art. Artists working in and across disciplines were invited to submit works to be considered for five interrelated events/venues: exhibit, netart, perform, project(full-dome) and present. The resulting festival schedule of events presents a unique opportunity to directly experience innovative work being created by a diversity of emerging artists exploring digital systems for visual and experiential production.

Participating Artists/Affiliations:
-Arthur Elsenaar and Remko Scha, Sheffield Hallam University, United Kingdom
-Gudmundur S. Gunnarsson, Mills College
-Sabrina Berryman, University of Utah
-Margaret Noble and Edyta Stepien, School of the Art Institute of Chicago
-Jolanta A Lapiak, NSCAD, Nova Scotia, Canada
-Martin Machado, San Francisco Art Institute
-Suzanne Yo Martinsen, University of Central Florida
-Pete Froslie, Massachusetts College of Art
-Alejandro Duque, European Graduate School, Switzerland
-Jamie Timms, University of California, Santa Barbara
-Mike Godwin, University of California, Santa Barabara
-Conor McGarrigle, National College of Art & Design Dublin, Ireland
-Stephanie Jeanjean, Graduate Center of CUNY (City University of New York)
-Melissa Grey and Robert Kirkbride, The New School, New York City
-Pamela Kray, The New School, New York City
-So Jung Kwon, Otis School of Art and Design, Los Angeles
-Si Jae Byun, School of Visual Arts, New York City
-Walter Nelson, Griffith University, Australia
-Stephen Cady, University of Illinois, Chicago, School of Art and Design
-Jeanne Jo, Rhode Island School of Art and Design
-Jake Lee High, Massachusetts College of Art

Frieze Art Fair

Kicking off an idiosyncratic series of reports of what caught my eye at the Frieze Art Fair in London which I caught on Saturday. The image is of Alexei Shulgin (of easylife, 386dx fame) & Aristarkh Chernyshov's Medamirror an interactive work with a camera pointing at the viewer and software which then scrambles the image in a variety of ways. It wasn't clear if the software was contained within the frame or whether there was an external computer - though the only visible external cable was for power- all contained in a very slick acrylic/plexiglass type frame. I counted 15 red dots.
More images at my Flickr Frieze Set

Real Time Rome

Real Time Rome is an MIT SENSEable City project which uses aggregated data from mobile phones, buses and taxis in Rome to give real visualisations of the dynamics of the city. Curently on show at the Venice Biennale of Architecture.
via emprye list

Conflux

Conflux is the annual New York festival for contemporary psychogeography, the investigation of everyday urban life through emerging artistic, technological and social practice. It also has lots of very cool projects and is well worth checking out.

John Maeda's advice to students

When you're younger: Do More. Think Less.
When you're older: Do Less. Think More.

via Maeda's simplicity

Google Bono in El Pais

Google Bono was featured in Spanish daily El Pais yesterday in an article about artists working with surveillance cameras.

Google Bono at Media Art Friesland

Google Bono is being exhibited at Media Art Friesland in the Netherlands opening today and continuing until October 1st.

Google Bono at Media Art Friesland

Google Bono is being exhibited at Media Art Friesland in the Netherlands opening today and continuing until October 1st.

The Vending Machine Project

The Fringefest Vending Machine Project launches tomorrow at Crawdaddy 6pm, all are imnvited. The machines will be in the Project Arts Centre, Crawdaddy and Connolly Station and there's a full list of all the works available. Some pretty good stuff there and all for a fiver! Methinks you'll have to move fast to get your hands on some of those. I must mention that my work whereismyart.com - a limited edition of 12 - will be for sale in the Project Arts Centre machine.

GoogleBono at FILE 2006, São Paulo, Brazil

Thge 2006 edition of FILE Electronic Language International Festival opens today in Galeria de Arte do SESI São Paulo, Brazil. I'll be showing the Bono Probability Positioning System version 2 AKA Google Bono. The exhibition continues until September 3rd.

Interview in the Sunday Tribune

While I was gone Eimear McKeith interviewed me about the Net Art Open for The Sunday Tribune and the article (which was excellent) appeared last Sunday (23rd July. I'll scan it and put on the site shortly. The Net Art Open also featured in Italian paper L'Unita and on two of my daily reads Rhizome and Random Magazine. Needless to say traffic to the Net Art Open has been pretty crazy since.

Net Art Open 2006 launched

I'm pleased to announce that the Stunned Net Art Open 2006 launched today. Now in it's fourth edition the Net Art Open takes a different approach to the curation of Net Art online. Rather then present a single event based exhibition selected by a curator or panel of selectors the Net Art Open is an ongoing blog based process which will unfold over the next six months. Curatorial bias has been removed by accepting all work which meets the criteria. The result is a true reflection of the state of Net Art now.

The emphasis in this edition will be bringing the exhibition to the audience, taking account of the changing way people access the net. With so much new work being produced all the time even with the best will in the world it's difficult to keep up so the Net Art Open will be blogged one work at a time with RSS feeds for newsfeed readers and blog aggregators, each entry will be tagged for technorati and del.icio.us and a flickr pool will be created. In addition each entry will feature on the front page of Stunned.

The net art open was started in 2002 by Conor McGarrigle and Arthur X. Doyle as part of the Irish Museum of Modern Art.com intervention, subsequent editions were in 2003 and 2004-5..

Google Bono

Google Bono has been getting a spectacular amount of visitors since it was launched here last Tuesday thanks in no small part to all the sites that have carried it including (but not limited to) u2.com, u2star.com, U2twilight, rhizome.org, googlemapsmania, nitenichiryu.org, random-magazine, turbulence, pajamasmedia and updaters. A big thank you to all these and everyone else who helped spread the word.

The Challenges of Curating Net Art

An International web conference on the challenges of curating Net Art tomorrow the 26th 10-12pm (Dublin +2hours) streaming live from Mobile Studios, Sofia

via networked performance

Google Bono

Stunned is pleased to announce the Bono Probability Positioning System version 2 : Google Bono

We know that for a visitor to Dublin an important attraction is the possibility that they may see U2 frontman and international celebrity Bono.

The Bono Probability Positioning System version 2 Google Bono (beta) is a mashup utilising Dublin's extensive surveillance camera network in conjunction with facial recognition software, Google Maps and advanced probabilty techniques to allow visitors to determine the probability of seeing Bono in any of the most probable locations in Dublin's city centre in real time.

Seoul Net Festival

The 2006 Seoul Net Festival kicked off yesterday with lots of good work including my own project Cyclops which is a finalist in international competition in the webwork category

CORRUPT™

CORRUPT™ by Recyclism, upload an image to get it corrupted.

Dead in Iraq

Joseph DeLappe's (who I've mentioned before) new work Dead in Iraq in which he enters the online US Army recruiting game America's Army using the login "dead-in-iraq" takes no part in the action and proceeds to type the names of dead US soldiers using the game's text messaging system until he is killed. Since he started in March he's entered 250 just another 2200 odd to go.

The Net Art Open

I haven't posted in a while as I've been busy with the Net Art Open among other things. There has been a huge response to the call for entries (in no small part thanks to Rhizome who including it on their front page and in the Digest), from the quality of the work submitted so far this is going to be a really exciting exhibition.
The deadline for the first call is April 20th so there's still plenty of time to get your entry in.

Google maps email traceroute

A very nice Google maps mashup which visualises the route of any email and the Google map builder automates putting a customised Google map on your website.

via coin operated

The Net Art Open 2006 call for entries

I have just launched the 2006 call for entries for the Net Art Open. The Net Art Open is an open submission exhibition for internet based artwork which accepts all valid entries. I first created it with Artie Doyle in 2002 as part of the Irish Museum of Modern Art.com intervention subsequent editions took place in 2003 and 2004-5

Click here for more information on how to participate

Cyclops at FILE São Paulo

My project Cyclops is part of File 2005 (International Festival of Electronic Language) which opens today in São Paulo, Brazil. Unfortunately yours truly is still in rainy Dublin but lots of good work included much of it available through their website.

The return of the Net Art Open

The Net Art Open is back after the summer break with lots of great new work and as always full archives of all previous projects. Subscribe to the RSS feed to keep up to date automatically.

J.demeuzois - K. le ninan : Shadows of Computers

Contagious media showdown

The contagious media showdown winners are announced; 1st was Forget me not Panties, 2nd Crying while eating and 3rd Blogebrity with it's especially cruel A, B and C lists of bloggers full stats and lots more good projects at their site.

Net Art Open on Indymedia

A piece I wrote about the Net Art Open featureed on Indymedia and I'll be interviewed on Dublin local radio station Anna Livia FM 103.8 MHz tomorrow between 12am and 1pm

Net Art Open : The Central City

Stanza : The Central City

A Minima Interview

An interview I did with Pau Waelder while at the Metanarratives conference at Fundacio La Caixa in Barcelona has been published in Spanish art magazine A Minima. In the interview I talk about my work in progress and the advantages and difficulties of working in series and in particular of creating work based on Ulysses, a shortened version of the interview is available online at Furtherfield.

Contagious Media Showdown

Eyebeam's contagious media showdown is now open for voting, includes many classics you've heard of already like crying while eating, ringtone dancer and goodbye bitch

Net Art Open : Bien Commun

David Zérah : Bien Commun

Net Art Open : [ 7sons]

Florian Thalhofer and Mahmoud Hamdy : [ 7 sons ]

The Injunktion Generator

Is there any web-site you wanna take off the web using a highly subversive method?
The Injunktion Generator from ubermorgen.com provides an entertaining public service by automating and making available to the layperson a method for sending baseless legal threats to the corporation or entity of his or her choice, the same way that corporations routinely threaten individuals simply to paralyze them.
Hmmm I can think of a few. But how does it work tell me more..
you auto-generate an "INJUNCTION" [.pdf/.rtf format], a standard court-order, claiming the target-website to operate on an illegal basis. this document will then be sent to the appropriate dns-registrar [dns=domain name service], to the owner of the web-site and possibly to some journalists for legal and public processing. all you have to do is to simply fill out a form and send it off, it will take you not more than 15 minutes. if the web-site is taken down we will inform you via email.

Scream

Scream is a software application to facilitate screaming.
Scream sits quietly in your computer's system tray and automatically springs into action when it detects a scream. Scream can be used in private. Or public. It can be used at home, at work, or on the street; at a Fluxus-style Scream-in; at the mall or at your favorite cafe. When your throat gets tired, Scream can double as an unusual music visualizer - or as a new approach to digital filmmaking. Use Scream to start a meme. Or simply as a random act of deprogramming.

Net Art Open : Atmospherics/Weather Works

Andrea Polli : Atmospherics/Weather Works

Net Art Open : The Prosthetic Component Interface Series

Andrew Bucksbarg : The Prosthetic Component Interface Series

Net Art Open : Hyperthesis Visual Lab

Hyperthesis Visual Lab : Shifting Nature

Net Art Open : Paul Camacho

Paul Camacho : Victor Volume 1

Net Art Open : Conor McGarrigle

Conor McGarrigle : Proteus

Net Art Open : Francesco Michi

Francesco Michi : THEBIGEAR

Net Art Open : Grégoire Zabé

Grégoire Zabé : VIRLAB

Selling digital art

An interesting article about how digital editions are making inroads into the art world and the likely problems that will ensue focusing on the case of Eli Sudbrack aka Assume Vivid Astro Focus. Another hybrid case is Stephen Rumney whose online installations feature a web site as well as a gallery installation, unfortunately they are also terrible.
Still developments of interest to the penniless legions of net artists. Follow the more link to read the details of what exactly the purchaser of the artwork gets.

From his gallery's website

Artist: Stephen Rumney
Size: Scaled to fit exhibition space
Date: 2003
Description: Is-It-Art.com, confronts the viewer with the question that has been raised in response to the avant guarde art movements of the 20th Century. As far back as 1917 when Duchamp, under the pseudonym Richard Mutt, submitted 'Fountain' (a men's urinal signed R.Mutt) to a New York exhibition selection comittee, art critics and the viewing public have raised this question time and time again.

PRODUCTION FEE
The price of the artwork includes a £500 non-marked-up production fee to produce the digital print on canvas. For super-size installations that exceed the base price of production additional production costs are worked out in consultation with the gallery.

Net Art Open : Nick Barker

Nick Barker : Tree Structures

Net Art Open : Joëlle Bitton

Joëlle Bitton : Travelling

Net Art Open : Tamara Lai

Tamara Lai : Web of Lies

Rhizome Net Art news

The Net Art Open got a nice write up in Rhizome's Net Art news and lots of new visitors as a result. Fliker is offline at the moment, as soon as I know what the story is I'll let you know.

Net Art Open : Juliet Davis

Juliet Davis : Pieces of Herself

Net Art Open : Jussi Ängeslevä & Ross Cooper

Jussi Ängeslevä & Ross Cooper : Fliker

Net Art Open : bn™ Gaulon

DIGITAL®E©Y©LING : bn™ Gaulon

Net Art Open : Michael Takeo Magruder

Michael Takeo Magruder : < event >

Net Art Open : Nicolas Clauss

Nicolas Clauss : White Vibes

Net Art Open: John Gerrard

John Gerrard's Slow Death 2003

The Net Art Open 2004

I'm pleased to announce the Stunned Net Art Open This is the third year of the Net Art Open which was previously presented as part of the Irish Museum of Modern Art.com project. Once again we have retained the central concept of the Net Art Open, an exhibition of net art in which every submission is accepted, to provide an exhibition free of curatorial bias which presents a true snapshot of the state of the art today.

In previous years the exhibition was, in some ways, a victim of it's own success with so many entries that it was hard, even with the best will, in the world to see every entry. So this year in recognition of these problems and of the changes in the way people surf the web we have radically changed the format of the exhibition to focus more attention on each individual work. In what we think is an internet first the 2004 Net Art Open exhibition will be blogged, one work at a time, with a new work every three days. RSS feeds will also be published so that viewers can follow the exhibition with newsfeed readers.

The result is the 2004 Stunned Net Art Open, net art from over 70 artists, an exhibition which presents a refreshing snapshot of the strength and diversity of the net art movement today. Enjoy!

Fridges and streets

A fridge is timeless. It hums always the same as it could have hummed yesterday or will hum tomorrow.
A street is defined by time.
Walking around in a city I encounter many different things going on.
Birds are singing, or it is raining, a car or pedestrian is passing,
someone is playing music, a house is being demolished ... things rarely
happen twice.
Ward Weis, Fridges and Streets

The sound of the streets and fridges of Brussels. When I first moved to Brussels I spent a lot of time walking the streets with my camera a great thing to do to get a feel for a city. This site reminded me of that.