Rhizome.org Artwork

IX

2008-11-19T16:23:55+01:00

IX is a magical talisman/cube actively developed by the H3X3N computer witchcraft club since 2007. The cube has the ability to enchant or bewitch computers through a potent but unpredictable combination of hacker exploits, stage magic and cybersexual witchcraft. At the Interactivos? exhibition at the Media Lab Madrid, the first IX cube was constructed across continents by hackers in Chicago and Madrid. The cube was installed in a gallery setting, in front of three computers. Viewers were invited to use the cube to enchant the computers, which were running the three most popular computer operating systems: Windows XP, MacOSX and Ubuntu Linux. In 2008, IX was installed at DEADTECH, an art and technology center and gallery in Chicago, in an expanded and restructured version with additional stage magic flourishes around a high-tech pagan altar. The software that powers the cube's spells was retooled to accommodate any Operating System conceivable, even speculative or fictional ones. IX knows 9 spells: 1. 0N: turns computer on 2. 4W4Y: restarts computer 3. data_disappear: makes data disappear 4. 3T3RN4L_R3TURN: makes data reappear 5. 54W: cuts the operating system in half 6. R881X0R: runs the rabbit virus 7. M461C14NZ_H4T: catches the rabbit virus in the magician's hat 8. T3H_0RD3R_0F_0RD3R: creates order + nonsense 9. CH405_M4J1K: creates chaos + sense These spells materialize in different ways in each installation of IX. For example, the 'ON' spell summoned a variety of ASCII-art porno gods in the Interactivos? installation in 2007; at DEADTECH in 2008 it summoned the H3X3N4T0R, an extra-gendered hypnotist/succubus.

InterceptionExtended

2008-11-19T16:18:27+01:00

The surveillance camera, being used to monitor public space, was hijacked in a city of Ljubljana. On location, where the CCTV camera had been disabled, the author left a mark- the word ???Panopticon???, which pointed to the meaning of the action. Camera and documentation of the intervention were exhibited in a Gallery in Ljubljana after the event. The action was illegal. ???InterceptionExtended??? is a continuation of ???Interception I??? and ???Interception II??? projects.

Google is not the Map

2008-11-19T16:15:00+01:00

"The world is my idea": this is a truth which holds good for everything that lives and knows, though man alone can bring it into reflective and abstract consciousness." Arthur Schopenhauer from "The world as will and representation" Since ancient times cartography has been used to describe the world as a geometric ensemble of measurable points, lines, areas and data-labels on a plane. While the world slowly fades away in an increasingly multiplication of self-representations, the map making process - missing its real reference - becomes nothing more than an empty-meaning abstract practice: so, what do all those maps stand now for? In order to disclose this contradiction - or just to give a paradoxical point of view about it - the imaginary art-group Les Liens Invisibles has explored the world along its self-referential techno-linguistic layers, moving through its hidden mechanisms and forcing the grammar of its public-released API code. Commissioned by LX 2.0 - a project by Lisboa 20 Arte Contemporanea and curated by Luis Silva - Google Is Not The Map (GISNTM) is a collection of over 35 GeoPoeMaps, a series of works in which ordinary maps become the unusual surfaces used to disarticulate the perception of the world, to trace new routes across the boundaries and to draw new imaginary geometries of the possible. About Les Liens Invisibles ^ ^ ^ ^ ^ ^ ^ ^ ^ ^ ^ ^ ^ Les Liens Invisibles (http://www.lesliensinvisibles.org/) is an imaginary art group from Italy. It is comprised of media artists Clemente Pestelli and Gionatan Quintini. Their artworks are based on the invisible links between the infosphere, neural synapsis and real life. Links and routes to nowhere ^ ^ ^ ^ ^ ^ ^ ^ ^ ^ ^ ^ ^ Google is not the map > http://google.isnotthemap.net A map is not the map > http://map.isnotthemap.net (for credits, info and linear maps index) Poetry is not the map > http://poetry.isnotthemap.net (for silly poems about map statements) Press is not the map > http://press.isnotthemap.net (press area) Contact is not the map > http://contact.isnotthemap.net (contact area) Credits ^ ^ ^ ^ A project by Les Liens Invisibles > http://www.lesliensinvisibles.org Commissioned by LX 2.0, a project by Lisboa 20 Arte Contempor??nea > http://www.lisboa20.pt/lx20/

Experimental Philosophy Demo

2008-11-14T19:49:55+01:00

A video demonstration of a classic Experimental Philosophy experiment on "The Concept of Intentional Action" (AKA the "Knobe Effect"). Comedian Eugene Mirman narrates.

A Raiders' Barge Song

2008-11-03T22:57:12+01:00

Looped footage of the melting Nazi face from the end of "Raiders of the Lost Ark" (1981), placed on top of a highly degraded rendering of itself. With audio of the film's theme song slowed and compressed to a barely recognizable tonal experience.

fcp_in_fcp

2008-11-03T22:51:17+01:00

Final Cut Pro animation - infinitely rendering within itself.

Infome Imager Lite

2008-11-03T22:48:49+01:00

The Infome Imager is a software for creating visualizations of the World Wide Web. The software allows the user to create ???crawlers??? (software robots, which could be thought of as automated Web browsers) that gather data from the Web, and it provides methods for visualizing the collected data. Some of the functionality of the Infome Imager software is similar to a search engine such as Google, but with some significant differences. Those differences shifts the software???s functionality from being merely a tool for finding information on the Web to an art project which is generating new understandings of the Web. The Infome Imager crawler collects ???behind the scenes??? data such as the length of a page, when a page was created, what network the page resides on, the colors used in a page and other design elements of a page etc. It scratches on the surface and glances down into the subconscious of the Web in hopes to reveal its inherent structure, in order to create new understandings of its technical, aesthetic and political functionalities.

ElectricityComesFromAnotherPlanet.com

2008-11-03T22:42:41+01:00

ElectricityComesFromAnotherPlanet.com is a website inspired by the movie Tron. A neon landscape, like a childish drawing, where two figures play with a ball. The ball is the sun, the figures are just two perspective lines. From the beginning I wanted this piece to be romantic in an abstract way and a bit hypnotic, like time stands still for a little bit. This piece is interactive and has sound and can be seen on http://www.electricitycomesfromanotherplanet.com

Neverending Happy End -

2008-10-29T17:46:47+01:00

Happy Endings Never End

Buoyxstat / Cryptomaps

2008-10-24T16:04:06+01:00

Tanja Vujinovic: Buoyxstat / Cryptomaps Web-based shockwave work, 2008 http://exstat.org/Bmaps/ Buoyxstat / Cryptomaps are generative, animal-spotting inspired series. They contain various cryptoid species to be discovered, spotted, or generated, ranging from Nessie and Big Foot to Batgels and lost plastic ducks.

Virta-Flaneurazine

2008-10-22T17:39:01+01:00

Virta-Flaneurazine (VF) is a potent programmable mood-changing drug for Second Life (SL). It is identified as part of the Wanderment family of psychotropic drugs because it automatically causes the user to aimlessly roam the distant lands of online 3D worlds. As the prograchemistry takes effect, users find themselves erratically teleporting to random locations, behaving strangely, seeing digephemera and walking or flying in circuitous paths. Many users report the experience allows them to see SL in a renewed light, as somehow reconfigured outside the everyday limitations of a fast growing grid of virtual investment properties. VF derives from a formula which the authors of this study, Dr* JC Freeman and Dr* WD Pappenheimer, synthesized some time ago. The clinical study will include an exhibition that dispenses and evaluates the drug for volunteer subjects. The installation includes a comfortable multi-position mechanical chair, exam area, a waiting room and live SL projection screens for patient and public viewing.

SL Dumpster

2008-10-22T17:32:05+01:00

On Nov.5 15:44:09 2007 we bought 4096 sq.m. of land in Second Life to start a public dumpster. Because it was the best offer for that amount of land, the region we ended up in was called Fearzom.

Jello Time .com

2008-10-15T19:00:38+01:00

Jell Time .com, 2008 Collection of Sebastien de Ganay

The Wrench

2008-10-13T07:20:33+01:00

Primo Levi's The Monkey's Wrench, published in Italian in 1978, is a fictional collection of tales told to a narrator by an itinerant steelworker, Tino Faussone. Faussone's sharply observed accounts of life on the job outline an idiosyncratic philosophy organized by profound individuality and a deeply contingent and physical relationship to the world. The stories reflect on both the meaning of work and the work of narrative. Knifeandfork's The Wrench recasts Levi's work into a mobile phone text-message exchange between participants and a contemporary Tino played by an artificially intelligent agent. Taking place over the course of a week, the dialogue, though reminiscent of an SMS-novel, is not entirely predetermined. Rather, Tino attempts to be convincingly human, and the real-time narrative intertwines the lives of the character and participant through the ubiquitous yet restrictive communication channel of text-messaging. Further, certain interests and events of the character's life are dynamically generated from real-world material via RSS/Atom content feeds. By animating Levi's original text, The Wrench challenges the division between the experience of a fiction and our performance of everyday life. The Wrench is technically realized with Knifeandfork's TXTML, free software for creating interactive SMS applications. The script itself is open-source: participants, should they be so inclined, are able to view, modify, and expand the structure of the narrative.

Elapsed % of my life (Do something)

2008-09-29T19:09:14+01:00

"Do something" is a special progress bar that shows in real time the elapsed percents of my life. The start date is of course my birth day, and the "death" date was estimated using the male life expectancy in France for 1986 (source : La Banque Mondiale). I think this vision of time running is particularly motivating, even though some people may find it depressing.

AMomentOfSilence.tv

2008-09-29T19:03:33+01:00

AMomentOfSilence.tv is a multi-purpose memorial on the internet, commemorating any event that calls for a space of contemplation. Taken from a moment of silence on television which has been stretched and endlessly looped, AMomentOfSilence.tv works as though all moments of silence have been laid end to end, creating an endless memorial.

Moonwalk

2008-09-29T18:41:20+01:00

youtube video, sound, 2'20

suns from flickr

2008-09-24T14:59:38+01:00

This is a project I started when I found 541,795 pictures of sunsets searching the word ???sunset??? on the Flickr site. I took just the suns from these pictures and made snapshot prints of them. I think it's peculiar that the sun, the quintessential life giver, constant in our lives, symbol of enlightenment, spirituality, eternity, all things unreachable and ephemeral, omnipotent provider of optimism and vitamin D??? and so ubiquitously photographed, is now sublimated to the internet, the most virtual of spaces equally infinite but within a closed electrical circuit. Looking into this cool electronic space one finds a virtual window onto the natural world.

This is a project I started when I found 541,795 pictures of sunsets searching the word ?sunset? on the Flickr site. I took just the suns from these pictures and made snapshot prints of them. I think it's peculiar that the sun, the quintessential life giver, constant in our lives, symbol of enlightenment, spirituality, eternity, all things unreachable and ephemeral, omnipotent provider of optimism and vitamin D? and so ubiquitously photographed, is now sublimated to the internet, the most virtual of spaces equally infinite but within a closed electrical circuit. Looking into this cool electronic space one finds a virtual window onto the natural world.

Add-Art

2008-09-23T16:17:34+01:00

Add-Art is a free FireFox add-on which replaces advertising on websites with curated art images. The art shows are updated every two weeks and feature contemporary artists and curators.

Too close to Duchamp's bicycle

2008-09-23T00:41:18+01:00

A poetic declaration about how we got too close to Duchamp's bicycle

Fallow

2008-09-16T03:39:45+01:00

"Fallow" is a collaboration by poet Rebecca Givens and new media artist Monica Ong. Published in Born Magazine, this project interprets contemporary poetry in the form of an online interactive narrative built with original photography, found objects and vintage images.

white noise

2008-09-04T08:33:20+01:00

White noise is a noise- color-composer or a noise- color association interactive game simulator. An experimental approach of adding and subtracting noise-loops, creating color-patterns of noise while possibly splitting up the screen into smaller and smaller squares of color. The challenge is to create a noise free color combination space of peace. the project was featured at the javamuseum

Eavesdropping

2008-09-04T08:28:48+01:00

Eavesdropping is an internet-based, interactive audio system that explores network mediated, musical performance in shared public spaces. In public environments, individuals interact by means of a variety of bodily and auditory cues and gestures. These ambient communication techniques can be directed at specific individuals or may be general expressions of mood meant for anyone who happens to notice. Visitors to public spaces, such as a caf??, seek the passive awareness of others to achieve a sense of connectedness born of shared experience, like the audience in a music venue. This project highlights the exhibitionism and voyeurism in the public sphere by amplifying participants' moods via music and increasing shared experiences to encourage deeper interaction. It aims to develop an environment which increases audience interaction and connectedness in a localized, computer-controlled performance. The system is a client-server architecture made of three components: (1) an audio preparation interface, (2) an interactive performance interface, and (3) a machine learning-based conductor. Musician's have contributed files to represent participants' moods. Participants input their mood during the performance. An artificial conductor mixes an acoustic ecology based on mood data. Participants are encouraged to respond to whether the audio represents the mood they've input. This allows the system to learn from audience response to more accurately represent participants' moods.

RealSnailMail

2008-09-04T08:28:09+01:00

RealSnailMail is the worlds first messaging service to harnesses the potential of diminutive molluscs to deliver email messages. Your message travels at the speed of light to our collection point where it waits..... and waits for a RFID (Radio Frequency Identification) equipped snail to pass by. Once collected your message is lugged around on the back of a snail until such time as it happens by the dispatch centre and is finally forwarded to its recipient. Normally when we communicate by email the physical endeavours of our fingertips are followed by an uninterrupted digital transportation until our thoughts are emitted through the pixels of the recipients screen. RealSnailMail creates a physical and biological interruption to this flow, interrupting for one small moment, our understanding of communication, allowing us to explore notions of time. It may even enable us to take time rather than lose it.

Untitled Landscapes for Portable Media Players

2008-08-27T14:49:06+01:00

???Untitled Landscapes??? disrupts the portable media player experience by infusing them with classical landscapes. However, these landscapes are inverted, shifting, and ever-changing. This work questions the relationship between technology and culture: Is there a way to imagine the natural environment that is neither romanticized nor a source of exploitable resources to drive an ongoing modernization? What happens when technological developments outpace the capacity for culture to respond to them?

Text Trends

2008-08-27T14:36:09+01:00

"Text Trends is a sendup of the ubiquitous line graphs and related information returned by services like Google Trends. The project takes the content generated by these types of X vs. Y search queries and reduces this process to its most essential elements: search terms, frequency mentioned and a timeline. In experiencing the piece, the viewer sits idly and watches animations plot out the ebb and flow (or lack thereof) of a series of search terms over the last four years. This all plays out matter-of-factly with all the passion of a market index or a readerboard. Instead of the infoglut and hyper-interactivity of emerging news mashups and aggregators, Text Trends revels in stark pans across curated comparisons while exploring topics like political figureheads, temporality and politics." Greg J. Smith

SendGoodKarma

2008-08-27T14:32:12+01:00

magine an interactive installation housed in an oversized cedar cookie that delivers fortunes with the simple touch of a button... Enter the realm of the SendGoodKarma ! SendGoodKarma is a web-based public art project that is in need of your help. Send us your innermost secret, or your smarmiest wisecrack, or your private prayer, or your most outlandish prediction - Let your imagination and/or your heart guide you (spontaneously). Your text will be compiled and presented in the art installation in a city near you ! We require that all submissions be original (created by you). All submissions are to remain anonymous and copyrights free. If you leave your email, we will notify you when the over-sized cedar cookie print your text !

Camp La Jolla Military Park

2008-08-27T14:28:42+01:00

Camp La Jolla Military Park is a collection of objects, sites, and events that bring the past and the present together in order to preserve a moment in our ongoing military heritage. Just as museums make the history of war tangible, this project represents the history and current research curriculum of an educational institution that works with the defense industry. This database uses geographic coordinates, creating a relationship to the history of this place in order to understand its current uses. The interface is analogous to a military reconnaissance system, allowing the ability to plot locations on a map, identify and record relationships between participants, and provide keywords to facilitate comprehension. Requiring multiple definitions of each entry encourages the continued questioning and resolution of their relationships.

The Challenge Series

2008-08-19T21:35:12+01:00

This web-based programme monitors Ellie???s progress as she strives towards achieving three momentous challenges over the course of the lifetime. For the first of these, the Trans-Atlantic Challenge, Ellie records and adds together all the lengths she swims weekly at her local pool in the hope of one day having swum the 5,400 kilometre distance from the UK to America.

Tea Blog

2008-08-19T21:34:08+01:00

Tea Blog is an ongoing project by British artist Ellie Harrison, which launched on 1 January 2006. Every time Ellie has a cup of tea (or a different type of hot drink) she notes down the thought which is most on her mind during the first few sips. These thoughts are then uploaded to the Tea Blog at regular intervals. Tea Blog aims to expand indefinitely over the next few years, developing over-time into a vast database of thoughts ??? a diary of day-to-day life via the ritual of tea-drinking.