Rhizome.org Artwork

New Long Calendar.com

2009-06-25T17:57:55+01:00

The new face of the Mayan Long Count Calendar after it is reset in 2012.

Sol Lewitt; Custom Software + Mechanical Turk

2009-06-25T17:57:02+01:00

Custom software recreates a Sol LeWitt drawing. The software also posts instructions on Amazon.com’s Mechanical Turk. Human workers execute the drawings online based on the instructions. The workers are paid 5¢ for each drawing. The software then assembles the Mechanical Turk drawings in a grid. The software drawings and the Mechancial Turk drawings are presented side by side.

Poor @SpumoniNick's Almanack

2009-06-21T18:49:06+01:00

In June of 2009, I was invited to create a month long piece of art on the Brooklyn Museum's @1stfans Twitter feed. I proposed a project that attempted to draw parallels between Twitter, a modern day social networking tool and Benjamin Franklin’s Poor Richard’s Almanack, perhaps the original social networking publication.

Color Field Television

2009-06-21T18:45:30+01:00

Color Field Television randomly generates a unique color field composition at a rate of 12 frames per second.

Why Look at Animals?

2009-06-14T23:17:37+01:00

In this video installation, viewers can capture video images of animals on a furry, handheld animal-shaped screen. The videos were collected from a wide variety of live animal webcams over the course of a year and compiled into a continuously streaming loop. I was inspired by the essay, "Why Look at Animals?" by John Berger, in which he considers how human-animal relations have changed since the 19th century. Berger notes the breakdown of "every tradition which has previously mediated between man and nature". In my installation, I consider a new tradition of mediation that did not exist when the essay was written in 1980. One in which we point our webcams at animals and then use our internet browsers to watch them. Perhaps it is because they look good on camera and merely provide a spectacle for us, but it could also be that animals matter to us and we want to know what they are doing when they are not with us.

Color Field Paintings (Browser)

2009-06-12T20:30:16+01:00

Website visitor generates a series of browser windows, each with a randomly assigned color based upon parameters established for each piece.

when laughter trips at the threshold of the divine

2009-06-01T19:30:37+01:00

Just awarded the 2009 Prix Award of Distinction at Ars Electronica, this pair of everyday automatic sliding doors is a collaboration between Kim Beck and Osman Khan. With allusions to minimalist sculpture (Dan Graham), consumerism (strip mall and super markets) and with a nod to the dichotomy of desire and difficulty that the erection of barriers and fences create, the project suggests a barrier made of typical storefront glass walls. In this case, it is a useless barrier as the doors open automatically when someone walks up or even just around them. It provides instead a moment of pause as one passes over the threshold to view the city skyline across the East River. It was decorated with flags for its Grand Opening.

Hello World! or: How I Learned to Stop Listening and Love the Noise

2009-06-01T18:54:54+01:00

Hello World! is a large-scale audio visual installation comprised of thousands of unique video diaries gathered from the internet. The project is a meditation on the contemporary plight of democratic, participative media and the fundamental human desire to be heard. On one hand, new media technologies like YouTube have enabled new speakers at an alarming rate. On the other hand, no new technologies have emerged that allow us to listen to all of these new public speakers. Each video consists of a single lone individual speaking candidly to a (potentially massive) imagined audience from a private space such as a bedroom, kitchen, or dorm room. The multi-channel sound composition glides between individuals and the group, allowing viewers to listen in on unique speakers or become immersed in the cacophony. Viewers are encouraged to dwell in the space.

Embed

2009-05-17T18:32:16+01:00

"Embed" is a projected loop of potential memory implants filtered through layered scrims. The visual vocabulary of antique photographic methods (from daguerreotypes to darkroom projection) are put in contrast with clinical definitions of light, bringing into focus the method and metaphor of photograph-as-memory.

School of Perpetual Training

2009-05-17T18:31:12+01:00

School of Perpetual Training, an ironic edutainment website, exposes the underbelly and not so glamorous side of the computer video game industry. An animated personal trainer leads eager job seekers through a series of webcam game training exercises for outsourced jobs in digital game manufacturing and global distribution. Classic arcade games such as Dig Dug and Space Invaders are redesigned to train job seekers for positions in mineral mining and printed circuit board assembly. Pushing joystick and mouse aside, the webcam interface utilizes motion detection requiring full range of body motion to play. Through the relationship of physical labor for virtual gain, the reality of the actual physical, labor critical to running virtual worlds is made visible. School of Perpetual Training was created through an Eyebeam Residency and is a 2009 commission of New Radio and Performing Arts, Inc., (aka Ether-Ore) for its Turbulence web site.

ItSpace

2009-03-23T21:16:46+01:00

ItSpace creates a network of pages within the social networking site MySpace. Instead of featuring people, the pages feature everyday household objects. Each page has a photo of the object, a description, and most importantly, a 1-minute piece of music composed of recordings of the object being struck and resonated in various ways. All the pages, or objects, are 'friends' with each other, so that visitors who discover one object may jump to the others by clicking on the 'friends' pictures at the bottom of each page. Visitors are invited to create new ItSpace pages with pieces made from their own household objects and link those in as 'friends' of the original set of objects. They are also invited and encouraged to remix and combine existing objects into new musical compositions. ItSpace is a 2007 commission of New Radio and Performing Arts, Inc., for the Networked_Music_Review. It was made possible with funding from the New York State Music Fund, established by the New York State Attorney General at Rockefeller Philanthropy Advisors.

The Walking Man (phases 1-9)

2009-03-13T22:38:45+01:00

In an effort to ease the friction between the body and the city, the presenter shares the research data of the walking man's urban explorations. A collaboration with Joel Sugerman. (www.joelsugerman.com)

sharedscapes - points of view on landscapes

2009-03-09T15:41:04+01:00

SHAREDSCAPES is an experimental shared space, a platform for creatvity, research and self-expression. It welcomes online submissions of texts, pictures and sounds, which will express your definitions of the concept of landscape. Through the medium of the technological translation of material published online, its secondary aim is to create a 3D space/sculpture in real time. Each deformation of the 3d space surface is specific, linked to the characteristics of the message (date, weight, content...).This will crystalise that material, seeking to bring together computer-generated images, chaotic/generative modelling and a “virtual reality” space. Little by little, a virtual landscape will develop. Its composition will not be subject to the physical constraints of a site (in concrete geographical terms) but to the technological exchanges of human beings virtually connected to each other. It is in the ambiguous relationship between landscape and information that the essence of this project exists.

Mouse Pointer

2009-02-27T21:18:33+01:00

Screen full of mouse pointers. Made in Flash.

Dipylon 2.0

2009-02-27T18:05:13+01:00

The computer program downloads search words that people have been using when searching the Internet for topics related to war. First the words are collected and then a web-program will search for pictures tagged with these words. The words are downloaded to a database and then the program randomly picks three words and searches for pictures that finally become a pattern for a box. The box can then be folded as a box that you may find in i.e. supermarkets. The box is a modern digital version of the vase called Dipylon that was traditionally covered with patterns from narratives, of life in the ancient Greek 760-750 BCE. The pattern often showed warriors, chariots, battle scenes and burial scenes. The computer searches the Internet and finds keywords and pictures related to war . The computer then makes a pattern for a box, a modern version of the Dipylon vase. The information updates and repeats itself with content as a mantra with pictures related to war… The work in itself is a comment on our life where massive amounts of data, information and pictures surround us and how information is updated over and over again and changing all the time. Its also comments on our wars that keep going on and on the fact that we still make images of these wars.

Wikipedia Art

2009-02-27T18:04:07+01:00

A collaborative project initiated with artist Scott Kildall, Wikipedia Art is art composed on Wikipedia, and thus art that anyone can edit. Since the work itself manifests as a conventional Wikipedia page, would-be art editors are required to follow Wikipedia's enforced standards of quality and verifiability; any changes to the art must be published on, and cited from, 'credible' external sources: interviews, blogs, or articles in 'trustworthy' media institutions, which birth and then slowly transform what the work is and does and means simply through their writing and talking about it. Wikipedia Art may start as an intervention, turn into an object, die and be resurrected, etc, through a creative pattern / feedback loop of publish-cite-transform that we call "performative citations." Wikipedia Art has been written about extensively both on- and off-line. This serves the dual purpose of verifying the work - which is considered controversial by those in the Wikipedia community, and occasionally removed from the site - as well as transforming it over time.

manifestation

2009-02-27T17:37:50+01:00

Manifestation is a 20 minutes photography of the paris manifestation, the 29 of january 2009.It's a moving picture where you can see at the same time thousands of people all together and one one by one as they come closer. It's shot with ten hdv cameras then stitched together and broadcast on a totem made with 9 lcd screens.

Piano Etudes

2009-02-10T02:54:05+01:00

Inspired by the tradition of open-form musical scores, I composed each of these four piano etudes as a collection of short musical fragments with links to connect them. In performance, the pianist must use those links to jump from fragment to fragment, creating her own unique version of the composition. The pianist, though, should not have all the fun. So I also developed this web site, where you can create your own version of each etude, download it as an audio file or a printable score, and share it with others. In concert, pianists may make up their own version of each etude, or they may select a version created by a web visitor. I wrote Piano Etudes for Jenny Lin; our collaboration was supported, in part, with a Special Award from the Yvar Mikhashoff Pianist/Composer Commissioning Project. Special thanks to Turbulence for hosting this web site and including it in their spotlight series and to the American Composers Forum’s Encore Program for supporting several live performances of this work. I developed the web site in collaboration with Akito Van Troyer.

every wall drawing #146

2009-01-30T20:36:52+01:00

A machine for making art. Produces randomized versions of LeWitt's Wall Drawing #146. An exercise in pure decisionless conceptual art adhering strictly to LeWitt's concept, as described in Paragraphs on Conceptual Art.

Your life, our movie

2009-01-30T20:35:29+01:00

“Your life, our movie” is an interactive installation that uses flickr.com data base to make an interactive film in real time.

August

2009-01-26T20:21:20+01:00

August got on my mind when I googled for Konart. Have you ever googled your name? Yes, you have. Geographically, most of my returns were located in so called disputed territories. One was in the Carpathian Mountains. The other one was further North. My wife is from there and she is a Kashebe. There are also some Konarts in Western Canada and Argentina. Whoever they are, my favourite "ancestor" is August. He was a baker's apprentice. He lived in Warsaw, Poland, at 1427 Zielna Street, in the mid 18 hundreds. I used to live in the same part of town, right across from the graveyards. We were collecting black elder fruits where the Evangelical, Jewish and Catholic cemeteries joined their edges. The black elder harvests lead to marriage. Recently, it came to me that there were no pictures from the wedding. My mother is still working on our family photo album. Last summer I went to a place she found out about through old documents. It was impossible to read the names on the old tombstones. There were some black elder bushes across the road from the cementary. The fruits needed about two weeks to ripen. The next day, I came back to Toronto. Now it is November, 2008.

Hilbert Kaleidoscope 1

2009-01-21T20:19:53+01:00

This animation explores nonlinearity in the effects of a standard software image-scaling function on source image constructed using an algorithm derived from the construction of the Hilbert Curve. This nonlinear interaction happens because the scaling function uses a Hilbert-Curve-based algorithm to select a sample of points in the source image from which to create the scaled-down version.

Downloading Pixels

2009-01-21T20:06:41+01:00

This net art piece captures the flow of downloading images onto your computer. This animation will look different depending on what web browser you are using. If you are using Firefox try viewing this in Explorer or on an iPhone. Internet connection speed and computer processing power will also determine the final the outcome. Experiment with the different settings and unusual patterns will emerge.

Thingship

2009-01-09T21:18:33+01:00

(about) Auto-poetic, photography-based means of contemplation. Work is ongoing since April 2008. Thingship is part of live performances of the pataphysical band Vedette (Still Rec.)

man wit webcam

2008-12-28T19:44:08+01:00

Inspired by Lev Kuleshov's film editing experiment in which he spliced footage of an expressionless man with other, presumably emotive vignettes. Audiences believed that the man's expression changed when he "saw" the edited vignettes- although his expression stayed the same. It is believed that the viewers relate their own feelings to the images and then attribute it to the actor. This is called the "Kuleshov Effect." "man wit web cam" examines the Kuleshov effect as it relates to internet video, webcam aesthetics, and memes.

Wayward Dream

2008-12-28T19:38:53+01:00

Wayard-Dream is an interactive Installation, developed from Internet-sourced material. It fictionalizes the participant's display field, invites them to share their dreams. People may freely fictionalize in this space, share their dream with individual dreamland content they create. They create from the index, and remix their creation, and then it can be released back into the program. In the bodily space, the body constructs a phantom that affects the participant's body. Who is dreaming? The user, or the internet itself? In a certain way, both. The program generates a personal moving picture, unique, unpredictable, and forever gone when it is finished, just like dreams. But that dream is made out of pieces taken form the subconscious of the whole net, gathered by some words of the user and the obscure logic of searching algorithms. The work presents a constructed model of an ever-changing cityscape underscored by electronic music. Participants are invited to alter certain parameters within the model city by changing and controlling the shape of Wayward-Dream's music. The model’s outline, texture, color, and movement directly influence the type of sounds used in the music. They are mixed with sounds of the city of. The model interface plays with the idea of how a landscape and sound are directly related. More Information Please check on URL:

Cody on Cage on Joyce

2008-12-28T19:07:55+01:00

This is a writing through a writing of a text that is largely considered unreadable. This text is a random regeneration of John Cage’s Fourth Writing through Finnegans Wake. To create the original text, Cage applied a system of complex rules to James Joyce’s seminal text, Finnegans Wake, to write a series of mesostics spelling “JAMES JOYCE” repeatedly down the page in capital letters. (A mesostic is a poem where a vertical phrase intersects lines of horizontal text). Cage used the same concepts of chance operations and systems based production that he applied to his music compositions, creating a writing free of intention.

Kill that cat

2008-12-17T21:43:46+01:00

The page is the shaking mouth of a frightened cat. The button tricks the user into committing an act of violence.

Not Valid

2008-12-17T21:41:39+01:00

"Not Valid" is an ongoing experiment concerning the interpretation of invalid html. The work itself seems to be a series of words in a variety of colors, though each word has been assigned the color value of itself. For example, the html tells the browser that the word "freedom" should also be the color "freedom." The browser then chooses what color "freedom" should be. Different browsers will interpret "Not Valid" in a different manner.

simple mouse position predictor with centipede parts

2008-12-17T21:41:13+01:00

splash!