prosthetic knowledge
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Rhizome: Prosthetic Knowledge Picks: Surveillance Painting
In this submission, three painters whose work replicates the visual grammar of New Media: Enda O’Donoghue, William Betts, and Kon Trubkovich.
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Augenzeichnungen (Eye Drawings)
Created by German artist Jochem Hendricks, a project started in 1992, where the artist would wear a helmet with eye-tracking technology, recording the eye movements and printing the results - from Media Art Net:
Eye-drawings, «Augenzeichnungen», are drawings done directly with the eyes, without the slightest interference of the hands - the organ of perception being turned into the organ of expression. By means of technical aids (infrared-, video-, and computer- techniques) human eye movements are traced and digitized during the visual process of looking at something, so as to be able to do an ink-jet print out of these movements eventually. The body of works called Eye-drawings not only investigates the process of looking at everyday objects in the form of photographs or real three dimensional items, but primarily circles around issues of research and the visualization of abstract motives and processes e.g., time, reading, writing, drawing, light, and afterimage, culminating in the denial of the gaze: nothingness - the invisible is made visible by means of a trace.
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Ricoh Contactless Thermal Rewritable Laser System
New tech from Japan can rewrite labels on shipping containers quickly.
While this may seem boring, it could be a step towards rewritable printer paper, reinventing the medium … besides, it looks very sci-fi … from DigInfo:
The thermal rewritable laser media used in this system has been newly developed by Ricoh. It consists of three layers: a UV-blocking layer, an oxygen-blocking layer, and a recording layer. This medium is highly resistant to fading, so it can be used for at least five years, even in outdoor environments.
More at DigInfo here
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Streaming by 라다운
Art series features noisy depictions of city scenes which are created using coloured electrical wire. Artist’s statement (via Google Translate, with obvious errors):
Everything that I live in an era of rapid change, or any other individuals. Each day of civilization due to its products are coming more and more accelerated way of life is not easy to adapt to.
Why is it so fast and the spirit of human life that is not working on the question of motivation was unraveled. At the heart of these changes invisible ‘flow’ has. ‘Flow’ is the result of using network communications, I think.My work flow of the material invisible wires that connect at the same time the visual material is also an important motif. Such work is growing rapidly in the image of the wire material attached to the phenomenon of modern civilization visually and feels close to gekkeum are shown. Not sure the combination of colors unknown to the modern civilization has brought rapid change and conflict, human insecurity shows the development of the world more communication between people is becoming more active as easy. I called the wire as a medium for audience questions and these times are trying to communicate.
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MIT: Glasses-free 3-D TV looks nearer
MIT Media Lab makes an attempt to see how 3D monitors could be constructed with current available technology. Above is not some new type of glitch art (yet algorithms are used for visual compression) - they are images for several layers which will be played simultaneously to form a moving image with depth. The video embedded below demonstrates their method:
As striking as it is, the illusion of depth now routinely offered by 3-D movies is a paltry facsimile of a true three-dimensional visual experience. In the real world, as you move around an object, your perspective on it changes. But in a movie theater showing a 3-D movie, everyone in the audience has the same, fixed perspective — and has to wear cumbersome glasses, to boot.
Despite impressive recent advances, holographic television, which would present images that vary with varying perspectives, probably remains some distance in the future. But in a new paper featured as a research highlight at this summer’s Siggraph computer-graphics conference, the MIT Media Lab’s Camera Culture group offers a new approach to multiple-perspective, glasses-free 3-D that could prove much more practical in the short term.Interesting read here, which research into the current state of the technology. I wonder how close it is to this piece of tech currently in development?
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Lee Byung Ho
Artist creates sculptural-like works whose subjects age before you, transformed from young to old and back again.
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Art of Bjoern Schuelke
Kinetic installation artist has been producing surveillance drone-like / solar powered pieces well over the last decade:
Björn Schülke pursues a creative style that is equally influenced by modern abstraction and instruments of scientific measurement. The slow deliberate movements in his sculptures spatially consider mass and weight of form. Also influenced by the Dadaist tradition and Jean Tinguely, the theme of an absurd machine is key in Schülke’s work.
Playfully transforming live spatial energy into active responses, his objects experiment with solar panels, infrared surveillance, and propelled wind power. Many of his larger kinetic sculptures combine elements of surveillance technologies, robotics, interactive video and sound.
Schülke’s active sculptures question the way in which we interact with modern technology: on entering the installation site, the audience becomes part of the ‘system’ as the works (some freestanding, others suspended) monitor or react to the human element.You can find out more about the artist at his website here, including video examples and an informative pdf brochure.
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“Pattern recognition is the new form of work which combines into one the roles of hunter, engineer, programmer, researcher, and aesthete.” -
Color Picker by Anders Clausen
Collection of large-scale prints made up of broken up Photoshop tools. Shown as part of the Broadway 1602 exhibition ‘YEAR OF COOPERATION’:
Made on a giant inexact industrial printer (it can turn turn greytones into yellow), and printed onto a form of upvc canvas that could be the hoarding that covered a Doges Palace in scale and durability, Anders Clausen’s ‘Color Picker’ works draw on computer software icons, desktop imagery, emoticons, found imagery and Photoshop toolbars in their variously ‘collaged’ and pristine arrangements. Back to Illich for a moment, and his conviction that he needs to find a framework for evaluating man’s relation to his tools, “Neither a dictatorial proletariat nor a leisure mass can escape the dominion of constantly expanding industrial tools.” And Debord’s earlier notion that being is replaced by ‘having’, which is then replaced by appearing. Clausen asserts a bold relationship with the myriad personal, leisure, business, creative, practical or emotional fragments and essential tools for navigating through the desktop, on which we build our avatars, and acknowledges that they come through pre-existing material, images and texts. Copied and doctored.
More examples of the work exhibited can be found at Contemporary Art Daily here
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1 and Another
Real-world physical pixel art space designed for creative expression and interaction - part of the Life Online exhibition at the National Media Museum, Bradford UK, which looks at the impact of the internet in our lives.
1 and anotheris an artwork by Erin Newell and Phil Bird for the Life Online exhibition [open source] at the National Media Museum, Bradford< UK.
It is an interactive, ever-changing dialogue of imagery. An online user visits this website and creates a picture, by selecting colours and creating a grid-based mosaic with pixels. The pixels correlate to physical blocks in the galley of the National Media Museum to be placed in a 3meter wooden grid. The museum visitor receives a grid reference, selects a block and places it in to a grid. As the image is created in the museum based on its virtual blue-print a web-cam captures the creation and is uploaded back on to this website.
You can create your own pixel art drawing on the website (here) which will be broadcast in the exhibition space. Personally, I have only seen that happen once - people are usually happy to leave their own little mark, or very young children tend to take a load of the blocks off the wall to stack them on the floor.
I did manage to capture the above footage, which demonstrates the potential fun of the exhibit - it’s all broadcast through a webcam during opening times.
You can find out more information about this piece at the 1 and Another site here, and more about the Life Online show here.
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“War is the most horrific, sickening thing mankind can inflict upon itself, fought by and large by uneducated maniacs that have no other place in the world. Videogames have the attention of the youth and can educate as well as entertain. The real horrors need to be made very public to keep the next generation from turning out like us …
… The world needs to be made aware of my kind: the silent majority of fighters, those that do not care about politics, religion, ethics, or anything else other than war for war’s sake.”—
Quote from ‘Call of Apathy: Violent Young Men and Our Place in War’ at medium difficulty, written anonymously by an experienced combat soldier who questions not only the supposed ‘realism’ of modern war games, but the idea of ‘heroism’ in the media compared to his experiences … it is honest and sobering …
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Corrupt.Video
Software for Mac to corrupt and glitch videos on your computer.
You can also create and submit animated GIF files to YouGlitch, a website depository of your creations with this tool.
Announced by glidottcslashh:
as part of the gallery component at last year’s GLI.TC/H we featured an artware project by Martial Geoffre-Rouland and Benjamin Gaulon (aka recyclism) — you can check out the remains from GLI.TC/H Amsterdam here
The Software (Corrupt.Video) allows its users to glitch videos stored on their computer, videos from their webcam or their desktop in realtime. When a clip is recorded, a 10 seconds video and an animated GIF are saved locally and automatically uploaded to uglitch.com
we’re excited to hear that uglitch is out of Beta and now available for the public!
//n!ck.bot
You can see other GIF examples and download the Corrupt.Video software here
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Skaggs: Bullshit & Balls
A short film about media hoax artist Joey Skaggs. Originally produced as a fundraising demo for a long-form documentary.
Joey Skaggs (born 1945) is an American prankster who has organized numerous successful media pranks, hoaxes, and other presentations. He is considered one of the originators of the phenomenon known as culture jamming …
In his youth, Skaggs studied at the High School of Art and Design and School of Visual Arts in New York. Between 1966 and 1968, Skaggs organized crucifixion performances on Easter Sundays.
In 1968, Skaggs noticed that middle-class suburbanites were going on tours of the East Village to observe hippies. Skaggs subsequently organized a sightseeing tour for hippies to observe the suburbs of Queens. On Christmas Day, he created the Vietnamese Christmas Nativity Burning to protest against the Vietnam War.
In 1969, Skaggs tied a 50-foot bra to the front of the U.S. Treasury building on Wall Street, organized a Hells Angels’ wedding procession through the Lower East Side, and made a grotesque Statues of Liberty on 4th of July, again to protest against the Vietnam War.
In 1971, Skaggs bought Earlville Opera House. In the same year, he organized what he called a Fame Exchange during the New York Avant Garde Festival, where he hired a group of admirers to follow him around instead of John Lennon and Yoko Ono. It was a forerunner for his next pranks:
- Cathouse for Dogs (1976): Skaggs published an ad for a dog brothel in The Village Voice and hired actors to present their dogs for the benefit of an ABC news crew. The prank annoyed the ASPCA and the Bureau of Animal Affairs until Skaggs revealed the truth after a subpoena. ABC did not retract the story (the WABC TV producer insisted that Skaggs had said it was a hoax to avoid prosecution), possibly because the piece had been nominated for an Emmy Award. It was subsequently disqualified.
- Celebrity Sperm Bank (1976): Skaggs organized a sperm bank auction in New York; the sperm bank was then robbed and semen was supposedly taken as hostage.
… and the list goes on, which you can see here
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From Cave Paintings to the Internet - Chronological and Thematic Studies on the History of Information and Media
Geeky and Serious? Yes.
But …. it looks like a great resource of articles and information about the history of information documentation, from rock slabs with primitive map information to mobile technology.
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Adam Curtis: Rupert Murdoch - A Portrait of Satan (via douglashaddow)
Rupert Murdoch doesn’t like the BBC
And sometimes the BBC doesn’t seem to like Rupert Murdoch either.
Following the principle that you should know your enemy, the BBC has assiduously recorded the relentless rise of Rupert Murdoch and his assault on the old “decadent” elites of Britain.
And I thought it would be interesting to put up some of the high points.
It is also a good way to examine how far his populist rhetoric is genuine, and how far its is a smokescreen to disguise the interests of another elite.
As a balanced member of the BBC - I leave it to you to decide.
Worth a read.
