Theme: Meta-question #1: Village Enriching the Urban by Zhang Xinmin (張新民） > Pictures are taken from Liukeung village in Jiangxi province. At the threshold of the 21st century, China, the world’s largest agricultural country was transformed in a sudden into world’s second largest economy unit. he farmers, rural areas and agriculture are undergoing quick destruction. The...
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DaDa Box is an interactive storytelling object for entertaining. It adopts the idea of “Collage” from Dadaism, a cultural movement in 1910s, allows a person to generate stories by a simple tangible action: shaking. When the box is shaken, a story contained inside switches its order randomly by sentence, and starts playing to the listener. Video:...
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The Facebook has been used as a platform for the creation of a system installation that uses online data from the users (such as pictures from their profiles, or online time) and creates a photographic collage in real-time. The system has been programmed in Processing, and it is based on algorithms - that have been created...
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Internet -> Evolution of Man After internet: chaotic, no way to know the whole, deal with complexity Agile development over waterfall : competition of ideas, freedom to participate, innovate and access, build things at lower cost, test ideas network & ecosystem -> not product code is law –> political reproduction “Small pieces loosely joined”...
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Sol LeWitt was an american artist, born in 1928 and died in 2007. He is regarded as a founder of both minimalism and conceptual art. His works from painting to sculpture, expressed the complexity of organic geometric structures through instruction. He used the practice of instruction since his solo exhibition in 1976 (at visual...
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Book review: http://we-make-money-not-art.com/archives/2011/01/web-aesthetics-how-digital-med.php Remix culture: dup, hip-hop, DJ/VJ in music, collage/montage in design, movie, open source code and library in contemporary culture p.100: “Reality itself…is entirely captured…in the world of make believe, in which appearances are not just on the screen through which experience is communicated, but they become the experience. Manuel Castells, The Rise of...
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This post will continue to get update and I would like to log the observations and thinking with examples: Nov, 2011: Remix culture: TV ad & News clip: 潛行仆佳- http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LJQNBa_jl8Y Oct, 2011: Seeking for identity- The thinking of closed and open system that occurs in iphone and android. People starts to look for customized identity...
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Art Against Information: Case Studies in Data Practice (2008) by Mitchell Whitelaw develop a wider potential of data practices… The so-called ‘web 2.0’ paradigm further abstracts web content into feeds, real-time flows of XML data. > Yes as web 2.0 facilitates the exchange, sharing of data, content / data itself converts into feeds that...
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About the book: http://millergallery.cfa.cmu.edu/nasabook/ p.13: “It could further be argued that computational art is directly descended from the “systems” art5 of the 1960s, which was less concerned with material art objects and more with systems and processes.” system art & materials art objects, networked communication change the way on how we look at an art piece, it...
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I was attracted by Aparna Rao’s artwork when I first saw her work in Norway, always come with a sense of humour. That is how they described their work – “a personal exploration of subtle unconscious patterns and limitations that influence our behavioursand relationships; and the applied fiction or imaginative logic that makes them...
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