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In 1999, Young-hae Chang, A Korean artist with a Ph.D. in aesthetics and Marc Voge, an american poet based in Seoul, particpated in a Net art workshop organized by Multimedia Art Asia Pacific, in Brisbane Australia. They focused on Flash, a powerful web animation tool that can take years to master. By the second day, they had learned two of this tool’s basic features: how to make text appear on the screen and how to set an animation to music.

 http://www.yhchang.com/

female extension

June 30th, 2009

EXTENSION, the first net.art competition has been hacked

127 contributions to the world’s first competition for internet art have not been produced by artists but by a computer program.

“280 registrations–two thirds of them are women”, says a press release launched by Kunsthalle Hamburg at 3rd of July, 1997, while the net.art competition EXTENSION still was in progress. The news were picked up and disseminated by several on- and offline magazins and newspapers like ‘Morgenpost’, and ‘Bunte online’.

But the museum as well as the press fell victim to a hack: In fact, 127 of the contributions to the competition do not originate from artists but from a computer program. It was the Hamburg-based net.artist Cornelia Sollfrank who has developed and used the program in order to automatically generate net.art websites. For her intervention to the competition, Sollfrank has invented hundreds of fictitious female net.artists, equipped them with names, addresses, and even functioning e-mail addresses. Then she registered the fresh artists to the competition, and after she had received the passwords to send in the material for the competition, she made use of the computer program which would generate the art. The sent in websites consisted of randomly recombined webpages which a defined serach engine had collected before.

Besides the increased chance of winning one of the prices, the artist tried to take the theme of the competition particularly serious: “Internet as material and object”.

What does the gender model of male/female mean on the net? Is it possible to check if there’s a male or a female person behind an e-mail address? Is the number of virtual identities into which a net.artist can split up limited? FEMALE EXTENSION does ask these and many more questions.

But first of all FEMALE EXTENSION demonstrated that art on the internet can mean much more than just creating websites. It is about picking the technological dispostives of the net as a theme, and working with them as the material of art.

http://artwarez.org/femext/content/publicEN.html


Police Slog Through 40,000 Insipid Party Pics To Find Cause Of Dorm Fire

User-generated posts helped report Indonesian tsunami’s faster than traditional news reporting. Now new media by users help solve college arson case. Gotta love 3 things: technology, college-students and onion news ;)

Guthrie Lonergan

April 9th, 2009

Guthrie Lonergan is an Internet and video artist based in Los Angeles. His work has been exhibited at the New Museum and Artists Space in New York and the Sundance Film Festival, and written about in The Wall Street Journal and Rhizome. He is a co-founder of Nasty Nets Internet Surfing Club.

more work at: http://www.angeloplessas.com/work.html

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