The Tenth Sentiment, Ryota Kuwakubo
A model train equipped with a light source slowly navigates through various household objects lined on the floor, and projects their shadows. Dancing on the walls, floor, and ceiling of the room, the shadows of the objects keep changing like a landscape seen through the carriage windows, surrounding viewers with images as if they were passengers riding on the train. By exposing them to a repetition of conflicting experiences—immersion and bird’s eye view, déjà vu and jamais vu—this work sharpens audiences’ senses and inspires them to share impressions.
http://www.firstpersontetris.com/
A classic game remake with an interesting twist. The act of rotating a block rotates the entire screen, shifting your perspective 90 degrees and adding a new dimension of challenge to the 1984 puzzler by Russian engineer Alexey Pajitnov.
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2006, Charlie Gere
http://www.tate.org.uk/intermediaart/entry15617.shtm
An excellent paper addressing Net art’s awkward relationship with museums and galleries.
Charlie Gere is a new media theorist and historian, and Director of the Institute for Cultural Research at Lancaster University.
Gere’s main research interest is in the cultural effects and meanings of technology and media, particularly in relation to art and philosophy.
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YouTomb
“YouTomb is a research project by MIT Free Culture that tracks videos taken down from YouTube for alleged copyright violation.
More specifically, YouTomb continually monitors the most popular videos on YouTube for copyright-related takedowns. Any information available in the metadata is retained, including who issued the complaint and how long the video was up before takedown. The goal of the project is to identify how YouTube recognizes potential copyright violations as well as to aggregate mistakes made by the algorithm.”
Imaginary Futures
“Richard Barbrook’s Imaginary Futures, challenges new generations to take the power of the Internet into their own hands, to resist status quo politics and to use the world’s most powerful political tool to shape their own, better, destiny. His message: if we don’t want the future to be what it used to be, we must invent our own, improved and truly revolutionary future.”
http://www.imaginaryfutures.net/
Interview at http://www.archive.org/details/FutureArchive_richardb
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