An Introduction to Net Art
Prof. Dr. Trebor Scholz, The New School
Artist as Curator
Artist as Educator
Artist as Writer
Artist as Facilitator
The model of the well-informed expert advances to that of the cultural editor who channels the perspectives of other cultural producers.
Today, artists can generate platforms such as mailing lists, and websites. They can independently organize exhibitions to circulate their ideas and set up platforms from which they can interact with an audience.
The
Participatory
Turn
in
Media
Art
performance tool maker context provider
user/producer
participant
user/customizer
conceptual
consumer
1980s
1990s
2004
2006
20012
Cultural Context Providers
People interact with networked computer systems and artifacts evolve out of experimental relationships between several people.
Participation
Marcel
Duchamp:
a
work
is
made
entirely
by
those
who
look
at
it
or
read
it
and
who
make
it
survive
by
their
accolades
or
even
their
condemnation.
Marcel Duchamp in a letter of 1956 to Jean Mayoux (published in his book La Libert une et divisible: Textes critiques et politiques, Ussel, 1979).
(1952)
The Postmans Choice, by Ben Vautier, 1967. Its a double-sided postcard. You put a different address on each side - and it instructs the postman to choose where to deliver it.
Kit Galloway and Sherrie Rabinowitz, Electronic Caf devised for the 1984 for Olympic Games in Los Angeles
Les
Immateriaux
by
J.
Lytoard
and
Chapot
(1985)
http://www.medienkunstnetz.de/exhibitions/lesimmateriaux/
1993
Net Art 1994-1999
http://bookchin.net/history.html
http://www.irational.org/cybercafe/xrel.html
http://waxweb.org/
http://adaweb.walkerart.org/home.shtml
http://www.diacenter.org/km/index.html
http://text.jodi.org/
http://text.jodi.org/
http://name.space.xs2.net/
http://www.irational.org/heath/skint/
http://www.teleportacia.org/war/wara.htm
http://www.irational.org/tm/desktop.gif
http://rtmark.com/
gatt.org
http://scream.deprogramming.us/
http://scream.deprogramming.us/media/bushscreams2avi.mpg
http://www.thing.net/~rdom/ecd/oodnet.html
http://www.potatoland.org/riot/
http://theyrule.net/
From Art on Networks to Art on Platforms
by Olga Goriunova, Alexei Shulgin
What is a platform? [S]omething in between a content management system, online web site, library, and a club ... A platform is a website organized in a special way: as a relatively simple database with artefacts, or a more complex portal built around the database. -Runme.org -Udaff.com (self-identied counter-cultural writing) -Micromusic.net
The 1990s were dominated by art on networks and celebration of communication via internet, 2000-s are marked by the development of platform-based art trends and cultural currents. -From Art on Networks to Art on Platforms by Olga Goriunova, Alexei Shulgin
www.micromusic.net
13.000 registered users
ca se
stu dy
50.000 visitors a day, 700.000 pages
Runme.org is a software art repository, launched in January 2003. It is an open, moderated database to which people are welcome to submit projects they consider to be interesting examples of software art. Software art is an intersection of two almost non-overlapping realms: software and art.
Conceptual Art and the Social Web
ca se
stu dy
User-Generated Fiction on Amazon.com
Kevin Killian: 1525 reviews (as of January 7th, 2006) He reviews everything from sweet potato baby food, Pasternak's lm Doctor Zhivago, Michael Kors khaki shorts, and The Black & Decker Crossre Auto Level Laser, to Giorgio Agamben's book State of Emergency. These are the reviews of Kevin Killian who is a San Francisco-based poet, novelist, critic, and playwright. His texts are not really reviews. They are autobiographical pieces of ction. Killian uses Amazon.com as a platform for his writing practice- a place with an immediate broad readership.
Killian's review of a 14K ruby necklace
"As an American boy growing up in France, I became mesmerized by an enchanting painting of an ancestor that hung never very far from the hearth. The painting, smudged by smoke and damaged by Vichy occupation of the chateau, showed a very thin and angular woman, her face like something reected in the bowl of a spoon, festooned in bright stones that gleamed out still bright after the passage of many decades. "Who is this woman," I used to wonder out loud, until one evening, as my grandmother passed through the room looking for our vanished cat, "Gateau," I noticed that she wore the same diamond and ruby necklace as the ancestor in the old damaged painting. I persuaded my grandmother to sit down and forget about her eternal hunt for a cat who had died long before I was born, when she was still a young woman not even married to my grandpapa yet, and to tell me about the necklace she wore. She took my little hands in hers and, in a low, breathy whisper, told me how she had stumbled across these precious stones in a valise once. Amazon's 14K Ruby and Diamond "Dynasty" necklace looks like a lot like my family jewels; the resemblance is shocking enough to have made me drop my cocoa while leang through the jewel pages this morning in an attempt to bring back, madeleine-style, the vanished days of yesteryear."
http://chrisbarr.net/art/available-on-thursday
http://www.chrisbarr.net/art/interruptions
http://yeslab.org/project/coal-cares-scholastic
http://www.ikatun.com/institute/innitelysmallthings/
2004
-
present.
Performances
of
corporate
commands
(ads
in
the
imperative)
where
they
occur
in
the
urban
landscape.
We
try
to
perform
each
command
as
literally
as
possible.
There
have
been
more
than
15
performances
of
corporate
commands
in
the
U.S.
and
Canada
in
public
and
private
urban
spaces.
Delocator.net is an online database project that creates a comparison between the amounts of local independently owned cafes and Starbucks retail stores within a specic zip code. By comparison of numeric quantity and site-specic detail, the user will see evidence of unchecked aggression and power that corporate businesses have in our communities. The site is also a free online space for independent cafe goers and owners to promote their cafes by uploading local cafe information to the Delocator.net database. The creation of other delocated database-driven web sites is encouraged. On the Delocator web site, users are able to download the code necessary to establish a new database, prompting more sites and databases that may focus on other specic retail stores. Delocator.net was launched with the intention of becoming a web-meme, sprouting many future de-located corporate stores. This project is a collaboration between the collective Finishing School and programmer Vasna Sdoeung.
http://www.rhizome.org/object.php?o=33376&m=1017283
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notions of truth on Wikipedia
h"p://www.wikipediaart.org
http://wikipediaart.org/wiki/index.php?title=Wikipedia_Art Deletion Review http://wikipediaart.org/wiki/index.php?title=Deletion_review
http://wikipediaart.org/wiki/index.php?title=Wikipedia_Art_(resurrected)
http://www.popularitydialer.com/
Terms
&
Conditions
are
often
written
for
legal
regulations
but
they
are
never
read
by
consumers,
as
a
result
consumers
are
often
exploited
by
agreeing
on
these
unreadable
terms.
You
know
the
I
agree
phenomenon.
In
this
piece,
terms
&
conditions
of
Wive
social
web
services
are
re-written
using
a
custom
typeface.
The
resulting
images
are
generated
by
three
processes:
me
typing
the
words,
the
program
deciding
on
the
size
of
each
letter
each
time
I
hit
the
key,
and
the
instructions
for
the
font...
Burak
Arikan
http://meta-markets.com/
Burak Airkan's Meta Markets http://meta-markets.com/
Online stock market for trading socially networked creative products. Trade shares of social web assets from online bookmarking, social networking, photo and video sharing services. IPO your own social web work.
Distributed Creativity, Purposeless Creative Activity, Networked Folk Art?
http://www.deviantart.com/
http://wiki.cs.princeton.edu/index.php/So%2C_you_want_to_start_a_laptop_orchestra%3F
Anonymous
(used
as
a
mass
noun)
is
an
Internet
meme
that
originated
in
2003
on
the
imageboard
4chan,
representing
the
concept
of
many
online
and
ofWline
community
users
simultaneously
existing
as
an
anarchic,
digitized
global
brain.
It
is
also
generally
considered
to
be
a
blanket
term
for
members
of
certain
Internet
subcultures,
a
way
to
refer
to
the
actions
of
people
in
an
environment
where
their
actual
identities
are
not
known.
(Wikipedia)
Trebor
Scholz
scholzt@newschool.edu
Twitter: @trebors
