mark cooley
Since 2002
Works in United States of America

ARTBASE (5)
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BIO
Mark Cooley is an interdisciplinary artist interested in exploring the intersections of art, activism and institutional critique in a variety of contexts. Subjects of particular interest are U.S. foreign policy, corporate culture, and the political economy of new technologies. Recently, Mark has focused his attention on food production and consumption and the ways in which artists may mediate in these processes.

http://www.flawedart.net

Invisible-5 Audio Project


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Self-Guided Critical Audio Tour

Invisible-5 is a self-guided critical audio tour along Interstate 5 between San Francisco and Los Angeles. It uses the format of a museum audio tour to guide the listener along the highway landscape. Download the audio files individually or compiled for CD!

Invisible-5 investigates the stories of people and communities fighting for environmental justice along the I-5 corridor, through oral histories, field recordings, found sound, recorded music, and archival audio documents. The project also traces natural, social, and economic histories along the route.

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Mawhrin Skel is youRobot-f(r)iend


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Intelligrnt Drone Lurks About


Mawhrin-Skel is a fictional character - an intelligent drone that, having failed to meet the conditions of its original purpose, is decommissioned and left to wander aimlessly through a near utopian environment where it becomes a social nuisance and prankster. This character - invented by Ian M Banks in his 1989 novel "The Player of Games" - provides an interesting social and cultural entry point into the study of robots as both cultural artifacts and autonomous members of society.

In related workshops at Vancouver BCs Western Front, the artists will customize circuits by altering the language of the controller, adding sculptural components (static and moveable) adding sensor components, and designing behaviours. These objects are intended to sit on window sills, desk corners, over doorways, nailed to a post on the back deck, in the gravel pit in the basement, etc. The wireless Internet connection allows the devices to talk to each other and mingle their conversations on the web. The "eyes" of one machine can influence the actions of another. Keywords can generate furious activity or silence.

Robots typically have industrial applications - wireless mines that can dig their way out of the earth and move to a "better" location, machines that cleanup radioactive waste or other hazardous material, surveillance equipment, toasters, coffee makers, etc. It is unusual to build a robot that doesn't have an overt industrial purpose - it may be decorative, dysfunctional, nailed to a tree and bleeping. It exists purely to raise questions about industrial and technological philosophies and ethics in our society. This project examines ideas of function, autonomy, artificial intelligence and purpose-driven technology.

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Situated software: fiction, action-at-a-distance and dolls


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I would like to share my perspective on 'situated software' in order to introduce some thoughts about its potentiality, where not only people conduct social and cultural modes of exchange but also new ways of engaging with space, time and place are brought about. Here, rather then speaking as a expert, I write as an acknowledged outsider, as a new media artist and performer who has a vested interest in redefining community and self/ves, but whose expertise is not necessarily those of a programmer. I rethink these self-organising meeting and visibility spaces by considering culture and gender in software development. I refer to the /Eclectic Tech Carnival (/etc) and its associated �

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An Image Bank for Everyday Revolutionary Life


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The Siqueiros Image Bank is a collection of over 5000 images from the 20th century collected by Mexican muralist David Alfaro Siqueiros who compiled the photographs as source material and for the use of fellow artists as a means of inspiration and a source of found imagery. As Siqueiros wrote,

Nothing can give the [artist] of today the essential feeling of the modern era's dynamic and subversive elements more than the photographic document.

They are now online via e-flux as a digital image bank to fulfill the artist's wishes.

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A Mis-Guide to Anywhere


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A Travel Guidebook Remapping Public Space

A Mis-Guide To Anywhere is a utopian project for the recasting of a bitter world by disrupted walking. Mis-Guides are the travel documents to your distinationless journeys. Mis-Guidance is a walk in the park.

Anywhere you can walk slowly down the street without being shot at by Western contractors. Anywhere you can reorganise buildings without permission. Anywhere you can stand still without being questioned. Anywhere you can find abandoned beds. Anywhere the movie you always wanted to see is playing. Anywhere you legged it.

Produced by Wrights & Sites, working with the visual artist Tony Waver. [A book] Available from 8 April 2006.

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Discussions (102) Opportunities (8) Events (39) Jobs (2)
OPPORTUNITY

Wanted: Adjunct Professor in Experimental 3D Animation


Deadline:
Sun Nov 15, 2015 18:00

Location:
Fairfax, Virginia
United States of America

Adjunct professor well versed in 3D animation wanted to teach in the New Media Art division of the George Mason School of Art. Position begins spring 2016 semester. Applications due ASAP. Please contact: Mark Cooley at mcooley@gmu.edu for information.


JOB

Experimental Animation Adjunct Professor Wanted


Deadline:
Mon Nov 04, 2013 17:00

Location:
Fairfax, Virginia
United States of America

George Mason University School of Art is now accepting applications for adjunct professors to teach 2D and 3D experimental animation courses for the spring 2014 semester.

Inquiries please email Mark Cooley at mcooley@gmu.edu for more information.

Mark Cooley
New Media Art Program Coordinator
Green Studio Coordinator
School of Art, George Mason University


DISCUSSION

open source software / college new media art programs


Anyone, know of any college new media art programs that focus on using open source software. I'm doing some research.

Thanks,

mark

DISCUSSION

A Lion King Remake


Lion King Remake: A recipe for Hilarity and Disaster (or at least a few good laughs over lunch with a copyright lawyer).

This is what you get when you add:
40 or so severely fatigued freshmen game design students
+ a cruel instructor ready to indulge in his student's childhood dreams (which in this case, are sponsored by the Disney Corporation).
+ a staged classroom battle and eventual consensus over candidates for 'remake' (close competitors included Terminator 2, Harry Potter & LOTR).
+ each student given two 15 second segments of LK to remake.

chaos ensues

http://flawedart.net/courses/lion_king/


JOB

Adjunct Professor New Media Art George Mason University (DC suburbs)


Deadline:
Thu May 31, 2012 12:25

Location:
fairfax, Virginia
United States of America

Greetings,

The New Media Art program in the School of Art at George Mason University is currently accepting C.V.s for potential adjunct professor teaching positions in New Media Art beginning this fall.

Interested individuals please contact Mark Cooley - mcooley@gmu.edu.

Thank you,

Mark Cooley
Associate Professor
Program Coordinator - New Media Art
School of Art
George Mason University
mcooley@gmu.edu