mark cooley
Since 2002
Works in United States of America

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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

DemKino


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virtual biopolitical agora

DemoKino is an anti-entertainment interactive movie that develops according to your vote; a virtual parliament that through topical film parables provides the voters (participants) with the opportunity to decide on issues that are, paradoxically, becoming the essence of modern politics: the questions of life.

The project questions not only the utopia of contemporary virtual forum that is supposed to open ways for a more direct and influential participation but also points out a much deeper problem of modern democracy (virtual as well).

With its reduced narrativeness - the story is built on the "pro and contra" inner dialogues of the protagonist who is led around his home in a parliamentary kind of way by the "voters", based on their decisions - Demokino shows how these ethical dilemmas of modern life suddenly become the core of our political participation.

Developed by Aksioma Institute for Contemporary Arts, a cultural instiution exploring social, political, aesthetic and ethical concerns through artistic production using new technologies.

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tax infographic


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a large & detailed visual chart of 'where the US tax dollars go'.
[deviantart.com|via boingboing.net]

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Do-it-yourself video mashups


The Associated Press has this terrific article outling the state of visual remixes: Do-it-yourself mashups like a digital blender.

Tom Cruise zaps Oprah Winfrey with the Dark Side of the Force. Bert and Ernie pose as poster boys for gay cowboy love. Sweet, white-haired Mary Worth belts out Black Eyed Peas song lyrics: ``I'm a make, make, make you scream!''

Entertainment from a parallel universe?

Not exactly.

They're alterations of familiar pictures and videos posted on the Web. Artists, often anonymous, snag the images then mix them in a digital blender to create something new -- usually something dripping with irony. The Cruise clip from ``The Oprah Winfrey Show'' was married with ``Star Wars'' effects, Muppet heads were grafted on to the ``Brokeback Mountain'' poster and word balloons from comic strip's Mary Worth were scrubbed and funked up.

They're often called mashups, just like the do-it-yourself songs that combine tracks from separate tunes. And like song mashups, visual remixes are spreading like viruses around Web sites and blogs, those increasingly popular personal online journals.

With software making it easy to slice, dice and subvert everything from movie clips to comic strips, the unauthorized visual remixes could become a significant movement in digital art, a copyright lawyer's worst nightmare or both.

``We're at the start of an age when anyone can produce a short/joke/remix/recut and get it online and out to millions, all within the space of one day sitting at their personal computer,'' said Demis Lyall-Wilson, who created a popular mashup movie trailer recasting ``Sleepless in Seattle'' as a stalker film.

``You just have to submit your link to the right blogs.''

But media executives are not amused. Entertainment companies zealously fight to protect their characters' images -- be it Disney lobbying to ...

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Emailerosion


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Corroding Materials and Boundaries

A biodegradable sculpture, available to anyone who wants to contribute to shape it remotely. That's how Emailerosion looks. It's a installation conceived and built together by Ethan Ham, a sculptor, and Tony Muilemburg, a robotic designer. The sculpture is real, consists of a big block of soap, and it'll be exhibited in the Portland Art Institute's Gallery. But if you want to enjoy it, you have to be in the virtual territory. Sure enough you can shape its form simply sending a mail to a specific address. Depending on the mail content the sculpture, whose image is streamed online, will vary its position and will rotate, or it'll get a splash, that'll erode a part of it. Moreover, thanks to the online archive it's possible to search all the modifications occurred during time, that led to the latest configuration.

The work, even if it exists physically whatever the individual does, enlivens, lives and evolves as the time passes thanks to the individual actions. From being a simple spectator he becomes a co-author, becoming part of a dynamism and mutation poetics. This metamorphic ability materializes in the possibility of producing sensible modifications through virtual instruments, becoming central in the work's existence. It constitutes the innovative core, corroding some of the art privileges, as the 'unicum' and the 'absolute'. It reduces the ideological distance amongst the work of art, the observer and the environmental context, starting to connect this poles through poetics and technological resources. [posted on NEURAL]

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email content visualization


themail.jpgan impressive data visualization technique that portrays relationships using the interaction histories preserved in email archives. using the content of exchanged messages, 'themail' displays the key words that characterize one

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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