Artists M. River and T. Whid formed MTAA in 1996 and soon after began to explore the internet, video, software and sculpture as mediums for their conceptually-based art. The duo’s exhibition history includes group shows and screenings at The New Museum of Contemporary Art, Postmasters Gallery and Artists Space, all in New York City, and at The Getty Research Institute in Los Angeles. In "New Media Art" (Taschen, 2006), authors Mark Tribe and Reena Jana describe MTAA’s "One Year Performance Video (aka samHsiehUpdate)" as “a deftly transparent demonstration of new media’s ability to manipulate our perceptions of time.” The collaboration has earned grants and awards from Creative Capital, Rhizome.org, Eyebeam, New Radio & Performing Arts, Inc. and The Whitney Museum of American Art.
TRACEPLACESPACE
New audio by Cary Peppermint, check it out…
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TRACEPLACESPACE
seven audio works .mp3 - Cary Peppermint 2007
The audio works of TRACEPLACESPACE were formed loosely in response to ever-accelerating technological developments, passing time, urgent ecological issues, and remarkable events of our globally connected system in process long before but brought to the forefront since the latter part of the year 2001. The works of TRACEPLACESPACE are components of a digital, multi-media, network-infused performance of the same title.
I like to perform this work in small community venues, outdoor gatherings, art-spaces, and galleries where everyone is welcome and can sit on the floor, talk to one another, and drink green tea. However I will perform TRACEPLACESPACE approximately anywhere.
Filming Outside the Cinema
I have to admit that I'd not given much thought to film outside the cinema, web film or live video, or anything like that, but I've spent lots of time here hanging out with Peter Horvath and I'm impressed.
Peter makes very beautiful films for the web, and you can check them all out online. Today he showed us The Presence of Absence, which was comissioned for the Whitney Museum's Artport in 2003, and then Tenderly Yours from 2005, which "resituates the personal, casual and ambiguous approach of French new wave cinema in a net art narrative that explores love, loss and memory. The story is recited by a striking and illustrious persona, who moves through the city with her lover. Her willful independence is intoxicating, though her sense of self is ambiguous..." Gorgeous.
Cut Piece - Yoko Ono
Cut Piece (2006, 36.5MB, 9 min)
“Ono had first done the performance in 1964, in Japan,
and again at Carnegie Hall, in New York, in 1965.
Ono sat motionless on the stage after inviting the audience
to come up and cut away her clothing, covering her breasts
at the moment of unbosoming.”
from Bedazzled .
Conglomco Media Network announces http://meta-cc.net live
Conglomco Media Network is pleased to announce the official beta release of the META[CC] video engine at http://meta-cc.net.
META[CC] seeks to create an open forum for real time discussion, commentary, and cross-refrencing of electronic news and televised media. By combining strategies employed in web-based discussion forums, blogs , tele-text subtitling, on-demand video streaming, and search engines, the open captioning format employed by META[CC] will allow users to gain multiple perspectives and resources engaging current events. The system is adaptable for use with any cable or broadcast television network.
We hope that you will take a moment from your viewing time to add the RSS feed of a blog you find noteworthy. As more information sources are supplied to META[CC], the more intelligent the system becomes. As such, the META[CC] search engine is apolitical and influenced only by the news and information sources supplied by its viewers/users. We apologize, but at this time podcasts and vlogs are not supported.
Many thanks for your interest and participation,
The META[CC] team
http://meta-cc.net
Open Call for Sound Works : WILD INFORMATION NETWORK
Cary Peppermint:
WILD INFORMATION NETWORK
The Department of Ecology, Art, and Technology
Open Call for Sound Works In Mp3 Format - Deadline April 1, 2006
http://www.restlessculture.net/deepwoods
If we encountered a pod-cast, or a streaming radio server in the woods, in the “natural
Re: macromedia.microsoft.real.etcetcetc REALLY sucks
other than IE) products, tho their plugins are effected.
Even if you write your own applet or application in **JAVA** and it
is embedded in a web page (like Napier and many others) you are
effected by this.
M$ was just the first to get the summons. If Eolas gets the 500mil
they'll have more than enough dough to slap Mozilla, Apple, Opera and
etc into line so that NO browser is able to load plug-ins or external
objects into a page be they flash, shockwave, quicktime, java or
whatever else.
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Why isn't there a push for a standards-based, open source vector
animation format? like SVG? ask MS. They won't build it into their
browser (but, who knows, maybe now they will, Apple's Safari team is
also considering building SVG rendering right into the browser and
tah dah! no patent problems from eolas).
But, right now, Flash is about 10 billion times easier to use and
author, has tons more features, and is supported by more browsers
than SVG. It is a sad but true fact.
Java is controlled by Sun. Javascript (i believe) is controlled by a
standards body much like XHMTL and etc.
At 13:57 -0400 10/8/03, Eryk Salvaggio wrote:
>Ultimately, when you hand your art to a tool which is controlled by a
>corporation, you have to plan for a relatively fast obsolescence.
>Particularly with the dot com bust and the net.art deflation. In this case,
>artists using shockwave are victims of a lawsuit where one company's greed
>gave way to microsofts thirst for power. Considering that Microsoft has
>always had a thirst for power, it is a surprise that anyone using a software
>that could be remotely considered competitive for market share (or internet
>control) would be shocked by Microsofts desire to annhilate that
>competition. Consider net artists who used the blink tag- their art is at
>the mercy of Netscape, but also at the mercy of Microsoft not annhilating
>netscape.
>
>It's like Godzilla vs Mothra. Giant powers battling for supremacy and Tokyo
>is getting destroyed by the oblivious dumb beasts. Humans send in the law
>but the helicopters get swatted down like flies. And to quote:
>
>Hero: "You must return the egg. I'm sorry, but you'll just have to accept
>it, the real owner is Mothra."
>Villain: "If that's the case, let's see the power of attorney given to you
>by Mothra!"
>
>Can anyone tell me why we are not seeing a massive push for some sort of
>method of vector based animation and interaction being pushed as a standard,
>to ensure stability and longevity in design? Is it because of the corporate
>wish to maintain thier monopoly on software capable of producing this stuff?
>I would, if I were them. But is Javascript and Java proprietary? I am asking
>because I didn't think it was, or at least not in the same way that
>Macromedia Products are.
>
>-e.
>
>
>
>
>----- Original Message -----
>From: "t.whid" <twhid@mteww.com>
>To: <list@rhizome.org>
>Sent: Wednesday, October 08, 2003 10:21 AM
>Subject: RHIZOME_RAW: Re: Re: ms REALLY sucks
>
>
>> Hi Jim,
>>
>> I can't believe that this is all you have to say on the matter.
>>
>> Is it simply not that big of a deal to you? You're being forced to recode
>every page that uses shockwave because of someone's greed. The web is about
>to become much more user unfriendly because of someone's greed.
>>
>> Doesn't that piss you off?
>>
>> It pisses me off, it pisses me off a lot.
>>
>> Everyone seems to be rolling over for this. There isn't much discussion at
>all except Dominey (http://whatdoiknow.org/archives/001254.shtml).
>>
>> Where's the outrage?!
>>
>>
>>
>>
>> Jim Andrews wrote:
>>
>> >
>> > > well not really.
>> > >
>> > > not sure if they suck, or the bastards who sued 'em suck; but it
>> > > looks like it's on the way.
>> > >
>> > > fun, oh, fun.
>> > >
>> > > (first time i've ever found myself siding with MS on an issue.)
>> > >
>> > > http://msdn.microsoft.com/ieupdate/
>> >
>> > Here's a page for those who have created pages using Macromedia
>> > Flash/Shockwave affected by this thing:
>> >
>> > http://macromedia.com/devnet/activecontent/
>> >
>> > ja
>> >
>> >
>> + ti esrever dna ti pilf nwod gniht ym tup
>> -> post: list@rhizome.org
>> -> questions: info@rhizome.org
>> -> subscribe/unsubscribe: http://rhizome.org/preferences/subscribe.rhiz
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</twhid>
Re: M$ REALLY sucks
><http://www.zeldman.com/daily/0903c.shtml#eolasfallout>
>
**warning, technical stuff to follow**
I'm not sure the big Z is correct in his article on this.
He says (from his standards-based perspective, and talking about the
alternative to using javascript to write the <object> tag):
"The other proposed solution is much simpler and less expensive to
implement, but completely invalid: a proprietary attribute is added
to the object element . Because it is easy and inexpensive, many
developers will opt for this proprietary solution. In so doing, they
will unwittingly impede the great march toward valid, accessible,
standards-based design (although this is somewhat mitigated by the
fact that few designers who specialize in embedded media are
especially standards-aware, and few standards-based designers are
especially adept at designing with embedded rich media - Todd Dominey
being an exception)."
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From my reading of M$'s doc:
"If the OBJECT element used to load the control contains PARAM
elements but none of the PARAM elements specify a source of data
external to the current Web page, then the control does not access
remote data.
The OBJECT element for an ActiveX control has a new attribute:
NOEXTERNALDATA. Specify true for this attribute to indicate that the
control does not access remote data and that Internet Explorer should
not prompt the user. If a PARAM element does reference a remote
source of data and you specify true for the NOEXTERNALDATA attribute
of the OBJECT element, the value of that PARAM element is not
provided to the IPersistPropertyBag interface for the control.
The following example shows an OBJECT tag that loads a control
without a prompt from Internet Explorer because the NOEXTERNALDATA
attribute is set to true . The control does not receive the URL
property.
<OBJECT NOEXTERNALDATA="true"
CLASSID="CLSID:6BF52A52-394A-11d3-B153-00C04F79FAA6">
<PARAM
NAME="URL"
VALUE="http://msdn.microsoft.com/workshop/samples/author/dhtml/media/drums.wav"/>
</OBJECT> "
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I conclude that ANY data external to the WEB PAGE won't be loaded.
this 'noexternaldata' thing seems to work hand in hand with using the
base64-encoded data directly in the page.
It doesn't mention SRC param but I conclude that it means that it
won't load any URL or SRC 'coz that means it's data outside of the
actual page. I haven't tested with the new (broken) browser. So
please, if someone has a test machine or doesn't mind installing this
new (broken) ie6 and testing please let us know!
So, after reading docs from Apple and Macromedia which suggest using
the javascript write-around, I conclude that the javascript method IS
THE ONLY WAY TO WORK AROUND the new ie6 limitations. unless you want
to attempt to encode the data directly into the web page, which for
obvious reasons, not many people are going to do.
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</twhid>
Re: Re: ms REALLY sucks
I can't believe that this is all you have to say on the matter.
Is it simply not that big of a deal to you? You're being forced to recode every page that uses shockwave because of someone's greed. The web is about to become much more user unfriendly because of someone's greed.
Doesn't that piss you off?
It pisses me off, it pisses me off a lot.
Everyone seems to be rolling over for this. There isn't much discussion at all except Dominey (http://whatdoiknow.org/archives/001254.shtml).
Where's the outrage?!
Jim Andrews wrote:
>
> > well not really.
> >
> > not sure if they suck, or the bastards who sued 'em suck; but it
> > looks like it's on the way.
> >
> > fun, oh, fun.
> >
> > (first time i've ever found myself siding with MS on an issue.)
> >
> > http://msdn.microsoft.com/ieupdate/
>
> Here's a page for those who have created pages using Macromedia
> Flash/Shockwave affected by this thing:
>
> http://macromedia.com/devnet/activecontent/
>
> ja
>
>
ms REALLY sucks
not sure if they suck, or the bastards who sued 'em suck; but it
looks like it's on the way.
fun, oh, fun.
(first time i've ever found myself siding with MS on an issue.)
http://msdn.microsoft.com/ieupdate/
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http://www.mteww.com
</twhid>
a new interface to exhibit digital art
I've been thinking a lot recently on how to marry net/web/new media
art with more of a friendly interface when exhibited in galleries.
The article above describes an interactive poster which uses new tech
to display video output on a window and have the window act as a
touch-screen.
I can't help but wonder how much more impact works like Napier's
p-Soup (http://www.potatoland.org/p-soup/) and other simple and
lovely aesthetic interfaces would have if ported over to this sort of
display instead of the computer monitors on which they now reside.
Even projects like They Rule (http://www.theyrule.net/) when
exhibited in a physical location could be strengthened by this sort
of display.
The display, being close in size to the viewer, would cause a much
more visceral response imo. Something large interacting to one's
touch is a much more intriguing physical interaction then mousing
about.
And since it's displayed on a window, it even keeps the democratic
nature of net art intact, you don't have to go into the museum to
interact with the work. Folks happening by who have no idea what
net/web/nm art is can see and touch the work.
Also, you could easily exhibit an entire show on one display.
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