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BIO
Rob Myers is an artist and hacker based in the UK.
I have been creating images of the contemporary social and cultural environment through programming, design software and visual remixing since the early 1990s. My work is influenced by popular culture and high art in equal measures. My interest in remixing and sampling has led to my involvement in the Free Culture movement. I have been involved in the public consultation regarding the Creative Commons 2.0 and CC-UK licenses. All my visual art is available under a Creative Commons license.
My interest in programming has led to my involvement with the Free Software movement. I developed the Macintosh version of the Gwydion Dylan programming language compiler. All my software is available under the GNU GPL.
I have been creating images of the contemporary social and cultural environment through programming, design software and visual remixing since the early 1990s. My work is influenced by popular culture and high art in equal measures. My interest in remixing and sampling has led to my involvement in the Free Culture movement. I have been involved in the public consultation regarding the Creative Commons 2.0 and CC-UK licenses. All my visual art is available under a Creative Commons license.
My interest in programming has led to my involvement with the Free Software movement. I developed the Macintosh version of the Gwydion Dylan programming language compiler. All my software is available under the GNU GPL.
Re: Marie Antoinette
On 14 May 2006, at 04:49, -IID42 Kandinskij @27+ wrote:
> That is rituel.
That's a theory on a par with those comics where Charles Fort is
actually a monster hunter. Cute and entertaining, but revisionist
nonsense.
- Rob.
> That is rituel.
That's a theory on a par with those comics where Charles Fort is
actually a monster hunter. Cute and entertaining, but revisionist
nonsense.
- Rob.
Thatcher, Thatcher, Milk Snatcher
1.
Mrs Thatcher is the scientist who developed the method for replacing
dairy fat with vegetable oil that allowed soft ice cream to be made.
2.
Mrs Thatcher is the conservative politician who stopped free milk for
schoolchildren in the United Kingdom.
3.
'Thatcher, Thatcher, milk snatcher!
Mrs Thatcher is the scientist who developed the method for replacing
dairy fat with vegetable oil that allowed soft ice cream to be made.
2.
Mrs Thatcher is the conservative politician who stopped free milk for
schoolchildren in the United Kingdom.
3.
'Thatcher, Thatcher, milk snatcher!
Re: Re: Re: Re: Re: Re: funding and rhizome comissions
Quoting Edmund Goubert <ed@sitemarketeer.com>:
> I was thinking just now, in the bath - perhaps Netart needs a very
> rich person to do for Netart what Charles Saatchi did for young
> British artists in the 90's.
I don't think net.art needs that much damage done. :-)
> I'm worried about being called a 'Netartist', the internet is simply
> a medium - a tool like tubes of paint.
People who use tubes of paint don't tend to worry about being called
"painters".
:-)
> If I'm an artist, I'll use any medium at my disposal to make work and
> try not to get trapped into using one medium.
Then you will probably end up being called a conceptualist, or whatever the
Bourriaudian bright young things of the biennaleiat end up being labelled as.
:-)
- Rob.
> I was thinking just now, in the bath - perhaps Netart needs a very
> rich person to do for Netart what Charles Saatchi did for young
> British artists in the 90's.
I don't think net.art needs that much damage done. :-)
> I'm worried about being called a 'Netartist', the internet is simply
> a medium - a tool like tubes of paint.
People who use tubes of paint don't tend to worry about being called
"painters".
:-)
> If I'm an artist, I'll use any medium at my disposal to make work and
> try not to get trapped into using one medium.
Then you will probably end up being called a conceptualist, or whatever the
Bourriaudian bright young things of the biennaleiat end up being labelled as.
:-)
- Rob.
Re: Re: Commission Voting: Finalist Ranking
On 9 May 2006, at 20:59, Zev Robinson wrote:
> various things have kept me from following this thread and what is
> going on very much, but I just wanted to add something to what Marc
> said. http://www.nodel.org/ (node.london) was great because people
> got together, worked together, lots got shown/performed, people
> were able to see a wide variety of shows, and it got a lot of
> publicity because of it. everyone participated in the manner and
> at the level they wanted or could. No one was voted best, no one
> voted at all except by attendence and opinion, and everyone gained.
Node absolutely rocked. Everyone should buy the node reader (http://
publication.nodel.org/), it has lots of important writing in it.
I don't think it is fair to compare the Rhiz commisions to node,
though. But if there was a way of allowing paid and unpaid
commissions (volunteer collaboration and donated webspace/bandwidth?)
that might create more resources for more Rhiz projects if people
wanted that.
So more collaborations or an open festival alongside commissions. I
don't know if that works or not though.
I prefer something exclusive, even though it has excluded me. It
hopefully funds good work and it doesn't prevent me making work on
the rest of the Internet. :-)
- Rob.
> various things have kept me from following this thread and what is
> going on very much, but I just wanted to add something to what Marc
> said. http://www.nodel.org/ (node.london) was great because people
> got together, worked together, lots got shown/performed, people
> were able to see a wide variety of shows, and it got a lot of
> publicity because of it. everyone participated in the manner and
> at the level they wanted or could. No one was voted best, no one
> voted at all except by attendence and opinion, and everyone gained.
Node absolutely rocked. Everyone should buy the node reader (http://
publication.nodel.org/), it has lots of important writing in it.
I don't think it is fair to compare the Rhiz commisions to node,
though. But if there was a way of allowing paid and unpaid
commissions (volunteer collaboration and donated webspace/bandwidth?)
that might create more resources for more Rhiz projects if people
wanted that.
So more collaborations or an open festival alongside commissions. I
don't know if that works or not though.
I prefer something exclusive, even though it has excluded me. It
hopefully funds good work and it doesn't prevent me making work on
the rest of the Internet. :-)
- Rob.
Re: Re: Re: Re: Re: Re: Commission Voting: Finalist Ranking
On 8 May 2006, at 20:05, T.Whid wrote:
> we're lazy and drink too much.
I'd vote for that. Is there any way you can make it a community project?
- Rob.
> we're lazy and drink too much.
I'd vote for that. Is there any way you can make it a community project?
- Rob.