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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: A Different MFA Question
On Thursday, August 26, 2004, at 03:37PM, Jason Van Anden <jason@smileproject.com> wrote:
>I do not have an MFA.
>For those of you that have one:
I've an MA in Electronic Arts (1996). Occasionally someone says I should put "MA" after my name, but that always seems pretentious.
>How have you personally benefited from achieving it?
Yes. MDX taught you a lot: history, current practice, maths, code, electronics. It had good connections and opportunities during the course. Surviving an intensive course is good for confidence and self-reliance as well as the more concrete stuff you learn and produce.
> ... having it?
Somewhat. The social network was/is good. I don't think it's affected my prospects outside that.
Anyone considering a course needs to evaluate what it offers in total, not just how eager the course is to have your money. You need to be taught something, given support and insight, and afforded opportunities. If anything's missing from that list, the others had better be *unbelievably* good to make up for it.
- Rob.
>I do not have an MFA.
>For those of you that have one:
I've an MA in Electronic Arts (1996). Occasionally someone says I should put "MA" after my name, but that always seems pretentious.
>How have you personally benefited from achieving it?
Yes. MDX taught you a lot: history, current practice, maths, code, electronics. It had good connections and opportunities during the course. Surviving an intensive course is good for confidence and self-reliance as well as the more concrete stuff you learn and produce.
> ... having it?
Somewhat. The social network was/is good. I don't think it's affected my prospects outside that.
Anyone considering a course needs to evaluate what it offers in total, not just how eager the course is to have your money. You need to be taught something, given support and insight, and afforded opportunities. If anything's missing from that list, the others had better be *unbelievably* good to make up for it.
- Rob.
Re: Re: Virtual Richey Manic
On 18 Aug 2004, at 18:39, Droog wrote:
> Oliver Moran wrote:
>
>> An exploration of Richey Edwards and Manic Street Preachers as a
>> cultural commodities and so their relationship to their fans. Richey,
>> now disappeared and presumed dead, notoriously cut the legend, ?4
>> REAL,? into his forearm as evidence to a journalist of the bands early
>> deliberately adversarial image.
Thus cleverly foreclosing any debate on how awful their music actually
was at the time.
>> Fan can use this site to recreate the
>> moment and place their own moniker in place of the original sign.
>
> Thats just utterly and absolutely wrong.And a violation against the
> family and friends of Richey Edwards.Shame on it.
Yes.
It's not the latest project from the idiots who put out that single
"Richey's Dead", is it?
- Rob.
> Oliver Moran wrote:
>
>> An exploration of Richey Edwards and Manic Street Preachers as a
>> cultural commodities and so their relationship to their fans. Richey,
>> now disappeared and presumed dead, notoriously cut the legend, ?4
>> REAL,? into his forearm as evidence to a journalist of the bands early
>> deliberately adversarial image.
Thus cleverly foreclosing any debate on how awful their music actually
was at the time.
>> Fan can use this site to recreate the
>> moment and place their own moniker in place of the original sign.
>
> Thats just utterly and absolutely wrong.And a violation against the
> family and friends of Richey Edwards.Shame on it.
Yes.
It's not the latest project from the idiots who put out that single
"Richey's Dead", is it?
- Rob.
Re: Re: How to Display Digital Artwork in a Gallery
On Tuesday, August 17, 2004, at 10:13AM, Pau Waelder <pau@sicplacitum.com> wrote:
>Depending on how the artwork is (if it's interactive, etc.), there are touch screens such as those commercialised by EZ Screen <http://www.ezscreen.com>, or maybe use a projector and a wireless mouse...
Projectors are cool. They still look sci-fi even after all this time. They're expensive (I can't afford one) but you can hire them OK and if you're lucky the venue may have one you can hypnotise them into deploying for you. :-)
- Rob.
>Depending on how the artwork is (if it's interactive, etc.), there are touch screens such as those commercialised by EZ Screen <http://www.ezscreen.com>, or maybe use a projector and a wireless mouse...
Projectors are cool. They still look sci-fi even after all this time. They're expensive (I can't afford one) but you can hire them OK and if you're lucky the venue may have one you can hypnotise them into deploying for you. :-)
- Rob.