Rob Myers
Since 2003
Works in United States of America

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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.
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kollabor8


A web site for collaborative image creation. Register, download an
image, add to it, then re-upload. The online successor to mail art,
exquisite corpse, or Rauschenberg's ROCI.

Entirely excellent:

http://kollabor8.toegristle.com/

- Rob.

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http://www.robmyers.org/art - All my art, Creative Commons Licensed.
http://www.robmyers.org/weblog - Free Culture and Generative Art blog.

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Re: New Membership Policy


Yay! A more open Rhizome! This is great!

Thanks to everyone who's worked to make this happen.

- Rob.

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Re: Re: Critical condition (LA Times)


On Monday, May 23, 2005, at 07:23AM, ryan griffis <grifray@yahoo.com> wrote:

>But the high couldn't last forever, and the power went to the curators.

DJ #1: Are you going to the cinema tonight?
DJ #2: I don't know, who's the projectionist?

Curators are better subjects for criticism than artists because they better reflect the critical ego; it is easier for critics to see themselves in curators than in artists. This is where auteur theory comes from as well, and another reason why so many writers tolerate the most inept examples of installation and performance despite the general public's continuing disinterest.

The main problem with criticism, as demonstrated by "Art Since 1900", is that art has become either irrelevent for or irritating to the actual practice of art criticism. It seems that art really needs throwing away and replacing with something better, something more amenable to criticism.

In fact I think that critics would be even better subjects than curators and that art criticism would be that more amenable object, indeed the perfect object. Let criticism drown in its own reflection...

For a more coherent argument, with some pointers on how to escape the current closed world of criticism, I highly recommend "What Happened To Art Criticism?" By James Elkins:

http://www.prickly-paradigm.com/authors/elkins.html

- Rob.

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Re: Kansas looks at redefining science


But ID and other newly-evolved (fnarr) mock-scientific BS are
systematic methods of *finishing* investigation.

So they *still* wouldn't get in. :-)

But just in case:

http://www.swarthmore.edu/NatSci/cpurrin1/evolk12/posse/
chazhasaposse.htm

- Rob

On 16 May 2005, at 08:19, Geert Dekkers wrote:

> Actually, I don't see how "a systematic method of continuing
> investigation" means anything at all....
>
> And -- it would be laughable and/or pitible if this Kansas School
> Board would have no power -- but the reality is that they do, and
> futhermore than entire generations of Kansas children could be
> influenced by their funny-duddy notions. So I find this beyond
> laughing and/or pitying.
>
> What a strange place America is.
>
> Geert
> http://nznl.com
>
>
> On 16-mei-05, at 3:52, Brett Stalbaum wrote:
>
>
>> Of course, what Kansas is doing is laughable and/or pitiable. But
>> one thing that strikes me as interesting is that the Kansas school
>> board is seeking to replace the definition of science with one
>> that is very much like a definition of much contemporary art
>> practice...
>>
>> TOPEKA, Kansas (AP) -- The Kansas school board's hearings on
>> evolution were not limited to how the theory should be taught in
>> public schools. The board is considering redefining science itself.
>>
>> Advocates of "intelligent design" are pushing the board to reject
>> a definition limiting science to natural explanations for what's
>> observed in the world.
>>
>> Instead, they want to define it as "a systematic method of
>> continuing investigation," without specifying what kind of answer
>> is being sought. The definition would appear in the introduction
>> to the state's science standards.
>>
>> ...
>>
>> Evolution defenders scoff at the notion.
>>
>> "In order to live in this science-dominated world, you have to be
>> able to discriminate between science and non-science," said Alan
>> Leshner of the American Association for the Advancement of
>> Science. "They want to rewrite the rules of science."
>>
>> http://www.cnn.com/2005/EDUCATION/05/15/kansas.evolution.ap/
>> index.html
>>
>> --
>> Brett Stalbaum
>> Lecturer, psoe
>> Coordinator, ICAM
>> Department of Visual Arts, mail code 0084
>> University of California, San Diego
>> 9500 Gillman
>> La Jolla CA 92093
>>
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More From Orbit


Following on from Area 51 in Google Maps, more glimpses of the
uncanny from orbit:

http://idletype.com/archives/45

- Rob.