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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DISCUSSION

Re: mac developers


On 4 Jun 2004, at 05:00, Alexander Galloway wrote:

> hey does anyone know a mac cocoa/obj-c developer who's on IM who
> wouldn't mind a coding question from me every once and a while?

I'm occasionally on AIM, but I'm better by email (particularly allowing
for time zone differences :-) ).

- Rob.

DISCUSSION

Re: Diebold Ads


On Thursday, June 03, 2004, at 05:53AM, Lee Wells <lee@leewells.org> wrote:

>http://homepage.mac.com/rcareaga/diebold/adworks.htm#the_top

Absolutely, incredibly, hopelessly, amazingly wonderful.

The HAL poster would make a good general anti-DMCA one.

Apple won't host these for more than a second after Diebold complain, so these should get mirrored sharpish...

- Rob.

DISCUSSION

"What has your string quartet done, comrade, to further the cause of revolution?"


UK Arts Minister questions artistic instrumentalism:

http://www.guardian.co.uk/arts/features/story/0,11710,1226951,00.html

Instrumentalism has distorted perception and funding of art in the UK, giving rise to an aesthetic of access and trivialising art in the process.

- Rob.

DISCUSSION

Re: Burning Down The Art


One problem with the Saatchi fire is that much of this work looked much
better in reproduction than in real-life. Getting rid of the real-life
versions actually makes them look better.

Baudrillard fans, start your word processors. :-)

- Rob.

DISCUSSION

Re: Rhizome CVS?


On 28 May 2004, at 17:27, Nick Knouf wrote:

> By "writable only to members" I hope you mean "writable by the user's
> account and not all members"...having a CVS repository where all
> modules were writable by everybody...chaos. (Properly version
> controlled chaos, but chaos nonetheless.)

It's less rhizomatic, but yes, this would be self-controlled rather
than world-scribblable. :-)

> And while subversion might be better, there's so many CVS clients that
> that's probably the best place to start.

IIRC you can get CVS front-ends to subversion.

- Rob.

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