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: iPhone therefore iAm?


Jason Van Anden wrote:
> Any word out there on 3rd party development for the iPhone ... yet?

People have only been out of NDA 24 hours. Give them time. ;-)

> I suppose if the browser supports javascript there are some possibilities - but specifically I am interested in Flash or Java development.

I think that the desktop widgets system introduced with 10.4 were
targeted at precisely this kind of device. So that's JavaScript + their
canvas class.

- Rob.


DISCUSSION

Re: Underground Nuclear Testing On Google Maps


Quoting Annie Abrahams <artbase@bram.org>:

> how can you see it's underground nuclear testing going on?

The image is of the craters that result from underground nuclear
testing rather
than of a test in progress.

There is some discussion in the digg article regarding whether the
craters have
really been produced in this way, the consensus seems to be that they have.

- Rob.


DISCUSSION

Re: The way of the net. And art. And business.


Alexis Turner wrote:

> If I do that, can we please stop having such a gay discussion?

The discussion has hardly been cheerful and carefree so far.

Oh, wait.

Manyhow.

There is a dearth of actual writing about art, all art, at the moment.
Money is talking, and bullshit is walking around looking very pleased
with itself in the urgently pointless form of Theory (or Artbollocks, to
give it its proper name here). We have only ourselves to blame, we can
see the raw material for some sort of "art" even at art fairs. There's a
territory to be won (or held in trust for future generations) but the
maps are either blank (cf Lewis Carrol or Art & Language) or covered
entirely with a picture of a Hydra and the legend "here be dragons".

Ages tend to get the art that they can produce. They don't always tend
to understand the art they produce. The horror of silent, pointless,
slick, biedermeier, aesthetic retro isn't just a problem in art. This
feast need a skeleton, not zombies.

As for empowering the ignorant or foolish to shout as loud as genii, I
will fight ot the death for their right to do so. Anti-democratic
sentiment is not the correct response to a printed sea of shit. A better
shovel is. Filtering is what social networks are for and any theory of
creativity recognizes that the best way to find one good idea is to go
through hundreds of bad ones. I have networked through blogs, yes, but I
have also discovered uncomfortable truths and found vocal critics of my
own work and ideas, which helps to improve or correct what I do. I would
rather have a large open discussion that I have to ignore 99.99999% of
in order to find a few diamonds than only have the choice of a few turds
made for me by a magazine.

Networking and nepostism always have been and always will be. It's the
content of the networks that is important (or at least tractable), not
their iniquitous structure. Art always has been an expensive luxury
good. The only thing that is new is the attempt to base economies on it,
which is pretty fucked up.

"This isn't a problem, it's an opportunity". So what are we actually to
*do*?

- Rob.