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: Re: Rhizome CVS?


On 28 May 2004, at 18:24, Francis Hwang wrote:

> Interesting idea, Rob. Do you think this would be useful wrapped up
> with a bunch of SourceForge-like project-management tools, like a
> developer's mailing list, bug-tracking, wiki for documentation? Or
> would you be more just interesting in the raw CVS/Arch/Subversion
> service?

I think accessibility (a la sourceforge) would be good for publicity. I
don't know about bug-tracking or lists, I don't know any of the
projects would be large-scale enough for that (is anyone working on any
*big* art/code projects?).

I've got my project approved for SourceForge now. :-)

- Rob.

--
"If record companies sold bottled water they'd demand that poison be
added to your taps.

DISCUSSION

Rhizome CVS?


Could Rhizome offer CVS? I'd pay for it. Have it readable to everyone, but writable only to members.
Might be a good way of getting more art software/media projects more tied to Rhizome.

Arch or Subversion would be better than CVS.

Just a thought. I know it would be a lot of work to manage and DMCA. :-)

- Rob.

DISCUSSION

Re: Re: Re: Burning Down The House


On Friday, May 28, 2004, at 03:31PM, liza sabater <listdiva@culturekitchen.com> wrote:

> ...I asked most of the artists there
>and they really did not care if their work survived the next windows
>upgrade or not.

I asked Harold Cohen if he would release any of the old code to AARON. He responded to the effect that he didn't keep old code, he wasn't any more interested in remaking old work than any other artist would be.

This is a guy who has been writing (effectively) the same program for thirty years.

There's a fetishism to wanting to see old work or to see source code, but that's how we learn, and history can be important. Aside from anything else, we can avoid pointlessly repeating the past like so much yBA work. We can also build on the work of others, something that is a more immediate prospect with procedural work (code) than with sketchbooks. Everyone should GPL or CC-SA their work and put it into CVS. Where are the art CVS servers? SourceForge haven't got back to me about hosting my art project...

One thing people generally don't like hearing is that ephemerality is a good play to the market. It makes things more collectible.

- Rob.

DISCUSSION

Re: Re: [eu-gene] YBA Saatchi "masterpieces" detroyed by fire.


On 27 May 2004, at 17:27, Marius Watz wrote:

> What happened to live and let live?

It seems that it went out of the window when people started expressing
opinions that didn't conform to the demands of the current academic and
financial climate. ;-)

- Rob.

DISCUSSION

Re: Re: Burning Down The Art


Of course this wouldn't be a problem if they were New Media/net.art artists as they could just restore the work from backup.Saatchi really should look at getting work under a Creative Commons license. :-)

- Rob.