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: Fwd: Ars Publica - Curatorial Report, March 2007


Marisa Olson wrote:
> ---------- Forwarded message ----------
> From: Ana Buigues <abuigues@wanadoo.es>
> ARS PUBLICA

ars publica, vita privatim est

- Rob.

DISCUSSION

Re: RHIZOME & Spam


Quoting marc <marc.garrett@furtherfield.org>:

> Is it just me getting spam from the Rhizome list?

Me too!

> Or is it some sort of naff spam art project?

I'm quite enjoying it. The spam is of a higher quality than I usally
get and has
fewer embedded GIFs. ;-)

- Rob.

DISCUSSION

Re: CORY ARCANGEL STEALS THE SHOW! (but gets arrested!)


He can't have been there long, they haven't had time to Photoshop a decent
arrest photo of him yet.

- Rob.

Quoting Liza Sabater <networking@culturekitchenmedia.com>:

> WTF?!
> Is he still in jail?
>
>
> On 29.Mar.2007, at 01:37, editor wrote:
>
>> Posted March 29, 2007.
>> Internet and New Media Star Cory Arcangel was arrested by the FBI
>> today. The exact charges are now on public record. Apparently
>> Arcangel had graduated from stealing code to stealing the work of
>> living artists. It all began after his talk at Columbia in 2004.
>> see pix of the arrest and the FBI transcript.
>> http://www.slanderous.org
>>
>> Joe Edit
>> "so sue me"
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DISCUSSION

Re: Re: Re: Re: Re: Boston bomb-terrorism-art-marketing scare


A certain amount of schaudenfreude is forgivable when faced with the
spectacle of marketeers getting not only the rewards but also the
punishment of street art for once. Wooster Collective et al are right to
be pissed off when Sony or Adult Swim fake street art, particularly when
they do it so badly and with such negative consequences.

That said, these things would have been fun for the public, and art
needs paying for somehow. There is an open door between art and
advertising, there always has been and this is a freedom of expression
issue for both artists and advertisers. You don't have to like someone
or like what they are saying in order for it to qualify as free speech.

That said, the current fashion for faking street art actually on the
street is not appropriation of form but substitution of products. A kind
of gentrification?

That said, this wrong does not make the reactions of the authorities and
the media right. The authorities need to be able to properly identify
bombs and deal with the public. The media need to properly identify
stories and deal with the public. Both have shown themselves to be
confused, fearful, and remote.

I think this picture is right:

http://www.seanbonner.com/blog/archives/002494.php

- Rob.

DISCUSSION

Re: Question re: compiling OS X universal binaries


T.Whid wrote:

> Wondering if anyone here has any experience in updating code so that it
> will function as a universal binary for OS X and play on both PPC and Intel.

I have had to do this sort of thing. I've switched to Linux for my own
work but I still get paid to hack OS X.

> I have some very brief source that compiles and plays fine on both
> chips, but not as a universal binary (crashes on the chip it wasn't
> compiled on).

Have you updated an old existing project or created a new one and added
the old source files to it? Some of the paths and settings can be a pain
to set up. If the source is brief as you say you might be better off
making a new project and adding your old source files to that.

- Rob.