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

Marie Antoinette


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Marie Antoinette was not French by birth.

Marie Antoinette did not say 'let them eat cake

DISCUSSION

Ventriloquism 2


Imagine a horror film about an insane ventriloquist who believes that
his possessed dummy is talking. What he believes the dummy to be
saying is not what the dummy is saying. The dummy can appeal to the
audience, but the ventriloquist will not understand the audience's
reactions. Especially when the dummy tells the audience that the
ventriloquist thinks it wants him to murder his wife.

How can the ventriloquist silence the dummy? Even if he destroys it
or exorcises it he will only silence its real voice. He will still
hear what he thinks it is saying. And if his insanity is diagnosed
and treated after this, he will still be unaware of what he has
actually done.

DISCUSSION

Re: Commission Voting: Finalist Ranking


On 6 May 2006, at 14:15, Jim Andrews wrote:

> Well, I didn't make the finalists list, but I gotta say I think the
> rhizome.org project of getting funding to commission work and then
> building
> good software to support a member voting process on proposals is
> really
> great.

Ditto, and I agree. Thank you to everyone at Rhizome who has worked
on this.

Good luck to the finalists.

- Rob.

DISCUSSION

Biggest Sculpture Evar


http://www.damninteresting.com/?pQ6

A ring of needles orbiting the earth. In 1963.

- Rob.

DISCUSSION

Re: Re: Commissions


Quoting Ryan Griffis <ryan.griffis@gmail.com>:

> i'm not saying that a description should replace the work, but for
> God's sake, it's not that complicated. and a lot of the ab ex
> painters did talk about their work in ways that obviously resonated
> with the critical canon of the time. hell, they became the canon for
> 30+ years. but they didn't need grant funding, they had Castelli,

And the CIA.

> etc. if you want to make work that functions in the "market" (i.e.
> "attention economy") well, you shouldn't need grants for that. Your
> work is either "successful" or it's not, based on its sheer ability
> to grab people, or not.

The art "market", like the main "market", is curiously reliant on breaks from
government. If you look at a commercial gallery like the Lisson you'll see how
much the state has spent over the years on promoting its artists.

- Rob.