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: ESTABLISHMENT OF THE NAZI DICTATORSHIP


The important part is the Enabling Act. I thought of this when I read
of George II's law to suspend the US elections in case of a terrorist
threat.

- Rob.

On 21 Sep 2004, at 06:56, Lee Wells wrote:

> [Timeline snipped]

DISCUSSION

Re: Copy-art.net opens at the ICA, London


>>> Copy-art.net is a copyright-free website,

No it isn't. Creative Commons licenses are Copyright licenses. If it
was copyright-free it would be public domain.

This project would be so much more radical if it wasn't NC
(noncommercial). As it is, it doesn't challenge IP at all, because it
leaves commercial sustainability to existing IP regimes. The first
shared project to go BY-SA will be the *real *challenge to IP.

- Rob.

DISCUSSION

Re: Re: Re: Re: Re: republican art


On Monday, September 06, 2004, at 08:21AM, curt cloninger <curt@lab404.com> wrote:

>the relevant issue is never whether an artist cares about her work (by definition she at least cares enough to put something out there); but rather, how well is she able to convey her concern through her work?

Earnestness. Ew. One of the sadder spectacles surrounding the Chapmans is the procession of critics who agree that the Chapmans are "serious". Seriousness doesn't offset badness. If it did, the greatest poets would all be high school students.

Conveying one's concerns is not a sufficient measure of work (I don't think you're saying it is, but some people do use this as a metric). It's possible to fail in that and still produce good work. Being able to talk up art isn't the same as being able to make up art. Greenberg wasn't the greatest Abstract Expressionist.

- Rob.

DISCUSSION

Re: The Aesthetics of Computer Viruses - I love you [rev.eng]


On Thursday, September 02, 2004, at 10:50AM, Alessandro Ludovico <a.ludovico@neural.it> wrote:

>- The web artists 0100101110101101.ORG and
>epidemiC present the computer virus
>"biennale.py", which, over and above being a
>self-reproducing program, has been declared as a
>social work of art. The work "The Lovers" by the
>British artist Sneha Solankis creates, using two
>mutually-infected computers, an analogy between
>the distorted communication between the computers
>and that between lovers.

Cool.

Waaaay back in 1993 I did some work on PostScript viruses. This was based on the idea of art as aesthetic intervention, and a solution to a problem I still have: how to distribute my work.
Everyone's printing would have gone very wobbly if only more than a few a few NeXT boxes and network printers had run PostScript with access to file systems. :-) No, I didn't release the virus.

You can write encrypted, evolving, network-aware virii in PostScript. Yes, fonts can be viruses...

I also almost invented the Word macro virus. If Word academic had shipped with manuals I would have wiped out the word "Postmodernism". ;-)

- Rob.

DISCUSSION

Re: Re: Re: RHIZOME_RAW Charles Simic:


On 1 Sep 2004, at 05:37, curt cloninger wrote:

> Hi Ryan,

I thought you didn't want to argue this on a net art list?

Ryan makes the case for faith a convincing one. Don't ruin that by
trying to take him to task on an imagined party line...

- Rob.