Turbulence Commission: "Knitoscope Testimonies" by Cat Mazza
March 15, 2006
Turbulence Commission: "Knitoscope Testimonies" by Cat Mazza
http://turbulence.org/works/microRevolt
[Requires Flash Player. To view testimonies at 180x120 ratio, pop-ups must
be enabled]
"Knitoscope Testimonies" is the first web based video using "Knitoscope"
software, a program that translates digital video into a knitted animation.
Knitoscope is a moving image offshoot of microRevolt
Turbulence Commission: "Knitoscope Testimonies" by Cat Mazza
http://turbulence.org/works/microRevolt
[Requires Flash Player. To view testimonies at 180x120 ratio, pop-ups must
be enabled]
"Knitoscope Testimonies" is the first web based video using "Knitoscope"
software, a program that translates digital video into a knitted animation.
Knitoscope is a moving image offshoot of microRevolt
Turbulence Commission: "Oil Standard" by Michael Mandiberg
March 15, 2006
Turbulence Commission: "Oil Standard" by Michael Mandiberg
http://turbulence.org/Works/oilstandard/
Requires Mozilla Firefox and Greasemonkey script (follow download
instructions on site)
"Oil Standard" is a web browser plug-in that converts all prices from U.S.
Dollars into the equivalent value in barrels of crude oil. When you load a
web page, the script seamlessly inserts converted prices into the page. As
the cost of oil fluctuates on the commodities exchange, prices rise and fall
in real-time.
Seeing the cost in oil of a new iPod on Amazon.com, or the balance in your
bank account is startling. More than just a play on the concept of the 'Gold
Standard,' or the old 'Standard Oil' company, this is a glimpse into the
moment when oil will replace (or already replaced) gold as the standard by
which we trade all other goods and currencies.
The script is written in Greasemonkey, an official extension for Mozilla
Firefox that allows the user to change the look, content, or function of a
webpage, by writing client side DHTML into a page. Greasemonkey has
primarily been used for very functional tasks: nytimes.com ad blockers,
eBay.com auto-sign-in scripts, etc. "Oil Standard" adds some functional
absurdity to the mix.
"Oil Standard" is a 2006 commission of New Radio and Performing Arts, Inc.
(aka Ether-Ore) for its Turbulence web site. It was made possible with
funding from the Jerome Foundation and New York City Department of Cultural
Affairs.
BIOGRAPHY
Michael Mandiberg is a conceptual artist, computer programmer and rogue
economist who uses the internet, video and performance to explore
subjectivity, labor, and commerce. His current work delves into creative
appropriations of outsourcing, artistic uses of open API web platforms, and
the global dependence on oil. In 2001 he distributed perfect copies of
copies on AfterSherrieLevine.com, and put all of his possessions up for sale
on Shop Mandiberg (http://mandiberg.com/shop). His work has been exhibited
at such venues as the New Museum for Contemporary Art, New York City; Ars
Electronica Linz, Austria; and the ZKM in Karlsruhe, Germany. An Assistant
Professor at The College of Staten Island/CUNY, Michael lives in, and rides
his purple bicycle around Brooklyn.
For more information about Turbulence, please visit http://turbulence.org
Jo-Anne Green, Co-Director
New Radio and Performing Arts, Inc.: http://new-radio.org
New York: 917.548.7780 . Boston: 617.522.3856
Turbulence: http://turbulence.org
New American Radio: http://somewhere.org
Networked_Performance Blog: http://turbulence.org/blog
Upgrade! Boston: http://turbulence.org/upgrade
Turbulence Commission: "Oil Standard" by Michael Mandiberg
http://turbulence.org/Works/oilstandard/
Requires Mozilla Firefox and Greasemonkey script (follow download
instructions on site)
"Oil Standard" is a web browser plug-in that converts all prices from U.S.
Dollars into the equivalent value in barrels of crude oil. When you load a
web page, the script seamlessly inserts converted prices into the page. As
the cost of oil fluctuates on the commodities exchange, prices rise and fall
in real-time.
Seeing the cost in oil of a new iPod on Amazon.com, or the balance in your
bank account is startling. More than just a play on the concept of the 'Gold
Standard,' or the old 'Standard Oil' company, this is a glimpse into the
moment when oil will replace (or already replaced) gold as the standard by
which we trade all other goods and currencies.
The script is written in Greasemonkey, an official extension for Mozilla
Firefox that allows the user to change the look, content, or function of a
webpage, by writing client side DHTML into a page. Greasemonkey has
primarily been used for very functional tasks: nytimes.com ad blockers,
eBay.com auto-sign-in scripts, etc. "Oil Standard" adds some functional
absurdity to the mix.
"Oil Standard" is a 2006 commission of New Radio and Performing Arts, Inc.
(aka Ether-Ore) for its Turbulence web site. It was made possible with
funding from the Jerome Foundation and New York City Department of Cultural
Affairs.
BIOGRAPHY
Michael Mandiberg is a conceptual artist, computer programmer and rogue
economist who uses the internet, video and performance to explore
subjectivity, labor, and commerce. His current work delves into creative
appropriations of outsourcing, artistic uses of open API web platforms, and
the global dependence on oil. In 2001 he distributed perfect copies of
copies on AfterSherrieLevine.com, and put all of his possessions up for sale
on Shop Mandiberg (http://mandiberg.com/shop). His work has been exhibited
at such venues as the New Museum for Contemporary Art, New York City; Ars
Electronica Linz, Austria; and the ZKM in Karlsruhe, Germany. An Assistant
Professor at The College of Staten Island/CUNY, Michael lives in, and rides
his purple bicycle around Brooklyn.
For more information about Turbulence, please visit http://turbulence.org
Jo-Anne Green, Co-Director
New Radio and Performing Arts, Inc.: http://new-radio.org
New York: 917.548.7780 . Boston: 617.522.3856
Turbulence: http://turbulence.org
New American Radio: http://somewhere.org
Networked_Performance Blog: http://turbulence.org/blog
Upgrade! Boston: http://turbulence.org/upgrade
Floating Points 3: March 15th
Floating Points 3: Ubiquitous Computing
DATE: March 15th, 7:00 p.m.
PLACE [NEW VENUE]: Emerson College, Cabaret, 80 Boylston Street, Boston, and
LIVE ONLINE at http://institute.emerson.edu/floatingpoints/06/index.php
Panelists: Adam Greenfield, Preemptive Media (Beatriz da Costa, Brooke
Singer), and Michelle Teran
Moderator: Helen Thorington
Emerson College and New Radio and Performing Arts, Inc./Turbulence.org
announce the second panel discussion in their series, "Floating Points 3"
[FP3] that will address the subject of "Ubiquitous Computing" or "Ubicomp",
where computing and wireless capabilities are so integrated into the fabric
of everyday life (clothing, cars, homes, and offices) that the technologies
recede into the background and become indistinguishable from everyday
activities. [more at
http://institute.emerson.edu/floatingpoints/06/index.php]
ADAM GREENFIELD is an information architect and user-experience consultant
whose principal concern over the past half-decade has been "the restoration
of human users and their needs to a place of rightful centrality in the
design of technical systems." He is the author of "Everyware: the dawning
age of ubiquitous computing," to be released this month, which he hopes will
explain just what Ubicomp is, how it might effect us, and how we can effect
its eventual development. Greenfield is principal of Studies and
Observations, a New York City design consultancy. He was previously lead
information architect for the Tokyo office of Razorfish. http://www.v-2.org/
PREEMPTIVE MEDIA (BEATRIZ DA COSTA, BROOKE SINGER) reengineers your thinking
about mobile digital technologies imbedded in everyday environments. In live
performances and real time actions the PM art, technology and activist
collective disturbs, dislodges, and redesigns new media technologies that
are often ignored, like the bar codes on driver's licenses or radio
frequency information devices used for EZ pass on highways. At the forefront
of what is called locative media, Preemptive Media repositions highly
specialized technologies within the democratic discourse of low-tech
amateurism. PM will focus on their latest project "Zapped" which addresses
the mass implementation of RFID and its contribution to the ever growing
field of technology-enhanced surveillance practices.
http://www.preemptivemedia.net/
MICHELLE TERAN is a Canadian media artist who explores the performative
potential of objects and space. Within her practice she examines the
intertwining of social networks and everyday social spaces with their
technological counterparts, and creates performances, installations and
online works that are concerned with issues of communication, surveillance,
psychogeography, presence, intimacy, social ritual, collaboration and public
participation. Teran is co-founder of "LiveForm:TeleKinetics" (with Jeff
Mann). http://www.ubermatic.org/misha
HELEN THORINGTON is co-director of Turbulence.org
Floating Points is co-presented by Emerson College and New Radio and
Performing Arts, Inc. (NRPA), a not-for-profit media organization with
offices in Boston and New York. It is funded by Emerson College's Office of
Academic Affairs, Institute for Liberal Arts and Interdisciplinary Studies,
School of the Arts, and Department of Visual and Media Arts.
For more information please visit
http://institute.emerson.edu/floatingpoints/06/index.php
Jo-Anne Green, Co-Director
New Radio and Performing Arts, Inc.: http://new-radio.org
New York: 917.548.7780 . Boston: 617.522.3856
Turbulence: http://turbulence.org
New American Radio: http://somewhere.org
Networked_Performance Blog: http://turbulence.org/blog
Upgrade! Boston: http://turbulence.org/upgrade
DATE: March 15th, 7:00 p.m.
PLACE [NEW VENUE]: Emerson College, Cabaret, 80 Boylston Street, Boston, and
LIVE ONLINE at http://institute.emerson.edu/floatingpoints/06/index.php
Panelists: Adam Greenfield, Preemptive Media (Beatriz da Costa, Brooke
Singer), and Michelle Teran
Moderator: Helen Thorington
Emerson College and New Radio and Performing Arts, Inc./Turbulence.org
announce the second panel discussion in their series, "Floating Points 3"
[FP3] that will address the subject of "Ubiquitous Computing" or "Ubicomp",
where computing and wireless capabilities are so integrated into the fabric
of everyday life (clothing, cars, homes, and offices) that the technologies
recede into the background and become indistinguishable from everyday
activities. [more at
http://institute.emerson.edu/floatingpoints/06/index.php]
ADAM GREENFIELD is an information architect and user-experience consultant
whose principal concern over the past half-decade has been "the restoration
of human users and their needs to a place of rightful centrality in the
design of technical systems." He is the author of "Everyware: the dawning
age of ubiquitous computing," to be released this month, which he hopes will
explain just what Ubicomp is, how it might effect us, and how we can effect
its eventual development. Greenfield is principal of Studies and
Observations, a New York City design consultancy. He was previously lead
information architect for the Tokyo office of Razorfish. http://www.v-2.org/
PREEMPTIVE MEDIA (BEATRIZ DA COSTA, BROOKE SINGER) reengineers your thinking
about mobile digital technologies imbedded in everyday environments. In live
performances and real time actions the PM art, technology and activist
collective disturbs, dislodges, and redesigns new media technologies that
are often ignored, like the bar codes on driver's licenses or radio
frequency information devices used for EZ pass on highways. At the forefront
of what is called locative media, Preemptive Media repositions highly
specialized technologies within the democratic discourse of low-tech
amateurism. PM will focus on their latest project "Zapped" which addresses
the mass implementation of RFID and its contribution to the ever growing
field of technology-enhanced surveillance practices.
http://www.preemptivemedia.net/
MICHELLE TERAN is a Canadian media artist who explores the performative
potential of objects and space. Within her practice she examines the
intertwining of social networks and everyday social spaces with their
technological counterparts, and creates performances, installations and
online works that are concerned with issues of communication, surveillance,
psychogeography, presence, intimacy, social ritual, collaboration and public
participation. Teran is co-founder of "LiveForm:TeleKinetics" (with Jeff
Mann). http://www.ubermatic.org/misha
HELEN THORINGTON is co-director of Turbulence.org
Floating Points is co-presented by Emerson College and New Radio and
Performing Arts, Inc. (NRPA), a not-for-profit media organization with
offices in Boston and New York. It is funded by Emerson College's Office of
Academic Affairs, Institute for Liberal Arts and Interdisciplinary Studies,
School of the Arts, and Department of Visual and Media Arts.
For more information please visit
http://institute.emerson.edu/floatingpoints/06/index.php
Jo-Anne Green, Co-Director
New Radio and Performing Arts, Inc.: http://new-radio.org
New York: 917.548.7780 . Boston: 617.522.3856
Turbulence: http://turbulence.org
New American Radio: http://somewhere.org
Networked_Performance Blog: http://turbulence.org/blog
Upgrade! Boston: http://turbulence.org/upgrade
UPGRADE! BOSTON: BROOKE A. KNIGHT
< UPGRADE! BOSTON: BROOKE A. KNIGHT >
http://www.turbulence.org/upgrade/archives/03_06BK.html
When: March 2, 7:00-9:00 p.m.
Where: Art Interactive, 130 Bishop Allen Drive, at the corner of Prospect
Street, Cambridge
Brooke A. Knight is an artist and educator who has been working with digital
media for over a dozen years. His current areas of interest include webcams,
the landscape, and text in all forms. Knight is an Assistant Professor in
the Department of Visual and Media Arts at Emerson College in Boston, where
he teaches classes in interactive media. He received his MFA in photography
from CalArts in 1995.
!!REMINDER!!
<< UPGRADE! BOSTON: MARISA S. OLSON >>
http://www.turbulence.org/upgrade/archives/02_06MSO.html
When: February 24, 7:00-9:00 p.m.
Where: Art Interactive, 130 Bishop Allen Drive, at the corner of Prospect
Street, Cambridge
!!!!REMINDER!!!!
<<< COMPETITION DEADLINE: FEBRUARY 28, 2006 >>>
http://www.turbulence.org/ne2/guidelines.html
If you no longer wish to receive these notices, please reply to this email
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Jo-Anne Green, Co-Director
New Radio and Performing Arts, Inc.: http://new-radio.org
New York: 917.548.7780 . Boston: 617.522.3856
Turbulence: http://turbulence.org
New American Radio: http://somewhere.org
Networked_Performance Blog: http://turbulence.org/blog
Upgrade! Boston: http://turbulence.org/upgrade
http://www.turbulence.org/upgrade/archives/03_06BK.html
When: March 2, 7:00-9:00 p.m.
Where: Art Interactive, 130 Bishop Allen Drive, at the corner of Prospect
Street, Cambridge
Brooke A. Knight is an artist and educator who has been working with digital
media for over a dozen years. His current areas of interest include webcams,
the landscape, and text in all forms. Knight is an Assistant Professor in
the Department of Visual and Media Arts at Emerson College in Boston, where
he teaches classes in interactive media. He received his MFA in photography
from CalArts in 1995.
!!REMINDER!!
<< UPGRADE! BOSTON: MARISA S. OLSON >>
http://www.turbulence.org/upgrade/archives/02_06MSO.html
When: February 24, 7:00-9:00 p.m.
Where: Art Interactive, 130 Bishop Allen Drive, at the corner of Prospect
Street, Cambridge
!!!!REMINDER!!!!
<<< COMPETITION DEADLINE: FEBRUARY 28, 2006 >>>
http://www.turbulence.org/ne2/guidelines.html
If you no longer wish to receive these notices, please reply to this email
with "UNSUBSCRIBE" in the subject line.
Jo-Anne Green, Co-Director
New Radio and Performing Arts, Inc.: http://new-radio.org
New York: 917.548.7780 . Boston: 617.522.3856
Turbulence: http://turbulence.org
New American Radio: http://somewhere.org
Networked_Performance Blog: http://turbulence.org/blog
Upgrade! Boston: http://turbulence.org/upgrade
