User:Eleanorg/2.1/Artworks

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Influences for graduation project. See also Works I've Enjoyed.

Democratic curation/publishing

  • 'The Piracy Project' by AND Publishing
Making digital issues physical. Non-overly hierarchical way of bringing together a collection of autonomous works.
Another offline network, taking 'digital' into physical space & inviting strangers to take risks together
Public invited to send in 1,000 copies of anything they wanted included. Burden of production shifted onto authors; distribution of resources determines who gets published - rather than more elaborate democratic means. (Post Digital Print p.45)
Magazine divided into blocks, only blocks sold (5EU each) get printed. 'Vote with your wallet' publishing.
Visualizes live news stories; the more coverage, the more screen space. Neatly demonstrates self-fulfilling emergence of news hierarchy; especially nice visual effect at corners of the screen as unpopular stories literally 'squeezed out'.


Collaborative authoring

re-performs collaborative editing. A nice treatment to make sense of the history of collaborative texts
  • TAG Magazine (2009), At Transmediale & PRINT/Pixel Rotterdam
A temporary editorial office invites visitors to come and make a magazine over the course of a week. Professional editors & designers coordinate the process. (Post Digital Print p.69)

Web to Print

Fascinating appropriation of "citizen journalism" web-to-print. Like a for-profit Indymedia (writers give articles for free, upload them to the BlogPaper site) where most popular/discussed items get printed and handed out in London. Note prevalence of 'Comment Is Free' style racist nutters & PR press releases. Why does everyone want to create their own walled-garden "community", rather than aggregate? (See 'aggregators as parasites' debate, Post Digital Print p.57, and paper printouts as 'best of', p.58).
Fanzine distributed by being posted on walls around Florence. (Post digital print p.47). How else could printed material be distributed?
A message 'sent' electronically is distributed physically, simply by placing a printer high up - dramatic/cinematic fall of the paper visualizes a message being sent. Instantaneous one-off editions.
A book of generative art. Each one printed on demand and is unique.

Amplifying the Other

Artist experiments with surrendering control to the Other; becomes 'programmable' << opens up links between computers (commands) and social power/instruction
The aesthetic of a distributed network, taken offline & entirely relying on the living body.Frustrating lack of documentation of the original work; this video is a remix.
Beautiful use of volunteers in ritual-like format; demands long-term commitment; participants are 'witnesses not spectators' a la Etchells

Co-ordination of a crowd

Version control

Stylish text-diff treatment of live headlines. Using HTML Parser & XinDiff.
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