User:Eleanorg/2.1/Artworks
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.
- Dead Drops (2011-), Aram Bartholl, http://deaddrops.com/
- Another offline network, taking 'digital' into physical space & inviting strangers to take risks together
- Assembling Press (1970-1982), Richard Kostelanetz http://www.richardkostelanetz.com/inventories/assembling.html
- 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)
- Amsterdam Weekly (2008 fundraising campaign) http://www.guerrilla-innovation.com/archives/2008/04/000647.php
- Magazine divided into blocks, only blocks sold (5EU each) get printed. 'Vote with your wallet' publishing.
- Newsmap (2004), Marcus Weskamp http://marumushi.com/projects/newsmap
- 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
- EpicPedia (2008), Annemieke van der Hoek, http://www.epicpedia.org/
- 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
- The BlogPaper (Beta) http://www.theblogpaper.co.uk
- 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).
- Bambina Precoce (1984-1986), Tommaso Tozzi http://www.tommasotozzi.it/index.php?title=Bambina_Precoce_%281984%29
- Fanzine distributed by being posted on walls around Florence. (Post digital print p.47). How else could printed material be distributed?
- Pamphlet (2006), Helmut Smits http://helmutsmits.nl/public-spaces/pamphlet
- 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.
- Written Images (2013) http://writtenimages.net/
- A book of generative art. Each one printed on demand and is unique.
Amplifying the Other
- Vitruvian Paint Machine (2009) by Conditional Design http://conditionaldesign.org/workshops/vitruvian-paint-machine/
- Artist experiments with surrendering control to the Other; becomes 'programmable' << opens up links between computers (commands) and social power/instruction
- Skin (2003), Shelley Jackson, http://ineradicablestain.com/skin-video.html
- 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.
- ExtInked, UHC Collective http://www.uhc.org.uk/portfolio.php?tag=13&project=54
- 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
- The Quick Brown (?), Jonathan Puckey http://www.thequickbrown.com/
- Stylish text-diff treatment of live headlines. Using HTML Parser & XinDiff.