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)

• 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 hierarhcy; 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.

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

Version control

• The Quick Brown (?), Jonathan Puckey http://www.thequickbrown.com/

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