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.

Collaborative authoring

re-performs collaborative editing. A nice treatment to make sense of the history of collaborative texts

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.

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