Internet as Public Art

http://cca-actions.org/actions-list

The Canadian Centre for Architecture (CCA) presents the exhibition Actions: What You Can Do With the City, an exhibition with 99 actions that instigate positive change in contemporary cities around the world. Seemingly common activities such as walking, playing, recycling, and gardening are pushed beyond their usual definition by the international architects, artists, and collectives featured in the exhibition. Their experimental interactions with the urban environment show the potential influence personal involvement can have in shaping the city, and challenge fellow residents to participate.

http://www.contagiousmedia.org/

http://forwardtrack.eyebeamresearch.org/

http://critical-art.net/tactical_media/halifax/index.html

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2007_Boston_Mooninite_Scare

http://www.appliedautonomy.com/gw.html

http://graffitiresearchlab.com/?page_id=76#video

http://www.t0.or.at/nikeground/pressreleases/en/000

http://www.shopdropping.net/pages/menu.html

http://peopleproducts123.com/

http://www.billboardliberation.com/clients.html

http://www.wafaabilal.com/

All presentations should utilize the smart console (i.e. show visuals!). Plan to speak for 7-10 minutes and we will crit the work for 5 minutes. Practice your presentation and time yourself. Be concise, engaging and provocative. A presentation contains a present, think of your audience.

If you are doing a project (not the paper), please submit a 1-2 page TYPED paper that addresses the following about your projet:

Describe the project

Did it turn out as you imagined?

What were the successes and failures?

Make connection to topics from the class (cite specific readings and authors).

Bring a copy of your documenation to give to Brooke.

As promised, here is that article “Free Labor: Producing Culture for the Digital Economy” I mentioned in class.

Enjoy.

http://pg.mediafilter.org/

From Wikipedia:

Paul Garrin, (b. 1957), is best known as a politically active video artist from the 1990s. His most famous work is Man with a Video Camera (Fuck Vertov), 1989, in which he videotapes a riot in Tompkins Square Park in New York City’s Lower East Side. The video records police officers with covered badge numbers beating protesters, and Garrin himself being pulled off a van and assaulted for shooting video tape. In the video, Garrin proposes a new revolution is coming; a reverse Big Brother state in which citizens armed with camcorders are continually watching the government. Another well known work is Free Society, 1988, an intensely processed video using images representative of a police state.

Garrin was an artist living and working in the Lower East Side during its last days of creative production. His work straddled a gap between the highest technology available and hands-on street video, all for a common political cause. Later on, Garrin collaborated with video art superstar Nam June Paik, producing numerous works between 1982 and 1996.

Since the 1990s, Garrin has carried his politicized style of action artmaking onto the internet, founding companies and projects that work to free the internet from corporate and government control.

Just to clarify this is what remains for this semester:

For 4/15:

*“Communication, Power and Counter-power” Manuel Castells

DAN S. “What is Web 2.0?,” Tim O’Reilly

For 4/22:

DENNIS “Surveillance Society,” David Lyon

PETER “CyberDemocracy: Internet and the Public Sphere,” Mark Poster

Also, your final PROPOSALS are due.

4/29:

JONATHAN “Tipping Point,” Malcolm Gladwell

*“Google’s China Problem” Clive Thompson

This week you will also each meet with me on 4/29 or 30 to show me work in progress on your final and troubleshoot any problems.

5/6

Final Presentations!!

Manifesto of Open Disruption and Participation
Eric Paulos
20 February 2009
on the 100 year anniversary of the publishing of the Futurist Manifesto

Ubiquitous technology is with us and is indeed allowing us to communicate, buy, sell, connect, and do miraculous things.  However, it is time for this technology to empower us to go beyond finding friends, chatting with colleagues, locating hip bars, and buying music.

Here is a link to the 1968 article “The Tragedy of the Commons” by Garrett Hardin that Lessig mentions in Chapter One.

You are required to attend this lecture on WED March 11. Please take a look at this video before the lecture and Paul’s website.

Afterwards, use the comment feature to post your response.

Paul Vanouse
Wednesday, March 11, 6:30 p.m.
Neuberger Museum

About Paul:

Working at the crossroads of genetics and art, Paul Vanouse has been creating interdisciplinary installations since 1990. For the past several years, Vanouse has been specifically concerned with forcing the arcane codes of scientific communication into a broader cultural language. His work has been exhibited widely in the United States and international venues including the Museo Nacional de Bellas Artes in Buenos Aires, Argentina; the Louvre in Paris; and the TePapa Museum in Wellington, New Zealand. He is featured in the book Information Arts by Stephen Wilson and has been funded by the Pennsylvania Council on the Arts, The New York State Council on the Arts, The New York Foundation for the Arts, Creative Capital and the Heinz Foundation, among others. He is an associate professor of art at the University at Buffalo in New York and has also taught at the University of California, San Diego.

URL: http://www.contrib.andrew.cmu.edu/~pv28/

1994
Kings Cross Phone In, Heath Bunting

The Fileroom, Antoni Muntadas

1995
Jodi (or try this link too)

1996
My Boyfriend Came Back From the War, Olia Lialina

Etoy

Every Icon, John F. Simon

Mouchette

1997
Desktop Is, Alexi Shulgin

Persistent Data Confidante, Paul Vanose

1998
Shredder, Mark Napier

Floodnet, Ricardo Dominquez + Brett Stalbaum

1999
0100101110101101.org

The Intruder, Natalie Bookchin

GW Bush, Rtmark

Toy War, Etoy

Brandon, She Lea Cheang

2001
Blackness for Sale, Keith Obadike

All My LIfe for Sale, John Freyer

They Rule, Josh On and Future Farmers