Sculpted by email and spam: "E-mail Erosion automatically creates sculptures, using spam and e-mail as data to trigger the sculpting process.

The work, viewable via four webcams, consists of a powder-coat steel frame. Each of its sides has a ‘bot’ which can move to any point on the side's face, working much like a flat-bed plotter. The bots can also squirt water into the frame, causing a section of a large block of the starch-based styrofoam to dissolve.

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Each of the bots is associated with an e-mail address. When e-mail is received by a bot, it either moves or squirts water, according to an algorithm that uses the e-mail's content as input data. The bots email a response to every email received, but limit their move/squirt actions to once a day for each address from which they receive email.

People visiting the website will be invited to email the bots. E-mail will also be generated by putting the bots' addresses on mailing lists and in places likely to be picked up by spammers.

At the end of the show (up and running in February 2006), the remaining foam, if any, is a finished sculpture.

Commissioned by Rhizome to Annie Brissenden, Tony Muilenburg and Ethan Ham."

(Via Information aesthetics. Via we make money not art.)

It‘s been forever since I last posted anything; I’ve been stacked out with weddings, freelance work and my boy's birthday! Also finding out that I'm not able to have the day per week off I needed to do my MA has really taken the wind out of my sails; especially on this blog which I first started as a means of collating my diverse thoughts, primarily with regard to the MA.

I have since managed to agree 5 weeks unpaid leave per year with my employer (on top of my holiday), in order to begin exploring some of the MA projects I have in mind. As and when I get to do the course, I'll be hitting the ground running and will perhaps get more out of it.

However, first project has nothing to do with the MA; I‘m doing some visuals for a mate’s band Gojira … and man is it hard going! I'm using Quartz Composer which despite apparent simplicity, I'm finding immensely hard work! I don‘t know whether it’s just that I‘m so used to working with scripting languages that things like control structures seem overly complicated, or whether it’s simply a mind-set kind of thing that the more I use it the more obvious it will become?

The one thing I have definitely realised is that in order to actually create some kind of well crafted visual interest, it needs to actually be story-boarded in some fashion; by creating sets of colours, effects, graphics, images, movies and so on, based around each song, which can be combined in different ways in the live show, I might have a chance of creating something vaguely coherent!? We'll see!

Over the next week or so, I‘ll try to post at least some screen shots of how it’s going, in the lead up to the 2 gigs they (we) are playing at Greenbelt this year.

Revs' Subway Autobiography Page Found: "

From New York Urban Exploration:

'Down in the tunnels you quickly learn that there are reoccuring names, and these are the names of people who have, years earlier, combed through these very tunnels we explore today. Smith estimates that REVS covered up to 80% of the subway tunnels.

With recent discoveries, we were given with more than enough clues as to where REVS‘ obscure ’first page‘ is (which we had all seen in ESPO’s book.) So tonight, we decided to roam the tunnels for it, with an unneccessarily large amount of people who were in it for the adventure. A few of us wanted to see the fabled first page for ourselves. What we discovered was far beyond our wildest imaginations. An entire emergency exit, transformed into what my fellow explorer, Hanvey described as a ‘shrine of sorts.’ The walls were wallpapered with old wheatpastes that influenced today‘s whole ’street art‘ phenomenon. There were drawings that the guy would use to draw on canvas and bolt and cement onto doorways. And in this very spot is where he, again, took graff to a creative new level.’

(Thanks G!)"

(Via Wooster Collective / A Celebration of Street Art.)

networked_performance: “an open forum to discuss network-enabled performance for an international conference in 2006”

What is NETWORKED PERFORMANCE ?

locative media, augmented reality, distributed performance, environmental theatre, pervasive play, immersive gaming, telepresence?…???

Recent technological and telecommunication developments—the internet's two-way communication model, relatively inexpensive access to computers and networks—have given rise to a powerful and diverse range of creative production, particularly among those not self-defined as artists, resulting in a bleedover between and across disciplines as people explore unconventional uses of tools and technologies. Current activity indicates that trends emergent from computer network based practice are changing the nature of performance.

The idea is to use this blog to generate discussion about emergent forms, current practice, histories, interests, issues and ideas - to explore performance within, through, and across computer networks and disciplines.

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It just looks so comfy, and it has that great 60s / 70s design vibe which I love. I bet they're like a squillion pounds. Site

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