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PuréeData by Ted Hayes with funds from the Jerome Foundation PuréeData is a web-browser interface for a single shared sound environment that allows live, collaborative patching for anyone, anywhere. Visitors interact with a shared PureData audio synthesis patch and listen to the results as an MP3 stream, with no software to install or set up. The project is open-source, and all are encouraged to modify, improve and set up their own PuréeData servers. [Optimized for Google Chrome] |
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Endgame: A Cold War Love Story by Tal Halpern with funds from the Jerome Foundation Endgame: A Cold War Love Story – for the web and Flash enabled touch screen devices (DROID) – is a puzzle whose pieces are culled from an archive of long forgotten propaganda. In it a story about art, exile and history takes shape from the fragmentary remains of one woman's life. [Needs Adobe Flash Player] |
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look art curated by James Morgan/Ars Virtua with funds from the National Endowment for the Arts Built on MUSH (Multi-User Shared Hallucination) code, look art is a contemporary consideration of the Multi-User Dungeon (MUD), a pervasive late-twentieth century, text-based, online environment that was a precursor to today's Massively Multiplayer Online Role-Playing Games (such as "World of Warcraft" and "Second Life"). MUDs were influenced by early role-playing games like "Dungeons and Dragons, " relying on the user's ability to conjure images through text – unlike today's dependence on high-resolution graphics (which were not possible then). Because the connection protocols are simple, the text-only space is accessible via many clients, including mobile phones. The inaugural look art exhibition features works by Thomas Asmuth, Alejandro Duque, and Christopher Poff. [Needs software download and installation] |
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Social Relay Mail by Brooke Singer, with Fever Creative with funds from the New York City Department of Cultural Affairs, in partnership with the City Council Social Relay Mail (SRM) is an app that lets you identify a stranger on Facebook and use your social network to deliver a private message. Turn your friends, your friends' friends, and your friends' friends' friends into your personal courier service. Sending the message is only half the fun. In the process, discover the strength of your social network via a handy data visualization. Did your message arrive at its destination or get dropped? How many people had to be enlisted along the way? Social Relay Mail is part Pony Express and part Facebook hack — testing the limits of interaction in a controlled social space. [Needs a http://facebook.com account] |
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You Don't Know Me by Liangjie Xia with funds from the Jerome Foundation You are not always who other people think you are; you even hear your own voice in a different way. By recording and manipulating a recording of your voice with You Don't Know Me, you will be able to restore your real voice and share with people how you hear yourself. This is a unique task that nobody else in the world can do. You Don't Know Me provides a toolset and an online voice gallery. We are looking forward to hearing your true voice. [Needs software download] |
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Aleph Null by Jim Andrews Aleph Null is a generative, interactive, open source work written in JavaScript using the HTML5 canvas tag. No plugin required. Aleph Null is color music. No audio. It takes practice to tease the really good stuff out of it. It's like an instrument that way. Or a game in which the goal is to experience color music and create visuals you like. It's like hunting the Snark, beauty or butterflies. Unlike most instruments, Aleph Null will play something whether a person is playing or not. But it benefits immensely by a human player. It knoweth not beauty, is but the instrument of thine own incandesence. |
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Six Sided Strange by Jason Nelson Six Sided Strange is a net-artwork series built from unsolvable Rubik's cubes and hidden narratives, from pixilated game character collages to abstract streams of color and lines. The cube is central to how we organize and understand. It is a puzzle of unsolvable junctures, a humanistic shape created to order and organize. Six Sided Strange disrupts the cube, wandering inside/around the recombinatory playground of Rubik's 56 squares, exploring how images and designs relate to narrative. These are interactive/dynamic sculptures, brief storylands, and all manner of wonderments. There is nothing to win, but then again there never was. Read an interview >> Read a review >> Read an interview >> |
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Insurance.AES256 Michael Takeo Magruder On July 28, 2010, WikiLeaks posted a link to an encrypted 1.4GB file entitled insurance.aes256 on its Afghan War Diary website. The file's appearance generated considerable speculation and debate as no official explanation was given about its contents or purpose. Countless individuals have downloaded it and redistributed it on hard drives and servers spanning the world's vast unregulated file-sharing networks, virally embedding it into the fabric of the Internet and rendering it forever obtainable and impossible to eradicate. What knowledge (or secrets) will be uncovered within its cryptic digital form? Insurance.AES256 is a 2011 commission for All that Fits: The Aesthetics of Journalism curated by Alfredo Cramerotti and Simon Sheikh. |
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