Read | Write Art in the Age of Dataflow: Narrative, Authorship, and Indeterminacy by Patrick Lichty — in Networked: a (networked_book) about (networked_art):

ABSTRACT: How to write a chapter that ostensibly has no end? Who is the author when anyone can edit? Does dialogue occur on listerves and blogs? How do we make meaning of trends? I look at the emergence of nonlinear narrative (1940 – 2006), using the mathematical terms scalar, vector and flow as conceptual or visual metaphors that describe structure, transmission, and social patterns. Scalar examines the set, non-linear narratives of hypermedia and the indeterminate narratives of Wikis; vector, the dialogic narratives of listserves and blogs; and artistic visualizations that seek to reveal patterns as flows of information in networked cultures increase. Continue reading

Floppy Films, The Netherlands, 2009: Disappeared from our desktops first because of cd-rom burners and then (after regretting losing the floppy’s quick data portability) because of USB keys, the floppy disk is still supported by major OSs, but is often found sleeping in quantities in boxes as old relics. The floppy disk (3.5″) has been the medium of choice for Florian Cramer’s brilliant artwork series (Floppy Films). He has started to play with video editing software and compression codecs in order to make short videos that fit this old medium’s capacity. nkdlunch.mp4 is a film cut-up of the cut-up of David Cronenberg’s film adaption of William Burroughs’ cut-up novel. Continue reading

Pace Digital Gallery presents David Clark + Michelle Gay :: November 13 – December 4, 2008: Lecture and Reception: November 13; 6:00 – 8:00 pm :: 163 William Street, Rm 313; Pace University, New York City.

David Clark’s 88 Constellations for Wittgenstein (to be played with the Left Hand) is an interactive, non-linear net.art piece that explores the life and philosophy of Ludwig Wittgenstein through a series of animated vignettes. Each of the 88 sections corresponds to one of the 88 constellations in the night sky. This work considers the questions that Ludwig Wittgenstein pondered in his eventful lifetime – logic, language, the nature of thinking, the limits of knowledge – all in relation to our contemporary digital world with it’s symmetries, asymmetries, and doubles. Continue reading

RESET/PLAY – Cory Arcangel, Michael Bell-Smith, Mike Beradino, Brody Condon, Alex Galloway, JODI, Guthrie Lonergan, Kristin Lucas, Joe McKay, Michael Smith, Eddo Stern and Keita Takahashi :: September 6 – November 2, 2008 :: September 6, 3:00 pm – Talking Art with guest curators Marcin Ramocki and Paul Slocum :: Arthouse, 700 Congress Avenue, Austin, TX.

The video game as a medium and a style of life has reached its middle age along with the first generation of people who grew up playing them. The non-linear, interactive, processor based narratives, which at first mimicked Hollywood and struggled to convey their simple content with 8-bit processors, gradually became the largest entertainment industry in the history of electronic media. Continue reading

GPS Film – Location-Based Mobile Cinema Premieres in Singapore :: September 4, 2008; 2:00 pm :: Kay Ngee Tan Architects Gallery, 16-17 Duxton Hill.

GPS Film is new media artwork from filmmaker Scott Hessels that invents a new way of watching movies based on the viewer’s location and movement. Using a GPS-enabled PDA or mobile phone, the audience creates a new type of film experience that reveals the story through their journey. Released as a free, open-source application, the project will premiere on September 4, 2008 along with the first film made specifically for the system, Singaporean filmmaker Kenny Tan’s chase comedy Nine Lives. Continue reading

Cantata Park 1 (2006) [Teleport to Mashup Park, Marni (206, 35, 23)] — by Metamatic (Christopher Dodds and Adam Nash) — is an interactive, spatialised sound sculpture built in the virtual world Second Life. The sculpture is made from 256 individual nodes in a 16 x 16 grid. Each node is embedded with a single word, triggered by a participant’s movement through the work. Each participant creates a random narrative, assembled on-the-fly, and in real-time.

Cantata Park explores the notion of a “cut-up narrative”. By disassembling and reassembling a passage of text, the participant is free to extract unseen meaning from an existing text. Continue reading

Layered Histories: The Wandering Bible of Marseilles by Cynthia Beth Rubin and Bob Gluck :: January 14 – February 24, 2008 :: Reception: January 30, 4:30 – 6:30 pm :: Presentation & Discussion 5:30 pm :: Joseph Slifka Center for Jewish Life at Yale, Allan and Leah Rabinowitz Gallery, 80 Wall Street, New Haven, CT.

Layered Histories represents an innovative approach to the use of new media as a means to engage the viewer in a personal investigation of a non-linear narrative. Cascading animations and a diffusion of sound gestures are triggered and guided by a visitor’s reading pointer movements around the surface of what appears to be an illuminated manuscript. Continue reading

The Wooster Group: There is Still Time.. Brother :: Directed by Liz LeCompte – Developed with Jeffrey Shaw for his interactive panoramic cinema.

There is Still Time.. Brother is a commission for an installation that consists of an interactive projection for a 360° screen. The commission is rooted in the recording of a Wooster Group performance developed specifically to be viewed as a projection on a 360° screen. The video is revealed by way of a window that scans around the screen, never showing the whole of the projection at once. Continue reading

Time Out of Place by Semiconductor (Ruth Jarman and Joe Gerhardt) – The Kings Cross area in London is rapidly transforming, creating a city in flux. Semiconductor have captured this moment in human history by documenting the day to day happenings in a short moving image work. The linear nature of time makes us have a very fixed experience of it; constantly stuck in the present. To break free from these constraints Semiconductor have devised a process where by we see the past present and future simultaneously. This act of seeing time reveals a different visual landscape then we are custom to; as multiple patterns of motion emerge to reveal a new rhythm to the city. Bearing witness to these events we perceive a place in transition, beyond our everyday experiences.

Soft Machines and the Cinematographic Imaginary, Nowe media i film – International conference within the confines of the 15th International Film Festival of the Art of Cinematography Plus Camerimage :: November 30, 2007, 12:00 – 6:00 pm :: The Grand Theatre Łódź.

Beginning in the last decades of the 20th century, the increasing expansion of multimedia has made the digital synthesis of image, interactivity, non-linearity and intermediality not only ephemeral practices of contemporary art, but also prevalent and established characteristics of popular culture. Continue reading