Sightings: Exploring Community + Arts + Internet

Sightings is a website that documents research into the possibilities for using the Internet or other communications networks in community arts contexts.

It includes interviews with:

Mike Ananny

Mike Annany (TexTales) talks about his experience working on a community history project, using mobile phones, photographs and projections. He talks about participation and the need to keep the project on course while being flexible to the needs and interests of the group.

Curt Cloninger

Curt Cloninger writes link-rich responses to questions about what the boundaries of net art are, and what communications networks offer art.

Lowell Monke

Lowell Monke feels that now that the ‘genie is out of the bottle’ the onus is on us to make the best we can of technology, while being ever critical and watchful of its effects on our everyday lives and our communities.

Bong Ramilo

Bong Ramilo shares his experience of working on a website that supports community cultural development, and highlights the need for focusing on open source software.

Helen Simondson

Helen Simondson talks about running digital storytelling projects with a range of partners. She also touches on issues relating to these projects, such as release forms and digital storage.

Barrie Stephenson

Barrie Stephenson offers practical details about running a digital storytelling which includes writing, photography and publishing outcomes online.

Media Lab Europe

Media Lab Europe’s mission was to expand human potential through invention. Between 2000 and 2005 Media Lab Europe generated a range of research activities. Of note are the projects of the Everyday Learning Group (principal investigator Carol Strohecker) looking at “technology-supported intergenerational, intercultural constructivity”

TexTales:

Mike Ananny, Carol Strohecker

This large-scale installation is an exploration of public collaborative publishing. We display a 3-by-3 grid of photos and associated captions on a building wall. Anyone viewing the wall can choose a photo for which they would like to create a caption, send a SMS text message with their caption and, after a delay of about 10 seconds, see their caption added to the wall. For each photo, TexTales displays the 3 most recent SMS captions.

Papervision3D

Papervision3D is a open source high performance 3D engine for Flash. It uses triangle tesselation to distort textures. Now one can render complex objects in “real 3D”! Click here for project home.

Examples: Robbie William’s Rudebox site, Room demo, Pioneer, or see further examples at the Papervision3D blog

view their showreel below

Adobe Creativity Conducted

Adobe Creativity Conducted Interactive Wall Experience features a holographic-like projection system on which you can paint images and designs using a Nintendo Wii remote control.

This full screen Flash application runs in HD resolution, and was premiered during the primary Adobe party of the MAX 07 Conference in Chicago. The experience ran uninterrupted for the duration of the party (4 hours), and received nonstop foot traffic resulting in 68 artistic creations submitted as images to a Flickr account.

Intrude: Art & Life 366

Intrude: Art & Life 366 is an unprecedented event in the city of Shanghai. Starting on January 1st 2008 and ending on December 31st 2008, the Zendai Museum of Modern Art (Zendai MoMA) will present a cultural event to the people of Shanghai every single day of the year. This cross-cultural and interdisciplinary project is called Intrude: Art & Life 366 and aims to intervene in people’s daily lifes, engage them to take part in art happenings and stimulate the public debate on art. An event of this scale and influence has never taken place in China before.

via eflux

we make money not art

we make money not art is a blog discussing the intersection between art, design and technology.

Includes range of interviews with artists and coverage of conferences – see notes from Natalie Jeremijenko’s talk at Stifo@Sandberg conference.