Maciej Wisniewski. (Hotlist).Maciej Wisniewski is the creator and chief scientist of netomat, a network- and software-based art project that has been shown at such venues as the Whitney Museum of American Art Whitney Museum of American Art, in New York City, founded in 1930 by Gertrude Vanderbilt Whitney. It was an outgrowth of the Whitney Studio (1914–18), the Whitney Studio Club (1918–28), and the Whitney Studio Galleries (1928–30). , New York New York, state, United States New York, Middle Atlantic state of the United States. It is bordered by Vermont, Massachusetts, Connecticut, and the Atlantic Ocean (E), New Jersey and Pennsylvania (S), Lakes Erie and Ontario and the Canadian province of , and ZKM ZKM Zentrum für Kunst Und Medientechnologie (Center for Art and Media, Karlsruhe, DE) , Karlsruhe, Germany. A 1993 NEW YORKER cartoon by Peter Steiner depicts a canine surfing the Web. The caption reads: "On the Internet, nobody knows you're a dog "On the Internet, nobody knows you're a dog" is an adage which began as the caption of a famous cartoon published by The New Yorker on 5 July 1993, and authored by Peter Steiner. ." Since artists these days can be just about anybody if they put their mind to it (think Nikki S. Lee or Sophie Calle Sophie Calle (born 1953) is a French writer, photographer, installation artist, and conceptual artist. Calle’s work is distinguished by its use of arbitrary sets of constraints, and evokes the French literary movement of the 1960s known as Oulipo. ), it's possible that some online presences--software engineers, corporations, and even government entities--are really artists, clandestinely working toward politico-aesthetic ends. What if the Internet were secretly powered by a cabal of painters, photographers, and performers chuckling behind the curtain in concealment; in secret. See also: Curtain ? Of course, the following sites may be exactly what they appear to be; on the other hand, could anyone but artists have come up with them? NJ.com Police Scanner www.nj.com/policescanner The voyeuristic possibilities provided by webcams have created a slew of (perhaps unwitting) performance artists. If you are an obsessive observer of sensational subjects, check out the New Jersey police scanner, where you can tap into a live, unedited audio stream from the world of law enforcement and emergency response. Is it art imitating life, or life imitating Cops? J-Track Satellite Tracking liftoff.msfc.nasa.gov/toc.asp?s=Tracking A couple of years ago, Patrick Meyer, an aerospace technician in data systems at NASA, with help from Tim Horvath of Teledyne Brown Engineering Teledyne Brown Engineering, or TBE, formerly Brown Engineering, is a Huntsville, AL–based subsidiary of Teledyne Technologies (NYSE: TDY). TBE was acquired by Teledyne Technologies in 1966. , created a satellite-tracking program called J-Track and posted it on the Web. The program displays half a dozen satellites and spacecrafts such as Mir and the Hubble telescope in their real-time orbital positions around Earth, in addition to the latest weather patterns from the Intellicast weather service. Viewers can see in two- or three-dimensional displays a good bit of what's floating above us in the outer atmosphere. As I watch J-Track on my desktop, I prefer to think of it as an artwork; otherwise I'm stuck wondering whether one of those dots is about to hit me or the head. License Plate Gallery webreference.com/outlook/license/gallery2.html If you are puzzled by the once ubiquitous phrase "information superhighway" and how it might relate to the actual highway system, you'll find an answer at Richard Wiggins's License Plate Gallery. This collection of vanity plates featuring Internet-age buzzwords Below is a list of common buzzwords which form part of the business jargon of Corporate work environments. General Conversation
"Ask Andy Roid!" www.trycolony.com/ask.htm Transcom Software has developed an application called Colony, whose autonomous agents mimic the behavior of a colony of ants. This colony's work ethic is designed not to build a hill, however, but to meet your research needs. The search agents collaborate in responding to your queries and in learning how better to respond in the future. The latest addition to Colony is Andy Roid, a "research assistant" who compares the results from search engines such as Google, AltaVista, and Go. When I asked the search agent, "Are you an artwork?" it replied, "I'm sorry but I don't know Don't know (DK, DKed) "Don't know the trade." A Street expression used whenever one party lacks knowledge of a trade or receives conflicting instructions from the other party. "--an answer perhaps only an artist posing as an insectoid reference librarian would think to give. Web Karaoke www.hawaiizone.com/wkaraoke.html This site enables closet lounge singers to belt out such classic sing-alongs as "Copacabana," "Feelings," "YMCA YMCA in full Young Men's Christian Association Nonsectarian, nonpolitical Christian lay movement that aims to develop high standards of Christian character among its members. ," and "New York, New York" anywhere they can connect to the Internet. Karaoke is traditionally a very social affair; whether your audience is friend or foe, you're singing (or attempting to) in public. Now, through the magic of the Internet, you can become a karaoke singer in the privacy of your own home. Doesn't everyone want to be an artist, even when no one is watching? |
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