Eduardo Kac's Net Art Links

Before the Internet

MAIL ART

Eternal Network: A Mail Art Anthology (book and web site)

Ray Johnson + How to Draw a Bunny

Ray Johnson @ ArtPool

Art Stamps @ ArtPool

Robert Watts

More Mail Art:

http://www.mailartist.com/kiyotei/index.html


USE OF MAIL, CORRESPONDENCE, OR TRANSPORTATION IN ART

Walead Beshty (Whitney Biennial 2008)

Walead Beshty (archived)


PIONEERING ART AND TELECOMMUNICATIONS:

Bob Adrian's "The World in 24 Hours", 1982

Robert Adrians Homepage with detailed descriptions of his projects

Roy Ascott's "Plissure du texte" (1983)

"Plissure du texte" as experienced by Norman White, 1983

1984 book on Art and Telecommunications

Pioneering Telecommunication's art projects by Bob Adrian and others (German)

Minitel emulator

Minitel.com

SSTV


Web Art



A different Web

Jodi
Jodi's nuclear bomb (detailed diagrams of hydrogen and uranium bombs)

http://geogeo.jodi.org
http://map.jodi.org/ - Jodi's personal map of the Web
http://404.jodi.org/ - playing with the "404 - File not Found" premise
http://oss.jodi.org/ - a deconstruction of the Windows and Mac OS 9 desktop interface, also released on a CD-ROM
http://sod.jodi.org/ - a modification of Wolfenstein 3D
http://asdfg.jodi.org
http://text.jodi.org
http://www.jodi.org
http://jetsetwilly.jodi.org
http://www.wrongbrowser.com/ - absurd artistic interpretation of a browser (Alt-F4 to exit)
http://www.untitled-game.org/ - also on CD-ROM, twelve modifications of Quake
http://maxpaynecheatsonly.jodi.org/ - cheats on built-in functions of the video game Max Payne 2 - new work released in May 2006
http://blogspot.jodi.org/ - Jodi's art blogs
An interview with Jodi by Tilman Baumgaertel on the nettime mailing list archives

Google House by Marika Dermineur et Stéphane Degoutin
0100101110101101.ORG
Absurd.org
E13
Superbad, entertaining dysfunctional site by Ben Benjamin
LandsBeyond by Thiago Celso Reeks
Shredder, by Mark Napier
WebStalker, by I/O/D
Netomat, by Maciej Wisniewski
Unreliable Archivist, by Janet Cohen, Keith Frank, Jon Ippolito
Feed, by Mark Napier (needs Explorer)
Babel, by Simon Biggs
Tendril, Benjamin Fry
Valence, Benjamin Fry
Computer Fine Arts Collection, New York
The Online Route Generator, by O-R-G (Can’t find original)
General News -- an interactive metabrowser (Link still works, but the proxy server doesn’t)
Discoder (Japan)

          Rafaël Rozendaal
            Abstract Browsing is a Chrome extension by Rafaël Rozendaal.
            Install it, and the World Wide Web becomes abstract.  You can turn it on or off on at any moment.
            Available for free in the Chrome Web Store.
         Rafaël Rozendaal
         http://intotime.com
         His new website: https://www.newrafael.com

          The revolving internet, Constant Dullaart 2010
          https://therevolvinginternet.com



Internet Visualization

WhatRoute (Mac)
WebTracer
NeoTrace (New link seems a little sketchy)
Internet Traffic Report

net.art

Vuk Cosic's Home Page
Form Art Competition, by Alexei Shulgin
Deskyop Is, by Alexei Shulgin
Moscow WWW Art Centre by Alexei Shulgin and others (Link is dead but this describes it: http://v2.nl/archive/works/moscow-wwwart-centre)
My Boyfriend Came Back From The War by Olia Lialina
John Simon
Brandon, by Shu Lea Cheang
A brief (INCOMPLETE) history (missing)
UBERMORGEN.COM's EKMRZ-Trilogy
Net art generator, nag_01 (1997) by Ryan Johnston (Main page works, but generator doesn’t work)
Net art generator, nag_03 (1999) by Barbara Thoens and Ralf Prehn (Main page works, but generator doesn’t work)
nag_05 - The Image Generator, by Panos Galanis (Link is dead, but this collects some images: http://net.art-generator.com/)
 
Recent Net art
 
The Sheep Market
The SheepMarket.com, by Aaron Koblin, is a collection of 10,000 sheep made by workers on Amazon's Mechanical Turk. Workers were paid 0.02 ($USD) to "draw a sheep facing to the left."
www.thesheepmarket.com

COMPUTERS CLUB (faux retro)
Computers Club is a group of Internet artists that was initiated in 2007 by Krist Wood, an artist and musician.<http://distributedcollectives.net/computers_club.html>
http://www.computersclub.org

Paolo Cirio, face2facebook
Stealing 1 million Facebook profiles, filtering them with face-recognition software, and then, posting them on a custom-made dating website, sorted by their facial expressions characteristics.
 
Minitel / Teletext (faux retro; lo-fi aesthetics)
FixC cooperative, Finland
ITAF - International Teletext Art Festival at Berlin project space Pfleuger68 (Exhibition in collaboration with FixC Cooperative Helsinki and ARD Text -- 16.08.2012 - 16.09.2012)
ARD Text Website
International Teletext Art Festival Reboots a Funky Retro Technology
 



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NET HACKING

Newstweek
http://newstweek.com/howto
http://vimeo.com/23075736
http://vimeo.com/18637790
 
We covered the Newstweek, a wall-wart sized box that injects fake news stories over public WiFi connections last February, but now there’s a great walk through and it seems our doubts about this project were disproved.

The Newstweek uses ARP spoofing to change the text displayed on several news sites. After doing some field research, placing and configuring the device, there’s a simple web frontend that configures the man-in-the-middle hack. Right now, the Newstweek only allows a few news sites to be targeted, but the team is working on allowing anyone to add their own targets.

Aside from the relatively simple build, we’re wondering about the social engineering aspects of the Newstweek. In our previous coverage of the Newstweek, we couldn’t decide if this was a social commentary art project, or a real device. It looks like it’s both now. Would hackaday readers succumb to injecting, “President Bacon addressed the nation last night…” or would you do the responsible thing and put the “(D)s” and “(R)s” in their proper places?

The Newstweek team posted a video of a short demonstration, but check out the video after the break for the “incredibly geeky and thorough demo.”




Interactive Audio, Sound Art, Music

Nio
Cathedral


Identity

Mouchette


Game-base art & Straight Play

Soda Constructor (Link is dead, but www.sodaplay.com explains the project.)
Cntrl-Space, by Jodi
The Intruder, by Natalie Bookchin
The game link is down, but there’s a summary here: http://bookchin.net/projects/the-intruder/
And a video here: https://vimeo.com/30022802
Eden.Garden 1.0, by Michael Samyn and Auriea Harvey (Game link is down, but artists’ site might be useful: http://entropy8zuper.org/godlove)
Orit Kruglanski's interactive poem "InnerSpace Invaders", 1998 (Link is dead)



Exhibitons, archives, references

Net-Condition
The Walker Art Center's Gallery 9
Pour une typologie de la création sur Internet, Essay by Annick Bureaud - Janvier 1998. (LAST VERIFIED)
ArtNetWeb - Home Page (CONTINUE TO VERIFY STARTING HERE)
Ada Web
Selected by Gilberto Prado
Arco 2001
La Biennale de Montréal 2000
The online exhibition L'autre monde/Out of This World. The exhibition includes 10 web projects of the past 2 years dealing directly or allusively with the issue of death and the hereafter.
010101:  Art in Technological Times @The San Francisco Museum of Modern Art


Telepresence
Genesis, by Eduardo Kac
Teleporting an Unknown State, by Eduardo Kac
The Shadow Server by Ken Goldberg


Media Poetry
Media Poetry: an International Anthology

Poesia virtual by Pablo Gyori
Diagram Series by Jim Rosenberg
The Ballad of Sand and Harry Soot, by Stephanie Strickland
Orit Kruglanski
André Vallias
Giselle Beiguelman
John Cayley
Bill Seaman
Richard Kostelanetz
Jean-Pierre Balpe
Jim Andrews
Aya Natalia Karpinska
E. M. de Melo e Castro


Miscellaneous hypermedia

LoveOne (Hypertext by Judy Malloy)
Fucking and Thinking by Barbara DeGenevieve
WAXweb by David Blair
Sensorium
VNS MATRIX
Realms by Annette Weintraub
Connecting Bodies (reviews)
Van Gogh TeleVision

3D WEB

SecondLife
3B
VNET
CosmoPlayer 2.1
MetaStream
WorldView (PC)
Adobe Atmosphere
TerraVision
G-Vista
Cult 3D
Atmosphere
FreeWRL (Universal Binary for the OS X platform)
VRML Plugin and Browser Detector
X3D (wiki)
NASA’s 3D Guide to the Galaxy (X3D example)
Quest Atlantis (QA) is a 3D multi-user learning environment (that utilizes Active Worlds) designed to immerse children, ages 9-12, in meaningful inquiry tasks.


Graphic Novel Generator
What I did Last Summer, by Alex Dragulescu


ART AND SOCIAL NETWORKING

Among the works on view are Paolo Cirio and Alessandro Ludovico’s Face to Facebook, showing for the first time in New York. It is a multimedia installation of one million Facebook profiles, which were appropriated by the artists, filtered using facial-recognition software, and then posted on a custom-made dating website sorted by facial expressions.

Eva and Franco Mattes’ The Others is a video installation composed of 10,000 photos the Mattes have acquired through a software glitch that gives remote access to personal computer files. The core of the work is not just the presentation of these images, but the act of “stealing” and moving them from the private into the public realm.

Other artists and works represented in the gallery include Jill Magid’s Evidence Locker,

Luke Dubois' Missed Connections,

Carlo Zanni’s Self Portrait with Friends,

Paolo Cirio’s Street Ghosts,

Ben Grosser’s Facebook Demetricator.


Regular browsers

iCab

Opera

Shiira

Camino

Safari

Firefox

Netscape

OmniWeb

Konqueror

Nintendo DS Browser

Explorer



FREE BOOK

Networking: The Net as Artwork


Electronic Art History, Theory and Criticism

Rhizome
LEONARDO ON-LINE
Intelligent Agent
LEA - Leonardo Electronic Almanac
Leonardo/OLATS - Observatoire Leonardo des arts et des technosciences
OLATS Les Basiques (Quelles sont les structures d'écriture de l'art "multimédia" ?)
MUTE
FineArt Forum Home Page
21C Magazine Cover Page
artnode: Texts on art
Convergence: Introduction
CTHEORY
digital studies / being in cyberspace|
First Monday
JOURNAL OF COMPUTER MEDIATED COMMUNICATION
Journal of Contemporary Art
Mediamatic Home Page
Nettime
Neural
Sandy Stone's Homepage
Postmodern Culture
TalkBack! by Robert Atkins
Telepolis
The Hacker Crackdown - Crashing The System
The Museum of the Third Kind by Roy ASCOTT
World Art Magazine Home Page
SPEED_Home
Aleph Pensamiento
Ylem/ Artists Using Science & Technology
Idea online


The Future

Internet 2
Internet2, the ultra high-speed network used for research and education, is getting an upgrade that will boost both the capacity and flexibility for member schools and universities to do advanced research. The first leg of the new 100-gigabit per second network, a tenfold increase in capacity, was unveiled at the annual fall meeting of Internet2 members in Chicago Dec. 5, 2006.

The Grid
The Open Grid Forum (OGF) is a community of users, developers, and vendors leading the global standardization effort for grid computing.
Grid Computing: A Brief Technology Analysis
The Grid: Computing without Bounds (Scientific American)

ProgrammableWeb
ProgrammableWeb is where you can keep-up with what's new and interesting with mashups, Web 2.0 APIs, and the new Web as Platform. The core of the site is the news blog and the 4 dashboards: Home, Mashups, APIs, and Members. New updates every day, 365 days a year. Mashup example: GMaps Flight Tracker.

Web 2.0 (Marketing buzzword)
Web 2.0, refers to a perceived second generation of web-based communities and hosted services — such as social-networking sites, wikis and folksonomies — which aim to facilitate collaboration and sharing between users. The term became popular following the first O'Reilly Media Web 2.0 conference in 2004. Although the term suggests a new version of the World Wide Web, it does not refer to an update to any technical specifications, but to changes in the ways software developers and end-users use the web.



OTHERS

Machinima
Machinima (a portmanteau of machine cinema, is both a collection of associated production techniques and a film genre defined by those techniques. As a production technique, the term concerns the rendering of computer-generated imagery (CGI) using real-time, interactive (game) 3D engines, as opposed to high-end and complex 3D animation software used by professionals. Engines from first-person shooter and role-playing simulation video games are typically used.

SecondLife Video

Fab @ Home

Cheap international bet-based cell phone (site)
Cheap international bet-based cell phone (article)

Slashdot: News for nerds, stuff that matters
 
Amazon's Mechanical Turk
www.mturk.com/mturk/welcome
 
0-DAY
http://www.0dayart.net
Being "online" is often seen as integral to new media work. The question becomes, if a digital file is not live on the Internet, is it still a work of Internet art? Artists Jeremiah Johnson (Nullsleep) and No Carrier embarked on a new project: The mission of the resulting Web site, 0-DAY, is to keep works of Internet art online at any costs. With a lo-fi hacker aesthetic and a punchy attitude, the people behind 0-DAY are the free-data pirates of the new media world.
 
The Gregory Brothers
Auto-Tune the News uses real video clips like news broadcasts, viral videos and other talking head content to create funny music videos. Interviewers, celebrities, and politicians alike break into song in these innovative comedy mash-ups.


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