http://www.asquare.org/networkresearch Network Research is a weblog gathering and archiving information concerning the use of networks in new media / contemporary art. Wed, 20 Aug 2008 12:23:02 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en This interesting work popped up on the Microsound announce mailing list a few weeks ago and made me think of another work which has striking similarities in aim and use of technology. Wind (image above, video below) by Damian Stewart is a work which employs the wind (it's effect of movement ... http://www.asquare.org/networkresearch/2008/wind-in-new-media Heart-Donor (diagram above, images below) by Laura Beloff, Erich Berger and Elina Mitrunen (see here for previous wearable art) is a wearable art with similar aims to some connected wearables I have posted about before. The concept for Heart-Donor was developed as an idea about one’s social network within "hybrid ... http://www.asquare.org/networkresearch/2008/heart-donor Parasite, a work by Katharina Weier, is a small mobile information device or interactive sticker which is attached to a host (preferably mobile) in an urban environment. This means, they ensure the transport of the single devices and therewith also the circulation of the messages. Instead of just staying on one ... http://www.asquare.org/networkresearch/2008/parasite Recently had a quick break in Amsterdam to relax and try to see a few exhibitions. Our timing wasn't great as some of the most interesting spaces seemed to between exhibitions (e.g. Netherlands Media Art Institute). Deep Screen – Art in Digital Culture at the Stedelijk Museum (temporarily located on ... http://www.asquare.org/networkresearch/2008/network-works-in-amsterdam Today is a visualisation software for mobile phones which illustrates mobile communication (above is a sample visualisation and below the key to understanding the visualisation). It sits on the periphery of the machine, monitoring our connectivity through the number and type of calls we receive, subtly displaying them back to us, ... http://www.asquare.org/networkresearch/2008/today Corporate Suite (image above and two images below) by Julien Bouillon is a series of printed images of a new type of spam email which employ images and no text to fool spam blockers. This method of encrypting text in (mainly but not exclusively) images, coined Captcha (Completely Automated ... http://www.asquare.org/networkresearch/2008/corporate-suite Disorganiser (image above of a disorganised version of this weblog) is another Firefox extension which allows the user to subvert existing websites however unlike Shiftspace this only occurs locally and can not be shared with other users of the extension. Commissioned by the 27th Biennial of Graphic Arts in Ljubljana and ... http://www.asquare.org/networkresearch/2008/disorganiser Shiftspace is a firefox extension which it's makers call: An Open Source layer above any webpage It deserves mention here amongst the last few posts about Art Browsers as it gives users the potential to intervene, modify and subvert existing websites within the spaces used by all Shiftspace users, essentially mashing up ... http://www.asquare.org/networkresearch/2008/shiftspace Inside Gecko (image above, two example videos below) is a Processing visualisation of how Gecko constructs pages in the browser as it receives them from the internet. Created by Satoshi Ueyama, the purpose of this work is not art as such but does do two interesting things. The ... http://www.asquare.org/networkresearch/2008/reflow An Art Browser I recently re-stumbled on (not new and currently offline) is the Ambulator (image above and below) created by Professor Boris Müller. The Ambulator is: a different way of thinking about websites. Instead of having a row of isolated pages, the Ambulator displays fragments of several web pages ... http://www.asquare.org/networkresearch/2008/ambulator