Douglas Davis:
The World’s First Collaborative Sentence
Launched 1994, Restored 2013
donated to the Whitney Museum in 1995
“The Sentence has no end. Sometimes I think it had no beginning. Now I salute its authors, which means all of us. You have made a wild, precious, awful, delicious, lovable, tragic, vulgar, fearsome, divine thing.”
—Douglas Davis, 2000
The Exquisite Corpse on epic scale
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Moon (2013) by Ai Weiwei and Olafur Eliasson. launched at the Falling Walls Conference, Berlin, 9 November 2013.
Interactive website for collective universal doodling. You do not need to board the Apollo 13, the space race is over. Just leave your mark on a virtual moon.
the link is here: http://moonmoonmoonmoon.com/#sphere
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The Man with a Movie Camera (1929) by Dziga Vertov. The making of cinema.
Man With a Movie Camera: The Global Remake
web-based video collaboration to reinvent Dziga Vertov’s masterpiece
the ultimate digital internet montage
the link is here: http://webenact.rhizome.org/man-with-a-movie-camera-the-global-remake/20160217142125/http://dziga.perrybard.net/
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At this point of my foray into understanding internet art, I feel that the internet has created a new meaning to the Aura of the artwork in the digital age, far evolved from Walter Benjamin’s ideas of reproduction.
The images in this post went through these steps:
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projected onto the screen from the school desktop
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captured on my smartphone
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sent to myself on whatsapp
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downloaded on whatsapp web onto my laptop
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posted on to OSS
So even in the making of a simple post like this, there are multiple transmission channels and mediation happening. And this is what the internet can create for us digital artist. A tool that will continue to break all that we know about the media apparatus (Jean-Louis Baudry).
The only way to make sense of it all, is to find a way to be in-situ on the vast net.
Perhaps as quickly down the throat as you'd just ordered it? Just needed that fix. The daily dose of the everyday. entertainment videos X beer mug
Or now enjoying it slow and chill, now chugging it down fast? The hype and all the crazy things you wished you could do. travel videos X wine glass
And maybe having the relaxing sip and taking time to explore the world through someone-else's eyes? How does someone-else's insta-stories taste like? The user chooses the way to consume them. Idea 2 Function of the app used: Insta-stories as a way to connect with strangers. Granting strangers access to your private accounts. Metaphor: The clinking of mugs/ glasses/ cups, the universally accepted way of saying "Cheers !" and hence celebrating a conversation or interaction over the consumption of beverages in a social setting. For this idea, we are thinking of a social event similar to sort of Venetian Mask Party, step 1 where people would start off the interaction by saying "Cheers !" step 2 When they clink their mugs together, their lenses immediately grants access to the person they have chose to connect with. step 3 They can now see the stories the other person has pre-uploaded and at any time, they may choose to sip on their drink with would mean that they give a like to the stories shared. step 4 and so finally they can choose to end the connection by closing their eyes and turning away to find a new person to connect with.
So, that are the couple of very simple sketch ideas we had for the second class exercise. And what was interesting to learn is that we can start by ascribing meaning to objects and working concepts from there. Deconstructing already existing design models and reconstructing them to find associations and patterns of interaction in a new situation or with new objects.
