Comments on: Five Principles of New Media Considered and Reconsidered http://www.artfagcity.com/2008/09/22/the-five-principles-of-new-media/ New York art news and reviews. Mon, 13 Feb 2012 04:20:00 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.2.1 By: tom moodyhttp://www.artfagcity.com/2008/09/22/the-five-principles-of-new-media/comment-page-1/#comment-99342 tom moody Wed, 24 Sep 2008 12:35:35 +0000 http://www.artfagcity.com/2008/09/22/the-five-principles-of-new-media/#comment-99342 As to Item 3, kidding aside, a new media staple is art purporting to convert datum X into datum Z using automatic algorithm Y. It is hard to remember them, though.Looking back at the 2007-2008 Rhizome commissions I found a few last year. Behold the spirit of Manovich:--Ebay-Generator (Y) will generate songs (Z) based on the public data mined from Ebay sellers and buyers (X).--ShiftSpace is an Open Source platform (Y) that ... provid[es] a new public space on the web. By pressing the [Shift] + [Space] keys, a ShiftSpace user can invoke a new meta layer (Z) above any web page (X) to browse and create additional interpretations, contextualizations and interventions using various authoring tools.--The Wrench will recast Primo Levi's The Monkey's Wrench (X) into a mobile phone text-message exchange between participants and an artificially-intelligent agent (Z). Taking place over the course of a week, the dialogue is not pre-determined; it employs Knifeandfork's nonlinear narrative software engine (Y).--zHarmony is an addition (Y) to Rhizome that will combine the Compatibility Matching System of online relationship services like eHarmony with Rhizome's existing database of artists (X). zHarmony will produce a unique artist profiling system that can automatically match artists with like-minded collaborators (or groups of collaborators) based on multiple points of compatibility (Z). As to Item 3, kidding aside, a new media staple is art purporting to convert datum X into datum Z using automatic algorithm Y. It is hard to remember them, though.

Looking back at the 2007-2008 Rhizome commissions I found a few last year. Behold the spirit of Manovich:

–Ebay-Generator (Y) will generate songs (Z) based on the public data mined from Ebay sellers and buyers (X).

–ShiftSpace is an Open Source platform (Y) that … provid[es] a new public space on the web. By pressing the [Shift] + [Space] keys, a ShiftSpace user can invoke a new meta layer (Z) above any web page (X) to browse and create additional interpretations, contextualizations and interventions using various authoring tools.

–The Wrench will recast Primo Levi’s The Monkey’s Wrench (X) into a mobile phone text-message exchange between participants and an artificially-intelligent agent (Z). Taking place over the course of a week, the dialogue is not pre-determined; it employs Knifeandfork’s nonlinear narrative software engine (Y).

–zHarmony is an addition (Y) to Rhizome that will combine the Compatibility Matching System of online relationship services like eHarmony with Rhizome’s existing database of artists (X). zHarmony will produce a unique artist profiling system that can automatically match artists with like-minded collaborators (or groups of collaborators) based on multiple points of compatibility (Z).

]]> By: tom moodyhttp://www.artfagcity.com/2008/09/22/the-five-principles-of-new-media/comment-page-1/#comment-314113 tom moody Wed, 24 Sep 2008 12:35:00 +0000 http://www.artfagcity.com/2008/09/22/the-five-principles-of-new-media/#comment-314113 As to Item 3, kidding aside, a new media staple is art purporting to convert datum X into datum Z using automatic algorithm Y. It is hard to remember them, though.Looking back at the 2007-2008 Rhizome commissions I found a few last year. Behold the spirit of Manovich:--Ebay-Generator (Y) will generate songs (Z) based on the public data mined from Ebay sellers and buyers (X).--ShiftSpace is an Open Source platform (Y) that ... provid[es] a new public space on the web. By pressing the [Shift] + [Space] keys, a ShiftSpace user can invoke a new meta layer (Z) above any web page (X) to browse and create additional interpretations, contextualizations and interventions using various authoring tools.--The Wrench will recast Primo Levi's The Monkey's Wrench (X) into a mobile phone text-message exchange between participants and an artificially-intelligent agent (Z). Taking place over the course of a week, the dialogue is not pre-determined; it employs Knifeandfork's nonlinear narrative software engine (Y).--zHarmony is an addition (Y) to Rhizome that will combine the Compatibility Matching System of online relationship services like eHarmony with Rhizome's existing database of artists (X). zHarmony will produce a unique artist profiling system that can automatically match artists with like-minded collaborators (or groups of collaborators) based on multiple points of compatibility (Z). As to Item 3, kidding aside, a new media staple is art purporting to convert datum X into datum Z using automatic algorithm Y. It is hard to remember them, though.

Looking back at the 2007-2008 Rhizome commissions I found a few last year. Behold the spirit of Manovich:

–Ebay-Generator (Y) will generate songs (Z) based on the public data mined from Ebay sellers and buyers (X).

–ShiftSpace is an Open Source platform (Y) that … provid[es] a new public space on the web. By pressing the [Shift] + [Space] keys, a ShiftSpace user can invoke a new meta layer (Z) above any web page (X) to browse and create additional interpretations, contextualizations and interventions using various authoring tools.

–The Wrench will recast Primo Levi’s The Monkey’s Wrench (X) into a mobile phone text-message exchange between participants and an artificially-intelligent agent (Z). Taking place over the course of a week, the dialogue is not pre-determined; it employs Knifeandfork’s nonlinear narrative software engine (Y).

–zHarmony is an addition (Y) to Rhizome that will combine the Compatibility Matching System of online relationship services like eHarmony with Rhizome’s existing database of artists (X). zHarmony will produce a unique artist profiling system that can automatically match artists with like-minded collaborators (or groups of collaborators) based on multiple points of compatibility (Z).

]]> By: Art Fag Cityhttp://www.artfagcity.com/2008/09/22/the-five-principles-of-new-media/comment-page-1/#comment-99228 Art Fag City Wed, 24 Sep 2008 06:48:19 +0000 http://www.artfagcity.com/2008/09/22/the-five-principles-of-new-media/#comment-99228 Regina: LOL! I don't think anyone on this thread is going to be able to top that comment! Regina: LOL! I don’t think anyone on this thread is going to be able to top that comment!

]]> By: Art Fag Cityhttp://www.artfagcity.com/2008/09/22/the-five-principles-of-new-media/comment-page-1/#comment-314112 Art Fag City Wed, 24 Sep 2008 06:48:00 +0000 http://www.artfagcity.com/2008/09/22/the-five-principles-of-new-media/#comment-314112 Regina: LOL! I don't think anyone on this thread is going to be able to top that comment! Regina: LOL! I don’t think anyone on this thread is going to be able to top that comment!

]]> By: regina hacketthttp://www.artfagcity.com/2008/09/22/the-five-principles-of-new-media/comment-page-1/#comment-99223 regina hackett Wed, 24 Sep 2008 06:37:31 +0000 http://www.artfagcity.com/2008/09/22/the-five-principles-of-new-media/#comment-99223 Come on. Cough it up. Chris Jordan. Come on. Cough it up. Chris Jordan.

]]> By: regina hacketthttp://www.artfagcity.com/2008/09/22/the-five-principles-of-new-media/comment-page-1/#comment-314111 regina hackett Wed, 24 Sep 2008 06:37:00 +0000 http://www.artfagcity.com/2008/09/22/the-five-principles-of-new-media/#comment-314111 Come on. Cough it up. Chris Jordan. Come on. Cough it up. Chris Jordan.

]]> By: stephe?http://www.artfagcity.com/2008/09/22/the-five-principles-of-new-media/comment-page-1/#comment-98952 stephe? Tue, 23 Sep 2008 18:29:48 +0000 http://www.artfagcity.com/2008/09/22/the-five-principles-of-new-media/#comment-98952 EXEC-LENT! EXEC-LENT!

]]> By: stephe?http://www.artfagcity.com/2008/09/22/the-five-principles-of-new-media/comment-page-1/#comment-314110 stephe? Tue, 23 Sep 2008 18:29:00 +0000 http://www.artfagcity.com/2008/09/22/the-five-principles-of-new-media/#comment-314110 EXEC-LENT! EXEC-LENT!

]]> By: Donald Frazellhttp://www.artfagcity.com/2008/09/22/the-five-principles-of-new-media/comment-page-1/#comment-98392 Donald Frazell Mon, 22 Sep 2008 18:31:55 +0000 http://www.artfagcity.com/2008/09/22/the-five-principles-of-new-media/#comment-98392 Errors, or strange technical aberrations, are only useful when used for some purpose, contributing to something. This is nothing but an everyday occurance. You are making mountains out of a pimple. Just squeeze it, and its nothing but ooze.Really, get a job, and i guess art will be everywhere. It really is, just not in sterilized galleries that try to squeeze every ounce of life out of a dead thing. You know, pimple juice.Art collegia delenda est Errors, or strange technical aberrations, are only useful when used for some purpose, contributing to something. This is nothing but an everyday occurance. You are making mountains out of a pimple. Just squeeze it, and its nothing but ooze.

Really, get a job, and i guess art will be everywhere. It really is, just not in sterilized galleries that try to squeeze every ounce of life out of a dead thing. You know, pimple juice.

Art collegia delenda est

]]> By: Donald Frazellhttp://www.artfagcity.com/2008/09/22/the-five-principles-of-new-media/comment-page-1/#comment-314109 Donald Frazell Mon, 22 Sep 2008 18:31:00 +0000 http://www.artfagcity.com/2008/09/22/the-five-principles-of-new-media/#comment-314109 Errors, or strange technical aberrations, are only useful when used for some purpose, contributing to something. This is nothing but an everyday occurance. You are making mountains out of a pimple. Just squeeze it, and its nothing but ooze.Really, get a job, and i guess art will be everywhere. It really is, just not in sterilized galleries that try to squeeze every ounce of life out of a dead thing. You know, pimple juice.Art collegia delenda est Errors, or strange technical aberrations, are only useful when used for some purpose, contributing to something. This is nothing but an everyday occurance. You are making mountains out of a pimple. Just squeeze it, and its nothing but ooze.

Really, get a job, and i guess art will be everywhere. It really is, just not in sterilized galleries that try to squeeze every ounce of life out of a dead thing. You know, pimple juice.

Art collegia delenda est

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