The Internet Before the Web: Preserving Early Networked Cultures

http://www.newmuseum.org/calendar/view/the-internet-before-the-web-preserving-early-networked-cultures

This Event at the New Museum in Nyork marks the first in a series of talks about the art / technology frontier entitled Rhizome: New Silent. It's not obvious if its got an online component, but it would seem doh not to. Btw, rhizome.org is a venerable resource for online artists.

I remember the Internet before graphics, the bbs and unix networks. 1993, The Word, university.

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my father took me to the Lab, logged me on to play "Adventure", read messages from scientists, told me how the first message on the proto-net was "who left the spanner in the Parking lot?" not realising that everyone in the global scientific community was picking it up.

He wants to tell his story, despite or because of his Parkinson's; of how he & his team helped liberate the Internet from oppressive corporate clutches, in the 80s when no-one except a handful of people realised its potential.

I'm going to do my best to include some of those stories on here, or in a conjoined blog, under the title "Tales from the Telecommunications Frontier" ( or something like that! )

The Neon Bible - The Art of the Digital Age

This post is to record some thoughts about an incredible treasure trove of ideas inspirations I found by accident while visiting Kingston uni library.

It's called The Art of the Digital Age by Bruce Wands and every page is paved with gold

I am reminded of my first experience of a computer art installation at Manchester's Green Room Gallery. It was a captivating room edged by sensors which triggered different sounds as one crossed it; skipping, zigzagging & loping all produced different cacophonous noises.

I am fascinated by the possibilities that robotics, mechanism and natural participants raise.

There's so much in this book, but here's the Things / people to look at in further detail...

Korot & Reich - 3 tales

Rokeby

Lleo Midiverso

Klima Glasbead & Earth virtual data representation

Rain Anne ashford Dustharps

Arcangel Urbandale & I shot Andy Warhol game

Cuba, Dove, Sims

Muntadas This is not an advertisement & the file room, also on translation

Vesna Nano manipulating virtual molecules with ones shadow, cf also bodies incorporated

Mohr fractured cubes

Kak genesis translated bible passage into morse then DNA then grew bacteria containing the sequence.

Ruin

Weinbren's Frames allows viewers to turn actors into madmen

Noah Wardrip Fruin eat al Screen bombards user with sound word, can deflect with hand

Lesson Synthia reacts to stock market by dancing or sleeping

#1 Josh On They Rule www.theyrule.net allows users to connect business, politics

American views smithsonian lederman interfict

#0 Alexander Galloway Software Group Carnivore Pe

Simon Every Icon, Complexity

Levin Floccus & Yellowtail, Levin et al Scribble

.Legrady pockets full of memories, Walczak / Wattenberg's Apartment

#5 Ruiz's Bang Bang (you're not dead) resurrect the dead by shooting them! Cf also Stunt Dummies

Paley Textarc.org uses Alice to analyse word frequency

#2 Jodi untitled me, Carl efspace, my%desktop malfunctions subvert abstract

Goldberg Telegarden allows people to grow remote garden, plant seeds

Rate Artechno Group Serpentarium explores experience of being a snake with robotics

#3 Andy Deck Glyphiti, user generated art wall, online: andyland.net arts next on artcontext.net

Patrick lichty sprawl looking at urban landscape and our reaction to it.

Wortzel Eliza Redux Internet psychiatrist

Wisniewski Netomat software for automated Internet art

#4 Alexander Galloway, mark tribe, Wattenberg Starrynight represents reading habits on rhizome.org as constellations. Cf theyrule, textarc

More links etc from book's page ... Thamesandhudson.com/en/1/0500238170.mxs

Hmm the word Artbot appeared in the title; now I want to know more about what it is....

No time!

The Shape of Posts to Come

A sneak peak at the posts I'll be putting up first - a backlog of ideas, & the reason I've created this blog.

1) Blast Theory - searching for the other Matt Adams!

2) The Night Journey courtesy of Rachel Gater

3) non violent danes!

4) innovative games list

5) 360 spherical view on the ipad

6) A rogue clone with ascii charcters

7) karma game

8) alex’s ted link

9) skyrim & stealing article

10) augmented reality, pattern recognition

11) a whole new mind

12 ) Art of the digital Age

13) CoMeCo - what is it?

The Wall of Wishes

Wallwisher is a nifty "corkboard" site which allows any1 2 add thoughts, links, pics etc

http://wallwisher.com/wall/the-techno-hippy

come along & pin something up :)

The Techno Hippy Manifesto

Why Techno Hippy?

5 reasons:

. to explore ways to bring people together using modern networks & technologies

: to examine our relationship with the natural world, our cities, our neighbourhoods

⋮ to understand our inner selves, navigate the realms of conscious & unconscious thought patterns, delve into the wellspring of the I

:: Be playful, creative, artistic - be as children, filled with wonder at the world 

¦⋮ Oppose injustice & inequality; demonstrate a better way of being in the world through togetherness & sharing


The aim is to reinvigorate the aims of the original Hippy movement in the 60s & 70s

I am Electro!