project description: Muteblog replaces the text usually found on a blog with images. Thin pixel slices, about the same height as a line of text, visually hint at the content they describe. During the initial phase of Muteblog, I used images to link to the most recently updated Typepad blogs (since I was beta-testing TypePad). As of September, Muteblog has a new focus. As a play on the phrase "a picture is worth a thousand words", Muteblog is becoming a composite picture of a "thousand" pictures by silently pointing to photographs on other blogs. Visitors to Muteblog have no way to navigate other than by random selection of images, but each click is a new discovery.
software used in the project: TypePad
contributor: Christina Ray
biography: Christina Ray was born in San Diego and currently lives in Brooklyn. Her projects include multi-media 'Hybrids' based on urban walks and street photography, in which images are fractured and re-assembled as installations, and, most recently, experimental psychogeographic walks, public-space interventions and online participatory works. In 2002, Ray founded Glowlab, a web-based multimedia arts lab, and in 2003 co-produced the first Psy-Geo-Conflux, an international event dedicated to psychogeography. Her work is represented by DCKT Contemporary in New York.
project description: Metabetablog is a graphical representation of the TypePad beta testing experience, a compression of data generated in an evolving blogging environment. Each entry contains a dense chunk of sample content from the top ten most recently-updated blogs from the TypePad Devlog, gathered just before posting. The posts can be read as generative poetry or text-snapshots of blogging activity.
