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art-blog

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project description: Art as diary: day by day, the blueprint of the thoughts, connections and leaps between ideas and images which are the essence of my work as a visual artist and videomaker. A work of art in itself, art-blog is made of texts and photos.

software used in the project: Movable Type

contributor: Carla DellaBeffa

biography: I live and work in Milano, where I was born, and in Paris. After art college I was a creative in advertising. Now I am a full-time multimedia artist and painter. I have had an art website since 1996. Some of my works have been made expressly for the net. International curators have selected some of my netart works for their reviews. I started making videos in 2000. The art-blog was started in spring 2003.

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project description: blog notes quoi dire raconter des choses je ne sais pas blabla vomir rendre un propos un discours confronter des idées de dire quelques rien / to say something I don't know blabla through give a propos a speech to confront some ideas to say some things /

contributor: émilie Pitoiset

biography: She works and lives in Paris.
Artist who has shown her works in many festival EMAF, Videoformes, File, Immedia, SoundToys.
2004 École des Beaux art de Paris (School of fine art in Paris)
2003 Post-Diploma "Workshop and Interactive Research" ENSAD, Paris. she is preparing a thesis about < the silence as an error >
2001 Master of visual art New Media about "the Larsen effect".
She has developped her works on interactivity and sound, maintly with the effects of the error in sound and images. She is interrested on effects of loop which function like autonomous system which do not succeed.

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Rethinking Wargames Activate

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project description: The rethinking wargames blog is a participatory net art project. The primary aim of this project is to create an online game dedicated to 'changing the game'; reworking chess to reflect social values and structures more appropriate and reflective of the urgent needs and nature of our contemporary global community.

Those with a talent for strategic thinking, are invited to contribute to the reevaluation of an evidently inhumane, anachronistic and violent system of human institutions, mirrored on the chessboard.

software used in the project: At the moment I'm using the blog software at Journalscape.com. However as the project progresses I'll be working with Flash server sockets, php and mysql as.

contributor: Ruth Catlow

biography: Ruth is an Internet artist and co founder and director of furtherfield.org with Marc Garrett. She works with people, digital and network media, sculpture, writing, music and drawing; in the streets & other public spaces and on the Internet.

The work usually connects with specific (often unsuspecting) groups of people in a distinct condition or environment i.e. on their way to work, doing the shopping, taking the kids to school, playing games etc. Or they intersect strangely with dominant and pre-established entertainment genres in the mass media such as games or pornography on the web.

Ruth is currently Associate Senior lecturer in Constructed and Virtual Environments at Ravensbourne College of Design and Communication, UK.

other comments: "I'd be very interested to hear from anyone who could contribute to a solution to this problem...so please email me. No ideas are too extraordinary to be considered. It may be, that in your view, the problem is unsolvable in which case I would still like to hear from you about why this is."

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Sarah & Ahmad

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project description: A collaborative story written in five sentences each post, between two people. The storyline progresses without any discussion, and characters emerge likewise.

contributors: Sam & Shazalina

biography: Shazalina and Sam both grew up in Singapore (where their story is set). Sam is now living in Oslo, Norway, while Shazalina still lives in Singapore.

Blogstop

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project description: Blogstop is a blog-based game in which players form a sentence from the acronym of the last word found on the latest post. This project puts the sequential nature of the blog entry to great conceptual use, linking one post to the next and offering an ever-expanding text map for viewers to follow.

contributors: sam, shazalina, yona, fatgiant, papango, wageslave, michael, chenthil, adam, ging, michaelo, olavia kite, poptart, abraham, bill, pat, james, shogun, gael

Muteblog

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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.

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Metabetablog

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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.

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.

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