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Around the web

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Social media compound eye photography: 30+ views of the same modernist sculpture, Richard Lippold's Ad Astra (via dataisnature)

Secret Ninja, by Duncan Alexander: (i) wall with independently scrolling brick layers seen through eyehole or possibly (ii) gas giant planet made of masonry

lugia meets sinusoidal turbulence

some new twitter.com/vvorks, e.g., "tennis ball hovers before Christian tableau painting while man squats on the museum floor"

Too Much Concept, which one hopes will be the antidote to all self-conscious conceptual-art-on-the-Net projects that keep us stuck in the eternally recursive moment of Douglas Huebler, John Baldessari, Sol LeWitt, et al. Not sure that more imitations of 1968-1972 are the way out of this loop but there are good ideas on this page. It will be hard for most people to wrap their minds around artists poking fun at artists who think they are poking fun at other artists, not to stand in the way of complexity.

And last, a note to California-based internet artists: No more pictures of the Hollywood sign, please?

Umbrico in situ

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screenshot - detail of post on Vvork re: Penelope Umbrico

Captured on 1280 x 1024 screen (the last square aspect screen in existence).
The reason people want nice, regular corporate social media sites is so this kind of chaos won't happen.
The design team will resize your images for you and make sure they stay within layout boundaries

See previous post. The vastness of Umbrico's project (aggregations of photos on storefront windows) is conveyed on the internet by having a jpeg 2000 pixels wide that necessitates side to side scrolling and penetrates other content on the page.

Compare and Contrast

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this image on Vvork, attributed to Penelope Umbrico

with

this GIF by Kevin Bewersdorf, with a technical assist from Paul Slocum

The Umbrico jpeg says "large salon-style hanging of illegible photos that may or may not exist in real space." A sense of great density of visual information is conveyed without any associated meaning. In the Bewersdorf each component GIF is basically legible, despite this being a reduced GIF version of a high definition video that was shown in New York a couple of years ago. "Legible" in the sense that you can read off its individual parts--flame, fly, beating heart, eyeball, candy cane--as opposed to "blur, grey-green blur, slightly larger grey-green blur, etc."

glitch collection via net and mail

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Databent work by two fellow dump.fm users, AGT528 (left) and Scotty2Hotty69, printed out, mailed, and installed in my studio. Scotty's was a purchase; AGT528's is a trade (haven't sent mine yet).
Am thinking here about circulation among screen-based art, "social media," mail, and objects in physical space (could give it a fancy name like "Dispersion" but the reader will be spared--well, maybe "capitalism lite").
I have some work by LoVid, John Pomara, and others acquired by similar means; the beginnings of a modest glitch collection. Cue academic essay with footnotes about creating hierarchies and leveraging them for institutional power; yet, something about these errors of representation being something to aggregate and preserve appeals: a kind of underground network of treasured discards, tokens of a shared belief in the phrase "stop making sense," an invisible city of fifth floor walkups connected by mail and AOL.

Update: See next post. The point of the above jpeg isn't to document two pieces (hence no links to high def details) but as a simple thought experiment to envision how screen based work could translate into a domestic environment. The Umbrico jpeg referenced in the next post does anticipate that you will click through to additional documentation but the jpeg itself says very little beyond communicating a sense of vastness.

our internet

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WOWBROW via dumplr (a tumblr site that compiles dump.fm content)

Now the next step is to send this image off to mainland China and have it painted on canvas by photorealistic artisans and--oh, wait, that would be really lame because it's an eight year old idea, at least, and the jpeg is just fine without the bogus commodifyin'.

Update: per andrej: "wowbrow is simon whybray (hi simon), drummer for TEETH and he made this as an idea for promo/album art. not sure if it's still going to be used or not (no reason not to, it's good). TEETH is a three person ensemble of Simon Veronica and Ximon who are in that order represented by the triumvirate of etotems (e-idols? iidols?)"

Update 2: Simon Whybray explains more: "This is a mockup of our new press photo. I want to recreate this image. I would be Tom, Veronica would be the 4 eyed girl, and I guess we'll have to find a wig and a backpack for Ximon."

Update 3: dumplr link fixed. No one told me!