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AREA3 - WORLD
WALL PAINTERS area3
is a collective of artists living in Barcelona, composed by Federico
Joselevich, Chema Longobardo, Sebastián Puiggros and Elisa
Lee. "In
1993, when the Internet broke its own shell, the government of the
United States proposed the creation and widespread installation
of a chip called Clipper in all electronic devices of communication.
This decision caused a lot of criticism. In a similar way, the Carnivore
Diagnostic Tool was developed and set up by the FBI in order to
regulate the data content flowing through the Internet. Orwell and
Ballard's most macabre images materialize with their most evil faces,
those that become true. "On
October 1, 2001, The Radical Software Group (RSG), a lose international
collective of Internet artists, announced the release of Carnivore
Project. The project is a collaboration consisting of two parts.
The first part is the Carnivore application, a public domain copy
of the FBI surveillance software DCS1000, commonly nicknamed Carnivore.
DCS1000 is a program developed by the FBI to "wire tap"
Internet data. RSG's Carnivore essentially performs the same task
as the FBI's software though runs on Windows 98/2000 as a standalone
application and can be downloaded for free from Internet. The second
part consists of client applications that turn the raw Internet
data captured by Carnivore into art. The two aspects of the project,
the software and the client, are collaborative in nature and take
advantage of the Internet's strengths as a communication tool. The
Carnivore software collaborates with the users it is watching, a
process that relies on the open nature of TCP-IP communication,
and the artists constructing these clients, who might never see
each other in person, are collaborating with the software." 2.
CALC
- COMMUNIMAGE 3.
SCOTT DRAVES - ELECTRIC
SHEEP "The
name comes from Philip K. Dick's novel Do Androids Dream of Electric
Sheep? This idea was inspired by the SETI@home project, but instead
of searching for aliens, Electric Sheep brings artificial organisms
to life. When the software is activated, the screen goes black and
an animated 'sheep' appears. Users can download the flock of sheep
at any moment and, around every fifteen minutes, they can attend
the birth of a new creature, in a constant digital breeding process.
The screen-saver is a window into a visual space shared among all
users, which can vote to increase the life of their favourite sheep.
Electric Sheep investigates the role of experiencers in creating
the experience. If nobody ran the client, there would be nothing
to see. However, as more clients join, more computational muscle
becomes available, and the quality of the graphics increases, making
sheep more lasting, bigger and clear. The more people who participate,
the better the graphics look. Both clients and server are open source
software". 4.
ENTROPY8ZUPER - EDEN
GARDEN 1.1 "Eden
Garden is another way to perceive data from the Net. When the visitor
types in a URL, God's hand is put into action, that is, the browser
and the Web turn into a new world full of life, and we are Adam
and Eve moving to the rhythm of the code. |
