MetaFilter posts tagged with Internet and art

Club Internet

carsonb — Wed, 11 Nov 2009 18:54:22 -0800

Club Internet, curated by Harm van den Dorpel

LOL

Brandon Blatcher — Tue, 28 Jul 2009 19:53:00 -0800

You shall be eager for your husband, And he shall be your master

fontophilic — Tue, 28 Apr 2009 14:07:59 -0800

Man fell from the garden of Eden, and he planted the Garden of Herbal Evil, to justify Brutal Myths against women. Fortunately women have the Blissful Garden of Herbal Good to bind the evil herbs. (possibly NSFW, contains line drawings of genitals.) Brutal Myths is a collaborative, interactive multi-media work by artists Sonya Rapoport and Marie-José Sat from 1997. More, and more recent, works are found here including:

The Transgenic Bagel, (Watson and Crick urge you to eat of The Bagel)
Smell your Destiny
Kabbalah Kabul: Sending Emanations to Aliens

Art in the Age of Digital Ubiquity

billtron — Tue, 05 Feb 2008 00:14:12 -0800

I was going to share the many amazing videos that StSanders has uploaded to youtube featuring guitar gods like Van Halen and Santana shredding, since they have inexplicably only received scant mention on mefi so far. But StSanders' account has been suspended all all videos have been removed! So in the meantime the best I can offer is the work of John Michael Boling and Javier Morales. They are video artists whose hypnotizing and nostalgic and work can be seen at 53 o's. For those of you who didn't hover over that hyperlink, the website is http://www.gooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooogle.com/.

Make your own strip.

konolia — Fri, 24 Aug 2007 17:08:39 -0800

Make your own web strip. Drawing skills not required.

Internet as Confessional

ThePinkSuperhero — Wed, 25 Jul 2007 12:22:17 -0800

Something heavy weighing on your heart? Confess. Mom Confessions. Dad Confessions. Office Confessions. Bride Confessions.

Grow a world from network traffic

brundlefly — Mon, 26 Feb 2007 12:41:50 -0800

Packet Garden observes how you use the internet, then takes that info and generates a 3d world based on it. [via]

The problem with music, redux.

goodnewsfortheinsane — Sun, 04 Feb 2007 14:16:20 -0800

While Courtney pulled an Albini, Jeff handed out the bread. Are the peasants acting like emperors, or do they still want something shiny, aluminum, plastic, and digital? Debacle or cage, something's got to give (pdf). Alternatively, you can just roll your own.

3quarksdaily

panoptican — Tue, 06 Dec 2005 01:34:16 -0800

3quarksdaily. Just another blog, sure, but a good one. 3quarksdaily is a filter blog much like our very own, but with only 15 users (and an editor). As they say on their about page "On this website, my guest authors and editors and I hope to present interesting items from around the web on a daily basis, in the areas of science, design, literature, current affairs, art, and anything else we deem inherently fascinating." The do an admirable job.

buy and print your art cheaply

mathowie — Tue, 11 Jan 2005 09:54:55 -0800

Artocracy is aiming to use the net to democratize yet another expensive thing in the world: the sale and distribution of art works. While the first works offered aren't that impressive and having to use your own inkjet is a limiting factor, I like the direction this is going in. From their Gallery, you can purchase prints from a dozen or so artists, in the range of $20-50, and then print as many as you wish at home. The Seattle PI has a full story. Perhaps this will spark a "long tail" of small change art sales from folks used to getting several thousand per canvas sold, while at the same time allowing any Tom, Dick, or Harry to have some nice looking apartment walls at home.

It's made of people

Bryant — Mon, 15 Sep 2003 08:48:22 -0800

The Internet is made out of people. Warren Ellis wants to see your face. Once you read the original post, hit the main site to see what the Internet has sent him so far. Does that tickle your fancy? He's done this before; once he asked us to show us the world with our cell phones, and once he asked us to send him video. (Start with those posts, and move forward, and dodge the messed up archives from August.) On the other hand, some people just want pictures of cats.

Walczak and Wattenburg

misteraitch — Wed, 29 Jan 2003 01:51:33 -0800

Marek Walczak and Martin Wattenberg are full of bright ideas: see, for example the telematic table, apartment ('a virtual city of memory palaces, an online experiment in do-it-yourself concrete poetry'), bewitched.com, and the WonderWalker - a would-be on-line, global wunderkammer...

boxplorer

tatochip — Tue, 26 Nov 2002 20:00:44 -0800

boxplorer
one of the most interesting website interpreters i've ever seen. i'll just quote the site: The Internet BOXPLORER browser offers a rectangular view of the World Wide Web. It abstracts web page layouts to produce what are frequently rather colorful compositions. BOXPLORER purifies the Web, making it safe for children of all ages -- free from controversy and advertising. Translation - very interesting graphic renditions of any site you enter.

atom128 — Tue, 05 Nov 2002 13:56:21 -0800

Doodle of the Day - Every weekday a brand new doodle. If you think you have what it takes, you can submit one of your own. Ahh, I love the internet.

willnot — Sun, 21 Jul 2002 22:34:38 -0800

Here's a simple example of a potentially interesting art project. Fill a Usenet post with words specifically chosen to create art based on Google's search word highlighting. Not sure if it's art or spam, but I am waiting for the first ASCII artist to step up to the plate and do something complex like the Mona Lisa.

heimkonsole — Mon, 08 Apr 2002 01:35:47 -0800

Stupid URL. Stupid Site. GREAT gfx. and don't look for any content - there isn't any. warning: bandwidth!

willnot — Mon, 29 Oct 2001 14:52:04 -0800

The Idea Line is a Java-based timeline of net artworks, arranged in a fan of luminous threads. Each thread corresponds to a particular kind of artwork or type of technology. Note - requires some patience as it streams in slow even over my company T-1. [via IA/]

o2b — Mon, 16 Jul 2001 08:29:20 -0800

A picture of the internet.

"A bot is out on the internet every half hour and looks for images which it puts together to a giantic picture - the picture of internet. This is samples from all over the internet. The bot surfs pretty strange and takes strange ways to spread out its ways as much as possible. Sometimes it follow links that it doesn't should visit... but that doesn't happen too often."

sixandone — Sat, 14 Jul 2001 11:46:47 -0800

We keep hearing about this "who owes what to whom" now that Assembler has closed, and Kaliber and Dreamless are closing.

But what of it? What does it mean? Are we so closed minded to think our Web world is the only one and that somehow the rest of the universe revolves around those of us privileged enough to be able to embark on it as a daily journey?

All of us feel one way or another towards this debate. Either we hate it, or love it, and what of that too? What *do* each of us want from this virtual world? Is there something here worth redeeming and at least arriving at a point to agree to disagree? Discuss?

mathowie — Fri, 28 Apr 2000 06:34:07 -0800

The Image Resource site at the Art Center College of Design is about a gallery show of net Art (art with a big A), which starts in a couple weeks. It's nice to see pure art for art's sake on the web. I also came across a new art site (that isn't in the gallery show) at Immerse.

plinth — Wed, 22 Mar 2000 05:27:09 -0800

Mmmm...javalicious