DIgital Situationism and Urban Intervention

“The Interactive Spectacle.pdf -    http://docs.google.com/gview?a=v&q=cache:XUjvnSC8SH0J:www.idl.dundee.ac.uk/~shaleph/pdfs/The%2520Interactive%2520Spectacle.pdf+digital+Situationists&hl=en&gl=ca&sig=AFQjCNH12Z3_O3×40yKpOwUiEv0cZl20mw

“Department of Ongoing Digital Situations.”  http://www.toysatellite.org/doods

Paul, Christianne. “interventions in Virtual Public Spaces.” http://firstmonday.org/htbin/cgiwrap/bin/ojs/index.php/fm/article/viewArticle/1616/1531

Welcome to the DIVA 200 Students

Here are some links to various uses of panoramic photography by artists and designers.
Notice how differently each person uses this technique, as narrative, as metaphor, as political critique, to name just a few uses.
How exactly do they do this? What kind of visual techniques are they using to accomplish what they want to communicate? And does this kind of photography feel more interactive?

“Daniel Canogar Home Page.” 7 Sep 2009 http://www.danielcanogar.com/page_in/index.html

“Off Center » Kiki Smith » sfmoma.” 7 Sep 2009 <http://blogs.walkerart.org/offcenter/page/2/?s=sfmoma>.

“Pari Nadimi Gallery (David Rokeby) in Toronto (Canada) from Re-title.com.” 7 Sep 2009 <http://www.re-title.com/exhibitions/archive_PariNadimiGallery1929.asp>.

“White Cube — Jeff Wall.” 7 Sep 2009 <http://www.whitecube.com/artists/wall/wall_misc1/>.

“White Cube — Andreas Gursky.” 7 Sep 2009 <http://www.whitecube.com/artists/gursky/v/>.

Be sure to check out the DIVA 200 Moodle site for necessary downloads, like a pdf of your course outline.

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Patricia Piccinini

fascinating work: i love some of her essays

Web 2.0 on youtube

although generally i don’t encourage too much you-tubery, this is what i showed this week

Excellent reasons to dislike facebook

I really enjoyed this article by Tom Hodgkinson, writing for the Guardian newspaper, as I have had many similar feelings, and seldom post any updates on it.

Instant Images

This excerpt is taken from an essay by Kathrin Peters published on Photo/Byte:
“since the 1980s the majority of theoretical considerations with regard to digital photography concerned image processing, the following will deal with electronic signal storage, i.e., not with the implications of image manipulation with the aid of computer technology, but with a more or less private photographic practice that uses digital cameras and/or stores photographs in digital distribution media. In this field, the notion of photographic authenticity is consistent; even more, due to the instantaneousness with which photographs can be taken and displayed under electronic conditions, it seems to have gained appeal. Disregarding some of the premature decisions with regard to the effects of the «digital revolution,» i.e., that photographic images will largely lose their reference to reality, immediacy and true-to-lifeness also remain central criteria for the image recorded on a chip or circulating in the Internet. ….

Alice – Patricia Piccinini

According to feminist theorist Donna Haraway in an exhibition catalogue essay , “When I first saw Patricia Piccinini’s work a few years ago, I recognized a sister in technoculture, a co-worker committed to taking “naturecultures” seriously without the soporific seductions of a return to Eden or the palpitating frisson of a jeremiad warning of the coming technological Apocalypse. …”

Midforms: NeoGraf – Virtual Graffiti

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NeoGraf – Virtual Graffiti
March 7th & 8th, 2008 – various downtown locations
check www.newformsfestival.com for full details…
in the spirit of NeoGraf Locations will be released one day prior to the performance…

laser tagging, projection throw-ups, photoshopped murals; the next
generation of open-source light-based writing, recoding the city bulb
by bulb.

The NeoGraf project will transform the city with nondestructive laser
graffiti technologies. Through the use of image and light projection,
graffiti artists will `paint’and tag buildings in realtime without
violating the property. In order to present the diversity and
evolution of graffiti, the project will work with different writers
and artists from around Vancouver, and invite the collaboration of
NomIg and Graffiti Research Lab to propagate this open-source technology.

NeoGraf Artists:
Fri, Feb 7th – Laser Tagging – Rhek & Virus
Sat, Feb 8th – Muralling – Neal Nolan

Exponential Future

Exponential Future
Morris and Helen Belkin Gallery, Vancouver

Artworks by Tim Lee, Alex Morrison, Isabelle Pauwels, Kevin Schmidt, Mark Soo, Corin Sworn, Althea Thauberger, Elizabeth Zvonar

Curated by Juan Gaitan and Scott Watson

18 January – 27 April, 2008

Reviewed by Christopher Brayshaw
Exponential Future, the Morris and Helen Belkin Gallery’s new survey of emerging Vancouver art, is a failure of artistic and institutional nerve. “Curators Juan Gaitan and Scott Watson chose artists working in different media whose work involved a wide range of issues to give an overview of the new artistic thinking of our time and place,” claims an unsigned gallery press release. “The curators were interested in works that engaged the complex reality of urban life at the beginning of the twenty-first century.” This thesis would make a first-rate show, but bears only passing resemblance to the exhibition Gaitan and Watson have assembled….more

Urban Intervention presentation

lecture   Here are the links to the projects on pages 16-19 of the lecture: 

• Laser Tag (by Graffiti Research Lab); how to page; 
• LED Throwies (by Graffiti Research Lab); how to page;
• TXTual Healing (by Paul Notzold); 
• Light Criticism (by AntiAdvertising Agency).