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January 22(Sat.)
"Meet the artists"

February 5(Sat.)
"Meet the artists"

February 26(Sat.)
Artists' Talk

March 5(Sat.)
"Media online"

March 12(Sat.)
"Present of Madia Art"

Performance





February 22(Tue.)-27(Sun.)
"CAN YOU SEE ME NOW?"

Workshop





Animation-table
"Move in a second! Animation workshop"
""Invisible Fields" try out"


January 21(Friday) - March 21(Monday), 2005 Gallery A, B, 5F Lobby, Entrance Lobby



Media online : Software Art / Net Art / Community


Software Art
Works below are exhibited at 5F Lobby as a part of "Media online".

01."AARON"
02."actionist respoke"
03."AMEN"
04."Auto-Illustrator"
05."bildschirmgymnastik"
06."BitmapSequencer"
07."Carnivore"
08."Dasher"
09."Dictionaraoke"
10."Discomus"
11."FragMental Storm"
12."googlepoweredgogglebox"
13."Homeland Security Threat Monitor"
14."I/O/D: The Web Stalker"


15."Lexikon-Sonate"
16."MetaMix"
17."n_Gen Design Machine"
18."os_anm"
19."POP AUTOMATE"
20.".Re ___________________________(ad.htm"
21."retroyou R/C"
22."SCREEN SAVER"
23."SOD"
24."Tempest for Eliza"
25."Visual Poetry"
26."Vote-auction"
27."Wolfenstein 5k"
28."%WRONG Browser"
29."Yellowtail"







01."AARON "
1973
Harold Cohen
AARON is the oldest and famous artificial artist. First launched in 1973, it has developed into a sophisticated piece of software that also exists as a screen saver. AARON creates countless figurative drawings algorithmically, without any pre-drawn samples. ItOs hard to believe "he" is not a human.
http://www.kurzweilcyberart.com/




02."actionist respoke"
2001
Michael Janoschek & Rdiger Schloemer
This Shockwave-based interactive sound-toy introduces you to the world of Mouse on Mars music band. By dragging and overlapping visual elements you will be able to create your own sound compositions in the style of the band.
http://www.stromgasse.de/actionist/




03."AMEN"
2002
Neil Gavigan
Sound toy with intuitive interface. You can create drum-and-bass patterns by manipulating visual elements in a browser. The project refers to the history of drum-and-bass music style as well as to the genre of interactive computer art.
http://www.trouble07.com/amen/main.htm




04."Auto-Illustrator"
2001
Adrian Ward
This vector graphics editor is commercially available and can be used for creating nice layouts and designs, similar to what Adobe Illustrator does. The difference is in algorithms that stand behind the effects the software produces. Auto-Illustrator parodies the mainstream approach to software writing.
http://www.auto-illustrator.com/




05."bildschirmgymnastik"
2002
joreg
bildschirmgymnastik is an artist-made screen saver which will drive your computer crazy. If you leave your PC unattended, it will start stretching and moving all windows and icons on your desktop. Author recommends to use it three times a day for a healthy desktop.
http://joreg.ath.cx/gymnastik.html




06."BitmapSequencer"
2002
Tom Betts
BitmapSequencer is a sound-making tool, a program that generates sounds through algorithmic analysis of bitmap images. Each image produces a different sound. Users are able to control sound parameters as well as supply the program with their own images for generating more sounds.
http://www.nullpointer.co.uk/-/bmpseq.htm




07."Carnivore"
2001
RSG(Radical Software Group)
Named after the data-sniffing software developed by FBI, Carnivore consisted of the O`Carnivore PEO?L application to sense LAN data traffic and a number of "clients" by artists and programmers to visualize the detected data in various forms. Client creators include next to RSG the likes of Cory Arcangel, Golan Levin, and others.
http://www.rhizome.org/carnivore/




08."Dasher"
1997-2004
David MacKay, Inference Group, Cavendish Laboratory
Dasher is a piece of utilitarian software for text input without using a keyboard. This software is mainly meant for palmtop computers or for disabled PC users. Nevertheless, the process of this software usage can be seen as an artistic performance as well, due to very colorful and dynamic animations it produces.
http://www.inference.phy.cam.ac.uk/dasher/




09."Dictionaraoke"
2001
Snoogles
You are supposed to pick a pop song, run its lyrics through an online dictionary equipped with a text-to-speech engine, record the result, and combine it with a midi file of the same song. As a result you will get a strange bastardized version of the song in which all the lyrics are sang (spoken) by "professional" artificial voices.
http://www.dictionaraoke.org/




10."Discomus"
early 1990s
anonymous
Discomus is an old program for DOS that plays Russian folk tune "Chizik-pyzhik" karaoke style. Floppy drive acts here as a musical instrument, performing main melodic theme of the song, while motherboard speaker acts as a drum and bass section.
http://runme.org/project/+discomus/




11."FragMental Storm"
2000
exonemo
Assembles in real-time collages of texts and images gathered from Web sites that come up as a result of a Web search the user starts by entering a random keyword. Fragmented and distorted data from different contexts mix in dynamic clashes that are also manifested in an installation form combined with radio, microphones and voice recognition software.
http://www.exonemo.com/FMS/




12."googlepoweredgogglebox"
2003
Sam Woolf
A tool for creating generative videos. It uses text input as a starting point, then looks up for the image and sound files on the internet and finally mixes up a complete film out of them.
http://www.blip.alturl.com/googlepoweredgogglebox.html




13."Homeland Security Threat Monitor"
2002
Greg Hewgill
Making fun out of the US paranoia about terrorist threat, this software proposes a "high-tech" way to monitor the threat current level. The program keeps contacting the US Department of Homeland Security and displays its recommendations in a small icon on your desktop.
http://hewgill.com/threat/




14."I/O/D: The Web Stalker"
1997
I/O/D
Experimental web browser. Instead of showing the contents of web pages, it uncovers the structure of a website, maps internal and external hyperlinks, streams the html-code of a page. Another words, the Web Stalker shows all kind of information which O`normalO?L browsers read, but do not show to users.
http://bak.spc.org/iod/iod4.html




15."Lexikon-Sonate"
1992
Karlheinz Essl
Lexikon-Sonate is a real-time algorithmic composition tool. User has control over certain parameters, but what mainly responsible for the process of music creation are special algorithms that are based on a study of famous composers of the past.
http://www.essl.at/works/Lexikon-Sonate.html




16."MetaMix"
2003
Jason Freeman
This is an artistic sound-processing tool. Using any piece of music as source, you can apply different algorithmic effects on it. As a result, you get another piece of music, still keeping some melodic and structural resemblance to the original one.
http://www.jasonfreeman.net/MetaMix/




17."n_Gen Design Machine"
2001
Move Design
n_Gen Design Machine generates design (posters, CD covers and web pages) automatically. Users should only select a theme (module), and the machine will be producing countless variations on it. This project in a convincing way shows how computers can steal jobs from humans.
http://www.theremediproject.com/projects/issue10/movengen/




18."os_anm"
2003
slateford
With os_anm users can create their own low-resolution pixel animations. Written in Java, this software tool includes simple image editor as well as a scripting tool. Os_anm refers to the obsolete but still valuable aesthetics of old computers (command line, ASCII art).
http://www.slateford.org/archive/os_anm/




19."POP AUTOMATE"
2003
liz
Pop Automate deconstructs existing pop-songs and automatically creates new ones out of fragments. The result is, on the one hand, almost unbearable, but, on the other hand, surprisingly fresh and hypnotizing. A listener is sub-consciously looking for meaning, and, occasionally, s/he gets it.
http://www.sacem.free.fr/




20.".Re ___________________________(ad.htm"
2002
mez
This is an example of "code poetry". This phenomenon explores the aesthetics of programming code (and its resemblance to human language), and connects it to the modernist poetry tradition of the XX century.
http://art.runme.org/1043784855-26830-0/Re(ad.htm.zip




21."retroyou R/C"
2000
Joan Leandre
retroyou R/C is one of a few real artistic (i.e. referring to actual and historical art context) modifications of a commercial computer game (car racing in this case). Modifications are applied to: bitmaps and audio files, 3d objects and the world, and finally, to the behavior of the game.
http://retroyou.org/retroyou_RC_full_radioControl/




22."SCREEN SAVER"
2000
Eldar Karhalev & Ivan Khimin
An example of creative misuse of software. Following SCREEN SAVER instructions, you can set your Windows build-in screen saver in such a way that it turns into a minimalistic meditative repetitive animation, - something Windows developers never thought about.
http://runme.org/project/+screensaver/




23."SOD"
1999
Jodi
SOD is an extremely minimalistic and elegant deconstruction of the first 3D-computer game, Wolfenstein 3D. All objects, characters and shapes are replaced by simple black-and-white geometrical shapes, such as squares and triangles. The game still remains 100% playable.
http://sod.jodi.org




24."Tempest for Eliza"
2001
Erik Thiele
TEMPEST was the name of a secret U.S. government project ,which aim was to study the possibilities of spying on people at distance, basically seeing what they are doing on their computers. Tempest for Elisa proves such possibilities in a playful and artistic way--computer monitor transmits radio waves that can be received with AM radio receiver.
http://www.erikyyy.de/tempest/




25."Visual Poetry"
2003
Douwe Osinga
Submit any sentence and it will return a sequence of images, generated by Google search engine. The project (mis-)communicates two major representational systems: textual and visual. The result is always poetic as the relations between words and images are algorithmic, therefore leaving space for imagination.
http://douweosinga.com/projects/visualpoetry




26."Vote-auction"
2000
Ubermorgen.com
Vote-auction is a project that was running parallel to the US elections of 2000. Based on the idea of "Bringing Capitalism and Democracy Closer Together", it was proposing to users (US citizens) to sell and buy their votes. The project has caused a big scandal in the US media.(In the elections of 2004, SELLtheVOTE.COM was operated).
http://www.vote-auction.net/




27."Wolfenstein 5k"
2002
Lee Semel
Remake of the famous shooter. Written in JavaScript, the whole game takes only 5119 bytes of disk space. This project became the winner of "The 5k" competition in 2002 (http://www.the5k.org). Despite its size, the game is absolutely playable and enjoyable.
http://www.wolf5k.com/




28."%WRONG Browser"
2000
Jodi
This alternative browser automatically generates 3-letter domains (such as "ibm" or "4pw" for example), and whenever one of the randomly created Web addresses exists in reality, the "%WRONG Browser" picks up elements from the respective site and produces abstract patterns that keep changing in an unpredictable manner. Previously released editions include ".com", ".org", ".nl", ".co.kr", ".co.jp" and ".ch".
http://wrongbrowser.com




29."Yellowtail"
1998
Golan Levin
Yet another visual generative tool. Yellowtail repeats user's mouse movements and creates visually reach animations in real time. Unlike other programs of this kind, Yellowtail refers more to "old" painting techniques, rather than to "dry" algorithms.
http://www.flong.com/yellowtail/