Microsoft wants to be the "YouTube of video games" -- It wants to let just about anybody create games for the Xbox 360 video game console, saying it will release a game development tool for $99 for this purpose.
August 17, 2006
July 28, 2006
MTAA-RR
Short MTAA Biography
Artists M. River and T. Whid formed MTAA in 1996 and soon after began to explore the internet as a medium for public art. The duo’s exhibition history includes group shows and screenings at The New Museum of Contemporary Art, Postmasters Gallery and Artists Space, all in New York City, and at The Getty Research Institute in Los Angeles. International exhibitions include the Seoul Net & Film Festival in Korea and Videozone2 - The 2nd International Video Art Biennial in Israel. In the forthcoming New Media Art (Taschen, 2006), authors Mark Tribe and Reena Jana describe MTAA’s 1 year performance video (aka samHsiehUpdate) as “a deftly transparent demonstration of new media’s ability to manipulate our perceptions of time.” The collaboration has also earned grants and awards from Rhizome.org, Eyebeam, New Radio & Performing Arts, Inc. and The Whitney Museum’s Artport web site.
May 30, 2006
Child Labor Campaign
"Unicef recently launched a visual campaign against child labor with images of apparel labels depicting children hunched over sewing machines or working in fields. The graphics themselves are subtle in that they appear - at first glance - to be ordinary logos; this makes them that much more striking when you realize what you're looking at. "
May 20, 2006
Public Broadcast Cart
"Public Broadcast Cart is a shopping cart outfitted with a dynamic microphone, a mixer, an amplifier, six speakers, a miniFM transmitter and a laptop with a wireless card. The audio captured by the microphone on the cart is fed through the mixer to three different broadcast sources. The mixer simultaneiously feeds the audio:
to the amplifier that powers the six speakers mounted on the cart
to an FM transmitter transmitting to an FM frequency
to the laptop that sends the audio to an online server that will stream the live broadcast, such as the thing.net's server - http://radio.thing.net
The Public Broadcast Cart is designed to enable any pedestrian to become an active producer of a radio broadcast. The cart reverses the usual role of the public from audience to producer of a radio broadcast and online content."
May 15, 2006
SnagU
"Snagu is a camera-phone based scavenger hunt created by four graduate students in the Interactive Telecommunications Program at the Tisch School of the Arts at New York University, commonly known as ITP. In April 2006, snagu won the Cisco Systems/mtvU Digital Incubator Grant. The grant has given us the ability to make our game a reality.
Snagu was developed as an answer to many questions, namely “Why do we have cameras on our phones?’ and “How can I play a game with my camera?” and even “I want to play a scavenger hunt, but all my friends are too busy to play with me!” But that was just the beginning, as our intrepid game designers decided to play with the boundaries of traditional scavenger hunts! “Why do they have to be timed? Why is there always only one right answer? Who decides who won? How do you get the clues?” The scholars searched far and wide for the answers, and decided to build the game from the ground up.
Snagu is currently in development. We are rolling out play testing sessions all through the summer. Look for snagu to hit a university near you in the September 2006."
May 03, 2006
Hotels.nl
"On Saturday, the town of Skarsterlan began fining Hotels.nl 1,000 euros a day for putting branded blankets on sheep. Advertising on livestock violates the town's ban on advertising along the highways."NYT artictle
May 02, 2006
New Media Art
"Artists have always been early adopters of emerging media technologies, from Albrecht Dürer and his use of the printing press in the 16th century to Nam June Paik’s experiments with video in the 1960s. In 1994, the advent of the Internet as a popular medium catalyzed a global art movement that began to explore the cultural, social, and aesthetic possibilities of such new communication technologies as the Web, video surveillance cameras, wireless phones, hand-held computers, and GPS devices. This book addresses New Media art as a specific art historical movement, focusing not only on technologies and forms but also on thematic content and conceptual strategies. New Media art often involves appropriation, collaboration, and the free sharing of ideas and expressions, and frequently addresses the political ramifications of technology around issues of identity, commercialization, privacy, and the public domain. Many New Media artists are profoundly aware of their art historical antecedents, making reference to Dada, Pop Art, Conceptual art, Performance art, and Fluxus.
Artists featured: Cory Arcangel, Jonah Brucker-Cohen and Katherine Moriwaki, Young-Hae Chang Heavy Industries, Vuk Cosic, Mary Flanagan, Ken Goldberg, Paul Kaiser and Shelly Eshkar, Jennifer and Kevin McCoy, Mouchette, MTAA, Keith and Mendi Obadike, Radical Software Group, Raqs Media Collective, RTMark, and John F. Simon Jr."
March 31, 2006
March 09, 2006
Make TV
"Every Thursday during May, Make TV will host a programme of live webcasts curated by Sideshow and created, potentially, by you! Artists are invited to plug in their webcams and beam live to the net for their very own fifteen minutes of fame. An online audience will interact with performers and vote for their favorite broadcasts. Make TV programs will be available online, for 48 hours, to view and download. The project combines a web interface with plug-and-play web streaming technology, meaning no additional software or server costs for the broadcaster, and is designed for anyone with the desire to create live content. The concept was developed by Active Ingredient, a UK company which combines the digital arts with web design and development. The submission deadline for May's program is Monday, March 20th, and the clock is already ticking, so grab your 15 minutes now!" - Helen Varley Jamieson
February 22, 2006
Marisa S. Olson in Boston 2/21-2/25
"First I'll be moderating a panel, on behalf of the New Media Caucus at the College Art Association's annual conference."
The panel: Tad Hirsch, Artist, Institute for Applied Autonomy
Warren Sack, Artist; Professor, University of California, Santa Cruz
Brett Stallbaum, Artist, C5; Lecturer, University of California, San Diego
Helen Thorington, Artist; Co-Director, Turbulence.org, New Radio and Performing Arts, Inc.
This panel will take place, in room 304 of Boston's Hynes Convention Center, on Thursday (2/23) at 12:30-2:00 pm and is FREE and open to the public at large.
"I'm also giving an artist talk at Cambridge's Art Interactive, as part of the Upgrade series, from 7-9pm, on Friday, the 24th. The talk/series is organized by Turbulence."
