Head For The Stoic
wood,veneer, jeans, concrete, streamed video loop -"emo blowjob"
2009
b. 1985
Rising from the Sea, Venus Meets Dancing Baby and LOL Cat
3d collage made from models uploaded by 3d warehouse users
2009
Home Computer 2
lights, rubber, pleather, laptop constantly searches different web pages at random, hot glue
2009
tapestry No.1
screen capture of the Vatican blog printed on a towel by Walmart
2009
*for the seminal hex show at studio gallery
Immaterial Labour
drop ceiling, plinth, black light, images lifted from the Facebook accounts of those planning to attend the show(as specified on the Event page) printed on various objects by Walmart
2009
for the seminal hex show
http://pics.ohlawd.net/img/online%20adsl.jpg
steel, plaster, phosphorescent paint, fluorescent lights, CD, link
2009
Accessibility and the Politics of Distribution(stills from the 3d model above)
Somewhere along the line, the primordial abyss, the void of nothingness got caught in the web of reason like a stick in the spokes of a bicycle. Is the Internet not another archive set up to discern the contingent points of our external reality. In Weltalter, Schelling wrote “he who, apropos of a decision reserves for himself the right to drag it again to light will never accomplish the beginning.” The Internet gives rise to a myth that contradicts the statement by Schelling, whereby points plotted by a virtual act can be repeated verbatim, however for the time being there is always a minimal gap in our externally constituted reality between narrow activity, activity on the screen, and activity behind the screen. What the Internet does give rise to is an incredible amount of freedom formed by habits. While using the Internet there are so many actions applied blindly that our second nature follows “spontaneously, this very unawareness of the rules which regulate activity sets our mind free for higher spiritual matters.”(Zizek) What actually sets us free is the mechanical procedural work done while discerning the information on the screen, this network of habits renders our second nature.
P2P
In the wake of the social interactions embraced by relational aesthetics it has become increasingly more apparent that with the proliferation of the Internet into the Western home, ideas surrounding publicness and social interaction have changed grounds. Today's audience can be viewed as one that is no longer engrossed in direct collective experience and more often than not artworks are consumed privately via Internet images.
With the advent of peer-to-peer file sharing, the trust that was previously placed in record labels and distributors has been handed over to a remote computer with an unknown user. The user of this computer has the ability to modify the contents of their shared folder so that the content of the file differs from its naming convention, prior to this when purchasing a record, book, video etc…the consumer could be certain that the contents of their purchased media would be the exact same as other consumers. Tinkering with the name of a digital media file can help to camouflage its contents, trick another user and toy with the EXPECTATIONS of viewing works that are downloaded. This is known as “spoofing”. In this way, using distributed media as a working model allows one to disguise works of art as something that may not be digested as art. Without the institutional frame of the gallery, new ways of thinking and new types of subjectivity can be generated.
The “One Disc” effect is a phenomenon in which a single counterfeited copy can be propagated until it has taken over an entire country, pushing the legitimate product out of the market. As digital media works are copied across a network their value comes increasingly closer to zero and the original copy cannot be verified; the works are stolen and revised, producing new original works as slight deviations. All with the same file name. These files do not inhabit a particular point in a space and time, they take on a palimpsest of readings, audiences, gestures, appearances, and locations. With her objective to frustrate file shares, Madonna utilized a scare tactic (and subsequently a working model) for the release of her album “An American Life.” Users thought that they were downloading new Madonna songs when they were met by Madonna's voice probing them “what the fuck do you think you are doing?” Now two entirely different works circulate online.
Because the public archive of the Internet is relatively new, there is little regulative law to prohibit non-commercial subjects from infiltrating the currents of globalized media. As a result malicious users are often searching opportunistically for files with key words or phrases such as “credit card”. These clients scan the P2P network in order to find banking information or strategic business documents that could be exploited in illegal stock trades. If key words such as credit card or banking info are used as file naming conventions the file will be taken and retaken by other users. For example, “The group Death Cab for Cutie recently recorded a popular song State Street Residential, which may increase the threat for documents from State Street Bank, while most takers looking for the song have no malicious intent for the bank, the business files will spread, increasing the likelihood that they will be found by someone who is looking for them.”(study: Johnson, McGuire, Willey) One can revise, copy, paste and upload social information and allow it to circulate out of control of the artist’s hand, all disguised as banking information…
TBC
Somewhere along the line, the primordial abyss, the void of nothingness got caught in the web of reason like a stick in the spokes of a bicycle. Is the Internet not another archive set up to discern the contingent points of our external reality. In Weltalter, Schelling wrote “he who, apropos of a decision reserves for himself the right to drag it again to light will never accomplish the beginning.” The Internet gives rise to a myth that contradicts the statement by Schelling, whereby points plotted by a virtual act can be repeated verbatim, however for the time being there is always a minimal gap in our externally constituted reality between narrow activity, activity on the screen, and activity behind the screen. What the Internet does give rise to is an incredible amount of freedom formed by habits. While using the Internet there are so many actions applied blindly that our second nature follows “spontaneously, this very unawareness of the rules which regulate activity sets our mind free for higher spiritual matters.”(Zizek) What actually sets us free is the mechanical procedural work done while discerning the information on the screen, this network of habits renders our second nature.
P2P
In the wake of the social interactions embraced by relational aesthetics it has become increasingly more apparent that with the proliferation of the Internet into the Western home, ideas surrounding publicness and social interaction have changed grounds. Today's audience can be viewed as one that is no longer engrossed in direct collective experience and more often than not artworks are consumed privately via Internet images.
With the advent of peer-to-peer file sharing, the trust that was previously placed in record labels and distributors has been handed over to a remote computer with an unknown user. The user of this computer has the ability to modify the contents of their shared folder so that the content of the file differs from its naming convention, prior to this when purchasing a record, book, video etc…the consumer could be certain that the contents of their purchased media would be the exact same as other consumers. Tinkering with the name of a digital media file can help to camouflage its contents, trick another user and toy with the EXPECTATIONS of viewing works that are downloaded. This is known as “spoofing”. In this way, using distributed media as a working model allows one to disguise works of art as something that may not be digested as art. Without the institutional frame of the gallery, new ways of thinking and new types of subjectivity can be generated.
The “One Disc” effect is a phenomenon in which a single counterfeited copy can be propagated until it has taken over an entire country, pushing the legitimate product out of the market. As digital media works are copied across a network their value comes increasingly closer to zero and the original copy cannot be verified; the works are stolen and revised, producing new original works as slight deviations. All with the same file name. These files do not inhabit a particular point in a space and time, they take on a palimpsest of readings, audiences, gestures, appearances, and locations. With her objective to frustrate file shares, Madonna utilized a scare tactic (and subsequently a working model) for the release of her album “An American Life.” Users thought that they were downloading new Madonna songs when they were met by Madonna's voice probing them “what the fuck do you think you are doing?” Now two entirely different works circulate online.
Because the public archive of the Internet is relatively new, there is little regulative law to prohibit non-commercial subjects from infiltrating the currents of globalized media. As a result malicious users are often searching opportunistically for files with key words or phrases such as “credit card”. These clients scan the P2P network in order to find banking information or strategic business documents that could be exploited in illegal stock trades. If key words such as credit card or banking info are used as file naming conventions the file will be taken and retaken by other users. For example, “The group Death Cab for Cutie recently recorded a popular song State Street Residential, which may increase the threat for documents from State Street Bank, while most takers looking for the song have no malicious intent for the bank, the business files will spread, increasing the likelihood that they will be found by someone who is looking for them.”(study: Johnson, McGuire, Willey) One can revise, copy, paste and upload social information and allow it to circulate out of control of the artist’s hand, all disguised as banking information…
TBC
documentation of Accessibility and the Politics of Distribution 3d model using models found on 3d warehouse from keyword searches
Accessibility and the Politics of Distribution (strategy No. 2, Credit Card)
shared folder including: .jpeg, text file with printing instructions for placement of printable poster, cracked version of photoshop, animated .gif, video of 3d collage, .psd file
2009
Symbolic Registration no. 2
six jpegs found with Google image search that can be arranged on any six consecutive screens
2009
download the files here.
Symbolic Registration no. 1
six jpegs found on stock image websites that can be arranged on any six consecutive screens
2009
download the files here.
One Night Stand ∞
The infinity symbol is composed of glow sticks in a dark room, after the glow expires they remain in the dark
2009
Dependency
plaster arms, phosphorescent paint, light, the video 'attacked by the horizontal lightning!!!' is projected onto the wall (looped). The work is able to exist until the user 'nonobe1234' removes the video.
2009
Imaginary Symbolic Real <^>
.jpeg opened with Windows picture & Fax viewer, instructions on the placement of the file, hamburger bun, found video
2009
New New Museum
a show curated in the virtual new museum with only the work of google users from 3d warehouse
2009
download model
Horse Sexfound sketchup model, found image from google, model uploaded to google 3d warehouse
2009
download model
Lamella 3
.jpeg opened with Windows picture & Fax viewer, instructions on the placement of the file, generic glow stick, lights off
2009
Lamella 2
.jpeg opened with Windows picture & Fax viewer, instructions on the placement of the file, generic stick
2009
Lamella 1.jpeg opened with Windows picture & Fax viewer, instructions on the placement of the file, generic stick
2009
code platform
enamel on phosphorescent paint on canvas on plaster hand, lights turning on and off
2009
The Company Of People...some new drawings and photographs
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Perfect Lovers(Narcissism) - After Gonzalez-Torres
a found .gif ticks in perfect synchronization with itself until the host of www.pygtk.org removes the file.
2009
damonlayout
jack2
420
honda2009
gasmask
hailsatan
bloodyrose234
alphaphidelta
gaffitigreen
g1g0l043v3ri
kandinskylayout
History of Collage
found html code pasted onto 11 blogs
2009
jack2
420
honda2009
gasmask
hailsatan
bloodyrose234
alphaphidelta
gaffitigreen
g1g0l043v3ri
kandinskylayout
History of Collage
found html code pasted onto 11 blogs
2009
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