The Possible Ties Between Illness and Success - Carlo Zanni

This work of art is a movie with the quality of major motion picture that is only shown in the web. I couldn’t watch it personally because it seems a Login ID and Password are needed to view the project. However, the movie is described in the review at Furtherfiled.org. A couple of man and woman are in the same bed. A man is covered with stains on his body is scared for his stains getting bigger. A woman is trying to cheer him up and goes to sleep.

This movie can only be shown on the web because of the viewers’ participations. They won’t know it, but their access information such as date, time, and IP addresses will be sent to Google Analytics. Then, the data will be sent to the server, hosting the film, and the stains on the body will be filled with those information. So, when you watch the movie twice, the latter time won’t be same as the first time you watched it.

The stains that are filled with viewers’ data perform a determinant role in the narration. More stains on the body means critical illness. However, as more people come to watch the film, the stains will contain more information and get slightly bigger. More visitors would mean the success of this film, yet the condition of the man would be worse. This symbolizes the interaction of the artist and the viewers (which is too deep for me to fully comprehend)

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Furtherfield Review
http://www.furtherfield.org/displayreview.php?From=Index&review_id=218

The Destabilisation of perception - Andy Stringer

This 'painting' is from Andy Stringer's exhibition, 'The Destabilisation Of Perception.' His medium was Photoshop on Mac with a Wacom tablet and a little bit of Illustrator and Painter. Many conservative artists do not accept his paintings and just call them images because they were created digitally. They believe medium for paintins should be oil, acrylic, alkyd and so on. However, as society developed over time so did the technologies. The medium used for painting in 13th century and ones used for painting in today are totally different but they still call them paintings. Artists used techonolgy they had at their time period to create arts. Charcoal for caveman, Oil for Renaissance man, and Computer for Today's man.

Because his painting was done in computer, that doesn't mean Andy Stringer's paintings are any different than the ones done in brushes. He only had a few advantages such as 'undo' actions. His work is mainly formed by the mutiple lines and filling in the space between those lines. His work visually engages the viewers with the complex forms and their relationship to each other. In the review, it says that the composition of his paintings in the gallery makes them a lot more interesting.


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Review on furtherfiled.org
http://www.furtherfield.org/displayreview.php?From=Index&review_id=207

Andy Stringer: The Destabilisation of perception
http://www.thespace4.org/gal-current.html

Absence/Presence

Today's journalism is mostly based on celebrities and their lives while politics, science, and medical are the ones they should focus on. If one looks at cover pages of best selling magazines, s/he would most likely to see pictures of celebrities and headlines such as 'someone & someone broke up,' 'how thin she is,' 'new looks of somebody in Oscar,' and so on. Also the media trying to brainwash people with what they call 'perfect body figure and looks' put numbers of celebrities on the cover page. I wanted to comment on these by replacing the figures with black silhouette and erasing their names on the cover pages.

Erasure/Replacement

International adoption has been an issue for a short time since Jolie's and Madonna's adoptions. It's a good thing they are trying to help other countries, but they could have adopted the ones in the U.S. There are orphans in the U.S., too. It takes a lot of time and money to adopt one baby from other country. Those are the points I tried to make by repacing Jolie's adopted babies with money and orphans in the U.S. There were a lot of talks on Madonna's baby. I do not know what her intention was on adopting a baby but mostly from the fame she would get, I believe. I replaced her baby with paparazzis for that.

'You are not here' is a project developed by a group of people to allow internet users to be in two different places at one time. This project starts with printing two maps. The users will be downloading two maps, one of New York City and another of Baghdad. The map of New York City is reversed and the map of Baghdad will contain several signs. They are to be printed in one page and by calling Tourist Hotline the users will be given audio-guided tours of Baghdad through the streets of New York City. The signs of Baghdad map mean must-see monuments.

The strength of this project lies in direct connection between two cities which everyone knows that can’t be related in a good way because of the 9/11 incident. Not only does this project create a big meta-city by overlapping two cities, it also tries to engage in political issue on collision between two different worlds. Their next project will be on streets between P’yongyang of North Korea and Seoul of South Korea. Since I am from that country, I can’t wait to see what they have done with it and what they are trying to say through the project.


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Review of 'You are not here' in Furtherfield Review
http://www.furtherfield.org/displayreview.php?From=Index&review_id=216

'You are not here' Project
http://www.youarenothere.org/

Pileus

Pileus is basically an umbrella with an ability to surf the internet. The 10 Laboratories of KMD led by Sho Hashimoto and Takashi Matsumoto in Japan developed it. The team is working on Ubiquitous Content project which expands the styles of media we have right now. Today’s Media contains movies, video games, animations etc. and all these come in ‘box’ containers. What this project is trying to do is changing the container. In this case, the container is an umbrella.

This umbrella has a special device attached to its handle. Not only the user can log on to internet, s/he can take pictures and videos. Recently, they built a new one with GPS system, allowing the user to find his/her way through rainy days. They are using Web 2.0 and technological vista to combine handy hardware and internet.

These days, cell phones are becoming smaller and smaller everyday yet more functions are added. However, this team is looking for other mobile objects to provide web services. Their project, including other mobile objects they are working on, will significantly improve our daily lives. Smaller cell phones with multiple abilities attached have huge impact on our lives and this will do he same. I read the article five times but I still don't get how they were able to complete this project, though.


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Pileus http://www.pileus.net/
Interview wih Takashi Matsumoto http://www.turbulence.org/blog/archives/003743.html#more