1. have Node installed (there are instructions here (scroll down for OS X)),
2. update the shebang line at the top of the script to point to your Node installation (if you’re not sure, type ‘which node’ at the command prompt in OS X’s terminal application),
3. put the files in BBEdit’s text filters folder (prior to BBEdit 10 ‘text filters’ were called ‘unix filters’)

• Research@Intel · Building a Computing Highway for Web Applications
  (tags: javascript web intel webdev)

• HTML5 Video Player | VideoJS
  (tags: javascript video webdev html5)

• Javascript Toolkit Docs
  (tags: javascript webdev js programming)

• Javascript Toolkit Docs
  (tags: javascript webdev js programming)

• Javascript Toolkit Docs
  (tags: javascript webdev js programming)

• Javascript Toolkit Docs
  (tags: javascript webdev js programming)

• rentzsch.tumblr.com: HOWTO Use UTF-8 Throughout Your Web Stack
  (tags: webdev development web mysql)

• Hipster Ipsum | Artisanal filler text for your site or project.
  (tags: webdesign lorem loremipsum)

• GitHub for Mac
  (tags: programming development osx git)

• Chosen - a JavaScript plugin for jQuery and Prototype - makes select boxes better
  Nice 'select' enhancement.
  (tags: javascript jquery ui webdev)

• TameJS from the creators of OkCupid
  (tags: javascript Js Nodejs Webdev)
• Backbone.js
  (tags: webdev javascript programming development)

• Goodwill NY computer recycle fact sheet
  (tags: recycling recycle computer)

• http://www.manovich.net/DOCS/Manoich.Cultural_Software.2011.pdf
  (tags: readlater software culture)

• Wordnik: All the Words
  (tags: reference web writing dictionary words word)

• Google Web Fonts
  (tags: webdev programming webdesign design css)

• Compass Home | Compass Documentation
  (tags: webdev programming development design css)
• Sass - Syntactically Awesome Stylesheets
  (tags: webdev development css style design)

• Getting started with Cloud Foundry using a Node.js and MongoDB application
  (tags: nodejs database cloud mongodb tutorial)
• Try MongoDB
  (tags: mongodb db webdev JSON cloudfoundry)

• Modules - GitHub
  (tags: javascript reference programming development web nodejs)
• nowjs for Node - Directly call remote functions in Javascript
  (tags: webdev javascript programming development web nodejs)
• Express - node web framework
  (tags: webdev javascript programming development web nodejs)
• Socket.IO: the cross-browser WebSocket for realtime apps.
  (tags: webdev javascript programming nodejs)

• Learn More - Making AJAX Applications Crawlable - Google Code
  (tags: webdev javascript development web ajax google crawlable)

• Digital Images of Yale’s Vast Cultural Collections Now Available for Free
  (tags: art reference library culture gallery)

Due to the fact this artwork contains a 1:8 scale model card, the “actual artwork,” the prediction of the hottest temperature ever, and an act of looking through the window into Rome Arts, we need to note that the “really, really actual artwork” is the accumulation of all these objects and moments.

• The Tipsy Diaries: A New Negroni - NYTimes.com
  Sounds tasty. Sparkling white replaces the gin
  (tags: recipes drinks)

• Rubular: a Ruby regular expression editor and tester
  more REGEX!
  (tags: ruby regex regexp tools)

• txt2re: headache relief for programmers :: regular expression generator
  headache relief for programmers :: regular expression generator. NICE.
  (tags: regex programming regexp generator)

Hey Tim

I know you’ve been wanting one, so I went all out and got you one of those ‘Old School’ or you might even say ‘Retro’ Trolls for you b-day. It’s in the comments section of this AFC post. Happy Birthday.

http://www.artfagcity.com/2011/03/25/introducing-the-graphics-interchange-format-exhibition-website/

Oh, and along with the Retro-Troll gift, you can scroll down and hit ‘Like’ on my M.River comment over and over… then watch your Troll go bananas.

Enjoy.

• On having layout — the concept of hasLayout in IE/Win
  fuckin' ie.
  (tags: msie msie7 ie layout bug css)

• Keep a node.js server up with Forever - blog.nodejitsu.com - scaling node.js applications one callback at a time.
  Still not sure what to do with node.js. But damn, there must be somthing…
  (tags: javascript server js nodejs webdev)

• JS Bin - Collaborative JavaScript Debugging
  nicely done
  (tags: javascript jquery collaboration tools)

• Inventables: Find new materials
  crazy!
  (tags: design technology research tools)

• iOS UI Patterns (beta)
  (tags: ui design iphone mobile ux)
• Mobile UI Patterns › Sign Up Flows
  (tags: mobile ui ux design)

• What you need to know about Thunderbolt
  (tags: apple hardware thunderbolt mac)

• Middle-earth according to Mordor - Laura Miller - Salon.com
  (tags: culture pdf free book lotr)

• 4.8.6 The video element — HTML5
  may as well go to the source…
  (tags: html5 video javascript webdev)

• Isotope
  (tags: jquery javascript layout design grid)

• mishoo/UglifyJS - GitHub
  (tags: javascript compression js programming webdev)
• node.js
  (tags: javascript server framework webdev programming)

• iPad View Source Bookmarklet - Ravelrumba
  (tags: ipad webdev javascript iphone mobile)

• JavaScript currying
  First read about 'currying' in Crockford's 'good parts' — this is a good explanation as well.
  (tags: javascript programming webdev js)

• Dive Into HTML5
  Can't believe I haven't bookmarked this yet…
  (tags: html5 tutorial webdesign html webdev)

• Influencing Direction.: Presentation.
  somewhat incoherent student blog post referencing MTAA's work
  (tags: mtaa press)

• Google’s Secret Weather API
  (tags: google api weather webdev)

• ICAA-MTAA
  (tags: mtaa)
• jQuery: » jQuery Community Updates For December 2010
  (tags: jquery javascript ajax webdev)

• iAd Producer - Apple Developer
  Let's make some ads!
  (tags: apple iphone iad mobile)
• Coding Horror: So You'd Like to Send Some Email (Through Code)
  (tags: email programming development webdev reference)
• ControlJS
  (tags: javascript webdev js library performance)
• Preload CSS/JavaScript without execution / Stoyan's phpied.com
  (tags: javascript js performance webdev css browser)
• Thoughts on script loaders
  This guy has the best JS blog out there IMHO.
  (tags: javascript loader webdev)

• Index of twhid.com/delicious
  A delicious bookmark to my delicious backup… 
  (tags: del.icio.us backup bookmark)
• 5 Intriguing Projects From Dalton and Powhida’s #Rank in Miami
  Kyle Chayka for Hyperallergic picks MTAA's Freeing Lunch as one of the 5 most intriguing projects for Jen Dalton and William Powhida's #rank at SEVEN art fair in Miami Dec, 2010.
  (tags: mtaa #rank press freeinglunch)
• » Bushwick Goes to Miami BushwickBK
  MTAA is mentioned in this wrap-up of Jen Dalton and William Powhida's #Rank at SEVEN art fair, Miami Dec, 2010. Ed Winkleman's favorite performance!
  (tags: mtaa press #rank freeinglunch)

• MTAA CHEERLEADING.gif (384×360)
  MTAA's new logo! And no. It doesn't remind you of a cock and balls.
  (tags: mtaa logo)

• YouTube - Pixies - Where Is My Mind? (8-Bit Remix) [ImpulseTracker Video]
  via http://www.delicious.com/francis
  (tags: music awesome electronic pixies)

• Stanley Kubrick - Deserving of Worship: 2001: A Space Odyssey Promotional Photos - High Resolution
  (tags: art film gallery kubrick space)

• NYC-based artist duo MTAA @ UWM, Wednesday 8 December, 7-8PM
  (tags: mtaa press lecture)

MTAA: a PowerPoint lecture + some other stuff
Wednesday, 12/08/2010, 7:00pm – 8:00PM
Arts Center Lecture Hall, University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee
Part of the Artists Now! Lecture Series
Free and open to the public

• jsspec - Project Hosting on Google Code
  (tags: framework javascript test testing webdev js)
• visionmedia's jspec at master - GitHub
  (tags: framework javascript test testing webdev js)
• Jasmine: BDD for Javascript | Jasmine
  (tags: framework javascript test testing webdev js)

• JavaScript call and apply - Trephine
  (tags: webdev javascript programming oop)
• Formalize CSS
  (tags: webdev css form forms webdesign)

• 20 Things I Learned About Browsers and the Web
  Nicely designed 'book' by the Google Chrome team.
  (tags: design web browser chrome)

• The Graphs 2 - One graph collection to rule them all
  (tags: chart graph webdesign icon icons vector)
• 50 New Free High Quality Icons Sets - Smashing Magazine
  (tags: design development gallery icon graphic webdesign webdev)

• Underscore.js
  (tags: code development javascript jquery webdev underscore underscore.js)

• CoffeeScript
  … CoffeeScript just discovered. Unsure why but @gruber says 37 Signals is using it for a new mobile framework.
  (tags: ajax code development javascript webdev coffeescript scripting)

• Using Regular Expressions to Match Twitter Users and Hashtags | Live Granades
  (tags: regex javascript twitter code regexp hashtags webdev)

• SB_SMASH.JPG (705×699)
  MTAA's new logo.
  (tags: mtaa logo funny)

• CopyPasteCharacter.com
  (tags: code design html resources typography type web reference)

No Customs
November 4-27, 2010
opening reception: Thursday Nov 4, 7-9 pm
curated by Jennifer and Kevin McCoy

an exhibition of transmissible ideas with:

Vito Acconci
Jason Robert Bell / Marni Kotak
Torsten Z. Burns
Jennifer Dalton / Susan Hamburger
Anthony Discenza
Melissa Dubbin / Aaron Davidson
Bill Durgin
Tara Fracalossi
David Grubbs
Sara Hubbs
Thomas Lail
Michael Mandiberg
MTAA
Marisa Olson
Jonathan Schipper
Mark Tribe
Karen Yasinsky

A common art-making strategy when one enters into new territory is to listen, to ask, and to wait. As newcomers to Abu Dhabi, we considered this strategy, but then rejected it. Instead of waiting to receive information, we begin our sojourn in the Emirates by making an offer. In curating this show, No Customs, held in our remarkably gallery like living space, we offer the work of artists connected to us from our home community of New York City. When they asked what life is like here, we answered we didn’t yet know. We told them to send what they could send via email, via instructions, via concept. We told them to send it fast. So then, what we have is a show called No Customs. This title is a double entendre. Practically, since no objects have been mailed, we were not slowed by the expense of shipping and the delays of customs. Metaphorically, the show is not about tradition or interpretation, but rather about mapping and transcription. How does form map onto landscape? How does it transform landscape? How do you demarcate space for contemplation, for understanding, for revolution? What happens to the body when its image occupies this demarcated space?

Landscape
First, the approach to a problem. This is what we hear when listening to Vito Acconci’s audio piece, Research Station, Antarctica, For Your Ears Only (2004-2010). How does an artist (here architect) turn a landscape into a series of constraints to be addressed, to create a form? In the photographs of Melissa Dubbin and Aaron Davidson, the long time collaborators use smoke bombs to test the landscape. They create form with weather, wind, light, and clouds. In a site specific project by Thomas Lail, a series of Buckminister Fuller domes are superimposed over the city view of Abu Dhabi, creating another take on the domes of the city and adding to the enormous architectural speculation already here. In another project, a memory sequence of images by Tara Fracalossi offers a counterpoint to the desert with images of most verdant spring and bleakest winter. These images purport to be memory, but their repetition on the wall creates matrices of classifications that map new space. In the end they are more like letters in an alphabet than like stories of particular landscapes.

Demarcated space
In answering a call to show work in Abu Dhabi, many artists considered the question of mapping, both graphically and metaphorically. In the work of Michael Mandiberg, the artist asked us to find an Arabic map of the USA in which we recreate the laser cuttings of print media that he is known for. In this work the message and the map collide. The artist duo MTAA and the sculptor Sara Hubbs sent ideas for works that, though they are generated very differently, come up with surprisingly congruent projects. MTAA asked us to find “the most colorful place� in Abu Dhabi. Then they provided software that translated this image into an abstract digital image (referred to as “the aesthetic object�). We could then display this any way we saw fit. In Sara Hubb’s project, an abstract form also results from a behind the scenes process. She photographed decaying areas of New York City and asked us to reproduce the patterns they create in plaster, building up a surface to form decoration from blight.

The projects of Jonathan Schipper and the collaborative team of Jennifer Dalton and Susan Hamburger ask us the audience to participate in the creation of the artwork by zeroing in on our patterns of behavior. In the ambitious project by Schipper, entitled A Million Dollar Walk, attendees of the opening reception will be given the opportunity to carry a briefcase full of money on a prescribed path through the building. Dalton and Hamburger ask participants questions about their behavior in Abu Dhabi, creating a changing sculptural bar graph that measures their assumptions about life in the capitol against actual practice.

Four artists in the exhibition deal with space by creating voids some for the viewer to inhabit speculatively others by creating spaces for lost objects. In her video mixtape project, Marisa Olson casts herself as an outsourced worker and creates a mash-up of Arab covers of American karaoke classics. The singers of course, are us by implication. In The New Revolution (2010), Mark Tribe creates an installation that invites spectators to consider their own ideas about revolution. David Grubbs, a noted musician, sent us instructions to render a beautiful wall drawing whose omissions create open spaces for meaning to drift. In an animation by Karen Yasinsky, You’d Better Be Careful, omitted objects and spaces set interpretation even farther adrift.

Bodies
Several of the artists in the show responded with work implying performative space. In the video Double Face Fantasy by Jason Robert Bell and Marni Kotak this space is a virtual one in that a portrait transforms through a technical gesture. Anthony Discenza’s video, The Future has Already Been Written creates a tour de force collage of science fiction, and we follow the body of Charlton Heston through alternate visions of the future. In the work of Torsten Burns, Resurrectables (Yellow-Mobilers), the artist asked us to curate a selection of performance stills from a huge array of images of costumes, props, and locations. We selected images of vehicles, conveying transmission, speed, and the framing of the body as it moves through space. Finally, the work of photographer Bill Durgin presents work that brings it all together. The body becomes a landscape of skin, finally an abstracted “aesthetic object�.

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No Customs is located at Sama Tower, Suite 3708, Abu Dhabi. Sama Tower is at the corner of Airport Rd and Electra Rd., near the NMC (New Medical Center). The exhibition will be open Saturdays from 1-5 through Nov. 27 and by appointment. Please contact Jennifer or Kevin McCoy with questions and image requests: info@mccoyspace.com

• furtherfield review - All Raise This Barn by MTAA
  (tags: mtaa press artb artbarn art10)

• Hudson Valley Events Vlog: [HvEXAS] Troy Bike Rescue @ MTAA ArtBarn | Sun. 10/24, 1-3 PM | FREE
  (tags: mtaa press artbarn bike bicycle awesome)

• The Webpage For Planned Self-Obsolescence (2010)
  … an updated version for an updated time. Note that the original at http://tinjail.com/you/index.html is a re-creation. The real original was somehow destroyed (or the original hit counter stopped working).
  (tags: mtaa art art10 netart10 netart webart)
• Autotrace #5 (Warhol's Soup Can)
  Included in "un(process)ed" curated by Blue Box Gallery (http://www.blueboxgallery.com/exhibitions/unprocessed/)
  (tags: mtaa art autotrace warhol video art10)

• MTAA’s All Raise This Barn at EMPAC - Arts Talk - Capital Region arts and entertainment news - timesunion.com - Albany NY
  (tags: mtaa press artbarn artb)

• You Do Not Know What You Are Talking About
  We, like you, have often wished while listening to a lecture, panel, speech or newscast to stand up and tell the speaker, "You do not know what you are talking about!" The artists sit behind a desk with two laptops and two microphones before them. Behind them a projection screen displays the text "#mtaa" and a timer. They announce the title of the performance, "You Do Not Know What You Are Talking About," and explain that for the duration of the performance, they will read any, only and all text sent to Twitter with the hash tag "#mtaa." The audience is invited to start twittering. MTAA need your tweets! We'll be doing the two, 10-minute performances of You Do Not Know What You Are Talking About at approximately 2:45PM Eastern Time on Saturday October 2nd and 3:45PM Eastern Time on Sunday October 3rd. Please tweet with the hash tag #mtaa and your tweets will be included in the performance.
  (tags: art mtaa filamentfestival art10)

• 01SJ Biennial: Build Your Own World - Slideshows - Dwell
  from the site… 'All Raise This Barn, West, a project by MTAA, proposes how to build a community when a quintessential community-building event—barn raising—no longer occurs. Here, the artists polled people online to decide how the barn would be built, asking what color it should be and even "Should this barn be a barn?".'
  (tags: mtaa press 01sj artb artbarn)
• Filament - A festival of new work : FALL 2010 : EMPAC - experimental media and performing arts center - troy, ny usa
  (tags: festival media performance technology exhibition exhibition10 mtaa)

• evercookie - virtually irrevocable persistent cookies
  be evil. be very evil.
  (tags: browser html5 javascript security web privacy evercookie cookie)

• Iframes, onload, and document.domain | NCZOnline
  (tags: ajax browser cross-domain development webdev javascript crossdomain)

• New Media Outside the Box, Blue Box Gallery Mounts
  (tags: mtaa press autotrace bluebox video exhibition exhibition10)

• ARTSHIFT San Jose » Blog Archive » ZERO1 INVITES YOU TO BECOME INVOLVED NOW
  (tags: mtaa press art art10 01sj artb artbarn)

• ARTBarn: home | All Raise This BARN — a group-assembled public building and/or sculpture
  (tags: 01sj mtaa performance art art10 collaboration)

• Safari Extensions Development Guide: About Safari Extensions
  (tags: safari extensions docs developer javascript reference webdev)
• The Wilderness Downtown
  (tags: film google html5 interactive arcadefire chrome)

• Lee Walton's Wappening_6.mov
  … somewhat obnoxiously hijacked by an annoying person named Bird.
  (tags: video art art10 leewalton nyc)

• MTAA_Logo_170x100.jpg (170×100)
  MTAA approved!
  (tags: mtaa namespace narcissism funny)

• OnyX
  A multifunction utility for Mac OS X which allows you to verify the Startup Disk and the structure of its System files, to run misc tasks of system maintenance, to configure some hidden parameters of the Finder, Dock, QuickTime, Safari, iTunes, Login window, Spotlight and many Apple’s applications, to delete caches, to remove a certain number of files and folders that may become cumbersome and more.
  (tags: app osx software tech tool onyx utilities macosx utility)
• Saft
  (tags: apple safari osx macosx saft kiosk)

• Public APIs availability - uptime and down time - slow performance
  (tags: api status reference tool development webdev monitoring)
• Git for the lazy - Spheriki
  (tags: cheatsheet git howto reference programming development tutorial)

• Make Your Own Time-Lapse Photography System | CreativePro.com
  (tags: photography howto video technique time-lapse timelapse diy reference)

• How to use TextMate – Jeffrey Zeldman Presents The Daily Report
  (tags: development editor textmate webdev tutorials reference)
• jQuery Mobile | jQuery Mobile
  (tags: jquery js library webdev mobile development javascript)

• HTML5 Boilerplate - A rock-solid default for HTML5 awesome.
  … haven't really looked at this yet, but their copy describing it is pretty funny.
  (tags: css3 webdev html5 js tools template)

• What is a non-blocking script?
  (tags: javascript webdev latency network js)
• HTML5 Reset
  … somewhat precious in it's approach (very precious) but some good hacks, tips & guidelines
  (tags: css webdev html5 webdesign resources stylesheet)

• Font Squirrel
  (tags: @font-face css css3 webdesign design font resource)

• Photoshop Template for Blueprint CSS Comps | Konigi
  (tags: css design framework psd template webdesign blueprint)
• The HTML5 test - How well does your browser support HTML5?
  (tags: browser browsers development html5 javascript programming webdev utility)

• Plywood Texture by ~goodtextures
  (tags: texture plywood wood design graphics)
• goodtextures's Gallery
  (tags: texture graphics design webdesign)
• Free High Resolution Textures - Lost and Taken
  (tags: design graphics graphic texture webdesign)
• Free Resource for High Resolution Textures - love textures
  (tags: design texture graphics webdesign stock)

• Strictly Formal
  Cory Arcangel's blog wherein he interviews artists about the creative process. 1st and only post is from June however…
  (tags: art artist blog coryarcangel interview)

• ★ An Improved Liberal, Accurate Regex Pattern for Matching URLs
  It seems that John Gruber does more than pontificate on all things Apple :-)
  (tags: code development regex url webdev)
• Determining if an object property exists
  One of the most basic tests developers perform in JavaScript is whether or not a particular property exists on an object. Since feature detection is the preferred method of code forking, developers are encouraged to test for the existence of properties before using them.
  (tags: webdev javascript js json)
• Flutie - GIANT ROBOTS SMASHING INTO OTHER GIANT ROBOTS
  (tags: development rails css design webdev)

• Old School Color Cycling with HTML5 | EffectGames.com
  (tags: javascript html5 design graphics canvas)

• Terminal Tips and Tricks For Mac OS X - Super User
  (tags: apple bash cli howto unix commandline)

• User Interface Design Framework | Huge GUI elements library for Illustrator | 290 free vectors icons
  (tags: art design free gui webdev wireframe illustrator ui ux)

• The Apache-Apple Event Bridge (AAEB)
  Perhaps I lack imagination but I don't see how this would be useful…
  (tags: apache applescript aaeb webdev development)

• nzakas's cssembed at master - GitHub
  (tags: development webdev css data-uri cssembed embed)

• jsFiddle - Online Editor for the Web (JavaScript, MooTools, jQuery, Prototype, YUI, Glow and Dojo, HTML, CSS)
  … a small amount of playing around with this has left me very impressed.
  (tags: ajax webdev javascript js css development)

• Soukie's Place » Degradable HTML5 audio and video Plugin
  (tags: html5 wordpress video webdev h264)
• Installing Arduino with Firmata for MaxMSP and Processing in OSX
  (tags: arduino maxmsp processing firmata software hardware controller osx)

• stubbornella's oocss at master - GitHub
  (tags: css framework webdev layout grids)
• Open Video Player for HTML5 <video>
  (tags: html5 video akamai)

• YouTube API Blog: Flash and the HTML5 <video> tag
  …[Flash] will continue to play a critical role in video distribution
  (tags: youtube flash video html5 h264 h.264)

• HTML5 presentation
  (tags: html5 presentation html webdev)

• HTML5 presentation
  (tags: html5 presentation html webdev)

• GranFondo NewYork
  (tags: bicycling bicycle nyc bike granfondo ny)

• ecoarttech | condensations of the social | flock house
  "Join ecoarttech at Smackmellon in NYC from June 20th through the 26th as we live and work in Mary Mattingly's Flock House, which will be exhibited as part of "Condensation of the Social." Each day from noon to 2pm ecoarttech will organize urban hikes (originating at Flock House), exploring convergent ecologies in the DUMBO area in support of our work Indeterminate Hikes. In addition we will conduct several evening events involving performance and conversations engaging ecologies of the social, psychic, digital and environmental. All events are open to the public."
  (tags: ecoarttech smackmellon dumbo art exhibition)

• Made in Internet - ArtBoom Tauron Festival
  MTAA's "(LOVE + HATE) x 100" is part of this "showcase of short video forms created by web artists" collected by Marcin Ramocki.
  (tags: mtaa exhibition10 webart video webvideo)

• Rhizome | Revolution #99
  … a small review of "Website Unseen #01: Random Access Mortality" by Curt Cloninger for Rhizome. The piece is from 02, but the review appeared in 03 for some reason.
  (tags: mtaa press art02 netart02 websiteunseen)

• Firefox 4k XML node limit | Coderholic
  (tags: javascript firefox webdev)

• AJAX Upload
  … worky work
  (tags: ajax webapp webdev jquery javascript upload uploader)
• Apple - HTML5
  (tags: webdev javascript programming standards css3 html5)

• Smokescreen |
  … Flash Player written in JavaScript! Crazy!
  (tags: svg flash html5 javascript smokescreen)
• Miro Video Converter FREE - Convert any video to MP4, WebM (vp8), iPhone, Android, iPod, iPad, and more.
  (tags: codec movie video webm transcode theora ogg free freeware convert)
• Louise Bourgeois, Influentual Sculptor, Dies at 98 - Obituary (Obit)
  (tags: art nyc nyt obit artist)
• netpioneers
  (tags: net.art netart history internet)
• Blue Box Gallery
  (tags: art gallery technology)

• Busting frame busting
  (tags: security webdev javascript development browser)

• ARTB (West) on Flickr - Photo Sharing!
  M.River did this. But I approved it!
  (tags: artb mtaa press promo)
• Google Prediction API - Google Code
  This could come in handy for all sorts of fun stuff.
  (tags: algorithms api google datamining webdev analysis)
• Out of the Garage Into the World - 2010 01SJ Biennial
  (tags: art art10 01sj exhibition press mtaa)

• Google Storage for Developers - Google Code
  (tags: storage cloud google webapp webdev)
• Google Font API - Google Code
  from the site… "The Google Font Directory provides high-quality web fonts that you can include in your pages using the Google Font API."
  (tags: api browsers css3 development design webdev font type typography)
• The WebM Project
  Google opens VP8, pairs it with Vorbis, wraps it in Matroska (http://www.matroska.org/) calls it WebM. Support from Mozilla, Adobe… no mention of Apple or Microsoft.
  (tags: codec webdev html5 vp8 video opensource openvideo)
• jQuery for Designers - Tutorials and screencasts
  (tags: jquery javascript webdev)

• Blake Gopnik - Couple stole more than other artists' ideas
  (tags: press review 0100101110101101.org)

• The All-In-One Almost-Alphabetical No-Bullshit Guide to Detecting Everything - Dive Into HTML5
  (tags: webdev html5 javascript programming reference development)

• DataTables (table plug-in for jQuery)
  jQuery client-side table sorting, pagination, etc
  (tags: ajax development framework javascript jquery pagination webdev datagrid datatable)

• Web Application Exploits and Defenses
  Google learns ya on how not to get pwned.
  (tags: development security web tutorial reference webdev)

• Rhizome | General Web Content: The LOLgraph: Charts, Graphs, and Diagrams
  Awesome collection!
  (tags: art data funny)

• IEBlog : HTML5 Video
  from the article: "The future of the web is HTML5. Microsoft is deeply engaged in the HTML5 process with the W3C. HTML5 will be very important in advancing rich, interactive web applications and site design. The HTML5 specification describes video support without specifying a particular video format. We think H.264 is an excellent format. In its HTML5 support, IE9 will support playback of H.264 video only." I thought that MS had already announced this, but I guess the earlier announcement was that they'd support H.264. This new announcement they'll ONLY support H.264 in the video tag.
  (tags: webdev video openvideo msie9 html5 ie9 h.264 microsoft)
• Unescaping HTML in javascript
  Handy
  (tags: webdev javascript)

• Rhizome | Performing Participation: An Interview with MTAA
  During the summer of 2009, I enlisted MTAA in an email-based interview regarding the practical consequences and conceptual implications associated with producing their participatory poll and performance ["Automatic for the People: ( )"] for SFMOMA. — by David Duncan
  (tags: mtaa press aftp sfmoma aop participation museum)
• Thoughts on Flash
  … the Jobs hisself on Flash, iPhone, iPad, etc
  (tags: adobe apple html5 flash iphone web)
• Group exhibition, Vienna/Austria: Übersetzung ist eine Form. | Translation is a mode. | CONT3XT.NET
  MTAA's Simple Net Art Diagram and Commons Art Diagram included in this show.
  (tags: art exhibition technology vienna mtaa exhibition10 2010)
• mtaa.jpg (500×300)
  Install view of MTAA's Simple Net Art Diagram and Commons Art Diagram in Übersetzung ist eine Form. | Translation is a mode. (Group exhibition, Vienna/Austria) More here: http://cont3xt.net/blog/?p=2933
  (tags: mtaa art exhibition 2010)
• YouTube Rolls Out New Video Player
  (tags: video youtube webvideo flash)

• Bare Bones Software | BBEdit 9.5 Release Notes
  BBEdit finally fixes the syntax-highlighting of JS embedded in (X)HTML documents!!!!!!!1!! "Syntax coloring for embedded JavaScript and CSS (in HTML documents, between <script>..</script> and <style>..</style> tags, respectively) will now end at the appropriate closing tag, rather than at the first occurrence of </ after the opening tag. This behavior is correct for XHTML and XML, but not for HTML 4.x and earlier; but it is more closely aligned with browser behaviors and user expectations." (Yes. I'm a dork.)
  (tags: bbedit osx software webdev)

• jQuery Masonry · David DeSandro
  (tags: code css development javascript jquery webdev)
• Tasting Tour: Eating on the Go in NYC | Serious Eats
  (tags: food nyc reference)

• ColorPicker.com : Quick Online Color Picker Tool
  The simplest one I've found.
  (tags: colorpicker color design development webdev webdesign tool)

• Ajaxload - Ajax loading gif generator
  (tags: ajax animation design development graphics loading loader load)
• Adobe scraps work to bring Flash apps to iPhone | Deep Tech - CNET News
  (tags: adobe apple flash html5)
• A Clean, Fresh Mystery Beneath the Bridge
  … someone — probably an artist-prankster, the locals suspect — strung a nylon line across a small, fenced lot under the bridge, on a median along Queens Plaza South in Long Island City, and then hung more than a dozen articles of fresh, white clothing from it.
  (tags: art conceptual queens)
• Blowing up HTML5 video and mapping it into 3D space
  Demo of HTML5's canvas and video API
  (tags: html5 webdev video javascript webdesign)

• SproutCore Blog - Introducing SproutCore Touch
  This library has been overkill for what I do, but who knows…?
  (tags: development framework html5 ipad iphone javascript webdev)
• LukeW | Touch Gesture Reference Guide
  Could come in handy…
  (tags: development ipad iphone reference touchscreen ui ux webdesign)
• A List Apart: Articles: Better JavaScript Minification
  Kinda dorky but could come in handy
  (tags: development javascript webdev)

• Follow Finder by Google
  (tags: app google twitter socialmedia followfinder)

• Zen Bikes
  New bike shop (24th btw 6 & 7)
  (tags: bicycling bike bicycle)

• Surfin’ Safari - Blog Archive » More Web Inspector Updates
  (tags: browser development firebug webdev safari web webkit)
• Old New York photographed in color
  (tags: photos history nyc photography)

• Dunning–Kruger effect - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
  (tags: awesome science wikipedia cognition)
• Graphic Design Insanity Over Nuclear Summit Logo
  What a bunch of morons.
  (tags: graphics design politics graphic)

• MTAA-RR [ news/mriver/_bersetzung_ist_eine_form_translation_is_a_mode.html ]
  … very self-referential I know…
  (tags: mtaa exhibition snad exhibition10)

• tourists | new yorkers
  Funny.
  (tags: photo nyc funny awesome)

• B.3.2 Specifying non-HTML data
  I've finally discovered why BBEdit is such a pain my ass when it comes to syntax coloring JavaScript within HTML documents.
  (tags: webdev html standards bbedit text)

• Safari Dev Center: HTMLMediaElement Class Reference
  I wish I was an abstract superclass… :-)
  (tags: safari webkit video audio html5 events)
• PhoneGap | Cross platform mobile framework
  PhoneGap is an open source development tool for building fast, easy mobile apps with JavaScript. This seems the best as it supports OS's other than the iphone
  (tags: framework iphone javascript webdev phone android blackberry)
• iPhone Development Alternatives: Code Without Objective-C
  A list of tools/frameworks to help develop iphone apps without using obj-c.
  (tags: development iphone framework)

• Ogg objections | Hardwarebug
  (tags: codec video ogg media architecture)

• papamike.ca — understanding tcpdump
  (tags: tcpdump packet sniff)

• The State of the Internet Operating System - O'Reilly Radar
  (tags: data internet web cloud computing oreilly)

• superfreedraw - drawing interface
  (tags: draw web free super superfreedraw)
• superfreedraw - archive
  (tags: art usergenerated draw vector awesome)

• FINALLY: The Difference between Nerd, Dork, and Geek Explained by a Venn Diagram
  YES! Completely agree. Why I've always considered myself a geek and not a nerd. Most of my friends are geeks of course.
  (tags: culture graphics tech)
• Microsoft supports SVG | ITworld
  …in IE9, which also supports the video tag and h.264. Things are looking good for the web :)
  (tags: microsoft svg vector web webdev)
• 24-Hour Bike Shop (Bring Plenty of Quarters) - City Room Blog - NYTimes.com
  (tags: bike bicycling bicycle nyt)

Art is a luxury commodity for the wealthy that limits the possibility of ownership, understanding, and access based on class, education and geography.

• tinjail
  m.river gots da best art foto blog
  (tags: art photo blog)
• Stuart Regen Visionaries Series: Jimmy Wales :: NewMuseum.org
  Jimmy Wales at the New Museum Apr 8. I have fond memories of sharing wi-fi with Mr. Wales in a sweaty little gallery in Dubrovnik in '06 during the iCommons Summit. It was before the general conference showed up. Just a few people (mostly artists) hanging around. Good times :)
  (tags: wikipedia numu rhizome lecture)
• NOISEnotNOISE »
  (tags: exhibition)
• Hg Init: a Mercurial tutorial by Joel Spolsky
  (tags: development programming subversion svn versioncontrol)
• Your IP :: Smart-IP API
  (tags: geolocation javascript webdev)
• CBS.com Prepping HTML5 Video Playback for iPad - Mac Rumors
  (tags: apple html5 tech ipad video)

• MTAA's autotrace #class, both sides of the table
  MTAA's autotrace #class at Winkleman Gallery
  (tags: mtaa press video autotrace)

• MoMA | @ at MoMA
  MoMA’s Department of Architecture and Design has acquired the @ symbol into its collection.
  (tags: art arts culture moma newmedia typography @ design)
• Daring Fireball: GIF, H.264, and Patents
  "they can’t say Firefox only supports free and open video formats while still supporting Flash" — Gruber's very good point is very simple: Firefox users are still goning to get H.264, but delivered via Flash instead of a native video tag. So Mozilla, what is the point?
  (tags: video html5 flash webdev tech punditry)

• Adobe® BrowserLab
  test layouts in different browsers (via Barry Hoggard)
  (tags: adobe browser webdesign webdev development resources)
• All Raise this Barn, West - 2010 01SJ Biennial
  We'll be doing this in September.
  (tags: mtaa press 01sj art10 participation)
• Art in Review - ‘#class’ - NYTimes.com
  (tags: nyt art review)

• Daring Fireball: Mozilla, Video, and Mobile Computing
  Mozilla needs to wise up.
  (tags: browser firefox h.264 html5 video mozilla)
• HTML5 Video (Kaltura)
  (tags: html5 video library webdev)
• MTAA-RR [ news/twhid/reminder_autotrace_4_at_class_this_week.html ]
  (tags: art mtaa performance livedemo autotrace art10 conceptual awesome)

• Google and Partners Seek Foothold in the Living Room - NYTimes.com
  (tags: google tv video)
• Microsoft previews Internet Explorer 9 with HTML 5 support | Desktop Apps | ZDNet UK
  … according to this article MS promises mp4 and h.264 video support in IE9. We'll see.
  (tags: html5 video ie9 ie webdev)
• Manly Slang from the 19th Century | The Art of Manliness
  (tags: history language slang)
• Paris 26 Gigapixels - Interactive virtual tour of the most beautiful monuments of Paris
  (tags: interactive photo paris gigapixel photography)

• Internet Explorer 9: Platform Demos
  (tags: browser css3 internet microsoft webdev msie browsers ie9)
• Flashembed and Flowplayer
  (tags: flash javascript jquery webdev)

• Delineate - raster to SVG converter
  (tags: vector svg autotrace convert delineate)
• AutoTrace
  "Welcome to AutoTrace - a program for converting bitmap to vector graphics. The aim of the AutoTrace project is the development of a freely available application with a functionality similar to CorelTrace or Adobe Streamline. I hope that it will become better than all commercially available programs. In some aspects it is already better. AutoTrace is free software. AutoTrace is distributed under the term of GNU GPL." [ *** Adobe Streamline*** That is ole skool hahahaha]
  (tags: art autotrace drawing tracing vector svg opensource)
• RO IT Systems - Free Autotrace Web Interface
  (tags: autotrace convert bitmap illustrator svg)

• How to run a .sh-script in an Unix console/Mac terminal? - Stack Overflow
  (tags: osx unix shell script development)
• Google Maps' new biking feature has plenty of flaws - NYPOST.com
  The NYPOST is a horrible, right-wing rag but this is pretty funny. Every cyclist in NYC noticed that this feature needs lots of work.
  (tags: bicycling cycling google maps map bicycle review)

• Official Google Blog: Biking directions added to Google Maps
  Biking directions added to Google Maps!!!!!!!1!
  (tags: bicycle bike biking maps cycling google googlemaps)
• Caravaggio in Ascendance - An Antihero’s Time to Shine
  "By at least one amusing new metric, Michelangelo’s unofficial 500-year run at the top of the Italian art charts has ended. Caravaggio, who somehow found time to paint when he wasn’t brawling, scandalizing pooh-bahs, chasing women (and men), murdering a tennis opponent with a dagger to the groin, fleeing police assassins or getting his face mutilated by one of his many enemies, has bumped him from his perch."
  (tags: art nyt)
• Rhizome | FAVICONTEST
  Some pretty good icons…
  (tags: art rhizome favicon contest)
• 10 Years After: A Look Back at the Dotcom Boom and Bust | Magazine | Wired.com
  (tags: history internet dotcom)

• HTML5
  (tags: Html5 webdev)

• MTAA-RR [ news/twhid/random_video_app.html ]
  … happy to announce that we’re releasing an OS X application that does one thing: plays back a playlist of videos randomly until you make it stop. It's not the most user-friendly piece of software, but it gets the job done.
  (tags: video automate art installation quicktime osx playlist)
• Op Ed by EDT/bang.lab in Union Tribune, San Diego | post.thing.net
  … Electronic Disturbance Theater/b.a.n.g. lab […], have opted instead to create a poetic gesture and safety device, equipped to identify water caches on the U.S. side of the border.
  (tags: art performance border conceptual immigration)

 Download Random Video App

• This version of the software has only been tested on OS X 10.5. If you try it on other versions of the OS and it works. Awesome! Drop us an email and let us know.
• It won’t work on Power PC-based computers. But it may if you re-compile it, which brings me to the next note…
• If you want the source let me know. It’s open source, but I’m just too lazy to clean it all up for distribution unless someone actually wants it.

• Introducing: dump.fm
  from Rhizome, "Ryder Ripps, of Internet Archaeology, along with Tim Baker (Delicious) and Scott Van Damme (MIT Exhibit), recently launched a beta version of dump.fm, a chat room where participants communicate solely through images. The site combines the creative back and forth of surf clubs, tumblr’s loose and rapid-fire network of image transmission, and the real time spontaneity of an old school chat room."
  (tags: p2p surfclub chat meme)

• Books in the Age of the iPad — Craig Mod
  (tags: apple ipad print technology design)

• Yevgeniy Fiks: Communist Tour of MoMA - bloggy
  "For the past fifty years, the Museum of Modern Art has been separating artists from their politics and in so doing sanitizing the history of Modern Art. 'Communist Tour of MoMA' connects the history of Modern Art to history of the 20th century Communist movement."
  (tags: art review history politics moma modernart modern)

• List of most expensive paintings
  (tags: art culture painting)

• Utrecht Acrylic Canvas Sizing - Pint - Gesso & Primers - Acrylic Priming Materials at Utrecht
  We're new media artists. :-)
  (tags: art painting materials sizing acrylic)
• http://www.eyebeam.org/events/upgrade-ny-collaborative-futures-book-launch-talk
  Upgrade! NY presents the Collaborative Futures book launch and talk. Collaborative Futures, book about free collaboration written collaboratively over five days during the 2010 Transmediale Festival, locked six writers and one programmer in a Berlin hotel room to collaboratively write a book about the future of free collaboration; the authors started with only the title, and ended the week with a book.
  (tags: art collaboration eyebeam)
• furtherfield review - Digital Pioneers
  Rob Myers reviews the exhibition Digital Pioneers, at the V & A Museum. An overview of the first decades of the computer's history in art and design. including some of the earliest computer-generated works in the V&A's collections, many of which have never been exhibited in the UK before.
  (tags: art review digitalart newmedia furtherfield)
• Brand New Paint Job .com by Jon Rafman, 2010
  (tags: art netart newmedia)

• YUI Compressor
  (tags: webdev javascript minify jsmin js compression)
• Julien Lecomte's Blog » Search Results » YUI Compressor
  (tags: javascript howto yui ant minify)
• Montreal Bagels, Now South of the Border - City Room Blog - NYTimes.com
  (tags: nyc brooklyn food bagel)

• Hoggard Wagner Art Collection | Installation Views
  (tags: art collection)
• open sword - pixen
  (tags: osx software graphics photoshop graphic opensource pixel editor)

• Download Whid 1.00 for Linux
  "Whid is a simple application that keeps track of time." No I am NOT! WTF? LOL! Er. I don't like it, not one bit.
  (tags: whid weird namespace funny twhid)

• Forced Entertainment : Homepage : Welcome
  (tags: art theater experimental uk media)

• Bike Works NYC - Lower East Side Cycling Center
  (tags: bicycling bike nyc cycling bicycle)
• Open letter to Google: free VP8, and use it on YouTube - Free Software Foundation
  "Dear Google, With your purchase of On2, you now own both the world's largest video site (YouTube) and all the patents behind a new high performance video codec — VP8. Just think what you can achieve by releasing the VP8 codec under an irrevocable royalty-free license and pushing it out to users on YouTube? You can end the web's dependence on patent-encumbered video formats and proprietary software (Flash)."
  (tags: video web html5 flash youtube standards codec fsf)

• America's 20 Most Miserable Cities - No. 1 Cleveland, Ohio
  (tags: cleveland)

• The Many Friends of Jerry Saltz | The New York Observer
  Not sure why he doesn't just get a blog; probably could make a good amount of cheddar off the adverts.
  (tags: art nyc socialmedia critic facebook saltz)
• faceted_sphere.gif (640×360)
  Michael-Bell Smith's mesmerizing Faceted Sphere on An Escalator (via http://Rhizome.org)
  (tags: gif art netart animation loop loops)
• What Steve Jobs Said During His Wall Street Journal iPad Demo
  More rumors on Jobs dissing Flash…
  (tags: apple adobe flash html5 ipad webdev tech politics)
• ShadyURL - Don't just shorten your URL, make it suspicious and frightening.
  (tags: haha url funny awesome)

• ArtCat - Chelsea - Alexander Gray Associates - What’s Left: Artworks Made by a Public
  gotta see this show — "What’s Left: Art Made by a Public showcases four significant artworks made since the 1960s that are activated by public engagement. Situated between conceptualism, performance, intervention and public art, the exhibition raises questions concerning documentation and archive, event and object."
  (tags: art exhibition fluxus public participation)

• Server Clipboard in Google Docs
  Handy
  (tags: google docs googledocs server clipboard)
• Social Media Art Camp at the Roger Smith Hotel in New York City
  Organized by the Art, Culture & Tech Meetup
  (tags: art socialmedia conference NYC)
• Radiovisual #003: Jerry Saltz’s Facebook, Shaquille O’Neal’s exhibition, the new Flux Factory
  (tags: art interview critic saltz podcast audio)
• swissmiss | John Updike on living in NYC
  the true new yorker secretly believes that people living anywhere else have to be, in some sense, kidding. - john updike (no linkage to prove it's Updike, but sounds about right)
  (tags: nyc blog quote)

• The Art of the Crowd - The Scene - News & Opinion - Art in America
  Art in America covers #class (hash tag class) in which MTAA is participating.
  (tags: art netart twitter socialmedia web2.0 MTAA)
• Swivel | See, understand, and share numbers
  (tags: reference web graphics chart database graph visualization analysis)
• Untitled Document
  Post Media Manifesto … apropos that the Post Media Manifesto author neglected to add the <title> tag to their page? Viewing source, I see there is an attempt to link to a style sheet using a 'file:///' url. The Post Media author perhaps should study the basics of new media before going post? The author also has a hotmail account.
  (tags: manifesto postmedia newmedia theory)
• The Matter of Electronics | Vague Terrain
  … essay by Ed Halter
  (tags: art film graphic culture theory technology aesthetics)
• CONT3XT.NET
  CONT3XT.NET is a Vienna-based initiative founded in January 2006. It is run by Sabine Hochrieser, Michael Kargl (aka carlos katastrofsky), Birgit Rinagl, and Franz Thalmair as a collaborative tool for the presentation, discussion, and critical investigation of tendencies in contemporary (media) art.
  (tags: art netart newmedia net.art vienna)
• Report: Malicious PDF files comprised 80 percent of all exploits for 2009
  thx Adobe!
  (tags: adobe pdf security malware)

• Hoggard Wagner Art Collection | Home
  the Hoggard Wagner Art Collection launches (in beta)
  (tags: art collection collector artcollection database)
• My 2008 Youtube Top Ten in 2010 « Cory Arcangel's Internet Portfolio Website and Portal
  this video has been removed
  (tags: art coryarcangel linkrot performance art08 art10 entropy)
• John Baldessari On The Origins of Copy and Paste Culture
  … it's just stuff to use :-)
  (tags: art copyright artwork video awesome)
• YouTube turns five, hyperspaces interweb into the future
  The final blow will be the day that YouTube switches off Flash and starts streaming only to HTML5 browsers. On that day all browsers will be HTML5 compatible or they will perish in the flames of user outrage. [twhid: not sure that day will ever happen…]
  (tags: video web html5 youtube)
• John Nack on Adobe: Adobe is "sabotaging" HTML5??
  Adobe dude says they're not blocking HTML5…
  (tags: google apple html5 flash standards html webkit adobe)

• Free teleprompter/autocue service. Cueprompter - The online prompter.
  (tags: video web teleprompter presentations presentation)

Tired of your Social Network?

Liberate yourself and your ‘friends’ with a web2.0 suicide! The Web2.0 Suicide Machine lets you effectively delete all your energy sucking social-networking profiles, kill your fake virtual friends, and completely do away with your web2.0 alterego. The machine is developed in the moddr_lab at WORM (Rotterdam), and serves as a metaphor for the http://suicidemachine.org website which moddr_ hosts; the belly of the beast where the web2.0 suicide-scripts are maintained…

Our services currently run with Facebook.com, Myspace.com and LinkedIn.com; simply enter your username and password for the required service, and our machine will systematically login to your account, change your profile picture, and then one by one delete all of your friends.

Eva and Franco Mattes aka 0100101110101101.ORG
Pseudo-Futurist Video Game Improvisation Extravaganza
Live in Second Life
http://slurl.com/secondlife/Odyssey/35/25/22/
Monday Nov. 16, 5-6pm (EST time); 2-3pm (Second Life time)

Synthetic Performances are online live gaming sessions inside the virtual world of Second Life, performed by Eva and Franco Mattes through their avatars, which were constructed from their bodies and faces. The series arose out of the artists’ polemical stance toward performance art. This lead the Mattes on the one hand to breach the classic rules of performance, and on the other to present these works - the efficacy of which was based on the radical way they explored the issues of the body, violence, sexuality, identity and public space - in a context where these issues acquire completely different, paradoxical meanings.

Anyone can participate from all over the world by clicking the link above. If you don’t have a Second Life account you can sign up for free.

Presented by PERFORMA09 - www.performa-arts.org
Produced with the support of Eyebeam

PIE IN THE SKY: All About Greenpoint’s Rooftop Farms
w/ Annie Novak

FREE LECTURE

MONDAY, Oct. 5, 7:30pm
PETE’S CANDY STORE
(709 Lorimer St., Brooklyn)

New York City is a Farmer’s Paradise! Just ask Annie Novak, one of the masterminds behind Greenpoint’s Rooftop Farms, a 6,000 square foot organic farm picture-esquely plopped on top of a warehouse overlooking midtown Manhattan. Her operation — founded in partnership with Ben Flanner, a neophyte to farming, and Goode Green, a green-roofing specialist — currently produces produce for a host of Brooklyn gourmandizers, including Anella and Marlow and Sons. They even run a farm stand featuring fresh picked produce every Sunday! Come hear how this urban Agronomist tells us the unlikely story of how she did it — and learn how you can too!

• “Film in Which There Appear…” George Landow, 16mm film, 1965 (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oRd3727lwXs )
  
• “Report”, Bruce Conner, 1967 (this looks horrible: http://www.download-finished.com/archive/bruce-conner-report-1967avi.html )
  
• “The Jump”, Jack Goldstein, video, 1979 (crappy youtube: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gqwIXyqwZZg )
• “lackofvision.mov,” Brody Condon, digital video, 1996-2009
• “The Hamster Dance,” Deidre LaCarte, animated GIFs with audio loop, 1998 (http://www.webhamster.com/ )
  
• “787 Clip Arts”, Oliver Laric, video, 2006 (http://oliverlaric.com/787cliparts.htm )
  
• “nato1”, jimpunk, video, 2006 (http://dvblogh4ck.blogspot.com/2006/05/nato1.html )
  
• “Walk”, Michael Sarff, video, 2007 (http://tinjail.com/walk/ )
  
• “Subterranean House (Oonce Oonce)”, Michael Bell-Smith, video, 2007 (http://oonce-oonce.com/)
  
• “Kingdom”, Michael Sarff, video, 2007 (http://tinjail.com/kingdom/ )
• “Superman II point 0”, Chris Coy, Flash, animated GIFs, 2007 (http://www.seecoy.com/supermanIIpoint0.html )
• “Timeless”, Hayley A. Silverman, video, 2007 (http://www.hayleysilverman.com/index.php?n=Work.Timeless )
  
• “Our Political Work”, MTAA, 2-channel video with software, 2008 (http://www.mtaa.net/art/opw/ )
• “YES & NO”, MTAA, 2-channel video with software, 2008 (http://mtaa.net/yes_no/)
• “Rendered Spirits”, Rick Silva, video, 2008 (http://www.vimeo.com/1801184)
• “The Horror! The Horror! (.info)”, Jon Rafman, Flash, 2008 (http://thehorrorthehorror.info/)
• “MOUNTAINS”, Mathwrath, animated GIF and webpage, 2009 (http://www.mathwrath.com/ click ‘work’ then ‘MOUNTAINS’)
• “you-talking-to-me.com”, JODI, webpages, 2009 (http://you-talking-to-me.com)
• “People Who Look The Same In Every Photo,” no author, internet meme, 2009 (compiled by MTAA see: this & this)

Can a noncommercial critical website use the trademark of the entity it critiques in its domain name? Surprisingly, it appears that the usually open-minded folks at Wikipedia think not.

Last February, a pair of artists, working with several collaborators, created a Wikipedia article and invited the general public to add to it, following Wikipedia’s standards of credibility and verifiability. The work was intended to comment on the nature of art and Wikipedia. But Wikipedia editors did not take kindly to the project, and it was shut down within fifteen hours for being insufficiently “encyclopaedic.”

Fast forward a couple of months. The artists, Scott Kildall and Nathaniel Stern, have created a noncommercial website that documents the project, called Wikipedia Art. The domain name for the project: wikipediaart.org.

Yep, they used the term “wikipedia” in their domain name. “Wikipedia” is a trademark owned by the Wikimedia Foundation. And now the Foundation has demanded that the artists give up the domain name peaceably or it will attempt to take it by (legal) force.

April 16 - May 16, 2009

WOLFGANG STAEHLE
A Matter of Time

Postmasters is pleased to present an exhibition of new works by Wolfgang Staehle.

A Matter of Time is comprised of four real time projections of time-lapse photographic sequences and a premier video work of a Yanomami Village in the Brazilian rain forest. The show will be on view from April 16 until May 16, 2009. An opening reception is scheduled for Thursday, April 16, between 6 and 8 pm.

A Matter of Time draws upon mid-19th century painter Thomas Cole’s series The Course of Empire. Cole’s historically critical rumination views pastoralism as the ideal model for civilization, fearing that the ideal of Empire inevitably results in greed and decay. While A Matter of Time holds the mirror of this salient socio-political commentary up to our own time, it is one whose reflection is without indignation to the systems themselves. Perhaps, best encapsulated in the artist’s own 1989 work which avows, “Empires crumble, republics collapse, and idiots live on;” the posit follows that it is our own inordinate ability to destroy the sublimity of any civilization’s ideal that is put on the table.

However, Staehle’s work in no way relies upon homage to Cole’s series, a foray to pastoralism or political satire. Evident in his body of work, the form is always central; and previous works have underscored time-a one-to-one, linear time, a simulative “real time” or the contrivance of frozen time. In this exhibition, A Matter of Time broadly refers to the time lapse photographic sequences (approximately 15,000 photographs per day at 10 frames per minute) but presented here in real time-a rate so methodical that it denudes the image of its cinematographic aspect, while accentuating it pictorially. By allowing us to exact the machinations of nature, through figuratively arresting time, a perceptual shift is created that video does not pose, and thereby realigns our relationship with the real. Each contiguous moment pre-empts the prior, switching out the obsolete image for a perpetually updated “now.” Is it that the representation of an object’s stasis recalls the full force of its movement? Because ultimately, it is this indeterminate relation with time that drives our experience with these quietly unsettling works.

[…]solo exhibition of new work from artist Mark Amerika, opens Wednesday, April 8th, in The Project Room for New Media at Chelsea Art Museum and remains on view through May 9, 2009. […]

Amerika describes Immobilité as “a feature-length foreign film shot entirely on a mobile phone in Cornwall, UK.” The work includes an original soundtrack by renowned sound artist Chad Mossholder and introduces Camille Lacadee and Magda Tyzlik-Carver as on-screen personas that drift in and out of the film’s otherworldly landscapes and ghostly narrative sequences.

Yes, it’s true that a team at Google couldn’t decide between two blues, so they’re testing 41 shades between each blue to see which one performs better. I had a recent debate over whether a border should be 3, 4 or 5 pixels wide, and was asked to prove my case. I can’t operate in an environment like that.

“Eclipse” is a user driven, networked-art application that alters and corrupts United States national and state park images from Flickr.com based on the real-time Air Quality Index (particle pollution data) provided by the United States Environmental Protection Agency (E.P.A.) at the site www.airnow.gov.

“We visit national parks to get away from traffic and smog. But the latter can be hard to shake, even in remote, pristine-seeming places. “Eclipse”, an open-source program created by Cary Peppermint and Leila Christine Nadir of EcoArtTech, will make air pollution’s presence visually — and viscerally — explicit.” Anna Lena Phillips, American Scientist

“Eclipse” is a 2008 commission of New Radio and Performing Arts, Inc., (aka Ether-Ore) for its Turbulence web site. [snip]

Saturday, February 28, 2009 at 6:00pm
Postmasters Gallery
459 West 19th Street (at 10th Avenue)

“the future is not what is used to beâ€� brings together artists engaged in the Internet shaped culture. Through drawings, photographs, sculpture, video, and online projects they explore social interaction in a networked world, reflection in the times of speed, new communication tools and smart technologies affecting cultural and sociopolitical reality, sustainable strategies for contemporary life, connectivity and dis-connect, digital/analog divide, instantaneity and obsolescence, the web as the largest image depository ever, and new forms of appropriation, means of production, and modes of political engagement.

• Mind over matter, mouth in motion (Public Enemy, “Rightstarter”)
• No sleep ‘til Brooklyn (The Beastie Boys, “No Sleep till Brooklyn”)
• I’m completely operational and all my circuits are functioning normally. (Hal 9000, “2001: A Space Odyssey”)
• Isn’t life a series of images that change as they repeat themselves? (Andy Warhol)
• I am interested in ideas, not merely in visual products. (Marcel Duchamp)
• Courage is resistance to fear, mastery of fear — not absence of fear (Mark Twain)
• All warfare is based on deception. (Sun Tzu, “The Art of War”)
• The art happens here. (MTAA, “The Simple Net Art Diagram”)
• May both of us work together with great vigor. (Shanti Mantras)
• Nothing’s free but guaranteed for a lifetime’s use. (R.E.M., “Star Me Kitten”)

1. go to mtaa.net/vote
2. download the audio tour in MP3 format
3. vote

• My goal is to raise $6,000 by January 1, 2009.

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The joy created by George W. Bush’s impending departure from the Presidency could only possibly be overshadowed by the excitement of Barack Obama’s election.

So now there are two reasons to celebrate!

I’m know you’ve already celebrated Obama’s victory but have you taken the time to really think about what the end of these last 8 years means to you? The end of an era?

I asked myself that question recently and decided that the best way to commemorate the long awaited date of 1-20-09 was to assemble a collection of images and words that could be presented to GWB upon his departure representing the feelings of the American people.

So, as a way to say goodbye to these last 8 years, my friend Fred and I have created a site called, “Don’t Let The Door Hit You On The Way Out” where we are collecting farewell notes for Bush. Think of it as catharsis politics:

http://dontletthedoorhityouonthewayout.com/

The basic idea is that you e-mail us images, words, and ideas and we’ll publish them into a book that we’ll try and get into Bush’s hands before Obama is sworn in. We’re looking for as much participation in this as possible, so please share this link far and wide.

I know it’s easy to put things like this off, but if you feel motivated to share your feelings about the last 8 years (I for one have been pretty steamed) please consider contributing something to the collection before the end of the year.

Rhizome’s annual membership drive will run from October 29 through midnight December 31st, 2008. Our goal is $30,000 — a figure that is completely vital to our success amidst a particularly difficult year in the arts.

Now is the time to support Rhizome, to make a contribution towards an organization with an open and innovative structure and singular mission to further internet and new media art. Contribute now and help us keep this field moving energetically forward, through commissioning, preservation, criticism and participatory programs, in 2009!

A 19 year old college student from Pennsylvania, Megan comes from a household of Independents. This being her first election, she has been trying to pay attention to the conventions and the debates in order to make the most informed decision possible.

You’ve heard a lot about this election from both the campaigns and the media. Now you can hear from your fellow citizens. Watch below as Republicans, Independents and conservatives explain their reasons for supporting Barack Obama.

The Reason Campaign aims to encourage substantive and productive dialogue between Americans - red state or blue - concerned about the issues facing our country today.

Sarah Jessica Parker’s art competition reality show has found a home at Bravo.

The network has picked up “American Artist,” from Parker’s Pretty Matches production company and wunderkin producers Magical Elves, as part of its development slate. Bravo is expected to announce the deal Sunday at the Television Critics Assn. press tour.

The hourlong show has been described by the Elves team of Dan Cutforth and Jane Lipsitz as a “Project Runway”-style competition series that takes on the art world. Aspiring artists compete to produce various styles of artwork (painting, sculpting, etc.), which is then judged by a panel of experts. The network declined to comment.

Organized by SFMOMA Curator of Media Arts Rudolf Frieling, this large thematic presentation gathers more than 70 works by some 50 individual artists and collectives, and will feature projects both on-site and online, as well as several new pieces commissioned specifically for the exhibition. From early performance-based and conceptual art to online works rooted in the multiuser dynamics of Web 2.0 platforms, The Art of Participation reflects on the confluence of audience interaction, utopian politics, and mass media, and reclaims the museum as a space for two-way exchange between artists and viewers.

The exhibition proposes that participatory art is generally based on a notion of indeterminacy—an openness to chance or change, as introduced by John Cage in the early 1950s—and refers to projects that, while initiated by individual artists, can be realized only through the contribution of others. This artistic approach entices the public to join in; questions the conventional divide between artists and their audience; and challenges assumptions about the symbolic value of art, as well as the traditional role of the museum as a container for objects rather than a site for social engagement or art production. Participatory art typically synthesizes a variety of artistic media, emphasizes process over object, and champions the idea of collective authorship.

The final frontier protecting contemporary art galleries from the relentless encroachment of the auction houses has been emphatically breached with the announcement that Damien Hirst is creating an exhibition of new works for display and sale at the London headquarters of Sotheby’s.

The upcoming program in Rhizome’s New Silent Series at the New Museum, Net Aesthetics 2.0, will examine the state of contemporary art engaged with internet art. Convening leading artists, critics and curators, this panel will explore salient topics such as the relationship of artists emerging now to the first generation of internet art, the correspondence between online art and offline exhibition (as well as the phenomenon of “internet aware” art), the current role of the artist on the internet, the position of explicit political content in internet art (and the question of whether internet art practice is undergoing a more “formalist” phase), among other directions and challenges faced by this expansive field.

This talk will be the second in a series of Net Aesthetics 2.0 events. Panelists include artists Petra Cortright, Jennifer and Kevin Mccoy, Tom Moody, Tim Whidden and Damon Zucconi and will be moderated by curator, critic and Rhizome staff writer Ed Halter. Tickets available here.

Friday June 6th, 7:30pm
the New Museum, New York, NY
$8 general public, $6 Members (Rhizome and New Museum)
Presented in conjunction with Internet Week
http://www.newmuseum.org/events/190

WANT, a collaboration between MTAA and Radical Software Group, uses 900 video clips of actors to illustrate search-engine requests. It’s as goofy and perplexing and overwhelming and sad as the Internet itself. The next time you use a search engine with one of those “Other users are currently searching for . . .” features, you won’t be able to resist picturing the forlorn, chubby face that goes with the query for “SALMA HAYEK EATING COOKIES.”

Tonight (May 7)
The Colbert Report
Comedy Central
11:30 (Eastern and Pacific)/10:30 (Central and Mountaln)

I’m going to be on The Colbert Report discussing my project, “Tracking Transience” and how do deal with being on a terrorist watchlist. Stephen Colbert is supposedly doing a little story on Nelson Mandela still being on the terrorist watchlist…I guess Mandela was unavailable, so they called me.