Participation Art Online
Last Friday’s studio talk by Amber Frid-Jimenez was both inspiring and informative. We had a lively question and answer session as well, in which we talked about questions ranging from surveillance to the commercial art world to the dilemma of ending an online community.
In the talk, Amber positioned her work, “participation art online,” as an intersection of performance art and early-networked communication. She began by citing Ed Ruscha’s work, whose collection of writing “Leave Any Noise at the Signal” inspired the title of this talk as well as her thesis (S.M. 2007) for the Media Lab. She covered ground from Fluxus and the Situationists to early BBS communities and Alternative Reality Games, just to name a few. Viewing her work in the light of these earlier artistic and cultural movements, one can see the implicit political and artistic power present in online interaction and collaborative creation.
There is so much to explore and think about! Below, are some links to Amber’s work as well as some of the artists she mentioned. In the comments, please feel free to add links of your own.
Zones of Emergency: http://www.zonesofemergency.net/
Reflect Delay: http://plw.media.mit.edu/people/amber/public/mistydawn/
PLWire Telephone Tag: http://plw.media.mit.edu
Emma On Relationships Call-In Show http://www.amberfj.com/emma
OPENSTUDIO: http://www.amberfj.com/openstudio
Creative Browser: http://www.amberfj.com/highlights/browser.html
Frank, Ze. The Show. http://www.zefrank.com/theshow/
etoy Corporation: http://www.etoy.com
i love bees: http://www.ilovebees.com
Google Will Eat Itself: http://gwei.org
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