user generated content, collective invention

Here is the information from my presentation last week.

Wikipedia, Folksonomy
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Folksonomy


Wikipedia, user generated content
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User_generated_content


http://www.noprogram.org/postcard/postcard2.htm
Postcard Performance
artist : Douglas Gast
500 postcards are being, or have been, mailed to people that are somehow related to the fine arts community. The text on the postcard reads: “This postcard is part of a work of art. Please tell me if you got it.” It then lists the artist’s physical address and email address and further indicates that “responses will be posted on noprogram.org.”
The website is comprised of an image of the postcard, a brief explanation of the project and a list of recipients including the date the card was mailed, name, occupation and, if one was sent, a response.
The postcard project was conceived in the spirit of the Fluxus movement, incorporating such ideas as social/political activism, chance, playfulness and the unity of art and life. It directly draws from and incorporates many of the long-established themes of mail art including, like that of the earliest works, and to a lesser degree contemporary works of Internet art, the deliberate positioning of art outside of the rigid art/museum/gallery system.
Those within this system, however, who will be/were unknowingly targeted by the artist to receive the postcard, are the ones who are, or will be, providing the content of the project, that of access (exclusivity), hierarchy (importance) and commercialization of art. Out of the 500 to whom the postcard is addressed, who will actually receive it, who will choose to reply and in what fashion? An analysis will follow.
The project does find its home within, and is certainly an exploitation of, the commercial space(s) of the internet and direct mail advertisement. The postcard is glossy, obviously professional printed and will undoubtedly arrive with several unsolicited offers for credit or other forms of "junk mail." The webpage is clean, inspired by the design of Google, and with the utilization of bookmarks or tabs, could simply be one click away from sites such as Ebay or Amazon.
Lastly, while the public exhibition of mail art has occurred numerous times over its comparably brief history, the postcard project deliberately takes that which is by nature private, mail and email correspondence, a physical address, and makes it intimately available to a mass public, a community of individual users.


http://philadelphia.placeinplaceof.net/
"this was lost this was found"
artists: J. Meredith warner and Jeremy Beaudry
"This Was Lost, This Was Found" marks lost items of clothing (textile) found on the streets and sidewalks of Philadelphia, especially in the Fishtown and Kensington neighborhoods. Small red and white arrows are deposited beside the lost items, pointing in the direction of the Coral Street Arts House. The CSAH building’s original function as a former Textile Mill is lost, but a new use for it has now been found. The process of marking lost textile items in relationship to the CSAH building connects the outside world of the city with questions of waste/reuse, loss/gain, and how to revitalize former sites of industry


http://www.mrwong.de/myhouse/
"MrWong's Soup'Partments"
406 participants
template for download
users create a visual and virtual community
cartoonish pixel art with each floor representing a users creation.
there are rules in participation:no anti-aliased images, no ads, no plagiarism, no animation, no politics, no porn


http://www.communimage.net/
"communimage"
artists: Casqueiro Atlantico Laboratorio Cultural (Teresa Alonso Novo, Looks Brunner, Malex Spiegel) in collaboration with Johannes Gees, and the help of Roger Luechinger, Gino Esposito and Silke Sporn.
A community whose interface accepts static images which assemble to form a giant grid of square patches. This project has been running since 1999. The electronic collage is reminiscent of traditional quilting circles, with each member bringing pieces of fabric, time, labour and stories.


http://www.telegarden.org/tg/
telegarden
artist: ken goldberg
Telegarden users contribute their effort in tending a real-world garden. The interface allows virtual gardeners to control a robotic arm equipped with a view camera, a pneumatic trowel for planting seeds, and a watering can. On the site users can choose to sow virtual seeds and pour virtual water which controls real seed and real water. Participating on a global scale to a local ecosystem.


http://learningtoloveyoumore.com/
learning to love you more
artists: Miranda July and Harrell Fletcher
Learning to Love You More is both a web site and series of non-web presentations comprised of work made by the general public in response to assignments given by artists Miranda July and Harrell Fletcher. Participants accept an assignment, complete it by following the simple but specific instructions, send in the required report (photograph, text, video, etc), and see their work posted on-line. Like a recipe, meditation practice, or familiar song, the prescriptive nature of these assignments is intended to guide people towards their own experience.


http://homepage.mac.com/joester5/accidentalmpeg/index.html
"accidental mpegs"
artist: joe mckay
Accidental Mpegs are a collection of short video clips taken by mistake. The clips were shot on digital still cameras when the photographer accidentally switched to movie mode instead of still mode. Holland Cotter of the New York Times said that "The results have the unflattering awkwardness of old-time candid snapshots and are just as funny and touching."


http://www.15x15.org/
15X15
artist: Richard Vickers
In 1968 Andy Warhol stated that; In the future, everyone will be world-famous for 15 minutes. Using Warhols statement as a premise, 15x15 advances the statement into the 21st century; with new media technology anyone and everyone can be world famous....for 15 seconds.
Participants can contribute to the piece using a standard mobile camera phone that can capture video, and can send video clips directly from their camera phone using MMS (Multimedia Message Service), via email or upload from your personal computer to the online database.
In the 21st century art is being fundamentally realigned for anyone and everyone. 15x15 is a homage to Warhol, a realisation of the artistic utilisation of new media technology and the democratisation of art in the age of digital production.

www.perpetualartmachine.com
[PAM]
artists: Lee Wells, Raphaele Shirley, Chris Borkowski and Aaron Miller.
Perpetual Art Machine is a community for video artists, curators, writers, therorist, educators, collectors, and enthusiasts.
Perpetual Art Machine is an on line gallery and database of video art
Perpetual Art Machine is a traveling video installation.
The website feeds our installation machines. Both the database and video content work together at exhibition venues displaying works simultaneously and individually. The works play off each other, informing each other by association or differenciation, highlighting through the display system their individual qualities.
living archive, 1000 videos of over 500 artists from over 50 countries.
streaming video, database technology, large scale installation.
created in dec 2005

wikipedia, photoshop tennis http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Photoshopping#Photoshop_tennis


http://kollabor8.org/
Kollabor8
artist: Corey Eiseman
Kollabor8 is an artists’ hub functioning as a collaborative art piece. Kollabor8 explores the transitory nature of Internet content and the capacity for spontaneous creative synergy between unassociated artists. Images and themes change quickly, with no outside communication or planning. Any given chain of images has infinite potential for change as each artist leaves his or her mark. Social commentary may become irreverence, or innovation humor. Kollabor8 invites artists to take and then relinquish control as their peers reinvent, destroy, or expand upon their work.


http://www.sito.org/
sito.org
promotes artists works, an art archive for people to publish their visuals online.
collaborative projects in SYNERGY.
online communities established with forums to facilitate mass communication between members.

http://www.thesheepmarket.com/
The sheep market
artist: aaron koblin
Amazon's Mechanical Turk is a system for harnessing the power of distributed human intelligence. Intended for corporate use, MTurk exploits the notion that certain tasks are simple for people and difficult for computers. The system represents an automated work force in which computer and human processing are intertwined. The individual workers remain alienated from the larger process they are contributing to, aware only of their simple task. This organizational format, typically implemented by corporations, tends to yield highly organized, efficient results for the purposes of targeted economic gain.
The Sheep Market is a web-based art project which appropriates the MTurk system to implicate thousands of workers in the creation of a massive database of drawings. From one simple request, submitted to the MTurk system as a 'HIT' or Human Intelligence Task, workers create their version of 'a sheep facing to the left' using simple drawing tools. The artist responsible for each drawing receives a payment of two cents for their labor.
Within the inspiration for The Sheep Market is the urge to caste a light on the human role of creativity being expressed by workers in the system, while illustrating the massive and insignificant role each plays as part of a whole.


http://transition.turbulence.org/Works/self-portrait/
self-portrait
artist: Ethan Ham
The photos in Self-Portrait come from a software search through the millions of photos on flickr.com. Using facial-recognition, the software seeks out photos that are likely to contain the artist Ethan Ham. Self-Portrait takes the mechanical process of photography and extends the machine's role to include editorial selection.