Presentation Notes.

Since my presentation on the DIY or DIE Exhibition by Upgrade! in New York, my final paper topic has altered greatly. Originally, my topic was regarding the trend towards collaboration not only within net art but in the business world in general, as inspired by the book, Wikinomics – How Mass Collaboration Changes Everything, by Don Tapscott and Anthony D Williams. The grand portion of the pieces in the DIY or DIE Exhibition were based on the principles of collaboration.
New media artist Andy Deck was featured multiple times within DIY or DIE. Upon examining his work, I was intrigued by the overall themes and messages behind his pieces as found on artcontext.net. The paper topic then morphed into Deck and likeminded artists’ battle against the conventions of modern mass media. Deck challenges the world to question the discourse and ideals thrust upon one by the media. He asks society to seek absolute truth rather than obey propaganda.

Some notable pieces and essays by Deck include:

http://www.artcontext.org
http://www.artcontext.org/cultmap/index.html
http://www.artcontext.org/art/03/artForPeace/
http://www.artcontext.org/crit/essays/adMission/
http://www.artcontext.org/art/01/startWars/
http://www.artcontext.org/art/02/box/
http://artcontext.net/progload/
http://www.artcontext.org/crit/essays/mall/index.html

While no longer pertinent to the paper, the links to the pieces featured in the presentation are:

Armstrong, Kate; Tippett, Michael: Grafik Dynamo!
http://transition.turbulence.org/Works/dynamo/ (Accessed February 21, 2007)

Catanese, Paul: Misplaced Reliquary
http://www.paulcatanese.com/misplaced/ (Accessed February 21, 2007)

Cerar, Maja; Freeman, Jason; Reed, Patricia: Graph Theory
http://turbulence.org/Works/graphtheory/ (Accessed February 21, 2007)

Christensen, Julia: Big Box Reuse
http://bigboxreuse.com/ (Accessed February 21, 2007)

Da Costa, Beatriz; Schulte, Jamie; Singer, Brooke: The Swipe Toolkit
http://www.turbulence.org/Works/swipe/main.html (Accessed February 21, 2007)

Deck, Andy: Imprimatur
http://turbulence.org/Works/imprimatur/ (Accessed February 21, 2007)

Deck, Andy: Panel Junction
http://artcontext.org/act/05/panel/ (Accessed February 21, 2007)

Freeman, Jason: iTunes Signature Maker
http://www.jasonfreeman.net/itsm/ (Accessed February 21, 2007)

Freeman, Jason: N.A.G. (Network Auralization for Gnutella)
http://www.turbulence.org/Works/freeman/ (Accessed February 21, 2007)

M. River & T. Whid Art Associates: To Be Listened To…
http://www.mtaa.net/2bl2/ (Accessed February 21, 2007)

Mandiberg, Michael: Oil Standard
http://transition.turbulence.org/Works/oilstandard/ (Accessed February 21, 2007)

Mazza, Cat: Knitoscope
http://turbulence.org/Works/microRevolt/ (Accessed February 21, 2007)

Microrevolt: Knitpro 2.0
http://www.microrevolt.org/knitPro/ (Accessed February 21, 2007)

Mimosa: muuuuuuu
http://turbulence.org/Works/mimoSa/ (Accessed February 21, 2007)

Neustetter, Marcus; Stern, Nathaniel: Getawayexperiment.net
http://turbulence.org/Works/getawayexperiment/index.php (Accessed February 21, 2007)

Stellingwerff, Adriaan: Eternal Sunset
http://www.eternalsunset.net/ (Accessed February 21, 2007)

Turbulence: Commissioning and Supporting Net Art for 10 Years 1996-2006
http://www.turbulence.org/ (Accessed February 21, 2007)

Turbulence: D.I.Y. or DIE: an Upgrade! New York, Turbulence and Rhizome Net Art Exhibition
http://www.turbulence.org/diyordie/index.html (Accessed February 21, 2007)

Ubermorgen.com: Google Will Eat Itself
http://www.gwei.org/index.php (Accessed February 21, 2007)

Unknown: Fallout, A History of Upheaval, Nicaragua and Its Diaspora
http://turbulence.org/Works/fallout/index.php (Accessed February 21, 2007)

Van Anden, Jason: Farklempt!
http://www.smileproject.com/farklempt/v/1/ (Accessed February 21, 2007)

Xurban Collective: Knit++
http://www.turbulence.org/Works/Knit%2B%2B/index.htm# (Accessed February 21, 2007)

Zanni, Carlos: Average Shoveler
http://www.zanni.org/average.htm (Accessed February 21, 2007)