Wikipedia Art is a conceptual art work composed on Wikipedia. The ongoing composition and performance of Wikipedia Art is intended to point to the 'invisible authors and authorities' of Wikipedia, and by extension the Internet, as well as the site's extant criticisms: bias, consensus over credentials, reliability, accuracy and vandalism.
An online work by Aaron Koblin and Daniel Massey (us) whose title refers to the song line 'bicycle built for two' from the well-known Daisy Bell: Based on a distributed system of 2000 human voices Bicycle Built For Two Thousand is a reconstruction and cover version of the very first song in history ever synthetically sung by a computer (in 1962).
The American art and design collective Sosolimited (Justin Manor / Eric Gunther / John Rothenberg) has been nominated with their performance project ReConstitution, a live remix of broadcast television, and a format originally configured for the 2008 presidential elections.
Michelle Teran's (ca) tour through the Spanish town Murcia on three levels at once: by bus, on Google Earth and YouTube. The search for places and authors of various YouTube videos shot in town - an intimate encounter between videomakers and audience, the overlapping of the real and the virtual, of past and present.
Founded in 2007 by Evan Roth and James Powderly, and grown by 17 new members since, the F.A.T. network is as a loose online collective working across several continents, and with a great amount of humour, on free software and other exciting projects supporting open values through the use of open licenses.
What open spaces are built into our current economy by innovation and new ideas? What kind of progress and communication strategies do we need? A performative discussion about values and responsibilities of our society.
Since 2006, as an ongoing, experimental project TRANSIT LOUNGE has evolved through many different formats to continually explore the potentials of interdisciplinary collaboration. What happens when movement becomes difficult? What happens when escape from (or to) home becomes impossible? Moving while Standing Still is a series of 3 parallel online conversations, between artists in Berlin and others from cities in Australia, the South. The exchange will eventually be traced or translated via installations or performances into a real space at transmediale.09.
Conversation One - Teaser
Anna Tautfest / Debbie White / Miriam Mlecek
Conversation Two - Teaser
Jordana Maisie / Muse-me / Nick Mariette
Conversation Three - Teaser
Gaby Bila / Gracia Haby & Louise Jennison / Steve Smart
Real Costs is a Firefox plug-in that calculates the environmental impact of air travel by adding CO2 emissions data to airfare websites such as Orbitz.com, United.com, Delta.com, etc. It is like nutrition information labeling for airplane emissions.
Oil Standard is a Firefox plug-in that converts all prices on a webpage into barrels of crude oil, exploring the moment when oil replace(d) gold as the standard by which we trade all goods and currencies.