MachineMachine /stream - tagged with humour https://machinemachine.net/stream/feed en-us http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/tech/rss LifePress therourke@gmail.com <![CDATA[The Fatberg Cometh | Sam Kriss]]> https://thebaffler.com/the-horrordome/the-fatberg-returns

These are just the facts. On July 22, 2013, Catherine, Duchess of Cambridge, gave birth to her first child, Prince George. Two weeks later, an enormous “fatberg” was discovered in the sewers under London.

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Sun, 01 Oct 2017 16:03:01 -0700 https://thebaffler.com/the-horrordome/the-fatberg-returns
<![CDATA['Ways of Something' curated by Lorna Mills]]> http://machinemachine.net/portfolio/waysofsomething/

I am privileged to be involved in Ways of Something: an incredible collaboration between artist Lorna Mills and (currently) 85 artists. Episode 3 will have its World Premiere at The Photographer’s Gallery, London, on February 12th 2015. 85 web-based artists remake John Berger’s historic documentary ‘Ways of Seeing’ (1972) one minute at a time. Originally commissioned by The One Minutes, at Sandberg Instituut in Amsterdam and compiled by Lorna Mills, the episodes present a sequence of 3D renderings, filmic remixes, videos and webcam performances which subvert the tropes of art history in an entertaining and overwhelming way. Followed by a Q&A between Julia van Mourik, director of The One Minutes and Lorna Mills via Skype.

Artists in Episode 1 1: Daniel Temkin, 2: Rollin Leonard, 3: Sara Ludy, 4: Rhett Jones, 5: Jaakko Pallasvuo, 6: Dafna Ganani, 7: Jennifer Chan, 8: Rea McNamara, 9: Theodore Darst, 10: Matthew Williamson, 11: Hector Llanquin, 12: Christina Entcheva, 13: V5MT, 14: Marisa Olson, 15: Joe McKay, 16: Carla Gannis, 17: Nicholas O’Brien, 18: Eva Papamargariti, 19: Rosa Menkman, 20: Kristin Lucas, 21: Jeremy Bailey & Kristen D. Schaffer, 22: Giselle Zatonyl, 23: Paul Wong, 24: Alfredo Salazar-Caro, 25: Sally McKay, 26: RM Vaughan & Keith Cole, 27: Andrew Benson, 28: Christian Petersen, 29: Faith Holland, 30: Jennifer McMackon Artists in Episode 2 1: Kevin Heckart, 2: Geraldine Juarez, 3: Gaby Cepeda, 4: Angela Washko, 5: Emilie Gervais, 6: LaTurbo Avedon, 7: Lyla Rye, 8: Mattie Hillock, 9: Antonio Roberts, 10: Georges Jacotey, 11: Daniel Rourke, 12: Sandra Rechico & Annie Onyi Cheung, 13: Yoshi Sodeoka, 14: Alma Alloro, 15: LoVid, 16: Andrea Crespo, 17: Ad Minoliti, 18: Arjun Ram Srivatsa, 19: Carrie Gates, 20: Isabella Streffen, 21: Esteban Ottaso, 22: ZIL & ZOY, 23: Hyo Myoung Kim, 24: Jesse Darling, 25: Tristan Stevens, 26: Erica Lapadat-Janzen, 27: Claudia Hart, 28: Anthony Antonellis Artists in Episode 3 1: Carine Santi-Weil, 2: Nicolas Sassoon, 3: Tom Sherman, 4: Kim Asendorf and Ole Fach, 5: Rafaela Kino, 6: Alex McLeod, 7: Kate Wilson and Lynne Slater, 8: Aleksandra Domanović, 9: Systaime, 10: Erik Zepka, 11: Adam Ferriss, 12: Rodell Warner and Arnaldo James, 13: Debora Delmar, 14: Brenna Murphy, 15: Nick Briz, 16: Carlos Sáez, 17: Jenn E Norton, 18: Juliette Bonneviot, 19: Luis Nava, 20: Vince McKelvie; 21: Claudia Maté 22: Evan Roth, 23: Shana Moulton, 24: Sabrina Ratté, 25: Jordan Tannahill, 26: Vasily Zaitsev feat.MON3Y.us, 27: Ann Hirsch REVIEWS - Read an interview with Lorna Mills about Ways Of Something on The Creators Project. Read here. - Ben Davis wrote an essay looking at the first two episodes on artnet. Read here. - The project was also featured by Animal New York here.

Julia van Mourik is an independent curator and editor, based in Amsterdam. Since 1999, she has produced visual arts projects and has composed programmes and publications, exploring new possibilities for presenting the moving image. She is Director of The One Minutes, a place for artists to experiment, to produce and to present within the inexorable limit of 60 seconds, hosted by Sandberg Instituut, Masters of Art and Design in Amsterdam (NL). She is also director of the Lost & Found programme, where artists show material that doesn’t fit comfortably into regular gallery contexts, that seems out of place. And she is Adviser to the to the Dutch Cultural Media Fund, promoting the development and production of high-quality artistic programmes by the national public broadcasting corporations. Lorna Mills has actively exhibited her work internationally in both solo and group exhibitions since the early 1990’s. Her practice has included obsessive Ilfochrome printing, obsessive painting, obsessive super 8 film & video, and obsessive on-line animated GIFs incorporated into restrained off-line installation work. She has also co-curated monthly group animated GIF projections with Rea McNamara for the Sheroes performance series in Toronto, a group GIF projection event When Analog Was Periodical in Berlin co-curated with Anthony Antonellis, and a touring four person GIF installation, :::Zip The Bright:::, that originated at Trinity Square Video in Toronto. In June 2013, Mills opened a solo exhibition ‘The Axis of Something’ at TRANSFER, her work was exhibited by the gallery at the Moving Image Art Fair NYC in March 2014, and her second solo show for TRANSFER is currently in development for 2015.  Her most recent solo project was Ungentrified a large GIF projection installation at OCADU in Toronto for Nuit Blanche. £7 / £4 concs Episodes 1 and 2 are produced by The One Minutes at the Sandberg Instituut in Amsterdam. Episode 3 is produced by Lorna Mills.        

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Wed, 04 Feb 2015 14:47:38 -0800 http://machinemachine.net/portfolio/waysofsomething/
<![CDATA[Snackwave: A Comprehensive Guide To The Internet's Saltiest Meme | The Hairpin]]> http://thehairpin.com/2014/09/snackwave-a-comprehensive-guide-to-the-internets-saltiest-meme/

Over the past few years, an aesthetic we like to call "snackwave" has trickled up from Tumblr dashboards. Now a part of mainstream culture, snackwave is everywhere: it's printed on American Apparel clothes and seen in Katy Perry music videos.

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Wed, 17 Sep 2014 01:35:04 -0700 http://thehairpin.com/2014/09/snackwave-a-comprehensive-guide-to-the-internets-saltiest-meme/
<![CDATA[Fab Sauce | Animated Short]]> http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FfXSA1IPACE&feature=youtube_gdata

Fab Sauce produced by Rubber House

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Thu, 11 Sep 2014 05:32:58 -0700 http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FfXSA1IPACE&feature=youtube_gdata
<![CDATA[GIFbites at بیت بر ثانیه / Bitrates]]> http://gifbites.com/exhibition

Shiraz Art House • Daralhokoomeh Project • May/June 2014 As part of Bitrates - an exhibition curated by Morehshin Allahyari and Mani Nilchiani at the Dar-ol-Hokoomeh Project, Shiraz, Iran – I asked 50 artists to create or curate an animated GIF with a short snippet of audio, to be looped together ad infinitum at GIFbites.com. For the opening of Bitrates on May 23rd a select version of this project will be displayed in the gallery, followed by a complete showcase of all the GIFs for the GIFbites exhibition, opening on May 30th in Shiraz Art House (Daralhokoomeh Project). GIFbites In an era of ubiquitous internet access and the extensive post-production of HD and 3D images, the animated GIF has an ironic status. Small in dimension and able to be squeezed through the slenderest of bandwidths, GIFs hark back to a World Wide Web designed for 640×480 pixel screens; a web of scrolling text, and not much else. Brought on – ironically – by their obsolescence the animated GIF has become a primary medium of communication on the contemporary net. The simplicity, freedom and openness of the medium allows even the most amateur web enthusiast to recuperate images plucked from TV, cinema, YouTube, CCTV footage, cartoons, videogames and elsewhere in their desire to communicate an idea or exclamation to the world. GIFbites is a mesmerising homage to brevity and the potential of poor, degraded images to speak beyond the apparent means of their bitrates. The results will hopefully navigate the web for many years to come, stimulating cut-and-paste conversations undefinable by Google’s search algorithms. GIFbites Project Page • بیت بر ثانیه / Bitrates Facebook Event Coming Soon: Bitrates/GIFbites Lp! Featuring the work of 50 artists

Morehshin Allahyari Mizaru/Kikazaru/Kyoungzaru Kim Asendorf & Ole Fach

Eltons Kuns Anthony Antonellis Lawrence Lek

LaTurbo Avedon Gretta Louw Jeremy Bailey

Sam Meech Alison Bennett Rosa Menkman

Emma Bennett A Bill Miller Benjamin Berg

Lorna Mills Hannah Black Shay Moradi

Andrew Blanton Nora O Murchú Nicolas Boillot

Alex Myers Tim Booth Peggy Nelson

Sid Branca David Panos Nick Briz

Eva Papamargariti elixirix Holly Pester

Jennifer Chan Antonio Roberts Theodore Darst

Daniel Rourke Angelina Fernandez Alfredo Salazar-Caro

Annabel Frearson Rafia Santana Carla Gannis

Jon Satrom Emilie Gervais Erica Scourti

Shawné Michaelain Holloway Krystal South Nathan Jones

Arjun Ram Srivatsa Nick Kegeyan Linda Stupart

Jimmy Kipple Sound Daniel Temkin

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Mon, 19 May 2014 12:04:25 -0700 http://gifbites.com/exhibition
<![CDATA[There is an ebooks version of me now : @rourke_ebooks... Follow it to support the bot revolution]]> https://twitter.com/therourke/statuses/462870434279849984 ]]> Sun, 04 May 2014 01:24:45 -0700 https://twitter.com/therourke/statuses/462870434279849984 <![CDATA['Penis Brothers' Force You To Take Your Pants Off in Rust Or Die]]> http://kotaku.com/penis-brothers-force-you-to-take-your-pants-off-in-ru-1517402503

What the... Ok, so we all know that socializing is kind of hit or miss in games like Rust or DayZ, but I...what?

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Wed, 26 Feb 2014 09:06:31 -0800 http://kotaku.com/penis-brothers-force-you-to-take-your-pants-off-in-ru-1517402503
<![CDATA[Apophenia]]> http://machinemachine.net/portfolio/apophenia

I wrote an essay for the publication accompanying Alma Alloro‘s solo exhibition, Apophenia, held at Transfer Gallery, New York – January 4th through 25th, 2014. Excerpt from my essay : Alma Alloro’s machines reel and spin in homage to the kinds of correspondences and affects images can make. In the tradition of Oskar Fischinger’s An Optical Poem (1938), or Hans Richter’s Rhythmus series (1920s) Apophenia is ‘about’ the preponderance of images: about what takes place when images move, but also about the very substance of the static image — a thing we had no need to conceive of until motion had been thrust upon it. Her works are concerned with performing a net aesthetic apart from the rigidity of digital codes and databases, linking her machines through animated GIFs back to… the principal technologies of animation… The machines, devices and contrivances of Apophenia celebrate similar instances when the coming into being of an image traces a noticeable and long-lasting mark in physical space. To be truly confronted with an image is to become aware of one’s own construction as a thing — ‘Here where the world touches’ — something that high-bandwidth, high-resolution and optical speeds tends to camouflage in the clarity of simulation. Download as PDF More info : almaalloro.com and TransferGallery.com

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Wed, 29 Jan 2014 07:46:25 -0800 http://machinemachine.net/portfolio/apophenia
<![CDATA[fax-machine.org]]> http://machinemachine.net/fax-machine

Today, the fax-machine isn’t accessible for two thirds of the world. Imagine a world where it connects us all.

fax-machine.org

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Sun, 25 Aug 2013 11:31:51 -0700 http://machinemachine.net/fax-machine
<![CDATA[The Enemies project: Camarade IV - Holly Pester & Daniel Rourke]]> http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tlA21GaQCz4&feature=youtube_gdata

Held at the rich mix arts centre on February 9th 2013, the fourth in the Camarade series and the first event of the Enemies project (www.weareenemies.com) saw thirteen pairings of British and European poets read original avant garde and literary poetry collaborations for a remarkable evening of contemporary poetic performance.

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Sun, 10 Feb 2013 05:28:54 -0800 http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tlA21GaQCz4&feature=youtube_gdata
<![CDATA[On Online 'Becoming' #Pizza]]> http://www.metamute.org/editorial/articles/becoming-camwhore-becoming-pizza

In the hot lava of social media flows the critical distance between performing and being a ‘somebody’, a subject type, seems to collapse, along with the ‘integrity’ of art’s own space and frame. In the lead up to their exhibition at Arcadia Missa, Web 2.0 artists Jennifer Chan and Ann Hirsch discuss the politics of performance and the productive nausea of networked becoming with art historian Cadence Kinsey and curator Rozsa Farkas

‘State and Lore (Revolutionizing Desire: A Reclamation of Representation for its Affective Potential) is a day of talks and performances hosted by Arcadia Missa at South London Gallery’s Clore studio. Conceived as an interdisciplinary event, State and Lore plans to bring together artists, writers and academics who are currently working through questions of representation and embodiment in relation to digital media and Web 2.0 technology. There will be a live piece by Jesse Darling, a performance by Ann Hirsch featuring excerpts related to her Scandalishious project, and a talk from Paul Kneale. There will be skype talks with Jennifer Chan and Faith Holland. The symposium has been put together in conjunction with And Lore, an exhibition of works by Chan and Hirsch at Arcadia Missa, a gallery, publishers and studios in Peckham, South East London.

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Tue, 20 Nov 2012 07:13:13 -0800 http://www.metamute.org/editorial/articles/becoming-camwhore-becoming-pizza
<![CDATA[Wikipedia:Deleted articles with freaky titles - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia]]> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia%3ADeleted_articles_with_freaky_titles

Strange titles are rarely added to Wikipedia under the guise of real encyclopedia articles. Occasionally Wikipedians lose their minds (especially on April Fool's Day) and if their posts are good they wind up here. Silliness can come in the form of creativity, insanity, or just boredom. As with other

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Wed, 14 Nov 2012 04:52:00 -0800 http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia%3ADeleted_articles_with_freaky_titles
<![CDATA[Google searches made by a 82 year old man = @oldmansearch : Existential twitter genius]]> http://motherboard.vice.com/2011/5/25/a-joke-twitter-feed-that-could-change-the-way-we-understand-the-internet

Twitter, that endless and obscure runway of missives; the burden of proof that mankind is nearing the atonement of its vapidity and carelessness, has shat out another Fabergé egg for us all to enjoy with a kind of guttural laughter only the misfortune of another human being can provide, and I love it more than anything under that sun right now.

Norman N., perhaps best known as @oldmansearch by his 90,839 (and counting) followers, is (ostensibly at least) an 81 year-old man whose son has tricked him into thinking Twitter is Google.

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Sat, 14 Apr 2012 08:37:56 -0700 http://motherboard.vice.com/2011/5/25/a-joke-twitter-feed-that-could-change-the-way-we-understand-the-internet
<![CDATA[Scottish broadcasting fail]]> http://radiofail.wordpress.com/2011/12/05/scottish-broadcasting-fail/

Very Impressive Scottish Radio Fail

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Mon, 27 Feb 2012 09:05:21 -0800 http://radiofail.wordpress.com/2011/12/05/scottish-broadcasting-fail/
<![CDATA[How I Found the Human Being Behind Horse_ebooks, The Internet's Favorite Spambot]]> http://gawker.com/5887697/

This is the story of Horse_ebooks, beloved online automaton, and how I tracked down its human master.

Horse_ebooks is a Twitter spam bot originally set up to promote horse-ebooks.com, an online store of horse-themed ebooks with a retro design equal parts GeoCities and MySpace. In addition to tweeting spam links, Horse_ebooks has apparently been programed to evade Twitter's spam filters by posting random snatches of text it scrapes from books and websites. About seven times a day, Horse_ebooks spurts out bits of context-free nonsense, like: "Worms – oh my god WORMS," and "I noticed that my hair grew faster from spending time in my pyramid."

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Sun, 26 Feb 2012 09:21:11 -0800 http://gawker.com/5887697/
<![CDATA[Lars von Trier: the interview]]> http://www.timeout.jp/en/tokyo/feature/5428/Lars-von-Trier-the-interview

As a director, he’s been accused of sadism too, for putting his actresses and characters through the mill ­– Emily Watson in Breaking the Waves and Nicole Kidman in Dogville come to mind. But it looks like an empty accusation when you consider the many actors who come back for more. Charlotte Gainsbourg returned to make Melancholia after Antichrist, and Von Trier tells me that Kirsten Dunst – who sat wincing to his left throughout that disastrous press conference – wrote to him the other week to say she’d love to do another film with him. Mindful of how extreme Nymphomaniac will be, he turned her down. ‘I wrote back to her saying, “No you don’t! You don’t know what you’re saying!” ’

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Sat, 25 Feb 2012 02:20:31 -0800 http://www.timeout.jp/en/tokyo/feature/5428/Lars-von-Trier-the-interview
<![CDATA[On the trail of the wild and wonderful @Horse_ebooks]]> http://splitsider.com/2012/01/the-ballad-of-horse_ebooks

Horse_ebooks is having a moment.

Of the accounts that follow me on Twitter, half are spambots. About 15% are companies or organizations whose social media interns found me on a list somewhere, and another 15% are something in between: not definitely bots, but not exactly humans. Whatever they are, they're not "listening" in any meaningful sense. Among the remaining group are some people I like, some people I like a lot, some people I don't know, and a bunch of technology PR professionals who don't really have a choice.

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Tue, 10 Jan 2012 06:06:45 -0800 http://splitsider.com/2012/01/the-ballad-of-horse_ebooks
<![CDATA[chemistry]]> http://tumblr.machinemachine.net/post/13544718628

chemistry

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Wed, 30 Nov 2011 05:33:00 -0800 http://tumblr.machinemachine.net/post/13544718628
<![CDATA[Priorities]]> http://tumblr.machinemachine.net/post/13070580531

Priorities

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Sun, 20 Nov 2011 10:46:25 -0800 http://tumblr.machinemachine.net/post/13070580531
<![CDATA[The Artist is Present (a video game about waiting in line at a museum)]]> http://www.joystiq.com/2011/09/18/the-artist-is-present-is-a-game-about-waiting-in-line-at-a-museu/

Writing articles about video games is so much fun that we often have to stop, wipe the manic grins off our faces and find something really boring to do. Sometimes we stare at a blank white wall and recite the Declaration of Independence under our breath, other times we watch Lost in Translation. Now we have a new option: We can play The Artist is Present, a game about waiting in line at New York's Museum of Modern Art created by Pippin Barr.

Unfortunately for us, the game's backstory is pretty entertaining. Contemporary artist Marina Abramović held an exhibit in 2010 that had people waiting hours in line for a chance to look into her eyes for as long as they wanted, and Barr used that idea to make a hilariously serious game about the contemporary art experience. In the game, you enter MoMA, buy a ticket and -- surprise -- wait in line to stare into Abramović's eyes.

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Mon, 19 Sep 2011 01:39:30 -0700 http://www.joystiq.com/2011/09/18/the-artist-is-present-is-a-game-about-waiting-in-line-at-a-museu/