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What is the Folk Web?

Wed, 04 Apr 2012 06:41:30 -0700

I'm looking for 'Folk' Web Cultures. I am thinking of the recent take-down of Geocities, which seemed to refresh people's love of the naff, kitsch aesthetic it was famous for, as a prime example. What are some other folk cultures still lingering in the dark corners of the web? I use the term 'Folk' in the sense it is used to denote 'common people' cultures, including art, music, dance, songs and stories. The artists Jeremy Deller and Alan Kane collated a Folk Archive for the British Council a few years ago, it really gets to the…

Bruce McCall: Nostalgia for a future that never happened

Tue, 14 Feb 2012 06:24:37 -0700

Dog

Thu, 09 Feb 2012 11:13:55 -0700

Dog

Cybernetic Sherlock

Sun, 08 Jan 2012 10:45:36 -0700

Cybernetic Sherlock

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Thing (The)

Fri, 24 Jun 2011 09:29:13 -0700

Thing (The)

Similarities - a set on Flickr

Wed, 02 Mar 2011 07:28:57 -0700

The pairs of images in this "Similarities" set are similar visually in one way or another. They are presented without judgement as to the motives of their creators. The viewers of the pieces can form their own opinion(s) about what they see.

Some are "accidents": The creator of the similar piece had no knowledge of the original. Examples would be the 1982 Rafal Olbinski / New Pornographers posters and the Idea magazine cover / Okkervil River poster.

Some are "re-contextualized": Obscure imagery from long forgotten sources was used from vintage printed ephemera like 1940s…

Official Viva Amiga Teaser Trailer Version 1

Wed, 06 Oct 2010 11:45:07 -0700

The secret messages written into the fabric of our world

Fri, 17 Sep 2010 04:40:00 -0700

I like the BBC test card, because it's a wonderful example of how practical industrial design can develop into an enigmatic work of art. But even better is knowing that the image isn't just art, it has an objective purpose worked into it, a secret meaning that reveals itself under scrutiny. The architecture of industrial design is filled with these subtle codes, and together they create a world around us filled with hidden meaning.

If we look at the BBC test cards, the colours and patterns framing Carole have a fairly obvious purpose, providing reference points for…

The Dudleys

Wed, 28 Jul 2010 03:09:00 -0700

THE DUDLEYS! takes the adolescent memories of a man and translates them into a malfunctioning 8-bit video game, the kind he used to play as a young adult. But instead of Megaman or Punch-Out, he plays The Dudleys, his own family of fifteen years ago, during the aftermath of his father’s death. Featuring a live band with original music composed on vintage video game equipment (Atari, Gameboy, Commodore 64) and 8-bit video footage, THE DUDLEYS! pits the two dimensional world of happy endings up against the confusion and aimlessness of real life.

The new wave of retro gaming

Fri, 18 Jun 2010 09:37:00 -0700

Sometimes it's really hard to let go. Like that vinyl collection you've got stashed away in the attic or those VHS cassettes of movies that you've already replaced on DVD that you just can't force yourself to flog on eBay. There are just those times when nostalgia takes over, leaving a home strewn with junk and a partner pleading for you to move on.

If there is one area of life in which people do embrace change, however, it's gaming. Did you love Operation Wolf back in the 1980s? Pah, we're now shooting out way with friends…

My Famicase Exhibition 2010

Thu, 13 May 2010 05:25:00 -0700

With its latest entries having just appeared online, the Famicase exhibition -- curated by Tokyo game culture shop Meteor -- once again proves why it's a yearly art/game highlight. The premise? A collective of Japanese designers and artists imagine cartridges for their favorite Famicom (8-bit Nintendo) games that never were.

While this year's crop has strayed away from anything as blatantly/lightly controversial as last year's Bush Jr cart, it takes no less a sardonic swipe at Western culture with Burp'n'Shoot! above. The game, the artists say, is a "fun lazy redneck experience" that involves "sitting on the…

Acoustic Prosthesis

Thu, 17 Dec 2009 16:55:46 -0700

Mr. Daniel posted a photo:

butdoesitfloat.com/190819/For-the-world-to-be-interesting...

Acoustic Prosthesis

Thu, 17 Dec 2009 16:55:00 -0700

Mr. Daniel posted a photo:

butdoesitfloat.com/190819/For-the-world-to-be-interesting...

Arcangel and the future of digi/net art

Tue, 08 Dec 2009 06:44:50 -0700

Corey Arcangel is perhaps the internet's most infamous hack, masher-upper, digi/net artist. His work stands for a growing culture of artists who run wildly through animated GIF landscapes populated with corrupted data-compressed bunny rabbits and tinny, MIDI renditions of Savage Garden ballads. As the Lisson Gallery, London, opens its archives to Arcangel's curatorial eye, could digi/net art be set to infect the real, fleshy world, like a rampant Conficker Worm? Has YouTube become the truest reflection of our anthropological selves? Are…

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Tue, 08 Dec 2009 04:04:00 -0700

It is an internet radio, a cyberspace shuttle, and a kind of archive. LMB takes you on a journey through an almost forgotten web that is loud, colorful, often "personal", and doesn't care about standards. Though it might be forgotten by many, some parts of it are still there, waiting to be explored. And maybe we can learn something along the way. What? LMB plays a continous stream of MIDI music. However these aren't just random tunes, instead the songs are taken from websites where they are being played as background music. While playing a song the LMB cyberspace shuttle…