Olia Lialina tells the story of Anna Karenin as a comedy in three acts (and an epilog): Anna looking for love; Anna looking for train; Anna looking for paradise. The way Anna looks, of course, is through Web searches for the words love, train, and paradise. Lialina culls the results from the search engines Magellan, Yahoo! and Alta Vista into 3 pages of pre-selections, and the "reader," is invited to get lost on her own train of data thoughts, before proceeding to the next act.

http://www.teleportacia.org/anna/

DissemiNET
Beth Stryker and Sawad Brooks

DissemiNET is a database-driven compilation of user-defined stories that is searched with a kind of fuzzy "curatorial"--as they put it--selectivity that complements a dynamic visual display to create a compelling portrait of "The Disappeared" in Guatemala.
DissemiNET also has parallels to open archives, as anyone can–at least during its initial installation–upload their stories related to the topic. More than being an open resource, however, it also attempts to represent and deal with notions of memory and loss and dispersion in a manner that is particularly appropriate to a computerized society.

http://disseminet.walkerart.org/

Road to Victory
Fred Wilson

For Road to Victory, Wilson researched the MOMA's archives for several years and then used the Web to juxtapose different stories the museum has told over the years.

http://www.moma.org/interactives/projects/1999/wilson/

more examples: http://databaseimaginary.banff.org/index.php

The Impermanence Agent was a storytelling Web agent that monitored each user's browsing, gleaned appropriate texts and images from that browsing, and then used this material to "customize" its story for each reader. It took the form of a small browser window (for displaying its content) and a proxy server (for monitoring browsing and making small alterations to browsed pages). The Agent eventually customized its own story out of existence, while interspersing this process with agent-like responses to the patterns of browsing (e.g., help through the Kubler-Ross stages as 404 errors were encountered). The Agent — rather than operating as an artwork for the audience to visit, appreciate, and then leave behind — was constructed as an addition to daily browsing, a site-specific artwork for the context of information work, to be appreciated peripherally, over time, as its alterations progressed and provided a collage mirror of each reader's browsing activity.

http://www.noahwf.com/agent/index.html

In the modern world, there is an over-abundance of information as a raw material for art. Working under the project name ‘sero.org', Blank & Jeron have since 1997 been addressing the concept of information and the problems raised by information smog (or garbage) in the information economy, and have presented and developed their own information-recycling concepts. The duo's Internet projects ‘without_addresses' (1997) and ‘Dump Your Trash!' (1998) ironically blur the thin dividing line separating information from disinformation, and question the ‘true' value of information in our society (whereby the German words for ‘true' and ‘merchandise' sound suspiciously alike).
Customers of the home-page recycling service ‘Dump Your Trash!' simply enter their Web address in the form provided, and are issued with an electronic collection note specifying a sero server address. There they find a counterfeit reproduction of the home page, now looking as if its components have been sculpted in porous, dark grey sandstone. Customers have the further option of ordering the stonemason production of marble or granite slabs inscribed with epitaphs and identical in appearance to the recycled home page.

Het project bestaat op dit moment niet meer online, maar een pdf over het project nog wel:
http://blankjeron.com/information.recycling_WORK_DESCRIPTION/1998_dump_your_t...

A virtual choir by Eric Whitacre. It brings 185 voices, all recorded independently at home, and then combined into a virtual choir. Each voice (available on the side of the video) is expert, each face unique; combined they are heavenly.

volgende keer in een 3D installatie?!

Book Review by Regine Debatty (WWMNA)

http://www.we-make-money-not-art.com/archives/2010/03/book-review-data-flow-v...

Data Flow: v. 2: Visualizing Information in Graphic Design, edited by Robert Klanten, Nicolas Bourquin, Sven Ehmann and Thibaud Tissot (Available on Amazon USAand UK.)

Publisher Die Gestalten Verlagsays: Data Flow 2 expands the definition of contemporary information graphics. The book features new possibilities for diagrams, maps, and charts. It investigates the visual and intuitive presentation of processes, data, and information. Concrete examples of research and art projects as well as commercial work illuminate how techniques such as simplification, abstraction, metaphor, and dramatization function.

The book also includes interviews with experts such as The New York Times's Steve Duenes, Infosthetics's Andrew Vande Moere, Visualcomplexity's Manuel Lima, ART+COM's Joachim Sauter, and passionate cartographer Menno-Jan Kraak as well as text features by Johannes Schardt about the challenges in creating effective information graphics and about the relationship between complexity, clarity, content, and innovation.

RHIZOME NEWS 3.31.10

Frameworks, Crowdfunding, Cassandra and Undocumented Wind Instruments: A look back at SXSWi 2010

By Nick Hasty on Wednesday, March 31st, 2010 at 12:00 pm.

Danah Boyd Speaking at SXSW Interactive [Source: SXSW on YouTube] Now that everyone is out of business cards and has had enough time to check in to their locative media apps, I think we can begin to make sense of the social and technological deluge that was the South by Southwest Interactive festival. After being deep in a web development hole for the past few months, what I took away from the conference was a rejuvenation of critical, big-picture questioning, a reminder of just how drastically technology is contouring contemporary society and culture and that, ultimately, it is still in our hands to determine the overall shape of things to come. Although a late arrival and scheduling conflicts prevented me from hearing everyone I'd have liked to have heard (Douglas Rushkoff, Gary Vaynerchuk, among many others), I was able to take in most of the keynote speakers and the panels whose subject had some impact or connection to the arts (which were few). Here is a synopsis of the projects, presentations, and people that resonated with me the most. Funding Your Projects from the Crowd - Moderated by Robin Sloan, this panel brought Perry Chen from Kickstarter, Britta Riley from Windowfarmsand Jenna Wortham from the New York Times together to talk about how to use the web to raise funds for creative projects, mainly using Kickstarter. Kickstarter is a microfunding website that helps people realize their creative projects by providing a simple online space to mobilize a community of supporters. Both Sloan and Riley are Kickstarter success stories, as Sloanwas able to raise four times his base $3,500 funding goal to help him write a book. Riley said that she had a difficult time securing grants from art institutions due to the unconventional nature of her WindowFarms project, but was able to raise over $28,000 via Kickstarter. She also mentioned that using Kickstarter enabled her to devote more resources to the actual project itself instead of having to invest time and money into developing a website capable of handling online payments. Kickstarter is currently in Beta and still invite only, as they are finalizing the best methods for helping people's projects succeed. But, once it leaves Beta, it will prove very valuable for artists to accomplish projects that may require extra funding or don't fit within the requirements of many arts grants.

Geinige combinatie van storytelling en infovis: website met serie infographics gebaseerd op het Radioprogramma This American Life

My new years resolution is to make an infographic on every This American Life ever made. The idea is to expand and add context to the stories and information contained in the shows. Basically, anything I am curious about while listening to the pieces.

http://tai.ejfox.com/