M, B & J in Korea

Computer media art is getting up there in years and has been continueously accruing a now venerable history of its artistry. Most of the crazy computer-mediated ideas people have come up with in the past unfortunately don't get attention beyond afficinado circles. There's some really good, really funny stuff out there and one place to troll for thought provocations is Rhizome.org's Art Database. Enjoy, Misha Here are some projects I found and liked. 1. "Spamrecycling" by Jung von Matt/Neckar for [client] EnBW [Energie Baden-Wuertemberg]. _{This is a datavisualization engine that create beautiful pictures from your otherwise unattractive Inbox spam. You can email your spam to here and recycle it artistically yourself.}



2. In "Google will eat itself", a collective of artists are buying Google shares with money made through a system of $-generating google ads on invisible (!) web banners on invisible (!) web sites. _{The artists calculated that, by the going rate, they should be the sole owners within somewhere around, ohh, 200,000 years, I believe. [Note: they going strong with 44 shares through this method now]}

3. Log on to "Eternal Sunset" to collapse time & space and catch the romance of the sun going down 24/7. _{Theartists have worked with webcam operators around the world to allow you be more independent from your natural surroundings. Yeah.}