A work of web art composed basically of a special system that searches for keywords associated to videos and photos on the Internet. Based on a specific search, the visitor is emailed a remixed audiovisual file – of unknown authorship – derived from material previously existing and available on Internet. A Rumos Itaú Cultural Cybernetic Art award-winning artwork in 2007.
Lucas Bambozzi is a journalist with a degree from Universidade Federal de Minas Gerais (UFMG). Since the 1980s he has developed projects involving the expressivity of audiovisual language, with emphasis on electronic media. He has produced artworks involving video, film, installation, interactive projects and Internet.
by Knowbotic Research (Germany – Austria, 1998-1999)
The project involves twin installations: one with the Sao Paulo project (10_Dencies São Paulo, 1998) and another with the Venice project (10_Lavoro Immateriale, 1999). It explores the possibilities of urban intervention and interference in complex environments, creating a topological collage that mixes urban databases and statistics with the imagination of citizens. It is actually a study about mega-cities based on urban cartography collectively elaborated by experts and by the population.
See also Une Carte Plus Grande, Karen O’Rourke’s work that seeks to create mental maps of a city.
Knowbotic Research raises questions regarding the forces and technological systems that are superimposed on each other, annul each other and relate with each other to produce the information territory of the large urban agglomerations. Tokyo, Sao Paulo and Belgrade, which are inhabited by millions of people, were the cities of choice. In each one of them, the group develops the project with groups of architects, using the Web as their site. The first step, Tokyo, was accomplished in 1997/1998 and won the ARS Electronica award for art on the Internet.
by Eduardo Kac (Brazil – United States, 1994-1996)
It is an installation in which the participants control via webcam, the intensity of a generator of luminous energy, necessary for a growing plant to perform photosynthesis. The photons of cameras throughout the world are transported to the installation area and used, during the period of the exhibition, to germinate a small plant. Thus the experience creates a virtual collective ecosystem.
Eduardo Kac, Brazilian visual artist, resident in the United States. He works with so-called “transgenic art”. His work, a genetically modified phosphorescent female bunny, was a highlight of the exhibition Gene(sis): Contemporary Art Explores Human Genomics, at the Henry Art Gallery, at Washington University, in Seattle, in 2002.
by Michael Gleich, ZKM Center for Art And Media (Germany, 2002)
Web of Life artwork allows viewers to interact with an audio-visual environment by their imparting to it the unique patterns of their individual hand lines. The process symbolizes the action of connecting oneself to a network of relations. This audio-visual environment is formed by a conjunction of projected three-dimensional computer graphics and video images. Interaction is effected via a hand scanning user interface.
This artwork is configured as a distributed network of installation – one large-scale environment situated permanently at the ZKM, and four others designed to travel around the world. User interaction at any location communicates with and affects the audio-visual behavior of all the installations.
