Photography is under attack. Across the country it that seems anyone with a camera is being targeted as a potential terrorist, whether amateur or professional, whether landscape, architectural or street photographer.

Not only is it corrosive of press freedom but creation of the collective visual history of our country is extinguished by anti-terrorist legislation designed to protect the heritage it prevents us recording.

This campaign is for everyone who values visual imagery, not only photographers.

We must work together now to stop this before photography becomes a part of history rather than a way of recording it.

I’m a Photographer, not a Terrorist

r|o|o|m| is now a Rhizome art object.

Crazy audio/visuals at meta.am.

Create your very own Star Wars style light sabre effect! – requires a DV camera and Adobe Premiere.

living in, around, and with soft spaces – v-2.org

Aesthetic Management – internet artwork by Patricia Reed.

It’s now the end of the day, and I still can’t get the phrase ‘Eduardo Kac’s Transgenic Glowing Rabbit’ out of my mind [re: earlier post]. Such is life.

Eduardo Kac’s ‘transgenic glowing rabbit’ – now that’s art

furtherfield.org – “colluding with artists, critical poets & net nomads to re-invent the worlds that straddle earthly & digital zones”.

SublimeTV – “an online digital festival dedicated to the exhibition and promotion of digital filmmaking and digital video art”. Nice idea. Cool URL. Shame about the poor design of the site.

A quote from the information overload that is the Rhizome list:

“Resistance to the corporate infiltration starts with the cleansing of the cyber pollution of flash. For animation is opium for the intoxicated masses…”

The Alternative Museum – “a global forum where all nations celebrate and embrace their artistic and cultural differences”.

rowenadugdale.com – some really nice illustration work using photomontage.

Pierre-Alain Hubert – “The sky is my canvas”. What a guy.

International Symposium on Electronic Art 2000

Turner Prize = Controversy. It’s almost as if the panel (or whoever decides the shortlist) sits round and says “Whoa! Hang on, we haven’t selected a controversial artist yet. Oh look at this bloke, he paints huge copies of 1970s Sci-fi book covers… he’ll do.” I suppose last year’s prize was a rare occurence because the controversial nominee – Tracy Emin – didn’t win it. But hang on, Steve McQueen copied Buster Keaton didn’t he?. What a pretentious and fickle world the modern art scene is.
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My Mac at work decided to stop working yesterday… I’ve spent most of the morning trying to re-install the system software but to no avail. Macs – it’s a love/hate relationship.

I’ve been looking for ways to continue this project for over a year, and a possible collaboration with the v-2 organisation may allow me to do this. Read: building code = genotype / architecture = phenotype. I have a strong interest in the use of metaphor to describe the many ‘systems’ that crop up in our lives. Gravity’s Rainbow by Thomas Pynchon is a good novel to read on this.

Why is it that ‘net artists’ always display their email conversations as part of their work and think that constantly spawning new windows is somehow interesting and original: TM

subsist.org

Splash art by Praystation at Rhizome. I must admit a renewed interest in the whole net art thing…. although I hate the term itself for some reason. Why give it a label? Is a Rothko painting ‘gallery art’? subsist.org is going to contain my experiments and collaborative work… so check it soon.