
segunda-feira, 30 de junho de 2008
Filando: My (public) Space & Rfid Aesthetics

domingo, 1 de junho de 2008
Índios, visibilidade e flechas

sexta-feira, 11 de abril de 2008
Luisa Paraguai

Vemos....nos olham
“What we see is important – only live – in our eyes through what see us.” Georges Didi-Huberman (1998) The new relations of participant/information/technological interface is possible through Computer Mediated-Comunication on the Web, for example ICQ, chat, virtual communities, video conference, e-mail, discussion list. The Web users can establish relationship in a synchronous/simultaneous and asynchronous way through this interactive communication space. This new possibility of social and political organization and cooperation on the net take place through the circulation of information when the users have the same purpose and not more the same shared physical space. The image other’s construction takes place through intermediated information by shared text, image and some times audio, on each user’s thoughts. This work presents this new communication space as another “perception system” when it tries to compose and show the user’s relationship among other people and himself/herself through the juxtaposition and superposition of the windows in an aesthetical movement. This site tries to propose a different behavior from the common sites when the user has to stop and try “to see and be seen”. The user is conducted to see and be seen while he/she is observed by different sights around him/her through the composition of the windows opened without interaction/navigation/choose. It is needed to close all the windows in a metaphorical introspective movement for the user find himself/herself: external random links show the possibility the others’ presence on the Web. There are some links on the first Web page that conduct the users to some communication spaces as ICQ, net meeting, 3D chat, electronic chat, and virtual community."
Biography Author: Luisa Paraguai Donati PhD Student and Master at Unicamp, Department of Multimedia, Institute of Arts. Researcher from wAwRwT project. She has presented works at National and International Congress about Art and Technology. She attended with the web site INcorpos at some recent artistic exhibition: “II Biennial from Mercosul”, Porto Alegre, RS, Brazil, and “Electronic Art Exhibition - SIBGRAPI2000”, Gramado, RS, Brazil.
terça-feira, 29 de maio de 2007
Visibilidade X Vigilância
O trabalho do artista me lembrou a aurora dos movimentos de liberação sexual, em particular a literatura homossexual, como nota Foucault, que "dizia" à psiquiatria: "vocês dizem que a nossa verdade reside em nosso sexo. Sim, aceitamos, somos o que vocês dizem, por natureza, perversão ou doença, como quiserem. Mas essa verdade nós mesmos a diremos, melhor que vocês". Inversão estratégica da vontade de verdade nesse caso. Inversão estratégica da vontade de tudo ver e antever, no caso do artista frente ao FBI.
Abaixo, trecho extraído da Wired:
The Visible Man: An FBI Target Puts His Whole Life Online
"Hasan Elahi whips out his Samsung Pocket PC phone and shows me how he's keeping himself out of Guantanamo. He swivels the camera lens around and snaps a picture of the Manhattan Starbucks where we're drinking coffee. Then he squints and pecks at the phone's touchscreen. "OK! It's uploading now," says the cheery, 35-year-old artist and Rutgers professor, whose bleached-blond hair complements his fluorescent-green pants. "It'll go public in a few seconds." Sure enough, a moment later the shot appears on the front page of his Web site, TrackingTransience.net.
There are already tons of pictures there. Elahi will post about a hundred today — the rooms he sat in, the food he ate, the coffees he ordered. Poke around his site and you'll find more than 20,000 images stretching back three years. Elahi has documented nearly every waking hour of his life during that time. He posts copies of every debit card transaction, so you can see what he bought, where, and when. A GPS device in his pocket reports his real-time physical location on a map.
Elahi's site is the perfect alibi. Or an audacious art project. Or both. The Bangladeshi-born American says the US government mistakenly listed him on its terrorist watch list — and once you're on, it's hard to get off. To convince the Feds of his innocence, Elahi has made his life an open book. Whenever they want, officials can go to his site and see where he is and what he's doing. Indeed, his server logs show hits from the Pentagon, the Secretary of Defense, and the Executive Office of the President, among others".




