Subject : RHIZOME_RARE [] low-fi update 07
From : giraffe@easynet.co.uk To : Rare_Info@rhizome.org
Date : 2002/03/19


[] low-fi update 07
[] http://www.low-fi.org.uk

[] guestlist: Simon Biggs on language, legibility and limits of 
meaning.

[] low-fi list: mapping systems from literal to emotive.

[] http://www.jimpunk.com/map [Jim Punk]
[] http://turbulence.org/works/nums/ [Levin/Wattenberg/Feinberg]
[] http://www.howdoyoufeel.de [Dellbrugge/de Moll]
[] http://www.flight404.com [Robert Hodgin]

Untitled_map shows some net art activity literally mapped onto the 
globe. The site shows the limitation of our western based activity. 
The mapping is not as analytical as hybrid media lounges research 
into netbased activity and organisations in europe 
[www.medialounge.net]. However the mix of mapping by production place 
and project content brings up some territiorial surprises.

The secret Life of Numbers also takes data at face value, mapping the
incidence and occurences of integers across the web. Driven with a
beautiful java interface each integer is graphed, building a 
graphically statistical analysis, complete with notes and comments 
that build a portrait of how we utilise numbers for convenience, 
novelty and functionality.

howdoyoufeel creates a statistic that shows the mood of the web on any
given day or year. With happy and sad icons the user is encouraged to
register their mood in an absurdly simplistic system (only happy or 
sad), which is built with equally simplistic visuals. Like the other 
two projects the data is real - and in this case live, but the beauty 
of this project is the way in which the data generated is so clearly 
and resolutely of no use to anyone.

Flight 404 is a unique Flash experience based on the fictional 
investigation of the disapearance of a commercial airliner above the 
Atlantic; and a manifest to its passengers. As one navigates 
throught, the ambiguity grows if the event has happened, leaving the 
viewer with a inconfortable sense of realism and'deja vu'. The 
investigation is regularily updated and the viewers are invited to 
give evidences.


[] Artists are welcome to submit info on new projects to the
database - please use the submission form on low-fi locator.

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