Sorry I Havn’t Posted is the latest blog project by Cory Arcangel:

“I’m please to present on “the internet” a new blog I started (actually its been up for half a year, I just haven’t written bout it yet),…..It’s called “Sorry I Haven’t Posted” and is a blog which re-posts posts of people apologizing for not posting to their blogs…aka “Inspiring Apologies From Today’s World Wide Web”. I sift through about 50 posts a day on my reader so I do tend to find some really interesting stuff…”

http://sorry.coryarcangel.com
http://www.coryarcangel.com/2010/08/sorry-i-havnt-posted

Fracture is an iPhone application that allows you to paint cubist style portraits using your own photos. Aesthetics employed by abstract masters such as Pablo Picasso and Georges Braque have been studied and recreated in this fun creative app. Simply use your camera or search your image gallery for 1 or more photos, adjust the settings to your specification and you are ready to start painting

jamesalliban.wordpress.com/2010/08/30/fracture-cubist-iphone-app/

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Bitquid, by Jeroen Holthuis, is a complex system of about 800 meters of transparent hoses through which digital information will flow in the form of ‘analogue’ fluids. In a really darknened and quiet surrounding this information becomes visible and alive because of the use of an fluorescent component in the fluid. With blacklights this fluid lightens up in a green/yellow color. Everytime one of the 32 valves open you hear clicking sound and at that moment one bit becomes an collection of atoms. In the fluid the digital information is still present, though it will be transformed by our analogue environment leaving a stain on the information.

http://www.jeroenholthuis.nl

Windows 68 is a modification of Windows XP that starts a revolutionary in the system. The project was developed during a seminar held by Johannes P Osterhoff at Merz Akademie at the end of May 2009.

“Because revolutions usually start in the shadows, the title of the seminar on Interface-Design was Drop Shadow Revolution. It took place at Merz Akademie at the end of May and basically I wanted to know what the students thought of seeing Windows’ imagery and icons through bourgeois or revolutionary eyes.
At the end we came up with Windows 68, an almost finished theme for Windows XP that put the system into a time machine. Instead of “Start” in the lower left corner there was written “Revolution!”, there were red stars everywhere, and the network icon seemed to gain insight into Kommune Eins during its best days and the whole system seemed to be soaking in red paint.
And for the German readers: instead of Benutzerkonten (user accounts) there were Revoluzzerkonten. We also created a new version of Paint that we called Graffiti. It was not possible any more to paint, write, and draw rectangles—only spraying worked.”

http://johannes-p-osterhoff.com/lectures/windows-68

Tardigotchi is an artwork featuring two pets: a living organism and an alife avatar. These two disparate beings find themselves the unlikely denizens of a portable computing enclosure. The main body for this enclosure is a brass sphere, housing the alife avatar in an LED screen and the tardigrade within a prepared slide. A tardigrade is a common microorganism measuring half a millimeter in length. The alife avatar is a caricature of this tardigrade, its behaviour is partially autonomous, but it also reflects a considerable amount of expression directly from the tardigrade’s activities (like eating).

http://www.tardigotchi.com

Iterating my way into oblivion is the new project by Carlo Zanni, a Server Side generated movie where a guy is listening to a voice reading YouTube Terms of Service.
“When YouTube changes its Terms of Service, the server behind the movie gets the new text and through a text-to-speech software renders the voice over which is then imported into the filmed sequence.The movies are always different while maintaining their narrative.
This project loosely refers to George Orwell’s “Animal Farm”, speculating on the relationships between creative energies and corporate policies evoking the morphing of enlightened arcana into established powers.
This work follows two previous experimental movies done in the past four years for which I coined the neologism “DATA Cinema”, suggesting a new way to approach filmmaking and narrative forms at large based on the use of live Net data, to create ever changing cinematic live environments.”

www.zanni.org

In Full Throttle, by Artie Vierkant, a six-screen video installation and continuing series, action and suspense scenes from major Hollywood films are recorded streaming over the Internet at very slow connection speeds.
Each film is a major part of our collective pop culture consciousness but is made available publicly only through means which are morally and institutionally spurned by physical-object-oriented capitalism.
As a result, this type of content is nomadic, always existing somewhere without restriction but perpetually needing a new haven. Here, through the process of recording these over a throttled Internet connection, they become abstracted and formalized versions of their original images, dispelling or intensifying the tension created for the scene by the filmmaker and redirecting the aesthetic focus to the medium of display.

[Installation shown at Extra Extra in Philadelphia for Artie Vierkant & Constant Dullaart, August 6 – 29 2010]

http://www.artievierkant.com
http://thestate.tumblr.com/post/943316142/artievierkant

The Twitwee Clock is a modified Cuckoo Clock that wirelessly connects to the internet and constantly checks for new status updates or search results from the Twitter API. New Tweets are displayed on the built-in display in near-realtime accompanied by the charming yet obtrusive call of a mechanical cuckoo popping out of the clock.
The clock could monitor any twitter stream or search, so it could for example inform the user about new tweets in his personal timeline. In exhibition context however it is configured to react on self-referenced tweets. If “TwitweeClock” is mentioned in any tweet, the tweet is displayed on the built in screen and the cuckoo mechanism is triggered.
Thereby the observer has the possibility to interact with the clock by sending a tweet with the word TwitweeClock, the hashtag #TwitweeClock, or the username @TwitweeClock.

http://www.haroonbaig.com/projects/TwitweeClock/

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The Heart Chamber Orchestra – HCO – is an audiovisual performance. The orchestra consists of 12 classical musicians and the artist duo TERMINALBEACH.
Using their heartbeats, the musicians control a computer composition and visualization environment. The musical score is generated in real time by the heartbeats of the musicians. They read and play this score from a computer screen placed in front of them. HCO forms a structure where music literally “comes from the heart”.

www.heartchamberorchestra.org

Inside a Dead Skyscraper is the newest project by Molleindustria, a music video game for the song “The building” by Jesse Stiles.

“The game and the song are based on Jesse’s brief tenure as a videographer in the partially destroyed buildings surrounding the World Trade Center site. Ideally, it is meant to be a critical answer to the proliferation of rhythm games ‘a la Guitar Hero. These karaoke-derived products simply capitalize on already successful music, generating royalties for a dying record industry and reinforcing the mythology of the rock star as super-human that common people should identify with.
An alternative approach to the musical game form would link the independent music and independent games scenes. Indie music games could promote unknown bands to the multi-tasking, hyperactive, interaction-addicted new generations. They could enhance the listening experience while being autonomous works as the best music videos have been done in the last 30 years. ”

http://www.molleindustria.org

Unlike a conventional camera Nadia has no display of the photographs to be taken, but rather gives the judgment of aesthetic quality to the machine, displaying only a current rating as feedback about when and what to snap.
Nadia is a project by Andrew Kupresanin.

http://www.andrewkupresanin.com

“The Google Alarm Firefox addon visually & audibly alerts you when your personal information is being sent to Google servers.
Even outside Gmail and YouTube you are constantly sending information to Google through their vast network of tracking bugs: Google Analytics, Google AdSense, YouTube embeds, API calls.. all of this data be used to monitor & track your personal web browsing habits.
Google Alarm shows notifications, plays sound effects and keeps running stats about the % of websites you’ve visit with Google bugs present. Stay alert – install Google Alarm today.”

Google Alarm was developed by Jamie Wilkinson during FAT Lab’s “FUCK GOOGLE” week in Berlin, Germany during transmediale 2010.

http://jamiedubs.com/googlealarm

Monkeyfy, by Michael Schieben, is a public webservice for face-detection based image manipulation. A small bookmarklet allows you to select an image on every website to have it modified by monkeyfy.com. The image manipulation utility detects faces in the images and replaces the them with monkeys. The manipulated images (and a link to the original source) are saved on the twitpic gallery.

http://monkeyfy.com/

The MoshPit Amp, by Fur, is an automata that converts headbanging movements into metal music. Through style and intensity of your head banging, you are the conductor of a virtual metal band consisting of four instruments: vocals, bass, drums and guitar. you can control the volume as well as the pattern of each instrument to create engaging musical arrangements. If you mosh really hard you can trigger a guitar solo for the ultimate rock experience. Your performance in front of the amp will additionally be supportet by a lightshow with smoke, flash and pyrotechnics.

http://www.fursr.com

Our lives are full of quests. Remember that birthday card, send that email, or drag ourselves to the gym on a regular basis. Trouble is, sometimes we’re having too much fun doing other virtual stuff like hunting down rare items in World of Warcraft or leveling-up in Facebook games, to remember the stuff we’re supposed to be doing.
EpicWin is an iPhone app that puts the adventure back into your life. It’s a streamlined to-do list, to note down all your everday tasks, but with a role-playing spin.

http://www.epicwinapp.com

Originally created for the Darklight Festival’s ‘4 Day Movie’ project, Avatar Days is a portrait of four online gamers in Dublin whose daily lives contrast with their virtual identities. Advanced 3D technologies and Motion Capture animation were used to insert the players’ in-game characters in place of their real selves against the backdrop of the banal urban landscape which they inhabit.

http://vimeo.com/9157869

The 8-Bit Cities project, which started with 8-Bit NYC, is an attempt to make the city feel foreign yet familiar, smashing together two culturally common models of space: the lo-fi overhead world maps of 1980s role-playing and adventure games, and the geographically accurate data that drives today’s web maps and GPS navigation.
Created by by Brett Camper.

http://8bitcity.com

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“Skinput is a technology that appropriates the human body for acoustic transmission, allowing the skin to be used as a finger input surface. In particular, we resolve the location of finger taps on the arm and hand by analyzing mechanical vibrations that propagate through the body. We collect these signals using a novel array of sensors worn as an armband. This approach provides an always-available, naturally-portable, and on-body interactive surface. To illustrate the potential of our approach, we developed several proof-of-concept applications on top of our sensing and classification system.”

http://www.chrisharrison.net/projects/skinput/

Historypin is a like a digital time machine that allows people to view and share their personal history in a totally new way. It uses Google Maps and Street View technology and hopes to become the largest user-generated archive of the world’s historical images and stories.
Historypin asks the public to dig out, upload and pin their own old photos, as well as the stories behind them, onto the  map.

http://www.historypin.com

UTV, by Rob Duarte, is the transposition of our Internet identities from Twitter feeds to an over-the-air TV broadcast.
UTV is part of an exhibition entitled “Ill Communication”, which examines the role of technology in our understandings of community and communication. The format of the exhibition is such that each of the participating artists presents a work that spans two halves of the gallery space – essentially, an “interface” and an “output”.

http://www.robduarte.com/utv.html