“Desktop Is” curated by Alexei Shulgin (1997-98). Dubbing itself ‘The First International Online Desktop Exhibition,’ this show is still partially open to the public. Like an ancient temple near the ocean though, it’s beginning to experience severe structural damage.
Only about 1/3 of the entire desktop collection still exist at their original URL. [For those interested: I’ve created an archive of what’s still available.] Also still available is Garnet Hertz’s classic “7300 Desktop” (from which the last desktop is pulled).
All of this makes me appreciate the donation that I give Rhizome each year towards it’s Art Base. Speaking of which, if you’re interested in learning more about Alexei—there’s a Rhizome interview from 2008 and there’s always Wikipedia too.
(↬Martijn van Boven who sent this to wwwtxt on Twitter.)
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“Beginnings” by Don Slepian (1984). Pyroclastic pastel painted ooze created with the Chromascope vsynth. (Highly recommend Slepian’s “Sea of Bliss” space album from the same era as well.)
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“Cratermaze” by Cratermaze (2010). Pure pink+blue ecstasy from a Sandin Image Processor, Final Cut, and a slowed TG16 soundtrack.
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IPv6 Rice Processor [Test] by Sam Kronick (2012). Of the numerous projects that we at D:GP (the Center for Design and Geopolitics) have in our sights, “Deep Address” is, well, deep with possibility. My fellow researcher (and friend) Sam’s prototype taps the vision perfectly:
What if your every blood cell could have its own internet address? What if everything in the world –all the way down to the scale of nanometers and up to the scale of human ideas and global cities– could directly exchange information, could communicate, as part of a massive universal addressing system?
I’m pursuing a similar processing with the objects of classic abstract animation and video art. McLaren’s dots, Paik’s people, and maybe even Chris Burden’s big wrench.
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New art • Hyper(inter)activity • Media archaeology • Design constraints • Data visualization • Microcomputers • Visual music • Digital curation • Research
