these are my absence and presence pics
though i my projects do not seem to be like the other people in my classes ones i did do mine how i thought the project should go. the military one, with the jet, tank. and battleship are my absence because the contain the absence of the correct environment. without a proper opponent, scale, or setting these military wonders become reduced to nothing but mere toys and props.
for my presence project i ut video game icons into different settings then were intended for them. sonic got taken out of his game and put into halo. mario is out of his game and instead of taking the castles flag, he takes one of the UN's, and lastly donkey kong takes a note from king kong and climbs the statue of liberty.

lawyers lawyer everywhere but not a one is mine

recently i had to go to court down in richmond, i'll keep the reason to myself, but my lawyer told be there 30 minutes early to have a pre-court meeting. well like a good little defendant, i went early like he said, got there and waited for my lawyer...and waited...and waited. suddenly before i knew it, court was in session and still no lawyer. my lawyer ended up not only being late for our meeting, but he showed up an hour late for court.
now i may have missed something..but if i pay you to be at one place at certain times, i kinda expect you to be there.
call me crazy

3/27

1001 nights cast
http://1001.net.au/index.shtml

this site/piece got my attention for a few different reasons. First off if you visit this site, look at the intro. It gives a short story on how the husband of a woman dies, and so she travels the world looking for a reason to keep living. It continues that everynight a stranger tells her a new story to heal her heart.
This odd little story actually is the basis for how this site is made. Barbara Campbell performs a short text-based work each night for 1001 consecutive nights. The performance is relayed as a live webcast to anyone, anywhere, who is logged on to this website at the appointed time, that is, sunset at the artist’s location.

the site provides a countdown clock as to whan Barbara will wake and give the prompt to create a story for her site. I found this concept to be very creative for a few reasons, but maily because i have never before seen a site that only gives you certain times to write on or for it.
i definitly suggest checking out this site.

1/29

Rethinking Wargames

http://www.low-fi.org.uk/rethinkingwargames/

this project puts an entirely new spin on an old agme like chess. instead of both sides being equal with the same pieces, its the pawns vs. the other pieces. when you start using it, the game seems very mismatched. you get pieces taken so easily it is like an anthill trying to destroy an anteater family. after a while you can find ways to lure the big pieces into ambushes and destroy them. i didnt win very often but it was fun to try. i suggest going to the site and playing it at least once.

2/20

Cyber-Domestic Aesthetic

http://www.rssgallery.com/texts/CDA_intro.htm

this project got my attention while scrolling down the article list at furtherfield.org . once you go to the site and interact with it you become both interested in the artwork but also the messages. the images in the back almost hypnotically make you stay on the site.
the writer talks about how the digital age, internet and computer art has is some ways broken down sexist barriers that could be put up through other media. the site gives the usere the option of following the story linear like a walkthrough or to go through the site randomly. i chose ramdom because itls like life for me. i have never had a train of thought that i could go linearly through, i always jump around and so the way the site was made seemed good to me.

2/7

The furminator

http://www.furtherfield.org/displayreview.php?From=Index&review_id=117

this article plays on three of my passions videogames, violence, and shiny things.
the furminator is something like a game, designed by Roman Kirschner, Tilman Reiff and Volker Morawe that is basically getting the point of view of the paddle in a pinball machine. instead of giveing the player the omnipitent point of view, this viewpoint makes pinball almost like a first person shooter. i like the fack that they have taken something old and kind of low tech, and put it in a new perspective. after reading this article and viewing the pictures they gave, i could not help but want to play.

2/27

biomapping

http://www.furtherfield.org/displayreview.php?From=Index&review_id=212

this article from what i can gather is about mapping someone or somethings emotional state, kind of like a mood rine, that works.
i chose this article and found it interesting because of my own emotional problems such as my bypolar disorder and my depression. i have had brain scans and seen my mind mapped, but i think it would be really cool to see my emotional state mapped out.

3/6/6

This article is talking about an artist who uses the movements of a single person or even a group of people to change his artwork. While this is a god concept, however I personally do not like this particular work. By what is said in the article it would seem his art is based mostly on the crowd. Art in my view is the artist putting a lot of vork into something and let the viewer try to find the meaning. In this project the crowd does the work and the artist takes the credit. Maybe I’m not fully grasping how this art piece works from the article but if how I interpret it is correct, then this guy is fake in my book and should rethink what art means to hin.

http://www.turbulence.org/blog/archives/003880.html

3/20

We all see logos for companies all over the place. on our shoes, on buildings, on signs and of course on products. Even more common are advertisements that use these logos. We are bombarded by ads. so much that by the time a child is 2 years old they can tell you what brand of shoes they want, who they're wearing, and when they grow up, what condom they'll want to use. On the web people can find humerous pictures of ads. that people have altered and played with. But now a person has written a program to search the web for pictures, regulare pictures, that resembly their ads. or logos and then informs the company of it. i cannot see weather nthis is good or bad because i can see people getten sued for this in the future, however i think it was an interesting idea. you can find an article on this at the following site.

Logo.Hallucination
http://www.turbulence.org/blog/