Hack Pro Art!

Sometimes I wish I was a hacker, but unfortunately I'm not...

A call for help to all the hackers around the globe to join the battle for art, by artistically modifying all online services directly relating to Halbe Zijlstra and his ministry.

I agree that sometimes measures have to be taken to controll government expenses by cutting down funding in almost(not the weak, unprotected and the ill) every layer of society. But the measures taken by our State Secretary for Education, Culture and Science Halbe Zijlstra to cut down funding in Culture, lack any possible vision and knowledge of the relevant developments in art and new media of the past decade. He really has no idea about the valuable and leading international position of Dutch New Media Art in the world. By cutting down all structural government funding to all renowned New Media Labs in the Netherlands, he helps destroying a young scene essential for innovation and research in the field of art, society and digital culture. Why is he choosing for this destructive strategy??? Does he really has no clue what he is doing??? What about an extensive research to the consequences of this style of cutting???

The Mother of Google Maps

The first known aerial photograph was taken in 1858 by French photographer and balloonist, Gaspar Felix Tournachon, known as "Nadar". This photo no longer exists. The first surviving aerial photo was taken by James Wallace Black in 1860. A photo of the city of Boston.

Corpse-Close

Playing around with my digital remains...

Corpse

My first digital corpse. Or digital remains....

Nou&Herkauw @ Clash2011

Photo's by Mieke Lindeman.

Musique Non Stop, 1986, Rebecca Allen

Rebecca Allen produced all the visuals for Kraftwerk's album Electronic Café, including this award-winning video. The video starred virtual mannequins that Allen brought to life with cutting-edge software developed to emulate facial features and expressions. Musique Non Stop reflects Allen's interest in movement and the incorporation of human elements into computers. It also engenders thoughts about how computers and technology interact with humans and mesh with society in general.

Text snippet taken from, Art and Electronic Media

Scan

Yesterday I put two Kinects in an opposite position of each other with a couple of meters in between. I connected them to my laptop, and managed to draw two pointclouds. It is a very rough sketch. I'am in the middle of it, filming with my Iphone.
Next time I will get some screen-capture software.

Tilt-Shift Videos

The world is just a miniature.

Small Worlds - Preview. by Keith Loutit .

The Sandpit by Sam O'Hare .

gottardo nord by fb1 visuals .

For more go here.

Indexhibit

Yesterday I registered a domain name adrischokker.nu. For my Thesis I like to gather all my research on one website.

For this website I wanted to use Indexhibit, but I discovered to late that my web host only uses Windows servers and that Indexhibit only works on an Apache/Linux server.

After contacting the helpdesk, they offered me some very helpful suggestions to make Indexhibit work on a Windows server.
So here it is, for everybody who likes to use Indexhibit on a Windows server.

First:

in the file /ndxz-studio/defaults.php, change this code:


to this code:

Replace yourdomain.com with your website adress, and make sure the Indexhibit files are installed in your www-root.

Second:

In the file ndxz-studio/lib/front.php

replace:

.BASEURL.BASENAME.

with:

.BASEURL.'/'.BASENAME.


Third:

It is suggested to use PHP4 instead of 5, because of the CRT warnings. Normally you can change this in the settings panel of your web host. Otherwise contact your web host.

This should the job. Screenshot website.

Google's never erasing Memory

And still my photo:

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Does it ever get erased?...

Tangible-Digital-Tangible

Scanning spectators, and make a scale model of them.

DeSpeech

In collaboration with Marin de Boer, Snow developed a VJ-performance for the first edition of the DeSpeech. A magazine for the senses, and a new project by the Dutch band LPG.

The first edition of DeSpeech was a plubication of an EP in a special hand made box, with the theme 'Day&Night'. The show celebrated the release. We performed at Vera Groningen, Tivoli Utrecht, and Paradiso Amsterdam

For the performance we used scale models, live cams, looped camera sequences, copied transparent sheets, and lcd screens as backdrops. The resulting show was made on the spot.

Digital Flesh

Found this project thanks to Simon. I'm interested in the different methods artists use to transform tangible reality into digital forms and data. And the way we preceive these forms. This project made me think of 'the Tower' in which we are also researching methods to digitize the participant.

Digital Flesh is a project developed by The Science Project, YesYesNo & Paranoid USwith Partlyhuman, Apologue & Peter Klein. In this project they create a digital, mythical organism by combining 3D scans of participating humans. The scans are made by portals on different locations in several countries around the world.

The Tower

During the opening weekend of ForumImages, September 24,25,26, we had the opportunity to try out a next step in the development of the Tower. The tower is a generative installation fed by input and recordings of humans. It is as growing human database. Each human has his/her own unique place in the crowd, based on differences and resemblances with other humans. The more resemblances, the more attraction, and the other way around. This ongoing project is a collaboration with Frans van Hoesel. Frans is head of department for High Performance Computing and Visualization of the Rijks University of Groningen and developed the software and algorithms for visualization.

The greenscreen setup where pictures of the visitors where taken.

The interface where visitors could choose 5 to 8 words which fit the person best.

The growing crowd.

People highlighted based on resembling words. As you can see there where a lot of creative people ;).

The try out at the ForumImages was based on a first experiment with the different ingredients of 350 cocktails.


For more information see: Tower, Ruben's Blog

Google's longer term Memory

And still my foto:
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