david barrett: links


Top five button presses...


Michael Atavar, Windows
The most elegant of Michael Atavar's 'e-say' text works.
http://www.bbc.co.uk/arts/multimedia/guestartists/a_atavar.shtml

Thomson & Craighead, CNN Interactive Just Got More Interactive
Use the pop-up window to choose your musical accompaniment - simple but effective. (Make sure that your browser does not block pop-up windows, otherwise you will just get the normal CNN website.)
http://www.cnnextra.net/

Katy Shepherd, Home Movies
Family-album snapshots made into movies.
http://www.katyshepherd.co.uk/

Klega, The End is Nigh
Whimsical animation.
http://www.bbc.co.uk/arts/multimedia/guestartists/a_klega.shtml

Thomson & Craighead, E-Poltergeist
You know how, in horror films, someone is always told not to go in the basement but, in the end, they always do? Well, don't follow this link...
http://thomson-craighead.net/original/


Useful things, interesting things and projects by friends that are also worth a click...


Rhizome
What it says it is: The New Media Art Resource.
http://www.rhizome.org/

Dr Reinhold Grether, Net Art Links
Net art lucky dip.
http://www.netzwissenschaft.de/kuenst.htm

Carlo Zanni, Epic Tales
An engine for translating web pages into Old English using a dictionary based on the ancient Anglo-Saxon Beowulf manuscript. Especially interesting for Geordies like myself who recognise much of the Viking dialect... [NOTE: This work has gone offline, so take a look at Carlo's other projects on his website.]
http://www.zanni.org/

Manfred Gruebl
A selection of systems- and digital-based projects by this Austrian artist. Look out particularly for documentation of his elegant Scanner installation.
http://www.gruebl.org

Heath Bunting, Heath's Homepage
A long list of interesting projects.
http://www.irational.org/cgi-bin/cv/cv.pl?member=heath

John F Simon Jr, Every Icon
A net art classic.
http://www.numeral.com/appletsoftware/eicon.html

Soda, Constructor
In case you happened to miss it first time around.
http://www.sodaplay.com/constructor/index.htm

Tomoko Takahashi, WordPerhect
Homemade word processor. (Not Linux OpenOffice.)
http://www.e-2.org/perhect/perhect.swf

Nick Crowe, Different AVs
Chatroom avatars based on real people, not teenage fantasies.
http://www.identinet.net/html/crowe-ident.html

Annabel Frearson, BaudriR
Documentation of a chatroom performance.
http://www.annabelfrearson.com/baudrir/

Jack Youngblood
Website of the British artist who specializes in digital image manipulation, which includes two startling self-portraits: I Will Despoil and Conquer Your Eyes!, and Loss, Pain and Regret. But Mostly Loss.
http://www.jackyoungblood.co.uk/

Yael Kanarek, World of Awe
I don't quite understand this work, but it has an interesting interface.
http://www.worldofawe.com/

Doug Aitken, Loaded 5x
Non-linear narrative work.
http://adaweb.walkerart.org/project/aitken/

Julian Opie
The British artist's official website. Virginia, Christine and Kiera Walking are worth downloading.
http://www.julianopie.com/

Roman Vasseur, Earth Consignment
Documentation of an interesting offline project.
http://www.earthconsignment.com/

Tim Head
The British artist's official website. Recent works include some digital projects.
http://www.timhead.net/

John D Freyer, All My Life For Sale
This is getting out of hand now that Freyer is tracking down the sold items, but the original idea was interesting.
http://www.allmylifeforsale.com/

Icepick, A Wired House
Self-surveillance. Someone had to do it.
http://www.icepick.com/

®TMark
Facilitating political activism with both intelligence and humour. Pronounced 'artmark'.
http://www.rtmark.com/

GATT.org
Not the World Trade Organization.
http://gatt.org/

 

If any of the above links are dead, please let me know.

david.barrett@royaljellyfactory.com