The Networked Library Project looks at the artist’s library as a creative research space, a source for collection, identity and practice. It embraces the natural impulse towards curiosity, activism, exchange and occasional eccentricity. … More Networked Library Project
Tom Leeser
The political theorist, Hannah Arendt stated that we “define labor as the opposite of play.” However the predominant value of labor has evolved from physical activities embedded in a manufacturing economy to a form of indexical finance that is decoupled from the production and exchange of things. This digitally based “fiat” economy has fractured the definitions of labor and play that was articulated by Arendt. … More Play: Active – A curatorial project in the form of a workshop
Dry Run is a “poetic sound installation” that responds to and explores the implications of the word, Drought. … More Dry Run: Heard in LA
Dan Bustillo
Part I Dataveillance: Negotiating Consent
Part II Secrecy: The Art and Magic of Deception Tactics … More A Compilation of Tangents on Surveillance, Anonymity and Deception Tactics.
Tom Leeser
Noah Purifoy exhumed and transformed technology’s phantom through a creative process of direct activity and making. He built a network of “power-objects” in his remote desert compound in Joshua Tree, California, far outside the urban boundaries of industrial Los Angeles and long before the Internet. … More 24 Fragments of Purifoy
Chi-ming Yang
In April 2007, National Human Genome Research Institute scientists published their discovery of a single gene responsible for the smallness of small dogs. The research showed that minute genetic mutations can determine the vast difference between a chihuahua and a Great Dane, two creatures that are poles apart but nonetheless share the elastic designation “dog.” … More Culture in Miniature: Toy Dogs and Object Life
In 2013 – 14 viralnet.net commissioned four videos by Los Angeles based sound artists and composers. … More NASA/Future Tense Video Project
Courtney Malick
As we venture into the second decade of the 21st century, it is at times difficult to reconcile the tensions between what remains standard from the past with the complex nuances in thought and technology that complicate contemporary life. … More To Be Announced
With this project we hope to distill the complex daily activity of coding and filtering into a five step score. For many years now we have been exposing code (the organizing language of our world) and investigating the nature of filters in our projects. Our interest began with digital filters … More Deep End Residency: Coding the Crop
The traveler at the crossroads in Robert Johnson’s song finds himself at one node of a network where wanderers from far off encounter strangers. He hopes to meet a friendly soul who will take him to his desired destination, but instead night falls at this junction and the wrong traveler diverts him from his path. … More Haints in the Stream? Networked Music and Art
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