My Ada Lovelace Day suggestions. I have more to post today as well...
My name - Marc Garrett. http://www.furtherfield.org Anne-Marie Schleiner Velvet-Strike. http://www.opensorcery.net/velvet-strike - A collection of spray paints to use as graffiti on the walls, ceiling, and floor of the popular network shooter terrorism game "Counter-Strike", conceptualized during the beginning of Bush’s "War on Terrorism." "...part of a growing movement to bring a message of peace, love and happiness to online shooters by any means necessary. Graphical User Intervention, a more radical group of protesters, will go so far as to sacrifice their characters for the greater cause of getting out a message of non-violence." Wired. When this appeared on the net art scene in 2002 I completely understood and appreciate why Anne-marie used her computing and art skills to embark in such a dynamic interventionist tactic, in challenging the psychology, attitudes and fetish around violence and war in the form of interventionist, networked play. It had to be done, especially in contrast to the overwhelming experience of witnessing our governments and media falling into the typical trappings of opting for more violence to (supposedly) solve terrorism. I personally, found it all extremely frustrating seeing the world torn apart by other (slack) males, as well as those who bought into. This is also one of the various anti-war net artworks, which inspired me to make some of my own anti-war net art-works. ------------------------------- Aileen Deirig Aileen, for her dedication in being part of and supporting various contemporary, independent groups and organisations; many involving women where she has selflessly shared her energy, ideas and varied skills, whether it be in programming, writing or social engagement. A collaborator who genuinely incorporates her personal, social and contextual beliefs into her everyday life and practice. I also admire her intelligence in understanding that art is not just about product, but also fluid place where contemporary factors such as feminism, politics, technology and human context all have a place, allow agency. Some of the projects that Aileen has been involved with are Genderchangers - http://genderchangers.org, the faces list - http://www.faces-l.net/, the Servus blog - http://core.servus.at/node/164, the Furtherfield blog - http://blog.furtherfield.org (thanks Aileen), Monochrome Blog - http://www.monochrom.at/english, and more. You find more Aileens projects, translations and writings here - http://eliot.at --------------------------------- _______________________________________________ NetBehaviour mailing list NetBehaviour@netbehaviour.org http://www.netbehaviour.org/mailman/listinfo/netbehaviour
