May be so, I don't remember Napier's piece, the influence for me is from an exhibit in a low-fi exhibition Scotland 2005 - Ruth & myself went there and reviewed the show for furtherfield http://www.furtherfield.org/displayreview.php?review_id=157
The artist in question here is Cavan Convey, his was vertical, ours would be horizontal... "A mechanical device sits whirring in the main window of the gallery, passing a paper scroll under a tiny web cam, controlled via a web interface at a computer sited some 20 feet away. It has the appearance of a prototype for some prematurely lopped branch of Victorian scientific experimentation. Cavan Convery's Vertical Scroll <http://www.low-fi.org.uk/verticalscroll/> is a whimsical artefact. Visitors can use a slightly clunky and lagged digital interface to navigate and scrutinize, inch by inch, a series of modern day hieroglyphs that, suggest a kind of comic-strip blog; documentary images, drawing on both personal and public imagery, including contemporary news iconography of the day. We recognise the face of Osama Bin-Laden on protesters' banners. This work has a light touch that both evokes and chuckles at the objectifying interest in human relations of an imagined turn of the century anthropologist. The last images on the scroll depict an Eve figure kicking an Adam figure in the balls- a reference to the spaceship Pioneer 10 which only recently left our galaxy, carrying messages inscribed on an external plaque to intergalactic aliens. On this is a depiction of our species with a muscle bound, superior man (with small genitals) waving, and a woman who appears to stand behind him, submissively looking on. This is a most unusual networked artwork in that it studiedly refuses the transitory, and deliberately makes searching and information retrieval nigh on impossible. It conjures up the obsessional life's work of a difficult, unknown 19th century amateur archaeologist." marc > Reminds me of a web browser that Mark Napier made in around 1995 – > where you scrolled through the web using a manual scrolling device he > made, like an old washing machine mangle. I think it was Mark’s > project. It may have been another artist. > > Best > > Simon > > > Simon Biggs > > Research Professor > edinburgh college of art > s.biggs@ eca .ac.uk > www. eca .ac.uk > > *C* reative *I* nterdisciplinary *R* esearch into *C* o *L* laborative > *E* nvironments > CIRCLE research group > www. eca .ac.uk/circle/ > > [email protected] > www.littlepig.org.uk > AIM/Skype: simonbiggsuk > > > *From: *marc garrett <[email protected]> > *Reply-To: *NetBehaviour for networked distributed creativity > <[email protected]> > *Date: *Tue, 03 Nov 2009 14:08:06 +0000 > *To: *NetBehaviour for networked distributed creativity > <[email protected]> > *Subject: *[NetBehaviour] DIWO at The Dark Mountain - Scrolling Machine. > > Hi Netbehaviourists, > > I was thinking about ways in how to present the discussion around DIWO > and The Dark Mountain, happening on the list, for exhibiting in the HTTP > Gallery space. And wanted to share this idea with you - remember, this > is also a co-curation project ;-) > > So, > > I am going to jump in here and throw into the 'imaginative', collective > ether - the Idea of presenting an object. > > This object would be a manually operated scrolling machine, mimicking a > web site page but made out of wood. And readers can scroll down to read > threads of the discussions (agreed texts) on a continual loop. > > Whaddya reckon? > > wishing all well. > > marc > _______________________________________________ > NetBehaviour mailing list > [email protected] > http://www.netbehaviour.org/mailman/listinfo/netbehaviour > > Edinburgh College of Art (eca) is a charity registered in Scotland, number > SC009201 > > > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------ > > _______________________________________________ > NetBehaviour mailing list > [email protected] > http://www.netbehaviour.org/mailman/listinfo/netbehaviour _______________________________________________ NetBehaviour mailing list [email protected] http://www.netbehaviour.org/mailman/listinfo/netbehaviour
