Hi chiara This is very nice! Is it augmented reality - and what technology did you use? Is it downloadable as an app? What type of work goes on display?
cheers, dave On 11 April 2013 15:54, Chiara Passa <[email protected]> wrote: > Dear friends & colleagues, > > I'm glad to share with you the Aharon's 'howtopracticeashowshow' at > the WAG - Widget Art Gallery on IPhone, IPod touch and IPad form April > 9th until May 9th, 2013. > > > About the WAG: > > The “WAG" is a mini 3-dimensional, single room gallery that fits into > your pocket 'cause I've developed it for IPhone, IPod Touch and I Pad. > Every month, directly on your mobile, The “WAG” hosts a solo digital > art exhibition related to the dynamic site-specific contest. So, the > Widget Art Gallery works both as a sort of kunsthall showing temporary > exhibitions and as a permanent collections museum because conserves > all the past exhibitions inside an online archive. For IPhone and IPod > touch, just copy this url http://www.chiarapassa.it/wag/mobile/ in > Safari and choose: “add to home” and the WAG's icon will be saved on > your IPhone. Do the same for IPad but paste this other URL: > http://www.chiarapassa.it/wagipad/mobile/, or download the widget > version for Mac osx dashboard at: > http://www.chiarapassa.it/publicart.html . Past exhibitions at: > http://the-widget-art-gallery.blogspot.com/ > To know more about the Widget Art Gallery, I suggest to read my latest > interview on Rhizome > http://rhizome.org/editorial/2012/oct/29/gallery-your-pocket/ > > Exceptionally for this exhibition, due the different technical > specifications, you can use the same URL for IPhone and IPad: > http://www.chiarapassa.it/wagipad/mobile/ > > Enjoy the show! > > Very best, Chiara. > > > About the exhibition: > > How to practice a show show of an un done show via de-of-ing of a show > through NonElegancing code show? - is a complex sounding short > description of a possibly simpler kind of practice. > > The practice questions how elements such as art exhibition/show > contexts, material sensitivity, codes and algorithms, can be a > way/technology for shared cultural imagining. In my version, the > shared cultural element is done through negotiative processes that, in > themselves, attempt to: > * offer a critique of the questions. > * allow the doing activities as positives, of various negative > elements (the Non, the De, and the Un), hence having to negotiate its > way. > * allow the possibility of self critique for the process. > * be the directional material for the practice. (i.e. to provide > various "directions of negotiations": e.g. a person to person and an > organisation; a person Through a person to a machine to an > organisation, a person through code to many, a person to person to > many and the many to just one of these, and so on..) > > To do the practice, at least in this 1st attempt, the process has > already began through negotiations between Chiara Passa - the WAG > curator - and me. (aharon) The negotiations were to do with the > general look, feel and activities in WAG, during the month of > practising at the gallery. Here are the .coded^^ files. > > The gallery will contain: > * information of how to negotiate uploading of .coded artworld^ websites > * how to negotiate contacting relevant people & organisations to tell > them their material has been .coded > * documentation - if any - of negotiations regarding the .coding of > artworld sites. > * compressed files of .coded sites to download. > * the look, and reflections on it, of the WAG. > > ^ > There are a fair few "artworlds" - e.g. http://plausibleartworlds.org/ > to begin with. > In this instance, the practice is negotiating with the art environment > that is geared towards sustaining cultural activities - at times > critical as well - through numerical & power motivated investments & > gains. (ie an art environment that is mainly interested in the > transcendence of cultural elements into various forms of power, rather > than an interest in, for example, forms of art..) > > ^^ > .coded (DotCoded) files are documents that their extensions was > changed to .code. This is done to indicate that people can open these > files as the binary or text code they are stored with. The intention > is to view the code rather than the image/s or read the text, etc.. > > Aharon's website: http://aharonic.net/how-to-practice-show-show-at-wag > > > > -- > Chiara Passa - new media artist > [email protected] > http://www.chiarapassa.it > http://www.ideasonair.net > http://it.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chiara_Passa (Ita) > Find me also: http://www.chiarapassa.it/socialnetworks.html > > _______________________________________________ > NetBehaviour mailing list > [email protected] > http://www.netbehaviour.org/mailman/listinfo/netbehaviour -- Dave Miller UNESCO Chair in New Media Forms of the Book, University of Bedfordshire Sherwood Rise: http://itsthetruth.org Project research: http://augmentedwonder.blogspot.co.uk/ Portfolio: http://davemiller.org _______________________________________________ NetBehaviour mailing list [email protected] http://www.netbehaviour.org/mailman/listinfo/netbehaviour
