#visual cutlure

[automaticvr]

For the Interface Cutlures annual exhibtion in 2010, Mar Canet and I collaborated on this piece, Nica Freeware. NicaFreeware: Mixed Reality Art in Media Arts Festivals and the Hyperreality of Success Exhibited at the Ars Electronica Festival in Linz, Nicafreeware is a mixed reality audiovisual photo that explores the hyperreality of success, through a novel system that engages the viewer with the experience of winning a Golden Nica at Ars Electronica. The audience faces an augmented reality utopia, where a Golden Nica simulation appears in their hands, viewed on a mirrored screen interface. Sound and visual effect further augment the simulation. The work references the emergence of open source freeware, particularly social applications and their implications for individual identity construction and validation attainment. Open Source software (freeware) exists as a Utopia of shared ownership and production through the creation of shared environments of playful engagement and exchange. Social Applications create authorless /ownerless worlds, through the public involvement of their in their production and the virtuality of representations within them. The free accessibility to these environments can however lead to the questioning of legitimacy and integrity of openly accessible situations and experience with them. Nicafreeware explores the them of ‘owned’ experiences by creating a mixed reality simulation of a utopian moment in an Ars Electronica narrative, which is documented and archived in a shared virtual space, Flickr: a social photosharing platform (http://ift.tt/2BqUtdJ) Here individual success utopias merge with each other, cheapening the experience, through it’s public accessibility and distribution. By offering public access to an experience usually reserved for a few privileged artist once a year, Nicafreeware presents a viewer mediated freeware intervention that crosses the intersection of authorship, realities and utopian/dystopian experience. Links http://ift.tt/2BqUtdJ http://ift.tt/2zrgF6b

[automaticar]

For the Interface Cutlures annual exhibtion in 2010, Mar Canet and I collaborated on this piece, Nica Freeware. NicaFreeware: Mixed Reality Art in Media Arts Festivals and the Hyperreality of Success Exhibited at the Ars Electronica Festival in Linz, Nicafreeware is a mixed reality audiovisual photo that explores the hyperreality of success, through a novel system that engages the viewer with the experience of winning a Golden Nica at Ars Electronica. The audience faces an augmented reality utopia, where a Golden Nica simulation appears in their hands, viewed on a mirrored screen interface. Sound and visual effect further augment the simulation. The work references the emergence of open source freeware, particularly social applications and their implications for individual identity construction and validation attainment. Open Source software (freeware) exists as a Utopia of shared ownership and production through the creation of shared environments of playful engagement and exchange. Social Applications create authorless /ownerless worlds, through the public involvement of their in their production and the virtuality of representations within them. The free accessibility to these environments can however lead to the questioning of legitimacy and integrity of openly accessible situations and experience with them. Nicafreeware explores the them of ‘owned’ experiences by creating a mixed reality simulation of a utopian moment in an Ars Electronica narrative, which is documented and archived in a shared virtual space, Flickr: a social photosharing platform (http://ift.tt/2BqUtdJ) Here individual success utopias merge with each other, cheapening the experience, through it’s public accessibility and distribution. By offering public access to an experience usually reserved for a few privileged artist once a year, Nicafreeware presents a viewer mediated freeware intervention that crosses the intersection of authorship, realities and utopian/dystopian experience. Links http://ift.tt/2BqUtdJ http://ift.tt/2zrgF6b

[pcarinovaldez]

FORMER WEST is a long-term international research, education, publishing, and exhibition project (2008–2014), which from within the field of contemporary art and theory: (1) reflects upon the changes introduced to the world (and thus to the so-called West) by the political, cultural, artistic, and economic events of 1989; (2) engages in rethinking the global histories of the last two decades in dialogue with post-communist and postcolonial thought; and (3) speculates about a “post-bloc” future that recognizes differences yet evolves through the political imperative of equality and the notion of “one world.”

[eng705]

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