This
work now existing only in a recorded off line version, has been performed
live during "Culturecounter" a show organized
by Fernanda Arruda and Michael Clifton at Gavin
Brown Enterprise's Passerby. (February 25 - March 26, 2005)
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OFFICIAL Press Release
"Time In" is
the first collaboration between artist Carlo Zanni and
artist Yucef Merhi.
To
create this project, they hacked into the "Time Out New York Magazine"
Online Queries Database (the one that stores all the queries entered by
their website's visitors) and shaped an ideal dynamic city to visualize
the information.
To
become part of this piece, people can access www.timeoutny.com and type
a query. In this way, the artists will know what information was entered.
All the queries will be used to create a unique on-line artwork.
A live performance has been held during the opening.
Time In
/ tech info
The
Sky: The realistic sky changes every 15 minutes, according with the
weather picked from a meteo station at the La Guardia Airport recording
NYC forecasts. Each time it will be different, generated from a pattern
of variables representing a specific weather condition (cloudy, most cloudy,
sunny and so on). Also it follows the day-night cycle.
Choppers/Zeppelins: While the shape of the sky changes every 15
minutes, the content of the choppers and zeppelins (randomly appearing
almost every 4 minutes) changes as many times as CNN.com updates its website
(with breaking news and so on, so world and local news and our social
behaviors at large generate the content of the choppers). Basically, chopper
frames are cut from the cover image you would find in the CNN.com home
page. They are cut using a mask derived from the film "Apocalypse
Now" for the choppers, and from the historic LZ-127 Graf Zeppelin,
for the zeppelin .
Buildings: The skyline will change every minute, displaying a new
"bar chart" generated out of the data coming from TONY search
queries. Flat Fading skylines, coming from TONY database, appear and disappear
working as a histogram (each building or skyscraper represent an "x-time"
typed query; i.e. tallest buildings represent the most typed queries).
Queries: Green queries popping up between the buildings mean that
the work is receiving a live feedback from the TONY website. Red queries
will appear when the recorded version is running.
Building windows*:Lines of colored pixels simulating building windows
have colors generated from the IP numbers of those users who searched
the TONY web site. An IP is a code formed by four numbers, identifying
the Internet connection of a computer. Our code takes the last 3 numbers
of each IP to generate a color following the RGB (red-green-blue) scheme.
*only in second and third month
Trees: lines of trees are randomly generated each minute selecting
among choice of nine trees.
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Code and Executive Engineering: Carlo
Giordano
Carlo Giordano lives in Bologna, Italy. He is scholar of Humanities Computing
at DAMS, Dept. of Visual Arts (University of Bologna), and teaches Net
Culture at IULM (University of Milan). His research and working experiences
in the new media field include web television, information design, digital
image archives. He is researching semiotic models for analysing new media,
building reusable theories. Since 2001 writes code for Carlo Zanni's net
art projects. [www.kjj.it]
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Carlo Zanni (La Spezia, 1975) is an Italian
born artist living between
Milan and New York. His work is focused on the intersection of
computation and representation using and fusing two apparently
different media like painting and Internet to shape landscapes and
portraits often facing themes such as real time/real life;
fiction/information; social economy/special effects. In the past four
years his work was shown worldwide in galleries and museums. Among others:
P.S.1 Museum - NY, Museum of Contemporary Art (MCA) - Chicago, Chelsea
Museum - NY, CCA Glasgow, Analix Forever Gallery – Geneva, Borusan
Center for Culture and Arts – Istanbul, The New Museum, New York
and Gavin Brown's Enterprise at Passerby. His first retrospective of digital
works opened in October 2005 at the Institute of Contemporary Arts (ICA),
London which also published his first book "Vitalogy" currently
distributed by Cornerhouse.
more info: http://www.zanni.org
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Yucef Merhi is a Venezuelan-born cultural
producer based in New York. He studied Philosophy at the Universidad Central
de Venezuela and New School University. For the period of 1995-1997 he
was granted with a fellowship to participate in a prestigious poetry workshop
of South America, at the Center of Latin American Studies Rómulo
Gallegos (CELARG). Since 1985, Merhi has been developing and exhibiting
New Media Art. His career includes a world wide exhibition record in museums
and galleries, such as the New Museum of Contemporary Art, New York; Orange
County Museum of Art, California; Museum of Contemporary Art, Caracas;
Museo del Chopo, Mexico; Paço das Artes, Sao Paulo, and the Borusan
Culture & Art Center, Istanbul. Merhi has lectured in several museums
and universities, including the California Arts Institute, New York University,
Pace University, Exit Art, the New Museum of Contemporary Art, Hunterdon
Museum of Art, and the Museum of Contemporary Art of Caracas. As an independent
curator, he organized the first Digital Salon of Venezuela at the website
of the Museum of Contemporary Art of Caracas.
Merhi has being doing works that show the vulnerability of corporations,
cultural/political figures, and institutions - such as hacking into the
email account of Venezuelan President, Hugo Chávez; obtaining and
reprogramming the source code of the first 3D computer game ever made;
appropriating the user's database of a large telecommunication company
owned by Verizon, Inc; or getting and using the credit card of the old
British Artist, Damien Hirst.
more info: http://www.cibernetic.com
