prehľad databázového umenia
prezentované na FaVU v Brne, 14.12.2007
i. databáza
ii. datasféra / obsesia katalogizáciou
iii. vizualizácia informácií / estetika internetu ako živej databázy
iv. človek pod dohľadom / etika bezpečnostných databáz
v. limity reprezentácie udalostí a identity v databázach
vi. dekategorizácia a odkrývanie databázových štruktúr
vii. riziká zneužitia databáz
viii. úlohy databázového umenia
ix. Lev Manovich - databáza ako nástupca narativity
x. Stephen Wilson - optimistický a pesimistický pohľad na datasféru
xi. ďalšie projekty
xii. literatúra
i. databáza
vs. zbierka, zoznam, mapa, pamäť, katalóg, sieť, archív
ii. datasféra / obsesia katalogizáciou
- databázy: e-shopy, TV archívy, webstránky, informačné systémy, sledovacie systémy, google, banky, telekomunikácie,
vedecké, štatistické, fiktívne, bezpečnostné, web 2.0
Ted Nelson - Project Xanadu, 1960s-90s
softvér pre nesekvenčné písanie.
v 80 a 90-tych rokoch sa jeho idey objavili vo výskume viacerých vedcov
a viedli k vývoju internetu a www.
http://ted.hyperland.com/
Simon Penny - "datasphere"
in: Big Father
"Over the past 20 years, an entirely new global system of digital communication has come into being,
comprised of satellite relays, optical fibre and coaxial cables, and computer networks. This augments
the already vast global radio traffic. This new phenomenon is referred to as the `datasphere'.
Examined as an organism, the datasphere is colonial, in the sense that an ant colony or a marine
sponge is colonial. Information is transmitted and recieved between millions of sensor and effector
`nodes' via a distibuted `rhizomatic' network. Viewed in this way, any electronic information
gathering device which is hooked into this system becomes a sense organ of it. These sense organs
operate on a vast range of scales, from the galactic (outward looking satellites and ground based
observatories), to the global (earth watching satellites), the local (video surveillance systems),
the personal (medical imaging technologies) and the microscopic (scanning tunneling electron microscopes).
One might even postulate an imagination or dreaming in the form of synthetic computer imagery."
Perry Hoberman - Bar Code Hotel (1994)
návštevník vchádza do prostredia, v ktorom sú všetky predmety označené čiarovým kódom
a ktoré môžu identifikovať prostredníctvom čítačky. každý identifikovaný predmet
sa premietne do spoločnej virtuálnej projekcie.
iii. vizualizácia informácií / estetika internetu ako živej databázy
alternatívne prehliadače
mark napier - Shredder = http://potatoland.com/shredder/
Jodi - wrong browser, 2001 = http://www.wrongbrowser.com/
IOD - web stalker, 1995-98 = http://bak.spc.org/iod/iod4.html
Lisa Jevbratt - 1:1, 1999/2002
more
1:1 was a project created in 1999 that consisted of a database that would eventually contain
the address of every Web site in the world and interfaces through which to view and use
the database. 1:1(2) is a continuation of the project including a second database of addresses
generated in 2001 and 2002 and interfaces that show and compare the data from both databases.
http://jevbratt.com/1_to_1/
John Maeda a Aesthetics of Computing Group MIT
Ben Fry - Anemone
ako užívatelia používajú webstránku (ACG)
http://acg.media.mit.edu/people/fry/anemone/
iv. človek pod dohľadom / etika bezpečnostných databáz
Thomas Köner - Suburbs of the Void
This work is made up of 2,000 image sequences taken by a surveillance camera situated somewhere
in northern Finland.
Uses image and sound to explore time and its perception.
Transmediale award 05.
http://www.koener.de/holgerbirkholzsuburbsofthevoid.htm
Steve Mann - wearcam, 70s-80s
"reflectionism" - obrátiť sledovacie technológie proti ich subjektom
http://wearcam.org/
Julia Scher
Psychológia človek-surv.kamera.
Security by Julia
V galérii vystupuje ako strážnik v ružovej uniforme a vyzýva návštevníkov vytlačiť si "suvenír"
obrázky seba samých pod dohľadom kamier
http://adaweb.com/project/secure/corridor/sec1.html
Always There - inštalácia postele so štyrmi kamerami nasmerovanými na povrch
v. limity reprezentácie udalostí a identity v databázach
~ databáza ako nástroj poriadku oddeľujúci v chaotickom svete obsah od šumu
Stephen Wilson - CrimeZyLand
public art robotic installation based on crime data
1. Crime as Entertainment:: Using the strategy of absurd extension, this installation
asks viewers to question the media circus created around crime. Are TV crime reports
or this humorous "Disneyland of Crime" appropriate events?
2. Deconstructing Crime: What's a crime? Who defines it? What are our prejudices about crime?
Are street crimes worthy of more attention than other crimes against the community such
as poisoning the Bay or creation of dangerous products that kill or maim?
3. Information visualization and access: The installation will use the tools of public sculpture
to give viewers intuitive access to this provocative information about urban life.
4. Real vs. Virtual Presence The installation asks viewers to think about the difference
between physical and Internet participation in public events. Some analysts note that
because of crime, urban dwellers increasingly engage in "cocooning" . This installation
offers enhanced control options to those brave viewers who venture out to be physically present.
http://userwww.sfsu.edu/%7Enetart/crimezy/crimemain.html
Paul Vanouse - Items 1-2,000: A Corpus Of Knowledge On The Rationalized Subject, 1996
Do galérie umiestnil nahého performera pokrytého čiarovými kódmi, návštevníci mohli skenovať kódy aby sa im zobrazili
štandardizované medicínske obrázky oblastí tela pod kódmi.
Redukcia osoby na informačný slot.
http://www.contrib.andrew.cmu.edu/usr/pv28/items.html
Heath Bunting - The Status Project, 2004
bunting-a_man.pdf
bunting-a_woman.pdf
bunting-electorally_registered.pdf
bunting-television_license.pdf
Heath Bunting a Kayle Brandon robia projekt mapovania algoritmov anglickeho inštitucionálneho statusového
systemu, konkretne mechanizmov potrebnych na ziskanie oficialnych identifikacnych preukazov (rodny list,
pas, atd). zámerom je spriehľadniť tento systém tak, aby bol v rámci neho možný jednoduchý pohyb.
(momentálne témy: bezdomovectvo, sociálne poistenie, terorizmus)
http://status.irational.org/
Bunting:
"By smashing cameras you only reinforced the system.
You need to get people to begin to doubt the system. That's
what I do - I create disbelief. The idea is to introduce bad
data into such systems using techniques of illusion, so that
they cease to become trustworthy - optical illusions for
cameras, inconsistencies and false identities for the
databases."
art projects on identity control: http://kyberia.sk/id/2515599
vi. dekategorizácia a odkrývanie databázových štruktúr
Natalie Jeremijenko (Bureau of Inverse Technologies) - Suicide Box
Motion detection video capture system designed for Golden Gate bridge. The system watches the
bridge constantly and when there is vertical motion captures it to permanent video record.
http://bureauit.org/sbox/
"I begin with the assertion that technologies are tangible social relations. That said,
technologies can therefore be used to make social relations tangible. Technologies create
the material conditions within which we work, and imagine ourselves and our identities.
I am concerned with how technology is developed within a context where overarching
priority is given to formal systems over content, and where the complicating and
politicizing projects of postmodernity are marginalized.
I am interested in the epistemological work of current technologies. This includes
what gets technological attention and what does not, what gets counted, and what
gets left out. What is the political fabric of the information age? And what
interventions can be made in a place where economics gets equated with politics,
where diversity is rendered in homogeneous database fields, and where consumption
forms identity?"
kabinet kuriozít
Cabinets of curiosities (also known as Wunderkammer, Cabinets of Wonder, or wonder-rooms) were
encyclopedic collections of types of objects whose categorical boundaries were, in Renaissance
Europe, yet to be defined.
Cabinet magazine is a quarterly magazine of cultural artifacts and obscure historical footnotes.
festival RunMe
Keyword cloud - kritika kategorizácie v kunsthistórii.
http://www.runme.org/
vii. riziká zneuitia databáz
Konrad Becker
in: Synreal Systems
"Information can be manipulated or faked at many levels. It is not only the message
itself that can be tampered with. Initially, the source for an information item may
be masked or relabeled; than, the routing and the placing of channels and media can
be subject to manipulation; and, finally, access of the receiver may be restricted.
Data-processing is the silent weapon in an undeclared war. Social engineering, the
analysis and automatization of society is derived from military operations research,
the methodology of tactics and logistics. The automatization of society works the
same way as the automatization of a meat-factory. The freedom of the individual
disappears as unspectacularly as a popular illusionist spectacularly made the
Statue Of Liberty disappear from the New York harbor: she is miraculously out of
the frame of vision."
viii. úlohy databázového umenia
- kritika digitalizácie každodenného života
(prístup, zneužitie, slobody, práva, súkromie
- práca s obsahom databázy alterujúca jej pôvodný účel
- adresovanie samotných databázových štruktúr
- ..
ix. Lev Manovich - databáza ako nástupca narativity
in: DATABASE AS A SYMBOLIC FORM, 1998
"After the novel, and subsequently cinema privileged narrative as the key
form of cultural expression of the modern age, the computer age introduces
its correlate - database. Many new media objects do not tell stories; they
don't have beginning or end; in fact, they don't have any development,
thematically, formally or otherwise which would organize their elements
into a sequence. Instead, they are collections of individual items, where
every item has the same significance as any other."
x. Stephen Wilson - optimistický a pesimistický pohľad na datasféru
in: Information Arts, 2002, closing chapter
"Each of us potentially has access to information that would have been inconceivable
a few years ago. Optimists suggest that this access could usher in higher levels of
understanding about the universe and humanity. For example, Roy Ascott suggests that
the expansion of information networks has done much more than just increase
the number of factiods we can consider. Rather, it has opened up the possibility
of transformed consciousness, the ability to see the big picture, including kinds
of knowledge outside of the scientific and technological worldview.
Pessimists suggest that information access is an illussion. Much of the so-called
information is based on faulty assumptions and categories that serve other purposes
besides enlightement. Rather than becoming enhanced subjects, many of us are being
turned into data objects, reduced to data points in the master databases used for
control and exploitation. Some even hold that the information is really mush-mediated
signs without real referents. As information comes to be the cultural and economic
heart of life, it is fitting that artists should enter into the debate."
xi. ďalšie projekty
We Feel Fine by Jonathan Harris and Sep Kamvar,
http://wefeelfine.org/
Listening Post, audio-visual installation by Mark H. Hansen and Ben Rubin,
http://www.earstudio.com/projects/listeningpost.html
Atmospherics, audio work by Andrea Polli,
http://www.andreapolli.com/studio/atmospherics/
xii. literatúra
Matthew Ostrowski: The Anxiety of the Client: Dilemmas of the Database as a Compositional Tool, 2007
"..Using Adorno's idea of the opposition between the instrumental and the mimetic,
this paper argues that a database is by nature purely instrumental, and the ideology
implicit in the digital object inevitably determines the outcome of the work, leaving
no opening for the mimetic faculties."
http://leoalmanac.org/journal/Vol_15/lea_v15_n01-02/mostrowski.asp
Lev Manovich: Database as a Symbolic Form, 2001
http://transcriptions.english.ucsb.edu/archive/courses/warner/english197/Schedule_files/Manovich/Database_as_symbolic_form.htm
Lev Manovich: Info-aesthetics (semi-open source book/Web site in progress)
http://www.manovich.net/IA/index.html
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