Converse with a chimpanzee about habitat problems, or discuss overfishing with a whale.

These are just two possible encounters in EcoScope, part of the Eco-Media exhibition in Germany (October 2007- January 2008). Produced by the international art collective Transnational Temps, this online forum also offers tools for sending quirky postcards to friends, either electronically or through your printer. You’re invited to come join the conversation. There’s content in EcoScope before you arrive, but half the fun is what you bring to it. Peer into the EcoScope!

Originally by Deck from Artcontext Wire on October 2, 2007, 5:43pm

Your Guide to Climate Threat Levels

This new advisory system clarifies the climate change threat levels facing people everywhere.

Climate Change Threat Advisory

Originally by Deck from Artcontext Wire on April 23, 2007, 3:47am

This website documents Aquanode ‘06 events in western Turkey, near Bodrum. It features photographs and audio from the August, 2006 art events at the site of the ancient city of Myndos, now sunken below sea level. Transnational Temps traveled to this sea-level challenged city to find out what people are thinking about global environmental change.

Originally by Deck from Artcontext Wire on December 2, 2006, 1:12pm

Declassified ASCII from Iraq

A NEW CRAFT TRADITION

Screening Circle is a new collaborative media artwork by Andy Deck. The piece adapts the cultural tradition of the quilting circle and the participative round table into an online format for producing motion graphics.

Originally by Deck from Artcontext Wire on April 12, 2006, 5:28am

AN EXPERIMENT IN SHARED AUTHORSHIP

Panel Junction combines the graphic novel with forms of shared authorship that have been made possible by the Internet. Contributions from visitors to this site have culminated in a free document suitable for printing with an ink-jet printer.

Originally by Deck from Artcontext Wire on July 5, 2005, 11:20am

COGS, CAG3S, CLUST3RS and KNOTS
A series of line drawings, produced with algorithms, collected into an interactive format for online presentation.

Originally by Deck from Artcontext Wire on November 29, 2004, 11:36am

DEMILITARIZING THE PLAYGROUND

A look at the convergence of entertainment and warfare. Your real-time strategy guide to the menacing culture of perpetual war.

Originally by Deck from Artcontext Wire on September 1, 2004, 4:07pm

The Joy of Software

Echoing the encouragement that Bob Ross conveyed with television, this online attraction probes the boundaries between genuine creativity and over-simplification.

http://artcontext.org/act/04/robotross

Originally by Deck from Artcontext Wire on May 24, 2004, 10:17am

Reconstructing public space.

At first the software resembles many free online services. Indeed, the main function of this site for many will be its ability to produce files of a particular type (“favicon.ico” Windows ICO files). Styled after Photoshop, the initial interface invites confidence and goal-directed behavior. In its conventional service capacity it works well enough. And it’s free.

Whereas it may be appropriate for tools to maintain a predictable form, poetics thrives on hybridization, metamorphosis, and surprise. Like the rabbit hole in Lewis Carroll’s Alice, the sensible façade of the tool gives way to a curious labyrinth of images that were left behind by the site’s previous visitors. Confronted with these unanticipated corridors, disorientation ensues. This harmless entrapment calls for aesthetic interpretations that are typically absent from encounters with software.

Originally by Deck from Artcontext Wire on May 24, 2004, 10:17am