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Posted by Sebastian on Feb 28, 2010
Shady URL is an online tool, that can turn an innocent looking URL into a suspicious and frightening one.
For instance, the ShadyUrl engine turns www.twitter.com into http://5z8.info/illegal-guns-for-sale_f5v7f_launchexe and CNN.com into http://5z8.info/guns_u1t5v_murdervids.
You can also opt for shorter URL's, albeit making them a little less shady.
Posted by Sebastian on Feb 28, 2010
Ambo Dextro is a typewriter in which the keys have been rearranged so there is no correspondence between what you think you type and what you get on the paper. Characters, words and sentences are simply turned into abstract visual text as you type.
Ambo Dextro is on display in Copenhagen at the new gallery IMO projects until March 20. The piece is made by New York based artist Tauba Auerbach. Visit her website for other fabulous pieces - her website is basically a piece in itself.
Posted by Sebastian on Dec 09, 2009
A public event in which three poets created small pieces of climate inspired poetry based on various sources of text, such as the Danish Google translation of the Kyoto protocol.
The event took place in conjunction with the UN Climate Change Conference. For an overview of other related events taking place in Copenhagen these days, check out Hopenhagenlive.
• Via www.ibyen.dk
In 2008 the Danish Artnode foundation published the book 'Vi elsker din Computer' (We Love Your Computer), a 500 page anthology with no images on the phenomenon of net art.
Not exactly light material, but as if the format and perhaps subject itself wasn't already dry enough, the Artnode team subsequently transformed the publication into an audio book, which consists of a single audio track containing a 14 hour long, poorly recorded, reading.
When listening to the track you can't help feel sorry for the reader who on many occasions stumbles over some of the net.art references and URL's mentioned in the book - such as the numerous references to: http://0100101110101101.org.
The 200mb audio book is available for download at Artnode's website. Quite brilliant, but unfortunately only in Danish.
A blue line painted on the ground currently runs through Copenhagen's city center.
The line represents the capital's new waterfront if all the inland ice of Greenland were to melt, prompting water levels to rise by seven meters.
The line is a part of an art project called 'Water Knows No Walls' by the artists Haubitz + Zoche. The project takes part in the exhibition Rethink: Contemporary Art & Climate Change, which is one of many events taking place in Copenhagen these days as the city gets ready to host the upcoming UN Climate Change Conference.
If you want to know the potential consequences of rising sea levels in other parts of the world, you can use a map provided by Geology.com.
Posted by Sebastian on Nov 22, 2009
Most Blue Skies is a complex computer generated installation that responds to real-time changes in the atmosphere to locate and visualize the 'bluest skies' in the world.
The result is displayed as a square of blue light that shows the most accurate possible reproduction of what it would be like to look up at that sky.
Most Blue Skies is created by Lise Autogena and Joshua Portway. The installation takes part in the 'Rethink' exhibition at Nikolaj Kunsthal in Copenhagen.
The Knitted Mile is an outdoor installation by the artist Robyn Love created for a mile of roadway in Dallas, US.
Ninety knitters from around North America helped create this long pieces of knitting, which was made to look like a yellow road stripe. Photographs of each knitter working on their section were included as part of the piece when it was removed from the road and later installed in a gallery.
Posted by Sebastian on Aug 22, 2009
In 2007 the artist Kristin Lucas succeeded in legally changing her name to... Kristin Lucas.
The purpose of changing her name to an identical name was a conceptual way of rebooting herself.
The judge who granted the request said: "So you have changed your name to exactly what it was before in the spirit of refreshing yourself as though you were a web page."
The name-changing process is documented and manifested as an installation in which Kristen Lucas shows "before and after" portraits and other related items, such as an amusing transcript of the court hearing.
• www169.pair.com/klucas/before_after
Posted by Sebastian on Aug 21, 2009
Dominic Wilcox is an artist who works within the area of everyday objects, environments, buildings and human interaction.
Recently he put together the website 'Variations on Normal', which serves as an outlet for thoughts, ideas, and designs that pop into his head.
Here you can read about the worlds smallest job application, the sit down everywhere fashion accessory, the geneticallty modifed egg improvement design and lots of other ideas.
Related: www.stealourideas.com
Posted by Sebastian on Aug 21, 2009
Meet Marc from Amsterdam and Mikael from
Copenhagen.
Marc and Mikael are both bloggers and bike enthusiasts and they met up to compete against each other in a discipline probably best known to children.
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Contact: Sebastian Campion