Cross-Wired : Communication - Interface - Locality

by Edited by Kerstin Mey and Simon Yuill

• ISBN13: 9780719070365
• ISBN10: 0719070368
• Format: Trade Book
• Copyright: 2005-01-15
• Publisher: Manchester University Press

Summary

Art is integrally bound to the creation and dissemination of symbolic systems and rules. The codes are operated through a variety of media, and facilitate the functioning of a range of activities and exchanges such as computer programming, commerce, mobile communications, bureaucracy, education, entertainment and the art world itself. This volume looks at how one code "talks" to another code. "Conversations" between code systems take on a variety of forms: critical, constructive, disquieting, anarchic, destructive and humorous. The contributing artists do not simply subscribe to, or operate within the confines of, singular specific codes, but rather seek ways of working between them, of cross-wiring one system into another. This anthology of contemporary art will be of interest to readers who seek diagnostic insights into current creative processes.

Author Biography

Kerstin Mey is a Senior Lecturer in the School of Fine Art, both at the Duncan of Jordanstone College of Art and Design, University of Dundee.

Simon Yuill is an artist working with software systems and is a Researcher in the School of Television and Imaging.

Table of Contents

Introduction	5	(6)
Recombinant Poetics	11	(18)
Bill Seaman
messboard. Jodi	29	(10)
So everything joyful is mobile	39	(12)
Matt Locke
Matthew Chalmers
Francis McKee
Remoteness---A Study in Electro-Mist	51	(6)
Judy Spark
Hacking the Art Operation System	57	(12)
Cornelia Sollfrank
Anti-Corporate Inc	69	(10)
RTMark
The Art of `Art Jockeys'	79	(14)
Marcus Gossolt
Johannes M. Hedinger
Meaningless Work---Art as Abstract Labour	93	(18)
Santiago Sierra
Ross Birrell
Truth and Beauty in the Digital Age	111	(6)
Lee Bul
Between East and West	117	(8)
Yasuko Toyoshima
pop_accounts	125	(8)
Cary Peppermint
A Public Auction of Private Art Works	133	(8)
Nina Pope
Simon Yuill
Selected Bibliography	141