Net art

The MOZ-ART-GLOBAL-ART project is a piece of software for collective audiovisual improvisations over the net produced by the composer Mauricio Valdes and the author. It was commissioned by the Instrumenta 2006 festival web

RadioBANDA is a radio network art piece that consists of an installation of analog radios and a web server that people access to create music in real time. The final mix is then broadcast by a radio transmitter over 88.1 FM. (IN SPANISH)

Most of the communication channels in the Internet tend to be of clear pragmatic use. Chats, forums, and video conferencing programs are usually employed for transmitting raw content. In this way, all these media can be thought as a technological extrapolation of the telephone metaphor. The Internet channels are more sophisticated and offer a bigger bandwidth that allows the sending and receiving of image, video, group interaction, and more. However, the use that people gives to the new media has, in essence, not changed at all. We used the chat for keep in touch with friends and relatives. In the same way, we used Skype as a video telephone and it is coming to leave the video content unattended for long periods of time favoring the audio channel. Which non-mainstream possibilities do the users are aware of and employ regularly in the capabilities of the Internet? How does it work? Participants and general public access the link www.OjosTeVean.net and create an account. This is the link with the forum, the announcements of public events, the material created over the days, and the calendar of public events. Participants can download a piece of software that allows the recording of material. This software run on any machine, it is simple to use and requires only a webcam, a microphone, and Internet access. This piece of software allows the recording and play back of video and audio content. It also allows searching, organizing, and displaying images by querying words. If, for example, the user type the word “apple” the program will randomly search on the web for ten images tagged with such word. The piece of software allow also to type text in the form of dialogs. These texts will be used for generating the subtitle of the movies. Once the participant is done with a session, the material is sent to a server.