VVORK

»google earth/google images« is an ongoing project by Chris Lee.

»Video as Suburban Condition«, 2007, is a compilation of videos that explores how self-publishing video websites like YouTube change how people imagine suburban places such as back yards or parking lots as settings for showing themselves to others. It was made as a contribution to the »Video as Urban Condition«.

»Untitled I (Google Sleep)«, 2005-2006, installation with photos of anonymous sleeping people. Each photo was selected from an archive of over a thousand of images of sleeping people whose photos were published on the internet and who were found by Google’s image search engine. By Martijn Hendriks.

»New York – Las Vegas«, 2007, by Cory Arcangel, instructs viewers on the easiest way to leave Manhattan behind and spend a weekend in Las Vegas. Using Google maps, he describes the fastest route from the Bowery to the nearest Vegas casino.

»Meet the artist’s wife…« The Buyer can get in touch with either Betty or Susan. Betty is brunette, sensual, intelligent and witty. Susan is blonde, erotic, romantic and has a good sense of humour. For only € 300 the buyer can purchase a 10 part SMS/MMA communication with one of the two women. The purchaser will receive the private mobile no. of one of the artists wives and is permitted to send his 10 messages. He is also entitled to ten replies. An access code will be issued in the form of a code name. This will have to be incorporated into the first SMS to guarantee a response. Voice messages and calls are not planned at the moment but can be agreed directly with the artists wives if desired. For € 500 the buyer can meet the avatar of the chosen artist’s wife in Second Life for two hours. The code name and the exact meeting point will be issued. Other virtual meetings or a meeting in real life are not planned at the moment but can be discussed during the proceedings. By M+M.

»Disorganiser«, 2007 by Jaka Železnikar. See also »Website-Shredder« Mark Napier.

»Html Malevitsch«, 1996 by Codemanipulator.

The Bad Guys (The Amazon Noir Crew: Cirio, Lizvlx, Ludovico, Bernhard) stole copyrighted books from Amazon by using sophisticated robot-perversion technology coded by supervillain Paolo Cirio. Amazon Noir by Ubermorgen.

»nesting dollzzz« by Chris Coy.

»4 Stars« by Michael Atavar.

“my Real Estate Business” is an exact virtual replica of the alternative space pool exhibition space as a representation in Second Life. By Dirk Fleischmann.

Lorna Mills asks Jennifer McMackon 10 questions:

#1 – Have you ever been to the site, VVORK?
#2 – What do you think is going on there?
#3 – How do you think the creators of that site find that range of work?
#4 – What happens to a piece of art when it is extracted from the context of an artists’ full body of work?
#5 – Who are the artists who you know of through only one work?
#6 – What’s the effect of seeing clusters of different artists from all over the world “mining similar territory”?
#7 – What’s the effect of seeing an ever growing archive of contemporary art works without an accompanying layer of critical text?
#8 – If VVORK posts several images daily for the next 10 years, do you still think that certain types of work will never be visible on that site?
#9 – Without a statement of curatorial intent, does selection (inclusion and exclusion) imply a value judgement? Does it have to?
#10 – Why do you think VVORK does it?

»System Displacement«, 2007 (Pixels rearranged from lightest to darkest) by Oliver Laric.

»A Topology Of Synthetic Pleasure« by Paul O’Neil.

»Impersonator« (2007) by Angelo Plessas.

»h-o-r-i-z-o-n—-t-r-a-c-k-x« (2007) by Petra Cortright.

»i.Mirror« part 1, 2 and 3 by China Tracy/Cao Fei.

“Google Image Search“, 2004. Working from a list of around 70 words, covering a wide range of references and pre-conceived notions, Google’s image search feature was used to find the 20 most viewed images for each word, which were appropriated to create 60 second slide show-style videos. By Sandy Smith.

»Art Imitates Life«, 2007. Google search frequency for “art” and “life” from 2004 to 2006 are plotted against each other on a search-volume graph where the number of searches for each term is shown in relation to the number of searches done on Google during a given time period. The two graphs synchronize a surprising amount and are generally very close in volume. At least on the web, art and life imitate each other. By Caleb Larsen.

»402 Computer E-Books« by Charles Broskoski.

»guitar solo threeway« (2006) by John Michael Boling.