WTF Tinkebell!

I have stumbled upon a perfect example of what i am trying to achieve while browsing WTF on Reddit the other day. I noticed a familiar work of art done by none other than tinkebell, one of my favorite artists and a dear friend. I thought the comments were interesting so i forwarded them to her. She receives a great deal of hate mail from people upset that she is using animals for art. Although her art is grounded in raising awareness for animal rights, her critics never bother to get to know that. Less than 1% of her hate mail was made into a surprisingly thick book.

Tinkebell's book - Dearest Tinkebell

reddit meetup

I like the idea of bringing strangers together. There are people behind the usernames.

Clarke's law

Clarke's law:
"Any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic."

The future of conceptual art will be produced on or by computers.  Any conceivable conceptual art today can be produced by ones and zero.  Binary code i.e. ones and zeros stands for "on" and "off" on a transistor of the CPU.  Basically everything conceivable is made up of a series of only the commands on and off.  All existence and reality can be created by the flipping of a switch.

What will it mean to print out binary vs paint binary with the human hand?  (the juxtaposition of technology or lack of human written in a primitive human way.)

3D plotter creating an object out of the binary code making it.  The object for people and computers. both human and machine can then relate to the object.

Arbitrary Day: personal art gift

Arbitrary Day is an event created by Reddit Gifts.  This is the attempt by the online community to participate and exchange gifts IRL (in real life).  I am interested in this concept of the internet crossing over into real life.  It is usually a one way street in which we give up a lot of "real life" interactions to virtual ones and it is nice to see it being used the other way around.  Arbitrary Day basically a secret santa on an arbitrary day.  By signing up I am paired with another Redditor and committed to sending them a gift to arrive on that day and in exchange i will receive a gift. The gift is your choice. My match goes by the username dejennarate.  I have chosen this opportunity to share and test my latest idea - binary imaging.  Based upon the response I receive from dejennarate will determine if i continue with my binary imaging project.

Digital image of the work being sent to dejennarate. It is a binary coded personal message. This is my first binary imaging "painting" and a test run with this idea.

dejennarate 

2011 

binary on canvas

11" x 11"

Response from dejennerate:

her response:
http://redditgifts.com/gallery/gift/binary-painting-message/

also here is what i received:
http://redditgifts.com/gallery/gift/are-you-spying-me/

Bird Feed: My First Gift

Bird Feed is a modified version of a previous project, Bird Cage. Bird Cage is a beautiful yet disturbing image that places viewers  in direct communication with their own mortality to bring about a new perspective on life. The piece references the ancient Buddhist tradition of meditation on the foul, and serves as an object of meditation and reflection to clarify perspectives clouded daily by the fast-paced, media-based lifestyle of western culture. The new project, Bird Feed, imposes this reflection upon the viewer. Bird Feed transcends the gallery setting and can appear anywhere there is a monitor and an open internet source.Where media has numbed a culture, this technology will be used against it to awaken a more lucid, mindful way of being.


 
Bird Feed is a program written in javascript that streams a live feed of the decaying bird.  Still shots are also banked in hard drive of the source computer for later reference.
To share Bird Stream use this code:
<script type="text/javascript">
<!--
function refresh(){
document.images["birdfeed"].src="http://www.ashleyzelinskie.com/images/bird-current-thumb.jpg"+"?"+new Date();
setTimeout('refresh()', 10000);}
if(document.images)window.onload=refresh;
// -->
</script>
<a href="http://www.ashleyzelinskie.com/birdfeed.html"><img src="http://www.ashleyzelinskie.com/images/bird-current-thumb.jpg" id="birdfeed"></img></a>

3.8 Breaking the First 2 Rules of the Internet

Urban Dictionary describes it best:

	4chan
	you have just entered the very heart, soul, and life force of the internet. this is a place beyond sanity, wild and untamed. there is nothing new here. "new" content on 4chan is not found; it is created from old material. every interesting, offensive, shocking, or debate inspiring topic youve seen elsewhere has been posted here ad infinitum. we are the reason for "not safe ". we are the anonymous army. cross us and you will fail. anonymous is everywhere. you depend on us every day. we bag your groceries, we fix your computers. anonymous sees you before you see him. sitting at desks around the world right now is a nameless, faceless, unforgiving mafia composed of the best of the best.  Though the end is a little extreme thats the basic gist.  This is where the content of the viral Internet culture is created.   It can be refreshed time after time a reveal new content in seconds.  Besides being extremely addictive it is a fascinating form of communication and creation.

3.7 MEMES

A good follow up to the internet being a creative place is describing memes.  Memes are the Internet phenomena of viral videos, images, catchphrases, ect.  Basically inside jokes within certain online communities some of which go viral. Everyone hopes that their creation will be accepted even though the author is almost always anonymous or hidden by a username.  This is a curious concept, very few create with no intentions of being credited. I believe this to be the purest most honest sense of creation.  This is a venue where you are unattached and create for the joy of creating and seeing others enjoy the work. This venue also provides the freedom of not being responsible for the content and the ramifications of creating questionable or risky work.  The memes are chosen from this mass of content by the internet's open judgment system that allows for the best to rise to the top through up-voting and down-voting.  This system puts the user/viewer in the seat of power.  I will be using this system of critique to evaluate my work through out my exploration.  Who knows I might even create a meme.

Some classic memes:
Hamster Dance

Dancing Baby

Some Recent Memes:
Advice Animals

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