Hacking with Wark...

Aesthetics of Information
What is meant by this phrase?
Aesthetic: the underlying principles of the work
Information: data
Is metadata the process in which one produces the aesthetics of that information?
Does the manipulation process produce the aesthetic of the data?
Or is "Aesthetics based on information"? (quoted from Wark)

According to Wark, Information or Data can be based on
Science measures
OR
Artist aesthetics
META to Wark is: making spaces with interesting turbulence
Can the META process facilitate the blending of the science and art schticks?

DRM...Digital Restrictions Management
It's not about our Rights
It's about Restricting our Rights
Wikipedia terms DRM as
"policies controlling access to software, music, movies, or other digital data"
It's about CONTROL
It's about RESTRICTING our RIGHTS

The distinction of plagiarism, copying, and stealing is getting more and more blurry...
Is it based on how much of the original work is used?
Is it based on where it is presented? (public spaces, scholarly media, etc.)
Is it based on the stealer's intention?
Is it based on how much the original work is manipulated?
Or is it just based on monetary compensation?

What if we were to just start making Media Independent data?
What would Media Independent mean?
The author goes away...
Not one particular person, corporation, or entity owns the data
Instead Collaborative Authoring would be promoted
Create the self-fulfilling/perpetuating notion that all the data we create is...
NOT owned by any one person but, if anything, owned by everyone
And data that is owned by everyone should
NOT be restricted to anyone but should be
OPEN to all
Creative Commons is a start...
Wikis are also a start where collaborative authoring is encouraged
And managed by the writers and readers...
The management lies within the creators of the data.

Art, according to Wark, is about
Chance and Risk
It has a function by not having a function...
Non-determinate function

Media, on the other hand, has a function
Media - TV/newspaper/etc. - usually has an underlying and often blatant purpose

"Anti-Media Art" may be the next best avenue
This is how information circulates and should continue to circulate
Where information is of abundance and accessible to all with no commitment
Where the function of the information is not blatant but rather indeterminate

"Flow is in the Chaotic Space"
META is the chaotic space
META is all the stuff - the data - that is
Related to
Connected with
Influenced by
the main subject at hand
Flow comes from connecting these interconnected spaces of meaning...

It's about...
Respecting the audience
Activating the audience
Creating an inclusive space
Embracing community-sense

You must get rid of yourself!
We must embrace collaborativism!

Chicken Skratches 11

Memoria of Carol Flax...

Memory drives this artist...

Archival vs. Digital storage
OR
Freedom of the Media

Taking information from different sources
Appropriating Data
Translating it into one's Schtick

My visual metaphor of MetaData:
MetaData is data that takes the same data and frames it into another perspective on the data. It is data that continously gets manipulated but that can go on forever. This image of one of Flax's work made me think about MetaData as this continous process of manipulation where you want the data to appear in its original form but it is still being framed by the hacker's schtick...but it is a forever ending process.
META is being self-referential, as this image evokes...

It's NOT about being the exact same data...
It's about the references we make with it.



Flax also intersubjectively jammed with the notion of
Public vs. Private Content
Personal vs. Public
Public vs. Private
It all seems to blend...

How can we separte them?
Do we need to make distinctions?
It is an important distinction when one's career enforces a legal distinction.
But does being an artist allow more flexibility with this distinction?
When is it okay for our work to mix not just with pleasure
But with our persona, with our personal?
Does this mixing produce a more humanistic element to our work?
Doesn't it start from the personal - our narratives -
In order to embrace the political, cultural, social, etc. issues?
Or are we just not supposed to share our stories?
The world would be very non-humanistic...

Distant Presence:
Multimedia senses...
Multi-schtick presence...
The presence of these multiple visual screens provides the ambiance of the multiple human influences of the main subject, which appears on the big horizontal screen. This emphasizes another element of META, of being manipulated and influenced by many sources. This art piece inspired me to think about how to visually present multiple perspectives on one piece. Each screen would have its unique audio output with looping images specific to each perspective.
What are other ways in which we can digitize our senses?

E-Book...Interactive-Book:
[Would upload image of her interactive narrative/book piece but it's not working :-( ]
This is a very interactive and engaging idea to allow the viewer to physically turn a page of a book as a sensor for digitally turning to another document/image/perspective/etc. How can we take our everyday non-digital, ephemeral objects and turn them into a digitally interactive source?

Chicken Skratches 10

Rhythm Reflecting Rhythm

It comes down to balance...
Balancing the freestylin', the improvisin', the flowin'
With one's predetermined intention.

It is an organizing system
Digitally bridging our interior and exterior realities.

Thru our
Machinic process of creations,
We are situationists
Wandering thru our
Indeterminate maze of intentionality.

We want to create
Alternative zones of expressions

I am
Open
to whatever seems
Interesting...

It's all about
Originality!

Our Cultural Inertia
drives us to our
Creative Work.

It's a Paradox...
Are there no originals?
Are we just replicating, copying?
Or our we just
Reflecting on our
Chaotic Turbulent Reality?

Remixing our
Constellations of our
Subjective, multiple Interpretations
of Information

Creating our
Narratives

Sharing our
Homologues

But our we just
Speaking in Code?

Is this an open system?
A Mix Lab?
An Open Channel?

Can we set ourselves FREE?

Or must we abide with the
Clockwork Economy?

OR
Is this just a META-Contradiction?

It is about
The Game you Play
and
How you Play it...

For me...
I play the mimicry of my OS...
The sound of my Human OS...
THRU
My Movment
My Flow
The FLUX...
It is my MIME DANCE.

I do seek
Universe Making
Seeking Sublimination.

How can we create a
Community of Sound
Reflecting a Unity?

Freestylin'

Freestyle, Wildstyle, the Flow
Drifting on my Improvisational Natureal
Infectious Raptures of Rhythm

You have made me a Rhythm Scientist
Drawing my Attention to my Archives
of
Sounds, Texts, Videos, Images

Culture MIRRORING Culture

Revealing
OUR
Global Network
OUR
Consensual Reality
OUR
Social Mutuality
THRU
Sound, Symbol, Sentiment

It's Science of the Beautiful
Serendipity
Poetic Wisdom
The Way of Healing

Sharing
OUR
Constellation of Styles
Creating
OUR
Montages of Attractions
OUR
Subliminal Seductions
Smearing, Smudging
Dreamin' the
Improvisational Creative Moment

Feeling the Creative Potential
My Proprioception

AKA Bliu