i have not said anything yet, because i wanted to wait for the presentation this morning. but karel dudesek’s [jury member] explanation did not help. and so i have to say, that i really do not get this years prix ars electronica winners in the category net vision.
processing.org is a software, downloadable via the internet, okay, but primarily a coder project. a great project, but hardly a net art piece. plus: processing is not that new and has had quite some exposure already here @ ars electronica.
vote-auction.net is 5 years old, the injunction generator not much more recent. again, both of them great projects, but i always thought net vision wanted to [and actually really should] honour recent work.
and finally yugop.com is pretty pointless. cute yes, but sort of blah.
i must go through the list of submissions. i am sure much more relevant work has been submitted.
what is it about artists claiming that obviously political media art is NOT political? why is that? hans bernhard [ubermorgen.com] just did it in regards to his projects vote-auction and injunction generator… michelle teran did it a few days ago in regards to her piece life: a users manual.
why is that?
i think processing won becuase it can be exported onto the net. check
http://users.design.ucla.edu/~mflux/manifest/
it’s the framework that a lot of new net art will probably be made in. i just downloaded it and I’m not much of a progammer.
peace,
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we argue that our work is non-political because it is not for us. we can not work with ideological bases or political goals, it would undermine our “free” research, because it would give us “wrong” leads.. what i want is to act as free as possible within global communications networks and do experiments there.. feedback-loops, technical-tricks coupled with user-emotions, etc.. so thats basically all to your question why we argue that we are not political. but, yes.. our project might as well be political, or be perceived and used/misused for political reasons.. i dont care..
greets
hans bernhard
UBERMORGEN.COM
@ hans: thanx for clarifying that. it does make sense, the way you phrase it, but i am also am tempted to say: semantics. i guess what would clarify things for me would be to say, we don’t have a political bias in this political project.