This year I am a recipient of a TERMINAL net art commission that I used to create a series of poem interpretations for the browser. Three classic works of literature from the 20th Century (“O Captain, My Captain”, “On the Road”, and “Waiting for You at the Mystery Spot”) are remade for the browser [...]
Chiara Ciociola wrote a nice review of the Mechanical Games for Neural today. I especially like this idea, “Choosing the Mechanical Turk service (also featured Burrough’s previous work “Mechanical Olympics”) is not new in net art. But here its mechanisms are not exaggerated to emphasize the rotten side, as in Sheep Market by Aaron Koblin. [...]
The Mechanical Games ended with an Olympic-meets-the-Oscars style awards ceremony in Manchester, England, at Cornerhouse last Sunday. Here are some of my favorite photos from the event. Super huge thank you to Debbie Chan for organizing so many project details. The event was a success, and meeting the participants was even more fun and gratifying [...]
Voting begins next month at the Mechanical Games website. Part of the Abandon Normal Devices (AND) Festival, this version of the Games is produced by myself with a lot of help from Cornerhouse. New to the Games: a real, live award ceremony, to take place on October 3rd from noon – 2 at Cornerhouse, Manchester, [...]