5 Posts for Window: Scene

Some notable posts from the 100+ pieces I wrote while running Window:Scene, an online blog focusing on electronic art, new media, and digital culture in New Zealand.

Show and Tell: Web-based performance
"A small Japanese girl in traditional kimono steps onto the stage and begins a countdown. 3....2....1, before executing a perfect backflip onto a white box. Another performer responds by repositioning a second box in front of her. The first performer is the Second Life avatar of Markus, an artist based in Munich, the second is Mark, a RL (real life) artist based in Auckland..."

Guilt or pleasure? Infographics convert from one to another
"Oil Standard seems simpler, more sinister, and - with the addition of live news feeds from Rigzone.com - much more real. Viewed as an art project, the latter is successful precisely because it doesn't prescribe..."

Help not wanted: Rise of the nanobusiness
"Turned off (or made redundant) by large corporates like WalMart, Ford, and HP, and turned on by a new interconnectedness online, single-person or nano businesses are finding success - and ethics they can live with..."

Meaningful videogames on the rise
"Gamers have seen this environment before. Yet instead of a barrage of semi-automatic weaponry at their disposal, they have a Koran. Rather than side-stepping and running through the level, the player is hanging around, chatting to other detainees. Their's little else to do..."

TradeMe eats itself: Auction sites reused by artists
"Featured on both Rhizome and the Metropolitan Museum of Art, Boling's studies of time and place are restrained and rigorous. But for this latest series of work, he didn't travel or scout locations. He surfed...."