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Abstract
Digital Golem is Belgian artist Eric Van Hove's proposal for an international art contest sponsored by UNESCO and the IAMAS aiming to promote digital art as an innovative and artistic reflection of our information society.
It will be presented at the "5th World Forum for Media Art and Culture" in Ogaki, Japan, in March 2004 (UTC - GMT +9 hours).
The proposed project consists of an unrecorded, world-scale, email-based, multi-language chat inspired by and starring Japanese cell phones: the world's leading portable communication device.
This chat will be a textual online exchange, symbolizing a digital human identity (the Golem), created and subsequently destroyed: it would live and die as a conversation does. Four media installations will permit World Forum visitors to "witness" the happening in real time at the Ogaki venue.
Artists / Authors
- Eric Van Hove, Project director - artist
Cooperators
- Rosin Mattew, Develloper, Telebody Inc.
- Koba Kumiko, Marketing advisor
- Devriendt Genevieve, Architect
Origination
Japan, 2003-2004
Partners / Sponsors
Telebody Inc.
http://www.transcri.be/digital/collaborators.html
Comment
call for participation & invitation
51 collaborators coming from 23 countries around the world have already joined Digital Golem so far.
Digital Golem is Belgian artist Eric Van Hove's proposal for an international art contest sponsored by UNESCO and the IAMAS aiming to promote digital art as an innovative and artistic reflection of our information society.
It will be presented at the "5th World Forum for Media Art and Culture" in Ogaki, Japan, in March 2004 (UTC - GMT +9 hours).
The proposed project consists of an unrecorded, world-scale, email-based, multi-language chat inspired by and starring Japanese cell phones: the world's leading portable communication device.
This chat will be a textual online exchange, symbolizing a digital human identity (the Golem), created and subsequently destroyed: it would live and die as a conversation does. Four media installations will permit World Forum visitors to "witness" the happening in real time at the Ogaki venue.
Homepage of the project =
http://www.transcri.be/digital/golem.html
List of actual collaborators and explanation =
http://www.transcri.be/digital/collaborators.html
Eric Van Hove
www.transcri.be
Submission
Eric Van Hove, Jul 16, 2003
Category
- cultural project
Keywords
- Topics:
- representation |
- community |
- media art |
- social systems |
- augmented reality |
- interactivity |
- information |
- cultural heritage |
- wearable computing |
- archive |
- interface |
- net art |
- fiction |
- conceptual work |
- collaboration |
- author |
- mobile computing |
- networking |
- e-learning |
- cultural studies |
- communication |
- avatars |
- activism |
- globalisation |
- body |
- performance art |
- artistic software |
- human-machine-interaction (HCI) |
- public space |
- internet
- Formats:
- software |
- installation |
- projection |
- teleconference |
- interactive |
- multi user |
- internet |
- video |
- networked
- Technology:
- CAVE |
- wireless communication |
- sms |
- digital video |
- GSM/GPRS |
- HTML / DHTML
Additions to Keyword List
- linux |
- keitai |
- Perl