[NetBehaviour] Fwd: "Quote me!" by Garrett Lynch

[neil jenkins]

a wonderful new piece of work from Garrett Lynch :)

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> From: Garrett Lynch <garrett at asquare.org>
> Date: 6 December 2006 18:06:56 GMT
> To: garrett at asquare.org
> Subject: "Quote me!" by Garrett Lynch
>
> Announcing the release of "Quote me!" by Garrett Lynch:
>
> http://www.asquare.org/project/quote-me/
>
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> Every good artist has at least one quote, aphorism or soundbite 
> attributed to them, yet the new media artist barely has time to keep 
> up with the rapid change of technology let alone spend time thinking 
> of witty aphorisms.
>
> "Quote me!" is a work, triggered by users to its web page, that reuses 
> quotes and the date they were expressed from various online sources 
> for the busy new media artist who hasn't time. Quotes are relevant 
> comments to current political and social events, both nationally and 
> internationally, taken from the current headlines of a handful of 
> global newspapers via their respective rss / xml feeds, yet placed 
> without context or explanation.
>
> Information and the database have become the ultimate pervasive 
> commodity. New things are no longer said and done instead they are 
> recombined, recompiled or remixed from the archives we are 
> continuously compiling both as individuals and as a race.
>
> "Quote me!" is in a sense an agent for the artist. Reusing the media's 
> carefully edited information as source for quotes the agent is able to 
> automatically recycle information for the artists use. Allocated 
> parameters it is given free reign to search and retrieve others quotes 
> from the internet, republishing and archiving them on its web page. 
> Quotes are attributed to the artist ensuring that (s)he has a voice in 
> a space where things need to be continually said. The importance or 
> profoundness of what is said becomes unimportant, replaced instead by 
> the regularity and continuous act of saying.
>
> A web 2.0 tool or service as work of art, "Quote me!" both continues 
> themes of net.art (reusing, recycling, transforming) and 
> simultaneously highlights the redundancy of it as a tool when the 
> content is unoriginal and without context. It draws attention to the 
> highly important exploration involved in these types of recombinatory 
> net.art works, not possible outside of the internet, yet questions the 
> same use of techniques employed in their creation for the critical 
> discourse that surrounds them in our collaborative, tagging, 
> reblogging and ever more copied, unoriginal content of web 2.0.
>
> a+
> gar
> __________________
> Garrett at asquare.org
> http://www.asquare.org/
>