[NetBehaviour] big fuck-off blue grid #2

[Joel Weishaus]

As I cut my artistic teeth on a typewriter, that simple tool that 
produced so much great and abiding literature, as did the quill before 
it, perhaps because of this, since I began using computers, around 1991, 
my approach has been to use the simplest tools to make the most complex art.

-Joel



On 7/28/2014 12:43 PM, Michael Szpakowski wrote:
> HI Joel
> yes - this seems to be behind the draconian new settings which 
> effectively mean that one can no longer realistically display applets 
> within a web page. It's a great pity because it means quite a lot of 
> pioneering art on the net will no longer be accessible and the lovely 
> work flow that was possible with the Processing language -created 
> especially for artists - whereby one exported to a applet which could 
> then be embedded in a web page for all to see will vanish..So the 
> rather nice little 200 character java pieces from the Rhizome project 
> goes too..
> Of course I'm not in favour of technologies that carry risks for 
> innocent users andI'm not an expert but I suspect it would be 
> perfectly possible to make applets secure, it's just not a priority 
> for those whose interest in the net is business - why should a few 
> quirky artists matter? A little voice says we had twenty years of 
> relatively non-corporate fun and everything is now closing off...
> ( and again I could be wrong but it feels like HTML 5 and the demise 
> of plug-ins might make the world safer for business but it'll be less 
> interesting for artists...)Maybe I'm wrong and someone with more 
> background than me can reassure me...
> I have gone with the flow and created standalone applications of the 
> piece in question but the great thing about the net and net art was 
> always its immediacy -the fact one didn't *have* to download and run 
> stuff on one's own computer...
> cheers
> michael
>
> ------------------------------------------------------------------------
> *From:* Joel Weishaus <joelweishaus at gmail.com>
> *To:* michael szpakowski <michael at dvblog.org>; Netbehaviour 
> <netbehaviour at netbehaviour.org>
> *Sent:* Monday, July 28, 2014 7:51 PM
> *Subject:* Re: [NetBehaviour] big fuck-off blue grid #2
>
> Hi Michael;
>
> I once got a virus via a java plug-in that brought down my whole hard 
> drive.
> It was years ago, but I haven't installed java since. Perhaps Sun now
> has better security?
>
> Best,
> Joel
>
>
>
>
> On 7/26/2014 2:25 PM, michael szpakowski wrote:
> >
> > https://www.flickr.com/photos/szpako/14751445932/
> >
> > this painting is a companion piece to a piece I made for the Rhizome 
> 200 character Processing competition some years back. That exists as 
> an applet here ( though you might have to tweak your security settings 
> to see it as apparently applets are history)
> >
> > http://www.openprocessing.org/sketch/4389
> >
> > I also uploaded applcation versions for windows, mac and linux here:
> >
> > http://www.michaelszpakowski.org/bfobg/
> >
> > I thought I was making a little joke when I made it. When I looked 
> at it again it surprised me how much I actually like it. ( I like the 
> painting too & I like the idea of them both exisitng)
> > cheers
> > michael
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