I spent the majority of April Fools’ Day reading about Dada for an essay that I’m writing. For a quick laugh, I imagined a twenty-first century equivalent called DATA, a movement of artists who embrace the Dada ethos, but who work with software and data. During the following day, the more I thought about it, the more I thought there might be something to it. The idea of DATA (based on Dada ideas) might be a way to group together related work from the last decade into a coherent narrative. I’ve only done about fifteen minutes of work on the topic; it’s half-formed and raw. We’ll see what time and other opinions bring. I’m not going to do more with it for now, so feel free to tear it apart or to build on it. Even if the name DATA is entirely wrong, I think there’s something beyond the name that might make sense.
I’ve started a list of works to think through the idea:
[V]ote-auction, Ubermorgan. 2000-2006. (Or something more recent)
http://www.vote-auction.net/
Invisible Threads. Jeff Crouse and Stephanie Rothenberg. 2008.
http://www.doublehappinessjeans.com/
My%Desktop. Jodi. 2002 (Or something more recent)
http://mydesktop.jodi.org/
net.art generator. Cornelia Sollfrank. 2003?
http://www.obn.org/generator/
The New York Time Special Edition. Steve Lambert and Andy Bichlbaum (The Yes Men). 2008
http://visitsteve.com/made/the-ny-times-special-edition/
No Fun. Eva and Franco Mattes aka 0100101110101101.ORG. 2010
http://vimeo.com/11467722
Carnivore. RSG. 2001-present
http://r-s-g.org/carnivore/
Electroboutique. Alexei Shulgin and Aristarkh Chernyshev. 2005+
http://www.electroboutique.com/
Satromizer OS. Ben Syverson and Jon Satrom. 2010
http://satromizer.com/sOS/
Cory Arcangel. Data Diaries. 2003 (Or something more recent)
http://www.turbulence.org/Works/arcangel/
Something from G.R.L. and/or F.A.T.
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