the poet

02/05/2017

Celebration

!Mediengruppe Bitnik

Dada. State of the Reference

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Webpage. Based on: Man Ray, The Poet, 1938

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In Dada. State of the Reference, !Mediengruppe Bitnik lets Google evaluate Man Ray’s The Poet by inputing the image into its similar images search. What does the machine see in this piece of art? What’s the state of art as it is determined by one of the most influential knowledge gate-keepers in the world? Man Ray’s The Poet is the input for a recursive images search. Unfortunately the image stream immediately leaves the realm of art. Moving directly to the latest mens hairstyles to Bruce Lee and Vietnamese celebrities, perfect smiles, women with headaches, smiling boys, plastic surgery, celebrities with blond hair, hairstyles for women. The recursive loop ends in its 1321st iteration with an image of a Nespresso machine.

!Mediengruppe Bitnik (read – the not mediengruppe bitnik) live and work in Zurich/London. They are contemporary artists working on and with the Internet. Their practice expands from the digital to affect physical spaces, often intentionally applying loss of control to challenge established structures and mechanisms.

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01/30/2017

Alessandro Zanetti

Do I have the right to change my mind?

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Digital collage. Based on: Man Ray, The Poet, 1938.

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Alessandro Zanetti

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01/20/2017

Giulio Regosa

Solid and matted

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Digital Collage. Based on: Man Ray, The Poet, 1938

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12/16/2016

Cless

Untitled

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Digital collage. Based on: Kurt Schwitters, Die Kathedrale, 1920; Man Ray, The Poet, 1938; Man Ray, Orchestra, 1926; Man Ray Non euclidean object, 1932;Man Ray, Masque Kiki, 1962.

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“Sir Mix-a-Lot. Man Ray over DER ZELTWEG; Kurt Schwitters over Man Ray The Poet; Man Ray Orchestra over Kurt Schwitters Die Kathedrale; and over Man Ray, Man Ray Non euclidean object. Over this one, eye and lip Masque Kiki by Man Ray with ornaments from Raul Hausmann collage. Signed by Tristan Tzara. No. 1. And so on“. Cless

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11/22/2016

Franziska Von Guten

DADA IS DAD

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Digital image. Based on: Man Ray, The Poet, 1938.

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“DADA IS DAD.
DADAISM IS OUR DADDY COOL.
POST INTERNET – DANK FACEBOOK – MEME – CYBERGHETTIO ARE THE NEW DADA”. Francesca Del Bono

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11/18/2016

Cara Delavignette

Writer’s Block

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Animated Gif. Based on: Man Ray, The Poet, 1938

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“Selection shapes the subscript”. Cara Delavignette

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10/04/2016

Aleksandra Pieńkosz

Pivilion test run#2 : ~ interpretations ~

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Digital image glitched with imageslicer.pde script by Tomasz Sulej. Based on: Man Ray, The Poet, 1938

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“The work was a part of The artist is online exhibition. I glitched „The Poet” by Man Ray with the screenshot of a darknet page that has been displayed during the performance Pivilion test run#2“. Aleksandra Pieńkosz

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09/01/2016

Monthly Feature

Michael Mandiberg

Man Ray, The Poet, as tagged by Amazon Mechanical Turk (total cost $4.64)

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Found image file with EXIF metadata created by Amazon Mechanical Turk workers. Based on: Man Ray, The Poet, 1938.

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“I commissioned Amazon Mechanical Turk workers to write a description, and create tags for Man Ray’s photograph The Poet. Each of the 10 Turkers submitted 6 tags describing the image; I took all tags that appeared at least twice. The pragmatic description and factually accurate tags are embedded as EXIF data in the original image file”. Michael Mandiberg

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07/19/2016

Od Niwr

Poetic Mute

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Modified WordPad Glitch. Based on: Man Ray, The Poet, 1938

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“Twisted and digitized by the onslaught of technology, the poet has been rendered mute”. Od Niwr

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06/16/2016

Domenico Barra

Death of a man, birth of a poet

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Databending of file format .iff + .pcx + .bmp – (Hex Editor XVI32 + Audacity). Based on: Man Ray, The Poet, 1938

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This work is part of the project “Pivilion test run#2: ~ interpretation” curated by Dina Karadzic and Vedran Gligo

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06/14/2016

PirateSheep

Pivilion test run#2: ~interpretations~

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Databending. Based on: Man Ray, The Poet, 1938

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This work is part of the project “Pivilion test run#2: ~ interpretation” curated by Dina Karadzic and Vedran Gligo

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06/10/2016

PirateSheep

Pivilion test run#2: ~interpretations~

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Databending. Based on: Man Ray, The Poet, 1938

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This work is part of the project “Pivilion test run#2: ~ interpretation” curated by Dina Karadzic and Vedran Gligo

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06/09/2016

Dina Karadžić & Vedran Gligo

Pivilion test run#2: ~interpretations~

Documentative web archive of a collaborative P2P darknet remix performance, containing ~40 glitch remixes of the single source image. Based on: Man Ray, The Poet, 1938

Pivilion test run#2: ~interpretations~
telehosted concept test; a performative P2P processual demonstration. With Aleksandra Pieńkosz, Asymetr, Domenico Barra, Dragana Dimitrijević, Flávio Carvalho, j3d1n4, Mauro Caldas, pirate sheep, Tomasz Sulej, Tú.ùk’z, v3d,…

The work was done at: The Artist Is Online exhibition, April 2, 2016 // 7pm–11 pm // Römerstr. 2A, Stuttgart

This performance was done as a part of the Pivilion project. Pivilion is a decentralized, uncensored, user-curated web gallery operating system and gallery management software running on nodes hosted by the general public and distributed through clearnet and Tor. The aim of the gallery-host project is to create a nomadic free virtual environment that connects art-oriented users (both creators and consumers) by offering a participatory model of interaction.

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05/12/2016