KONSUM
conceptual arts programms based on network processes COOP
nTRACKER
process data transforms for hedonist art situations
KONSUM-server pages are no webart. They are project-pages to
work with it. They are TOOLs for social real life events. We use it for DJing
lectures and you can use it to transform data-streams for your data-enjoyment.
<mis en scène> of TRACES: One web-page serves for
the generation of realtime data-objects (the latter we call it objectiles
refering to the definition of DJ Spooky for electronic art-pieces as "social
relevant objectiles in the electronic milieu of cyberspace"). Other pages
on Konsum can be used to generate sound (nTracker and traceroute project),
others to download applications and movies (the areal project) and others
to give installation instructions for multiuser environments or game levels
(linx3d).
[ -l linx3D
] [ -n nTracker
] [ -t
traceroute ] [ -a areal
] [ -o objectiles
] [ -e events
]
<we create and recombine>: tcpdump similar software (mirroring
everything that came through the network card of the machine used for accessing
any digital network)+ nTracker sounds+objectiles for the navigable filmarchitecture+
interactive multiuser playing-levels + machinima movies.
Table of Contents
No extra user survey is necessary for nTracker. Just protocoll immanent procedures
of networked environments - WAN (Worldwide Area Network) and LAN (Local Area
Network) - are used. From the logfiles info-objects are rendered. Here we insert
the concept of Lust. The transformation of navigable data-objectiles into lust-full
playable environments follows. By moving through the info-architecture sound
is triggered. Its sources are transformed data-traces again. The realtime produced
(by actions of users and by data-transformation) and realtime generated screen-projection
at a live event demonstrates a new format of a digital fullfeature film.
<a new online movie format>: The machinima came out of a netculture-praxis
of kids and gamers to show their best results in an interactive realtime game
in an "movie" to the community. Realtime online movies of almost
no file size are not to be compared with big QT-movies. They are live generated
on every display machine. Just its structural "program"- information
is transfered via the network.
The artistic project is a netcultural crack of these stereotype shooter aesthetics
and action-patterns (Handlungsweisen). http://www.konsum.net/areal
In the ntracker concept the movies are getting their filmarchitecture from
datatransfer objects. The gamelike and moredimensional 3D data-environments
are based on information we get out from the net-codetexts.
<you are an spectacteur>: Gamebased multiuserlevels are
downloadable via the net. Once installed they serve as alternative networkprotocol
to meet with a community in realtime interaction. (we cal the effect that these
techniques are potential alternatives to the Web "emergenz-engine").
When I move my data-head the dislocated virtual partner logged in can see it
in realtime. We can exchange our data-objectiles inside the info-object environment.
We shoot out our databodies to each other. By moving through the environment
sounds are triggered by us. We are the users and creators at the same time.
http://linx3d.konsum.net
<DEMOnstrate>: We were inspired by a new software principal that combines
timestamps and sound-MODules. Very small filesize and realtime performance are
its result.
<economic crack>: The concept came out of the game demo scene. Demos
are movie intros to interactive multiuser environments. This means it is based
on illegal cracks of commercial gamesoftware and on the desire of creating an
anonymous signature like in graffities. http://www.konsum.net/ntracker
<Data objects> are 3dimensional objects generated of dataflow
processes between servers, users and datapackets. Machine-communication is its
rawdata. Then information of personal navigation and geografical routing of
datapackets is mapped on the coordinates of the objects as additional n information
dimension. http://www.konsum.net/vrml/topol.html
<Use navigation-objectiles>: Data is processed into navigable
virtual objects. They become "gamelevels". Then we print 3D Hardware-Tools
to have real 3D objects as navigation device. The can help you to navigate through
the virtual3D data-model. The haptics is back! Feel it with your fingertips!
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| Zagreb 26thYouth Salon 2001 |
<c'est pas mon choix!>: DJing lecture events combine and demonstrate
in a showcase the use and live sampling of the Webpage-Tools. In a lecture situation
the "mediator superfem" is presenting her autotheory (based on the
simultanously projected work). The "mutator moswitzer" is operating
the nTracker soundgeneration and navigating live through multiuser-objectiles.
Online users are triggering the in situ mix with screen-projections of machinima
films. Participant, it is not your free choice, you are tracked in our Information
Technologies Society: http://www.konsum.net/2000/live.html
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| DEAF Rotterdam 1996, Budapest Media Research Foundation
1997, ars electronica center 1998, steirischer herbst 1999 |
nTracker merges several mediaworker tactics developed over the netlife-years
on the artists digital homebase, the Konsum _Slackerserver. Konsum Slacker
Server= Art_Server: Konsum is a slacker server that refers to the independent
subversive cultural praxis of slacking. This means doing sth else than working
in your working time as political attitude.Some people were chatting or programming
software. Linux was one result of that. The Konsum server was setup as linux
server in 95. The server- and networkprotocolls were used as arts-material.
On the server itself we host an small arts-community. This is our understanding
of an artserver.
nTracker sums up principals of an programmpoietic networked art in different
processual steps exposed on the Konsum server: The projects hosted here deal
with the conceptual transfer of network processes into hedonist environments.They
are always collaborative projects: COOPerations with theorists, technologists
and artists. Therefore a CODE-critique is present in the works. Some of them
can be read as radical constructivist world builder projects. Their programm
structure is as follows:
- Starting off from machine communication and process based network protocolls.
- Analyzing its intertwinedness with the psycho-organic system-configuration
(human).
- Processing the received data in derivate applications which are again close
to the machine language.
- Transfering the machine language into an aesthetic system. Enjoying and
experiencing processed data in different formats.
- Requestioning political, economic and social implications of the surveillance
and logfile protocolls in hedonistic environments.
- Transfering parts of the questions posed in the techno-aesthetic setup into
human textual language (autotheory).
spured on Feb 2001 by Margarete Jahrmann and Max Moswitzer
mutator@konsum.net
(a mutator makes small mutations of programms)