"Top 15 Criteria That Define Interactive or New Media Art"

Near Future Lab's Top 15 Criteria for interactive art is a rather amusing short article that highlights some of the ways you know that your art is in fact interactive. I have had experience with numbers fifteen and fourteen, "15. It doesn’t work. 14. It doesn’t work because you couldn’t get a hold of a 220-to-110 volt converter/110-to-220 volt converter/PAL-to-NTSC/NTSC-to-PAL scan converter/serial-to-usb adapter/”dongle” of any sort..and the town you’re in is simply not the kind of place that has/cares about such things."

And it seems as though there is a number seven for almost any type of art regardless of the medium, "7. Someone in your audience wearing a Crumpler bag, slinging a fancy digital SLR and/or standing with their arms folded smugly says, “Yeah..yeah, I could’ve done that too..c’mon dude..some Perlin Noise? And Processing/Ruby-on-Rails/AJAX/Blue LEDs/MaxMSP/An Infrared Camera/Lots of Free Time/etc.? Pfft..It’s so easy…”"


http://www.nearfuturelaboratory.com/2008/09/05/top-15-criteria-define-interactive-or-new-media-art/

Processing code for concentric circles using "while"

size(400,400);
smooth();
background(255);

int i = 0;
float y = 300;
float x = 300;
while(i < 150) {
ellipseMode(CENTER);
ellipse(200,200,x,y);
x = x - 30;
y = y - 30;
i = i + 15;
}

--I am currently having trouble making the interactive code work.

Nine photos stiched together

"A Short History of Looping Music"

It was interesting to learn about how people experimented with different methods of looping with recordings, such as Riley's "Time Lag Accumulator," or by actually playing a repeating pattern.

"Rules for YouTube: Make Art, Not Bore"

"Rules for YouTube" is a great article and is rather instructive. I agree that there needs be a reason for sharing the video, although the purpose of some videos can be questionable and it would probably be better if they had not been shared.

"What is Art For?"

For some reason, I was unable to access the article.

"The Way of All Flesh"

"The Way of All Flesh" is somewhat similar to the Daily Photo Project, but these still photos of the woman give the viewer more information about who she was as a person growing up, as opposed to the rather impersonal Daily Photo Project. It's fascinating to see these snapshots of her life at different time periods and see how she has changed with the various fashions.

http://tbl.squareamerica.com/archives/2007/04/the_way_of_all.html