When We Were Kings: Wrap Up

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Big thanks to everyone that joined for When We Were Kings in NYC last week. For those who couldn’t make it, pasted below are links to all of the pieces from the show. Huge thanks to Aram for making this happen and for the great photos, video and text he contributed at http://speedshow.net/when-we-were-kings.
Photos by Aram Bartholl:


(http://when-we-were-kings.com extended desktop).

(http://untitled-nsfw.com/no/1/).
Pieces:
http://when-we-were-kings.com
http://invertedhtml.com
http://boxes-banners-skyscrapers.com
http://banners-and-skyscrapers.com
http://untitled-nsfw.com/no/1/
http://untitled-nsfw.com/no/2/
http://gpl-as-subject.com
http://alphabetical-order.net
http://hypnotized-by-puffy.com
http://domain-seizures.com
http://bad-ass-mother-fucker.net
http://www.cache-archive.com/6/may/2011
http://www.cache-archive.com/20/may/2011
http://www.cache-archive.com/11/july/2011/
http://ffffffglove.com
http://all-html.net
http://graffiti-taxonomy.com
http://url-performance.com
http://inbox-victory.com
http://cacheruleseverythingaround.me
http://howtokeepmotherfuckersfromputtingtheirseatsback.com

When We Were Kings: Solo Speed Show NYC

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New York friends:
Please join me for a one night only Speed Show exhibition, curated and hosted by Aram Bartholl. I am premiering 12 new web based pieces plus some from the archives at the 90 Bowery Internet cafe from 8 – 10 pm on Monday, July 18th. Come for a night of Internet love and new pop art.
Internet friends:
Stay tuned, I will be releasing all of these pieces online shortly after the opening.
Details as follows:
When We Were Kings
A solo SPEED SHOW of new and updated Internet based pieces by Evan Roth.
Curated and hosted by Aram Bartholl.
8:00 – 10:00 PM, July18, 2011
90 Bowery, New York, NY (map).
Description:
“When We Were Kings is a reference to an era that began with the wide-spread adoption of the Internet. It is the celebration of a time that is seemingly coming to close, when the architecture of the web treated everyday citizens the same as the kings. Intentionally scheduled back to back with an opening at the Museum of Modern Art (where Roth is showing two pieces), When We Were Kings is an experiment of Eric Raymond’s Cathedral and the Bazaar metaphor as applied to the public exhibition of art. When We Were Kings is the first solo exhibition by Evan Roth in the speed show format.”

3D HTML5 Petition For the Open Web

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I’m excited to announce the official launch of a new project I’ve been working on with Mozilla. Mark Up is an online statement of solidarity in support of a web that should remain open, free and healthy. It’s similar in concept to an online petition where everyone is invited to add their signature, name or mark. Each mark is rendered in 3D using HTML5 and connected end-to-end to form a continuous line, representing a unified global statement on the fundamental importance of an open and free internet. Add your mark and become part of the line that connects you, me, Lawrence Lessig, James Boyle and many others:
http://markup.mozilla.org

Mark Up is an open initiative with both the data and source code freely available. All of the marks are saved as .gml (Graffiti Markup Language) and can be used interchangeably with many other applications.
For any data nerds, the entire collection of marks will be made available here and updated periodically as the site grows.
Much of the credit for this project goes to Laura Mesa and many very busy Mozillians. Development for the project was done primarily by The Barbarian Group.

Copyright Violation For Freedom

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(“Let the Bullets Fly is the highest grossing domestic film in China’s cinematic history.” Wikipedia)
China’s lack of restriction over copyrighted material can be exploited to help spread outlawed content to a large online audience seeking entertainment. Youku and toudo.com are mainland China’s largest online video providers *, and are fertile soil for planting seeds of democracy in the cracks of copyright violation.
How To:
1) Download movies popular in China. Make sure they are in Mandarin, or with Chinese subtitles. If searching on Youku or Tudou, search for the Chinese title of the movie (rather than the English equivalent) and then download the video (Download Helper is a good tool). English Wikipedia entries will often include the Chinese characters of Chinese movies, people and events.
2) Download videos of issues outlawed in mainland China. A good place to find this kind of content in Mandarin is on Taiwanese news websites or on youtube by searching for a topic in Chinese (e.g., 茉莉花革命 = “jasmine revolution”).
3) Edit clips from step #2 into the clip from step #1. Keep the added content short and sporadic enough that they don’t draw too much attention away from the main attraction. I’ve been inserting about 30 seconds of political content for every 30 minutes of entertainment.
4) Upload the finished product to youku.com, toudo.com or others. Remember that all text should be in Chinese. It may be helpful to copy and paste text from existing uploads of the same the movie. Chinese video sites are more likely to remove a video for political content rather than copyright violations, so once the movie is uploaded don’t draw attention to it by linking to it.
Notes on uploading videos: To upload a video, you will need to create an account on the video hosting website. The steps are identical to all other websites (you supply an email, password and captcha code). Google translate is useful for figuring things out. Once logged in, most sites have upload arrows in the upper right-hand corner. You can upload up to 200 mb online and up to 10 gb if you download a site’s uploader application. This process seems to run smoother on Windows machines.
Example clips:

Personal Internet Cache Archive

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Personal Internet Cache Archive (November 9, 2010)
C-Print
150 x 88 cm
1 of 1
2011
Internet cache: “a mechanism for the temporary storage of web documents” (Wikipedia)
An ongoing study of archived images collected passively through my everyday Internet usage. Internet cache is visualized using off the shelf screen saver and image viewing software to produce archival prints and videos. Each print is a unique archive of cached images from a specific date.
I will be posting an ongoing series of Personal Internet Cache Archive studies on my blog over the course of the next year.
November 9, 2010 selected print details:






(For full size details go here).