Do you have a nerdish interest in colour and $30 to spend on a made-in-California-new-media t-shirt? Joester is helping to promote the online conference 080808 and so are we.
As you may know, BCNM and Greg Niemeyer have been running the algorithmically timed 0n0n0n conference series since 01/01/01.
This time round we are stripping everything away from the conference except an online discussion...and the conference T-Shirt.
The conference theme for 080808 is Digital Color: Something from Something or Nothing. This refers to the standard digital format of 24-bit color. Each one of 24 bits (0 or 1) describes how computers should mix light to achieve a specific color. We will focus in on this process with our website, which allows you to change individual bits of the color format to see colors change. When you register (fee $30.00), you can reserve a bit, set the bit to either 0 or 1, and then explain your choice. You can also review other participant's explanations of their choices. This, we hope, will produce a conversation online about color, something and nothingness. It will also determine a palette of four colors which will define the custom-designed and custom sewn conference t-shirt (hence the fee). The conference t-shirt will be shipped to all participants after the conference closes.
Visit: http://studio.berkeley.edu/080808
It would be great to see your comments up there, and you will get a unique T-Shirt from the process.
The conference ends on Friday August 8 at 8 PM.
UPDATE: conference has been extended to 08/23/08
(the competition for who gets to control the shirt colour is heating up)
The t-shirt has the URL to net web art 2.0 printed on the back. (though I hear tell that at least one Canadian institution has been working on a program to help Canadian artists find it, I am so applying for that!)
AUGH! you is LOL-ing me big time.
I just signed on to 080808 and it's très fun. I think the t-shirt might end up looking pretty nasty though. RGB =/= CMYK.*
*Apparently there is no 'does not equal' sign in html. Too much diagonal I guess, dangnabbit. Wait a minute that makes no sense...what about / for goodness sake? WTF? I bet those fancy-pants mathematicians have a work-around, or their own secret html that they don't share with regular folks.
That secret HTML is Javascript. The not equal operator is !==
you don't have to buy a bit to mess with the colours. Check it out here.
java ...arrrr.
script javascript. different animal. Java's not equal is !=
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Do you have a nerdish interest in colour and $30 to spend on a made-in-California-new-media t-shirt? Joester is helping to promote the online conference 080808 and so are we.
- sally mckay 8-08-2008 3:05 am
The t-shirt has the URL to
netweb art 2.0 printed on the back. (though I hear tell that at least one Canadian institution has been working on a program to help Canadian artists find it, I am so applying for that!)- L.M. 8-08-2008 3:22 am
AUGH! you is LOL-ing me big time.
I just signed on to 080808 and it's très fun. I think the t-shirt might end up looking pretty nasty though. RGB =/= CMYK.*
*Apparently there is no 'does not equal' sign in html. Too much diagonal I guess, dangnabbit. Wait a minute that makes no sense...what about / for goodness sake? WTF? I bet those fancy-pants mathematicians have a work-around, or their own secret html that they don't share with regular folks.
- sally mckay 8-08-2008 4:15 am
That secret HTML is Javascript. The not equal operator is !==
- joester (guest) 8-08-2008 5:54 am
you don't have to buy a bit to mess with the colours. Check it out here.
- sally mckay 8-08-2008 5:56 am
java ...arrrr.
- sally mckay 8-08-2008 5:58 am
script javascript. different animal. Java's not equal is !=
- joester (guest) 8-08-2008 7:26 am