Geoff Cox
Geoff Cox (UK/DK) is a researcher in digital aesthetics at Aarhus University, Associate Curator of Online Projects at Arnolfini, Bristol, and adjunct faculty at Transart Institute. He is also Reader in Art and Technology at the University of Plymouth, where he is part of the KURATOR/Art and Social Technologies research group.
http://www.anti-thesis.net
antisocial notworking (2008)
curated by Geoff Cox for Arnolfini, UK
antisocial notworking is an online repository of projects that explore the pseudo-agency of online social platforms. It takes a number of recent software projects as its inspiration to reflect upon the fashion for 'participation' within the arts sector and culture in general. The concern is how the Internet is increasingly characterised as a 'platform' (or collective machine) for 'social' uses, but to question what is meant by the terms in such descriptions. Although social networking platforms rely on user-generated content, what is the nature of this participation? What alternatives (or antitheses) can be identified? For After the Net, antisocial notworking features a selection of installations: logo_wiki, Wayne Clements (2007); Participation 0.0 - Part I, Linda Hilfling (2007); www_hack, Rui Guerra (2008).
http://project.arnolfini.org.uk/antisocial/
Hello World! (2008)
in collaboration with Duncan Shingleton
A 'Hello World' program is usually the first computer program that people use when learning a programming language. It simply prints 'Hello World!' on a display device and is typically one of the simplest programs possible in any computer language. It combines both human and machine languages in real-time into a multilingual machinic confusion of tongues. The live-performative aspect is what makes it like speech in that it both says something and does something at the same time. Indeed, this is political in as much as it relates to the act of free speaking. First shown as a projection entitled ‘Hallo Welt’ at BV Gallery, Linz, July 2008.
http://www.anti-thesis.net/contents/projects/hello/helloworld.html
