Wayne Clements
Wayne Clements (UK) is a visual artist and a writer living in London. He is currently Visiting Research Fellow at Chelsea College of Art and Design. He completed a practice-based Ph.D. degree in Fine Art at Chelsea College of Art and Design (2005). He researched the use of rules and instructions when applied to text. His poetry, prose and visual work are published in a number of magazines and books, and his sound work (sound poetry) is included in the book and CD Homo Sonorus: An International Anthology of Sound Poetry, Moscow (2001). His artworks are included on the http://www.rhizome.org/ and http://www.runme.org/, repositories of online art, and are also shown in many festivals and exhibitions of electronic art. un_wiki (2006) received the Award of Distinction, Net Vision, Prix Ars Electronica (2006), and was shown in Connecting Worlds, ICC Gallery Tokyo (2006), in a specially commissioned Japanese language version. Wayne has lectured, made presentations, and published articles on aspects of visual art and the history of new media.
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logo_wiki (2007)
logo_wiki identifies military, corporate, and governmental editors of Wikipedia (‘the Free Encyclopedia’). It does this by tracing back the editor’s IP address. logo_wiki shows recently edited ‘diffs’ pages (with changes highlighted) and shows who the shadowy editor is. logo_wiki does this by replacing the Wikipedia logo with the editor’s logo. Military, corporate and governmental users are responsible for many thousands of unacknowledged alterations to Wikipedia pages. logo_wiki reveals this process occurring in real time.
http://www.in-vacua.com/logo_wiki.html
The Best and Worst of Possible Worlds (2009)
Based on a 1982 text by leading British Cyberneticist Gordon Pask, The Best and Worst of Possible Worlds imagines a future in which 'information, communication and control systems dominate dominate'. This is a world in which commuting is already a thing of the past, in which class distinctions have been abolished, and where education now teaches 'social skills, maturity and general demeanour'. Also it is a world where many people are recluses and only communicate electronically. Pask's world represents the hopes and fears of a future world that has both already happened and never will...
http://www.in-vacua.com/the_best_and_worst_of_possible_worlds.wmv