Rob Myers

name Rob Myers

email rob@robmyers.org

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Bio

I am an artist, writer and hacker based in Vancouver, Canada. My art comes from remix, hacking, and mass culture traditions, and has involved increasing amounts of computer code over time.

During the 1990s I was an art student, then an art & technology student, then an art & technology lecturer, then a serial art and technology startup worker. In the 2000s I programmed games, prepress software and more and became involved in Free Software and Free Culture. I am on lots of mailing lists and at lots of conferences covering these subjects.

I have been a reviewer for Furtherfield since 2006. I review computer art, net.art, and relevant books, trying to bring a historical context and a sympathetic eye to them. If you'd like me to review something then do get in touch (although I can't promise to review everything). And if you'd like to discuss anything I've reviewed then one of the mailing lists I'm on is netbehaviour...

Since 2012 I am also a member of Furtherfield's advisory board.

Projects

Baldessarinator

[Original image by Tommerton2010 CC-BY]

A script in the Python programming language that modifies images to make them resemble part of an ouvre.

You'll need opencv-python installed for this. PIL should already be installed on any modern OS.

Urinal

I commissioned the ultra-talented cwebber to make a 3D model of a urinal suitable for 3D printing and signing. It's licenced under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 3.0 Unported licence. You can download the original Blender file versions suitable for 3D printing here: here.

You can also download them from Thingiverse here.

Featured in: Disrupting the Continuum

The Cybernetic Artworld

A microblogging simulation of precisely how the artworld doesn't work.

More information here.

Source code here.

Articles/Reviews/Interviews

Accelerationist Art

Despite its image of rapid technological change, progress under capitalism has stalled. Spinning ever faster is not the same as going somewhere. Contemporary Accelerationism wants to take off the brakes, and it is enlisting art's help to do so. Rob Myers attempts to speed up understanding of what Accelerationist art is and where it maybe heading.

By Rob Myers - 07/04/2016

Plantoid: the blockchain-based art that makes itself

Rob Myers reviews Okhaos' "Plantoid" (2015), art that makes itself - with a little help from the blockchain and human artists.

By Rob Myers - 26/10/2015

Crypto 2.0 and DAWCs.

The Anarcho-Capitalist future utopia of post-Bitcoin Crypto 2.0 systems meet the historical organizational forms of Socialism. Rob Myers brings the trustless code of Decentralized Autonomous Organizations into contrast with the very human activity of Workers' Councils.

By Rob Myers - 14/10/2015

Mainframe Experimentalism

Remembering the heroic age of arts computing is often a family affair in Hannah B Higgins and Douglas Kahn's book Mainframe Experimentalism, which leads Rob Myers to ask just how much the rest of us can come to love this neglected but key moment in art digital history.

By Rob Myers - 24/03/2015

Art For Algorithms

Rob Myers takes a look at how we can subvert the operation of the algorithms that the Digital Humanities, corporations and governments use to read, see, and draw conclusions about human expression by treating them as the true audience for contemporary art and literature.

By Rob Myers - 05/02/2015

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Critical Gaming

An area of videogame production, engagement and discourse that is reflexive and critical. This is generally a subset of independent gaming, although not exclusively. Independent gaming is usually...

By Corrado Morgana on 19 Nov 2006 - 1:00am

Create, Remix, Play.

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