Information
Corby & Baily & Mackenzie >
»Reconnoitre«, 2006 - 2006
Co-Workers & Funding:
corby & bailyhttp://www.reconnoitre.net/recon/rec.html
Technology
Software
Open GL application written in C++, that combines an interactive 3D virtual environment, a dynamic behavioral modeland a Web Spider search agent.
Descriptions & Essays
Reconnoitre is part of an ongoing series of works concerned with our experience of the network as a bizarre_scape; an environment with a high metabolism whose boundaries are continuously re-shaped; accreting and thickening under the influence of powerful social and commercial forces.
While Reconnoitre can be considered as a browser in that it allows the user to search for and access web sites, it is less concerned with the coherent display of information as with representing browsing as a behavioural activity
Felix Bathon 25-08-2015
"Cyclone.soc brings together two contemporary phenomena:
Severe weather, the project uses weather data that charts the emergence and progress of hurricanes.
The polarized nature of debate that occurs in certain online newsgroup forums.
The project maps textual conversation taken from the political and religious newsgroups to the isobars of a dynamic, interactive weather visualization of hurricanes - whose complex structures are used to visualize the conversational churn and eddies of the newsgroup conversations.
In staging these interactions as a process of meteorological precipitation, newsgroup conversations "condense" in the works environment as a temporal ambient patterning - a structuring that acts not only as a metonym of difference, but of ideological tensions which mirror the dynamics of social space.
Cyclone.soc is a navigable environment that gives the user the ability to zoom in or out and skate across and through the cyclonic weather formations in order to read or be immersed in the newsgroup text." [Corby & Baily http://www.reconnoitre.net/cyclone/index.php 25.08.2015]
Felix Bathon: Reconnoitre, 25-08-2015, in: Archive of Digital Art "Cyclone.soc brings together two contemporary phenomena:
Severe weather, the project uses weather data that charts the emergence and progress of hurricanes.
The polarized nature of debate that occurs in certain online newsgroup forums.
The project maps textual conversation taken from the political and religious newsgroups to the isobars of a dynamic, interactive weather visualization of hurricanes - whose complex structures are used to visualize the conversational churn and eddies of the newsgroup conversations.
In staging these interactions as a process of meteorological precipitation, newsgroup conversations "condense" in the works environment as a temporal ambient patterning - a structuring that acts not only as a metonym of difference, but of ideological tensions which mirror the dynamics of social space.
Cyclone.soc is a navigable environment that gives the user the ability to zoom in or out and skate across and through the cyclonic weather formations in order to read or be immersed in the newsgroup text." [Corby & Baily http://www.reconnoitre.net/cyclone/index.php 25.08.2015]
Literature
Ludovico, Alessandro. »New Zealand Report.« Neural.it 32 (Spring 2009).
Corby, Tom. »Landscape of Feeling, Arenas of Action: Information Visualization
as Art Practice.« Leonardo 41, no. 5 (October 2008): 460-467.
Corby, Tom and Gavin Baily. »Extra-Ordinary Practices.« In Extra-Ordinary Practices: A Retrospective of British Media Art, edited by , 53-64. Dresden: 2006.
Baumgärtel, Tilman. »Media Online.« In Art Meets Media: Adventures in Perception, edited by , 138ff. Tokyo: NTT Publishing Co., 2005.
Corby, Tom, ed. Network Art: Practices and Positions. London: Routledge, 1990.
Exhibitions & Events