works tagged with meme
Benetton / Fabrica : ThreatMeter (2004)
I was involved in the early stages of a collaborative web prank for art's sake, created at the Interactive Media Department of Fabrica / Benetton during after-hours. This site shows an embarrassingly ignorant company selling fake products to help American citizens participate in the nation's ne...
The color of art is #A79F94 (2009)
An average color was calculated from more than 26,000 images in the MoMA art collection. The result was this brownish gray.
How Many Paid? (2010)
A minimal meme-sized ecommerce piece meant as a commentary on micropayment, web services, self-reflexivity, and recursion.
What is Victoria's Secret? (2003)
A contagious media experiment was done between four brainstorming artistic individuals in New York City. The goal was two fold: to create an artistic expression about female identity, and to create a meme that would spread throughout the virtual and physical landscapes - pre-calculated to b...
WindowBomb (2003)
Instructions: When you download and run this program, a tiny window will pop up, shown in figure A. Find a window you hate, and drag this red bomb onto it.
The n0time Saver (2002)
A PC screen saver that communicates with other screen savers via internet, slowly building a sculptural object on the screen. Working closely with the UCLA DMA chair to adapt a concept from her original n0time installation into this new delivery format, I made a screen saver, network server, an...
BallDroppings (2003)
Balldroppings was one night of idle programming that blew up unexpectedly into a web phenomenon. I learned that simplicity is elegant, and C++ is wonderful for low-latency sound+image. I also learned about addiction and glucose metabolism rate highs. Although I do not accredit myself for having ori...
Cambridge Study Word Scrambler (2003)
One season, I was getting this ridiculous email forward about the readability of messed up words. After the 3rd time I received the forward, I decided to make an online application that would scramble peoples' text for them. The application caught a meme wave, and people started emailing me thin...