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| + | In 1997 contemporary Russian artist, [[Alexei Shulgin]] awarded Bartolomeo Mecanico’s [[website]] on common traffic signs, the [[WWWart medal]] for “Research in Touristic [[Semiotics]]”. | ||
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| + | Bartolomeo Mecanico Presents is primarily a website dedicated to the author’s investigation into common traffic signs around the world. The Belgian author Bartolomeo Mechanico, whose real name is Luc Vanhercke, began collecting images of road signs while on a road trip through France and Spain with his wife. They observed the variations in signs depicting men at work, and started to document the differences. Mechanico’s website offers a comparative study of the inconsistencies among road signs throughout the world. The websites focuses on three different categories of; men at work, children on the road and rocking coming down, looking at examples from over 125 states and countries. Mechanico’s descriptions for each sign image offer a detailed analysis of the sign, comparing to it to similar ones found in other countries, as well as a little bit of humor. Overall the site seems to have an overwhelming nostalgia for the slow disappearance of local sign variations, as new signs become more and more alike with their use of “matchstick men” figures and similar sign shapes. Of one such [[sign]] found in Hungry, Mechanico writes, “Our latest find proves that Romania is on the wrong way alltogether. Match-stick people pop up everywhere. It's the design of Germany where with the uttermost care the last microscopic frivolity was removed.” This is in part due to the 1949 UN Convention of Road Signs and Signals, which called for a “global graphic code based around shapes.” “To Vanhercke, the process of global road sign homoginsation is nothing less that tragic.” | ||
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| + | WWWart credits net artists [[Heath Bunting]] and Vuk Cosic for finding Bartolomeo Mecanico’s website on common traffic signs of the world. The WWWart Award was developed in 1995 by Alexei Shulgin, Rachael Baker and Tania Detkina. The project worked with various net artists to honor specific websites. “The idea of the project was to award artistic recognition to web pages that were not created as intentional art works, but which conferred a definite ‘art’ feeling.” For Shulgin net.art was a way of challenging traditional notions of what art is. “In the spirit of Duchamp, these online ‘ready-mades’ raise questions about traditional definition and evaluations of art, explicitly revealing the challenge to such notions posed by the appearance of the art work on the web? | ||
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| + | http://www.telegraph.co.uk/motoring/2727496/Multilingual-motoring.html | ||
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Revision as of 12:10, 2 March 2009
Internet Art
Welcome to the Internet Art wiki. Here you can find documentation and project information from our investigations into internet and media art.
Getting started
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Artists and Projects
Marianne's Project
Lyndsay's Project
Research in Touristic Semiotics
In 1997 contemporary Russian artist, Alexei Shulgin awarded Bartolomeo Mecanico’s website on common traffic signs, the WWWart medal for “Research in Touristic Semiotics”.
Some Common Traffic Signs of the World
Bartolomeo Mecanico Presents is primarily a website dedicated to the author’s investigation into common traffic signs around the world. The Belgian author Bartolomeo Mechanico, whose real name is Luc Vanhercke, began collecting images of road signs while on a road trip through France and Spain with his wife. They observed the variations in signs depicting men at work, and started to document the differences. Mechanico’s website offers a comparative study of the inconsistencies among road signs throughout the world. The websites focuses on three different categories of; men at work, children on the road and rocking coming down, looking at examples from over 125 states and countries. Mechanico’s descriptions for each sign image offer a detailed analysis of the sign, comparing to it to similar ones found in other countries, as well as a little bit of humor. Overall the site seems to have an overwhelming nostalgia for the slow disappearance of local sign variations, as new signs become more and more alike with their use of “matchstick men” figures and similar sign shapes. Of one such sign found in Hungry, Mechanico writes, “Our latest find proves that Romania is on the wrong way alltogether. Match-stick people pop up everywhere. It's the design of Germany where with the uttermost care the last microscopic frivolity was removed.” This is in part due to the 1949 UN Convention of Road Signs and Signals, which called for a “global graphic code based around shapes.” “To Vanhercke, the process of global road sign homoginsation is nothing less that tragic.”
WWWart
WWWart credits net artists Heath Bunting and Vuk Cosic for finding Bartolomeo Mecanico’s website on common traffic signs of the world. The WWWart Award was developed in 1995 by Alexei Shulgin, Rachael Baker and Tania Detkina. The project worked with various net artists to honor specific websites. “The idea of the project was to award artistic recognition to web pages that were not created as intentional art works, but which conferred a definite ‘art’ feeling.” For Shulgin net.art was a way of challenging traditional notions of what art is. “In the spirit of Duchamp, these online ‘ready-mades’ raise questions about traditional definition and evaluations of art, explicitly revealing the challenge to such notions posed by the appearance of the art work on the web?
Sources: http://www.elve.net
http://www.easylife.org/award/
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/motoring/2727496/Multilingual-motoring.html
http://www.rhizome.org/editorial/2099
http://www.irational.org/irational/media/world_art.html
