UberBlogJect

kasimr - software body art

kasimr is written in python and uses Beej«s python flickr API (http://beej.us/flickr/flickrapi/). It collects randomly pictures from flickr and other photoblogs (ie. all digital footage with CC-license) and arrange them in 2 overlapping squares. first square adds colour and the other one subtracts it. the result will sum up in black square on white background. the visual output is exponentially growing. after few steps you«ll foresee its destiny but even after thousands of steps you will recognize slight artefacts of image distortion. Like the black square by Malevitch (1915, on of the most famous suprematist works) which was painted by hand on a rough canvas, the output of kasimr«s algorithm is conceptually never entering a finite state, leaving the ambiguity of an unfinished process open to the perceptor. the dust, oil and bumpy canvas gets literally translated into digital artefacts of collective thoughts/pictures. The output of kasimr has been tatooed beneath my right shoulder. This very first type of an Uberblogject, a "wearable" algorithmic tattoo should be considered as an abstract approach to the general problem of visualizing data. Even simpler, wearing all collected flickr photos beneath my shoulder is breezier than i thought.

"how i survived the web2.0 hype by coining a fancy term for my piece of software art

Definition Uberblogject[UBJ]: disseminating in social networks and in the internet of things in bidirectional way; has the right to exist physically; its existence is exclusively created within or by blogs, ajax apps and social software algorithms. UberBlogJects can communicate with each other in adhoc-networks, but it«s not compulsory for their survival in real world. An UBJ can reduce its meaning of existence just by the fact that it has been drafted in an collaborative process in any application virtually, although it is consequently uttering in Reality. It knows everything about its descent, its history, even its theory of evolution but is free to know nothing about its authors.