Aug
01
2007
Pieces of Art n°4 : Community Mosaics
Posted by: Fidji SIMO in Art, Innovation, Internet/Technology
In my “Pieces of art” serie, a cool trend I want to speak about: it is what I call “community art”.
Sites giving access to their API have allowed programmers to interact with their data, and with users’ pictures among other things.
It has resulted in great things in terms of artistic initiatives: you can see in this article a mosaic of my picture made with thousands of Flickr pictures thanks to the Mosaic Generator. Of couse it is too small to be seen here but you’ll see the result with your picture.
The same thing is being made through Twitter API by Twitter Mosaic, a Twitter user who convert pictures into thousands of Twitter users’ pictures. I even had the honor of having my picture used in one of his mosaics 
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[...] From the academical books I am reading about Net art, all the interest of those projects is the part of interaction with users. In this project the interaction is minimal: it is only some kind of “navigation”, as visitors don’t “add” anything to the project (text or images), unlike Mosaics or Typogenerator. However, it seems that you are really building your own garden and it manages to give the impression that interaction with the project is greater that it is, which is for me the real interest of this “game”. [...]