Friday, December 16, 2005

Recent Review of Diary of a Star in Artkrush:

Sound Blog by Soyoung Park, Diary of a Star by Eduardo Navas, and Data Diaries by Cory Arcangel
Rhizome.org

Since 1996, Rhizome.org has been the premier website for innovative web-art projects by international artists. Rhizome boasts 1,500 projects, an archive of 2,500 articles, two regular email publications, online exhibitions, and shows at the New Museum of Contemporary Art, which formed an affiliation with the site in 2003. More than just a weblog on new media art, Rhizome hosts several projects in its online archive, the ArtBase, that comment on the prevalence of web diaries and blogs. Soyoung Park's Sound Blog presents letters to an imaginary lover with ambient sounds recorded from her daily life. Diary of a Star by Eduardo Navas appropriates selections from The Andy Warhol Diaries — weaving the pop artist's entries into a blog format and adding commentary based on information gathered while looking for links. Cory Arcangel's Data Diaries offers a month's worth of hard-drive data run through a QuickTime software program designed for media authoring. The results are chaotic, pixelated videos that delight the eye as much as they rile the ear. (PL)