Naked on Pluto entered the world of contemporary art last week as part of the VIDA/telefonica exhibit at the ARCO 2012 art fair in Madrid. This was the culmination of a lot of work making the game into an installation format, which represented the library as the centre of control and surveillance in Elastic Versailles. The installation consists of books printed from information stored in the game archives over the previous year, slogans and glowing LED books on the walls. We also had terminals running the game with the projection of the live game world in a circle in the middle of the space.
Archive for the ‘contextual’ Category
Report from ARCO 2012 Madrid
Monday, February 20th, 2012
Our Life online – Workshop+debate – 24 February 2012 at CCCB
Friday, February 17th, 2012The first session of I+C+i 2012 carries out a critical explanation of software policies, the notion of identity on the social networks and the impact of simulation caused by new artificial life applications. A workshop taught by Naked on Pluto, winners of the VIDA 13.2 prize and Gerald Kogler, and a discussion with the participation of experts such as Jussi Parikka, Pau Waelder, Aymeric Mansoux, and Mónica Bello, promise an intense day of action and reflection on lesser known aspects of our life on the web.
Session organised in collaboration with Fundación Telefónica.
Resuming work on the installation
Friday, January 20th, 2012And another secret preview. We’ll explain what’s in the books soon.
Naked on Pluto at Pixelache Pixelversity
Tuesday, November 8th, 2011
Dave will be presenting the story of Naked on Pluto on Wednesday the 9th November at Pixelache Helsinki. From it’s original inspirations, how we present issues of privacy via a game and some of the technical details behind it’s implementation. This talk will begin Pixelversity’s theme of ‘Social Identity, Augmented Reality & Virtuality’ initiated by Owen Kelly, which will explore digital tools, interfaces between public / private, personal / social & real / virtual. Pixelversity is the outreach & education programme of Pixelache Helsinki. Location: Cable Factory, Tallberginkatu 1 C 15 (Ruoholahti Metro) . More info here.
Naked on Pluto wins VIDA 13.2
Wednesday, October 26th, 2011
via Fundación Telefónica.
The VIDA Awards were created by Fundación Telefónica in 1999 to promote artistic creation based on new technologies and artificial life. A total of 198 projects from 36 countries entered into contest in this edition
The works will be showcased at Fundación Telefónica’s stand in ARCO 2012
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Plutonian Times Research
Monday, July 4th, 2011Elastic Versailles is in desperate need of a newspaper. The days where you’d actually have to travel to Pluto to get a glimpse of the wholesome and glamorous life within the walls of Elastic Versailles are almost over. We are training a group of reporter bots to do live reports from Pluto and we’re mere days away from the launch of the official, state controlled newspaper ‘Naked on Pluto’.
In search of inspiration Elastic Versailles’ News Agency has been looking at other independent, state controlled newspapers and broadcasters. Is there a common style?
The Voice of Korea sports a blue-skies-all-is-well design and writing style, as demonstrated in the article “Pigeon-Raisers Family” enjoys an optimistic life”
Various entertainments and optimistic life of Kim Yong Gun’s family were an epitome of the rich feelings of the Korean people who always live an optimistic life with confidence in their future.
Plutonian Striptease lectures at LiWoLi 2011
Wednesday, April 27th, 2011
Art Meets Radical Openness: Liwoli 2011
Guests Friday 13 May
Marloes de Valk - http://naked-on-pluto.net and http://pluto.kuri.mu
Owen Mundy - http://givememydata.com/
Dusan Barok – http://www.faceleaks.info/
Guests Saturday 14 May
Nicolas Malevé – http://yoogle.be/spip.php?page=start_yoogle
Margaritha Köhl – http://www.univie.ac.at/publizistik/Koehl.htm
Pippa Buchanan (Mozilla Webcraft) – http://p2pu.org/webcraft
Birgit Bachler – http://www.birgitbachler.com
‘Plutonian Striptease’ is a 2 evening lecture series, filled with short 30 minute lectures on social media, online privacy, the data market and the economy of open systems.
We all share a lot of information with others online. Not only voluntarily and consciously via public parts of social media, but also unknowingly, by searching, purchasing, browsing… And on top of that, non-public parts of the web are being scraped to complete the already very detailed profiles data brokers and listening companies have on us. (more…)
BoF + Constant + NoP Public Lecture at Piet Zwart Institute
Monday, March 14th, 2011
Public Lecture: Joris van Hoboken, Nicolas Malevé and Aymeric Mansoux
Date: Wednesday, 16/03/2011
Time: doors open at 18:45, lecture begins at 19:00
Location: Mauritsstraat 36, Rotterdam
Entrance free
streamed at: http://pzwart3.wdka.hro.nl/pzwart_video.html
Bringing together artists, programmers and theorists, Sniff, Scrape, Crawl… is a series of lectures examining the porous borders of privacy in the digital age. Previous public events in this series have touched upon a wide rage of topics such as surveillance, data-mining, the function and limits of anonymity, and the profound influence of network architecture on social, political and legal issues.
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Mozilla Game On and the Open Web mystery
Thursday, February 3rd, 2011
“Game On 2010 is Mozilla Labs’ first international gaming competition. Game On is all about games built, delivered and played on the open Web and the browser.”
That sounds good, he? That’s what we thought too, and the reason why we submitted Naked on Pluto to the competition. Our game is entirely free software, developed with free software, makes use of the latest open standards but most importantly tries to look from a critical angle to the open Web and its glossy origin, Web 2.0. We did not enter to win (it would be nice of course!) but to have the opportunity to get feedback on our work from an interested audience and experts of the field.
So we thought.
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Facebook mis à nu
Saturday, January 29th, 2011
The French paper ‘Liberation’ has published an article on Naked on Pluto in it’s weekend edition of 16 and 17 Januari 2011. In the paper version the game is immersively called Naked in Pluto. Here’s a translation (French version below)!
Facebook undressed
The text game “Naked on Pluto” turns personal data into an interactive adventure on social networks.
By: MARIE LECHNER (translation: Marloes de Valk)
Naked as a jaybird you arrive on Pluto, the city of a thousand pleasures, the Las Vegas of the solar system, under the command of Elastic Versailles, a corrupted artificial intelligence. Naked on Pluto is a text based adventure on Facebook, which integrates a player’s personal data and that of his “friends” as elements in this thrilling interactive fiction. (more…)