Art-ID/Cyb-ID

Art-Id/Cyb-Id: Identities in CiberSpace
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The project, based in cyberspace, enables new cybernetic identities, known as cyb-ids, to emerge and flourish as the result of viewer interaction at the public interface. Cyb-ids are multimedia clusters drawn from the identity profiles of invited artists. The artists invited to contribute to the project are dispersed across the world and represent leading edge practice in the interactive art field. Each artist's identity profile, known as an art-id, comprises a concise multimedia ensemble by which they have chosen to represent their individual artwork and mind-set. By relating multimedia images to selected keywords within an online matrix, a cogent overview of the context and content of their work is provided for the viewer. The art-id is a kind of holographic fragment of the artist's creative mind.
Cyb-ids constitute clusters of associative links which have been discovered by user interaction to exist between the multimedia elements in the artists' art-ids. By clustering groups of associative elements drawn from art-ids in this way, cyb-ids emerge as new artistic identities in cyberspace. As the user seeks even further for associative links between art-ids and the evolving cyb-ids, wholly unexpected combinations of images, sounds and texts are created. The project starts with a limited number of invited art-ids but, as more and more cyb-ids emerge, the system becomes a
rich complexity of hybrid multimedia connections, semantic associations and
unforeseen mind-shifts. This is not only mind-at-large but mind enlarged and as such contributes to our evolving technoetic culture.
"art-id/cyb-id: identities in cyberspace" is a development of the initial "Identity in Cyberspace" project, created online by the artists in 1996 with funding from the CEC in Brussels.. It is part of an ongoing investigation into the collaborative and creative potential of the Net as a universe in which minds can float freely in search of new conceptual spaces and of open-ended creative connectivity.
The interface is designed to enable the user easily to become familiar with the artistic identity of numerous cutting-edge artists worldwide while participating in the emergence of new associative structures and cyberidentities.

http://www.mind-shift.net