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Golan Levin: Axis, 2002

Comment by Scott Snibbe:
Your piece is very entertaining. It seems that the ties that bind axes of evil are very loose indeed. My axis of Germany, France and Spain was held together by Olympic judo Silver medal winners. Your code was very elegant -- searching through the code, there are no drawing routines that create the countries or axes. All of the connection is made through palette manipulation of a single image. I think this adds a nice layer of commentary onto the piece -- these labels we ...more



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Comment by Scott Snibbe:
Your piece is very entertaining. It seems that the ties that bind axes of evil are very loose indeed. My axis of Germany, France and Spain was held together by Olympic judo Silver medal winners. Your code was very elegant -- searching through the code, there are no drawing routines that create the countries or axes. All of the connection is made through palette manipulation of a single image. I think this adds a nice layer of commentary onto the piece -- these labels we place on countries have nothing to do with their intrinsic nature, but are merely our minds imposing an imaginary order (in this case conspiracy) onto the planet.

Technology: Java Applet

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Commissioned by the Whitney Museum

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Keywords:
  • genre
    • Net Art
  • subject
    • ART AND SCIENCE
      • code
      • combinatorics
      • database
      • space
    • HISTORY AND MEMORY
      • tradition
    • POWER AND POLITICS
      • politics
  • Technology
    • Software
      • Java


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Video duration: 1:39 min.
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Comment by Martin Wattenberg: "This witty and interesting piece is impressive on many levels. It represents a creative interpretation of the assignment and shows the highest level of craftsmanship. (Witness the amount of code devoted to ensuring flowing syntax in the labels.) It is also suited to a shared-source project, since the program itself holds surprises. Skimming the code, you may at first think the "world.gif" image is simply the map in the applet's background--but it's something more."
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Golan Levin, Axis Applet, 2002
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Golan Levin, Axis Applet, 2002
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