Joseph Moore

Simple Exchange allows users to exchange textual content between webpages. HTML and XML are the lingua franca of the web; they facilitate the ability to categorize enormous quantaties of information. At the same time they establish equivalences between what are often very different contents.

What part does space play in our knowledge of things? If my ability to differentiate between two objects rests on them being spatially unequal, what happens when those things move into the non-space of electronic telecommunications?

I contribute to the ShiftSpace metaweb project. ShiftSpace is an open source layer above any website. It seeks to expand the creative possibilities currently provided through the web. ShiftSpace provides tools for artists, designers, architects, activists, developers, students, researchers, and hobbyists to create online contexts built in and on top of websites. ShiftSpace was initiated by Dan Phiffer and Mushon Zer-Aviv.

While in some sense the news media has given up complete authorial control of content through “letters to the editor” and user comments, the initial framing of all content still remains under the control of large hegemonic news monopolies and the space opened up to critical contestation seems narrow at best.

Many Times is an attempt to create a small space for dialog between users on the surface of The New York Times, giving them the ability to critique content through reassembling it. Clicking on a word copies that word, clicking again in the document pastes that copied text into a new location. To save your changes for others to see, hover over the NYT logo and choose save.

Pathologies is a collection of cut up and recombined images from the Internet. Ongoing.

In Transubstantiation a user queries the Yahoo search engine with a phrase and receives a collection of images based on that query. Those results are then available for others to view and respond to. Though this process a mediated relationship between the users of search engines is foregrounded.