mosca

inception: 2002

Description

Mosca is an artistic homage to Walter Marchetti of Zaj. Marchetti created a work called "of a fly on window between 8 am and 7 pm one day in May, 1967," wherein he plotted the movements of a fly on a window between 8 am and 7 pm. Our work applies his idea to the web in a way that the flies are individual actors independently moving around on the screen under their own (random) will. The user, with a web-reflex of trying to interact with the moving flies, finds his way to the only link on the page. After clicking this link, the user is presented with a summary of his movements as he "interacted" with the flies, effectively converting the user into a fly himself.

attributed to: Mashica

inception: 15 February 2003

Legacy descriptive tags

Walter Marchetti, Zaj, Los movimientos de una mosca sobre el cristal de u

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historical, Generative, Conceptual, Anti-art, Abstract, robot, postmodern, interact, game, design, artificial life, Animation, Javascript, HTML, DHTML, performance

Attribution: Rhizome staff

Metadata

Descriptive Data

artist: Mashica

title: mosca

inception: 2002

Variant History

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not active since: 8 May 2013

access URL: http://mosca.mashica.com/

inception: 2002

associated with: Mashica