Web art commissions
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Detour Commissioned by the Film & Video Umbrella in 2001. as part of their Slipstream project. Tell-Tale Signs Commissioned by the Film & Video Umbrella in 2000. as part of their the.year.dot project. ISPY2K Commissioned by The New Geography Foundation in 1999. Colour-Color Commissioned by the Institute of Contemporary Arts, London in 1999as part of theoir Curatour series. |
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DETOUR is part of Slipstream, a series of small-scale digital art works
designed to appear as interventions on
participating sites on the Internet.
Between December 2000 and June 2001, Jake
Tilson nested a series of files on the site of the
music and multimedia label Real World. These
files consisted of sounds recorded in twenty-five
hotel rooms in different locations around
the world. Accompanied by still images from
the same locations. DETOUR echoed the world
music ethos of the host site with an array of
sonic material, which highlighted the spirit of
local within the global.
LINK to the DETOUR website |
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TELL-TALE SIGNS is part of
the.year.dot which features six specially -
commissioned artists’ works inspired by a set
of random search results culled from the world
wide web and based on words in the Book of
Revelations. TELL-TALE SIGNS takes the text search results and re discovers them elsewhere in the world - as a series of shop fascias whose signage panels use phrases that occur in the found text There were approximately 127 individual words and 127 double words to work with. The double-word phrases use the original “Revelation” word and the “search result” word: an example is “deathLogin” The task was to find these words and phrases as names of retail businesses and to photograph the results. |
Creative Review magazine. Tilson made a cut-down version of the project for use on Creative Reviews’ first DVD – called Fun With Type. LINK to the TELL-TALE SIGNS website |
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ISPY2K Commissioned by The New Geography Foundation in 1999. As part of the New Geography Federations’ Millennium Shift project Tilson was commissioned to produce a web work to reflect the possible outcome of the Millennium Bug. Alongside texts and images the main work was an online map. During the final months of 1999, boosted by various press reviews, ISPY2K was getting 26,000 hits a week. |
The online map was constructed with images from twenty-five countries across five continents.
When you visited a map online the webpage collected each countries’ image directly from a computer in that country.
If every computer were working it would send back an image to the webpage you were looking at. If there was a system or power
failure in one of the countries a “broken” image icon would be displayed in that country on the map – showing
a potential “bug”. Watch as the terminator line crosses the globe on December 31st 1999.
LINK TO AN ARCHIVED VERSION OF THE WEBSITE |
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Colour-Color Commissioned by the Institute of Contemporary Arts, London in 1999 as part of theoir Curatour series. Curatour explores ideas and themes across web sites. Each Curatour explores a different theme and is curated by a specialist within the field. For two decades artist Jake Tilson has been fascinated with the technical and technological aspects of artistic production. His work utilises colour photocopying, computer manipulation, and the internet. His own experimental web site, TheCooker, and the site he designs for The Ruskin School of Drawing and Fine Art have both received critical acclaim for innovation and design on the Net. |
As the title Colour-color suggests, Tilson's Curatour II focuses upon the use of colour on the internet from symbolism and theoretical issues to the effects it creates. This specially designed Web site looks at Tilson's own work, and the progression and history of the internet and the use of colour. The site maps Jake Tilson's own on going fascination with the development and limitations of internet technology, using mixture of graphic design, links, quotes, hypertext and history -from grey screens to 256 and beyond. | 
LINK TO AN ARCHIVED VERSION OF THE Colour-Color WEBSITE |
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