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This is Rhizome Today for Tuesday, November 4, 2014.
Rhizome Today is an experiment in ephemeral blogging: a series of posts that are written hastily in response to current events, and taken offline within a day or so. The latest post can always be found at rhizome.org/today.
For the past few weeks, I have been reading about and traawling through the surf club Nasty Nets for an upcoming piece. Nasty Nets was archived by former Rhizome conservator Ben Fino-Radin, although some users removed their content before it came into the archive. It was later hacked by the Omani Ghost Hackers, and can now only be found on Rhizome and the Internet Archive.
As surf clubs--collaborative, artist-run blogs--existed when social media was in its infancy, it has been refreshing to see the arrangement of shared content as an artistic paradigm before the practice became codified by Facebook, Twitter, etc. since, admittedly, my experience of internet art has been largely predicated by these platforms.
Though I have been sharing a few of the images from Nasty Nets on Rhizome's tumblr, I thought I would collect a few of my favorite posts here in light of Ed Halter's
Artforum feature on artist Guthrie Lonergan, which made mention of the surf club. I would also love to see any readers' favorites, and also hear about their experiences/memories of the blog.
Marisa Olson's Let's Be Knotty
http://archive.rhizome.org/artbase/53981/nastynets.com/indexb4ec.html?p=679
Marisa Olson's Computer Vision Show
http://archive.rhizome.org/artbase/53981/nastynets.com/index57e7.html?p=356
Tom Moody Demon Babies
http://archive.rhizome.org/artbase/53981/nastynets.com/index9f11.html?m=201007
Peter Baldes'404 pages
http://archive.rhizome.org/artbase/53981/nastynets.com/indexa028.html?p=1210
Pascual Sisto's Babel
http://archive.rhizome.org/artbase/53981/nastynets.com/indexa6f0.html?p=1812
Guthrie Lonegran's find Excuuuuuuse Me Princesss
http://archive.rhizome.org/artbase/53981/nastynets.com/index0eba.html?p=208
John Michael Boling's One Million Comment Blog Post
http://archive.rhizome.org/artbase/53981/nastynets.com/index3f0e.html?p=2302
Joel Holmberg's It's Great I Love It
http://archive.rhizome.org/artbase/53981/nastynets.com/index6f61.html?p=2010
I enjoyed going through the comments for Chris Coy's X
http://archive.rhizome.org/artbase/53981/nastynets.com/index8951.html?p=1775
[ZK — I appreciated Nasty Nets getting OWoNeD by the Omani Ghost Hackers overall, but the score, still broadcasting at nastynets.com, is the best part. I'll listen to it occasionally during the 10-6 grind — it's legitimately empowering.]
Mink Chrome Plugin
As well as the removal of content, one of the obstacles with doing research on Nasty Nets has been how linked pages have been updated. For example, when the image source for the first post “ssssstttttttttrrrrrrrrrreeeeeeeeettttttttccccccchhhhhhhh” was removed, Moody posted this http://archive.rhizome.org/artbase/53981/nastynets.com/index5d04.html?p=1914
Dragan recommended using Mink, a Chrome plug-in developed by digital archivist Mat Kelly, which integrates archived webpages while browsing. Though the removal of some YouTube videos have made some pieces irretrievable, users are able to experience Nasty Nets posts such as Joel Holmberg's Browser Score #1 as they were originally posted with the plugin. Mink also allows uses to archive webpages immediately to be hosted on Internet Archive.
https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/mink/jemoalkmipibchioofomhkgimhofbbem/related
Joel Holmberg's Browser Score #1
http://archive.rhizome.org/artbase/53981/nastynets.com/index9d4a.html?p=2801