generation/mutation Limited Edition PDF: Pre-release Ch.1 – Crowds

Holger H-Ray Heine

Launched on digitalsouls.com in the early days of the Internet, before Google or Facebook or iPhones, generation/mutation explores the new possibilities of collaborative art production and distribution afforded by the evolution of digital technologies.

During its first two years, the project’s online exhibition attracted more than 2.5 million visitors and has remained one of the most iconic collaborative new media artworks online.

In this rare pre-release copy of chapter 1: crowds, Heine tells the story of generation/mutation as one of the first fully crowdsourced and collaborative online new media art projects and its connection to milestones in the history of digital media software and network technologies from Tim Berners-Lee and his World Wide Web to Netscape’s Communicator Suite and Adobe’s release of Photoshop 5.0, code-named “Strange Cargo”

 

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Pages	21

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