Cyclescope
Participatory net.art project
CycleScope allows people to investigate the associated link between a word and an image. Together, you are invited to contribute to a word/image data base, where a word & image become a literary creation.
CycleScope, a web-based gadget, is a mechanism that help you match a word of your choice with a selection of images that have been previously uploaded to match this word. Select one or add your own. Your choice becomes a CycleScope, a kaleidoscopic entity that is saved on our gallery for others to see.
Success in the digital age means having the power to propagate. In other words, becomes a meme.
The term meme was coined by the biologist Richard Dawkins in his book, “The selfish gene”, (1976) to explain the movement of ideas and the formation of culture through the metaphor of biological processes.
CycleScope, a web-based gadget, is a mechanism that help you match a word of your choice with a selection of images that have been previously uploaded to match this word. Select one or add your own. Your choice becomes a CycleScope, a kaleidoscopic entity that is saved on our gallery for others to see.
Success in the digital age means having the power to propagate. In other words, becomes a meme.
The term meme was coined by the biologist Richard Dawkins in his book, “The selfish gene”, (1976) to explain the movement of ideas and the formation of culture through the metaphor of biological processes.
“The Ouroboros is an ancient symbol depicting a serpent or dragon swallowing its own tail and forming a circle. The Ouroboros often represents self-reflexivity or cyclicality, especially in the sense of something constantly re-creating itself…”
The Uroboros that swallows its own tail inspires the CycleScope project. As we are swamped by couples of image and words created by search engines one may offer a relief by allowing us to control the flow. Let us reclaim the word and image association by propagating our own associations. Let us detach from machine fabricated realities by slowly tailoring a group view of visual perceptions. Are we swallowing our own tail – reusing the same material that overflows to create even more noise?
'CycleScope allow people to investigate the associated link between a word and an image. Together, you are invited to contribute to a local data base, where a word & image become a literary creation.
CycleScope, a web based gadget, is a mechanism that help you match a word of your choice with a selection of images that have been previously uploaded to match this word. Select one or add your own. Your choice becomes a CycleScope, a kaleidoscopic entity formed on the site and kept on the gallery for others to see and use.
Successful matches will appear frequently on the gallery, indicating their appeal to sites’ visitors. One can buy a redrawn version of a CycleScope printed on a T-shirt or a button via the gallery.
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