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TAGallery 006_I tag you tag me_retagged TAGallery by CONT3XT.NET extends the idea of a tagged exhibition and transfers the main tasks of noncommercial exhibition spaces to the discourse of an electronic data-space. The method of tagging allows the attribution of artworks to different thematic fields. EXHIBITION_006 with the title "I tag you tag me: a folksonomy of Internet art" was initiated by Luis Silva and tagged/curated by many unknown taggers. The list of artists contributing to the show can be extended at the original account at http://del.icio.us/I_tag_you_tag_me (Username: I_tag_you_tag_me, Password: ole166). Exhibition at TAGallery http://del.icio.us/TAGallery/EXHIBITION_I.tag_you Statement http://del.icio.us/TAGallery/STATEMENTS_I.tag_you Initiator/curator http://del.icio.us/TAGallery/TAGGER_I.tag_you Browsing by 6pli (Santiago Ortiz) http://del.icio.us/TAGallery/VISUALIZE_I.tag_you With works by 53os, _____ING, Agnes de Cayeux, Alan Bigelow, Alexander Mouton, Anders Weberg, Ben Rubin, Brian Caiazza, Carlos Katastrofsky, Chiara Passa, Chih Min, Christiaan Cruz, Chromakey, Cici Moss, Concept Trucking, G. H. Hovagimyan, Garrett Lynch, J. R. Carpenter, James Whipple, Jimpunk, John Freyer, John Michael Boling, Josh On, Kenneth Tin-Kin Hung, La Molleindustria, LeisureArts, Les Liens Invisibles, Lev Manovich, Marc Kremers, Marek Walczak, Mario Klingemann, Mark Hansen, Mark Napier, Martha L. Deed, Martin Wattenberg, Mary-Anne Breeze, Millie Niss, Mouchette, Nano Corporation, Oleg Marakov, Olia Lialina, Patricia Gouveia, Peter Sinclair, Regina Célia Pinto, Ricardo Miranda Zuñiga, Santiago Ortiz, Stewart Smith, Yael Kanarek, Y0UNG-HAE CHANG HEAVY INDUSTRIES and many artists more who are not yet tagged... -------------------- I tag you tag me: a folksonomy of Internet art Social bookmarking allows for users to easily store lists of resources (websites, for instance) and have them available to the public, allowing people with the same interests (or not) to share and have easy access to relevant information on a specific subject. But the most important feature of social bookmarking lies in the categorization of these resources by the users themselves. Tagging is the word that comes to mind. Tagging consists basically in the possibility these social bookmarking services have of allowing the users not only to bookmark something, but to informally assign tags (relevant keywords) to it, thus creating meta-data about the tagged resources in a collective way, rather than individually, something that can be seen as a second layer of meaning, but determined by the users rather than the original producer of the content. This is what is called folksonomy, a user-generated taxonomy used to retrieve and categorize web content. The departure idea for this project is thinking of tagging as curating. If tagging creates meta-data about pre-existing content, it can be seen as the creation of a discourse about it. And if that content happens to be an online artwork, tagging both allows for a subjective juxtaposition of art works and the elaboration of a critical discourse about it. Curating then. But this isn't new. This is regular curating done in a schematic way, using a different tool to get the job done. But since tagging is a social activity in its essence, giving birth to folksonomies, it allows for social curating, with social selection of works and social production of discourse about them. This is what this project intends to be. Rather than traditionally curating a show through tagging the projects with the name of the show, we will be asking people to tag some of their favourite Internet art pieces with a few defined tags and some that they can choose freely. The idea is that this device will then create a folksonomic net art exhibition done collectively by a group of people. It can be seen as a social experiment, aiming at finding out what will that second layer of meaning be like, or if it will work at all. A challenge then. I tag you tag me, or a random folksonomy of Internet art. Let the tagging begin. -------------------- About Luis Silva (http://www.publishedandcurated.blogspot.com/) Luis Silva studied Social Sciences and is now completing his MA on Communication, Culture and Information Technologies and finishing a research project on internet art. He has curated a few new media exhibitions, namely Online - Portuguese Netart 1997-2004, Source Code and Sound Visions. In 2006 he created the Lisbon node of the Upgrade!, an international network of gatherings concerning art, technology and culture. He is now curating LX 2.0, Lisboa 20 Arte Contemporânea's online program. Silva has also been working as an independent writer, having published several reviews and texts addressing the issues of art and technology for various publications, namely Turbulence's networked_performance, Rhizome, Furtherfield and newmediafix. -------------------- This is a newsletter by CONT3XT.NET (ZVR: 999765999, Vienna/Austria). 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