http://www.tobi-x.com Digital Culture and Technology Tue, 23 Feb 2010 18:42:59 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en Tobias Leingruber, Essay, February 2010 Metaphor Museum To understand what "The Web" is, people always came up with metaphors. In the 90's the internet was called "Cyberspace", the "Information Super Highway", or more recently "Web 2.0" or "The Cloud". Olia Lialina writes 2005 in her essay "The Vernacular Web": "[..] The Internet was the ... http://www.tobi-x.com/skate-the-web-and-other-metaphors Finally I got my fingers on 2 copies of the Italian Flash Art Magazine, Issue 274, in which Domeniquo Quaranta wrote about many of our Artzilla projects, and the web browser beeing our canvas :) Article online on the authors blog (Italian) http://www.tobi-x.com/flash-art-magazine-about-firefox-art Gain maximum web credibility with FOXBLING. Picture: Mozilla Legend Chris Hoffman, Nadine Freischlad, TBX, Sarah and Mozilla Evangelism Lead Chris Blizzard Photo by Evan Roth As seen in Berlin at the "Skate The Web" exhibit, at the "BLK River Festival" in Vienna and soon at Transmediale Berlin, SA, Feb.06 6 pieces edition 8cm ... http://www.tobi-x.com/maximum-web-cred-with-foxbling That's right, Jamie Dubs and Tobi-x are in Silicon Valley tonight to DJ the after show party of the "Add-on Con 2009"!!!!!1 Location: Computer History Museum, Mountain View, 5:30pm Our unofficial After-After-Show party w/ extra turntable action is happening in San Francisco later tonight, shoot us an email if you're around!!! http://www.tobi-x.com/let%e2%80%99s-do-the-browser-dance "Skate the web" by Tobias Leingruber, 31.10.09 - 18.11.09, Berlin Betahaus, Prinzessinnenstr. 19. Opening Event: 31. October, as part of Upgrade Berlin Halloween Edition, 20:00h Schmuse and Booze with FAT mixtapes and DJ Ballon Boy Artzilla.org is a collection of browser modifications which challenge online society and use online services to create art ... http://www.tobi-x.com/skate-the-web-exhibit-in-berlin Internet artists, street artists and skateboarders use public architecture in ways, the creators didn't expect it to be used. In this sense Artzilla browser add-ons, skateboards and spray cans are the same. The Skatekeyboard will be shown, among the work of some amazing artists and friends, at the BLK River Festival ... http://www.tobi-x.com/skatekeyboard I'll be speaking at the "Recycle" Conference at the AKV/St. Joost on the 8th of Oct. Looking fwd. to meet some good people and also to catch up with my friends in Rotterdam and Amsterdam afterwards!!!! http://www.tobi-x.com/recylce-conference-akv-st-joost A while ago a curator named Tolga Taluy contacted me if I wanna be part of his online exhibit, as part of the Xth Biennale de Lyon. I was like "Totally" and now you can see my Timemachine project framed in his exhibit next to other kraut-superstars like Dennis ... http://www.tobi-x.com/biennale-de-lyon-online-exhibit-by-tolga-taluy F.A.T. is nominated for the Transmediale Award 2010. “The [NEUTRAL] jury of five international artists, researchers and curators has selected nine projects from more than 1,500 submissions. On 06 February 2010 the award winner(s) [THE UNITED NATION OF F.A.T.!] will be announced….” Yes, Yves you can keep that chain…. —– Nice car ... http://www.tobi-x.com/yyeeeessssss This saturday (5pm CEST, Germany) Teorías del Caos (from Mexico City) is hosting a live-stream with me teaching some skate lessons. Bring your board and join!! http://www.tobi-x.com/skate-lessons-teorias-del-caos-live-stream-this-saturday