THE WEB COMPONENT

www.taystes.net
www.taystesroom.net
taystes-OS.net (Open Source)

The heart of the project is a number of exploratory interfaces designed to give the users unlimited access to the intimate world of networked communication infrastructures such as webcams, chat rooms and surveillance cameras . Each interface sets out to visualise the same idea by using different approaches in mapping network traffic and users information. Each website has been realized through my collaboration with a different team of programmers .


As its name suggests, taystes.net is a sampling of network activity in real-time through different components. The 'grabber' crawls through unlimited data networks of webcams and surveillance cameras; the 'chatterbox', makes anonymous textual interventions into chat rooms and through the 'tayster' tool, users can utilize data as a medium to apply applications and create visual experiences. The sonic scape is generated by tracking users activity, log in name and personal data which transforms to sound modifiers.

By logging on, the user's presence is automatically made visible on-line and, although lurking behind
the veil of his or her on-line persona, inevitably becomes part of the database, part of the viewed.
Under 'histories' each action is recorded and tracked, each action made transparent. The viewer and user, who may have entered the space as if into the <control room> to eavesdrop and to monito, in the end becomes the subject of surveillance.

a.screenshot of www.taystes.net	b.screenshot of www.taystesroom.net

CREDITS

<taystes_room > #1 Design Jenny Marketou in collaboration with Andreas Angelidakis, architect (New York/ Athens).

www.taystes.net
Programmer: Ryan Johnston, Creative Electronic Environment (CEE),
The Banff Center for the Arts, Banff,Canada.
Sound in collaboration with Ile Cvetkoski, sound artist,dj (Vienna/Skopje)
Interface design: Jenny Marketou and Dotsperinch, New York City.
The website is a coproduction with CEE,The Banff Center for the Arts, Banff,Canada.
http://www.ceebanff.ca/sections/portfolio_interactive

http://taystes-OS.net [open source version]
Open Source programming Ales Zemene (CZ/NL/GB/A)
Support: Jogi Hofmüller (A), Ludwig Zeininger (A)
Sound in collaboration with Ile Cvetkoski, sound artist, dj (Vienna /Skopje)
www.taystes-OS.net has been coproduced with ESC for PLEASE IDENTIFY exhibition at ESC IM LABOR, Graz, Austria. http://esc.mur.at

AWARDS
www.taystes.net was nominated for Viper 2002 Award, Basel, Switzerland.
http://www.viper.ch/