brannondorsey
commented
8 years ago 
Sense submitting this proposal, we've wrapped up development on this installation. More documentation about the piece can be found in this repo.
Closed brannondorsey closed 7 years ago
brannondorsey
commented
8 years ago
Sense submitting this proposal, we've wrapped up development on this installation. More documentation about the piece can be found in this repo.
Title of Talk / Panel / Workshop / Artwork
Type of proposal
Artwork
Description of your artwork
WebRoutes provides a viewer with a window into the internet infrastructure and geopolitical network topology that is inherently invisible to them as they browse the web. By visualizing an augmented traceroute process, WebRoutes identifies the Autonomous Networks (AS), ISPs, Internet Exchange Point (IXP) crossings, and Submarine Cables that work together to ping-pong TCP/IP packets back and forth from their web browsers to servers. By elongating a process that usually takes milliseconds, our installation allows the viewer to follow, analyze, and draw conclusions about the intricate, often counter-intuitive, paths their packets take on their journey through the Internet.
Length of talk / panel / workshop
N/A
Workshop technical requirements and materials list
N/A
Artwork installation requirements
The installation is presented with two components, a web browser on a computer that the viewer can navigate freely, and a large projected map that visualizes the paths and infrastructure that their TCP/IP packets use as they do so.
Speaker Bio
Nick Briz
hi, my name is nick briz && i'm a new_media artist / educator / organizer living + working in chicago, IL. i'm critically obsessed w/the Internet + all my work is re:to digital culture; specifically: digital literacy + ecology, netizen rights, glitch art, net art, remix. i organize events on these topix ( GLI.TC/H, NO-MEDIA, etc ) && teach on these topix ( SAIC, Marwen, www ) && produce work on these topix ( independently && commercially w/Branger_Briz ). my work's been shown internationally ( FILE Media Arts Festival, the Images Festival, the Museum of Moving Image, Museum of Contemporary Art Chicago, etc. ) && i've been featured in on/off-line publications around the world ( VICE, Rhizome.org, Fast Company, El Mundo, Neural, etc. ). my work is distributed through Video Out Distribution as well as openly and freely on the web.
Brannon Dorsey
Brannon Dorsey uses computational technology and reproducible electronic media to explicitly challenge digital consumption. He employs open software tools to design experiences that excite and empower individuals and collaborative communities rather than promoting the closed corporate agendas of over-powerful companies. As a young Art and Technologist, Brannon is intentional in his active participation in defining a new digital literacy that celebrates the truly profound technological era that we now live in while remaining skeptical of the ways that this technology is being used on and against us.
Branger_Briz
We are a full-service digital agency+lab made up of artists, strategists, educators && programmers bent on articulating contemporary culture. We produce award winning work for brands, educators, and cultural institutions around the world, often aimed at providing context + perspective on the misunderstood aspects of our digital ecosystem.