Proposal I would like to present a show of selected works from the image-based chat room Dump.fm.

A short history of Dump.fm (from Wikipedia): In November 2009, [the artist Ryder] Ripps co-founded the surfing club Dump.fm along with Tim Baker of Delicious (website) and Scott Ostler[MIT]. The site allows real-time communication and collaboration using images. Ripps called it "an iteration of both the chat room and the imageboard, as it uses pictures to create conversation," citing Tumblr as inspiration. Users can upload or link to images, take photos with a webcam, and type messages to communicate. It has since become a popular and influential community credited for the creation of multiple Internet memes, including "Deal With It", and was compared to 4chan by Paddy Johnson [of Art Fag City]. The aesthetic of Dump.fm was compared to earlier work by Cory Arcangel and Paper Rad. The importance of these works is that they provide an alternative to tumblelog projects by the ever-more-relevant curator-artist; projects presented in concatenations of discrete images, in a profusion alongside a good deal of pandering material. Imageheavy tumblelogs and the ability to reblog represent a major stage in the propagation of visual culture. Dump.fm on the other hand uses a chat style web application that allows users to submit strings of image URLs grabbed from the internet to create jpg/png/gif assemblages, upload an image from the computer, take webcam photos and/or enter text. This allows for a number of things: inestimable permutations of strings of images open experimentation with visual grammar a live dynamic, a noosphere exquisite corpse (a much better description of this dynamic HERE) If its accurate, as its been stated , that 500 blog years are equivalent to 5 years IRL, tumblelogs mark a new stage in this sort of temporal disparity. The Dump.fm platform pushes it further even; relative to blogs, Dump.fm enables the advent and progression of a memetic packet to unfold with little more deliberation than our ability to type. Although Dump.fm users employ and are well aware of popular image formats, memes, and trends, the ability, if not the imperative, to chat with images - with chatlike immediacy elevates the conceptual and the playful both, and encourages live acts of remixing (vs. making a polished thingly thing), operations which tend to either eschew or ground the sort of easy beauty overprevalent on Tumblr. To the point: the work is made better because it is practiced. There is a huge body of work in the archives of Dump.fm, some of the most knowing work of the Tumblr generation and easily one of the best models of Bruce Sterlings definition of the New Aesthetic. There was an exhibit/gathering shortly after the sites launch. People displayed work and dumped live but there has not been a screening of user output in 2 years. The tools to exhibit these works, independent of Dump.fm, are widely available. That being said this could be a bigger show, a definitive show and Ripps imprimatur

would be nice here. There are a few well known user-artists on Dump.fm such as Tom Moody, Jeanette Hayes (2), Deanna Havas, FAUX/real and glasspopcorn, etc. that would lend prestige to a show and with whom I would appreciate collaborating (i.e. in the form of ideas/objets dart/material/skills) (objects would be a luxury) (programming knowledge would be a luxury) and they would most likely only do so with Ripps blessing. I understand the relative obscurity of Ripps and Dump.fm outside of New York, say, but I believe that the essences that inspired Sterlings essay, that lend to this work will strike a cord. That and the plain draw of their composition will make for a Needed (tentative): 10+ projectors 10+ reflective surfaces 10+ computers, a few computers handling all projectors, projectors with built-in slideshow feature from USB or a combination I would like to exhibit a certain number of works for the full length of the show but there are hundreds of wry little juxtapositionings better viewed momentarily - 2 seconds, 30 seconds, 1 minute, etc. depending. This is where some programming wherewithal would be of use. (solicit David Overholt?) Example works: http://goo.gl/4ehavh http://goo.gl/a4nus http://goo.gl/RQ1Qle http://goo.gl/rkPGI over http://goo.gl/iH2Ng over http://goo.gl/CZK66 over http://goo.gl/R7Bw4 http://goo.gl/jNsui http://goo.gl/tSIq7 http://goo.gl/Uu48e http://goo.gl/MLxDc http://goo.gl/dHCw0 http://goo.gl/UqYPZ http://goo.gl/rLEa7E http://goo.gl/by0soO http://goo.gl/q2be9E http://goo.gl/zSKZsc http://goo.gl/kI8yee http://goo.gl/NVZRQ http://goo.gl/oZhZBQ http://goo.gl/VsDsLZ http://goo.gl/dAo9Mk http://goo.gl/NJnuXy http://goo.gl/48syIJ http://goo.gl/T2HSGV http://goo.gl/kVs8oY

 http://goo.gl/dGDYqk http://goo.gl/3jEPIi http://goo.gl/hNjuKr http://goo.gl/p7KM8U http://goo.gl/MfXjvY http://goo.gl/TkpCsD http://goo.gl/GPquYw This would fill the wall, adjacent to: http://goo.gl/h3zQWD http://goo.gl/tZnppi http://goo.gl/WJAIGl http://goo.gl/fhKnLS

Desired: sound system. FAUX/real, an enigmatic Dump.fm user and arch-fetishist of online image formats only posts single-image curios along with obscure music/sound links from YouTube. A lot of it is not super palatable but a few are good pieces of yet-to-belauded art. Im thinking as it gets dark a few of these sounds could be fed into the gallery as to build to a dance-able soundtrack/party la AIDS-3D.