Apr 15, 2025
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been dicking around on the internet and i have concluded that olia lialina really knows whats going on
Olia Lialina. detail from Agatha Appears.
“ Agatha Appears capsule #1 -- original 1997 version in emulated environment build by @despens, edition of 3 + AP (online version restored in 2008) -- just joined art collection of @Espacegantner ”
“ On this occasion I found the card announcing the work at http://c3.hu. Was helpful to recover the exact date Agatha went online. “
“ on this occasion I had a serious talk with google and finally found the image (of Nadja Auerman!) I modified to create Agatha's figure. “
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agatha appears (restored version 2008)
Olia Lialina. My Boyfriend Came Back From the War, 1996.
Hosted (2020) (screen capture) - Olia Lialina
A 70-frame animation, each frame uploaded to a different hosting service on the Internet creating a sequence similar to a flip-book.
Network performance for a swimmer, 5 clouds, 70 free hosting services, and 7000 buckets.
Olia Lialina One Terabyte of Kilobyte Age archive, tagged dogs, 2011 - ONGOING Medium screenshot; 800 x 600 pixels http://dogs.geocities.institute/
From the Artist: As you are reading this, now, the chances that you’ve ever heard about Web 1.0 are getting smaller every month. The chances your dog, cat, or hamster doesn’t need you to share its pictures and sounds online are getting higher every day.
I’m sure that if you return to this text ten years from now and see the screenshots illustrating it or read the quotes above, you on’t be surprised by dogs showing off their pages or posts. Theoretically some sort of Alexa would be able to do it already today, automatically photographing your pet, streaming it live, translating its barking into words and whatever.
This is the reason I am writing here, descendants: to tell you that these dogs were not dogs but people who spent a few weekends learning how to to make a webpage, and it as so exciting and so fun that the also made them for their dogs. People, not dogs, not AI, were making decisions about URLs, links, navigation, layouts, color pallets, and content.
In the beginning of the third millennium, things got more complicated. To make, update, and keep a web page online became unaffordable for non-professionals. People had to decide between having a dog (a family, a job, a real life) and having a webpage. The decision was painful, traumatic.
Being unable to make pages for their own dogs, webmaster found solace in sharing pics of someone else’s cats.
Source: Excerpt from Olia Lialina on page 101 from Omar Kholeif. I Was Raised on the Internet, The Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago. 2018. Print.
Stack Trace Art
Stack Trace Art is a kind of secret drawing hidden in pieces within a program, waiting to be revealed at the right moment when invoked as an error. Igor Rončević, a Croatian programmer, discovered that you can cause an error, which as it flows through the stack, pieces together ASCII art to be revealed in the stack trace. He has not only put together a series of these, but created a tool to allow others to exploit this idea.
The stack trace is a textual representation of the call stack; the flow of subroutines calling other subroutines at any moment in a running program. Usually the stack trace is seen by programmers debugging a piece of code in their development environment, or in an error log when something has gone wrong. They are lists of methods and line numbers and not terribly interesting to look at unless you're invested in the program they belong to. Unless you're viewing ones thrown by Rončević, which are ribbons, cats, or ASCII graffiti lettering.
It's a simple idea, but one that is not so easily carried out. The error itself is nothing special: a simple C# exception. The magic happens in the class throwing the exception, which has a set of methods the error flows through: one for each line of the drawing, with the ones closer to the error further up the image and so deeper in the chain. If the image were completely filled with visible characters, this would not be hard to do: we could have a series of function names with variations of aaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa. However, that's not enough to build the cat image above: we would need to find a way to represent spaces. Rončević's solution was to find a Unicode space that C# would not recognize as a space but something else (this is very much a Microsoft-oriented project). This symbol is the Hangul Filler character, as he explains in his post His Majesty, Hangul the Filler, his ode to the symbol that makes it all possible. Hangul Filler is a control character used in representing less common Korean characters. Starting a sequence with Hangul Filler marks the following characters as intended to be combined into a single character made up of those components, as opposed to individual letters. However, as modern Unicode offers all the combinations, even of archaic signs, of these symbols, the Filler code is now essentially a legacy symbol.
The green and blue above are the name of a method, part of the call chain
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Olia Lialina, Self Portrait, 2018