Domenico Barra a (Dirty) New Media Artist

Domenico Barra is a (Dirty) New Media Artist based in Napoli (Italy) working with digital media with a major focus on internet culture.Tumblr and Support @ Patreon!

Dirty New Media (DNM) is a term first used by the artist Jon Cates. J. Cates, who is also the Chair of the Film, Video, New Media & Animation department at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago, says Dirty New Media’s mission is “to express a contrast with the kind of cleanliness that is [associated] with more commercial or corporate styles of digital art and design. It refers to a menagerie of alternative practices and subcultures spanning from punk and digital sampling to piracy and pornography”.

quote [I am interested in subcultures and tabood human acts, their consumption in privacy and distribution in society. Porn is not a mere representation of sexual fantasies. Porn is the ultimate argument to address history, politics, art, or economy. I use copies of copyright protected contents to discuss industries and lobbies, production, distribution and appropriation and also, roles of sexes, money, porn as a proper expression of capitalistic society.



I produce “partial” (dirty) record of the wide and wild range of pornographic material available online, selected, remixed and contextualized in various projects such as Pirate Porno Material, Pirate Porno Material 2, Wrecked, Red Link District, Head(Her)Less and A picture is never private (anymore) and Dirty Screens. The works were produced using the technique of databending that consists of using softwares not designed for the image editing task such as text editing and music softwares. Through these process I manage to corrupt/glitch digital format such as .jpg, .gif, .avi, .bmp, .raw, .tif, .iff, .png and so on.



I have been working with many media, focusing my practice and research on topics related to politics and human behaviors. Corrupted governments, mafias, corporations, an art form and production as a sort of rebellion, sabotage, activism, I always tried to create works that would shock people and create debates. When a subject is too complex, I realized that people would tend to get bored or disturbed and ignore the crucial part of it, I needed to find something that could help me in analyzing and represent those topics, or at least some of them, that wouldn't bother people, or bore them, so I thought about sex.  I believe that one of the most complete subject, a subject that touches many of the aspects of our lives as part of a society is sex, its depiction in mass media, from the internet to advertisement, politics related to gender, sexism, the economy of sex, copyright, and so on].

More: Prinsexxx Jasmine and H34D(|-|3R)L3SS.

Through the Window by Maria Jose Garcia Piaggio

In Maria Jose Garcia Piaggio’s Through the Window, she appropriates found images as part of her investigation about cybersex.
quote [Through the Window is devided into two parts, one part is men looking though free portals and the other side is women that offer live shows where you have to pay to participate. Is a project of accumulation and appropiation of images. I want to be able to show this scenarios that we all know are there but we keep hidden, deconstructing it from the virtual context and taking it to other scenaries to show this two groups to the expectator. I’m interested to show the construction of the body language this women have in front of the camera to be liked and atract the expectator].

NicolettXXX Deepthroats @ MyFreeCams

NicolettXXX is a russian model who became really popular @ MyFreeCams for her deepthroat skills and live shows. Don't miss her bulging throat performance and check her online at MyFreeCams (search box) and her profile for the "schedule".
Download a few videos 1, 2, 3, 4, 5 (...see screenshots at the bottom) and streaming online at Motherless 1, 2, 3.
[Previously on... Deepthroat at Unscathed Corpse]

More Reallifecams: The Insecam Project

The Insecam Project is the world biggest directory of online surveillance cameras. A girl in Brasil, A garden, a room, an hairdresser in France, something in Sweden, a family in Kiev, a shop in Tallin, an hospital or sort... in Spain, not sure about that in Madrid, a pharmacy in Oviedo, a pool, another pool in Korea, a school or sort, flowers...
The coordinates of the cameras are approximate. They point to the ISP address and not the physical address of the camera. This information is accurate only to a few hundred miles. The coordinates are provided only to locate the city where the camera is located, but not it's exact position or address.
[Previously: RealLifeCam]

CamGirls Project by Vanessa Omoregie

CamGirls Project by Vanessa Omoregie is an investigative project that explored the female image within the online space.
The project throughout its course looked at themes of questioning “beauty” standards, ideas of censorship, and representation in art. It was an interactive piece starting with the instruction “copy this pose”, allowing people across the internet to re-create women portrayed in famous paintings.

quote [The project asked questions about why the internet in regards to art isn’t taken as seriously and why important cultural phenomena like selfies are kind of mocked by the media, especially when they involves women. I wanted to look at who the “online girl” is and how her image is perceived through the lens of cyber-space].

RealLifeCam

I always loved internet webcams sharing private life and I wasted a lot of time browsing open network webcams using Google with the usual codes like:

1. inurl:"view" intitle:"Axis 2100 Network Camera"
2. inurl:"ViewerFrame?Mode="
3. inurl:"view/index.shtml"
4. inurl:"axis-cgi/mjpg"
5. inurl:"MultiCameraFrame?Mode="
6. inurl:"CgiStart?"

Today i want to share RealLifeCam a unique website where you have the chance to observe the private life of other people in live round-the-clock. People you see online are not actors, they are real people living their routine lives in apartments equipped with video cameras.
Paid accounts have unlimited access to all cameras in all apartments including access to closed cameras in bathrooms and bedrooms.

[Previously on... webcams at Unscathed Corpse]

Chris Fitzgerald: The Skype Series

Chris Fitzgerald is a fashion and portrait photographer based in Los Angeles, specializing in erotic fashion photography and raw, compelling portraiture. Loved his The Skype Series.

Cryptogams a list of vulnerables webcams

Created by Adrian Hayter Cryptogams is a blog about information security, cryptography, and privacy. It's a sort of web viewer for over 7,000 publicly accessible webcams, found using various search techniques. You can easily access a big list of private and open webcams on the net and also browse them by region or country, learn how.
[Previously on... webcams at Unscathed Corpse]

Live from the studio of Damien Hirst

On the eve of Damien Hirst's first major retrospective at Tate Modern, his extensive body of work has been re-catalogued online courtesy of a new website from Bureau for Visual Affairs. It also features a live studio feed, part of an attempt to "communicate the artist a little better" say the studio...

Iceland Live Webcams

Live stream of Icelandic nature through various high-speed webcams.

How to build a fake Google Street View car

quote [For Transmediale 2010, F.A.T. members met in Berlin and produced a series of projects dedicated to the topic of the week: FUCK GOOGLE. In addition to free software, browser addons, live streams, communiques and on-site workshops, F.A.T. Lab built a fake Google Street View car and conquered the city of Berlin!].
[More about google at Unscathed Corpse]

Creeper in my apartment: Fake?

quote [Yes, I found out the hard way that I had an uninvited guest living in my apartment, sharing my food and drinks and pissing in my sink. Talk about a creepy situation... only in the big apple....].

Cavicam

LINK It's a long time since i was posting open webcams streaming on the net. I'll try to post more in the future. This one is cavicam.

The Gazelena Project

The Gazelena Project - Story + video quote [New York University students Allistar Peters and Meng Li came up with the "breastcam" as part of a thesis project. Ms Li nips out to the city's streets in a dress fitted with cameras to catch passing oglers in the act, and the double-C TV footage is broadcast over the web. Mr Peters said the idea was not to affront those who fail to keep their eyes above his bosom friend's neckline but to address the issue of public surveillance].
(via Atomic Sex Kitten)

Tim Knowles: Spy Box

LINK quote [A digital camera inside a parcel looks out through a small hole and captures images of its journey through the postal system. The Spy Box was sent from my studio to the gallery taking an image every 10 seconds recording a total of 6994 images these were then edited together to create an animated slideshow].
(via kottke.org)

JenniCam

quote [JenniCam was a popular website whose main feature was several webcams that allowed Internet users to observe the life of a young woman, Jennifer Kaye Ringley (born August 10, 1976). The site was online from April 1996 until the end of 2003. It was among the first such cameras on the web to challenge such social norms as the privacy of the home and explore the boundaries between non-criminal exhibitionism and commercial pornography. Here (LINK expired) you can find the First 38 Episodes of JenniCam show. Some of these episodes are really only significant for their historical value. Others are genuinely interesting.

Project Paradise

LINK quote [Project Paradise is a telepresence installation which enables two isolated users to remotely interact with each other via a cyborg "Adam" or "Eve" within a remote "paradise". Each participant may control the body of a cyborg to engage in interaction with the other isolated user].
(via igargoyle)

Unprotected open camera streams

LINK quote [This is a Google map of unprotected/open camera streams obtained from Google searches. The IP addresses for each camera's url has been mapped to it's Geo-location].
(via Google Maps Mania)