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Oil Standard

The oil standard project manipulates the common person's use of the internet to demonstrate an economic reality. Mandiberg is using the program to make apparent the actuality of the interconnection between oil and other forms of monetary. He is able to exploit the fact that the internet is changable and open to modifications. Without this ability, Mandiberg would be unable to have this project. Furthermore, since the oil prices are realtime, he must be tapped into some other internet source to supply the program with these prices. Mandiberg is only able to do this because the internet is able
investigate it, and talk about how it uses the internet as an art medium. Explain why it uses it to best advantage, and why the piece could not be made in any other way. The work relates to the history of the internet described in Sterlings article because it pulls from the idea of any person being able to input information into the web. Furthermore, since the download is free, it is a direct decendant of the free file sharing described in the article. The work reflects the time in that it directly comments on the political and economic issues of the time. Also, it uses the common popularity of firefox (as opposed to say netscape navigator or internet explorer, which were more popular in years prior), which makes the program much more accessable to the common population.