Jackpot
_Maciej Wisnieski
about Maciej Wisnieski
Maciej Wisniewski is an artist and programmer whose work focuses on the underlying social implications of technology and the Internet.
EDUCATION
1989 M.F.A., Hunter College, New York, NY
1987 Ph.D. program at the Institute for General Linguistics and Computational
Linguistics, University of Stockholm, Stockholm, Sweden
1984 M.A. in Scandinavian Languages and Culture, University of Gdansk,
Poland and University of Stockholm, Sweden
SELECTED EXHIBITIONS
2005 The Art Formerly Known As New Media, Curated by Sarah Cook and Steve
Dietz, Walter Phillips Gallery, Banff New Media Institute, Banff, Canada
2005 Algorithmic Revolution, ZKM Center for Art and Media, Karlsruhe,
Germany
about Jackpot
http://adaweb.walkerart.org/context/jackpot/
"Jackpot" is an Internet 'slotmachine' that downloads three randomly selected web sites and displays them in the browser's window along with their top level domain names. You win by matching any of the top level domains. The winner can visit a live web site and submit a URL of choice.