Nam June lives on!

RePaik is both an homage to new media artist Nam June Paik and an experiment in distributed peer review. Re:Paik encourages artists, writers, and others touched by his legacy to contribute creative or critical tributes online.

A distributed legacy

As Paik championed open forms of artistic expression, so Re:Paik employs an open publishing paradigm based on John Bell's powerful RePoste software. Unlike wikis and other centralized repositories, RePaik allows contributors to post these homages to their *own* Web domains (eg, their own home pages or blogs). RePaik then assembles all the distributed contributions on a reference site and outputs RSS feeds for the results updated in real time.

A shared conversation

Moreover, RePaik enables editorial commenting and rating of each tribute according to a specialized trust metric. Clicking on a special bookmarklet will bring up these comments on the remote page that hosts the tribute itself; for example, if you post a tribute on your blog, a RePaik user can activate a rectangle floating on your blog that lists other people's comments on your post.

Try it!

Click on the links at top to find out more.