Eidolon was a group of visual artists and computer programmers active between 1999 and 2004. Eidolon was comprised of Sean Whalen and Paul Tulipana. The works of Eidolon have been commissioned and exhibited by online and physical galleries world-wide, and are collected at various online art preservation institutions.
Image recontextualizer (2003)
The Image recontextualizer "re-contextualizes" user-specified images with other found images in a user-defined search. The image recontextualizer renders a user-inputted image by building a custom context. This context is a collection of images relating to a word which the user specifies. A mosaic is built out of this word-generated context, which can be viewed at different levels of magnification.
The Image recontextualizer is an attempt to begin to metaphorize the seperatation of form and content at a slightly lower level than is possible in a classical web page formula. The seperated form and content are given a context, and recombine as an image. The mechanism by which this operates (the object/the process) acts soley as a method of looking.
