The Unravelling of the Real 3D Mandelbrot Fractal


“… a documentary about a controversial theory regarding the mechanism that drove the evolution of humans from primates to modern man; challenging the presently accepted evolutionary premise. It also speculates on humanity’s future evolutionary path.”


Cornucopia … is a three dimensional printer for food

Zimoun : Sound Sculptures & Installations | Compilation Video V1.5

zimoun.ch

“The latter half of the 20th century saw the built environment merged with media space, and architecture taking on new roles related to branding, image and consumerism. Augmented reality may recontextualise the functions of consumerism and architecture, and change in the way in which we operate within it.”



3D architectural projection mapping



from here to ear (2007-09) : a flock of zebra finches with electric guitars


watch on youtube



“A FULL-CG animated piece that tries to illustrate architecture art across a photographic point of view where main subjects
are already-built spaces.”

Watch it on Vimeo

auto suggestion is a screen based, real-time visualization of the processing of a database of paintings. The work incorporates the full text of Baudelaire’s one surviving notebook “Journaux Intimes”1, 65 hi-resolution scans of paintings that I made during the decade 1989-1999 (at which point I stopped making paintings) …The system takes as its seed Baudelaires prose and runs it through text analysis in turn determining the selection of various areas of color and shape, then recombines them in infinite variations and iterations.”

superstar


see also, RSVP: Rapid Serial Visual Presentation


Tornado miniature created with steel wool.


Nemo Observatorium. 2002. “Styrofoam beads are blown around in a big transparent PVC cylinder by five strong fans. Visitors can take place on the armchair in the middle of the whirlpool…”


2008, six-channel interactive video installation, 30′x20′
computers, six video projectors, three video cameras, custom software, vinyl floor


“In the realm of digital poetics, the technological ability to dismiss identity is a direct articulation of class privilege.”
Aporias: The ‘I’ of New Media Poetics



“The light sculpture Death calls the tune filters all the news items which go around the world minute by minute for those which deal with perdition and misery on our planet. Managed by a microcontroller the pick-up of the remodelled record player “burns” the 60 token long headlines of them into the groomed light disc which turns steadily.”

“The terrain of Mount Fear is generated by data sets relating to the frequency and position of urban crimes.”

“As print takes its place alongside smoke signals, cuneiform, and hollering, there has emerged a new literary age, one in which writers no longer need to feel encumbered by the paper cuts, reading, and excessive use of words traditionally associated with the writing trade.” Robert Lanham


“You put a record on, and it’s like all the edges disappear. You’re in a psychological space. You don’t sit there thinking about the music, you’re listening to the music. You’re inside that space that the music’s making for you.” Jim Lambie @ SMFA, Boston

With a Little Help


“Free e-books work for me.”



pv3d Compute Spectrum Test 01

Reading Web Content (Jakob Nielsen’s Alertbox)


“Heatmaps from user eyetracking studies of three websites. The areas where users looked the most are colored red; the yellow areas indicate fewer views, followed by the least-viewed blue areas. Gray areas didn’t attract any fixations.”

neuroglia

“…the brain should no longer be regarded solely as a neuronal network, but instead as a circuit of interactive neuron and glial cell networks.”

“… radial glia, serve as a scaffolding in the embryonic brain. Neurons climb along these polelike cells to reach their final location. Another kind of glia, called microglia, are the brain’s immune system. They clamber through the neurological forest in search of debris from dead or injured cells. A third class of glia, known as Schwann cells and oligodendrocytes, form insulating sleeves around neurons to keep their electric signals from diffusing….”

Tate Channel: Meet the Artist: Mat Collishaw

Ice Fishing in Gimli
by Rob Kovitz
8 volumes, boxed set
4750 pages, 6″ x 8″
ISBN 978-0-9812869-0-7

“Wordnik is billions of words, 300 million example sentences, 4.5 million unique words, and over 177,000 comments, 93,000 tags, 74,000 pronunciations, 21,000 favorites and 22,000 lists created by 27,245 Wordniks.”


“… a new camera based interaction solution where an ordinary camera can detect small optical tags from a relatively large distance.” – Camera Culture Group, MIT Media Lab

“… a system that composes a realistic picture from a simple freehand sketch annotated with text labels.”


Strövtåg i tid och rum, 2009
(Strolls through time and space)
Armchair, books, bags, boxes, radio, clock, etc.
Dimensions: 0.55 x 0.85 x 0,6 m.



viva la utopia


“Workspace Unlimited organzation, founded by Thomas Soetens [new media artist] and Kora Van den Bulcke [architect], is a mobile laboratory and creation space dedicated to experimental new media production and research, situated at the point where art, architecture and digital technologies converge to create new contexts of hybrid and augmented reality. “


“ProFORMA, a system designed to enable on-line reconstruction of textured 3D objects rotated by a user’s hand. “


“Phragmatopoma californica is a marine polychaete that glues bits of sand and seashells together into a protective tubular shell while fully submerged in cold seawater. … In the lab Sandcastle worms will add a variety of particles of the preferred size (roughly 0.5 mm) and chemical characteristics (not plastic) to their tubes [that they create with a glue-secretion]. In this case the tube has been extended with 0.5 mm glass beads. ” Russell J. Stewart. University of Utah


1996
Metal switch, wig tape

‘The switch was worn day and night for close to a month.’

mercantile sophisticato

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“The Ghana ThinkTank is a worldwide network of think tanks creating strategies to resolve local problems in the “developed” world. The network began with think tanks from Ghana, Cuba and El Salvador, and has since expanded to include Serbia, Mexico and Ethiopia. In our most recent project, we sent problems collected in Wales to think tanks in Ghana, Mexico, Serbia, Iran, and a group of incarcerated girls in the U.S. Prison system.”

“… practice-led research [which] enables practitioners to initiate and then pursue their research through practice….conforms to the broad protocols of all research …”

The Electronic Disturbance Theater (EDT) is a small group of artivists engaged in developing the theory and practice of
Electronic Civil Disobedience (ECD)


A microrobot used at the RoboCup 2009 nanosoccer competition by the team from Switzerland’s ETH Zurich is compared in size to the head of a fruit fly. The robot, which is operated under a microscope, is 300 micrometers in length or slightly larger than a dust mite.


Schmitz. (2002)


Papierballfall. 2008. HD video (2’00 loop)

in Tablet Magazine – A New Read on Jewish Life

“I invoke Perec’s Judaism only in the way that he did—by scorning religious ritual, and investigating the esoteric aspects, especially the parallels between Oulipian restrictions and the disciplines of kabbalah.”



Smoke and hot air animates my response to the relentless threats against Iran by a myriad of more fortunate countries in recent years. Sentences that include “attack Iran” are scavenged from Google News and spoken using a text-to-speech synthesizer. The voice is then picked up by a microphone, analyzed, and translated into rhythmically corresponding smoke rings from a quartet of smoke ring makers.”


(photo by yhancik)

“The EyeWriter project is on ongoing collaborative research effort to empower people, who are suffering from ALS, with creative technologies.”

I have dermatographia, a condition in which one’s immune system releases excessive amounts of histamine, causing capillaries to dilate and welts to appear (lasting about thirty minutes) when the hypersensitive skin’s surface is lightly scratched. This allows me to painlessly draw on my skin with just enough time to photograph the results.




gamer-face film using errol morris’ interrotron


The Hanging Man 2007
silicon, paint & human hair
140.0 x 50.0 cm


“Glory Hole includes the word in four languages: Kadosh – Hebrew, Holy – English, Maqadas – Arabic and Hailik – Yiddish. The dense construction rises about an inch off the panel. Holy is a heavy word it hold extreme connectedness and extreme conflict simultaneously.”



H5 Builds the World of Logorama | Behind The Work | Creativity Online

8th Century Illuminated Manuscript

his website

“‘Responsive Type’ sets out to develop a type system
that is better suited and more native
to screen based display technologies.

The system renders letter forms in realtime
enabling forms to adapt and respond
to the context they exist within.”

rgb




AKA. “STRANGE RESTRAINT” : video portion of a dance performance based on Vladimir Nabokov’s “Lolita”.


lettering created by Chris Davenport using Nodebox (source code available)

“The main idea of the ‘Typosperma’ project was to create some sort of new transgenic creatures, half (human) sperm, half letter. These imaginary creatures are cloned sperms, typographic information has been implanted into their DNA.”


Jan-Olaf Nygren. Cocktail. 2006, Silk screen on birch plywood, Ink. Dimensions variable

There are two types of students: those who feel that the responsibility for their education lies with the school, and then those who realize that the responsibility for their education lies within themselves. … We adhere to the advice of Joseph Campbell: “Follow your bliss.”


“There has been a long controversy as to whether subjectively ‘free’ decisions are determined by brain activity ahead of time. We found that the outcome of a decision can be encoded in brain activity of prefrontal and parietal cortex up to 10 s before it enters awareness. This delay presumably reflects the operation of a network of high-level control areas that begin to prepare an upcoming decision long before it enters awareness.”

Nature Neuroscience 11, 543 – 545 (2008)

illuzia.net

art ad
evolution integration
unity infusion
recursion control

branding films for newborn hybrid art-ad babies

The Longest Poem in the World” is composed by aggregating real-time
public twitter updates and selecting those that rhyme.

It is constantly growing at ~4000 verses / day.

Davin Heckman:

“I am not talking about smoothing over the bumps of daily life or salving the embittered psyche. I am talking about using the computer itself to transmit truths which are contrary to its own nature—I am talking about the ultimate and original hack—I am talking about poetry.”

Robert Coover: “there remains through all generations, a desire for literary art that is intellectually and aesthetically written: organic, intentional, speculative, beautiful, entertaining, evocative, innovative if possible, a witness to the times.”

“The Dadameter is a tool for the profiling of language at large scale and the historical tracking of artistic and literary movements. It brings about a new alliance between art, science and global finance.

We use up-to-date 2.0 trend analysis and data visualization technologies, neural networks, graph theory or quantitative structural linguistics in order to be able to predict the next artistic craze.”
Christophe Bruno (2002 – 2008)

Cryobooks (2008) :
made from cloned biological viruses
genetically modified with a jellyfish gene (RFP).
displayed at -80 degree temperature

Networked proposes that a history or critique of interactive and/or participatory art must itself be interactive and/or participatory; that the technologies used to create a work suggest new forms a “text” might take.

Book Art Backgrounders at Deeplinking

Robert The: “I kinda blew a fuse in my senior year—something very strange happened—and I lost my ability to read for a period of a month or two. This sharpened my interest regarding what was actually going on with the symbols that convey meaning on a concrete level.”


“RiTa† is an easy-to-use natural language library that provides simple tools for experimenting with generative literature.”

Code Enabled Brushes


“Texts can be given life! Indeed the etymology of the word ANIMATE is significant here, as the ANIMUS is literally the “living spirit”. The animator breathes life into their keyboard characters, and they become stage characters, the computer screen a STAGE rather than a PAGE.”


HistoFace is a histogram typeface designed for use in the Photoshop “Levels” window.


Murmur Study (2009) is an installation that examines the rise of micro-messaging technologies


Who recognizes his limitations is healthy;
Who ignores his limitations is sick.
The sage recognizes this sickness as a limitation.
And so becomes immune.

“Using the protein regulator of G protein signaling–14 (RGS-14) as a tool, we found that the expression of this protein into layer 6 neurons of rat-brain area V2 promoted the conversion of a normal short-term ORM that normally lasts for 45 minutes into long-term memory detectable even after many months.”

Role of Layer 6 of V2 Visual Cortex in Object-Recognition Memory — López-Aranda et al. 325 (5936): 87 — Science

RE:PLAY FILM FESTIVAL: Crush “Art of Thought” on Vimeo



still from “#37″ (35mm cinemascope, 31 min, 2009)

interview on utube



Victoria Reynolds. Reindeer Vision (Gievvot), 2008
44 x 32 Inches , Oil on panel


“Gnoetry is an on-going experiment in human/computer collaborative poetry composition.

Gnoetry synthesizes language randomly based on its analysis of existing texts. Any machine-readable text or texts, in any language, can serve as the basis of the Gnoetic process. Gnoetry generates sentences that mimic the local statistical properties of the source texts. This language is filtered subject to additional constraints (syllable counts, rhyming, etc.) to produce a poem.

[...]

A key aspect of the Gnoetry software is the ability of a human operator to intervene in the language generation cycle, helping to “guide” the artistic process and to produce a result that is a true collaboration of equals.”


“…mashing up typography with MRI scans and digital fabrication / 3D printing…”


@ Gladstone Gallery


“Troika deconstructed legendary type designer Wim Crouwel´s Gridnik typeface for the zoetrope, breaking the typeface into verticals, horizontals and diagonals which merge into letters and words at speed.”

| Motionographer | Motion graphics, design, animation, filmmaking and visual effects



crepuscular knots of perfected complicity
derive no satisfaction from the eradication
of instinct in virtual realms



Opening titles, 2009 AICP Show.

Forgacs Organ Printing

“In this study, scientists took cells from a chicken heart and used them to form bio-ink particles, which were then printed on to thick sheets. Heart cells must be synchronized for the heart to beat properly. When the bio-ink particles were first printed, the cells did not beat in unison, but as the cellular spheroids fused, the structure eventually started beating just as a heart does.”

watch the blurb self-assemble on utube




2005
Photo & video art exhibition
100 X 70 cm
Offset


ZOOLOGY by Sasha West. Visuals by Ernesto Lavandera. Born Magazine


“I don’t have any ideas myself; I have a vacant mind, in order to do exactly what the inspiration calls for… Art is responded to with emotion… art is not intellectual at all. … I guess I am rather extreme. I think we don’t deserve any credit. The inspiration comes to me and tells me exactly what to do… I gave up all of theory… so that leaves me with a clear mind. … An empty mind, so when something comes into it, you can see it… “

Abu Said ibn Abil-Khair :

“What’s in your head —
throw it away!
What’s in your hand —
give it up!
Whatever happens —
don’t turn away from it.”

“Cessez le travail à la chaîne! Enchaînez les idées, les images et le mouvement! Artisans des médias de partout dans le monde, un moment historique est advenu: du temps reculé des scribes jusqu’aux blogueurs, du cinématographe des Lumière jusqu’au dernier cri des cellulaires-caméra, les moyens de production et de distribution sont de nouveau à portée de tous! “



S2. Lyrics: excerpt of The Futurist Manifesto, by Marteneti; Stripe studies 03, hand cut tyvek

“…an expansive look at text-based art practices, inspired by the concrete poetry movement of the 60s which explored both the literary and graphic potential of language.”
17 Jun – 23 Aug 2009 @ ICA


Lilian Lijn, Sky Never Stops, 1965, Collection V&A Museum



Moonmeme: “A word is projected onto the surface of the moon. The meaning of this word is gradually transformed over the 29.5 day lunation period by the relative motions of Moon, Earth and Sun.”


We propose a practical method for automatic procedural synthesis of synchronized harmonic bubble-based sounds from 3D fluid animations.


David Lynch presents….



itinerant interviews
from the underbelly
of the overhead



FOXP2 (”forkhead box P2″) is a gene that is implicated in the development of language skills,[1] including grammatical competence.



“More than iron, more than lead, more than gold I need electricity.
I need it more than I need lamb or pork or lettuce or cucumber.
I need it for my dreams.”

Racter (an AI program that produced poetic prose) The Policeman’s Beard Is Half Constructed. 1983


“An abstraction layer (or abstraction level) is a way of hiding the implementation details of a particular set of functionality. Software models that use layers of abstraction include the OSI 7 Layer model for computer network protocols, the OpenGL graphics drawing library, and the byte stream input/output (I/O) model originated by Unix and adopted by MSDOS, Linux, and most other modern operating systems.”



occasionally mechanisms teach metaphysicians
how machines heal time

her website



“…our aim lies in developing simple, deterministic and traceable generative processes. These simple processes have the advantage of more control: as they are highly determinable, their output is predictable and can therefore be easily refined through subsequent adjustments. We aim to show that a single deterministic process can generate a heterogeneous set of forms with an astounding degree of complexity.”

michael hansmeyer

visit ‘flarf versus conceptual’ – the complete set on Google Video

Kenny Goldsmith: “poetry has been exploring… marginalized to the point of invisibility … our immersive digital environment demands new responses from writers: what does it mean to be a poet in the digital age?…identity for one is up for grabs, why use your own words when u can express yrself just as well using someone else’s. And if your identity is not your own, then sincerity must be tossed out as well… ”


o the beauty that comes
from damp gortex mutants
fucking for bargains
on the giggling back of irony

Jas Bhachu: “Using a rubiks cube I designed a set of stamps to be placed on four of the sides of the cube so users are able to create their own font.”


“The Artvertiser is an urban, hand-held, augmented-reality project exploring on-site substitution of advertising content for the purposes of exhibiting art. The project was initiated by Julian Oliver in February 2008 and is being developed in collaboration with artists Clara Boj and Diego Diaz.”

“New York based artist Alexandre Singh is interested in connecting principles and mythical tales, which often combine reality with fiction. For artreview.com he has created Tangential Magick: a short slide lecture on the subjects of magic and illusion.”


“Git is a fast, efficient, distributed version control system ideal for the collaborative development of software. “

“The Global Consciousness Project, also called the EGG Project, is an international, multidisciplinary collaboration of scientists, engineers, artists and others. We collect data continuously from a global network of physical random number generators located in 65 host sites around the world. The archive contains more than 10 years of random data in parallel sequences of synchronized 200-bit trials every second. “



hedweb sez: “… in the zeroist paradigm, we are all entailed, logically and physically and phenomenologically, by the properties of zero.”

“Das Nichts nichtet”
(”Nothing noths”)
Martin Heidegger


ZEE – Immersive Environment, © 2008

LabCAST – The MIT Media Lab Video Podcast



“Transform the traditional dissertation. In the arts and humanities, where looming cutbacks will be most devastating, there is no longer a market for books modeled on the medieval dissertation, with more footnotes than text. As financial pressures on university presses continue to mount, publication of dissertations, and with it scholarly certification, is almost impossible. (The average university press print run of a dissertation that has been converted into a book is less than 500, and sales are usually considerably lower.) For many years, I have taught undergraduate courses in which students do not write traditional papers but develop analytic treatments in formats from hypertext and Web sites to films and video games. Graduate students should likewise be encouraged to produce “theses” in alternative formats.” (Mark C. Taylor. April 26, 2009)


Bart Hess

“Bart Hess is working for himself exploring several fields that straddle textile, fashion and animation, these fall within the commercial and art world.”

“A typographic experiment playing with the “Parallax Effect”, light-perspective distortion and shadow. The final piece was an intallation in a cubed room, combining a rotating light source and dispersed, hanging pixel-blocks in order to project words on the surrounding walls.”

By Max Parsons and Arran Gregory

Robjn.com

Everything in one place



“The goal of the FACETS (Fast Analog Computing with Emergent Transient States) project is to create a theoretical and experimental foundation for the realisation of novel computing paradigms which exploit the concepts experimentally observed in biological nervous systems.”


RoboFab is a Python library with objects that deal with data usually associated with fonts and type design.

“Structure Synth is an application for creating 3D structures from a set of user specified rules”

“The Beta, tbeta for short, is a open source/cross-platform solution for computer vision and multi-touch sensing. “


meakusma.org

RÜTS DVD Trailer – meakusma 2009 from meakusma on Vimeo.


levelHead is a spatial memory game by Julian Oliver.

levelHead uses a hand-held solid-plastic cube as its only interface. On-screen it appears each face of the cube contains a little room, each of which are logically connected by doors.

In one of these rooms is a character. By tilting the cube the player directs this character from room to room in an effort to find the exit.


blog bot reads and writes for me
shop bot shops shops
sex bot sexes
bot bot bot bottom

The more comfortable we become with being stupid, the deeper we will wade into the unknown and the more likely we are to make big discoveries.

The importance of stupidity in scientific research. Schwartz 121 (11): 1771. Journal of Cell Science


Vincent Morisset interactive video for Arcade Fire


“A disorder characterized by the excessive consumption of and dependence on type, leading to physical and psychological harm and impaired social and vocational functioning. Also called typographical abuse, font dependence. “


obedience corporation
branding body
churns life into matter
and makes art of it

as light runs
gouged by fear
manipulated by intelligence
and etched into design




binary search bees
coagulating craniums




simple clean instant
word net ruby
auto-complete archive


“Digital computers and software technologies are holistic; they think in terms of whole structures.”

Video 80(5):36-41. 1982. Bill Viola, Reasons for Knocking at an Empty House, pg. 101. Editor. Robert Violette. Cambridge: MIT Press, 1995.

03.19.09



rebuilt my home.
on the model of a networked tv.
thinking within the box.

– if it crashes yr browser, pls let me know wht version of flash player u r using. Thanks. jhave AT glia.ca

“…consciously perceived words were accompanied by long-lasting effects (>200 ms) across a great variety of cortical sites, with a special involvement of the prefrontal lobes. This sustained pattern of neural activity was characterized by a specific increase of coherence between distant areas, suggesting conscious perception is broadcasted widely across the cortex.”

Gaillard, Raphaël et al. 2009. “Converging Intracranial Markers of Conscious Access.” PLoS Biology 7(3): e61 EP -.


March 15th, 2009: Poem above is output from Manchester Mark I emulator by David Link. “The emulator currently runs Christopher Strachey’s “Loveletters” program from 1952 in its original form.”


//
holy mountain takes on an algorithmic new look
MD wine 3 gene asci
another redundant simulation curve about redundancy

//

-i- -ia -ial -ian -iana -iasis -iatrics -iatry -ible -ic -ical -ician -ics -id -idae -ide -ie -ier -ify -ile -in -inae -ine -ing -ion -ious -ise -ish -ism -ist -istic -ite -itis -itol -ity -ium -ive -ize

“Poetry is what elevates the banal and neglected object to a realm of art.” — Aimee Mullins

Tim Berners-Lee on the next Web | Video on TED.com



open-source data diversity
transparent and linked
consitutes awareness

RAW DATA NOW

“The surface of writing is and always has been complex. It is a liminal symbolically interpenetrated membrane, a fractal coast- or borderline, a chaotic and complex structure with depth and history.”


“… as a result of recent technologies, and digital literature’s explosive re-invention of itself on the web, some aesthetic patterns may be emerging on the contemporary scene that offer hope for a form still struggling for its public identity.”

digital lit. exhibit curated by Alan Bigelow


“In 1969, a 14-year-old Beatle fanatic named Jerry Levitan, armed with a reel-to-reel tape deck, snuck into John Lennon’s hotel room in Toronto and convinced John to do an interview. ”

“…to point to a couple of recent examples where I’ve seen underlying design trends hitting mainstream corporate television advertising.

First, if you’re not yet familiar with kinetic type, it’s a newish term for something that’s been around for a while (animated typography). It pays special attention to syncing directly with dialogue and typographically reflecting the emotion of the script or lyrics. “

To Do or Not to Do: The Neural Signature of Self-Control:

“Our results suggest that the human brain network for intentional action includes a control structure for self-initiated inhibition or withholding of intended actions. The mental control of action has an enduring scientific interest, linked to the philosophical concept of “free will.” Our results identify a candidate brain area that reflects the crucial decision to do or not to do.”



Fair visitors look at the humanoid robotic system “Rollin’ Justin” preparing a tea on March 2, 2009 at the world’s biggest high-tech fair CeBIT in Hanover, central Germany. (RONNY HARTMANN/AFP/Getty Images)


Prepare to be replaced.

text message from Benjamin Lotan on Vimeo.

Innately devout and idiosyncratic.


“These visualizations show the top organizations and personalities for every year from 1985 to 2001. Connections between these people & organizations are indicated by lines.

Data is from the newly-released NYTimes Article Search API: developer.nytimes.com “


Civilization knot.

“CMA activity declines in aged organisms … in this work we have corrected the CMA defect in aged rodents. We have generated a double transgenic mouse model in which the amount of the lysosomal receptor for CMA, previously shown to decrease in abundance with age, can be modulated.”

Nature Medicine 14, 959-965 (1 September 2008) | doi:10.1038/nm.1851;

Radical implication: Imminent mediated quasi-immortality.
Probable reality: Health commodities.

HI-MEMS – Programs – Microsystems Technology Office


Hybrid Insect MEMS (HI-MEMS)

Slavery diversifyied.


This is a picture of a note (p.420) I made to myself while reading JH Prynne ‘Poems’

JH Prynne’s recent poetical works remind me so much of a really sweetly tuned algorithm.

Are poets becoming computers as computers become poets?



“The lesson that we should learn, and that the movies try to avoid is that we ourselves are the aliens. Our ego, our psychic agency, is an alien force distorting controlling our body.”

“The ultimate lesson of psychoanalyst is that…emotions as such are deceiving. There are no specifically fake emotions because as Freud puts it literally: the only emotion that does not deceive is anxiety. All other emotions are a fake.”

“… an early beta of a standalone, crossplatform, opensource timeline application. It allows you to define keyframes of values, strings and colors over time and receive the values of a specific point in time via UDP/OSC.”

~
‘poems are timed strings’
~



You Are Beautiful – 2007 digital print on archival paper – 29×42cm – limited edition of ten prints


“In that modern culture of secondary orality, he [Ong] held, people do not learn language naturally as part of growing up. Instead, he argued, they absorb it from television, compact discs and computer programs.”

2009 (212): 2 — ScienceNOW

Zelkowitz: “As it currently stands, the wasps need the virus to survive, because the virus helps the insects lay eggs in caterpillars. The virus also needs the wasp to survive, because the virus can only replicate in the wasp’s ovaries. The virus cannot replicate inside the caterpillar, because all of its replication machinery is inside the wasp.”


“… it’s very important that we develop empathic machines, machines that have compassion, machines that understand what you’re feeling. If these robots do become as intelligent as human beings, we want this infrastructure of compassion and empathy to be in place so the machines are prepared to use their intellectual powers for the good of civilization rather than in ways that undermine the stability of civilization. In a way, we’re planting the seeds for the survival of humanity.”

Hanson Robotics

An electrophysiological signature of unconscious recognition memory : Abstract : Nature Neuroscience

“Kaleidoscope images were encoded in conjunction with an attentional diversion and were subsequently recognized more accurately than those encoded without diversion. … People can accurately discriminate repeat stimuli from new stimuli without necessarily knowing it.”


via: Neurophilosophy : The neurological basis of intuition

Flarf was first applied in reference to poems and other creative texts produced by the Flarflist Collective, a group of writers including Maria Damon, Jordan Davis, Katie Degentesh, Drew Gardner, Nada Gordon, Rodney Koeneke, Michael Magee, Sharon Mesmer, K. Silem Mohammad, and Gary Sullivan. The term was coined by Sullivan in late 2000, when he submitted deliberately bad poems to Poetry.com’s poetry “contest” (actually a marketing scheme) as a way of testing Poetry.com’s supposed standards for excellence. (It should be noted that the practice of Poetry.com-baiting predates flarf itself; many other individuals, including North Carolina poet Patrick Herron and syndicated humorist Dave Barry, have engaged in similar pranks.)”


In early 1914, a Spiritualist cinematographer from the Supernormal Picture Society of London joined the Royal Expedition to the Antarctic.


“… a large-scale outdoor waterscreen/mist projection system, the mirage-like installation glowed with colours and ebullient patterns created in response to the competing and collaborative voices, music and screams of people nearby. “


Scrivener is a word processor and project management tool created specifically for writers of long texts such as novels and research papers. It won’t try to tell you how to write – it just makes all the tools you have scattered around your desk available in one application.

* Monitor environments, record sensors & share realtime data
* Connect together devices, homes, energy meters & the world
* Embed dynamic realtime graphs in your own website or blog
* Route Pachube feeds to other web services & APIs
* See how people use Pachube & ask questions in the forum
* Save favourites, contact other users & share statistics
* Browse by map view or list view
* Search for feeds or browse by tag
* Track environments in RSS or Atom format

William F. Aicher:

“As a person who loves reading and has bought and read literally thousands of books, I never thought I’d say it, but I don’t like reading books anymore. It’s not that I don’t enjoy reading stories, or novels, nonfiction, etc. – it’s that I don’t like reading books. That’s right, the ink-on-paper all bound in one big lump of dead tree things. I can’t stand them.”


Smoking
Video clip

2007
2′45″
single channel videos
2.1 channel sound
color
ntsc

“…a large scale experiment on search engine behaviour was staged with more than two billion different web pages. This experiment lasted exactly one year…”

8 Courts 1 Collectif is an open source cinema initiative….

Loaded Pictures Presents ‘H2OIL’ Written & Directed by Shannon Walsh

“Moving between a local microcosm and the global oil crisis, H2Oil weaves together a collection of compelling stories of people who are at the front lines of the biggest industrial project in human history: Canada’s tar sands.”


“Wordle is a toy for generating “word clouds” from text that you provide.  The clouds give greater prominence to words that appear more frequently in the source text…”

A wordle of my delicious tags at jhave2

A wordle of my poem stash-blog Thoems at http://www.glia.ca/thoems/

Off FVA 2009 — Sortir de l’écran



yet another montreal-based iconoclast

“New illustrations for the latest issue of beef Magazine…”

Pixelgarten

Drop font. 1999.

for the love of type

poetics of value/value of poetics

one sees as well that this Saussurean-Lacanian operation of retroactive realization, this relation between the period and the meaning, is precisely the relation between price and value which circulates uncertainly until it comes to rest in a sale. Price is value’s quilting point.

“The Subjektbeschleuniger (subject accelerator) mimics signatures subatomic particles leave in collision detectors such as installed at the CERN in Geneva.”

New imaging technologies reveal the intricate architecture of the brain, creating a blueprint of its connectivity.


“Diffusion spectrum imaging (DSI) … uses magnetic resonance signals to track the movement of water molecules in the brain: water diffuses along the length of neural wires, called axons. Scientists can use these diffusion measurements to map the wires, creating a detailed blueprint of the brain’s connectivity.”


Our situation is this: most of the people in this world believe that the Creator of the universe has written a book. We have the misfortune of having many such books on hand, each making an exclusive claim as to its infallibility. People tend to organize themselves into factions according to which of these incompatible claims they accept rather than on the basis of language, skin color, location of birth, or any other criterion of tribalism. Each of these texts urges its readers to adopt a variety of beliefs and practices, some of which are benign, many of which are not. All are in perverse agreement on one point of fundamental importance, however: respect for other faiths, or for the views of unbelievers, is not an attitude that God endorses.


The goal of the DARPA GALE program is to develop and apply computer software technologies to absorb, analyze and interpret huge volumes of speech and text in multiple languages. Automatic processing “engines” will convert and distill the data, delivering pertinent, consolidated information in easy-to-understand forms to military personnel and monolingual English-speaking analysts in response to direct or implicit requests.


Kitasono Katue (1966): “I will create poetry through the viewfinder of my camera, out of pieces of paper scraps, boards, glasses, etc. This is the birth of new poetry.”

Hz

Hz

Fylkingen’s journal Hz started as a non-virtual journal after its predecessor Fylkingen Bulletin from ’60s. Since 2000, Hz moved to the Internet and has become an Internet journal, one of the few in Sweden. From the second issue in 2003 it also includes Net Gallery, where international Internet art works are presented.

Screening Room was a 1970s Boston television series that for almost ten years offered independent filmmakers a chance to show and discuss their work on a commercial (ABC-TV) affiliate station. The series was developed and hosted by filmmaker Robert Gardner (Dead Birds, Forest of Bliss), who was Chairman of the Department of Visual and Environmental Studies and Director of the Carpenter Center for Visual Arts at Harvard for many years. This unique program dealt even-handedly with animation, documentary, and experimental film, welcoming such artists as Jan Lenica, John and Faith Hubley, Emile DeAntonio, Jean Rouch, Ricky Leacock, Jonas Mekas, Bruce Baillie, Yvonne Rainer and Michael Snow. Frequently, guests such as Octavio Paz, Stanley Cavell, and Rudolph Arnheim appeared as well. The filmmakers presented on the show are now considered the most influential contributors to modern experimental film, documentary, and animation.

Robert Gardner’s personal website: www.robertgardner.net.