two projects about the camera as a networked object. [...] The installation Blinks is a prism which refracts the ray of time running through a photo into all the moments that were captured simultaneously in different places. Buttons is a camera that actually shoots other’s photos, taking the notion of the networked camera to the extreme.
In 1965, in his studio in Warsaw, Opalka began painting a process of counting – from one to infinity. … the artist has pledged his life to its execution: ‘All my work is a single thing, the description from number one to infinity. A single thing, a single life.’
Elsewhere : Anderswo – 2009: “… a site-specific sound installation across two sites. Visitors carry small GPS-equipped computers and wear headphones. Sounds play automatically in response to their movements in the landscape … they move through layer upon layer of responsive sound …”
” … there is a fundamental requirement which the various kinds of concrete poetry meet: concentration upon the physical material from which the poem or text is made. Emotions and ideas are not the physical materials of poetry. … Generally speaking the material of the concrete poem is language …” (Concrete Poetry — A World View. 1968.)
“You just can’t squeeze life into a package. It’s going to ooze out here and there. I think it’s terribly important to be aware of this. Not to be aware of it may lead to an overevaluation of rules and techniques, a tendency to distort and ignore life when it doesn’t fit nicely into your system or theory.”
William Bernbach, “Sometimes I play Things I never heard Myself” in Bierut, Michael. Looking closer 3: classic writings on graphic design. 1999. Page 150
“Literatronic is an artificial intelligence engine that designs a fiction book specific to every reader based on her/his interaction with the system. “
“Alphabetic writing, like all technological systems and apparatuses, operates according to what might be called a corporeal axiomatic: it engages directly and inescapably with the bodies of its users. It makes demands and has corporeal effects. … The alphabet does this by imposing it own mediological needs on the body, from the evident perceptual and cognitive skills required to read and write to the invisible, neurological transformations which it induces in order to function. ”
Glioma of the left parietal lobe. CT scan with contrast enhancement.
Cage estimates that the game has roughly as much content as five feature films. “We don’t have ‘game over’ situations,” says Cage. “If you die as one character, you can play through to a different ending with the others. We saw the game as a journey, not like a series of obstacles that you need to go through. The point is for the experience to change when you change your actions.”
‘boranj’ is a study in the spread of ideas; an experiment in cultural evolution and idea (or meme) penetration.
We want to see if and how a word can spread from nothing into ubiquitous acceptance, so we created ‘boranj.’
“Each day in 2009, I asked every person with whom I had a meaningful encounter to submit a record of this meeting through an online survey. These reports form the heart of the 2009 Annual Report. From parents to old friends, to people I met for the first time, to my dentist… any time I felt that someone had discerned enough of my personality and activities, they were given a card with a URL and unique number to record their experience.”
“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.”
“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.”
“Free e-books work for me.”
“… 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….”
“… a system that composes a realistic picture from a simple freehand sketch annotated with text labels.”
“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. “
“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
lettering created by Chris Davenport using Nodebox (source code available)
Jan-Olaf Nygren. Cocktail. 2006, Silk screen on birch plywood, Ink. Dimensions variable
“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)
“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)
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.”
“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.
“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.”
| 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
watch the blurb self-assemble on utube
“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! “
Lilian Lijn, Sky Never Stops, 1965, Collection V&A Museum
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
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
“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
“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
“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.”
blog bot reads and writes for me
shop bot shops shops
sex bot sexes
bot bot bot bottom
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
“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.
“…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 -.
Tim Berners-Lee on the next Web | Video on TED.com
open-source data diversity
transparent and linked
consitutes awareness
RAW DATA NOW
“… 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.”
text message from Benjamin Lotan on Vimeo.
Innately devout and idiosyncratic.
“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 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.”
You Are Beautiful – 2007 digital print on archival paper – 29×42cm – limited edition of ten prints
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.”
” 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. “