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The Policeman’s Beard Is Half Constructed

“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

Luke Lucas

modeselector

Abstraction layer – Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

“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

Diane di Prima

her website

Platonic Solids

“…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

flarf versus conceptual

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

Rubiks Font

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.”

Our daily bread – Geyrhalter Film

The Artvertiser

“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.”

Alexandre Singh – artreview.com

“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.”

GitHub

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

Global Consciousness Project — consciousness, group consciousness, mind

“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. “

Why Does Anything Exist? Section Four

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