meanderings

If he could get a large enough piece of the material to lay over the top of a coffee cup, he says, graphene would be strong enough to support the weight of a car balanced atop the pencil.

Flash Video Technology – Blog Ing. Fabio Sonnati 2007

I use a mix of Ffmpeg, x264, Mencoder and Nero AAC. Here some parameters used:
5 reference frames, 5 B-frames, authomatic B-Frames, B-pyramid enabled, adaptive macroblock type, advanced Trellis on, Subq=7, advanced exagon search, deblocking filter with custom alpha e beta parameter, three pass encoding..

Example : clip from Sigur Ros’ Hemia

Noxious Sector, in collaboration with Deluge Contemporary Art, is proud to host the 2008 World Telekinesis Competition — a first of its kind event, in which teams from around the world will compete to psychically influence the behavior of a candle. Players are not expected to be physically present during competition, but rather will compete remotely from their home locations around the world. The World Telekinesis Competition is an open event, and all teams who satisfy the submission requirements will be included in the competition. Please consult the schedule for match times and results. Team profiles will be posted in accordance with registration policy. Please consult the Call for Participation for further details.

ELO Symposium 2007

Technologies of Writing

“The phrase ‘technologies of writing’ refers not to the script or alphabet, the calligraphic or marking system that a text employs, but to the practical methods by which these systems are applied—pencil, brush, quill, ink, paint, print, machine key and pixel—and to the material surfaces and sites of writing itself—clay, animal skin, parchment, linen, wood pulp and cyberspace.”

Bill Viola : Artists “detoxify and transform” technology.

interview pt2: “…it is up to the artist to understand the inner technology of their own thought, and make sure it’s as pure and honest and direct as it can be…”

Piet Zwart Institute – Words Made Flesh

WORDS MADE FLESH
Code, Culture, Imagination
Florian Cramer

A b s t r a c t: Executable code existed centuries before the invention of the computer in magic, Kabbalah, musical composition and experimental poetry. These practices are often neglected as a historical pretext of contemporary software culture and electronic arts. Above all, they link computations to a vast speculative imagination that encompasses art, language, technology, philosophy and religion. These speculations in turn inscribe themselves into the technology. Since even the most simple formalism requires symbols with which it can be expressed, and symbols have cultural connotations, any code is loaded with meaning. This booklet writes a small cultural history of imaginative computation, reconstructing both the obsessive persistence and contradictory mutations of the phantasm that symbols turn physical, and words are made flesh.