meanderings

2008-05-12T17:54:00.001-07:00

directed by Ronit Avni and Julia Bacha

2008-05-12T17:53:00.001-07:00

Livecut is based on BBCut the BreakBeat Cutting library written by Nick Collins for SuperCollider

The BBCut Library began out of work on an algorithm to simulate the automatic cutting of breakbeats in the style of early jungle or drum and bass Nick Collins.

Livecut is only a small subset of what is possible with BBCut, but as it is available as a VST plugin, it is much easier to start experimenting with it.

2008-05-09T11:09:00.001-07:00

Interview with Fernando Orellana - we make money not art

Holding a miniature video camera, on one side of each suitcase in Carry On is mounted a two axis robotic arm. The live video feed from this camera is displayed on a LCD screen mounted on the other side of the suitcase. Every couple of minutes, the robots change the position of the cameras, thus changing what is being displayed in the LCD screens. Lacking image analysis of any kind or other sensory capability, these suitcases blindly look about, never understanding what they see.

2008-05-09T06:18:00.001-07:00

Wislawa Szymborska - Nobel Lecture

I've mentioned inspiration. Contemporary poets answer evasively when asked what it is, and if it actually exists. It's not that they've never known the blessing of this inner impulse. It's just not easy to explain something to someone else that you don't understand yourself.

2008-05-08T16:56:00.001-07:00

4D2U : Four Dimensional Digital Universe Project

2008-05-08T08:54:00.001-07:00

inflexions

The inaugural issue of Inflexions tackles an endlessly generative question that is a once the thematic of the issue, and the raison d’être of the journal as a whole: “How is Research-Creation?”

2008-05-02T21:33:00.001-07:00

Continental Drift

…by participatory means, for whoever wants to start right now

2008-05-02T20:35:00.001-07:00

Media Art History

"The technology of the modern media has produced new possibilities of interaction. (…)
What is needed is a wider view encompassing the coming rewards in the context of
the treasures left us by the past experiences, possessions and insights."

Summer 2000, RUDOLF ARNHEIM (b. 1904 - d. 2007)

2008-05-01T08:16:00.001-07:00

Words Fail Me

...an exhibition that explores visual art's ongoing engagement - and entanglement - with language.

2008-04-29T21:33:00.001-07:00

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

2008-04-28T11:36:00.001-07:00

Bookeen - Cybook ePaper - the eBook reading device

2008-04-25T20:14:00.001-07:00

vvvv: a multipurpose toolkit : Example: ZEN STATION

The ZEN STATION is a bio-feedback controlled game for two players.
The heartrate and the blood oxygen level of both players are measured in realtime using sensor technology.

The goal of the game is to beat the antagonist simply by being cool.
Whoever manages to stay calmer over a period of time wins the game.

2008-04-24T20:30:00.001-07:00

2008-04-24T17:44:00.001-07:00

Seazon

2008-04-23T10:24:00.001-07:00

Why does this img remind me of txt msgs?
Language | Futility Closet

- Charles Carroll Bombaugh, Gleanings for the Curious From the Harvest-Fields of Literature, 1890

2008-04-23T09:54:00.001-07:00

NodeBox | LetterKnitter

The LetterKnitter stitches and knits letters and words together, with an occasional error in the stitching process.

2008-04-23T07:48:00.001-07:00

Sander Plug

2008-04-23T07:22:00.001-07:00

Eitan Mendelowitz: Drafting Poems: Inverted Potentialities, 2002-2006

"Drafting Poems: Inverted Potentialities" challenges preconceived notions of intelligence, creativity and authorship. In "Drafting Poems," an artificially intelligent system reacts to user stimuli and creates meaningful poetry.

2008-04-20T13:14:00.001-07:00

Crystalpunk: For the Advancement of Doodle Knowledge

Crystalpunk is a simpleton stampede, a coxcomb carnival, a daydreamers cabal, a platitude-peddling potlatch, a nihilists ambulation on tiptoe, an incantation of the language in the corners of your eyes, a wild farrago of those who run before they can walk, an ABD of being Free from the NOW! NOW! NOW! We wear non-matching socks: that is who we are!

2008-04-19T07:47:00.001-07:00

judisdaid!

The Error Engine is a work of digital prose that is developing the capability to contribute to its own authorship, and, eventually, to evolve itself indefinitely.

2008-04-19T06:50:00.001-07:00

Experiential Typography | One Day Poem Pavilion | Jiyeon Song

Using a complex array of perforations, light passing through the pavilion’s surface produces shifting patterns, which transform into the legible text of a poem

2008-04-19T06:47:00.001-07:00

I Want You To Want Me / by Jonathan Harris and Sep Kamvar

2008-04-13T16:59:00.001-07:00

The Internet Classics Archive | On the Nature of Things by Lucretius

Thus primal bodies are solid, without a void.
But since there's void in all begotten things,
All solid matter must be round the same;

2008-04-13T12:24:00.001-07:00

Public Domain Donor

Why let all of your ideas die with you? Current Copyright law prevents anyone from building upon your creativity for 70 years after your death. Live on in collaboration with others. Make an intellectual property donation. By donating your IP into the public domain you will "promote the progress of science and useful arts" (U.S. Constitution). Ensure that your creativity will live on after you are gone, make a donation today.

2008-04-12T12:30:00.001-07:00

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