meanderings

2008-08-19T21:30:00.001-07:00

Much fuss is made of the fact that ‘now no-one does a whole lot of reading’ etc. etc. – all people really care about is the movies, even book page editors and reviewers. Poetry carries on, but the new factor in the poetry equation (writer/reader) is the custodial critic/curator / reviewer. Poets are used as counters between warring ideological tribes intent on rehabilitation or demolition.

2008-08-18T16:33:00.001-07:00

Write rhymes.

As you write, hold the alt key and click on a word to find a rhyme for it...

2008-07-26T08:17:00.001-07:00

Verbiage Végétal

Ces arbres reposent sur une arborescence complexe composée des lettres de l’alphabet.

2008-07-20T17:16:00.001-07:00

DESKTOPOGRAPHY - Qaiyumi ~ Microscopical Abstraction

2008-07-17T21:58:00.001-07:00

Technology Review: Strongest Material Ever Tested

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.

2008-07-17T12:42:00.001-07:00

coupland.com ~ the gum theif ~ branding promo

2008-07-16T07:45:00.001-07:00

The Conscious Mind: In Search of a Fundamental Theory.

David Chalmers: Physics requires information states but cares only about their relations, not their intrinsic nature; phenomenology requires information states, but cares only about their fundamental nature.

2008-07-15T11:34:00.001-07:00

kelly warman

"Within this idea of progression we have a paradoxical
storm that we are simultaneously attempting to avoid.
We all want to be new; newness is what perpetuates
all new ideas."

Kelly Warman & Tobias Laukemper,"ProgRock" DVD, 5:17 mins

2008-07-13T15:59:00.001-07:00

Salon.com News | Apocalypse now

This new age, they explain, is defined both by the heating trend (whose closest analogue may be the catastrophe known as the Paleocene Eocene Thermal Maximum, 56 million years ago) and by the radical instability expected of future environments. In somber prose, they warn that "the combination of extinctions, global species migrations and the widespread replacement of natural vegetation with agricultural monocultures is producing a distinctive contemporary biostratigraphic signal. These effects are permanent, as future evolution will take place from surviving (and frequently anthropogenically relocated) stocks." Evolution itself, in other words, has been forced into a new trajectory.

2008-07-13T15:33:00.001-07:00

Lightmark | Cenci Goepel and Jens Warnecke | Hamburg | Germany

No.60 | N 70°26’36.5“ E 27°53’27.1“,Tanafjorden, Finnmark, Norway, 2007

2008-07-06T14:45:00.001-07:00

The Decapitator - a set on Flickr

2008-07-05T09:14:00.001-07:00

An Interview with Douglas R. Hofstadter, following ''I am a Strange Loop''

My argument in I Am a Strange Loop is spelled out clearly. If a person's soul is truly a pattern, then it can be realized in different media. Wherever that pattern exists in a sufficiently fine-grained way, then it is, by my definition, the soul itself and not some kind of “mere simulation” of it.

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

Annals of Medicine: The Itch: Reporting & Essays: The New Yorker

The account of perception that’s starting to emerge is what we might call the “brain’s best guess” theory of perception: perception is the brain’s best guess about what is happening in the outside world. The mind integrates scattered, weak, rudimentary signals from a variety of sensory channels, information from past experiences, and hard-wired processes, and produces a sensory experience full of brain-provided color, sound, texture, and meaning. We see a friendly yellow Labrador bounding behind a picket fence not because that is the transmission we receive but because this is the perception our weaver-brain assembles as its best hypothesis of what is out there from the slivers of information we get. Perception is inference.

2008-07-03T21:58:00.001-07:00

Hasan Elahi - Tracking Transience

"I've discovered that the best way to protect your privacy is to give it away"

2008-07-03T20:38:00.001-07:00

HOW2

2008-07-02T21:09:00.001-07:00

littleBits

littleBits is an opensource library of discrete electronic components pre-assembled in tiny circuit boards. Just as Legos allow you to create complex structures with very little engineering knowledge, littleBits are simple, intuitive, space-sensitive blocks that make prototyping with sophisticated electronics a matter of snapping small magnets together. With a growing number of available modules, littleBits aims to move electronics from late stages of the design process to its earliest ones, and from the hands of experts, to those of artists, makers and designers.

2008-07-02T20:51:00.001-07:00

The Wondering Minstrels

(Warm, fuzzy description)

2008-07-02T07:53:00.001-07:00

th_ gallo_s - H_NGM_N: an online journal of poetry, poetics &c.

2008-07-02T07:50:00.001-07:00

PAUL VERMEERSCH

Poetry and such.

2008-07-02T07:38:00.001-07:00

Catie Rosemurgy | New York | Kenyon Review Online

The people around us
sharpen slowly like teeth

in a mouth so crowded
it must remain open.

2008-07-02T07:17:00.001-07:00

PLoS Biology - Mapping the Structural Core of Human Cerebral Cortex

Structurally segregated and functionally specialized regions of the human cerebral cortex are interconnected by a dense network of cortico-cortical axonal pathways. By using diffusion spectrum imaging, we noninvasively mapped these pathways within and across cortical hemispheres in individual human participants. An analysis of the resulting large-scale structural brain networks reveals a structural core within posterior medial and parietal cerebral cortex, as well as several distinct temporal and frontal modules. Brain regions within the structural core share high degree, strength, and betweenness centrality, and they constitute connector hubs that link all major structural modules. The structural core contains brain regions that form the posterior components of the human default network. L

2008-06-29T10:09:00.001-07:00

How old is the Internet?

2008-06-29T09:14:00.001-07:00

George Carlin - Life is Worth Losing

2008-06-29T08:58:00.001-07:00

Stellet Licht

2008-06-20T08:06:00.001-07:00

Sarah Washington: Hearing in Tongues

An eight-part Radio Art series by Sarah Washington exploring the roots of language, communication and consciousness. The spoken text used as the basis for these pieces is the biblical story of The Tower of Babel from Genesis 11:1-9.

The series attempts to break down our understanding of language and challenge our relationship to meaning. The languages referenced include an array of tongues from Ancient Hebrew to Mandarin. Each episode is 3 minutes in length including a short introduction.

2008-06-16T17:33:00.001-07:00

EFF: Patent Busting Project

Tired of bogus software patents? So are we! To combat these annoying and often dangerous legal weapons, EFF has launched the Patent Busting Project to take down some of worst offenders.

2008-06-13T13:16:00.001-07:00

Lorenzo Oggiano - Quasi Objects

organic re-design intended as a whole to stimulate thought and dialogue about the progressive relativisation of natural forms of life as a result of techno-biological evolution.

2008-06-13T13:03:00.001-07:00

Delicate Boundaries

Delicate Boundaries from csugrue on Vimeo.

Delicate Boundaries imagines a space in which the worlds inside our digital devices can move into the physical world. Small bugs made of light, crawl out of the computer screen onto the human bodies that make contact with them. The system explores the subtle boundaries that exist between foreign systems and what it might mean to cross them.

2008-06-10T12:43:00.001-07:00

Use It Incorrectly | xoxo -- c 7 11 23 -- JK Keller

2008-06-09T10:21:00.001-07:00

Book/Shelf, March 26–July 7, 2008, MOMA

Featuring works that transform books through a variety of mediums, Book/Shelf stresses an expanded notion of the illustrated book. The exhibition begins with a documentation of Marcel Duchamp's Unhappy Readymade (1919)—a work created when the artist, while traveling, asked his sister back home to hang a geometry book on his balcony in order to let the wind flip and tear the pages. It continues with works in which artists appropriate books by others, such as a sculpture by Martin Kippenberger made partly of books, and a copy of Duchamp's catalogue raisonné rebound by David Hammons under the title Holy Bible. Artists who tackle the idea of books in film (William Wegman), sound works (On Kawara), prints (Edward Ruscha), and drawings (Steve Wolfe) are represented as well. Finally, the exhibition surveys a number of artists who have created installations that display books in public contexts, including Brian Belott, Allen Ruppersberg, Josh Smith, and Lawrence Weiner.

2008-06-08T12:07:00.001-07:00

Chris Harrison - Word Associations

2008-05-29T21:59:00.001-07:00

The End of Faith: Religion, Terror - Sam Harris

2008-05-27T21:02:00.001-07:00

BLU > NEWS

2008-05-19T16:15:00.001-07:00

UNICE - Universal Network of Intelligent Conscious Entities

1. UNICE: Etymology: An acronym for Universal Network of Intelligent Conscious Entities, the hive-like consciousness that is theorized to emerge from the interpenetration of computers, humans and advanced forms of the Internet. UNICE will be composed of a collective consciousness, or group mind, and numberless individuals. It will also be capable of producing any number of protean, non-biological entities.

2008-05-17T22:05:00.001-07:00

superfad / reel

2008-05-15T22:01:00.001-07:00

:: Film & Video : Artist Series/Design Matters Live : Lawrence Weiner ::

2008-05-13T20:10:00.001-07:00

My Damn Channel » Sn4tchbuckl3r's Second Chance » Sn4tchbuckl3r's Second Chance #2: Occupational Hazards

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

Pangea Day: Encounter Point

directed by Ronit Avni and Julia Bacha

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

mdsp @ smartelectronix: LiveCut

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

Welcome | Meatwater

2008-04-11T20:17:00.001-07:00

robot+proud.com

2008-04-11T14:53:00.001-07:00

jörg piringer - home

2008-04-10T22:07:00.001-07:00

Paul Sharits – Les presses du réel (book)

2008-04-09T21:39:00.001-07:00

Helnwein
The Disasters of War 3 2007
200 cm x 293 cm. mixed media (oil and acrylic on canvas).
In memory of Francisco de Goya.

2008-04-09T11:18:00.001-07:00

the official ryoji ikeda web site

est pattern is a system that converts any type of data (text, sounds, photos and movies) into barcode patterns and binary patterns of 0s and 1s. Through its application, the project aims to examine the relationship between critical points of device performance and the threshold of human perception.

2008-04-07T22:14:00.001-07:00

The Minneapolis Review: Jeremy Blake

2008-04-07T20:02:00.001-07:00

the letter A

2008-04-07T11:41:00.000-07:00

2008-04-07T11:40:00.001-07:00

Typographic Research

2008-04-06T10:14:00.001-07:00

Adolf Loos - biography synopsis (Wikipedia)

Born in 1870 in Brno, Moravia, his stonemason father died when he was only nine. A rebellious, disorientated boy, he failed in various attempts to get through architecture school. Contracting syphilis in the brothels of Vienna, by 21 he was sterile and in 1893 his mother disowned him. He went to America and for three years and did odd jobs in New York, somehow finding himself in that process and returning to Vienna in 1896 a man of taste and intellectual refinement, immediately entering the fashionable Viennese intelligentsia. His friends included Ludwig Wittgenstein, Arnold Schönberg, and Karl Kraus. He quickly established himself as the preferred architect of Vienna’s cultured bourgeoisie. Diagnosed with cancer in 1918, his stomach, appendix and part of his intestine were removed. For the rest of his life he could only digest ham and cream. He had several unhappy marriages. By the time he was fifty he was almost completely deaf; in 1928 he was disgraced by a paedophilia scandal and at his death in 1933 at 63 he was penniless[2]. He died in Kalksburg near Vienna.

Adolf Loos: "Ornament and Crime"

2008-04-05T21:11:00.001-07:00

I Want Out

1971; Committee to Help Unsell the War (New York); offset; 40 1/8 x 29 1/8 inches

2008-04-03T10:38:00.001-07:00

Stefanie Posavec “On the Map” (NOTCOT)

2008-03-31T20:15:00.001-07:00

JunkWare.v.1

"reverse transmediation" is twofold: (1) extraction and analysis of an on-line hypermediatic archive on the topic of "junk DNA", and (2) extraction from this archive of a sample of significant contributers to be interviewed.

2008-03-30T19:06:00.001-07:00

YouTube - Elephant Painting

2008-03-29T21:49:00.001-07:00

Patently Silly - The Humor of Invention - presented by Daniel Wright

2008-03-29T21:28:00.001-07:00

Ivy reveals gripping secret

rootlets end in fingers or disks, hundreds of micrometres long

2008-03-29T21:04:00.001-07:00

Audeo ~ Speak Your Mind

The Audeo creates an interface for communication without the need of motor control or speech ... +

2008-03-27T11:47:00.001-07:00

The Horror...The...uh...horror..?

2008-03-27T11:35:00.000-07:00

Henry Miller - Bathroom monologue 1

2008-03-26T19:44:00.000-07:00

via:Spot the 80s Video Cliche with Justice

2008-03-23T08:17:00.001-07:00

Animate Projects - Magnetic Movie

2008-03-22T20:24:00.001-07:00

Electronic Literature: New Horizons For The Literary

A visible presence for some two decades, electronic literature has already produced many works that deserve the rigorous scrutiny critics have long practiced with print literature. Only now, however, with Electronic Literature: New Horizons for the Literary by N. Katherine Hayles, do we have the first systematic survey of the field and an analysis of its importance, breadth, and wide-ranging implications for literary study.

2008-03-22T15:51:00.001-07:00

"Our relationships, which once raised us into
the public realm, are being rapidly volatilized,
our infinite access is also a kind of infinite
reservation, and our power for word and deed
is giving way to a power for petrification."

2008-03-21T17:42:00.001-07:00

Maybe Meme

2008-03-13T17:30:00.001-07:00

The Memory Hole > Excerpts From "War Against War!"

Three Guineas by Virginia Woolf

question—How in your opinion are we to prevent war?—still unanswered.

2008-03-08T21:47:00.001-08:00

The End of Books -- Robert Coover (1992)

Much of the novel's alleged power is embedded in the line, that compulsory author-directed movement from the beginning of a sentence to its period, from the top of the page to the bottom, from the first page to the last. Of course, through print's long history, there have been countless strategies to counter the line's power, from marginalia and footnotes to the creative innovations of novelists like Laurence Sterne, James Joyce, Raymond Queneau, Julio Cortazar, Italo Calvino and Milorad Pavic, not to exclude the form's father, Cervantes himself. But true freedom from the tyranny of the line is perceived as only really possible now at last with the advent of hypertext, written and read on the computer, where the line in fact does not exist unless one invents and implants it in the text.

2008-03-06T08:47:00.001-08:00

Virgin Galactic SpaceShipTwo (Video)

2008-03-05T16:38:00.001-08:00

RETHINKING WASTE

2008-03-05T15:46:00.001-08:00

Seven Blunders of the World - Mahatma Gandhi :

# Wealth without work

# Pleasure without conscience

# Knowledge without character

# Commerce without morality

# Science without humanity

# Worship without sacrifice

# Politics without principle

2008-03-03T21:53:00.001-08:00

sponge/projects/M1

M1 explores the cusp between visible and invisible performance, between scripted and chance events and emergent social patterns.

M1 can be performed by anyone, anywhere. The first iteration of M1 by sponge took place at Tressider Plaza, Stanford University, Palo Alto, Califonia during the spring of 1997.

M1 is a barely perceptible anomaly that does not emerge into the visible during one cycle of viewing. It makes a slow and cumulative imprint.

2008-03-02T19:22:00.001-08:00

"Humanity's present rate of total energy consumption amounts to only one four-millionth of one percent of the rate of its energy income. ...Ninety-nine percent of humanity does not know that we have the option to make it economically on this planet and in the Universe. We do.”
-- Buckminster Fuller, from the introduction to Critical Path

2008-03-02T19:17:00.001-08:00

Vexations - Erik Satie:

"In order to play this motif 840 times consecutively to oneself, it will be useful to prepare oneself beforehand, and in utter silence, by grave immobilities."

2008-02-23T17:13:00.001-08:00

YEAR01.COM PRESENTS

2008-02-18T16:45:00.001-08:00

» Scientists create nanowires using DNA - Thaindian News

“The process is very simple stuff. Basically you put the solution and DNA into a beaker, stir it around, and expose it to light...”

2008-02-09T12:21:00.001-08:00

flgiht404 - all manner of distractions » Blog Archive » Solar, with lyrics
Solar, with lyrics. from flight404 on Vimeo.

2008-02-09T11:59:00.001-08:00

Be still when you have nothing to say; when genuine passion moves you, say what you've got..... - D.H. Lawrence

2008-02-07T17:06:00.001-08:00

The Richter Scales: Home

2008-02-07T16:16:00.001-08:00