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.

YouTube - Elephant Painting

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

Ivy reveals gripping secret

rootlets end in fingers or disks, hundreds of micrometres long

Audeo ~ Speak Your Mind

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

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

Henry Miller - Bathroom monologue 1

via:Spot the 80s Video Cliche with Justice

Animate Projects - Magnetic Movie

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.

"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."

Read this doc on Scribd: 2007 - The Public Realm

Maybe Meme

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.

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.

Virgin Galactic SpaceShipTwo (Video)

RETHINKING WASTE

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

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.

"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

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."

YEAR01.COM PRESENTS

» 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...”

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

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

The Richter Scales: Home

Frozen Grand Central at Improv Everywhere

"On a cold Saturday in New York City, the world’s largest train station came to a sudden halt. Over 200 Improv Everywhere Agents froze in place at the exact same second for five minutes in the Main Concourse of Grand Central Station."

Tunng

Tobias Stretch video for Efterklang's "Illuminant"

Noxious Sector

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.

Heebok Lee : animated typography

:| M.Ward |:

Sable Island Poet -- Jill MacLean -- 44°N 60°W

"curve to your own mortality, see how
grasses grow through an empty hoof
and watch the migrant finch, its feathers
the blue of ocean, intensified
as a lens bends
sunlight to burning"

Julian Rosefeldt

A film still from "The Perfectionist."
Julian Rosefeldt, a German artist born in 1965 who lives in Berlin, makes "visually opulent, earnestly political films and videos. His work is high-minded, excessively middlebrow and seemingly bent on tweaking consciousness seductively and without strain," writes Roberta Smith.

Stimmhorn

Border crossers in the Helvetic landscape of sound

ZTOHOVEN

On the June 17th 2007 our group invaded media and television territory intruded and impeached its trueness as well as its credibility. Pointed out the possible confusion of media presented picture of our wolrd for the real one. Is everything that our media such as newspapers, television, internet offer on daily basis real truth or reality? It is this idea that our project is to introduce to general public, sort of reminder to everyone. We truly believe that independet territory of television governed by public law is that kind of media which can handle such thing even at the cost of self impeachement. Let it be this kind of appeal for our future and reminder to any media that the truth must be presented at any cost.

Chris Salter -- The Architecture of Listening

"MEDIA DETERMINE OUR SITUATION" writes the German theorist Friedrich Kittler, imagining a world where human perception and being are replaced by archives, code, systems, and networks. This is not the stuff of science fiction—to be unleashed on us in some distant future—but rather the present.

Thumbs Race as Japan’s Best Sellers Go Cellular - New York Times

Rin, 21, tapped out a novel on her cellphone that sold 400,000 copies in hardcover.

YouTube - Jan Svankmajer - Food - Breakfast - Stop Motion Animation

The Secret of the Golden Flower - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

Rational thought benefits from an enhanced acuity of intuitive perception.

Media Art Net | Weibel, Peter: Video Texte

«Video Texte» (1975)



A sequence of video-specific poems. Purely linguistic poems which are constructed on the temporal, sculptural and technical possibilities of the video system. Evolutions of some methods of concrete poetry. The TV set becomes a processual text object.

Bill Seaman / Pasage Sets (1995)

Expanded Cinema as Expanded Reality

MoMA.org | The Collection | Gary Hill. Inasmuch As It Is Always Already Taking Place. 1990

MoMA.org | Exhibitions | 2005 | OWLS AT NOON Prelude: The Hollow Men

"Chris Marker combs a vast beach of images to create an echo chamber in which the viewer can either remember or witness for the first time the reality of a civilization's self-slaughter."

M. Ward - Portland, Oregon - Indie / Blues / Folk - www.myspace.com/mward

Steal This Film II

Jimmy Owenns

raster - zbigniew libera

An Essay by Einstein -- The World As I See It

"This topic brings me to that worst outcrop of herd life, the military system, which I abhor... This plague-spot of civilization ought to be abolished with all possible speed."
-- Albert Einstein

cryptogon.com : news - analysis - conspiracies

Marc Quinn at DHC

VIK MUNIZ

Robotic Fly

“If I could go back in time and choose again the field I would get into,” he says, “it might be a toss-up between engineering and biology.”

~ Professor Robert Wood, Harvard Microbiotics Lab

Jenny Holzer PROJECTIONS

November 18, 2007 - Fall 2008
The text on display in PROJECTIONS: Selected poems from View with a Grain of Sand and Poems New and Collected: 1957-1997, copyright © 1993, 1998 by Wisława Szymborska

Jan Švankmajer - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

Johnny Chung Lee - Human Computer Interaction Research

Eyes' movements

"This Newspaper has already been read. The eyes' movements while reading were recorded, digitalized and then reproduced as a print-out.
What emerges is an intimation of something that is actually an invisible process, namely reading; what remains behind is a trace of the intake of information."

cognitive speed

salary gap

In 1970, the CEO salary gap was only 28 times an average wage.

The PEAR Proposition

Bas Jan Ader

Samarost2 Plantage

d3o technology is a specially engineered material with intelligent molecules that flow with you as you move but on shock lock together to absorb impact energy.

Unaligned Collision Avoidance steering behavior

Sole, R. V., & Cancho, R. F. I. (2001). The small world of human language. Proc. Royal Society London, 268, 2261-2265.

"...a statistically significant property has been reported about the organization of human language. In spite of the huge number of words that can be stored by a human, any word in the lexicon can be reached with fewer than three intermediate words, on average.

...the graph connecting words in language shows the same statistical features as other complex networks. The short distance between words arising from the SW[Small World] structure indicates that language evolution might have involved the selection of a particular arrangement of connections between words.

If the SW features derive from optimal navigation needs... words the main purpose of which is to speed-up navigation must exist... According to our calculations, the 10 most connected words are `and’, `the’, `of ’, `in’, `a’, `to’, `’s’, `with’, `by’ and `is’. These words are characterized by a very low or zero semantic content."

Dan Abrams’s Similar Artists – Last.fm

Christian Robert-Tissot ::

pixile ENESS

Christopher Baker

Tauba Auerbach

Glenn Ligon | Images | Regen Projects

Olivia Plender - Drawings - The Saatchi Gallery

Lou Laurita at Guild & Greyshkul

exhibit research | Mark Tilden interview

Q: Would you say that these robots have some type of creativity?

A: As yet, we have not seen that. What we have seen are devices which we call the queens, which are one of our nervous net controllers, embedded into another form of nervous net controller. And what that allows us to do is make devices that are, in fact, capable of learning, that are subject to moods.

Mark Newman : Images of the social and economic world

Child Mortality Rate:

Post Modern Times | 2012

DigiBarn Posters: Mother Tongues of Computer Languages

SKEUMORPH

N. Katherine Hayles - Boundary Disputes: Homeostasis, Reflexivity, and the Foundations of Cybernetics - Configurations 2:3

A skeuomorph is a design feature, no longer functional in itself, that refers back to an avatar that was functional at an earlier time. The dashboard of my Toyota Camry, for example, is covered by vinyl molded to simulate stitching; the simulated stitching alludes back to a fabric that was in fact stitched, although it no longer serves that function in my car. Skeuomorphs visibly testify to the social or psychological necessity for innovation to be tempered by replication.

(mai May 2009), la Biennale Internationale des Poètes ~

Concours media poésie   ~  Media Poetry Contest

Forget the Film - Watch the Titles