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Posted Cross medium thinking to The Nature of Representation
In class I mentioned a TED talk by Nathalie Miebach, who I saw and met at last year's EyeoFestival in June. She creates something like a musical score from weather data, then from the musical score she sculpts the final...
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Posted Project 2: Subconscious Earth to The Nature of Representation
If the Earth were to dream, what would it dream? And how would we interpret her dreams? Human dreams are a function of the brain while in a subconscious state during which certain older parts of the brain, such as...
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Posted Project One Review to The Nature of Representation
James Joyce pulled apart language and put it back together in seemingly unpredictable ways. The culmination which is Finnegans Wake is a dreamlike experience in the sense it probes the frontal cortex in arbitrary ways much like the midbrain would...
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Posted Lecture: Walker Painter-Painter: Molly Zuckerman-Hartung to The Nature of Representation
Last Thursday I decided to attend the Walker Painter-Painter lecture, a talk by Molly Zuckerman-Hartung, a Chicago-based artist in the show. As a meta comments, her style was very stream of consciousness, sometimes abstract, which I often enjoy; my approach...
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Posted Article: First Surrealist Manifesto to The Nature of Representation
My choice for article of discussion is the First Surrealist Manifesto (1924) by André Breton. It was partly by accident I ran into it, which I suppose is appropriate. Look at the bottom of this post for sources on where...
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Posted Arrived at the Beijing Film Academy to Beijing Now
It is refreshing to finally have Internet access after arriving in Beijing two days back. I'm at Sculpting in Time coffee shop after trying again and giving up on the Hotel for Internet access. We're at the end of a...
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Posted When in Beijing for... The China International Gallery Exposition - ARTINFO.com to Beijing Now
link to artinfo.com ... from Tom's email 4/28/2010...
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Posted Beijing Now blog created to Beijing Now
The Beijing Now program has a blog!...
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Posted Database Aesthetic, follow up to Art & Technology
I hope my presentation on Database Aesthetic a week ago was at least useful if not enjoyable. I got a lot out of the class participation. Thanks very much! The presentation itself was done in Keynote, and if you would...
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Posted FW to eStudio
The distraction project to which I previously referred I call FinnegansWork. It is based on a confluence of thoughts surrounding the notion of the Database Aesthetic as applied to literature....
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Posted The Wind to eStudio
(aka my Bluetooth project) The Wind, as I have stated before, creates a complex interaction between its viewers and a field of devices which simulates grass blowing in the wind. On a technical level, there are three components, if you...
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Posted 23,700,000 to eStudio
"a lot going on" (this semester) If you type that phrase into google (today) you will get over 23M results, a measure of great clichéness! Indeed I have a lot going on. I will blog on the project of my...
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Posted Processing (dot org) to Art & Technology
I thought we had a great conversation Monday night about Database Aesthetics. Meng asked about the software system called Processing and I promised to post something to this blog about it. It's pretty easy to remember the website for Processing...
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Posted Collaborative, Open Source Filmmaking to Art & Technology
I just ran into this site today. Since it is an open-source and collaborative activity, I thought it might be of interest to others. This also speaks to the "leveling" effect of technology that we discussed last Monday. FWIW...
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Posted Database Aesthetic to Art & Technology
On May 12th I will be presenting Database Aesthetic for class discussion. For my material, I have drawn from several sources, in particular articles from the book Database Aesthetics, Art in the Age of Information Overflow, Victoria Vesna, ed. Two...
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Posted Bluetooth to eStudio
Jotting down some thoughts on my plans for this semester. My original vision was a piece which I began to call The Wind, which can be summarized like this: waves of grass as if blowing in the wind, in reaction...
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Posted Jin-Yo Mok and SoniColumn: What I Think to ARTS 3601/5610 New Media ::::::::::::::::::::::Making Art Interactive
Mid-November, in my previous posting on the two Korean artists which I presented, I only provided links and not much elaboration on why I chose these two artists. One reason I chose Korea, of course, is that I already have...
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Posted Final Project: Wind to ARTS 3601/5610 New Media ::::::::::::::::::::::Making Art Interactive
Concept: Creating something seemingly organic out of mechanism is part of my fascination. I had a vision of a field of grass (or possibly reeds or bamboo) which could sway "in the wind" in reaction to passers-by. It is...
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Posted Artist Presentation: Jin Yo Mok and Kim Tae Eun to ARTS 3601/5610 New Media ::::::::::::::::::::::Making Art Interactive
I created a list of Korean new media artists, but then focus on Jin Yo Mok and Kim Tae Eun. Links are amply provided in the above link. I considered uploading the various movies I had collected to Media Mill,...
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Posted Project: What I used to call BodyMemory to ARTS 3601/5610 New Media ::::::::::::::::::::::Making Art Interactive
BODYMEMORY DOCUMENTATION...
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Posted Open source Max/MSP alternatives to ARTS 3601/5610 New Media ::::::::::::::::::::::Making Art Interactive
PD is available from puredata.info - it looks like it is designed and written by the same person who originally designed Max. This looks to be the closest thing to Max, but I have no idea (yet) how much Jitter-like...
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Posted Electronics Surplus Shop to ARTS 3601/5610 New Media ::::::::::::::::::::::Making Art Interactive
I discovered an electronics surplus shop the other day. I haven't been there yet, but here's their contact information. I called them - their limited hours are 800-430 M-F so not terribly convenient. They don't appear to have a web-site....
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Posted Body Memory to ARTS 3601/5610 New Media ::::::::::::::::::::::Making Art Interactive
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Posted PicoCricket Symbiosis to ARTS 3601/5610 New Media ::::::::::::::::::::::Making Art Interactive
Two pico-crickets talking to each other in red and green lights.
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