Electricity occupied an ambiguous place in the public imagination as both a life-giving and death-dealing technology. A century that had commenced with speculation concerning electricity’s power to overcome death had ended with the electric chair and the drawing up of guidelines to prevent death by electricity. The transformation serves as a striking illustration of the [...]
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Semacodes
Found Conor McGarrigle’s work online and was amazed by the ways he applies the notion of hybrid space to his work. A hybrid space happens where the distinction between information space and real physical space collapses, while hybrid space is increasingly a reality it still requires access to the necessary hardware. One of the projects, [...]
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Galvanic ideology
Electricity also played an important role in redefining a number of seemingly well-established and inviolable bodily boundaries. Natural philosophers could use electricity to chip away at previously clearly defined categories. Whilst the gap between mind and body was widened and solidified, the distinction between bodies and machines became significantly more porous. Machines that could simulate [...]
9000: “Echo”
The work is signed by 9000, a “prolific Columbian artist about whom there aren’t much information”. For the little there is (including the source of this post) and for accurate source attribution, check Aphelis’ blog.
Missile Command, code deconstruction
via daves page of art and programming. About: “Live coding is the art of programming in front of an audience. Screens are projected in order to display the entire process to the audience, thus making computer based performances more interesting and inclusive.” A practice, as Griffiths indicates, refering to the (Temporary|Transnational|Terrestrial|Transdimensional) Organisation for the (Promotion|Proliferation|Permanence|Purity) of [...]
Femke Snelting on Open Source Publishing, Interview by Matthew Fuller
MF: How does the use of this software change the way you work, do you see some possibilities for new ways of doing graphic design opening up? FS: For many reasons, software has become much more present in our work; at any moment in the workflow it makes itself heard. As a result we feel [...]
code design
The essence of pretty code is that one can infer much about the code’s structure from a glance, without completely reading it. I call this “visual parsing”: discerning the flow and relative importance of code from its shape. Engineering such code requires a certain amount of artifice to transform otherwise working code into working, readable [...]
