Un moi sans fêlure ?
Marie-José MONDZAIN : Cette tradition venait de l’art des tisserands et du tapis où il fallait toujours produire un défaut dans les motifs géométriques. Ces carreaux par terre, je les connais bien, étaient des sortes de labyrinthes et d’entrelacs, où…
Ben Tolman: “Cognitive transformation”
I found this illustration on Mind Hacks first. It reminded me of Fritz Kahn’s artwork for a moment. That was before I explored Ben Tolman’s gallery, featuring ink drawings which can be viewed with great detail through zoomify. Ben Tolman…
Uncanny Valley
Last Saturday, I was reading an article from Le Devoir about a reconstructed carthaginian man who died 2600 about years ago. Journalist Pauline Gravel’s description of dermoplasty was the most interesting thing about it: Une fois la tête posée sur…
Runxt Life
Runxt Life – Introduction from Firma 103 on Vimeo. From Runxt: « Runxt Life is a generative music application created for the iOS® platform based on the cellular automaton theory “Conway’s Game of Life” by John Horton Conway. The ‘game’…
“Lost,”
When I found this on Phil Jone’s Blog, Benjamin’s description of a work of art’s aura came back to mind: What, then, is the aura ? A strange tissue of space and time: the unique apparition of a distance, however near…
Ontologies
Is an artificial creature a form of life, or a compound of organs ? Should it also be subsumed under the notion of artificial intelligence ? When an “and” is placed between two terms (artificial/natural, natural/cultural, immanent/transcendent), where should the…
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…
Gravity’s Rainbow
This intricate plotting and world-annihilating, phallic, homosexual imagery are well-known characteristics of paranoia. Indeed, an explicit project in all of Pynchon’s works is the exploration, celebration, condemnation and proliferating dramatization of paranoia. In an essay on “The Mechanism of Paranoia”…