Of Eno’s technology projects that have fallen by the wayside, the one he would most like to revive is the idea of self-generating musical systems, which he began studying in the 1980s. The premise is to create a music-making machine, whether it is as simple as a wind chime or as complex as computer software. [...]
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Brian Eno, complexity and universality
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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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Computer Guts
I booted Ubuntu 10.10 on my netbook a few days ago. As I pressed ESC to start the procedure with my USB drive, codes erupted on the screen. Swift white on black alignments accumulated too quickly for my eyes to follow. The netbook’s hum grew as they appeared. I hadn’t witnessed a boot sequence for [...]
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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.
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 boundary of that conjunction (or disjunction) be located ? Separators, operators, conjunctions can in this [...]
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“Life hacking with 3D printing and DIY DNA kits”
“We have now moved to the second wave of biotech which is the ability to order custom DNA, buy it online and get it delivered to you,” said James Brown, a PhD student studying synthetic biology. “We’re at the point of asking can we develop a language and set of fundamental engineering tools that we [...]
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 [...]
Code and Data
Among the pearls of wisdom and wackiness chronicled in Steven Levy’s classic history Hackers: Heroes of the Computer Revolution (Doubleday), my favorite is this one by Bill Gosper, who once said, “Data is just a dumb kind of programming.” The corollary, of course, is that code is just a smart kind of data—data designed to [...]
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 [...]
Ubiquitious C
An Intac survey, while lacking precisions about methodology, declared C the most popular programming language in 2010. Aside from changing every year, the usual suspects find their place in the hit parade. C was developped mostly by Dennis Ritchie at Bell Labs, who derived it from BCPL. As the development of C was closely tied [...]
