Month: August 2011

  • Information Aesthetics The first 130 pages containing journal “bit international” Max Bense, a close friend of concrete art artist Max Bill and Abraham Moles presented their work on the “information aesthetics”. Bense and Moles tried – in different ways – to offer a method to determine the value of art on a mathematical, scientific, and…

  • I’m very fond of my Kindle. For the reasons I’ve outlined above, I think it’s an ingenious little gadget. But in my more hysterically Borgesian moments, I also think that there is something obscene about it, something that defiles and corrupts a reality I don’t want to see defiled and corrupted. It’s a tiny thing,…

  • Field is a development environment for experimental code and digital art in the broadest of possible senses. While there are a great many development environments and digital art tools out there today, this one has been constructed with two key principles in mind: * Embrace and extend — rather than make a personal, private and…

  • theatlantic: How the War Will Change Art Rising evil is concomitant with the destruction of art. Before anyone had heard of the Mullah Omar, NPR described to the world the obliteration of the Bamiyan buddhas. No vision of the Third Reich is complete without mountains of “degenerate” texts set ablaze, the deckled edges of Hemingway…

  • theatlanticvideo: Summer Heat in Extreme Slow Motion in ‘8 Hours in Brooklyn’ The team at Next Level Pictures took a Phantom Flex camera out for a Sunday afternoon in Brooklyn, and proved that summer in the city looks even hotter at 1,000+ frames per second. Most extreme slow motion footage is limited to a controlled…

  • laughingsquid: Clever Gadget Quickly Fills & Ties Water Balloons deskill me

  • My name is Molly Crabapple. I’m an artist, comics creator and the founder of Dr. Sketchy’s Anti-Art School, a company that runs alternative drawing events in 140 cities around the world. Molly Crabapple is not my birth name. I chose to use a different name when, at 19, I began working as a naked model.…

  • THATCamp Games, a themed humanities and technology unconference embracing games of all kinds, will take place January 20th to 22nd at the University of Maryland in College Park. If you’re interested in learning more about games and game design in the humanities, as part of research, or in relation to pedagogy and learning, this unconference…

  • The training strategy of this top professional football team is based on match data collected by companies like Amisco/MasterCoach, Opta and or Impire. Opta, which for years has been the main supplier of match data in the English and Spanish leagues, also evaluates the Bundesliga and the Champions League; in total they analyze data from…