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The Apollo program, which has become a metaphor for technology’s capacity to solve big problems, met these criteria, but it is an irreproducible model for the future. This is not 1961: there is no galvanizing historical context akin to the Cold War, no likely politician who can heroize the difficult and dangerous, no body of…
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laughingsquid: Reasons I install Microsoft Silverlight fascistic algorithms indeed.
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Algorithms are inherently fascistic, because they give the comforting illusion of an alterity to human affairs. “You don’t like this music? The algorithms have worked it out” is not so far from “You don’t like this law? It works objectively.” Algorithms have replaced laws of human nature, the vital distinction being that nobody can read…
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nevver: Artists who vote done, forward.
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Good GIF tutorial for photoshop users
Good GIF tutorial for photoshop users
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prostheticknowledge: Microcontrollers as Craft Material High-Low Tech have put together some tools and techniques to integrate electronics into craft works: We’ve developed a set of tools and techniques that make it easy to use microcontrollers as an art or craft material, embedding them directly into drawings or other artifacts. We use the ATtiny45 from Atmel,…
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robertogreco: Aaron Straup Cope’s talk (above) at “Stories from the New Aesthetic” is now online. As I wrote last month, Aaron’s talk “could keep your mind busy for the weekend… the year… a career.” It’s full of though-provoking ideas and questions, not the least of which is the closer: We have barely learned to trust…
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Technically, “skeuomorphic” design refers to software that mimics the elements in an older device that were functionally necessary for that device to work. In that way, the iPhone calculator’s three-dimensional buttons are an archetypal example of skeuomorphism. You needed three-dimensional buttons in physical calculators; on a flat screen, 3-D buttons aren’t necessary. (On the other…
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recodeproject.com
recodeproject.com The ReCode Project is a community-driven effort to preserve computer art by translating it into a modern programming language (Processing). Every [work] translated will be available to the public and contemporary artists to learn from, share, and build on. Be there! EDP students and Faculty could rock this!
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emergentfutures: Given Tablets but No Teachers, Ethiopian Children Teach Themselves Earlier this year, OLPC workers dropped off closed boxes containing the tablets, taped shut, with no instruction. “I thought the kids would play with the boxes. Within four minutes, one kid not only opened the box, found the on-off switch … powered it up. Within five…