Month: January 2013

  • 20th Century Art and New Media Map

  • no really, a book! on the new aesthetic. via: barelyconcealednuance: Glitch—Designing Imperfection The ‘Visual Glitch’ often a product of miscommunication and data corruption manifests itself on visual displays on computers and consumer electronics and even on canvas. This one of a kind book presents a really colorful and vibrant variety of unusual visual glitch artwork…

  • no really, a book! on the new aesthetic. via: barelyconcealednuance: Glitch—Designing Imperfection The ‘Visual Glitch’ often a product of miscommunication and data corruption manifests itself on visual displays on computers and consumer electronics and even on canvas. This one of a kind book presents a really colorful and vibrant variety of unusual visual glitch artwork…

  • 3liza: DEEP MAP PILOTS Pay-What-You-Will .PSD download! This is a zip file containing all five Deep Map Pilots in unflattened PSD (Photoshop) format. All layers I used during the creation of the images are included. These may not be usable by older versions of Photoshop (I use CS5). These files are useful for those who…

  • There is another group of people who loudly call themselves hackers, but aren’t. These are people (mainly adolescent males) who get a kick out of breaking into computers and phreaking the phone system. Real hackers call these people ‘crackers’ and want nothing to do with them. Real hackers mostly think crackers are lazy, irresponsible, and…

  • speculative alt.history via: albotas: Famicom Software For The Modern Age Morgan Conley’s Famicom Software Project explores what it would be like if the Nintendo Famicom was an actual personal computer system that required different cartridges for visiting websites and using programs. Check out the video below to see what PhotoShop would look like as an 8-bit…

  • Hackers solve problems and build things, and they believe in freedom and voluntary mutual help. To be accepted as a hacker, you have to behave as though you have this kind of attitude yourself. And to behave as though you have the attitude, you have to really believe the attitude. But if you think of…

  • Where do we draw the line between tinkerers and hackers? “The Tinkerers”: How corporations kill creativity – Salon.com Hacker = Tinkerer. Above is a quote from a well intended essay. The sentence betrays a lack of understanding of the history of hacking and can subvert the premise of the essay. It reinforces a culture of…

  • The Office For Creative Research | Memoranda – The Office For Creative Research

    The Office For Creative Research | Memoranda – The Office For Creative Research “Data and data processing tools (read software), provide a flat terrain across which disciplinary boundaries disappear. New forms of creativity are emergingfrom the cross-breeding made possible by new technologies and problems that inspired their creation. As of today, the Office for Creative…

  • The Office For Creative Research | Memoranda – The Office For Creative Research

    The Office For Creative Research | Memoranda – The Office For Creative Research “Data and data processing tools (read software), provide a flat terrain across which disciplinary boundaries disappear. New forms of creativity are emergingfrom the cross-breeding made possible by new technologies and problems that inspired their creation. As of today, the Office for Creative…