Via GTA:
Reading Potential: The Oulipo and the Meaning of Algorithms
Article on a writers’ group encountering computers in the aerly 1960s.
Technorati Tags: aesthetics, generative art, hacking
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Open Loops Article
Article on productivity via 43 Folders:
Your Central Nervous System: Your Biological Key to Productivity
My most productive times over the last couple of months have been going for a walk by the river and doing the gardening. So I think there might be something to this. 🙂
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High Quality 2D Graphics Engine
A high-quality 2D graphics engine in C++ under a revised MIT-style license:
could be useful for portable 2D graphics (I hate getting tied down to platform APIs, even good APIs).
Technorati Tags: free software, generative art, hacking, graphics
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A Koons Bunny in CGI?
An idea from MTAA-RR:
One of the things very few people get about Koons is how incisive and indexical his work is on/to class criticism. Moving a stainless steel bunny into CGI might shear this off, might bring in a whole new set of indexes/insights, or might update them for an age when intangible property is valued more than steel.
Technorati Tags: aesthetics, art, humour
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Comouflage
Not the “awfully big marine”, the fabric and patterns:
via makeblog.
Technorati Tags: aesthetics, visual reference
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Practical Handbook
More blog art from Manik, taking a different meaning of the word “graphic” from the typography of “For Beginners”:
(Not worksafe.)
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Evaluation
Things to stop holding back on:
• Hardware hacking for art visuals, especially games consoles.
• Custom ‘display’ hardware.
• Textual descriptions of work.
• Mash-ups and sampling.
• ‘Expanded pixels’; art quark systems (a la AARON’s cells / n-d space & various space systems), retro-style bitmap & icon references, and realworld/artistic quantization.
• Game engines & ‘Second Life’.
Things to spank:
• Managerial (‘Relational’) Aesthetics.
• Decorativeness.
• “Committed” net.art .
• Art as advertising (GPS art…).
Technorati Tags: art
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Operation: Remix
Another excellent competition from Creative Commons:
“Real: industry is used to competitions, and uses them as a driver for innovation and value. The music industry can learn from this and from Magnatune’s example here.
Technorati Tags: free culture, music
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MANIK Blog
MANIK have a blog.
It’s very good, take a look:
This is definitely an Art Blog (rather than just a blog about art), that is it’s blogging as an artistic medium, or at least a medium for presenting art. I’m looking forward to seeing more of their work like this.
