I’m evaluating a project using autotraced samples from the Yorck Project. The title “Gib mir wieder etwas schöne” is a line from a song. 🙂 And the content is politics and relationships, all of which makes it a sequel to 1969.
But first I need to download lots of images and get autotracing working as I want it.
On The Commons on collage and creativity:
“The real lesson, for me, is that collage is not just an interesting sideshow in the creative process; it is a central element.”
Conference referenced form the blog entry:
Sampling and remixing are indexical collage. Mash-ups are atomic indexical collage.
In 199x I was on holiday in Turkey. Half way through my two week stay, a bastard newcomer told me that Microsoft had bought part of Apple. I didn’t enjoy the second half of my holiday nearly as much as the first half. But that was as much the bar by the pool looping Queen’s greatest hits as anything else.
So Macs will have Intel inside. So, Linux or BSD?
The people who regard Prisoner’s Dilemma as an illustration of economics rather than an attempt to justify a pathological ideology will probably take this as showing how natural money and markets are:
I on the other hand wonder just what kind of pervert tortures monkeys until they have to act like office workers in order to try to naturalize their weird worldview.
Some experiments prove a bit more than they are meant to. This is definitely one of them.
An arc is a tag on a link, or a series of links, rather than an address. Arcs express a relationship rather than a property. They can be ordered (a series or graph) or unordered (a set or bag). Arconomies should be the next big thing® for the net.
Tags can be used to create tuples, e.g.:
Specific tags for tuples can take the form of Java names (org.rheaplex.digital-art). Seminumeric tags can take a similar form (org.rheaplex.digital-art.27) or be part of a general parameterized tag system (org.rheaplex.digital-art(27, blue, ‘a dog’) ).
A tag tuple space would make the entire net the subject of a system like Linda tuple spaces or JavaSpaces.
As well as specific and parametric tags, hierarchical tags (blue tagged with colour tagged with property tagged with concept) can be used. Or the author of a tag can provide personal information to help understand how they might be using that tag (which could be dangerous for privacy as marketeers mine this information), tagging their tags with contextual information.
Since tagging tags can be useful, possibly arcs and tuples on tags can be useful as well.
As tags grow in popularity, tag spam and tag boosting will become common, as will spam-encoded and 1337 tags. Hopefully Bayesian filtering will work well on tag/URL/author combinations to protect against this.
A proposal for a project I’m unlikely ever to do. A hyper-image Wiki based on SVG.
The interface is SVG and JavaScript. Any element of any object is selectable. Groups get selected first.
You can select any art and make a link to a new image, taking the art as the basis for the new image, uploading a new image, or starting with a blank image.
You can make any selected art into a re-usable symbol.
You can annotate, tag and externally link any art.
Each image or symbol has its own history, diff and discussion page.
Ideally, the interface would eventually be a full vector art editor, or at least allow for external vector art editors through an open API.
Projects that use content enclosures as source:
Yahoo Image Search Art (see halfway down the page: Web Pages, Image Search)
And howtos/libraries/APIs:
Yahoo Image Search API (No Google Image Search API yet!)
images are representation (Wark) is query (Google) is search (AI) is culling (shape grammars)
an image is not a degenerate text, such claims are ideology
a bicycle is multi-dimensional (flatterland). projection (rendering) is reduction of dimensions through transformations. an image is a projection. a picture or a painting is not necessarily an image.
is a unicycle a reduced-dimension projection of a bicycle, an image of a bicycle? 🙂
images, projections are indexical, if lossy. transformation, if lossy.
performance, installation, social action may be images.
images are aesthetic (indexical ideological choices).
Adornian aesthetic isomorphism. indices, indexing
quantization, search, query, state-space, dimensions, discrete/continuous, syntactic field.