An article showing that Duchamp’s “Stoppages” function on a different level to the one most Duchamp scholars accept, via Sam Woolf on eu-gene:
TOUT-FAIT Article
TOUT-FAIT Article
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Materials Fetishism One: La Vie Boheme
Amongst other things, Evie gave me a Moleskine for Christmas. I’ve used Paperchase, Muji and Smiths for notebooks, but Moleskines are just altogether more notebook-y. My Newton will continue to gather dust… 🙂
Moleskine US, slightly larger site.
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Generative Art Collections
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Generative Art Links
Here are some generative art links:
Kandid – A generative imaging application (GIA)
SoDA are at it again, this time with Proce55ing
Use SDL with Lisp
Shizuka
…and it’s author’s weblog
SmartPainter – Another GIA
ThinkingSketch – GIA
“Cognitive Architecture”
Evolvotron – GIA
Algorithmic Fine Art
DIAN – Digital Interactive Artists’ Network
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Prolog
Prolog is good for representing and dealing with facts and rules, and it’s good at working with tree and graph structures. Prolog should be used for graphics and art a lot more than it is (my current project “Got To Start Somewhere” is written in Prolog, as was the original version of “The Cybernetic Artwork Nobody Wrote”):A simple model of narrative (expressed in Prolog).
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Lisp Art
As well as AARON, various other aesthetic and creative systems have been programmed in Lisp:
Karl Sims – Evolutionary Art.
The animation system used in the movie TRON.
AL – The Animation Language.
Geometric analogies in Lisp. In 1962!!!!
Copycat – creative letter analogies.
Making aesthetic choices. 1979.
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A Harold Cohen Webliography
Harold Cohen’s artificial intelligence artwork generator program AARON:
Ask The Scientists: Harold Cohen
Grand Text Auto Interview With Harold Cohen
Recent Essay on Kurzweil AI
Lots of essays from the 1970s to the 1990s. A must-read.
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Minara Progress
I’ve created a web page on my site for Minara.
Here.
I’ve registered a SourceForge project for it as well (link from the page above).
Initial design is just about finished (I know how it will work, again see the above link for details) and I’ve coded some tests.
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But It’s Art…
Earlier in the year, some researchers wired rat neurons to a couple of coloured felt-tip pens over the internet to get scribbly “drawings”. Voila! Art, not bad vivisectionist “science”. The transformational power of art is truly amazing.
Article.
Inspired by this, I propose a project to make science in the same way. Some rat anus cells will be wired to a computer running a scientific typesetting program. Dip the cells in lemon juice. Voila! Scientific equations, not a bad nominative art stunt.
Don’t get me wrong, I’m quite happy for Damien Hirst to get out his chainsaw, but if a researcher has bad conscience, they shouldn’t try to hide it under a sugar coating of “art”. -
Don’t Buy Glossy Lifestyle Magazines Quarter
“Adbusters” were unimpressed by “MTV” not showing an advertisement for “Turn Off Your TV” week.I propose “Don’t Buy Glossy Lifestyle Magazines Quarter”. Glossy magazines peddle homogenized culture, leech cash and waste time. They propagate unreality more intimately than TV, and are more tailored to demographics. They are a threat to private space and shared reality and another pointless spend.
I can’t wait to see an advert for it in “Adbusters”.